#tornado

[moderndaycassandra]

As a midwesterner, this is 100% true. Once while I was at work a tornado had touched down inside city limits. Hearing the siren I locked the door and herded my employees into our storm safety area (the bathrooms). As I was doing a headcount, our drive-thru monitor started beeping, meaning someone had come through the drive through. I told them "There is a tornado within city limits, seek immediate shelter." and the response I got was "What? I can't hear you over the tornado siren!"

Tornado

[waxwanepulldrone]

Storm Chasing Photography / Tornado - Mike Mezeul

[oliviarampaige]

“Borealis”

Day 25 - Dangerous

The ol’ North Wind starts to howl.

[subhum4n]

i fucking love tornadoes

wichita falls, tx (1979) source: tx_rebel45 on flickr

[musictherapy611]

04/11/2025

TW: tornadoes under the cut.

Today is the 60th anniversary of one of the infamous US tornado outbreaks - “Palm Sunday 1965.” A couple of them killed 11-14 people in the county where I lived. Here’s a photo of the first one:

It almost took out my maternal grandparents.

They should have canceled school on Monday, but they didn’t. About half the students were absent - too many trees down, making the roads impassable - and although my class was only in first grade (6-7 years old), we knew that people had been killed, maybe even our absent classmates. As it turned out, I didn’t personally know anyone who died, but my parents and grandparents did: the only son of friends had been out driving somewhere when the storm struck.

One of my good friends and her family were lucky in that their home was completely destroyed, but they were uninjured. They lived with her grandma for the next year (and she rode the same school bus I did!) while they rebuilt.

I understand also that whatever high school kids managed to make it in, during the week that followed, were promptly loaded onto school buses and sent out to help with the cleanup.

My dad was a ham radio operator and almost always was asked to help coordinate communications with the sheriff, when storms hit - so we knew the “action” was south of town, and since we lived north of town we’d be fine.

[maureen2musings]

Twister

Nikolas Noonan

[retrocgads]

USA 1993

[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

[weepingwidar]

John Brosio (American, 1967) - Evening Dancer (2003)

[non-main-branch]

When I was younger I used to think a tornado watch was like. When the tornado existed so now people could start their tornado watch parties.

At which, I suppose Marylanders might serve crab cakes.

​I also thought a warning was when there wasn’t a tornado yet, but you should know there could be, so you need to go get ingredients for the tornado watch party snacks now. Get in the car and go to the store for ingredients now, so the food will be ready in time.

marylander trying to describe a tornado: imagine a crab cake

[floridagrowngirl]

Tornado touchdown, Northern Colorado, 2015

[walks-the-ages]

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

[letswonderspirit]

Background practice 🌪

[song-for-an-unborn-sun]

American legion theatre after a tornado. Mayfield, Kentucky Jocelyn Augustino

[gougerre]

Pocahontas, IA

2011