Hi, I’m EF5 . My username comes from the highest damage rating a tornado can receive on the Enhanced Fujita scale .
Favorite quotes
“They call F5 tornadoes the “finger of God”; few have stared one in the face and survived.” – Bill Paxton
“He said people shouldn’t be afraid to propose ideas. You don’t want to be so scared that you don’t propose something you believe in.” – Roger Wakimoto on Ted Fujita
“It’s prom night. A lot of the high school girls worry about their hair. I’ve never had to worry about that.” – James Spann
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Quips
“Tornado Alley ” does not exist.
“Tornado Alley” is not moving or shifting.
“Dixie Alley ” does not exist.
“Dixie Alley” is not becoming the new “Tornado Alley”.
Super Outbreak
The April 27, 2011 “Super Outbreak” of tornadoes has always particularly interested me. In layman’s terms, imagine 337 tornado warnings within a 24-hour period, many of which were accompanied by deadly tornadoes. Not a great day.
Resources on tornadoes
Interests
Cool tornado images
Interesting tornado images that have been uploaded to Commons:
2026 tornado bingo
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Intense tornado in
the Hill Country
Mid-May outbreak
(May 13-19 timeframe) (filled on May 17)
March Dixie
outbreak
10+ fatality
tornado
Contextually-rated
EF3+ (filled on 4/23)
EF4 in the Arklatex
region
Moderate “bust”
in April (filled on 4/27)
EF2 in Graves County, Kentucky
Kansas
below-average to June
St. Louis metro
tornado
High risk including
Missouri
185+-mph EF4
Free
space
EF5
Will be traveling at the time of an outbreak
2 high risks
NWS Memphis
rating controversy
September hurricane
outbreak
Reed Timmer
“Super Outbreak” mention (filled on 4/6)
EF3+ in Europe (filled on 5/3)
Tornado emergency
in Iowa
“Tornado of the Century” in Nebraska
South American
outbreak in May
5%#
(Filled on 3/5)
Greensburg-esque cell in North OK
(Filled on 3/5)
Helpful links:
To-do list
Images I’ve taken
Tornado-related articles I’ve started
Tornadoes by year
Tornado outbreaks
Individual tornadoes
F# /EF#
State / Country
Date
Fatalities
Injuries
Article
DYK
Class
FU
Illinois
May 22, 1855
4
8
1855 Des Plaines tornado
F4
Missouri
April 18, 1880
99
200
Marshfield Cyclone
F5
Iowa
June 18, 1882
68+
300+
1882 Grinnell tornado
F5–equiv.
Missouri, Illinois, Indiana
March 18, 1925
695
2027
1925 Tri-State tornado [ 2]
F5
Paraguay
September 20, 1926
300+
500+
1926 Encarnación tornado
F5
Texas
April 12, 1927
74
205
1927 Rocksprings tornado
EF3
Illinois
September 14, 1928
14
100+
1928 Rockford tornado
F5
Arkansas
April 10, 1929
23
80
Sneed Tornado
IF5
Italy
July 24, 1930
23
110
1930 Montello tornado
F4
Poland
July 20, 1931
6
100+
1931 Lublin tornado
F4
Alabama
April 12, 1943
4
60
1943 Hackleburg tornado
F4
Nebraska
June 27, 1955
2
40+
1955 Scottsbluff tornado
F4
Alabama
January 24, 1964
10
6
1964 Harpersville tornado
F5
Texas
April 3, 1964
7
111
1964 Wichita Falls tornado
F5
Iowa
May 15, 1968
13
462
1968 Hansell-Charles City tornado
F5
Iowa
5
156
1968 Oelwein tornado [ 3]
FU
Bangladesh
April 17, 1973
681+
1000
1973 Faridpur District tornado
F5[ 4]
Oklahoma
May 24, 1973
2
4
1973 Union City tornado
F5
Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana
April 3, 1974
6
210
1974 Cincinnati tornado [ 5]
F5
Kentucky
31
257
1974 Brandenburg tornado
F5
Alabama
28
267
1974 Tanner tornadoes#First tornado
F5
Alabama, Tennessee
16
190
1974 Tanner tornadoes#Second tornado
F5
Alabama
28
272
1974 Guin tornado
F3
Alabama
May 3, 1984
5
37
1984 Montgomery tornado
F1
New York
November 16, 1989
10
18
1989 Coldenham tornado
F5
Kansas
April 26, 1991
17
225
1991 Andover tornado
F3
Alabama
February 16, 1995
6
120
1995 Joppa–Arab tornado
F5
Texas
May 27, 1997
27
12
Jarrell tornado [ 6]
F4
Ohio
September 20, 2000
1
100
2000 Xenia tornado
F4
Kansas
April 21, 2001
1
28
2001 Hoisington tornado
EF5
Kansas
May 4, 2007
12
63
Greensburg tornado
EF4
Arkansas
February 5, 2008
13
163
2008 Atkins–Clinton tornado
EF3
Alabama
February 17, 2008
0
50
2008 Prattville–Millbrook tornado
EF4
Oklahoma, Missouri
May 10, 2008
21
350
2008 Picher–Neosho tornado [ 7]
EF2
Wyoming
June 5, 2009
0
0
2009 Goshen County tornado
EF4
South Dakota
May 22, 2010
0
0
2010 Bowdle tornado
EF4
Minnesota
June 17, 2010
1
14
2010 Conger–Albert Lea tornado
EF4
Alabama
April 27, 2011
6
48
2011 Cullman–Arab tornado [ 8] [ 9] [ 9]
EF4
Alabama
13
54
2011 Cordova–Blountsville tornado [ 10]
EF3
Alabama
7
52
2011 Sawyerville–Eoline tornado [ 11]
EF4
Alabama, Georgia
17
50
2011 Flat Rock–Trenton tornado
EF4
Georgia, Tennessee
20+
335
2011 Ringgold–Apison tornado [ 12]
EF4
Indiana, Kentucky
March 2, 2012
12
0+
2012 Southern Indiana tornado
EF4
Texas
May 15, 2013
6
54
2013 Granbury tornado
EF4
Nebraska
October 4, 2013
0
15
2013 Wayne tornado
EF4
Arkansas
April 27, 2014
16
193
2014 Mayflower–Vilonia tornado [ 13]
EF4
Texas
December 26, 2015
10
468
2015 Garland tornado
EF4
Oklahoma
May 9, 2016
1
0
2016 Katie tornado
EF3–equiv.
California
July 26, 2018
3
5
2018 Carr Fire tornado
EF3
Mississippi
February 23, 2019
1
19
2019 Columbus, Mississippi, tornado
EF3
Louisiana
April 25, 2019
2
2
2019 Ruston tornado
EF3
Tennessee
March 3, 2020
5
220
2020 Nashville tornado
EF3
Arkansas
March 28, 2020
0
12
2020 Jonesboro tornado
EF3
Alabama
January 25, 2021
1
30
2021 Fultondale tornado
EF3
Wisconsin
August 7, 2021
0
0
2021 Boscobel tornado
EF3
Kentucky
December 11, 2021
17
63
2021 Bowling Green tornadoes [ 14]
EF3
Kansas
April 29, 2022
0
3
2022 Andover tornado [ 15]
EF2
Alabama
January 12, 2023
0
2
2023 Selma tornado
EF3
Illinois, Indiana
March 31, 2023
6
16
2023 Robinson–Sullivan tornado [ 16]
EF3
Virginia
April 30, 2023
0
0
2023 Virginia Beach tornado
EF3
Oklahoma
April 27, 2024
1
30
2024 Sulphur tornado [ 17]
EF3
Kansas
April 30, 2024
1
3
Westmoreland tornado
EF4
Oklahoma
May 6, 2024
2
55
2024 Barnsdall–Bartlesville tornado
EF4
Kentucky
May 16, 2025
19
108
2025 Somerset–London tornado
EF5
North Dakota
June 20, 2025
3
0
2025 Enderlin tornado [ 18]
Other
Tornado GA/FA map
Note: Light-green symbols are articles that were nominated by me.
Map of individual tornado
Good Articles and
Featured Articles as of January 26, 2026. Note: One Good Article (
1764 Woldegk tornado ) is not shown on the map as it happened in Europe.
The Central Oklahoma cluster consists of 4 articles in very close proximity:
Notes
^ Included the first EF5-rated tornado in 12 years.
^ Very likely multiple tornadoes.
^ Definitely not an F5.
^ Officially an F4, but most academic sources on the event seem to call it an F5, something I agree with.
^ Probably not an F5.
^ Officially one tornado but likely consisted of 3-4 tornadoes prior to its impact near Jarrell.
^ Officially one tornado but likely consisted of two EF4+ tornadoes.
^ Officially one tornado but was likely 3, with the second one causing the vast majority of damage from Cullman to just after the Tennessee River.
^ a b Could be an EF5; haven’t seen much supporting it structurally.
^ Possibly EF5 intensity over rural areas of Walker County, Alabama .
^ Very likely EF4+ in intensity.
^ As with seemingly every other 4/27/2011 EF4 this one was possibly an EF5 in intensity south of the Georgia/Tennessee border.
^ Widely considered to have been an EF5 in intensity.
^ The EF3 was almost certainly an EF4 in intensity.
^ Possibly an EF4.
^ Very likely EF4+ in intensity.
^ Possibly EF4 intensity while in Sulphur, Oklahoma .
^ The EF5 rating is dodgy at best; I’m not completely convinced this tornado ever reached EF5 intensity.
Radar colortables I use
My setup involves 2-4 devices depending on the threat level; one with SupercellWx open and another with a live news stream. The other two can either have Broadcastify SKYWARN feeds or warning listings. Below are .pal colortable sets I use for SupercellWx; email me if you’d like the ones I don’t have linked:
Colortables I use
Set
Product
Link
Image
Notes
ABC 33/40 April 27, 2011
Reflectivity
Link (alternative )
This colortable set is meant to emulate the look of ABC 33/40 ‘s live broadcast during the 2011 Super Outbreak, which can be viewed here . Includes reflectivity (highly recommend smoothing it to be more realistic, as the original broadcast had it smoothed) and homemade velocity. This is the default set I use.
Velocity
Email me
WSR-57
Reflectivity
Email me
Black-and-white set that emulates how the WSR-57 looked on reflectivity; the other three products are what the WSR might have looked like if those products existed at the time the radar was in operation. Includes homemade velocity and spectrum width. Highly recommend removing town names and making the basemap black if using. Really only good for watching well-developed cells close to radar sites; outside of that I don’t use this set often due to its impractibility.
Velocity
Email me
Coorelation Coefficient
Link
Spectrum Width
Email me
TWC April 27, 2011
Reflectivity
Email me
Emulates this broadcast by The Weather Channel during the 2011 Super Outbreak.
Velocity
Email me
TWC Pilger
Reflectivity
Email me
The Weather Channel’s set used in the mid-2010s; this specific set is modeled after TWC’s broadcast during the 2014 Pilger, Nebraska tornado family .
Velocity
Email me
Coorelation Coefficient
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