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We only use the EF scale. Also really dude.
They start in the clouds and form a wall cloud as in the name is a wall of cloud dropped down from the storm cell/front and a funnel will either snake out or will form a big cone before sucking up dirt and debree along with the storm form a hook on radar that is easily spotable
To answer your question at 13:52 theyvstart at both the air and ground when one forms the clounds begin to visibly spin and the same time dust and dirt on the ground form a dust cloud then the two funnels meet eachother near the middle
ayy I'm from Northern Ireland too!
As of June 5th 2024 Ohio, my home state, has had 62 tornadoes this year.
I grew up in the US Midwest and tornados are no joke. As a kid we weren't scared of monsters in the dark, we were terrified of being awoken by that errie tornado siren.
YOU KNOW IT!!!! They were my nightmares.
AMEN on that. Can't remember who many times I fell out at night because of those sirens.
I legit still have nightmares of them and im 36 lol
Midwest got hit hard not too long ago
@@ryenbowyer7352 I almost got caught outside because I was in the backyard storage shed listening to my music and only saw it when I got up to close the building door after it slammed open
I saw a picture of someone's home that was destroyed by weather like this. He still had a sense of humor. He wrote on the sign, "Home For Sale. Some Assembly Required." LOL!
The fucking madlad 😂
🤣🤣
Lol dark humor indeed :P
it really sucks, but to be fare most of the homes arent even made to withstand f4 or f5 tornadoes, which imo should be a priority if you live in an area where it could happen
If you can make someone laugh you are making them forget their pain for a few seconds.
The worst part about a Tornado is the absolute quiet right before it hits. I'll never forget my first Tornado. The sky completely black and not a sound to be heard, no dogs, no birds, no bugs, nothing.
Yep, it’s very ominous
The one memory i think I'll never forget is when the wind switched directions as an F1 dropped literally right on top of my car. It was blowing west then it stopped. And then the wall of eastbound wind and the sound of a train. Ive never cowered in my car that hard. Thankfully i live in the mountains so any tornadoes are pretty rare by me. The only one worse wasthe F3 that hit my neighborhood when i was a baby but i have no memory of it being so young
Wow that sounds horrible I’ve never been in one but they scare me and I hope I will never be in one 😅❤️
I have a friend whose 8 year old son's life was taken in the 2013 Moore, Oklahoma, tornado. He's still obviously very devastated. Victim's name is Christopher Legg
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Soo sooo sad! Bless him 🙏🏻
Incredibly sad! I hope your friend finds his way to a good therapist ❤️🩹 much love sent to all victims, alive and angels.
That's terribly sad. R.I.P. Christopher Legg.
For the Joplin tornado: There was a reporter who was on site immediately after the tornado hit. She said she got PTSD from being there and for weeks after she would try to sleep but could still hear the search dogs barking in her head every time they found a body.
We have a family member who was in a stairwell and the 2 people behind him were sucked out and were killed
I spent my birthday helping with the search and rescue for Joplin. I definitely understand what that reporter is talking about. It is something you can never forget. You could never imagine the destruction and sadness until you see it with your own eyes. I have the utmost respect for everyone out there who helps in trying to predict and warn everyone of these storms to save lives.
I helped clean up the greenbrier nursing home after the Joplin tornado, (still live between Joplin and Carthage Missouri) there’s still nights though rare that I hear the beeping of the bed alarms that let you know someone isn’t in their bed
I live south of Joplin and went up as a volunteer to help. The damage was devastating, seeing it on TV is nothing compared to seeing it up close.
I grew up in Virginia and a tornado traveled up a creek bed a little ways behind our house. A car from a few streets over ended up in a tree between our house and our neighbor's. Bit of a shock to walk out the front door and see it hanging out like a tree house from hell
“It’s not THAT the wind is blowing, it’s WHAT the wind is blowing” - Ron White
The wind is blowing me
I swear to God 😭@@PROTO.Gam3z
Ahh do you remember the special this is from?! That unlocked a core memory for me lol.
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Native Oklahoman here, and I gotta say the Oklahoma footage I all watched in person on TV, some of it close to me, but I did not receive any damage thankfully. The second tornado shown, the Moore tornado, the 20+ lives that were taken. were actually children that were trapped in a school. That is why that is one of the most well-known tornadoes of Oklahoma because it took such precious lives from us. I don’t know when this video was made that you were watching, but we recently had two EF five tornadoes. 11 years after that one even though it said there hasn’t been one since, there has now been two this year.
Yeah, this year has been WILD in Oklahoma! Just saw the count and they’re saying 103 tornadoes counted here so far this storm season!
I lost two friends to the Joplin tornado. Last we heard, they were taking their dogs to a back hallway (there was no basement, if I remember correctly) and were going to try to ride out the storm there, the way they always did when there were tornado warnings, but no one had any idea how big this storm was. We thought they’d just lost power as the storm passed through. It took several days to get confirmation that they were gone and not just stranded in a neighborhood without power. Even the hospital was torn just about in half in Joplin. I think, afterward, it was the only building still recognizable in the whole neighborhood because it was big enough that it didn’t get leveled. Where do you go for help when your local hospital’s been hollowed out by the same storm, you know? To this day, I can’t think about Joplin without getting really angry. It just wasn’t survivable once you were in its path. In the video footage of Joplin, you can see the path it tore through town as it picked up strength and debris and speed, and grew wider as it moved. I’ll never look at tornadoes the same way again since Joplin.
My wife and I got to the basement about 25 seconds before the Joplin tornado hit our house dead-center. To this day, we get emotional if we speak about it and weather events cause us a great deal of stress and anxiety. We climbed out and started helping look for others. It was like being in a war zone.
So happy you survived. Bless you both, always.
People without basements are even worse off. But mobile homes rank highest on the terror scale.
@@billolsen4360 I just moved into a mobile home in a state that gets real tornadoes. Luckily I’m married to a concrete man who will make us a shelter. The way the weather is intensifying, you can’t be too careful.
Glad to see you still alive
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The 1999 Moore tornado almost killed me when I was 7 years old. My mother, my 2 younger siblings, and I were all at home while my dad was deployed overseas for military work. It was a small 3 bedroom home with no basement or shelter. We huddled in a broom closet for hours listening to the tornado sirens and the local weather radio. As a kid I had no concept of the danger we were actually in. The tornado ripped through town just half a mile away from us, but we were ok where we were. I remember the next day when we saw the damaged houses I asked my mom why none of the flattened houses had closets where people could hide, and she explained that the tornado was just too strong for the closets and destroyed them too. That's when it sunk in for me how close we came to dying that night, and it was the first time I ever felt that recognition of my mortality as a kid. Things were probably even worse for my dad. The only information he had overseas was the news reports because the phone lines in my town were all damaged and not working. He spent multiple days thinking his entire family was killed. I don't remember exactly how we got the news to him that we were ok, but as a father and husband myself now I can't even imagine how stressful that would have been.
Incredible story, I'm glad you all came out of it ok. Moore hit me like a ton of bricks when I was a kid in Nebraska. I had never understood why my dad wouldn't let me watch the weather outside with him when it was bad until I saw the devastation in Moore on TV. I had a lot more respect for tornadoes after that.
For hours??? That tornado was in Moore for maybe 5 minutes. It was bad, yes but hours is a stretch. I’ve lived in del city most all my life and we got part of it, tornadoes don’t last hours in the same area. It hits and continues, it didn’t circle Moore for an hour 😒
Moore has the WORST luck when it comes to tornadoes!! 😮😮
"we almost died ... actually we weren't even close to being hurt"
@lovemygolden8935 right lol to be fair as a child they prolly thought it was longer and are counting the warnings and time.
We had a night one last night and it lasted about a hour but it was multiple nados and time outside the shelter but ready to get in and such
Native Oklahoman here - The same day as the Wichita F5 (April 26,1991), an F5 outbreak hit the Tulsa area. I lived a mile south of where one of the F5 tornadoes hit. Fortunately, we only lost a couple of dead trees, and our home and barns were not damaged. Then during the May 3,1999 F5 tornado that hit Moore, I was finishing my sophomore year at the University of Oklahoma. I stood with several of my friends on the balcony of our house and watched as the storm passed through Moore. We couldn't see the tornado, but we could see the storm clouds. That was a very sobering moment for us. I lived my entire life in tornado alley, and have had several close calls with smaller storms. Springtime is interesting in these parts.
I live in TN, and back in 2018 one of my good friends' mom passed away in a tornado. It wasn't a particularly strong or long drawn out storm, but it was just strong enough to come down on their home and sweep it off its foundation. She was going down the stairs to get into the basement as the tornado ripped apart the house. Everyone else in the house was downstair's already and survived with minimal injuries. Almost the entire high school went to her funeral. It was an extremely sad day and I still keep in contact with him.
I'm so sorry! Wishing well for you all ❤
One thing that people don't usually mention is all the animals/birds, etc. killed in these tornadoes; pets, wildlife, and farm animals are so vulnerable. They often have nowhere to hide, and I find that heartbreaking.
It's funny you mention that. My uncle owns a farm and he built a shelter for his livestock and horses. He's the only one I've ever known that had one. It's actually amazing. It's basically an underground stable.
@@lightsalt8530 That's amazing--I love your uncle!
@@meghanmacqueen5157 me too. I was definitely impressed
@@lightsalt8530that is amazing. Bless your uncle. I wish more would follow his lead.
The Jarrell Texas tornado sandblasted cattle to death. Tore their entire hide off. Some places to the bone.
As a American who lives in tornado and alley and who slightly obsessed with them it so funny seeing how someone from a foreign country react to something that is just a fact of life here makes me realize how easy it is to view something has normal your just used it.
I’m an American who has never lived in a place where we get them. They also scare me just as much. 🤣 It’s all a matter of perspective.
Where im from in the Midwest we had tornado warnings every day in the first town I lived in we had tornado warnings almost every day, so when I moved a town over (with way less warnings for some reason) anytime we had one I was like yeah whatever who cares as everyone else was freaking out, but after a recent tornado that basically wiped out a town kinda near us there’s been tornadoes left and right here, it’s kinda weird and concerning honestly, there’s just so many lately and even if they don’t form fully they’ll be above our homes and stuff, this is the first time I’ve ever been scared of the tornadoes
tornado ally here as well! Had a tornado warning going just the other day. Touched down 15 miles outside of my part of town, thankfully it lifted before it got into town
Oklahoman here. Same. That's why I clicked on his video lol. Sitting in a storm shelter is just an average Tuesday during storm season.
I live in a part of Ohio that always has tornado warnings every season. We don't necessarily have a touchdown every year, but we do get them. Yay Clear Fork Valley 😂.
My paternal grandfather and his parents (my great-grandparents) survived the F5 Tri-State tornado in 1925. They lived in Murphysboro, Illinois. My grandfather was 5 years old at the time.
So happy they survived! I learned a fun fact that after the tornado in Princeton, they had lots of cars with their roofs ripped off that were still driveable, so they were known around town as tornado convertibles
I was in high school when the 1999 Moore tornado struck and leveled my aunt & uncle’s house. My cousin was an infant at the time and was nearly ripped out of my aunt’s arms. My mom frantically drove there that night where 108 tornadoes were touching down. Moore would be hit again in 2009 and 2013 by EF-4 and 5 tornadoes.
I’ve rode out an EF-2 hitting my neighborhood when I was in college and just last night, an EF-3 passed within 10 miles of where I currently live.
At some point, you get pretty good about gauging the weather and you pay attention to radar images of all storms passing around you.
You also start getting weird when a storm is too dark or has an odd color to it. Like greenish tints, which usually accompanies hail.
The best scene in Twister, (Hands down for me.) is near the end of the movie, Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt's characters try to find any shelter from the F5 chasing them. They open the door of a tool shack, only to find out it contains a crapload of sharp, rusted blades, which causes Paxton's character to say "WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?"
I only saw that movie once as a kid, but I distinctly remember that scene.
Another good quote from that movie though would be when they’re all at Aunt Megs house and Preacher says that an F5 is “the finger of god.”
Such a good movie. Obviously dramatized but very realistic nonetheless
@@celestia486 I Won't lie, towards the end when the F5 to me seemed to be targeting Helen Hunt's character especially, kind of similar to the shark from Jaws: The Revenge.
What WERE they doing with all that whole arsenal?!?!
"If you see the dead man walking, you will soon be dead"
A native American myth referring to the look of the formation of multi vortex tornadoes, that tend to form EF 4's and EF 5's, as such, seeing it in person likely means you don't have long to live.
You can see one in the greenfield tornado footage from the other day 😞
@@thajoker9813that one was sick. Even on radar you knew it was going to be bad.
That just gave me chills
Damn imagine seeing a tornado back in the 1500s as natives. Before we were conquered
Reed timmer just captured one
I live in the Midwest/Great Lakes region. I have known smaller tornados to touch down near our home, and it can be pretty scary. We always had tornado drills in school where we'd hear the siren, file into a hallway or windowless room and crouch down, covering our head and neck and had to remain silent for instruction. That alone caused me a lot of storm anxiety!!
North Texas resident here! I've never been hit but have heard the sirens and seen crazy Straightline wind and hail. Also, green skies.
I saw you were wondering how they start so here what I found to explain.
Tornadoes only form when a thunderstorm has a particular combination of winds.
Air rising in a thunderstorm can begin to spin when it is affected by winds blowing it in different directions. It starts to rise and is pushed to the side by wind. It rises a bit more and is jostled again by wind moving in another direction. Winds moving in different speeds and directions at different altitudes cause the rising air to start spinning.
Air that spins as it rises is typical in a supercell, the strongest type of thunderstorm, but not all spinning air creates a tornado.
For a tornado to form, there also needs to be spinning air near the ground. This happens when air in the storm sinks to the ground and spreads out across it in gusts. Gusts of warmer air rise and gusts of cooler air sink as they blow across the land. If there are enough rising and sinking gusts, the air near the ground starts spinning.
The spinning air near the ground speeds up as it is drawn inward toward its axis of rotation. This happens in the same way that figure skaters spin faster when their arms are drawn in rather than when their arms are outstretched. This is called conservation of angular momentum.
The rotating air moves horizontally across the ground, and can be tilted vertically by the force of the rising, rotating air. This allows a tornado to form.
Most tornadoes form during supercell thunderstorms, but not all supercell thunderstorms produce tornadoes. Usually, the rotating air near the ground doesn't rotate fast enough for a tornado to form. If the rotating air near the ground is very cold, it will spread away from the storm along the ground and slow down like a figure skater with extended arms, and a tornado will not form.
A supercell is what they call a "mothership" right? All those stormy looking clouds in a circle up high with the sky clear around it.
@@artemis8396 I’ve not heard it be called this before.
I was in the Joplin Missouri tornado in this video. I lost everything it took hours to get me out from under my house. The scariest thing I've ever been through. But the thing I remember the most about that day was the way the people came together to help each other. I'm a 58 year old woman from Chattanooga Tennessee and I'm one of your new subscribers. I hope you know how great you are. Your so funny. Please keep doing what your doing. Prayers and love from Tennessee
I have a dear friend who lives in Webb City. It was heartbreaking to see all the damage.
@@NotKateHepburn Yes it was insane.
I’m in Dallas. We had a Drum Corps contest like they do every night, in a different cities. They were selling t-shirts to help Joplin’s High School Band buy new instruments because the band hall got hit and destroyed all of them. I still have my shirt and I made it a shirt I sleep in!
I’m glad we could help them rebuild.
@@eddietucker7005Yes it was amazing the way people came together to help.
I'm from Knoxville TN. I can't imagine leaving our weather here, similar to your in Chattanooga... Only to live thru Joplin.
When I was 5, my family got stopped in the middle of a highway because of a tornado. My mom was an EMT at the time and told us to get to the ditch and hold on. She had my little sister with her and told my oldest brother to help get me and my other brother. On my way to the ditch the storm actually lifted me 3-4 feet off the ground and my brother grabbed my arm and pulled me to the ditch. We then watched the car rise and fall on the road. I was young enough to barely remember/believe it, but my mom and brothers always bring it up during bad storms.
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@@normiepuppet8306you fool I literally lived through the most severe firestorm in history of Australia and possibly even the world
Mount Gospers Fire
My grandpa's large gas station was completely obliterated by an F5 in the 60's. They were auctioning off a Camaro (later found in a tree or something) and a raffle ticket for it was found in a guy's backyard 300 miles away in another state. I was just talking to my mom about it. She said that when she saw the funnel, she was like a deer in headlights because the sheer magnitude and power of that thing was beyond comprehension. I forget the number, but several people died.
My SIL's sister just took a direct hit by an F3. Miraculously, nobody was injured (other than shaken up), but it badly damaged their home and numerous others and businesses (many were destroyed).
I've lived in Tornado Alley most of my life. We just had a "tornado emergency" here in Nebraska a couple weeks ago. Tornadoes that occur at night are by far the scariest.
I live in iowa, now, but I spent most of my life in omaha nebraska. The tornado the wiped minden iowa off the map, I saw out my back door. It was HUGE. We headed for the shelter once we saw it. It was terrifying.
I live in Arkansas, so I don't get the tornados themselves, but I do occasionally get the periphery storm cell, and few things are worse than being woken up by ear-splitting thunder and the tornado siren shortly afterward. The disorientation after getting woken up is the worst.
Fellow Nebraskan here. We had a tornado a few weeks ago that made top 20 deadliest tornados due to it's wind velocity and it was a mile long. EF4 and destroyed a ton of homes 20 minutes away from me. Horrifying
Real Estate value must be really low in tornado alley. @@itsybitsypixzie
Is it like a really regular thing?
The eerie calm before they hit gets me everytime. The rain just stops... lighting starts strobing like a wack rave... wind picks up, then the sound of a train barreling across the land can be heard even over the rain, if it starts back.
I remember when i was at school during a tornado, it never hit us, but it almost did.
It was raining hard and you could hear the wind slamming against the roof. But then it all just stopped, and everything was just eerily quiet, too quiet.
The air started to smell of wet flowers and a loud roar was heard as it passed over our school.
I like to think God blew it over our school, because if it hit, at least a couple thousand of us wouldnt be having a good day
Sky usually goes green or an intense yellow.
@@rdmfeyna-sleep yep, for some reason in my part of MS it seems like we get them at night more frequently. I forgot about that, pretty and eerie.
Last one I got woke up in the middle of the night to the house shaking/vibrating from thunder and then strobing lightning before my alarms started going off. Really crappy wake up call 😂 especially when you are home alone with the dogs (husband working in another state).
@@RAZORBACK_BELIEVER God I hated when they hit when I was in school! You were very lucky/blessed. The way tornados "jump" over buildings definitely seems like a divine intervention, especially when it misses buildings full of children. So glad ya'll made it. Not sure I've paid attention to the scent in the air, interesting observation. The stillness just makes my skin crawl with anticipation...
@@mouse9884 saturday night, in Arkansas, we had a tornado hit one of out fellow cities school that I have friends and family go to. Luckily, since it was the weekend, no one was there.
Im glad you are safe when your tornado hit your school.
As for the smell, coming from experience since ive been in at least 20 tornados, they usually smell like wet flowers because of the plants and stuff that may be in the tornado (if you live in a rural area like I do). But it always depends on what the tornado hit, if you have a good enough sense of smell, you can tell what the tornado hit.
You can smell dead things in a tornado if it hit animals, or people. Tornados are pretty much nightmare fuel if you even look just below the surface.
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They start as large thunderstorms that intensify and the storm rotates eventually the rotation gets so strong it reaches the ground and that's a tornado.
If you ever move here, just avoid the midwest area known as "tornado alley," because those are the states where these giants spawn. The majority of people live long lives and die without ever having set eyes on even a small tornado in person in the western and eastern states of the USA. The eastern side of the Appalachian mountain ridge in the piedmont areas around the mountains seems to offer some protection from tornadoes, because the atmosphere is rarely favorable for them. In well over five decades here, I have never experienced one.
Down here in oklahoma we do exactly what u said and have a cup of coffee while we watch on our porches (we made the coffee after seeing it)
There are lots of types of tornadoes.
There are ropes, which are are very thin
cones are the textbook ones
Stove pipes are the same thickness throughout
Drillbit or similar to ropes but spin very fast
Then there are wedges which are thicker than they are tall
Finally, there are multi vortex which are the most dangerous
edit tornadoes start from clouds while of the whirl starts from ground up for example the devils are
non-tornadic
And can appear on clear skies
"cow, another cow, no i think that was the same cow"
5:30 kinda, from Michigan and we had an EF3 rip through our town while I was at work, very surreal because at least where I'm at we don't get tornados and we don't get anything that strong, I think the last one we got was like 50 years before that one
I live by Indian lake Ohio that one caught us all off guard hope your good ❤️
Being from Oklahoma Twister is half comedy, half public service announcement, half "yeah, I know them".
Facts
Missouri here and we hear the sirens and crack a beer and go outside to watch 😂
Don't forget the bag of chips
@@RayFranklin1975 honey bbq Fritos on deck 🫡
Yumm
Canadian here, did trucking across the US last year in the mid west. One night round 11pm i was driving down some back road in my Rig and unbeknownst to me cause the darkness, i was driving a few miles ahead of one. I only learned of it the next morning driving back the other way and seeing the destruction. Locals were talking about what time it went through and it was only minutes after i drove past.
Wow. God bless you made it
Many years ago I'm driving through Kentucky on a stormy night. Suddenly an announcement came on with a tornado warning for the area I was driving through.
I just picked up speed and kept driving. What was I supposed to do? I was in the country I didn't know the area.
It was really quite frightening.
When I was in middle school we went into a full tornado lockdown for well over an hour. The main tornado was one county over from ours and there were other vortex’s (circular cloud movements showing a possible tornado formation) as well as a few funnels (a tornado that hasn’t gotten strong enough to touch the ground) all around the area. The area where the tornado did touch destroyed a lot of homes, flattening quite a few of them.
Luckily, the tornado lost strength before it could travel anywhere else, but the damage was still devastating. For reference, The distance between our location and where the tornado hit was about a 15 minute drive, and that’s only because it’s all winding back roads between us and them.
Me as an Iowan gal seeing these things IRL. My dad always said we don’t go to the basement until it’s landed and coming towards us. We lived on a farm in the 90s so no tornado sirens, we just watched the skies, or slept in the basement if the weather was iffy. I’ve seen many funnel clouds and 1 tornado touch down. The reason to watch is sometimes it’s just the funnel cloud and it moves away or never actually lands. I’ve helped neighbors clean up their yards from tornadoes and my cousin passed away when I was very young after being struck in the head by debri from a tornado (she was in a car). Truly amazing weather phenomenon to witness but terrifying as hell. I can’t imagine living on the prairie way back in the day as a Native American watching these things
Canadian here, my house got hit by a tornado in barrie 2021 . It was terrifing as we had no warning one minute calm eating lunch , next minute chairs flying and windows breaking . We were blessed no one died especially because three kids got sucked out of their house and flung across to a feild
I remember that my buddy who’s married to a Canadian was there.
Oklahomans watch weather channel in the spring like our favorite sports team is playing, and we have multiple trackers for each news station throughout the state. Our weathermen and storm trackers have probably saved 100s if not thousands of lives.
That's what makes tornadoes terrifying.
It can go from calm skies to a few minutes later. It's rain and then a couple minutes, after that. It's a tornado throwing your car, if not your house.
My mom told me a story about when she was visiting family in Iowa when I was an infant. They were all out enjoying the day, completely clear blue skies, not a cloud in sight. Suddenly the sky turned completely black and my great aunt who was living there for a long time was just completely calm and said that it was time to leave, like it was nothing. She could have been telling people to come to the table for dinner, it was basically just any Tuesday to her
People don’t realize the weather America be goin through 💀 shit sucks at times. Earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes. We got it all! Even volcanos!! And it’s not like tornados are infrequent. It’s an entire season of like April to June Julyish
And then hurricanes last June to November. Anytime in summer or fall is such an interesting tine
We'll see some tornadoes in November/December as well. It's rare, though. Just had some this past December in the DFW area.
Grew up in Indiana and in April 3-4, 1974, the most F5 tornadoes ever recorded in a single outbreak. Now live on the East Coast. The difference between a hurricane and a tornado is that you have longer warning for hurricane and time yo prepare your house, pack and leave. With tornadoes, it can be only minutes.
They’ve been appearing more and more up to December because it’s still warm instead of being cold and snowy. 2-3 years ago I was driving home when the wind picked up all of a sudden (it was dark so I couldn’t see anything in front of me). After I passed that area my phone started going off telling me there was an active tornado in my area and I realize I just passed it. Luckily it wasn’t a big one but it still did cause some damage to some buildings.
west coast wild fire season too.
Grew up on Oklahoma, and saw multiple tornadoes myself and have been through countless tornado warnings, the most recent being 2 days ago. While there are plenty of people who unwisely go outside to watch in the middle of the storm, you’re never going to have one just casually go by as you drink your coffee without warning. First of all, they’re surrounded by heavy rain, lightning, hail, sirens and high winds so you have a hint when they’re coming ahead of time. The worst is when they happen at night because that’s when more people will be unprepared and more likely to die or be injured.
I'm a native of Wichita, Kansas. I've lived here for 35 years now. You learn very quickly how to identify when a storm has potential for tornadoes. Prior to the technology catching up there were many times you had a weather radio(NOAA), a news station's radar on your TV and your instincts while you stood on a porch and watched a storm develop.
I lived way away from any town as a kid. I didn't have the luxury of a tornado siren. We had a tornado shelter that was made out of a concrete culvert dug deep into the ground with a steel lid secured by a logging chain anchor and a covered oxygen spout. I hated it down there. Humid, hot, full of friggin spiders, but if a tornado was rolling over it was our best shot at living through it.
I was a baby when the 1991 Wichita/Andover tornado ripped through. We've had more tornadoes since. Most recent one I had a close encounter with was the 2022 Andover tornado. Not nearly the size and scope of these F5's you're looking at, but a threatening bit of weather no less. I watched it track east as I lived in the very southeast portion of Wichita at the time.
They are scary. Hurricanes terrify me because of their sheer power, but you have a heads-up that they're coming. Tornadoes will jump on you very quickly. Our technology continues to get better and better as they can identify rotation and wind speeds/directions very quickly giving us clues that there may be a tornado happening. We're not gun shy about hitting that alarm. If they see rotation, meaning it's just circulating clouds/winds they will issue a tornado warning to give people the most heads-up they can. Cell phones have also been a huge help. I get an alert on my phone that will quickly grab your attention whenever there's a severe storm or tornado coming towards. Also the same sounds as amber alerts, so you get some very mixed emotions when you hear the noise.
Regardless, it's a way of life here. Technology has most definitely given us a much better advantage now. I'm pretty thankful for that.
You should check out the real time Joplin Missouri tornado. It’s shows the tornado from a variety of videos in real time as it happened.
I lived in kcmo during that and it was no joke! After the chiefs game we heard about it.
Yeah, that and the Real Time Tornado Tuscaloosa are both really interesting and heartbreaking at the same time.
The way the Joplin tornado goes from a whispy, barely visible tornado to a monsterous wedge in the span of 5 seconds is the most insane tornado footage I've ever seen. I highly recommend trying to find the footage.
I was born in Joplin... we moved to KCMO when I was an infant and still live here. Now I live about a mile from where the Ruskin F-5 Tornado flattened the Ruskin Heights area here in KC on May 20th, 1957. 44 dead, as high as 531 injured. I don't tend to sleep much on nights when there are tornado watches in effect.
I agree !!! My niece worked at the hospital in Joplin, but Thank God was not at work. My family and I drove to Joplin and went to see the empty hospital. I will never for that sight. I just have no words to describe it.
I lived in Moore, Oklahoma and have first had experience of tornados. The EF4-EF5 in 2013 destroyed my childhood home while I was visiting with my husband and son. We were lucky to have had a neighbor with a storm shelter. Hearing it go overhead while holding my son then seeing my (former) bedroom completely gone afterward is something I still have nightmares about.
I can confirm these storms are as terrifying as they look here.
Me too ✋🏼 as a okie I can confirm, 2013 was one of the worst years for me I was only like 9 or 8 years old I'm 20 now and still have ptsd I feel like I can hear sirens all the time even though I know I don't, my farm was swept way and I haven't have farm life since.
Fun fact about twister: it was filmed in Iowa (which you can spot a sign that says I-80 and that runs through all of Iowa) but I think it takes place in either Oklahoma or Kansas.
In the 2013 Oklahoma City and Moore tornado I was at the dentist and had to listen to the search and rescue for like 24 elementary students and I was just bawling. Typically I was a tornado chaser and tried to help where I was needed. I'd never felt so helpless just getting a tooth pulled. The dentist kept asking if she was hurting me and I just had to point to the tv. It only missed my location by 3 miles and then it took me awhile to locate a few relatives and friends because they were mildly injured. I've never been afraid of tornadoes, I'm still not, but I certainly have respect for the power of nature.
I live on the border of North Texas and Southern Oklahoma. We are currently watching tornadoes on TV in Oklahoma RIGHT NOW!! You learn to be very weather aware living in "Tornado Alley", but we don't fear tornadoes in general. A lot of people have tornado shelters now, and if you don't, most people have a plan to stay safe in such instances. But since tornadoes hit very targeted, relatively small areas, most people have never even seen one in person. We prepare, shelter and pray when necessary, and help our neighbors when tragedy strikes. It's just part of life, here.
I also live on the Ok/Tx border and have lived between OKC and here my whole life. Most of us don’t fear but greatly respect tornadoes. You’re correct, they’re very targeted and most never see one. There was a small one 1/2 mile from my house a few years ago and we had no idea till a friend called to check on us. They do some really strange and odd stuff to the things they suck up and sling out!!
I would say those "a lot" people who are fortunate enough to have shelters are primarily in the cities.. Outside of the cities, not so much.
They're too expensive.
@@Gutslinger there is or were programs through Texas and Oklahoma, funded by FEMA that would rebate up to 1/2 of the cost for cellars & was easy to apply for. That did allow “a lot” of people to have them put in. I’m not positive it’s still available but might be worth checking into if that might help.
I live in bartlesville and the same tornado that hit barndall hit me
I was very lucky during the Sulphur tornado.
Really surprised that he didn’t mention the El Reno Oklahoma Tornado in May 31st of 2013, even though the damage scale from that EF5 was basically what you saw out of an EF3. But that one was significant since it was one of the deadliest/costliest storm chasing wise. The erratic movements caught even professional storm chasers from Discovery and The Weather Channel off, and they either died or got severely injured, plus it was rain wrapped meaning usually storm chasers had a corridor between the rain wall and the vortex to escape, but the rain wall was actually the edge of the tornado. It was the widest tornado ever recorded too.
Yea they talk about this one all the time on the weather channel…
Yeah, I'm really surprised they didnt talk about that one. It was one of the largest torndoes ever recorded. 2.65 miles (4.26km) wide at one point.
i think if anyone tells this guy about el reno, his brain might explode lol
especially since she was as wide as or wider than the length of manhattan
considering the size of the ones he’s reacted to so far and how mind blown he was by those sizes, i hope he reacts to el reno eventually
I just left a comment wondering the same thing, then seen this comment.
There were 3 storm chasers together (2 were father and son).
The tornado unexpectedly shifted in their direction. The Chevy colbolt they were in was absolutely mangled into a small ball of metal. It’s devastating.
I believe there were 5 others who would die in their vehicles as well, including a mother and her baby.
I’ve experienced many tornadoes living in Oklahoma, but this one in particularly stands out to me because it was so close to me and my babies. We lived in a shelter at the time and I remember holding them tightly under a table begging the universe, god, or anybody who could hear me to protect us.
It gives me chills to even think of it. to this day I’m absolutely terrified of tornadoes. My anxiety is always so high this time of year.
@@OofAvocado Thanks for telling me this story. It's really interesting hearing other people's perspective living in Tornado Alley, since I live in the Pacific Northwest area. With the 3 storm chasers, 2 of them got blown out and the other one (I think the son) was left inside the metal ball of the Chevy. I know all of them died. Stay safe out there.
My mom is from Xenia - she was in Columbus at OSU when the tornado hit. My grandparents' house luckily wasn't in its path. I ended up friends with someone who as a small child was in daycare in Xenia on that day. Someone walked outside, saw the tornado coming, ran back in, and told everyone to get to the basement. She was fine, but she still has a fear of tornadoes to this day. I was born in Oklahoma and lived there till I was five. I have memories of being woken up by my parents, so we could take shelter during tornado warnings. Nothing ever hit us, though. We would also get huge hail.
American in the Midwest here. A tornado never really sneaks up on you these days. You typically know there's a storm coming and they ring to tornado siren when they want you to start paying attention. If you're in the path of a likely tornado, you get alerts on your phone, and at that point you're probably watching storm coverage. You hunker down in your basement and hope you're not hit.
Not fun, but there's no surprise about it.
Tornadoes are terrifying but fascinating at the same time. I lived in Oklahoma for four years on an air base in my early 20's and saw a fair share of storms. One of the locals told me that "if it looks like it ain't movin', then it's coming straight towards you. Get out of it's way." I truly miss living in that state.
Come back anytime!
The Weather Channel did a series, Tornado Alley Real Time, featuring four tornados. The Joplin, Moore, Tuscaloosa, and Hattiesburg. They contain amatuer, storm chaser and news coverage in real time as it occurred during the tornados. While they can be hard to watch, the heroism and community you learn about during the interviews is truly inspiring.
I'm one of your recent subscribers and just wanted to say hi. Your reactions are hysterical, great job.
This is a very good series.
I'm reading this while my television has the local meteorologist showing the storm approaching us here in Oklahoma City this channel has about a dozen storm chasers out giving live updates
There's also one for the Washington, Illinois tornado!
"Remember when i said i wanted to move there?.... yeah ill stay here" 😂😂😂
I’m in Minnesota, in September of 1997 my coworker’s house was hit and destroyed and his uncle who lived close by was killed by the same tornado. I’ve never been directly hit but I have been very close, the scary thing was that the tornado was rain-wrapped so I couldn’t actually see it, all I could see was trees blowing over and an extreme downpour. I took shelter in a logging skidder but I still shutter when thinking about it, even though it was probably over in less than a minute.
Adam, my mother was born and raised in Moore. When the sky turned green, the family hit the rootceller. The only safe place is underground. It took strong men to hold the door closed. I wouldn't live in Tornado Alley for anything. The Midwest is getting smashed right now. There's so much rain, because of the tornados, that parts of Texas are underwater. If you feel like praying, do it....they need it badly. Google.
Glad you're back. I've missed you.
I live "up" in New England, and while tornadoes are rare where I live, we still have the saying in our family "when the sky turns green, it's about to get mean!" Two of the three scariest things I've ever seen in my life were the times I've seen the sky turn green before a funnel forms. No photo or video can really convey what it's like, it's so otherworldly it hits you on a primal level, where your whole body tells you "something's not right." My heart goes out to anyone and everyone who lives through this regularly.
I've lived in the midwest for 39 years and have never seen a tornado. Usually when they say seek shelter, it means your trash cans might blow over.
My mom lived in Enid as a child, she told us(kids) she had seen three tornadoes on the ground at the same time…I think that’s the only thing she was ever scared of.
@@deckzone3000that's crazy. I live in the Midwest and have been in 4 of them.
So, as an "Army brat" growing up on military base in the Marshall Islands, Typhoon Zelda hit Thanksgiving of 9th grade. It spawned tornados that destroyed several buildings. We watched as people's patios were just blowing through the streets. Thankfully, no homes were destroyed. Army base housing was made of giant bricks and were very strong. A few residents lost their roofing, but that's it, no fatalities. Only cheap business buildings were destroyed and being Thanksgiving, they were all closed. Name of the place was Kwajalein and it was Thanksgiving of 1991 I think.
I'm part of a disaster relief team here in Oklahoma City and was just in Sulphur for clean up. It's a wild place to live but we're used to it. Come out for spring sometime, it's truly something to feel the day it's supposed to get bad.
In answer to your question: When I was in elementary school we were rushed out of class into the central hallway. The tornado hit while we were sat lining the hall with our heads between our knees. I felt like someone shoved me forward really hard into the middle of the hall and most of the kids along the wall with me ended up in a heap in the middle. The storm passed and we saw that the classrooms around the hall were blown out. The "shove" I felt was the walls of the hallway being tilted to one side by the force of the storm. My side leaned forward and the other side leaned back. No one was seriously hurt and we got over a week out as they figured out where to put us.
Midwest lady here, and Tornadoes are the worst. I will never forget where a school in Iowa was wiped out, during a school day. It still makes me cry, and breaks my heart over and over for those babies. RIP angels.
I have never personally seen a tornado though, I always stay in my safe spot, wherever that is at the time.
Oh please tell me the school was Roland-Story High? Please?
Tornadoes are often formed from the cold air coming off the Rocky Mountains that hits the moist warm air from the Gulf Ocean that comes up through the south and hits in Tornado Alley in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and the south. Lots of storms with hail hit that area every spring/summer. I’ve been through bad winds and large hail but never a tornado, thank goodness. I had a friend who saw damage from a smaller tornado that went from Ohio through northern Pennsylvania and saw houses gone but the wood pile stacked next to the house untouched. So weird. The debris flying around kills. That’s why a lot of US homes have basements.
I live in Moore Oklahoma since 1991 and I’ve lived through all the big ones and it’s scary as shit! You’d think it’d be the haunting sound of the tornado sirens starting up like an incoming air raid but I think it’s the sound of the tornado. It sounds like the loudest train engine you’ve ever heard and the whirling wind whipping around. Then right after it passes by it’ll be the most beautiful blue sky, it’s crazy wild.
We live 30 miles from Moore oklahoma.
Didn't get hit by that tornado personally
But a lot of our friends lost their homes and we spent weeks helping with the clean up in that city.
There was a car on the roof of one of their homes
My childhood home was destroyed in the Joplin Missouri 2011 tornado. My family had moved away just months earlier.
From around May-June (right now) in the states you can search for live storm chasers around 10pm you're time, almost any day and ride along with your choice of tornado chases. Today, May 6 is going to be huge around 5-9pm CST. If you're interested. Be careful doing any reactions though. I hear they are pretty strict with their copyrights.
I’ll have a look!
@@MoreAdamCouser yeah, I've seen a few myself, had my barn blown away. The worst was witnessing the devastation in Jarrell, TX in 1997. I grew up in the town just north, and was headed to work that day when everything went crazy. You just become used to being weather alert living in tornado alley. Not to jinx myself, but my house has made it 115 years!
RyanHallYa’ll is pretty good. Helped me prove my previous jobs bosses wrong fron last year’s Hurricane. Alot went home against orders on the east coast here and the ones who stayed had damaged vehicles from the winds
anymore which is stupid because storms are getting more violent and there are more of them.
They gather at gas stations
the most infamous part about the Newcastle/Moore E5 was that one of the news stations meteorologists, before it started getting too severe, was mistaken on what direction it was heading, so TOLD people to drive TOWARDS MOORE... so my husband and I were driving into it... we ended up stranded at a small paint company on the side of the road, who were kind of enough to let us in for shelter while our dogs sat in our car and I cried, scared that we would lose them. It was terrifying. All because Mike Morgan made that small mistake for those of us in the central OKC metro. Fun times.
I don’t this that was the Moore tornado I think it was the el Reno f5 just a little bit later. That one killed seasoned chasers because it didn’t follow trends.
My mother's house was severely damaged in the 2013 Moore EF5 tornado. Her street had a median going down the center of it and the house that was directly across and one house south was destroyed, but the house directly across survived. Four houses north of my mom's were heavily damaged to the point they were torn down and rebuilt, but all the houses north of that and just NW of her were completely destroyed. Her house, which was not directly hit, took 60K US in damages (both from the winds and then water damage afterwards). The house we lived in when I graduated HS was completely picked up along with half the solid slab foundation in the 99 EF5 Moore tornado. It missed the house I was living in at the time by half a block.
As to what causes them, its two fronts colliding. You get a east flowing front from the Rocky Mountains which is usually cold, then you get northern flowing front from the golf of mexico that is warm and humid. When they collide it causes a rotation.
Getting underground is by far your best bet for a tornado
I’ve lived in Kansas USA my whole life and been through a couple bad tornadoes in my area. Although they’re super terrifying and can cause awful damage, tornadoes are one of the natural disasters that can be really well predicted. Obviously it’s not easy to predict exactly where they will form, but the weather conditions have to be very particular in order to birth a tornado. Us locals can typically tell day to day if it feels like “tornado weather,” and radar/ weather warnings tend to be very reliable for big storms like these. The time of year is also a good predictor for tornadoes, as most fall within the April-June tornado season. I couldn’t imagine living in an area where earthquakes are common because there’s not really a way to know when one will happen or how strong it will be.
There's a guy here on CZcams who predicts earthquakes, (globally).
I live in an Earthquake area and I totally agree with you, I wish we could predict them the same way we can with other natural disasters. Obviously I wish more people were able to find shelter and know about tor warnings, but at least most of the time there is some heads up if you're paying attention. Here you're just shit outta luck if an earthquake hits, you just have to hope you're in a good spot and react quickly enough once it starts.
When I hear about hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, etc. I think about the natural disaster risk I have living in Oklahoma and choose it over the others. Tornadoes are quite surgical so even if one comes directly at you, there's a decent chance it will shift slightly and you'll get only minor damage or even none at all (maybe a fence blows over). We had a small tornado hit my workplace several years ago after business hours. The storage facility behind us had several buildings destroyed, then the air conditioners were pulled off the top of our building as it hopped over, then destroyed a church across the street. Hurricanes, earthquakes and wildfires are so all-encompassing that you are affected at least in some way if you are in the area it occurs. You either face hours of battering winds and torrential rain, building damaging shaking for miles and miles, or risk miles of fire burning everything as it expands. Being in this part of the country means we have to deal with tornados, but not any of the rest of those. I'll stay here, thanks.
Been from Kansas as well and having grew up the till I joined the military you are right we just know when the weather is going to produce a tornado.
I've lived in the suburbs of the San Francisco Bay Area for 70+ years. In that time there has only been one earthquake that affected my life - 1989 Loma Prieta. Most quakes are so small we never feel them. We just hear that the sensors picked up something. Deadly destructive tornadoes on the other hand, happen EVERY year. Granted, not in every city every year, but the visuals are terrifying.
I’m actually from the Wichita/Andover, Kansas area. I was only a few months old when that tornado hit and funny enough, I went on to work on B-1s when I joined the military. We actually had a small tornado and straight line winds rip up our small town a few weeks ago. The town suffered some major tree damage. We had uprooted trees that were over 100 years old and nearly 100 feet tall. Some smashed cars and damaged roofs from falling trees, but luckily, no fatalities or even any injuries. We were without power for three days. I’ve seen plenty of tornados off in the distance but this is the first time I’ve had one go over my house. The sound was WILD. It’s pretty shocking to go into the basement and come back up to snapped trees and debris everywhere. I can’t even imagine coming up and seeing you no longer have a house.
6:29 What causes tornados is basically the crossing of air currents from two directions, one cold and one warm with the cold air currents coming from the back and propelling the whole thing. It creates rotation and the wind speed in the tornado increases due to that rotation as well as that cold air coming in from the back, which also kind of creates that sucking effect since the rotation is pulling things towards the tornado as air flows into it. There’s actually a really cool experiment you can do with dry ice, boiling water, and fans where you basically create a whirlwind, but there’s also some good 3D models of air currents showing how a tornado forms. And then for more powerful tornados like these, usually you need a supercell, which is basically a huge storm with some really volatile atmospheric conditions. And as for predicting tornados, looking at atmospheric conditions and how a storm is moving and progressing is usually how meteorologists know to issue a tornado watch to basically say hey, there’s a chance of tornados from this storm, and it’ll be issued for counties they think will be affected if there is one. Sometimes there will also be a dangerous thunderstorm warning, which can include a chance of tornados, but it’s mainly to do with hail, high winds, and lightning. And then there’s the tornado warning, which means there is a tornado on the ground, although sometimes it’s radar indicated and there might be rotation but no actual tornado. For example, that happened a couple weeks ago where I am and there was a storm with an area of rotation on the radar, and there was a tornado warning because it was assumed that there either was a tornado or there was about to be one, but there was nothing. Still though, best to take shelter just in case. And for warnings, they’re usually issued for the county the tornado is in and surrounding counties in case it travels far. Then you have tornado emergencies, which are issued in highly populated areas when there’s a tornado on the ground since that situation has a much higher risk of fatalities simply because of how many people there are, as opposed to a more rural area where the population is much lower and more spread out.
I grew up in the Midwest. I used to sleep straight through any storm until I was 6-7. That one night I woke up to hearing the tornado sirens going off. I opened my door and my dad was immediately waking everyone else up, as I never woke up to it before and he was unsure if it was real until he saw my bedroom door open,we went downstairs to the basement and we were put in the shower just in case. Thankfully it didn't hit our house, but it was 10ft from our house. We went outside in the morning and saw trees down in the woods behind us. Haven't slept through a storm since. Still absolutely love thunderstorms and tornadoes, but definitely effects my sleep
Growing up in the Midwest I don’t really fear tornados anymore, but the sirens and atmosphere before one still fill me with dread. I still cry when watching footage of Joplin
The weirdness of the air pressure is unnerving
as someone who grew up in tornado alley (oklahoma) seeing something so normal be terrifying to a person who has never experienced a tornado is honestly so amazing. 2 years ago the little town i live in got hit by a EF2 (ik its not big but it did some good damage for such a little town) thankfully no one was injured. tornados are really no joke, praying for every state that has got hit by tornados.
Texan here. We don’t have basements usually as our water table is too high. Some older homes may have outside storm shelters, although they tend to harbor flooding or snakes. We usually hide in the bathroom closest to the center of the house. No sirens near us because we live in the country. We’ve had tornadoes hit as close as mile from our home. This weekend we literally out ran a tornado. A friend of ours wasn’t so lucky but he survived and has video of his truck being spun around and an RV being flung into him. So glad he had a newer truck with side airbags.
In America every state has a form of severe weather. West coast has earthquakes. The north (from east to west) get severe snowstorms and cold. Midwest is known as tornado alley for a reason. We’ve had three tornadoes this week in north Texas! East coast and south also get hurricanes. The best you can get is picking the desert of New Mexico or Arizona, although when I lived in those states as a kid my mom would hide our shoes to keep us in our own yard because temps would get over 110 F in the summer and the sidewalks were too hot for bare feet. So we all pick the weather we are most comfortable to handle and shake our heads at everyone else saying, “I could never live there!”
I grew up about an hour and a half from joplin in 2011 (currently live in joplin). It was so sad and devastating, but im proud of the community and the people who came to help.
Washington, Illinois November 17, 2013... Tornado reached its apex over my house, felt the suction as it went over, almost burst my eardrums from the pressure, and live with PTSD from it... Still here, and it has gotten easier over time, but something I will NEVER forget...
Oklahomans call them Mother Nature's vacuum cleaners.
I think I’d literally have a heart attack if there was even a close call with a major tornado. I have been terrified of them since I can remember, and I grew up in a state that rarely had an F1.
Bless you and yours, so glad you survived.
@@rooh1981 Doom vacuums!
Grew up in the Midwest and am on the edge of Tornado Valley. Just last year had a F2 go down my road and completely destroyed houses and a dairy farm. Very thankful I've never personally experienced an F5 and I hope I never have to. When that tornado went through, I was a few.miles away in town attempting to do laundry at the laundromat and was getting frustrated the power kept going out
its a scary thing listening to the pounding rain and the thunder all for it to go quiet and have a tornado barring down on you. the sounds of it still make me shiver im just glad i moved more north
As a young boy in 1974, my dad drove us about 100 miles to Zenia Ohio about a week after the F5 hit that town, buildings swept clean like they were sucked up by a giant vacuum and dumped back in pieces. A gas station had nothing left but the pumps and a hole in the ground where a building had stood.
It was the first tornado to have the experts, including Dr Fujita, to consider rating it F6.
I lived eight miles from Xenia in 1974. April 3rd was a very bad day.
I am a storm chaser in Kansas, I've been chasing for 11 years, and I chased some of the tornadoes in this video. The first time I remember hearing the sirens was during the Wichita/Andover EF5 tornado. I've also had houses damaged by tornadoes that have come through my town. My Dad survived the 1966 Topeka, Kansas tornado, but his house was torn off of its foundation and they never saw that house again. (My Dad got sent to Vietnam like 2 years later,poor guy. Also random fact, Dad was originally from Connemara, Co Galway!)
I am born and raised from Kansas, lived here for my whole life. Everyone here in Kansas knows once the sky turn bright green, you get your ass inside, that’s when it’s about to get real and devastating.
When the sky is green, you can feel the air change and everything goes quiet. It’s like one of the most scariest moments you’ll experience.
I’ve been through many tornado warnings growing up near Wichita, but I’ve been very fortunate to not experience the real devastation they can bring to your home. My parents tell me about the tornado they were in sometime before I was born, though. They were in a smaller house without a basement at the time, so they had to shut themselves in the main bathroom with their 2 cats and just pray for the best. My mom always remembers the door to the bathroom rattling and the howling of the wind as the tornado went by just a few streets over. She said when they left the bathroom, the windows were blown in with mud and branches everywhere, and part of the roof had even been ripped away iirc. My dad says that if you had a bird’s eye view of the neighborhood afterward, you could see the exact path of devastation it went on, as it’d completely torn apart the houses it went over just a couple streets away from my parents’ house. It’s terrifying to imagine
I live less than a mile from where that EF5 tornado ripped through Alabama in Harvest. It took Years for the lots to regrow. My sister was down in Tuscaloosa, where one of the tornadoes ripped through and killed a bunch of people. She was less than half a mile away from it, hiding in a store. We didn't have power for weeks, so my friends parents who had a condo down in south Alabama invited me down, and we spent time on the beach, and slept in a Yacht. Good times
Damn man, that’s crazy!
Hope all is well for your community
@@Drago_San yeah, this was over a decade ago. All the gas, and essentials at the stores were sold out, and people were scrambling to buy up anything they could. The power out meant a lot of stores including gas stations couldn't run so it drove a mini panic (kind of like when covid first hit). Thanks for the kind words
Cell towers were down, we all lost power, things were not good when that happened
@@Joshua_Bearden I was in a condo in Mobile right after, so I didn't have to deal with all the issues. I know how much no cell service/internet/power sucks
Having been in a few tornadoes, feeling a deep dread of them, and living around people who are all kind of numb to the terror - it's cathartic to see your reaction
I've lived in the northeast of the US my entire life. I've always had family in the midwest where tornadoes are common, so I always check in with them when something inevitably happens out there. We get tornado watches all the time in CT but nothing ever touches down near me, so I generally ignore them because nothing ever happens - my mom and I would even sit out on the porch during watches just to enjoy the thunderstorm that never progressed further than thunder and rain.
Until the time in (I believe) 2018 when a number of tornadoes actually touched down in multiple places in CT, one of which happened to go right through the parking lot that my boyfriend, his 4yo son and myself were parked in. We watched the funnel form in our rear view mirror, take down a whole line of trees, and come directly on top of us. We were all safe, save from a few scratches from flying hail and debris when I got out of the car to get my boyfriend's son unhooked from his carseat to get him inside a building, but I'll never ignore another tornado warning or watch again for as long as I live. It was without question the most terrifying moment of my entire 32 years of life.
And even that was I believe only an EF1.
I’m from joplin. I remember the tornado, it was awful. Seeing the damage has stuck with me for life.
I live in Moore, OK and have been through both the May 3rd 1999 F5 (320 mph winds) and the 2013 F5. Still alive and kicking. As I'm typing this, we are under a grave tornado threat once again today, and I'm watching the weather.
1:00 that is what is known as a “wedge” tornado. Those are when the tornado is wider than it is tall, and they can get pretty big. The largest tornado ever documented hit just to the south of El Reno, Oklahoma in 2013. It was 2.6 miles (about 4.2 km) wide. Also 14:00 typically a tornado starts with rotation in the supercell that reaches down to the ground, however, water/groundspouts exist, as well as gustnadoes. Swegle Studios has a good video going over tornado terminology where he explains what different types of whirlwinds and how they form.
I was watching you watch the May 30, 2013 Newcastle-Moore tornado and you asked for comments from people with real experience. A week earlier on May 20, 2013 a catastrophic E5 tornado hit Moore, my husband and I were at home sheltering in a bedroom closet as the tornado destroyed our home. This was louder than multiple jet engines with winds that buried fiberglass in our skin and put our neighbor’s minivan on top of our house. This was the single most terrifying experience I have ever had and I still have severe PTSD to this day because of the extreme sensory overload.
Tornados begin in the sky rotating horizontally, as the warm air circulates from the ground into the sky and the cold air in the sky circulates downward the tornado begins to take a vertical position. The cone you see on the ground is initially, largely made of condensate and debris.
I've lived in alabama since I was born.. I was in the 5th grade April 27, 2011. That day was awful, and I wasn't even in the worst part of it. We didn't have electricity or running water for 3 weeks.
I remember being in class one day, then being crowded into the library with everyone else in the school. I could see outside because of a window in the adjacent hallway. It was raining so hard and the wind was so high.
When the storm let up, the school was evacuated before the tornado outbreak came. I had only been home for about an hour when we really got hit. The house was shaking, rain was so hard you couldn't see the road from my house, power went out. NOAA weather radios going off, sirens, everything..
I live on the East Coast in the U.S., and we don’t get tornados anything as large as the tornados in this video, but to me they are still terrifying. The first tornado I ever went through was 2 weeks after having my first child. I was young and living in a mobile home. Thankfully it did actually have a basement but the only way to access the basement was through an outside entrance. So I found myself running outside into an oncoming tornado in order to get myself and my brand new baby into the basement to hide under a desk that happened to be down there. That tornado came through my yard and ripped up trees but spared my home. The second tornado I had an up close experience with was when I was home alone with my 3 kids I had at that time, ages 10,6, and 10 months old. Again a tornado came through the field next to the farmhouse we lived in. I found myself hiding on the basement stairs due to the water rushing in through my stone basement and rapidly flooding while a tornado came within a few 100 feet of my home, doing only minimal damage. I was absolutely terrified both those times so I cannot fathom living in the Midwest where these monster storms are.
I'm so sorry you've had those experiences. I really hope you never have to worry about that ever again! Please stay safe ❤
I was born in connected and when I was 2 there was a tornado outbreak in several northeast states including Connecticut and that was in 1989. I don't remember it obviously but the strongest tornado was an F4!
I'll never forget the meteorologist that recognized his subdivision and ran off camera, still mic'ed, and his phone call was live. He called his wife and told her to get herself and their kids into the basement immediately, don't grab anything just go now. I don't remember exactly where/ when it happened but I know his family was safe afterwards
I live in the Woodward Oklahoma area and there was alot of crazy things that happened during that tornado. I used to work in the hospital where it hit.... yeah, definitely some, strange things. The neighboring town I actually grew up in was hit by an EF-3 when I was a kid and it was terrifying. Watching your video made me do some research on it for the 1st time as an adult and it's crazy how much I learned. I had no clue it was that big and I had forgotten about some of the damage it had done. It hit in the middle of the night and came down right next door to us! I remember the basement being flooded and us kids sitting in folding chairs basically floating. All the while my Grandpa and Uncles were at the cellar door trying with all their weight to keep the tornado from sucking it open. Thank god it landed north of us and kept going north. And thank god no one in town was killed! I've been through countless 'naders now but they are still scary. ****My brother just reminded me that the next day when we were assessing all the damage there were single straws of hay embedded into panes of glass, without shattering the glass, I completely forgot about that until he said something. It was so bizarre seeing that!
The 1991 Andover tornado was the first time I saw a tornado on national television. My unkle was a volunteer fire fighter in the county, stationed at McConnel AFB, and did search and rescue after it moved through Andover. Wild stuff.
I live in oklahoma, i was visiting moore back in 2013, my family made it to an underground shelter, as the main portion of the E-F5 tornado approached our shelter, our ears started popping from the atmospheric pressure changes, and you could feel the entire ground rumble, could feel it in my bones, the aftermath was the worse part, the entire neighborhood was wiped from the face of the earth, trees uprooted and automobiles were crumpled up like crushed soda cans. I still have nightmares.
I am from Alabama and currently live in Tennessee. When I was a kid and lived in Arkansas, right in the middle of "tornado alley," we had a tornado go between our house and our neighbor's house. It removed our shed, but didn't do any significant damage to our house. I remember my dad running out right after it went by to get the horse saddles from the yard since they were leather and would ruin.
I'm still pretty scared of tornadoes, but I've never seen one so I have a very morbid curiosity now I'm older.
Its nice to know that we understand the conditions that lead to tornado. You cant pinpoint where they will land or 100% that they will, but out preparedness now is such a godsend
I was in the Joplin tornado in 2011. We were so accustomed to tornado sirens that we didn't think much of it until we heard the tornado itself.
I was on the outskirts of both of the F5 tornadoes that hit Moore Oklahoma, on this list. While I and my home suffered no damage, houses just 300 feet away were totally destroyed. In total I have been in or very near to five tornadoes since I moved to the Oklahoma City area. In fact this afternoon we are in a "High probability" warning. It's just a fact of life here and after one hits, the outpouring of support and assistance from the people in this area is amazing. Despite the dangers of tornadoes, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else, because of the people here.
I can't imagine the strong bond in your community after all you've been through throughout the years. No wonder people choose to stay. There's a lot more love and support there than other places in these modern times where we're so isolated even though we live so close to each other
I was outside with friends playing baseball when the supercells pasted through SW Ohio in April 1974. I'll never forget as they approached, how the sky changed to an eerily green/black, the rain, and the gratefulness that my neighborhood was spared.
I was about 5 or 6 during the 2011 tornado outbreak and I lived about 25-30 minutes away from Rainsville Alabama. About 13 houses on my road got hit by a tornado and it looked like the tornado had skipped houses. We were out of power for almost a month. I remember hearing the noises of the tornado and everything. I'm still to this day scared of tornadoes.
I survived the Joplin, Mo Tornado at the age of 2. I still currently live in Joplin, and actually when this video posted we had an EF1 tornado. The sirens did not go off because no one thought it was a tornado until the next day it was declared a tornado. This tornado happened around 11 pm, and lasted about 30 minutes here until we we're told were fine. There's still a lot of damage around my neighborhood. Mainly branches. I still remember waking up to a roar and telling myself, "I need to get the f*** out of here." From what I was told, during the EF5 tornado, I was playing outside with my family, and then the sirens went off. My dad noticed something was up, so then we went inside. This event is still really hard for me to remember, but I know it was terrible. Wishing the best to all of you who also have to experience this stuff. It truly is terrifying.
This year in march ohio had a mini outbreak, these were all nighttime tornadoes, typically when the sirens go off my dad looks outside, keeps track of the weather instead of scaring everybody and just making us go to the basement and play the waiting game since the tornado sirens are for the ENTIRE county you are in.
I just had an eerie feeling about it, my dad could see power flashes in the distance it was the first time he felt the need to get his family downstairs. The hail was so loud, the rain was so hard it was coming into the basement. The power flickered about 4 times before it went out completely, turns out the tornado directly hit about a 2 minute drive from us, so we were only experiencing the outer winds of the tornado but it was still terrifying. I remember holding my cat and being afraid for my home. A barn was completely destroyed, schools were damaged, and at least 4 transmissions towers were bent over or just completely toppled over. My dad said he remembered it being eerily calm, there was no wind before either the rain was just pouring straight down
Tornadoes are definitely more common in the US but its also highly unlikely you will be hit by one, even more unlikely an EF4-EF5 will hit you. I'm 18 years old and that night in march a couple of months ago was my first time one came close.
I was on scene for the tornado in Portage Michigan last week. It destroyed a FedEx shipping building and over 100 people injured
I lived in tornado alley for a bit before moving back home to Pennsylvania. I didn't experience any tornadoes first hand while being there. Just aftermath and the meteorologists putting out warnings.
Within the first week of being home in PA, I was doing some work on my computer and noticed out the window the air becoming earily calm. The birds stopped chirping. It had been raining and thundering in the distance... nothing major. It was super humid and hot out. I walked out to my back patio to take a break, and instantly, it sounded like a freight train, and the wind shifted from the west to the east. My ears popped. A very small tornado cruised passed my house from 100-200 meters away. No siren. No warning. I just stood and watched as it cruised by. Luckily, I live in a rural area. Nothing but power lines, barns, and a couple of houses were damaged. It was only an EF1, and it was still baffling what it could do, and how quickly it went from calm to holy $h!t.
I can't even imagine the destruction or the power of something like an EF5.
It is that season again. We've already had a few roll through Pittsburgh a week or so ago... one hitting the zoo.
In the beginning they were talking about the Hackleburg/Phil Campbell tornado moving into Huntland, Tennessee….I live a few miles from Huntland. It moved south of my home and I vividly remember it. We escaped with no damage, but many other people were not so lucky. For hours after that tornado, photographs and documents were falling out of the sky into yards, including mine. The tornado had sucked peoples personal belongings into the atmosphere and had carried them dozens and dozens of miles. Even at that time, I realized how significant this outbreak was. I was only 10 years old in 2011. School was out for weeks and electricity was out for about the same amount of time. It was like being thrown back 100 years for a few weeks. It’s almost like a fever dream thinking back on it now. Two weeks ago, we had a tornado warning that was tracking over my house and thankfully it did not touchdown, but I took a photo of it. When I did, it immediately brought back all the memories of the 2011 outbreak.