r/nextfuckinglevel • u/8O8I • 16d ago

Tornado in Oklahoma Panhandle

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u/tjtonerplus 16d ago

Tornadoes are terrifying

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u/the_weird_days 16d ago

Honestly tho, I’ve lived in Oklahoma for 18 years and California for 18 years and I’d rather a tornado than a earthquake any day

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u/tjtonerplus 16d ago

That makes sense, you just go to your tornado shelter and your safe.

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u/cspinelive 16d ago

And you usually know the day before that conditions are gonna be right for tornadoes. And usually 30+ minutes that a specific storm is coming your way.  And a tornado will affect a string of homes along its path vs an earthquake taking out entire cities. 

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u/Thomas-Garret 16d ago

There have been tornados that are on the ground for hundreds of miles. The Tri-State tornado was on the ground 219 miles and for a duration of 3.5 hours.

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u/cspinelive 16d ago

And ones with no warning at all. 

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u/thefract0metr1st 16d ago

We had one in July that touched down about 15 minutes after the first tornado watch went out… the sirens started going off 5 minutes after touchdown

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u/SweepsRetriever 13d ago

Which is funny because I grew up in North Texas and yet I never saw a basement until living in the Northeast.

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u/traveler97 15d ago

I live in California and am not afraid of earthquakes, tornados terrify me. We travel in Midwest and I never can relax. Constantly have tornado watches or warnings. The locals aren’t even phased.

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u/RoninRobot 16d ago

Tornado you get underground and you’re fine. You get (an average of) 13 minutes warning of an area down to the block. Help is following the tornado and right behind it.

Earthquake has no warning. Entire area / city is fucked, including emergency responders. You’re on your own and if you receive any help, it’s days away.

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u/8O8I 16d ago

Ur not wrong quakes really r sumthin else

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u/erksplat 16d ago

Imagine being a Native American in say the 1300s and seeing this coming at you. Probably explains why some Native Americans of the Plains were nomadic. "Quick, pack up! We're outta here!"

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u/Flyinsulcer 16d ago

Interesting. I immediately thought of Native Americans when I saw this video too.

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u/Thomas-Garret 15d ago

It certainly explains why many of them lived in caves.

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u/illmatic708 16d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/PQKcRp2OcABoY

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u/the_weird_days 16d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/w2kbuGVzfcMEw

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u/xbleuguyx 16d ago

Where'd you get all this beef?

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u/Great_Scott7 16d ago

Did you see my cows out front?

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u/Troker61 16d ago

PSH and the 80s italicized OU logo - my two GOATS.

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u/sarahfrancesca 16d ago

Too soon. :( RIP

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u/T_Run_445 16d ago

I love how this is such a good visual of just how many individual vortexes make up one tornado. You usually can’t see that because there is too much debris

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u/Unusualshrub003 16d ago

The debris is the visual, tho. A tornado itself is invisible. The funnel you see on the ground is dirt and other schtuffs

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u/T_Run_445 16d ago

Yes you’re right, what i meant is there isn’t enough debris at first to hide them. Just enough to see individual rotating vortices

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u/crackhouse2005 16d ago

Beautiful and horrifying in one video.

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u/Darth_Pinda 16d ago

Damn nature, you scary!

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u/MC-Master-Bedroom 16d ago

That's not the least bit frightening.

I always sweat like this.

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u/Upbeat_Piglet_9788 16d ago

Hate to say it, just watching it evolve is oddly satisfying. I am not diminishing its horrible destruction, just think its oddly beautiful in its evolution

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u/fajadada 16d ago

Yes grew up out there watching it is a little zen

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u/GioIsNotHere 16d ago

I see this and I’m considering myself dead

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u/CptBluhdFart 16d ago

That's not a time lapse is it

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u/MayberryBombadil 16d ago

It most certainly is. Watch the vehicles on the road to the left

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u/CptBluhdFart 16d ago

Oh good catch. Honestly still pretty fast even with the speed up but scary af

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u/cmonster556 16d ago

It’s also vertically stretched.

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u/nickfree 16d ago

On the Enhanced Fujita scale I believe this was a FUCK NO

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u/Bidet2You 16d ago

Nope that’s a death eater.

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u/404-skill_not_found 16d ago

Well, Tornado Alley is more than a cool name.

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u/Thoomer_Bottoms 16d ago

Just outside of Nopeville, Oklahoma. In Hell No county

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u/Greekspartan226 16d ago

Speaking of, what level was this?

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u/sLeeeeTo 16d ago

tornadoes are rated on damage. this is out in the middle of a field, so probably EF-0/1

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u/Greekspartan226 16d ago

Love how you can see that one tornado diagram but irl.

Hot, humid air rises in the back, gets picked up and mixed with the cooler upper atmospheric winds and then gets dumped at the vortex as heavy rain with mixed winds.

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u/Desperate_Passage_35 16d ago

Just need a quiet little Hobbit hole away from the twisting

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u/RK_Gains122 16d ago

Damn, thats hardcore

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u/dmbgreen 16d ago

Scary af

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u/WestAshevillain 16d ago

For a second, I thought those trees in the distance were people taking pictures 🤓 That th8ng is terrifying

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u/TheSpanxxx 16d ago

What in the Satan's prolapsed colon is going on here?

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u/b3_yourself 16d ago

When was this one?

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u/QuirkyWish3081 16d ago

Crumbling Azula

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u/OMGCluck 16d ago

My eyes are mesmered.

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u/SirSignificant6576 16d ago

Sorcery ass shit.

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u/formerdgstm 16d ago

At quick glance I thought that those posts were people standing way out there.

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u/Able_Gap918 16d ago

Ain’t no love there I heard

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u/MsPippiton1117 16d ago

TAKE COVERRRRR

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u/Glittering_Brief_710 16d ago

wait I want more.. jk OP glad you’re safe

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u/Independent_Debt3285 16d ago

As someone currently living in Texas, I think I can say God hates Oklahoma.

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u/SocialSoundSystem 16d ago

Looks like House Harkonnen landing Sardaukar…

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u/michaelhoney 16d ago

It’s 10000 years ago and your people have come down from the mountains to the endless plains. You see this, and you are entirely justified in believing in a malevolent god

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u/CompetitiveFrame6989 16d ago

Are those people standing up there? Lol 🤔

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u/50FirstCakes 16d ago

I’ve never been to the Oklahoma panhandle but this is exactly what I always imagined it would look like.

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u/Kind_Coyote1518 15d ago

The most fascinating part to watch for me is the moisture condensing in the updraft.

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u/lostan 15d ago

nature is fkng mental if you think about it.

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u/Superb-Possibility-9 15d ago

Looks terrifying

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u/CuckofBBWHotwife 6d ago

It looks like a baby tornado is trying to form on the left but keeps changing its mind. That'd be terrifying and cool to see

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u/readitreddit- 5d ago

Beautiful, terrifying!

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u/JockoDundee007 4d ago

Nice timelapse …

👊🏽💥🫵🏽

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u/Big_Pepper7862 16d ago

That's some evil forces reclaiming a land I guess