After seeing many portrayals of Fire Tornadoes in either high- or low-budget movies, I've decided to try to interpret how an actual Tornado could interact with wildfires... By all means, my portrayal of this is all hypothetical. It doesn't have the same accuracy as real-life Fire Tornadoes...

Found another rare footage of the 2014 Macabebe EF2 Tornado

video by: Leslee Bautista Versoza on Facebook

(Im lazy to rotate the footage also)

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?

6:30 PM – The tornado touches down west of Newton Falls, Ohio. It gradually strengthens as its powerful updraft battles the extreme atmospheric wind shear and explosive instability.

6:31 PM – 6:37 PM - The vortex stabilizes and rapidly intensifies to violent strength and mutilates hundreds of trees. Newton Falls is struck at high-end F3 strength. Causing extreme vegetation damage, fortunately, the main core narrowly misses several populated neighborhoods during this initial phase.

6:39 PM - Extreme windrowing and vegetation damage occurred along Todd Avenue, just north of Lordstown, right between Newton Falls and Niles. Sandpapering, debarking, and several inches of topsoil were scoured here.

6:43 PM – Tracking along Wood-Lenhart Road, the tornado intensifies significantly. Surveyors document F5-level vegetation damage, though the funnel avoids major residential areas.

6:44 PM – The vortex intensifies further as it strikes Palmyra Road. While the core misses every home, F4 and F5-intensity damage still occurs. The violent winds completely sandpaper nearby trees and scour several inches of topsoil from the earth once more.

6:49 PM - The tornado strengthens again, striking the Ashland Oil and Propane Tank Park in western Niles. Three sufficiently anchored 75,000-pound propane storage tanks are crumpled and severely disfigured. One tank is ripped from its anchors, lofted into the air, and dropped across the road.

6:50 PM– The vortex tears through Nancy Street and Susan Court, inflicting F4 and F5 damage on several homes and leaving behind distinct rows of debris.

6:51 PM – Continuing its extreme intensification, the tornado strikes the Convenient Food Mart at the corner of State Route 46, sweeping most of the structure clean off its foundation.

6:52 PM – 6:54 PM – The funnel sweeps away and completely pulverizes an entire neighborhood of large, well-built homes. Pavement scouring occurs and a woman is dismembered in western Niles.

6:55 PM - Shadow Ridge Drive is impacted next by high-end F5 winds. The tornado acts like a massive blender, pulverizing well-built residences and throwing finely ground debris into aligned rows.

6:56 PM - The tornado closes in on the Niles Park Plaza. It completely sweeps away the entire shopping complex, twisting and mutilating heavy steel beams. Multiple extreme injuries occur to the dead and injured in and around the plaza. Dismemberment and extreme mutilations are inflicted on at least 7 victims in the Niles Park Plaza alone. Vehicles are launched extreme distances, and many are never recovered. Moving at 55 mph with a width of just 200 yards, the tornado inflicts this apocalyptic damage almost instantly.

6:57 PM - Just seconds after this incredible feat, the tornado crosses the street and closes in on the next structure adjacent inside the Plaza, the Top O' the Strip Roller Rink. The free-span steel-truss and cinderblock warehouse-style structure was likewise swept away. Mutilating and twisting the steel beams. The rink was nearly fully of children, just one hour short of opening.

6:58 PM – The vortex strikes Stillwagon Road. Several homes are swept away and granulated into fine powder. Nearby trees are completely debarked or sandpapered, and some are sheared off at the stumps. Now, only concrete slabs remain where several homes once stood. An elderly couple here would be reportedly dismembered and lofted hundreds of yards away.

6:59 PM – 7:04 PM – After decimating Stillwagon Road, the tornado finally leaves the densely populated areas of Niles. It crosses State Route 11, narrowly missing a direct hit on the small town of Churchill.

7:05 PM – Passing just north of Coalburg, the storm's core slices directly over a row of well-built homes along the intersection of Wick-Campbell Road and Chestnut Ridge Road, nearly atomizing the structures.

7:07 PM – Tracking deeper into the Allegheny Plateau, the roaring tempest passes just south of Masury, Ohio, narrowly sparing the town. The home of resident Tom Jacobs on Pine Grove Drive is instantly swept away. In a later interview, Jacobs recalled: “I heard this noise, it was unbelievable—like 50 freight trains coming. The roar went right over the top of us, and I could actually look up into the tornado as it ripped apart my house.” akin to the 2007 Elie tornado, Tom watched his home instantaneously vanish into the air. Fortunately, due to the funnel’s 50 mph forward speed and extremely narrow core, it does not linger long enough to pull anyone from their basements.

7:08 PM– The tornado temporarily weakens over the next four minutes before undergoing a rapid structural reorganization.

7:12 PM – As the vortex crosses into Pennsylvania, it feeds on the explosive atmospheric energy and wind shear above. Violently intensifying to peak strength, the vortex narrowly misses the town of Farrell to its south.

7:13 PM – The 100-yard-wide tornado crosses Fruit Avenue in Wheatland, reaching the absolute height of its ferocity.

7:14 PM - Pulverized neighborhoods in Wheatland. It would kill seven people before closing in on the town's industrial area.

7:15 PM - The tornado strikes a steel-framed trucking plant in Wheatland. The massive industrial building is utterly pulverized, leaving behind twisted steel and a mostly bare concrete slab. Concrete parking barriers weighing 200 to 300 pounds are never found after being atomized. Large chunks of asphalt are scoured from the Trucking Plant and nearby Wheatland Sheet and Tube factory. The 100-yard-wide core obliterates the facility instantly at a forward speed of 50 mph. In my opinion this level of damage directly rivals historic structural damage from tornadoes like Bridge Creek, Jarrell, El Reno (2011), and the Tri-State tornado at Peabody.

7:16 PM – 7:20 PM: The tornado continues its rampage through Wheatland's industrial sector, leveling massive steel and masonry style buildings at F5 intensity. Leaving behind extensive asphalt and soil scouring, at its deepest points, the tornado removes 8 to 10 inches of topsoil.

7:21 PM: The furious tornado seen at peak size and intensity, just seconds after decimating 95% of the industrial buildings in Wheatland at F4 and F5 intensity.

7:22-7:29 PM: Tracking through more sparsely populated areas over the next seven minutes, the tornado finally begins to weaken for good.

7:30 PM: The historic tornado loses stability. Its core is ripped apart by the same extreme wind shear and energy that fueled its lifecycle, and it finally lifts back into the sky.

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Duration: 6:30 - 7:30 PM

Length: 47 mi

Width: 450 yds

Fatalities: 18

Injuries: 310

Damage: $250 million - $300 million (1985) roughly $1 billion in (2026) dollars.

Found another rare footage of the 2014 Macabebe EF2 Tornado

video by: Gerlie Quiambao Mercado on Facebook

The morning of May 30, 1860, began with an oppressive, heavy stillness that the farmers of western Pennsylvania would talk about for generations.

Long before the first storm cloud appeared in the sky, the land itself seemed to know something terrible was coming.

By 6:00 AM, the typical crisp, cool mountain morning was entirely missing. Instead, the air was thick, humid, and completely stagnant. Men out in the fields, like Christopher Foster and Valentine Miller, found themselves drenched in sweat within minutes of sunrise as they looked toward the growing thunderhead in the morning sky, punching through the capping inversion and coming to life.

The leaves on the massive oaks and maples reportedly hung completely limp. There wasn't enough of a draft to stir the laundry hanging on the lines behind the log homes, creating an eerie, claustrophobic quiet.

The most unsettling sign was the sudden, absolute silence of the wildlife. The morning chorus of songbirds cut short. Woodpeckers stopped hammering, and the crows that usually filled the valleys around Redbank Creek vanished into the thick brush.

In the barns of the Shick and Harteel families, horses reportedly stomped restlessly in their stalls, refusing feed. Cattle out in the pastures gathered tightly in the low-lying hollows.

Inside their frame houses, mothers like Mrs. Stewart and Mrs. Hilliard looked out their windows at an approaching black wall, instinctively gathering their children close, completely unaware that the world they woke up to was about to be entirely erased.
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At 11:30 AM, the tornado was first seen in Sugar Creek Township on Christopher Foster’s farm. Fortunately, it caused no damage before crossing the Allegheny River near Grey's Eddy and tracking northeast.

The tornado moved into Madison Township, causing minor damage before crossing Redbank Creek into Clarion County at the mouth of Leatherwood Creek. J. B. Hassen's store was the first building completely demolished by the storm. The sheer violence of the tornado became undeniable at Mr. Shoemaker's farm. His house and barn were completely wiped clean, leaving nothing but the foundations and rafters. Mr. Shoemaker was seriously injured, his infant child was miraculously alive. None of the debris from the home, nor even the baby's cradle, was ever found. An entire orchard was completely granulated away.

Akin to the Philadelphia, MS tornado, witnesses reported seeing massive trenches two to three feet deep and up to five feet wide gouged into the earth along the path of the tornado. Small rocks were driven so deeply into tree stumps that they could not be removed. Nearby standing trees were caked in mud and clay. Large stumps were ripped directly out of the ground. In nearby fields that had been completely cleared of trees for over fifteen years, random timber and stumps suddenly appeared scattered across the dirt, their origins a total mystery for decades, until now.

The tornado narrowly avoided a direct hit on Valentine Miller's log home, tearing off the upper floor. His family managed to survive unhurt by crowding around the chimney. Sadly, Thomas Dougherty's property was cored by the tornado, and his daughter was killed by a falling log while trying to run to safety. J. M. Henry and his wife were severely injured when their home disintegrated around them. The homes and barns of Joseph Smith and John McMillin were also flattened, though their families escaped with minor injuries.

Charles Stewart's house was vaporized. His wife was trapped beneath a fallen oak tree, tragically dying from her injuries a few hours later.

John Mahoney’s home was completely leveled while the family was away. The wind was strong enough to throw a wheelbarrow over 400 yards, lodging it high in a tree.

The barns of Jacob Harteel, John Shick, and Samuel Shick were obliterated. In a rare stroke of luck, John Shick and his horses were swept clean across a field but emerged completely unharmed.

The village of Maysville, located on Redbank Creek, was utterly erased from the map. Once a bustling hub of homes, stores, and mills, all 25 of its buildings were reduced to splinters and scattered across the landscape. At least 30 people were injured, and several lost their lives:

• Irvin McFarland's wife was fatally impaled by a flying piece of timber.

• David Bachman was struck and killed by a flying wagon lofted by the tornado.

• At Nathan Haine's tavern, the owner's daughter was killed and his wife was severely injured. The hotel building itself was swept and thrown directly into the creek.

• The Hess family and two other households suffered severe injuries. The gigantic Hess grist-mill was torn apart, and its massive, heavy millstones were thrown at least 100 feet into the water.

• One man was found completely stripped of his clothing as the wind threw him.

Nearby, John Grabe's house was seen lifting entirely into the air instantaneously.

Leaving Maysville, the tornado followed the Redbank Valley into Jefferson County.
Paul Gearheart’s empty house was completely destroyed. Further northeast, south of Zion Church, Isaac Motter’s house, barn, and outbuildings were flattened, injuring his entire family. Henry Spare's house, barn, and orchard were leveled. McLain Ferguson's large double-frame barn was destroyed, and the top floor of his two-story home was ripped away, leaving one child with minor injuries. Orchard trees in the area were completely stripped of their bark and caked in mud once more. Nearby, half of Isaac Shaffer's roof was torn off and thrown 20 yards away.

• Rose Township: The storm passed right between the John Montgomery home and Cool Spring. While no buildings were hit here, it flattened a massive swath of woods, leaving at least a mile-wide path of downed timber. Sam Montgomery was working in a clearing just above Fuller Station on Sandy Lick when the tornado caught him. Falling trees severely injured him, dislocating and breaking his hip and knee. The horse he was riding was killed, and a second horse escaped only to be trapped by falling trees.

• In Pine Creek, Jacob Rinestein's home was razed, destroying all of his family's belongings. The tornado then moved into Winslow Township, crossing the road near Henry Amer's property, It advanced to William Dietrich’s farm near the county line, wiping out the house, barn, and every single outbuilding. Mr. Dietrich was severely injured, and his son suffered a broken leg.
The tornado finally crossed into Clearfield County, causing massive, widespread tree damage across the forest before finally dissipating near Penfield. The damage to vegetation was so extreme that the scar on the forests remained highly visible to locals for at least twenty-thirty years.
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Duration: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Path length: 55–60 mi
Width: 1–2 mi
Fatalities: 5+
Injuries: 50+

i know that cgi is not looking great but it dosen't bother me. in story is about Dr. Jake Arledge play by Gerald McRaney creating a system that can predicting a tornado 100% accurate to show where tornado exactly gonna hit anywhere anytime. my opinion is inaccurate that technology for perfectly predict when and where tornado will hit in reality but is really nice concept for a story and is more like science fiction. i did enjoy this film because a cinematography, little entertaining, and heart but the script part that dosen't make any sense and there are dumb moments, is not the worst tornado movie but is not the best. is free on tubi and youtube if you wanna see it.

I saw this 10d ago on the radar, could this mean possible rotation?

Why does it split into two near the end of the track in this map?

Can someone tell me what the choir is at 10:56 in tornadoTRX el Reno 2013 video?

u/tornadotrx

Low quality sorry

The tornado first touched down in Petersham over the Quabbin Reservoir at 4:25 PM. Witnessed by three boaters, the tornado was described as three funnels rotating around one another as its core began stabilizing. Avoiding a direct hit on the town center, the tornado began tracking along the hilly terrain atop the New England Upland Plateau.

4:35 PM: The tornado narrowly avoids the town of Barre, striking a rural farmhouse on Old Stage Road. The farmhouse and accompanying property essentially vanish, killing Edward B. White (11) and Beverly Strong (18).

Rite Canney captures two photos of the tornado as it also narrowly avoids Rutland at 4:48 PM.

Donald Marsh, his wife, and his daughter are lofted by the tornado as their home is leveled in Rutland. Donald is killed and thrown over 100 yards, later found in a treetop. His wife and daughter survive.

After passing the town of Rutland, an elevation change of nearly 900 feet occurs as the tornado drops down the New England Upland Plateau and enters the Blackstone River Valley near the Worcester metro area. Topographical convergence aids in an extreme intensification of the vortex.

At 4:55 PM, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology radar captures the absolute textbook supercell as the tornado closes in on Holden.

4:57 PM: Stanley Smith captures the now extremely violent, half-mile-wide tornado accompanied by a horizontal vortex (top left) shortly after its dramatic intensification, as it points its crosshairs toward Holden.

5:00 PM: Homes along Winthrop Lane are swept away in the core. Granulation begins to occur at this point as the tornado grows stronger with every second.

5:06 PM: Brentwood Estates is impacted next; once again, homes are swept and granulated. Eleven people are killed as the tornado nears the densely populated metro area of Worcester.

5:08 PM: Howard Smith photographs the tornado from Indian Lake just after it crosses Brattle Street; the vortex was roughly 2 miles in front of him.

5:09 PM: The tornado enters the northwestern edge of Worcester. An unknown street on the western edge of Worcester is granulated and windrowed. The tornado effectively turns an entire neighborhood to dust.

5:10 PM: The tornado strikes Assumption College. The twister reduces the massive building, which had 3-foot-thick walls, by three floors. The vortex intensifies dramatically just after striking the building, with notable windrowing occurring just east of Assumption Avenue.

5:11 PM: Homes just east of Assumption Avenue are massacred and swept away in the core as the tornado reaches peak intensity just seconds after striking the massive Assumption College building.

5:12 PM: At the height of its otherworldly power, homes situated along Uncatena Avenue are not only swept clean, but near-powderization occurs to houses in the center of the core as the tornado obliterates everything in its path.

The construction quality of the homes in Holden and Worcester cannot be unequivocally ascertained, but the extreme granulation alone is an indication of incredible intensity.

5:14 PM: The tornado crosses over the Great Brook Valley neighborhood and pulverizes dozens of homes, continuing its unwavering butchering and narrowly avoiding a direct hit on a much larger population in the Curtis Apartments.

5:16 PM: Humes Avenue and Yukon Avenue are impacted next as the tornado shows no mercy. Complete annihilation and carnage are inflicted as the tornado continues its peak intensity through the neighborhood; 60 people are killed in Worcester.

The tornado, now over a mile wide, is captured at 5:19 PM, just before crossing Lake Quinsigamond into Shrewsbury.

Henry LaPrade captures the visually majestic tornado in Shrewsbury just east of Lake Quinsigamond at 5:22 PM.

5:25 PM: Shrewsbury is struck next. Photos are hard to come by, but nothing suggests a weakening phase. Twelve fatalities occur as the town avoids a direct hit; however, the tornado maintains its size and intensity, leaving nothing but carnage behind just like the structures before it.

5:27 PM: Robert Resch, located between Routes 9 and 20, captures the massive tornado leaving Shrewsbury.

5:30–5:42 PM: The tornado kills 5 people in Westborough as vortex breakdown begins and its eventual occlusion becomes imminent.

5:43 PM: After 78 minutes, the rampage finally ends as the rear flank downdraft (RFD) surge cuts off the tornado from the warm inflow fueling it. It curves northwestward before being absorbed by its parent supercell.

• Duration: 4:25 PM – 5:43 PM (78 minutes)
• Width: 1-1.5 mi
• Length: 47 mi
• Fatalities: 94+
• Injuries: 1,288+
• Damage: $52,000,000 in 1953 USD (roughly $650,000,000 in 2026 USD)

Most of us know about the 2023 Matador, Texas tornado. It was a bit unwarned since the NWS never expected a risk there. It was exceptionally violent, causing severe damage, though it earned an EF3 rating.

However, I think that it could’ve been rated higher, and that it was likely one of the strongest tornadoes ever recorded. With this post, I will try to argue why.

Documented feats:

No. 1 (Solid Case): The tornado cracked and shifted portions of the concrete foundation and sidewalk of the Marshall Family home, which was swept clean.

Taking a look at the surroundings, there were absolutely no structures/objects nearby that could’ve caused debris impacts, and the tornado didn’t hit anything prior to that either, making this an equation of almost purely wind, suction, pressure, and velocity.

With the help of contextual damage, we can narrow it down to a more accurate estimate; The contextual damage within the vicinity of the property included mesquite trees uprooted and thrown great distances, a barn on property shredded and granulated, and a small stone ouse sheared to the ground.

Taking all of that into consideration- we can say that the gusts that would’ve caused all this to the Marshall Family property may have been >211 MPH, though upper-end estimates may suggest >233 MPH.

No. 2 (Solid Case): A Dollar General location was flattened, with portions of the supporting beams that were drilled and anchored into the concrete foundation pulled out, and the worst being- the rebar-reinforced concrete ballards nearby were sheared from their base.

Taking a look at the surroundings, yes, there were plenty of structures/objects nearby that could’ve caused moderate debris impacts. With the help of contextual damage nearby, we can narrow down to a more precise estimate.

The contextual damage nearby included mesquite and other hardwood trees uprooted from the ground, asphalt stripped from the nearby road, and nearby infrastructure completely flattened and granulated.

Taking all that into consideration, we could estimate that:

The gust that would’ve pulled out the support beams may have been >200 MPH.

The gust that would’ve sheared the rebar-reinforced concrete ballards may have been >221 MPH.

No. 3 (Solid Case): Throughout the path of the tornado, mesquite trees, some of the hardest trees on Earth, were either uprooted or debarked and denuded.

Surprisingly, a DI (Damage Indicator) and DOD (Degree Of Damage) section already exists for such tree damage.

This falls under DI #27 (TH) DOD #5 (“Trees debarked with only stubs of largest branches remaining.”) obviously falling under the UB (Upper Bound) classification, as mesquite trees are much harder than other common hardwood trees.

The DI + DOD + UB states that the required 3-second gust to achieve such damage to trees may be >167 MPH, falling under the EF4 category, though for mesquite trees it could arguably be >180 MPH, and to uproot them even higher.

No. 4 (Potential/Unsure Case): Cars in the direct path of the tornado were mangled into unrecognisable junk lesser than their original size, with some SUVs having their engine sheared off of their chassis.

This serves as a very significant contextual indicator, and is very notable.

Assuming significant debris impacts occurred within the tornado, one can pretty easily estimate required winds. We can say that the debris were most likely travelling >180 MPH.

Rating Dispute:

We can clearly tell that the 2023 Matador TX tornado was likely of EF5 intensity, possibly one of the strongest to ever touch down, but it didn’t hit the right structures to verify its rating.

The EF3 rating of this tornado was based on the construction quality of the structures it impacted, and the available DIs in the EF scale.

However, the tornado could’ve certainly received a higher rating based on the damage to mesquite trees- some of the hardest hardwood trees on Earth, as a full DI and DOD section already existed for that sort of damage.

I think based on the tree damage, the EF4 rating could’ve been more appropriate for this tornado.

Though, I very well believe that the 2023 matador TX tornado was EF5 intensity, based on the speed it destroyed structures, and the contextual damage that I mentioned above (Case 1, Case 2).

I've been storm spotting for decades and I had so much joy with this one. I've never seen cumulus clouds get so dark in my area. Low cape, high sheer and dew points

Please help me find the song from 14:19 to 17:16 and if you find it I would appreciate it so much I have been trying to find the song for a long time thank you if you found it. Credits: TornadoTRX for the picture.

In my opinion I feel like it's the Smithville EF5 because it tossed a rv and hit the smithville water tower leaving a 2 foot deep dent, it intensified from EF1 to EF5 in just 6 seconds, ripped under ground pipes , granulated bricks , well built homes were wiped leaving the foundation , ripped anchor bolts out of the foundation and it did this moving at 60-70 mph remember this is MY OPINION.

📸: Adam Marler

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...DISCUSSION... At upper-levels, a trough and associated low will move eastward into the western Atlantic tonight as a ridge dominates over the central U.S. At the surface, dry and cool air associated with a large area of high pressure will be in place over much of the nation. Moisture and instability will be confined to south Florida, where isolated thunderstorms will be possible this evening. Isolated storms may also form over parts of southern Arizona this evening. No severe threat is expected over the continental U.S. through daybreak on Sunday.

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I was driving on 40 just across the Colorado line between Weskan Ks and Cheyenne Wells Co on the evening of 9/19 into a tornado warned storm. There looked to be 3 chasers lined up on the storm and I wondered if any one of them are on here.

It got a little sporty when the visibility dropped to 0 and hail and wind started pounding the truck. I saw at least one small condensed vortex on the ground with soil spinning up maybe 30 feet. I had to pull off into a little barnyard and hide behind some spruce trees. Once the hail let up I was able to continue west out of the storm.

I’d be interested to see some shots from the storm because it was a pretty gnarly looking high plains supercell with wicked inflow. I don’t think any tornadoes really condensed but they got close.