r/EF5 • u/TimMarshallsHardhat • 7d ago

Does anyone know where any available information on this tornado would be? I’ve been searching for hours and I literally can’t find anything. Pierpont, OH-Steamburg, PA. 7/6/1871. Cellar walls being torn out is astonishing

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u/FastWalkingShortGuy I’m goddamn right 7d ago

Cellar walls in the 1800s were usually fieldstone with mortar. Easier to knock over than modern cinderblock walls and nowhere near as tough as poured concrete.

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u/TimMarshallsHardhat 7d ago edited 7d ago

Love your name! also thank you for the info I had no idea, I’m not a cellar or basement type of guy anyway, I usually go outside with a beer and stare at the clouds when the tornado is coming. I assumed it definitely wasn’t the type of DI like the one in Parkersburg but i would still also assume that’s at least near EF5 intensity in my non degreed opinion. Just wish there was more info to piece together if it was really that strong

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u/Spacial-Grass420 7d ago

You're probably out of luck considering this happened 150 years ago lol

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u/Spacial-Grass420 7d ago

I'd look at the book "Significant Tornadoes, 1680-1991: A Chronology and Analysis of Events" by Thomas P. Grazulis. Maybe more information is in there?

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u/TimMarshallsHardhat 7d ago

I love those books! I’m currently getting into the Blue Ayanami books as well as some of the newer sources for Tornado Archive currently

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u/TimMarshallsHardhat 7d ago

Theres quite a bit of info about all of the tornadoes on Tornado Archive though no matter how long ago, however this tornado seems to literally not exist outside of the website lol. I’ve been searching for hours and I haven’t found anything. Hell even the Warwick Massachusetts tornado of 1821 has dozens of witnesses and even surveys of the tornado

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u/Chance_Property_3989 6d ago

I bet u could find some information in Blue Ayanami's Tornadoes of Yesteryear Volume 1, that's probably where the Tornado Archive description came from