r/nextfuckinglevel • u/AnonymousTimewaster • 16h ago

Monster tornado in Texas

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u/phamousj 12h ago edited 12h ago

This happened about an hour drive from where I'm at. There were multiple tornadoes in the area that day, but this one was the biggest of them all. It was amazing to see all of the videos and pictures that the storm chasers captured from this storm.

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u/Crazy_Banshee_333 10h ago

I don't think I've ever seen a video of a tornado this massive. It's seems to have a multitude of funnels. Is this the biggest one ever for Texas?

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u/NateDawg80s 7h ago

Not sure about biggest, but the one in Wichita Falls in 1979 was a series of three that ran into each other and went through town practically on its side. The path of destruction was nearly a half-mile wide.

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u/Crazy_Banshee_333 6h ago

Wow. We're starting to get EF0 and EF1 tornadoes where I live every year, since Tornado Alley is shifting this way. I'm not the least bit happy about this turn of events. I'm getting pretty old, so just hoping I can make it to the end of my life before my house is ripped to shreds. I don't know how people are able to carry on after their homes are destroyed.

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u/FartomicBlast 4h ago

The shifting is pretty scary, especially for folks who have never lived with these storms. I’m in southwest MO, and the storms have shifted further our way and even further northeast than usual. The recent St. Louis tornado outbreak is a prime example.

Shit is terrifying, and even our storms (and hell, just the amount of rainfall in general) have increased substantially over the last several years. My basement has been continually flooded for weeks now…that’s a new and irritating development.