Being in the US, I have to remember that no other country in the world gets as many tornadoes as we do. And because of that, there is another level of appreciation for documenting the few tornadoes that do appear in, say, Switzerland or Austria. While tornadoes were a yearly occurrence to the Native Americans, they were practically myth elsewhere. Can't imagine being a farm boy and hearing stories of a "cloud's tail" destroying everything it touched, and then disappearing as fast as it came
@@theLongPigChefaround six per year on average. They had the deadliest tornado in history tho, occurring in 1989 with 1200+ casualties and 12000+ injured
The tornado from helicopter footage you showed, was in Brooklyn Park Minnesota in 1986. I was alive then and the tornado went 2 blocks past my house. I honestly can still remember looking out the window and seeing it.
12 years old when that tornado happened. We lived about 5 miles north of Springbrook Nature Center. It was raining and hailing so hard where we were, we just watched it on TV. It was fascinating.
I’ll never forget my first experience with a tornado. It was in my small farm town, the year was 2000 and I was 5. My mom rushed my two older sisters and me outside and down to the cellar. I remember my sisters sobbing and my mom was worried, but I for some reason was excited. I kept wanting to look up out the tiny cellar window and wanting to see the tornado. I’m not sure why I was so excited during all the chaos..but I still get a little rush whenever there’s a tornado coming.
I've always been interested in the weather and always dreamed of seeing a tornado. I never got to actually SEE the funnel cloud situation, but I would always get so excited everytime there was a tornado warning. In FEBRUARY of all times 2017 I got my wish, I was at work and a tornado warning was issued, the first storm passed so we thought it was done , my manager went to leave, and then she comes running back in side panicking saying there's a tornado! I saw it ! And then there was that classic noise that is just indescribable, couldn't see out the windows, papers and leaves and branches flying everywhere. I was horrified 😂 not excited. I thought that's it I'm gonna die at WORK like really that's my luck and my manager and I were huddled in the supply closet. Lucky for us it passed about a quarter mile to the east of us and we definitely were lucky bc it was later rated and ef2. I just find it funny how I was always so excited to be in a tornado but when it happened I was so so scared haha
I think anything in nature where humans have absolutely no control is naturally fascinating, probably the reason a lot of science i.e immunology exists
I was the same as a little kid. During one season of terrible bushfires, my mum was in tears over all the destruction and horrible stuff she was reading about. I kept asking her to put the "fire show" back on, because the colours fascinated me. The "fire show" was actually the news. All other news stories had been pushed to the side to focus on keeping people up to date with where the fires were at, so it was really just a constant broadcast of bushfire footage from around the country. Looking back, it's a bit morbid. Still, though, whenever I see a fire, I get a little mesmerised by the colours in it.
@@DaisyPusher exactly why the original star wars movies hold up nearly 50 years later but the prequels made only 20 years ago look like shit. the matte paintings and scale models looked so much better than stupid jar jar binks!
I have a picture of a tornado my mom took in 1948 when she was 18 years old. It bypassed her neighborhood by about 2 miles. It's a black and white photo, taken with her Kodak Brownie camera, which I now own. The tornado was approximately an F2, and occurred in Dearvborn, MI. I found the picture in some of her things I took from her home after she passed away in 2013. (Jan Griffiths).
@@semajyo9628 Thanks. Mom kept in an album, but I've framed it. It's actually 2 photos---one is the mature tornado, and the second is the rope-out stage. My mom took the pictures because the tornado was the first she'd ever seen, and the closest she'd ever been to one. (Jan Griffiths).
My grandmother was in the 1957 Dallas tornado. She was 16, pregnant, and had been married for a year to my grandfather. She was home alone when the tornado hit. She ran to her mothers house and took cover. She said it was horribly loud, and destructive. Also, my great grandmother lost her whole family in a tornado in Oklahoma 1924.
Wow. The Dallas tornado shows how far Dallas has come since then. Used to be a small city, now it and Ft. Worth basically combined into one massive super metropolis
Hank Schyma, a.k.a. Pecos Hank, really is one of the GOATs of tornado chasing. He got himself into some seriously hairy situations early in his chasing career but he's gotten wiser and more cautious as he's gotten experience, and he's also done some major volunteer work for tornado research groups. He even provides his very own background music, being a musician and frontman to a local band, the Southern Backtones. Not just tornadoes, either: He's done extensive studies on "sprites," the mysterious electrical discharges out of the tops of storms. My favorite video of his is one of his earlier ones, where he was chasing a large tornado moving very slowly in an arc in front of him. This was already a sporty situation, since behind him was a massively destructive hail shaft. The large but weak tornado *hits him* (fortunately without damage) and passes on. Then he realized that the tornado he was chasing *was the satellite of the main tornado,* a mile-wide EF4 monster not 200 yards downrange of him. Not many chasers stare into the maw of Death like that and live to tell about it afterward. Has to simply be seen to be believed: czcams.com/video/CA5rSFWGy4E/video.html
@@darktemplardelta268 I dunno about BEST, but it sure as heck illustrates how dangerous chasing can be, when you don't leave yourself an out and get WAY too close to your subjects. Some of his later footage is far better, but that's the day he came closest to death and it did change how he chased.
I thank you for mentioning Pecos Hank, and I agree with your opinion with him being “the goat” of all storm chasers channels. From his transitions, to his captures of natural beauty and horror and amazing shots mixed with country music that PERFECTLY fits with the situations he recorded, and the random shots with him with snakes, frogs, turtles, and even different reptiles or bugs are absolutely hilarious at times and are great little additions to his videos.
Tornado footage has been something that’s fascinated me for years, and although while it’s scary, amateur storm chasers get absolutely insane footage sometimes and it just floors me. My favorite is Scott Peake’s video on the 2020 Ashby, MN tornado. He gets SUPER close and the quality is astounding. It’s unreal how much technology has advanced and how brave people are with these kinds of things
Interesting thing to note, Pliny the Elder was also (at least later in his life) an admiral in the Roman Navy. He was part of a rescue attempt in the Pompeii area when Vesuvius erupted, but had to abort the mission when the ash became too thick to sail; it's believed he either suffocated or suffered a heart attack while watching the eruption on the beach.
There’s even more conflicting reports in Pliny the Elder’s death than just that! There’s a report that he died Before he got on the boat over, as you mentioned. There’s many that disagree whether died sailing to Pompeii or on the way back via heart attack or suffocation. But my favorite is that he got hit on the head with a rock while sailing & it either knocked him dead or knocked him out, the ash in the air taking care of the rest. He wasn’t necessarily apart of a big reduce attempt as much as trying to help save a specific friend at Pompeii who sent a letter asking for help. Also his work, Natural History, is absolutely buckwild to go through. There’s good free translated versions online. Skip to the medicine section of one of the books or the section on springs (referring to hot/cold water spring, not the season). He wanted to write down all the information he has available to him at the time. Only issue is they didn’t necessarily fact check any of it before it went in the book. It results in a Very entertaining read.
@@bonebrokebuddy5248 Another fun fact, his son Pliny The Younger watched the volcano destroy the city from far across the water, while his father was dying.
@@wuotanaz1106 Nephew. And Misenium is not that much further away from Vesuvius than Stabiae (where Pliny the Elder got his fatal Asthma/Heart attack) was
Least your town isn't due for one I love in Topeka luckily my fam has 3 basement to to hide in. My basement my grandpas and my grandma's all in a large line across the entire town so if you around me or my fam and you in Topeka be ready to join us for safety. As in a time of disaster we treat every as family especially the lost children.
I uploaded a video to CZcams 15 years ago when a tornado swept the outskirts of Ellis, only an hour or so from you. I consider that video my 15 minutes of fame lol. Just search Tornadoes hit Ellis, KS.
I have to say I’m not a tornado enthusiast, but I sure do love fact based presentations especially science and you sure have it all. Not only that you just seem like a very respectable person and the way you present and talk about things you can sense the amount of thought and respect you have. I appreciate you and your channel.
A (pleasantly so) surprising channel, a priceless young man and his dedication to not on the subject matter, but also a superb historian/documentarian. I hope he goes far. That said, I hope his going far has everything to do with his career and not getting blown into another state/province. The Wizard of Oz footage is some of the most incredible cinema FX I've ever seen, at a time when we should've had no way to do that. I'd love seeing a breakdown of that. Stay safe my friend!
@@wren7195 I do think the earliest written reference to a tornado is in the Biblical book of Job, chapter 37, v. 9: "From the chamber of the south comes the whirlwind, And cold from the scattering winds of the north." Another possible reference is Job chapter 1, vs. 18 - 19: "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, and suddenly a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead." The winds of a tornado often do hit all four corners of a house, unlike the usual winds that come from one particular direction.
(it's pronounced "Pay-cose") Pecos Hank is great not just because of his footage, but his presentation, the music, his poetic delivery...the man's an artist.
The correct pronunciation of the word Pecos is PEH-cohs. It is not an English word. Those that pronounce it as "PAY" do so because of the southern twang.
You really did pick out three of the most iconic tornado camecorder videos. The McConnell AFB video is scary beyond belief, especially if you watch the full clip and see how that little stovepipe rounds the corner all "Here's Johnny" style and wrecks utter chaos right in front of them. And then "There goes Bob's boat" and "Susan get my pants" earn the other two their place in the top three for sure!
In the early 1960s, we had a weatherman in Amarillo named Dan True. The guy was a pilot and the station, Channel 10 KFDA, had a plane that went up to check weather and big events. It was cool. He was the originator of several things up in the panhandle of Texas. I do remember him flying way out, but actually catching a tornado while flying (he had a cameraman.) He doesn't talk about that but he does mention flying at the studio and some of the innovations he made. He passed away in March 2022 at age 97. czcams.com/video/Z3Sq0C9g4QU/video.html
Lost my dad last year in the F4 mile and half wide tornado that hit Dawson Springs Kentucky. My heart won't ever not be broken. Definitely, absolutely take tornados seriously...always pay attention to the forecast and do what you can to seek shelter. Just because it's winter, Christmas time, middle of the nite- doesn't matter, apparently still a chance it could happen even though you least expect it.
I really like the eerie feeling from watching those 90’s amateur footage. I think it’s because of that weird feeling of memory or nostalgia you get when you watch camcorder footage. Not only that but you also see a sky tearing monster ripping apart the land. And finally because of the movie “Twister” and when it was released definitely plays a role.
I live in Nebraska, about 20 minutes from Aurora and around an hour from Columbus. I love seeing/hearing the things you find around me. My 15 year old daughter found your channel and we watch it together a lot.
The photo from August 28, 1884 is actually astonishing! The way you can see two smaller tornadoes starting to peek out from the cloud coverage. So cool!
Now this was definitely a first. I had often wondered who was the first to actually capture a tornado on video. This video was captivating, great research on your part! 👍
I dont know where I got this from, but I couldve sworn that tornadoes were a uniquely american and Australian thing Maybe Im thinking of firsthand accounts of when the english settlers arrived in America (and later Australia), but I was honestly convinced that europe and asia never got tornados
You got a reply. By the way, are you still watching Bonehead Truckers? I am getting tired of watching those videos because I see enough of the poo on a daily basis.
Michael Landon on the floor, smiling up at us for Kodak cameras, still stuck to the broken safety glass from our smashed Walgreens windows just made everything seem better. The destruction in downtown Kalamazoo was unreal. Thanks for sharing the first amatuer video. I've never seen a tornado in real life but a lot of us survived being in that one. We didn't even know what that Tornado siren sound was for! So fast, so fortunate.
I agree that old tornado photos and videos are creepier than color ones. Not sure why, I guess just the thought that they’ve been terrorizing the planet for so long and also to think how much less prepared people were to respond to them back then. Loved this video!
Jeff Piotrowski should be given special mention. He and his wife were the first to realize that the rain cloud in Joplin was a massive multi vortex tornado, and pulled over to warn a police officer to get the sirens going, and due to his warning, sirens went off in Joplin again, thus most people understood that time, that it was no false alarm
He’s been around a while. I remember a video of Mr. Piotrowski’s from way back in 1995 being featured on The Weather Channel’s “Tornadoes ‘95” documentary. He filmed a long-track F3 that crossed the Red River from Texas and seriously damaged the Uniroyal Tire Plant in Ardmore, Oklahoma. He was right there by the plant when it was hit.
Dude the fact that Wichita Falls is famous and famous people mention/have been in it like fluffy or Gabriel Iglesias and Tom Scott always makes me happy when it’s more than 3k people hear about Wichita Falls in one video
I'm surprised there aren't earlier mentions or depictions of tornadoes considering how relatively common they are, and how humans are instinctively afraid of them.
At 12:05 I literally screamed in tandem with the gent in the video, "GET AWAY FROM THE WINDOW!!!" 😆 Also, at 12:23 "Susan, get my pants" is the funniest thing I've heard in a tornado video.
Nice to hear Ryan Hall mentioned in this. He does a great job of providing a service that definitely saves lives while being an all around great wx personality.
He and his team really provide a great service. I was going to comment about Ryan also. And Pecos Hank. The research and fieldwork a lot of storm chasers do provide not only preparedness information and general awareness, but also improved safety equipment and shelters and live coverage where local reception might not reach.
Thank you for such an actually interesting video! It combines two of my few favoriest things: history and tornadoes. I'm from Russia, from Siberia (it's where a snow lies the entire year stereotypically but it's actually doesn't). Though European part of Russia (not the part where I live) is on the Wikipedia's map of most likely tornado spawn territories (out of North America)* such a weather phenomenon is relatively rare nationwide here in common. So there are no large number of tornado enjoyers, the most well-known source of detailed information about it in my country is Discovery's "Storm Chasers" series mentioned in the video. Despite it, since the childhood I've always been extremely interested in and fascinated with tornadoes due to their eerie, dangerous beauty like the very specific nature's power demonstration. It concerns to another dangerous nature phenomenons like thunderstorms and lightnings, fires, floods, dust storms but tornadoes were always my favoriest ones (thanks to 3-part 2006 Reader's Digest's documentary on the VHS I even could quote when was 6 y.o.). IDK, I've always been attracted to different eerie things, not only about the weather. Almost every spring and summer I remember about this interest and start to search for and watch some new tornado vidoes like recent MS tornado. BTW, Pecos Hank is really good, the additional pleasure is to watch his footages of ligntings, sprites and beautiful American nature. Nature is one of my passions in common. Probably, if I was born in the US Midwest or South and had the same interests or if there was the similar tornado frequency in Russia like in the US, I would started to learn meteorology in more details (academically or with self-education) and do a storm chasing as a hobby at least (moreover, I was one of the best in geography in the entire school). Who knows. And a bit more. Yesterday, as a historian, I thought about mentions and depiction of tornadoes in Russian history (there were a few memorable ones from 1904 and 1984 for example, there even was a movie about the last one's consequences). Author's video reminded it would be ineresting information to search for at leisure. Eventually there wouldn't exist own Russian analog word for tornado (smerch/смерч) if there wasn't such climatic phenomenon in this country. *Map what I've talked about: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Globdisttornado.jpg
I'm a tornado enthusiast and I have to say, excellent job on this video! Outstanding research! It should be required viewing in school science classes everwhere.
My grandma took pictures of the tornado that hit Jarrell TX in 1997. She worked at a newspaper for a nearby small town. They lived in a mobile home at the time.
I currently live in Wichita Falls. I hear stories about the tornado in 64 and the tornado on Terrible Tuesday all the time. It’s crazy to know how historical these storms are.
Living in Minnesota for around 18 years, I've been caught in the paths of 2 separate tornadoes. The first one was when I was little and my family had jist moved into the state that week. The tornado leveled the neighbor's house and trashed ours. I was little at the time, so I don't remember much about it. One thing I'll always remember about it is that terrible noise. It was like a freight train had crashed in our living room. It was an upper F2, and my neighbor was injured. The second one was in 2019 while I was on the freeway. All traffic stopped because we couldn't even see the hood of our car, and the rain was slamming horizontally on the driver's side. Never saw the tornado due to the visibility, but it passed right behind me and cut directly across the freeway. That was luckily a EF0, and nobody was hurt.
@@soda_coir7595if you don’t have a basement then you probably don’t live in an area where tornados happen. They would’ve put a basement their for safety measures if you lived in an area where tornados happen
I've lived in kalamazoo my whole life and heard about the tornado from my mom growing up who lived through it right in its path. However, I never knew about it being the first instance of an amateur recording until today, so thank you for including it.
fun fact; where I used to live, tornadoes were so frequent that the tornado sirens had to be tested weekly, so once a week at the same time, the sirens would go off. I'd been through quite a few tornadoes in my time there, but I dont remember much because my family and I moved when I was 8.
Wichita Falls resident, here. The 1964 tornado was the fastest wind speeds we've had, but terrible Tuesday (April 10th, 1979) is definitely our most infamous tornado.
That Columbus tornado is insane. The roar was stupidly loud and that rotation was almost as fast as a drill bit tornado. That’s crazy for the outer circulation of a tornado.
i just came across this channel and realized how much i would’ve loved it when i was younger; i used to be OBSESSED with tornadoes! i got every book in the school library that there was about tornadoes, and whenever the weather got bad i would stare out the windows and look for a tornado. my mom even called me “the next big weather broadcaster” because i would announce every little weather change to my family. thanks for reminding me of when i was younger, you may have just sparked my interest in tornadoes and weather in general again!
9:30 first time the entire lifespan of a tornado was filmed, and it was confirmed to have killed 10 people... somewhere in that video, there's 10 people dying. Our world is dark.
Oh no, this video is in phases. It's like the MCU but tornado footage haha! I also love how the guy at 8:57 is just casually pouring drinks while a tornado tears up the ground behind him. Great stuff!
The Wichita Falls tornado was also notable for hitting Sheppard AFB. It completely destroyed the old clapboard hospital which luckily had no one in it as all of the medical operations was moved to the new brick and mortar hospital a week prior
11:37 Back in the 80s, finding commercial VHS compilations of tornadoes was difficult at best for someone with this obsession. The library was one of the only resources outside of visiting your local college. There would usually be one or two weather related VHS videos with a handful or tornado clips. If the library didn't carry anything weather related on VHS, you might find footage in generalized nature documentaries. Or not. By the late 80s-early 90s, there were a decent amount of commercial tornado compilations on VHS. I'd be curious to learn which VHS tapes had the widest distribution in that era. I imagine that those of us around at the time, were watching the same handful of tapes. The Mconnel Air force base tornado was on repeat constantly on the History channel back in the day. It was a great decade for discovering new footage. You had a number of science channels on cable with documentaries dedicated to tornadoes, and the internet had amateur and professional photography. Personal websites where you could buy posters, tapes, DVD's from chasers and photographers. After that, there was a time when you could search Google Video for new clips. These days, i keep a small playlist on youtube with footage.
With absolutely no research put into things, I feel like it’s probably gotta be the Tornado Video Classics tapes, yeah? Especially volumes one and two, volume three seems like it’s less common and I think it’s more expensive if you want a physical copy these days, too. Those and Twisters! Nature’s Fury, and Twister: Fury on the Plains. But I feel like most of us probably had the first two TVC tapes, lol. A lot of the videos on those are still classics today. Also the synced and intercut chase footage, tornado safety film…
This was probably my favorite videos you've done so far! Of course all of them are all super well done, but this one was spot on. Swegle Studios has out done itself, give yourself a pat on the back!
Sweet vid! I'm an avid Pecos Hank viewer. It's astounding both how incredible his footage is and how large he's become. I'm constantly needing to restrain myself when venturing to other random tornado videos that are pretty good and people are like "wow that's the craziest/closest footage I've ever seen." And every time I wanna say "ha, check out Pecos Hank if you think that's amazing. All of that said, I enjoyed this video, appreciate the decent level of research that went into it and am definitely going to check out more of your vids and see about subscribing!
Imagine the reaction of the first people who saw a tornado. It's another stormy night, you're with your tribe inside a cave trying to avoid the rain, and suddenly an overwhelming wind puts out all the fire you made to light up the darkness. You approach the entrance, curious to see what causes so much noise and chaos while carrying your spear, and you see something similar to a tree destroying the forest ahead, but a tree the size of mountains and that moves in an extremely strange way.
Amazing video as always man. I would love to see an in-depth video about the smithville, MS tornado. It’s very overlooked because it happened on the 2011 super outbreak day, however it had some of the most violent damage ever recorded. I got to drive up about 30 miles from my house and saw the damage, it was devastating. Entire neighborhoods were wiped out, with some not even having debris because it was all swept away. That memory will always live with me. Anyway, keep up the great work man
you know it’s gonna be a good tornado video when they quote Twister in the intro :) so cool to see the history of tornadoes and how much our knowledge of them has improved over the years
I used to go to the library and check out the same tornado books over and over again... _(550s using the Dewey Decimal system)_ 😁 Spent my time in class drawing them. Fell in love with Helen Hunt. This is a channel I can appreciate. I would have done the same if had the internet at the time.
When I was little, my dad was a HAM radio operator and whenever he heard about a tornado watch in our rough area (maybe 60 miles out or so) he would load me into the car with his radio setup and we would go try to find it. I was young enough that the memories are hazy, but I have a very distinct one of us out on a highway, watching the horizon just before it rained. Good times.
The part from tornado scene in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ when Emme is calling for Dorothy with the Tornado in the distance has ALWAYS fascinated me! Today as an adult it does EVEN MORE SO! To think this was done in the dawn of family cinema using fully practical effects, yet it looks SO CONVINCING! Its just MIND-BLOWING.
I want to mention the youtubers who are't storm chasers, but make wonderful informational videos: weatherbox, Carly Anna WX, Alferia, Convective Chronicles and of course Swegle Studios 💙
Love all of those! Tornado Forensics is a great channel too, they've synced up lots of different footage of some really well known Tornados (hopefully without infringing anyone's copyright!) and it's really interesting to watch! 👍
You know, I never knew just how much I needed this video lol Tornadoes have been a fascination and fear of mine since the late 90s. I grew up watching a documentary on VHS called "Twisters: Fury on the plains" or something, it was an obsession when I was a kid. I think you can even find that documentary on CZcams. Either way, Outstanding Video, something I never knew I always wanted.
Awesome video, thanks! (Not so) fun fact: Pliny the Elder, who was always fascinated by natural phenomena, was killed as he was trying to escape from Pompeii when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.
Pecos Hank is such an OG that he's the reason I'm watching _this_ video. Seriously. I watched a bunch of his videos recently. So, the CZcams algorithm reckoned that tornados are the _only_ thing I ever want to watch. So, it put this video on my feed.
Reminds me of the time i was working during a small series of tornadoes in south carolina. I was working at a dollar general with one of my older coworkers, and luckily i had a radar so we could watch the storms progress. Our boss calls, tells us to close the doors, and get everyone to the breakroom, customers included. My coworker and i briefly tried to see if we could see it lmfao But we got lucky, it dissipated before causing any damage, and we didnt see it or hear it, so everything was ok! Living in the midlands in south carolina, we dont get tornadoes pretty often, but my first experience was in elementary school, where a fairly weak one went over my school. I remember the doors in the hallway slamming open, and the principal, an elderly man who we all loved and respected, holding them closed to prevent any debris from flying inside.
The first known tornado featured in a movie was in the silent film "The Storm," which was released in 1909. The film was directed by D.W. Griffith and featured a scene with a tornado tearing through a town. The film was considered a pioneering work in the film industry and helped to establish many of the conventions that are still used in movies today. Chatgpt
I've been trying to get over my immense fear of tornadoes for a while now, & you may be a massive help in turning me from a tornado hater into a tornado lover.
I highly recommend going deep into learning about tornados. It has really helped me get over my fear, and made me into an enthusiast. The National Weather Service has lots of great videos talking about tornados, NWS Norman being the head office for tornados and pumping out the best education. The "Skywarn Training" is a good one to start on. You don't have to become a storm chaser, but this is the most basic training that the NWS wants the spotters to have, covering storm dynamics, identification, safety, and reporting practices. Good stuff.
I’m on the same track. I used to be absolutely terrified of tornadoes when I was little, despite never having experienced one. And while photos and videos of tornadoes are still bone-chilling to watch, knowing more about them makes me less afraid.
13:12 My only criticism of this video was that Sean Casey was able to film inside of a tornado in 2005, it is documented on youtube on a video called "Tornado intercept national geographic 2006"
i fell asleep last night for about an hour and i had a dream that went from beautiful summer breeze to a terrifyingly massive tornado in the distance that quickly rampaged through my neighborhood and swept me well into the air in a matter of seconds. it was horrific but those few seconds of weightlessness in which i watched the ground beneath me rapidly fall away felt amazing, it was beautiful. i am blessed to have such vivid dreams.
Great video! There was also the Great London Tornado of 1091, and was the first ever recorded tornado in England (was not yet part of United Kingdom). No illustrations were made of it at that time, though.
One of my favorite tornado fact, was a few years ago, for a whole month, California had the most tornado count. At a grand total of 3. Everywhere else had zero due to a late tornado season that year.
I always watch storm chasers even if it’s an old show it’s so good they aren’t yelling 24/7 but they aren’t so calm that there is no drama it shows really how destructive tornadoes can be and how they inflict fear onto others
As someone who grew up in Michigan, I well remember the Kalamazoo tornado of 1980 and there is also some silent 8mm movie footage of the Hudsonville-Standale tornado of 1956 somewhere on CZcams if I recall correctly. Nice video!
I lived in Illinois for 55 years and never saw one. When I was a kid, I pictured the one from “Wizard of Oz”. That was amazing scene made decades before CGI. I retired to Arizona and have seen several dust devils which look like brown tornadoes but so weak you can walk up to them
Fascinating video! The term _’cyclone’_ is still used to describe spiralling wind vortices observed on other planets like Neptune & Jupiter… and in Australia & South East Asia we use the term _’tropical cyclone’_ for what Americans call a _‘hurricane’_ (and the Chinese & Japanese call a _‘typhoon’)._ And interesting that Pliny the Elder described a tornado because his nephew, Pliny the Younger, is famous for being first to describe a volcanic eruption in detail… the same eruption of Vesuvius that killed Pliny the Elder. We now call them _’Plinian eruptions.’_
This video randomly popped up in my feed, but I'm glad I watched it! Very educational and very well put together! Also, I'm sorry but I just have to ask. The music at 1:12 is it some variation of "Ezio's Family" by any chance? It sounds eerily similar.
In Texas, Oklahoma Arkansas, Louisiana, we don’t have basements usually. Some people do but normally we will have storms cellars. They’re usually separate from the house so you have to go outside to get to them, but they are underground. Cool video!
"Susan, get my pants!" has become my new favourite quote from a tornado video. And thank you for such a great informative video.
Heard it the exact same time when I read the first part of your comment
@@EvilSantaTheTrue do you have alist of favorite tornado video quotes or something?
@@Donermaticc I remember a video with a funny quote but I forgot what they said so all I can say is sada
I just heard, “As soon as I get my pants”.
Probably poo'd himself
Being in the US, I have to remember that no other country in the world gets as many tornadoes as we do. And because of that, there is another level of appreciation for documenting the few tornadoes that do appear in, say, Switzerland or Austria. While tornadoes were a yearly occurrence to the Native Americans, they were practically myth elsewhere. Can't imagine being a farm boy and hearing stories of a "cloud's tail" destroying everything it touched, and then disappearing as fast as it came
Bangladesh gets an extraordinary amount, and I believe they have the most tornado deaths. Fact check that, though
@@theLongPigChefaround six per year on average. They had the deadliest tornado in history tho, occurring in 1989 with 1200+ casualties and 12000+ injured
@@boringveil4783 holy smokes... That's a lot of dead people. I seen a video about it years back. Thanks for the info.
Germany gets the most tornadoes on average in Europe because of it's geographic location though, it's not that uncommon here
@@istora9158 really? I had no idea. thank you for the info!
The tornado from helicopter footage you showed, was in Brooklyn Park Minnesota in 1986. I was alive then and the tornado went 2 blocks past my house. I honestly can still remember looking out the window and seeing it.
Sup fellow twin cities resident
Ha! Depending on the month I was probably in my mom's belly lol.
12 years old when that tornado happened. We lived about 5 miles north of Springbrook Nature Center. It was raining and hailing so hard where we were, we just watched it on TV. It was fascinating.
@@jonhiggins2012 Ello, I'm from there too. I love it there.
hello fellow minnesotan
The Deadman walking image is ingrained into my mind for good, especially knowing that it was walking into Jarrell to stall over double creek estates.
The Cullman tornado too
@@commiehunter733can’t forget Xenia ohio
I’ll never forget my first experience with a tornado.
It was in my small farm town, the year was 2000 and I was 5. My mom rushed my two older sisters and me outside and down to the cellar.
I remember my sisters sobbing and my mom was worried, but I for some reason was excited. I kept wanting to look up out the tiny cellar window and wanting to see the tornado.
I’m not sure why I was so excited during all the chaos..but I still get a little rush whenever there’s a tornado coming.
I've always been interested in the weather and always dreamed of seeing a tornado. I never got to actually SEE the funnel cloud situation, but I would always get so excited everytime there was a tornado warning. In FEBRUARY of all times 2017 I got my wish, I was at work and a tornado warning was issued, the first storm passed so we thought it was done , my manager went to leave, and then she comes running back in side panicking saying there's a tornado! I saw it ! And then there was that classic noise that is just indescribable, couldn't see out the windows, papers and leaves and branches flying everywhere. I was horrified 😂 not excited. I thought that's it I'm gonna die at WORK like really that's my luck and my manager and I were huddled in the supply closet. Lucky for us it passed about a quarter mile to the east of us and we definitely were lucky bc it was later rated and ef2. I just find it funny how I was always so excited to be in a tornado but when it happened I was so so scared haha
I think anything in nature where humans have absolutely no control is naturally fascinating, probably the reason a lot of science i.e immunology exists
I was the same as a little kid. During one season of terrible bushfires, my mum was in tears over all the destruction and horrible stuff she was reading about. I kept asking her to put the "fire show" back on, because the colours fascinated me.
The "fire show" was actually the news. All other news stories had been pushed to the side to focus on keeping people up to date with where the fires were at, so it was really just a constant broadcast of bushfire footage from around the country.
Looking back, it's a bit morbid. Still, though, whenever I see a fire, I get a little mesmerised by the colours in it.
I'm pretty sure enthusiasm like this is why certain people go into different jobs like sciences and firefighting and stuff.
I'm the complete opposite cause tornadoes scare the absolute daylights outta me
I've always been amazed how realistic the depiction of the tornado in The Wizard of Oz (1939) was.
I agree with you, it terrified me as a child, lol! I always thought it was much more realistic looking than those cgi tornadoes in Twister.
I think because was a rain wrapper
As a kid I honestly thought they just said fuck it and went out recording during a real tornado lmfao 😂😂☠️☠️
Practical effects are so much more convincing than cgi when done right.
@@DaisyPusher exactly why the original star wars movies hold up nearly 50 years later but the prequels made only 20 years ago look like shit. the matte paintings and scale models looked so much better than stupid jar jar binks!
12:22 Best quote in any tornado video:
"Susan, get my pants!"
IM CRACKJNG LIKE AN EGG RN AHAHGSGSHSJDKJDIDID
it was great
Soon as I heard it I went looking for a comment with that💀💀😂
SUSAN, GET MY PANTS!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
Honey? Where are my paaaants?
I have a picture of a tornado my mom took in 1948 when she was 18 years old. It bypassed her neighborhood by about 2 miles. It's a black and white photo, taken with her Kodak Brownie camera, which I now own. The tornado was approximately an F2, and occurred in Dearvborn, MI. I found the picture in some of her things I took from her home after she passed away in 2013. (Jan Griffiths).
Same may she rest in peace 🕊️
Rip that’s dope you still have it
@@semajyo9628 Thanks. Mom kept in an album, but I've framed it. It's actually 2 photos---one is the mature tornado, and the second is the rope-out stage. My mom took the pictures because the tornado was the first she'd ever seen, and the closest she'd ever been to one. (Jan Griffiths).
@@douglasgriffiths3534 I’m genuinely curious to see it🙏🏽
@@Cedrixck Me too
My grandmother was in the 1957 Dallas tornado. She was 16, pregnant, and had been married for a year to my grandfather. She was home alone when the tornado hit. She ran to her mothers house and took cover. She said it was horribly loud, and destructive.
Also, my great grandmother lost her whole family in a tornado in Oklahoma 1924.
16 with her own house?
@@janeistired3921is that important? Geesh
@@janeistired3921 1957 for ya
@@janeistired3921 different time back then, but that was not all that uncommon
@@janeistired3921sheesh calm down little bro
Wow. The Dallas tornado shows how far Dallas has come since then. Used to be a small city, now it and Ft. Worth basically combined into one massive super metropolis
11:52 "oh there goes my boat."
"I hope not"
Favorite moment
last words before disaster.
Hank Schyma, a.k.a. Pecos Hank, really is one of the GOATs of tornado chasing. He got himself into some seriously hairy situations early in his chasing career but he's gotten wiser and more cautious as he's gotten experience, and he's also done some major volunteer work for tornado research groups. He even provides his very own background music, being a musician and frontman to a local band, the Southern Backtones. Not just tornadoes, either: He's done extensive studies on "sprites," the mysterious electrical discharges out of the tops of storms.
My favorite video of his is one of his earlier ones, where he was chasing a large tornado moving very slowly in an arc in front of him. This was already a sporty situation, since behind him was a massively destructive hail shaft. The large but weak tornado *hits him* (fortunately without damage) and passes on. Then he realized that the tornado he was chasing *was the satellite of the main tornado,* a mile-wide EF4 monster not 200 yards downrange of him. Not many chasers stare into the maw of Death like that and live to tell about it afterward. Has to simply be seen to be believed: czcams.com/video/CA5rSFWGy4E/video.html
Yeah that one is definitely his best vid
@@darktemplardelta268 I dunno about BEST, but it sure as heck illustrates how dangerous chasing can be, when you don't leave yourself an out and get WAY too close to your subjects. Some of his later footage is far better, but that's the day he came closest to death and it did change how he chased.
He was boxed in like a turtle's pecker
He doesn't put out enough material. I haven't seen a tornado video from him in a minute. His shooting and editing is my favorite.
I think Peco Hank's biggest strength is his production value. Beautifully captured footage, amazing music, great narration, etc.
As someone with ADHD who’s special interest as a child was tornadoes seeing this video made me feel so happy.
Same not sure If I have ADHD but I do definitely have alot of symptoms, I've has ab obsession with tornadoes since I was very little
same and same.
adhd tornado lover gang
I am similar to you, I have adhd and love tornado
Same here, have ADHD and am autistic, natural disasters have been a special interest for longer than I can remember!
I thank you for mentioning Pecos Hank, and I agree with your opinion with him being “the goat” of all storm chasers channels. From his transitions, to his captures of natural beauty and horror and amazing shots mixed with country music that PERFECTLY fits with the situations he recorded, and the random shots with him with snakes, frogs, turtles, and even different reptiles or bugs are absolutely hilarious at times and are great little additions to his videos.
Pecos Hank is a true legend!
He is awesome... It is pronounced " pay cos" fyi. Not "pee cos"
he makes his own music!
I love your videos
PECOS HANK IS MY FAV !!
Tornado footage has been something that’s fascinated me for years, and although while it’s scary, amateur storm chasers get absolutely insane footage sometimes and it just floors me. My favorite is Scott Peake’s video on the 2020 Ashby, MN tornado. He gets SUPER close and the quality is astounding. It’s unreal how much technology has advanced and how brave people are with these kinds of things
Interesting thing to note, Pliny the Elder was also (at least later in his life) an admiral in the Roman Navy. He was part of a rescue attempt in the Pompeii area when Vesuvius erupted, but had to abort the mission when the ash became too thick to sail; it's believed he either suffocated or suffered a heart attack while watching the eruption on the beach.
Pretty sure Pliny the younger was the first to document an eruption.
There’s even more conflicting reports in Pliny the Elder’s death than just that!
There’s a report that he died Before he got on the boat over, as you mentioned. There’s many that disagree whether died sailing to Pompeii or on the way back via heart attack or suffocation. But my favorite is that he got hit on the head with a rock while sailing & it either knocked him dead or knocked him out, the ash in the air taking care of the rest.
He wasn’t necessarily apart of a big reduce attempt as much as trying to help save a specific friend at Pompeii who sent a letter asking for help.
Also his work, Natural History, is absolutely buckwild to go through. There’s good free translated versions online. Skip to the medicine section of one of the books or the section on springs (referring to hot/cold water spring, not the season). He wanted to write down all the information he has available to him at the time. Only issue is they didn’t necessarily fact check any of it before it went in the book.
It results in a Very entertaining read.
its sad that he didnt like yours, you deserve a like man.
@@bonebrokebuddy5248 Another fun fact, his son Pliny The Younger watched the volcano destroy the city from far across the water, while his father was dying.
@@wuotanaz1106 Nephew. And Misenium is not that much further away from Vesuvius than Stabiae (where Pliny the Elder got his fatal Asthma/Heart attack) was
The photo at 6:26 is from my hometown of Norton, Kansas in 1909! It's even displayed in our local courthouse and museum! Thanks so much for sharing!
Least your town isn't due for one I love in Topeka luckily my fam has 3 basement to to hide in. My basement my grandpas and my grandma's all in a large line across the entire town so if you around me or my fam and you in Topeka be ready to join us for safety. As in a time of disaster we treat every as family especially the lost children.
I uploaded a video to CZcams 15 years ago when a tornado swept the outskirts of Ellis, only an hour or so from you. I consider that video my 15 minutes of fame lol. Just search Tornadoes hit Ellis, KS.
I have to say I’m not a tornado enthusiast, but I sure do love fact based presentations especially science and you sure have it all. Not only that you just seem like a very respectable person and the way you present and talk about things you can sense the amount of thought and respect you have. I appreciate you and your channel.
A (pleasantly so) surprising channel, a priceless young man and his dedication to not on the subject matter, but also a superb historian/documentarian. I hope he goes far.
That said, I hope his going far has everything to do with his career and not getting blown into another state/province.
The Wizard of Oz footage is some of the most incredible cinema FX I've ever seen, at a time when we should've had no way to do that. I'd love seeing a breakdown of that.
Stay safe my friend!
@@wren7195 I do think the earliest written reference to a tornado is in the Biblical book of Job, chapter 37, v. 9: "From the chamber of the south comes the whirlwind,
And cold from the scattering winds of the north."
Another possible reference is Job chapter 1, vs. 18 - 19: "Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, and suddenly a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people, and they are dead." The winds of a tornado often do hit all four corners of a house, unlike the usual winds that come from one particular direction.
(it's pronounced "Pay-cose") Pecos Hank is great not just because of his footage, but his presentation, the music, his poetic delivery...the man's an artist.
The correct pronunciation of the word Pecos is PEH-cohs. It is not an English word. Those that pronounce it as "PAY" do so because of the southern twang.
You really did pick out three of the most iconic tornado camecorder videos. The McConnell AFB video is scary beyond belief, especially if you watch the full clip and see how that little stovepipe rounds the corner all "Here's Johnny" style and wrecks utter chaos right in front of them. And then "There goes Bob's boat" and "Susan get my pants" earn the other two their place in the top three for sure!
This was really interesting. Must have taken you a long time to research this and compile all the footage. Great work!
Thanks a lot! It was very interesting to me so it didn't seem like too much work, but it did take longer than I thought haha.. Thanks for watching!
I'm your 700th liker here & bye.
In the early 1960s, we had a weatherman in Amarillo named Dan True. The guy was a pilot and the station, Channel 10 KFDA, had a plane that went up to check weather and big events. It was cool. He was the originator of several things up in the panhandle of Texas. I do remember him flying way out, but actually catching a tornado while flying (he had a cameraman.) He doesn't talk about that but he does mention flying at the studio and some of the innovations he made. He passed away in March 2022 at age 97. czcams.com/video/Z3Sq0C9g4QU/video.html
Oh wow! I just watched the video.. Thanks for sharing!
Wow!
Omg i live in Amarillo
@@heisenburger2 I live in Lubbock thats crazy.
r.I.p
Lost my dad last year in the F4 mile and half wide tornado that hit Dawson Springs Kentucky. My heart won't ever not be broken. Definitely, absolutely take tornados seriously...always pay attention to the forecast and do what you can to seek shelter. Just because it's winter, Christmas time, middle of the nite- doesn't matter, apparently still a chance it could happen even though you least expect it.
You ever find the body?
@@HughAverageHomoMan dude thats not cool
@@Oreos_HQ Its a legitimate question.
@@HughAverageHomoMan I know but that’s kind of a messed up question to ask someone who’s dad recently died
@@Oreos_HQ slightly over a year isn't recent lmao. if he didn't want normal questions asked about it he wouldn't have shared it.
I really like the eerie feeling from watching those 90’s amateur footage. I think it’s because of that weird feeling of memory or nostalgia you get when you watch camcorder footage. Not only that but you also see a sky tearing monster ripping apart the land. And finally because of the movie “Twister” and when it was released definitely plays a role.
I live in Nebraska, about 20 minutes from Aurora and around an hour from Columbus. I love seeing/hearing the things you find around me. My 15 year old daughter found your channel and we watch it together a lot.
The photo from August 28, 1884 is actually astonishing! The way you can see two smaller tornadoes starting to peek out from the cloud coverage. So cool!
Now this was definitely a first. I had often wondered who was the first to actually capture a tornado on video. This video was captivating, great research on your part! 👍
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
I dont know where I got this from, but I couldve sworn that tornadoes were a uniquely american and Australian thing
Maybe Im thinking of firsthand accounts of when the english settlers arrived in America (and later Australia), but I was honestly convinced that europe and asia never got tornados
@@SwegleStudios This video gonna blow up
You got a reply. By the way, are you still watching Bonehead Truckers? I am getting tired of watching those videos because I see enough of the poo on a daily basis.
Freaking loved this: my passion for history and tornadoes all rolled into one. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! Im the same way! love history.. love tornadoes.. really love tornado history!
I remember having a huge tornado obsession when I was 5 years old!
I know dang well there’s no way in heaven or hell that he just called my man Dusty “rusty”
Michael Landon on the floor, smiling up at us for Kodak cameras, still stuck to the broken safety glass from our smashed Walgreens windows just made everything seem better. The destruction in downtown Kalamazoo was unreal. Thanks for sharing the first amatuer video. I've never seen a tornado in real life but a lot of us survived being in that one. We didn't even know what that Tornado siren sound was for! So fast, so fortunate.
I agree that old tornado photos and videos are creepier than color ones. Not sure why, I guess just the thought that they’ve been terrorizing the planet for so long and also to think how much less prepared people were to respond to them back then.
Loved this video!
Destroying Breeders fantasy dreams of taking their children away.
@@cutesyprincess14 what
They were more ready then people are now adays every house had a basement back in the day now only like 40 percent of home have it
@@cutesyprincess14 redditor comment
@@cutesyprincess14 you touch children
Jeff Piotrowski should be given special mention. He and his wife were the first to realize that the rain cloud in Joplin was a massive multi vortex tornado, and pulled over to warn a police officer to get the sirens going, and due to his warning, sirens went off in Joplin again, thus most people understood that time, that it was no false alarm
was he a professional meteorologist, or just an enthusiast?
@@jonathanbethards3689 storm chaser.
@@LoganTheDevilMayCryFan thanks for the reply
Jeff is really a Veteran of Stormchase
He’s been around a while. I remember a video of Mr. Piotrowski’s from way back in 1995 being featured on The Weather Channel’s “Tornadoes ‘95” documentary. He filmed a long-track F3 that crossed the Red River from Texas and seriously damaged the Uniroyal Tire Plant in Ardmore, Oklahoma. He was right there by the plant when it was hit.
It's a good day when swegle uploads
Thanks!
It’s true lol
So true
Agreed
Yes
Dude the fact that Wichita Falls is famous and famous people mention/have been in it like fluffy or Gabriel Iglesias and Tom Scott always makes me happy when it’s more than 3k people hear about Wichita Falls in one video
I'm surprised there aren't earlier mentions or depictions of tornadoes considering how relatively common they are, and how humans are instinctively afraid of them.
3:23 thank you for reminding me that this was footage of a completely different tornado than the one 500 years ago
Wanted to avoid any confusion
Holy shit it’s Toad wii remote with Wii motion plus inside!
Whoa Poofesure’s Toad Wii Remote With Wii Motion Plus Inside. Didnt expect to see you here.
@@KnightlySymphony Surprise
At 12:05 I literally screamed in tandem with the gent in the video, "GET AWAY FROM THE WINDOW!!!" 😆 Also, at 12:23 "Susan, get my pants" is the funniest thing I've heard in a tornado video.
Nice to hear Ryan Hall mentioned in this. He does a great job of providing a service that definitely saves lives while being an all around great wx personality.
He and his team really provide a great service. I was going to comment about Ryan also. And Pecos Hank. The research and fieldwork a lot of storm chasers do provide not only preparedness information and general awareness, but also improved safety equipment and shelters and live coverage where local reception might not reach.
Thank you for such an actually interesting video! It combines two of my few favoriest things: history and tornadoes.
I'm from Russia, from Siberia (it's where a snow lies the entire year stereotypically but it's actually doesn't). Though European part of Russia (not the part where I live) is on the Wikipedia's map of most likely tornado spawn territories (out of North America)* such a weather phenomenon is relatively rare nationwide here in common. So there are no large number of tornado enjoyers, the most well-known source of detailed information about it in my country is Discovery's "Storm Chasers" series mentioned in the video. Despite it, since the childhood I've always been extremely interested in and fascinated with tornadoes due to their eerie, dangerous beauty like the very specific nature's power demonstration. It concerns to another dangerous nature phenomenons like thunderstorms and lightnings, fires, floods, dust storms but tornadoes were always my favoriest ones (thanks to 3-part 2006 Reader's Digest's documentary on the VHS I even could quote when was 6 y.o.). IDK, I've always been attracted to different eerie things, not only about the weather.
Almost every spring and summer I remember about this interest and start to search for and watch some new tornado vidoes like recent MS tornado. BTW, Pecos Hank is really good, the additional pleasure is to watch his footages of ligntings, sprites and beautiful American nature. Nature is one of my passions in common.
Probably, if I was born in the US Midwest or South and had the same interests or if there was the similar tornado frequency in Russia like in the US, I would started to learn meteorology in more details (academically or with self-education) and do a storm chasing as a hobby at least (moreover, I was one of the best in geography in the entire school). Who knows.
And a bit more. Yesterday, as a historian, I thought about mentions and depiction of tornadoes in Russian history (there were a few memorable ones from 1904 and 1984 for example, there even was a movie about the last one's consequences). Author's video reminded it would be ineresting information to search for at leisure. Eventually there wouldn't exist own Russian analog word for tornado (smerch/смерч) if there wasn't such climatic phenomenon in this country.
*Map what I've talked about: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Globdisttornado.jpg
I'm a tornado enthusiast and I have to say, excellent job on this video! Outstanding research! It should be required viewing in school science classes everwhere.
My grandma took pictures of the tornado that hit Jarrell TX in 1997. She worked at a newspaper for a nearby small town. They lived in a mobile home at the time.
I currently live in Wichita Falls. I hear stories about the tornado in 64 and the tornado on Terrible Tuesday all the time. It’s crazy to know how historical these storms are.
Living in Minnesota for around 18 years, I've been caught in the paths of 2 separate tornadoes. The first one was when I was little and my family had jist moved into the state that week. The tornado leveled the neighbor's house and trashed ours. I was little at the time, so I don't remember much about it. One thing I'll always remember about it is that terrible noise. It was like a freight train had crashed in our living room. It was an upper F2, and my neighbor was injured. The second one was in 2019 while I was on the freeway. All traffic stopped because we couldn't even see the hood of our car, and the rain was slamming horizontally on the driver's side. Never saw the tornado due to the visibility, but it passed right behind me and cut directly across the freeway. That was luckily a EF0, and nobody was hurt.
Fellow Minnesotan here, our tornadoes are certainly something!
deadass tornado
im in minnesota too
As someone who has survived a tornado and nearly died, please dear god go to the basement.
@@dessertlocustNO!!!!!
@@liu69420who’s stopping me 😈
Uuuuh wait what do I do if my house kinda long instead of large and has no basement.
@@soda_coir7595if you don’t have a basement then you probably don’t live in an area where tornados happen. They would’ve put a basement their for safety measures if you lived in an area where tornados happen
@@Waluigitheretrogamer5674best spot for him would probably be some kind of closet. There aren’t basements in Texas and plenty happen here
31 years of being obsessed with tornadoes and "Susan get my pants!" is what finally made me lose it.
lol
I've lived in kalamazoo my whole life and heard about the tornado from my mom growing up who lived through it right in its path. However, I never knew about it being the first instance of an amateur recording until today, so thank you for including it.
I'm adoring your videos! As someone who lives in the uk we rarely get documented tornadoes so these videos keep me entertained!
Thanks! the UK gets a lot of small tornadoes, but thankfully, not a lot of large/violent ones.
@@SwegleStudios Wish we did, of course away for civilisation but one day I would love to see one.
Visit Oklahoma or Kansas in May.. You'll probably be the only British person for 100 miles but you might see a large tornado!
@@SwegleStudios sadly I'm only 13, but I will try and save up to go watch one :D
13:34 legit took the words out my mouth, been watching him since the early days of the pandemic💯
Likewise
I watched him since the early days of 2014
fun fact; where I used to live, tornadoes were so frequent that the tornado sirens had to be tested weekly, so once a week at the same time, the sirens would go off. I'd been through quite a few tornadoes in my time there, but I dont remember much because my family and I moved when I was 8.
Wichita Falls resident, here. The 1964 tornado was the fastest wind speeds we've had, but terrible Tuesday (April 10th, 1979) is definitely our most infamous tornado.
For me the tornado at 10:22 left me in awe with how intense it looks close up, as well as the one at 12:09 just looking mean & devilish.
I love both those clips.. The helicopter footage is from KARE11 1986 Tornado special
That Columbus tornado is insane. The roar was stupidly loud and that rotation was almost as fast as a drill bit tornado. That’s crazy for the outer circulation of a tornado.
omg! I love the Columbus footage too! Its fascinating. Im a Nebraskan so its pretty interesting to look at.
Wow, great video. And kudos for giving recognition to the main guys who track storms today (Pecos Hank, Reed Timmer & Ryan Hall among others).
i just came across this channel and realized how much i would’ve loved it when i was younger; i used to be OBSESSED with tornadoes! i got every book in the school library that there was about tornadoes, and whenever the weather got bad i would stare out the windows and look for a tornado. my mom even called me “the next big weather broadcaster” because i would announce every little weather change to my family. thanks for reminding me of when i was younger, you may have just sparked my interest in tornadoes and weather in general again!
9:30 first time the entire lifespan of a tornado was filmed, and it was confirmed to have killed 10 people... somewhere in that video, there's 10 people dying. Our world is dark.
12:15 Terryfing and Amazing at the same time
Oh no, this video is in phases. It's like the MCU but tornado footage haha! I also love how the guy at 8:57 is just casually pouring drinks while a tornado tears up the ground behind him. Great stuff!
I remember when I was 9 watching them film the inside of a tornado for the first time, I was absolutely fascinated
The Wichita Falls tornado was also notable for hitting Sheppard AFB. It completely destroyed the old clapboard hospital which luckily had no one in it as all of the medical operations was moved to the new brick and mortar hospital a week prior
Im only a 2007’s kid here in witchita but I always hear about terrible tuesday!
Love how you added "Open Your Heart" by Madonna to your intro! I really enjoy your videos, very educating!
11:37 Back in the 80s, finding commercial VHS compilations of tornadoes was difficult at best for someone with this obsession.
The library was one of the only resources outside of visiting your local college.
There would usually be one or two weather related VHS videos with a handful or tornado clips. If the library didn't carry anything weather related on VHS, you might find footage in generalized nature documentaries. Or not.
By the late 80s-early 90s, there were a decent amount of commercial tornado compilations on VHS. I'd be curious to learn which VHS tapes had the widest distribution in that era. I imagine that those of us around at the time, were watching the same handful of tapes.
The Mconnel Air force base tornado was on repeat constantly on the History channel back in the day.
It was a great decade for discovering new footage. You had a number of science channels on cable with documentaries dedicated to tornadoes, and the internet had amateur and professional photography. Personal websites where you could buy posters, tapes, DVD's from chasers and photographers.
After that, there was a time when you could search Google Video for new clips.
These days, i keep a small playlist on youtube with footage.
With absolutely no research put into things, I feel like it’s probably gotta be the Tornado Video Classics tapes, yeah? Especially volumes one and two, volume three seems like it’s less common and I think it’s more expensive if you want a physical copy these days, too.
Those and Twisters! Nature’s Fury, and Twister: Fury on the Plains. But I feel like most of us probably had the first two TVC tapes, lol. A lot of the videos on those are still classics today. Also the synced and intercut chase footage, tornado safety film…
Stormchasers was my childhood as well! Loved that show and watched every single episode. Thanks for making this awesome video
This was probably my favorite videos you've done so far! Of course all of them are all super well done, but this one was spot on. Swegle Studios has out done itself, give yourself a pat on the back!
Wow, thanks! Always trying to improve
Sweet vid! I'm an avid Pecos Hank viewer. It's astounding both how incredible his footage is and how large he's become. I'm constantly needing to restrain myself when venturing to other random tornado videos that are pretty good and people are like "wow that's the craziest/closest footage I've ever seen." And every time I wanna say "ha, check out Pecos Hank if you think that's amazing.
All of that said, I enjoyed this video, appreciate the decent level of research that went into it and am definitely going to check out more of your vids and see about subscribing!
Imagine the reaction of the first people who saw a tornado. It's another stormy night, you're with your tribe inside a cave trying to avoid the rain, and suddenly an overwhelming wind puts out all the fire you made to light up the darkness. You approach the entrance, curious to see what causes so much noise and chaos while carrying your spear, and you see something similar to a tree destroying the forest ahead, but a tree the size of mountains and that moves in an extremely strange way.
Amazing video as always man. I would love to see an in-depth video about the smithville, MS tornado. It’s very overlooked because it happened on the 2011 super outbreak day, however it had some of the most violent damage ever recorded. I got to drive up about 30 miles from my house and saw the damage, it was devastating. Entire neighborhoods were wiped out, with some not even having debris because it was all swept away. That memory will always live with me. Anyway, keep up the great work man
you know it’s gonna be a good tornado video when they quote Twister in the intro :) so cool to see the history of tornadoes and how much our knowledge of them has improved over the years
I used to go to the library and check out the same tornado books over and over again...
_(550s using the Dewey Decimal system)_ 😁
Spent my time in class drawing them.
Fell in love with Helen Hunt.
This is a channel I can appreciate. I would have done the same if had the internet at the time.
When I was little, my dad was a HAM radio operator and whenever he heard about a tornado watch in our rough area (maybe 60 miles out or so) he would load me into the car with his radio setup and we would go try to find it. I was young enough that the memories are hazy, but I have a very distinct one of us out on a highway, watching the horizon just before it rained. Good times.
The part from tornado scene in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ when Emme is calling for Dorothy with the Tornado in the distance has ALWAYS fascinated me! Today as an adult it does EVEN MORE SO! To think this was done in the dawn of family cinema using fully practical effects, yet it looks SO CONVINCING! Its just MIND-BLOWING.
I want to mention the youtubers who are't storm chasers, but make wonderful informational videos: weatherbox, Carly Anna WX, Alferia, Convective Chronicles and of course Swegle Studios 💙
Love all those channels!
Love all of those! Tornado Forensics is a great channel too, they've synced up lots of different footage of some really well known Tornados (hopefully without infringing anyone's copyright!) and it's really interesting to watch! 👍
Yess, those are all my peeps!! ❤❤❤
Yes! I am subscribed to all of them
This is one of the best videos I've stumbled upon in a long time. I didn't realize how much I really did wanna know this stuff. Sick video dude!
Wow that's a nice compliment! Thanks so much!
You know, I never knew just how much I needed this video lol Tornadoes have been a fascination and fear of mine since the late 90s. I grew up watching a documentary on VHS called "Twisters: Fury on the plains" or something, it was an obsession when I was a kid. I think you can even find that documentary on CZcams. Either way, Outstanding Video, something I never knew I always wanted.
the wizard of oz special effects, honestly, is much better than most hollywood movies today. that tornado was very convincing!
13:36 honestly I was just waiting for you to say something about him. I enjoy his channel a lot. He seems very down to earth
Came for the tornadoes, stayed for the 90s teen heartthrob haircut. Another great video!
hahahaha ik,.... I knew it before too but for some reason I said RUSTY.
12:07 this video is so good and creepy
Awesome video, thanks! (Not so) fun fact: Pliny the Elder, who was always fascinated by natural phenomena, was killed as he was trying to escape from Pompeii when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.
I saw that and I almost mentioned it. Thanks for watching!
Pecos Hank is such an OG that he's the reason I'm watching _this_ video. Seriously. I watched a bunch of his videos recently. So, the CZcams algorithm reckoned that tornados are the _only_ thing I ever want to watch. So, it put this video on my feed.
Reminds me of the time i was working during a small series of tornadoes in south carolina. I was working at a dollar general with one of my older coworkers, and luckily i had a radar so we could watch the storms progress. Our boss calls, tells us to close the doors, and get everyone to the breakroom, customers included. My coworker and i briefly tried to see if we could see it lmfao
But we got lucky, it dissipated before causing any damage, and we didnt see it or hear it, so everything was ok!
Living in the midlands in south carolina, we dont get tornadoes pretty often, but my first experience was in elementary school, where a fairly weak one went over my school. I remember the doors in the hallway slamming open, and the principal, an elderly man who we all loved and respected, holding them closed to prevent any debris from flying inside.
The first known tornado featured in a movie was in the silent film "The Storm," which was released in 1909. The film was directed by D.W. Griffith and featured a scene with a tornado tearing through a town. The film was considered a pioneering work in the film industry and helped to establish many of the conventions that are still used in movies today.
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I've been trying to get over my immense fear of tornadoes for a while now, & you may be a massive help in turning me from a tornado hater into a tornado lover.
I highly recommend going deep into learning about tornados. It has really helped me get over my fear, and made me into an enthusiast.
The National Weather Service has lots of great videos talking about tornados, NWS Norman being the head office for tornados and pumping out the best education. The "Skywarn Training" is a good one to start on. You don't have to become a storm chaser, but this is the most basic training that the NWS wants the spotters to have, covering storm dynamics, identification, safety, and reporting practices. Good stuff.
I’m on the same track. I used to be absolutely terrified of tornadoes when I was little, despite never having experienced one. And while photos and videos of tornadoes are still bone-chilling to watch, knowing more about them makes me less afraid.
13:12 My only criticism of this video was that Sean Casey was able to film inside of a tornado in 2005, it is documented on youtube on a video called "Tornado intercept national geographic 2006"
This is such a great video. The old photos/videos and drawings scare me a lot more than the more modern videos
I dont know why i like watching videos of dangerous natural disasters. But its worth it.
Nice choice of music at 12:35 - a Weatherscan classic! I used to watch that for hours when I was little 😅
i fell asleep last night for about an hour and i had a dream that went from beautiful summer breeze to a terrifyingly massive tornado in the distance that quickly rampaged through my neighborhood and swept me well into the air in a matter of seconds. it was horrific but those few seconds of weightlessness in which i watched the ground beneath me rapidly fall away felt amazing, it was beautiful. i am blessed to have such vivid dreams.
Great video! There was also the Great London Tornado of 1091, and was the first ever recorded tornado in England (was not yet part of United Kingdom). No illustrations were made of it at that time, though.
One of my favorite tornado fact, was a few years ago, for a whole month, California had the most tornado count. At a grand total of 3. Everywhere else had zero due to a late tornado season that year.
I always watch storm chasers even if it’s an old show it’s so good they aren’t yelling 24/7 but they aren’t so calm that there is no drama it shows really how destructive tornadoes can be and how they inflict fear onto others
As someone who grew up in Michigan, I well remember the Kalamazoo tornado of 1980 and there is also some silent 8mm movie footage of the Hudsonville-Standale tornado of 1956 somewhere on CZcams if I recall correctly. Nice video!
The Hudsonville tornado was an F5, which is highly unusual for Michigan.
the assassins creed odyssey music to play when mentioning a Greek philosopher. 1:45
This is such a niche subject but honestly extremely interesting. Please keep making these videos, they're awesome.
I lived in Illinois for 55 years and never saw one. When I was a kid, I pictured the one from “Wizard of Oz”. That was amazing scene made decades before CGI. I retired to Arizona and have seen several dust devils which look like brown tornadoes but so weak you can walk up to them
Fascinating video! The term _’cyclone’_ is still used to describe spiralling wind vortices observed on other planets like Neptune & Jupiter… and in Australia & South East Asia we use the term _’tropical cyclone’_ for what Americans call a _‘hurricane’_ (and the Chinese & Japanese call a _‘typhoon’)._ And interesting that Pliny the Elder described a tornado because his nephew, Pliny the Younger, is famous for being first to describe a volcanic eruption in detail… the same eruption of Vesuvius that killed Pliny the Elder. We now call them _’Plinian eruptions.’_
I don’t know what it is but I am so fascinated with tornados yet so terrified of them
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"Look guys!, i'm dead in 12 seconds 😃"
This video randomly popped up in my feed, but I'm glad I watched it! Very educational and very well put together!
Also, I'm sorry but I just have to ask. The music at 1:12 is it some variation of "Ezio's Family" by any chance? It sounds eerily similar.
One thing I remember about stormchasers was that Reed was always taking forever to leave the house. Every episode
In Texas, Oklahoma Arkansas, Louisiana, we don’t have basements usually. Some people do but normally we will have storms cellars. They’re usually separate from the house so you have to go outside to get to them, but they are underground. Cool video!
7:35 Looks like the EF5 in Canada in terms of structure and I can't get that out of my head.