Click here displate.com/?art=67179c9371598 or use the code SWEGLE now to grab the best deals available on their site. Don't miss out! Hey everyone! Thanks so much for watching! What are some other nocturnal tornadoes I missed? Also I may sound a little weird in parts of this video (I had a cold)
Do you know a tornado that went through a populated area, at night, and had zero deaths, despite being an F4 and hit a lumber mill during its path? June 2nd, 1990. Cincinnati, Ohio.
I have a theory for the blue glow in Blackwell, what if since tornados are rotating with mosture in them, what if the blue light was the moonlight reflecting on the the mosture at the top of the funnel, creating that blue glow, i mean its not unheard of to see the moon reflect blue on water in ponds to a degree.
@@iamjustkiwi i had many nightmares of this in my young adult years. somehow it was terrifying but got me hyped up at the same time. Lucid dreaming something so cool whilst also dreaming im flying down the highway in my c6 hit different. that inner male drive to think you're not in danger and it is what it is
Get a NOAA weather radio if you live in tornado prone areas, y'all. The basic model is like $40. Those things are LOUD and will wake up even the most sound of sleepers. You can program it for your immediate area and turn alerts on and off. I keep mine "alert off" under my bed and put it up on my mattress next to me "alert ON" when there's a chance of dangerous weather overnight. It also doesn't depend on internet or cellular signal which is an added bonus! You will NOT sleep through a NOAA weather radio going off!
Terre Haute,IN, back in 2002 or 2003, had a tornado warning one afternoon. It was broad daylight, and sirens were wailing. Despite the sirens going for several minutes(10?) and several calls from me, my best friend slept soundly through it (She worked 3rd shift). When I was finally able to reach her an hour or two later, she flat-out didn't believe she had slept through tornado sirens, esp for that long! Luckily for us, it moved away from us and headed south.
There doesn't even need to be a tornado, if anything it's even more paranoia inducing to be looking for one and wondering if you're seeing one or if it's just a regular cloud or something I live about 3 miles way from the nearest siren and that makes it even creepier how it echoes off the woods around my house. Being surrounded by trees i can't even see a tornado if one was coming
I live in a camper in a very rural area in Louisiana. A tornado touched down at 2am one night about a mile to my south/southeast. I could hear the roar and knew what it was a full 2 minutes before the warning was issued. The good news is that it hit a swamp and nobody was harmed. My only shelter is a deep dry creekbed with some very large concrete monoliths dumped in it by an oil company 70 years ago. I can crawl under them with the venomous snakes if I absolutely have to or get inside a metal culvert there. It`s 130 feet away beneath huge pines.
Once my grandfather was sleeping (south Alabama) and his dog (very smart dog who would rarely bark for no reason ) kept trying to wake him up. He kept telling his dog to stop, but the dog kept waking him. He finally got up and looked out the window to see the silhouette of a funnel cloud going right over his house. The tornado never touched down thankfully.
Good thing, because that means he was able to find a fresh pair of underwear! That’s pants-crapping terrifying. I’ve seen a tornado near my house, but over it? Yikes!
Young man, I am 67 and have been a weather nerd for .any years. You do a great job and service on this channel... both in historical terms and in tornado awareness. Kudos to you!
The scariest video of Mayfield IMO is one where a family left their camera on in the dark. There are lightning flashes, the sirens in the distance, the power going off and the roar of the tornado getting louder in the darkness until it hits the house. Mercifully the family survived.
I survived that one ,i was working at the candle factory that night, i'm not sure of having seen that video that you say ,where i can see it ?@@Artfanbookfan25
@@aquarispoot Yeah, holdup, that is a common misconception due to reports in the media, which were proven incorrect, that suggested it was all one tornado, when in fact, the NWS now suspects up to 3 separate tornadoes may have spawned, something known as a Tornado Family. It most certainly was not one tornado that went through parts of 4 states.
Experienced my first close call with a tornado not long ago. What's scarier than a tornado siren is the sound of a tornado itself. You hear a low rumble getting louder and louder, the lights flicker, and if you're lucky, the rumbling eventually fades into the distance.
Me too about 1 hr after sunset an F2 tornado took a direct hit at my house. I'm a brit but it surprisingly hit Barking. It was quite recent on 25 July 2021.
6:53 The orbiting lights could have been vehicle headlights. There's more recent footage of vehicles being sucked up by large tornadoes with lights still on. The persistent glow is harder to explain without lots of lightning. Definitely sounds like some kind of electrical effect though.
That's what I was thinking. You're thinking of Rolling Fork where there was a car that got thrown up and spun around. Best guess on the blue glow is ionization of stuff. All I got.
Ball lightning seems to be the best explanation for this sort of stuff, however i second the car theory. It’d be so much easier to explain if it hit an industrial plant and sucked up metal shavings or something but it doesn’t look like that is the case. Has to be some sort of chemical effect though, that i can agree with.
In 2015 the rowlett texas tornado was glowing blue, which was from the tornado damaging electrical things such as power lines and transformers. The intense winds and debris likely caused continuous electrical arcing, which made the tornado glow. Especially in the 1950s, electrical equipment like power lines and transformers were more exposed and vulnerable to damage compared to nowadays.
I'm Brazilian, and the country's deadliest tornado was also a nighttime tornado: in September 1991, an F4 hit the city of Itu after dark. To make matters worse, it was also rain-wrapped. 16 people died, 10 were on a bus that was blown away by the wind. Considering that we still don't have a warning system here, it's a miracle that the death toll wasn't much higher.
I was very surprised to read about how many tornadoes happen in Brazil and the rest of South America. It's scary to think that Brazil probably has far more tornadoes than people know about because Brazil is so large and has many regions with few people to witness the storms. If the tornado happens in a forest or other large area of wilderness, nobody will know that anything happened. The tornado will not be counted and logged in historical records.
@twilightparanormalresearch186 You're right. I would also add in Canada, China, and Australia. These phantom tornadoes happen a fair bit here in the U.S., too, because there are still huge swaths of the country with little to no people living there. We only know about them by the destruction they cause to trees, grass, and dirt.
Checking Night of the Twisters out of the library when I was 9 is the reason I’m sitting here watching this 24 years later! Started the whole thing for me.
I remember meeting this one guy who had a son who during the night of Nov 6 2005, during the Evansville tornado, was thrown out of their mobile home and passed away instantly. That story still horrifies me to this day.
Something similar happened a little over a year later in Caulfield, MO, about 15 miles to my southwest, killing a 9-year-old girl when an EF3 tornado hit their trailer. That tornado almost hit West Plains, where I live now, but lifted before reaching West Plains.
When a very powerful group of wind moves in one direction all at the same time. Especially if it’s a circle, the suction and gus force would be extreme and constant. Not only that but blunt force trauma or bleeding would be instant. It’s 100% the environment around them that kills. Debris is literally shrapnel but at 200+ mph.
I live in the Midwest, and having a sound sleep just to be woken up by the ear piercing sound of a tornado warning played through a JBL speaker at 4 in the morning has been a part of my life
I live in SW MO and I just stay up all night when severe weather is predicted. I have 6 dogs and always have foster dogs, and 3 cats, plus my farm animals. I watch the radar like a hawk then start rounding everyone up when it looks bad. One year, we got caught off guard and almost got taken out because we were trying to gather animals. My dogs were stupidly outside(they have a dog door) and me and my daughter were trying to gather them when a small tornado hit my chicken house and it exploded. After that, I don’t take chances
I've got a story for you, on the night of June 7th 1984 my grandparents were sitting in a bar in the heart of Barneveld. They were drinking and playing cards with some friends. It was around 11 PM when they got tired and decided to leave and head back to their house in Mt. Horeb, and just an hour later that bar had been completely destroyed.
As a kid I remember watching Twister and there was this nocturnal tornado scene that left perhaps more of an impression on me than any heavier storm in any such footage before or after. Just the idea you can hear it, it seems to be everywhere, but so dark you can only see it when lightning strikes... Terrifyingly awesome.
Never experienced so many night time tornadoes until i moved to Wisconsin. I honestly hate it because it's really unnerving, at least during the day you have a visual. At night though? Theres never been a time where ive felt more vulnerable. It feels like youre just waiting for your doom except you cant see it coming, best you can do is take cover and hope its not too bad.
@@SteveTpenn I've been here for three-four years and so far the majority have all been during the night. I can maybe count 3 times it was during the day and even then it was during the evening/almost dark
yeah there was an outbreak this year in dane, my roommates thought i was crazy bc we were on a tornado watch and i just stood out on the porch for 10 minutes, acting like i’d be able to see one coming but instead just went to bed. in my 2nd floor apartment. the watch was on all night. i was born & raised here though so, tornadoes being one of the few intense weather/climate events we experience never fails to fascinate me, seeing the truly Terrific power of Nature on full display
@@007tbz6 I'll never forget March 31st there was a confirmed tornado otg heading for where I was living at the time. I honestly felt so powerless bc you could see the power flashes/lightning but couldn't see the tornado but you knew it was coming. Definitely heard it though
Chippewa county Five years ago on a Tuesday, an EF3 tornado tore through parts of Elk Mound and Wheaton. On September 24, 2019 it was a night tornado I remember it cause I was watching the news channel here in rusk county we also got hit by the same storm that prompted the warning but it was slightly weakened by that point
As a spotter and chaser, I always highly recommend NOAA weather radios. Sirens are designed for people outside, and if a nearby cell towers are out, you wont have cell service, but the radio can be backed up by batteries and it will go off with a loud siren for tornado watches. The midwest has two seasons also. I am getting ready to take the fall spotters class. There were tornado outbreaks in November of 1992 and November 17, 2013 tornado outbreaks in Ohio and Indiana
I remember growing up in Middle Tennessee, when the weather got bad my mom would stay up at night just to make sure we got into the closet under the stairs (half underground) even though we never actually experienced any. I still live in Tennessee, although East TN doesn’t get very many tornadoes.
I feel this! Currently living in Nashville and I am that mommy staying up all night during severe weather events to make sure we are all safe if the worst happens. We got caught flat footed during the March 3rd 2020 nocturnal EF3 tornado that ripped through the city (less than a mile from our house). I had gone to bed early that night and had no idea we were at risk (it was only a 2% risk day per the SPC outlook that day and when I went to bed there were no nearby concerning storms). At 12:30am we were awoken abruptly to our phones blasting the tornado warning and had about 1 minute to gather our 5 month old and 3 year old boys and get to the first floor bathroom. The power flickered as it passed by and when we went back upstairs after it passed we saw the power flashes in the clouds off in the distance. This lone supercell spawned a monster tornado that was on the ground for an hour and then respawned an even deadlier EF4 in Cookeville. Ever since that night, I refuse to sleep on severe weather nights until I’m sure the threat is long gone.
Argh, I grew up in Columbia/Spring Hill. My family and I camped out in our utility room all night during a December outbreak, around 2015 I think. It was relentless, just warning after warning for our area.
I had a friend living in Nashville at the time that sent me Snapchat videos of the EF3 tearing through that night. It missed them by like, a mile? Even being in West NC near the Appalachian mountains, my mind goes to tornadoes when looking at homes and how many homes are of poor quality construction for being able to survive those storms. Even though tornadoes are rare for West NC, I'm walking around where I work and where I live to try and figure out where the safest place is to hide in these buildings.
I actually lived through the 1998 Kissimmee Tornado outbreak. Fortunately the closest tornado that spawned that night was 4 miles away. Scared the hell out of us because my mom woke up and had everyone get under the stair landing in the house. We heard something, don't know exactly if it was just how the sound of the tornado carried over Lake Jessup or if there was another funnel cloud further south that was closer to us, but just never touched down? Even though nothing happened to us, it did kill my Grandpa's friend. That whole year was insane for Central Florida. Flooded in the Winter, had the tornado outbreak in the Spring, then a drought, then the highest average temperature recorded up until then, and finally the worst wildfire year on record for the area.
I watched a documentary that included a story from this tornado. That poor couple lost their neighbors in an RV park and you can just hear the pain in their voices when telling their story
I was a baby at the time and I slept through it, my family was awake and terrified . It’s crazy for me to see it mentioned having grown up in Kissimmee and always seeing the commemorative plaque in the park.
The 2020 Nashville night tornado was absolutely insane, as someone who lives in the area. There was obviously the EF4 that hit Cookville, but there was another EF3 that night that stayed on the ground for over 60 miles and actually hit downtown Nashville. To make things even more strange, this tornado happened right before everything shut down for the pandemic so there were damaged buildings that just sat there for a long time in a major metropolitan area. I specifically remember an old government building in the Germantown area that just say there in ruin for a while and the Top Golf also was a direct hit. Crazy times man.
Some of the most unnerving tornado footage is when a storm is so dense and large that it is almost dark in the middle of the afternoon. Some of the Joplin EF-5 footage looks as if it was already 8-9 PM. Someone at a building in Limestone Co., AL filmed the Hackleburg EF-5 as it passed maybe a mile away, and the sky was this ominous dark green color while you hear the constant roar of the tornado.
Regarding Greensburg, I wss in a town about 10 minites away at the time. My little sister had had a gymnastics recital there jist the weekend before. The weatherman reaching out to any kids watching TV, telling them to raise the TV volume up so they can hear him as they take cover hits my heart.
Welcome Back Swegle! Night Tornadoes are very scary and dangerous. Another interesting and deadly example of a violent nocturnal tornado was the F5 tornado that struck Guin, Alabama on April 3rd 1974
More than likely they were headlights of cars orbiting the tornado. There was a recent tornado where a similar phenomenon was filmed as a tornado passed over an interstate and picked up a car. You could see the headlights as they went around the outside of the tornadic circulation. Horizontal vortices don’t produce their own light.
I swear, Tornado warnings in the dead of night were one of my biggest fears growing up. Idk why not being able to see them makes them so much more terrifying. Like, just because I can see it coming doesn't mean I can do much to stop it lol
I swear we had a nocturnal tornado in Glasford, IL about 4 years ago in June. A small tornado was on the ground just north and west of us and supposedly dissipated, but the severe thunderstorm warning still remained over us. When the storms came, the winds were intense enough that I could feel ever so subtle movement in the carpeted floor. The winds were hitting one side of the house before suddenly shifting to the opposite side of the house several minutes in. And in the morning, trim pieces on the western part of the house were found in front of our Morton building, which was separated from our house by a gully and a row of oak trees. The aluminum trim piece had to have been lifted up and over those trees and I don't see how straight line winds could have done that. The tornado would have been an F1 if that, but it was an exciting night. Back in 1986, I saw a rapid-fire lightening storm like the one you are describing. I awoke and saw it in the south. Turns out that one went away. However, another rapid-fire cell came down from the north and we were in for about an hour of unbelievable lightening! I was 9 years old and that stuck with me. I had never seen another lightening display quite that vivid. The cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground strikes were numerous. TV stations used to sign off for the night in those days. But I remember seeing a severe thunderstorm watch until 7AM after one of the stations signed on. There were thunderheads still visible to the southeast. It was either in may or June and the storms passed through like right around dawn, so they were long gone by 7am. Not sure if there were any warnings with those storms, but they were extremely strong anyway.
Been there. We had a tornado pass within a mile of our house at 3:45 AM. Fortunately we had weather radio and sirens, but the scramble downstairs in the dark, having to wake up my husband and my son from their sleep, was all intensely frightening. We never heard it pass to our north. The good news is that no one was seriously hurt.
20:45 I was working as a night guard at Electrolux in Springfield Tennessee during that Tornado. I was outside in a crappy guard station with absolutely no protection from wind or debris. Luckily nothing happened, but I was out in the open and completely unprotected and my supervisor told me that I had to stay in the guard station.
Core memory of sheltering from a tornado at night when one struck near Clarksville TN in the 90s and seeing the damage the next day when we drove somewhere.
I’m from Cookeville and knew people who were killed by that tornado. Thank you for remembering us, we were overlooked because of the tornado that hit East Nashville earlier that night.
Okay so crazy thing about that school in Blackwell you showed on Google streetview, I actually went there for school in 2nd grade! They indeed did use that building as a tornado shelter, as well as a cafeteria and music room. It was also where all the classes lined up in the morning while they waited to go to class. We had a few tornado drills, as well as a few weather scares back during the summer, and that was where we took shelter!
I live in Dixie alley, it's tornado season right now. I have dealt with a lot of night tornadoes, going from deep sleep to bone-deep terror and survival instinct is a whiplash like no other. It becomes somewhat easier as it happens over and over but that fight or flight never goes away. Depending on the weather people won't sleep at night, and we'll turn off as many appliances as possible. But that's not even the worst experience I've had. Unfortunately, I also happened to be in Mayfield, KY during the storm, driving with my friends through a neighborhood when a woman came out and ushered us inside. She had been watching a weather analyst named Ryan Hall, his coverage saved all our lives. I've been watching him since, call me paranoid but I will *NEVER* be caught off guard like that again!
The Cookeville, TN tornado is one that has made me paranoid of night time storms. I end up calling out of work and tracking the storms until they've past over us just in case we need to move. I lived in the area, and was at work that night. When the EAS notification popped up on my phone, everyone gathered in our shelter area. By morning, we were getting pictures and seeing posts on Facebook about the damage. I had just moved from a house that was just on the edge of the path. Literally every house behind it was destroyed. We've had tornadoes in the area, but very few and far. I think it work everyone up that its not just Oklahoma and the plains that have to deal with these things. I hope you do end up making a video about it.
I am from Wisconsin and I remember the Barneveld Tornado pretty well. There actually was ONE SIREN in town. The storm had a tremendous amount of lightning with it and there was one huge strike that caused the towns electricity to go out, which is why the siren did not sound when the area was placed under a tornado warning.
this is a total nightmare scenario for me, earlier this year we had a tornado warning blaring on phones around midnight, hit about a mile from us but fortunately it ended up being a EF0 that was only on the ground for a few moments in open land, still, I was already half asleep (early riser for work), so pretty anxiety inducing moment when all the warning signals went off
Dunno why your channel isnt massive dude. Love your videos. Been following you for a while and was hoping to see a nocturnal tornadoes video! You should do a video about towns completely wiped off the map and no longer exist, or were extremely crippled from Tornadoes. Or places where tornadoes/hurricanes left nothing standing. Another cool video idea would be to show a little bit of the Eastern world's tornadoes and typhoons. Namely Japan and China. Not enough videos about those guys. Like, you could recreate all your video ideas, but from the Eastern Hemisphere.
Cookeville was such a weird event. It happened while the storm was merging with another storm, and the outflow of the other storm actually helped fuel the Cookeville tornado.
Actually in 2015, the rowlett texas tornado was glowing blue, which was from the tornado damaging electrical things such as power lines and transformers. The intense winds and debris likely caused continuous electrical arcing, which made the tornado glow. Especially in the 1950s, electrical equipment like power lines and transformers were more exposed and vulnerable to damage compared to nowadays.
As someone who has a phobia/massive respect of tornadoes the ones that occur at night was the top nightmare like till i went to college. I lived in a trailer so my family treated every warning very seriously. As for the crazy lightning around 14:05 I've seen something close to that. I saw a storm that had no rain but the sky was always illuminated by so many flashes and bursts of lightning in the clouds that you could see for miles like daytime. It was a more bluish color which i hadnt seen before. Awesome work as always.
I was a student at the University of Evansville when this tornado happened. Remember it well. It was so hot and humid all day/night. I had trouble sleeping, knowing something was probably going to hit overnight. We watched the local weather coverage in the basement common area. Terrifying night.
Great video. The Barnsdall EF4 was bad. It tracked up to Bartlesville and lost intensity thankfully, nearly hit my family up there. Was really stressful trying to get a hold of them late at night before it hit. Night tornadoes are scary for sure. If it was day time, my father would have been able to see it from his balcony.
I live in Kentucky and we always seem to get tornadoes at night. A few months ago one went about 1/4 mile from my house, tore up a bunch of houses two neighborhoods over and I was laying in bed listening to it, like wow, that jet is going really slow. PS you can _barely_ hear the sirens from my house and only from out in the yard. Even then, super easy to miss. Thank god for alerts on the phone!
That system dropped 2 tornadoes near me in south-central Missouri, one about 15 miles to our north, and the other about 35 miles to our north, doing minor damage where I grew up.
Excellent video! My favorite (and most personal) nighttime tornado is the Greensburg EF-5. I’m writing a book about that tornado; it’ll be extremely spooky for sure! It very closely mirrored the 1955 Udall KS tornado. The Udall disaster notably started the modern multi-agency response for tornado emergencies. I’m happy to provide info/details/comments for your future Greensburg video!
Lol, I was born and raised in Blackwell, OK and my dad lived in Grand Island, NE when the Night of the Twisters happened. He was about three-and-a-half but he still remembers how one of those tornadoes was a couple blocks over from his home and he remembers how the winds had this distinct sound reminiscent of a loud engine. Sends chills down my spine every time he recollects that story.
Excellent video on nocturnal tornadoes around the country. When I was a senior in high school I was on a car trip with my grandpa’s 1950 Buick and we ended up staying overnight in Siren Wisconsin in the early evening and F3 tornado went through the town. I think it was around 8:00- 8:30 PM when it struck the town, but it was so dark out because of the storm it looked like it was nighttime and you couldn’t see it, but you could definitely hear it the other thing that was eerie was that the tornado siren they had in town didn’t go off and I never remember hearing any sirens.
I was in Sioux Falls SD during the September 10th, 2019 tornadoes, and it was horrifying waking up to the weather radio going off but not hearing any sirens. My neighbor, best friend, and several teachers never woke up cause their sirens didn't go off either. I can't imagine how many people would have died had those tornadoes been any stronger.
I can sorta understand the creepy vibe with the tornado sirens and I live in UK. A year or so ago there was a relatively big storm and the power went out. I had to go outside and all I could hear above the wind & rain were the house alarms from every house on my street. Was a really surreal feeling I’ll probably never forget.
Hey you talked about the Barneveld, Wi tornado. And my family was living in Black Earth when it went through. I was only 2 but I remember the noise. It was on the other side of town. And yes I can confirm that the lighting was crazy, my dad talks about how it was just constant.
When I lived in Mississippi, I was watching an outbreak happen on the news south of me and at midnight, the siren in my town went off and it was the scariest thing I had encountered up until that point. Tornado ended up swinging past the outskirt of town totally out of sight.
I lived in Nashville in 2020 and was just south of the damage path of the EF3 that went through town. The tornado sirens woke me up in the middle of the night and I checked my phone to see missed calls and texts from a friend in west Nashville saying the twister was headed our direction… a horrifying way to wake up given I had literally watched Twister before falling asleep that night! We were very lucky it missed us but were heartbroken for those in Germantown, East Nashville, and of course, those who suffered so much due to the EF4 in Cookeville. And then with the COVID lockdown starting very shortly thereafter, it was an unimaginable time. I’d be very interested to see your coverage of this event, keep up the good work. 🫡
I’m moving to Memphis soon and I’ve been warning my mom about the nocturnal tornadoes that occur down there. In her words, she says “We don’t need to worry about that! Theres hills and tornadoes can’t go over them. We’ll be finnneee!”. But luckily for me, even if a tornado occurs, I have a plan mapped out.
Earlier this year I woke up to my mom calling me at 1 am. The sirens going off and the rain was coming down hard. I go outside to see if I could see where it was. I looked up and there was fast rotation. It seemed like I could reach up and touch the clouds above. I went back inside and sheltered for 20 minutes. Turns out an EF1 was right on top of me. I think what happened was it was cycling because it did touch down a block over. Really opens your eyes.
The tornado I saw was in the day time. Though it was much stronger, I’d rather that than what you saw even though it wasn’t as damaging. Not being able to see it, but only hearing it is terrifying.
OMG BARNEVELD!!! my mom was working at a summer camp nearby and had to drive thru barneveld the day after, she said it was the most insane thing she'd ever seen
I drove through the other day. You can tell where the town feels new and the trees are younger and the roads and buildings well kept compared to the old and wild grasslands of the part of the town that was untouched.
I have NEVER thought about a tornado could happen at night. It just never came to my mind. But man, that’s a terrifying sight to see in the middle of the night in your own town
Another awesome video, but I think you missed a significant one - the Woodward, OK, F5 of 09 APR 1947. It was the first post-WWII F5, was 1.8 miles wide, struck more than 90 minutes after sunset, was the deadliest tornado in Oklahoma history, has the sad distinction of killing three never identified children, and is connected to the mystery of Joan Gay Croft's disappearance. I only learned of it decades after moving from there.
I remember the night of my senior prom in 2012 Woodward, OK had a nocturnal tornado and lightning struck the sirens so they weren’t operating killed 6 people.
I'm in southern Australia so we don't get storms on a regular basis, but I love then. But I have experienced about 5 of those lightning superbolts (including one that hit right outside of the room we were in at the time), and they are terrifyingly loud and instantaneous after the bolt. You can tell by the brightness that it has hit right nearby. You don't even have time to think "wow, that was close!" before the deafening thunder shakes the entire house. The dogs go nuts and it's the only time during a storm that I get a jolt of fear 😬😬
you have just made a video detailing my worst fear in a way i have never been able to explain it in. every single component... the sirens, the ominous darkness all around you, the anticipation of disaster approaching like a widescale roulette.... HORRIFYING.
I’ll never forget May 3rd even though I was only 7. Lived in OKC and our neighbors had a storm shelter that all the parents and kids would go to any time there were tornadoes. Usually the adults stayed in the room above the cellar watching the news. May 3rd was literally the only time I can remember all of the adults getting down in the shelter with us kids and closing the door and all of us praying together.
I’m from Evansville, Indiana. I recognized the sky cam and the date the moment you put it up I knew it was Evansville. I was 3 when the tornado hit but I still remember that day. I wasn’t in any danger though because I lived in the western part of the county.
I actually grew up in Cookeville, TN! My family had a NOAA weather radio so we could get alerts even after bedtime, that thing was LOUD and I'm so glad we had it. I'd love to see a longer vid about the recent EF4!
As a Henderson Kentucky native my grandma saw the Evansville tornado from her hiuse and she said it was a big black cloud and as a tornado fanitc who sees rarely any videos of the Evansville Tornado I’m happy that one of my favorite tornado creators mentioned it and Wayne Heart who Still is the Chief meteorologist in WHET for Henderson KY he still reports storms and he keeps us all safe the sky cam footage at 0:20 was from the news Station in Henderson
I live not far from Evansville. It seams most of our severe weather happens at night in southern Indiana. When we were kids my dad worked 3rd shift and when storms came we were scared so mom would let us stay up till he got home. Lucky we were home schooled so we didn’t have to catch the bus in the morning.
Night-time tornadoes are the worst. Had one miss my house by less than a mile last May during the outbreak... couldn't see anything but could hear it going by, and that along with the eerie tornado sirens made it a very unsettling experience. All one could do is get to the center-most part of the house and brace yourself, waiting to see if you'd be hit or not. 😥
From Florida here, just last year there was 9 tornadoes that hit my hometown and I live in a city that doesn't get tornadoes at all. Nothing is as scary as waking up at 2-3 in the morning to a tornado warning to take immediate shelter now and getting your whole family to go in the restroom. I was worried sick as my neighbors house got completely destroyed (my house was within 100ft from my neighbors) it was the first time experiencing tornadoes since I was 5. I could hear the freight train like sound. We had a total of 9 tornadoes that night. I live on the West Coast of Florida just above Tampa. To let you know, there were no sirens at all in the state of Florida.
Hello, I’m glad that you finally dedicated a part of one of your videos to Wisconsin. I live in Wisconsin I like learning about my state’s tornado history
All the nights of my childhood spent bedding down on the floor of my parents' walk-in closet while a massive North Texas thunderstorm broke all around us. I have to say it was exciting and sort of fun, like a little mini camping trip...but only because our house never lost the night-time tornado lottery.
A massive silhouette, the wail of sirens, an unpredictable monster that ravages rural farms. If they didn't exist, they would be monsters straight out of a horror movies!
You missed the mayfield tornado… that video is a NIGHTMARE. Wedge tornado, only illuminated by the lightning. Second only to the Joplin tornado tour video, where there was a lightning strike out in front of the tornado.. it seemed like that tornado was pissed
Barneveld is one of my favourite tornado stories - not because it's from my home state, or because it's in an area I've driven through a dozen times, and not even because of the crazy lightning - but it's because the terrain is so rugged in the area. Barneveld is in the Driftless Area of the state, where icebergs never reached to wear down the hilly landscape. Not to mention it's the forested part of the Driftless as well. Stories like Barneveld 1984 and Wausau 1977 will always remind me of an important lesson: tornadoes don't care about topography. If they want to go over it, they will.
My grandmother has a NOAA weather radio that my great grandmother bought. She lives in coastal NC, so there's a lot of gales and squall lines that blow in off the ocean that have been known to erase small islands. Believe me, when that thing goes off, you can hear it through the entire house. And when you do hear it, you better keep an eye on the weather.
Everyone talks about big tornadoes, but what about the small ones? Like, super small. So small it doesn't even qualify as an official tornado. Like leaves spinning in the air from a strong breeze. Rotating upwards a little bit.
This reminds me of the small tornado outbreak we had here in Oklahoma today. I got an alert on my phone over a tornado warning at 1am and was kinda freaking out. My family and I were up until 2-3:00 keeping up with these quick spin-ups and super cells. It was pretty darn intense for a swift moment. It was dark out and hardly any weather channels was on, so I went to UA-cam, of course. However, that made me feel unsettled and I’m sure a lot of other Oklahomans. It’s quite an eerie feeling hearing the sirens go off in the middle of the night. Cool video, by the way.
I'm from Florida and we just got some of the strongest tornadoes from hurricane Milton and it really made me think. What are some of THE worst tornadoes to spawn from hurricanes? I think it would be an interesting vid.
During Helene, the hurricane let out a string of tornadoes all around the city, and killed a couple people. Absolutely terrifying being up in the middle of the night and getting the warnings
Ever since reading the night of the twisters back in middle school during AIS Reading Class, I have been a Weather nerd ever since growing up but I am still spooked out by those Moving Funnels of Terror
My bday is tomorrow, I’m so happy we got a nocturnal tornado video. They always fascinated me because what if they hit when you are sound asleep? I would not wish that on anyone. They interest me the most, rolling fork and Greenberg for example. It’s just like another level of mystery surrounding the tornado I guess. Tornado research and detection is hard enough during the day, now imagine a rainwrapped one at night. Can we please get a video on people who have been hit by tornadoes. I know swegle can make a great video on it, I mean the people who got hit and were flung 500 yards into a field and miraculously survived. I’d love a video recounting their survival stories, like people who actually went inside a tornado and survived. I’m too lazy to do the research, that is the only video I want more than nocturnal tornadoes. Thank you for another great video, here’s to many more
FINALLY! Grand Island gets a little recognition! And that hill you speak of is called Tornado Hill. I fly my drone from the top all the time. And in the winter the entire town sleds down it
I will never forget the midnight tornado we had in Watertown. Power went out before the storm arrived. Tornado warning was issued right as the storm arrived, also was my first time hearing the emergency alert tone on the phones. Sirens went off after a large tree branch nearly hit our house.
Night tornadoes scare me, but I’d rather one hit me off guard when I’m asleep than smoke my house when I’m awake and can’t do anything about it. I’m in the Deep South, we usually sleep through tornado warnings because there are no storm shelters or basements best we got is a bathtub. Last year the local news was warning we had potential for tornadoes in my area for like a week. I was excited, the first night I stayed awake expecting a show. It was bright skies and sunny, birds chirping and all that so I went to bed. The next night it is the exact same thing so I went to bed. I wake up around 2:30am to get ready for work, on this day I randomly woke up at 1am. I’m watching UA-cam and taking bong rips like nothing, getting ready for work. I check my notifications at like 6am and sure enough there was a tornado watch for my area at 1am. I had no idea, I’m glad too because my ass would have been in my car driving around looking for it 😵💫 Edit: the weather wasn’t even bad, I couldn’t tell a single thing was off. I’m in Dixie alley so if you hear nighttime tornado you expect it to come with rain or like a wind gust, something. There was no sign whatsoever atleast I couldn’t tell anything was off, don’t think a tornado dropped but still the fact I was In a watch and didn’t know scared me. Again, Deep South, I’m so used to this stuff I have my emergency alerts muted because I do not care lol
Born and raised in grand island. Im super happy you mentioned tornado hill since my grandmas brother helped build it. Not so fun fact, tornado hill is decaying due to rain and snow, people often sled on this hill and it wasnt until 2014 when people started getting sent to the hospital due to the debris
I live in southern Wisconsin, and I used to go up every weekend to Spring Green in the 90s. We would often take a route that would take us right by the damage parh of the infamous Barneveld tornado near Black Earth. I remember the swathes of trees that were destroyed or completely uprooted. I remember my parents telling me what it was from.
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Hey everyone! Thanks so much for watching! What are some other nocturnal tornadoes I missed? Also I may sound a little weird in parts of this video (I had a cold)
Do you know a tornado that went through a populated area, at night, and had zero deaths, despite being an F4 and hit a lumber mill during its path? June 2nd, 1990. Cincinnati, Ohio.
I have a theory for the blue glow in Blackwell, what if since tornados are rotating with mosture in them, what if the blue light was the moonlight reflecting on the the mosture at the top of the funnel, creating that blue glow, i mean its not unheard of to see the moon reflect blue on water in ponds to a degree.
Swegle yesterday I emailed you about the tornados that happend becuase of Milton
You look like jfk
Technically, the Mayfield tornado in 2021 was nocturnal. Not quite deep into the night but after dark for sure.
it's actually horrifying to just see a huge tornado coming towards you, but only being able to see it in between flashes of lightning
It's the kind of thing I had nightmares about as a tornado obsessed kid.
He showed the one worse scenario… it’s rain wrapped. So the lightning illuminates a mass and you can’t see the tornado. That one is scary af to me.
And power flashes
That's exactly what it was like in Greensburg, ks in 2007
@@iamjustkiwi i had many nightmares of this in my young adult years. somehow it was terrifying but got me hyped up at the same time. Lucid dreaming something so cool whilst also dreaming im flying down the highway in my c6 hit different. that inner male drive to think you're not in danger and it is what it is
Get a NOAA weather radio if you live in tornado prone areas, y'all. The basic model is like $40. Those things are LOUD and will wake up even the most sound of sleepers. You can program it for your immediate area and turn alerts on and off. I keep mine "alert off" under my bed and put it up on my mattress next to me "alert ON" when there's a chance of dangerous weather overnight. It also doesn't depend on internet or cellular signal which is an added bonus!
You will NOT sleep through a NOAA weather radio going off!
100%, Got myself and my parents one. It will wake up the dead.
Terre Haute,IN, back in 2002 or 2003, had a tornado warning one afternoon. It was broad daylight, and sirens were wailing. Despite the sirens going for several minutes(10?) and several calls from me, my best friend slept soundly through it (She worked 3rd shift).
When I was finally able to reach her an hour or two later, she flat-out didn't believe she had slept through tornado sirens, esp for that long!
Luckily for us, it moved away from us and headed south.
Can confirm, absolutely NO ONE will sleep through one of these things going off. It works!!
Ours wakes us up; it's in the kitchen and we hear it well in the bedroom. Can confirm, excellent purchase, we have the Midland brand.
Any specific model you recommend? Been looking to get one myself but there’s a lot out there, usually around $100
how to shit your pants
>wake up at 3 am
>hear tornado sirens
>see something when lightning strikes
>mass of black cloud that sounds like a train.
There doesn't even need to be a tornado, if anything it's even more paranoia inducing to be looking for one and wondering if you're seeing one or if it's just a regular cloud or something
I live about 3 miles way from the nearest siren and that makes it even creepier how it echoes off the woods around my house. Being surrounded by trees i can't even see a tornado if one was coming
@@MintyLime703same
Use the bathroom while you got power and water😂
I live in a camper in a very rural area in Louisiana. A tornado touched down at 2am one night about a mile to my south/southeast. I could hear the roar and knew what it was a full 2 minutes before the warning was issued. The good news is that it hit a swamp and nobody was harmed. My only shelter is a deep dry creekbed with some very large concrete monoliths dumped in it by an oil company 70 years ago. I can crawl under them with the venomous snakes if I absolutely have to or get inside a metal culvert there. It`s 130 feet away beneath huge pines.
Worse, live in a rural area that doesn't have sirens...
Once my grandfather was sleeping (south Alabama) and his dog (very smart dog who would rarely bark for no reason ) kept trying to wake him up. He kept telling his dog to stop, but the dog kept waking him. He finally got up and looked out the window to see the silhouette of a funnel cloud going right over his house. The tornado never touched down thankfully.
Good thing, because that means he was able to find a fresh pair of underwear! That’s pants-crapping terrifying. I’ve seen a tornado near my house, but over it? Yikes!
Awwwwwww see?? Dogs aren't trying to be annoying! They literally protect us!! ❤❤❤
If that was a smart dog who didn’t bark for no reason and he started barking, I would wake up 😂
I've learned over the years that if a dog who doesn't usually bark is going crazy, you shoud listen
dude actually got the blue comment on youtube
Young man, I am 67 and have been a weather nerd for .any years. You do a great job and service on this channel... both in historical terms and in tornado awareness. Kudos to you!
Thanks Gary ❤
many*
That Mayfield tornado silhouette looming in the background is both terrifying and enthralling. Makes my jaw drops at the same speed of its winds.
The scariest video of Mayfield IMO is one where a family left their camera on in the dark. There are lightning flashes, the sirens in the distance, the power going off and the roar of the tornado getting louder in the darkness until it hits the house. Mercifully the family survived.
I survived that one ,i was working at the candle factory that night, i'm not sure of having seen that video that you say ,where i can see it ?@@Artfanbookfan25
It's considered the quad state tornado right?
@@aquarispoot yep it's the quad state tornado because that same supercell spawned tornadoes that afffected 4 different states !
@@aquarispoot Yeah, holdup, that is a common misconception due to reports in the media, which were proven incorrect, that suggested it was all one tornado, when in fact, the NWS now suspects up to 3 separate tornadoes may have spawned, something known as a Tornado Family. It most certainly was not one tornado that went through parts of 4 states.
Experienced my first close call with a tornado not long ago. What's scarier than a tornado siren is the sound of a tornado itself. You hear a low rumble getting louder and louder, the lights flicker, and if you're lucky, the rumbling eventually fades into the distance.
Me too about 1 hr after sunset an F2 tornado took a direct hit at my house. I'm a brit but it surprisingly hit Barking. It was quite recent on 25 July 2021.
i remember reading in books growing up that they sound like freight trains but i didn’t realize just how close it is until i heard one it’s crazy
6:53 The orbiting lights could have been vehicle headlights. There's more recent footage of vehicles being sucked up by large tornadoes with lights still on. The persistent glow is harder to explain without lots of lightning. Definitely sounds like some kind of electrical effect though.
That's what I was thinking. You're thinking of Rolling Fork where there was a car that got thrown up and spun around. Best guess on the blue glow is ionization of stuff. All I got.
Ball lightning seems to be the best explanation for this sort of stuff, however i second the car theory. It’d be so much easier to explain if it hit an industrial plant and sucked up metal shavings or something but it doesn’t look like that is the case. Has to be some sort of chemical effect though, that i can agree with.
Vehicle head lights were dim as hell and definitely not blue in 1955
In 2015 the rowlett texas tornado was glowing blue, which was from the tornado damaging electrical things such as power lines and transformers. The intense winds and debris likely caused continuous electrical arcing, which made the tornado glow. Especially in the 1950s, electrical equipment like power lines and transformers were more exposed and vulnerable to damage compared to nowadays.
No not in the 1955. They didn’t have there cars on. They where all sleeping
I'm Brazilian, and the country's deadliest tornado was also a nighttime tornado: in September 1991, an F4 hit the city of Itu after dark. To make matters worse, it was also rain-wrapped. 16 people died, 10 were on a bus that was blown away by the wind. Considering that we still don't have a warning system here, it's a miracle that the death toll wasn't much higher.
I was very surprised to read about how many tornadoes happen in Brazil and the rest of South America. It's scary to think that Brazil probably has far more tornadoes than people know about because Brazil is so large and has many regions with few people to witness the storms. If the tornado happens in a forest or other large area of wilderness, nobody will know that anything happened. The tornado will not be counted and logged in historical records.
The idea of being on a bus and getting hit by something like that is horrifying.
@@RikkiSpanishsame with Siberia
@twilightparanormalresearch186 You're right. I would also add in Canada, China, and Australia. These phantom tornadoes happen a fair bit here in the U.S., too, because there are still huge swaths of the country with little to no people living there. We only know about them by the destruction they cause to trees, grass, and dirt.
Rio Grande do Sul State (where I born and raised) got at least 3 tornadoes between april and may.
Checking Night of the Twisters out of the library when I was 9 is the reason I’m sitting here watching this 24 years later! Started the whole thing for me.
Same! I met Ivy Ruckman and have a signed copy of the book. She was a delight and really piqued my interest in weather
omg i love your profile!!
I remember meeting this one guy who had a son who during the night of Nov 6 2005, during the Evansville tornado, was thrown out of their mobile home and passed away instantly. That story still horrifies me to this day.
If its the same one I've been told it definitely is horrible
Something similar happened a little over a year later in Caulfield, MO, about 15 miles to my southwest, killing a 9-year-old girl when an EF3 tornado hit their trailer. That tornado almost hit West Plains, where I live now, but lifted before reaching West Plains.
When a very powerful group of wind moves in one direction all at the same time. Especially if it’s a circle, the suction and gus force would be extreme and constant. Not only that but blunt force trauma or bleeding would be instant. It’s 100% the environment around them that kills. Debris is literally shrapnel but at 200+ mph.
Can’t imagine, poor guy
I live in the Midwest, and having a sound sleep just to be woken up by the ear piercing sound of a tornado warning played through a JBL speaker at 4 in the morning has been a part of my life
Yeah, love it here but that’s never fun
I live in SW MO and I just stay up all night when severe weather is predicted. I have 6 dogs and always have foster dogs, and 3 cats, plus my farm animals. I watch the radar like a hawk then start rounding everyone up when it looks bad. One year, we got caught off guard and almost got taken out because we were trying to gather animals. My dogs were stupidly outside(they have a dog door) and me and my daughter were trying to gather them when a small tornado hit my chicken house and it exploded. After that, I don’t take chances
Northwest Arkansas here. Same lol
@@Emjay_blackdogranch Wishing you and your animals lots of health, happiness, and safety. That's nerve-wracking.
I've got a story for you, on the night of June 7th 1984 my grandparents were sitting in a bar in the heart of Barneveld. They were drinking and playing cards with some friends. It was around 11 PM when they got tired and decided to leave and head back to their house in Mt. Horeb, and just an hour later that bar had been completely destroyed.
HOLY SUSAN GET MY PANTS
That's freaky. Barneveld is, IMO, one of the scariest night tornadoes. That town had no idea what was coming for them.
I remember really being sad. It stuck with me for a long time that you could go to bed one minute but be awoken by a twister.
As a kid I remember watching Twister and there was this nocturnal tornado scene that left perhaps more of an impression on me than any heavier storm in any such footage before or after. Just the idea you can hear it, it seems to be everywhere, but so dark you can only see it when lightning strikes... Terrifyingly awesome.
Never experienced so many night time tornadoes until i moved to Wisconsin. I honestly hate it because it's really unnerving, at least during the day you have a visual. At night though? Theres never been a time where ive felt more vulnerable. It feels like youre just waiting for your doom except you cant see it coming, best you can do is take cover and hope its not too bad.
I've lived in Wisconsin all my life. Nighttime tornadoes aren't any more common than daytime ones. The only infamous one I can think of is Barneveld.
@@SteveTpenn I've been here for three-four years and so far the majority have all been during the night. I can maybe count 3 times it was during the day and even then it was during the evening/almost dark
yeah there was an outbreak this year in dane, my roommates thought i was crazy bc we were on a tornado watch and i just stood out on the porch for 10 minutes, acting like i’d be able to see one coming but instead just went to bed. in my 2nd floor apartment. the watch was on all night. i was born & raised here though so, tornadoes being one of the few intense weather/climate events we experience never fails to fascinate me, seeing the truly Terrific power of Nature on full display
@@007tbz6 I'll never forget March 31st there was a confirmed tornado otg heading for where I was living at the time. I honestly felt so powerless bc you could see the power flashes/lightning but couldn't see the tornado but you knew it was coming. Definitely heard it though
Chippewa county Five years ago on a Tuesday, an EF3 tornado tore through parts of Elk Mound and Wheaton. On September 24, 2019 it was a night tornado I remember it cause I was watching the news channel here in rusk county we also got hit by the same storm that prompted the warning but it was slightly weakened by that point
I love it when you look for scars from infamous tornadoes. What an amazing thing we’re just casually able to look up!
My town has scars from 2022 all over the place. AND a couple of scars from 30+ years ago, if you know where to look.
@@Floridad25so tell us where ya fuckin knobead so we can see jesus christ
As a spotter and chaser, I always highly recommend NOAA weather radios. Sirens are designed for people outside, and if a nearby cell towers are out, you wont have cell service, but the radio can be backed up by batteries and it will go off with a loud siren for tornado watches. The midwest has two seasons also. I am getting ready to take the fall spotters class. There were tornado outbreaks in November of 1992 and November 17, 2013 tornado outbreaks in Ohio and Indiana
I remember growing up in Middle Tennessee, when the weather got bad my mom would stay up at night just to make sure we got into the closet under the stairs (half underground) even though we never actually experienced any. I still live in Tennessee, although East TN doesn’t get very many tornadoes.
I feel this! Currently living in Nashville and I am that mommy staying up all night during severe weather events to make sure we are all safe if the worst happens.
We got caught flat footed during the March 3rd 2020 nocturnal EF3 tornado that ripped through the city (less than a mile from our house). I had gone to bed early that night and had no idea we were at risk (it was only a 2% risk day per the SPC outlook that day and when I went to bed there were no nearby concerning storms).
At 12:30am we were awoken abruptly to our phones blasting the tornado warning and had about 1 minute to gather our 5 month old and 3 year old boys and get to the first floor bathroom. The power flickered as it passed by and when we went back upstairs after it passed we saw the power flashes in the clouds off in the distance. This lone supercell spawned a monster tornado that was on the ground for an hour and then respawned an even deadlier EF4 in Cookeville.
Ever since that night, I refuse to sleep on severe weather nights until I’m sure the threat is long gone.
@@stephroney Omg stay safe! I was in MBoro.
GURI I WAS IN TENNESSEE but sadly we moved to florida which am at rn
(My mom wanting to move)
Argh, I grew up in Columbia/Spring Hill. My family and I camped out in our utility room all night during a December outbreak, around 2015 I think. It was relentless, just warning after warning for our area.
I had a friend living in Nashville at the time that sent me Snapchat videos of the EF3 tearing through that night. It missed them by like, a mile?
Even being in West NC near the Appalachian mountains, my mind goes to tornadoes when looking at homes and how many homes are of poor quality construction for being able to survive those storms. Even though tornadoes are rare for West NC, I'm walking around where I work and where I live to try and figure out where the safest place is to hide in these buildings.
I actually lived through the 1998 Kissimmee Tornado outbreak. Fortunately the closest tornado that spawned that night was 4 miles away. Scared the hell out of us because my mom woke up and had everyone get under the stair landing in the house. We heard something, don't know exactly if it was just how the sound of the tornado carried over Lake Jessup or if there was another funnel cloud further south that was closer to us, but just never touched down? Even though nothing happened to us, it did kill my Grandpa's friend.
That whole year was insane for Central Florida. Flooded in the Winter, had the tornado outbreak in the Spring, then a drought, then the highest average temperature recorded up until then, and finally the worst wildfire year on record for the area.
I watched a documentary that included a story from this tornado. That poor couple lost their neighbors in an RV park and you can just hear the pain in their voices when telling their story
Me too! I woke up in the middle of the night because the wind and rain was so intense! I lived in BVL. Our pizza place, "Lous's Pizza" got wrecked!
I was a baby at the time and I slept through it, my family was awake and terrified . It’s crazy for me to see it mentioned having grown up in Kissimmee and always seeing the commemorative plaque in the park.
The 2020 Nashville night tornado was absolutely insane, as someone who lives in the area. There was obviously the EF4 that hit Cookville, but there was another EF3 that night that stayed on the ground for over 60 miles and actually hit downtown Nashville. To make things even more strange, this tornado happened right before everything shut down for the pandemic so there were damaged buildings that just sat there for a long time in a major metropolitan area. I specifically remember an old government building in the Germantown area that just say there in ruin for a while and the Top Golf also was a direct hit. Crazy times man.
Some of the most unnerving tornado footage is when a storm is so dense and large that it is almost dark in the middle of the afternoon. Some of the Joplin EF-5 footage looks as if it was already 8-9 PM. Someone at a building in Limestone Co., AL filmed the Hackleburg EF-5 as it passed maybe a mile away, and the sky was this ominous dark green color while you hear the constant roar of the tornado.
Regarding Greensburg, I wss in a town about 10 minites away at the time. My little sister had had a gymnastics recital there jist the weekend before.
The weatherman reaching out to any kids watching TV, telling them to raise the TV volume up so they can hear him as they take cover hits my heart.
Welcome Back Swegle! Night Tornadoes are very scary and dangerous. Another interesting and deadly example of a violent nocturnal tornado was the F5 tornado that struck Guin, Alabama on April 3rd 1974
And Xenia Ohio, 74.
The “orbs” around the blackwell tornado could have been horizontal vortices
Not unlikely
A what?!
I was thinking cars
@@codyscorner2.082 this sounds more likely honestly, didn't even think about that
More than likely they were headlights of cars orbiting the tornado. There was a recent tornado where a similar phenomenon was filmed as a tornado passed over an interstate and picked up a car. You could see the headlights as they went around the outside of the tornadic circulation. Horizontal vortices don’t produce their own light.
I swear, Tornado warnings in the dead of night were one of my biggest fears growing up. Idk why not being able to see them makes them so much more terrifying. Like, just because I can see it coming doesn't mean I can do much to stop it lol
I swear we had a nocturnal tornado in Glasford, IL about 4 years ago in June. A small tornado was on the ground just north and west of us and supposedly dissipated, but the severe thunderstorm warning still remained over us. When the storms came, the winds were intense enough that I could feel ever so subtle movement in the carpeted floor. The winds were hitting one side of the house before suddenly shifting to the opposite side of the house several minutes in. And in the morning, trim pieces on the western part of the house were found in front of our Morton building, which was separated from our house by a gully and a row of oak trees. The aluminum trim piece had to have been lifted up and over those trees and I don't see how straight line winds could have done that. The tornado would have been an F1 if that, but it was an exciting night.
Back in 1986, I saw a rapid-fire lightening storm like the one you are describing. I awoke and saw it in the south. Turns out that one went away. However, another rapid-fire cell came down from the north and we were in for about an hour of unbelievable lightening! I was 9 years old and that stuck with me. I had never seen another lightening display quite that vivid. The cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground strikes were numerous. TV stations used to sign off for the night in those days. But I remember seeing a severe thunderstorm watch until 7AM after one of the stations signed on. There were thunderheads still visible to the southeast. It was either in may or June and the storms passed through like right around dawn, so they were long gone by 7am. Not sure if there were any warnings with those storms, but they were extremely strong anyway.
Been there. We had a tornado pass within a mile of our house at 3:45 AM. Fortunately we had weather radio and sirens, but the scramble downstairs in the dark, having to wake up my husband and my son from their sleep, was all intensely frightening. We never heard it pass to our north. The good news is that no one was seriously hurt.
20:45 I was working as a night guard at Electrolux in Springfield Tennessee during that Tornado. I was outside in a crappy guard station with absolutely no protection from wind or debris. Luckily nothing happened, but I was out in the open and completely unprotected and my supervisor told me that I had to stay in the guard station.
Core memory of sheltering from a tornado at night when one struck near Clarksville TN in the 90s and seeing the damage the next day when we drove somewhere.
that one hit downtown and Campbell Army Airfield didn’t it ?
@ not too sure, but when I google, it says it struck thru town
I’m from Cookeville and knew people who were killed by that tornado. Thank you for remembering us, we were overlooked because of the tornado that hit East Nashville earlier that night.
Wooo Wisconsin mentioned! Thanks for covering the Barneveld tornado!
Wisconsin mentioned:
Packy Packer: **towel spins sausage links** LET'S GOOOOO!
An unseen dangerous thing approaching is always scarier than one that can be seen.
Okay so crazy thing about that school in Blackwell you showed on Google streetview, I actually went there for school in 2nd grade! They indeed did use that building as a tornado shelter, as well as a cafeteria and music room. It was also where all the classes lined up in the morning while they waited to go to class. We had a few tornado drills, as well as a few weather scares back during the summer, and that was where we took shelter!
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@@kabluey_louie1718 np!
Merry birthmas
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I live in Dixie alley, it's tornado season right now. I have dealt with a lot of night tornadoes, going from deep sleep to bone-deep terror and survival instinct is a whiplash like no other. It becomes somewhat easier as it happens over and over but that fight or flight never goes away. Depending on the weather people won't sleep at night, and we'll turn off as many appliances as possible. But that's not even the worst experience I've had. Unfortunately, I also happened to be in Mayfield, KY during the storm, driving with my friends through a neighborhood when a woman came out and ushered us inside. She had been watching a weather analyst named Ryan Hall, his coverage saved all our lives. I've been watching him since, call me paranoid but I will *NEVER* be caught off guard like that again!
The Cookeville, TN tornado is one that has made me paranoid of night time storms. I end up calling out of work and tracking the storms until they've past over us just in case we need to move. I lived in the area, and was at work that night. When the EAS notification popped up on my phone, everyone gathered in our shelter area. By morning, we were getting pictures and seeing posts on Facebook about the damage. I had just moved from a house that was just on the edge of the path. Literally every house behind it was destroyed. We've had tornadoes in the area, but very few and far. I think it work everyone up that its not just Oklahoma and the plains that have to deal with these things. I hope you do end up making a video about it.
I am from Wisconsin and I remember the Barneveld Tornado pretty well. There actually was ONE SIREN in town. The storm had a tremendous amount of lightning with it and there was one huge strike that caused the towns electricity to go out, which is why the siren did not sound when the area was placed under a tornado warning.
this is a total nightmare scenario for me, earlier this year we had a tornado warning blaring on phones around midnight, hit about a mile from us but fortunately it ended up being a EF0 that was only on the ground for a few moments in open land, still, I was already half asleep (early riser for work), so pretty anxiety inducing moment when all the warning signals went off
Dunno why your channel isnt massive dude. Love your videos. Been following you for a while and was hoping to see a nocturnal tornadoes video! You should do a video about towns completely wiped off the map and no longer exist, or were extremely crippled from Tornadoes. Or places where tornadoes/hurricanes left nothing standing.
Another cool video idea would be to show a little bit of the Eastern world's tornadoes and typhoons. Namely Japan and China. Not enough videos about those guys. Like, you could recreate all your video ideas, but from the Eastern Hemisphere.
Carly Anna wx has a couple on her channel
Cookeville was such a weird event. It happened while the storm was merging with another storm, and the outflow of the other storm actually helped fuel the Cookeville tornado.
Actually in 2015, the rowlett texas tornado was glowing blue, which was from the tornado damaging electrical things such as power lines and transformers. The intense winds and debris likely caused continuous electrical arcing, which made the tornado glow. Especially in the 1950s, electrical equipment like power lines and transformers were more exposed and vulnerable to damage compared to nowadays.
As someone who has a phobia/massive respect of tornadoes the ones that occur at night was the top nightmare like till i went to college. I lived in a trailer so my family treated every warning very seriously. As for the crazy lightning around 14:05 I've seen something close to that. I saw a storm that had no rain but the sky was always illuminated by so many flashes and bursts of lightning in the clouds that you could see for miles like daytime. It was a more bluish color which i hadnt seen before. Awesome work as always.
LOOK OUT HERE COMES THE NOCTURNAL TORNADO!
...with the steel chair!
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BY GOD HE HAS A FAMILY!
@@PleiadesRubyaw dear god!
Which is, incidentally, exactly what Bill Cosby said while he was making cocktails for his guests.
Thank you for mentioning the barnsdall EF4
I was a student at the University of Evansville when this tornado happened. Remember it well. It was so hot and humid all day/night. I had trouble sleeping, knowing something was probably going to hit overnight. We watched the local weather coverage in the basement common area. Terrifying night.
Great video. The Barnsdall EF4 was bad. It tracked up to Bartlesville and lost intensity thankfully, nearly hit my family up there. Was really stressful trying to get a hold of them late at night before it hit. Night tornadoes are scary for sure. If it was day time, my father would have been able to see it from his balcony.
I live in Kentucky and we always seem to get tornadoes at night. A few months ago one went about 1/4 mile from my house, tore up a bunch of houses two neighborhoods over and I was laying in bed listening to it, like wow, that jet is going really slow. PS you can _barely_ hear the sirens from my house and only from out in the yard. Even then, super easy to miss. Thank god for alerts on the phone!
That system dropped 2 tornadoes near me in south-central Missouri, one about 15 miles to our north, and the other about 35 miles to our north, doing minor damage where I grew up.
Excellent video! My favorite (and most personal) nighttime tornado is the Greensburg EF-5. I’m writing a book about that tornado; it’ll be extremely spooky for sure! It very closely mirrored the 1955 Udall KS tornado. The Udall disaster notably started the modern multi-agency response for tornado emergencies. I’m happy to provide info/details/comments for your future Greensburg video!
Do you have a website? I have a running list of books about severe weather and would love to keep it in mind when you finish it!
@@Emjay_blackdogranch Awesome! Website is under construction. I’ll post updates on my channel here.
Lol, I was born and raised in Blackwell, OK and my dad lived in Grand Island, NE when the Night of the Twisters happened. He was about three-and-a-half but he still remembers how one of those tornadoes was a couple blocks over from his home and he remembers how the winds had this distinct sound reminiscent of a loud engine. Sends chills down my spine every time he recollects that story.
Excellent video on nocturnal tornadoes around the country. When I was a senior in high school I was on a car trip with my grandpa’s 1950 Buick and we ended up staying overnight in Siren Wisconsin in the early evening and F3 tornado went through the town. I think it was around 8:00- 8:30 PM when it struck the town, but it was so dark out because of the storm it looked like it was nighttime and you couldn’t see it, but you could definitely hear it the other thing that was eerie was that the tornado siren they had in town didn’t go off and I never remember hearing any sirens.
I was in Sioux Falls SD during the September 10th, 2019 tornadoes, and it was horrifying waking up to the weather radio going off but not hearing any sirens. My neighbor, best friend, and several teachers never woke up cause their sirens didn't go off either. I can't imagine how many people would have died had those tornadoes been any stronger.
Never woke up during the warning, or like, ever again?
I can sorta understand the creepy vibe with the tornado sirens and I live in UK.
A year or so ago there was a relatively big storm and the power went out. I had to go outside and all I could hear above the wind & rain were the house alarms from every house on my street.
Was a really surreal feeling I’ll probably never forget.
I got that same edition of Night of the Twisters from my school library. Kicked off a whole reading binge of survival stories.
Hey you talked about the Barneveld, Wi tornado. And my family was living in Black Earth when it went through. I was only 2 but I remember the noise. It was on the other side of town. And yes I can confirm that the lighting was crazy, my dad talks about how it was just constant.
When I lived in Mississippi, I was watching an outbreak happen on the news south of me and at midnight, the siren in my town went off and it was the scariest thing I had encountered up until that point. Tornado ended up swinging past the outskirt of town totally out of sight.
I lived in Nashville in 2020 and was just south of the damage path of the EF3 that went through town.
The tornado sirens woke me up in the middle of the night and I checked my phone to see missed calls and texts from a friend in west Nashville saying the twister was headed our direction… a horrifying way to wake up given I had literally watched Twister before falling asleep that night!
We were very lucky it missed us but were heartbroken for those in Germantown, East Nashville, and of course, those who suffered so much due to the EF4 in Cookeville. And then with the COVID lockdown starting very shortly thereafter, it was an unimaginable time.
I’d be very interested to see your coverage of this event, keep up the good work. 🫡
I’m moving to Memphis soon and I’ve been warning my mom about the nocturnal tornadoes that occur down there. In her words, she says “We don’t need to worry about that! Theres hills and tornadoes can’t go over them. We’ll be finnneee!”. But luckily for me, even if a tornado occurs, I have a plan mapped out.
Earlier this year I woke up to my mom calling me at 1 am. The sirens going off and the rain was coming down hard. I go outside to see if I could see where it was. I looked up and there was fast rotation. It seemed like I could reach up and touch the clouds above. I went back inside and sheltered for 20 minutes. Turns out an EF1 was right on top of me. I think what happened was it was cycling because it did touch down a block over. Really opens your eyes.
The tornado I saw was in the day time. Though it was much stronger, I’d rather that than what you saw even though it wasn’t as damaging. Not being able to see it, but only hearing it is terrifying.
Appreciate you covering the blackwell tornado! I live in Ponca City and people tell me i'm crazy when i said Blackwell had F5 tornado in the past.
11:53 I love how you can just tell that bolt is strong. No flickering, straight from the cloud to the ground.
I love it when you make videos about nocturnal tornadoes! It's a spooky yet fascinating topic.
OMG BARNEVELD!!! my mom was working at a summer camp nearby and had to drive thru barneveld the day after, she said it was the most insane thing she'd ever seen
I drove through the other day. You can tell where the town feels new and the trees are younger and the roads and buildings well kept compared to the old and wild grasslands of the part of the town that was untouched.
I have NEVER thought about a tornado could happen at night. It just never came to my mind. But man, that’s a terrifying sight to see in the middle of the night in your own town
Another awesome video, but I think you missed a significant one - the Woodward, OK, F5 of 09 APR 1947. It was the first post-WWII F5, was 1.8 miles wide, struck more than 90 minutes after sunset, was the deadliest tornado in Oklahoma history, has the sad distinction of killing three never identified children, and is connected to the mystery of Joan Gay Croft's disappearance. I only learned of it decades after moving from there.
I remember the night of my senior prom in 2012 Woodward, OK had a nocturnal tornado and lightning struck the sirens so they weren’t operating killed 6 people.
0:59 Just a note- it isn’t Bartleson. This tornado hit Barnsdall and Bartlesville.
Yeah but that specific video was taken in bartleson
@@JayIsAKnicksFan1Where the hell is bartleson
Thank ya
Kinda surprised the Mayfield E4 wasn't mentioned
I was around for the Evansville Indiana one, don't know if I was in Evansville in November
Indeed. The most enthralling nocturnal tornado I've ever heard of.
I'm in southern Australia so we don't get storms on a regular basis, but I love then. But I have experienced about 5 of those lightning superbolts (including one that hit right outside of the room we were in at the time), and they are terrifyingly loud and instantaneous after the bolt. You can tell by the brightness that it has hit right nearby. You don't even have time to think "wow, that was close!" before the deafening thunder shakes the entire house. The dogs go nuts and it's the only time during a storm that I get a jolt of fear 😬😬
Yeah and the greensburg tornado...
or any tornado in illinois from july 15
you have just made a video detailing my worst fear in a way i have never been able to explain it in. every single component... the sirens, the ominous darkness all around you, the anticipation of disaster approaching like a widescale roulette.... HORRIFYING.
Good morning from Australia, Swegle. Thanks for the upload
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I’ll never forget May 3rd even though I was only 7. Lived in OKC and our neighbors had a storm shelter that all the parents and kids would go to any time there were tornadoes. Usually the adults stayed in the room above the cellar watching the news. May 3rd was literally the only time I can remember all of the adults getting down in the shelter with us kids and closing the door and all of us praying together.
I’m from Evansville, Indiana. I recognized the sky cam and the date the moment you put it up I knew it was Evansville. I was 3 when the tornado hit but I still remember that day. I wasn’t in any danger though because I lived in the western part of the county.
I actually grew up in Cookeville, TN! My family had a NOAA weather radio so we could get alerts even after bedtime, that thing was LOUD and I'm so glad we had it. I'd love to see a longer vid about the recent EF4!
As a Henderson Kentucky native my grandma saw the Evansville tornado from her hiuse and she said it was a big black cloud and as a tornado fanitc who sees rarely any videos of the Evansville Tornado I’m happy that one of my favorite tornado creators mentioned it and Wayne Heart who Still is the Chief meteorologist in WHET for Henderson KY he still reports storms and he keeps us all safe the sky cam footage at 0:20 was from the news Station in Henderson
I live not far from Evansville. It seams most of our severe weather happens at night in southern Indiana.
When we were kids my dad worked 3rd shift and when storms came we were scared so mom would let us stay up till he got home.
Lucky we were home schooled so we didn’t have to catch the bus in the morning.
It ALWAYS starts in Smill Mills or Posey county. ALWAYS. If Wayne says Smith Mills or Mt Vernon I start filling the tub with supplies
Night-time tornadoes are the worst. Had one miss my house by less than a mile last May during the outbreak... couldn't see anything but could hear it going by, and that along with the eerie tornado sirens made it a very unsettling experience. All one could do is get to the center-most part of the house and brace yourself, waiting to see if you'd be hit or not. 😥
Oh boy the perfect thing to watch in bed with the lights off at 11:49 at night!
From Florida here, just last year there was 9 tornadoes that hit my hometown and I live in a city that doesn't get tornadoes at all. Nothing is as scary as waking up at 2-3 in the morning to a tornado warning to take immediate shelter now and getting your whole family to go in the restroom. I was worried sick as my neighbors house got completely destroyed (my house was within 100ft from my neighbors) it was the first time experiencing tornadoes since I was 5. I could hear the freight train like sound. We had a total of 9 tornadoes that night. I live on the West Coast of Florida just above Tampa. To let you know, there were no sirens at all in the state of Florida.
Hello, I’m glad that you finally dedicated a part of one of your videos to Wisconsin. I live in Wisconsin I like learning about my state’s tornado history
Same here! Can’t believe it’s been 40 years since Barneveld
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All the nights of my childhood spent bedding down on the floor of my parents' walk-in closet while a massive North Texas thunderstorm broke all around us. I have to say it was exciting and sort of fun, like a little mini camping trip...but only because our house never lost the night-time tornado lottery.
A massive silhouette, the wail of sirens, an unpredictable monster that ravages rural farms. If they didn't exist, they would be monsters straight out of a horror movies!
Looking forward to the full 2020 Nashville/Cookeville video. I know a lot of people had slept through those being from 12 to 2 AM.
You missed the mayfield tornado… that video is a NIGHTMARE. Wedge tornado, only illuminated by the lightning. Second only to the Joplin tornado tour video, where there was a lightning strike out in front of the tornado.. it seemed like that tornado was pissed
Barneveld is one of my favourite tornado stories - not because it's from my home state, or because it's in an area I've driven through a dozen times, and not even because of the crazy lightning - but it's because the terrain is so rugged in the area. Barneveld is in the Driftless Area of the state, where icebergs never reached to wear down the hilly landscape. Not to mention it's the forested part of the Driftless as well. Stories like Barneveld 1984 and Wausau 1977 will always remind me of an important lesson: tornadoes don't care about topography. If they want to go over it, they will.
Great presentation. Spooky subject during Halloween season. Enjoy your channel; and glad for the exponential growth. Take care.
My grandmother has a NOAA weather radio that my great grandmother bought. She lives in coastal NC, so there's a lot of gales and squall lines that blow in off the ocean that have been known to erase small islands. Believe me, when that thing goes off, you can hear it through the entire house. And when you do hear it, you better keep an eye on the weather.
Everyone talks about big tornadoes, but what about the small ones? Like, super small.
So small it doesn't even qualify as an official tornado.
Like leaves spinning in the air from a strong breeze. Rotating upwards a little bit.
This reminds me of the small tornado outbreak we had here in Oklahoma today. I got an alert on my phone over a tornado warning at 1am and was kinda freaking out. My family and I were up until 2-3:00 keeping up with these quick spin-ups and super cells. It was pretty darn intense for a swift moment. It was dark out and hardly any weather channels was on, so I went to UA-cam, of course. However, that made me feel unsettled and I’m sure a lot of other Oklahomans. It’s quite an eerie feeling hearing the sirens go off in the middle of the night. Cool video, by the way.
I'm from Florida and we just got some of the strongest tornadoes from hurricane Milton and it really made me think. What are some of THE worst tornadoes to spawn from hurricanes? I think it would be an interesting vid.
During Helene, the hurricane let out a string of tornadoes all around the city, and killed a couple people. Absolutely terrifying being up in the middle of the night and getting the warnings
Night Time Tornadoes Are Indeed Scary Especially If You’re Sleeping
if it's an EF5, you're basically dead since you won't see it coming
@@superpenguinzzz Doesn’t have to an EF5
@@superpenguinzzz EF4 Tornadoes At Night Time Are The Worse
Ever since reading the night of the twisters back in middle school during AIS Reading Class, I have been a Weather nerd ever since growing up but I am still spooked out by those Moving Funnels of Terror
My bday is tomorrow, I’m so happy we got a nocturnal tornado video. They always fascinated me because what if they hit when you are sound asleep?
I would not wish that on anyone. They interest me the most, rolling fork and Greenberg for example. It’s just like another level of mystery surrounding the tornado I guess. Tornado research and detection is hard enough during the day, now imagine a rainwrapped one at night.
Can we please get a video on people who have been hit by tornadoes. I know swegle can make a great video on it, I mean the people who got hit and were flung 500 yards into a field and miraculously survived. I’d love a video recounting their survival stories, like people who actually went inside a tornado and survived. I’m too lazy to do the research, that is the only video I want more than nocturnal tornadoes.
Thank you for another great video, here’s to many more
Happy birthday
Happy early birthday!
FINALLY! Grand Island gets a little recognition! And that hill you speak of is called Tornado Hill. I fly my drone from the top all the time. And in the winter the entire town sleds down it
17:04 makes me wanna cry he was like the captain of the titanic for a moment
Ive had recurring nightmares about tornadoes since I was a child, still do at 40 yrs old, but especially nocturnal 'naders!
This reminds me of the opening scene in Twister. That was scary
I will never forget the midnight tornado we had in Watertown. Power went out before the storm arrived. Tornado warning was issued right as the storm arrived, also was my first time hearing the emergency alert tone on the phones. Sirens went off after a large tree branch nearly hit our house.
Night tornadoes scare me, but I’d rather one hit me off guard when I’m asleep than smoke my house when I’m awake and can’t do anything about it.
I’m in the Deep South, we usually sleep through tornado warnings because there are no storm shelters or basements best we got is a bathtub.
Last year the local news was warning we had potential for tornadoes in my area for like a week. I was excited, the first night I stayed awake expecting a show. It was bright skies and sunny, birds chirping and all that so I went to bed. The next night it is the exact same thing so I went to bed. I wake up around 2:30am to get ready for work, on this day I randomly woke up at 1am.
I’m watching UA-cam and taking bong rips like nothing, getting ready for work. I check my notifications at like 6am and sure enough there was a tornado watch for my area at 1am. I had no idea, I’m glad too because my ass would have been in my car driving around looking for it 😵💫
Edit: the weather wasn’t even bad, I couldn’t tell a single thing was off. I’m in Dixie alley so if you hear nighttime tornado you expect it to come with rain or like a wind gust, something. There was no sign whatsoever atleast I couldn’t tell anything was off, don’t think a tornado dropped but still the fact I was In a watch and didn’t know scared me. Again, Deep South, I’m so used to this stuff I have my emergency alerts muted because I do not care lol
Born and raised in grand island. Im super happy you mentioned tornado hill since my grandmas brother helped build it.
Not so fun fact, tornado hill is decaying due to rain and snow, people often sled on this hill and it wasnt until 2014 when people started getting sent to the hospital due to the debris
7:36 I think every school in Tornado prone areas should have something. A hallway ain’t gonna do crap
I live in southern Wisconsin, and I used to go up every weekend to Spring Green in the 90s. We would often take a route that would take us right by the damage parh of the infamous Barneveld tornado near Black Earth. I remember the swathes of trees that were destroyed or completely uprooted. I remember my parents telling me what it was from.