Today I want to talk about something a bit different.
Today we're talking about an extremely rare phenomena called Dead Man Walking. There are books, songs, albums and other idioms called Dead Man Walking, but we are only interested in the super rare tornadoes called Dead Man Walking.
From what I found out, these tornadoes are multi vortex tornadoes, that is a tornado that has more than one visible funnel. This is rare in itself, but if the conditions are right, or very wrong depending on your perspective, you can get a tornado that looks like it is walking across the land instead of gliding like they normally do.
These Dead Man Walking tornadoes seem to always be EF5 storms, or tornadoes that reach up to 200 mph / 320 kph winds. This is strong enough to cause severe damage to anything they come across, but the Dead Man Walking tornadoes can be even worse.
The name comes from Native American myths, and it is said that if you see one, you're going to die. Legends aside, being anywhere near a tornado is dangerous, but winds that strong can hurl tanker trucks long distances, and a small piece of debris traveling 300+ kph can easily kill you, so it's an understandable myth.
I'm linking a video about the Jarrel Tornado below. If you like storms watch it. It was a scary but fascinating video. Normal tornado is already scary, but seeing it slowly walk across the land, slowly destroying everything it touches is incredibly creepy. It's the kind of thing that can trigger more than one phobia, none of which I have, but it really creeped me out. I know you have to see it from the right perspective and all, but it is and always will be terrifying.
If you don't want to watch the whole video, go to about the 40 second mark and you can see the Dead Man Walking.
That's that and all that. Join me again next time and until then, have a great week!
Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xRjHPusRC4
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