Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

We've all seen the aftermath on the news.

Houses turn to splintered rubble.

Livestock plucked from fields like lint off a sweater and fallen trees blocking roadways.

The effect of a tornado on a community is nothing short of devastating, and it could take

months or even years before the affected residents can feel whole again.

But in 1764, in the German town of Voldek, a tornado touchdown unlike anything anyone had

ever seen before, or whatever see again.

On June 29th, around one in the afternoon, a twister appeared southwest to Feldberg.

By the modern standards of the Fujita scale, it touchdowned measuring at an estimated F2

in intensity as it moved northeast.

The Fujita scale is a joint effort between meteorologist Ted Fujita and Alan Pearson,

the director of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center.

In 1971, Fujita unveiled his eponymous scale, which measured and categorized tornadoes

by their size and wind speed.

Weaker, smaller twisters fell lower on the scale in the F0 to F1 range, while the most

powerful ones would earn up to an F5 rating.

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