Even tornado fans cite this picture as one of the meanest looking tornadoes. The Tuscaloosa F4 with the horizontal inflow bands is also sinister looking.
OK...I have to do this, you’ve heard of the “dead man walking” Jarrell, Texas tornado in 1997? I would have a heart attack just seeing this:
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i think what makes the Xenia picture so terrifying..is its smack in the middle of a suburban neighborhood. The Xenia storm was so historic...never before had such a strong twister gone from one end of a decent sized town to the other. Read a great book years ago by a writer named Polf Laffoon, and his detailed account of the Xenia storm was excellent. How, right after the storm, residents of one end of town couldnt understand why no one from the other side of town wasn’t coming to help...not knowing that they got slammed too. How resdients of the suburbs could suddenly see all the way downtown to the clock tower. How right after it passed, adults as well as children ran in circles just vomiting...Teachers watched children, who weeks after the tornado...would play a macabre game of listening to an imaginery radio and then just run and scream “its coming..its coming”.....really kind of gave ya the creeps.
