Tornado Damage Path Surveys May 4th & May 5th

[Brian Stertz]

I was curious if anyone has seen official damage path survey details for the Friday 5/4 & Saturday 5/5 events. For the most part, the intense damage was limited to the DDC CWA , but have found F3 reports from NWS Norman on the Sweetwater OK tornado and from the NWS Sioux Falls on the Aurora Co. SD tornado. I did find some preliminary info on the KAKE (Wichita) website about the May 4th tornadoes. Otherwise any other info has been off the radar since the event.

 

[Shane Adams]

I've seen written explanations/details of the four major tornadoes from the Greensburg family on a KAKE news page link list, but still waiting on the updates to the official DDC track map....currently still just has the Greensburg/east of Greensburg tornado tracks with a portion of tornado 3 that's mostly off the map.

I left for a two-week work stint the Monday after all of this, and with chasing both Sat and Sun that weekend, I still haven't watched my video all the way through. The tornado captures I have found thus far were all from a late night, quick review after our Friday chase ended. No telling what I'll find after a detailed, frame by frame analysis, as we were on the storm from about 10:30pm on, and were looking right at the track of tornado #2 for a portion of its life.....without knowing (at the time) it was even there.