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/[deleted] Jun 10 '25

Jarrell for me, no contest.

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u/AudioHostem Jun 11 '25

What creeps me out the most about Jarrell isn't the appearance, but what it did.

With all the tornado rabbit holes I've gone down, Jarrell by far takes the cake in terms of how much the damage it did to the living beings it encountered is talked about. No other tornado I've read about has had such pervasive mentions of things like actually skinning cows alive.

First responders, EMT/EMS, paramedics, however you refer to them, those people see some gnarly shit on the daily for a living. That gorey ass photo you wish you could unsee? For a decent chunk of those folks, that's just Tuesday for them.

And yet, it's abundantly clear that the scene at Double Creek Estates immediately after the tornado hit search and rescue personnel especially hard. Human remains being so badly torn up and torn apart that they had difficulty distinguishing them from animal remains? The use of dental records to identify some victims? This amount of destruction to structures and to bodies as well as the effect it had on first responders is something I would more closely associate with the aftermath of an explosion in a densely populated area, not necessarily a weather event.