Imagine you are staying in a town. With no more than probably 200 people. It is about to start summer. It is a hot day around 90 degrees with a dew point of 75, which makes the air tropical at this point. You are outside enjoying the day. You notice a storm off in the distance. You brush it off as your normal summer storm. It starts to get darker and darker in the distance. So, you decide to go inside to shelter from the storm. You notice the sky turns green and it begin to rain and hail badly outside. Then, the wind picks up. Then, you start to hear stuff bang on the house, growling noises, the ground shakes. So, you rush to the basement to take cover. All you hear above you is the sound of a freight train. Then, BOOM its quiet. You come from your basement to see nothing, and I mean nothing...... that was what the residents from Jordan saw and felt during this tornado. On June 13, 1976, a powerful F5 tornado tore through the east side of the town of Jordan. Causing catastrophic destruction. This tornado had winds greater then 261 mph, left incredible ground scouring, slabbed homes, debarked trees, granulated debris, and smeared it across the landscape. Fortunately there was NO deaths and very few injuries in the tornado. This tornado travel 21.3 miles. In this drawing that I rendered from a photograph of the tornado. The tornado had a murky brown with gray mixed in. So I tried to incorporate that in the tornado. I added the house and fence to give it more effect. This tornado in my opinion is apparently the aunt to the later tornadoes of Jarrell (1997, "One day in Jarrell" my drawing), Moore (1999, "May 3, 1999" my drawing), Smithville (2011, "2011: Smithville, MS Horror" my drawing). 2 years removed from the 1974 outbreak (There will be drawings of those tornadoes coming soon as well), and this is the very first F/EF5 rated tornado in Iowa. The second being the Parkersburg tornado that took place in 2008 (Parkersburg Nightmare, my drawings).