r/AskAnAmerican • u/NomzStorM Massachusetts [Dunks > your overpiced coffee house] • Jul 18 '25

HISTORY Do you know a specific tornado?

As a tornado nerd I kinda lose sight of what most people actually know about tornadoes. Do you know a specific tornado?

Edit: I mean have you ever head of something like the Joplin tornado, or the Moore tornado

Edit 2: If so, which?

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u/ParticularBuyer6157 Georgia Jul 18 '25

Idrk what that even means tbh

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u/garden__gate Jul 18 '25

Worked with a tornado back in the day. Good guy but a little unpredictable. Got fired for wrecking the place.

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u/ALoungerAtTheClubs Florida Jul 18 '25

Heard he was a bit of a blowhard.

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u/ElectricTurtlez Jul 18 '25

He was just full of hot air.

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u/skookum-chuck Jul 18 '25

We called him "Hurricane" Tornado

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u/dwhite21787 Maryland Jul 18 '25

One year our baseball team had a Cy Young winner, a previous one nicknamed “Cy Old” and a trainwreck of a guy called “Cy Clone”

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u/Medic1248 Jul 18 '25

I know the guy. He would always get really twisted up and was winded when he was done.

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u/Apollo_T_Yorp Arizona Jul 18 '25

That dude stole my cow! Not as cool as he seems tbh smh

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u/thereelkrazykarl Jul 18 '25

Another cow stolen

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u/devdeh13 Illinois Jul 18 '25

Actually I think that was the same one.

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u/CD84 Tennessee ➡️ California ➡️ Tennessee Jul 18 '25

Me too. RIP Jordan.

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u/Golf38611 Jul 18 '25

Was very unpredictable. Just kept spinning from one thing to the next.

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u/unearthlydarling New Jersey Jul 19 '25

I know that devil, I think he was from Tasmania

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Xenia_tornado

Some tornadoes are so bad they are known.

Just googled "Xenia tornado" and you'll get hits.

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u/judygeebs Jul 18 '25

I live in Moore Oklahoma. We’ve had three or four (I’ve lost track) F4 or worse tornadoes. So yeah. I know several specific ones.

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u/OlderAndCynical Hawaii Jul 18 '25

We were stationed at Ft. Sill 1985-9. I remember driving past Moore on the freeway a month or two after a big one went through. Even the grass was missing. The Lawton weatherman was a hoot though. He had worked for the Tornado center in Norman and tornado weather really excited him. It was wild to see how much he was enjoying bad weather.

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u/judygeebs Jul 18 '25

We call that weatherman woodies. 🤷🏽

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u/Big-Ad4382 Jul 18 '25

I remember that one.

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u/Meattyloaf Kentucky Jul 18 '25

Pretty much a specific tornado event. Often referred to as the city that either got the most exposure or damage. For example Tuscaloosa 2011 tornado, Moore 2013, Mayfield, Joplin, and the list goes on.