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Springfield, MA tornado which sucked water from a local river gets EF-3 rating on a scale of 5 (intensity map, kmz, pictures)

Springfield MA tornado path. Click on the image for interactive Google Maps/Earth View. Click Earth button for 3d View.

Springfield tornado is now officially rated as an EF-3 on a scale of 5. An EF-3 event can easily level strong frame homes. The Joplin, Missouri tornado was an EF-5, or “devastating”. Intensity map of the Springfield tornado path, similar to the Joplin tornado path map, including KMZ. For now, here are some detailed pictures of the Westfield-Springfield tornado path, starting with this phenomenal video clip of the tornado sucking water from a river.

 

Springfield MA tornado path. Click on the image for interactive Google Maps/Earth View. Click Earth button for 3d View.
Springfield MA tornado path. Click on the image for interactive Google Maps/Earth View. Click Earth button for 3d View.

Path is tentative. Help us improve it by editing this map http://matei.org/url/16g . Changes operated to that map will be immediately reflected here

Monson/Briemfield MA section of Westfield/Springfield Tornado June 2011
Monson/Brimfield MA section of Westfield/Springfield Tornado June 2011

 

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