El Reno OK, Tornado

Photo Courtesy of NSSL

El Reno OK, 30 April 1978, looking NE. Rope-shaped tornado with the main precipitation core of the supercell to the left of the photo. Very little precipitation was wrapping around the west side of the mesocyclone below cloud base, affording a sharp view from that direction. Foreground cattle apparently were unimpressed. The tornado did F2 damage on a farm.