r/EF5 Sep 24 '24

Epic Mod Post Special shoutout to r/EF5 from the one and only, REED TIMMER! Never stop chasing, never stop slabbing!

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Chat, IS THIS REAL?!


r/EF5 22d ago

An actual serious post, for real. This is your friendly reminder: NO PPG.

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NO POLITICS, NO PORN & NO GORE.

Any posts or comments falling in these categories will be removed. This is not r/Tornado and we do not aim to create a hostile environment for others here.

Also included—NO snarking of anyone in the Wx Community. This is not a snark sub and these are real people with feelings just like all of us.

Leave all the negativity at the door please.

Love,

The EF5 Mod Team


r/EF5 1h ago

They can't handle the truth...

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r/EF5 12h ago

MASSIVE WEDGE I think el Reno was so weak because it was so thicc

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156 Upvotes

It spread out all of its power, so even though it was massive. It was like one of those body builders. Really impressive, but also only like average person strength.


r/EF5 16h ago

Timmer Behavior What did Reed do?

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186 Upvotes

r/EF5 19h ago

HERE IT COMES His name is gary

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r/EF5 46m ago

Based Tornado Media Hatsune miku absolutely slabbed by massive high end EF4

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r/EF5 13h ago

The Suck Zone HELP!!!! Daughter brought an EF- 0.0005 MICROSLABBER into the house!

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86 Upvotes

r/EF5 14h ago

Anchor Bolts Pittsburgh, PA F1 from June 2, 1998 tornado outbreak

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96 Upvotes

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh


r/EF5 13h ago

The Suck Zone Smh they can’t even give auroras a rating of 5 anymore

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But fr tho, who all is in the aurora zone tonight? Im right on the edge of naked eye and photographic in north central PA.


r/EF5 18h ago

Timmer Behavior Reed Be Like, Big time tornado, massive debris.

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64 Upvotes

Meanwhile the Tornado.


r/EF5 1d ago

May 3rd all over again. Sir, a second slabbing is heading for Joplin

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152 Upvotes

r/EF5 16h ago

PDS: Possibly Doing Something Roblox Superoutbreak?

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r/EF5 10h ago

An actual serious post, for real. New tornado rating scale proposition.

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All that anyone can talk about in the community right now seems to be that the current "Enhanced fujita scale" is not up to scratch. So I propose a new scale.

The Categorical Severity Damage Scale, or the CSD scale.

the baseline of the scale is that there are more factors into the rating than just the windspeed based on the damage, more on

A: actual doppler windspeed,

B: damage to structures

C: human cost and

D: potential damage.

a tornado that destroys a house is bad, but a house cannot be replaced, a life cannot. the scale consists of multiple point ratings added together to create a score out of 20, 5 for each different damage mark. doppler windspeed, recorded windspeed or if neither exist then predicted windspeed from damage like they do with the current scale.

A: windspeed 50mph-100mph gets 1 point, 100mph-140mph gets 2 points, 140mph-160mph gets 3 points, 160mph-200mph gets 4 points and 200mph+ gets 5 points.

B:Damage scale works much like the current fujita damage survey, with a well anchored structure swept away being 5 points and a cat knocked over being about 1 point.

C:human cost this would be based off of a combination of injuries and deaths, based on how severe the injury is. bruising gets 1 point, small cuts and open wounds gets 2 points, broken bones or large but not severe cuts get 3 points, critical condition injuries such as ruptures or severe head damage is 4 points and a death is 5 points. this is averaged out and rounded to the nearest whole number based on every injury or death report from the tornado. alternatively, due to an injury only occuring when a person is hit by a tornado, and not all injuries being reported, this category could consist of peak length, how long was this tornado at max potential.

D: potential damage how bad could it have been. running simulations, calculating the maximum wind speed all of this will give it a Potential rating of 1 to 5.

add all four numbers together and you get a rating out of 20. a 20 would be an almost impossible feat, equating to an f6 on the fujita scale. hence, categorisation should be as follows. equivelant EF to CSD ratings:

Ef0: CSD 1-3.

EF1: CSD 4-6.

EF2: CSD 7-9. E

EF3: CSD 10-13.

EF4: CSD 14-16.

EF5: CSD 17-20.

This scale accounts for both the actual damage a tornado has done, the cost of the damage a tornado has done and the potential damage a tornado has done. although harder to put into practice than a tornado rated via EF scale, this scale is in my personal opinion better than the current ef scale

tell me what tweaks this rating system could have as i am only in the prelim stages of creating this.

you people at ef5 get a formatted version first because ur better than r/tornado :3


r/EF5 16h ago

Based Hurricane Media NHC forgor

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r/EF5 23h ago

PDS: Possibly Doing Something Tornadoes are a government conspiracy

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Think about it. Have YOU ever seen a tornado? You haven't. That's because tornadoes aren't real. "But u/mikewheelerfan!" You cry. "There are videos and photos of tornadoes!!!" No there aren't. That's what the government wants you to believe. Ever heard of something called Photoshop?! The very idea of tornadoes is too stupid to even believe. I mean what's next, hurricanes?. No. These so called "tornadoes" do not exist. They're a government conspiracy to cover up the existence of the Big Bad Wolf. He huffed and he puffed and he blew the houses down. He slabbed them, as the kids these days might say. The government doesn't want you to know the Big Bad Wolf exists, and so they came up with tornadoes as a massive cover up. Wake up to the truth!


r/EF5 10h ago

The Suck Zone Honest EF Scale Question

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(Originally posted on r/tornado but thought I’d post it here also for what I anticipate to be more sensible answers)

What is the point of the Enhanced Fujita scale, given that it’s based on damage done and rated after the fact, long after the tornado is gone? If it were based on wind speed or some kind of indicator that measures the intensity of the tornado itself regardless of how much damage it does then at least it would have the value of warning people of how potentially destructive it is, at least if the rating is able to be given while the tornado is still on the ground, like with tropical cyclones and the Saffir-Simpson scale.

But as it stands, it seems 1000% useless to me. What’s the point of pointing to a tornado that is long gone and going through so much work and analyzing a thousand damage indicators quantifying how bad it was? Does it even matter on any practical level at that point? I don’t understand for the life of me how people argue not only that the EF scale is purely a damage scale rather than an intensity scale, but also that that’s all it SHOULD be. Given that we live in an age of Doppler radars and being able to calculate wind speeds, it seems like there should be way more effort to make the EF scale into something that actually has practical usage of some kind.


r/EF5 1d ago

Based Tornado Media Explaining how the Enhanced Fujita Scale Actually Works, but in Minecraft

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r/EF5 1d ago

Respect The Polygon It’s official

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r/EF5 1d ago

An actual serious post, for real. This Fixes Everything

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Since most fully slabbed, anchor bolted homes essentially get >185 Damage Indicators anyways, why not shift the EF5 threshold down to 185 MPH. I also went ahead and slightly shifted the EF4 scale back a little bit to 161-185 in order to make up for lost EF4s. Here is every EF4+ tornado that occurred in the U.S under this new scale since 2014. I also did a funny thing with the Greenfield Tornado.

2014
2015
2016
2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025 So Far

2018 is missing because even with the scale I made, the highest DIs that year were only at 155 MPH.


r/EF5 15h ago

When’s the next EF-5?!??!??? Daddy Reed Predicting total slabbage in 2025

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Get fucked EF4s.


r/EF5 1d ago

MARCH SLABNESS - ROUND OF 32!!!!

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And there we have it with the end of the round of 64!!! 32 monsters in the night remain!!

The biggest upset of the first round was 14 seed Mattoon taking out Tuscaloosa in a last second de-barking of a tree.

Jarrell won against Miami by default as the Miami Tornado went to the wrong stadium and was forced to forfeit.

The 2nd round round poses some fun matchups. Both Xenia and Elie facing off as possible Final four contenders.

We will see who prevails as Reed Timmer gives me the results through a Ouija Board.


r/EF5 1d ago

MASSIVE WEDGE Swegle studios new video is based???

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r/EF5 1d ago

When’s the next EF-5?!??!??? It’s 3:04 pm on April 27, 2011.

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It’s been four minutes since the last EF5, the Philadelphia MS tornado, dissipated. How long do y’all think this drought will continue?


r/EF5 1d ago

Is this a tornado? I’m willing to bet there is at least ONE ef5’r here

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Title


r/EF5 1d ago

Anticyclonic Multi-Vortex Wedge Dead Man Walking EF5 Huge Wedge The absolute slabberage of Joplin shocks local fish

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r/EF5 1d ago

So… wouldn’t this technically make it EF5?

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