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Merged Tornado hits Iowa,fake photo?

If it's real, than that is one stupid woman who took it.

TAKE COVER. NOW.

(the problem with tornados: there can be more than one. You see the tornado there, and a sideband drops right on your house; whoops, you're dead because you were taking pictures instead of taking cover like you should have; tornados are not to be messed with)
 
Its difficult to tell just how close it really is (if not fake). There are a few clues:
  • Its not raining and there is no rain on the camera lense
  • There is no debris in the air
  • It doesn't look particularly windy near the camera. The trees just behind the flag and behind the shed don't appear to be dealing with much wind.
So, it could be that the funnel is a ways away... maybe even a mile. I guess it could also be a fake.. but a pretty good one.

ETA: Thats a "non-tornadic storm"?
 
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Welllll...there was a huge storm that hit that area on that date...so that much is confirmed. AND the local newspaper (The Mitchell County Press) has a website that mentions said picture but does not show it on the site. On Yahoo, it mentions the Globe Gazette, but that website doesn't feature the picture at all. Hmmm, She may have had her camera ready to take pictures of the storm clouds then that thing just dropped down and she 'clicked" it.

I would have been too busy swearing like a sailor and pooping my pants to take a photo..and I've lived here my whole life.

Madurobob, quite often before a tornado things get VERY calm..hail, rain etc. stop. It's quite creepy.
 
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Looks like NOAAs latest chemtrail delivery system has gotten a little out of hand...

;)
 
Nankay said:
Welllll...there was a huge storm that hit that area on that date...so that much is confirmed. AND the local newspaper (The Mitchell County Press) has a website that mentions said picture but does not show it on the site. On Yahoo, it mentions the Globe Gazette, but that website doesn't feature the picture at all. Hmmm, She may have had her camera ready to take pictures of the storm clouds then that thing just dropped down and she 'clicked" it.

I would have been too busy swearing like a sailor and pooping my pants to take a photo..and I've lived here my whole life.

Madurobob, quite often before a tornado things get VERY calm..hail, rain etc. stop. It's quite creepy.
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But Madurobob is right, you can't tell how close that is. Then again, that is one huge arse tornado, if it is far away.

HOWEVER, even if it is a mile away, it is still a VERY dangerous situation. As I said, tornados are known to come in multiples, so being within 1 mile of a tornado is still in the danger zone.
 
It's great paredolia,which is what made me think fake.The "mouth,teeth and tongue,a nose with nostrils" it's damn good paredolia(sp?) anyways.
 
I do not find any obvious signs of it beeing fake. She's must have been using a tripod or similar, because: Long exposure time - as obvious from the over exposure of the street lights, and the blury flag in the middle. Which in it self is a sign of some wind in the area - and the egdes of the barn are sharp, indicating no movement of the camera during exposure. The loong exposure time does also explain the smoothnes of the tornado and the overhead clouds. If you look closer you may spot small grey cirles that might be raindrops on the lens. In general these will be less visible the longer the exposure time is. The compositon of light in the whole picture is quite consistent.
There really is not enough information present in a low resolution internet picture to determine if a picture is a well made fake or a real one.
 
Panhead56 said:
I do not find any obvious signs of it beeing fake. She's must have been using a tripod or similar, because: Long exposure time - as obvious from the over exposure of the street lights, and the blury flag in the middle. Which in it self is a sign of some wind in the area - and the egdes of the barn are sharp, indicating no movement of the camera during exposure. The loong exposure time does also explain the smoothnes of the tornado and the overhead clouds. If you look closer you may spot small grey cirles that might be raindrops on the lens. In general these will be less visible the longer the exposure time is. The compositon of light in the whole picture is quite consistent.
There really is not enough information present in a low resolution internet picture to determine if a picture is a well made fake or a real one.
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Hey whenerver a tornado descends on my lawn I always have a pro camera(to enable long exposures)and a tripod just ready! :p
 
Azrael 5 said:
Hey whenerver a tornado descends on my lawn I always have a pro camera(to enable long exposures)and a tripod just ready! :p
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If you are a camera nerd (not that I know anybody, cough, cough) your first thougt when you see a tornado (or any other cool situation*) might in fact be: O'boy! This I gonna picture!
* which in hindsight might be more dangerous than cool, but hey, at least you got a cool picture. Even if it was your last.:)
 
madurobob said:
[*]Its not raining and there is no rain on the camera lens.
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Doesn't mean anything. Tornadoes are often on the edge of a storm system, so the person viewing the twister doesn't have to be subjected to the rain and hail.

[*]It doesn't look particularly windy near the camera. The trees just behind the flag and behind the shed don't appear to be dealing with much wind.
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Pssst. Look at the flag.


If this is real then it was probably pretty close. Clouds that spawn tornadoes tend to be fairly low. That dark cloud deck isn't at 30,000 feet. In order to capture that much of the tornado (and at that angle) it would have to be fairly close.

As for the tripod, a lot of newer cameras have image stabilasation built in. It's a great feature. I can get down to 1/8 of a second or so and still get good results.


Steve S.
 
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Doesn't mean anything. Tornadoes are often on the edge of a storm system, so the person viewing the twister doesn't have to be subjected to the rain and hail.
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My point was about distance. The initial reaction is that the tornado is touching down immediately behind the grain elevator. If it were really that close I very much doubt there would be no rain and no noticeable flying debris.

steve s said:
Pssst. Look at the flag.
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Sure, there is certainly some wind, but even the flag doesn't suggest there is that much. Also, the flag is pointed at the "tornado" and not suggesting the swirling winds associated w/tornadoes (flag should point parallel to tornado?). And the tree tops sure don't look bowed. Again, if a tornado that large were as close as the photo leads you to believe there would be more wind, no?

Well, maybe not. This appears to not be a tornado at all, but a non-rotating "shelf cloud" that is part of a super-cell. Lots more Shelf Cloud images via GIS. So, if thats what it is, then the no wind/no rain problem disappears and thus no reason to believe its fake.
 
Azrael 5 said:
It's great paredolia,which is what made me think fake.The "mouth,teeth and tongue,a nose with nostrils" it's damn good paredolia(sp?) anyways.
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Where?

Seriously, try as I might I can't see any mouth, teeth etc. in the picture (obviously no good at this pareidolia thing).
 
Lucky said:
Where?

Seriously, try as I might I can't see any mouth, teeth etc. in the picture (obviously no good at this pareidolia thing).
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What looks like the funnel cloud of a tornado is the tongue, the mouth just above it in the clouds. The effect is as if a huge cloud god in the sky was licking the grain elevator.

Kinky.
 
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Funnel does not look as dirty as most photos I've seen, but maybe that is from the exposure time. The existence of tornadoes is common knowledge so I can't see a motive for faking a tornado photo.

LLH
 
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