A machine came to John Deere repair shop from the tornado in Kentucky.

[packman]

[PoliticAverse]

1. Cornholed! n/t

[denbot]

2. LoL

First in for the win!

[a kennedy]

3. and really that is not funny........scary to me. JHMO.

[uppityperson]

4. Whoah!

[BigmanPigman]

5. "Broken windows and dogs flying across the room"

is how one survivor described what happened in her and not The Wizard of Oz.

Stories about odd sights after a tornado are fascinating. I piece of straw can penetrate a wall.

[pecosbob]

6. And again, federal regulation saves the day (safety glass)

P.S. I have seen hurricane winds send random objects through 3/4 inch plywood.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

7. Ear of corn completely undamaged.

Not buying it.

[rsdsharp]

8. I've seen pieces of straw driven into a tree by a tornado.

I’ve seen a pan of pork chops put into an oven just before the tornado, end up — in the same pan — down the hall, around the corner and under the bed.

Tornadoes do crazy things. By the way, that’s field corn, not sweet corn. Those kernels don’t come off easily.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

9. Yep. Tornadoes can do some weird things.

Not buying this particular example, though.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Uncooked?

An ear of seed corn is as hard as a rock. The size & depth of those kernels show it clearly isn't sweet corn.
I buy, completely, that this could happen. This is even more probably on a machine with a flat, perpendicular window.
I might share your skepticism is this were a fully raked car windshield. (The one on my ragtop is raked 60°)
But, a dead flat surface? I find it very probable.

[EYESORE 9001]

10. An F1 tornado passed through my yard

It picked up a 75-lb cast iron birdbath from the back yard and dropped it - upright- beneath a window in the front yard.

[Celerity]

11. Top end EF5's like the Jarrell, TX 1997 tornado, literally have skint some animals and humans alive

leaving twisted, broken skeletal remains via what is closing in on 300 mph (or even higher) winds. If above 318mph, then it is an EF6. The Jarrell and the 1974 Xenia, Ohio (maybe a couple others too) tornadoes were initially listed as EF6, but downgraded just below the cutoff point.

[roamer65]

12. Next 5 years or less I think we will see an EF6 or two.

Just a suspicion.

[sir pball]

14. No, we won't. EF6 is a purely hypothetical "rating".

The Enhanced Fujita scale isn't based on wind speed, it's based on observed damage. Yes, there are charts that correlate damage with wind speeds, but they're just estimates. A tornado that only sweeps a field and causes no damage is, by definition, an F0 even if it had 2,500mph winds.

EF5 is "total devastation" - houses reduced to bare slabs, debris pulverized to a homogenous mish-mash of evenly sized chunks, roads ripped up and the Earth itself scoured feet deep. While it is true that Dr. Fujita did construct a hypothetical graph going up to Mach 1, "F12", EF5 is the official highest the scale goes simply because you can't get any worse damage than that. No tornado has even been even "preliminarily" rated EF6 except by amateurs since that rating does not exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Fujita_scale

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/ef-scale.html