Top 10 Most Infamous F5 or EF5 Tornadoes
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0:00 intro
0:52 Hackleburg Phil Campbell EF5 tornado
2:17 2013 Newcastle Moore EF5 Tornado
5:37 1953 Waco F5 Tornado
7:13 1991 Wichita Andover F5 Tornado
8:56 1974 Xenia F5 Tornado
11:22 1997 Jarrell F5 Tornado
13:05 2011 Joplin EF5 Tornado
14:48 1947 Woodward OK F5 Tornado
16:08 1999 Bridge Creek Moore F5 Tornado
19:00 1925 Tri State Tornado
KFOR 1999 Coverage:
• May 3, 1999 Tornado - ...
Scott Guest - Jarrell Raw 16 x 9
• JARRELL TORNADO RAW 16X9
Ancient Air Theatre - Xenia, Ohio F5 Tornado with Audio, April 3, 1974
• Xenia, Ohio F5 Tornado...
Ancient Air Theatre - April 26, 1991: McConnell AFB Tornado Video, USAF
• April 26, 1991: McConn...
Wichita Eagle - Duke Evans Andover Tornado Video
• Duke Evans' 1991 video...
KOCO 5 NEWS - Video: Catastrophic tornado moves through Moore, Okla.
• Video: Catastrophic to...
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Which F5 or EF5 tornadoes would you put on the list? There were like 10 I almost included. Thanks for watching!
I would say the San Justo F5, believed to be one of the stronger tornadoes (maybe even top 50 in the US).
It was the only F5 in the southern hemisphere, killed a lot of people
Have you ever gone storm chasing?
I would say greensburg, because it almost destroyed the entire town
next could you do in depth 10 tornadoes that should have been ef/f5
I would include the Smithville EF5, probably the strongest tornado recorded, the tornado disintegrated two brick homes and tore their sill plating, plumbing and flooring out of the foundation in probably in less then a second. Also many homes were swept away along the damage path. The tornado was moving around 50-70 mph throughout it's lifetime and was still inflicting EF5 damage other areas as well.
2011 was wild. It's crazy that each EF5 from that year could have been some of the strongest on record.
I hope we don't see a year like that again for a very long time.
@@RT-qd8yl they tend to happen around every 40 years it seems.
@@VASHtheSTAMPEDE_ 2051 😨
I remember James Spann talked about how super outbreaks typically happen about every 40 or so years.
Even the EF4s, such as Chickasha, were probably some of the strongest ever.
I understand if you were scared of getting bonked by UA-cam for mentioning this. But imo what makes Jarrell so heinous wasn’t what it did to structures, but living beings.
Lungs sucked out of livestock and skinned alive. People being sandblasted by debris to the point where most had to be identified by dental records. Rescue services said there were just pieces of flesh and bone everywhere, and the whole area smelled like death for weeks afterward.
Straight out of a horror movie.
The accounts from the first responders made me click off the article
Do you have a source for these? Not doubting you, I’d just like to read through it.
I went through paramedic school with an EMT that was one of the first on scene there. The above is 100% true. He did not much like to talk about it.
@@slipknottin I know Carly Anna WX said similar things in her video on Jarrell, and she was quoting sources.
@@wyattl.4023 again, not doubting the truth of it. I’d like to read the details about the injuries. I’ve tried searching for sources for it but can’t find anything. Heck even something about what tornados do to cows or other animals I’d like to read
My dad survived the 1974 Xenia Ohio tornado. He was just 10 years old. He’s still alive and well today, and still vividly remembers every detail…
Welp good for ur daf
That is the one that Dr. Fujita said should be rated F6
@@judywein3282 yep
For me, had I have gone through that I'd remember how badly I messed my pants the most.
Is he @SoCal780 on YT? Just curious because his comment is directly below yours, and he said that he was 10 years old on that day.
I was in the Joplin tornado STORY TIME
This happened in my 20s I was going to my house after a quick stop at the store my home was kinda built like a rectangle. It was small, awkward, and kinda claustrophobic. As soon as I made it to my house, my phone started going off for a tornado warning. I never cared about bad weather but the way the clouds looked I could tell something was off. I grabbed my cat waffles (he’s okay) a young kitten about 10 months old and hit in my bath tub trying to grip my mattress over my head while looking at my phone. I started to hear the roar and called my mom and told her goodbye. But here I am! I got chucked 123 yards from my house with my cat in my hand with a few scratches and bruises!
I was there too! I remember the popcorn looking clouds. I lived on Twelve Street, not too far off rangeline, and remember finding a walmart driving shift near me.
Dude you’re old asf. You prob have Jesus Christ signature in your yearbook
no hate but how did u get chucked 123 yards away? like that would take forever to walk to your house. plus how did u know that u got chucked 123 yards away? you would get injured or lose ur life if u get chucked that long.
@@wennythesillyY A R D S
@@fnfaddict my bad. i rlly do have spelling problems
Was 9 years old in Xenia Ohio 1974. Missed our home by 2 blocks. It was so loud that my ears were ringing for almost 2 days after . As a 9 year old, your town is your world... And my world was gone
I’m so sorry that happened to you. That must have been terrifying.
@@smileyface81mc77 it was terrifying. Took about a year to bounce back, but it spawned a love for extreme weather believe it or not! Now I am quite the tornado enthusiast! 🌪️
Wow, that is terrifying. I am glad you were able to turn such a horrific experience into something more positive
Hmmm, probably a coincidence but I lived in Beavercreek at the time and had family in Xenia. My cousin would have been 9 and It missed their house by about 2 blocks.... You wouldn’t happen to have a brother named Jaime would you?
@@thorntonmellon nope. I lived in the lanewood subdivision right off of West 2nd Street. I went to Simon Kenton elementary School. I reside in beavercreek now myself. My last name is Miles
Honorable mention Greensburg Kansas 2007. The first tornado rated an EF5 on the new scale. Wiped out nearly an entire town in the middle of the night. Thats a scary one.
Living in between the center of tornado alley and dixie alley, I will say night time tornados are the scariest in my opinion but probably most common here. Tornado videos are awesome but I don't think most people realize that most tornados are practically invisible because it's night or rain wrapped or both.
Ya that one was nuts
Correct me of I'm wrong but it's the newest town in the states
@@KansasFarmer620 what do you mean by newest? I mean it’s gotta be pretty new now since they had to rebuild the entire city.
@@Blane_be_fishin you literally answered your own question
I was going to college in Joplin, MO in 2011 and 2 of my friends from college were in the Fastrip gas station on 20th street when the tornado hit them. To this day, I still don't know how they survived, but I'm so grateful that they did.
Jarrell was my hometown, I was just a baby in 97. Moved to Elgin TX in 2004 and my middle school coach was a coach of the baseball team in Jarrell at the time the tornado hit. 9ish (can’t remember specifics, it’s in the news somewhere) of his players all left their smaller homes to go to a more established home with a basement. Tornado AVERTED ITS COURSE, missing the mobile home park but directly hitting the basement house, killing everyone inside. I can’t imagine what that must have felt like for him. Whole families perished, skin was ripped from animals and people, trees not even in the path were stripped of their bark. That tornado will forever be the most wild and violent tornado ever IMO.
Sorry for your loss
This would have to haunt anyone closely connected to this event. Even me, hearing this story.
Agreed
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My dad was living in Salado at the time and his best friend was a firefighter there so he was a first responder in Jarrell. The stories I was told about it was insane. Now my mom lives nearby in Georgetown so every time I go see her and drive by Jarrell I think about how crazy that thing must’ve been.
Always a good day when Swegle Studios uploads
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@@rocbot9479so basically every day
This upcoming April 3rd will mark the 50th anniversary of the Xenia, Ohio tornado. I was at home in the neighboring town of Beavercreek, which borders Xenia on its western side. I was 10 years old at the time. I can still remember driving through there a few weeks later, and it STILL looked like a war zone. On a side note, I really admire and respect the time and effort that you put into these videos. I never miss one. I don’t know why ppl would want to search you out, etc. I’m perfectly content to just let you have your privacy and admire your work when you present it to us. That’s good enough for me. Thanks for what you do! 👍
Wow. I can’t believe it’s been that long!
@@ChipsDaCatI'm gay too wow
I was a young child from Lima, Ohio and remember this CLEARLY💔
Hey a fellow Beavercreekian! I had just turned 7 when that storm hit. Of course we were fine in Beavercreek but my Aunt, Uncle, and cousins lived in the Arrowhead subdivision in Xenia. They had no basement (most those homes didn’t) so they sheltered in the bathtub. Amazingly there’s was one of the houses spared in that subdivision. My Uncle liked to show folks the big crack in the wall the winds did to his house. My Aunt passed last year but my Uncle still lives there.
@@thorntonmellon cool! I remember seeing some of those very few remaining houses out there right off Route 68.
“We havent had an F5 tornado in 10 years….” Is a chilling statement lol Its just getting ready for one huge one to happen again
Me sitting here April 30th looking back at the weekend watching this video..... I think we jinxed ourselves with the whole "it's been a while since a real bad tornado popped up". I have a feeling there's going to several videos about Nebraska and Iowa in the future.
@@Fantace52398I agree greatly with this, and it’s very earlier in the storm season and here we are
Yea same.. I have that same vibe
@@gavinlarue5638we technically did, like top top end of F5 tornado over some fields but it was defined as a high speed EF1 tornado because near to nothing damage, but it was almost 270mph with insane radar readings!
@@jhcofd6655 there has been some really bad tornadoes already this year, it’s a double edged blade, as a chaser it’s awesome and a great chance to study, but it hit some people really hard and it makes you take a step back
Jarrell.... that tornado is insane. Pulled up asphalt, pulled UP foundation.
‟The townsfolk of Jarrell can now see the arms, and legs of a multivortex tornado approaching.” ‟The Deadman has just walked.... into Jarrell.”
Pulled out plumbing and also turned refrigerators dishwashers, sinks, washing machines and dryers into dust. Unbelievable 🌪️
Should have gotten an F6 for sure!
@@DerrekRabadan-ge2yc"The Deadman has just walked.. into Jarrell" gives chills
The Joplin footage from that day is wild, people were staring directly at the Tornado and for some in a few minutes they were caught in its path. I learned that day if I ever see a large dark wall and there’s no rain around me, that’s a Tornado.
I know this is from a month ago, but I am just seeing your comment. It looked like every other storm and sounded like trains were coming straight towards the city
I was in the Joplin tornado, took cover in the fast trip gas station. Look up the Joplin tornado gas station video
@@corymyers6817
I believe I read about it back then. Was it like a very small gas station with a few people who survived as in a miracle?
I was watching the Twister trailer the other day in the movie theaters and some smart person decided to Vape in the bathroom so while the Trailer playing the Alarm gets set off I literally thought that was apart of the Trailer 😂😂😂
Vapes set off alarms in movie theaters???
Depends which alarm system they use, and/or what vape they had
@@d4nmark22vape lore 😭
I saw ‘Twister’ over in Belgium while in the Army. I left thinking’Yes, that’s the way it is back in Alabama.’
@ 20:00 that was a picture of the F4 tornado that struck Midway, Indiana, between Goshen and Dunlap, IN during the 1965 Palm Sunday Outbreak. You left off the 1977 Smithfield (Birmingham), AL that killed 24. The 1977 storm was also responsible for the crash of Southern Airways Flight 242 outside of Atlanta that killed 72
Honestly, I view the Joplin Tornado as the worst natural disaster of my life. I feel bad for those who lost people in it and for those who helped clean up and find survivors and those who died in it. My dad was one of the firefighters who was there when it hit. He has told me that after the disaster, he had to go to counsiling about it. The Joplin Tornado was truly a horrible natural disaster.
Agreed.
Agreed
I was a then-ex Missourian living in OH when the Joplin tornado happened. Caught a news report as I was getting ready for work that evening; was completely shocked by what appeared--"home, in splinters." I remember seeing Mike Bettis from the Weather Channel reporting from Joplin in the middle of the devastation, all the while fighting back tears.
Lived in Wichita most of my life. I remember exactly where I was and what I did the days of Greensburg, Moore, Joplin, Tuscaloosa, El Reno. My dad was a meteorologist for one of our local stations when I was little. He still tracks storms during severe storm days. My dad watched the most recent Andover tornado at his work, and my sister who worked at the hospital at the time watched it travel to Andover from patients rooms. I know those who were at the YMCA when it hit, and it is STILL closed for rebuilding. Growing up, I was incredibly lucky to have my dad and I still hold the knowledge I learned from him to pass to others. I was up at college during this tornado, and even I was stuck in a tornado warning where I was that day. I’ve seen the TIV and Dominator in person, met famous chasers, watched all the documentaries, and it never ceases to amaze and terrify me. Ten years without an EF-5, I just know we’re due. Be prepared, be aware, and be safe.
I survived the Greensburg KS EF 5 2007
Have you subbed to Ryan Hall Y'all? Best meterologist. He goes live during these incredible storms. Has another meterologist, Andy Hill and a slew of storm chasers and production ppl behind the scenes. He has a 501 3 c charity to raise money for the affected.
This is his 2nd channel @ryan hall extra that shows a 9 minute clip of how his team hits the ground running.
ua-cam.com/video/sEQ9x8t8S3U/v-deo.htmlsi=1tvk7JX2UbTc77TE
Next week is the 50th anniversary of 1974's Super Outbreak.
Next year is the centenary of the Tri-State tornado.
Speaking of the latter, I think that the 2011 Phil Campbell tornado is the closest we'll get to knowing what the Tri-State storm more or less looked like.
Yes, we will mark this somber anniversary. There is a marker outside Xenia's City Hall building.
A few more tornadoes that closely resemble the Tri State Tornado are the El Reno, Oklahoma Tornado in 2013, the Plainfield, Illinois Tornado in 1990, & the Tipton, Oklahoma Tornado in 1977.
@@Cellmate412162 Also Wichita Falls of 1979. I once saw a photograph that was claimed to be of the Tri-State tornado, only to discover that it had been a photo of Wichita Falls which had been edited to look like a faded brown photo of the 1920s. I was bitterly disappointed. XD
@@dieterdelange9488 oh yeah, forgot about that one. Thanks for the mention. 👍
@Cellmate412162 2013 El Reno wasn't significantly long track was it? It was just huge. Or am I thinking of 2011 El Reno? I always think about the Tri State staying on the ground so long as it's defining characteristic.
I would argue that the 1990 Plainfield, Illinois F5 is one of the infamous F5 EF5 tornadoes for a few reasons. Reason number 1, is that Plainfield did not receive a Tornado Warning as the F5 tornado was tearing through the town resulting in over 350 injuries and 29 deaths. The sirens went off only after the tornado was over and lifted off the ground. Reason number 2, because the NWS missed this F5 tornado the NWS reevaluated how severe storms are warned and forecasted, and helped push the need for more advanced radar systems in the US. Reason number 3, the Plainfield, Illinois tornado to this day is the only F5 tornado to have occurred in the month of August.
In my area there was a storm that had the warning taken down because the storm dipped into a valley below radar level.
As someone who once lived in Plainfield I second this
Meteorology major living in Plainfield right now. Wholey support this!
Do you know why they weren’t specifically able to get a warning out in time?
Agreed, it should make the top 10 list.
I still hold to my opinion that Guin 1974, Parkersburg 2008, Hackleburg-Phil Campbell 2011 and Philadelphia 2011 are some of the strongest tornadoes that have ever occurred.
• Guin shifted foundations by several feet.
• Parkersburg started to fail a BASEMENT wall, which June First calculated to wind velocities of 273 mph.
• Hackleburg-Phil Campbell had sand-blasting, concrete removal, large structures reduced to slabs, and poured concrete walls SHEARED.
• Philadelphia had TWO FEET of dirt and grass completely scoured from the earth.
2011 was a once-in-a-generation event, and Parkersburg and Guin were rarities in their own right. The power of tornadoes is something unfathomable.
I think El Reno should be there too, but since luckily it didn't hit a populated area at its strongest, we didn't have to find out, but 2 miles wide with wind speeds of 296mph is big big
Rainsville did the same thing
Hackleberg-Phil Campbell and Philadelphia are definitely standouts.
But the two that standout more, and did the same damage intensity AND MORE...
JARRELL and SMITHVILLE
Bridge Creek has it's reputation because it's windspeeds were recorded that day and documented by a DOW.
None of the others that we all mentioned in this comment section had that opportunity to have their windspeeds actually recorded. But if you look at the damage these other tornadoes caused compared to Bridge Creek, they're more significant.
I'm sorry, but debris left behind in rubble is one thing. But absolutely NO debris left behind is beyond incredible. Smithville was a juggernaut. And I explained on the main thread why Jarrell is underrated and it's slow forward movement is not the sole cause of the incredible damage it caused. Feel free to check it out.
February 28th, I stayed up all night watching Ryan Hall’s stream of the seemingly endless amount of tornado warnings. Just as I was going to bed at like 5am the storm finally hit Dayton. Two confirmed tornados and I was looking directly at one of them.
It was the first time I actually saw a tornado in person, genuinely put me in shock.
While it's true that there's been no EF-5 tornado in a decade, it's still useful to distinguish between what is essentially a lucky break-that no powerful tornadoes have hit the right things and caused damage that could subsequently be judged as EF-5 intensity-and the equally true point that there _have_ been tornadoes with winds in the EF-5 range in the last ten years, such as El Reno of course. Portable Doppler measured 296 mph, and while that was likely somewhere above ground, Bridge Creek was measured at 318 mph _also_ above ground, so there's your yardstick. They're still occurring, it's just that the darts haven't hit a bullseye in ten+ years.
theres literally no way there hasnt been an ef5 for that long. the whole rating system is rigged and used to protect the disgustingly awful housing market from collapsing and having to rebuild and spend millions on up date to building codes. thats literally the only reason they havent rated anything as ef5. theres plenty worth noting but mayfield definitely comes to mind.
I think we all agree there seems there are plenty that could've been F5 on the old scale
I wouldn't quite say that...I think the Mayfield, KY long track tornado was an EF-5, there's even been debate about it within the NWS. I agree with you though, qualifying tornadoes have still been happening but for some reason the NWS doesn't like handing out the EF-5 ratings, the El Reno tornado you cited is a good example of this...the largest/widest tornado on record with radar measured wind speeds of 296mph+ was rated just an EF-3 because at it's strongest it was over mostly open fields.
That was my argument ! 1925 was a long time ago ,how can we say that the Tri-State was the longest one with that poor technology we had on those days, i still believe that Mayfield's was the longest !
When people freak out about "more tornadoes," I always remind them how little much of the mid south to the mid west was still very unoccupied well into the second half of the 20th century. And how recent doppler radar is for pin pointing trouble spots for the chasers to find and record.
Part of the reason why I got so fascinated with Tornadoes as a kid was because of Waco and Jarrell. I grew up in an area that was between those two towns, and have been to both numerous times in my life.
Downtown Waco does feel a little empty even to this day, and Jarrell was very somber as you could imagine what it must have looked like moving into Double Creek Estates.
I even love how you included details like the Dr Pepper Museum having a visible scar on the side of the building.
May 3 1999 tornado survivor here. Words can't describe it
It was something watching it on TV as it was going.
A very dear friend of mine went through the Joplin tornado and told me that his 2 story apartment building was LEVELED! Out of all the videos that I watched related to that tornado the one that stands out to me and gives me the most chills is the one of the people in the gas station! That storm was on a whole different level.
Great video. The two F5’s that scare the shit out of me more than anything are Jarrell and Joplin. They went from pencil funnels to Monster Wedges almost instantly. And they were slow moving grinders Jarrell 5-10 mph and Joplin around 20 mph. Right when they formed the infamous Dead Man Walking made its evil appearance
Joplin also had dead man walking?
Yes it was crazy how they both started as dead man walking. Joplin tornado went to a huge wedge in like 20 seconds if that.
@@BungeeJump16Yes
It's like Jarrell was taking a nice stroll and some punk kids pissed it off. With Joplin, it made the sky black and put on a lightning show from hell
@@BungeeJump16 oh dude like you wouldn't believe. I was 10, so grain of salt, but I had friends on Skype as it was happening 30 minutes down the road from me, and I could see it on my shitty ass little phone. Fucking legs connecting earth and sky, and istg you could hear the wind screaming from my house as soon as it showed its ugly mile and a half wide face. Lighting, hail, the screams of the damned, Big Mo was putting on a show and she made sure everyone was watching.
The Joplin tornado is the scariest to me. The aftermath videos are intense.
That one was horrifying. I was in NE Arkansas that night, hunkering down in a tattoo shop, and the lobby flooded. There were multiple reports of tornados, and we heard about Joplin on the radio. It was heartbreaking
My wife's uncle lived in Joplin when that EF5 hit the only part of their home left standing was the bathroom that they were in
I remember my aunt being inside their home and calling us saying to stay put after hearing the tornado had went straight through their home. Their bedroom was on the second floor of a 2 story home. It was hard to believe the high school was destroyed that night until I saw it with my own eyes the next day.
@@kiddtwist5036I live in Springfield about an hour away and they even issued us to take shelter. They definitely had a guardian angel, super glad they are okay. I remember president Obama made a presser and the whole country came to help rebuild it and now if you drive through it the whole town it brand new and looks beautiful
I am kinda near the Joplin area, and can say they are thriving as a community 13 years later!
Hackleburg, Ground zero, 275 feet away from my home was a pond where it all started in force. The Tornado picked up the water from the pond and in 20-50 feet grew large enough to start the unearthing of all foliage leaving the bare dirt as its path. Once it hit my families homes (All in the same block) it removed everything including shrubs, flowers, homes, My home, and sadly, my sister and cousin. We had a 40x30 shop that contained a table made from solid steel plate over 2 inch thick, that was used for heavy engine teardown / repair. This table was 4 feet by 4 feet and weighed over 1300 lbs. That table has not been found since. The debris field from my home alone was over 400 feet in length with my sisters graduation photo landing well over 150 miles away in Sequatchie Tennessee. This one, still hurts and haunts me to this day.
The Hackleburg/Phil Campbell tornado is probably one of the largest tornadoes that has ever hit the state of Alabama but it is sort of overshadowed by how bad that day was across the rest of the state. If you lived in the Northern Alabama area (north of Birmingham) odds are you were under at least one tornado warning that day at some point. I was in High School in 2011 and an EF4 hit my hometown. That day was crazy and one I'll certainly never forget.
I met an older woman when I worked at the old HEB on S. Valley Mills and she told me that she was one of the three survivors of Chris's Cafe when it collapsed along with the R.T. Dennis Building, Joy Theatre, and the other buildings. She mentioned that she was pulled into a freezer by one of the brothers along with another person and they were the only survivors of that building. There is a good collection on Flickr under Baylor University's Texas Collection that has some Kodachrome shots of the damage.
As some other have mentioned, there was an old native legend from the Waco/Huaco Indians that claimed that the area would be protected from the winds and tornadoes due to its location in a valley but as we've seen, Mother Nature rarely likes to be challenged or hear about such boasts.
I'm from Waco too!
My dad was in the National Guard in Fort Hood at the time and his unit responded to the tornado after it hit. I don't know what all they did as he only mentioned it once, but back then, they didn't have the lighting resources they do now. Getting around was tougher and communication was limited to whatever radios people had.
People also used a walk-in cooler to survive the Tuscaloosa (I think) tornado. Someone recorded darkened cell phone video and audio, and people are crying and praying. It's uncomfortable to listen to.
@@cheddar2648 Actually, I think that might've either been in the *Joplin* or the *Moore 2013* tornados. Cuz I saw the footage too!!! Dangerous stuff, but the schools in Moore are now actually built as giant storm shelters. It was done after seven kids died within one of the schools!!! ~ JonseyG 👲💖
There was another one in 2007; The Greensburg, Kansas tornado. It wiped the entire town from the map. I never see anything about that tornado anymore, but maybe that's because it was a longer time ago. I've watched things from a lot of stormchasers on that one and it fascinated me as a kid. I've always been intrigued by severe weather, to be honest. Great video!
The Greensburg tornado destroyed 95% of the city. The tornado was bigger than the city of Greensburg. The tornado was 1.7 miles wide and the city of Greensburg was 1.5 miles wide.
@@Sj430 Yeah, it was frightening to see even on video
Greensburg is the example that's so cataclysmic that it's even rare in memory. That town was basically erased
Yeah Greensburg is insane cause it occurred at night. The thought of a night time F5 is the stuff of nightmares.
It totally deserves to make this list, but there isn’t much good video footage of the tornado itself because it happened at night so it doesn’t have the infamous status as much. Though I would replace the Phil Campbell tornado with greensburg.
My sister is a survivor of the Joplin Tornado, I was also born in Joplin, I can’t even describe how traumatic that was for everyone involved… I had friends eating in the Pizza Hut that used to sit in front of the 15th Street Walmart. A high school student that worked there sacrificed himself to hold the door to the walk in freezer closed because it wouldn’t shut properly, and that’s just one of many stories like that
I love how youre smiling while saying "they're deadly and devastating.." great stuff
Growing up in Oklahoma, May 3rd will always be my #1. It was the first time seeing a tornado of that magnitude on TV in real time tearing through a large metro area. My jaw was on the floor watching it unfold. I'm just fortunate I wasn't near it.
I feel the same way - bridgecreek was one of my earliest if not earliest memories as a child/toddler. I feel like before then I hardly processed anything but seeing adults scared suddenly it was like I understood just life/death that there was more than just the present. I remember being carried running to take shelter with my family in the community storm shelter and trying to understand why we were sitting in a wet box haha, but also sort of slowly registering the feeling of everything when my 13 and 16 year old cousins were scared but trying to keep calm in front of me though I didn't really realize it till years later that they were being very brave for their ages.
Agreed, may 3rd will always stick out in my mind. I remember watching the news cast of that one down in Norman. It was intense
I was 12 when it happened. It was less than a mile from where we lived on Janeway. Just as it was coming into Moore, we decided to leave and seek stronger shelter to the SE. Got to Central High School and took cover.
When we got home, the yard was littered with depris. Was a day I'll never forget.
I had just moved to Oklahoma as a kid when may 3rd hit. We had just moved to the north side of Norman along rock creek road and saw it from our back porch. That event changed me as a person.
May 3rd stands out in my memory too. I remember walking out that morning, and as a long-time resident of Oklahoma, feeling the air, and KNOWING (even before I checked the weather) that this day was going to be "Oh sh*t". The air was like whipped cream somehow, blowing yet thick and billowy. You just KNEW something was on its way. And I had just bought a house, so all of a sudden I understood the very grown-up specter to losing my very own house. Fortunately for me, the storms turned east and stayed south of me, but watching the slow-motion apocalypse grind so much of the metro down to the ground, has never left me. I also knew people who lost everything but their lives. So yeah, an impact for sure. May 3rd also changed on-air storm coverage (at least in OK) forever, and not - IMO - for the better.
On July 18th 1996 a photogenic tornado hit the small village of Oakfield wisconsin and cost 40 million dollars and destroyed 90% of the town. In that was the Mammoth Springs Canning Factory that at the time had over 3 million cans inside filled with beef vegetables and beans. Cans were found 100s of miles away and some ended up in lake Michigan. Some very famous footage exists from a home 5 miles away from Oakfield that shows the tornado moving into Oakfield. The damage looks like the Jarrell Texas damage. No one died but 12 were injured I'm surprised that no one talks about it. Check it out it is a truly scary event that almost wiped Oakfield of the map.
YEAH WISCONSIN
A violent F5 stovepipe that you never hear about.
I worked with a guy from Oakfield a number of years ago. I had no idea a f5 tornado hit that town until he told me about it and I'm a weather junkie from WI. It's strange how no one knows about that tornado.
@mattfroeming640 it is very weird that no one talks about it and I'm trying to get people to talk about it
July 18*
Thanks to convective chronicles, I understand *why* the Jarrell TX tornado happened, but it is still one of the most haunting things to me.
My best friend was living in Joplin during that tornado. He had just started a new job on the north side of town. His old workplace that he just quit maybe a week before was wiped off the face of the earth. He called me one night in tears from the trauma of pulling the a little girl's lifeless body from the wreckage. That memory still haunts him to this day.
Thank you so much for talking about the Tri-State Tornado. It is one event that doesnt get talked about a lot since it was so long ago.
- Twister definitely came out in 1966 (shhhhh).
I walked uphill in the snow both ways to see it.
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True story. I saw it in theater before I was born.
Adam West as Bill Harding
I'm glad someone else besides me caught that little mistake 😂 the special effects for 1966 would have been vastly different than 1996.
I can remember seeing photos of the hackleburg and Phil Campbell tornado damage just after the storm and seeing literal asphalt peeled from the roadways from the pure strength of that tornado, I’ll never forget living through that day as long as I live, I stood on my back porch and watched the EF-4 (the afternoon) Tornado hit Cordova for the second time in the same day April 27, 2011 will forever be burned into my memory
I'm from oakman, it took out our school but not near the damage cordova got. It will for ever be in my mind too. I'll never forget.
I grew up in Woodward, OK in the 1980s. Every time I went to our museum, I went straight to the photos of the tornado damage from the 1947 storm. I lived the first 14 years of my life in Woodward, or surrounding towns and never saw a tornado. Not that I didn't try, though. 😁 I've always been fascinated by severe weather.
Gary England is a legend in Oklahoma meteorology. When I went to the theater to see Twister in 1996 and he was in the movie as a meteorologist, it gave me goosebumps because I remember seeing him on TV as a kid. Very surreal.
When he told you to take cover, you should do it quick, soon and in a hurry.
What's also crazy about the 91 Andover tornado is almost 31 years to the day, an EF3 ripped through Andover April 29th 2022. Crazy how history can (almost) repeat itself.
Reed Timmer has an amazing drone video of it.
Here’s another crazy one. Back in 2011 I was talking about the 20th anniversary of the April 26,1991 outbreak in the plains with the Red Rock and Andover Tornadoes. And 24 hours later The Super Outbreak happened
Colorado had an extremely tall and well-documented landspout on June 7, 2021 near the town of Platteville (side note, this could be the tallest tornado on record according to Rojofern). Then on June 6, 2023---almost two years to the day later---another similarly tall landspout touched down near Platteville. I had a fantastic view of that one from Bennett, some 35 miles away.
@@keatonterry Landspouts are super fascinating to me. They are so visually beautiful.
@@TJ89741 I live in Joplin now and at the time of the tornado I was living with my parents in a suburb outside of Joplin and was working at one of our Dollar General stores at the time. I was aware there was a risk of severe weather that day but it always seemed to have a knack for going north or south of us and maybe an hour or so before the tornado happened my grandparents had come in to the store. I remember talking to them about it and making the comment "It'll probably just go around us again like it usually does." I could not have been more wrong. I had just started working at the local Sam's a couple days before the tornado too and thankfully I was off the day of the tornado. Sam's didn't get hit but I had no way home without going through where the tornado had gone so I'd have been screwed that day if I was in town.
I bet that the residents of Andover, Kansas who were survivors of the tornado on April 26th, 1991 were saying that they "couldn't believe it happened again" following the tornado on April 29th, 2022. It was the same thing being said by the residents of Moore, Oklahoma who survived the tornado on May 3rd, 1999 following the tornado on May 20th, 2013.
Ever since I turned 4, (4/25/11) I’ve been intrigued by tornadoes. Only two days later would I witness the worst (yes 74 was bad, but from what I gathered, 2011 was a bit worse) outbreak in modern US history. I just like to say, this channel is absolutely golden! Keep the entertaining and informative content coming Swegle!
I’ve just completed a marathon of your videos. These are clearly the best tornado videos on UA-cam. I know because I’ve watched almost all of them. You figured out the perfect balance between tornado footage and commentary. I just wanted to take a moment and tell you that I have been a weather nerd since third grade. A young me sat cross legged on the floor of the elementary school gym with my hand raised, trying to get the attention of a young James Spann. My question was about tornados. I have been interested in tornados as long as I can remember. I had a recurring nightmare where I watched a tornado coming towards my home. I’m 48 now and I still remember the dream. I am lucky enough to have been watching James Spann my entire life. He is the goat. I’m glad to see that you gave him the respect he deserves. I’m also glad I found your channel. I simply never saw tornados discussed as well as you have. Thank you and please keep making the great videos.
I love this channel and I think your presentation style is so great - kinda low-key but clearly enthusiastic for the topic and really well-researched.
Flint/Beecher was the last tornado to have over 100 deaths from a tornado until the Joplin tornado. The Flint/Beecher tornado happened in june 1953.
I'm surprised it didn't make it in the vid
You're correct. Swegle made a mistake.
Grew up on the edge between Moore and Norman and I remember there was this almost uncomfortable dread when anyone mentioned they were moving to Moore because it would CONSTANTLY get hit by weaker tornadoes separate from the big two events
For many years I figured the curse of Moore was exaggerated until I finally moved out of tornado alley- none of it feels real. It’s strange living in THE tornado cities being tormented in childhood nightmares and then ending up somewhere where the arrival of spring doesn’t make a man feel a pit in their stomach anymore
Just discovered your channel, really enjoying the content, it’s super nostalgic in a very bizarre way even as a person who narrowly survived being trapped outside during the Feb 27th outbreak last year. It’s genuinely been really nice watching your content and being able to marvel at this sort of footage from a place where it’s no longer a nearly daily threat (we had started having pretty regular tornadic activity throughout the off-season in the past few years and I wasn’t gonna chance the next F5 knowing Moore’s luck
Again, stellar work! Keep it up!
The timing of this video is wild
Hiya Swegle, I’m from Michigan, and waited through the winter just to have your vids back. Thanks for the upload! Here comes severe weather season
Awesome video! I think you should next do the most infamous F4/EF4 tornadoes. Rolling Fork, Mayfield, and the great Natchez tornado should be on there!
Yes! Came here to say the same. Famous F4s/Ef4
Three suggestions for this list would be the following:
1.) Henryville, Indiana on March 2nd, 2012.
2.) Hattiesburg, Mississippi on February 10th, 2013.
3.) Washington, Illinois on November 17th, 2013.
All three stand out in my mind for different reasons: Henryville because the residents of southern Indiana are more concerned about snow than tornadoes in early March. Hattiesburg because no fatalities occurred and only eighty-two people were injured despite the tornado being a wedge tornado like the ones in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Joplin, Missouri just two years earlier. Washington, Illinois is particularly bewildering because of the time of year it occurred. You really don't expect a tornado to strike in late November and as a result the residents of Washington had gone from being excited for Thanksgiving and Christmas to a sense of heartbreak, helplessness and confusion. To add to their misery it snowed a week after the storm.
@MichaelLovely-mr6oh I'm reading this in my house in Henryville right now. If we had lived in this house 12 years ago when that tornado came through, I would've had a perfect view of it from my back deck.
Don't forget the 2022 Winterset Iowa one
Mine is because of my location is the Flint-Beecher F5, besides how rare to get a tornado to that strength here in Michigan (though of course not impossible since we have had 4), but also it was the last tornado till Joplin that sadly took over 100 lives (Waco happened before it) lastly is my 81 almost 82 year old grandmother was a 11 year old living to the northeast of the Flint-Beecher area and the F-5 actually went within a mile of her house when it was dissipating and had a F-4 go by her house within a mile that same night, to this day she said it was the loudest night of her life and can still remember everything like it happened yesterday
I was a 23 year old Mason from Alabama when April 27th happened. My mother and i were living outside of Birmingham at the time as she was going through cancer treatments and i also lived in Florence/ Muscle Shoals area. Ive always been fascinated by westher so I'd been preparing for that day for almost a week. When things finally started kicking off i was driving back and forth from Florence to Birmingham. I came within a half mile from the Cullman EF-4 and was awe struck by its power. Nothing could have prepared me for what i saw in Hackleburg and Phil Campbell. I worked to help rebuild the high school there and over 100 homes throughout the state and the destruction was like someone taking an eraser to a pencil drawing.
And then April 26th happened.
Where at? And what was the rating? Trying to look it up.
Mostly Nebraska.
@davehendricks7023 Omaha nebraska got slammed with an f5 winds reaching 250 mph destroying part of Omahas Airport
@@davehendricks7023 Omaha nebraska got slammed by an f5 wedge destroying part of Omahas Airport
@@ryansarachnids4778 ill check it out
I remember when me and my family had to hide in our basement during the 2011 super outbreak. It was insane. We think a tornado actually passed within a few hundred feet of us, due to the insane wind sounds we were hearing. Good video.
Oops, it was May 20, 2013. I was watching every feed I could find for that tornado. At the time, both my kids and their 7 boys lived in Moore with me over 1,000 miles away. Everyone was safe in my son's tornado shelter.
Twister with Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton was released in 1996, and the Twister before that was released in 1989 with Harry Dean Stanton.
I do enjoy your videos. The above is not a criticism of you, just updating the correct dates which are easy to misquote. I'm also a great grandmother now, so older than dirt.
Great video. This 60 year old saw your Aztec Camera t-shirt and it brought back many happy, fun times of my young adult life. Thought they were long forgotten.
I usually skip videos with people talking about the tornadoes, but your personality and voice are perfect for this work. You didn't make it about you and your tone is completely professional. And you look great with the shorter hair, not that that matters. Haha. Great job, kiddo! Subscribed.
When I saw this video I immediately fell in love with this channel. I can't believe I hadn't seen your videos before. Keep up your good work!
I've been subscribed to you for about a year now, and your content just keeps getting better and better. You and weatherbox are my two favorite weather UA-camrs. You always have really interesting topics and your videos are so well made. Just wanted to say congrats on the success of this channel!
It's crazy there are STILL no F5/EF5s yet since the second Moore monster in 2013...
I’m putting a bet Monday April 1st we’ll see one
It's April 5th now and we never saw one.... 11 years and counting!!!
~ JonseyG 👲💖
IMO, the Mayfield tornado from 2021 should have been classified as EF5 not EF4
The weather is generated 🤷🏽♂️
@@llezmollah217 That is very *DOUBTFUL* because we just don't have the technology to figure out how to do it. This is not *Star Trek* so we don't have the *ABILITY* to do this quite yet. You just have some *WISHFUL* thinking!!! ~ JonseyG 👲💖
Thanks for bringing awareness to us for the upcoming tornado season.
This is my favorite up-and-coming UA-cam channel, keep it up Swegle!!!! Keep crushing the algorithm!
Hey man, avid enjoyer of your content. Sorry to hear people have been searchin' you up, you implement whatever boundaries are necessary to make you comfortable. I'm reserved myself, and I'd feel a similar discomfort with such a large following, so I empathise. Keep on shining anyways, just want you to know that your passion for meteorology and natural science really reaches us out here, and we really appreciate you. Hope you're vibing and having a good evening and stuff, anyways, lookin' forward to your next video. Hold that crown high, King.
I like how you have a smile on your face while describing these deadly and destructive tornadoes.
He looks like a real life version of Smithers O'Neil 😆
Always enjoy seeing your videos! 🌪️
always a great day when Swegle uploads
Can you do a video on the most scary/ chilling tornado footage people have taken from their homes? There is some famous footage I see people take from their house point of view & I get curious about what tornado it was and where it happened.
We are survivors of the Wichita Andover tornado in 1991. We lived 4 miles off McConnell afb. Our home was destroyed. Our next door neighbor and her two great nieces were killed trying to get to our home next door. We had a basement. Our lives were forever changed. Rip Charlene Montgomery and the Craven girls. Love the Fox family.
I remember watching Channel 12 during that one. I lived in Great Bend at the time.
I don’t know how Merrill Teller kept his composure through the whole thing.
I do recall hearing about your neighbors being killed. :(
The closest I’ve been to a tornado was in the KC area in 2003. The sky was an eerie green. The tornado closest to me went through the Kansas Speedway. It was about 6 miles from me.
@@DerekWitt by then..2003..we lived in Leavenworth Kansas and watched that tornado hit the speed way on channel 9 kmbc. It was 15 miles from us.
@@loritucker6708 I was south of the speedway
the el reno-piedmont ef5 was also crazy, it toppled and rolled an oil rig that weighed about 2 million pounds is crazy
My dad was a senior when the Xenia tornado hit less than a mile from his house. He watched it form.
Greensburg Kansas was a catastrophic EF 5 Tornado. Town was wiped off the map and rebuilt
I was in it ans survived above ground. It's on UA-cam. Stillwater man survives. 2007.
I went through both sides.
I like your channel, and the way you do your research and provide good historical information, without being overly dramatic. When I was 13 years old, I lived in Mack, Ohio on April 3, 1974. I saw the Sayler Park tornado from our basement window. It missed us by a couple of blocks. I've been fascinated with tornados ever since.
Great historical coverage... nice job
10:36 I'd say that if an F5/EF5 is 'slabs swept clean', then perhaps an F6/EF6 would be 'the slab is gone, the ground is shaved by several inches'. Cuz, like, how fast and destructive would the wind have to be in order to yeet a house-sized slab of concrete? Dare I say, it would be 'inconceivably' fast and destructive.
I've lived in Dixie Alley, in Tuscaloosa and I stopped counting how many tornadoes I've seen when the number was above two dozen. Yes I believe there is such a thing as an ef6, rare but entirely possible if the right conditions are there. A couple weeks we had so many tornados that we started having class in the halls because we were so behind. The teacher said just mark the page if one hits.
@nola281 atmospheric conditions don't exist on earth at the moment for an EF6. We get low end EF5s... look at the difference between a low end EF4 and high end EF4... an EF6 would be like 500 MPH and carve ditches almost a 1ft deep
The Jarrell tornado ripped asphalt off the road and removed a few inches of topsoil I believe.
@@dramaqueen872005 Jarrell also sat in one spot and basically shaved that particular area with debris. Not the same thing as the wind itself yeeting a concrete slab.
@@jordancobb7553I think there are records of tornadoes gouging 3ft into the ground, so I feel like a hypothetical EF6 would drill *_several_* feet into the earth.
Man I can't believe Twister is almost 60 years old now, that CGI goes crazy for 1966
they must've used the same computers as the ones NASA used to get us up the moon i swear!
1996
The movie Twister was garbage, so many factual errors in it 🙄
@@ZivaLuthor. Twister is a classic
@@Theweridkid8 Not a very well researched film regarding tornadoes. The beginning scene starts in 1969 and the news anchor in the scene states the tornado as being an F5. The Fujita scale didn't exist until 1971. And then the final scene where the two main characters somehow survive literally going through an F5 tornado 😂 Twister and Sharknado are about as factually correct as each other.
Just found your channel and I’m glad I did! Subscribed!
I am a survivor of the Joplin tornado. The fear that day was insane.
12:55 - Twister definitely came out in 1966 (shhhhh)
The Beatles did the soundtrack.
my favorite black and white movie of all time, can't believe how well they made those tornadoes.
Don't copy comments bro, it's lazy and cringe
For the Newcastle Moore tornado you said that it was on May 30th, 2013 when it actually was on the 20th.
i noticed this too!
Bro had a lot of trouble with the dates, he even said twisters came out in 1966
I currently live about 5 miles from the track of the Tri-State Tornado. Thanks for reminding me it's been about 100 years. Now I have that to worry about.
I always like your videos at the beginning, cause I already know it’s gonna be 🔥
Super windy out today so this was fitting
Keep up the good work holmes
Props for the Aztec Camera shirt 🎸
Yeah the Waco tornado of 1953 cut right through downtown Waco destroying that myth of tornadoes never hit large urban areas.
I love your narration. It sounds like your next door neighbors have complained about noise recently, so you’re trying to keep them happy, while keeping us happy as well.
I was driving for fedex at the time, my route went to mt hope. I could see the storm moving across bankhead forest from phil cambell area. I was able to drive north and take shelter just outside the path. What a terrifying day. Several of my friends lost their lives in mt hope that day.
Fun fact: The Texas state technical college mascot for the Waco campus is the twisters.
You should do a video on the Pomeroy Iowa 1893 F5 tornado. It was the first depiction of a multivortex tornado through an eye witness's drawing of the storm as it destroyed a farm.
This is going to send me down a rabbit hole lol!
I'm watching this right now.
6:15 AM on 04/01/24
Being a fellow weather nerd, I have zero doubt you're aware of the forecast for today and tomorrow. When you said no EF5 for over 10 years, a chill ran down my spine. With all the outbreaks in the Midwest and South that spawned several devastating tornadoes over the last 4 years, it's felt like a game of cat and mouse. When and where. The year we're forecasted a below average number of tornadoes would be the year Mother Nature plays a sick joke and ends that streak.
I wonder if it is an imperfect scale, luck, statically variance, etc. could the colder dry air that needs to come down be less prevalent with climate change?
I loved the video! Keep it up bro!!!!❤❤
But pls make tornado iceberg 2.0
Also another killer in the Tri-State Tornado is the number of fires that it started.
would you ever consider doing a video on the 2007 elie, manitoba ef5 tornado? it's hardly the most damaging or costly tornado, but i do think it's its own absolutely buckwild story, and kind of one of the coolest things to ever happen in my home province weather-wise !!
Very cool channel. Someone like myself could watch and listen about tornado evolution all day and night... and I do. I appreciate your contribution to educating others
I have family that live in the small town of Neosho, MO, including my Dad. It's about 20-30 minutes from Joplin, Mo. I remember talking to him on that day and him telling me he was in Joplin eating an early dinner. He usually likes to hang out at restaurants but for some reason decided to head home right after eating. The tornado hit 10 minutes later. It always freaks me out to think that he survived simply because he changed his routine that day. He sent me photos of the restaurant he ate at after the fact and nothing was left. Chilling.
Hey can you do a video about tornados in war? I’m assuming at least ONE military operation has been halted by a tornado
i just want to say that this and all your videos are so high quality and extremely detailed. (also first time commenting on this channel)
Love your T-Shirt! I love Aztec Camera and no-one has heard of them! Great video as always
Well done video very informative & prepared material :)
What if you did videos on not just EF5 but the top ten EF-4, EF-3, EF-2?
Im honestly surprised and a little disappointed that the Greensburg Kansas EF5 wasn't on the list. It was the first EF5 tornado measured on the Enhanced Fujita scale and almost literally wiped Greensburg off the face of the earth. It also showed resiliency of residents who rebuilt the town on a full eco friendly approach.
What a lot of people (myself included) remember about the Greensburg, Kansas tornado of 2007 is the coverage of the storm by Dave Freeman. At the time; Dave was the chief meteorologist at Wichita's NBC affiliate KSNW Channel 3. Dave knew that because it was a Friday night many kids in Greensburg would be either home alone or with a babysitter as their parents were out to dinner. Dave addressed those kids who were possibly watching the coverage and no doubt scared out of their minds by assuring them he knew they were scared; but if they listened to him they would be okay. Dave told those kids that they needed to be brave and turn up the volume on the TV or the computer so they could hear him as they took shelter from the storm. He also told them to get to the center of the basement and take cover underneath a piece of sturdy furniture such as a workbench or the stairs leading to the basement but added if their home didn't have a basement then they should take shelter in a small windowless room such as a bathroom or a closet. Something tells me that the kids who were watching Dave Freeman that Friday night are now parents themselves and use his advice with their own children in the event of a severe weather situation occurring and their kids are either home alone or with a babysitter.
I remember the May 3 99' tornado. I was a senior in high school in Anadarko, OK. It passed south of my town, probably as an F2. My friend and I were running parallel with it. Eventually it went back up into the clouds, before dropping back down miles down the way. You've shown what it did after that. I will forever remember that day.