I lived through this day. I remember leaving work feeling that wind swirling hot then cold. I called my husband who worked in okc and begged him to leave work early. That tornado followed him home. We lost people we knew in Moore. It was an extremely stressful day. A day I won’t ever forget. I just went through the 4/19/23 shawnee ok tornado. We were very fortunate to not lose our house. We lost many 50 plus year old trees but we were spared our home. A block away it looks like a war zone. It’s still early in the season.
That is a crazy story. I couldn't imagine going through an EF-5 tornado. I live near Pittsburgh, PA, but I was visiting a friend in Springfield, MO on May 22nd, 2011 when the EF-5 struck Joplin and we had been under a tornado warning all day. We were watching the news when they started talking about the damage and were showing images of the area. I had to leave that day for my 13 hour drive back home, and I was chased by tornado warnings all the way home. I grew up in Florida so I've been through hurricanes, tropical storms, and smaller tornados, but I can't imagine going through something like an EF-4 or EF-5 twister. God bless y'all that live in Tornado Alley. I couldn't do it.
I'm so glad I no longer live in OK- I grew up there+ spent much of may life in tornado alley from Tx to the Dakotas. I've had many experiences with tornados and friends in OK have suffered terrible devastation as well-but nothing as dramatic as the Moore tornado. It must be really traumatic to go through it a second time.
I was in high school when this happened. I was a mile away and watched it go by. It was scary af. I’ve been hit twice in the last month in cole, ok. Most homes in my area are smashed. I’ve been lucky, so far. I’m only missing parts of my home.
This is AMAZING! I'm a "tornado buff", watching every video I can, and most maps don't show its path as accurately as you did. I didn't know it started as far southwest as it did. I moved from Houston to Tuttle 2 years ago and now live less than 2 miles north of where it crossed sandrock road but I never knew it crossed there. Occasionally, I ride my motorcycle around the backroads in that area and there's still rough "filled in" patches where it tore up the pavement there. I just want to thank you for the awesome job you did here, it must have taken quite some effort but that effort has paid off. This has historical value. In fact, just 2 years of living here has, coincidentally, put in in a couple of significant locations where this tornado directly hit but I never even knew it. Where it crossed 24th near newcastle casino was an abandoned house where I sometimes park and catch a nap or listen to music when I drop my mom at the casino. I spent a week training at the Moore Norman technology center on 34th and Penn, where you talked about the windrowing taking place. Now, when I'm in these areas, I'm going to have a new respect for what happened here. Thanks again. New subscriber here!
ive lived in okc my entire life (since 2002) & ive also watched so many tornado vids & i track storms in real time thru other storm chasers. i take i44 to chickasha multiple times a week for school and i never knew this tornado traveled the same route i do. & actually seeing the path made me realize im familiar with the entire path the tornado took. very surreal. & welcome to oklahoma!! hope u were safe thru the tornadoes tonight
@Matle Broomfield The tornado passed just south of us but it was very close. We got another day to get through though. They're saying it's possible again today..... and thank you! We'd still rather face the occasional tornado than sit in Houston area traffic everyday.
I don’t care if the videos will be 3 months apart, these are quality videos. Keep analysing storms in this way, this was amazing. This is the best analysis of this tornado I’ve seen yet! Keep it up!
theres something eerie about watching the path graphic get updated live with how the tornado is moving, the lack of anything but wind noises are an amazing choice and really hit home how devastating this storm really was, and how scary it must have been to actually live through it. thank you for the memorial at the end.
I grew up in Moore. Lived right across the street from the First Baptist Church. I will never forget the sound of pure power of mother nature , being in the tornado shelter and the door rattling. It was truly incredible / terrifying. When we came out of the cellar it was like being put in a different part of the world, 4 houses down it was completely leveled. . You would get lost because everything you remembered in the neighborhood as reference points was destroyed. Went through it in 2013 too. Finally got the hell out of Moore hahahah.
Even though I am not from the area; I like to think of Moore, Oklahoma as a nice place to live and raise a family despite being practically synonymous with large, long-track, violent and destructive tornadoes.
I can't imagine how transformative of an experience these tornadoes must have been for you and your community. You must've learned a lot about life and what it means to truly be alive in ways that the vast majority of people will never experience. City of soldiers we can all learn from. I am so weak in comparison and I can't imagine facing this tragedy once, much less twice. Not to mention close calls like El Reno must have been really hard as well. I'm so obsessed with researching tornadoes and the impact they have because I just want to gain a glimmer of understanding as to what it must be like to live there. I've been so sheltered and spoiled but I'm still an anxious mess. I'm hoping exercising my cognitive empathy with this research will help me put life into perspective more and make me a better stronger person like you guys. Thank you for sharing your experience and know that there are people out there who look up to you and admire you for surviving and prevailing
I had a group project in my Weather and Climate class where we used both the 1999 and 2013 Moore tornadoes as examples on how meteorologists observe the climatology for the prediction of severe weather and tornados and how they use technology to warn the public ahead of time with the looming threat of tornadoes. Ironically, we did the presentation 24 years to the date of the Bridge Creek-Moore F5. What an absolute monster this tornado was.
Whoa! Someone on Quora asked why the Joplin, Missouri tornado on May 22nd, 2011 was so much more deadly than the Moore, Oklahoma tornado on May 20th, 2013 despite both being rated as EF-5 tornadoes by the National Weather Service offices in Springfield, Missouri and Norman, Oklahoma respectively. This comes down to six key factors: 1.) The Joplin tornado formed too quickly for the National Weather Service office in Springfield, MO to issue a Tornado Emergency for Joplin even though they had issued a Tornado Warning for Jasper County. 2.) The tornado formed right outside of Joplin and cut right through the city before dissipating upon leaving Joplin. 3.) Prior to May 22nd; Joplin hadn't been hit by a significant tornado since May 5th, 1971. As a result the residents of Joplin assumed that the geographical landscape of southwestern Missouri functioned as a natural shield from tornadoes. Joplin is rather close to the Ozark Mountains; so the terrain is rather hilly and mountainous. 4.) Many residents of Joplin ignored the tornado warnings when they were issued due to having been desensitized from the city issuing too many false alarms. 5.) When the tornado sirens in Joplin were first sounded at 5:17 PM Central Time it gave the residents of Joplin seventeen minutes to take shelter. By the time the tornado sirens began wailing a second time at 5:34 PM it was too late to do anything because the tornado was already on the ground and moving through the city. 6.) By far the biggest contributing factor is that the Joplin tornado was hidden in very heavy rain and difficult to see. By comparison, the residents of Moore, Oklahoma are extremely weather-wise and fully aware of the potential severity of tornadoes because their city is practically synonymous with violent and destructive tornadoes. When the National Weather Service office in Norman, OK issued a Tornado Watch for much of the central part of the state at 1:10 PM Central Time; the three major TV stations in Oklahoma City (NBC affiliate KFOR Channel 4, ABC affiliate KOCO Channel 5, and CBS affiliate KWTV Channel 9) promptly suspended regular programming and went into wall-to-wall coverage of the weather. Meanwhile, the city's Fox affiliate KOKH Channel 25 and their Telemundo affiliate KTUZ Channel 30 began covering the weather when the first thunderstorms erupted southwest of Oklahoma City. People in Moore knew that they had to stay calm but be vigilant as they began to take shelter. Parents who were at work in Oklahoma City began racing to Moore in order to pick up their children from schools in Moore and get them home. In an episode of a show on The Weather Channel called "Tornado Alley: Real Time Tornado" that profiled the Moore tornado in 2013 I was awestruck by the story of a man named Sam Peña. Sam displayed nearly superhuman abilities to keep his son Benji as well as Benji's friends and classmates safe by using all of his psychical strength to hold up a cinder block wall to keep them safe as they took shelter from the storm in a boys bathroom at Briarwood Elementary School. Despite what people say; Sam doesn't consider himself a hero, saying that he was doing what any parent in his position would have done. In my opinion, Sam should have been awarded a Medal of Valor by Moore's mayor Glenn Lewis for risking his own life to save the lives of not only his son but also his son's friends and classmates. Another story of survival at Briarwood Elementary School was that of a woman named Robin Dziedzic. Robin was a fifth grade teacher at Briarwood Elementary School and she was sheltering in a girls bathroom with several students who were crying and borderline hysterical. When the tornado hit the school; Robin screamed bloody murder. The only way I can describe her screaming is like she was being tortured in a horror movie. However, she eventually pulled herself together and reassured the students the tornado was almost over. Once the tornado had passed over the school and she could see the students were safe; Robin opened the bathroom door and cautiously looked into the hallway to see if she could get the students in the bathroom out of the building to safety, but nothing could have mentally prepared Robin for what she saw and heard the moment she opened the door: the school was flat out destroyed and she could hear children screaming and crying. After having a second mental breakdown Robin and her fellow Briarwood teachers sprang into action and began trying to get the students to safety. The day after the tornado; Robin returned to the school as a means of accepting what she had experienced. Robin shot footage of the school on her phone and showed images of things such as the first grade wing of the school having been destroyed, a car flung into the classroom of her colleague Mrs. Goodman, white X's spray painted onto doors indicating that the first responders had checked the rooms for any loss of life, the bathrooms where she and her students were sheltering, and a little hallway off the main hallway where the students were initially taking shelter and she was text messaging parents and friends to let them know what was going on until the power had been knocked out. Eventually Robin arrived at the door to her classroom. Robin was understandably saddened by this because as a teacher her classroom was a second home for herself and her students and she felt a sense of tremendous loss seeing her classroom destroyed. By far the most eerie footage of Robin's classroom was that of the clock on the wall stopped at the time of the tornado striking the school and the binders of her students still sitting on top of their desks undisturbed as though nothing had occurred.
@@michaellovely6601well written thank you often forget that Joplin was a bit more fatal than Moore but makes total sense as to why thank you for taking the time to write this ❤
This is just unbelievable, some of the footage that I never knew existed was showed here. I have never thought that a video like this would ever come out, this is time-accurate too, which makes this one the best ever made.
I was under the bridge at Shields and I-35 that day. By the Grace of God, I was one of two people that walked out from underneath the bridge. One young lady from Marlow Oklahoma lost her life as I watched her body fly by me. Very sad day indeed
What happened there? Couldn't the drivers see a tornado in the distance headed towards the highway they were driving on? It's very flat and not many trees. Why didn't they just pull over way back when they realized it was on a direction to pass in front of them. If you keep driving you are racing a tornado to the highway. Every time I see a tornado cross a highway in these videos there are cars driving by right up until the last second. In the Moore 2013 tornado there is a car inside the debris, it just made it before it crossed the road. Why do people not stop, pull over and let it pass way in front of them, they seem to want to beat it to the highway so they don't have to stop. For the people who pulled under the overpass when the tornado was still far away, once they noticed it was on a direct intercept course for the overpass why didn't they just drive away?
@@wotan_nightshade Because no one could see that coming. On highways in stormchasing videos, other vehicles drive right at tornadoes headed for the highway up until the last second. Stormchasers often pull over and wait or drive slow and if the tornado is approaching the highway they stop and let it pass. If the tornado is headed directly at them they drive forward or backward. It's done all the time. These people saw a tornado miles out in the distance and panicked, parked and climbed up onto the overpass. Unfortunately, the tornado was headed right for the pass. Had they just kept driving, they would have been miles away. You can survive a tornado on the highway by staying relatively calm, pulling over and watching it's direction. When you are moving you cannot tell which direction it's going if it's far away. But the amount of cars who just keep driving as one is clearly headed directly at a highway or road is a needless risk. You can see the Moore tornado headed towards the highway for miles but tons of traffic just kept on goin. Lives can be saved by not taking these risks. It happened in several spots in 99. By the time they got to the area where the tornado was going to cross they hit traffic because people abandoned their cars up ahead. Leaving a bunch of cars stuck in the path. Do not try to beat a tornado headed directly for the road you are on. Nothing here requires pre-cognition.
I was a kid when this happened. I remember being inside Heritage Park Mall in Midwest City as the tornado started to dissipate and passed directly overhead. A lot of us that were in that emergency shelter hallway stepped out to look up through the skylight as it passed over and you could see the circulation through the glass. I just remember being terrified as we heard the sound grow louder as it approached, the relief after it passed, and the laughter we got after we walked back to my dad's car to see a comically large pair of tighty whiteys sitting on his hood.
Thank you for that story, I will add it to my mental list of some of the funniest stuff found after tornadoes. We need more positive stories like this as a sort of break from all the trauma
This has to be the most incredible tornado analysis video on UA-cam. The syncing and quality/quantity of footage are all unbelievable. Job well done, subbed.
My grandma was the librarian at Bridge Creek when this happened, she was one of the few teachers who had to identify the students and parents that didn’t make it.
I was between 89th and 104th and penn. I was one of 28 people stuffed in a 12 person shelter at my grandmas house. It was absolutely terrifying. Me and a friend went looking for our friends after. Once we left the area, it took us three days to get back home. Everywhere was closed. I had a basketball in my truck. My friend put it under her shirt to pretend she was pregnant. We convinced a firefighter to let us back in because she “needed “ meds. The things we saw will never leave my mind.
My boyfriend and I snuck into some of the Moore damage during the shut down and quickly regretted it. We never did anything but look and the images haunted me for months. 😢
This is some amazing work! This is definitely the best analysis video of any tornado that I've seen, I really hope this video gains some major traction! Keep the great work up!
The OKC TV stations did a great job. However, just as it petered out in west Midwest City, it recycled, and dropped another tornado at SE15th and Anderson Rd. in east Midwest City. This tornado tracked across eastern Oklahoma County, and hit downtown Choctaw. The stations were so focused on the devastation and video that was coming in, they completely missed this tornado.
I don't think News 9 was that extremely focused on the destruction in OKC, My grandmother stopped watching KFOR when they mostly ignored the Pink, OK Tornado.
i'm a junior moving on to be a senior, and meteorology has been a love of mine for years. seeing the way this tornado played out years before i was born is absolutely fascinating. hope to see another video like this, you did amazing work on this. rest in peace to all those who passed on this day.
Epic video. Most documentaries on large natural disasters like this concentrate on a highlight reel for sensationalism, but you've done all the finer details justice. It's important to get the whole picture when dissecting such an event, and you've pulled this off in spades. Well done. +1 sub
Excellent production. Enjoyed the storm tracking graphics with the vehicles on the map as well as the stills matching up with the damage areas. I can’t image the terror experienced that day. Hugs to the people commenting here that went through it.
This is a great video, the map tracking the tornado and storm chasers really puts into perspective how close they get. Also displays how helpful they are during these tornado emergencies.
This is why i wish the Jarrell,TX tornado had a DOW on the scene that day. The CAPE in the atmosphere was over 5,000 J/KG for this tornado on May 3 1999. The CAPE in Jerrall,TX was over 7,000 J/KG.
Jarrel was one of the strangest tornadoes ever for the sheer power it had with little wind sheer in place, the primary threat that day wasn't even tornadoes due to that reason, large hail was the main threat, I reckon this was stronger but then again its hard to know cause jarrel had violent motion, but many say its destruction was much more severe due to its forward speed of 5mph in some areas
It all falls on the conditions. The CAPE is just the available energy. Some pretty powerful tornadoes have happened with as little as 3,000 and under. Under similar conditions,to the May 3rd, and with the available energy it could have been insane but it takes a lot more than just CAPE to make a monster. Jarrell was a freak in any way you look at it but its greatest power was the fact that it barely moved compared to most. That alone gave the wind a long period with which to do more damage. Truth be told, the closest storm to the 1999 may 3rd storm was in damn near the same place. 14 years later another monster appeared
This is a first (for me) as far as a bird's eye view of location synced with video of this horrific event. After watching anything and everything related countless times in the two decades (and change) since, the rare new perspective you've provided is outstanding and much appreciated! I still remember like it was yesterday; I was at a bar called Davey's Uptown in KC when the storms rolled in (presumably remnants of those downstream responsible for this carnage earlier in OKC) and the building across the street was struck by lightning shortly after. It was simultaneusly a deafening, mortar round-like effect and a chilling echo that I'll never forget, forever punctuated by what I saw on the news not two hours later.
Great work. Thank you for all your effort with putting this together. I really appreciate the personalizing and respect you gave to the unfortunate victims of this day. Would love to see you do the 2013 moore tornado next. Or Joplin.
I lived in Ada at the time, but was in Moore visiting old school friends. That day started so beautiful but turned ugly fast. I never saw the sky so black from a storm. We got very lucky with it missing us by 3 blocks. We wouldn't have survived if we took a direct hit. A lot of people died that day. I'll never forget seeing the human silhouettes outlined in mud along under Shields on ramp. People took cover there and only one of them, a boy survived. Those outlines stayed there for years.
So happy you guys survived and I'm so sorry for your losses and the traumatic things you've witnessed ❤ I really admire you survivors. You are made of tougher stuff and the whole world can learn a lot from you about strength and the will to prevail. Moore may be cursed by tornadoes but it is absolutely blessed by its people
I lived in Chickasha Oklahoma at the time. I sat on my front porch and watched this tornado go by right outside of town. It was only a F3 at that time.
I think I'm so obsessed with tornadoes and the aftermath precisely because I don't understand them. I try and I try but I can never get that click that I need to complete the puzzle in my mind. This is a huge test of my cognitive empathy and I'm pushing it to my limits. A lot of people think it's morbid to be so interested in this, but I think for the average person, it's the opposite. I want to relate to you in a way that people who simply feel without thinking can't. I think without feeling until I get enough information to "understand" what the experience really must've been like. This requires studying the nature of tornadoes, the event in question, the impact on victims, and the victims themselves. Simply hearing a headline won't help. I want to get as close as I can to feeling as you all must have felt so I can grow in strength and wisdom along with you. I am so sheltered and spoiled and weak and I really want to learn from you all as much as I can without facing the same trauma myself. I know I'll never ever truly understand unless I go through it myself but I really admire you survivors and I look up to you and your fortitude. I am so inspired by how you pick up and move on with your lives, especially if you don't move and you simply accept the risks of staying. That is a courage and loyalty most people will never achieve. Thank you for sharing your experience
@@artemis8396I've been through tornados. It's like you're working on a school final project and your laptop froze and crashed and is glitching out and you might lose your save file and fail the class and getting expelled from school or it might unfreeze and you get a B+. It's like you're just living your life and reality itself glitches and crashes and freezes and you might die and/or have your house demolished or you might not be effected other than really heavy rain and maybe some dents on your car. There's nothing you can do. You just sit there. It's not like being bombed by Russia it's like the earth is just fucked up outside. It's not like a tragedy like 9/11 you're watching on the news, it's like the world outside your door has decided to turn evil and malfunction. There's no evil mastermind or enemy subjecting you to this, it's the same outdoors you were enjoying your sons soccer game at the day before, but it has turned into madness and the only villain is an ambiguous force, Un uncaring unfeeling remorseless relentless mother nature.
I love these videos, I listen to them while I'm at work. The EAS warnings are very unsettling but I still think it really adds a level to the video/audio. 10/10 keep up the great work!
I lived on the second story of an apartment complex in Norman when this hit. My first apartment out of state & away from home. We thought Norman was going to be hit, for sure, cause they kept saying Norman was a possibility, and Gary Englund was uh'ing his words through the whole thing. We hid in an interior room with his voice blasting from the closest tv on max volume. We had no idea where the points of reference were since we'd only been in the state since February. I couldn't believe how few shelter areas there were where we were at...and this video shows just how slow it moved, but never letting up. I'll never forget it. Ever.
I don't comment a lot but man this is a phenomenal video. I know this took a lot of work. I hope you do many more of these. RIP to everyone lost in Oklahoma that day.
Hell if I heard sirens in Texas I would assume Moore is getting hit by an f7. If you wake up in May in Nova Scotia and there's clouds and there's clouds in the sky you can assume Moore is getting hit by a tornado. If you flip a coin on a Wednesday there's a 75% chance Moore is getting hit with 400mph rotating winds
This is a masterful documentary, the pathing of the tornado and the trackers in real-time with multiple screens of the coverage really illustrates the tension of this destructive day. Amazing work, looking forward to future videos.
With Moore they are in tornado alley. With Joplin they have had 3 tornadoes touchdown since the 1970's. The 2011 Joplin tornado is the deadliest of the 3.
I lived in the OKC area for 4.5 and saw Moore get eliminated twice. I never understood how people could move there....that said, one of my good friends from the area at the time ended up in Time magazine from the 2013 tornado, with her youngest son one of the survivors of the elementary school hit.
@@michaellovely6601 There were no fatalities at Briarwood. Perhaps she was referring to Plaza Towers as she mentioned that he was a survivor. I realize that all at Briarwood were "survivors", but my first thought went to Plaza Towers.
This is such an awesome documentary! This is almost on the levels of Thunderbolt 1000 Siren Productions and the documentaries he makes on train disasters. Keep up the amazing work Jesse, Ben, Tofu, and to you too Jlkillen. Keep up the awesome work, and I’m excited for new “Analyzing Disasters” Documentaries.
So deeply emotional and moving. God bless all those lost, all their loved ones, all rescuers & responders, all the storm TV chasers, forecasters and the communities. ❤
I love the big map showing the track. It would be really cool if the locations of each of the videos were marked on it, even if only in a general area, so we know which direction they're viewing the twister from.
These videos help us to realize how powerful and dangerous nature can be… I love the moment-by-moment formats… My heart breaks for all the people impacted by this.. the devastation, the loss of life, the intense fear, the deep grief, the aftermath… I can only imagine what that feels like and what I imagine is profound… Crazy how they encouraged people to take cover under bridges tho.. I used to subscribe to National Geographic magazine and remember reading about the El Reno tornado and the deaths of the storm chasers and seeing their mangled vehicle & also about tornadoes where people sheltered under bridges & overpasses & seeing a crumpled car smashed up in there right where people were sheltering.. and also the sad story of the mother who got pulled out from under there away from her husband & children.. Hopefully we can all learn from these events - not just what we ought to do to protect ourselves during the events but also that life is fleeting and we never know when or how it will end for any of us.. let’s make each moment matter & enjoy life as it happens, and cherish the people in our lives & tell them often that we love them. My niece died tragically at age 18 from homicide in 2020… we just assume we will see people again & that they will live long.. but that’s not always the case. I had been thinking of her days before she died and had wanted to reach out to her to chat & maybe a visit, but I didn’t.. and I truly regret not following my gut instinct to connect with her… Please make time for the people in your lives. And follow your gut feelings! Our instincts are not wrong! People and relationships are what truly matter & what gives life meaning. Blessings to you all ❤
Great detailed vid! 👍🏽 U should do as it happened for all the big tornadoes like Moore 2013, Joplin 2011, Elreno 2013, Tuscaloosa 2011 and Greensburg 2007 and there r many more good ones to do but there r a few notable ones.
I first had seen these overlay style videos done with video game story and pvp breakdowns, and it makes me so happy to see the template get used outside of games for real world events. I had seen it with a few officer involved shootings, then with 9/11 footage, and now I've seen it with weather chasing.
Please continue to make videos, Ive never seen analysis videos like this before. I already know so much about these significant tornadoes but these videos make me feel like im hearing it for the first time again
Excellent work. I’ve learnt a lot about this tornado and this video tops it. To have the power to move a rail car that far! Incredible. Cheers from Australia. Subbed and may you get thousands more subs.
Please make a video for the 2013 F5 in Moore. This video was done perfectly with the syncing. I love the pictures showing the damage as the tornado graph moves. Well done!!
That would be interesting. People in Moore, Oklahoma took the May 20th, 2013 tornado with an increased level of seriousness when Mike Morgan (the chief meteorologist at Oklahoma City's NBC affiliate KFOR channel 4) admitted on air that he never wanted to say it but he had no choice but to do so: it was May 3rd, 1999 all over again.
At 39:40 they talk about the second tornado that hit Mulhall, it was a monster too but largely ignored because it went NW of the OKC metro, while the other went through OKC.
This is exactly what I've wanted for so many storms. They're living breathing terrifying things, and it's hard to form the entire event in youe head. Keep up the good work!
This is one of the best tornado synced/as it happened video! i have never see someone did this with a tornado! Thank you for inspiring me to mix this wth another synced dash board video!
Great work, that home footage at 29:27 at bottom right hand corner I will never forget, seen it so many times and recently found that footage with sound included
Wow, I just found your channel because of this video and let me just say this is incredible. Amazing to see such great quality and in depth coverage like this. Definitely have a new subscriber here!!
Great stuff! Scary powerful tornado! Really liked the position on map correlated with the footage being shown. Really really well done! I didn’t know the land scar in areas was 3 feet deep. That’s absolutely mind blowing power. If you ever get into hurricanes - Hurricane Michael was a late season “forgotten” cat 5 that tore through a land peninsula in St. Joe bay and took 90% of the tree canopy for miles. Mother Nature doesn’t play! Subscribed 😀
Jaw dropping compilation of the start to finish of the storm. Thank you for this. I've probably watched it all the way through at least 3 times. Also excellent use of the music to really demonstrate how dreadful this thing was. When I think about this video this music immediately pops into my head.
the 1999 and 2013 Moore tornados were absolutely insane and i feel so bad for all the destruction they caused. and lets not forget the EL Reno unofficial EF5 that caused alot of chaos and destruction as well. Oklahoma is a beautiful state but man is it just a cesspool of tornado activity. i wish for nothing but the best for the people of Oklahoma as they have to deal with the absurd strengths of these various twisters every year.
Of course an officially rated EF-5 tornado struck El Reno, Oklahoma on May 24th, 2011. Not many people outside of Oklahoma know about it because it occurred just two days after the tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri.
I'm hoping you do more of these, the others from the 1999 May outbreak possibly since the controversy around if Mulhaull was more violent than Bridge Creek, and the Stroud and Cimmaron City tornadoes as well as the others in the outbreak get overshadowed by the Moore/Briddge Creek tornado, that whole outbreak is terrifying. It gets overshadowed by one tornado, the way people who are not weather nerds or just want to get eyeballs on, focus on Tuscaloosa when discussing late April 2011 and ignore every other tornado
My friend had a f150 nascar truck. Brand new and awesome! He found it 3 weeks later 30’ up in a tree, 3 miles away. It was unrecognizable. Other than the vin and his wallet in the console, he’d never have found it.
Had a basset hound that paced back and forth for hours that day. She didn't dig storms but she def never acted anything like that before or after, just that afternoon. She 100% knew something before any of us. We lived about an hour southeast of Moore at the time.
I had a cocker spaniel that sensed an earthquake in northern IL where we very seldom have tremors. He was agitated and barked just before we felt the shaking.
The voice on the NOAA EAS Tornado Warning and Emergency gives me chills. I remember my first weather radio had that voice. Bring back the original voice.
Incredible video! I haven’t watched the full video yet but I can tell this one’s gonna be a beast! May 3, 1999 was a very catastrophic tornado Next do the Joplin Ef-5 tornado or the April 27, 2011 tornado outbreaks
Even better would be a video on the May 20, 2013 EF5 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma and the ways in which it is similar to and different from this beast on May 3, 1999.
I lived in the Parkview neighborhood on that day. I have pictures of that rail car. The rest of the rail car was found a whole mile from the tracks. I stood in the center of the path and could see for miles in either direction. I thought I was going to die that day.
I lived through this day. I remember leaving work feeling that wind swirling hot then cold. I called my husband who worked in okc and begged him to leave work early. That tornado followed him home. We lost people we knew in Moore. It was an extremely stressful day. A day I won’t ever forget. I just went through the 4/19/23 shawnee ok tornado. We were very fortunate to not lose our house. We lost many 50 plus year old trees but we were spared our home. A block away it looks like a war zone. It’s still early in the season.
That is a crazy story. I couldn't imagine going through an EF-5 tornado. I live near Pittsburgh, PA, but I was visiting a friend in Springfield, MO on May 22nd, 2011 when the EF-5 struck Joplin and we had been under a tornado warning all day. We were watching the news when they started talking about the damage and were showing images of the area. I had to leave that day for my 13 hour drive back home, and I was chased by tornado warnings all the way home. I grew up in Florida so I've been through hurricanes, tropical storms, and smaller tornados, but I can't imagine going through something like an EF-4 or EF-5 twister. God bless y'all that live in Tornado Alley. I couldn't do it.
I hope that your community is recovering and that you get some respite from such powerful storm events.
I'm so glad I no longer live in OK- I grew up there+ spent much of may life in tornado alley from Tx to the Dakotas. I've had many experiences with tornados and friends in OK have suffered terrible devastation as well-but nothing as dramatic as the Moore tornado. It must be really traumatic to go through it a second time.
I was in high school when this happened. I was a mile away and watched it go by. It was scary af. I’ve been hit twice in the last month in cole, ok. Most homes in my area are smashed. I’ve been lucky, so far. I’m only missing parts of my home.
@@stevenpage8847 condolences, I hope you recover and prosper. It is very traumatic.
This is AMAZING! I'm a "tornado buff", watching every video I can, and most maps don't show its path as accurately as you did. I didn't know it started as far southwest as it did. I moved from Houston to Tuttle 2 years ago and now live less than 2 miles north of where it crossed sandrock road but I never knew it crossed there. Occasionally, I ride my motorcycle around the backroads in that area and there's still rough "filled in" patches where it tore up the pavement there. I just want to thank you for the awesome job you did here, it must have taken quite some effort but that effort has paid off. This has historical value. In fact, just 2 years of living here has, coincidentally, put in in a couple of significant locations where this tornado directly hit but I never even knew it. Where it crossed 24th near newcastle casino was an abandoned house where I sometimes park and catch a nap or listen to music when I drop my mom at the casino. I spent a week training at the Moore Norman technology center on 34th and Penn, where you talked about the windrowing taking place. Now, when I'm in these areas, I'm going to have a new respect for what happened here. Thanks again. New subscriber here!
ive lived in okc my entire life (since 2002) & ive also watched so many tornado vids & i track storms in real time thru other storm chasers. i take i44 to chickasha multiple times a week for school and i never knew this tornado traveled the same route i do. & actually seeing the path made me realize im familiar with the entire path the tornado took. very surreal. & welcome to oklahoma!! hope u were safe thru the tornadoes tonight
@Matle Broomfield The tornado passed just south of us but it was very close. We got another day to get through though. They're saying it's possible again today..... and thank you! We'd still rather face the occasional tornado than sit in Houston area traffic everyday.
I don’t care if the videos will be 3 months apart, these are quality videos. Keep analysing storms in this way, this was amazing. This is the best analysis of this tornado I’ve seen yet! Keep it up!
Exactly! I love their unique format.
Agreed
Agreed. These are some of the best analysis videos out there. Keep making quality content, we'll keep showing up.
theres something eerie about watching the path graphic get updated live with how the tornado is moving, the lack of anything but wind noises are an amazing choice and really hit home how devastating this storm really was, and how scary it must have been to actually live through it.
thank you for the memorial at the end.
I grew up in Moore. Lived right across the street from the First Baptist Church. I will never forget the sound of pure power of mother nature , being in the tornado shelter and the door rattling. It was truly incredible / terrifying. When we came out of the cellar it was like being put in a different part of the world, 4 houses down it was completely leveled. . You would get lost because everything you remembered in the neighborhood as reference points was destroyed. Went through it in 2013 too. Finally got the hell out of Moore hahahah.
Even though I am not from the area; I like to think of Moore, Oklahoma as a nice place to live and raise a family despite being practically synonymous with large, long-track, violent and destructive tornadoes.
You could take no moore
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@@michaellovely6601the bond must be strong in that community after so much tragedy they faced together ❤
I can't imagine how transformative of an experience these tornadoes must have been for you and your community. You must've learned a lot about life and what it means to truly be alive in ways that the vast majority of people will never experience. City of soldiers we can all learn from. I am so weak in comparison and I can't imagine facing this tragedy once, much less twice. Not to mention close calls like El Reno must have been really hard as well. I'm so obsessed with researching tornadoes and the impact they have because I just want to gain a glimmer of understanding as to what it must be like to live there. I've been so sheltered and spoiled but I'm still an anxious mess. I'm hoping exercising my cognitive empathy with this research will help me put life into perspective more and make me a better stronger person like you guys. Thank you for sharing your experience and know that there are people out there who look up to you and admire you for surviving and prevailing
I had a group project in my Weather and Climate class where we used both the 1999 and 2013 Moore tornadoes as examples on how meteorologists observe the climatology for the prediction of severe weather and tornados and how they use technology to warn the public ahead of time with the looming threat of tornadoes.
Ironically, we did the presentation 24 years to the date of the Bridge Creek-Moore F5. What an absolute monster this tornado was.
Whoa! Someone on Quora asked why the Joplin, Missouri tornado on May 22nd, 2011 was so much more deadly than the Moore, Oklahoma tornado on May 20th, 2013 despite both being rated as EF-5 tornadoes by the National Weather Service offices in Springfield, Missouri and Norman, Oklahoma respectively. This comes down to six key factors:
1.) The Joplin tornado formed too quickly for the National Weather Service office in Springfield, MO to issue a Tornado Emergency for Joplin even though they had issued a Tornado Warning for Jasper County.
2.) The tornado formed right outside of Joplin and cut right through the city before dissipating upon leaving Joplin.
3.) Prior to May 22nd; Joplin hadn't been hit by a significant tornado since May 5th, 1971. As a result the residents of Joplin assumed that the geographical landscape of southwestern Missouri functioned as a natural shield from tornadoes. Joplin is rather close to the Ozark Mountains; so the terrain is rather hilly and mountainous.
4.) Many residents of Joplin ignored the tornado warnings when they were issued due to having been desensitized from the city issuing too many false alarms.
5.) When the tornado sirens in Joplin were first sounded at 5:17 PM Central Time it gave the residents of Joplin seventeen minutes to take shelter. By the time the tornado sirens began wailing a second time at 5:34 PM it was too late to do anything because the tornado was already on the ground and moving through the city.
6.) By far the biggest contributing factor is that the Joplin tornado was hidden in very heavy rain and difficult to see.
By comparison, the residents of Moore, Oklahoma are extremely weather-wise and fully aware of the potential severity of tornadoes because their city is practically synonymous with violent and destructive tornadoes. When the National Weather Service office in Norman, OK issued a Tornado Watch for much of the central part of the state at 1:10 PM Central Time; the three major TV stations in Oklahoma City (NBC affiliate KFOR Channel 4, ABC affiliate KOCO Channel 5, and CBS affiliate KWTV Channel 9) promptly suspended regular programming and went into wall-to-wall coverage of the weather. Meanwhile, the city's Fox affiliate KOKH Channel 25 and their Telemundo affiliate KTUZ Channel 30 began covering the weather when the first thunderstorms erupted southwest of Oklahoma City. People in Moore knew that they had to stay calm but be vigilant as they began to take shelter. Parents who were at work in Oklahoma City began racing to Moore in order to pick up their children from schools in Moore and get them home. In an episode of a show on The Weather Channel called "Tornado Alley: Real Time Tornado" that profiled the Moore tornado in 2013 I was awestruck by the story of a man named Sam Peña. Sam displayed nearly superhuman abilities to keep his son Benji as well as Benji's friends and classmates safe by using all of his psychical strength to hold up a cinder block wall to keep them safe as they took shelter from the storm in a boys bathroom at Briarwood Elementary School. Despite what people say; Sam doesn't consider himself a hero, saying that he was doing what any parent in his position would have done. In my opinion, Sam should have been awarded a Medal of Valor by Moore's mayor Glenn Lewis for risking his own life to save the lives of not only his son but also his son's friends and classmates. Another story of survival at Briarwood Elementary School was that of a woman named Robin Dziedzic. Robin was a fifth grade teacher at Briarwood Elementary School and she was sheltering in a girls bathroom with several students who were crying and borderline hysterical. When the tornado hit the school; Robin screamed bloody murder. The only way I can describe her screaming is like she was being tortured in a horror movie. However, she eventually pulled herself together and reassured the students the tornado was almost over. Once the tornado had passed over the school and she could see the students were safe; Robin opened the bathroom door and cautiously looked into the hallway to see if she could get the students in the bathroom out of the building to safety, but nothing could have mentally prepared Robin for what she saw and heard the moment she opened the door: the school was flat out destroyed and she could hear children screaming and crying. After having a second mental breakdown Robin and her fellow Briarwood teachers sprang into action and began trying to get the students to safety. The day after the tornado; Robin returned to the school as a means of accepting what she had experienced. Robin shot footage of the school on her phone and showed images of things such as the first grade wing of the school having been destroyed, a car flung into the classroom of her colleague Mrs. Goodman, white X's spray painted onto doors indicating that the first responders had checked the rooms for any loss of life, the bathrooms where she and her students were sheltering, and a little hallway off the main hallway where the students were initially taking shelter and she was text messaging parents and friends to let them know what was going on until the power had been knocked out. Eventually Robin arrived at the door to her classroom. Robin was understandably saddened by this because as a teacher her classroom was a second home for herself and her students and she felt a sense of tremendous loss seeing her classroom destroyed. By far the most eerie footage of Robin's classroom was that of the clock on the wall stopped at the time of the tornado striking the school and the binders of her students still sitting on top of their desks undisturbed as though nothing had occurred.
@@michaellovely6601well written thank you often forget that Joplin was a bit more fatal than Moore but makes total sense as to why thank you for taking the time to write this ❤
This is just unbelievable, some of the footage that I never knew existed was showed here.
I have never thought that a video like this would ever come out, this is time-accurate too, which makes this one the best ever made.
I was under the bridge at Shields and I-35 that day. By the Grace of God, I was one of two people that walked out from underneath the bridge. One young lady from Marlow Oklahoma lost her life as I watched her body fly by me. Very sad day indeed
What happened there? Couldn't the drivers see a tornado in the distance headed towards the highway they were driving on? It's very flat and not many trees. Why didn't they just pull over way back when they realized it was on a direction to pass in front of them. If you keep driving you are racing a tornado to the highway. Every time I see a tornado cross a highway in these videos there are cars driving by right up until the last second. In the Moore 2013 tornado there is a car inside the debris, it just made it before it crossed the road. Why do people not stop, pull over and let it pass way in front of them, they seem to want to beat it to the highway so they don't have to stop.
For the people who pulled under the overpass when the tornado was still far away, once they noticed it was on a direct intercept course for the overpass why didn't they just drive away?
You most definitely was not please stop your ignorant lying 😂
@@joelrivardguitarJesus dude go ask the people in 9/11 why didn't they just take the day off work
@@wotan_nightshade Because no one could see that coming. On highways in stormchasing videos, other vehicles drive right at tornadoes headed for the highway up until the last second. Stormchasers often pull over and wait or drive slow and if the tornado is approaching the highway they stop and let it pass. If the tornado is headed directly at them they drive forward or backward. It's done all the time. These people saw a tornado miles out in the distance and panicked, parked and climbed up onto the overpass.
Unfortunately, the tornado was headed right for the pass. Had they just kept driving, they would have been miles away.
You can survive a tornado on the highway by staying relatively calm, pulling over and watching it's direction. When you are moving you cannot tell which direction it's going if it's far away. But the amount of cars who just keep driving as one is clearly headed directly at a highway or road is a needless risk. You can see the Moore tornado headed towards the highway for miles but tons of traffic just kept on goin. Lives can be saved by not taking these risks. It happened in several spots in 99. By the time they got to the area where the tornado was going to cross they hit traffic because people abandoned their cars up ahead. Leaving a bunch of cars stuck in the path. Do not try to beat a tornado headed directly for the road you are on.
Nothing here requires pre-cognition.
I was a kid when this happened. I remember being inside Heritage Park Mall in Midwest City as the tornado started to dissipate and passed directly overhead. A lot of us that were in that emergency shelter hallway stepped out to look up through the skylight as it passed over and you could see the circulation through the glass. I just remember being terrified as we heard the sound grow louder as it approached, the relief after it passed, and the laughter we got after we walked back to my dad's car to see a comically large pair of tighty whiteys sitting on his hood.
Thank you for that story, I will add it to my mental list of some of the funniest stuff found after tornadoes. We need more positive stories like this as a sort of break from all the trauma
This has to be the most incredible tornado analysis video on UA-cam. The syncing and quality/quantity of footage are all unbelievable. Job well done, subbed.
My grandma was the librarian at Bridge Creek when this happened, she was one of the few teachers who had to identify the students and parents that didn’t make it.
Damn.
Gotta be unbelievable hard. She must be really strong, I don't know if I could handle it.
That had to be an absolutely brutal experience
I was between 89th and 104th and penn. I was one of 28 people stuffed in a 12 person shelter at my grandmas house. It was absolutely terrifying. Me and a friend went looking for our friends after. Once we left the area, it took us three days to get back home. Everywhere was closed. I had a basketball in my truck. My friend put it under her shirt to pretend she was pregnant. We convinced a firefighter to let us back in because she “needed “ meds. The things we saw will never leave my mind.
My boyfriend and I snuck into some of the Moore damage during the shut down and quickly regretted it. We never did anything but look and the images haunted me for months. 😢
@@mangos2888 Yeah I bet that's surreal. Your brain has a hard time processing it because you know it's not supposed to look like that
This is some amazing work! This is definitely the best analysis video of any tornado that I've seen, I really hope this video gains some major traction! Keep the great work up!
We really appreciate that. Thank you!
Tornado Forensics lives!!
Whats up Tornado Forensics. Patiently waiting for your next upload!!
I was going to post that this is right up there with Tornado Forensics’s quality. Even they think so, evidently. Lol.
Wow!! Awesome video. I am looking forward to more videos in the future if this level of quality is maintained
The OKC TV stations did a great job. However, just as it petered out in west Midwest City, it recycled, and dropped another tornado at SE15th and Anderson Rd. in east Midwest City. This tornado tracked across eastern Oklahoma County, and hit downtown Choctaw. The stations were so focused on the devastation and video that was coming in, they completely missed this tornado.
I don't think News 9 was that extremely focused on the destruction in OKC, My grandmother stopped watching KFOR when they mostly ignored the Pink, OK Tornado.
The fact that around bridge creek it undergone that cycle and entered its most violent phase just before it hit bridge creek, was absolutly insane
i'm a junior moving on to be a senior, and meteorology has been a love of mine for years. seeing the way this tornado played out years before i was born is absolutely fascinating. hope to see another video like this, you did amazing work on this.
rest in peace to all those who passed on this day.
Epic video. Most documentaries on large natural disasters like this concentrate on a highlight reel for sensationalism, but you've done all the finer details justice. It's important to get the whole picture when dissecting such an event, and you've pulled this off in spades. Well done.
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Excellent production. Enjoyed the storm tracking graphics with the vehicles on the map as well as the stills matching up with the damage areas. I can’t image the terror experienced that day. Hugs to the people commenting here that went through it.
This is a great video, the map tracking the tornado and storm chasers really puts into perspective how close they get. Also displays how helpful they are during these tornado emergencies.
This IS, by FAR, the BEST video presentation of this MASSIVE tornado!
VERY WELL done Sir!
Seeing the lightning on all 4 screens synced from 43:55 to 44:05 was incredible
This storm produced the most impressive hook echo you will ever see.
This is why i wish the Jarrell,TX tornado had a DOW on the scene that day. The CAPE in the atmosphere was over 5,000 J/KG for this tornado on May 3 1999.
The CAPE in Jerrall,TX was over 7,000 J/KG.
Jarrel was one of the strangest tornadoes ever for the sheer power it had with little wind sheer in place, the primary threat that day wasn't even tornadoes due to that reason, large hail was the main threat, I reckon this was stronger but then again its hard to know cause jarrel had violent motion, but many say its destruction was much more severe due to its forward speed of 5mph in some areas
@@Michael-gi5th It also moved southwest instead of the usual north east
It all falls on the conditions. The CAPE is just the available energy. Some pretty powerful tornadoes have happened with as little as 3,000 and under. Under similar conditions,to the May 3rd, and with the available energy it could have been insane but it takes a lot more than just CAPE to make a monster. Jarrell was a freak in any way you look at it but its greatest power was the fact that it barely moved compared to most. That alone gave the wind a long period with which to do more damage. Truth be told, the closest storm to the 1999 may 3rd storm was in damn near the same place. 14 years later another monster appeared
CAPE is nothing without storm relative helicity, wind shear, and lack of convective inhibition.
This is a first (for me) as far as a bird's eye view of location synced with video of this horrific event. After watching anything and everything related countless times in the two decades (and change) since, the rare new perspective you've provided is outstanding and much appreciated!
I still remember like it was yesterday; I was at a bar called Davey's Uptown in KC when the storms rolled in (presumably remnants of those downstream responsible for this carnage earlier in OKC) and the building across the street was struck by lightning shortly after.
It was simultaneusly a deafening, mortar round-like effect and a chilling echo that I'll never forget, forever punctuated by what I saw on the news not two hours later.
Great work. Thank you for all your effort with putting this together. I really appreciate the personalizing and respect you gave to the unfortunate victims of this day. Would love to see you do the 2013 moore tornado next. Or Joplin.
I lived in Ada at the time, but was in Moore visiting old school friends. That day started so beautiful but turned ugly fast. I never saw the sky so black from a storm. We got very lucky with it missing us by 3 blocks. We wouldn't have survived if we took a direct hit. A lot of people died that day. I'll never forget seeing the human silhouettes outlined in mud along under Shields on ramp. People took cover there and only one of them, a boy survived. Those outlines stayed there for years.
I'll never forget the total darkness. We were still scrambling in north Norman to find a place. It was surreal!
Kathleen Walton. I can't imagine what poor Levi went through. I wonder if he still lives today and how he's doing
@@stinkyroadhog1347I know levi..
Yes he is alive..
So happy you guys survived and I'm so sorry for your losses and the traumatic things you've witnessed ❤ I really admire you survivors. You are made of tougher stuff and the whole world can learn a lot from you about strength and the will to prevail. Moore may be cursed by tornadoes but it is absolutely blessed by its people
This is one of, if not THE BEST analysis of this monster tornado. You did a fantastic job! Keep it up bud!
I lived in Chickasha Oklahoma at the time. I sat on my front porch and watched this tornado go by right outside of town. It was only a F3 at that time.
Freakin unreal dude
Dang, that's wild
I lived through the April 27, 2011 Alabama F4-5. Until you’ve been there you don’t understand. So much respect for anyone that has to see this
I think I'm so obsessed with tornadoes and the aftermath precisely because I don't understand them. I try and I try but I can never get that click that I need to complete the puzzle in my mind. This is a huge test of my cognitive empathy and I'm pushing it to my limits. A lot of people think it's morbid to be so interested in this, but I think for the average person, it's the opposite. I want to relate to you in a way that people who simply feel without thinking can't. I think without feeling until I get enough information to "understand" what the experience really must've been like. This requires studying the nature of tornadoes, the event in question, the impact on victims, and the victims themselves. Simply hearing a headline won't help. I want to get as close as I can to feeling as you all must have felt so I can grow in strength and wisdom along with you. I am so sheltered and spoiled and weak and I really want to learn from you all as much as I can without facing the same trauma myself. I know I'll never ever truly understand unless I go through it myself but I really admire you survivors and I look up to you and your fortitude. I am so inspired by how you pick up and move on with your lives, especially if you don't move and you simply accept the risks of staying. That is a courage and loyalty most people will never achieve. Thank you for sharing your experience
Smithville tornado was a monster, pushing nearly 300mph winds
@@artemis8396I've been through tornados. It's like you're working on a school final project and your laptop froze and crashed and is glitching out and you might lose your save file and fail the class and getting expelled from school or it might unfreeze and you get a B+.
It's like you're just living your life and reality itself glitches and crashes and freezes and you might die and/or have your house demolished or you might not be effected other than really heavy rain and maybe some dents on your car. There's nothing you can do. You just sit there. It's not like being bombed by Russia it's like the earth is just fucked up outside. It's not like a tragedy like 9/11 you're watching on the news, it's like the world outside your door has decided to turn evil and malfunction. There's no evil mastermind or enemy subjecting you to this, it's the same outdoors you were enjoying your sons soccer game at the day before, but it has turned into madness and the only villain is an ambiguous force, Un uncaring unfeeling remorseless relentless mother nature.
This was... amazing Jesse. I can't even describe how good this is. Please, keep it up.
Melissa:
Is there an F5? What would that be like?
Jason 'Preacher' Rowe:
The finger of god
This was tragic but a very well done video. Congrats to whoever put this together or those who put this together
I love these videos, I listen to them while I'm at work. The EAS warnings are very unsettling but I still think it really adds a level to the video/audio. 10/10 keep up the great work!
I lived on the second story of an apartment complex in Norman when this hit. My first apartment out of state & away from home. We thought Norman was going to be hit, for sure, cause they kept saying Norman was a possibility, and Gary Englund was uh'ing his words through the whole thing. We hid in an interior room with his voice blasting from the closest tv on max volume. We had no idea where the points of reference were since we'd only been in the state since February. I couldn't believe how few shelter areas there were where we were at...and this video shows just how slow it moved, but never letting up. I'll never forget it. Ever.
I don't comment a lot but man this is a phenomenal video. I know this took a lot of work.
I hope you do many more of these.
RIP to everyone lost in Oklahoma that day.
300 MPH winds is absolutely insane. edit: kinda hard to watch this video with so many ads
321 mph revised data ;)
@@sahebplays3589 still absolutely nuts.
Fastest winds on Earth...
The creepiest thing about Moore is you can hear there sirens from Norman so I know when they are getting hit
Now that is eerie.
Hell if I heard sirens in Texas I would assume Moore is getting hit by an f7. If you wake up in May in Nova Scotia and there's clouds and there's clouds in the sky you can assume Moore is getting hit by a tornado. If you flip a coin on a Wednesday there's a 75% chance Moore is getting hit with 400mph rotating winds
This is a masterful documentary, the pathing of the tornado and the trackers in real-time with multiple screens of the coverage really illustrates the tension of this destructive day. Amazing work, looking forward to future videos.
I wouldn't live in Moore OK, Joplin MO or Tuscaloosa AL if my life depended on it. All 3 are tornado magnets! Great vid, btw!
With Moore they are in tornado alley. With Joplin they have had 3 tornadoes touchdown since the 1970's. The 2011 Joplin tornado is the deadliest of the 3.
I lived in the OKC area for 4.5 and saw Moore get eliminated twice. I never understood how people could move there....that said, one of my good friends from the area at the time ended up in Time magazine from the 2013 tornado, with her youngest son one of the survivors of the elementary school hit.
@@mangos2888 Forgive me for asking; but which one of the schools? Briarwood or Plaza Towers?
Tanner alabama got hit with 3 F5s
@@michaellovely6601 There were no fatalities at Briarwood. Perhaps she was referring to Plaza Towers as she mentioned that he was a survivor. I realize that all at Briarwood were "survivors", but my first thought went to Plaza Towers.
Fascinating and the detail is amazing. I would love to see a comparison with the route the May 2013 F5 took.
This is such an awesome documentary! This is almost on the levels of Thunderbolt 1000 Siren Productions and the documentaries he makes on train disasters. Keep up the amazing work Jesse, Ben, Tofu, and to you too Jlkillen. Keep up the awesome work, and I’m excited for new “Analyzing Disasters” Documentaries.
AYOOOO U ALSO KNOW HIM?!
HOLD UP THOSE LEGENDS RUN THIS CHANNEL?! AYOOO
Yup. Both the “Storm Chasing with Jesse” series and this channel are run by the exact same people. Except Johnson.
So deeply emotional and moving. God bless all those lost, all their loved ones, all rescuers & responders, all the storm TV chasers, forecasters and the communities. ❤
I love the big map showing the track. It would be really cool if the locations of each of the videos were marked on it, even if only in a general area, so we know which direction they're viewing the twister from.
Some have uncertain locations.
Fantastic production. I doubt anybody could've done this better than y'all.
These videos help us to realize how powerful and dangerous nature can be… I love the moment-by-moment formats…
My heart breaks for all the people impacted by this.. the devastation, the loss of life, the intense fear, the deep grief, the aftermath… I can only imagine what that feels like and what I imagine is profound…
Crazy how they encouraged people to take cover under bridges tho..
I used to subscribe to National Geographic magazine and remember reading about the El Reno tornado and the deaths of the storm chasers and seeing their mangled vehicle & also about tornadoes where people sheltered under bridges & overpasses & seeing a crumpled car smashed up in there right where people were sheltering.. and also the sad story of the mother who got pulled out from under there away from her husband & children..
Hopefully we can all learn from these events - not just what we ought to do to protect ourselves during the events but also that life is fleeting and we never know when or how it will end for any of us.. let’s make each moment matter & enjoy life as it happens, and cherish the people in our lives & tell them often that we love them.
My niece died tragically at age 18 from homicide in 2020… we just assume we will see people again & that they will live long.. but that’s not always the case. I had been thinking of her days before she died and had wanted to reach out to her to chat & maybe a visit, but I didn’t.. and I truly regret not following my gut instinct to connect with her…
Please make time for the people in your lives. And follow your gut feelings! Our instincts are not wrong! People and relationships are what truly matter & what gives life meaning.
Blessings to you all ❤
Great detailed vid! 👍🏽 U should do as it happened for all the big tornadoes like Moore 2013, Joplin 2011, Elreno 2013, Tuscaloosa 2011 and Greensburg 2007 and there r many more good ones to do but there r a few notable ones.
I first had seen these overlay style videos done with video game story and pvp breakdowns, and it makes me so happy to see the template get used outside of games for real world events. I had seen it with a few officer involved shootings, then with 9/11 footage, and now I've seen it with weather chasing.
Please continue to make videos, Ive never seen analysis videos like this before. I already know so much about these significant tornadoes but these videos make me feel like im hearing it for the first time again
Excellent work. I’ve learnt a lot about this tornado and this video tops it. To have the power to move a rail car that far! Incredible. Cheers from Australia.
Subbed and may you get thousands more subs.
This is by far one of the best tornado videos I’ve seen and I spend hours watching them. I can’t wait for more!
Please make a video for the 2013 F5 in Moore. This video was done perfectly with the syncing. I love the pictures showing the damage as the tornado graph moves. Well done!!
That would be interesting. People in Moore, Oklahoma took the May 20th, 2013 tornado with an increased level of seriousness when Mike Morgan (the chief meteorologist at Oklahoma City's NBC affiliate KFOR channel 4) admitted on air that he never wanted to say it but he had no choice but to do so: it was May 3rd, 1999 all over again.
At 39:40 they talk about the second tornado that hit Mulhall, it was a monster too but largely ignored because it went NW of the OKC metro, while the other went through OKC.
Phenomenal work and production on this.
Great work Jesse 👏
This is exactly what I've wanted for so many storms. They're living breathing terrifying things, and it's hard to form the entire event in youe head. Keep up the good work!
This was spectacular. Best tornado analysis video I have ever seen. Can't wait to see more videos from you!
This is one of the best tornado synced/as it happened video! i have never see someone did this with a tornado! Thank you for inspiring me to mix this wth another synced dash board video!
Waited 12 days to watch this because I wanted to be able to totally focus on it. I love how you do these videos, thank you so much!
This tornado was just... a monster...
Please do more of these. The path synced up to the audio/video is amazing. I'd start a Patreon if I were you, you'd get a lot of support.
Great work, that home footage at 29:27 at bottom right hand corner I will never forget, seen it so many times and recently found that footage with sound included
This is an incredible video. Thank you for putting so much work into it and for remembering the victims.
I love these tornado videos please do more EF4/5s like Moore 2013 Joplin/Greensburg/Xania etc
I cant wait to see the El Reno as it happened. This is amazing
Wow, I just found your channel because of this video and let me just say this is incredible. Amazing to see such great quality and in depth coverage like this. Definitely have a new subscriber here!!
Great stuff! Scary powerful tornado! Really liked the position on map correlated with the footage being shown. Really really well done! I didn’t know the land scar in areas was 3 feet deep. That’s absolutely mind blowing power.
If you ever get into hurricanes - Hurricane Michael was a late season “forgotten” cat 5 that tore through a land peninsula in St. Joe bay and took 90% of the tree canopy for miles. Mother Nature doesn’t play!
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Jaw dropping compilation of the start to finish of the storm. Thank you for this. I've probably watched it all the way through at least 3 times. Also excellent use of the music to really demonstrate how dreadful this thing was. When I think about this video this music immediately pops into my head.
the 1999 and 2013 Moore tornados were absolutely insane and i feel so bad for all the destruction they caused. and lets not forget the EL Reno unofficial EF5 that caused alot of chaos and destruction as well. Oklahoma is a beautiful state but man is it just a cesspool of tornado activity. i wish for nothing but the best for the people of Oklahoma as they have to deal with the absurd strengths of these various twisters every year.
@@sirxlla EF5 buddy.
Of course an officially rated EF-5 tornado struck El Reno, Oklahoma on May 24th, 2011. Not many people outside of Oklahoma know about it because it occurred just two days after the tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri.
Thank you! I just moved to Moore and never really knew the path it took.
I'm hoping you do more of these, the others from the 1999 May outbreak possibly since the controversy around if Mulhaull was more violent than Bridge Creek, and the Stroud and Cimmaron City tornadoes as well as the others in the outbreak get overshadowed by the Moore/Briddge Creek tornado, that whole outbreak is terrifying. It gets overshadowed by one tornado, the way people who are not weather nerds or just want to get eyeballs on, focus on Tuscaloosa when discussing late April 2011 and ignore every other tornado
Amazing thorough analysis!
Holy shit this is some amazing work compiling this. Easily one of the best tornado videos I have seen.
FYI, an empty railroad grain car weighs about 30 tons so it would take a pretty powerful tornado to throw one a couple hundred yards.
My friend had a f150 nascar truck. Brand new and awesome! He found it 3 weeks later 30’ up in a tree, 3 miles away. It was unrecognizable. Other than the vin and his wallet in the console, he’d never have found it.
@@stevenpage8847. That is wild. Any idea how much the truck weighed?
This is one hell of a good documentary dude, keep this up!
Had a basset hound that paced back and forth for hours that day. She didn't dig storms but she def never acted anything like that before or after, just that afternoon. She 100% knew something before any of us. We lived about an hour southeast of Moore at the time.
I had a cocker spaniel that sensed an earthquake in northern IL where we very seldom have tremors. He was agitated and barked just before we felt the shaking.
@@feoltmanns7624 they def have senses that we don't, pretty neat really.
Crazy how you can see the tornadoes path on the satellite map above as it goes through Moore, over 2 decades later
The voice on the NOAA EAS Tornado Warning and Emergency gives me chills. I remember my first weather radio had that voice. Bring back the original voice.
Definitely have to do the 1997 Jarrell, TX tornado next
Oh man, it makes me feel sick everytime they tell people to shelter under an overpass.
What is worth mentioning is that the May 3, 1999 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma impacted Kelley Elementary School.
Amazing production and real time analysis!
You can actually see/hear the interference from the tornado causing electrical flashes in the analog TV video. Makes it feel so real.
Babe wake up a new analyzing disasters video dropped
Really strong work. Looking forward to more videos from this channel!
Been waiting years for someone to this thanks!!
Hearing Gary England talking to the kids that are home alone and telling them how to survive this thing gets me every time.
When this system came through where I live in NC I looked at the clouds and thought, this is the system that caused the tornado in Moore.
Amazing work you should do Joplins tornado
Thank you. This video is amazing and thorough. More please!
Great, great work. Your efforts were rewarded! Thank you, looking forward to more!
I lived 10 miles away from this. It was crazy... both of em.
Incredible video! I haven’t watched the full video yet but I can tell this one’s gonna be a beast! May 3, 1999 was a very catastrophic tornado
Next do the Joplin Ef-5 tornado or the April 27, 2011 tornado outbreaks
Incredible!
Even better would be a video on the May 20, 2013 EF5 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma and the ways in which it is similar to and different from this beast on May 3, 1999.
@@michaellovely6601 oh ye that would also be good
This is incredibly awesome work! Nice
This man needs more subscribers.
This is an amazing channel! Keep up the great work! This concept would be awesome with some hurricanes too
Man this is very high quality work! You definitely have a future with these types of videos!
You deserve a new sub, this was fantastic and seems to be very accurate. Keep it up with more tornado videos, great job !
I lived in the Parkview neighborhood on that day. I have pictures of that rail car. The rest of the rail car was found a whole mile from the tracks. I stood in the center of the path and could see for miles in either direction. I thought I was going to die that day.
Excellent work compiling all this!
This is a damn cool video. I've seen several videos synced but never the path as illustrated. Very very cool.
Will there be more of these because this was incredible