{"id":1466453,"date":"2022-05-06T11:30:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T15:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466453"},"modified":"2022-05-06T11:30:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T15:30:29","slug":"fact-check-viral-image-showing-a-tornado-and-lightning-strike-next-to-an-oil-rig-in-texas-is-altered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-viral-image-showing-a-tornado-and-lightning-strike-next-to-an-oil-rig-in-texas-is-altered\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Viral Image Showing A Tornado And Lightning Strike Next To An Oil Rig In Texas Is Altered"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-viral-image-showing-a-tornado-and-lightning-strike-next-to-an-oil-rig-in-texas-is-altered%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466453&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=5940067489353277&#038;set=a.288421267851289&#038;type=3&#038;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> over 260 times allegedly shows a photo of a bolt of lightning and a tornado captured near an oil rig in Texas.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The oil rig has been digitally superimposed into the picture. The original photo of the tornado was captured in Lake Okeechobee, Florida in 1991.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=5940067489353277&#038;set=a.288421267851289&#038;type=3&#038;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post<\/a>, shared over 200 times, appears to show a photo of a tornado and a lightning strike near an oil rig. \u201cTHIS IS A PICTURE THAT SOMEONE TOOK WHO WORKS ON AN OIL RIG IN TEXAS,\u201d reads text included in the image. \u201cHE WANTED TO GET A SHOT OF THE LIGHTNING THAT WAS FLASHING BY. HE WAS UNAWARE OF THE TORNADO UNTIL THE LIGHTNING ILLUMINATED IT.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The photo is digitally altered. A reverse image search revealed the image of the tornado and lightning strike was captured by a man in Melbourne, Florida named Fred Smith, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20031125223558\/http:\/\/www.srh.noaa.gov\/mlb\/hwofiles\/svrwxrules.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the National Weather Service<\/a> website. \u201cThis picture of a tornado and lightning stroke over Lake Okeechobee was taken at about 10 PM on June 15, 1991,\u201d the caption reads. The oil rig does not appear in the photo.<\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact was unable to track the source of the oil rig in the image. However, the unedited photo of the tornado and lightning has appeared in numerous articles and media outlets since its publication. The image appeared in a 2013 tornado preparedness <a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/107800\/tornado_preparedness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> from the U.S. Army and a 2019 Forbes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marshallshepherd\/2019\/11\/01\/is-it-rare-to-have-tornadoes-in-pennsylvania-on-halloween-it-depends\/?sh=4bf4f10721b3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> discussing the possibility of tornadoes on Halloween.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/12\/20\/fact-check-image-tornado-grand-island-nebraska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show A Tornado In Grand Island, Nebraska?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The photo was also included in a 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/news\/news\/fake-overused-weather-photos-20140421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> published by the Weather Channel titled, \u201cFake and Overused Weather Photos: Avoid Sharing These Viral Images.\u201d The article states that the image frequently appears on social media during night-time tornado reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook over 260 times allegedly shows a photo of a bolt of lightning and a tornado captured near an oil rig in Texas.Verdict: False The oil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":1481872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}