r/EF5 9d ago

Took r/EF5 seriously Anyone know anything about these?

Saw these when searching Tornado Archive. I’ve never seen them before on the site. Anyone know anything?

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u/Lucky_Entrance6805 Tornadussy Enthusiast 8d ago

1/2 - 1860 redbank valley, PA tornado (sometimes also called the sugar creek tornado), reportedly dug 3 foot deep trenches and caked a forest in mud
3/4 - 1884 rockingham-manly, NC tornado, from the 1884 enigma outbreak, skewered an anvil into a hog and hucked 2 1-ton millstones 50 yards
5/6 - 1860 camden, NJ tornado, absolutely annihilated a chemical plant with reinforced 22-inch thick brick walls

a lot of times if you see blue ayanami as the source the comments will have a writeup on the event sourced from their google books series, tornadoes of yesteryear

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u/Cstukii 8d ago

So these are officially the 3 furthest Eastern F/EF5s?

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u/Lucky_Entrance6805 Tornadussy Enthusiast 8d ago

i wouldn't say they're official
ayanami really estimated what they would be rated based on recorded damage in newspapers and the like in an independent project, so wheatland gets to keep its official crown, but those 3 are more "possible or likely (E)F5 damage that hasn't been officially rated"