A video of a horrific storm swirling around like a rattlesnake, destroying cars and buildings is being shared on social media claiming it to be a hurricane that struck the Canadian city of Toronto.
The post is being shared on Facebook with a caption that reads, “The hurricane in Toronto, Canada, was even rolled up at the airport. Terrible! China National Geographic magazine spent $1 million to buy this video, don’t miss the opportunity to watch it!”
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim and found it to be misleading.
We extracted keyframes from the video and did a Reverse Image Search. The search led us to several websites where a still from the above video was featured.
According to the website, the scene is from the movie ‘Into the Storm’. The film was released in 2014 and it was produced by ‘Warner Brothers Pictures’. In this film, the devastation caused by a sudden storm in a city named Silverton was shown. The scenes of the viral video have been taken from this film. The trailer of this film can be seen below.
Comparing some scenes of this film with the viral video, the similarity between the two can be clearly seen. Thus, it becomes clear that the video shared online is actually a clip from the movie ‘Into the Storm’.
Another important thing is that the storm seen in the viral video was mentioned as a hurricane. While Amazon’s streaming site ‘Prime Video’ and the film data database website IMDB– both described the storm of the film as tornadoes.
A frame of the viral video also comes with a ‘tornado warning’.
Hurricane is a type of water storm that arises from the surface of the water, while Tornado is a storm that rises from the land. The difference between these storms is explained in detail on LiveScience.
However, it is true that there was a recent Tornado in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. According to Wion News, meteorologists call this type of tornado – ‘rope tornado’.
TWISTER: Eyewitness video shows a massive tornado touching down in Saskatchewan, Canada. https://t.co/UhhpgunJWC pic.twitter.com/VK1UAfWTEZ
— ABC News (@ABC) June 16, 2021
Thus, it is evident from the above information that the video of the film named ‘Into the Storm’ is being shared as a hurricane storm in Canada.
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