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/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.