STRANGEST Tornado Paths
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- There have been over 100,000 tornadoes documented, these are some of the STRANGEST tornado paths ever recorded.
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If you look in the area surrounding Chicago, there's one tornado that stands out - the 1990 Plainfield F5 . This tornado was a rare F5 tornado that traveled south-east, a majority of the tornadoes in the united states travel northeast. On May 27, 1997 a slender tornado would form north of the town of Jarrell Texas. This tornado would move southwest, and would intensify as it got closer to town. What it would do next was truly disturbing. It would stall over the Double Creek Estates for at least two minutes producing arguably the worst tornado damage ever recorded. The entire sub-division was swept clean, all that was left was mud. A similar tornado would take place near Eureka Kansas on July 6, 2016. The tornado would move southeast and would stall at one location attaining EF3 status. Like the Jarrell tornado, this tornado would do the worst damage where it was moving the slowest. On May 28, 2013 a large tornado would form near Bennington Kansas. This tornado would perform an odd loop, but overall this tornado was well behaved and would only impact a few structures. The 2013 El Reno was another strange tornado, it would change directions, speed up, and would unfortunately be the only tornado in history to take the lives of storm chasers, impacting the Twistex team. The 2011 El Reno would also exhibit strange directional changes. But the best example of a tornado looping would occur only 20 miles away in Moore Oklahoma, where the 2013 Moore tornado would loop, inflicting EF5 level damage on the area where it impacted twice. The 2007 Greensburg EF5 would also loop at the end of its life. At the same time, another, even larger tornado would form, the Trousdale EF3 tornado. Another strange tornado path happened near Funing China, where an EF4 tornado ripped through a heavily populated area in East China. What made this tornado strange was the extreme detail included in the torando's survey, which may have been done with balloon reconnaissance. On July 26, 2014 a tornado would occur in Central Mongolia and is shown to be the only tornado in Mongolia. This tornado was EXTREMELY photogenic, but was it the only tornado in Mongolia's history? No. Mongolia has a long history of tornadoes. Okay, now for the top three STRANGEST tornadoes. Coming in at number three is the Udall Kansas F5 tornado that happened on the night of May 25, 1955. This tornado would zig zag, then would take a sharp turn. Strange, especially considering it was such a strong tornado. Number two is the 2007 Elie Manitoba F5 tornado. This tornado would take many sharp turns and loops. It would do the worst damage at the second loop, where it would obliterate an entire home at F5 strength. The STRANGEST tornado event would happen on the night of June 3, 1980 near the town Grand Island Nebraska. A southeast moving supercell would produce multiple erratic tornados, at one point there would be two tornadoes on the ground at the same time. The strongest tornado would do F4 damage on the south side of town. This event was analyzed by Dr. Ted Fujita, and he would note that many of the tornadoes were actually anti-cyclonic, making 1980 Grand Island Nebraska event even stranger.
The Jarrel tornado imo is the most disturbing, that tornado stalled over that neighborhood and first responders recorded bodies that where "ground up like market beef" worst of all they where told by local weather to not run from the tornado but take cover in their homes which would ultimately kill them.
The Jarrell tornado picked up so much dirt from the fields that by the time it stalled out over the Double Creek subdivision it basically sand blasted everything in its path
A family who was in the subdivision hiding in a storm shelter below ground said it seemed to go on forever when it was on top of their home, couldn’t imagine what that must’ve sounded like
At the time. the residents of the subdivision that weren’t at home were very upset they were kept from returning to try to see the damage to their homes or salvage any items they could. Knowing what we do now, they were kept away so long because authorities were collecting all the remains scattered around the area and trying to locate more in order to have something to identify. When first responders wont let you see something it’s because it’s too gruesome for the families or public to view. And they themselves have to live with those images as part of the job, it’s horrible.
Woooooooooow your guys comments are FRIGHTENING.. i need to learn more about this tornado...
Wtf
@@jadefox5285ok
imagine hiding in your basement thinking it'll go over you in a matter of seconds and instead it just sits there for a full 2 minutes before moving on
Absolutely terrifying
Me in the basement: nah I'd win
@@TheStarlits jarrels tornado was much stronger than you think
The Mongolian tornado is just amazing to look at. It’s literally what I’ve been picturing in my mind of tornados before buildings and humans and just this eerie tornado roaming around in a vast plain of endless land.
I never thought about it in that way. That sounds horrifyingly beautiful and I wish I could go back in time and see something like that person (from a safe distance).
Philadelphia MS takes the cake in that aspect.
I think the "Dead Man Walking" tornado that hit Jarrell TX is probably the most creepiest and spookiest looking tornados ever. Native Indians used to call it that.
In a way it's a bit more comforting and safe to look at. I think it was a perfect time for storm chasers and meteorologists. No debris to worry about killing you except for trees and no buildings to obscure your view making them easy to get out of the way
Looks like either Dryden TX 2023 or Rozel KS 2014/15?? (I forgot what year)
The Jarrell Tornado was so strong that it sucked the asphalt off the roads and scoured the ground up to 18 inches. It simply fascinated me hearing how strong the winds needed to be for this to occur.
Ever heard about the Philadelphia MS 2011 April 27th tornado? That tornado scoured the ground and also ripped asphalt of the roads. In some places it even dug trenches 2 feet deep... That is the deepest ground scouring of any tornado in documented history. That tornado always fascinates me.
@theflyingchipmunk9123 I'd probably argue that both the Philadelphia and Jarrell tornadoes had wind speeds approaching if not exceeding 300 mph. Same thing with the Smithville and Hackleburg ef5 tornadoes that also happened during the 2011 super outbreak. Smithville and Hackleburg produced damage very similar to Jarrell and scoured asphalt from the roads.
@@matthewoburke7202 Yeah it seems kinda strange to me that the EF5 tornadoes from the 2011 outbreak only had estimated windspeeds of around 200 - 210 mph since those tornadoes produced some of the most insane damage ever recorded.
@@theflyingchipmunk9123 It's definitely very strange. I am convinced that many of the 2011 ef5s had winds far beyond 210 mph.
@@theflyingchipmunk9123 You can thank the EF scale for that. Have to remember the F and EF scales are purely damaged based. Even if you were to physically measure 350mph winds in a tornado somehow, only the damage left behind is used to estimate windspeed.
The EF scale was adopted because even in the 70s Fujita himself knew there were issued with the F scale. The EF scale was designed to take many more damage indicators into account as well as greatly reducing the estimated speed, as the thinking was the winds required to say sweep a house off it's foundation are not as high as initially guessed.
The Jarrel F5 really said "F*ck this area in particular"
No matter how many times I watch/read about the 1997 Jarrell F5, it always fascinates and terrifies me. It's sad that there is still much about this storm that will never be known. God rest the 27 souls lost that day.
While I agree that the Dead Man Walking photo is creepy, IMO the most terrifying image is of one of the other tornadoes in that outbreak, taken from a slight distance, out in the fields. The funnel is a clear tube, with a huge dust cloud and a massive wall cloud that is almost oval-shaped. One can clearly see the rotation in the wall cloud. It has haunted me since I first learned about Jarrell in 2004.
ive watched every video on jarrell 97..... and i never knew it came from the north west, headed south east
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that is a VERY strange direction for a storm, tornadic or not, to move
My mother lives in Jarrell about 1 mile from Double Creek. When I was visiting, my sister and I went to the memorial and checked some of the surrounding roads where you can still see the patches where they rebuilt the roads. The strength of that storm is amazing. There was also another tornado (F2 I think) in Jarrell last year.
@@axltherottweiler6025 F3 in Florence, west of Jarrell, cleanup was a nightmare and many places still haven't rebuilt
Do you have a link to that picture?
Jarrell Texas tornado was truly only a F3 tornado it only had winds of 130-140 mph. The houses were poorly constructed and didn’t use lag bolts only basic nails. The tornado was destructive because it was barely moving.
I still believe Grand Island's outbreak is one of the most slept on tornadic events on weather youtube, probably due to not a lot of photos or videos existing of the tornado or the aftermath. I was born in '01 so a solid 21 years after and lived in Grand Island for the majority of my life, my mom and grandparents lived through the event and it lives in infamy in the town. Tornado Hill is a huge hill in Grand Island that was built entirely out of debris, covered in soil and planted with grass. One of the neatest characteristics of the town.
You did it well needed justice, Chris. Thank you. As a lifelong resident and average historian
Yet it had first of the kind satellite coverage from space! 🤔
[7:35] Imagine being in the middle of that double loop. As long as you survived, you'd probably be the only person in the history of the world to be able to say you got hit by the same tornado 3 times.
True.
Balloon reconnaissance...China...I get it.
Lmaoo good one 😂
LoL!
Lol
Was wondering if anyone was gonna comment on that lol
Balloon reconnaissance, nice idea china for tracking and surveying tornado damage, and mapping it in great detail, but not so great when it comes to other countries and ruining your relationships with them. We get it China, you’re somehow obsessed with America much like Russia. But is it really worth starting another conflict and risking world war with other countries?
I lived through the Plainfield F5. Scariest day of my childhood. Destroyed our house. I remember the apartment building that got hit. The top half of the building ripped off and some of the people got sucked out. Most of the bodies were found in a field nearby. The damage was undescribable.
oh wow I can't even imagine what that must have been like.
The NWS in Chicago really screwed up on that; Didn't issue a warning until 20 minutes after the storm hit
Woow
I was born in '90, but I'm pretty sure the Plainfield F5 was the reason my teachers would NOT let us mess around during tornado drills. The kids that were at the high school school only survived through the building being obliterated because they had gone through tornado drills so many times and knew exactly what to do. Plus the hallway they sheltered in was one of the only things left standing.
Very sad.
The looping ones are crazy. Imagine getting hit my a tornado, and then getting hit AGAIN by the SAME TORNADO just minutes later
It's like an ender dragon from minecraft.
That happened to me in school. It was crazy.
The 13 Moore tornado was also a slow mover when it entered Moore, apparently moving around 9 MPH at times. I did not know about the looping part, which is devastating when you consider how large that tornado was. The 13 Moore tornado, however, was eerily "hypnotizing" and photogenic. The 1999 Moore F5 was flat-out evil-looking, almost like a pissed-off Kraken straight out of the sky with all the suction vortices coming out of that thing.
Couldn’t agree more on the last part
I always find it kinda odd when EF/F5’s are photogenic, I’m just not used to it. Like they reveal themselves just so you can realize that they are going/will kill something or worse, someone
@@Lylaris_or_Garuk It is eerie in it's own way. The 13 Moore EF5 was almost hypnotizing and photogenic in the eeriest way possible. While the 99 F5 was like an evil Kraken out of the sky, the 13 twister was like an extraterrestrial laser beam coming down from another world.
I remember sitting in a shelter during Moore '13 and thinking the sound of it passing 1/2 mile south took forever. I didn't realize it also took that loop, looks like Plaza Towers area. That's what's pretty crazy about the differing characteristics of tornadoes. Some have crazy-fast forward motion (Smithville, Mississippi 2011 I think?) that inflict the same amount of damage as the slow moving grinders. I don't think we'll ever fully understand the intricacies of these storms.
@@Ally.Luscinia Yeah all the EF4 and EF5s from the 2011 outbreak had very fast-forward motions. Fast forward motion also means less friction which means the tornado has all the time in the world to charge up and recuperate after destroying objects. I can imagine it must have felt like an eternity with the 13 Moore twister passing.
im terrified that i live so close to moore now. but i also love tornadoes, so maybe it's for the better. i live close to the birthplace of our modern tornado warning technology, tinker afb. pretty cool.
So many videos cover Jarrell now and many people comment on it. My father physically witnessed its birth when he was driving north on I-35, describing a movement catching the corner of his vision off to the west. The dusty disturbance gradually became a whirl and it connected upward in a thin, small tube. When he looked back at it moments later, more vortices had landed next to the original central circulation and were dancing around it. This was around the time the famous photo of its "dead man walking" phase was taken. He continued on north and the last sight he had of it was in his rear view mirror and it horrified him how big and black it got. It seemed so innocent and beautiful at first and then turned so terrifying after just a few minutes. He lost sight of it just before it made its fateful turn towards Double Creek. Some of my coworkers like the Lockhart family were fellow kids when it happened and went to the elementary school there. Some of their classmates were victims. The Williamson County first responders had to spend years in therapy after trying to identify the flayed remains. No one in the community that lived there before the population boom of the 2010s likes to talk about that day. Only that it made them frightened of every dark clouded day and every storm after that for a while. Nothing about the storm that May made sense logically, it didn't behave like tornadoes generally do in central Texas. That same storm system went onto produce the Cedar Park tornado and the Lake Travis/Briarcliff tornado. Both of which were very violent. The Cedar Park store I remember caused the roof at the Albertsons to collapse and the manager saved the lives of over a dozen people when he urged them to take shelter in the freezer. That was a dark day for Texas and my biggest memory from it was my dad's face when he got home and told us what he saw. He was dismayed and horrified that the tornado system he saw went on to be one of the worst in history...
One of the things that made the Grand Island cluster exceptional was the presence of the 3 anticyclonic ones. Only about 1 in 50 tornadoes are anticyclonic and they had 3 in one night, one of which was F3. Only one anticyclonic tornado has ever been rated higher than that.
The storm came from out of no where and had no where to go. Also there was a false nuclear alert that day ...two FOIAs and it's not clear if there was any overlap.
Living just south of the Jarrell area, the two tornadoes that wiped out different sections of town (the first happening in 1989) are impossible to forget. Seeing an entire neighborhood wiped off the face of the Earth is truly horrifying. The Austin metro area is just south of "Tornado Alley," so we don’t see tornadoes as frequently as areas to the north of us do, but we’ve had some doozies here for sure.
Every time I see damage photos of the Jarrell F5, I have to remind myself that those were NOT taken after debris was cleared. The tornado just literally turned the houses themselves into dust.
The 2008 Atlanta tornado is one that always comes to mind. Moved from north to south, not only that but if i remember correctly it was the only tornado of that day and was in an area that wasn't forecasted for tornadoes that day.
I remember having to take shelter. If I remember correctly, there was a basketball game in downtown that would have ended right as the tornado was passing through that part of the city, but the game went to overtime and luckily tens of thousands of people remained unknowingly sheltered.
@@MrAtlfan21 you're right!
I was a kid in the Georgia dome in 08. Scary af ngl. And I lived through an F5 in 99 and EF4 in 2011. Still never been more scared than that Georgia Dome 🤣
@@supimcarl6077 were those stronger tornadoes also in Georgia? I remember my mom telling me about a monster one up in Gainesville
I remember that one. I left my children in the car in Marietta while I went into Food Depot, it was raining very hard and windy. It was so bad no one left from the store and when I got in the car my children were crying. Later on we found out a tornado hit Atlanta.
there was also the 1955 Blackwell tornado, part of the tornado family of the Udall, Kansas tornado. It was also an F5 and it was infamous for the appearance of "orbs" which were rotating around the skinny funnel, theres a sketch of it on the web. The tornado went exactly north and then made a hard left turn to the west before dying out.
2:28 rip tim and twistex team
[5:14] Wow. That tornado completely embedded a car into a tree before completely skinning/degloving it, leaving nothing but the frame behind? That's gotta be one of the craziest photos I've ever seen.
This is one of the best tornado analysis videos I've ever seen on YT. Its not overly long (not dragged out), excellent music, three panels per tornado, clear high res maps. I'm well versed in tornado info and there were various things and even images I've never seen before.
I grew up in Grand Island, NE and was 10 when the “Night of the Twisters” happened. I know many people who were hit, including the house my sister was in. There was nothing left of the house except for the foundation. Her friend’s house was hit by a satellite from the worst of the seven tornadoes; the high-end F-4 “South Locust St. tornado” that killed four of the five people who died from the storm, and one that would easily be an EF-5 by today’s scale (estimated 250 MPH winds).
Everything about that night was strange. We only had a 20% chance of thunderstorms that night, too, but about 7 PM, everything about the sky seemed weird. Tons of marshmallow-like cumulonimbus clouds started forming, almost like eggs stacked perfectly on top of one another. The sky was even more green than the hail core from the May 31st, 2013 El Reno tornado, too; the greenest I have ever seen. Too bad the event happened in 1980 and the few photos of the event’s genesis must not have been from cameras advanced enough to capture the actual color.
The El Reno supercell is the closest comparison I have seen, only June 3rd was actually bigger. I believe that sometime in the future, unfortunately, a cell this size is going to be more organized and produce the worst tornado ever. Hopefully, it will hit in a rural area and there won’t be any fatalities.
I’ll never forget driving around GI on June 4th, 1980, either. The Army hadn’t imposed any curfew or restrictions yet and it wasn’t declared a natural disaster until later in the day. Since things like that moved slower in 1980 and we didn’t know/believe the extent of the damage yet from the radio broadcasts, my mother took my sister, her friend whose house was destroyed, and me to get her friend’s car across the street from Pier Park, a park that is three blocks by five blocks and laden with so many trees you couldn’t see from one end of the park to the other, and it was devastated. I was on the west side of the park and was able to see the grade school (Dodge School) that sits across the street from the east side of the park. Before that night, that was impossible. Somehow, my sister’s friend’s car wasn’t damaged that badly and was still drivable because the tornado made a 90° turn right before that spot and went due south after tracking due west at its inception.
We also drove a few blocks east toward Meves Bowl, a bowling alley that took a direct hit at F4 strength and that was the first time I’d ever seen cars in trees. I can’t remember the exact distance, but people were finding bowling balls miles away. I remember my mother saying we would stay on the street we took from Pier Park, E. Bismark Rd., so we could find our way home since there weren’t many landmarks left and nothing looked the same.
Pier Park was also where our Little League diamonds were. I played catcher that year, and I would literally lose some balls out of my pitchers’ hands in the stacks of trees that laid behind the home run fence all summer. It was funny watching spectators look for home run balls that summer, though; one of the few funny takes from the storm- well, except for the fact that my pre-teen friends and I had many spots to throw snowballs at cars the next couple of winters since there were so many empty lots with foundations in which to hide. Don’t judge. Most of us didn’t get Ataris until 1982 and that’s what boys my age did in GI in the early 80s. Lol.
I’m from NE, worked in GI for a few years, I’ve wanted channels like this to do a deep dive into the event.
@@TheBigDean18 That would be nice if someone did. Since it was 1980 and happened at night (started around 8:45), though, there isn’t much footage of the aftermath, even, let alone none of the event itself. I know I was scared AF that night and I was in one of the few areas of town that didn’t get hit.
@@djamo1969I was a deputy sheriff from a neighboring county and was dispatched there that night. A pamphlet was put out not long after the storms with pictures and descriptions of the damage. I still have it filed away somewhere. Glad you, your family and friends made it through ok. I interacted with quite a few residents over about 24 hours. Really good people.
Sounds like a weather experiment gone sideways! Most night time tornados are nightmarish in and of them selves, but to have them reoccurring for hours on end would be really traumatic. Anyway, sorry for your losses.
The Jarrell Tornado had MAJOR beef with that town. rip to all those who've died
You know whenever something bad happens, it feels like forever? The people in Double Creek Estates felt that forever.
Nah. They only felt it for a few seconds before they were turned into atoms and particles. They were cheese grated til nothing was left.
If you witnessed the destruction of the Jarrell F5 you would truly understand how bad these things can get.
Everlasting images you can’t forget.
Very interesting! Have you done a video on the tragic Tri-State tornado(s) ??? Would LOVE to see the same detail and map approximation of that 1929 tornado . The hundreds of lives taken always shocks me and the distance but more shocked no one ever mentions it in the top worst tornados? Taking so many lives it should be mentioned more
.... Stay tuned!
*1925
The details of the Jarrell TX tornado are horrifying. 😢
I was pleased to see the 1980 Grand Island tornadoes included. I was 12 when that happened and living 45 miles away. You could see the intensely dark skies east of us from that far away. I’m always amazed that at no other time has another city has 7 tornadoes in and around it over a 3 hour period, some rotating clockwise and some counterclockwise and yet no one discussing tornado history ever mentions it🤷🏻♀️
The dead man walking image of the jarrell tornado still gives me chills
So glad to see the Grand Island tornado event finally recognized for its oddities. A single storm that produced 7 tornadoes in one area, in one night, that were both anticyclonic and cyclonic in nature-truly a bizarre phenomenon!
Exceptional video, well-made and extremely informative! When I lived in Manhattan Kansas during grade school, one of the few books on tornadoes available from the KSU library told the amazing story of the Udall tornado. Sealed my interest for life!
the Jarrel tornado not only represented a walking dead mans anguish, but stalls over 3 houses hold 3 families killing them all, not the mention the survival rate on ground was officially marked at 0%
You mentioned the 1990 Plainfield tornado but one storm that does not get nearly as much attention is the 1976 Lemont, IL F4 tornado. It had a U-shaped path and hit the nuclear reactor facility at the Argonne National Laboratory. I was 4 months old and lived about 5 miles from the path but I never heard my parents talk about it. Lemont was hit again in 1991 and I remember that day extremely well because I videotaped a funnel cloud from the same storm approaching Burbank which can be found on my channel.
The Grand Island is so crazy, it really looks like some random kid took a marker and scribbled with it and called it a tornado track.
Imagine if a kid drew that line the year before, then the year later he didn't know that the tornado followed that same trajectory.
@@Gamejake94and his dad comes in his room and tells him “Your drawing like 5 months ago became an actual tornado track!”
@@deadlycheeseburgeroftheUSA33 kid : WAIT WHAT AAAAAAAAAAHHHH
Nothing compares to Jarrell's destruction
The tornado outbreak that occurred in Grand Island, Nebraska on June 3rd, 1980 has fascinated me more than any other tornado outbreak. The image you showed on screen at 7:08 is my favorite photograph of a tornado.
I know that Elie had to make it onto the list, but holy crap that Grand Island situation was a lot stranger than I remember!
The Jordan, Iowa and Lemont, Illinois tornadoes also had trippy paths. Both occurred on June 13th, 1976, and like most of the tornadoes on this list, both were violent.
The more I learn about the Jarrell, Tx, tornado, the more unsettling I find it. I had no idea it went east to west until this video.
There is something very eldritch, very lovecraftian about tornados
1:16 What's crazy and sad here is that a nice family could be living here for years and years and then all those beautiful memories just get thrown out of their lives. All photos. All old family relics. Gone.
There have been F5 and EF5s, but none of them will ever be as horrifying as the Jarrell tornado. There is nothing scarier than a tornado coming from a direction it isn't supposed to come from and stay over an area for as long as it did. The absolutely massacred livestock and the enormous amount of death and ground scouring haunts me to this day.
I love how he mentions some tornadoes "behaving" and some that "haven't behaved" lol. Best terminology used to describe them lol
My dad worked search and rescue after the Jarrell Tx tornado. At the time he was a cop in Lacy Lakeview. He said it was more of a "Piece the bodies together" style of rescue. He said what made it much more devestating is the fact Jarrell Tx was one of those towns that people would drive 20-30 miles out of town for work, and there were a bunch of school age kids home alone with no way to escape when it hit.
The scariest thing a Tornado Can Do Is Stall Over A Populated that is so creepy
for real. the worst part about it is that since it had picked up a bunch of mud from fields and such, it essentially just sandblasted everything. including people.
3:17
That greensburg 07 picture gives me MAD chills
I suspect that the faster the supercell is moving, the less likely the tornado is to perform an unusual looping pattern. The Grand Island supercell was moving very slowly.
Yes, I agree. Slow movement of the parent supercell allows for more erratic movement.
Plainfield supercell went over us and I tell you it was pitch black at one point.
I remember.
my mother was working at Mongomery awards at the time I was 2 months old. she remembered it being really muggy that morning and when she left it dropped to 60 degrees. the tornado was 30 to 40 miles south of us.
Wow, those looping tornadoes are really bizarre, making them even more unpredictable. Scary stuff !
Another thing about the Elie F5 is that it threw a whole house in the air before the house disintegrated.
And I believe the footage of that house was the sole piece of evidence to get the tornado classified as an F5
It had been officially rated an F4 until someone sent them the video of the house being lifted intact- then they upgraded it to F5
Wow, Eureka is about 20 miles away from me. My Dad was storm chasing that night and a massive limb bashed into the bed of his pickup. Thankfully he was OK and fortunately nobody died from the tornado. He also helped with the recovery effort of Greensburg, KS.
The Dead Man Walking tornado (Jarrell F5 Tornado) Was one of the most disturbing tornado outbreaks in history.
If people were to take shelter in they're homes, They would most likely die.
Tho The Dead Man Walking Tornado were to be talked about in the docs, speaking of with this one word: "If you see the dead man walking tornado, You are about do die."
Pretty scary if you ask me.
Someone did make a book within this tornado, with the lives that were claimed by the tornado.
I don't know what else to say.
Overall, The Dead Man Walking Tornado, Would be the all time fear, of Jarrell, TX.
Jarrell, the dead man walking photo is ingrained in my mind, the agonizingly slow speed over the town was horrific, one of the first on the scene said he was perplexed because the wreckage was gone, even large items weren't anywhere to be seen.
You know the el Reno tornado was 2.6 miles wide and it was 4,000 meters
i live in jarrell and my biggest fear is another giant tornado we’ve had smaller ones
0:58 Is what you call the "Dead Man Walking" tornado. As you can see there are two legs and long arms within the tornado. A long time ago this kind of tornado was considered deadly and so Natives used to call it "Dead man walking" because if an Indian was close enough to see a tornado that was shaped like a man walking then the Indian was sure to die. Back then there were no tornado warnings and so they could not outrun it, even on horseback.
That’s very eerie 😢🫣
The April 12, 1927 Rocksprings Tx F5 tornado moved 60 miles to the SE, ending just west of Uvalde tx. It's formation was probably due to similar Jarrell atmospheric conditions, ie. gravity wave/ dry line/ outflow boundary.
The movie night of the twisters was supposed to be taken from the 1980 outbreak
The Jarrell tornado actually started near Hewitt, next to Waco. It ran parallel to I 35 south all the way to Cedar Park just north of Austin. I started tracking it as I got off work at the same time it started.
I actually live in Grand Island, and I've always heard the horror stories from those tornados.
2:10 today marks 10 years since that beast of a tornado
May 31st 2013 is my best friends bday
Elie was truly the most chad tornado ever.
It slowly meandered through the fields before completely slabbing a home, then left without killing a single thing
I saw a video the other day that showed a smaller tornado turn towards a house, get within like 50 yards of it and stop. Stayed stationary for a bit Ripping shingles and siding off, then started heading away from the house. Craziest thing I've seen.
2:34 surprised that this is the only tornado to ever take the lives of storm chasers
Dead man walking has gotta be one of the most sinister tornadoes ever
Number 15: Burger King tornado, the last thing you want in your whopper.. is a tornado..
Another tornado with an odd damage path was the Jordan, Iowa F5 tornado of 1976. At one point, both it and the anticyclonic F3 satellite tornado it had spun up made an EXTREMELY sharp right turn, causing the path to have a unique V-shape. In addition, both tornadoes did this turn simultaneously. Seriously, google the damage path, it’s pretty wild. Also the footage (though silent) is awesome, especially of the anticyclonic tornado (not least because it may well be the strongest anticyclonic tornado ever caught on film).
The dead man walking
Great video as always, Chris!
Given the cyclical nature of supercells, with occlusions and regenerating updrafts sling-shotting tornadoes in deviant directions, seems like we need to get a better understanding of that process in order to more accurately tailor tornado warnings. *Paging Cameron Nixon lol*
Thanks Ethan! I was originally going to include a little segment about Cameron Nixon's research on deviant tornado motion, but it didn't make the final cut. But there absolutely is still stuff we don't know about tornadoes!
You have to remember that your #1 pick and El Reno were multiple vortex tornadoes. They had satellite tornados that were swirling around the main vortex. They believe that's what killed Tim Samaras and his crew, one of the satellite vortexes.
It had 302-296 mph winds and 2.6 miles wide which makes it the 2nd strongest tornado and also the largest in history
@@trickster6054 2nd strongest R E C O R D E D.
Largest R E C O R D E D.
If we're being technical about it.
Yes because the storm chaser that was in the car right in front of Tim Samaras was fine, while they unfortunately were not 😢
One thing to mention is the Jerrel F5 is also known as the Dead Man Walking tornado because it terrifyingly and absolutely traumatizing transformed into a figure of human legs moving.
You can often see damage paths with Google Satellite view using older image dates. Some of those clearly show minor variations of path from official versions or ones found on Tornado Talk. With some of the most violent tornadoes you can still clearly see the path 10+ years later.
2:05 The tornado wanted to support our troops.
would love to see more of this
I absolutely love how detailed Chinas damage assessments are
the dead man walking. the jarrell and the bridge creek moore tornados were downright evil looking. some of the worst devastation that i have ever seen. cows completely skinned, houses gone without a trace, trees debarked. it was horrible.
It's a trip how certain conditions can cause a storm to move against the mean airflow pattern and use that movement against the air as a form of shear to cause intensification.
you forgot about the 2009 Rajkanika Kendrapara Tornado , this Tornado moved from North East to South West and Eventually true south. Tornadoes rarely occur in India , but when they do , they either move North West to South East or West to East , same case scenario in Bangladesh.
The 2013 El Reno tornado was probably the weirdest tornado ever
The Greensberg tornado is scary when you see the path jink sharply back towards the town and then see an even larger tornado form just east of the now destroyed town
El Reno has also had an anti cyclonic tornado that hit the municipal airport in the mid 2000’s.
You need to go back in time and film these F5 Tornado 🌪 in 8K 60fps 😮.
if we invent a time machine thats exactly what im doing
Can you cover the April 4, 1966 F4 tornado that went from Tampa to Brevard County? Nobody has covered it yet, given the path, devastation, lack of frequency in the area… it’s a super rare tornado event.
The map at the beginning of your video is crazy. Canada and America look crazy. It looks like they’re population density but it’s tornadoes. Crazy.
You missed one of the wildest things about 1955 Udall, those zig zags absolutely spared my hometown. It curved perfectly around Oxford, jumping the river, then continuing north then beelining to Udall. Its wild how it just decided to spare my hometown.
@@SAGE0536AGN No I know the zig zags were mentioned but I require a name drop on my 1000 people hometown dammit 😂😂 (not being serious but a tiny bit serious)
@@SAGE0536AGN my bad lol
I wasn’t alive during the Plainfield tornado but my parents were, and they said it was horrible even though they didn’t live IN Plainfield, they lived in Crest Hill. My Grandparents apartment was destroyed, and my parents recall a school getting totally destroyed. The house my parents used to live in was kinda damaged, but Plainfield was destroyed. The House I’m currently living in was built recently after the tornado, and made were the path went through or atleast i think. It’s crazy knowing suck a bad tornado went through this nice town.
In 1957, when I was a young kid of 10, we lived south of Kansas City. I was at Little League baseball practice under a rapidly changing sky when we got word to head for home. Because we had the only basement in the neighborhood we had several families down there with us. The Tornado started in Kansas and was on the ground for something like 75 miles. My father, who at the time was an Air Force weather officer, stayed in the open garage door 'til the last possible moment observing it. With it headed straight for us from south to north he pulled the door down and literally jumped the stairs to the basement. The electric lights turned a strange color as did the sky we could see thru a small upward window. My dog began to howl. We could hear the increasing rumble that suddenly went silent. The Tornado had made an abrupt right turn, crossed the four-lane highway, and slammed into another housing development. Around 50 people all total died. That included a kid about my age who played on our baseball team. One of the many buildings destroyed was the high school we practiced at. Tornados are not anything to fool around with.😮
Lol recognized my hometown in the blurred intro part with the night of the 7 tornadoes
It’s actually sort of scary to see tornadoes going south or west. Because whenever there is a tornado warning, I like to make sure I’m west of the tornado.
Nice to know it doesn’t really matter.
It is truly disturbing to just think about it imagine sheltering in your basement awaiting the tornado to pass and right as its above when u think its nearly done but it STALLS over you for 2 entire minutes eventually taking your life. Its just truly unsettling
Seriously, if you are in the path of a tornado moving east towards you, AND you have a highway that runs south, then drive south FAST. This is fleeing from death. People act like this is always wrong.
Experts simply prefer you safely underground but that’s not always an option.
Udall, Kansas has the unfortunate distinction of being hit 3 years in a row in the 1950s.
The Jarrell Tornado was so strong that I’m pretty sure plumbing was ripped out of the ground up to 30in deep
7:37 me as a 5 year old drawing a roller-coaster lol
1:00 Ah I see where that dead man walking picture came from
Yeah obviously
Love the video idea! Haven’t seen a video about pathways!
I love that you covered the Elie tornado! We pronounce it in a southern US style E-lie rather than how it's actually spelled. Cheers!
Thanks for the comment Greg, yeah my mistake. I've heard both and just went with the one I've heard more, but for future reference I will pronounce it correctly.
Those last tornadoes just wanted to party.
The Jerrell, TX path is just a stock market graph. That thing was making predictions
'had the strangest path of all time, HOWEVER THIS NEXT FAMILY OF TORNADOES WAS EVEN STRANGER'
I can’t believe they would rate el Reno ef3 when it should be ef5 cause it had 302 mph which makes it the 2nd most strongest tornado and the largest tornado on record with 2.6 miles wide
I guess no damage beyond EF3
@@SAGE0536AGN but still deserves an EF5 besides a damage actually deserves an F5
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@@herisuryadi6885 still deserves an F5 rating because it was the only tornado to kill storm chasers
@@trickster6054 eh k