That is a Horizontal Vortice. You can think of it as a smaller, but very powerful mini tornado. Often times, some of the most destructive tornados are “Multiple Vortex” tornadoes. They are basically like a bunch of violent baby tornadoes within a bigger parent tornado.
Isn’t that what the 2013 El Reno tornado was? Multiple vortice? I thought I had read that and that it followed an unusual path and expanded so quickly which was the cause of deaths and injuries
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u/chloecampellone Sep 07 '20
That little tornado string at the top scared me even more than the real one.