Old tornado clips misrepresented as 2024 footage from Dallas | Fact check
The claim: Video shows 2024 footage of Dallas tornado
A July 12 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows a montage of tornadoes and high winds damaging houses and other infrastructure.
"Huge tornado in Dallas USA 2024," the video is captioned.
It was shared more than 900 times in two weeks.
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Our rating: False
There haven't been any tornadoes in Dallas this year, according to an area meteorologist. The footage in the video circulated online prior to 2024.
Video shows old tornado footage
Although there have been tornadoes in other parts of north Texas, there have been no tornadoes in Dallas County so far this year, Patricia Sanchez, a meteorologist at the Fort Worth/Dallas National Weather Service office, told Paste BN.
The montage in the video includes footage uploaded to YouTube in 2014, 2020, 2022 and 2023, and one clip that was posted on X, formerly Twitter, in 2022.
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AFP also debunked the video.
Paste BN reached out to the Facebook user who shared the post for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
Our fact-check sources:
- Patricia Sanchez, July 24, Interview with Paste BN
- Pecos Hank (YouTube), April 22, 2020, CLOSE TORNADO TEARS THROUGH TOWN - Madill Oklahoma 4-22-20
- Greg Johnson (YouTube), June 16, 2014, Buildings flying through the air! Deadly Nebraska Tornado"
- La Risa Glitter Sparkle (YouTube), June 1, 2022, Andover Tornado 2022
- Reuters (YouTube), July 21, 2023, Tornado tears roof off North Carolina home
- Dorfkind, May 20, 2022, X post
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