People who've never been through a tornado have little appreciation for the power. That is not a trailer park being destroyed in the video; the houses are like what you would find in a typical suburban neighborhood. Click the link for the video. It is only 2 minutes and change.
Reed Timmer on Twitter:Highest-res drone footage of the Andover, KS #tornado which has received a preliminary rating of EF3. Note how the tornado propagates via vortex dynamics and likely terrain. Incredibly, no lives were lost by this tornado https://t.co/FJDBH8TAv6 / Twitter: drone footage of the Andover, KS #tornado
From the National Weather Service we get the definition for The Enhanced Fujita Scale (EF Scale). Here's the definition for level 3.
Severe damage. Roofs and some walls torn from well- constructed houses; trains overturned; most trees in forested area uprooted; heavy cars lifted and thrown.
In the EF scale, class 3 winds are in the range of 136 MPH to 165 MPH.
An EF5 tornado would be described as follows.
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses lifted off foundations, carried considerable distances, and disintegrated; auto-sized missiles airborne for several hundred feet or more; trees debarked.
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