Guess the Tornado!!

[Simon Andersen]

Burnett, WI 3 pm april 21, 1974?

 

[Jeremy Lemanski]

oaskash(sp?) 1976?

 

[Andy Wehrle]

Simon got it.

 

[Simon Andersen]

April 21, 1974 Wisconsin tornadoes

Yay

When seeing Andy's photograph, Don Lloyd's recount of the Lomira-Brownsville events of april 21, 1974 sprang to mind. http://wx-fx.com/lomira.htm A captivating read. Since this is the only known photograph of the tornado it stuck to my mind.

Jeremy, the Oskosh WI tornado, if that's the one you're talking about, occured on the same day as the above events. Don Lloyd also have a page about that one: http://wx-fx.com/oshgosh.htm If you own TVCI look up segment (26); it's show's footage of this tornado at about the same time the first photo on Don's page was taken.

I might post more information on these sometime later.

 

[Simon Andersen]

Ok, guess the tornado!!

[Broken External Image]:http://macroburst.1go.dk/tornado.jpg

A little help, this tornado has been suggested as the "culprit" for a previous photo in this thread.

 

[Andy Wehrle]

Agh. Should've used a tornado that had more photographs of it. I figured that since Don Lloyd's past Wisconsin tornadoes page is the only place on the Internet where it can be found it would be relatively obscure.

 

[Chris Sokol]

April 3rd, 1974 in Winston County Alabama?

 

[Darin Brunin]

Just for future reference on this thread. Thomas' tornado threw me off because he said that it was a violent tornado. Usually violent tornadoes are classified F4 or F5 and not F3. I am just pointing this out because I thought that it had to be an F4 or F5 and did not even consider guessing an F3. I guess you could say I am being picky about key words but I found it to be a little misleading. I had to spill my guts because I was determined to find that tornado and I was looking the wrong place the whole time.

 

[Sam Sagnella]

Originally posted by Darin Brunin
Just for future reference on this thread. Thomas' tornado threw me off because he said that it was a violent tornado. Usually violent tornadoes are classified F4 or F5 and not F3. I am just pointing this out because I thought that it had to be an F4 or F5 and did not even consider guessing an F3.

I thought the exact same thing...

 

[Thomas Loades]

Originally posted by Darin Brunin
Just for future reference on this thread. Thomas' tornado threw me off because he said that it was a violent tornado. Usually violent tornadoes are classified F4 or F5 and not F3. I am just pointing this out because I thought that it had to be an F4 or F5 and did not even consider guessing an F3. I guess you could say I am being picky about key words but I found it to be a little misleading. I had to spill my guts because I was determined to find that tornado and I was looking the wrong place the whole time.

When I said violent, I thought it was — the Tulsa tornado is rated F4 in Significant Tornadoes. I assume, then, that the F3 rating came from the NWS, which was at odds with the Tornado Project's research, and they upgraded it. In that case, they wouldn't say it was upgraded because the only started doing so for 1990– tornadoes. I guess conflicts like this will happen due to our varying accesiblility to varying resources; but sorry about that.

 

[Thomas Loades]

Threads like this should never die out after just four pages!

So, to revive this one a little:
[Broken External Image]:http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/images/wea00216.jpg
This one is part of a sizeable family — though it could be one of two members. But, same location and date apply.
[Broken External Image]:http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/images/wea00219.jpg
This one’s not significant; just photogenic.

 

[Susan Strom]

What a shot. Wichita Falls maybe?

 

[Gabe Garfield]

I've seen it before somewhere...I just can't recall where off the top of my head. My first thought was that it was a North Dakota tornado (maybe Fargo?).

Gabe

 

[Damon Scott Hynes]

Threads like this should never die out after just four pages!

So, to revive this one a little:
[Broken External Image]:http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/images/wea00216.jpg
This one is part of a sizeable family — though it could be one of two members. But, same location and date apply.

Perrin AFB TX 1957.

 

[Douglas Mitchell]

Elbow Lake, MN sometime in the 60's!

Just a guess.