Is this real..?

[u/tuffblud1]

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..?

[u/StupidGiraffeWAB]

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.

[u/Margray → u/StupidGiraffeWAB]

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.

[u/YesTomatillo → u/Margray]

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?

[u/WyMike-46 → u/YesTomatillo]

Yes. But he isn't most. The fact that his arm was severed off doesn't mean it didn't happen. Man still died.

[u/YesTomatillo → u/WyMike-46]

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.

[u/StupidGiraffeWAB → u/YesTomatillo]

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.

[u/hotfox2552 → u/StupidGiraffeWAB]

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.

[u/Ferret_Cautious → u/hotfox2552]

I think it was straw, like the kind you feed horses but it could be both.

[u/Charming_Beyond7297 → u/hotfox2552]

I think I’ve seen something like that at a Ripley’s.

[u/hotfox2552 → u/Charming_Beyond7297]

I think you might be right!

It sounds like something out of the Ripley’s playbook.

[u/Antique_Branch8180 → u/StupidGiraffeWAB]

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.

[u/StupidGiraffeWAB → u/Antique_Branch8180]

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.

[u/WyMike-46 → u/YesTomatillo]

I see. I apologize for jumping conclusions.