Video claims to show Dallas tornado, but there wasn't one in October 2024 | Fact check
The claim: Video shows Dallas tornado on Oct. 26, 2024
A Nov. 1 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows a montage of tornado and storm footage.
"Tornado in Dallas, Texas today. Oct. 26, 2024," reads text superimposed over the video, which includes audio of people screaming.
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Our rating: False
There was no tornado in Dallas on Oct. 26, according to an area meteorologist. The video includes footage from other places.
Tornado footage miscaptioned
The video is labeled "October 26, 2024," but as of Oct. 30, there had been no tornadoes in Dallas County or within Dallas city limits in 2024, Daniel Huckaby, a National Weather Service meteorologist, previously told Paste BN. By that date, there had been three tornadoes in Collin County, which includes part of Dallas and is considered part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
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But clips in the video include footage from tornadoes in other places, such as 2019 tornadoes in Pennsylvania and Indiana. Another clip in the video was uploaded to YouTube in 2012.
Paste BN has debunked several viral videos that falsely claim to show tornadoes in various locations, including Dallas, Atlanta and Tennessee.
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:
- Paste BN, Oct. 31, Video shows mashup of old, fake tornado footage, not a Dallas twister
- Fox43, May 28, 2019, National Weather Service: Tornado touched down near Morgantown, Berks County
- WSBTV (YouTube), June 24, 2019, Tornado rips through buildings on south side of South Bend, Indiana
- Rhett Adams, March 7, 2021, OFFICIAL HENRYVILLE TORNADO!! Shot by Rhett Adams
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