Month: May 2024

Near Eldorado, Oklahoma | May 23, 2024

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EF-2 tornado near Eldorado, OK at 19:30 CDT.
The Eldorado tornado, several minutes earlier, at 19:18 CDT. (Series of 5 photos).
Horizontal vortex can be seen next to the main funnel.
A suction vortex moving quickly from left to right.
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Strong tornadoes and damage near Grant, Iowa | May 21, 2024

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First tornado near Grant, Iowa moving through a rural area.
Building destroyed by first tornado near Grant, Iowa.
Flatbed thrown onto the highway.
Multi-vortex tornado south of us on HWY 71. This tornado would go on to level part of the town of Greenfield. The SPC has rated it an EF-4.
Multiple vortices
This went on to become what is probably the tornado of the decade.
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“Get up under the girders”

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Passing Bridge no 84.027 on the Kansas Turnpike, near El Dorado, famous as the bridge under which a KSN tv crew took shelter during a 1991 tornado. As the crew, still filming, approached the bridge with a tornado bearing down on them, they advised several others who had stopped their cars underneath to, “get up […]

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Tornado heading right for our hotel in OKC

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Update 1: We are now safe in the vans chasing this. Update 2: Back at the hotel now. A couple of tornadoes were reported with this severe thunderstorm west of OKC. One had a rather strong velocity couplet on radar and seemed to be tracking almost directly towards our hotel. The storm had dissipated slightly […]

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