Born in AZ, my mother travelled between Missouri and Arizona her whole life- they get a good amount of tornadoes. The number of stories my mom has of her and her brothers sitting out on their porch in Marana watching twisters glide over the desert is amazing.
@@nileprimewastaken Some were. they would occasionally see a very small EF1 or so during thunderstorms. I also think my mom may have been mistaken some of the tornadoes for ones that she saw as a child in Missouri.
I remember this outbreak. I live near Prescott, and we had some funnel clouds, and one or two touchdowns. I have a video of a tornado I shot in 2016 which lasted a whole 45 seconds from touchdown to rope-out. This one occurred over open land, thus no destruction. It was the last true tornado I've seen in AZ. Dust devils aren't tornadoes and don't count. (Jan Griffiths).
Grew up in Phoenix and remember the hailstorm well. The thing I remember most is how deafeningly LOUD it was. It sounded like every square inch of any surface was being smacked with sledgehammers many times a second. The trees were falling apart as the hail crashed through the branches.
Phoenix born and raised, I was only 9 when this happened, remember getting ready for school and there were already 4-5 touchdowns in northern AZ already and I was so confused because even at that age I knew that tornadoes really don’t happen in the state. Freaky day indeed, I’m so glad someone has done a breakdown on this. Side note, only a little over half of AZ is Desert. The other half is pure forest. Flagstaff and Show Low get wicked cold.
im from AZ and i remember the winter in 2010 was also insane. i was living in flagstaff at the time and it snowed so much our neighbor had to come by with his bulldozer and dig us out of our house. it took forever for it all to melt. my brother and i built igloos and snow tunnels tho, best childhood memory ever.
Although I never knew about the little tornado outbreak up north, I can remember how violent the clouds and storm looked. I remember from being picked up by my father to not even a mile away from the school, I saw this elongated horizon vortices tube that was going fast. Maybe a mini-derecho. It’s weird because I saw the same exact cloud tube going around the northern Phoenix metropolitan area. What came with it was intense rain and wind. As a young teenager, this had me worried. But the moment it passed, it was the occasional drizzle of a thunderstorm. Still cool to remember though.
I remember the hail but didn’t learn about the tornadoes until recently. Which is crazy considering I am a tornado nerd myself who is an Arizona native
i was 7 when this happened. i live in north phoenix and i remember going out the next day, more than half of the trees fell over, dozens of trash cans in the streets, and many peoples brick walls were toppled over like they were hit by a car.
I lived in the Phoenix area when this happened and remembered being scared af because I grew up in the south where this kind of weather is far more frequent. It was insane. When hail happens immediately you go into tornado mode.
I wonder if this was the same year that I was driving from California to Arizona with my mom and I ended up having to drive through a haboob in the middle of the Sonoran Desert because there wasn't enough room on the side of the freeway to safely pull over. What I ended deciding to do was to drive behind a big rig in hopes that it would block some of the wind and sand and keep my mom's car from getting totally sandblasted. Of course this also meant that I had to get out of the fast lane and stop going 90, which was probably also a good idea, but it tells you how severe things were getting because I basically only slow down for dangerous conditions and for cops.
Just found your channel and I'm loving it! I watched the Sandy and Katrina videos already. I'm a gamer, so I recognize a lot of the music you use and I'm loving it!
I remember that. I was at work in Scottsdale. Good thing I stayed in the building (car was parked in underground garage) until it was over. A few guys I worked with were leaving. Their cars got completely smashed from the hail. Monsoons are bad. More than once I haven't been able to make it home until hours later (I live out in the desert and have to drive through 15 washes just to get home).
Have you ever thought about doing a video on the August 11, 1999 Salt Lake City tornado? It kinda falls into the same vein as this, and it was very unexpected.
I remember that well. I was in the SLC metro when it happened. I think it's what started to my tornado fascination. There was another power tornado near the Uintah Mountains, I can't find much about.
Lol also my friend worked at Geico in Phoenix in 2010 and she was BUSY AS HELL from that storm... also her own brand new car got a bunch of hail damage lol
I remember this storm. This was pretty crazy even for where I was in Phoenix. We had golf ball sized hail hit our house along with torrential downpour rain. Haven’t ever experienced anything else like it here, even with all the strong monsoon storms since then
"Three tornadoes... All within walking distance of their (Flagstaff NWS office) front door" Couldn't agree more that was within walking distance, even for me, crippled by being hit by a car. Glad you have the right idea for "within walking distance", Alferia! I'm officially subscribing for your documentaries! Gimme a shout out sometime as a new subscriber! -"Velocity"
I was in Scottsdale that day. I left work and there was a big black cloud coming; that storm moved in damn quick and hail was starting to fall by the time I got home. My truck was okay, but my roommate’s car was shellacked.
You might have new AZ content soon or just southwest stuff in general. The last 2 months we have had a few more touch down in northern AZ, southern Utah, and 1 in the Vegas metro area
Dude i was 7 years old in first grade when this happened, we had a flash flood warning that day and i just remember seeing this big cloud and alot of rain before tha hail and we just got out of scjool ans rushed home to my grandmas truck and all the hail the next day looked like fricking snow it was so cool
What I find amusing is I very much remember the hail storm, because the hail damage is what got me my first car 😂 the price dropped significantly because of the dents and needing new mirrors and stuff. But I had NO idea about the tornados! Thats kinda wild! The only ones I know about are from like 2017/2019?? I think those are the years. Until recently I didn’t know nearly 300 tornadoes have occurred here between 1950 and now.
To this day, you can still see the damage path through the forest from the Bellemont tornado. You can also see the old path from the top of Mt. Humphreys if you know where to look.
Let's just ignore the captions at 6:53 lol (In all seriousness this is a really good video about an outbreak I knew nothing about, I was too busy to watch it when it first came out)
The crazy thing is is I think we had 200 and something tornadoes hit Arizona since they've started tracking them. If you look it up it'll only tell you less than 300, I've tried to get an exact number but it won't give it to me, LOL but you can go on to maps and see all of the tornadoes that have hit Arizona.
Could you cover the Hattiesburg tornado, I was in purvis, Mississippi, a town nearby when i was young, so I'd wanna know about the event with my modern knowledge
The October 2010 hailstorm and tornado outbreak were caused by the breaching of a man-made inversion in the Millet Swale watershed, southeast of Snowflake, Arizona. Between 2005 and 2008, a man and his wife built a house on an isolated hill that is located within a basin within the watershed. The isolated hill probably wasn't substantial enough for any house, much less a two-story drystack house. The couple soon discovered that they had a serious problem with erosion. The hill was blowing away and washing away, and the house would be destroyed. Probably after researching the issue, they decided that to protect the house they would need to keep the hill dry. They tampered with the environment of the neighborhood, to change the environmental lapse rate and create an inversion. An inversion inhibits convection and precipitation. By inhibiting convection, heat from the ground pushes up the inversion layer and causes high pressure. The resulting high pressure ridge put excess pressure on connected watersheds, both upstream and downstream. Millet Swale drains to Silver Creek, which drains to Little Colorado River, which connects to Colorado River and all of its tributaries. This man-made, deliberately engineered inversion compromised the entire Colorado River Basin, resulting in drought. The end of the first week of October 2010 was two weeks after the fall equinox. As days grew shorter and the sun got lower, the inversion was weakened. Perhaps the owner ofthe adjacent property cleaned up a mess that was made to create the inversion. Perhaps wind or rain neutralized the mess. When the inversion was breached, a tremendous amount of bottled up energy was released from the ground, where excess heat had been stored due to the inversion. The sudden venting of heat caused the severe weather.
That picture of downtown Tucson was super cool, because it's a really unique skyline angle! The vast majority of Tucson skyline pics are taken from a one of two large hills on the southeast side of town. There have always been several great vantage points + drone photography is a common thing now, yet the A mtn/Tumamoc vantage point is still the banal site of choice. It's also just cool that you included Tucson in general. It's a large city that is decently well known across the country, but it tends to get overshadowed by that one major US city 90 miles(?) northwest of here. What's that city called? Phonenacks? Hook-On Phonics (Worked for Me!)?? Lol Jk I know the name *and* how to spell it 😂
Oh my god I cannot wait for the 1999 moore tornado, I'm from Oklahoma and that's STILL spoken about today. It changed so much stuff and how people take tornadoes seriously here
Man i love ur videos but i got a idea for a video in case if ur out of ideas. I came up with Hurricane Katrina,the El Reno tornado, and the Joplin tornado i hope u see this!
What do you think the chances are Arizona will have tornado again. I mean, last year here in tonopah, az we had a tornado as well and everybody thinks I'm crazy. But I have a photo of the aftermath of this tornado. So I just am asking u what are the chances we will have another one cause I do not want to be here if so please?
think the only lost tornado outbreak was the one at least south to Holbrook AZ and north of Snowflake AZ you can see down trees and a really notable track it left still to this day and the only thing is that it was never documented and was never observed by anyone nor even the town itself
And today adjusted the cost to repair of the repairs would have been less than 7 billion but more than $6 billion I think about 6.62 billion adjudted. Yikes
I unlisted it a while back when I switched to weather content. It is still on the channel under the Old Content playlist in the playlist tab. But here's the direct link: ua-cam.com/video/asO1aHoq1Qs/v-deo.html
Born in AZ, my mother travelled between Missouri and Arizona her whole life- they get a good amount of tornadoes. The number of stories my mom has of her and her brothers sitting out on their porch in Marana watching twisters glide over the desert is amazing.
Dang that sounds fun yet terrifying!
a lot of them were likely dust devils
@@nileprimewastaken Some were. they would occasionally see a very small EF1 or so during thunderstorms. I also think my mom may have been mistaken some of the tornadoes for ones that she saw as a child in Missouri.
Yeah dust devils are relatively common down here but they aren’t considered tornadoes
I remember this outbreak. I live near Prescott, and we had some funnel clouds, and one or two touchdowns. I have a video of a tornado I shot in 2016 which lasted a whole 45 seconds from touchdown to rope-out. This one occurred over open land, thus no destruction. It was the last true tornado I've seen in AZ. Dust devils aren't tornadoes and don't count. (Jan Griffiths).
did you post it?
Put it up on ur channel
Grew up in Phoenix and remember the hailstorm well. The thing I remember most is how deafeningly LOUD it was. It sounded like every square inch of any surface was being smacked with sledgehammers many times a second.
The trees were falling apart as the hail crashed through the branches.
I’ve lived in this state all my life and I didn’t even know this event happened, damn.
Phoenix born and raised, I was only 9 when this happened, remember getting ready for school and there were already 4-5 touchdowns in northern AZ already and I was so confused because even at that age I knew that tornadoes really don’t happen in the state. Freaky day indeed, I’m so glad someone has done a breakdown on this. Side note, only a little over half of AZ is Desert. The other half is pure forest. Flagstaff and Show Low get wicked cold.
im from AZ and i remember the winter in 2010 was also insane. i was living in flagstaff at the time and it snowed so much our neighbor had to come by with his bulldozer and dig us out of our house. it took forever for it all to melt. my brother and i built igloos and snow tunnels tho, best childhood memory ever.
Although I never knew about the little tornado outbreak up north, I can remember how violent the clouds and storm looked. I remember from being picked up by my father to not even a mile away from the school, I saw this elongated horizon vortices tube that was going fast. Maybe a mini-derecho. It’s weird because I saw the same exact cloud tube going around the northern Phoenix metropolitan area. What came with it was intense rain and wind. As a young teenager, this had me worried. But the moment it passed, it was the occasional drizzle of a thunderstorm. Still cool to remember though.
I remember the hail but didn’t learn about the tornadoes until recently. Which is crazy considering I am a tornado nerd myself who is an Arizona native
The amount of effort you put into these videos is really showing, love ‘em
If our love for tornadoes didn't convince me we were on the same wavelength the Pokémon Colosseum music certainly did.
I remember this like it was yesterday
That hailstorm was brutal
i was 7 when this happened. i live in north phoenix and i remember going out the next day, more than half of the trees fell over, dozens of trash cans in the streets, and many peoples brick walls were toppled over like they were hit by a car.
I lived in the Phoenix area when this happened and remembered being scared af because I grew up in the south where this kind of weather is far more frequent. It was insane. When hail happens immediately you go into tornado mode.
The fact that you actually mentioned plainrock124.
Very nice touch using music from a game who's region is based on Arizona. Nice recap of the event, thank you for the video!
I wonder if this was the same year that I was driving from California to Arizona with my mom and I ended up having to drive through a haboob in the middle of the Sonoran Desert because there wasn't enough room on the side of the freeway to safely pull over. What I ended deciding to do was to drive behind a big rig in hopes that it would block some of the wind and sand and keep my mom's car from getting totally sandblasted. Of course this also meant that I had to get out of the fast lane and stop going 90, which was probably also a good idea, but it tells you how severe things were getting because I basically only slow down for dangerous conditions and for cops.
Just found your channel and I'm loving it! I watched the Sandy and Katrina videos already. I'm a gamer, so I recognize a lot of the music you use and I'm loving it!
I remember that. I was at work in Scottsdale. Good thing I stayed in the building (car was parked in underground garage) until it was over. A few guys I worked with were leaving. Their cars got completely smashed from the hail. Monsoons are bad. More than once I haven't been able to make it home until hours later (I live out in the desert and have to drive through 15 washes just to get home).
Have you ever thought about doing a video on the August 11, 1999 Salt Lake City tornado? It kinda falls into the same vein as this, and it was very unexpected.
I remember that well. I was in the SLC metro when it happened. I think it's what started to my tornado fascination. There was another power tornado near the Uintah Mountains, I can't find much about.
Born there, not in the Phoenix area but it was just as bad in Tucson, it was an insane memory
Lol also my friend worked at Geico in Phoenix in 2010 and she was BUSY AS HELL from that storm... also her own brand new car got a bunch of hail damage lol
I absolutely love your channel! You should do a retrospective on the October 24th, 2001 event.
I remember this storm. This was pretty crazy even for where I was in Phoenix. We had golf ball sized hail hit our house along with torrential downpour rain. Haven’t ever experienced anything else like it here, even with all the strong monsoon storms since then
Gonna admit, it is complete rare to see tornado in AZ; mostly dried heat & thunderstorm by dusk
"Three tornadoes... All within walking distance of their (Flagstaff NWS office) front door" Couldn't agree more that was within walking distance, even for me, crippled by being hit by a car. Glad you have the right idea for "within walking distance", Alferia! I'm officially subscribing for your documentaries! Gimme a shout out sometime as a new subscriber! -"Velocity"
Watching with chat replay on, glad they clarified that it's about tropical jungles :)
i’ve watched all his videos at least twice still come back every night and fall asleep to a different one
Would love to see you collab with Steve from Weatherbox, especially if it's about an Ohio-centric event. Great vid btw :)
I was in Scottsdale that day. I left work and there was a big black cloud coming; that storm moved in damn quick and hail was starting to fall by the time I got home. My truck was okay, but my roommate’s car was shellacked.
You might have new AZ content soon or just southwest stuff in general. The last 2 months we have had a few more touch down in northern AZ, southern Utah, and 1 in the Vegas metro area
Great video man I would love to see you cover the march 2nd 2012 tornado outbreak
As someone who lives in Arizona, I never thought we could get even a small Arizona.
Dude i was 7 years old in first grade when this happened, we had a flash flood warning that day and i just remember seeing this big cloud and alot of rain before tha hail and we just got out of scjool ans rushed home to my grandmas truck and all the hail the next day looked like fricking snow it was so cool
Great video I love all of your tornado vids
Everyone gangsta until the following year brings sandstorms to Arizona
What I find amusing is I very much remember the hail storm, because the hail damage is what got me my first car 😂 the price dropped significantly because of the dents and needing new mirrors and stuff. But I had NO idea about the tornados! Thats kinda wild! The only ones I know about are from like 2017/2019?? I think those are the years. Until recently I didn’t know nearly 300 tornadoes have occurred here between 1950 and now.
Wait what, I live in Arizona. I was in high-school when this happened. How did I not know about this???
0:35 hey that was literally over my house lol
To this day, you can still see the damage path through the forest from the Bellemont tornado. You can also see the old path from the top of Mt. Humphreys if you know where to look.
Great work Alferia, thanks for the great content.
That hail dented the shit out of my car while I drove to work. I remember it being so loud it hurt my ears.
Great video man. 🎉❤
Great work Alfie! 💯💚
Let's just ignore the captions at 6:53 lol
(In all seriousness this is a really good video about an outbreak I knew nothing about, I was too busy to watch it when it first came out)
The crazy thing is is I think we had 200 and something tornadoes hit Arizona since they've started tracking them. If you look it up it'll only tell you less than 300, I've tried to get an exact number but it won't give it to me, LOL but you can go on to maps and see all of the tornadoes that have hit Arizona.
Could you cover the Hattiesburg tornado, I was in purvis, Mississippi, a town nearby when i was young, so I'd wanna know about the event with my modern knowledge
Another great video, thank you for the hard work!
The October 2010 hailstorm and tornado outbreak were caused by the breaching of a man-made inversion in the Millet Swale watershed, southeast of Snowflake, Arizona.
Between 2005 and 2008, a man and his wife built a house on an isolated hill that is located within a basin within the watershed.
The isolated hill probably wasn't substantial enough for any house, much less a two-story drystack house.
The couple soon discovered that they had a serious problem with erosion.
The hill was blowing away and washing away, and the house would be destroyed.
Probably after researching the issue, they decided that to protect the house they would need to keep the hill dry.
They tampered with the environment of the neighborhood, to change the environmental lapse rate and create an inversion.
An inversion inhibits convection and precipitation. By inhibiting convection, heat from the ground pushes up the inversion layer and causes high pressure.
The resulting high pressure ridge put excess pressure on connected watersheds, both upstream and downstream.
Millet Swale drains to Silver Creek, which drains to Little Colorado River, which connects to Colorado River and all of its tributaries.
This man-made, deliberately engineered inversion compromised the entire Colorado River Basin, resulting in drought.
The end of the first week of October 2010 was two weeks after the fall equinox.
As days grew shorter and the sun got lower, the inversion was weakened.
Perhaps the owner ofthe adjacent property cleaned up a mess that was made to create the inversion.
Perhaps wind or rain neutralized the mess.
When the inversion was breached, a tremendous amount of bottled up energy was released from the ground, where excess heat had been stored due to the inversion.
The sudden venting of heat caused the severe weather.
I live in Phoenix this event was scary and very unexpected
There are forests in parts of Arizona as well up in the mountains.
i live in phx, this storm was nuts
I bet the poor forecasters at nws flagstaff had a few heart attacks
That picture of downtown Tucson was super cool, because it's a really unique skyline angle! The vast majority of Tucson skyline pics are taken from a one of two large hills on the southeast side of town. There have always been several great vantage points + drone photography is a common thing now, yet the A mtn/Tumamoc vantage point is still the banal site of choice.
It's also just cool that you included Tucson in general. It's a large city that is decently well known across the country, but it tends to get overshadowed by that one major US city 90 miles(?) northwest of here. What's that city called? Phonenacks? Hook-On Phonics (Worked for Me!)?? Lol Jk I know the name *and* how to spell it 😂
you also watched plain rock since he was small?
me tooo
Wonderful video!!!
It was a scary day. Remember being huddled with my family in the living room while the hail broke literally all of our windows.
i love how one of my favorite youtubers is also alferia's
Can you talk about the Texas Snowstorm last year?
You should cover the Tornado Outbreak of 1979, an EF4 ended up hitting my hometown on April 10th. They call it Terrible Tuesday
i wonder who this cool dude is :3
Would you consider covering the winter storms Viola and Uri?
By the way great work on this video!
Hey, where do you get the archived radar
oh boy i remember when i first discovered this whole debacle in 2015 (with me living far away near the AZ/NM border)
Oh my god I cannot wait for the 1999 moore tornado, I'm from Oklahoma and that's STILL spoken about today. It changed so much stuff and how people take tornadoes seriously here
Great video! Don't even remember this event and I've been here in AZ quite a while and tend to pay attention to tornadoes/crazy weather.
From Missouri, moved to AZ as an adult. It's way less interesting in the spring here.
Man i love ur videos but i got a idea for a video in case if ur out of ideas. I came up with Hurricane Katrina,the El Reno tornado, and the Joplin tornado i hope u see this!
What do you think the chances are Arizona will have tornado again. I mean, last year here in tonopah, az we had a tornado as well and everybody thinks I'm crazy. But I have a photo of the aftermath of this tornado. So I just am asking u what are the chances we will have another one cause I do not want to be here if so please?
i was in that storm and it was scary
This was 3 days before my 3rd birthday I don't even remember anything 😭
love your vids
I was born 1 year and 1 month before this, o never knew this happened. Very good very lmao
think the only lost tornado outbreak was the one at least south to Holbrook AZ and north of Snowflake AZ you can see down trees and a really notable track it left still to this day and the only thing is that it was never documented and was never observed by anyone nor even the town itself
Can we suggest tornado? I love your videos, would love to see one in particular that was near me
that tornado footage captured during the event mustve been recorded on a literal spoon
LA nina transitional event at its best, 52 degrees in flagstaff with 50 degree dewpoints
8:14 shout out to Nicholas Cage's GF for getting this footage 👌👌
Negative til trough bottom line and upslope factor
And today adjusted the cost to repair of the repairs would have been less than 7 billion but more than $6 billion I think about 6.62 billion adjudted. Yikes
Can You Do Something On 2013 Moore
great video
I would like to see some things about some wintry weather since it’s almost November now
What's with the EF 4 in Northwestern Wyoming???
Hi Alferia
Arizona, the state that gets both tornado outbreaks and volcanic eruptions
Welcome.....to NATURE'S FURY. 🌩🌪🌩
Love the Pokemon colosseum music
Is it true there was an F5 that struck Jackson Mississippi?
no way he mentioned plainrock 😂 0:15
You forgot another thing about arizona, more deserts
Yo it's plain rock
I live in az
Storm Chasers unite for Hilary!
A PLAINROCK FAN!!!
wheres the a silent voice vid?
I unlisted it a while back when I switched to weather content. It is still on the channel under the Old Content playlist in the playlist tab.
But here's the direct link:
ua-cam.com/video/asO1aHoq1Qs/v-deo.html
@@Alferia Cheers :)
Sonic Colors!
13:29 How he pronounced Navajo😭
The music in the background sounds like something from nier automata
It is because I use NieR Automata music in my videos from time to time.
@@Alferia Ha! I knew it! Some of the best music around :)
Idk like 45th comment or something
Ok