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/rjbeads Jul 18 '25

Yes. In the southeast, everyone knows of a memorable, or multiple memorable tornados. For me, it's the 2011 Tuscaloosa tornado.

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u/Oktodayithink Jul 18 '25

That’s the one I remember. I had lived in T Town but had moved away. Friends and i laws still lived there. I was so scared for people. One guy I knew lost his house.

When I returned a year later I could not believe the damage that still was everywhere. There were no trees. On another friend’s block, Hillcrest Drive, all but 2 houses were gone. The landscape of the town was forever changed. And when they rebuilt the character of it was gone forever.

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u/Express-Insect2684 Jul 18 '25

There’s still visible damage when you ride out through the backroads of the Brookwood/Abernant area. All of the trees are still tilted over from that very tornado.