Union City OK, Tornado

Photo Courtesy of NSSL

Union City OK , 24 May 1973, looking NW. Zoom view during the tornado's mature phase, showing a well-developed debris fan. The main precipitation area is to the right and middle rear; and the south edge of the well-developed wall cloud can be seen at extreme left. Films of this stage show scud tags near cloud base moving rapidly from left to right as the circulation approached town. Many tornadoes veer leftward in their fading moments as their parent circulations become deeply occluded. This one, however, made a broadly curving right turn (southeastward) along with the entire thunderstorm.