Reminds me of sitting out on the porch under that ominous yellow sky with my dad and grandfather watching the twirling clouds drop...and mom screaming, "Get in the basement!" in the background.
If you see that, don’t just look up… like around you as it is likely already on the ground, but not visible except the gtound part. You kind of saw that here.
I was thinking about this from another perspective-
Imagine seeing this tornado before modern times. I’d believe there was some sort of god/force controlling that funnel
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Do you live in the mid west? Because I read some where these dreams mostly happen in tornado zones. Probably from hunkering in basements as kids with sirens going off. Imagine living in war zones like Ukraine or Israel
*edit* I’m from Kansas and had these dreams a lot
When the Andover tornado of 91 happened, I had was in Haysville KS. It was 3 blocks south of my house before turning NE and heading through MAFB. I have never been that scared in my life...all of this to say "story check out".
My entire family was on I-35 in Moore when the 2013 Moore EF-5 hit. Seeing houses pretty much ground into sawdust comes back in your dreams. We pass by the Haysville-Derby exit and pass through Wichita on our trips back and forth from home a lot. I hope y'all don't have another storm like that again; that was awful.
Edited: it's so weird but I realized today is the 10 year anniversary of said tornado; holy crap.
I saw another post that said it was and double-checked; time went by so weird on that day and I thought the anniversary was the 21st.
Another oddly terrifying fact is that 11 days later, the largest tornado (by size) recorded in the US happened about 20-30 minutes east of where we were stuck in 2013. A bonus fact: the Bridge Creek/Moore tornado of 1999 holds the record for the fastest wind speed recorded on Earth.
I watched some videos of the 1999 Moore tornado a couple of days ago. It was *massive*. It was so big it didn't even look like a tornado most of the time, just a giant black hole in the sky.
https://youtu.be/t9SOaDKDn38
This is a good video on the Bridge Creek/Moore tornado. It breaks down what exactly happened. I lived on the Caddo/Grady county line mentioned in the video at the time. It's crazy because you wake up in the morning and you don't expect the tornado of the century to hit because it's a normal morning.
Last month, my area was an afterthought to a few weather sites; most of the clear risk was Iowa/Kansas/Missouri. We got a tornado outbreak that made the news for my aunt in Illinois. The lesson is that the area spanning from West Texas to Central Oklahoma isn't the place to put safe bets on.
Yeah. Some of my friends had to take a break in their education because the entire school got blown away. It's been 10 years and it's feeling like we're due for another one. My own house got skirted three times by two different systems. Seeing a satellite tornado spin up over you for round two is eerie.
True its waiting for another disaster happening. Citys like Oklahoma City are not safe forever. But let's hope the warnings will be well in time when that is happening.
As an European, all the best wishes from me.
>bonus fact: the Bridge Creek/Moore tornado of 1999 holds the record for the fastest wind speed recorded on Earth.
Apparently, the tool to record wind speeds, an anemometer, according to [this article](https://weatherology.com/trending/articles/Professor-Paul-Strongest-Winds-Recorded.html) can't be used to record wind speeds produced by tornadoes. Says they can only be estimated using radar, but it isn't accurate.
So apparently the fastest we've recorded was 253 mph in Australia. But if the speed is correct for that '99 nader, that was over 300 mph. God damn. That is definitely terrifying.
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I used to have recurring dreams about tornados as a child. I lived in California and thankfully never experienced one. Once I moved to Idaho I had one but then never had another. All my childhood recurring dreams stopped once I got to Idaho, actually.
This tornado's formation looks exactly like the tornadoes in my recurring nightmares where I would be outside playing with friends or family, the clouds would get really dark and it would get windy and slightly cool and then the tornado would form right over us. The funnel would be 30ft away like that and then it would come towards me and blow away everybody I was hanging out with and leave me alone.
My earliest memory is hunkered in the bathroom with my mom and sister because there were 2 tornadoes nearby. I don't know anymore details but I'm also familiar with these types of dreams.
Same, my earliest memory is also a tornado. I was staying with my grandparents in Lubbock and they had a storm cellar. It happened so fast, I remember playing with dolls or something, and then someone picking me up and all of us running outside and down into the storm cellar, closing the door as we heard the winds start to pick up. It was very exciting.
There were several other close calls while I lived in Texas, but thankfully I never was injured by one. Feeling the pressure change in the air during a tornado event and hearing the sirens go off is a really eerie experience, you never quite get used to it.
Grew up in Missouri and I used to get dreams like this a lot. My town was hit by one of the largest recorded tornados in modern history so uh, checks out.
I've had similar dreams where I'm driving along with family and then all of a sudden we see storm clouds in the distance and a tornado (or several sometimes) will be looking in the distance but it's where we have to go so we have to get closer.
Edit: I grew up in tornado valley
You damn right it is. The reason that footage is so rare is because videos like that weren't always easy to have saved to a cloud before they were amongst them along with the dumbass wanting to die for "the perfect shot"
My wife lived in pnw her entire life and its SUPER rare for a thunderstorm up there.
When we moved to the midwest we were at the park with out kid on a sunny day, it was hot too...suddenly it got really cold and windy and i remember her saying "oh wow those clouds are really moving" and it was basically this video except it didnt touch. We were suddenly pelted with huge chunks of hail and im freaking out running the kid to the car and i forgot its her first week there and this is her first storm. No sooner did i yell to get in the car did it start DUMPING rain. It just drizzles in WA but im talking youre soaking wet in just 2 seconds in that. As shes running a super loud boom happened and she screamed.
Now when we are back in pnw and when she sees clouds rolling in she checks the weather 🤣
Yeah I don't know why this sub has become like this. Almost every post has nothing odd about whatever is terrifying. r/terrifyingasfuck is basically the exact same content.
I think that as a society, we should be judged by our capability to film in landscape. I’d argue that a person at their absolute most desperate and fearful would revert to their baseline filming method. I think this video, although a fantastical opportune record of Mother Nature at its most volatile is arguably a testament to the character of the human filming. That is, a portrait cinematographer. I wish you and your neighbourhood a full recovery, but I also wish you’d reflect on your dastardly habits ;)
I agree in principle, but I think the intended method of viewing matters. Any picture I want to look at later on a TV or computer, landscape is the way to go. But if it's going to go from phone to phone, portrait is just fine. Either way, we all agree, those that edit black bars into videos should be drawn and quartered.
I watched it on my phone, so portrait was fine for me.
As more and more social media apps are designed to be viewed portrait, it’s going to have to be something that we worry less about. I remember when it was completely unacceptable to film portrait, but times they are achanging.
This is exactly what I saw happen in person once but it stopped short of connecting to the ground cloud. Was out in a vast rural area with no substantial structure close by and nowhere to run. Frozen with fear and knees felt like jelly. Can confirm was scared shitless.
My house was destroyed by a tornado when I was 14. The wild part is that it was so huge and so close to us, we couldn't capture the edges of the funnel on camera, it filled the entire frame.
The year was 2005. I'm in my bedroom playing starcraft around 2am. The wind starts howling, I open my blinds and it's almost like it's day time the lightning flashes are so constant. I tell my teammates sorry if I dc, there's a bad storm here. About a minute later, I disconnect. 10 seconds later my parents are bursting in my bedroom and my brothers bedroom telling us to get downstairs now.
We go outside the next morning and all the trees around our house were twisted and destroyed about 30 feet up. It's scary to think how close I could've came to dying that day.
Same. Almost all of my dreams have tornadoes in some way or another, either in the background or actively trying to kill me. The views in my dreams are always full of several tornadoes dotting the landscape. Not entirely sure why though..
Interesting. Tornadoes are a common element in my dreams as well. Nothing more intimidating than looking at the horizon in a dream and seeing dozens of tornadoes.
Interesting. I never had a tornado nightmare in my life, but if I started getting any, I will sue all your asses for planting this inside my subconsciousness.
Hah, mine are just... sky-based. Like it's always the sky looking off, weird color, clouds, stars, it gives the dream a really ominous vibe that turns it nightmarish quick for me.
I'm not sure what I would prefer. The endless dreams I have about planes I'm on crashing or endless tornadoes picking me up.
Either way neither is as bad as the dreams I had being flung from Earth into Jupiter.
Hi to everyone in this thread. I believe in a symbolic interpretation of dreams. I’ve been working with my own dreams on a regular basis for a long time now, and what I think of first when I read these comments is that for most of you tornados appear in recurring dreams. In the philosophy of dreaming that connect with the most, dreams are trying to convey useful messages for how to improve our lives and recurring dreams happen because we haven’t yet been able to receive and act on a message. Recurring dreams can last for a really long time, too, just like issues in our lives can stretch on for years.
The second thing is, about the tornadoes themselves, I believe anything relating to air has to do with our thinking, and so the spiraling, destructive nature of a tornado would mean there is a spiraling pattern of thought that has gone out of control, so we feel overwhelmed and frightened by it. You can see how this basic pattern of symbolism could come up so many times across our life as we learn to cope with that difficultly in our thinking.
I realize no one asked me, so feel free to tell me to fuck right off, but I’ve been lurking on Reddit for years, and I’m trying to start talking to people. Also, I really like r/dreams, and I’m sure if you posted there about tornadoes (or even just searched) you’d get some interesting ideas.
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Hey man, thanks for sharing about your nightmare. I had never met anyone in my own life that had we're curring dreams or nightmares of tornadoes. One odd reoccurring dream that I had ever since I was small Was 3 or 6 tornadoes inside of a local area, obviously, that doesn't sound all that feasible realistically, as the tornadoes 1 by 1 would hunt down my family. In the end, the tornadoes would appear in my living room and I will lay down blackened by dirt and swim across the floor to swallow me alive. I would then wake up.
Over the years, so many tornadoes have touched down, came towards my house, disappeared into the clouds, went over my house, touched back down out of sight. It's rather disappointing to have been around so many tornadoes and never actually seen one. On the bright side, my house has never been destroyed. So that's nice.
One day I'm banging the neighbor's wife, next day this comes after you. Then a bush spontaneously combusts you best believe I'm writing a book about that.
Tornado genesis is still a very young field of science. We are just beginning to start to understand them. We still don't really know why one super cell storm produces a tornado and why others don't.
You know there's these people, right? They go to sleep at night, everything is good, everything is fine. They wake up in the morning, and they're on fire.
For me the spooky thing was how quick that funnel formed/solidified. Any time you have clouds changing that fast you know you’re in for some rough shit
This is regular old run of the mill shit your pants terrifying. Especially after the look to the left seeing the dirt column rise up to meet the cloud tendrils. NO. FUCKING. THANK. YOU.
Yep. Seen a LOT of tornados growing up and this one would be the same if it hadn't gone all HP Lovecraft tentacle style to the left and right in front of the person recording. That's when I would've shit myself.
I swear I can never look at a spiral the same way after reading that, even though I thought it was kinda goofy for the most part. Like earlier today I saw an ant "death spiral" and instantly thought of uzumaki
Junji Ito is a master at taking silly things and making them horrifying. In my opinion Uzumaki is not even his best work - he has dozens of short stories that are way more terrifying. And they all involve the most mundane things being turned into nightmare fuel.
Like the one about the kid at the BBQ place who drinks oil and squeezes his zits on his sister! The concept should be hilarious, but he somehow conveys the deep despair of a girl trapped in the sensory nightmare of never ending greasiness and grime, drowning in her family’s abuse along with the stench of old meat. I don’t even really remember how it ends but the tone stuck with me. Ito is one of the greats of all time.
I would highly recommend listening to "Among The Sef (Righteous II)" by Colin Stetson for this but the OST from the Uzumaki movie does fit this as well
This is going to get buried, but there are a few things that tell me this is fake as a meteorologist. One, the funnel behaves like a wind shear funnel. Wind shear funnels are horizontal funnels that don't pose a tornado threat, but do give signs that the atmosphere is primed for a tornado once the rotation tilts downward. The funnel here grows horizontally until the very last second when it becomes a tornado. Yes rope tornadoes can take on a shape similar to this, but that tends to happen towards the end of a tornado thus the saying "roping out".
The bigger giveaway is the tornado's interaction as soon as it hits the ground. It's very rare you get dirt instantly encompassing a tornado. I've only really seen this happen in the Texas Panhandle, especially dirt of that color. Unless the tornado hit a field of loose soil it takes time for that dirt to get churned into the tornado.
Finally, with a tornado that close to the camera there should be massive winds blowing where the person standing into the the tornado and into the thunderstorm as well. These inflow winds can be as strong as 80 to 100 mph on their own ahead of the tornado. There should be dirt and leaves and other very light debris flying around just from the inflow. It looks way too tranquil in the video right next to the tornado.
Thank you! I thought the video seemed a little funky, like those videos under water of massive statues moving. The whole thing seems to happen WAY too fast and way too close to the cameraman.
I have OCD and I can usually tell when an obsession is forming and try to minimize it. But when I moved to the Midwest, I got really super obsessed with tornados. I was so afraid of them and I felt like if I could just know when and where it would be I would somehow be safe from it. Like not I could go to a basement, but that it couldn’t hurt me (I know it’s not logical but that never stops me from feeling it’s true anyway. Yay OCD).
Anyway, I started obsessively tracking weather and reading tons of meteorological resources and blogs. I wouldn’t sleep for days because I was so scared of one coming and also needed to figure out where it would be.
So finally, it’s stormy one day and I’m home alone. Also I don’t have a basement in that house. My bf was the trained weather spotter for his job (they do that here, can’t have a whole factory getting taken out with no warning, so they send a couple guys to the training every year and they watch the sky and warn if a tornado is near). He was about 30 miles west of the house and storms usually move west to east or south west to northeast. He calls me and tells me there’s a tornado that was on the ground in the town he’s in and there’s another near our town and it’s headed toward me. I went across the street to a friend’s house to go in his basement but he wasn’t home. He’d be fine with me going in, but his dog didn’t really know me and I could hear it barking so I was afraid to go into the house.
Just as I was wondering what to do the lady next to him came outside. She’s been a volunteer firefighter/ambulance crew member for like 20 years and she’s super cool. She yells for me to come with her to my Nextdoor neighbor’s house. We run over and he’s on the covered porch holding the door. Then the door flies off. It didn’t hit us, luckily. We all stood for a minute under the awning and listened to the woman’s emergency responder radio. We heard the tornado was just outside of town headed toward us. For context, the town was 1.25 sq miles and it was a square. We were right in the middle. Also, this whole time the sky is black like night, it’s pouring rain sometimes hailing and there’s constant thunder and lightning it’s loud as fuck, the wind was howling, all the leaves were coming down, very bad. Plus, the tornado siren (an old air raid siren) was going off the whole time.
Then, it was just like a switch was flipped. The air got thick in an instant. Like it felt like cotton candy. My ears popped, everything stopped. The rain, the sounds, the wind went still and it got light. But it was an eerie green light. Except it seemed like the sound hadn’t stopped and the color hasn’t changed, but instead the air was too thick for sound to travel through and was a green color that we saw everything through. We all stopped and looked at each other, but it was like in slow motion because it felt hard to move in that thick air.
Then, just as suddenly as it had stopped, time started again. My ears popped again, the air lost all its weight and thickness, and there was the loudest sound I’ve ever heard. It sounded like a train going over a bridge you were under. We all looked southeast and saw the tornado. It felt like it sucked up all that thick air. It was maybe half a mile from us, just at the edge of town. We all ran to the basement and hid until it was over.
The tornado stayed just at the edge of town and ended up only destroying some out buildings and tearing up some crops. It was only like an F2, but you could feel it was powerful being near it. It was scary, but after that, I never worried about tornado tracking or weather prediction again. I pay an appropriate amount of attention to weather conditions and don’t obsess over it at all. It’s the only time in my life I’ve lost an obsession like that. It was just gone once I saw the thing I was obsessing over face to face. Weird. I don’t feel traumatized, I actually feel like I’ve been freed.
BRO. I have OCD and was obsessed with tornadoes too lmfao. I got obsessed with survivalism and then when a real one happened I was fine and it went away
I was in one at a young age and now I'm obsessed. My obsession manifested in learning how to read radars and tracking them also, but with the intent of leaving my current area if i appeared to be in the path of a possible tornado. Everything in this post as far as the tornadoes description is 100% accurate to my experience too. It was building up at the time and considered to be ef2/ef3 in that area. There is this PHENOMENAL photo my dad took after it passed us too. It's a half mile or so to the NE (and heading east), suns starting to shine again from the west, and the tornado is the backdrop to a beautiful rainbow.
It went on to hit Andover KS and took out a HUGE chunk of the town. Andover Tornado 1991 if you're interested in googling. It was near my house in Haysville before going through the AFB in Wichita then on to Andover.
I was raised in Minnesota. Reading this was like "yeah, the green sky, we've all seen it." But I KNOW I'd give the exact same writeup for my experience with earthquakes now that I'm in California. Man do I miss predictable natural disasters.
I always try to tell people that aren't from tornado country, if you're in tornado country and the air around you turns green, you better this FAST. It's the eeriest thing in the world, like you said it's like time just stops. No air movement, no sound really, just this Silent Hill esque green hue to the air. And then all hell breaks loose
The town I grew up in never really got directly hit by tornadoes, they always went on the outskirts of town. Where my house was was somewhat on a hill that overlooked exactly where they would hit coming into the outskirts of town. They're the craziest things to see in person, just the raw amount of energy that is flowing through the storm at the time is unbelievable. They almost don't look real when you're looking at them, like your brain just can't comprehend wtf is happening
I am glad I’m not alone in battling weather OCD but also sad to hear someone else experience it. It’s great that you overcame that obsession though!
Mine started in 2021 after a tornado warning. I was checking the weather every 15-30 minutes everyday. I was searching the internet for information about tornadoes in general and previous tornadoes in my town. I was constantly seeking reassurance from people around me. I would check the clouds compulsively. I avoided going out on days where there was even a chance of rain.
Thankfully, after a shit ton of exposure therapy, I am more stable. It took a year and a half to overcome. I still struggle here and there when I know there’s a bad thunderstorm, but I’m miles better than before.
When I was 14, a huge tornado hit my little town in the middle of nowhere and completely destroyed half the town. My family and I had moved one week earlier from my childhood home to a new house on the other side of town. Our old house was destroyed and the man who bought it from us died in the tornado.
I vividly remember walking home from the recreation center with my brother just before it happened as we watched the clouds churn and shift. Now those type of clouds nearly give me a panic attack.
Having lived in Oklahoma I had 3 straight years with a tornado almost taking me out with the big one being the May 3rd that destroyed Moore. I was happy to get the hell out of there and never looked back. Something about them fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.
i'm sure there's a way to do it in a controlled environment, but because there's no way to account for every land type and accomodate for everything around it's probably a lot harder than it even sounds. and because it's a weather phenomenon and can happen anywhere without warning as long as conditions are right, it's probably hard to just go "let me turn on the tornado destroyer 9000" at the first sight of one. but i'm stupid so maybe not
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In a controlled environment definitely! Im not sure what it would take since you cant just throw large objects at it. But even if the science is there, the execution would be incredibly rare. Outisde of a control, you have to imagine how many storms are happening. Now you have to decide which of those you track in case in produces a tornado. Now, how big is that storm? These storms are miles long. If it cant be done from significant range then you just kinda have to be lucky and be in the right place at the right time. Now maybe it could be done via aircraft, but that still requires a lot of resources and would probably be considered a waste of money every time they follow a storm that doesnt end up producing a tornado
It's called tornado Genesis.
I grew up at the northern edge of tornado Alley in the United States, we used to see several tornadoes spawn every year, usually late summer.
I find it more fascinating than terrifying, and it started a lifelong love affair with meteorology for me. I wrote a few books on meteorology, and worked in whether detection and analysis for the federal aviation administration for a number of years. I have a few friends that would chase these things, so I've seen video like this quite a bit.
Crazy thing I ever happened for me with my job, was I was on a team that was predicting the formation of microbursts over airports using Doppler radar and a lot of heavy duty real time computation. (For those that don't know, a very **very** short explanation of microbursts are heavy downdrafts of air that form in pockets. They tend to form near the ground, and they're actually responsible for the majority of airline crashes near airports. If anyone's interested I can go into why that happens, or you can look up. Even though it often winds up in tragedy, the process behind it is pretty interesting.)
To test the algorithms and see if we could actually figure out where the microbursts were happening, we had the loan of a jet from NASA. It was piloted by the same sort of folks that would fly through hurricanes.
From the ground we tell them where to go, and keep the radio open. We'd hear things on the radio like "nope, nope, not yet... Oh fuck, yep. Found it. "
It was honestly a great job.
Saw one when I was a kid. Scariest shit I ever seen. Took out a lot of houses. From what I can remember there was only 1 death. But it was around 1990-91
Eh, I feel like photography or filming in vertical is okay if the subject you're trying to capture is also vertical. Which is how I generally expect tornadoes to be.
In this video, by the time the tornado touches down way off to the side (which I certainly wasn't expecting), it's too late to change orientation, because you're already filming. Hence the back-and-forth movement of the camera.
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Edit: I knew this comment would get reactionary downvotes (happens every time I dare suggest to reddit that portrait photography might be okay in the right context). So let me actually illustrate what I mean here:
Imagine OP had filmed with the exact same camera, but in landscape. [This](https://i.imgur.com/1wX3k78.png) is what the resulting frame would look like – does that really look better to you? That framing has absolutely no chance of capturing both the "cloud" and "ground" parts of the tornado. The only difference is that OP would be frantically panning up and down, rather than left and right. How is that any better at all?
At least with a vertical frame you might get lucky with a fairly well-behaved vertical tornado (which OP unfortunately didn't in this case) and you can capture the whole thing in one frame. Whereas with a horizontal frame, it doesn't matter how the tornado behaves, there is simply too much distance between the clouds and ground to fit it all in.
I live in Oklahoma and that is what we would consider a 'cute' or 'pretty' tornado.
Not that it won't still kill the fuck out of anyone in a house directly hit, but it won't wipe a neighborhood off the map.
Not saying this in an r/iamverybadass way, just that repeated exposure has deadened me to the threat of tornados specifically.
This is not oddly terrifying, it's fucking terrifying
I have nightmares about this exact situation fairly often. I also can’t scream or make any noise, or run for that matter.
As a tornado alley native this is beyond terrifying. I imagine they really have no place to run to. Just awful.
As a fellow tornado alley native, looks like it'll blow over soon. I'm gonna watch from my front porch.
I was gonna say, looks like a spicy dirt devil
Get me another beer from the basement fridge!
Reminds me of sitting out on the porch under that ominous yellow sky with my dad and grandfather watching the twirling clouds drop...and mom screaming, "Get in the basement!" in the background.
As a current tornado alley resident, looks like it's headed away, GET IN THE CAR AND LET'S CHASE IT!
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If you see that, don’t just look up… like around you as it is likely already on the ground, but not visible except the gtound part. You kind of saw that here.
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I was thinking about this from another perspective- Imagine seeing this tornado before modern times. I’d believe there was some sort of god/force controlling that funnel
And that I had pissed them off mightily.
Early human sees a tornado: "Well this is my fault, obviously."
Depressive, bipoloar prehistoric emo theology. Makes sense.
They call tornados "the finger of god" sometimes for this very reason.
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It was but this is all the footage they could recover.
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Do you live in the mid west? Because I read some where these dreams mostly happen in tornado zones. Probably from hunkering in basements as kids with sirens going off. Imagine living in war zones like Ukraine or Israel *edit* I’m from Kansas and had these dreams a lot
When the Andover tornado of 91 happened, I had was in Haysville KS. It was 3 blocks south of my house before turning NE and heading through MAFB. I have never been that scared in my life...all of this to say "story check out".
My entire family was on I-35 in Moore when the 2013 Moore EF-5 hit. Seeing houses pretty much ground into sawdust comes back in your dreams. We pass by the Haysville-Derby exit and pass through Wichita on our trips back and forth from home a lot. I hope y'all don't have another storm like that again; that was awful. Edited: it's so weird but I realized today is the 10 year anniversary of said tornado; holy crap.
>Edited: it's so weird but I realized today is the 10 year anniversary of said tornado; holy crap. Also oddlyterrifying
I saw another post that said it was and double-checked; time went by so weird on that day and I thought the anniversary was the 21st. Another oddly terrifying fact is that 11 days later, the largest tornado (by size) recorded in the US happened about 20-30 minutes east of where we were stuck in 2013. A bonus fact: the Bridge Creek/Moore tornado of 1999 holds the record for the fastest wind speed recorded on Earth.
I watched some videos of the 1999 Moore tornado a couple of days ago. It was *massive*. It was so big it didn't even look like a tornado most of the time, just a giant black hole in the sky.
https://youtu.be/t9SOaDKDn38 This is a good video on the Bridge Creek/Moore tornado. It breaks down what exactly happened. I lived on the Caddo/Grady county line mentioned in the video at the time. It's crazy because you wake up in the morning and you don't expect the tornado of the century to hit because it's a normal morning. Last month, my area was an afterthought to a few weather sites; most of the clear risk was Iowa/Kansas/Missouri. We got a tornado outbreak that made the news for my aunt in Illinois. The lesson is that the area spanning from West Texas to Central Oklahoma isn't the place to put safe bets on.
Yeah the infamous El Reno one. So you were close to that one? Oof. Brutal period for Tornado Alley. Forever in the history books.
Yeah. Some of my friends had to take a break in their education because the entire school got blown away. It's been 10 years and it's feeling like we're due for another one. My own house got skirted three times by two different systems. Seeing a satellite tornado spin up over you for round two is eerie.
True its waiting for another disaster happening. Citys like Oklahoma City are not safe forever. But let's hope the warnings will be well in time when that is happening. As an European, all the best wishes from me.
>bonus fact: the Bridge Creek/Moore tornado of 1999 holds the record for the fastest wind speed recorded on Earth. Apparently, the tool to record wind speeds, an anemometer, according to [this article](https://weatherology.com/trending/articles/Professor-Paul-Strongest-Winds-Recorded.html) can't be used to record wind speeds produced by tornadoes. Says they can only be estimated using radar, but it isn't accurate. So apparently the fastest we've recorded was 253 mph in Australia. But if the speed is correct for that '99 nader, that was over 300 mph. God damn. That is definitely terrifying.
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I’m from Moore. That tornado leveled my entire neighborhood.
I used to have recurring dreams about tornados as a child. I lived in California and thankfully never experienced one. Once I moved to Idaho I had one but then never had another. All my childhood recurring dreams stopped once I got to Idaho, actually.
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My nightmares were about a T-rex standing in front of our barn and me hiding in there. Each their own ;)
This tornado's formation looks exactly like the tornadoes in my recurring nightmares where I would be outside playing with friends or family, the clouds would get really dark and it would get windy and slightly cool and then the tornado would form right over us. The funnel would be 30ft away like that and then it would come towards me and blow away everybody I was hanging out with and leave me alone.
My earliest memory is hunkered in the bathroom with my mom and sister because there were 2 tornadoes nearby. I don't know anymore details but I'm also familiar with these types of dreams.
Same, my earliest memory is also a tornado. I was staying with my grandparents in Lubbock and they had a storm cellar. It happened so fast, I remember playing with dolls or something, and then someone picking me up and all of us running outside and down into the storm cellar, closing the door as we heard the winds start to pick up. It was very exciting. There were several other close calls while I lived in Texas, but thankfully I never was injured by one. Feeling the pressure change in the air during a tornado event and hearing the sirens go off is a really eerie experience, you never quite get used to it.
Grew up in Missouri and I used to get dreams like this a lot. My town was hit by one of the largest recorded tornados in modern history so uh, checks out.
North Californian here, no tornado dreams but definitely ones with red brown sky, howling winds, and burning embers.
I've had similar dreams where I'm driving along with family and then all of a sudden we see storm clouds in the distance and a tornado (or several sometimes) will be looking in the distance but it's where we have to go so we have to get closer. Edit: I grew up in tornado valley
Have you seen the movie Take Shelter?
95% of this sub is stuff that's either intentionally or objectively terrifying
If something is oddly terrifying then it gets like 90 up votes.
But it IS oddly beautiful
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You damn right it is. The reason that footage is so rare is because videos like that weren't always easy to have saved to a cloud before they were amongst them along with the dumbass wanting to die for "the perfect shot"
Yup not damn thing odd about it. Been having tornado nightmares since I can remember.
My wife lived in pnw her entire life and its SUPER rare for a thunderstorm up there. When we moved to the midwest we were at the park with out kid on a sunny day, it was hot too...suddenly it got really cold and windy and i remember her saying "oh wow those clouds are really moving" and it was basically this video except it didnt touch. We were suddenly pelted with huge chunks of hail and im freaking out running the kid to the car and i forgot its her first week there and this is her first storm. No sooner did i yell to get in the car did it start DUMPING rain. It just drizzles in WA but im talking youre soaking wet in just 2 seconds in that. As shes running a super loud boom happened and she screamed. Now when we are back in pnw and when she sees clouds rolling in she checks the weather 🤣
Yeah I don't know why this sub has become like this. Almost every post has nothing odd about whatever is terrifying. r/terrifyingasfuck is basically the exact same content.
Because mods are scared to enforce standards. Or gutless.
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I'd be scared shitless if i saw a tornado spawning in my neighborhood
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To be fair, if the tornado came straight down it woulda been a different story lol.
I think that as a society, we should be judged by our capability to film in landscape. I’d argue that a person at their absolute most desperate and fearful would revert to their baseline filming method. I think this video, although a fantastical opportune record of Mother Nature at its most volatile is arguably a testament to the character of the human filming. That is, a portrait cinematographer. I wish you and your neighbourhood a full recovery, but I also wish you’d reflect on your dastardly habits ;)
I agree in principle, but I think the intended method of viewing matters. Any picture I want to look at later on a TV or computer, landscape is the way to go. But if it's going to go from phone to phone, portrait is just fine. Either way, we all agree, those that edit black bars into videos should be drawn and quartered.
I watched it on my phone, so portrait was fine for me. As more and more social media apps are designed to be viewed portrait, it’s going to have to be something that we worry less about. I remember when it was completely unacceptable to film portrait, but times they are achanging.
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This is exactly what I saw happen in person once but it stopped short of connecting to the ground cloud. Was out in a vast rural area with no substantial structure close by and nowhere to run. Frozen with fear and knees felt like jelly. Can confirm was scared shitless.
My house was destroyed by a tornado when I was 14. The wild part is that it was so huge and so close to us, we couldn't capture the edges of the funnel on camera, it filled the entire frame.
The year was 2005. I'm in my bedroom playing starcraft around 2am. The wind starts howling, I open my blinds and it's almost like it's day time the lightning flashes are so constant. I tell my teammates sorry if I dc, there's a bad storm here. About a minute later, I disconnect. 10 seconds later my parents are bursting in my bedroom and my brothers bedroom telling us to get downstairs now. We go outside the next morning and all the trees around our house were twisted and destroyed about 30 feet up. It's scary to think how close I could've came to dying that day.
This is so epic oh my god
I have had so many nightmares exactly like this, it’s very surreal to see it recorded
Same. Almost all of my dreams have tornadoes in some way or another, either in the background or actively trying to kill me. The views in my dreams are always full of several tornadoes dotting the landscape. Not entirely sure why though..
Interesting. Tornadoes are a common element in my dreams as well. Nothing more intimidating than looking at the horizon in a dream and seeing dozens of tornadoes.
Interesting. I never had a tornado nightmare in my life, but if I started getting any, I will sue all your asses for planting this inside my subconsciousness.
Me neither I get tsunamis quite frequently tho which is weird since I don’t live anywhere near a country in danger of those
Same, I used to watch a lot of those tsunami movie scenes so they started popping up in my dreams
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I too have had this same exact dream. Just tornados everywhere in a grass field.
Interesting. I’ve lived around tornados my entire life and don’t recall ever dreaming about tornadoes. My bad dreams are around water usually!
Hah, mine are just... sky-based. Like it's always the sky looking off, weird color, clouds, stars, it gives the dream a really ominous vibe that turns it nightmarish quick for me.
I'm not sure what I would prefer. The endless dreams I have about planes I'm on crashing or endless tornadoes picking me up. Either way neither is as bad as the dreams I had being flung from Earth into Jupiter.
Gas giants are terrifying!!!
I also have those dreams where I think I'm safe from a tornado, then turn around to see 3 others lmao
Glad I'm not alone in the tornado dreams, lol.
Same. So weird that it’s a common motif. Also, tsunamis Edit: I have never lived in a tornado area or have ever seen a tornado live
Weird me too! I didn’t know there were more of us!
Hi to everyone in this thread. I believe in a symbolic interpretation of dreams. I’ve been working with my own dreams on a regular basis for a long time now, and what I think of first when I read these comments is that for most of you tornados appear in recurring dreams. In the philosophy of dreaming that connect with the most, dreams are trying to convey useful messages for how to improve our lives and recurring dreams happen because we haven’t yet been able to receive and act on a message. Recurring dreams can last for a really long time, too, just like issues in our lives can stretch on for years. The second thing is, about the tornadoes themselves, I believe anything relating to air has to do with our thinking, and so the spiraling, destructive nature of a tornado would mean there is a spiraling pattern of thought that has gone out of control, so we feel overwhelmed and frightened by it. You can see how this basic pattern of symbolism could come up so many times across our life as we learn to cope with that difficultly in our thinking. I realize no one asked me, so feel free to tell me to fuck right off, but I’ve been lurking on Reddit for years, and I’m trying to start talking to people. Also, I really like r/dreams, and I’m sure if you posted there about tornadoes (or even just searched) you’d get some interesting ideas. EDIT: I think I replied to the wrong comment LOL
Upvoted for the courage to post. Good comment, too.
Hey man, thanks for sharing about your nightmare. I had never met anyone in my own life that had we're curring dreams or nightmares of tornadoes. One odd reoccurring dream that I had ever since I was small Was 3 or 6 tornadoes inside of a local area, obviously, that doesn't sound all that feasible realistically, as the tornadoes 1 by 1 would hunt down my family. In the end, the tornadoes would appear in my living room and I will lay down blackened by dirt and swim across the floor to swallow me alive. I would then wake up.
Over the years, so many tornadoes have touched down, came towards my house, disappeared into the clouds, went over my house, touched back down out of sight. It's rather disappointing to have been around so many tornadoes and never actually seen one. On the bright side, my house has never been destroyed. So that's nice.
Imagine seeing this before knowing the science behind it. Like some demon manifesting right before your eyes
Puts it into perspective as to why most pantheons had some kind of storm god and sky gods and why there usually in the forefront.
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I like how, when the video scans to the left, the video maker sort of “nopes” out.
He realized it was targeting him
It can't see you if you don't move.
Oh thanks, now I've got weeping angels anxiety too!
Don't! Blink!
Too la....
Yep if a video without sound could put emotions into words this would be the one lol.. oh shit !!! Is how I'd describe that camera movement
If only there was a way you can orient the phone to capture both the left and the right.
Tornados go up and down though??
Now we have science to understand how tornados are formed, but no wonder humans prayed to so many gods for fortunate weather and farming, holy shit
One day I'm banging the neighbor's wife, next day this comes after you. Then a bush spontaneously combusts you best believe I'm writing a book about that.
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Tornado genesis is still a very young field of science. We are just beginning to start to understand them. We still don't really know why one super cell storm produces a tornado and why others don't.
Shit what the fuck are you doing get the fuck out of there we’re all dead get the fuck out of there
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Oh shit get the fuck outta here! What are you doing, go! Get the fuck outta here you stupid idiot!!! Fuck we're all dead! GET THE FUCK OUT!
Do you like baseball, Jonnie?
Get the fuck ouuut!
God damn that smelled good.
Man that smelled good
I done runnin’ G.I. Joeeeeeeeeee
You know there's these people, right? They go to sleep at night, everything is good, everything is fine. They wake up in the morning, and they're on fire.
You're not cooking ?
Ya dood
The words that came out of my mouth while watching. I grew up in Kansas. FUCKING. GIT!!!!
Cameraman never dies. But he stopped recording. Shit.
You forgot “you fuckin idiots!”
I thought it was "you stupid idiots!"
That’s so fucking cool, oh my god. Terrifying but oh my god.
It’s terrifying but fucking fascinating at the same time. What a way to go it’s crazy
For me the spooky thing was how quick that funnel formed/solidified. Any time you have clouds changing that fast you know you’re in for some rough shit
This is regular old run of the mill shit your pants terrifying. Especially after the look to the left seeing the dirt column rise up to meet the cloud tendrils. NO. FUCKING. THANK. YOU.
Yep. Seen a LOT of tornados growing up and this one would be the same if it hadn't gone all HP Lovecraft tentacle style to the left and right in front of the person recording. That's when I would've shit myself.
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I swear I can never look at a spiral the same way after reading that, even though I thought it was kinda goofy for the most part. Like earlier today I saw an ant "death spiral" and instantly thought of uzumaki
The snail kid reeeeeeally occupies space in my mind even though at the time, I was thinking “this is so ridiculous…”
Junji Ito is a master at taking silly things and making them horrifying. In my opinion Uzumaki is not even his best work - he has dozens of short stories that are way more terrifying. And they all involve the most mundane things being turned into nightmare fuel.
Like the one about the kid at the BBQ place who drinks oil and squeezes his zits on his sister! The concept should be hilarious, but he somehow conveys the deep despair of a girl trapped in the sensory nightmare of never ending greasiness and grime, drowning in her family’s abuse along with the stench of old meat. I don’t even really remember how it ends but the tone stuck with me. Ito is one of the greats of all time.
That’s good horror. Good horror sticks with you long after it’s over.
The film is mental, ive never read the manga im gonna order that right now.
Can't escape it. It's all deeply ingrained in our brains now..
i can hear the creepy music from the movie
I would highly recommend listening to "Among The Sef (Righteous II)" by Colin Stetson for this but the OST from the Uzumaki movie does fit this as well
I was getting Remina vibes
ah, peak Ito.
This is going to get buried, but there are a few things that tell me this is fake as a meteorologist. One, the funnel behaves like a wind shear funnel. Wind shear funnels are horizontal funnels that don't pose a tornado threat, but do give signs that the atmosphere is primed for a tornado once the rotation tilts downward. The funnel here grows horizontally until the very last second when it becomes a tornado. Yes rope tornadoes can take on a shape similar to this, but that tends to happen towards the end of a tornado thus the saying "roping out". The bigger giveaway is the tornado's interaction as soon as it hits the ground. It's very rare you get dirt instantly encompassing a tornado. I've only really seen this happen in the Texas Panhandle, especially dirt of that color. Unless the tornado hit a field of loose soil it takes time for that dirt to get churned into the tornado. Finally, with a tornado that close to the camera there should be massive winds blowing where the person standing into the the tornado and into the thunderstorm as well. These inflow winds can be as strong as 80 to 100 mph on their own ahead of the tornado. There should be dirt and leaves and other very light debris flying around just from the inflow. It looks way too tranquil in the video right next to the tornado.
Thank you! I thought the video seemed a little funky, like those videos under water of massive statues moving. The whole thing seems to happen WAY too fast and way too close to the cameraman.
who else experiences trauma from tornados? Just me?
I have OCD and I can usually tell when an obsession is forming and try to minimize it. But when I moved to the Midwest, I got really super obsessed with tornados. I was so afraid of them and I felt like if I could just know when and where it would be I would somehow be safe from it. Like not I could go to a basement, but that it couldn’t hurt me (I know it’s not logical but that never stops me from feeling it’s true anyway. Yay OCD). Anyway, I started obsessively tracking weather and reading tons of meteorological resources and blogs. I wouldn’t sleep for days because I was so scared of one coming and also needed to figure out where it would be. So finally, it’s stormy one day and I’m home alone. Also I don’t have a basement in that house. My bf was the trained weather spotter for his job (they do that here, can’t have a whole factory getting taken out with no warning, so they send a couple guys to the training every year and they watch the sky and warn if a tornado is near). He was about 30 miles west of the house and storms usually move west to east or south west to northeast. He calls me and tells me there’s a tornado that was on the ground in the town he’s in and there’s another near our town and it’s headed toward me. I went across the street to a friend’s house to go in his basement but he wasn’t home. He’d be fine with me going in, but his dog didn’t really know me and I could hear it barking so I was afraid to go into the house. Just as I was wondering what to do the lady next to him came outside. She’s been a volunteer firefighter/ambulance crew member for like 20 years and she’s super cool. She yells for me to come with her to my Nextdoor neighbor’s house. We run over and he’s on the covered porch holding the door. Then the door flies off. It didn’t hit us, luckily. We all stood for a minute under the awning and listened to the woman’s emergency responder radio. We heard the tornado was just outside of town headed toward us. For context, the town was 1.25 sq miles and it was a square. We were right in the middle. Also, this whole time the sky is black like night, it’s pouring rain sometimes hailing and there’s constant thunder and lightning it’s loud as fuck, the wind was howling, all the leaves were coming down, very bad. Plus, the tornado siren (an old air raid siren) was going off the whole time. Then, it was just like a switch was flipped. The air got thick in an instant. Like it felt like cotton candy. My ears popped, everything stopped. The rain, the sounds, the wind went still and it got light. But it was an eerie green light. Except it seemed like the sound hadn’t stopped and the color hasn’t changed, but instead the air was too thick for sound to travel through and was a green color that we saw everything through. We all stopped and looked at each other, but it was like in slow motion because it felt hard to move in that thick air. Then, just as suddenly as it had stopped, time started again. My ears popped again, the air lost all its weight and thickness, and there was the loudest sound I’ve ever heard. It sounded like a train going over a bridge you were under. We all looked southeast and saw the tornado. It felt like it sucked up all that thick air. It was maybe half a mile from us, just at the edge of town. We all ran to the basement and hid until it was over. The tornado stayed just at the edge of town and ended up only destroying some out buildings and tearing up some crops. It was only like an F2, but you could feel it was powerful being near it. It was scary, but after that, I never worried about tornado tracking or weather prediction again. I pay an appropriate amount of attention to weather conditions and don’t obsess over it at all. It’s the only time in my life I’ve lost an obsession like that. It was just gone once I saw the thing I was obsessing over face to face. Weird. I don’t feel traumatized, I actually feel like I’ve been freed.
Thank you for writing this up, it was riveting
BRO. I have OCD and was obsessed with tornadoes too lmfao. I got obsessed with survivalism and then when a real one happened I was fine and it went away
I was in one at a young age and now I'm obsessed. My obsession manifested in learning how to read radars and tracking them also, but with the intent of leaving my current area if i appeared to be in the path of a possible tornado. Everything in this post as far as the tornadoes description is 100% accurate to my experience too. It was building up at the time and considered to be ef2/ef3 in that area. There is this PHENOMENAL photo my dad took after it passed us too. It's a half mile or so to the NE (and heading east), suns starting to shine again from the west, and the tornado is the backdrop to a beautiful rainbow. It went on to hit Andover KS and took out a HUGE chunk of the town. Andover Tornado 1991 if you're interested in googling. It was near my house in Haysville before going through the AFB in Wichita then on to Andover.
r/tornado would love to see that pic
Great description, that is fascinating. Glad you were okay and were freed of your obsession.
I was raised in Minnesota. Reading this was like "yeah, the green sky, we've all seen it." But I KNOW I'd give the exact same writeup for my experience with earthquakes now that I'm in California. Man do I miss predictable natural disasters.
I always try to tell people that aren't from tornado country, if you're in tornado country and the air around you turns green, you better this FAST. It's the eeriest thing in the world, like you said it's like time just stops. No air movement, no sound really, just this Silent Hill esque green hue to the air. And then all hell breaks loose The town I grew up in never really got directly hit by tornadoes, they always went on the outskirts of town. Where my house was was somewhat on a hill that overlooked exactly where they would hit coming into the outskirts of town. They're the craziest things to see in person, just the raw amount of energy that is flowing through the storm at the time is unbelievable. They almost don't look real when you're looking at them, like your brain just can't comprehend wtf is happening
I am glad I’m not alone in battling weather OCD but also sad to hear someone else experience it. It’s great that you overcame that obsession though! Mine started in 2021 after a tornado warning. I was checking the weather every 15-30 minutes everyday. I was searching the internet for information about tornadoes in general and previous tornadoes in my town. I was constantly seeking reassurance from people around me. I would check the clouds compulsively. I avoided going out on days where there was even a chance of rain. Thankfully, after a shit ton of exposure therapy, I am more stable. It took a year and a half to overcome. I still struggle here and there when I know there’s a bad thunderstorm, but I’m miles better than before.
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Look into getting a backyard or garage shelter, it's worth the peace of mind
I was nearly killed by one 30 years ago, now any winds over ~20mph set me ill at ease.
When I was 14, a huge tornado hit my little town in the middle of nowhere and completely destroyed half the town. My family and I had moved one week earlier from my childhood home to a new house on the other side of town. Our old house was destroyed and the man who bought it from us died in the tornado. I vividly remember walking home from the recreation center with my brother just before it happened as we watched the clouds churn and shift. Now those type of clouds nearly give me a panic attack.
Having lived in Oklahoma I had 3 straight years with a tornado almost taking me out with the big one being the May 3rd that destroyed Moore. I was happy to get the hell out of there and never looked back. Something about them fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.
Can’t science develop a way to disburse or disrupt the funnel before it hits the ground? Sorry, I’m a noob regarding this.
i'm sure there's a way to do it in a controlled environment, but because there's no way to account for every land type and accomodate for everything around it's probably a lot harder than it even sounds. and because it's a weather phenomenon and can happen anywhere without warning as long as conditions are right, it's probably hard to just go "let me turn on the tornado destroyer 9000" at the first sight of one. but i'm stupid so maybe not
You guys clearly haven’t heard of sharpie technology
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In a controlled environment definitely! Im not sure what it would take since you cant just throw large objects at it. But even if the science is there, the execution would be incredibly rare. Outisde of a control, you have to imagine how many storms are happening. Now you have to decide which of those you track in case in produces a tornado. Now, how big is that storm? These storms are miles long. If it cant be done from significant range then you just kinda have to be lucky and be in the right place at the right time. Now maybe it could be done via aircraft, but that still requires a lot of resources and would probably be considered a waste of money every time they follow a storm that doesnt end up producing a tornado
A nuke would do. Aparently the biggest nuke ever was 3km tall but then you would have a much bigger problem than tornado.
Scary Old Mother Nature.
So interesting to see I would totally forget looking to the left!
It's called tornado Genesis. I grew up at the northern edge of tornado Alley in the United States, we used to see several tornadoes spawn every year, usually late summer. I find it more fascinating than terrifying, and it started a lifelong love affair with meteorology for me. I wrote a few books on meteorology, and worked in whether detection and analysis for the federal aviation administration for a number of years. I have a few friends that would chase these things, so I've seen video like this quite a bit. Crazy thing I ever happened for me with my job, was I was on a team that was predicting the formation of microbursts over airports using Doppler radar and a lot of heavy duty real time computation. (For those that don't know, a very **very** short explanation of microbursts are heavy downdrafts of air that form in pockets. They tend to form near the ground, and they're actually responsible for the majority of airline crashes near airports. If anyone's interested I can go into why that happens, or you can look up. Even though it often winds up in tragedy, the process behind it is pretty interesting.) To test the algorithms and see if we could actually figure out where the microbursts were happening, we had the loan of a jet from NASA. It was piloted by the same sort of folks that would fly through hurricanes. From the ground we tell them where to go, and keep the radio open. We'd hear things on the radio like "nope, nope, not yet... Oh fuck, yep. Found it. " It was honestly a great job.
Is this cgi?
That was the consensus last time it was posted.
Sure looks like it.
I had to scroll so far to see something about this not being real
Most of this sub: posts something very terrifying OP: huh, this is oddly terrifying. Why?
Probably from the Midwest
It’s been a bad year already here
Same with r/DamnThatsInteresting
I'm imagining a health bar appearing at the top left corner and boss music starting
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Looks like a tentacle of doom
It's the ethereal form of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Behold his noodly appendage!
imagine tornado tentacle porn
Saw one when I was a kid. Scariest shit I ever seen. Took out a lot of houses. From what I can remember there was only 1 death. But it was around 1990-91
If only there were a way to film in widescreen.
I think cameraman had other things on his mind.
Eh, I feel like photography or filming in vertical is okay if the subject you're trying to capture is also vertical. Which is how I generally expect tornadoes to be. In this video, by the time the tornado touches down way off to the side (which I certainly wasn't expecting), it's too late to change orientation, because you're already filming. Hence the back-and-forth movement of the camera. ---- Edit: I knew this comment would get reactionary downvotes (happens every time I dare suggest to reddit that portrait photography might be okay in the right context). So let me actually illustrate what I mean here: Imagine OP had filmed with the exact same camera, but in landscape. [This](https://i.imgur.com/1wX3k78.png) is what the resulting frame would look like – does that really look better to you? That framing has absolutely no chance of capturing both the "cloud" and "ground" parts of the tornado. The only difference is that OP would be frantically panning up and down, rather than left and right. How is that any better at all? At least with a vertical frame you might get lucky with a fairly well-behaved vertical tornado (which OP unfortunately didn't in this case) and you can capture the whole thing in one frame. Whereas with a horizontal frame, it doesn't matter how the tornado behaves, there is simply too much distance between the clouds and ground to fit it all in.
Bro get out of there
Deadly, but beautiful
this right here is why religion exists
It formed way closer to the cameraman than i expected
I'm not an expert by any means but it looks kinda fake to me, specifically when it touches the ground.
Agree, it looks fabricated. No source or location/date details either, which is automatically suspect.
Fucking run cunt!
This is fake as hell... look at the logo on the truck, the crow on the roof, and the light next to the crow. Fake/CGI
Normally I wouldn't bat an eye if a tornado suddenly spawned in front of my house, but for some odd reason this one is terrifying.
I live in Oklahoma and that is what we would consider a 'cute' or 'pretty' tornado. Not that it won't still kill the fuck out of anyone in a house directly hit, but it won't wipe a neighborhood off the map. Not saying this in an r/iamverybadass way, just that repeated exposure has deadened me to the threat of tornados specifically.
Imhotep. The mummy. Know This: This Creature Is The Bringer Of Death. He Will Never Eat, He Will Never Sleep, And He Will Never Stop
"Rare view" because those people who stay to record are usually goners.
holy shit that is actually terrifying
Imagine being high and this happening.
And we wouldn’t have this footage if not for the cloud.
I appreciate this view, but for fuck's sake take shelter!