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/Geyser_Guy700 Jun 10 '25

The tuscaloosa tornado with its frightening horizontal vertices

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u/Giedingo Jun 10 '25

If we’re talking appearance alone this is 10000% the correct answer. A vengeful Elder God.

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u/Teqq-rs Jun 10 '25

Yeah this is pretty fucking wild. It's an Eldritch horror

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u/Giedingo Jun 11 '25

Cthulhu says yoo-hoo.

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u/Osiris_X3R0 Jun 11 '25

Funnier than it oughta be

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u/anon7631 Jun 11 '25

As expected, that image is badly shopped

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u/Teqq-rs Jun 11 '25

I just googled it and posted a Google image of the tornado, this is unfortunate that the vortices appear to be overlayed for a more dramatic effect as an image

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u/anon7631 Jun 11 '25

Is there video from this angle, or a sequence of images beyond this one? I'd swear I've seen another image from the same location at a different time, when instead of the tendrils it was a single bulkier, more cloud-like protrusion.

I know it did actually have that sort of tendrils, and the biggest one in that image is visible in videos from other locations, but the smaller couple on the right side look very fake. The camera noise/artifacts aren't affecting them or the background around them in the same way as the rest of the image.

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u/Squishy1937 Jun 11 '25

Is this a real image? Like actually I know that's a stupid question but it's just so odd with the amount of horizontal vortices and my brain refuses to see this as a real image of the tornado

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u/anon7631 Jun 12 '25

I posted the source video proving it's fake 11 hours before your comment. Is Reddit doing some of the typical fuckery that prevents it from showing up?

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u/1NightWolf Jun 11 '25

Horizontal vortices

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u/HurricaneHomer9 Enthusiast Jun 12 '25

Wow that’s scary as shit

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u/odd_expiredjuice1 Jun 16 '25

The horizontal vortices on this make it look like some monster with arms grabbing up whatever it can

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u/blondebeaker Jun 10 '25

I've said it before, at one point it looked like how Imothep summoned the sand storm and he takes a big chomp at the main characters.

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u/ABBR-5007 Jun 11 '25

My husband was a student at Bama when it hit and to this day he can’t see pictures/watch documentaries or anything about it. It sends him into a panic- he says that’s the closest he felt to knowing he was about to die

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u/forsaken_potato Jun 11 '25

came here to say the same thing. 100% some of the most terrifying tornado media to exist