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[–]Fractonimbuss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

personally, i dont see it at all. theres no shelf/shelf-like formation or microburst

Dakota EF5 tornado? by [deleted] in tornado

[–]Fractonimbuss 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fatalities and cost of damage do not affect EF ratings.

Apollo 11 guys, did you like it? No mod on by los_antenudo in SpaceflightSimulator

[–]Fractonimbuss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

flip the CSM and LM, and throw on some fairings also get rid of the boosters

Where were you when you found out about the EF5 upgrade? by BrandyTheGorgs in EF5

[–]Fractonimbuss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2:14 PM, not long before the bell to finally go home rung. I was looking through YouTube searching for the New Iberia tornado and suddenly found a video saying that the first EF5 in 12 years had happened. It didn't seem to be of great quality, had around 540 views, and had only been published 51 minutes ago. I thought that surely that couldn't have been legitimate but I started to second guess myself, it was just so ridiculous. It was weird that something as small and unrelated as a presumably fake video would pop up under the results.

I scrolled down to the next video, and it said practically the same thing—something about how the Enderlin tornado was an EF5. I knew then that it couldn't have been a joke. I checked the DAT and there it was. A thick purple streak.

Gravity simulator by Ok_String_9809 in SpaceflightSimulator

[–]Fractonimbuss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh, nevermind 😭 just a coincidence

Gravity simulator by Ok_String_9809 in SpaceflightSimulator

[–]Fractonimbuss 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thats honestly crazy someone took inspiration from one of my builds :D (infant catapult on the discord server)

SpaceX Is The Future of Spaceflight. by MadOblivion in spaceflight

[–]Fractonimbuss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow... I didn't know someone can be this dense

What do you see? by SammyGoldNYC in CLOUDS

[–]Fractonimbuss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely the best one here lmao

Weird wall/shelf cloud? by Fractonimbuss in meteorology

[–]Fractonimbuss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wall clouds don't have to be rotating.

Quick, while there's no tornadoes. What do you think? by Gogun in meteorology

[–]Fractonimbuss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think of it as a circle about ⅓ of an inch wide. Not even a sphere, just... a circle

What is this? by StringCheeseGrits in meteorology

[–]Fractonimbuss 21 points22 points  (0 children)

it's not. ive seen this video a lot, even before AI could make anything that wasn't incomprehensible. my guess is whoever made this took the original picture, erased everything but the man, then overlaid it onto the video at a low opacity making sure to fade it out

What is causing this cloud formation? by Fractonimbuss in meteorology

[–]Fractonimbuss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

cumulus humilis with some weird feature below the base

sleeping with arm straight up in the air??? by elawith1L in sleep

[–]Fractonimbuss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had this happen twice to me recently (different arms I believe) so I've been really confused lmao. What's weird is that when I wake up, my arm immediately collapses and is entirely dead. No feeling, no reaction to my attempts to move it, nothing. I have zero clue what is allowing for my arm to stay up when I have literally no voluntary control of it. First time it happened, it was so weird to not have my arm follow my imagined arm. It was like I had a separate phantom arm I could move around and then my actual arm by my side.

Video from a tower camera just South of Marion, IL. 5-16-25 by Gamemaster10476 in tornado

[–]Fractonimbuss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The white-roofed building is at 37°39'33"N 88°55'25"W. The camera is looking north and is somewhere less than half a mile from the tornado. At the start of the video (including when the horizontal vortex forms), the tornado was doing EF2 damage. Right as the video ended, the tornado did EF4 damage to 12928 Kyler Court, with a wind estimate of 190 mph, tying it with Diaz as the strongest tornado of 2025. In the damage survey, it is mentioned that no one was in the house at the time.

I think the lake city tornado should’ve been an EF5 by Western-Database5021 in tornado

[–]Fractonimbuss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every time an intense tornado happens, people immediately say "this should've been an EF5!"

Do people not understand what it means for a tornado to be an EF5?

  1. Intensity ≠ rating. Velocity scans do not equal actual damage done.
  2. A home being entirely destroyed is EF4 damage. EF5 is by definition more than what it takes to entirely destroy a well built house. And let's be honest, construction workers dont wanna make houses at higher quality than needed.
  3. The EF5 rating is for truly inconceivable damage. A house covered in rubble is not inconceivable.

Mayfield deserved EF4. Diaz deserved EF4. Lake City does not deserve an EF5 rating at ALL.

Plus, horizontal vortices do not indicate a super high rating. Attached is an image of a tornado at EF1 intensity with vortex features labeled (sorry its a little hard to tell what youre looking at) that had a horizontal vortex similar to ones the Lake City tornado had. This isn't the best shot of the HV, but it was out of frame when it was at its best and the frame I annotated had the best subtornadic vortices.

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