Here’s one of the first photos of a tornado ever

(LOOTPRESS) – This cabinet card shows one of the oldest photos ever captured of a tornado. The photo was taken on August 28, 1884, and depicts one of several strong tornados that formed in the Dakota Territory (now South Dakota) that day.

Though the Fujita scale didn’t exist yet, records and eyewitness accounts lead some to believe this tornado was estimated EF-4, with wind gusts between 166 and 200 miles per hour.  It had multiple vortices. These are the points shown in the photo descending from the body of the tornado.

The back of the cabinet card touts this as the “only cyclone ever photographed.” However, we now know that another photograph of a tornado, or cyclone, was taken a few months earlier in Kansas.

The original cabinet card image is located in the South Dakota state archives.