("Morgans" wrote)
Any word on what number on the scale this twister was? I'm guessing F-3
or F-4, from the looks of viewing a portion of the pictures. It could
even go F-5, I suppose.


A wide F-3 would do that type of damage. You want to see an F-4? Check out
the Comfrey, MN Tornado of 1998. 3-28-1998 (4:30pm). That one still gives me
the willies.

F3 will splinter your house. F4 will wipe the slab clean of debris.

http://www.skywarn.ampr.org/98ma29.htm
Jay's Iowa City tornado damage looks like St Peter's damage from this same
March 1998 storm. Photo links scattered around this site.

http://www.gusties.org/cleanup/
St Peter, MN 1998 (F3)

http://www.sigmamaps.com/StPeter/stpindex.htm
March 28, 1998 (5:20 pm)

Here's mine last year. We hid our cars under a parking ramp that evening.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mpx/TornadoS...nesota2005.php
Sept 21, 2005 Blaine-Coon Rapids
2 miles long, 50 yards wide path. (F2) Trees, roofs, sheds, signs, etc.

The Siren , WI tornado in 2001 was bad, too. Weather experts will rate the
tornado after studying the area during a walk around. The Siren tornado -
they kept moving the F number up, then down, then back up, then back down.
Don't recall what they settled on? Might be some politics going on - aid
money difference?


Montblack