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Paul Knightley
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Mainly storm-chasing videos, but also anything else that I film and I want to share!
Raw footage of the development of the El Reno, Oklahoma, tornado - May 31st, 2013
This is the raw footage I filmed of the weather conditions leading up to the development of the El Reno tornado, the moment the 'main' tornado span-up under the potent low-level mesocyclone, and our (my partner Helen Rossington, and me) escape from the tornado as we headed eastwards. There are much better videos of the tornado - but this footage shows what it was like to race eastwards to remain ahead of the tornado.
The footage concludes with a view to the WNW at around 1825CDT, with the huge tornado just about visible in the murky sky. Further footage of the rest of the chase was taken, but not uploaded here, as this post is about the main tornado.
RIP to those who lost their lives on this tragic day.
Footage is Copyright Paul Knightley, and may not be copied, republished, broadcast, or in any other way passed on (other than via sharing the UA-cam link to this video) without express permission from me.
The footage concludes with a view to the WNW at around 1825CDT, with the huge tornado just about visible in the murky sky. Further footage of the rest of the chase was taken, but not uploaded here, as this post is about the main tornado.
RIP to those who lost their lives on this tragic day.
Footage is Copyright Paul Knightley, and may not be copied, republished, broadcast, or in any other way passed on (other than via sharing the UA-cam link to this video) without express permission from me.
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You Wanna Make a Memory - Bon Jovi cover
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Me singing You Wanna Make a Memory, by Bon Jovi, with very exciting visual effects.
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On June 1st, 2019, near Fort Stockton, TX, we heard 'hail roar' from the supercell - for the non-chasers, this is basically the noise from millions of hailstones tumbling around in the updraught and downdraught of the storm. Best heard on your headphones - and it's most pronounced just after I mention it on the video. You can also hear thunder, the wind blowing past the mic, and a car - but the...
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GoPro footage of a couple of brief tornadoes spawned from the mesocyclone of a supercell thunderstorm in Colorado, on May 28th, 2018. These were both filmed near Cope. The storm had previously produced a number of tornadoes, generally non-mesocyclone, south-west of this area,
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A multiview video of the total eclipse of the sun, on August 21st, 2017. This was taken about 9 miles south of Ansley, Nebraksa. The main view shows the eclipse, with the two side videos showing GoPro footage. The top one is looking south, from a Hero4; the bottom one is looking north-west from a Hero2. This was hands-down the most amazing natural event I've ever witnessed. It was as emotional ...
Total solar eclipse, August 21st 2017
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A short clip of totality from a week ago - I've used the video editing software to 'zoom in' - hence the slight reduction in quality once totality is in place. I want to do a more comprehensive video in due course. This was taken from a point a few miles south of Ansley, Nebraska, on August 21st, 2017. We were approximately 3 miles south of the centre line of totality.
Storm chase 2016 timelapse
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A compilation of timelapse clips from our 2016 storm chase trip. Music composed and performed by me, using Garage Band on the iPad.
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Beginning stage of massive EF-5 El Reno tornado, May 31st 2013
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Beginning stage of massive EF-5 El Reno tornado, May 31st 2013
If anyone ever says your not cool, they have no idea what cool really is. Love it bro. This is what living really looks like! Thanks for the vibes!
@@KingNiros Cheers, man!
Awesome awesome video!!
Wow that wind shear is so obvious starting at the timelapse at 4:30. I also like the sound of the wind blowing through the wheat.
Is that twistex at 34:08?
No, as far as I know they were on a road to the north of this location.
Oh my god, I last saw this video in 2013.
@@zb1423 Welcome back! Hope you enjoyed it again!
fun fact: you would need about 10 burj khalifas laid down to match the width of this tornado, which was 2.6 miles or 13000 ft long.
34:00 top right, watcher.
I’m not sure what you mean…I don’t see anything at top right at that time stamp
chi area , lmk, breaks and acid jazz guy here
Rip peace tim samaras
Very dangerous tornado 2.6 miles wide tornado
I really want to move out there to Oklahoma. Because I love the beauty of mother Nature. And her danger.
Yeah man thanks for sharing this video with us. I would never forget that day. I remember watching this on TV that day. May all of those people continue to RIP 🙏.
Tim samaras got killed by 2.6 mile wide
1st time viewer new subscriber. Well done ✅
The 2013 El Reno Oklahoma tornado was the largest tornado ever recorded in history, reached a peak width of 2.65 miles (4.26 km) which is the widest tornado ever. and a Mobile RaxPol radar measured Windspeeds of 295+ mph, which maybe the highest winds ever measured on Earth. Also during that time, due to the tornado’s rapid intensification and growth, 4 storm chasers have passed away from this tornado. It later died west of El Reno at 6:43 pm. It killed 8 people in total and injured 26 others over its 16.2 mile path. Despite the tornado have recorded wind of almost 300 mph, but it was only rated an EF-3. But why did it decrease to an EF3? Because it spawned in the plains of El Reno.
Nice video :) looks good but the tornado is a little bit to small
Thanks! It was the largest recorded tornado in history!
@@paulknightley yeah i know 😅 like a lot of the others said, the calmness is really nice.. Its like watching a nature documentary without a lot of talking.. In other videos its absolute chaos.. they need to yell all the time like they are in an action movie..
Reed Timmer watch and learn 😂
What I always find sobering about El Reno is the fact that if you moved its path a relatively short distance and you would have had catastrophe. Oklahoma City and Tulsa to the East. Wichita, El Dorado and Hutchinson to the North. Dallas abd Fort Worth to the South. Sort of like on the evening of the Moore OKC disaster in 1999, a possible F *06 tore up a stretch of countryside between Oklahoma City and Wichita along I 35.
I guess all natural disasters, as we classify them, are based on them happening where there are people...what I find hard to fathom is how places like OKC and DFW are growing year on year, increasing the footprint of human habitation which can be impacted by tornadoes. So, it it's inevitable to me that a major, 2 mile-wide EF5 will, some day, move through the central portion of a very large conurbation, perhaps impacting stationary traffic and causing a big loss of life. Sobering, as you say.
Hi there, Paul! Such an amazing cover, you're the only one to actually try re-enacting the 80s live keyboards intro. What are the chances of you ever releasing a longer version of just that (the intro)? Like multiple bars of that amazing fairytale-like background on top of which Jon was telling stories to the public, right before Richie's guitar kicks in? I keep searching the internet up and down for anyone that might be able to do that and until now you were the only one who came close to that, it's just that I'd love to have a bit of a longer version like in the Live In Moscow version ♥
Many thanks! I might get around to doing something like that at some point!
Great piano and singing voice I was impressed.
Many thanks!
Yall was driving awful slow to be in the circulation. Killer video
60 mph on wet gravel roads was pushing our luck!
June 1st 2013 record number of new underwear sales. Great footage but had to have been scary as hell.
You actually got better video than the chasers inside the rotation...there has been a tendency in recent years to drive waaaaay to close to these tornadoes, with tragic results.
Thanks - my opinion is that footage is much more interesting when back a way from the storm - however, the 'need' of some to get clicks, etc, appears to make them lose sense of reality
Awesome video! I enjoyed every second of this! Rip Tim, Paul and Carl 🙏
I miss those $5 foot longs
God, I hate living in Virginia. I can't believe I miss Oklahoma. Tornados , terrible flash floods and extreme heat , every year. Ugh
Does anyone know the road they head east on?
Do you mean us, the videographers? If so, we were heading east on E1070 road.
@@paulknightley Yes. Im currently going down the El Reno rabbit hole ty for the answer
That guy in the red dodge...he thinks he is Bill...lol
seriously excellent work in documenting this historical tornado! Loved the raw take on this storm. YT has became too "instant action," I really enjoyed seeing the build up of this storm.
Many thanks!
Paul, this is incredible. Thank you so much for sharing. The sirens are very haunting, as well. I chased a tornado close to Marietta, OK, in 2009. It began to “rope” down from the wall cloud, then either dissipated or became rain-wrapped. I decided not to pursue it, since I could not see it. Couple of thoughts that have probably been addressed. At 53:00, you say you think it is taking a left turn. I wonder if this is when the TWISTEX Crew perished? Also, I had always believed that the birds stop chirping when a strong/violent storm is approaching. Mother Nature can be fascinating…
Many thanks for your kind words :) And, yes, unfortunately the part you reference about the left turn is right around the time of that particular tragedy, sadly.
This is one of the best videos I've seen of that day...thanks for posting.
Many thanks!
Paul you’re cool dude
Wow! Amazing footage!! 👍👍
Many thanks!
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phew that was a bit of a close call huh i had one that day too (but i wasn't chasing, i was fleeing mustang) awesome footage
Thanks…and glad you got out
That's the most calm and relaxing tornado video I've ever seen..No chaos, no histrionics...Just quiet, calming, beautiful videography. Much obliged.
Thanks!
Way too many people trying to chase these storms with little to no experience that’s how you get people killed getting in the way if you haven’t seen a traffic jam with tornado in front of you 😂
That's become more of an issue these days, to be honest - you can find a number of videos from relatively inexperienced chasers from this last season who got impacted by tornadoes, simply by making poor choices
Guys, by any chance are you in one of the cars in this video ua-cam.com/video/IhFw0t6f20Y/v-deo.htmlsi=bxbday_OJyl1HXGf at 13:20?
I didn’t see any cars at that timestamp
This is by far some of the best stormchasing video I have watched. No overreaction, yelling. Just letting the video tell the story, with comments when needed. Great job.
Thanks!
Agree 😊
@@paulknightley Great video, one of the best! Do you get nervous when traffic starts piling up around you? I started to feel very anxious as more cars started crowding in.
I think at about 46:40 you see a few cars turn right to what it sounds like was the South direction and I have to wonder if those were the people who lost their lives right there. With that tornado being right on their heels I’m dying to know why anyone would turn right there, pretty much turning right into it
I’m not sure about how they faired…I know that we had to make a split second decision and we chose to keep east…you can hear me saying that I don’t know why anyone would want to go south at that point
Found out the other day that I briefly knew Paul Samaras back in middle school. Played on a hockey team together in the Denver area (circa 2001 approx). Over the years i always remembered that last name but never made the connection between that and the el Reno storm. Never in my life would've thought that would end up being the same person 🤦. Was literally in shock. 😢
A guy I knew named Dustin Bridges died in that tornado.
I was there visiting my aunt long story short I was 15 and she and my mom and dad went to the county next to them I asked to stay at her house cause at that point we had been in a rv for a week traveling and I wanted to watch tv? My aunt said if it’s okay with your mom then yes you can stay make a snake watch tv do what you need too mom said yes and pretty much the same ? So yeah long story short I went t the bathroom when the first eas went off ? I didn’t hear it? And then my phone rang from an unknown number cause it wasn’t in my contacts it just sent to voicemail anyways it rang again so I knew something was up? I picked up after ring 3 and it was my mother she said with her Scottish accent ?” honey you need to get in your aunts Tornado shelter! I asked why? She just get in the f**king shelter! Grab her cats and the keys to the cellar and get in it! There’s a Tornado on the ground not far from you!” I could not hear it? Until I had her cat in my hand the key and my jacket and stuff on and soon as I walked out her back door ? I look over it was almost close enough to touch it it looked like it had to be the debris cloud ? I’m from South Carolina I’ve never seen anything that big before and we do get tornadoes ? I had about a minute to get into the shelter ? Try surviving that on your own at 15? With a baby kitten scared to death clawing your leg cause she’s also scared! Thankfully I was smart enough to put a blanket around me and her so my southern instincts kicked in fast grabbing the blanket off my aunts bed . Yeah this Tornado was scary and will never be forgotten. I remember when my mom found me I have never seen her so relieved. She thought I was dead. Because where my aunts house used to be was wiped completely clean.
good job! +1like +1sub! shared!
I thought it was an ef-3
It is, but was initially classified as an EF5 based on wind speed data collected on radar, then downgraded to an EF3 because of the damage path....the wind speeds were not from the main circulation but the sub-vortocices and satellite tornadoes.
The legend the biggest twister of all time will no longer be back With his 8 deaths including storm chasers
Can someone draw some arrows- where is the tornado? I legit can not pinpoint where it is.
Never did see a tornado!
This is some of the best footage of the El Reno monster I've seen...concise, sparse, intelligent narrative... no screaming, and you put yourselves in the right spot ahead of the hundreds of boneheads chasing that storm. Well done PN! Keep calm and storm chase!
Thanks! PK ;)
Have seen numerous videos of this monstrosity...the fact it didn't hit a city directly is fortunate... thousands may have been lost...(according to NWS.) Truly, a storm of gargantuan power...God bless victims & families...