April 27, 2011 EF4 tornado in Cullman, AL
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- A look back at the EF4 in Cullman Alabama histories during largest tornado outbreak (4-27-11), referred to as the Super Outbreak. Sped up a couple of parts to help show motion and slowed it back to normal when I am closest to the tornado
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I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again: this was perhaps the best example of horizontal vortices in a tornado to date
Don't forget the Tuscaloosa tornado, that twister also comes to mind when people talk about horizontal vortices, and for a good reason.
Roblox players:Octopus multi vortex!
also reminds me of this moment : czcams.com/video/h84yTNXCXPQ/video.html
@@Valerio_the_wandering_sprite same date actually, I live just about 30 miles north of cullman in langtown Alabama were we lost 22 in our county that day to a ef5 on a 150 mile path.. never seen or felt anything like the atmosphere that day, pray I never do..
I'll never forget that day long as I live , nor the over 200 fellow Alabamians lost😥
I love it how you aren't screaming your head off the whole time.
I was very focused. By myself a few states away from home. Needed to ensure I was safe and would survive once things got going
@@StormSquadDotNet :)
Can't stand the stormchasers that do that. They get an auto-thumb-down from me!
@@d.dementedengineerc99isurf26 The storm chasher Pecos Hank here on CZcams calls it 'Twister Tourette's'.
@@lonewolf9390 😂
I don’t know what’s more scary; the path of destruction the tornado is leaving, or the $3.79 for unleaded gas in that area!
Exxon and texaco on that local hwy tend to price gouge .... Ive lived in cullman for ever and I rarely ever seen gas there cheap
Obama years $4 a gallon for diesel his sidekick is going to do better than that
Ah thank Obama for that one.
But Fr tho the tornado I live in cullman at the. Time holly pond and my house was. Shaking for like 10 mins straight
It’s about to be that scary once again with Biden
I can’t believe it’s been almost 12 years. I’ll never forget that day. Probably one of the scariest moments in my life. I was still in high school during the 2011 tornado outbreak. The aftermath was heartbreaking. My parents and grandparents homes in cullman were completely destroyed. So many lost everything.
I can always identify a tornado from this outbreak not only the vortices but they had a sinister rotation to them, just the way they moved and idk what it was they were very distinct looking.
yeah every tornado from this outbreak looked incredibly sinister with their horizontal vortices
It’s the shear. Absolutely insane wind shear that day.
This video shows the most unusual and complex trajectory of a tornado I have seen to date.
all of them had very fast forward speeds which gave them a tilt that is pretty recognizable I think. that day was just insanity
Dead man walking
Some incredible footage!! I have mad respect for tornadoes!! At times it seemed like someone was walking!! They don’t call it “DEAD MAN WALKING!” FOR NOTHING!!!
Many thanks Orlando! Haven’t seen anything quite like this one since and might be a long time before I do
While just about all of the violent EF4 and EF5 tornadoes in the outbreak were dead-man walking types, this tornado, Phil-Campbell Hackleburg, and Rainsville had such pronounced dead-man walking phases it was horrifying. This tornado was already causing EF4 damage during its "dead-man walking" phase as well. What a day April 27, 2011 was.
Remember driving down to Cullman months later & wanting to cry at all the beautiful old homes we lost that day. My hubby was born in the old hospital there & still has a lot of family in the area.
A beautiful town indeed. Fortunately much of the historic buildings survived
Yeah downtown looked like a warzone
I live in Florida and remembered hearing that day on the news that Florida could get hit by some tornadoes from this storm, the only thing we got was strong winds, rain, flooding, and power outages that night. The 2011 tornado season was no joke, it definitely topped previous tornado seasons from years before
It was the worst season since 1974!
It wasn't a "season", it was a 3-4 day outbreak with most destructive tornadoes spawning on 4-27 when this Cullman tornado took place. Almost all loss of life happened this same day of the 2011 outbreak as well.
@@baldwinserrantshot365 he was talking about how 2011 in general was not a joke
usually the northern hemisphere has a thing called “generational tornado outbreak” and they only happen 2-3 times in 100 years, both the 1974 outbreak and the 2011 outbreak are solid examples of this type of outbreak
I really enjoy how you put on the video when the video is sped up and when it isn't
Too many storm chasing videos posted try to make their footage look more 'violent' by speeding it up.
I love the horizontal vortex action with this tornado
Really enjoying your content! Straight to the point, no yelling. Just excellent shots.
Many thanks! Hopefully you have checked out some of my storm time lapses as well :)
I was in the middle of downtown Cullman when this hit
Glad you are okay. This was a day many of us will never forget
I was too. My kids and I took refuge in the stairwell of the bank and old All Steak Restaurant. Scary day! So glad you’re safe.❤️
Me and my son were inside the Cullman regional medical center when it hit
Omg
it’s so crazy, considering that i didn’t live in cullman at the time of these tornados, to see places i’ve been thousands of times now and be like “shit i know where that is”
This tornado dropped in the South Walmart parking lot while I watched from the entrance. A horizontal was captured in addition to the vertical from the beginning. Crazy and life-changing day. Thumbs up to whoever captured this video.
I remember this day so well. I was almost hit by this tornado. I remember seeing those vortexes spin around the tornado up close. It was beautiful. If you look at other footage you can see a roof the got pulled off a house and it landed in my backyard.
I was in Tuscaloosa when that EF4 ripped through there. I've been a storm chaser over 20 years now and that monster was absolutely devastating
The Smart Mouth Conservative I still maintain that tornado was an EF-5. I don’t care what the idiots at the NWS said.
@@anb740 They have the degree, you don't 🤷🏻♂️
@@anb740 To be fair it might have peaked after hitting since it hit town not long after forming
@@KaiserStormTracking it probably did, as the Cullman-Arab tornado probably did too.
The way the camera turns from a moderately cloudy sky to the tornado less than a few miles away at the beginning is so damn chilling.
That thing was a monster. Absolutely fantastic view of the horizontal vorticity
I''ve always wondered what exactly was going on in the atmosphere to cause all of those horizontal vortices that day. So many of the tornadoes had horizontal vortices, and I really can't think of another example where that happened, other than maybe Jarrell TX.
Hyper-sheared environment especially in the lowest levels I think is what causes tornadoes to have that “blown over” appearance. The wind aloft is super strong but near the ground it doesn’t blow in the direction of the storm motion so the tornado is constantly trying to “catch up” with the meso. Vorticity noodles are also a common result of very strong shear. Look up the Henryville Indiana EF4. It occurred on a day with low cape/instability but incredible shear and it too had lots of vorticity noodles.
Has to do with ambient vorticity constantly being tilted/amplified by the tornado.
Tuscaloosa?
@@johnkeller4734 yes. The Sayler Park F5 from the 1974 Super Outbreak also had a similar "blown over" appearance, among several other tornadoes during that outbreak.
Poor Cullman they always seem to hit there.
We are close but far enough away to not be in that track. They seem to steamroll through there. I wouldn’t live in Cullman without a flat safe shelter.
Cullman is known as the tornado alley of Alabama, I’ve lived there my whole life and that’s what everyone calls it.
so awsome love it!!- really like when theres no voices an just storm sound!! thx you guys got guts !!!
Many thanks!
Great camera work. Interesting vortices. Judging by how fast the circular rotation was and the multiple vortices, very violent tornado 🌪
Somehow I missed this video if that day, it was a scary day for sure you did an awesome job filming
I live in Fultondale AL and I've heard a ton of stories about 2011 and I was born in 2008 so I'm glad I dont remember this.....
Looks like tendrils coming out at you 😮 great video!
What a day that was. An employee came into work from Hanceville that morning saying they had been hit. The day just got worse from there. To get home I had to park several blocks away (Cullman Times area) and make my way on foot over downed trees and power lines. Every tree in the neighborhood was down, even in my yard, but by some miracle not a one landed on our house. Dealing with the aftermath was heartbreaking.......
That thing was wicked! Thank you for not talking!!
Wow what a weird tornado. I've never seen one produce horizontal vortices like that.
The atmosphere was incredibly turbulent this day for sure
the one in Tuscolusa also formed a few. most tornadoes this day did in fact
I'm glad I didn't live in Cullman in 2011. At around 4:20 to 4:30 minutes into the video is where it hit my neighborhood
well that was one of the more crazy looking tornadoes ive ever seen. do you have a version of this video without all the sped-up time? id love to watch the whole thing in regular speed.
@2:47 BEST COVERAGE OF A TORNADO 🌪 IVE SEEN! Wicked dark clouds!
Were those horizontal vortexes or windshield wipers.
I'll never forget that day at the time I was living in Hodges Al i witnessed one there stood outside and watched it destroy a few homes pretty scary day
It is always astounding how people are just driving around as if it is a flock of geese...
I lived in huntsville al during this time five tornadoes hit north alabama we was out of power for a week
The power was out across so much of the state for days. The day after I waited in line for a few hours at on of the only gas stations with power. Power and communications down sure has an eerie feeling
We *were*
That day was definitely a mess. I was crossing the Tennessee River on I-65 then 72 transmission lines were taken out at TVA Brown's Ferry.
Yeah hoss and we had no power for days. It was a testament to the hard working folks that we weren’t out for a month. I’ll never forget how peaceful and beautiful the days were after the outbreak. It was some of the most amazing weather we’ve ever had, but we had to pay for it dearly.
Dude I'm gonna tell you right now that was the worst tornado we ever had with the most destruction to our city of cullman (lived here 25+years to current) I was at the time a officer for the city police department AND just got off duty when it happened hanging in dispatch (safest indestructible building) and they told me to go back on duty and hit the streets and was rough for couple weeks put in some over time then. Every now and then I'll have dreams of back then.
You're not a very good liar, Capt. Poop Breath! You're so full of crap, I can smell your stink from here. Smh lol.
I was in the tornado path when it hit and was lucky enough to have survived that day🙏
This was awesome, 😮
This is by far one of the weirdest tornadoes I have ever seen.
I remember when I was living in Cullman my late husband and I was working at the time and we got home safe while the tornado was on our tailgate, not to mention but hail storm no size of a softball in the year of 2017-2018
Wow. I live just an hour north of Cullman. I was living here in 2011. And even after all the footage I see from that day, it never ceases to amaze me.
That flag blowing in the wind (about 2:22 through about 2:54) looked like it was going to fly right off the flagpole. I'm surprised that it didn't fly off, given the close proximity of the tornado.
Crazy right. What I realized only after looking at the video is how the flag helps show the of the changing wind directions as the tornado moves by.
I live about a mile from that Exxon station, and I remember that day so well. That terrifying day! A tornado crossed the street a half block from my house, as I stood there looking out the door.
I can only imagine living there during that time. I’m glad you are okay. Lots of confusion and chaos as I drove around the town trying to assist
I almost bought a house in your neighborhood. There.
Whoever was recorsing was brave as fuck if i saw that i would faint
I had lots of caffeine no fainting allowed! ;)
@@StormSquadDotNet lol
We got hit here in the Cahaba Heights area of Vestavia Hills, Alabama that morning. My neighbor was out of town. I woke up early, thinking I better hurry up and go feed her cat before it got bad. By the time I pulled back into my driveway, all heck was breaking lose. Tress strating falling just as I stepped inside my front door. Several houses just a few blocks away, were destroyed. Leaving nothing but the foundations they once stood on.
I couldn't get my husband to the safety of our basement. He was recovering from total knee replacement surgery. Could not make it down the stairs. Other than it looking like a wat zone. No houses on our street were damaged.
The only meaningful thing I'm able to say in rgegards to this video is, PLEASE, be as careful and stay as safe as you're able.
Many thanks! I always keep safety the #1 priority, I hope to intercept storms as long as my body will let me
Wow! Amazing! 😲
That day was by far one of the worse days that happened in Alabama I'll never forget it! I was in Arab and was right down the road to the one that hit Arab area and knew the family that lost several lives that day. Rip to all who were lost.
This is a great video. I did think the tornado was going to eat that white pick up
i first thought this was sped up but later realised it was the speed
this was the day before my birthday lol it’s weird that this was on my recommended
Times up now! Looks like will get another tornado outbreak this April
While we’re always on the clock, these types of events (this level) happen about once every 30-40 years here.
Great video
Thanks a lot!
Is that the howling wind or truck going by? Impressive! Mean looking!
At one point there is a howling truck, but there are also some odd sounds associated with the wind and tornado as well. The wind speeds where I was standing were around 60 mph
That's one furious evil looking tornado. It's got that snaky medusa thing going on.
EL Reno Tornado makes this look like two small twisters dancing in the park.
Never seen one up close but always wanted to yet thinking that would be some pretty scary shit
That’s the most relive video I have ever seen.
That was a tragic day.
I was like "oh my god look at that violent motion!"
then I saw the 4x speed lmao
Dead man walking form‼️
Wow, so scary!
I lived in Albertville behind the airport on 75...it missed us about an 1/8 of a mile...hit my buddies subdivision in Indian hills tho....craziest shit I ever saw
A shape-shifting dancing demon stomping and kicking everything and everyone in it's way, indifferent to the suffering and destruction it leaves behind.
BREATHTAKING footage!!! Say, weren't there any warning sirens on the menu for this monster??
No tornado sirens that I could hear, just the emergency vehicle at some point. Was eerily quiet
@@StormSquadDotNet Yikes! The South where I live, just a bit northwest of you in AR, there are sirens everywhere. Tested the first Friday of every month. I wonder what good they might have done for Forestdale and Tuscaloosa back in April 2011...
@@d.dementedengineerc99isurf26 Alabama has sirens too. Tornadoes were popping off everywhere. I'm sure there was sirens at some point.
@@richardroberts4355 I've watched 3 or 4 vids of Tuscaloosa/Cullman, and the silence there, like in this video, is odd. U of A vid did have a siren, but it's alone. ...Then again, who'd put a siren in the middle of the National Forest? I was a bit surprised to hear sirens from my house at all... Arkansas and Alabama both got plenty of hills and big trees, so the visability's not too good.
@@d.dementedengineerc99isurf26 I live in Alabama and I guess I'm lucky because there's sirens all over my town. Test every 3rd Thursday at 4 pm. But even with sirens sometimes they can pop up and sirens don't help much, or even get activated. Tuscaloosa had advance warning. They knew all day that it was going to be a huge outbreak.
Great video, but I wish it wasn't sped up, do you think we don't want to watch that part? Wish it was out of the car, too.
Dead man walking!!! Horizontal vortices!!
Holy $#!t. Those vortices doe.
Dead Man Walking. Absolutely terrifying storm.
The Cullman Tornado with its famous moustache-sub-vortices will be remembered
That the dcariest tornado ive ever seen those vortices were just everywhere
I miss this weather
If you had taken a photo of this tornado at ~3:51, any NWS office in traditional "tornado alley" would have told you it was scud
Fortunately I was live streaming this to thousands of live viewers and I think the word got out rather quick. That was back in the day when storm chasing live streams were very popular and gained lots of traffic though
Bfng
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Wow, multi vortex. And these noodle vorteses are what killed Tim Samaris and his son & friend.
Only those was more powerful than this main twister. Think of the solid form of this twister dancing around a boss twister 2.5 miles wide only they are as string asba EF5.
It looks like it was walking at one point.
We had a tornado from that out break in TOLEDO OHIO and it took out Lake high school I lived in a subdivision and watched it go out over Lake Erie was a bad on an Ef5 alot of death and destruction it was supposed to hit our subdivision but it missed us it would of destroyed our subdivision!!!🌪⛈
We were north of this across the river (Greenbrier on the edge of the wildlife refuge )but when it came through our area the wind was so strong no one could stand up for about a minute or so, it had us looking for the ditch after getting home from work and stepping out of our car.
Edit: It lifted before it got to us but the winds were still very strong on the ground where we were at.
I can only imagine that experience. The storms this day were strong and very fast moving, with confirmed tornadoes. All the reason to take cover quickly
The EF4 destroyed my middle school
That's a scary sight.
best octopus arms ever
That sucker is moving forward really quickly.
Look how fast tht thing is moving!!
The NWS warning for the tornado reported movement up to 70 MPH when it came into town
@@StormSquadDotNet i was thinking it had to be 60+ at les
Really Great Video Dan. Thank You for Sharing. That cloud looks like the DEVIL HIMSELF. Gulp!!!!
Thanks Sue! A day that I think about often
Jesus how man dead men walking were in that vortex of terror.
Always that white pick up truck cruising in background lol
I could see mini rope ones within the tornado.
Multi vortex is what i have seen on this video.
This ay will forever be burned into my mind. I live in Blountsville it also came through here
I was in my storm shelter it hit Cordova pretty bad
so the tornadoe that came a few days before this one the EF3 that hit in Tuscaloosa went right over my house
Cullman is all brand new now. Errbody wants to live there
I cut trees out of road ways for hours during this out break
Your help is much appreciated. The only way these roads get cleared fast is by locals coming together and making routes. Truly encouraging to see everyday people performing heroic acts during times like this
It was like it wasn't even there nothing even moving.
i'm not sure which was scarier, the tornado or the sign that said $3.79/gallon for unleaded regular...
Is the cameraman courageous or what
I like being as close as I safely can :) That said there have been a few unnerving moments
I lived through this tornado I saw this tornado I live in downtown Cullman it was horrible
It looks like 3 Tornadoes forming at the same time
Reminds me of what one image of the Jarrell, TX tornado looked like. Called it the Dead Man Walking tornado because at one point it looked as though it had legs, as this one did at the beginning of the video
That’s creepy
Wow
Luckily I didn’t see anyone get hurt.