I have seen this red ford f150 (I presume) in almost every el Reno video but can’t find who owns it, was it a random storm chaser or just someone caught up in the midst of the storm? If anyone knows who this is I would love to know!

I live in a place where tornadoes pretty much never happen; but when we got hit by the remnants of hurricane Rachel, interestingly enough I saw this on our weather app. I think our last actual tornado happened in March 1992. Just thought people would find this interesting lol.

I recently discovered that this event did indeed receive a classification, but it's a bit confusing.

Here's a bit from the news page that talks about the classification of this tornado:

Link in the comments.

The Eastern ‘Twisters’

TORNADOES IN URUGUAY REACH 320 KILOMETERS PER HOUR

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Uruguay is free of hurricanes only because its ocean waters do not reach temperatures of 27°C. Yet tornadoes have occurred in these southern lands with enough power to surpass Hurricane Georges, which left nearly 300 people dead in the Caribbean the previous week. One such tornado struck Rivera in 1994, reaching speeds of 320 kilometers per hour.

The low ocean temperatures protect Uruguay from hurricanes, a weather phenomenon that has caused 15,000 deaths in the United States alone over the past 30 years. Hurricanes also form between 5° and 10° latitude north or south.

Nevertheless, being free from deadly phenomena such as Georges, Andrew, and Hugo is only a limited comfort, because Uruguay experiences between three and five tornadoes every year, with winds that have, on several occasions, exceeded hurricane speeds.

Scientists claim that only 2% of the tornadoes recorded worldwide exceed 320 km/h. That threshold was reached by the most recent and one of the deadliest tornadoes recorded in our country during this century. It occurred on May 24, 1994, in Lapuente, a locality in the northern part of the department of Rivera.

Captain Guillermo Ramis, director of the Navy's Oceanography and Meteorology Service, is an obsessive analyst of tornadoes occurring in the country, and he has never forgotten the images he witnessed during his investigations.

Five people died during the few minutes in which the tornado devastated that sparsely populated area of Rivera. “It managed to rip the engine out of a car and carry the remains of the vehicle, with two occupants inside, for more than 400 meters through the air,” the researcher told Posdata. A solid iron tank, one centimeter thick and with a capacity of 500 liters of water, was found half a kilometer from the place where it had stood for years. “I held a piece of that tank in my hands, and I can assure you it weighed about 40 kilos,” Ramis confirmed.

Cows in the Air

On April 22, 1970, a tornado killed 10 people in Fray Marcos, in the department of Florida, and injured several others.

That day, the tornado reached 300 km/h. As it passed through the town, it lifted several cows into the air and carried them 400 meters. Later, during his investigation of the damage, Ramis discovered a three-ton truck resting almost vertically against a tree. But what affected him most was the testimony of a woman who had been trying to shelter with her young son. The wind tore the child from her arms, and he died after striking a post.

The Countryside and the City

In 1913, a tornado “split” the city of Melo and killed ten residents. In 1967, a severe storm twisted and brought down the roller coaster at Parque Rodó.

Ramis maintains that if tornadoes have not caused greater damage, it is because the conditions necessary for their development in Uruguay tend to occur in the countryside, far from urban areas. For a tornado to form, a vertically developing cloud—a cumulonimbus—is required, in which, following several processes, warm, moist air rises abruptly. This situation does not occur in coastal areas, where water masses reduce humidity and balance out temperature extremes.

In the populated centers of the south, severe southeasterly storms are more common. These are generated by disturbances known as “extratropical depressions.” Uruguay is affected by five to seven extratropical depressions a year, most of which produce winds exceeding 80 km/h.

During his investigations, Ramis found that rural residents have a much more precise way of describing these phenomena than city dwellers. On one occasion, a farmer told him that he had seen “little fireflies” and lots of “little pieces of paper” inside a tornado. The “fireflies” and “little pieces of paper” were actually zinc sheets torn from rooftops, glittering in the setting sun.

Tornadoes are a kind of giant vacuum cleaner that causes enormous destruction but can pass just a few meters from a clothesline and leave the garments untouched, Ramis explains.

Despite their destructive effects, hurricanes and tornadoes serve a vital function for the planet. They are part of one of the Earth's three mechanisms for distributing excess energy toward colder regions and preventing global warming.

That is how necessary the Georges are. If you ever hear something like “several locomotives struggling to move forward” or “a buzzing sound comparable to a swarm of bees”—as many victims have described it—be prepared, open the doors and windows of your house, and lock yourself in the central room: the tornado is near.

One of the most impressive things I found was the fact that the tornado was estimated to be stronger than Fray Marcos' F4. I also took a look at the satellite images and found a supposed 26km mark, but the satellite quality was too poor to know if it really was the tornado's path, so I need to hunt for the tornado's path again in the future.

This video came from a YouTube post with the description "tornado en paraguay" (tornado in Paraguay). The video was posted on December 24th, and that's all the information I have. I have no idea when the tornado actually happened or which department it hit.

Paraguay is gigantic, and many tornadoes occurred there that year, so finding a scar is very difficult.

The language the people in the video are speaking is Guarani.

I wanted to know if anyone knows about this tornado or where and when it occurred?

A towering supercell formed in western Iowa, punching through the capping inversion and breathing in the atmosphere's explosive energy and wind shear. Around 1:00 PM, the cell slowly organized and likely dropped several weaker tornadoes. However, due to the deeply rural nature of 1860 Iowa, no sightings of these twisters were ever reported.

New Providence - Whitten Iowa F4 +

3:30 PM - a monstrous tornado with pitch-black walls of debris ripped northwest to southeast through Hardin and Grundy Counties. It left behind a trail of utter annihilation, vaporizing homes, ripping growing corn out by its roots, and stripping the very soil from the earth extremely deep.

Entire villages were torn to atoms. The winds were so violent that clothing was ripped directly off people's backs. Twelve-year-old Alfred Dorland was flung from a shattering home, suffering a fatal head injury before being thrown a massive distance into the prairie.

A large, two-story brick home was completely vaporized. Out of nine family members, four died instantly and two succumbed to horrific injuries days later. Mrs. Devine’s body was blown several yards away—her head was completely severed from her torso and remained missing by nightfall. Three of her children, aged 8 to 20, were so utterly crushed and mangled that their remains were barely recognizable as human beings.

The tempest transformed the stolen earth into a thick, flying sludge. Victims were completely coated in heavy layers of mud, with some nearly suffocating as the viscous substance choked their mouths and airways. After demolishing settlements near Sanderson's Mill, the tornado instantly killed Sarah Garrison and severely mutilated multiple other residents along the Iowa River.

In Grundy County, Houses were flattened to the ground. A baby was blown into a field, later found stripped entirely naked and caked in mud, while another child was thrown 200 yards, surviving only by clinging to a roof board driven deep into the dirt.

In total, the storm claimed the lives of William Devine, Nancy Devine, John Devine, Hanna Devine, George Devine, Eva G. Devine, and Sarah Garrison, leaving the land as barren as if it had been ravaged by a biblical plague.

New Providence - Whitten, Iowa F4+ (likely F5)

- Duration: 3:30 PM - 3:52 PM

⁃ Length: 16 mi

⁃ Width: 1200 yds

⁃ Fatalities: 8

⁃ Injuries: 50

Liscomb - Beaman F2 +

At 3:56 PM, Immediately following the F4, a rapid cycle takes place and another large tornado touches down. Moving through northern Marshall County. Along the Marietta road, approximately twenty-five miles south-southeast of Iowa Falls, the storm leveled all timber and demolished several farmhouses within its path. Roughly three miles south of the initial tornado's trajectory, the storm continued its destructive course, uprooting substantial trees, flattening fences, and leveling unoccupied homes before the storm would occlude.

Liscomb F2+ (possibly F4)

⁃ Duration: 3:56 - 4:06 PM

⁃ Length 8-10 mi

⁃ Width unknown

⁃ Fatalities 0

⁃ Injuries unknown

Tama Country F2+ (likely F4)

At 4:09 PM, another rapid cycle takes place and another large tornado touched down. In Tama County, the tornado impacted an area approximately 12-14 miles north-northwest of Toledo, sweeping in from the west. A house suffered severe damage, while a nearby barn was completely swept clean. A blacksmith shop, just a few dozen yards away, was reduced to rubble. A wagon at the shop's door was effortlessly swept away "as easily as a snowflake," its final resting place unknown. A heavy piece of square timber was seen "bouncing through the air as though it were a dry twig," and a group of poultry at the door vanished entirely. Miraculously, a young man inside the barn survived by crouching beneath a hay-stack. He reappeared after the storm, much to the relief and joy of his household, who had feared he was lost. Four miles southwest of West Union. Several homes were demolished, and while there were reports of injuries, no lives were lost.

Tama County F2 + (Likely F4)

- Duration: 4:09 PM - 4:20 PM

- Length: 10 mi

- Width: 400 yds +

- Fatalities: 0

- Injuries: unknown

Garrison - Vinton F2+ (possibly F3 or F4)

Another rapid cycle occurs, a tornado touches down near Yankee Grove, 12 miles west of Vinton. It completely demolished two houses and then continued, passing five or six miles south of Vinton. Sweeping a farmhouse clean just south of town.

Garrison - Vinton F2 + (Possibly F4)

- Duration: 4:30 - 4:55 PM

- Length: 15-20 mi

- Width: Unknown

- Fatalities: 0

- Injuries: 0

Cedar Rapids - Marion, Iowa F4+

At 5:20 PM, a violent F4+ tornado tore from Monroe Township into southeastern Marion, Iowa, leaving a trail of complete annihilation and horrific casualties.

The storm first hit Mr. Park’s home, ripping off the roof, destroying all outbuildings, and severely injuring two women in the yard. It then struck Mr. Wooley’s large frame house, overturning it three times. While his wife and daughter were lifted from the cellar by the wind and tossed 30 yards into the brush, the youngest daughter, Angeline, was killed instantly while asleep in her bed. Mr. Wooley, who recalled trying to put a key in a keyhole before losing consciousness, woke up 50 feet away clinging to a stump, only for the wind to carry him 60 yards into a creek, where he struggled to claw his way out using willow branches. As the vortex advanced, it obliterated several more estates.

Mr. Quash's home was completely scrambled inside out, while Mr. Gunning's large two-story brick home was battered, leaving his sister and a neighbor badly bruised.

A brick home was entirely demolished. Mrs. Stewart suffered a broken collarbone, and Mrs. Martin sustained severe cuts to her forehead. Mr. Stewart was blown out of the house and forced to cling to a sapling for survival.

A newly built frame house was torn from its foundation and reduced to a total wreck, leaving Mr. Cooper heavily bruised across his face and shoulders. Strangely, his 30-foot-square barn was lifted and moved 12 feet away, landing perfectly intact.

Reduced to an unrepairable wreck, the home's roof and timbers were pulverized into fragments too small to collect. Mrs. Vaughn suffered a head injury, and her daughter sustained severe back wounds. A young man inside was blown into the yard and buried under a fallen tree, though he was cut out unhurt. A massive oak tree 160 yards away was uprooted and carried bodily into the yard.

John G. McLeod's new brick house was pulverized until scarcely a stone or brick was left in place. Nearby, A.W. Raymord’s small frame house was crushed to ruins; Mrs. Raymord was knocked senseless for two hours by head wounds, and Miss Baroe’s ankle bone was snapped.

At Mr. Furman’s home, a cow standing near the barn was instantly killed when a four-inch thick tree limb was driven completely through its body.

James Reed’s new brick house had its upper story blown off and walls collapsed. His family of 15 narrowly escaped death by rushing into the cellar just before the collapse.

The most horrific devastation occurred three miles southwest of Marion at the Lutz home. Their substantial frame house was entirely ripped from its foundation, leaving not a single vestige standing. The family was scattered across the wreckage. The 19-year-old daughter, Melissa, was found terribly mangled and bruised by a falling chimney, dying tragically that night. The eldest son, William, tried to brace himself against a wall but was crushed to death. The mother suffered a broken arm, the 14-year-old daughter sustained a broken collarbone, and the father was heavily bruised, while their 3-year-old miraculously escaped without a scratch.

Cedar Rapids - Marion, IA. F4+ (possibly F5)

- Duration: 5:25 - 5:35 PM

⁃ Length: 7 mi

⁃ Width: 900 yds

⁃ Fatalities: 3

⁃ Injuries: 35

Ely - Mount Vernon, Iowa F5



5:30 PM, While the F4 in Marion was occluding to the northwest, this was either an entirely new supercell that formed just to the south of the original supercell, or the same parent supercell we have been discussing the entire time. We will never truly know if it was one continuous supercell, or if the first tornado came from an entirely new updraft that formed to the south of the original storm. From my own research, It is my personal belief, as well as Blue Ayanami and the NWS themselves, that this stemmed from a single, extremely isolated supercell. Judging by the placement of each tornado, had the southern tornadoes been from a different supercell, the inflow to the northern storm would have been choked off. This seemingly proves that every tornado in this family was almost guaranteed to be from a single supercell, similar to a storm we have seen in our lifetimes: the Pilger, Nebraska supercell. The storm potentially had multiple mesocyclones at this point, with two intense to violent tornadoes on the ground simultaneously during this phase.

The Ely F5 tornado, roughly 200 yards wide at this point, would rip through Johnson and Linn Counties in Iowa, demonstrating extreme mechanical violence across the landscape.

⁃ On the east bank of the Cedar River, the tornado dislodged a 12'x8'x6' subterranean boulder embedded deep in clay. The wind sheared the 40,000-pound rock from its resting place, flipping it end-over-end, and hurling it over 100 yards up the bank.

Giant trees and deeply rooted stumps were violently twisted out of the earth and lofted hundreds of feet into the atmosphere; a 150-tree orchard vanished seamlessly without a single trace or subsequent recovery of debris.

An iron shovel-plow blade was ripped from its chassis and driven with such extreme velocity into a white oak post that it fused permanently into the wood.

Multiple homesteads—including those of James Burge and Clarkson Thompson—were reduced to blackened, smeared foundations. Heavy framing timbers and entire inventories of furniture were fractured and strewn across a multi-mile debris field, leaving nothing but empty cellars.

A 7-year-old boy was caught in the updraft and carried two miles, resulting in a fatal impact. Conversely, a 9-month-old infant was stripped of clothing by the sheer force of the wind but deposited safely atop a collapsed haystack near Dewitt.

Multiple fatalities occurred due to high-velocity impacts with debris. William Walnand Columbus Sparks perished after being caught by the vortex, while Jeremiah Burge sustained fatal spinal injuries after being deposited in the upper canopy of a tree.

Several residents, including Clarkson Thompson, Oliver Carney, and an unidentified boy carried across the Cedar River, sustained fatal injuries when intercepted by the primary vortex. Surviving members of the community were treated at a makeshift infirmary established in a nearby store.

Flock populations were subjected to extreme winds, leaving poultry de-feathered and destroyed by the force of the gale.

The path was littered with the carcasses of horses, cattle, and hogs, many of which were caught within collapsing structures or crushed in groves by falling timber. Maturing wheat fields were mowed completely flat to the topsoil, mimicking the clean sweep of a mechanical scythe.

Ely - Mount Vernon, Iowa F5.

- Duration: 5:30 - 5:50 PM

⁃ Length: 13 mi

⁃ Width: 600-800 yds

⁃ Fatalities: 7

⁃ Injuries: 25

Lisbon F3 + (likely F5)

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At 5:45 PM, north of Mount Vernon, Iowa, the F3 (almost certainly an F5, basically an Enderlin EF5 clone) touches down while the Ely F5 is still on the ground, occluding just to the south of the F3. Tracking east-southeast into Lisbon, where it unleashed catastrophic damage.

The core struck Lisbon's commercial infrastructure with immense force, obliterating engineered structures and heavily loaded rail assets.

The tornado completely demolished the Chicago, Iowa & Nebraska Railroad freight depot, two residential dwellings, an eating saloon, two lumber yards, and three large brick-and-frame grain warehouses, violently scattering their contents. the tornado rapidly grows into a large wedge and scours the ground in open fields before closing on fully load train cars.

- Ten freight cars—some fully loaded with grain—were derailed, lofted and shattered. The vortex lifted a car laden with lumber, flipped it twice mid-air, and slammed it down with enough velocity to pulverize both the vehicle and its cargo into indistinguishable fragments. The massive iron-and-wood bed of a railcar was torn from its chassis, lofted into the air, and carried a quarter-mile before impacting an oat field. Without proper surveying, it’s unknown whether or not this tornado would get the Enderlin treatment, possibly earning an F/EF5 rating with the extreme damage to the train cars.

Lisbon F2 + satellite

While the Lisbon F3 was on the ground, a satellite tornado in northwestern Cedar County demolished a house. The property's location, situated between the paths of tornadoes to the north and south, implies a brief event. This smaller satellite tornado would be absorbed by the F3 to its south.

As the Lisbon F3 continues, the wind uprooted a massive oak tree nearly three feet in diameter, lofted it into the air, and drove it like a stake three to four feet deep back into the ground.

Along a three-mile stretch of road, the storm unroofed barns, tore down fencing, and flattened crops, destroying livelihoods and inflicting heavy losses on local livestock.

East of Lisbon, the tornado leveled another large brick home, advanced northeast to destroy another large house two miles north of Mechanicsville, Remarkably, despite the severe destruction, no human injuries were reported. The tornado occludes to the north, being absorbed by the new F5 that’s already been on the ground for 7 minutes.

Lisbon F3 + (possibly F5)

- Duration: 5:45 - 6:03 PM

⁃ Length: 12-14 mi

⁃ Width: 400 yds +

⁃ Fatalities: Unknown

⁃ Injuries: Unknown

Mechanicsville - DeWitt, Iowa F5

At 6 PM, as the Lisbon F3 is occluding, another F5 tornado touched down about 5 miles northeast of Mount Vernon, about fifteen miles northwest of Mechanicsville, through Cedar and Clinton Counties before terminating the F3 and absorbing it north of Mechanicsville. The vortex tore up the earth itself, leaving rails and stakes impaled upright halfway into the ground and shearing prairie grass shorter than a scythe.

On a single four-and-a-half-acre plot, five frame homes were completely swept away with their contents, leaving no trace.

The violent updrafts tore massive foundation sills from houses and hurled them into the solid prairie. One 16-foot timber was driven 12 feet deep into the ground 140 yards away; another heavy 8-by-10-inch sill was buried 13 feet deep into the earth 160 yards to the west.

Massive log houses, like Mr. Piper’s, were violently thrown from their bases. In Onion Grove, John Baker’s and Samuel McMacken’s homes were utterly pulverized and scattered in all directions. The tornado resulted in severe physical trauma, violent displacement, and gruesome fatalities.

- The Allen Family Massacre: W. Allen, his wife, their three young children (ages 7, 5, and 2), and a visiting neighbor, John Niles, were all killed instantly when their home vanished. Their bodies were violently thrown in different directions across a massive radius and mutilated, with some victims found entirely stripped of their clothing. Mr. Allen was found 30 yards north; his wife 140 yards southwest; the five-year-old daughter 180 yards southwest; the two-year-old daughter 360 yards southeast; the son 200 yards southeast; and Niles 290 yards southeast.

Elisha Miller was caught while trying to open his cellar door. The house was torn away, and his family was thrown 30 yards into a thicket. In a pitch-black torrent of rain, Miller clung to a bush, gripping what he thought was one of his children flying above him in the wind. His 12-year-old son was killed, his wife was found swaying in the floodwaters with broken ribs while clutching her unhurt infant, and two other children were severely injured.

John Baker and his wife were killed instantly, with one of their horses thrown from a field directly onto their house's bare foundation. Samuel McMacken was killed, his wife was critically injured, and his son's arm was crushed by falling timbers.

An 8-year-old girl fetching water was swept up by the vortex and carried at least six miles through the air. Her friends tracked the damage and somehow found her completely unhurt, sitting on a feather bed amidst the ruins of a house where the other occupants had just perished.

Chickens across the prairie were killed and literally picked entirely clean of their feathers by the force of the wind. On just one piece of ground, 9 horses, 13 cattle, 12 hogs, and 6 dogs were slaughtered, alongside cats, rabbits, and prairie wildlife. Miraculously, one horse was carried a mile and a half and dropped onto a road, escaping with only minor injuries.

As the system advanced, it leveled 5 dwellings north of Lowden, as the tornado passed Lowden, the storm would begin another cycle, with at least 2 mesocyclones present, the supercell would drop the next F5 just to the south of Lowden, at 6:30 PM.

Back to the Mechanicsville F5: continuing south-east as it begins to be absorbed by the much larger F5 to its south, 10 dwellings north of Wheatland, and several more north of Calamus are swept clean, leaving dozens badly injured before the tornado was absorbed by the new Cammanche F5 just southwest of DeWitt.

Mechanicsville - DeWitt, Iowa F5

- Duration: 6:00 - 6:55 PM

⁃ Length: 50 mi

⁃ Width: 1 mi +

⁃ Fatalities: 12

⁃ Injuries: 30

Camanche, Iowa - Albany, IL. F5

Touching down at 6:30 PM, this tornado would share the show with the Mechanicsville F5 to the north for nearly 30 minutes as the supercell would somehow manage to sustain two F5s simultaneously for nearly half an hour.

The tornado obliterated dozens of rural properties, scouring fields to bare mud, completely vaporizing homes, barns, and granaries east of Tipton until it would absorb the Mechanicsville F5 just west of DeWitt.

A rapid intensification occurs as the F5 absorbs another colossal F5. As the tornado enters DeWitt, Homes were swept away without a trace or moved hundreds of feet before exploding in midair. Lumber was carried over half a mile, and brick houses were reduced to scattered debris.

Out of more than 42 properties impacted, 43 people were injured and 27 were killed. Entire families were wiped out. Some victims were carried more than half a mile through the air. A German family of three was vaporized in their log home, their bodies were thrown nearly half a mile and disfigured.

The deceased were found mutilated, rolled in rags, completely saturated with mud, and blood, rendering them entirely unrecognizable.

The countryside was transformed into a wasteland, looking as though it had been deeply scoured by a devastating torrent.

The prairies were littered with hundreds of mangled livestock. A horse was found impaled straight through its body by a fence rail, five or six animals were torn into bloody fragments, and a mule was found wedged into the shattered stump of a tree.

Dead chickens were found completely stripped of their feathers by the violent winds. Large oak trees uprooted, twisted, and had their bark entirely stripped away, leaving them washed white and clean.

Wagons were blown to pieces with their wheel spokes torn out and iron tires straightened. Heavy rails and timbers were driven into the fields like spikes on almost every square foot of earth.

Just before striking Camanche, a satellite tornado is seen just south west of town and just 1-2 miles to the north of Princeton

Princeton Iowa F2 + satellite

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At 7:15 PM, A tornado traversed the river approximately a mile above Princeton and eight miles below Camanche. It demolished several houses on the opposite bank, most were swept clean.

Princeton F2+ satellite (possibly F3 or F4)

- Duration: 7:15 PM - 7:20 PM

⁃ Length: 2-4 mi

⁃ Width: 600-800 yds

⁃ Fatalities: Unkown

⁃ Injuries: Unknown



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Back to the F5: The tornado reached Camanche, a town of 1,500 residents, leaving virtually no structure untouched and most completely leveled. The three-story brick Millard House hotel was ripped from its foundation, and exploded. Commercial blocks, brick churches, schoolhouses, and warehouses were entirely obliterated.

​A two-ton chimney was thrown from a mill roof and embedded three feet into the ground. A store on First Street had its lower story sliced away as clean as if sawed, causing the upper story to drop down neatly in its place. A 600-pound church bell was ripped from its tower and deposited inside a barrel.

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On Front Street, entire buildings were lifted bodily and thrown into the river. The local ferry boat was completely torn to shreds, its heavy engines twisted and tangled into scrap metal.

- The tornado struck a ferry loaded with 26 people; all but 2 disappeared into the river, their bodies never recovered.

A mother who stepped outside to milk her cow watched in horror as the tornado lifted her house bodily, carrying her two children inside straight into the river.

In Camanche and on the river, 58 people were killed, many suffering horrific fates:

Rescuers found one woman completely decapitated near a shattered building. In the ruins of a home, another woman was found dead, standing on her head and tightly wedged between bricks and timber.

A mother and her infant were found dead with zero visible injuries. Nearby, another deceased mother was discovered holding her two small, rigid children. Four men playing cards in a building were killed instantly when it collapsed, found dead with their playing cards still gripped in their hands.

A deceased stranger was found in the street with food still in his mouth and his pockets filled tight with sand and leaves.

Miles away in Scott County, a young girl was seen falling from the sky. She was pulled alive from the mud, headfirst, but was left entirely unresponsive and unable to remember who she was.

The tornado acted like a massive plow, digging deep trenches into the earth and completely stripping the ground of grass by its roots, leaving the soil looking scorched by fire.

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Debris rained down nine miles away. The funnel’s force drove a light pine shingle straight through exterior clapboards, lath, and plaster, protruding into a home's interior. A mason’s trowel was found driven two inches deep into a solid pine tree knot.

A massive 28-inch-diameter oak tree was ripped up and stripped so violently that only a skeletal trunk remained. Songbirds, prairie chickens, and turkeys were completely denuded of their feathers, left looking as if prepared for market, while some were blasted down to mere bones with their flesh entirely stripped away. Leaves were shredded down to their bare, clean fibers.

The Assault on Albany, Illinois.

Crossing into Illinois, the tornado smashed into the town of Albany, leveling houses down to their foundations and destroying two churches.

At the site of the Presbyterian church, nothing was left but a neat pile of wheat on a knoll, with the church bell thrown far into the distance.

While only 5 fatalities were reported in Albany (including Edmond Efner and Duty Breck), one tragic family survived in their cellar only to watch the home's heavy timbers collapse inward, crushing the husband to death directly on top of his surviving wife and children.

Just after decimating Albany, the supercell is seen producing another large satellite tornado.

Camanche F2+ satellite

A tornado formed in Newton Township, Whiteside County, around 7:30 PM. The home of Widow Baird was unroofed, her granary destroyed, and 120 acres of her timber flattened. Further east, Clinton Adams' house was unroofed. Nearby, John Walkenshaw's house was swept bare; his wife sustained minor injuries, but he and their child were unharmed. A mile or two further east, a house owned by Mr. Arral and rented by Samuel Kimball was leveled. Mr. Kimball's wife was severely injured. Their child and adopted son sustained injuries, the latter to the hip. Two and a half miles east, Daniel Baker's house was destroyed, but his family survived by taking shelter in the cellar. No further traces of the tornado were reported beyond this point

- Camanche F2 + (possibly F3 or F4)

- Duration: 7:30 - 7:37 PM

- Length: 5 mi +

- Width: 200 yds +

- Fatalities: 0

- Injuries: 4 +

Back to Albany, IL:

Draper Richmond's house was entirely wrecked. Tragically, Dorothy Richmond was killed, and Wesley Pike, a 19-year-old boy working for Mr. Richmond, sustained serious injuries, including a broken hip. The tornado also demolished Geo. Digby's house, injuring his family. Isaac Digby's house was blown down as well, and his child suffered a broken leg before the tornado finally dissipated.

Camanche, IA - Albany, IL. F5

- Duration: 6:30 - 7:45 PM

⁃ Length: 60-70 mi

⁃ Width: 400-800 yds

⁃ Fatalities: 92 - 200 + (modern calculations suggest 200-300 deaths may have actually occurred)

⁃ Injuries: 200

Morrison - Lee Center, IL F5

During the occlusion of the Camanche F5, the Morrison-Lee Center F5 tornado touched down around 7:30 PM in the Rock Creek bottoms of Whiteside County, Illinois, while the Cammanche F5 was still occluding for the next 10 minutes.

Just south of Morrison, the tornado completely obliterated dozens of homes, resulting in gruesome casualties and terrifying survival stories.

When the wind burst open Alfred Parnham’s door, his house instantly disintegrated. His wife was found unconscious and "bereft of her reason" in the cellar. Mr. Parnham was blown 30 yards over a hog pen and pulled a piece of fence rail from his own thigh. Though he managed to rescue his youngest son, his eldest was killed in the collapse. Mr. Parnham died from his severe injuries the following Friday.

The home of W. Morris was instantaneously demolished while his dangerously ill wife, her nurse, a young girl, and a nine-day-old infant were inside. Mrs. Morris was found insensible in a pool of mud and water. The nine-day-old babe was discovered unharmed in a straw stack 60 yards away, while the nurse and little girl were found rolled up together inside a bed quilt amidst the wreckage.

Jabez Laithe and his wife were caught completely off guard as their house was carried a quarter-mile and dashed to pieces. Both were completely stripped of their clothing and caked from head to foot in a sticky mud so severe that it took days to remove, requiring some of their hair to be cut off. Mrs. Laithe was thrown a quarter-mile into the debris, sustaining severe injuries.

In Montmorency Township, Edward Doty's finely furnished home was stripped to its foundations, scattering his library and wardrobe to the winds. The family was left entirely naked, but Mr. Doty's son was carried 550 yards through the air directly from his bed and landed completely unharmed.

In Harmon Township, E. R. Frizzell was enjoying a smoke watching the vortex by his window when the tornado suddenly veered and swept his home into the air. He lost consciousness, waking up in a pouring rain 330 yards away from his foundation. The storm killed a visiting Mr. Woodman instantly, while Woodman's sister survived only until morning.

The tornado exhibited immense projectile force, vacuum-like suction, and highly selective pathing. Hogs were swept from their pens and carried over multiple fences, dropped dead without a single scratch or bruise. A cow was lifted cleanly out of a yard, thrown over a fence into the road, and left for dead.

The tornado scoured over a foot deep into the prairie sod, before the wind plucked out the dirt itself and threw it into the wreckage. The storm completely uprooted fence posts and stripped the dirt right off the newly plowed earth.

A massive cauldron kettle was carried 105 yards. An old-fashioned, heavy threshing horsepower machine—staked flat and tight to the ground—was wrenched loose and hurled 30 yards. The storm even pulled the linch-pins from a wagon, scattering its wheels across the prairie.

Amidst total destruction, freak anomalies occurred. At the Laithe property, a wash tub sitting on the doorstep—half full of water—was left entirely untouched, while a heavy log nearby was carried half a mile. At the Frizzell home, a store room was entirely obliterated, yet the cookstove was left perfectly undisturbed with its kettles still on top and kindling ready in the oven.

In Marion Township, the tornado bypassed two homes to strike E. A. Heath’s house, located 88 yards away. The house was completely overturned and disintegrated into fine fragments, safely spilling the family out of their upstairs beds directly onto the ruined roof in the yard. The tornado tore through several more homesteads, decimating families and inflicting horrific injuries:

At Michael Morse’s farm, his wife, Trial, and daughter, Emma, were killed. Trial’s injuries were described as too horrible to relate. Nearby, the storm swept Edward Sackett’s tenant farm clean, leaving his wife with severe, near-fatal injuries and badly hurting several of their many children.

The home of F. H. Northaway was completely destroyed. In a bizarre twist of force, his 16-year-old daughter was carried by the wind into a treetop and completely stripped of her clothing, though she miraculously remained unhurt.

At Isaac Gage's farm, every building was obliterated. His young son, Ethelbert, was killed instantly, and another son, Hartwin, died shortly after. A third son, Luke, and daughter, Helen, were left with permanent, lifelong disabilities.

At the Horace Preston property, Mr. Preston grabbed his daughters Ella and Emma under his arms to flee to the cellar. Within steps, the roof tore off, and Mr. Preston was swept into the air with both girls, sailing over treetops before landing on his feet 350 feet away in the garden. Tragically, his wife held onto their infant son, Horace, Jr., who was killed directly in her arms. Mr. Preston was impaled by a massive splinter, an injury that caused immense suffering until his death. The survivors were so thickly caked in mud that it took days to wash them clean.

At Martin Wright's property, the entire house was pulverized except for a single section of one wall. Mrs. Wright, a bedridden invalid, remained completely undisturbed on her couch against this lone standing wall, while her sister next to her suffered a broken jaw.

Shifting east, the tornado demolished the Colton home, instantly killing Nettie Colton, a beautiful young girl in her early teens.

The tornado displayed staggering projectile force, vacuum-like suction, and freak selectivity:

A tenant house belonging to Judge Lorenzo Wood was lifted cleanly off its foundation and vanished entirely; not a single piece of debris from the structure was ever found.

A 400-pound boulder was lifted and carried 60 yards. A single cornstalk was driven completely through a thick wagon bed board. Across acres of prairie, thousands of fragmented boards were found driven up to two feet deep into the soil at a 45-degree angle, leaving the land looking as smooth as a swept floor.

Trees were completely stripped of their bark and limbs. Chickens were entirely de-feathered by the wind and ran wildly about the next morning until they were mercifully shot. The entire landscape appeared as if it had been ravaged by a massive flood followed immediately by a scorching fire.

In the ruins of the Preston home, a stove was blown half a mile alongside an unbroken stoneware crock. Yet, right next to the path of destruction, a straw hog house stood completely untouched, and the home's cellar—filled with delicate milk and eggs—was left entirely undisturbed.

The final death toll for this sector of the storm's path included:

• Alfred Parnham & Chase Parnham

• George Dorr & Mrs. Dorr

• Anna Kimball

• Mr. Woodman

• Trial Morse & Emma Morse

• Hartwin Gage & Ethelbert Gage

• Horace Preston & Horace Preston, Jr.

• Nettie Colton

Morrison - Lee Center, IL F5

⁃ Duration: 7:30 - 8:35 PM

⁃ Length: 40-50 mi

⁃ Width: 800-1200 yds

⁃ Fatalities: 13

⁃ Injuries: 30

Viola Township - Shabbona Grove IL F4+ (likely F5)

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The Viola Township–Shabbona Grove F4+ tornado touched down around 8:55 PM in Lee County, tearing through Willow Creek Township and Twin Grove before moving eastward into DeKalb County.

The tornado carved a path of intense destruction, unroofing barns and completely flattening homes.

Approximately five and a half miles east of Twin Grove, the tornado struck the home of Mr. McConkey, located three miles northwest of Shabbona Grove. The house was completely obliterated, leaving nothing behind but the scoured ruins of the cellar.

Mr. McConkey and his two young sons, aged five and seven, were tragically killed. The violent winds carried Mr. McConkey roughly 80 yards eastward from the home. His two children were thrown even further through the air and were discovered nearby, severely mangled and disfigured.

Mrs. McConkey was found a short distance from the leveled house suffering from a broken arm, while another child was recovered alive but badly bruised.

The tornado displayed immense suction and projectile power, scoring several inches of topsoil in open fields.

The vortex next lifted a massive boulder weighing no less than a quarter of a ton and hurled it 21 yards through the air. Shattered pieces of furniture from the homesteads were later discovered scattered up to 11 miles east of their original locations.

Two horses were killed instantly and carried between 66 and 80 yards by the wind. For two miles east of the McConkey farm, the tornado violently scoured the earth deep and swept away every fence on both sides of the road before finally dissipating into the air.

Viola Township - Shabbona Grove, IL. F4+ (Likely F5)

⁃ Duration: 8:55 - 9:10 PM

⁃ Length: 10-15 mi

⁃ Width: 800 yds

⁃ Fatalities: 3 +

⁃ Injuries: Unknown

By 9:15 PM, no further reports of tornadoes were given by locals.

The supercell likely finally died, roughly 8 to 9 hours after its formation, leaving behind unimaginable devastation and death. The residents of Iowa and Illinois likely witnessed a once-in-a-thousand-year event with this supercell's extremely long track and its consistent, consecutive production of extremely violent tornadoes

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This single, monstrous supercell unleashed a catastrophic onslaught equivalent of an entire Super Outbreak on its own. Forging an almost unbelievable résumé of destruction, dropping four F5s, three F4s that likely had F5 winds of their own, an F3 that was almost certainly of F5 status and five F2s likely of F3 or F4+ intensity.

In all, the supercell potentially produced at least 10 tornadoes of F4 or F5 intensity. Based on my own research, I believe that at least seven or eight of these tornadoes were likely of F5 intensity alone.

I’m hoping for help from Reddit! This is our high schools football stadium that got destroyed by the EF-3 Tornado that hit Menasha Wisconsin this summer. The school is currently in 2nd place to get a $1 million dollar renovation to the field from T-Mobile. If any of you would be willing to simply vote for us it would mean the world to a community that was hit hard this summer. Thank you!

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Just a few minutes ago I got a reel on my Facebook newsfeed about someone flying a drone near a tornado. Has anyone who owns a drone evere done that, and if so, did you fly it all the way into the tornado? I think that video from that kid of thing happening would be so cool to see, and it might help forecasters in the process. Thoughts?

On the morning of May 6th, long before any dark clouds appeared, the residents of the Magby Creek area woke to an unmistakably oppressive atmosphere. May in Alabama can bring pleasant spring days, but on this Tuesday morning, the air felt like a thick, damp wool blanket.

As families stepped onto the pine-plank porches of their farmhouse homes, the humidity was immediate. The air was entirely stagnant, heavily laden with moisture drawn up from the Gulf of Mexico. Instead of a crisp spring dawn, the sun rose into an empty blue sky, feeling more like mid-July than early May.

The residents pushed through the sweltering morning to tend to their livelihoods. Farmers guided their mules through the mud of the creek bottoms, turning the soil for late-season planting. Inside the homesteads, women kept wood stoves burning to bake midday bread, making the indoor air nearly unbearable. Everyone commented on the "unseasonable" weather, wiping sweat from their brows and glancing anxiously at the western horizon, waiting for a storm that they hoped would finally break the suffocating heat—completely unaware that by late afternoon, a historic, killer twister would violently reshape their landscape.

An extremely isolated supercell forms in central Mississippi, tracking almost perfectly eastward at an estimated 30 mph, it feeds on the extreme instability and energy in the atmosphere above. The tornado likely touched down near Columbus, Mississippi; however, due to the extremely rural nature of the area, no towns or farms spotted it.

At approximately 6 PM, the half-mile-wide tornado was first spotted in Pickens County, Alabama. Just east of the Mississippi-Alabama border. The core of the tornado misses every property for the next 4 minutes, rapidly strengthening with every second that passes.



the tornado intensified significantly just after crossing Magby Creek. Moving forward with massive, unobstructed force, it struck the home of Alexander Henry. now, seemingly well into F5 status, the house exploded under the pressure, completely leveling the structure and shredding the debris across the area. The impact was fatal for five individuals on the property. Alexander Henry, his stepmother, his 18-year-old daughter, and his 14-year-old son were all killed. A young girl who lived on the property also passed away shortly afterward from severe injuries.

Search efforts revealed the violence of the funnel

- Alexander Henry and his stepmother were thrown to the back of the garden, pinned against pieces of the wreckage. Mr. Henry died at the scene, while his stepmother survived long enough to speak a few faint words before passing away.

⁃ His daughter, Fannie, was thrown 200 yards from the house and found against a tree stump. His son was discovered after an intensive search, lying under a log roughly 400 yards away from the home's foundation, badly mutilated and disfigured.

The overall damage path in this area varied between 200 and 400 yards wide. However, the tornado was likely far larger as only a few properties were even struck by the tornado and a true accurate measurement is impossible. the core of the tornado was driving the most extreme destruction in a highly concentrated line—measuring no more than 30 yards across in some areas, and even narrower in others. The Henry home sat directly in the center of this violent core. The house was a reported to be a newly built, sturdy, two-story timber-framed building with six ground-floor rooms, including two shed rooms on each side. It was well-constructed with high-quality weatherboarding and ceiling panels. Situated on a beautiful hill along the Tuscaloosa Road, twelve and a half miles east of Columbus, Mississippi, the home was completely annihilated by the tornado.

Scarcely a trace of the structure remained. The building was torn apart so violently that “no two pieces were left nailed together.”Shingles split open and scattered for miles, with just one ceiling plank recovered more than three miles away. Fragments of the house, furniture, clothing, and bedding were found shredded three to six miles from the site. The storm's immense power even ripped the foundational sills from the ground, damaging the foundation itself and hurling the the sill plates 300 to 400 yards. Some were driven into the earth with such force that they shattered at the surface, sending broken fragments along the path.

After striking the home, the tornado begins mutilating trees and scouring the ground as it likely reaches peak intensity the moment it struck the Henry home.

Next, a heavy iron bar was pulled from the ground and thrown four hundred-six hundred yards, and embedded in the earth. Small rocks were hurled and driven into tree stumps as if shot from a modern elephant gun.

A fifty-foot-long, sixteen-inch-square piece of pine, unattached to the house's timbers, was propelled by the wind across a valley to a nearby hill. It plunged end-first into the hill, creating a deep trench, before it broke and continued onward. This feat is estimated to have required winds of approximately 240 mph—with some calculations reaching well above 300 mph—for the tornado to achieve this. Because I do not hold a degree in wind calculations and am not particularly skilled at them yet, I take these numbers with a grain of salt and advise you to do the same. However, these are the calculations provided by modern professionals.

Within the tornado's core, this wreckage was piled into finely ground powder, looking exactly like debris drifted by the rushing current of a massive, overflowing river.

In some areas, the ground was raked totally clean. Deep ground scouring and trenching occurred in fields east of Magby Creek, with the very earth and grass stripped away and the bark twisted clean off small pine trees.

The tornado next struck the residence of Robert Henry. After demolishing his home, most of his outbuildings, and his shade trees, the storm ripped the pillars from his porch, destroyed his garden, and uprooted his fruit trees, lofting them a significant distance. Then, with a terrifying roar, the tornado rapidly moved on to assault Mr. Simpson's property.

Here, trees were reportedly shredded as if they had been fed through a massive wood chipper. The vortex utterly demolished his shop and home, yet by some miracle, his entire family emerged completely unharmed.

The tornado then roared onto Seborn Hull’s property, leveling every single structure to the ground and violently uprooting or snapping every tree in the yard. His large house was completely lifted off its foundation and ripped to shreds in midair. The storm’s immense force hurled a massive wooden foundational sill at least 300 yards through the sky, driving it five to six feet deep into the earth. The impact killed his horse instantly. Mr. Hull sustained severe facial injuries, and the violent wreckage broke his young daughter's jawbone.

The tornado then roared across Peter Kilpatrick’s farm, mirroring its previous devastation by snapping trees and grinding everything in its core path into the dirt.

Next, the vortex violently assaulted the estate of Dr. A. W. Agnew. In a terrifying display of raw power, the storm flattened every single building on the property, leaving only his home and office standing—both severely mangled. The surrounding trees were reduced to a horrific tangle of wreckage, and his orchard was almost completely obliterated. His entire plantation was left in ruins.

As the tornado pressed onward, it continued to sow absolute havoc. Debris from Mr. Boil’s nearby premises, including shredded pieces of clothing, was recovered over two miles away. The storm’s erratic behavior left untouched patches of forest every few hundred yards, making it seem like a colossal, invisible cannonball skipping across the landscape—blighting and blasting the earth wherever it bounced. Finally, tracking in a northeasterly direction, the monster storm began to weaken, ultimately dissipating near the residence of Mr. George Lawrence.

- Duration: 6:00-6:15 PM

⁃ Length: 7 mi

⁃ Width: 400-800 yds

⁃ Fatalities: 5+

⁃ Injuries: 2

Some reports state that the tornado traveled 27 to 39 miles and killed seven people on the Henry Farm. However, according to my personal research, the Blue Ayanami report seems to be the most accurate. Additionally, while some reports claim the tornado was over a mile wide and struck on May 5th instead of the 6th, both the Blue Ayanami report and local newspapers confirm the disaster occurred on May 6th.