Largest tornado ever witnessed. El Reno, Oklahoma 2.6 miles wide
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- Опубліковано 3 кві 2021
- This is the behind-the-scenes footage from inside Flash, the tornado truck. On May 31 2013 a very well forecast storm produced the widest tornado ever recorded.
We made a series of errors that put us in the path of this dangerous monster and we all understand that we are lucky to be alive.
What were the mistakes?
1) We approached this storm with the same tactics that we would approach any storm. Unfortunately, this was not just any storm and the early morning soundings and forecast told us that was the case.
2) We set a safe zone for ourselves of 1 mile. We felt that one mile, in a region with open views would give us enough time to reposition in the event that things went badly. Unfortunately, I made an error in judgement and waited too long to pull the trigger on leaving the scene. My mistake put our lives in jeopardy and it is one of the main reasons it has taken me 7 years to post this video and face the music.
3) I put too much faith in the fact that this tornado would behave like other tornadoes before it. It did not behave as anticipated and the important lesson here is that we never really know what will happen.
4) Lastly, by being so close to the storm, we were unable to see the 'Big Picture' and that prevented me from having all the necessary information to keep us safe.
At the end of the video (last 12 minutes), you will feel the raw emotion of the event. We feared for our fellow chasers. We intuitively understood how close we came to tragedy and the experience was one that none of us would like to repeat. I feel confident that you will feel what we felt when you watch the video.
Thankyou to the best camera dude we know. Peter Slack is a pro and continued shooting through a very stressful event.
Greg - Розваги
How did the algorithm not get this to me sooner? I thought I’d seen every El Reno video out there. This was insane footage.
Same!!!
Ditto
Was just wondering the same thing?
Same here!
Same here too! And not just el Reno - I’ve been binging all the tornado vids/docs for months now - awesome yet frightening! I don’t ever want to see one in real life
The reason they didn’t fly away is because they had Ricky’s balls of solid adamantine weighing them down.
My brain is short circulating right now!
Te haya what im saying Ricky’s got massive balls
Seen this comment on 10 other el reno videos lol😅
Ricky is a beast. That front passenger shouldn't have said wait longer when the tornado was getting close. You guys would have never been in that situation.
I've been obsessed with El Reno tornado videos and I have to say you guys were so supportive, encouraging, and positive to each other during that narrow escape. I'd ride with you guys into anything. 👍🏻
I totally agree
Too many videos has dudes screaming and telling other people to shut up like ego maniacs.
They did good
This storm is so well documented. It's fascinating to see all the overlapping footage. It's unbelievable more people weren't hurt or killed in this storm. It behaved so abnormally and took so many professionals by surprise.
The only reason there weren't more deaths was because it largely stayed out in the country. I can't even imagine what would have happend had this monster reached a town or city...
@@daylightbright7675 it wouldve been pressed to be an ef6 at points
@@deadshot4245it actually did reach an EF6 but wasn't recorded as that because they didn't have set numbers for that type of tornado yet
Thank you for posting! Rickys reaction had me shook. Y’all seem so brave and fearless all the time but the raw emotion in this video helps us all understand what that day was truly like for storm chasers
That may have been one of the most anxiety inducing videos on You Tube. My heart is racing just from watching it. Great job guys.
Wow thought I’d seen all footage of this event. Incredible RIP Twistex
These men did so well in keeping their composure. I would have been screaming like an absolute lunatic. So glad they're all okay.
19:24 I believe right here, They're not far from the tornado, not close either, they're inside of the tornado. You see, the main condensation funnel is about a quarter to a half mile away, they're overtaken by the invisible outer edge. Dan Robinson who was also caught within the tornado describes it best when he said, "When a tornado gets rain wrapped, you just see rain curtains. And most of the time, the tornado is somewhere in that rain curtain. But for the El Reno tornado, the entire rain wrap was the tornado." That's why this was (In my opinion) the most dangerous tornado to ever happen on our planet. The outer invisible edge in this shot extends for a mile, and they get caught in the south east rim of it. It happened to many more people. Brandon Sullivan and Brett Wright, (Who I believe are on the same road) Mikey Gribble and Matt Goltl, The Weather Channel Crew, (Led by Mike Bettes and Kevin Parrish) Emily Sutton, Brendon Lindsey, Richard Henderson, (Who would be killed by one of the sub vortices) Twistex Team, (Tim Samaras, Paul Samaras, and Carl Young would also be killed by the same sub vortex) And Dan Robinson. And almost all of them had no idea that the tornado was much larger than they thought before they were brutally blasted by tornadic winds of 120 miles per hour. Had Greg and his crew taken their foot off the gas they would have most likely not have survived, and would have joined in heaven with Richard, Tim, Paul, and Carl.
They were indeed behind Brandon. This is the truck that passed them in the ditch as the barn was getting destroyed.
Mike bettes drove straight into the tornado, Leroy Jenkins style😂
@@commiehunter733 true. going south was the absolute worst option for them
There was also the french channel chronique chaotique (originally they chased thunderstorms in french)
on that road for a time before they made a turn that saved their life because otherwise they would have be on the same road as the twistex team
They managed to capture beautiful footage of the tornado without getting stuck inside where the many F3 funnel sprung around
But they also had no idea of the real widths of the tornado
at the end of their video you can see a map with the route they took compared to the twistex crew
It was Aldi their second time only in America were they chased the F5 tornado Moore so they so to speak were mostly new to the party
The tornados like el reno are sucking air so quickly, that it stalls your car... your engine is robbed of air and you can't build rpms
“Yea Ricky!!!!!! Way to go buddy!!!!!!”
Finally some love for the driver, instead of buttholes yelling and giving orders
Is anyone else having trouble hearing this? My volume is all the way up but i have to strain to hear it.
Yeah their microphone is busted and the audio track is mostly coming from the right ear (if you’re using earbuds or headphones). There is a way in some audio editing programs to centralize the audio. Immediately killed my want to watch the video because I have sensory issues and unbalanced audio really upsets me
Since seeing Brandon Sullivan's video, and watching this crew bomb the ditch, I've been hunting this crew's perspective of their escape. Crazy ride. Glad y'all made it clear.
I used to watch Storm Chasers on discovery. As it happened, I was moving cross-country just a few days after it happened. I saw the "in memory of..." at the end of the episode, but didn't catch the details, because I was finishing packing.
That was also when I cut the cord and didn't get cable installed in my new place, so I never saw any more about it until I got into a tornado rabbit hole on UA-cam this weekend. I had always assumed they'd died in a car wreck, since I knew that was actually the biggest danger for chasers. It was surprising that it was the tornado itself, and I was really surprised that it was the first time that had happened.
Skip Talbot's analysis was really interesting, and taught me more about tornadoes than I'd learned in my entire life.
“No guys, we gotta keep in touch with this thing.” (Tornado: “No worries. I will keep in touch with you.”)
I will never understand why people do this; Mother Nature is no joke. They were high-fiving and excited until they were caught in the very thing they were chasing, i.e. the hunter becomes the hunted.
Super intense!
I remember the first time I saw Sullivan and Wrights’ video right after it happened and saw y’alls orange truck go bouncing through the ditch to get past them. It’s cool to have the perspective from behind Sullivan.
Great driving, Ricky. Well done.
Y'all work so very well together and it's a pleasure to witness. Don't get to see that very often and I suspect that's what saved you. Each of you had a job to do and didn't interfere with the others. Thank you for posting both the video and lessons learned in the description, and I'm very glad you all survived.
I live in El Reno that day was scary af. It rained like it was a hurricane non stop and then the sky turned a burnt orange after the storm was all over. If that tornado actually hit the town it would’ve been a catastrophe
It was hard to believe that this tornado was only rated an EF3 and if it had hit a more populated area it would have caused catastrophic EF5 damage
@@kevinbudzinski9576Exactly thank God it was not where near a city or town. The damage would set a new record EF5 would not be enough to rate it since that monster kept getting stronger and stayed on the ground for miles and changing directions. I mean it could have been 2.6 miles of damage moving almost 50 mph.
Tim was one of my dads friends ( my dad was on reeds team * his EMT*) he said that Tim had told them he was going to go chase that day but no one else was because it was going to be very dangerous. My dad said the last thing they ever heard from him was a text ( i dont remeber exactly what it said but it obv had to do with smth abt tornados) they didnt hear from him the rest of the day and didnt think abything abt it. They turned the news on the next day and thats how they found out abt Tim, Paul, and Carl😢 RIP Twistex you will forever be missed❤️
I doubt this is true that your dad was the emt thats all lies
You also sound stupid saying abt and smthn smh get good and English.
Literally the definition of a child is u.
@MarilynMansonlsBetterThanRap Oh rly!! I love how you know more abt my dad than I do! If you wanna accuse me of lying, search my dad up bf you go accusing me. Frank Risques search him up then come back and tell me if im lying still😊🙄
@MarilynMansonIsBetterThanRap Exactly. Make sure something IS false before you go accusing people
And btw guys if you want to search my dad up his name is “ Frank Risques”
I had aspirations of being on a tornado chasing team when I was younger,but this tornado alone shattered all those dreams.
Thank you for sharing this video. I have watched and read so much on this tornado over the past 10 years. This video adds another layer of depth to the subject. I do hope for Ricky got some much needed therapy! That was some awesome driving.
I remember watching your stream live from Canada and was just terrified at the time by this monster… thank you for posting and you definitely were not the only ones taken by complete shock with this storm.
Wow, I've never seen this. Crazy. So glad you guys made it through that one. Thinking of Twistex today
Ricky, the driver, at 24:22 "can we not do that again? That was too close. At least not for today". I feel like it was one of his first days stormchasing with that comment. As if close calls like that are the norm. Crazy scary I'm sure
Reminds me of Eddie Murphy crossing the highway in Bowfinger. Funny in retrospect. Glad everybody made it out OK
Every year, it seems like someone posts another El Reno tornado video. Thanks for posting this. I always wondered about the truck that passed Brett Wright and Brandon Sullivan.
Hey Chris...fire up Chips! And Go Jackets! Geez...another person from Greenville who went to CMU. I’ve been watching you for a long time and had no idea.
"i want to try storm chasing"
*sees 20:54 *
yeah no thanks
👍
I've seen lot's of video from this storm. This is one of the best. Glad you got away without injury and for being so honest about your experience.
Hearing almost every experienced chaser in their own videos say "oh look, twins" when it was still too early for them to realize they were just massive subvortices within one monster is wild
I was talking to a friend that was visiting the area that day, he ended up having to take shelter in a walk in cooler at a gas station, they survived in there. I remember giving him real time updates and how scared he sounded on the phone with me.
Who else used to watch their show on Netflix before it was taken down in September last year?
Me.
Me. I want to know where I can find it now
me
Me.
me
Awesome footage, most impressive is the team work you guy's display...great job fellas, Respect!
Amazing footage, and brave as hell to post. Thank you for sharing. Though, I almost never get motion sick but this video did the trick, lol.
Here before the 2.4million views.
Glad to see that you guys are okay..That was a Very Bad and Horrible day:(..
Ricky is a stone cold killer! Helluva wheel job, bro.
Crazy stuff boys. Love to see you're alright. Crazy unseen video. Cant wait to run into you guys hopefully this year
"It's ok, the tornado is clear over th... wait... everything is tornado, run!"
They said that? I'm only a bit in the video so I guess I'll see
YIKES! That was nearly me with the Cleredon, TX tornado last month. I let the bears cage come over me with pouring rain, and then I saw this gray wall emerge to my right. The EF2 tornado at that point was 1000 yards wide, and just 350 yards away. Later I found out it was headed right for me, curved the West, and then back to the East AFTER it passed me...
Lesson learned...
I think your guardian angel was looking out for you! That's all I can say.
Was that Brett Wright and Brandon Sullivan’s vehicle in front of you guys?
This footage is incredible-just amazing to see the circulation develop outward and overhead out thin air, developing seemingly faster than the general storm track itself.
Just answered my own question-can see you passing them in Brett and Brandon’s footage. That was some solid driving by Rick.
Yes, that was Brett and Brandon
@@tornadohunter thanks. Keep up the good work. You and the guys make a good team. Love Tornado Hunters, and your photography is excellent too. I’m also a sucker for a good timelapse!
@@tornadohunter you guys are lucky to have survived that, awesome footage, keep up the good work.
This one is the epitome of the saying, "Don't mess with nature.". Tornadoes like this, as scary as they are..need to be respected.
Weird timing. I was just watching storm chasing videos today (i watch them some what rarely even though I am subbed) I just so happened to watch the pecos hank video about this storm... again.
I’m pretty sure the guys in the jeep have the footage of you guys flying around them in the ditch. You suddenly see the truck (exactly as yours) bouncing and catching some serious air in that video, figured it was you. Glad you came out of it alright.
Where can we find this footage?
@@TheEmassengale4350 think its brandon wrights video
@@TheEmassengale4350 ua-cam.com/video/veNJBosc6EA/v-deo.html
Go to 1:56 and watch to the left.
I know exactly what you’re talking about! That’s so crazy, I always wondered who was in the truck!
You just know one of the four dislikes of this video is Brandon Sullivan. LOL
🤣
If one was to count the touchdowns of each vortex as an individual tornado, as in the beginning of its motion, the front passenger was looking at its front wall and said TWINS!,now its clear that the mass that is its whole was far to big to adjust their depth of perception, and soon they recognize the tornado as one huge rotation giving birth to hundreds of spiral vortexs dotting its perimeter, and who could count the inner twisters touching down and sucking back up
Oh wow so you were the guys in the truck that passed brandon sullivan as the barn was getting destroyed? The ones that passed them in the ditch
I remember watching this storm on the GRlevl3 and radar scope while trying to follow everyone's live streams. Once it was all said and done everyone besides Tim Samaras and his Co riders had posted on their social medias. Then about another hour went by and someone said that a group was hit by the tornado but wouldn't name who it was. I checked Tim's Facebook and nothing had been posted. That's when I knew Tim and his son had been hit by it. The next day loads of spotters set their locations to Map out the initials of all 3 who were in the car. Crazy that tim would chase in a small Chevy Cobalt. #RIP to tim and Paul Samaras, and Carl young. #TeamTwistex.
Every time I watch an El Reno video, somebody, at some time, says to go south, and I cringe internally. So many things about this mesocyclone system went against the “rules”. It really feels like it was out to get even the most seasoned chasers.
Wow! Amazing footage!!
That thing was a deathtrap on all fronts (for even the most experienced chasers). Rip team twistex :(
This tornado had winds in excess of 300 MPH.
El Reno was the most operatic tornado of all time. A dramatic, unpredictable path, high drama and tragedy, emotionally turbulent...even among the experienced chasers, massive in scale.
It's funny that even storm chasers say "tornado on the ground, 2 of them, there are twins!" when it's actually one big tornado that was already on the ground and those cones were "just" satellites and no one could realize it yet. Definitely the craziest tornado of all time
I want to see the footage from that camera looking out the front windshield
absolute solid driving from my man there. That was fucking intense boys. my god
I was especially enamored by the view point: from behind the other camera. 😊
Tim Samaris, his son and two other stormchasers were killed by this tornado.
mmmmm my right ear enjoyed this video. My left ear feels left out
Why did yall get removed from Netflix you where the number weather thing I wached
I watched the whole Netflix series over 30 times and I want to watch more. Where can I get more footage???
When the entire freaking mesocyclone drops…
Read the description. Was wondering why this was uploaded so recently
This tornado was the main reason I don’t trust damage reports as a reliable rating system for ranking tornados. We have reliable mobile doplar now that can tell us the wind speeds, damage is so unpredictable especially with construction, multiple vortices etc. part of why we haven’t “seen” an ef5 in forever even tho we’ve seen twisters with those wind speeds
If this tornado struck a city, it would have been catastrophic, but it's in a field, killed THREE experienced chasers. F3. Wtf ever. I guess it doesn't matter though what rating it gets. It was horrible enough
Where did you drive? Impossible to see from this footage.
At 14:00 you took a left on Reno Rd turning into Brandley Rd. After that, I haven't got a clue.
Did you know that the audio is coming in only one ear?
12:13 pecos Hank was there
The legend
EL Reno was the rare occurrence of the entire meso descending and creating dozens of areas of tight circulation. I hope we never see this again
Closed captioning would be greatly appreciated. Those of us that are hard of hearing need them to know what is being said.
That ditch and beaing able to drive in auto pilot in high tense situation & Devine Intervention is why those guys survived.
No divine intervention for twistex though, huh?
It’s amazing to me that there were not more chasers killed! Beast of a storm! Rip Twistex🙏
It was an EF5.
My right ear really enjoyed this.
That Tornado was generally difficult to see. Given it's rapid expansion, unusual move to the S.E. and fast ground speed it's a wonder more chasers were not hit.
Chris is like, what am I doing with these amateur's?! I use to ridie with the best, Timmer and Joel, Matt and more.. Are these guy's from Canada? I think I caught a bit of an accent.. Great ride! 🌪️🤗🌪️
Finally a driver that does what needs to be done to escape the tornado. This guy I would storm Chase with.🌪👀🤬
I was in this tornado when i was a little kid and it struck our house and blew the roof off but My whole family was in a bunker
El Reno and many other examples are to me illustrations of why both the EF scale and rate-by-damage-only system seriously need to be revisited and reformed. El Reno was not an EF-3, everyone knows it wasn't, yet we're all supposed to pretend it was just because there was nothing but meadows and farmland in its way.
This was understandable in the days before doppler but now, unless the case can be made that doppler readings on wind speed are wildly unreliable -- and I am no doppler radar-ologist, maybe they are -- I think they need to be included along with damage in the process of rating a tornado. Granted the readings are well above ground level in most cases -- due to friction it will be lower at ground level where it matters -- but I think it's possible through wind tunnel experiments, etc, to figure out a ground friction coefficient, eg: 200 mph reading at 3,000 ft - 10% = 180 mph at ground level.
My reasoning for reviewing the EF scale is:
(a) I think the original F scale was closer to the truth. An EF-3 twister is supposed to be 136-165 mph. But the freaky phenomena very common with even EF-3's -- curtains sucked through window frames, pine straws driven through car bodies and metal shovels, etc -- rarely if ever occur even with high Cat 4 to low Cat 5 hurricanes which are officially in that same velocity range.
(b) Given that we at least have several tornadoes by now dopplered at or above 300 mph, it makes no sense that the EF scale has no rating above 5. The rating goes up a magnitude every 30-35 mph but becomes an open-ended at the EF-5 threshold of 200 mph. If the dopplers are even remotely accurate, there have been many tornadoes well beyond 235 mph where EF-6 should begin if the scale is to be consistent, some beyond 270 mph where EF-7 should begin and possibly some that would qualify for EF-8 that would start at 305 mph.
Face it -- a 300 mph wind is not just 50% stronger than a 200 mph wind, it's 2.25 times stronger. A tornado that strong is a different critter entirely from 200 mph and needs for the sake of science, not to mention common sense, to be officially recognized as such. I say that including in the rating process a reliable doppler reading minus ground friction coefficient would make that possible.
my right ear enjoyed this a lot.
Where's the footage of the other gug..near Window
I never knew about it Netflix storm docs usually don't tell me or show me anything new
This was mainly footage of inside vehicle.
Remember: Tornadoes aren't categorized by their strength, but by their impact on us humans.
Most insane storm chasing video i have ever seen! you guys were so good together and being such a great team! What were those cars thinking not going FAST and u had to honk? hello there’s literally a tornado chasing yo ass ! Great job guys ..🙏🏼
The only time Ricky has been more scared was grabbing snakes in Mississippi. Brent still makes fun of him.
keep the camera straight !!
This tornado killed storm chasing legend Tim Samaras 😞
I know it was said several times in the video but I feel compelled to say it again. FUCK YEA RICKY!!
In all seriousness though that is the most stress inducing thing I've ever watched on UA-cam, these men are braver than I will ever be. Prayers be with the families of the three that were lost in this monster even 11 years after the fact. Rest eternally in peace Twistex, you guys will never be forgotten
The driver is really shook up over that close call.
Well yeah!
The audio is only in my right headphone 😔
2:33 ua-cam.com/video/veNJBosc6EA/v-deo.html you can see them drive past via Brandon Sullivan’s perspective
I survived a F9500 tornado flying my starship too close to the sun.
Hate when that happens....
Skipping through the 5th dimension
Famous last words..”can I get out”…yea yea….we got time.
Video: Widesr Tornado ever.
Movies: Lol ok
Anyone else cheering for Ricky? The fucking MAN!!!!
Is it reed in the back seat?
It sounds like but I guess I remember him being in the dominator for this one
@@Bogeymania no its chris, reeds old chasing buddy. Reed was in his dominater and the roof was ripped off
having trouble hearing it
you know what else is 2.6 miles wide?
Who is the driver?
Ricky Forbes
@@danielbaetens1587 Thank you, he brings to mind the expression "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me." He was not a happy man.
just a couple seconds longer he says.......
that was we get to see barn metal and a two ton farm truck fly over almost killing everyone here
Scariest day ever
10 year anniversary.
Is that Chris it sounds like him
One of the cameramen.