Claim: Photograph shows tornado that hit Central Florida in February 2007.
Status: Real photograph; inaccurate description.
Examples:
[Collected via e-mail, February 2007] Picture of Tornado in the Villages A village resident took this photo of the Tornado (for those of you who don't know, The Villages is a retirement housing area just a little north of Leesburg, FL, and we [they] had tremendous storms and tornadoes a couple of weeks ago - lots of damage and 20 deaths - no deaths at The Villages, but other places in the path of the storms) [Collected via e-mail, February 2007] Hey everyone, this is a picture of the tornado taken with a cell phone. In the right corner of the picture is the tower at Lake Sumter Landing. Jim got these from a victim of the storm. [Collected via e-mail, February 2008] Memphis Tornado A friend of mine that works at the BNSF Railroad sent this picture to me a ![]() |
Origins: The image displayed above
has become yet another "all-purpose" weather photo: Whenever a deadly tornado touches down somewhere in the U.S., this photograph gets trotted out and
The picture of the tornado funnel and lightning bolt was indeed taken in Florida, but it long antedates the tornadoes that hit the state in
Last updated: 14 February 2008
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