Wow: Camera Goes Inside EF4 Tornado

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Explaining the EF scale for tornadoes

Incredibly narrow but intense damage from a fast moving tornado ... Typically when you see completely bare concrete pads where well built homes stood and large old growth healthy trees over a foot in diameter debarked and delimed you are seeing EF-5 damage. No official ruling yet, but this may be a record for the narrowest EF5 tornado damage ever recorded. Either way, this is tragic. As you continue down the path the debris gets deeper and deeper, piled up by the insanely powerful and likely 200

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