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5/31/49 tornado near Manhattan, KS
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Tornado touchdown, Northern Colorado, 2015
Source: facebook.com
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Tornado touches down behind this abandoned homestead on the Colorado Palmer Divide on June 4, 2015; Eric Hurst
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The 1990 Plainfield tornado
On this date of August 28th, 1990, the Chicago suburb of Plainfield Illinois and other nearby communities were hit by an unwarned F5 tornado. No footage or photos of the tornado are known to exist, making this one of the truly creepy tors out there. It's also the only F5/EF5 to hit anywhere during the month of August.
Courtesy National Weather Service - Chicago, IL - https://www.weather.gov/images/lot/pastevents/1990/Aug28/plainfield2.jpg
The only footage I know of is of the parent supercell impacting a location in DeKalb IL, roughly 30 mins before Plainfield got hit. DeKalb is roughly 45 mins to the northwest of Plainfield, which highlights another peculiarity as most tors travel from the west or southwest.
Finally, the term "Plainfield syndrome" arose from this particular storm, where the general theory is that it's better to issue more warnings and be wrong as opposed to issuing less, potentially missing warning something critical like our beast here.
(spicy language warning, 4:20 (nice) long)
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april 3rd 1974, cincinnati
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F4 Tornado, Oshkosh, WI 1974
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July 27, 1932 Swan Lake, MN F3 twister.
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F5 Tornado, Oakfield, WI, 1996
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The infamous “Susan, get my pants!” video (around 28:30). An absolute all-time classic.
Source: youtube.com
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A Tornado Bearing Down On A Kansas Farm. Taken In May 1996.
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Anonymous asked:
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
The Old Gods still walk
that tornado didn't cause the Fujita Scale to be updated, Ted Fujita tried to iron out kinks with the Modified Fujita Scale in 1992 and the FS Enhancement Project led to the american adoption of the Enhanced Fujita Scale in 2006
Sonja Braas, “Tornado”, 2005.
From the series “The Quiet of Dissolution”.
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One of a series of photos — and the most iconic — captured by Paul Huffman near Dunlap, Indiana during the horrific April 11, 1965 Palm Sunday outbreak.
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Birth 0f a Tornado.....
Unbelievable!