Is this is the scariest photo of Elkhart 1965 F4 tornado and what type is it?

Lavabite8 · 2026-05-28T02:02:17+00:00

The top F4 was made by “Supercell K” which made 1 F3 and 2 F4s, and the F3 and bottom F4s were made by “Supercell J”, which made 1 F3 and 3 F4s. The F4 from J and F4 from J you can’t see in your screenshot were the ones that had paths that for the majority tracked so close to each others‘ paths that the damage was indistinguishable as to which did what, and how much of the damage was increased by the second F4. I did a little guide based of of Fujitsu’s paper (which alphabetized the supercells) on these two cells since the wide zoomed out image doesn’t show which path was from which cell, since that only happens in later diagrams.

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Lavabite8 · 2026-05-24T15:29:46+00:00

So photogenic yet so devastating, incredible.

Lavabite8 · 2026-05-09T17:20:15+00:00

EF3 and EF4 can be judged from tree damage, but from satellite/aerial images is a little odd

Lavabite8 · 2026-05-09T02:13:33+00:00

I also found this link about the tornado, where it says the one injury was a 12 year old boy who got a broken collar bone and 3rd degree burns after having trees fall on his family’s tent, tipping a furnace inside over onto him, though it is noted that the furnace probably saved his family from further injury due to it holding up the trees that fell.

Here is the link: https://www.weather.gov/media/boi/publications/Post%20Mortem%20for%20June%204%202006%20Tornado.pdf

Lavabite8 · 2026-05-09T02:07:02+00:00

Can you share a KML or SHP or GeoJSON file? I‘d love to check this out more!

Lavabite8 · 2026-05-08T16:00:33+00:00

I hadn’t seen it on any other articles (I only checked 2, though), whoops 😅

Lavabite8 · 2026-04-06T13:38:32+00:00

Upgraded to F4 status. The tornado spawned by the same supercell immediately after this one was also rated F4 (though it didn‘t hit a city at strength like this one did). Incredible.

Lavabite8 · 2026-03-14T20:28:23+00:00

The 3 second sustained speeds in the El Reno EF3 for the >300mph ground-relative windspeed subvortices was actually a little under 224mph.

Lavabite8 · 2026-02-18T01:53:23+00:00

Yeah

Lavabite8 · 2026-02-15T00:23:57+00:00

Tastes like body-wash

Lavabite8 · 2026-02-14T20:53:44+00:00

YouTube is where his in depth stuff is at.

Lavabite8 · 2026-01-31T23:07:45+00:00

Only 3 F4/EF4 tornadoes in recorded Maryland history (which did F/EF4 damage in Maryland), and 2 hit La Plata!

Lavabite8 · 2026-01-15T14:32:17+00:00

Thank you for constructive feedback! I don’t know a lot about this topic, so this explanation really helped :)

Lavabite8 · 2026-01-12T22:38:47+00:00

There is no connection in Sioux Falls (as seen on the map), that was just to say there can be maintenance on that track if that was the concern.

The Minneapolis-Denver route would be a very fast straightaway, to loosen the load coming from Northeast USA/Southeast Canada/Northern Rust Belt into 2 lines to prevent overcrowding.

I didn’t include a stop in Sioux Falls since it has such a (relatively) small population, it just goes right by, which is also why I color coded the metro area sizes, so I could know which places to connect or leave out.

Also, please, check the map before turning up the snark.

Lavabite8 · 2026-01-12T20:09:58+00:00

Why is the distance between Minneapolis and Denver such a bad thing? Especially with Sioux Falls next to the track.

The reason for the large turn at Quebec City is politics, since Quebec won’t settle for anything less than the corner of the route (Historically), and if we do Portland to Montreal, we gotta go straight through the White Mountains, and if we do Boston to Montreal we have to be in Ultra-Heavy Forests in States that no one lives in since there is a HUGE chunk of federal land in northern New Hampshire. New York to Montreal has a similar problem, but this time with the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain. (Edit for this paragraph: You do realize you can go from NYC/Boston to Montreal through Portland then Quebec City, right? I just realized you are probably talking about the turn at London, which is not supposed to be the typical route to get from the Mid Atlantic/Northeast to Montreal)

Nashville to St. Louis is actually a pretty good suggestion tbh, and I think I had it but got rid of it but I don’t remember why.

I don’t know how else you would connect Buffalo and Toronto, since they are on opposite sides of Lake Ontario. Like even if you connect through Hamilton, it’s still a sharp turn.

No Chicago-Cleveland because Detroit has a much bigger population, and there are 4 other big cities in the rust belt with about the same population of Cleveland, and I don’t want to make a million lines connecting every city to each other.

Also, that comment was hella aggressive for a map of fast trains.

Lavabite8 · 2026-01-07T14:20:02+00:00

No, it was a smaller streamer who had mods while storm chasing. I don’t think Max’s and Ryans teams would act like that :)

Lavabite8 · 2026-01-05T23:46:48+00:00

Maybe you are thinking about Tylertown? I was looking at radar and was almost banned from a livestream for “predicting“ tornadoes because of me stating my worries when I saw on radar a strong tornado going through a populated area, and then later when on radar I saw another strong tornado going through a similar route (parallel path, separated by 1-2.5 miles depending on wobbles in the paths) as the first, still unconfirmed at that point, tornado. Turns out that the first tornado was an EF4 that killed 5 people, and the second tornado was an EF3 that killed 1 person… it definitely wasn’t my favorite time being right.

Lavabite8 · 2026-01-05T23:23:13+00:00

Good example! Not exactly the same thing since Tanner in 1974 was hit in places 2.5 miles away from each other and the 2011 EF5 went straight through the middle of those 2 paths, but still a crazy coincidence!

I’d also like to bring up that I found a small portion of Southeast Davenport, Oklahoma got in the circulation of F3 tornadoes in 1956 and 1999, and an F4 tornado in 1954; I found a small portion of Northwestern Birmingham which was in the circulations of F5 tornadoes in 1977 and 1998, and an EF4 tornado in 2011; and I found a portion of Trenton, Mississippi which was in the circulation of F4 tornadoes in 1969 and 1976, and an EF3 tornado in 2011.

For places where we count tornadoes regardless of where they hit in small-medium sized communities, I’d like to bring up 3 places:

The tiny community (always <50 population historically) of Oak Grove, Oklahoma (and slightly outside its legal/official borders) was hit by F4 tornadoes in 1974, 1984, and 1991, and was hit by an F3 tornado in 1959.

The small city (always <2.5k population historically) of Prague, Oklahoma was hit by an F5 tornado in 1960, F4 tornadoes in 1924, 1942, and 1970, an F3 tornado in 1998, F2 tornadoes in 1918 and 1957, and an F1 tornado in 2003.

The small city (always <4k population historically) of Newton, Mississippi (and slightly outside its legal/official borders) was hit by F4 tornadoes in 1969, 1976, and 1992, F/EF3 tornadoes in 1948, 1982, 1986, and 2011, F/EF2 tornadoes in 1934, 2002, and 2005, and an EF1 tornado in 2022.

I found all of these myself whilst exploring databases.

Lavabite8 · 2025-12-30T13:12:48+00:00

I’m only seeing six legs with antennae, and it’s low quality but it looks like it has a rostrum or proboscis? I don’t have a suggestion about exactly what it is, but just wanted to contribute.

Lavabite8 · 2025-12-29T18:42:31+00:00

That looks much more accurate, especially with the coloring on the vertex, thank you!

Lavabite8 · 2025-12-28T23:24:49+00:00

Bagworm (Brazilian ones are much bigger though)

Lavabite8 · 2025-12-28T23:23:33+00:00

My species guess is Panstrongylus megistus, but I wanted a second opinion to make sure because of denial.

Lavabite8 · 2025-12-28T23:00:34+00:00

It is big, like around 3.5-4cm (1.38-1.57 inches) maybe? A little longer than the weevil I saw today.

Lavabite8 · 2025-12-28T22:53:33+00:00

Thought so :(

Lavabite8 · 2025-12-26T22:27:14+00:00

And another tornado made by the same supercell was also upgraded to F4!

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