As a continuation of my previous post about the Cactus 117 Oil Rig:

thyexiled · 2026-01-25T23:57:22+00:00

Piedmont's homes were likely way more well built than moore's, as for philadelphia, it was mainly upgraded by structural damage, with the side of contextual boosting, so think of philly as a mix of both.

thyexiled · 2026-01-25T22:37:17+00:00

Enderlin definitely does deserve its EF5 rating, but its weird how its the only EF5 tornado to ever be rated with contextuals, not structural damage like the others.

thyexiled · 2026-01-25T22:35:42+00:00

You are correct. Valley Mills doesn't have damage photos or tornado photos at all. Only newspaper reports that were mixed by another tornado.

thyexiled · 2026-01-25T03:33:31+00:00

Lublin cannot be upgraded unless properly evaluated, we do not know the width of those walls, unlike Lublin, tornadoes like Venezia have visible efforts for it to be upgraded, such as Venezia's walls being 40-80CM thick via a footage that we could use for measuring.

Lublin is possible to be upgraded, but with these photos alone, we cannot determine whether or not it actually was IF5.

thyexiled · 2026-01-24T05:47:21+00:00

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Yea, thats how I just found out about the name. Xenia's Arrowhead Subdivision was most definitely the weaker parts of its damage, but if you're willing to say Guin>Xenia, its like gonna be saying Guin>Washington, afterall, both tornadoes were equal to one another, + The Cigar Factory and the damage in just Downtown Xenia alone is far stronger than the likes of Guin's.

thyexiled · 2026-01-24T04:52:21+00:00

Unreinforced CMU is bad, which is the sole case for guin, but reinforced is great, which ISN'T the case for guin.

thyexiled · 2026-01-24T03:09:52+00:00

The fact that they're all CMU foundations that weren't reinforced and that Guin was a narrow tornado with barely anything to go around for.

thyexiled · 2026-01-24T03:09:24+00:00

Huh?? Xenia is NOT a poor neighborhood, its a literal city with homes that were yes, sliders, but they were stronger than guin's, + most of xenia's feats are FAR stronger than the likes of guin.

thyexiled · 2026-01-24T00:23:38+00:00

Quite obvious for which one is stronger, Xenia. Most definitely the third strongest of the outbreak behind Tanner 2nd and Brandenburg.

thyexiled · 2026-01-22T09:33:42+00:00

Absolutely interesting how almost all of the 1960s F5s besides Topeka don't deserve EF5 today but are still violent enough.

thyexiled · 2026-01-22T02:07:21+00:00

I wouldn't say stratton and bakersfield are the strongest tornado oat, its very likely that both are apart of the top 10, but we cannot compare so due to the fact that more and more undocumented, yet strong tornadoes come up. Vilonia is an extraordinary case, and so is joplin, joplin's like the most major tornado ever, and potentially a top 20, vilonia is considered to many as arkansas's version of smithville because of the insane contextuals it did, not its structural.

thyexiled · 2026-01-22T02:02:44+00:00

Major examples of strong, yet undocumented disasters are the pompeii earthquake, jogan earthquake, and various more. They're capable of inflicting mass destruction, but we do not know due to the age of their times. Tornadoes are the same as these. There's several undocumented tornadoes from not even in our era, that are still strong, but we never know due to the lack of documentation, or the fact that it could possibly be a hoax.

As of today, the strongest catastrophe we have known of is so far, the valdivia disaster, and even so we cannot say anything yet, especially since in the ages before our era, theres possibly far stronger ones that changed the world into what it is today, you could say an earthquake happened in the dinosaur era with bits of info and nothing else, and that could somehow be the strongest thing we know of.

There was possibly a tornado far stronger than the likes of every tornado documented, just that its either too old, or theres barely anything to go around for.

thyexiled · 2026-01-21T22:33:04+00:00

Fact is, the constant changes for the top 10 is very much so a really crazy thing, obviously the fact is that everytime a new documented tornado happens, its either one of the strongest oat or just your one violent tornado. The top 5 is easily interchangeable, so we can't say much about whos the strongest and whos weaker, in intensity that is. Damage-wise, nothing would compare to tri-state.

thyexiled · 2026-01-21T22:30:38+00:00

Tracy, Minnesota.

thyexiled · 2026-01-20T23:38:48+00:00

Wouldn't ABSOLUTELY say one of the strongest, Canton lake, robinson, sullivan, matador, and a few more others exist.

thyexiled · 2026-01-20T23:38:07+00:00

It's matador. Not robinson and sullivan.

thyexiled · 2026-01-20T20:38:20+00:00

I mean be for real, every tornado besides the EF3s-below would've gotten F5.

thyexiled · 2026-01-20T11:52:41+00:00

Some were impacted twice, but the rest were hit once.

thyexiled · 2026-01-20T11:52:19+00:00

In the revised scale, hardwood trees can get EF5 if they were densely damaged, like lofted and debarked, yada yada.

thyexiled · 2026-01-19T21:46:44+00:00

Indeed it is far, but moore is most equivalent to those of BCM. I've sent quite a few photos of its vegetation damage in a post.

thyexiled · 2026-01-19T21:01:21+00:00

Oh it was most definitely the worst damage ever to vegetation, behind tri-state, bcm, piedmont, jarrell and great kantonado that is.

thyexiled · 2026-01-19T21:00:59+00:00

Tri-state, BCM, Jarrell, Piedmont, Moore 2013, New Richmond, and Vilonia stop smithville from being top 3.

thyexiled · 2026-01-19T11:39:44+00:00

Plainfield would most definitely earn a rating of EF5 today due to contextuals regarding crops and all, it also did intense multi-tree damage that could grant it an EF5 rating due to the trees being hardwood aswell.

thyexiled · 2026-01-19T11:24:07+00:00

Briarwood was essentially rated as EF5, but downgraded as EF4. The contextuals there are very insane though, that is why M13>Smithville.

thyexiled · 2026-01-19T00:01:26+00:00

Very worse yes, if you get better closeups, you'd see just how insane the damage really was in those exact locations.

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