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Elbow Greased Strength said:
Found that Jarrell footage, there's one other video I'll add if I track it down:


In less than 45 seconds it went from nothing to that nightmare. completely wiping an entire subdivision literally off the face of the Earth. Cars were ground into unrecognizable metal fragments and an engine block was found miles away.

Nothing I have seen compares to that tornado before or since, except maybe El Reno.
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Very late reply, but if you wanna know how terrifying that tornado was, the bodies of the victims were unrecognizable, and some of the remains have not been identified to this day.

Anyways, this is what is assumed to be the last publicly known photo/footage of the Twistex vehicle, which are the headlights just to the right of the visible funnel, with storm chaser Dan Robinson just slightly ahead of them, in the El Reno tornado on May 31st, 2013, almost exactly 11 years ago. Mere seconds later, their vehicle would be lifted by the tornado, and all 3 passengers in the Twistex vehicle would be killed.
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The aftermath of the Twistex vehicle. Dan Robinson has a rear-end dashcam video of the incident, and it is believed that there is surviving footage from the Twistex vehicle, but those will likely never be released to the public.
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Rest in peace Tim Samaras, Paul Samaras and Carl Young.
 

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Taken approx half an hour before the last major bombing of the Northern Ireland conflicts, the red car in the photograph held a bomb which would kill 28 people in the small town of Omagh, Tyrone. The reason for the high death count was allegedly purely accidental. The car was supposed to be parked outside the town hall and its grounds evacuated, the bomb a symbolic disapproval of the Good Friday Agreement. However, the perpetrators could not find parking anywhere near their designated bomb site and had to park on a nearby street. The local police however evacuated people towards the eventual bombing [police were tipped off to the original location, a second phone call informing them of the change proved fruitless as the police suspected disinformation [which was a m.o. of the Real IRA (a fringe branch of the IRA)]. The two subjects of the photograph survived the bombing, however the photographer was killed.
 
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Taken approx half an hour before the last major bombing of the Northern Ireland conflicts, the red car in the photograph held a bomb which would kill 28 people in the small town of Omagh, Tyrone. The reason for the high death count was allegedly purely accidental. The car was supposed to be parked outside the town hall and its grounds evacuated, the bomb a symbolic disapproval of the Good Friday Agreement. However, the perpetrators could not find parking anywhere near their designated bomb site and had to park on a nearby street. The local police however evacuated people towards the eventual bombing [police were tipped off to the original location, a second phone call informing them of the change proved fruitless as the police suspected disinformation [which was a m.o. of the Real IRA (a fringe branch of the IRA)]. The two subjects of the photograph survived the bombing, however the photographer was killed.
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