This is absolutely terrifying. I lived in a town called Murray during this time, which is about 45 minutes from Mayfield to the Southeast. I was there in Murray when this was happening. What's terrifying is how close it came to us and how sure I was it wasn't going to hit us. But our house didn't have a basement. So if it did hit us, we'd only have the protection of our inner bathroom. We had a lot of Tornado warnings during my 24 years of living in Kentucky. We only had one or two small tornados hit us and they did like EF1 or EF2 damage. So, when the sirens went off and they said there was a tornado touching down in Mayfield I couldn't believe that it was doing the amount of damage they said. I still said OUT LOUD that it wasn't a big deal. And that it wasn't gonna hit us. The winds were crazy. Branches and stuff littered our streets when it was over. I think that multiple things contributed to the amount of deaths in Mayfield. One of which being that, at least in Murray, I noticed that it is extremely rare for jouse to be built with a basement. My entire street didn't have a basement. And it looked like a lot of the Mayfield houses that were flattened didn't either. We are very under prepared for tornados in that sense. Another thing that contributed to it ia the mentality I had at the time of, "Oh, that would never happen to me. Tornados never touch down here." Which is scary that people are still like that after countless warnings. Finally, the candle factory. At the first hint of a cold front colliding with a warm front, they shoukd have let the employees go home with no threat of termination. That candle factory had no proper tornado shelter. People would've been better off leaving that warehouse, and finding a better place to ride out the tornado. The people who died, or got injured in that candle factory would be ok if they had let the employees leave. This is absolutely neglect, if not endangerment of employees. Which absolutely is a serious crime. That is probably the scariest event of my life so far, and I wasn't even scared during it. That's what scares me now. That I wasn't scared. During that tornado my mom and dad, 2 brothers and 2 sistersand I all crammed into the tiny hall bathroom and waited for the second all clear siren as well as the weather radio to tell us it was all clear before we came out. Super scary. I hope we can better prepare our selves, jobs, and especially homes for any more tornados.
The EF System, as well as the "Updated" EF were revolutions in the way DATA is recorded and anylized and has led to tremendous gains in our understanding of these storms but i also believe they taken us as far as they can in this realm of research and we are in dire need of the next level of inovations in both the way these storms are catagorically recorded as well as inovations in the way the data itself is anylized if we are to reach next level understanding of these things. Imagine being able to predict tornados hours to possibly days prior to touchdown, and imagine being able to predict the path of them to a accuracy level in terms of feet and yards instead of miles. That is only going to be accomplishable through means of reveloutions in the way we research and anylize these storms.
This is absolutely terrifying. I lived in a town called Murray during this time, which is about 45 minutes from Mayfield to the Southeast. I was there in Murray when this was happening. What's terrifying is how close it came to us and how sure I was it wasn't going to hit us.
But our house didn't have a basement. So if it did hit us, we'd only have the protection of our inner bathroom.
We had a lot of Tornado warnings during my 24 years of living in Kentucky. We only had one or two small tornados hit us and they did like EF1 or EF2 damage. So, when the sirens went off and they said there was a tornado touching down in Mayfield I couldn't believe that it was doing the amount of damage they said. I still said OUT LOUD that it wasn't a big deal. And that it wasn't gonna hit us. The winds were crazy. Branches and stuff littered our streets when it was over.
I think that multiple things contributed to the amount of deaths in Mayfield. One of which being that, at least in Murray, I noticed that it is extremely rare for jouse to be built with a basement. My entire street didn't have a basement. And it looked like a lot of the Mayfield houses that were flattened didn't either. We are very under prepared for tornados in that sense.
Another thing that contributed to it ia the mentality I had at the time of, "Oh, that would never happen to me. Tornados never touch down here." Which is scary that people are still like that after countless warnings.
Finally, the candle factory. At the first hint of a cold front colliding with a warm front, they shoukd have let the employees go home with no threat of termination. That candle factory had no proper tornado shelter. People would've been better off leaving that warehouse, and finding a better place to ride out the tornado. The people who died, or got injured in that candle factory would be ok if they had let the employees leave. This is absolutely neglect, if not endangerment of employees. Which absolutely is a serious crime.
That is probably the scariest event of my life so far, and I wasn't even scared during it. That's what scares me now. That I wasn't scared.
During that tornado my mom and dad, 2 brothers and 2 sistersand I all crammed into the tiny hall bathroom and waited for the second all clear siren as well as the weather radio to tell us it was all clear before we came out.
Super scary. I hope we can better prepare our selves, jobs, and especially homes for any more tornados.
Dawson springs got hit again last Sunday
This tornado should have been ef5
The EF System, as well as the "Updated" EF were revolutions in the way DATA is recorded and anylized and has led to tremendous gains in our understanding of these storms but i also believe they taken us as far as they can in this realm of research and we are in dire need of the next level of inovations in both the way these storms are catagorically recorded as well as inovations in the way the data itself is anylized if we are to reach next level understanding of these things. Imagine being able to predict tornados hours to possibly days prior to touchdown, and imagine being able to predict the path of them to a accuracy level in terms of feet and yards instead of miles. That is only going to be accomplishable through means of reveloutions in the way we research and anylize these storms.