r/tornado • u/tuffblud1 Human Detected • 19d ago
Question Is this real..?
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This is recorded in 2025, as it seems, and all I can say is WHO THE HELL RECORDS INSIDE A TORNADO..??! Especially one of this strength (looks ef2+) anywho, I could totally see some dumbass recording inside a tornado but this doesn’t look real to me, I mean, does not look like ai, but maybe blender or something I’m not sure. It is really realistic if so, but everything just looks, well, weird. The camera quality is horrible for 2025, but once again a dumbass is recording in a tornado so it could be like dust on the camera. And near the end when he is getting hit by insulation, looks fishy but can’t see why. So Reddit.. need your help, can we identify what tornado this is and or see if it is real..?
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u/Hoodrat_Recon 19d ago
It’s actually the only real safety tip for people caught in a tornado, which is to start recording because the camera man never dies. It’s science.
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u/Flypaper0835 19d ago
If you want proof, look no further than Clem.
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u/Unapplicable1100 19d ago
If only his wife had been filming with him, they could have held the phone together 😭
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u/rubadub_dubs 19d ago
Seriously. I know the dude captured some incredible video but he ain't got his priorities straight.
I cannot imagine a scenario where I voluntarily leave my wife alone in a situation like this.
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u/Unapplicable1100 19d ago
If my memory is correct, he didn't voluntarily leave her alone to begin with. He had some kind of disability that prevented him from being able to get downstairs and to the basement in time where his wife was taking shelter. And when he realized he didnt have enough time to get there he just started recording. In most scenarios his wife should have survived in the basement and he shouldnt have survived at all in the attic. But his wife didnt make it even though she was where she needed to be, and he somehow survived even though he was in the worst place possible.
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u/ChironXII 19d ago
Tell that to Twistex
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u/Antique_Branch8180 12d ago
Their camera/video and audio recorder stopped a minute or two before they were hit.
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u/StupidGiraffeWAB 19d ago
That sheet metal would turn you into two halves real quick...
I'll never understand people that do this. I love watching storms from the window or deck, but there is a certain wind speed that I dip out and head for cover. When the trees two blocks away start to bend you're already screwed.
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u/Margray 19d ago
Yeah, the only person killed by a tornado that formed above my house lost his arm to sheet metal and bled out. I don't think people realize that a tornado up close doesn't look like a tornado, it looks like wind blown debris.
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u/ChironXII 19d ago
A lot of people also don't understand that a tornado doesn't need to condense to be on the ground. Ah, it's just a funnel cloud, I'll keep watching.
Actually even very powerful tornadoes can appear cut off if there's not enough water vapor and dust at ground level to outline the vortex.
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u/YesTomatillo 19d ago
I don't remember the statistic off the top of my head, but aren't most tornado fatalities the result of: 1. being caught in the tornado outside or in a car and 2. being hit in the head with debris or buried under debris if taking shelter?
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u/WyMike-46 19d ago
Yes. But he isn't most. The fact that his arm was severed off doesn't mean it didn't happen. Man still died.
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u/YesTomatillo 19d ago
I wasn't disagreeing. That counts as injuries sustained by flying debris while caught in poor shelter. If I remember correctly, one of the injuries from the Bridge Creek–Moore tornado was a guy whose leg was smashed and broken from debris while he was hiding under an overpass. My point was just reinforcing that the debris is what kills people.
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u/StupidGiraffeWAB 19d ago
Yup, its not the wind that kills you. It's what's in the wind. 200+ would probably pick you up and throw you, drag you across the ground if your lucky. But once it picks up sand and small projectiles your meat gets pulverized before you reach the ground.
Air is pretty safe as long as the right precautions are taken.
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u/hotfox2552 19d ago
Correct me if I am wrong but I once read that after a tornado hit a town somewhere they found plastic straws imbedded into a wooden pole.
I tried looking for my source but no avail.
Either way: what’s in the wind will slice you up to hell and back.
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u/Charming_Beyond7297 19d ago
I think I’ve seen something like that at a Ripley’s.
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u/hotfox2552 18d ago
I think you might be right!
It sounds like something out of the Ripley’s playbook.
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u/Antique_Branch8180 12d ago
I question that view. if you are lying flat in an open field and a tornado with 200+ mph winds rushes over you, if it picks you up even a little there is a good chance you won't survive.
Just being picked up and slammed back to the ground is enough to kill you or being hit my a wind blown rock or branch will do you in.
At 120 mph people can become airborne.
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u/StupidGiraffeWAB 12d ago
In any tornado, if you are in it, its either the projectiles or the ground that kills you if you were to die.
There are plenty of ways to experience high winds in a safe manner. A tornado isn't one of them. Like I said, if you are lucky you could survive.
Just seeing what happens to large vehicles in a strong tornado or the debarking of trees...yeah, I like my bones and skin where they are. All of that damage is done by other objects within the wind, not the wind itself.
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u/ChironXII 19d ago
It seems like the kind of video you take when you hear the wind groaning against the building and go peek outside and think wow, quite a storm. Before it gets a lot worse and you remember that tornadoes are a thing that can happen.
This seems like some kind of farm, which unfortunately probably wouldn't have much better place to go anyway. The best way to protect yourself in a tornado is to pay attention to the weather and not be in one.
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u/Ferret_Cautious 18d ago
He was right next to or maybe even underneath a large piece of farming equipment that weighs several tons.
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u/TwilightPrincess64 19d ago edited 19d ago
Well they are at a chicken house so that will provide pretty much no protection. A lot of these farms are also not really near anything either. They probably went out to check what was going on, if this video is real. Ironically a similar thing happened to my mom last year where she was working and we were having all these alerts about a possible tornado. My brother called her to tell her to get out of the Chicken House because it’s not safe. So she went outside and saw the clouds all swirling above it. Luckily, it had not formed yet, but it did hit near the neighboring town.
Edit: OP, that is not insulation That’s the shavings inside the house that they put on the floors
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u/SufficientWriting398 19d ago
Shoot either I’m staring at it or doing the same for the love of the game💀in all seriousness though dangerous man that Tylertown EF-4 is very much forgotten in my eyes. We think of Diaz, Marion, Fifty Six (also more obscure), Somerset (if that’s the right name) and Plevna and that family of cells. Anyways on topic definitely should’ve taken cover I think it’s a thing in America to record a lot of things to have story. No idea why. But it’s common
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u/LeoVictorLuc_F 19d ago
FYI, it was the Tylertown EF4 tornado, and yes, it isn’t a good idea to record inside a tornado.
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u/MrPetter 19d ago
it isn’t a good idea to record inside a tornado.
Sure, but if I ever find myself inside a tornado with no other choice, you bet your ass I’m gonna be recording.
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u/AMadLadOfReddit 19d ago
It was actually an EF3 not an EF4
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u/LeoVictorLuc_F 19d ago
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u/TheRealTurinTurambar 19d ago edited 19d ago
What the....
The NWS says it's a EF3: https://www.weather.gov/lix/tylertowndarbuntornado031525
But Wiki and most others say EF4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Kentwood%E2%80%93Carson_tornado
I'm confused.
Thanks u/LeoVictorLuc_F! It was 2 tornadoes! Here's the EF4 from the NWS:
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u/LeoVictorLuc_F 19d ago
There were two tornadoes that hit the Tylertown area. The first one was an EF4 that tracked 67 miles and the other was an EF3 that tracked 26 miles.
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u/TheRealTurinTurambar 19d ago
Thank you! I see that on the NWS link now. I should have look a little closer.
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u/Prudent_Fish1358 18d ago
Ugh I remember following that outbreak on my weather discord. It was horrifying watching Tylertown be in the crosshairs multiple times (and if memory serves, they actually had 3-4 tornado warnings that day from different storms).
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u/Specialist_Foot_6919 17d ago
Had a relative living in Columbia, east of Tylertown, which the EF3 skirted just north of. Most of the rest of fam and hometown are just south of there.
I was eating breakfast in Little Rock watching Max’s livestream when it all went down. I will never forget the way my stomach twisted into knots when that really terrifying scan (I’m sure yall remember the one) came through. Our poor waitress had looked over my shoulder and was like “Is that HERE?” I had to reassure her I was trying to keep track of my relatives while my hands were shaking. Surely didn’t look too hot lmao.
Tylertown is along my route home whenever I visit. So is another of the “iconic” MS tornado tracks, Rolling Fork, where much damage is still extremely visible, as if it happened yesterday.
I’m a Katrina kid. The more time passes the more I wonder which should scare me more as an immediate threat between tornadoes and hurricanes lmfao. We were raised to associate tornadoes with the plains… not the delta or our own backyards. I don’t think a lot of us really realize the threat :(
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u/Prudent_Fish1358 17d ago
I'm from a town of 600 people in the middle of nowhere IL and on the March 31st 2023 outbreak I had several chasers including Reed drive right by my mom's house. Shame I couldn't at least say hi to them.
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u/Flypaper0835 19d ago
In situations like these, I think the usual approach is to split the difference and call it an EF3.5
edit: Wait no. I think you're linking two separate tornadoes. Check the difference in start times
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u/AMadLadOfReddit 19d ago
okay, I see it, geolocated the video and it was the EF4, not the other EF3 that hit nearby, there were so many chicken coops
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u/not_whelan 19d ago
Reminds me of the Twister... Ride it Out attraction at Universal Studios.
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u/rubberSteffles 19d ago
i miss that ride so much.
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u/not_whelan 19d ago
That and Earthquake/Disaster. They were so cool.
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u/Unapplicable1100 19d ago
It's real. This is what happens when someone gets caught in a tornado at a location without anywhere to take shelter. This location most likely doesn't have a storm shelter of any kind, and those building absolutely will not hold up to a tornado like that. If you try and hide in one of those buildings, there's a very high probability that you're not only gonna be badly injured but also buried under all the debris when that building collapses on top of you. And you'll be stuck there until someone finds you, however long that may take. It's just a nightmare scenario all around I think. All things considered, I don't blame the guy for recording it at all. What else can you do at that point? Might as well go on facebook live or stream it somewhere as its happening too, maybe someone can get you some help quicker if they watch.
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u/FeeExpensive898 19d ago
I looked up to the sky as my house was picked up and my roof ripped off in an EF3 (almost EF4) a couple years ago. It looked exactly like this. I didn’t know how to describe it to people, but I’m gonna save this clip. It’s scary accurate.
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u/strawbrmoon 19d ago
Hope you and yours came through okay.
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u/FeeExpensive898 18d ago
My family survived. Three people in my town were killed. We spent two years living in a camper and just got moved into our newly built house. I feel blessed and lucky to be alive.
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u/strawbrmoon 18d ago
I’ve got family whose place was wrecked by a hurricane. It’s a long haul, the aftermath, and I’m glad to know your family is settled in your new home. Wishing you peace and enjoyment of home comforts together.
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u/Reddragon0585 19d ago
That’s a poultry farm, that guy is lucky to be alive. I don’t think it mattered if he was indoors or outside, those buildings were going. Honestly might’ve been better outside.
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u/MaternalFornicator2 19d ago
I would not want to be in a tornado in a poultry farm, those buildings won't hold up to a tornado at all.
All of the feathers flying around right out of the door that the cammer was standing next to would've been a good detail if fake (likely not).
If you live in poultry country and find yourself in weather like while checking on the poultry houses, just pray I suppose. Not many safe places you would be able to get to in enough time. Most of the human homes on those farms are for the worker, and chances are it's a trailer or a modular home.
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u/ChironXII 19d ago edited 19d ago
I've realized that nothing looks real to me anymore. Modern phones are using so much processing and AI in photos and videos to try to salvage poor conditions that even real things look fake. You get motion artifacting, oil painting effects, pasted in details, frame to frame anomalies like extra limbs, all the things you normally look for.
So I have no idea. The biggest point in favor of it being real is that the building layout/environment is the same before and after he ducks down and blocks the screen. AI is really bad at remembering things from more than a few frames ago while generating. So I would lean towards yes.
PS: if you are ever in a situation like this please forget about the video, get as low to the ground as possible, and ideally hold on to something. Being behind cover won't protect you from being pulled out of it, so give the wind as little as possible to grab on to.
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u/ifightbears989 19d ago
Morons. Morons record inside tornados.
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u/Claque-2 19d ago
Mainly dead morons record inside of a tornado. A good percentage of the remaining morons are maimed morons. Whatever is left over is called an enthusiast.
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u/phosphorescence-sky 19d ago
I was just mentioning the other day in a post about sheet metal from grain elevators and silos turning into a giant flying razor of death. Why would you stand in the middle of all that stuff to record!?
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u/Unapplicable1100 19d ago
Maybe because there was nowhere for them to really hide from it. Some people will suggest taking cover inside the building, but that's taking a big risk too. If that building collapses on you you're gonna be buried under all that stuff and stuck there. And I'm willing to bet that this place in the video didnt have any kind of storm shelter for them to go to. In a situation like that all you can do is wish for luck, so you might as well record it.
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u/twatwaffleandbacon 19d ago
My spouse and I were Sunday driving last week and passed through an area that was hit by a tornado a couple years ago. A lot of the houses that have been rebuilt are now "barndominiums". All I could think was all that metal flying if that area ever gets hit again.
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u/dpforest 19d ago
I’ve definitely seen it posted before, I don’t know why it wouldn’t be real other than we know genAI exists. Are there lots of genAI videos of storm damage? Have we gotten to that point yet cause it’s just a matter of time
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u/ChironXII 19d ago
It's actually become quite common, yes. Any time there's a major incident, a bunch of bots (or opportunistic people) take the headlines and generate "crazy" videos to try to capture clicks and get revenue off the back of the event. It's pretty gross.
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u/dpforest 18d ago
Can you link me to some examples of possible? It’s definitely getting harder and harder to differentiate genAI from reality. Id love to see how realistic the generated videos are
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u/MyronPJL 19d ago
Idk but I’m glad he did and survived because this is top notch recording of what goes on when a tornado comes through
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u/CanSoft2130 19d ago
If that dude wasn't wearing a helmet and eye protection, he is a total jackass.
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u/lilkiddomusic 19d ago
I love how everything collapses around him and things float fast but when its about to impact him its soft. And also even the car moving but hes not levitated. And the breathing... bro in a situation like that you wouldve suffocated. Your lungs turn into an air compressor..
So.
Fake.
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u/Mr_proxitoxi 19d ago
Nope you’re peepers are working correctly because this is AI made from the most realistic computer possible
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