June 21st 2023 Matador TX Tornado Discussion

[tornado examiner]

I’m beginning to think we won’t get the rating today…

 

[Tomcats Forever!]

I’m beginning to think we won’t get the rating today…

Nah, they're busy with ongoing sever weather.

 

[jiharris0220]

Yeah, this is odd, they claimed it‘ll be out in the afternoon, yet here we are a few hours until Saturday.
Maybe they’re legitimately taking their time to designate a higher end rating?

 

[tornado examiner]

Nah, they're busy with ongoing sever weather.

I thought Surely that they’d have separate teams for the different tasks… Hmm…

 

[Tomcats Forever!]

I thought Surely that they’d have separate teams for the different tasks… Hmm…

Well.. the business at hand, you know?

 

[tornado examiner]

Well.. the business at hand, you know?

True…

 

[tornado examiner]

Hopefully it do be coming soon

 

[JBishopwx]

They did the right thing by not releasing it in the middle of a severe weather event. Surely they update things in the morning.

 

[tornado examiner]

They did the right thing by not releasing it in the middle of a severe weather event. Surely they update things in the morning.

Agreed

 

[jiharris0220]

Just going to throw out a wild guess and say they go 190. Based off of the damage found at the dollar general. The farm house with the basement probably gets 165-170, and the slabbed two story gets 175-180.

 

[buckeye05]

190 MPH seems reasonable to me. The damage intensity looks comparable to Rolling Fork, but this time the core of the circulation only hit the edge of the town, rather than engulfing and essentially obliterating the whole community. Had this been a dead-center hit on the Matador, it would have essentially been a daytime Rolling Fork repeat imo.

 

[pohnpei]

190 MPH seems reasonable to me. The damage intensity looks comparable to Rolling Fork, but this time the core of the circulation only hit the edge of the town, rather than engulfing and essentially obliterating the whole community. Had this been a dead-center hit on the Matador, it would have essentially been a daytime Rolling Fork repeat imo.

I would say damage was even stronger than Rolling Fork for much stronger vehicle damage(rival to several strongest plain tornado), more clean slabs even it hit far less house and stronger ground scouring.(Rolling Fork had very little scouring in town).

 

[UK_EF4]

Tim Marshall does seem pretty impressed the damage, and I am curious to see the construction of that brick home (if it was even surveyed hopefully!) I wouldn’t be surprised to see a rating of EF3 for the dollar general though given there was apparent a vehicle impact which I know some surveyors like to use as justification for going below EXP (which admittedly, i don’t even know the exp wind speed for the dollar general di). Regardless of rating, it was clear this tornado was pretty violent and my thoughts are with those affected.

 

[UK_EF4]

 

[Lake Martin EF4]

Nah, they're busy with ongoing sever weather.

Correct:

 

[Austin Dawg]

Rating - F 4.9

 

[tornado examiner]

Well…it’s got a high end ef3 rating….165mph…iem bot

 

[atrainguy]

 

[Steel Central]

First rating given on this tornado, assuming theres more to go through if they said later today but idk

 

[jiharris0220]

Yep, there we go, I knew it, the good ole reliable high end ef3 rating. Just like with westminster and canton.
Good to see botched surveys aren’t going away anytime soon.