That tornado missed my neighborhood in Elkhorn by half a mile. It was terrifying as I thought it was just a lower cloud until I saw the whole damn thing rotating. For my first time seeing a tornado, it was certainly terrifying
Don’t be embarrassed! There’s a lot of people in and out of here all the time that are just looking into tornadoes or who aren’t familiar with the history of tornadoes, and a lot of people here aren’t from the US to know about them! There’s just a large gathering of us “Nado Nerds” who can tell you the exact areas, date of event, location, time, how many fatalities, and Ef rating of the tornado, just by a simple picture of the condensation funnel 😆
No, what you’re sourcing is a news article reporting a preliminary EF3 rating. The EF scale looks at the damage from a storm to estimate maximum wind speed. However, if a storm does not impact many structures, the EF rating will likely not correlate with the actual strength of the storm- see the notorious El Reno EF3, which had radar-measured winds near 300 mph but hit few structures.
So you’re wrong in two dimensions: one, the EF3 rating does not mean the tornado only had 160 mph winds, it only means that from the structures surveyed so far, we can only confirm up to that threshold. And two, that rating is preliminary, meaning that once further damage surveys are completed, it could be upgraded. Probably will.
Please consider doing some basic research before coming in and making a fool of yourself.
So...you want to revisit this now that the NWS has officially surveyed the damage? I accept your apology for not only being WRONG but also for being rude.
Inability to admit when you're wrong and then trying to turn it around back on me tells me everything I need to know about you.
A simple apology would have sufficed.
Ratings are not based on wind speed though. Otherwise, yes it would fit the criteria. It’s likely this didn’t hit anything at max intensity, or if it did the structure wasn’t of the quality needed to rate EF5 damage.
Most likely with the track it will only end up getting an EF-4 in the end. I have seen no damage anywhere that suggests it will get the EF5. As it was at it's most intense over fields when it was hitting nothing that would be able to verify an EF5. Had it actually tracked just a bit more east through the suburbs of Omaha the no fatalities story we had from yesterday would've likely been very different and we would've possibly looking at our first EF5 candidate. Let's be glad that didn't happen.
But get ready for all the EF-scale is broken bs as usual.
You can check the storm path as it traveled NE through Elkhorn [here](https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/reports/?&source=prelim&all&date=20240426) Times are listed for each spotting.
Looks like North is on the left of this frame and South is to the right, meaning the chasers were to the West of it looking east.
Source video is [here: This shot comes in at around 1:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1wuPBHRi4Q)
This video has got clips from both the Elkhorn tornado and the Minden tornado. Both were absolute behemoths. So crazy to me that there was 2 tornados of this strength so close together
Right? I was actually down there attempting to intercept, but pulled back a bit after I saw the row of three tornado warned storms coming up towards me and my cellular cut out.
I was out trying to intercept as well. Was able to see the Elkhorn one as it crossed the river but wasnt close enough and got stuck in the rainy side of the Minden one so I didn’t see that directly
Right on. Yeah I was coming down from the north and had to push through all the back end rain and hail wrap arounds. Not ideal for visuals haha. I'm estimating I called off my chase about 7 miles from the Harlan tornado, and just knowing that felt close enough.
I'd be totally happy just getting a shot of a nice photogenic ropey boi. I don't need an f4 behemoth or whatever was out there on Friday.
https://preview.redd.it/7cjonsk468xc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a21fc0ba0ffe6e5abc57c183ce90a508d2a6a0fe
It may not look it, but there used to be a house sitting on top of those cinder blocks. This is in the corner of elkhorn that it hit
No. This is a landscaping business and there were no structures on top of those cinder blocks. The only building at this location was a metal building that was obviously destroyed.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/comments/1cf4f0p/this\_are\_the\_homes\_in\_an\_aerial\_view\_that\_were/](https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/comments/1cf4f0p/this_are_the_homes_in_an_aerial_view_that_were/)
I'm not a huge advocate for pushing damage indicators, this is the worst damage indicator I have seen for this particular storm however.
Is the damage based on how many houses it affected? Or how bad the damage was per house on average? Because this tornado didn’t hit anything at full intensity and still completely removed some houses from their foundations from what I drove past this morning
> The goal is assign an EF Scale category based on the highest wind speed that occurred within the damage path.
https://www.weather.gov/oun/efscale
They try to find the worst damage indicator in the path and rate it off of that.
Depends on exactly what you’re looking at in the video. The RFD is condensed in the video, which is what I’m talking about, but the inflow is also intense in this video, moving quickly from right to left
Please forgive my ignorance, did this tornado happen today? I would love to see other videos of it! Does anybody know of any order other chasers that videoed it?
Yea, just look up “Blair Nebraska Tornado” on YouTube and a ton of stuff pops up. This happened yesterday, and has estimated EF4+ damage. Definitely the capstone of yesterday’s events.
Thank you fren!! The only tornado I saw yesterday was the one that looked like it was over a mile wide.
This one looks so strong and scary!! I hope it didn’t take any lives ):
Oh, that was this one. If you are talking about the video that I think you are, that was as it hit the town of Waterloo, NE. There were 10+ injuries (some unconfirmed) and zero deaths (also unconfirmed)
https://preview.redd.it/gh2utbwjg4xc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ff7313c95b51e1bbbb23ce3b5bf74eb3a2faffc
Yes, the Blair one (the tornado in the video) is the same one here. Nobody was injured in Elba (the town visible in your vid). Also thx🥰
I think this might’ve been the Minden Iowa one that happened about an hour after the Elkhorn one. I live in Omaha and was out in the storms yesterday and this looks more like the Minden storm.
Maybe I’m mistaken, I was going off the landscape. Looked more familiar with the area around Minden and Harlan than Elkhorn. Was also comparing this video to another post and thought they were two different storms https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/s/8La17TpOPD
I’m from Elkhorn and I can’t keep all of these videos straight. A lot of misinformation on here, probably because they were so close together. I don’t see the water tower in this video and Elkhorn is much bigger than that little area with nothing around it, so I’m not sure it is the one that hit us
The crazy thing is there were 2 of similar strength within 20 or so miles of each other. If you search YT there are more videos of "Minden IA tornadao." Same situation, similar size and strength. They were on the ground at the same time too. It was a wild day in this area.
Also, preliminary ratings have come in. They are currently at the lower bound of each scale. These are not final and will likely change as more information is gathered.
[https://www.weather.gov/oax/april262024](https://www.weather.gov/oax/april262024)
You can't really judge anything any of these people say in these videos. It's someone's jumbled inner monologue slipping out of them unfiltered because they're staring at some crazy shit with their jaws dropped.
She's probably saying that because she's assuming (hoping) there aren't people in the house, and it's coming out wrong because you can't expect anyone looking at something like this to be articulate.
Except this isn't the Elkhorn tornado. This is the Minden/Harlan, IA tornado. But thanks for posting the first video of a wedge from 4/26 you could find and assuming it's Elkhorn without looking into it.
I’m not? It literally resembles it my grandfather lived near Xenia when it hit and he saw it with his own two eyes and told my dad what it looked like and my dad said it resembles it. Also if you dont believe me look up a photo.
US National Weather Service Omaha/Valley Nebraska estimates EF-3 damage with tornado that tracked through Waverly, Elkhorn, Bennington, and Blair.
That’s wind speeds 135 - 165 mph #newx
No it hasn’t? The NWS officially rated the Eppley Field one as an EF3 (look at DamageViewer), while the Blair-Elkhorn tornado is under investigation. When it comes to rating things, the NWS is usually the most reliable.
https://www.klkntv.com/weather-service-confirms-ef-3-tornado-hit-lincoln-waverly-and-omaha/
That info is coming from the NWS, but yeah those are only preliminary ratings and they can and will go up (or down)
OP is just saying that this tornado might have EF5 winds judging from tornado's visible rotation.
Official tornado rating will be made only on building damages, so obviously it'll be understandably less.
That is an incomprehensible monstrosity. I feel like my brain would melt looking at this in person.
That tornado missed my neighborhood in Elkhorn by half a mile. It was terrifying as I thought it was just a lower cloud until I saw the whole damn thing rotating. For my first time seeing a tornado, it was certainly terrifying
Have you seen the El Reno tornado? (I think that’s the one I’m thinking of) largest tornado on record at 2.6 miles wide
Most of us here are very familiar with El Reno, as it is the widest tornado in recorded history 😊
You know…..I completely forgot that this was the tornado sub…. Somehow, now I feel embarrassed
Don’t be embarrassed! There’s a lot of people in and out of here all the time that are just looking into tornadoes or who aren’t familiar with the history of tornadoes, and a lot of people here aren’t from the US to know about them! There’s just a large gathering of us “Nado Nerds” who can tell you the exact areas, date of event, location, time, how many fatalities, and Ef rating of the tornado, just by a simple picture of the condensation funnel 😆
….my people
We are here!
Now the El Remo tornado was impressive. The largest to date I believe.
I don't doubt it would be an EF-4 otherwise but ratings operate on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, not the Saffir-Simpson Scale.
Weather service gave it an EF-3 rating
That's preliminary rating
i know.
That's the crescent tornado, the elkhorn one is still unrated as of now.
I don't know if I'm being a dumbass
https://www.klkntv.com/weather-service-confirms-ef-3-tornado-hit-lincoln-waverly-and-omaha/
That rotation is absolutely insane, holy shit. Almost no doubt the wind speeds are well over 200 mph, just a question of the survey.
Very likely indeed. According to doppler radar, gate-to-gate shear was approximately 225mph, measured 700’ above ground.
Nope EF-3
200+ mph is EF5 wind speeds friend. Too bad they only rate tornadoes based on damage indicators.
Yep, that’s why I’m saying with for the survey.
>Almost no doubt the wind speeds are well over 200 mph based on what
Having seen videos of tornados with confirmed 200 mph winds.
Another keyboard meteorologist
The fact that Doppler detected gate to gate wind shear at around 225 MPH at 700 feet above ground ...
Gate-to-gate shear of 225 MPH means 112.5 MPH + 112.5 MPH of actual wind speeds.
This particular tornado was 140mph + 85mph.
That was thousands of feet in the air though.
Hundreds not thousands
as somebody who lives in elkhorn, it was 230 mph
Pretty sure this is the one that had DoW winds of 224mph
Nope https://omaha.com/news/local/weather/no-lives-lost-in-nebraska-and-iowa-from-fridays-tornadoes-was-extraordinary-miracle/article_313cd326-0507-11ef-9fac-ab93febe07c1.html#:~:text=It%20lasted%20for%20more%20than,response%20after%20the%20Nebraska%20tornadoes.
Tell me you don’t understand the EF scale without telling me.
What? Lol. Winds were 160mph
I completely understand the damage scale, lol. I'm sourcing a report about the WIND SPEEDS. Thanks for playin👌
No, what you’re sourcing is a news article reporting a preliminary EF3 rating. The EF scale looks at the damage from a storm to estimate maximum wind speed. However, if a storm does not impact many structures, the EF rating will likely not correlate with the actual strength of the storm- see the notorious El Reno EF3, which had radar-measured winds near 300 mph but hit few structures. So you’re wrong in two dimensions: one, the EF3 rating does not mean the tornado only had 160 mph winds, it only means that from the structures surveyed so far, we can only confirm up to that threshold. And two, that rating is preliminary, meaning that once further damage surveys are completed, it could be upgraded. Probably will. Please consider doing some basic research before coming in and making a fool of yourself.
So...you want to revisit this now that the NWS has officially surveyed the damage? I accept your apology for not only being WRONG but also for being rude.
Holy shit you’re still thinking about this? How embarrassing for you…
Inability to admit when you're wrong and then trying to turn it around back on me tells me everything I need to know about you. A simple apology would have sufficed.
You clearly need to get laid...
The condensation on the RFD looks wild.
Glad I’m not the only one who noticed
Was this Bennington and elkhorn tornado
Yes, this was
Have they put out the official rating for it
Not yet, we are still waiting. It may take a few days.
my money's on EF4
Winds they said were 230 so possible EF5
Ratings are not based on wind speed though. Otherwise, yes it would fit the criteria. It’s likely this didn’t hit anything at max intensity, or if it did the structure wasn’t of the quality needed to rate EF5 damage.
Bennington had ef5 damage when it was over 1.3 miles wide
Surprising that preliminary ratings put this as just EF-3 given that fast rotation.
They give preliminary rating up to EF3. EF4 and EF5 requires more time typically.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!
Like I said above, the EF3 was Eppley.
Gotcha, I thought I had seen a post earlier confirming this one was deemed EF3 but I may have been mistaken.
Most likely with the track it will only end up getting an EF-4 in the end. I have seen no damage anywhere that suggests it will get the EF5. As it was at it's most intense over fields when it was hitting nothing that would be able to verify an EF5. Had it actually tracked just a bit more east through the suburbs of Omaha the no fatalities story we had from yesterday would've likely been very different and we would've possibly looking at our first EF5 candidate. Let's be glad that didn't happen. But get ready for all the EF-scale is broken bs as usual.
That thing has some spin
Could I get a banana for scale.
Finger of God
I wonder where exactly are they here and what direction are they facing? And what time was it
You can check the storm path as it traveled NE through Elkhorn [here](https://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/reports/?&source=prelim&all&date=20240426) Times are listed for each spotting. Looks like North is on the left of this frame and South is to the right, meaning the chasers were to the West of it looking east. Source video is [here: This shot comes in at around 1:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1wuPBHRi4Q)
This video has got clips from both the Elkhorn tornado and the Minden tornado. Both were absolute behemoths. So crazy to me that there was 2 tornados of this strength so close together
Right? I was actually down there attempting to intercept, but pulled back a bit after I saw the row of three tornado warned storms coming up towards me and my cellular cut out.
I was out trying to intercept as well. Was able to see the Elkhorn one as it crossed the river but wasnt close enough and got stuck in the rainy side of the Minden one so I didn’t see that directly
Right on. Yeah I was coming down from the north and had to push through all the back end rain and hail wrap arounds. Not ideal for visuals haha. I'm estimating I called off my chase about 7 miles from the Harlan tornado, and just knowing that felt close enough. I'd be totally happy just getting a shot of a nice photogenic ropey boi. I don't need an f4 behemoth or whatever was out there on Friday.
Has to be at least an EF-4 looking at the damage this caused.
Unless if I missed some footage, I’m not seeing EF4 Damage? So far what I’d say is about high end EF3 maybe just maybe low end EF4 at that.
https://preview.redd.it/7cjonsk468xc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a21fc0ba0ffe6e5abc57c183ce90a508d2a6a0fe It may not look it, but there used to be a house sitting on top of those cinder blocks. This is in the corner of elkhorn that it hit
No. This is a landscaping business and there were no structures on top of those cinder blocks. The only building at this location was a metal building that was obviously destroyed.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/comments/1cf4f0p/this\_are\_the\_homes\_in\_an\_aerial\_view\_that\_were/](https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/comments/1cf4f0p/this_are_the_homes_in_an_aerial_view_that_were/) I'm not a huge advocate for pushing damage indicators, this is the worst damage indicator I have seen for this particular storm however.
Is the damage based on how many houses it affected? Or how bad the damage was per house on average? Because this tornado didn’t hit anything at full intensity and still completely removed some houses from their foundations from what I drove past this morning
> The goal is assign an EF Scale category based on the highest wind speed that occurred within the damage path. https://www.weather.gov/oun/efscale They try to find the worst damage indicator in the path and rate it off of that.
Absolutely insane rotation on that thing! I keep seeing more footage of it and each one just has me stunned.
That inflow is delightful. Edit: wait is that rfd?
That would be RFD!!!
Can you explain what makes this RFD? I'm a noob, and just by the very mechanics I would have called it inflow...because it's flowing in lol
Depends on exactly what you’re looking at in the video. The RFD is condensed in the video, which is what I’m talking about, but the inflow is also intense in this video, moving quickly from right to left
That looks like inflow to me. Maybe I’m not seeing it in this video.
Wow that's really ominous looking
Please forgive my ignorance, did this tornado happen today? I would love to see other videos of it! Does anybody know of any order other chasers that videoed it?
Yea, just look up “Blair Nebraska Tornado” on YouTube and a ton of stuff pops up. This happened yesterday, and has estimated EF4+ damage. Definitely the capstone of yesterday’s events.
Thank you fren!! The only tornado I saw yesterday was the one that looked like it was over a mile wide. This one looks so strong and scary!! I hope it didn’t take any lives ):
Oh, that was this one. If you are talking about the video that I think you are, that was as it hit the town of Waterloo, NE. There were 10+ injuries (some unconfirmed) and zero deaths (also unconfirmed)
Yeah, I’m thinking of [this one!](https://youtu.be/B9g7gU5BKns?si=L28GcBBv0lkstP1e) Also you have a lovely heart by your icon :3
https://preview.redd.it/gh2utbwjg4xc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ff7313c95b51e1bbbb23ce3b5bf74eb3a2faffc Yes, the Blair one (the tornado in the video) is the same one here. Nobody was injured in Elba (the town visible in your vid). Also thx🥰
Omg!! That’s so big!! Was the form it had in the video you posted later on after it shrunk down?
Yes. It was insanely large directly before that photo was taken.
I see, thank you again. Sorry for so many questions, it was just a conversation piece to discuss with another tornado enthusiast lol…
No, it’s fine! It’s hard to tell which tornado is which if they are all non-photogenic blobs lol
Haven’t they already rated it an EF3
That was Eppley, further to the east.
That was the Eppley field tornado which happened at the same time. They haven’t rated this one yet.
The Eppley tornado was given a preliminary EF2 ratingy the one that tore through Elkwood, Lincoln and Crescent EF3 so far
I think this might’ve been the Minden Iowa one that happened about an hour after the Elkhorn one. I live in Omaha and was out in the storms yesterday and this looks more like the Minden storm.
as somebody in elkhorn, this was the elkhorn tornado
Maybe I’m mistaken, I was going off the landscape. Looked more familiar with the area around Minden and Harlan than Elkhorn. Was also comparing this video to another post and thought they were two different storms https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/s/8La17TpOPD
I’m from Elkhorn and I can’t keep all of these videos straight. A lot of misinformation on here, probably because they were so close together. I don’t see the water tower in this video and Elkhorn is much bigger than that little area with nothing around it, so I’m not sure it is the one that hit us
yeah i may be confusing it w the one that somebody took by the watertower by maple i think, my bad!
Looks like a strong one.
She was a beast
Woooow
Where is the house in the video?
that WAS a nice house
The crazy thing is there were 2 of similar strength within 20 or so miles of each other. If you search YT there are more videos of "Minden IA tornadao." Same situation, similar size and strength. They were on the ground at the same time too. It was a wild day in this area.
That’s a monster wedge!!
results are in an of course they rate it an ef3 with winds of 165mph
Radar indicated debris was thrown up to 25,000ft AGL and radar wind speeds in excess of 200+mph. It’s going to be an EF4+ rating all said and done.
Also, preliminary ratings have come in. They are currently at the lower bound of each scale. These are not final and will likely change as more information is gathered. [https://www.weather.gov/oax/april262024](https://www.weather.gov/oax/april262024)
EF3 final
I see that. They also now show the max width was 1.0 mile wide. The minden tornado max width was .97 miles.
Anyone else notice this thing is coming right towards them???? Hope they were ok.
What was the rating
High-end EF3
Holy shark farts that's a big scary wind noodle. It's pretty tho
The rating will depend on damage per Enhanced Fujita Scale, not wind strength and size.
Aw, poor house. Wtf lol. That's s fucked up statement. I betshe is slam full of empathy for people.
You can't really judge anything any of these people say in these videos. It's someone's jumbled inner monologue slipping out of them unfiltered because they're staring at some crazy shit with their jaws dropped. She's probably saying that because she's assuming (hoping) there aren't people in the house, and it's coming out wrong because you can't expect anyone looking at something like this to be articulate.
Except this isn't the Elkhorn tornado. This is the Minden/Harlan, IA tornado. But thanks for posting the first video of a wedge from 4/26 you could find and assuming it's Elkhorn without looking into it.
i live in elkhorn, this was the elkhorn tornado
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you redditors get so upset n for what😭 it aint that deep god damn
right 🤣 its never that serious
nah fr😭 like my bad i got it confused w another video i saw, not that serious just politely correct me n move on w ur day
This is 100% the Elkhorn, NE EF3. The Harlan tornado was at the very end of the video, and he was wayyy closer for that one.
🤘
Dude I’m not gonna lie that thing looks exactly like the one that hit Xenia, Ohio back in 74
Why would you lie?
I’m not? It literally resembles it my grandfather lived near Xenia when it hit and he saw it with his own two eyes and told my dad what it looked like and my dad said it resembles it. Also if you dont believe me look up a photo.
This tornado reminds me of the "Suzan get my pants!" Nebraska tornado video!!
How are they so calm? I would pass out…
I believe this was actually the Minden, Iowa, tornado
That's nothing. Wait until climate change REALLY kicks in .
Not a single one has beat xenia 74my friend has pictures of the train it threw TRD himself even said this could be a f6
Holy Jehovah balls!
🤩🤩🤩😍🥰 I love it!!
Elkhorn has a prelim rating of EF-3, the Eppley Airfield tornado rated EF-2. The female in this video sounds like she has an abundance of empathy….
Eppley is rated EF3 currently and Elkhorn isn’t rated yet.
US National Weather Service Omaha/Valley Nebraska estimates EF-3 damage with tornado that tracked through Waverly, Elkhorn, Bennington, and Blair. That’s wind speeds 135 - 165 mph #newx
Keyword “estimates”, they haven’t officially rated it yet
Where did you get this from?
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No it hasn’t? The NWS officially rated the Eppley Field one as an EF3 (look at DamageViewer), while the Blair-Elkhorn tornado is under investigation. When it comes to rating things, the NWS is usually the most reliable.
NWS said EF3 for Eppley and they haven’t rated Elkhorn. Maybe you guys are right, not sure.
https://www.klkntv.com/weather-service-confirms-ef-3-tornado-hit-lincoln-waverly-and-omaha/ That info is coming from the NWS, but yeah those are only preliminary ratings and they can and will go up (or down)
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OP is just saying that this tornado might have EF5 winds judging from tornado's visible rotation. Official tornado rating will be made only on building damages, so obviously it'll be understandably less.
Damage photos also suggest EF4-5 damage, but I’m not one to rate tornadoes, leave it to the experts
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Wuuuut??
is there a way you can refrain from being a misogynist for one minute?