r/tornado

A fantastic photographic work by Brendon Lindsay; I recommend you take a look at the other photos this chaser has taken in his career, because they are all fantastic!

Analyzing this photo, in my opinion it is the best of all in terms of showing this strange core. The editing work to highlight the colors was done excellently; it's just right, without seeming oversaturated. We also clearly see the structure of the storm, which was immense. To form the largest tornado ever documented requires an impressive amount of energy, and we see this in this supercell of impressive magnitudes, which makes the 2.6 Miles wide tornado seem small next to it.

On 22 May 2011 joplin get hit by a tornado. After the tornado a man made a vidéo lf a doctor pepper get perfectly stuck on a windows

Vidéo from Oceans2Forest1 on YouTube

Link of the video : https://youtu.be/JQbDKVDrN60?is=oEbGs6VH1lSGx7Hk

A non rain wrapped, highly visible for its entire life EF5 is insanely rare. So many incredible videos of this leviathan. Plus we have Clem Shultz’ view from the inside of it, and Sam Smith’s annoyance at having to share the interstate with it.
Quite simply one of the most fascinating tornadoes and at or near the top of the ‘violence + size + photogenic’ standings

this was SO long ago but I glaze it as like the only wedge tornado in Florida (took place on October 9th 2024)

At a friend of my moms house around 2007. Took us once around the block and to 7/11.

Video Credit: https://youtu.be/I1AKehm0Ui8?si=H45sfo4aRZyn9mev

Video Origin: https://www.youtube.com/@stormchaserscottpeake

the animation gets better as it goes along trust

This was taken as it entered the city of Pampa and it’s got to be the best tornado Footage taken by a Gray County Sheriff (I don’t remember the name of him) but it’s black & white so here it is

It's still hard to believe that it's been 13 years. Time has flown by. We were on the northern edge of that tornado as it had narrowed before dissipating about 10 or so miles later. I was in Norman while my son was at PreK in Norman as well. My daughter was at an in home daycare with a shelter not too far from Briarwood (one of the elementary school that got hit). No damage there but there was debris littered throughout the neighborhood as the north side of the neighborhood had been hit.

The pictures are all from the next day as I couldn't get to the house especially with 2 little kids. We stayed with my mom in Norman. My ex husband and his mom walked to our street and called me to tell me the house was hit. I was getting clothes for me and the kids at target about to pay when they told me. The lady behind me paid for my stuff.

1st photo - front of my house
2nd photo - back of my house showing how a vortex ripped off the roof from the NE corner. The NE room was my daughter's and it had no ceiling, while the SE corner closest to the tornado still had a ceiling but no roof.
3rd photo - my next door neighbor to the south. Yes that car was in the driveway and was thrown into their house.
4th photo - looking at my neighbor to the SW. Everyone on the street that was home was in their storm shelter. It was a decent size cellar but no one could sit down. It took 3 people to open the cellar door since the house debris was on top. We went to their shelter often.
5th photo - my neighbor to the west of me.

Last image shows the path and my yellow X is my house location. We bulldozed the house and sold the lot. There is a brand new house there in the middle of older houses.

Nobody ever deserves to experience something as painful, as soulless, as gut-wrenching, as devastating as this...

May we remember those who passed, and comfort those who survived.

NOT MY FOOTAGE.
Credit goes to Stephanie Hodgert

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This was posted to the Ontario Storm Reports FB page today.
Footage is fantastic!

Looking forward to see what the NTP folks say about this one.
I believe it was out by Belmont Ontario.

It’s also been heavily believed by multiple well educated people to be a Tornado so don’t start any “it’s a Dust Nader!” arguments in the comments.
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We will likely get solid confirmation in the next few days.

Date: May 19th, 2026.
During the late afternoon.

I was an OU student at the time living in Norman. I went to campus to deal with some university paperwork and only left when I saw the supercell going north of us. When I got back to my apartment and turned on KFOR the first thing I heard was “it’s may 3rd all over again”. I never got a good look at the tornado on their feed because of camera setting issues on their helicopter, especially because cable tv went out and I had to switch to a web feed. I hadn’t heard of a debris ball before that day. It was the first time I ever preemptively send an “I am still alive” message to my family.

I’ve never seen destruction like what I saw while volunteering doing cleanup. My group got lost near Plaza Towers (due to a confusing street layout, not just the damage) and ended up wandering around some of the worst destruction for an hour. I didn’t take many photos, but things I saw I can’t ever get out of my head. The empty field next to the elementary school that I only realized years later had been a neighborhood full of houses. A home with its second floor completely ripped off, spray painted
With “For Sale As Is New Floor Plan”. The frame to a doorway, the only remnant of what had been someone’s house. A VHS copy of Twister.

This is a high-end failure mechanism, and you don't see this very often, if ever.

If no immediate problems with the construction of the home are found (I don't believe there will be, as every image shows perfectly-spaced anchor bolts, all equipped with nuts, washers, and properly-fastened sill plates), it can be reasonably said that this fissure in the home's poured concrete foundation was caused by the stress of the tornado's winds on the anchoring system, in which the load of the tornado's winds transferred to the foundation and caused it to crack.

Essentially, what I am claiming is that the anchoring on this home may have been so perfect and so strong that the foundation itself failed before the anchoring did.

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Okay, so I was watching Twister (1996) a few days ago, for the umpteenth time, and I just wanna know if anyone else noticed this or if it’s just me…

During the F-5 at the end, after Jonas dies, Jo and Bill are trying to find a good place to deploy Dorothy.

Right after Jonas gets sucked up, the tornado starts sucking up all the big farm equipment and drops it all in their path. You know the whole “Dusty, we have debris!”, “DEBRIS?!” line? Which I find hilarious btw.

Anyway, as they’re dodging all the equipment (“Right! Left! Right! Left!”), the last piece that gets dropped has that crane thing or whatever it is. To me, it looks like the crane crashes into the windshield on Jo’s side, but after they go around it, the windshield is completely intact.

If that crane really did go through the windshield, it not only would have stopped the truck completely, but it most definitely would have killed Jo.

Am I right, or am I crazy?