#multivortex tornados

[dropdome]

Greenfield, Iowa EF4 Tornado 5/21/24

[gamerwoman3d]

The "Walk."

Video by Jalynne Dutton

It isn't just that it's "knee" bends as it "steps" forward: It's that you can also see her "hands."

To give you an idea of what I see/sense when I look at this: Here's Gramaw.

Now. I don't want to stir up anymore "Native American Legend = Dead Man Walking Tornado" misinformation. I will say many native cultures believe that storms are intelligent "Entities" of some sort that can be spoken with and reasoned with. Some don't believe the same. Many believe there are spirits in the sky and that storms are either part of that spirit, a spirit of its own, or are caused by a spirit (such as Red Horse or Thunder Spirits / Frog Medicine.) And some natives even do believe that "If you see a man in a tornado you are about to die" because they were taught as much, but taught so after someone with authority came into contact with that misinformation and co-opted it.

But to believe there are spirits, entities, beings, or even "man" in the clouds/in the sky/inside storms/inside twisters, is not a set of beliefs that are totally outside of the scope of all native belief systems.

I for one think if you *sense* an entity in a storm, you should take cover. If it feels like the storm is watching you, if you get that eerie feeling, just get underground. Even if you don’t believe in spirits or supernatural things, understand that That feeling is produced by neurochemicals, and those neurochemicals had about a billion more years of "experience" with surviving natural selection at any point. So listen to that feeling, because the ancient people that didn't develop that neurochemical reaction to bad storms probably didn't survive and reproduce like your ancestors did. Trust your neurons.

Part of a larger series- Edited Jalynne Dutton video clips also shown at link below.

[nexus-nebulae]

love watching weather science videos but like. why am i 1000x more interested in tornadoes over hurricanes. they're both spinning air

[mass-convergence]

I remember watching the TLC documentary on this and it gave me nightmares for weeks.

Of course now I’m a meteorologist so I would describe that documentary as a “traumatizing yet formative experience”

AFAIK this documentary is where the “Native American legend” may have originated. At least when I looked it up later everything just sourced this video except for one redditor who swore his grandad told him about this. Which … is not exactly the most reliable source.

Not saying it’s not a myth/legend that exists - I know this stuff can be poorly documented but interesting how this was the earliest source I could find for that factoid.

Anyway, I do highly recommend this documentary because it captures the utter horror. Though some of the stuff at the end about the meteorology is a little off, the NWS interviews were good but I have some issues with a few clips (specifically they showed reflectivity data instead of velocity data when saying “green next to red = tornado” which is not correct).

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

[pwopaganda]

Multivortex Tornado vs Windfarm Captured by the legendary Reed Timmer (source link)

[okidenshi]

There’s something about multivortex tornadoes that I’m like. That. That is what a good autism spin stim feels like

[mjrtaurus]

Amendment to previous headcanons

The fruit that “deviled” to become Dragon’s Hebi Hebi no Mi was not a lucuma.

It was a chili.

Specifically an aji amarillo chili with that one “twin” genetic mutation that puts two fruits on one stem. It fell off the plant in Urpi’s garden when it was ripe enough, and whatever causes devil fruits to do their thing did its thing (with the assumption that “natural” devil fruits form in a similar way that the SMILEs do).

The twin bodies of the devil fruit spiral around each other in a double helix pattern like a vibrant yellow-orange multivortex tornado. It- like all devil fruits- tastes foul, but comes with the added bonus of being extremely spicy.

Cue little Dragon- in his single digits and already a tiny, capsaicin-loving fiend- finding it while he helps his mama in the garden. Of course he sees it and thinks that, because it looks kinda weird, it’s gotta be extra spicy. And of course, the Monkey D child does what a Monkey D child does best.

… And promptly discovers he was more correct than he hoped.

[raychelsnr]

Massive multivortex tornado lofting trees hundreds of feet into the air in Oklahoma!

[ciliomv]

What do you think of the "Dead man walking" tornado?

I'm assuming you mean the 1997 Jarrell F5? If so, hauntingly beautiful. The "dead man walking" shape was caused by it being multivortexed. It had obliterated 38 buildings the town of Jarrell, leading to 12 dead and 27 injured. It lead to $40 million in damages

Here is an image of the "dead man walking" for anyone else who doesn't know what i am talking about.

You can clearly see the multiple vortexes. However, it is to be noted that it was mainly a wedge shape while tracking into Jarrell.

aftermath from on the ground and from a bird's eye view

Double Creeks estate

Sadly, in the decades afterwards, the population of Jarrell has not grown all too much after the event. At the time many had moved away due to rebuilding costs.

[yifftwiceplz]

// this is random but recent tornadoes and hurricane talk got me back on weather and someone uploaded a video of the tornado i was in and its wild

multivortex at one point it looks like 4 tornadoes dancing in a circle

and you see transformers explode which i heard VERY clearly. imagine the loudest thunder and make it even louder.

and im just now confirming it was 4 miles away from me, 2 miles at the potential closest

[esspurrr]

i had another tornado dream last night. i got in a car with a bunch of random people to chase a storm that was morphing between being a stovepipe and multivortex tornado. i tried to take a photo to send my dad so i could be like "a multivortex tornado in pennsylvania in december????" but i was borrowing a phone from someone else and they deleted the camera app somehow and the storm dissipated before i could find a way to take a picture :(

[gamerwoman3d]

Y'all wanna fuckin' bet? Why you temptin' Gramaw like this, she's got 8 hours to turn around and throw a multivortex at ya, quit.

I already said this was gonna be one of the worst for Oklahoma.

[astroliegic]

The dead man walking phenomenon. It’s when a multivortex tornado pass by each other creating the illusion of a giant person walking

And the Fujita scale— there’s been two F6 tornadoes that were demoted to F5.

And Tim and Paul Samaras. Jesus Christ rest in peace to those two. Their car was totaled in el Reno.

Wilson I’m hyper fixating on tornadoes and stuff help

Really?? Tell me about them.

[lesbiancervidologist]

Hey so in ur opinion what’s the coolest storm phenomena?

TORNADOS. but uhmm for like rarer not as well known ones!!!!!!

I think sprites are super super neat!!

Theyre pretty hard to capture on film and they occur in the mesosphere (~50 miles up in the air) so they look way smaller then they actually are!!!

chart for reference:)

theyre usually caused by positively charged lightning hitting the ground:) (which isnt super common!!!!! Most lightning you see is negatively charged and positive lightning is only about 5% of lightning you see and is much more dangerous!!!!!! Idk much about the difference between positive and negative lightning other then that it transfers a positive charge to the ground instead of a negative one.

also love any tornado related phenomena like multi vortex tornadoes and twin tornadoes:] heres just some pictures of those

twin tornadoes :] pilger nebraska in 2014, midway indiana in 1965, and somewhere in the scottish highlands.

As for multivortex tornadoes i spend a lot of time thinking about this image specifically

taken in Jarrell Texas in 1997 during the early stages of one of the most violent tornadoes in US history, this is the most well known image of its type! This is called "dead man walking" and it happens when a multivortex tornado makes the shape of legs! Also it only gets called one if it results in fatalities. So what this all comes from is the idea of an old legend that if you see a dead man walking in the storm, people are going to die. and i think its super cool!! Thats just the most well known but heres some others! (note theres a shaky gif next if that bothers any of you. Its super quick BUT ITS SHAKY AND IT ANNOYS ME BUT ITS IMPORTANT)

el reno oklahoma EF3 in 2013, this is the deadliest storm for storm chasers and resulted in the first tornado caused deaths in storm chasing history.

Joplin Missouri EF5 in 2011, currently the costliest US tornado

I RAN OUT OF ROOM FOR IMAGES BUT those 3 are the best of its kind. Also the website i got these images from says apparently a lot of weird stuff happened during the aforementioned Joplin EF5? i should look into that. ANYWAYS YES TYSM FOR ASKING:)

[laika648]

Kingdom Hearts: A World Without Sky Part 4

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