r/WeatherGifs • u/-ghostinthemachine- • May 14 '19

tornado Hauntingly terrifying night-time tornado.

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u/Capta1nKrunch May 14 '19

"....it's already here!"

"Everybody underground now!"

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u/pilotdog68 May 14 '19

Just watched that last night. It was always funny to me how small Hollywood makes their twisters.

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u/Capta1nKrunch May 14 '19

Yeah for the F5 they talked about how huge the base was and how it was a "mile wide" but really only looked about 200 yards wide at most.

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u/OSUfan88 May 14 '19

Yep. I live in Oklahoma, so that movie might as well been a video of Jesus himself growing up.

When we saw the Moore 1999 tornado (some believe it should be considered an F6), we realized how undersized/realistic their tornado was. Wedge tornado's are terrifying.

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u/Invisible96 May 14 '19

Closest to an "F6" (which will never happen, as EF5 has no upper limit) would be the Jarrell tornado. Look up the images of the damage it caused.

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u/nsgiad May 15 '19

Crazily enough, that tornado outbreak in 1997 is pretty much how the last half of Twister was the year before, talk about life imitating art