The video shows old footage of the tornado, not from 2024 Dallas

Claim: The video shows a tornado in Dallas in 2024

Facebook video from October 11 (direct link, link to the archive) shows a series of tornado clips.

“Tornado in Dallas,” reads the text overlaid on the video. The post’s caption includes the hashtag “#2024”.

The video was viewed more than 20,000 times.

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Our assessment: False

According to a local meteorologist, there have been no tornadoes in Dallas this year. The post includes clips of tornadoes that have occurred elsewhere and videos that have circulated online through 2024. It also features tornadoes that appear to have been digitally generated.

So far, there have been no tornadoes in Dallas in 2024

Daniel Huckabeemeteorologist with the National Weather Service, told USA TODAY that there were no tornadoes in or around Dallas County in 2024. However, he said there were three tornadoes in Collin County, which includes part of Dallas and is considered part of Dallas. “Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex”.

USA TODAY debunked the first clip in a Facebook post earlier this month that social media users mistakenly claimed it showed weather related to Hurricane Milton. At that time, Manda Chastainatmospheric researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, told USA TODAY she suspected that the tornado was digitally generated because it rotated in the opposite direction of a normal tornado and did not interact with nearby buildings. The video also matches cadres of 2016 showing the same complex without the tornado.

Fact check: Tornado footage preceded Hurricane Milton in Florida

The fourth clip in the video also contains a tornado, but matches the footage uploaded to iStock in 2018 showing a storm without a tornado.

Our fact-checking sources:

Daniel Huckabee, October 30, telephone interview with USA TODAY
USA TODAY, October 15 Tornado footage preceded Hurricane Milton in Florida | Fact check
Tornado Trackers (YouTube), October 8, 2016. Hurricane Matthew – Melbourne and Jacksonville, Florida
iStock, Oct. 2, 2018, Ttropical storm with heavy rain, strong wind blowing palm trees and houses over 4K stock footage
Amanda McCree Wolfe, June 3 Facebook post
redNews NOW (YouTube), June 5, Edberg, Alberta Tornado – June 3, 2024
ViralHog, April 11, 2023 Tornado hits Iowa farms
Google Maps, accessed October 30. Hedrick, Iowa
Google Maps, accessed October 30. Waverly, Nebraska
Google Maps, accessed October 30. Andover, Kansas
Storyful, April 26, ts. ‘Lots of debris’: A massive tornado rages near Lincoln, Nebraska
KSNTV (YouTube), April 30, 2022, Andover, KS tornado video, April 29, 2022

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