#TORnado

[sheeps-eye]

Stovepipe tornado, Moore 2013. Ef5.

[spinejackel]

What are dead man walking tornadoes? :O

it’s a multi-vortex tornado. i dont remember the tribe it originates from (i think it was cherokee), but there’s a native american legend…? saying? that goes “if you see a man in a tornado, you are about to die.”

the most infamous shot of a dead man walking tornado hit jarrell, texas in 1997

it did so much damage to the town it caused the scale that tornados are measured by, the fijita scale, undergo revisions, and it made anchoring buildings in the tornado alley region pretty much mandatory. (it took the entire town off the map. only those who had taken shelter outside of the town or in underground bunkers survived.)

two more examples of dead man walking tornadoes looking like a person are a tornado from 2011 that hit cullman, alabama

and a tornado from 1975 that hit xenia, ohio

edit: it has been brought to my attention that the native american “legend” part of this post was a rumor spread by a documentary.

i have been asked to remove it, but i believe in letting my errors stand because i’m not perfect. i make mistakes

[walks-the-ages]

Without looking it up, when you first hear "Tornado Warning", what does that mean to you?

[waxwanepulldrone]

 July 27, 1932 Swan Lake, MN F3 twister.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[abandonedography]

Tornado touches down behind this abandoned homestead on the Colorado Palmer Divide on June 4, 2015; Eric Hurst

[fleshofchrist]

source

[floridagrowngirl]

Tornado touchdown, Northern Colorado, 2015

[oliviarampaige]

“Borealis”

Day 25 - Dangerous

The ol’ North Wind starts to howl.

[elixir]

A Tornado Bearing Down On A Kansas Farm. Taken In May 1996.

[maureen2musings]

Twister

Nikolas Noonan

[dronenotes]

[humanoidhistory]

Tetsuya "Ted" Fujita studies a tornado formation in his lab at the University of Chicago. Also known as Mr. Tornado, he developed the Fujita scale for rating the intensity of twisters.

[dollartreelobotomy]

F4 Tornado, Oshkosh, WI 1974

[waxwanepulldrone]

[doriandistortion]

The past is creeping up my throat