Thursday, January 23, 2014

Some TIR Ratings

For fun, I'll be rating some historical tornados. You can find my TIR ratings for them here. Read my post about how the TIR rating system works. The more I use it, the more I like it. It allows me to easily compare tornados by different characteristics. I try and use information readily available from the NWS surveys.

Parkersburg 2008 EF5 Tornado TIR rating 

WSR 2.05
FS .10
W .10
PL .04
D .06
TOD .00
Sub T 2.37
F .02
Total (TIR) 2.39

Moore 2013 EF5 Tornado TIR rating

WSR 2.05
FS .06
W .04
PL .02
D .02
TOD .04
Sub T 2.23
F .07
Total (TIR) 2.30

Note: The best wind speed rating I could get was a range from 200 to 210 so I went with the middle at 205.

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