Friday, August 5, 2011
Hurricane Andrew wind gusts were as strong as Tuscaloosa and Joplin tornadoes, ranking only old F-3 status?
According to doppler radar, and other estimates, the Joplin tornados strongest winds were about 180 miles an hour. The Tuscaloosa tornado winds were 195 miles an hour. Both tornadoes would be F-3's on the old scale, and are strong EF4's on the current scale. In order to acheive old F-5 status, both the Joplin and Tuscaloosa tornadoes would have had to had winds of 259 miles an hour. In other words, the Joplin and Tuscaloosa tornado winds were between 60 and 80 miles an hour WEAKER than ANY storm which was ever an F-5. In addition, the winds in the OKC May 1999 tornado were recorded at 319 miles an hour according to a Doppler on Wheels. To put this into an even better perspective, wind gusts in south Florida with Hurricane Andrew were AS STRONG as these two tornadoes mentioned above, if all information is deemed correct. Surely, the wind gusts were over estimated by like 20% in ALL tornadoes if the Tuscaloosa and Joplin tornadoes did not - or just BARELY sustained max windspeed of 200 miles an hour.
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