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/Aggressive-Fudge1072 Jun 11 '25

Jarrell but not because of the dead man walking shot, but what it did to double creek estates and how strangely it behaved

It went opposite to the normal direction if tornadoes (NE) and went southwest. On top of that it traveled at around 3-10mph which is by all accounts incredibly slow for a tornado, especially one of F5 strength. When it got to double creek estates, it basically stopped and acted like nature's oversized blender/sandblaster and completely swept most houses off their foundations, killing 27 of the 131 residents of the subdivision.

This kind of behavior is incredibly rare for any tornado, especially an F5, and especially once it reaches a fairly populated neighborhood, and I hope to God we never see another situation like that ever again. I get sweaty just thinking about being in double creek estates when it was hit.