Famous Tornado Photos - Backstories and Locations

Oh man, the iconic tornado pictures. It was pictures like these that captured my interest in tornadoes before YouTube.

Never gonna say no to a part 2! I thought I knew tornadoes pretty well, but some of these I've never seen! Great work, as always! 😊

One photo I think you forgot to mention was the Xenia Ohio tornado of 1974. There’s a picture where you can see the tornado up close destroying a neighborhood with a parking lot in the foreground. That photo captured my interest as a child, and years later, I tracked down the location on Street View. It was just interesting to see.

This man is reigniting my fascination with tornadoes.

The Tornado Girl photo is so good. Just a massive tornado tearing up the land and the girl is just standing there nonchalantly. For some reason it gives me a melancholic feeling whenever I look at it. A part 2 would be sick btw

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I remember looking at these photos when i was little. (like the helicopter near a waterspout photo) seeing them all in books. on tornado internet forums. its so nostalgic. i even call these photos "The Tornado Classics"

Hell yeah, let's have a part 2!

The foreground buildings in Faidley's shots of the Miami tornado do exist. Faidley paralled the tornado moving south on Highway 70 until reaching Antelope Hills Rd where he turned off to get his final few photos. The trees obscuring the building in the photo are actually about halfway between the shot location and the building behind it, which is at the very end of the road. They surround a small pond, which ironically means if the Dodge in the poster were actually placed there, it'd be submerged in water. (After rechecking, it appears the pond was actually quite temporary, as it did not exist prior to 2019 and has also since dried up. Faidley alternatively then could have stopped at these trees instead, but it's difficult to tell).

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I’ve met Paul with my great grandma when I was younger. She survived with my ggpa and their three kids in a mobile home and she never stopped telling that story. I never knew he took that picture!

I for one would indeed enjoy a part 2. Also, I'm a survivor of the 1994 F4 Lancaster/Hutchens tornado, and I would love to see a video that features this tornado. Thanks!

Yes, please do a part two! Thank you for giving us the details on the first photo. I have been trying to find out more about that photo for years. The most information I could get was that it was a waterspout in Florida. Nighttime tornadoes are one of my greatest fears, so that picture creeps me out.

The double tornado picture always fascinated me as a kid.

This guy is awesome, this guy hits so many buttons in my brain somehow for nostalgia of the 90's storms, I know weird but you get it

The Whirlwind in lighting photo was used as the cover of the Weather book that got me interested in tornadoes as a child, so I remember it pretty well 😍

These tornado images were part of my childhood. I really appreciate you diving into them😌

Always a good day when you upload 😂❤❤❤

See, now you are digging into pictures from my teenage years. Learning the backstories of these pictures means as much to me as when I learned the backstories of the pictures in my history books, both the history and the making of the actual paintings. And I was truly honored to see some of those very paintings in real life recently. That was a huge bucket list moment. Sorry, rambling.....this kind of thing has always fascinated me.

I live near where the Midway Dunlap tornado was captured and my grandparents remember that day, it was hot and humid the sky turned dark and they remember the damage caused by the the 2 tornadoes that hit that day