Joplin 2011 EF5 Tornado - Weather Channel On Air Coverage
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2024
- The Weather Channel archive coverage of the Joplin EF5 tornado that struck on Sunday night, May 22, 2011. Mike Bettes and the Tornado Hunt team were storm chasing and arrived on the scene. The archive includes the development of the storm and then jumps to the devastation as Bettes arrives in town. Towards the end, Dr. Forbes arrives in Atlanta after returning from the plains to offer analysis of ongoing storms.
This tornado developed suddenly and quickly grew to one of the strongest in just a few minutes before entering Joplin. It is the deadliest tornado in the US since 1936, claiming the lives of 158 people and injuring over 1,000 others.
00:00 Severe weather coverage
10:46 First mention of Joplin
15:00 Phone call from Joplin
16:42 Total devastation
1:15:22 Dr Forbes covers ongoing storms
(The missing hour is another result of my 2011 DVR storage capacity limit and why I didn't upload this at the time.)
Using footage archived at a higher quality by ehatt600.
It’s taken me until just this year to actually watch any of this coverage. I lost family that day and I’m finally able to see what actually happened. Thank you for posting this video ❤
Hope you're well now
So sorry for your loss.
Very sorry for your loss.
I am so sorry for your loss. I couldn’t imagine losing family and then a situation like this. Are used to think tornadoes would be so cool to see. But after figuring out how much damage I can do I don’t wish this on anybody.
The reporter running through the rubble in shock, on live tv, speaks volumes. There are really no words
2 years later he actually got caught in another massive one and almost died czcams.com/video/SwAQZY4t6PA/video.html
48:44 is a moment that is so incredible to me. as someone who shares the fascination with storms and tornadoes that so many, including mike, have, scenes like this really put it into perspective how powerful and life-altering these phenomena can be. it's really difficult to watch this without getting choked up knowing how many people's lives were forever changed that day. storm tracking really is an exciting hobby, I can't deny that; I really enjoy it. but when the reality is put in your face like this, it hits you like a truck. sitting at a computer so far away knowing the hell people are going through on the ground can be really hard to swallow. I cannot imagine what it was like to see that from the ground in real life like mike did. I hope I never do.
If I recall correctly, at that moment, he saw more people deceased not too far from him. Truly devastating disaster.
Thanks for another great historical upload. It's important for this stuff to be seen and preserved.
Kelly asking Mike if he was alright always stuck with me. She showed so much compassion and empathy with just that one question while still being professional. And of course, Mike doing his best to do his job despite witnessing so much tragedy.
It's like you were reading my brain, I was LITERALLY looking for this exact coverage yesterday!!!
Joplin was gistory ... So many people died that day from the massive wedge tornado that took on its own monster characteristic from its origin ... Problem is no one saw it coming til it became heavily wrapped in rain when it struck town... I'll never forget the images of the destroyed hospital, Pizza Hut, Home Depot, Walmart, Taco Bell, and the business district of Rangeline Rd ... Truly heartbreaking
Mike Bettes had a VERY rough few years there. There were bodies all over the place where they first pulled up in the Joplin tornado.
I WAS LOOKINT FOR THIS FINALY
I wasn’t there to witness it after the tornado or the immediate aftermath, but I went through there on greyhound in Mid August 2011. It was late at night, like 1am, so couldn’t see a lot. Seen a bunch debarked trees, and as soon as we were approaching 71, clear as day could see how bad that hospital was.
15:00 is when they begin talking about Joplin
Thank you the sound is awful
@@janblackman6204 The audio was like this live. Bettes and crew were pushing the limits of their wireless technology by going further into the destruction than their truck could follow.
@@AirCastTVborn and raised and still living in Joplin. All the lines are down so it is like hardly impossible to get service
Wowww! Thank you so much for this.
At 27:50 the guy carrying his child realllllly did not like being shown on camera😳
Understandably so. I would've done the same thing he did, and probably worse if there wasn't a child in my hand. If you've been in an actual disaster situation, you come to understand _quickly_ how utterly useless most journalists are on site. I say this as a firefighter who's had to deal with more than my fair share of them. More often than not, they just get in the way and provide more hindrance than help to the people actually on the scene.
@@RT-qd8yl Oh I’m sure, 100% agreed. I do feel for Bettes though in this situation, no one can prepare you for THAT kind of level of destruction. It’s gotta be extremely hard to be contractually obligated to report on something like this and not just be able to say “screw this we need to help people” and turn the camera off.
@@steelerfan4life5 For sure, he's one of the good ones. It takes a certain kind of person to do that job; either they're legitimately interested in the science and in helping people, or they just want to be on TV.
What takes such a d**k to do that and around his kid?
That was a really a father figure for his boy to see that.
You guys need to put the date in the tag. I was thinking, oh no not again…the tag said 8 hours ago…
Title should tell you…
I added it to the title. Thanks for the suggestion, it's important to be clear.