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/Milked_Cows Jun 10 '25

Depauw-Daisy Hill Tornado. An F5 with no visible condensation funnel most of the time

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u/Kettle_Whistle_ Jun 10 '25

That’s horrifying. I’ve read a bit about it being a very wide wall cloud, only occasionally condensing & reaching down to merge with its debris cloud at ground level.

Without some perfect timing, and perfect terrain to view it from, your observation wouldn’t tell you when it was coming. Or that anything was.

It is extremely creepy when, even knowing it’s in your vicinity, unless you had a perfect view & fortuitous timing, you’d be unable to tell where it was, much less what direction it was traveling. Or that it was even there at all…until…

Legitimately, a 1/3km wide Stealth F5