The Rarest Tornado Occurrences

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  @tmntleo · 2 years ago · pinned

  Useless fact - In Robot Wars there is a robot named Tornado and on the underside of the robot there is a picture of a cow, paying direct homage to that scene in Twister with the flying cow.

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• JA

  @jack1701e · 2 years ago

  Imagine having your house and street ruined by a tornado and upon exiting your bunker you see an untouched pound cake sitting there on your admittedly still in good nick counter top.<br><br>Best that was the best damn slice of cake that family ever had. A little bit of light in the darkness!

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• ST

  @strike4cekitty490 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I&apos;m a little surprised the 1997 Jarrell, Tx tornado wasn&apos;t mentioned. In addition to it&apos;s southwest path, it also had an incredibly slow speed, clocking in at around 10mph (approximately 16kmph). It also has the infamous dead man walking photo

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• GE

  @GeoStreber · 2 years ago

  One unique tornado event was the Palm Sunday outbreak, where there were at least 4 instances of violent tornadoes (F3 and higher) being described as &quot;twin funnel&quot; tornadoes.

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• OK

  @okiemaddie · 2 years ago

  I have a friend who lost his house in the 2013 Moore tornado. It was completely leveled, except for a table with his perfectly fine wifi router, play station, and battery backup. Even crazier, sitting on top of the play station was a Magic deck--specifically an Angel deck--that was untouched, not a card out of place. Thankfully he and his family were fine, and he still has the deck kept in a case exactly as it was when it was miraculously spared.

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• NI

  @nisto-p5y · 2 years ago

  The Pilger Nebraska tornadoes were wild. Seeing twin ef-4 tornadoes moving in a parallel path for a solid distance, then setting the unofficial land speed record at 90+ miles per hour..I&apos;d call that pretty rare.

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• PU

  @purpleoryx1774 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve seen wood through concrete after the 2013 Moore tornado. People who don&apos;t think it&apos;s possible should do some tornado cleanup work and see for themselves.

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• GU

  @gumbo3324 · 2 years ago

  one rare &nbsp;tornado event you didnt talk about was just simply plainfield existing

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• GR

  @grapeshot · 2 years ago

  What I would think would be extremely rare is that Kansas town that got hit by a tornado 3 years in a row. On the same day.

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• OF

  @officialViperr · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JYcb-lnbdc&amp;t=132">2:12</a> WAS THAT THE FORK OF 87?!?!

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• DE

  @deathbloom27 · 2 years ago (edited)

  The curtains through the crack in the ceiling was likely caused by the roof being partially lifted for a moment and the curtains being sucked out, then the roof being set back down. Doesn&apos;t change how crazy it is, might make it even crazier.

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• ID

  @Idekatpman · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JYcb-lnbdc&amp;t=400">6:40</a> &quot;our house, in the middle of the street&quot;

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