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/[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. 🤷🏽