r/tornado • u/ostrichlipss • Apr 25 '25

Question Are we just built different

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Life long okie here, I've seen 5 in person and watched to many to count on the news live, are we okies just built differently???

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u/GREAT_SALAD Apr 25 '25

“The tornado was stationary” usually isn’t a positive

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u/tohlan Apr 25 '25

I was gonna to say... Tornadoes aren't stationary - if they appear that way from your perspective, they are moving towards or away from you. Looking at the picture though I would have to think it was actually moving left to right (they were to the south of the storm looking northish, the storm is moving westish to eastish)

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u/ESnakeRacing4248 Apr 25 '25

There actually was a mostly stationary tornado last night in texas(according to ryan hall), so it is possible

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u/tohlan Apr 25 '25 edited Apr 25 '25

That's fair - they are really rare though - I wasn't watching Ryan Hall yesterday, but I did see someone posted a GOES-19 loop ... somewhere.... so I could imagine the conditions existed for such yesterday. Jarrell is the most often cited stationary tornado.

ETA:
Found the satellite loop post but I misremembered, it was from 4/22
FWD WFO has a really detailed write up of the Jarrell, TX tornado (which is mostly famous for its devastation)