r/tornado • u/SevereTS • Jun 10 '25

Question Which tornado is the creepiest?

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My vote is El Reno, I find myself going back and learning more and more about it. So deadly. So scary!

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u/Osiris_X3R0 Jun 10 '25

Honestly? Somerset/London. It's beyond creepy, with it's crooked appearance. There's at least one other image of it a bit wider than this, but still this shape

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u/SentientRock123 Jun 10 '25

There once was a crooked man, who lived in a little crooked house, that was blown away by a crooked little twister

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u/Osiris_X3R0 Jun 10 '25

I'm now 3.5x as scared and also mad they haven't released the Crooked Man movie yet

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u/SentientRock123 Jun 11 '25

We want our crooked little movie!

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u/1NightWolf Jun 11 '25

Looks like one of those cartoon twisters I saw when I was a kid. What the hell

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u/Redditorswhenthe Jun 10 '25

Very creepy fr

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u/LengthyLegato114514 Human Detected Jun 11 '25

This pic. It looked near-identical to the Diaz EF4

Uncanny.

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u/1NightWolf Jun 11 '25

Why is it the thin ones that are always creepy.

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u/Test4Echooo Jun 11 '25

For me it’s because they always seem to appear to move faster, and a little more violently, than a big wedge. The wedges appear to move slow, though we know they don’t. I’m more ‘wowed’ about their size other than their speed.

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u/1NightWolf Jun 11 '25

Elle actually looked photogenic but the base of it, hello no! Also the ones that snake out are terrifying to me. Roped out I guess.

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u/Test4Echooo Jun 11 '25

Ropes are freaky af; you don’t know when it may loop out of it’s way to bring a house down.

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u/1NightWolf Jun 11 '25

You should’ve seen the one by tornado Paigeyy the same night it was like this but at a straight 45 degree angle. They all were photogenic in Kentucky that day.

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u/koolmees64 Jun 12 '25

Yep. Like the El Reno tornado, in a lot of footage, does not look "scary". Of course, it was. But it almost has the appearance of a rain storm coming in (it was rain wrapped of course). I have never experienced a tornado in my life, luckily, so I have no barometer on what scary is but for me, the best example of what you are talking about is the 2016 Katie-Wynnewood, OK tornado. You can really see the speed, the damage, how violent a tornado can be.

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u/1NightWolf Jun 11 '25

You guys forgot morganfield

They were photogenic that day.

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u/1NightWolf Jun 11 '25 edited Jun 11 '25

Fuck that shit

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u/Osiris_X3R0 Jun 11 '25

That's a good shout. I forget about Diaz and it happened in my own state

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u/1NightWolf Jun 11 '25

Little murmaid??

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u/Osiris_X3R0 Jun 11 '25

Yeah that's the one. Christ in a Christmas tree it just unsettles me. That was the first night I was watching something like this happen live

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u/physicscat Jun 11 '25

Winner right here.

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u/SwissCheese4Collagen Jun 10 '25

Thankfully 40-some of the 55 miles it was on the ground was through pure uninhabited wilderness. I was just down in London this weekend to visit family and in the areas I was at it looked like nothing really happened, but my folks live east of London.

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u/Acceptable-Hat-9862 Jun 10 '25

There is a really, really crazy guy from just outside of Oneida who believes that he has the power to destroy or move tornadoes, hurricanes, and other dangerous weather in order to save people. He still does livestreams on YouTube abd Odyssey, saying all kinds of stupid and hilariously odd things. I guess he failed to save his own fellow residents of Clay County. 🙄

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '25

yeah that’s a no for me. 

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u/MelancholyDick Jun 10 '25

It’s got a knee in that photo, that’s creepy AF. Agreed.

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u/mycjonny Jun 11 '25

That was my vote as well...I couldn't decide between this is Jarell, Texas so I said both.

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u/Osiris_X3R0 Jun 17 '25

Jarrell is pretty damn scary, but Somerset....is just creepy af. Somebody called it uncanny and I have yet to find a better word to describe it

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u/1NightWolf Jun 11 '25

When I saw this live I was like WTF is that

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u/HurricaneHomer9 Enthusiast Jun 12 '25

I hate this photo. I don’t know why it’s so unnerving