r/tornado

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Strong tornado this morning in Marsala, Sicily, Italy (vidéo from Facebook page "Tornado in Italia")

u/05432680 — 6 days ago
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NEW FOOTAGE OF THE UNION CITY, MICHIGAN EF3

Credit: James Hoyt.
DISCLAIMER: THIS VIDEO LOOKS EXTREMELY FAKE, BUT I PROMISE IT IS REAL. CHECK MY COMMENTS FOR PROOF.

u/Electrical-Pizza8407 — 11 days ago
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What is it with non tornado-wise Australians and fighting tooth and nail to call tornadoes whirly winds and willy willys? (from an Australian, a rant on ignorance and misinformation surrounding tornadoes in Australia)

Literally no matter what platform, no matter the age range, the damage, the strength or size of tornado, like 50% of the Australian population refuses to call a tornado a tornado. A whirly wind, or willy willy, are Australian colloquial terms for dust devils, not tornadoes!! Dust devils form from the ground up, do not connect to the cloud base, form on hot and clear days, whilst tornadoes form from the cloud down, come during thunderstorms or QLCS/squalls, and can cause absolutely catastrophic damage.

The best part is when you correctly point out to them that it is not a willy willy and is in fact a tornado, and that they are two completely different things, they lose their shit. "well thats what its been called in Australia forever and because im so scared of change and fancy words i can't comprehend i will never call it a tornado because they only happen in America". what?

you present to them a clear 4k video of a tornado, and they will still deny it. matter of fact, I have seen people presented with video of the 2021 clear creek/peel/bathurst tornado, one of the most meanacing loking tornadoes australia has seen in recent years, and will deny that tornadoes even occur in Australia? like my brother use your eyes and critical thinking skills its right there you absolute sausage.

what is not understood is that by hundreds of thousands of Australians maintaining this attitude towards tornadoes, almost no one will heed warning about them, either thinking that they don't happen in Australia or are weak and don't cause damage like dust devils.

i simply dont understand what is stopping these people from doing a quick lil google, or even then using their eyes, and why they are so aggressively and confidently wrong.

apologies for the rant im just genuinely sick of the state of tornado awareness in this country.

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u/bigguskiddus — 11 days ago
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The most underrated Tornado of All Time: Niles-Wheatland F5

Most notable areas of damage:

The tornado touched down west of Newton Falls, Ohio at 6:30 PM, slowly strengthening as the updraft battled the extreme wind shear and nuclear energy of its own atmosphere.

At roughly 6:44 PM the tornado would track along Wood-Lenhart Road intensifying greatly. F4/F5 vegetation damage was noted in the survey, thankfully the tornado would miss larger population centers just before intensifying even further as the tornado strikes Palmyra Road in image 1. The core of the tornado misses every home although F4 and F5 damage still occurs along with sandpapered trees and extreme ground scouring of several inches of topsoil being removed here.

At 6:49 PM the tornado would strengthen again, striking the Ashland Oil and Propane Tank Park in western Niles. 3 propane storage tanks weighing 75,000 pounds were all crumbled and disfigured. One of the tanks would be yanked from its anchoring and lofted into the air landing across the road in image 2.

At 6:50 PM the tornado strikes Nancy Street and Susan Court, F5 damage occurs to several homes as extreme wind rowing is noted in image 3.

at 6:51 PM the tornado continues its extreme intensification as the Convenient Food Mart at the Corner of State Route 46 is mostly swept clean in image 4.

An entire neighborhood of Well Built homes are swept away and granulated in image 5 as well as pavement scouring occurring in western Niles and a woman is reportedly torn in half. Another victim would allegedly be found deceased in an open field, completely skinned.

The core mostly dodges neighborhoods until 6:55 PM, Shadow Ridge Drive is impacted at High End F5 intensity. Several well built homes are pulverized and extreme wind rowing occurs as the core of the tornado is basically a giant blender at this point in image 6.

6:56 PM, the tornado closes in on the Niles Park Plaza. Outrageous damage occurs as the entire plaza is mostly swept away with steel beams being twisted and mutilated at ground level. Cars are lofted extreme distances, parking stops pulverized and the entire plaza is effectively wiped off the earth. At 55 mph, at just roughly 300 yards wide, the tornado basically inflicts this damage instantly in images 7, 8 and 9.

6:57 PM, the tornado strikes Stillwagon Road. Several homes are swept away and even more intense granulation occurs along with trees being sandpapered and even stumped inside the core. Several slabs only remain of the homes inside the core in images 10, 11 and 12.

7:05 PM, homes along the intersection of Wick-Campbell Road and Chestnut Ridge Road are nearly atomized as the core of the tornado slices directly over a row of homes in image 13.

The tornado tracks through mostly rural areas, weakening slightly as it approaches the Pennsylvania state line.

7:11 PM, the tornado takes a deep breath of the nuclear environment of the atmosphere above and comes back to life. Peak intensity occurs as it narrowly misses the town of Masury. After crossing Fruit Avenue in Wheatland, PA, the tornado is seen in image 14, shortly before inflicting nearly unimaginable damage.

7:13 PM, a steel framed trucking plant in Wheatland is utterly pulverized, the large steel industrial building is twisted and mangled. Largely only a concrete slab remains, with pieces of shredded and disfigured steel only remaining along with it in images 15, 16 and 17. Concrete parking stops weighing between 200-300 pounds were never found, every single one of them were atomized along with most of the building and large chunks of asphalt would be scoured from the parking lot. With a forward speed of 50 mph and a core just barely larger than 100 yards, the damage done to this structure is nearly instantaneous. In this moment, I believe this damage rivals tornadoes like Bridge Creek, Jarrell, El Reno 2011 and even damage at Peabody from Tri-State. The damage done to the trucking plant and Niles Park Plaza is astounding. With asphalt and pavement scouring, along with 6-12 inches of topsoil being removed at the deepest points, this tornado may very well belong in the top 5 of all tornadoes.

More F4 and F5 damage occurs to homes and industrial buildings over the next 10 mins, additional areas of extreme ground scouring would occur before the tornado begins to finally weaken for good. At 7:30 PM, the legendary tornado lifts back into the sky.

u/TimMarshallsHardhat — 11 days ago
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Tornado F2/F3 from SĂŁo Vicente, in Misiones, Argentina, 11/06/2014

Bizarre footage of this monster that occurred on November 6th.

Its classification seems to have been F2, some sources say that the winds reached 300km/h and the classification is F3.

This is probably due to the fact that the tornado showed greater intensity before entering the city, where in the city it quickly lost strength or was in the dissipation phase, and its classifications ranged from F0 to F2.

Even before entering the town or upon entering it, the tornado caused more intensive damage, completely destroying some brick houses and throwing a bus 50 meters.

I did not find information on whether there were fatalities, but the event left 4 injured and 260 houses damaged.

If there was a death days after the event, I will not know, but the information I looked at, during the time of publication, still showed people hospitalized.

I also did not look at satellite images and did not find information on how far this event traveled and its maximum width.

I think this is one of the best videos I've ever seen of this area of the South American tornado corridor; it's somewhat reminiscent of that Joplin footage.

u/quasar-dead — 11 days ago
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Wall Cloud spotted somewhere in Ilocos Sur (with an unnecessary song)

no location provided nor the date but its def. during the Habagat Season, the video was posted on tiktok and ofc with a music by Dan🙃

u/Academic_Standard_35 — 11 days ago
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Destructive hail in Paraguay

Power outages, some wind, heavy rain and destructive hail now in paraguay, people are saying this is the worst hail storm they ever lived, i'm young so for me it definetly is idk about other people though.

Some fun things about here is that it's so bad people are making fun of it, saying "this is free ice for drinking" with those kind of photoes of big hail, people in "la galera" that is a big place with cinemas, restaurants, shopping and everything hear the sound of the hail as loud as gunshots, here i am with my "corrugated metal roof" (google translation) and it's not great, hail is literally destroying my roof, but somehow my family vehicle is great.

I don't know about you guys in this sub that generally are in the US, but here is not common to have garages, so almost everyone is praying to not get hit by the big hail storm.

Paraguay and Paraguayans are NOT prepared for storms like this, streets are FLOODED (even with some mid thunderstorms it's flooded, now it's a literal river), my house and many more are being attacked by this massive tidal wave of water falling from the sky, and the only thing we can do is just to keep the water out manually, i survived and it was a literal nightmare, lights flashing like it was a horror movie, it's crazy.

Now it's still raining where i live, there aren't radars over here so we can only use satelitary images to know where a storm is, we at least have warnings but many people here don't even know they exist, poorly constructed houses and streets flooded it's just chaos.

It's crazy the US experiences this so many times in just a month and ALSO deals with snow, my god this is hell.

A "facebook reel" showing what i described
turn down te volume on this one, copilation of videos
Yes, so much people here still use facebook and i didn't even know it had reels

u/Tamulel — 11 days ago
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Another footage of the Tumauini Tornado

Another rare footage of the 2021 Tumauini Tornado spotted by Mairene Mae Marquez-Bacquing (on facebook)

u/Academic_Standard_35 — 10 days ago
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1920 Maywood–Melrose Park F4 tornado: One of the most forgotten F4 tornadoes

This tornado was part of the 1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak and was a very strong, forgotten tornado that killed 20 people and injured approximately 300 people. It occurred on March 28, 1920, and traveled approximately 53 miles.

u/Less_Layer3695 — 10 days ago
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EF4 tornado in Acuña, Coahuila, México. 25/5/2015

u/jetri07 — 11 days ago
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Brownwood, TX F5 Tornado April 19, 1976

a multi-vortex tornado near highway 67 between Bangs and Brownwood about 4 miles northwest of Brownwood. it destoryed airport, farm, 4 homes, and vehicles. wind speed was 261 mph, no deaths but 11 injuries, $5 million in damage. i was born in Brownwood in 2003 and is my hometown that i still lived here till this day. there's also a deadly tornado in town near by Brownwood that hit Zephyr, TX May 30, 1909, rated F4, killing 34 and injuring 70.

u/gil506709 — 10 days ago