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r/tornado

Tornadoes and Tornado Accessories. This sub is for discussions about tornadoes and their related phenomena. Founded 2010 · 412.1K members

413.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 15.5K upvotes, which works out to 37 per 1,000 members.

37peak upvotes per 1,000 members
413.4Kmembers
15.5Kbest post
1.1Kmost comments
409posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

30% 28% 22% 13%
Video 30% Image 28% Gallery 22% Text 13% Question 5% Link 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Tornado Media 211 Question 51 Discussion 32 Tornado Science 26 Shitpost / Humor (MUST be tornado related) 21 Aftermath 15 SPC / Forecasting 12 Art 11 EF Rating 4 Context Provided - Spotlight 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

North Texas Lighting during Tornado Warning

↑ 15.5K 💬 329 image 2025

Vance AFB South of Enid OK

↑ 14K 💬 523 video 2026

Massive Tornado currently in Nebraska (4/26/2024)

↑ 12.3K 💬 921 video 2024

Denver airport tornado from takeoff

↑ 10.9K 💬 162 image 2025

Another video of the Enderlin meso structure.

↑ 10.9K 💬 464 video 2025

Insane Video of the Menasha, WI EF3 Tornado on 7/27/26

↑ 10.5K 💬 874 video 2026

BRUTAL TORNADO IN UNION CITY, MICHIGAN

↑ 9.9K 💬 378 video 2026

Big changes coming to the NOAA 🤦

↑ 9.1K 💬 1.1K image 2025

Experience of a lifetime in Alberta

↑ 8.8K 💬 218 video 2024

"This is REAL. Yesterday's tornado was extraordinary, it happened to pass over Tulliby lake (AB, Canada) which gave us a look at the winds in a way a…

↑ 8.3K 💬 158 video 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/tornado, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/tornado?
r/tornado ("Tornadoes and Tornado Accessories") describes itself this way: This sub is for discussions about tornadoes and their related phenomena. It was founded in 2010 and has 412.1K members.
How many members does r/tornado have?
r/tornado has about 413.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 409 of its posts; the biggest reached 15.5K upvotes, which is 37 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/tornado?
"North Texas Lighting during Tornado Warning" reached 15.5K upvotes and 329 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/tornado.
What subreddits are similar to r/tornado?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/tornado?
Of the posts we hold, 30% are video posts and 28% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/tornado?
Across 409 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 17:00 UTC (5.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 02:00 UTC (4.6K avg upvotes), Friday at 17:00 UTC (4.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/tornado?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/tornado has 7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 159 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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