A Swede is in shock of the devastation - April 27, 2011 Tornado Outbreak Montage
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May I suggest Pecos Hank? He has some incredible footage. I don’t know if you have seen recent storms, but Mississippi had one 3/29/23.🙏🏼❤️
@@elizabeth_777 you may. But I need to ask his permission if I can use it. And if I need to do that every time. It’s gonna be time consuming. Unfortunately
Recky, I suggest reacting to Tanner Charles: Trapped inside this tornado.
It’s a scary and heartbreaking video
That day gave PTSD to an entire region. There were tornadoes in every direction, our weather man nearly lost his voice from being live on TV for so long, issuing warnings and telling people to take shelter. The tornadoes in north Alabama had their debris carried over 100 miles into Tennessee where it came raining down all over. I have video of this. I spent weeks doing debris recovery (family photos and documents, other mementos) and trying to get them reunited with their owners on a special Facebook group. It took years for me to calm the anxiety down every time there was even just a thunderstorm.
Wow! That's crazy! 100 miles away from the source, and you, plus a dedicated group of people, gathered all those belongings and gave them back to who owned them. Much, much kudos to you! You're a hero!
James Spann is a hero for everything he did that day. I wish he was my weatherman but I live in the Midwest.
I had already been through a tornado in 2002. April 27th was a very nerve wracking day. I spent a good part of the day in the hall. A tornado touched down less than a mile from my house
I was wondering what happened to all the possessions when they came back down. Like are they just lost or will people try to find the owners?
We had a street sign from Tuscaloosa land in our neighborhood......in Alabaster. 100 miles away.
They form more in the spring. They are formed from cold air passing over warm air. And the Midwest of the U.S. has more of them than anywhere else in the world. These guys (storm chasers) may look like they are nuts, but they are the best warning system out there for when a twister has actually formed and where it's moving to. Much respect to them! GREAT reaction Recky!
Thank you for watching! :)
They are also the first responders to anyone who gets hurt by a tornado when they know no one else is coming for a while to rescue anyone. The good ones stop everything and immediately go into search and rescue mode. That’s why we love our storm chasers ❤
Tornadoes are intense and crazy they can change direction at any moment they are very intense I remember when I was 7 I watched two tornadoes half a mile from where I lived just kind of collide and combine as one big tornadoes.
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I am an Alabama native who survived the April Super Outbreak in 1974 as a child (a tornado touched down less than 3 miles from my home), and the April 27, 2011 Super Outbreak. I lived on the outskirts of Huntsville between Somerville and Arab, and witnessed the funnel cloud heading to Arab. The photos and videos of the destruction are horrible, but seeing it yourself another thing altogether. It takes your breath away and makes you cry. I went to Alabama's A-Day football game April 2012, in Tuscaloosa one year after that huge tornado went through. The city was still in the throes of rebuilding, but there was still a lot of buildings missing, and familiar places were just gone. Fortunately the university was untouched. Thank you for your kindness and sensitivity about the precious lives we lost that day. I lost a coworker who could not get down to her basement in time, and her house fell in on her. Our hearts were broken here for a long time. You are right, earth is a strange, beautiful place.
Pleasant Grove, Alabama checking in. I say the same every April 27. “If you’re still here…” I’m glad you’re still here. Our tiny town lost 11 that day. I will never forget hiking my way back home through all the death and fire and total destruction after and seeing my parents hugging each other on the front lawn. Our street was gone, but my parents were still there. Things like that give you a whole new perspective.
The sirens… the sirens are terrifying when they start going off. We usually get a couple warnings every tornado season. The sirens are a sound you never forget.
No, we have testing of this alarm on the first monday of every week
In grade school we were taught to duck and cover(under our desks). And I agree, the sirens were terrifying. Our sirens were the civil defense sirens. I remember being taught to have shoes next to the bed, ready to jump onto to go down to the cellar. It was built crudely into the ground. But it was shelter! If during the day you saw green hateful looking clouds, that usually meant hail was coming, then the tornado. I was taught in high school that normal thunder should only last 10 seconds. Constant, never ending thunder was a tornado. I also learned sometimes tornadoes can smell like sulfur. My mother lost her best friend in a tornado. And I had a classmate who was taken up on one. It mangled one of her legs really bad. Left it shorter than the other. She had to wear a special made built up shoe so she could walk normal. My brother at the age of 17, joined the National Guard. His first duty was to recover bodies from the wreckage. Bodies with no heads or missing limbs. He grew up real fast that summer. Sorry to rant on, this just brings back so many memories.
@@TexasRose50 Goodness that's horrible :( so sorry about your friend and your mom's best friend. People are right when they said tornadoes sound like trains, I went through one when living in OK and I heard it.
@RedRoseSeptember22, thank you. But that happened way back in the 50’s on Blackwell, OK. I was around 5 or 6 I think. But I’ll never forget what the devastation looked like.
I live about 10 miles from Gadsden. There are 3 sirens we can hear from my home when the weather gets bad. I have panic attacks from bad weather anyway. But it ALWAYS chills me to my core when you hear 1 siren start up, then the next and the next. We religiously have the TVs on James Spann.
I live in Alabama. April 27th lives in infamy in this state. I was directly in the path of the Tuscaloosa tornado as it moved Northeast to Birmingham and beyond. If you look at the map of the tornado track, there is a small break in the line north of Birmingham. That small break occurred because the tornado encountered a mountain and drew back up into the clouds. That small area is where I live.
I remember hearing the reporters almost speechless. I remember them praying on air for people in the path. I remember the sky turning green and the garage doors bowing outward from the pressure. And I remember telling my father goodbye and that I loved him.
Luckily, I was spared, as was my family. But it's a fear that cannot be put into words. You feel so helpless. So powerless.
Thank you for reviewing this video and others like it. It's amazing to see someone become educated about weather that we experience here often.
Also, James Spann is a celebrity around here. He is AMAZING when it comes to his job and an even more amazing human in general. He saved lives that day and on many other occasions. Respect the polygon!
I'm located close the Cullman and rainsville. I remember it leveled an entire waffle house with people inside. No one made it out. We have a memorial here for it. A big stone with a tornado and a list of people who we lost that day. It was my senior year. We only went back for 3 weeks before graduation due to damage. My year book has a whole are dedicated to it. We will never forget.
I was 12 when this outbreak happened. Living in central Alabama it was horrifying to say the least. We were so lucky to have a man like James Spann covering it because he without a doubt saved so many lives that day. Respect the Polygon folks!
April and May is usually the beginning of the season.
But over 200 tornadoes in one day is messed up
@@ReckyjTornado season is about from March to the beginning of June. However, the location shifts throughout the months. In March through April, tornado season is in its peak in the southeast (Dixie Alley). Then, the peak shifts to the lower to mid Great Plains (Tornado Alley) in mid to late April through May. Then after May, the peak location is in the mid to upper plains (Also Tornado Alley). Some important information to note is that tornadoes can still happen anywhere in the main 48 U.S.A states at any time during the year, but it’s more prominent during these months in these certain locations.
After summer, the peak location goes in the reverse order I listed. However, the chances of favorable tornado weather is less then in the spring. In winter, it is rare to have tornadoes, and they almost always happen in the south east and specifically Florida. An exception to this is the December Mayfield, Kentucky tornado.
Tornado outbreaks like this are extremely rare and can happen in any of these locations. Usual tornado outbreaks include about 10-30 and maybe 40 tornadoes.
A fun fact is that Florida has the most recorded tornadoes due to the amount of hurricane spawned tornadoes they get. Another fun fact is that just last year the U.S.A had the third largest tornado outbreak on record on March 31st, 2023 - April 1st, 2023. It happened mainly through the traditional Tornado Alley corridor with the southern risk area being slightly to the east of Tornado Alley and partially in Dixie Alley. 136 tornadoes were spawned in 24 hours and 146 in total. Highest rated was an EF4.
Anyways this was some information.
Mesocyclone is the giant upward rotating cloud from which tornados are produced. Remember, that the rotating column of air extends far from the center. Air is invisible without stuff in it. Hard to duck and weave with all those tornados. When you see the blue flashes near the ground, those are transformer flashes. We just had our annual re training for us weather spotters. That time of the year. Tornado season starts in the south as the gulf warms up then creeps northward.
exactly. Most don't realize that tornado alley starts in the southeast, and moves north and west as the months go by.
Tornado season where I'm at in Tornado Ally starts in April and runs through July. We've actually already had 2 tornadoes this year. Both occurred on January 16th, about 2 weeks before a massive snowstorm. I actually have a bag that I pack that I call a jump bag or a go bag. When the sirens go off and we have to scramble, it's got everything we need in it in case things get really bad.
I was involved in the Flatrock/Higdon tornado in North AL and I remember sitting there in the car bawling my eyes out as a 13 year old, because the houses and streets I’d seen for years were unrecognizable. I didn’t even know where I was because of the damage. The destruction is just unreal.
Rainsville one for me.
I live in Alabama, and we will never forget this day, and night, I was at work during the day, unloading trucks and the entire trailer was rocking back and forth, we all went into a cooler so scary, and at night I went to my parents house and we got in the basement, this video brings back so many memories. Hackleburg was wiped off the map, so many deaths that day, thanks for watching this.
Tornado season depends on the part of the US that you live in. The time of year is different for southern states compared to Midwestern states.
If you lived in Kansas, you will be part of a Tornado Drill on Tuesday, March 7 at 10:00 a.m. We practice tornado safety drills in schools and communities across the state, unless it is raining, because some people may believe a real tornado is coming. Tornado sirens go off here in Emporia every Monday at Noon, also. I am also notified by phone or on TV. That is why I have a downstairs that is partially below ground. Thanks for sharing! It is now tornado season.
21:05 if the tornado isn't moving, but it's getting bigger, that means it's heading straight for you and it's time to get your feet moving. but if it's not moving and getting smaller, it's moving directly AWAY from you.
I remember watch the weather channel all day that day. They simply couldn’t keep up with all the huge and deadly tornadoes. It was a tragedy, especially in Alabama. The stories from Tuscaloosa broke my heart.
I’m in Tennessee and we get our fair share.❤️
Spring and early summer are considered tornado season by most, but the truth is that any large storm in the U.S.A. can spawn tornadoes at almost any time of the year. The bigger the temperature changes that are coming together, and especially when high temperatures are involved, giving the storm more energy, the more violent the tornadoes will usually be. The biggest tornadoes form when you have 3 fronts coming together at different altitudes, warm moist air from the south, mixing with cool dry air from the north, and hot dry air from the west is the most common cause of the larger storm systems and tornadoes. We also get many tornadoes that form when weaker fronts collide, but are moving very fast in opposite directions, causing extreme wind shears that can develop into short lived but very violent tornadoes. Pecos Hank does a very good job of explaining this since he is a professional, I just live in the area where many big ones occur! Peace Recky!
i agree... less than 2 years ago in Kentucky in December of all months, had tornados, so ya, never know when its gonna happen, til it does.... just like Southern California being hit with a ton of snow....... Welcome to America's weather
I remember one in Rockwall & Garland TX that touchdown the day after Christmas several years back.. 5 o clock traffic & it went over the highway.
People seem to act like tornadoes in the fall and winter are rare or odd but they aren’t. It’s actually a dangerous myth. Tornado season for dixie alley is the end of October through mid may. Tornado season really just depends on what part of the US you are in.
Absolutely….we all know that if the temperature is too high for the season…we are at risk!! Big time at risks! These tornadoes destroyed so many towns in my hometown area. As a child psychologist I worked with children who lost homes and parents! Yes parents (both) with parents raising grandchildren because those grandchildren lost parents!!
There are 2 people in the state of Alabama that has more power than the Governor and one of them is Mr. James Spann he's the Meteorologist in the Video. I'll never forget one time he was telling people not to go to work because of bad weather and he said" If your Boss has a problem with you calling out tell them to call me" lmbo! April 27, 2011 will never be forgotten nor all the lives lost🙏
Not from Alabama, curious as to who you say would be the second?
@@weebabyvee948Thee Nick Saban !!
I'm from just south of Cullman, Alabama, we had over 200 deaths in the state that day. I'll never forget it. Absolute devastation everywhere. I had two F4 tornadoes within 10 miles of my home and an F2 within 1 mile.
For reference, the base of a tornado which touches the ground can vary from a few meters up to 2+ km wide with the average being around 150-200 m. Generally, the more powerful the tornado, the bigger the footprint. The largest tornado on record hit El Reno, Oklahoma, in 2013 and was estimated to be 4.2 km in diameter. It was on the ground for 40 minutes and traveled a distance of 26.1 km before dissipating.
Growing up in the Midwest, watching the sky during storms was what we did. When the skies turned green you knew a storm was coming...hail, thunderstorms, and/or tornadoes!
My husband and I team drove flatbed semi and was running from southern Texas up to Roanoke , Virginia, that day. We were dodging tornadoes all the way from Waco, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. A tornado hit a truck stop in Virginia 20 minutes after we left. It was the scariest day of my life.
The devastation and loss of life is so incredibly sad and hard to swallow. I do appreciate your compassion for human kind.
One more storage you need to check out is the Tri-State Tornado from 1925
I second that; I remember watching that on Wrath of God: Tornadoes, and the interviews with the older folks who survived it as children were so chilling, and so damn touching.
@@kennashan yeah literally 3 different states were hit by the same storm it was insane, I was in the one that hit Plainfield IL back in the late 80s early 90s can't remember what yr it was all I know is I floored my 78 delta 88 Olds and got the F outta town with the quickness, that storm took the top two levels off the 3 story school building only a block from where I was
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In Minnesota, (we're at the top of "Tornado Alley"), tornadoes most occur in June & July but can occur at any time of year. We see more Derechos (straight line winds) that do more damage than anything else. Took down two very mature, old trees in different years. A pine tree fell on our house & an elm tree on our garage. Wicked things!
I live in Ringgold, GA..hit by an ef4 that day. The devastation was horrible. I just cried. Hearing all the police and ambulance sirens after it hit is something you never forget
The Culman tornado produced the world's First porn ographic Tornado !
I’m from East Ridge and live in Charlotte, NC. I was in Baltimore on business that day and had called my Mom to wish her happy birthday that morning. When I got to the airport that evening, I was checking Facebook and saw all the comments about the tornados. When I got home between storms (serious turbulence), I was calling my family. Then your tornado hit and I really freaked since my family home is on the state line not far from I-75.
I’m very glad you and your family were ok.
I've never been so terrified watching tornado footage before. This really shook me. Thanks for sharing and reminding me of what's important
I was just watching the live coverage of this last night. It still blows my mind how many tornadoes there were that day, and how many lives were taken and changed as well.
Hi Recky -- Thanks for playing this montage I sent you.
Just a few extra facts:
1) Most - maybe all - the tornadoes in the footage are "wedge" tornadoes. They differ from the ones in the Midwest which are usually taller and thinner.
2) These tornadoes are hard to see sometimes because they are either "rain wrapped" or surrounded by very low clouds -- "embedded" tornadoes.
3) Keep in mind that this video ONLY shows the EF 4's and 5's. Any of the lower strengths can kill you, too, and did!
I live near the top of Red Mountain in Birmingham, Alabama, near the TV station that was used most in this video. The meteorologist there is James Spann, whom you saw talking. He did a great job that day but is still beating himself up that so many died.
I was lucky that day
Hi Page! Loved your comment! I really appreciate the information!
I wish he wouldn’t feel that way 🥺 He did everything in his power & saved many lives that day! He’s a hero. It truly shows how much he cares. I live in ga & he did an amazing job helping us as the storms came in
The Southeast US is in its Tornado season right now…. It’s in February and March and they have already had quite a bit of tornados this season… Selma Alabama got hit hard…. But also Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia Then As April and May come around it shifts northwest to Oklahoma… Kansas… where most people think of “Tornado Alley” then in June can get up to North and South Dakota’s…. Wherever cold air from the north and west hits warm moist air coming up from the Gulf of Mexico you can get the right mix of storms to have a tornado but the big ones are during the early spring
The most insane thing that there is nothing you can do to fight it, stop it... its just there and get your butt outta the way
A comedian said once It's not that the wind is blowing. It's what the wind is blowing that is dangerous.
watching a time lapse of the tornado and thunderstorm warnings being issues is like watching strobe lights. it’s absolutely surreal.
I remember this day very well. I was watching live coverage on the Weather Channel and online, from Missouri. A truly horrific outbreak. Not only due to the amount of tornadoes but the amount of violent, long-track tornadoes
Our weather in southeast Missouri was supposed to be really bad that day as well. They were calling for tornadoes here too. Luckily they never happened.
So sad these storms were so horrific. Prayers for everyone involved
I'm from North Alabama. I was in fourth grade when the events of April 27th, 2011 happened. Some of the classrooms in my school have a metal door that would take you outside in the event of a fire drill. My class had one of those doors. I remember the sound of all the hail hitting the door. Sounded like a group of people outside banging on the door rapidly. In the days since, I still get chills when I hear a tornado siren.
Great reaction Recky! This was a historic (and extremely violent) outbreak that will be studied for years to come. Meteorologist James Spann undoubtedly saved lives with his coverage that day.
Side note: Storm chaser Andy Gabrielson (his footage is seen at the beginning of the video) sadly passed away in a car wreck in 2012.
Neat fact: Today (Monday 03-06) is the first day of Severe Weather Awareness Week in Kansas. We've already had one tornado reported for the year, on Feb. 26. Severe weather season in the Plains and Southern states lasts typically from about the end of February through the end of June.
Severe weather in the southern states is more end of October through mid May. The area known as Dixie Alley. For the last few years it seems as tho traditional tornado alley has not been nearly as active where Dixie alley has been much more active.
@@lucasw24 Tornado Alley does seem to have shifted east in the last 10 years or so. It used to be centered on Interstate 35, but lately it's been more centered on Interstate 55. I think it's probably because Texas and the Southwestern U.S. have been drier than normal in recent years, so the moisture and the dry lines and stuff like that have all shifted east. This year, however, tornado activity seems to have shifted back west, closer to Interstate 35 again.
Thank you for sharing. I live in the area where these hit. It was a sad day. Majority were children (they don’t say that ) at aftercare. In Tuscaloosa. 😢
Our tornado season is primarily from November to May. However, Hurricanes in the summer often produce tornadoes as well. Although not as violent, they often spin up very suddenly compared to tornadoes from supercells.
The Stevenson-Bridgeport tornado was the one I ran from. Ran out of work that afternoon when I watched it come across the TN river, jumped in my Bronco and headed for Tennessee. No way staying around to ride that huge beast out.
Recky, I'm a storm spotter in Cullman, Alabama (Dixie Alley). Tornadoes are most likely to form in our area in the Spring and Fall seasons (though they have been known to form any time of year). Of interest... the speed of the tornado is not related to its forward progression, but, rather, the rate of rotation speed (the inside wind speed, if you will, of the tornado itself). Though the speed of forward progression is sometimes mentioned, that is generally done so by specifically mentioning that it is estimated to be moving or progressing and such-and-such a speed. Otherwise, the speed of a tornado is always as it relates to how fast the inner wind speed of rotation is. This speed is also one of the markers of the category of tornado you have (i.e., EF-0 to EF-5). You were wondering what a mesocyclone is... I'll attach a link to a short video by Pecos Hank where he does a wonderful job of explaining this. He is a fantastic storm chaser and I'm sure you'll love his videography. He's an awesome guy. All the best!
Mesocyclone: czcams.com/video/Amkt_KHJP3A/video.htmlsi=M0v0sq--lYmM9-dG
I found your videos a few days ago when I was watching a weather live stream. I forget often that tornados are such a unique thing to the US (yes I know they can occur anywhere, but the amount we have here is insane). I’ve never been face-to-face with a tornado, but I’ve heard a small one in the distance, even from 5 or so miles away. It’s a feeling that you can’t describe, but you just know what it is. I became a super human throwing boxes around in my crawl space to make room for my family and dogs. Fortunately we didn’t need to take cover, but I was ready in case it shifted.
Tennessee here. I survived the tornadoes of 4/27/11. Unbelievable! It amazes me seeing two tornadoes join into one. Tornado 1 to Tornado 2: " Hey, lets go tear up some shit". That creeps me out like they are some kind of supernatural entity.
Also, each EF5 on that day was INSANELY UNDERRATED. EACH EF5 probably had winds up to at least, 250 or more. The Philadelphia EF5 had produced the deepest ground-scouring at 2 feet. The Hackleburg EF5 decimated 2 towns at incredible strength and traversed 132Miles and grew to 1.25Miles wide. The Smithville EF5, which in my opinion is THE strongest tornado in the 21st CENTURY. As it Obliterated a funeral home, turning it into dust, annihilating homes built in less than 10 years, ripping roads off the ground, and its roar can be heard 2 miles away. And tearing a gun-safe’s lock off, pulling curtains through wall seals, ripping pipes out the ground, and clearing foundations and even pulverizing furniture, and turning a welded pipe which takes 70,000PSI to rip apart into dust. Indicating winds of over 205 and possibly even 300. The Rainsville EF5 dislodged concrete foundations and stripped a school bus down to its frame. EACH of these tornadoes moved at a SPEED OF 60MPH+. Which these damages would’ve taken at least 3 seconds to take place, these tornadoes did not have 200,205,210 MPH, they had 260+.
The Rainsville EF5 also picked up and shredded an 800lb steel safe, as well as pryed an underground storm shelter several inches out of the ground.
@@reaIixxyeah it also cracked many foundations with some appliances being erased from existence, truly a horrifying feat
this was a wild day for a lot of the south eastern US. i wasn't far from the ringold area and there were so many less intense tornadoes that day all over the place. my little town lost its post office, fire hall and several homes. two people died. my family got trapped inside a store earlier in the day as one of the smaller ones passed over and i wound up stuck at my night shift job with no power for several hours. i wound up having to navigate some pretty heavy debris on my way home in the black of night. what was usually a 30 minute drive was well over an hour because of it. not long after i made it home, we had more alerts. i don't think anyone in the area slept that night for how often we were getting new warnings. it took years for my son not to fear thunderstorms after that. seeing the rubble from the lost buildings the day after hit him really hard.
I've personally noticed that there seem to be more tornados and stronger tornados in the past 10-20 years.
Not true, actually. Eight of the last 11 years (2012-2022) had below-normal tornado activity, and there hasn't been an EF5 tornado in the U.S. in almost exactly a decade. The last EF5 tornado in the U.S. was in Oklahoma on May 20, 2013. Also, 2018 became the first year in U.S. weather history without a single violent (EF4+) tornado. The strongest one in the U.S. that year was EF3.
So far, 2023 has been slightly above normal for tornadoes, but we'll see if it can keep the pace. January was above normal, and March was very active, but February was normal, and April was very quiet. A few significant tornadoes at the beginning and end of April mask the fact that the overall number of tornadoes that month was low. In fact, the middle of the month was dead as a doornail. Tornado activity has picked up here in the first half of May, but it's still been below normal so far for the month.
Ultimately, the reason why it seems like there are more and stronger tornadoes is because we're able to document them much better than before, with camera phones and social media.
@@dr4782The lack of strong tornadoes makes me a little worried that they’ll come back in spades.
It's a mix of lightning and power flashes from the transformers on the poles
oh i'm still here, i love the weather ones!
edit/continuation of comment: i think most humans have that "whoa that's awesome" feeling, and that's why you get so many people filming them instead of going right into their basements or shelters. plus the physical experience of it in person must be somethin else.
i'm gonna have to sit down one day and email you a list of a bunch of storm stuff to watch.
I love them to! Even tho they make me feel sick
James Spann saved a lot of people with his broadcast.
Respect the Polygon!
I do consulting for students in north Alabama. One of my families lost an infant. Another lost one of their twins. Several of my families lost homes, and in Hackleburg most of the town was completely leveled. The Phil Campbell/Hackleburg tornado was an F5 and it was the strongest F5 on record for awhile. The one that went through Tanner AL almost hit a nuclear power plant. It was a generational event.
The tornado last week in Mississippi was 1-2 miles wide. Insane!!
I remember that day vividly. I almost drove right into the EF-2 that went through Cahaba Heights that morning while on my way to work.
My house was hit by a tornado last year. It was just an F1 but the noise was incredibly loud just before it hit. It was like standing next to a jet engine. I can't imagine what these sounded like.
I remember this day well. I was in middle school at the time. We did required reading in class. I sat in my desk and looked out the window. It was gray, so i expected some weather to come through. About 5 minutes later, i look out the window again, and it's pitch black. I didn't have enough time to process it before the sirens started going off. We were in the hallway for 4 or 5 hours and the sirens were constantly going off. Afterwards, they called school for the day, and my grandmother came and picked me up. We watched alabama get torn apart in real time. This event is what sparked my interest in weather.
I live in Bridgeport, Alabama. There’s a video on here of one of 3 tornadoes that hit that day, a day I will never forget
We had 57 in tn and over all 32 people died in East TN from Chattanooga to elizabethton tn
Still here! always enjoy your reactions to storm videos. That’s how I found you in the first place. Peace and love from Colorado.☮️❤️ 18:53
Thank you Meredith
@@Reckyj no thank you!! I truly do love your videos and I very much enjoy your videos with Carol too. Thank you for your content. Peace and love from Colorado.☕️❤️☕️
@@meredithlanterman554 =) love to hear it! LOVE
Storm Chaser Andy Gabrielson was killed on February 4, 2012 near Tulsa, Oklahoma in a headon collision caused by an intoxicated individual driving the wrong way on Interstate 44.
He was an amazing storm chaser.
I just bought a house 3.5 miles from where the Ringgold tornado touched down on this day. Found out before I closed on the house that the roof had to be replaced due to damage from the tornado, if that tells you anything about how far away from the tornado that you can see damage.
Another tornado that touched down this day was an EF2 that touched down in Chickamauga Georgia, 150 yards away from my grandmother's house. I escaped being in another tornado later in the day because I rushed over to her house to make sure she was OK, and help with S&R and cleanup.
I lived right in the center of where the Ringgold, Chickamauga, and another tornado touched down. Less than 10 miles from all 3. It was an absolutely crazy day, where the storms came in waves, and every time a storm passed by, the day looked absolutely gorgeous, until the next storm wave hit. I ended up having to spend the next week at my grandmother's house because every single way back to my place was blocked by debris.
they're more likely to form in the summer when it's hot and humid.
Lived through this first hand, and it was surreal. We were at work watching the radar and I was thinking there was no way that's real. Tornado warnings all over, think I counted at least 12 warnings at one time. On the drive home from work we drove through the path of an F4 (Cullman-Arab) that had passed not very long before that. Gas station was obliterated and just swept off the map, debris on the roads. A guy I went to high school with, 5 members of his family were killed including him. They were pulled OUT of their basement by that same F4. Incredible power in these storms. That was a crazy day, one I will never forget. thanks for the video!
PS-yes tornadoes in this region are fairly common in the spring and fall, during the transitions in temperature. Warm and Cold air mixing tends to cause this.
I live in North Alabama and I will NEVER forget that day. There was an early morning round of storms, another round late morning into midday, then the last and most devastating in the late afternoon into the night.
I was safe from the early morning round and went to college class that morning (in Tanner, AL). The midday round that happened had us sheltered from back to back tornado warnings (and we saw at least the wall cloud if not an actual tornado). After the warnings were lifted, we were cleared to go home early if we felt safe to do so. I made it home and thank the lord everyday that I didnt lose my home or any family or friends.
Unfortunately, my childhood neighborhood was destroyed and we lost a long time resident who was such a sweet man (the tornado came up behind his mobile home and we all had no power, no sirens so he got caught outside). My father also lost one of his coworkers that he was very close to and was devastated after learning of his friend passing.
We all lost power in North AL for an entire week and communities banded together to feed and comfort each other. I even cooked up all the meat I had in my freezer and went to tornado damaged areas to pass out meals and bottles of water. It was so hard to see all the devastation and I still have pictures from that day.
Im now a trained storm spotter and chase storms in AL (despite how dangerous it is) to help save more lives after learning more about severe storms and how devastating they are and deadly they can be without proper warnings.
One last thing, Chief Meteorologist James Spann is a legend and helped save many lives that day (along with his coworker Jason Simpson) but they still beat themselves up to this day for how many lives were lost in Alabama that one fateful day.
I live in Trenton GA! I remember that day well. I should have been a storm chaser. I love that weather, just not the havoc it creates!
What they don’t tell people on this day was that there was a morning round of a tornado outbreak and major damaging winds outside the tornadoes that occurred overnight in Mississippi and Alabama which left over 260k+ people in Alabama without power before the main severe threat began.
I was there for it. Still here. Helped multiple friends dig their family members (still alive thankfully) and few remaining possessions from the ruble of what was their home that morning. We had no power for a week for most of the state. When the tornadoes were on the ground i was in a storm shelter at my University, i was frantically calling my family and friends to make sure they had found safety. The cell towers were jammed and all I could do was pace and curse while I feared for their lives. I'll never forget it. Thankfully I didn't lose anyone, but it so easily could have gone another way.
To answer your question on when we have bad tornadoes is during spring and sometimes during the fall, but mostly spring and tornado alley as it is called is one of the hottest spots on the planet to produce record breaking storms globally. I would also recommend you look into the El reno tornado to see something out of this world.
Thanks Recky! I'm in Minnesota and have seen 2 tornados in my 40 years. Thunderstorms can shake your nerves, but even being in a light zone of Tornado Alley ... when it's a high wind storm and you can't see far enough outside to know if your roof is about to become community property, to put it mildly, that's a rush.
Never seen a tornado, thank God, but I’ll never forget this outbreak being on the news. We couldn’t believe the amount of tornadoes dropping from this system, it was disturbing as heck…Can’t imagine actually experiencing it…
I'm still here Recky! BTW, the largest tornado on record was 2.6 miles across.🌪️
I think the largest tornado might be the 2013 El Reno tornado, that tornado was an absolute monster
@Nostalgic Woodwind yeah, that's the El Reno tornado. It was 2.6 miles across.
I live in North Alabama, in a town called Decatur. We were not hit but people in towns all around us were. It was a terrible day. We had it light, we had no power for five days
I lived through that. I was in Tuscaloosa, AL. It came within 30 ft of my apartment and completely destroyed the closest neighborhood (Alberta City). I still have PTSD from that tornado, and I got to relive it in Selma, AL this year on January 13th.
Here in Illinois we had the first tornadoes of 2023 last week. Kind of early but they can and do happen anytime of year. Just really unusual in February. Usually occur later in spring/summer. They were small in the big scheme of things but still caused damage.
You need to watch any one of the many documentaries on the 5/22/2011 Joplin, Missouri Tornado. I lived through it and was blessed that my house was spared, but not my office. 161 people lost their lives. This was the costliest tornado in US history over $3 billion in damage. As a mental health therapist, the trauma experienced by so many was overwhelming. Technically, tornadoes can happen in any month. However, Spring is typically when they hit.
Still here remember that day well 💔
I am from Phil Campell, Alabama. I was actually at my aunts that day which was about 4-5 miles from where the tornado was. I remember that day like it was yesterday. We stood on our porch and watch ambulance after ambulance go flying down the road. We rode up there that night and it was like a movie. It's a small town. I graduated with about 50 people so everyone knows everyone. They found some stuff from houses in Phil Campbell, like pictures and things, hundreds of miles away in Tennessee. We all had the mentality that "nothing would happen" because we have tornado warnings all the time especially in the spring but ever since 2011, we all take shelter and never doubt it. We spent last Friday night in the storm shelter and it is supposed to storm again tonight. Amory Mississippi got hit really bad last week. Praying for them!
I lived in Hackleburg back then and my house got wiped off the map. I still get extremely nervous when the sirens go off.
May is the month that normally has the most tornados.
My sister and her 2 children did lived in Alabama during the super outbreak. She use to lived in Alabama somewhere near the Georgia state line when a power EF4 Tornado nearly destroyed her home. Fortunately the Tornado went over her house while she and her children were taking cover. It only cause either minor damage to her home but her Neighbors were not so lucky. Well the good thing is she lives back home with me and my family in Asheville North Carolina surrounded by the mountains.
Still here brother. We only get about 3 tornadoes per year in Utah, so I doubted I would see one. But in September 2002, an F-2 showed up in town. It was about 1/4 mile (0.4 km) from me, and I watched it go up the side of the mountain. It was cool, but I'll stick to seeing them on video.
I remember this all to well the Tuscaloosa tornado was maybe half a mile from my house
See that day in upper East TN we where 85f and we know that breads trouble in spring
Smithville caused extreme debris granulation and was travelling at forward speeds of up to 70 MPH. This type of damage is usually seen with EF5's with slower forward speed due to the amount of time it has to cause the damage (Bridge Creek, Jarrell). Smithville caused that damage in seconds. Hackleburg-Phil Campbell ripped the doors off of storm shelters and may have killed a few people in basements. April 27, 2011 is absolutely insane.
This is that tornado outbreak I told u about Recky
Cordova Alabama is a very tiny city. Cordova was hit that morning by an ef3 tornado, and the one in the video is the second tornado to hit Cordova that day it was an ef-4. Extraordinarily rare for a small City like that to get hit by two violent tornadoes on the same day.
Recky, there was a huge dericho that formed while we were driving from my sister-in-laws wedding in Lancaster PA and we were trying to get to DC for our vacation. We didn’t know there was a derecho coming. Right as we entered DC, the post boxes started flying and trees barely missed our minivan we had borrowed to make the trip. We made it to the hotel without incident. I have a lot of respect for derechos and tornados.
I live on the coast so I have always had a certain amount of respect for hurricanes… but you know days in advance that it’s coming. You don’t get that with tornadoes. You might get 10 minutes warning.
In the Southern US, Dixie Alley, tornado season is early spring, and late fall/early winter. I’m in Nashville. We’ve had two in the past few years. March, and December, I believe? The flashes are power lines/power stations it is destroying.
I really love your commentary on all of your videos. Thanks for doing this.
Thank you Jeff! I really appreciate the kind words. And the “thanks”
I remember this day so well, it was a chain of days of storms. I live in Arkansas, and we had 3 days of constant tornado warnings, including the one that hit the Air base on April 25th, 2011, which was close to me.
That moment when you and Recky turn your heads at the same time to watch footage that isn’t properly oriented 😂
the man reporting the rotation on the phone was using a remote camera it's kinda cool, quite often, in areas with smaller news stations, they use people from around the multiple regions to report in weather conditions in their specific area. the news station will help them set up so they can have weather information from everywhere,. the smaller stations don't have the budget to set up weather recording equipment everywhere. BTW the cordova tornado was almost a mile wide
6:51 James Spann will always be the meteorologist we go to if there’s a chance of bad weather. He did an incomprehensible job that day being on air for over 8 hours, covering everything and warning everyone that could watch him or hear him on the radio, and also explaining why the storms did certain things.
I also remember many many people from other counties that weren’t impacted, volunteering to help with the cleanup. Several had chainsaws to get rid of the downed trees blocking the streets for emergency personnel to get to any of the injured.
12:32 By the way, this clip with the police car being there and then gone scares the hell out of me!
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Tornados in the South are springier. I remember this outbreak well. All the tornados that come through North AL hit this one neighborhood every time. Half the plots are just concrete slabs.
Indiana was lucky that day, we only got one. But that one I saw pass by a mile or two away. Also they form from early spring to late fall. Sometimes even in the winter. But most active from May-August.
Most normal time for tornadoes is from March throughout June, but it is getting more common to happen during wintermonths as in November, December and January. And it is between 900 up to 1500 tornadoes per year. Sometimes less or more than those numbers.
My morfars dairy barn was destroyed and a Farmall C tractor that was inside was split in two at the engine. The garage was about 15.2 meters way and the house another 12.2 beyond. The garage walls blew out and the house lost a few shingles. Nobody hurt.
I lived in sipsey Alabama There's a lot I remember about that day but the one thing that haunts me to this day is the smell the day after in the heat combined with the destruction it's exactly what I imagine a battlefield is like
HI Recky, From Tuscaloosa Alabama here. I will never forget that day. Have a son who was in that Tornado. Because the phones was jammed and no service., it was 2 days before we found out that he was alive. He was behind the one wall that was left standing.
@Recky keep in mind that 215 tornados is around the average for most years
The first tornado in this video (Philadelphia, MS) dug two foot trenches (61 cm) down into the ground as it was traveling forward at nearly 60 mph (96 km per hour). For perspective, the Jarrell tornado was nearly parked over a single location for several minutes and dug 18 inches (46 cm) down into the ground. In a fraction of the time, the Philadelphia tornado dug further and produced potentially the worst ground scouring seen in modern times. Both tornadoes are in a class with few equals. I have trouble wrapping my head around that kind of power.
Carly Anna WX channel does really good studies on tornadoes 🌪 her latest was on the EF-5 Rainsville tornado. I like that she also includes information on the damage and recovery of the towns hit and sometimes mentions either improvements cities have made or memorials to those that lost their lives 😢.
There's lightning in the wall-cloud, but the flashes you see within the tornado area are almost always transformers popping. The area will be without electricity for a while after a tornado rolls through.