The Van Wert EF4 Tornado - Veterans Day Weekend, 2002
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Today we look at the unlikely Veteran's Day Weekend tornado outbreak of 2002, the Van Wert F4 tornado, and how the weather insanity unfolded over the course of 36 hours. Videos of the Van Wert tornado and subsequent damage were complied into a video produced by Kyle Heppeard and directed by Rick McCoy. Credit was given to the individuals who themselves filmed the tornado. High quality footage was made available to the public by Blake Naftel.
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The WILDEST November Tornado Outbreak - Veterans Day Weekend, 2002
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Bro I always get so excited when I get an alert that you posted a video. I've watched them all, many more than two or three times, and they are beyond amazing bro. I've commented on a few other of your videos and I'll repeat what I said in those. Your videos are amazing, you are amazing bro, keep up the good work!!
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I recently found a diary from my childhood where I greatly exaggerated my very first brush with a tornado. With that entry date fresh in mind, it wasn’t until just now that I realized my whole obsession with tornadoes was sparked by the GA end of this outbreak. I’ve seen the episode of Storm Stories so many times and never connected the dots!
Wow that's a cool discovery!
that sounds like something i would do as a kid lmao 💀 it was TEN MILES WIDE and A MILLION MILES AN HOUR
Man Ngl tho don’t be harsh on yourself… esp your kid self… that is a very traumatic experience and I’m glad you are alive🥺❤️
Just remember , aside from the damage , lives lost and terror left
It's a wonder of nature baby.
😅😅
Lots of tornado talk in my childhood journals, too. (I was a little obsessed, TBH.) Although I never have experienced or even seen one, I've been through some warned storms that were bad even without an actual tornado touching down.
Throughout my life, I lived in Ohio on April 3, 1974; I lived in Alabama in April 27, 2011, and in both instances, I lived in a different part of the states to where the tornadoes were wreaking havoc, but, that's "close enough for government work, drive in movies, and rock n roll." 😉
I'll have to look up some of my younger years journals, and share my overdramatic weather musings with the world. 😅
"More strict with their polygons" got a good chuckle. The MAP showing where the people were taking the videos from is AMAZING. I've always wanted something like that in my disaster coverage, thank you!
was about to comment about that line as well. I'm working late night and using these as background noise and it made me chuckle as well
Another excellent video. I was working the late afternoon/evening shift at the Weather Channel that day. Right after I arrived I checked in with the producer to get a brief on the day's stories. "It's been a busy afternoon with some tornadoes," she said. "Worst place hit so far has been a town in northwest Ohio called Van Wert."
She later told me she could see the blood drain from my face. My wife's parents lived just east of the city. I rapidly excused myself and called her, telling her to check with her parents. Fortunately for them, the twister tracked on the west and north sides of town and they had escaped unscathed.
We went up to see them for Thanksgiving a couple of weeks later, and my wife and I drove around viewing the damage. I distinctly remember seeing high tension towers folded over like a child had stomped on an erector set. We drove by a large farm field, and noticed there was a white van in the middle of it, several hundred feet from the adjoining roads.
It hadn't been driven there.
Fall tornadoes are no stranger to western Ohio. In addition to the Van Wert storm, Arcanum in Darke County was hit by an EF3 on 22 November 1992. When you live in areas susceptible to severe weather, it's wise to keep the weather radio ready to go even outside of the "normal" times when it occurs.
Happy holidays to all!
Love hearing your firsthand stories Warren! Happy Holidays!
My brother was in the National Door and Trim factory when it collapsed on him. He had headphones on because he was working with a bandsaw and didn’t hear the tornado sirens. When the building started shaking he ran to try and get out of the building, but didn’t make it. He dived under a stairway, which saved his life, but he had to be extracted from the building using the “jaws” of life.
Wow! How terrifying. I'm glad he survived!
Cool demonstration of how "tornado alley" shifts with the seasons. Just underscores the complex nature of weather systems. Very cool.
I was 18 at the time and working at the local Wendy's on the south side if town. My mother sent me to work early to avoid be caught in the storm. The sirens went off for I think 30 min before the storm hit. I remember watching the green swirling clouds when I looked out of the drive thru window. It was crazy, and I'll never forget it.
I literally live in Ohio on Rt224 and definitely sent chills up my spine the first time you mentioned it. Hits close to home.
118 here!
I’m from Van Wert. This tornado was the storm that really jump started my interest in weather eventually leading to me pursuing a degree. I’m back in Van Wert nowadays and my new house would have been in position to see the tornado more than likely.
Adding to that, there’s still signs of the tornado if you look closely. Like in the video, German Church Rd is mentioned. It passed very close to my church out there and there’s a line of trees with a large gap in the middle of it from that tornado. It’s crazy to still see signs two decades later.
I was 6 when this happened. My dad was a spotter for MPFD and I remember my sisters crying the whole time because he said it was gonna be bad….then went after it.
I was born in van wert the same year
My brother, I’ve watched a LOT of weather and severe weather content, and your videos are as good as any. You do a great job of keeping “entertainment value” while focusing on the information, always with helpful graphics. Awesome work
Thank you!
The Storm Stories video of the Van Wert tornado is well worth watching.
The Mengerink family had a neighbor that tried knocking on their door to shelter there but they were already in their basement. The tornado was there , he had nowhere to go so wedged into door frame to ride out F4 wedge and lived to tell his story. Tough people
Yep, His name was Jim Foster I think.
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I remember this outbreak. I was living in Erie, PA at the time, and I think it was the evening of the 10th, My wife and I had just finished helping a friend plant trees in her farm, and had just stopped for pizza at our favorite pizza shop, and I had noticed how strange the weather had gotten all of the sudden. I remember the tornado watch being issued, and a few tornado warnings to the south of us in Crawford/mercer counties, so we took our pizza to go, and headed back home. The storms hit Erie not long after we got home.
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Everyone in Van Wert remembers where we were that day….forever a tragic memory for our town
We lived in West TN on that day. It initially started on the evening of the 9th, tornado/straight-line wind damage occurred in Covington TN. As well as in Bells, TN hitting a Nursing home, WREG news has tons of news coverage from November 9th. Of course it became much worse the following day on the 10th
I was there when the tornado hit our neighborhood. My cousins were over and we were left alone for the first time. I was 10 at the time. I remember my parents called us and told us to hide in the basement but they wouldn't tell us why. I still have trauma from that day. When a bad storm comes or the sky turns green. Instant anxiety.
This is such an interesting case. Not only because it was on Veterans Day but it was also the day my younger brother was born. I can't say I remember much of it since I was so young at the time.
This is by far the best weather / severe events channel on youtube. Love the vintage synths you use on some intros and and your presentation is superb. Very excited for your channel to grow!
Thanks Anthony!!
You keep on getting better man. The watts per meter squared bit related to sun angle is something that I haven't thought about but makes so much sense. I love those parts of your channel
That’s brilliant to point out, no pun intended!
Bro I always get so excited when I get an alert that you posted a video. I've watched them all, many more than two or three times, and they are beyond amazing bro. I've commented on a few other of your videos and I'll repeat what I said in those. Your videos are amazing, you are amazing bro, keep up the good work!!
Thanks Steve!!
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I was 1 year old, I currently live in van wert county and haven’t seen one like that since, not even close. I’m now 21. Love that I get to watch a part of my small town history on a big channel like yours. Glad to bring some attention to a booming small town! Very scary day, wiped the movie theater (which is getting its first upgrade this year since the tornado) and some homes. So happy to see this on UA-cam🙌🏼
I’m in Lima and I remember being in our dark decrepit basement scared that it was headed our way. Passed but then in 2019 I ended up in the Memorial Day EF4 tornado in Dayton. Crazy.
You’re up there with Pecos Hank and Reed Timmer as the best extreme weather content people on UA-cam, do you have social media we can also follow?
That is some high praise. I agree, as the older events are just as important
Wow thanks Austin! I don't right now, I may soon though
@@poohssmartbrother1146 High praise he deserves.
Man dude is making some of the best tornado related content out there. Keep up the good work
This channel has grown much faster than I ever thought, and that’s because of the quality of the videos. Keep up the amazing work!
Thank you for watching!
You and sweggle studios are the best tornado/extreme storm UA-camrs ever. I love how you break down everything in simple terms. You two should get together and collaborate!
I was thinking the same thing and Carly Ann I believe her name is look it up
Amazing video. I was living in Tiffin at the time of this outbreak, and I will never forget that day. Honestly wasn't expecting you to mention us, but I'm sure glad you did. We had close family friends lose everything to that tornado. I was just a young child, born and raised in Tiffin, and I'll never forget when I first saw the picture that you featured in this video. I still have some of the old newspapers from that day featuring that picture. I've always wondered myself if there were other pictures or angles of that tornado, but as far as I'm aware there are none. That was the one that really made the rounds. Tiffin's a small, quiet town, and nothing ever really happens there, so this was one of those things that really threw us off guard. It tested us as a community though; people were helping other people, and everyone was looking after those who lost their homes. We went out the day following to help sift through some of the wreckage. In the years following, we didn't get much else as far as tornadoes go, but we definitely took warnings a lot more seriously from that point on.
You've earned yourself a subscriber here. Keep up the awesome work man
I grew up just a few miles north of Van Wert. I was 11 when this outbreak happened and remember it well. We spent the night at my grandparents’ house playing cards, because they had a cellar, and their windows rattled the whole night. I’ve associated Van Wert with tornadoes ever since that night and have always refused to live there as a result. That photo of the movie theater was on the front page of every area paper.
My dad and I drove through the tiny village of Roselms the next day. There was nothing left. Those images will stick with me forever.
We don’t get outbreaks often, but when we do they pack a punch. It’s so flat here that it feels like the tornadoes can go on forever.
Excellent video! It brought up a lot of memories.
Thanks for sharing your story!
Great work Weatherbox, your insight into tornadoes is appreciated. I've been lucky enough to have never been in a tornado, handy to know what conditions to watch for in the future.
All of the map graphics you made here really helped me visualize the weather pattern. Thank you.
You have to be one of my favorite new subscriptions. The quality on these videos is ever improving, and you provide the exact content in the exact format I was always looking for. Keep it up.
Thank you!
It's impressive you found all of these home videos, Steve Mr. @weatherbox.
Well done and thank you!
Thanks Adam! They were made public on UA-cam around the time I was writing the script. It was good timing
I remember this outbreak. My grandmother lived in east Tennessee in the mountains and we were so worried about her. She was okay but some towns not far from her were hit pretty bad.
Still vividly remember this day. I would have been 10 and still live about a half hour from Van Wert in Columbus Grove. Been looking for a video about it for years, glad to finally have found it. Great work!
Well well well, I know you!
Honestly I really want to see the Nov 4th, 2022 event covered. It was absolutely wild
I live in Collin County and it was stormy and really humid all day that day. Usually it's sunny and somewhat arid at that time of year. I knew something was going to happen when I stepped outside that day.
In my personal view, December 13th was even more wild and weird. A mid-morning tornado outbreak is really unusual in our part of Texas. I was awakened by a tornado warning and looked outside my window, and the rain was so heavy and thick it looked like a white wall. Fortunately, we didn't have a tornado in our area; unfortunately, an EF2 tracked from Blue Ridge to Leonard.
Very impressive content. Highly detailed with excellent breakdown. I watched several in a row and subscribed. Outstanding work.
I've got to say, I love these videos!! I don't think there's another channel on here where I am eagerly awaiting the new releases like this. Keep it up love everything you do :)
Thanks Kenny!
As always you did a great job on this video. I really enjoy watching your videos. You give a great description of what happened when the tornadoes go through towns/ cities. Keep up the awesome work bud.
Thanks Jeff!
Bought my new suv from VWCSO, that town had the nicest folks I’ve met in the state of Ohio. Naturally had to ask about the storm. This channel is fantastic, intricate details well over that of storm stories, though different market. Thank you.
Yes please on the winter outbreak coverage. Love your videos!
DUDE! i’m from van wert. haven’t even watched this yet but i’ve been wanting a VW F4 tornado analysis for so long! pumped!!
I got to meet Rick McCoy several years ago (2007 I think) at an emergency management conference. Super nice guy, but I didn’t have time to ask about the Van Wert tornado.
I remember this event too. I believe we were at church in Mount Vernon and I knew there had already been tornadoes in NW Ohio so I remember being pretty anxious and couldn’t go out and see anything as the system moved through.
Always looking forward to your videos! So well put together every time! Thank you!
Hey thank you!
That day was probably the first time I remember as a little kid with my family having to take cover because of the tornadoes that hit through Fostoria, OH.
I was living in Doylestown, Ohio (NE Wayne County) at the time and I remember tornadoes hit all around us. One in West Salem (NW Wayne County), one in Macedonia in Summit County, one in Massillon in Stark County, one in Medina County... literally all around us. Once they issued the tornado watch for everyone, that was it, we were all glued to the TV in the basement the rest of the night.
We already had one go through our backyard in July of 96 and definitely did not want a repeat..
Excellent breakdown! Especially loved the synced videos of different prospectives!!!
Oh yeah I didn't even get into the evening NE ohio tornadoes, those must have kept a lot of folks up! Glad y'all were safe though
@weatherbox everyone we knew was up watching Dick Goddard all night 😆❤️ he certainly had a way of keeping people calm, but informed. I just remember being so excited when he actually mentioned Doylestown by name. Most of the other Cleveland meteorologists at the time tended to ignore Wayne County, but we could always count on Dick Goddard ❤️❤️
I’m so glad to see this channel grow as fast as it has. 🧡
Recently got my B.S in Atmospheric Sciences and will be working towards a P.hD in Albany… these videos are not only entertaining but so informative and intuitive (for a meteorologist at least) so thank you so much. Keep it up!!!
I share your passion I’m watching this video on 12/14/22 at 130 pm while there are currently 12 tornado warnings in ms and la along with an observed pds Warning considerable threat tag near meridian ms along with a PDS watch over la ms and al anyway awesome vid as usual. I also live in ohio just southern ohio I’m working on a doc about march 2-3 2012. While this is a huge winter outbreak another 72 hours prior to this 50 tornados killed 15 an ef4 killed 8 in Harrisburg il alone. Keep up the good work!
Man. Storm obsessed junkie here! I’d love to see you do videos this well put together on some of the major tornados we’ve obsessed on for years… Moore, Tuscaloosa, El Reno, Pilger, Etc. we’ll done my friend.
Thank you! I will do more of those soon, I've been focused on putting together videos on tornadoes that have less comprehensive material out there
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I wish I could make this up but my tornado sirens started going off when I started watching this video 😂
Hearing you mention Bluffton is surreal. I've lived there for as long as I can remember. I was five in 2002, and while I'm not sure if this memory is of this event, I do remember one time when my family sheltered in the basement, which is frankly something very unusual for us, even when the tornado sirens go off
There's also the derecho driven Iowa and Minnesota to Ontario and Ohio tornado alley where hybrid derechoes run pretty much with a tornado hazard as long as there's adequate instability in months as bizarre as December or early March or adequate shear in the summer.
I grew up in Leipsic, Ohio and was 11 years old at the time. Leipsic is about 14 miles away from Continental (where it lifted) and about 35ish miles from Van Wert. Growing up storms typically moved north east, so if Van Wert got it, we got it too as my home town is almost due north east of them. On this day, the storms decided to go more north than normal. I have a very vivid memory of this because I had never seen my parents freak out so badly. They were very worried about the damages we were hearing. It's really not all that uncommon in NW Ohio to get tornados, but normally they are F0 or F1, and we take them seriously as we don't have a basement and live in an older home. I remember my dad was home that weekend, which was rare because normally he would pick up extra shifts at work, and he was trying to stay calm. You could feel it in the air, something was different, he was on edge way more than normal and fidgeting a lot. It's not uncommon for Van Wert to get a tornado warning, so we thought it was just another storm that hit the boarder and blew up. No, it wasn't. We could hardly believe our ears when it said F4 and the damage reports started rolling in. Everyone knows everyone out in those small farm communities, and that day shook us all.
I lived in delphos at the time. You could literally see the sky being “eaten” by the van wert tornado. Every single cloud was being absorbed by it and it was sunny in delphos once that tornado touched down. I specifically remember telling my mom there’s a tornado there and moments later our sirens went off, yet it was sunny in town. (The storm did come through but not nearly as bad as everywhere else).
This was the same system that struck my hometown down south in 2002. I was only two-years-old, and the destruction gave me a fascination of tornados ever since.
@weatherbox .. I've been bingeing in them the last few nights.
Your editing work is also excellent.. 5/5
Thanks Adam!
I've lived in Van Wert before and have family still living there. This tornado is still talked about quite often. It also destroyed a Cooper farms production facility. It's pretty miraculous more people weren't killed.
Yay, more Weatherbox!
& Nice Portland Sweatshirt. Hope you had fun.
Big fan of Portland!
I feel like your content is going to explode. You make spectacular videos. Perfect content, once again!
Thank you! I will keep going
Woah this brings back some memories! I remember i was 9 years old and lived in Columbus Ohio. It was so wild what transpired that night. For years i thought it may have been a quick spin up of a touch and go tornado but now i think it was straight line winds from that line of chaos. To this day its the loudest thing i have ever witnessed. We lost power for a whole week, our house was only built the year before, so they were still building homes behind ours and the winds flipped a construction trailer onto a dump truck. My neighbor 2 doors down had his chimney ripped off and thrown into the middle of our street. I remember it crushed my elementary schools fencing due to huge trees that fell. We also had debris from a few neighborhoods away in our neighborhood, and the Columbus Dispatch had in the newspaper that my neighborhood had the most and worst damage from that one storm there. It was insane! This year was 20 years. We still have our photo album of pictures my mom took with a Kodak camera. Its crazy to see what happened in Van Wert! That imfamous dashcam footage of the wedge! Ill never forget!
Wow! Had no idea the squall line caused so much damage further South. Thanks for sharing!
@@weatherboxstudios No problem! Thanks for talking about this system! I always go every year around this time and see if anyone discusses this outbreak! I was pleasantly surprised! Really enjoyed the video and actually watched the Storm Stories video you mentioned as well last night! Was super crazy hearing of that man surviving that tornado by pretty much holding on to that door handle!
I was driving south on St Rt 637 just outside of Grover Hill. Watched this monster rip along St Rt 224 and then begin turning north north east and head towards Putnam County.
My family survived the 1999 Jan 21-22 tornado outbreak in Arkansas. They were in White County - I was born there later that year.
That was the largest tornado outbreak in Arkansas history. My parents say my (7 at the time) brother was almost decapitated by the bathroom mirror, which broke off in shards and went right through the wall and into his room and out the other wall - my dad had just grabbed my panicking brother and pulled him out of the room the second before the mirror came through in pieces. Mom, Dad, and my brother took shelter under sofa cushions in an interior closet, and the eye of the tornado passed directly over them - Mom and Dad have described it that it sounded like a train driving through the house, then silence and no air to breathe, then the train and wind was back.
After it was gone, my dad, a first responder, went out looking for survivors. An elderly neighbor lost her grandbaby - sucked out of an open window.
My family and I drove through van wert a couple days after this happened on our way to Cincinnati from Ft Wayne, Indiana to visit family. I was young at the time, but its stuck with me. We used to make the trip frequently and the difference after the tornado rolled through was wild.
Gave you a sub because Ive watched your channel several times and enjoying each. Thanks for sharing.
I was 12 at the time of this storm, living in Northern rural Ohio. My parents were all prepared to have a large barbecue that day and called it off a couple hours or so prior to everyone showing up due to the upcoming weather. I distinctly remember standing outside the front door, seeing the blackest clouds I'd ever witnessed in my life rapidly approach. Shortly after, the tornado sirens went off, and we took shelter in the basement. The noise of the wind, rain, and thunder was utterly terrifying. We lost power a couple minutes into the storm. I remember clinging to my dad and trembling like a leaf, envisioning our house being swept away above our very heads (I was both terrified and fascinated by tornadoes, nicknaming them "T-Words" out of fear and respect hehe). Luckily the house stood firm, although the property sustained quite a bit of tree damage. To this day it stands out as a vivid memory. I can't believe I stumbled upon this video. It was very interesting seeing how it developed and affected other communities. Thank you!
Thanks for yet another awesome video, keep up the great work. Also, great hoodie.
Thanks Jay!
crazy how all of this happened to van wert. i can still see the left over bits of the cinema whenever I go to the new one.
One of my friends was born in Jasper and lived in Carbon Hill until middle school. She said one of the F3s passed very close to her house, and that her parents said it sounded like a loud train. She herself remembers being put in the bathtub and covered with pillows and blankets. Their house lost a chunk of it's roof and quite a bit of siding. Fortunately they were all okay, and she helped pick a new roof and siding that is apparently still on that house 20 years later.
If my memory serves me, this same outbreak dropped a EF3 in the small town of Clark, in Mercer County Pennsylvania. The tornado killed a elderly gentleman and caused extensive damage throughout the small town. I was told this tornado was a “jumper” that it was on the ground for a bit and would lift before dropping again.
Another great work done buddy! I'm wondering if you would cover the multi day May outbreak of '03.
I'll look into it!
Great video man as usual!
Hey there you are! Thanks man!
I moved to Van Wert, Ohio in September 2004. A lot of business were still closed or still recovering and there was still signs of visible damage
Amazing video! I would want to see you do the Naperville/Darien EF3, Washington EF4, or the Roanoke F4.
Maybe even the Rochelle-Fairdale tornado
I remember the Van Wert tornado vividly despite me only having been 7 years old at the time. It was thanks to the early warnings we were given that it only killed 4.
You should do a review on the Henryville IN f4 tornado and it's smaller twin. Haven't seen much coverage on that storm on UA-cam! Love your content!
Thanks Caleb! Will do that outbreak within a few weeks!
This video was awesome. Though I wasn't the weather fanatic I've become the last few years I remember this outbreak mostly because November 11th was the day my second son was born and no we weren't that close to the severe weather I live and a town right on the state line of Wisconsin and Illinois called Beloit. But as he got older there were a couple times where I reminded my son that he was born on a tornado day and when he started Pop Warner football he used to run the ball a lot, and he would do the spin moves where kids would try to tackle them and he would just spin right off of them and I'm not talking about like a half a turn and a joke I'm talking about like he would just spend like almost to the point where I would think you got dizzy but he'd get that ball and as soon as somebody tried to tackle him he would spin. And of course dad and the bleachers is yelling tornado on the ground tornado on the ground it caught on after a couple games but I used to tease that it was because he was born during a tornado outbreak
HokkaidoMUTO nailed it.
As always steve from weatherbox your deep dives always deliver!
Thanks John!
I've experienced 2 tornados very close by but nothing like this, EF1s as far as I can remember, Massachusetts tornado of 2011 and I can't remember the other one, happened when I was around 6 years old.
I’m not from van wert but I’ve driven through there many times and it’s interesting how we can look at the path of a tornado and say wow, I’ve been through where a tornado once touched down
I remember this! My mom came and picked me up early from my Girl Scout meeting because this storm was on its way. I was so confused and scared because I didn’t think we could get a tornado in the Fall.
Think you can do Jarrell, or other tornadoes in Texas? It would be neat to also bring up the dry line that typically hovers over central texas
Nice job man, congrats on the sponsorship.
Thanks man I appreciate that!
Could you do a video about the April 9, 1999, Blue Ash Montgomery OH F4 Tornado? I was only in 2nd grade at the time living in Montgomery OH. It was the wee hours of the morning when we heard the tornado sirens go off. My family rushed to our basement and covered us with blankets and pillows. The good news is that it didn't hit my house or neighborhood. This is something I never will forget.
that high school that got burned down has the most terrifying image of all
I lived in Port Clinton when this happened. It was a crazy storm. We never heard of a tornado hitting there until then.
Love your videos! Great job 👍
Thank you!
Just when I thought I had seen all the Van Wert footage in existence! This is the best vid you've put out so far (not biased because of Ohio, of course)
Thanks Joe! Rick McCoy's collection was uploaded to UA-cam in early November and was previously nowhere online. Check out Blake Naftel's channel for a lot of his archived film
I really appreciated your video - I just subscribed to your channel.
I had an irrational fear of tornadoes as a kid just outside of Chicago. To this day your intro freaked me the hell out. Even though I'm sitting in southern California. Alot of it is that poor quality sad music. It's especially scary bc we rarely get ones that bad that far north. And my parents live in fort Wayne which is close.
Congrats on the sponsorship!
Thank you!
16:02 i drive by those condos every year going to jet express to go out to Put in Bay. I had no clue some of those got blown away 22 years ago! Crazy
Hey, great video! And great hoodie!
Really surreal to see this video. My mom was in Putnam county and saw it as a “pitch black mass”
2 deaths were near Continental, those people we always bought chicken eggs from. After seeing these videos, it’s still hard to comprehend that I cross the path of this thing every single day
now that im this early, i will ask a poor florida man can, please do some more vids on hurricanes! your channel is awesome and I am glad I found it.
Will be doing more soon!
Excellent video. Another interesting tornadic event would be the Evansville IN November 6th 2005 F3 tornado.
Thanks Matt, I've heard of this one and I will look into it!
Excellent Video as exepcted from this channel!
Maybe someday you would do a video on the F5 that hit the Floyd County area of Iowa in the 60s? Moved out here and keep hearing stories and seeing old pictures
another awesome vid as always!
Thank you!
I live in Southern OH, but go up to Northern OH 2-3 times per year. We were in Sandusky this past June and there was a tornado warning, and I think there was a confirmed tornado in Huron Co. somewhere. I was also in a very close call with an EF2 tornado that hit the extremely small village of South Salem (my hometown, near Chillicothe and about an hour south of Columbus). Obliterated multiple buildings and thankfully by some insane stroke of luck, nobody was injured. Ever since that day I’ve been interested in and terrified of tornadoes. I always keep an eye on the weather even if it’s a marginal risk 😂
I was installing my mothers mailbox as that storm hit, luckily I was in Bryan about 30-40 minutes up 127 and that entire storm system was no joke
Another well done video, bro. I've been curious about a couple of things and there was an instance of it in here. 1) People died from an EF2. How many lives have been lost based on the EF rating, and which rating has taken the most lives? 2) How many instances are there where a location is hit by back-to-back tornadoes on the same day or night? I know it has happened before, like here, but I just wonder how many times it has happened. Can you imagine if that second tornado had hit Greensburg?
I can name multiple places which it's happened usually with 2 or more tornadoes hitting the same vicinity unless noted otherwise: Alma, MI with 4 tornadoes with 5 miles and 15 minutes (1965), Devil's Lake and Manitou Beach, MI (same outbreak as Alma), Etowah, TN (1974), Tanner, AL (1974), Madisonville, TN (2011), Tellico Plains (2011), Grand Island, NE with 7 tornadoes (1980), Canton, IL (1975) and there's been many more.
@@Eibarwoman oh wow. Thanks for the info. I will definitely be looking into those. I can only imagine having just experienced a devastating tornado and then, during the time when peoole are just starting to understand the scale of what happened and try to breathe for a sec, another tornado comes through the debris field of bewildered humans and rubble.
@@Eibarwoman Cordova, AL (4/27/2011)