More INSANE Tornado Damage on Google Earth
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- Today we look at more tornado damage paths on Google Earth!
Part 1: • Top 10 Tornado Damage ...
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:28 El Reno is not visible!
1:33 Parkersburg, Iowa
2:51 Hallam, Nebraska
3:57 Mayfield, Kentucky
6:48 4/27/11 Smithville & Phil Campbell
9:01 Menominee Reservation, WI
9:58 South Moravia, Czech Republic
More INSANE Tornado Damage on Google Earth
Hey everyone, there were so many suggestions that instead of making a 30 minute video, I'll just do a part 3 in the future. Most people only watch a few minutes anyway. Hope everyone is having a good week!
Love the follow up video. My roommates and I just watched the first part of this series and loved the video. Was so hyped to see one pop up in my recommended. Great content, keep up the good work. Subscriber +1
Keep it up my guy! Always hyped for weatherbox Wednesdays!
Well, I watched all the minutes!!! I like your videos a lot, but I'm now thinking of building a tornado shelter in my house.
What made you blow up? UA-cam algorithm or sudden uptick in tornado news. Good stuff, map nerds like me love it.
I liked the longer video but I can just as easily consume a smaller one so yeah you'll probably get more watch time this way.
I was in the mayfield tornado. It was insane for sure. They say it'll take at least 10 years to rebuild.
The tornado also took out the police department and electric company which were adjacent to the courthouse. A cvs right across the street from all of these was unharmed which shows just how bizarre tornadoes act.
My house was lifted from the foundation and moved a bit before being let loose. It was the scariest thing I've ever experienced. I was in the bathroom. The walls around me were cracking and collapsing. The floor beneath my feet began falling. The wall to the outside fell before my eyes. I thought I was a goner. But after the wall fell, the tornado moved on.
Also, the death toll of mayfield alone was 80.
Wow
That sounds like a wild experience. I’m glad you turned out okay.
The story of that Mayfield candle factory is horrifying and infuriating, not only because of what happened but also because I can see it happening in other workplaces, especially given how recent it is. You shouldn’t have to choose between your life and your job.
Fantastic video and channel. Keep up the great work!
Fully agree, unfortunately in today's world it seems like people have to die for companies/corporations to change their ways. Thanks for the kind words!
At the same time another tornado took out a warehouse in Illinois and killed people who were threatened to be fired under similar circumstances. Apparently the amazon handbook says they can be fired for leaving work without "permission"...
I believe it was Edwardsville, Illinois. It made the news here in NW Ohio and so many people were outraged.
Weatherbox going INTERNATIONAL. Loved learning more about some of these occurrences outside the US!
The international viewers have been coming THROUGH with the suggestions
Thank you for talking about the 2.2 mile wide tornado that hit Wisconsin. Maybe you can look at the may 16th 2017 EF3 Wisconsin tornado, it cut a 83 mile path which is the longest in Wisconsin
Here's a more obscure tornado path I found. In March 2012, there was an EF3 tornado that hit western Paulding County, Georgia. Only a small portion of the path is visible, but just to the west of Silver Comet Field, there's a 2 mile stretch where the trees were knocked down before hitting the airport itself. The first imagery that shows this was taken about 6 months after the tornado, but the path is still somewhat visible in wintertime images to this day, now as new growth forest.
Also, the tornado that hit Arabi, LA last month is visible too
I live about 5 miles away from where the Mayfield KY tornado hit. The tornado was so strong that I remember the ground shaking, the ground vibrations were even recorded by a seismograph.
There was an F4 in La Plata, MD in April, 2002. Biggest and highest rated one in MD history. Swept through 4 different counties, killed 5 and injured over 100. It was also an extremely fast moving storm with one of the fasted accepted speeds on record when it hit almost 60mph when tearing through the town. Not only that but eye witnesses have said a second smaller tornado formed like a half mile south of the main one, peaked around F2-ish, but swept through the heart of La Plata just minutes after the F4 causing even more damage. Most EAS systems in the area failed at that time so the warning couldnt be properly broadcasted to everyone since most radio stations were having trouble. Stayed on the ground for 90 minutes, and created a 64 mile path of damage. Quite literally a perfect storm for a history defining event in an area not at all equipped to handle the situation. It's sorta my hometown so I hear stories about it all the time (I was only 2 when it happened). My parents had some old home videos they took driving through after the storm and the damage was insane. Whole buildings and stores that we frequented, just gone. There's a bunch of places memorializing it (each person killed has their own park bench dedicated to them) and a bunch of buildings in downtown have pictures of the damage and multiple maps showing the path of it. It's so clearly visible no matter the type of map you're looking at that I'm blown away everytime I see it. There's even a bunch of trees that didn't get knocked down but were damaged to the point that no matter the time of year they NEVER grow leaves anymore. Not sure if it's on google earth since it was over 20 years ago now but it'd definitely be worth a view in my biased opinion, its one of the craziest things to happen here and it left such a major impact on the area and the people. There was even debris from La Plata stores that was found in southern Delaware, easily over 60 miles and a 2.5-3+ hour drive away. The amount of people I know who lived through it and now refuse to leave their house or sprint for cover when there's a storm is wild. There's been a bunch of other small tornadoes since then around this part of MD but none that even come close to that one. That tornado prompted every county in Southern Maryland and pretty much every city and town in the DC-Baltimore metro area to completely revamp their tornado warning systems. Before then there were very few towns in MD with actual tornado sirens and everyone mostly relied on TV or radio broadcasts, but now they're in every county and most towns, and at least in our county where it happened ALL sirens in the county will sound if there is a tornado warning in ANY part of the county, which seems a bit overkill since it'd take an hour at the least to drive county line to line, but better safe than sorry I dont blame em. This isn't even the deadliest tornado to hit the town though. In November, 1926 another F4 hit the town killing 17 (13 were kids at school) and injuring 35. For some reason this small town in Southern Maryland just attracts strong and deadly storms I guess.
Happens. I live in Maryland but 3 hours away. I was born in Connecticut and tornadoes are unheard of there too. But in 1989 there was a tornado outbreak and one of them also had an F4 rating. So it might be rare but it can happen!
It’s amazing to see how fast your channel is growing. I hope your channel hits 100k soon. You need to make more videos like these :)
Thanks Matt!
I just found your channel today, loved this different look on tornadoes and tornado damage paths... Looking forward to Part 3!
It's crazy how the El Reno tornado path is barely visible at all on Google Earth; I guess that must be because so much of it was over open farmland rather than forest or built-up areas.
Bro, your videos are SO high quality. I'm loving seeing your channel blow up like this. One of my best friends is a Meteorologist that does the daytime show for Lubbock Texas (Jack Maney, the dude is a beast) and he helped me find your channel, and I'm so glad he did. Great work as always!
Quick idea suggestion since tornadoes seem to be a point of interest for your viewers: Maybe a video about tornadoes that have controversy around their ratings or maybe a video about tornadoes in other countries and how their impact is different based on location and circumstances. A video about the fire tornado that killed like 45k people in Japan in the 1920's would be an AWESOME deep-dive video.
I swear this channel is goated
such a good suggestion!!!
Oh man that would be hard, but so worth it. Perhaps he'll get a viewer soon who speaks Japanese and can assist in research.
I saw the damage caused by the Parkersburg IA tornado first hand. We were staying in Cedar Falls that Summer and drove out to see what it looked like a week or two after. They were already heavily involved in the cleanup, bulldozers had piled up a lot of the debris, and they were using sheets of particle board for street signs. The most striking thing about the landscape, however, was that there was a wide swath of baren ground, like someone was building a freeway, that cut diagonally across the Southeast side of town and extended for miles.
Keep up the excellent work! There's always a place for tornado and storm content that isn't TV coverage or storm chasing footage (as much as I love watching Spann.) I love this series, and the videos about the super outbreak and last weeks video. I would like this video twice if i could! Im sure the algortithm will pick you up again, mine definitley has, and already recommends videos from you that i've already watched or didn't finish, lol.
No way I'm so glad you're continuing this! I saw the video that blew up and it sent me down a rabbit hole of google earth for about 3 hours trying to find some paths on my own. Keep it up!!
Awesome! I love Google Earth rabbit holes haha
Nice finds you found there on Google Earth! I always enjoy your tornado damage path research. I even liked how you also included The Weather Channel's WeatherSTAR 4000 in the background. Keep up the great work!
Literally just found this channel last night, loved the first part, didn’t expect the second to come out a few hours later, I love these types of videos on tornadoes, do more on more natural disasters in this style please
Thanks! I will continue the series
@@weatherboxstudios this is a suggestion for part 3 the Springfield Massachusetts tornado since the scar is still there even today and the footage is insane I remember seeing it live as it happened
@@weatherboxstudios UA-cam channel wx4newengland has local news station coverage of the Springfield tornado
Just discovered your channel! 10/10 content I love it!
- Your hair looks sharp too.
This is by far one of the better videos out there. There's actually quite a bit of tornadic damage visible through G Earth in europe. The Czech republic 2021 tornado was one of them. So here's some few cases that can be seen
Butzow, Germany - May 5th, 2015. This high-end F3 tornado left a 1.5 km wide damage swath along it's path. Some damage was still visible the next year from G earth. Although it isn't a lot that's visible, there's still some. Mostly just tree damage can be seen with uprooted trees here and there in the town. Still interesting nontheless.
Dolo to Mira, Italy - July 8, 2015. This F4 tornado left a 11 km long track through the venice province. Damage in Dolo & Mira was still visible years after. When sat data captured on june 28, 2016 in G earth was released, destroyed buildings was still visible. The destroyed building, villa fina at the dolo/mira border (one of the F4 damage indicators) was still visible along other buildings
Roetgen, Germany/Belgium - March 13, 2019. This low-end F3 tornado that struck the german/belgian border has left visible mark on G earth, especially in the forest east of the town where a swath of tree damage is visible as of 2020. The track could be seen through the forest east of roetgen to north-east of lammersdorf. Other tree damage from other storms are also visible.
Petange, Luxembourg - August 9, 2019. This high-end F2 tornado caused severe roof damage in the town of petange. Damage visible west from the town on G earth as of late august, 2019. The damage can be found in southern rodange where trees can be seen uprooted.
Yeah
I agree with these.
Love your videos (particularly the tornado-related ones). Would be cool if you maybe did some videos about some notorious tornado outbreaks as well. Keep it up tho 👍
Thanks for mentioning mayfield Kentucky btw your videos are amazing
I grew up in graves county and it still shocks me that that tornado happened. Its so shocking to see places i knew just, gone. What really sucks is some of those places destroyed won't be able to be rebuilt as they just do not have the funds to do so. Most of what was hit downtown was historical buildings too, which will have to be torn down and rebuilt now. No more historic downtown Mayfield. And now we still keep getting storms and strong winds in this area (I'm just a county over now) and I just wish it would stop for Mayfield's sake. We just had another tornado touch down in Graves a week ago and one hit Benton again too.
Thanks for sharing. I'm a big fan of old historic small downtowns found in this part of the country. A lot of people who aren't from here disagree but every one has its own distinct personality. Ohio has a lot of them too. It really sucks that it will never be the same
I first found your channel by getting recommended the Top 10 Tornado damage paths video. I think your channel is likely one of the best weather related channels out there!
Thank you!
I like that you go very in-depth on each tornado. Showing how it looks before and after. You have gained a subscriber out of me sir
Thank you for this video!! Great content
I helped with relief efforts in Parkersburg back in high school and it totally changed my perspective not only in relation to weather but life. Sorting through debris and finding people's belongings (pieces of clothing, toys, pictures) really stuck with me. This really was someone's house I was getting ready to toss in a dumpster. Getting to speak with survivors and people who endured the devastation made me appreciate the small things that really matter in life. I'd love to go back someday and see the town how it is now.
Thanks for showing that one in North Wisconsin, that one incident basically set off my emotional panic attacks on storms for the rest of my life .
I love your videos, literally some of the best I have seen on UA-cam! I think it'd be cool if you did a break down of the El Reno tornado and how the NWS rated it an EF3 but mobile doppler measured wind speeds up to 302mph
I literally watched that top 10 seeing your channel for the 1st time yesterday, subscribed, then you upload today, wild.
Hey thanks for stopping by! I try to upload every Wednesday
Oh do the Farmington,MO and Fredericktown, MO EF3 tornadoes from October 24,2021. I believe one of them was likely violent because it did crazy tree damage likely in the EF3-4 range but NWS could not get to it so they left it as is and did not rate it
Keep these videos coming. Please! I love this series.
Excellent video dude! I used to live in Cheraw, South Carolina. There is a town called Bennettsville about 15 miles away and as you entered the town there was the abandoned base of a Roses store that was apparently flattened just after opening for the first time in the early 80s. I would love to learn more about this tornado and others in the area from the 80s onwards
Loved hearing you talk ab mayfield. I live an 30 min east in Benton. We were without power and water for about a week
YESSS!! you are seriously my favorite youtuber. When i grow up i want to be a meteorologist or possibly storm chase.
Thank you for this! I actually learn about new tornados by watching you! Nice haircut 😜
Steve thanks for sharing your passion with the world!
Thanks for your support James!
I was in Hopkins County in Madisonville when this happened. When we went to clean up some debris up in our yard (the tornado hit 10 miles south of where I lived), I found debris from the Candle Factory in our yard. Mayfield is almost an hour and a half away, so the fact that I found something that far away amazes me. The debris cloud was insane and should definitely be talked about. There are still places in Hopkins County recovering, like Dawson Springs and Barnsley, but I am glad to have seen and heard of many recovery efforts. Also, I happened to have family from Bowling Green that had to rebuild their house after the foundation was twisted and the roof was damaged.
Also, I definitely suggest doing a video covering the whole Quad State Tornado, and some focus the other tornadoes that day (Edwardsville and Bowling Green). Some of the places to look at covering the Quad State Tornado include Jonesboro, Cayce, obviously Mayfield, around the lakes, Princeton, Dawson Springs, Barnsley, and Bremen.
Cool series, and cool to see your channel get attention. Interestingly, after I'd watched a bunch of videos on the El Reno tornado it was your latest video that was recommended and it instantly caught my attention just with the thumbnail (don't know how cause it's so grey lol) and loved the video so much I instantly subscribed and put another vid of yours in my watch later. When I watched it a few days later I noticed your subscriber count doubled and did a double take. I even checked your socialblade.
Anyway, I haven't seen that happen in a while, so way to defy the odds of the terrible YT algorithm!
Great work, Steve! Keep it up. Is there a possible video to be made on tornado shapes and sizes? Why we get tornadoes ranging from skinny noodles to multivortex wedges like El Reno?
Thanks Matt! This is a good idea, I put it on the to-do list
May 31st 1985, Moshannon State Forest F-4 Tornado, in Pennsylvania. 75 mile long path, 1.5 miles wide. 88,000+ trees destroyed. May not be able to find google earth images. But it’s a good one to dig into! The Wisconsin one reminded me of it. Enjoying your videos!
Thanks Logan! I plan on doing a video in May about that whole outbreak. It's one of the most fascinating tornado events in my opinion
@@weatherboxstudios looking forward to it!!
I live in Kentucky and while I don't live in mayfield, a close friend had family there. To say it was eerie is an understatement. Its crazy how it just ripped through the entire downtown but some buildings are just perfectly fine. It came towards Bowling Green at one point at it came right beside the University. My friend's got a few nice pictures of it and thankfully none of them were hurt but it was just crazy seeing a nightime tornado that you could only see due to the stadium lights of the football field.
I see that you featured my suggestion of the Mayfield, KY tornado. Thanks!
It was a great suggestion!
Glad to see you did Hackleburg and Phil Campbell, Al. They didn't receive near as much coverage as it should've due to the events in Tuscaloosa that day. I was supposed to have been in Hackleburg that day to help a friend of a friend move but due to the weather of course we postponed until the weekend. What's worse he was gonna move to a house between Smithville and Amory,Ms. Both places were destroyed by tornadoes that day.
Your content is amazing! Thank you for these videos
Thank you!
Wow. Last December was insane (even MN had our first ever Dec tornadoes). And then the Iowa tornadoes only 3 months later in March. The jet stream seems so much more unstable lately.
Maybe you can do more aerial picture overlays on maps of older tornadoes? I don't know how good of quality you'd be able to get, but I remember seeing an aerial damage picture of a tornado my parents were in back on July 4, 1978 in Elgin, ND. If you could make it work, that may be a fun video for older tornadoes in general.
That's a great idea and that's the plan going forward!
I watched the El Reno tornado unfold in person while I was working up there during my last job. We had emergency vacated a wellsite about 15-20 miles west where another tornado was reported and came back to the district to watch that absolute monster of a wedge touch down just a few miles to our southwest.
Your channel is definitely going to have over 100,000 subscribers with an only a couple years. You’re absolutely amazing
Thank you!
I drove into LBL, where the Mayfield storm later went, recently and the trees there looked so unusual. One of them wasn’t just split but it looked CORED out.
I've been to Parkersburg Iowa before and what's crazy is when you're actually driving through you can see exactly the line through were old traditional Midwest style houses end and the more modern new built houses start and it's quite crazy to see
I am still surprised that the Mayfield tornado was not an EF5 tornado. The destruction from the satellite imagery is absolutely devastating
It was easily at EF5 strength . That tornado is another example of why the EF scale needs a huge revamp . Basing wind speeds off of damage is ridiculous when the quality of structures are all different and often not the best
I live just to the east of Parkersburg Iowa and I was 13 when that storm rolled through. It was... One of the most sobering experiences I have had in my life going with my dad to help clean up after the storm.
Thanks for the second part keep it up dude
Hey thanks!
Your pronunciation of Czech town names is wonderful! Thank you for taking the time to make it sound correct
Trying to make my great grandmother proud!
I'm about 6 minutes outside of Mayfield and I can definitely say that tornado was horrific. As someone who grew up here my entire life, the town looks nothing like it used to. City buildings, banks, houses, everything is gone. The town used to have a skyline, but now it's just a straight, empty line from corner to corner.
I know it wasn’t a tornado, but the Google Earth images of the damage done by the August 2020 derecho in Iowa is crazy. You can see where crops were flattened and the scale of the damage is nuts. When you look at a map of where the high winds occurred, the small streak of the highest winds is where my parent’s house is located. They lost part of their roof. I think I heard that the city of Cedar Rapids lost half of it’s tree canopy. Driving around my parent’s neighborhood is eerie because it looks SO different without all the trees. Houses that used to be hidden behind a row of trees are now visible from the street for the first time in 30+ years.
Great video i always love learning about different stuff to do with weather
Thanks man!
Here's a somewhat forgotten Tornado suggestion, The Fort Worth tornado of March 28 2000. A rare EF3 Tornado touched down in Central Fort Worth, moving northeast with the downtown area taking a direct hit.
Brilliant video like always
Thanks Andrew!
I was in Smithville, MS when that tornado hit at a friends house. A very scary event to live through. And yes, that water tower is still standing and being used.
Glad I found this channel. A unique look at weather history.
Hey thanks for stopping by!
As someone who lives in tornado Valley in the United States, I'm pretty familiar with all of the disasters that happen here. I would love to see more stuff like your last clip from other countries
One that I would be interested in seeing was the October 2019 EF3 tornado that went through North Dallas Texas.
You should also look up the town of Cordova, AL when those massive tornadoes hit in April 2011 it massacred the entire town and I live about 20ish mins from there. It was rough and they still haven’t really rebuilt because of being a lower income residential area in Alabama.
Interesting fact about the South Moravia tornado: it pretty much started out with its peak width of 2.1 miles and gradually narrowed down along its life cycle.
Great vidio !!
I watch tornado-videos daily (literally) and even though here in Finland we don't have that many big and dangerous tornados if any of those (EF1-EF5) I am really interested of them...
Also would LOVE to see that people of all states (and countries) build those safe-places for them...
I know people are saying that I might be too passive aggressive, BUT safety first, other things can wait.
You make me smile keep it up !
Thanks Maria!
Great video, great channel, keep up the good work!
Thank you!
Regarding Parkersburg: One of the first houses to be struck was Russ' The entire house was gone, including the drywall, furnace, walls, and FLOORING from the basement. All that was left was half a toilet. Had Russ been home, he'd have died. "Luckily" he was in Parkersburg and took shelter in the car wash. Two other men held on to him because they couldn't get the door closed in time and so they held on to Russ by the arm pits so he didn't get sucked out. Honestly, it was AWFUL. I was a couple miles south in Stout and it was terrifying. We all THOUGHT it was going to go into Cedar Falls, but it made a left turn after New Hartford.
Edit: I know you're doing tornados...but you really ought to do the Derecho from 8/10/2020. You can see the scar cover an enormous swath of Iowa.
wow the other google earth tornado damage video is what made me find this channel and like less than a week later he uploads another one
he knows what the people want
Iowan here. I remember the Parkersburg tornado because of one simple fact: Many of the fatalities impacted people who were in their basement. Something about that has always haunted me. The safe space was no longer safe. Makes me shiver.
Love your videos!
Thanks Russell!
This is a great series
Excellent work! Those images from Phil Campbell honestly are more bone chilling than the Hackleburg ones. Being that I was in Hackleburg that day, its odd that I'm glad I was there and not in Phil Campbell.
Theres actually footage from the Phil Campbells police station of the tornado passing through. I believe all you really see is a roof flying off before the officer stopped recording. It is absolutely frightening.
Man that's terrifying. All the footage from Phil Campbell is unreal. Glad you made it out of that tornado okay!
Today (5/31/2022) is the 9th anniversary of the El Reno tornado. Hard to believe it's been that long. RIP Tim Samaras and crew. (Jan Griffiths).
haircut looks great man, genuine upgrade. Lookin sharp
There's one I recommend, east of Wayne, Nebraska, an EF4 tornado hit in October 2013. 15 people were injured, and it was almost 1.5 miles wide at one point.
Oh yeah good call! I'll look for imagery
Great presentation.
The background weather channel forecast looks like it's from the 90's lol
I REALLY enjoy these tornado paths videos
One tornado I want to suggest is the 2020 Nashville tornado. It was an EF3 tornado that hit Nashville, killed 5 people, and destroyed several neighborhoods and John C. Tune Executive airport. The same storm went on to produce an EF4 that struck west of Cookeville.
probably the best youtuber i have come across
Looking forward to more videos 🔥🔥
I live about 25 miles north of Mayfield KY and watching the tornado come up from Arkansas and go that long and I know it wasn’t just the one tornado but the fact the storm traveled that far was terrifying. I was on the phone with someone I knew who lived in Benton which his house just barely missed it by about a mile
Awesome content. Sweet haircut.
I would like to recommend Yazoo City, MS that was hit during the outbreak on April 22-25, 2010. The tornado, and the aftermath, was featured on an episode is Storm Chasers.
late reply but HI TWIN
Thank you for mentioning Czech republic.
I’d love for you to do an in-depth analysis on the infamous 2013 El Reno tornado.
The mayfield one was gnarly, thankfully nothing happened at my house as it was a few miles to the west. A former co worker of mine lost their life in that tornado.
I lived in the same county as Smithville, MS at that time. I actually drove right through Smithville that morning going to and from school. I left school early that day due to the storms but if I stayed the whole day I would have been driving through Smithville at the same time as when the tornado came through
Nearly every structure in Hallam, NE was destroyed in the tornado. It is surreal when you visit today. All the buildings are only 20 years old.
this is my new favorite series
More to come soon!
The Smithville Water Tower is still standing since this video, dent and all. Of course now Amory to the south has also had a pretty major tornado come through so it will be interesting to see how maps look after it since the most recent imagery is 2022.
I wanna recommend the July 24th, 2008 New Hampshire EF-2 tornado. It was rated as a strong-end EF-2 tornado. I'm recommending this because it was the worst tornado in NH history and I was in the path of it. Thankfully my family and I are all okay but one person wasn't so lucky. It's truly so interesting to learn and it's still highly talked about here where it happened.
I am impressed by your accented pronunciations of the Czech tornado locations.
I have a lot of Czech and Bohemian blood so I had to give them a try
I checked out the damage in Vilonia and it looks like a newly built school there was destroyed and rebuilt right after it. It's not the most insane path but that sucks that a brand new school was wiped out. But it was rebuilt exactly the same so it's doing good now. Google maps is pretty fun to go around looking at junk on.
i live just south of Mayfield that night when the tornado hit i was immediately scared i stayed until around 2-3 am listening to the terrible shrieks of tornado sirens due to there being multiple tornados that night
9:32 My grandma and grandpa live in that little village and their house got demolished, nothing but rubble, and in 2022 it looks like nothing happened
My cousins husband was born and raised in Mayfield, Kentucky
That's so interesting about the El Reno tornado. The reason I requested it was bc I knew about the scar. There's a story about how El Reno was in the direct path of the tornado, but some shamans did a ritual to deter it and that's why it took such a weird turn and path, but that's just a story of course.
No tornado is complete without an urban legend
I have found a tornado scar from the March 12th, 2012 Columbiaville, MI EF-2 tornado which was accompanied by another tornado in Coleman, MI as the northern-most tornadoes to hit that early in the year. The scar is SE of Columbiaville near Stanley Rd and a second one east of Carpenter Rd, where the worst damage occurred and the tree size is the big indicator as on Google Earth, the scar was visible in 2018 and Landsat photos in summer 2011 suggest a lot more trees were present in the area. Coleman tornado unfortunately failed to produce a visible scar.
The importance of these tornadoes is climate change as the slight northward's shift of the record from West Olive, MI's F-2 on March 6th, 1956 was also how short-lived Columbiaville and Coleman held the record. The record fell when an EF-1 tornado hit south of Princeton, MN on March 6th, 2017 drastically further north than Coleman, West Olive, or Columbiaville and on the same day 61 years later of the West Olive, MI tornado which held the record for 56 years, 6 days.
Edit: I didn't notice this but apparently the tornado's path also overlapped with the 1953 Flint-Beecher F-5 tornado for over a mile due to the width of the violent F-5 which leads to a somewhat broken up scar of EF-1 further north with spaced out trees with mature 60+ year old trees and smaller trees and cleared and/or small trees further south where it was high-end EF-2.
My church is in mayfield, ive lived in Marshall county my whole life. This was the scariest day of my life.