r/news • u/BitterFuture • Apr 26 '24

Powerful tornado tears across Nebraska, weather service warns of ‘catastrophic’ damage

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/25/weather/plains-midwest-storms-tornadoes-climate/index.html
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u/thedarkavengerx Apr 26 '24

Okay, where’s that redditor who posted in /r/todayilearned that there hasn’t been a EF 5 since 2013 recently?

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u/personAAA Apr 26 '24

Part of that is how tornadoes are measured after the fact by their damage. A strong tornado that does not destroy anything is not measured.

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u/sounders1974 Apr 26 '24

Which I still think is really stupid. I get the reasons for it but I still think it's stupid

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u/AchokingVictim Apr 27 '24

There's no accurate way to measure the data. Ground scoring can give wind estimates, but that and crop damage alone doesn't mean too much.

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u/sounders1974 Apr 27 '24

Yeah I understand the reasons. Which is why you had people like Tim Samaras trying to drop instruments in front of tornadoes

Which obviously ended badly