Example of a lot of questionable NWS ratings and position for the EF5 Hackleburg
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This is a post to show some incorrect ratings of the phil campbell EF5.
Note that there are so much mistakes i was only able to show stuff from the first county for this post.
it is to note there were over 360 tornadoes form this outbreak , so they had there hands full.
however this dose not stop the fact they seem to never have fix there survey.
I’m not trying to be rude to nws , but i do wish they could notice the major flaws they did here.
Even tough there are errors , not all of them are incorrect , here is a example of a correct rating and position.
EF0 damage line inside the EF1 damage line.
EF2-EF3 outline is not added.. , the EF1 and EF0 go inside each other , also note the Damage outline and points mostly seem to be too much to the north?
Image from 2006 , note the home on the left is being build it seems.
Image from 2011 , the home on the left and right are standing with almost no damage , however the southern part of the image has some severe damage, unsure why they shove the EF4 outline around ef3 damage?.
a home that says its swept clean , note for later and , note that the bush’s are fine not even debarked.
Same house , but suddenly its rated EF4? and stated to not be swept clean?
Same home again , but now says EF3+ but with winds of 170 MPH
All walls collapsed , that’s not what EF5 damage is… , take a look under for what is EF5 damage.
All walls down stops at 198 MPH
https://www.weather.gov/oun/efscale
190 MPH EF5 rating.
??? is it swept clean or not ???
Notice that where the EF5 area is at , most of it (south part , including the damage points you can see the homes are clearly standing with there roof’s mostly still there.)
and yes that’s a overlay image i added to get a better view.
EF3 Line is slightly sticking out of the EF2 line , there seems to be no EF2+ damage here , trees are all fine , don’t see any evidence of a home being there?
Very incorrect , damage core is way south of where they put the survey , it looks more severe then just being EF1 as well…
Close up.
even more close up , and a year after and in better quality , all trees are down.
I recommend them to look at the survey and fix it up.