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  • Опубліковано 30 лип 2019
  • Tornados are unpredictable, volatile and lethal. They leave behind obliterated towns and bewildered scientists. Each one is unique, most are dangerous and a few are deadly.
    The Earth’s titanic forces can rip apart the land, homes and people’s lives. This series exposes their killer characteristics and why they can be so devastating.
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  • @Bravo-Too-Much
    @Bravo-Too-Much 4 роки тому +3070

    If the tornado looks like it’s standing still, it’s coming directly at you.
    That’s an old Tornadian Alley Proverb.

    • @kingMT514
      @kingMT514 4 роки тому +54

      Aldo the Apache Right you are

    • @MichSignMan
      @MichSignMan 4 роки тому +94

      I heard if you stare at a tornado, you can go blind!

    • @NightBlade-up7cf
      @NightBlade-up7cf 4 роки тому +11

      Aldo the Apache fax

    • @heyjessie884
      @heyjessie884 4 роки тому +6

      Wow didn't know that

    • @angelou7774
      @angelou7774 4 роки тому +45

      👏👏👏👏 exactly, a tornado never stays still!

  • @JDubyuh
    @JDubyuh 4 роки тому +524

    Amazing to go from a meteorologist explaining the science to the sherif on the phone saying, " get everybody inside cause this is one big sumbitch."

  • @ChristChickAutistic
    @ChristChickAutistic 2 місяці тому +41

    I live in Dixie Alley, and tomorrow is the 58th anniversary of the Candlestick Park tornado, an F5 that deciminated Candlestick Park, Jackson Mississippi, March 3, 1966. My daddy was at Candlestick that day and survived, which I'm thankful for, because I was born almost 5 months later. Daddy went Home in 2012, and he never forgot to his dying day. I was raised with a healthy respect for those monsters.

    • @diazfan5986
      @diazfan5986 19 днів тому +3

      I live in medford, oregon my daughter was born in Wapappelo, MO and a tornado came down their driveway and I cried for 2 days I was so scared, I wish I were the Oregon billionaire cause I would use my money to help rebuild

  • @imogenetabion6120
    @imogenetabion6120 7 місяців тому +21

    The mighty power of nature is awe-inspiring. My heart goes out to those whose lives have been affected by these tragic events.

  • @MsCheermom2007
    @MsCheermom2007 4 роки тому +768

    I was a firefighter when the Jarrell tornado happened, I worked triage and it was horrible. I still have nightmares. I pray I never see anything like that again.

    • @Ainaes-Feline
      @Ainaes-Feline 3 роки тому +42

      Tatea PTSS you have to ask? Imagine bodies torn to shreds and you have to plug arms, heads etc out of trees, shrubs and God knows what else floating around under broken and demolished things. I wouldn’t sleep ever again. Probably end up alcoholic just to try to forget that nightmare.

    • @michaeladimick8795
      @michaeladimick8795 3 роки тому +64

      @Tatea the triage unit are the first to receive victims after the search and rescue. The Jarrell tornado literally ripped people’s hair from their heads, so I can only imagine how horrific the poor victims must have looked.

    • @tomekacollins4097
      @tomekacollins4097 3 роки тому +35

      Thank you for your service

    • @shanks4391
      @shanks4391 3 роки тому +10

      ❤❤I'm sorry

    • @4TIMESAYEAR
      @4TIMESAYEAR 3 роки тому +11

      I hope you never do as well. I can't imagine. :'(

  • @astro0125
    @astro0125 3 роки тому +1154

    "And killed their dog, Sugar"
    .......annnddddddd that's enough depression for this fine 3am morning

  • @Carmxdy
    @Carmxdy 2 роки тому +633

    I love how the cop drives towards the tornado like he’s gonna arrest it😂😭

    • @into_the_void
      @into_the_void 2 роки тому +22

      Nah . He just gonna choke it out with his knee

    • @Stagcraftstream
      @Stagcraftstream 2 роки тому +49

      @@into_the_void It has committed multiple felonies today!

    • @CrustyUgg
      @CrustyUgg 2 роки тому +19

      That’s what cops do.. they go towards danger

    • @JRG_-dg5dt
      @JRG_-dg5dt 2 роки тому +4

      *do the stupidest thing possible in that moment, is what you mean.. that and beat their wives

    • @tiltingatentropy1215
      @tiltingatentropy1215 2 роки тому +1

      ​@@JRG_-dg5dtAssuming that is true, what should we do about it?

  • @kylewalker9062
    @kylewalker9062 Рік тому +140

    Here I am from Dallas, TX watching this documentary after 12 tornadoes ripped through north Texas a couple days ago. I’ve been living in Dallas for 17 years and have been awakened by so many tornado sirens, albeit I have never seen a tornado. A part of me has always wanted to see one in person from a distance, but I have come to realize my naive stupidity.

    • @jimmyjon9970
      @jimmyjon9970 Рік тому +6

      It's a horrifying yet beautiful sight

    • @timcarroll6795
      @timcarroll6795 Рік тому +9

      I spent 34 years in the NTX metro and it's a regular occurence, but the past 8-10 years there've been WAY more actual notable tornados. Just nuts.

    • @GRasputin91
      @GRasputin91 Рік тому +1

      I still want to see one. I would give my life for tornado. I would die for tornado

    • @sutton_random
      @sutton_random Рік тому +1

      😂 lol yea

    • @soundofperserverance3363
      @soundofperserverance3363 Рік тому +3

      @@GRasputin91 hopefully your wish comes true soon 💀

  • @illenialLisette
    @illenialLisette 3 роки тому +856

    My mother lived through a couple tornados. She always told me that in these documentaries they never get the sound right. She said its a sound you never forget.

    • @Antelopesinsideme
      @Antelopesinsideme 3 роки тому +53

      Like a freight train driving all around you?

    • @illenialLisette
      @illenialLisette 3 роки тому +67

      @@Antelopesinsideme she said no, to the train sound. She said its different. She couldn't describe it.

    • @Antelopesinsideme
      @Antelopesinsideme 3 роки тому +54

      @@illenialLisette oh ok thanks for asking her. I've heard from others that it's a similar sound to a freight train

    • @Karrambide
      @Karrambide 2 роки тому +44

      I got so scared because thw winds at my house were so bad it made mr think i was in a tornado. I was in a tornado when i was a kid. The sound is definitely something u never forget.

    • @Not_your_mom1986
      @Not_your_mom1986 2 роки тому +43

      Its a sound that you never forget or really be able to mimic.

  • @marcboss6
    @marcboss6 4 роки тому +3112

    If i was to build a home in the plains states i would build like a hobbit. All you would see of my house is a mailbox

    • @ragestorms1942
      @ragestorms1942 4 роки тому +249

      Cool you could put a window in and watch the worms crawl around

    • @oldauntzibby4395
      @oldauntzibby4395 4 роки тому +181

      That's my ideal home too-- an earth-sheltered solar passive house. That design would also be good during blizzards and fire. However many places in the west have soil that isn't compatible for digging down. In some places the soil is too sandy so it collapses if you try to dig into it, or the water table is so high that you'd have water enter. Where I live the clay soil expands when wet and contracts when dry so basements don't fare well and hillsides slump when we have excessively wet years. Also we have low levels of naturally occurring radiation (radon) that will stay in a basement or underground structure unless it is purposefully ventilated. An earth-sheltered house would be feasible but expensive and would have to be designed well depending on the circumstances. This is also no doubt why there are so many people without basements (cellars) or below-ground storm shelters.

    • @tfdallas1774
      @tfdallas1774 4 роки тому +56

      Little do you know we are all hobbits. We all have outer shell homes but our real homes are our basements

    • @EverythingYouNeedToKnowEYN2K
      @EverythingYouNeedToKnowEYN2K 4 роки тому +56

      We do that in the kimberleys in Australia.
      Just because it's so hot! may as well build down

    • @mexcanfun4498
      @mexcanfun4498 4 роки тому +12

      My house was made by fire.

  • @5funnyCats
    @5funnyCats 2 місяці тому +148

    Anyone else preparing for tornado season 2024 by watching this?😂

    • @FreeMenDieFree
      @FreeMenDieFree Місяць тому +6

      Here in Northern Indiana I live 10 minutes from Koontz Lake, where Palm Sunday largely happened. I also was on a camping trip when I was 10 where a tornado hit my camp ground in French Lick Indiana. Every year I remind myself it's that time of year

    • @jeffreyeutsey6778
      @jeffreyeutsey6778 Місяць тому +2

      Hell yeah

    • @GoatPilot04
      @GoatPilot04 Місяць тому +3

      Yoooouuuuu got it, buddy! North Alabama here! It's time to sweep out the shelter! That time has actually passed as we've been under a SEVERE tornado warning just a few weeks ago, and one was radar indicated going directly at then over our home, but THANKFULLY never touched down.

    • @OhioSally
      @OhioSally Місяць тому +2

      Respect of. The power and the unknown.

    • @amyyoungblood2256
      @amyyoungblood2256 23 дні тому +2

      It's la Nina this year, I'd definitely take it more seriously this year.

  • @hillbilly4christ638
    @hillbilly4christ638 Рік тому +25

    I was next to a tornado when I was six and I still have nightmares about twisters. I am 63 now and it still happens from time to time.

  • @MWoods-rs4wp
    @MWoods-rs4wp 4 роки тому +1022

    Sadly, the Jarrell Tx tornado was so powerful, that most of the bodies recovered were so unrecognizable, because the wind and sand removed skin and hair.
    So sad.

    • @bowlweevil4161
      @bowlweevil4161 3 роки тому +155

      there were also many body parts picked up all over the site, like fingers, toes, arms feet, etc it was a terrable unbelivable situation

    • @andrewlloyd6764
      @andrewlloyd6764 3 роки тому +81

      Why did you comment this and why did I picture this in my head

    • @crystalpreuett9539
      @crystalpreuett9539 3 роки тому +71

      Those poor people must've thought it was the end of the world! Such a tragedy! 😢

    • @mranderson2215
      @mranderson2215 3 роки тому +37

      Something straight out of a warzone all caused by a thunderstorm

    • @rosiejl2798
      @rosiejl2798 3 роки тому +26

      Dental records still would have been able to be used. Hopefully they have been able to use DNA identification to identify any remaining unidentified remains in the decades since.

  • @wallyman292
    @wallyman292 4 роки тому +1031

    a town of 600, and the sheriff has 65 people in his jail??? There's some southern justice for ya!

    • @zeak166
      @zeak166 4 роки тому +25

      HAHAHAHA! Good one!

    • @Soturi92
      @Soturi92 4 роки тому +78

      wally man the first town was 600 people, the 2nd town which mentioned the jail was 17,000 people lol but I got the joke

    • @wallyman292
      @wallyman292 4 роки тому +10

      @@Soturi92 Ahh. Must have been reading too fast. . . thanks!

    • @michaelwknowles4198
      @michaelwknowles4198 4 роки тому +2

      Right. I thought the same thing. "Southren justice!" Or

    • @old300democrat
      @old300democrat 4 роки тому +4

      That area is just odd....when I lived in borger about 30 mins away and had to drive to pampa to goto Walmart bc borger didn’t have a super center yet

  • @heatherramirez5910
    @heatherramirez5910 8 місяців тому +18

    Born and raised in Plano, TX, lived in Dallas for about 5 years before moving to Sherman...been thru warnings and close calls, saw my first tornado in October 2019...saw it cross 635/75 in my rearview mirror while racing to get home after work...i love watching these beautiful storms but i would prefer to keep watching them from a distance or in the rearview mirror

  • @discojelly
    @discojelly 2 роки тому +29

    Dallas Texas fun fact: Down town Dallas actually has an entire system of underground tunnels built during the cold war where many folks can access from the street. They are still in use today with shops and eateries and can actually keep thousands of people safe in an even such as this one described in the video.

    • @joycebarker1488
      @joycebarker1488 3 місяці тому +2

      Great information ! Thank you for sharing! If a tornado touches down there, then its great to know the people , have a safe place underground to go to!

    • @ChevereJones
      @ChevereJones 3 дні тому

      Oh we have that here in Houston too. It’s almost as if every major city does 🤔

  • @2n2m2ri2
    @2n2m2ri2 4 роки тому +1328

    He keeps saying the tornado rips the roof off, yet you can clearly see the whole house go flying off the ground. It bothers me.

    • @jquest43
      @jquest43 4 роки тому +13

      Relax tard.

    • @adoptdontshop3911
      @adoptdontshop3911 4 роки тому +76

      @@jquest43 How ironic

    • @jquest43
      @jquest43 4 роки тому +7

      @@adoptdontshop3911 yawn

    • @cherylgrimaldo225
      @cherylgrimaldo225 4 роки тому +59

      I thought I was only one that noticed that. 😆

    • @alyssawilson8781
      @alyssawilson8781 4 роки тому +24

      He was talking about an F0 when it ripped off, but only F5s can take homes off their foundations (like in the video). Also it’s now EF for Enhanced Fujita scale.

  • @JillUdart
    @JillUdart 4 роки тому +560

    "It's not THAT the wind blows, it's WHAT the wind blows" - Ron White

    • @old300democrat
      @old300democrat 4 роки тому +6

      Fritch is only 45 mins away from pampa 👀

    • @randylkinzey1817
      @randylkinzey1817 4 роки тому +6

      It doesn't matter how many pushups you did this morning

    • @scottgarwood7384
      @scottgarwood7384 4 роки тому +1

      texasdude85 texasdude85 l

    • @GoldBlueDude
      @GoldBlueDude 4 роки тому +6

      If you get hit by 300mph winds with ZERO debris, you're still gonna fly!!

    • @Tyrunner0097
      @Tyrunner0097 3 роки тому +12

      @@GoldBlueDude Still, you have a better chance of surviving that with no debris. There are many stories of people getting blown away by tornadoes or sucked up and surviving. Some even described how they felt like they were hovering above the ground and rather than being thrown back down, being gently set back down with no injuries other than a few bumps, bruises, and scratches.

  • @rmimpact
    @rmimpact 2 роки тому +13

    This is the first documentary I choose to watch

  • @GothicHellhound
    @GothicHellhound 2 роки тому +16

    I'm presuming the El Reno tornado is on here, if not. That tornado was probably the scariest moment of my life. Over 2 miles wide...what a time to be alive

    • @just_kos99
      @just_kos99 Місяць тому +3

      Yep, 2.6 miles wide at one point. Also killed four storm chasers.

    • @Actually_Woke_6277
      @Actually_Woke_6277 17 днів тому +1

      @@just_kos99three of them seasoned professionals

  • @chrisl218569
    @chrisl218569 4 роки тому +283

    To everyone commenting about joplin or el reno, this was made before that. The upload date means nothing you can tell by the production it was made in the 2000s or early 2010s

    • @allisonbarry720
      @allisonbarry720 4 роки тому +9

      I was thinking that. It's like well this is old lol

    • @tanikahutcherson4839
      @tanikahutcherson4839 4 роки тому +1

      And Joplin was a Tsunami waaaay worse than a tornado

    • @KingmanIII
      @KingmanIII 4 роки тому +22

      @@tanikahutcherson4839 A tsunami is a wave caused by an earthquake. Not even close to the same thing.

    • @tanikahutcherson4839
      @tanikahutcherson4839 4 роки тому

      @@KingmanIII kk

    • @franciscomtz88
      @franciscomtz88 4 роки тому +23

      I’m 26 years old and I remember watching this exact video in my science class in 6th grade..

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 3 роки тому +472

    Life advice: Never be an Uber driver for a storm chaser

    • @netrade3898
      @netrade3898 3 роки тому +25

      Because Mother Nature is a "Lyft" driver in these storms?

    • @coryCuc
      @coryCuc 3 роки тому +12

      @@netrade3898 Nice pun lol.

    • @Warrendeansnipes
      @Warrendeansnipes 3 роки тому +2

      Best career advice I've ever gotten. My question now is why the hell do we need guidance counselors

    • @Warrendeansnipes
      @Warrendeansnipes 3 роки тому

      @@netrade3898 let me respond to that with a mathematical formula
      That joke being the constant (C) and absolutely shity being the variable (v)
      (C x v(C))= (💩 + C×(😁~)
      Well what do you know still equals infinite laughs. I'm going to have my team of mathematicians work on this this. That can't be right

    • @Warrendeansnipes
      @Warrendeansnipes 3 роки тому

      @@netrade3898 I love that Smashing Pumpkins albums

  • @johnshields6852
    @johnshields6852 Рік тому +28

    The Smithville tornado is probably the strongest to ever hit the earth, it gouged into the ground 2 feet deep, ripping up pavement, scouring everything it touched. My heart goes out to anyone who has to endure a tornados fury. 🙏

    • @michaellovely6601
      @michaellovely6601 Рік тому +6

      One photo from the aftermath of the Smithville, Mississippi tornado on April 27, 2011 is that of a red Ford Escape crumpled up like an aluminum soda can on the ground after being flung through the air into the Smithville water tower and leaving a large dent in the tower.

    • @elric5371
      @elric5371 5 місяців тому +1

      That is the Philadelphia tornado, Smithfield had 1 foot of scouring. Woldegk threw debris so high it had 2 inches of ice on.

    • @joycebarker1488
      @joycebarker1488 3 місяці тому +1

      I absolutely agree! My heart and condolences to everyone who had to endure that tornado, as well !

    • @just_kos99
      @just_kos99 Місяць тому +2

      Actually, I just saw something about tornados and there was one in Bangladesh that they think was the most powerful tornado ever.

    • @waxogen
      @waxogen Місяць тому +2

      WHAT IS CAUSING SOUNDS AROUND THE EARTH?
      Friction between the spheres results in world sounds and weather changes. The reason is that the troposphere and stratosphere are joining together The stratosphere is 60 thousand feet above the Earth's surface along the equator, and 40 thousand feet above the poles. The changing of these heights causes friction, thereby creating sounds during this height equalization process. Also causing or resulting in the Earth's global warming and cooling. The sounds will leave when these spheres equalize. The end result is catastrophic weather globally including extremely high seas. Discovered in 2022 by William E. Nelson

  • @thepatriotsfan7127
    @thepatriotsfan7127 Рік тому +55

    As a guy who never went through tornadoes in his life (although, I was real close to experiencing the 2011 super outbreak and an EF3 in June 1st, 2011). It is a very horrifying experience

    • @DrBeckyEm
      @DrBeckyEm Рік тому +6

      Yes we experienced the April 3, 1974 and the April 27th, 2011 super outbreaks. We reside within the tornado alley referred to as Dixie Alley. We are under tornado warning numerous times per year. Just recently had warnings prior to 12/25/2022. Have possibilities again tonight through tomorrow night.

  • @moritzz7574
    @moritzz7574 3 роки тому +373

    It’s a scary fact that the Moor in Oklahoma got hit twice in 14 years by an EF5 tornado

    • @carlmay9532
      @carlmay9532 3 роки тому +23

      They’ve also been hit with an ef3 in 2003 along with several smaller ones in between.

    • @puppyfrappuccinos3903
      @puppyfrappuccinos3903 3 роки тому +43

      Note: I’m never going to Oklahoma.

    • @graceschreckengost3076
      @graceschreckengost3076 3 роки тому +9

      The part of Oklahoma we live in....while I was around we never had a tornado...but we did have a big cloud burst...but I was on a trip in Texas so..I didn't experience it

    • @HippieEraTV
      @HippieEraTV 3 роки тому +3

      @@puppyfrappuccinos3903 its also known as tornado alley oklahoma is

    • @helix2939
      @helix2939 3 роки тому +33

      U know whats weirder moor Oklahoma just rebuilds no matter how many tornadoes flatten it

  • @nukenado9500
    @nukenado9500 4 роки тому +857

    Rip sugar 2004

    • @ellag4184
      @ellag4184 4 роки тому +96

      I woudlve protected my dog with my life idk what these fools were doin

    • @PeaceEcho_
      @PeaceEcho_ 4 роки тому +23

      Lloyd Christmas you know that’s a smile face?

    • @jaydenadamson9586
      @jaydenadamson9586 4 роки тому +7

      @@PeaceEcho_ do you know you put a million sadhappysad faces upon the Americans of the USA?

    • @PeaceEcho_
      @PeaceEcho_ 4 роки тому +7

      Jayden Adamson ?

    • @ooferrell
      @ooferrell 4 роки тому +2

      @@Bravo-Too-Much ......shut up.....

  • @outdoorschick
    @outdoorschick Рік тому +9

    So weird to hear a documentary of American tornadoes while using km know full well, Americans use mph lol

  • @user-jo4mz3ph8m
    @user-jo4mz3ph8m 8 місяців тому +8

    The Smithville tornado could be one of the most powerful ever recorded, carving a 2-foot-deep path into the earth and mercilessly tearing up everything in its way. My thoughts are with those who have faced the destructive force of such storms

    • @tyronemaroney335
      @tyronemaroney335 8 місяців тому

      Truth be told under the old scale it would've been a f3

    • @k5elevencinc0
      @k5elevencinc0 7 місяців тому

      ​@@tyronemaroney335 Can you prove a tornado rated F3 that produced damage near to or what the Smithville tornado produced?

  • @FrostNightVideoProductions
    @FrostNightVideoProductions 4 роки тому +189

    I lived in Murphysboro, Illinois for a time when I was a kid. My next door neighbor was in her nineties and I remember her telling us she survived a tornado as a little girl that tore apart the whole town. It wasn't until a couple of years ago that I found out that was the historical Tri-State tornado she survived, and that I lived in the historical town. I even went to the same elementary school where five kids died.

    • @aewtx
      @aewtx 2 роки тому +3

      Did you know that record of the Tri-State tornado has finally been blown (no pun intended)? Recently there was a quad-state tornado!

    • @seattlejdmcivic
      @seattlejdmcivic 2 роки тому +1

      @@aewtx what's the name of the quad State tornado that's happened?

    • @indy_go_blue6048
      @indy_go_blue6048 2 роки тому +5

      @@seattlejdmcivic The Four Corners tornado. It travelled over AZ, NM, CO, and UT in just over 3 seconds with a 1/16-mile multi-vortex damage track.
      j/k.

    • @maryb6672
      @maryb6672 2 роки тому +5

      @@seattlejdmcivic It’s literally called the Quad State Tornado. It started in Arkansas, went through the boothill of SE Missouri, into Kentucky & then Tennessee I think. The worst damage was done in Mayfield, Kentucky.

    • @daneel83
      @daneel83 2 роки тому +4

      I think that was the one with the most recorded fatalities. To be fair there were no warnings and no preparations at that time.

  • @Ac-tg2cg
    @Ac-tg2cg 3 роки тому +139

    Watching this in my comfy bed while close to falling asleep

    • @markmakabuhay2009
      @markmakabuhay2009 3 роки тому +4

      Same

    • @deeray4258
      @deeray4258 3 роки тому +9

      Great minds think alike

    • @MaliciouzLBC
      @MaliciouzLBC 3 роки тому +9

      Exactly what I was doing last night ... woke up today and was like let me finish watching last nights video lol

    • @Custom88
      @Custom88 3 роки тому +1

      Same here

    • @simplygem8449
      @simplygem8449 Місяць тому

      Preparing 😂

  • @squidy9078
    @squidy9078 2 роки тому +10

    "crash!!"
    *turns volume down*
    "whispering person talking"
    *turns volume up*
    tornados are indeed an unpredictable vicious cycle

  • @robertbroughton1443
    @robertbroughton1443 8 місяців тому +3

    I am a midwesterner, now living in Florida, and I vividly remember the April 3, 1974 tornado outbreak. My family and I were living in the Price Hill area of Cincinnati, when around 5:00 p.m. a tornado was spotted in another community southwest of us called Saylor Park, which came across the Ohio river, and obliterated that community. The sirens hadn't sounded at that point, but I saw my brother standing in the doorway, eating a PB,&J sandwich just staring into the sky, and I came up to him, and asked what he was looking at, and he pointed to the sky, and said that. I looked out, and that vortex was still spinning violently with debris flying all over the place. That ironically was a fascinating sight to see, especially in the inner city. Luckily based on it's northeastern movement, it was far enough away from our house, that after we got into the basement, it roped out within 2 minutes, and my dad gave the okay to come back up.

  • @ChristoFreeze
    @ChristoFreeze 4 роки тому +671

    If it's not moving, it's coming towards you. Run forest run

    • @vanessa3141
      @vanessa3141 3 роки тому +17

      Thank you for that advice

    • @MattCrabb10
      @MattCrabb10 3 роки тому +9

      Could it be moving directly away from you 😀👍

    • @ChristoFreeze
      @ChristoFreeze 3 роки тому +31

      @@MattCrabb10 "No. If the tornado is moving away from you, it will gradually appear smaller. When it moves towards you, it is so big with a lot of motion, so you can’t tell right away that’s coming at you.
      You can get some idea if you look at a big thunderhead in the sky. It’s easy to see clouds going past you, for example, if you are looking east and the clouds are moving north. But if a huge cloud is coming straight at you, it will look like it’s standing still."-Marty Masters

    • @cloudcraft7153
      @cloudcraft7153 3 роки тому +3

      @engineer gaming agreed

    • @GottaWannaDance
      @GottaWannaDance 3 роки тому +2

      @@ChristoFreeze
      Well, I've watched tornados get smaller, yet they weren't moving away. One was actually moving towards my location. It disappeared except for corn flying around me, only to reappear about an 1/8 mile from me.
      It's better to pay attention and be ready and able to move ... Fast!

  • @kirsakaboom-5960
    @kirsakaboom-5960 4 роки тому +820

    I wonder what people thought when they first ever discovered a tornado

    • @kimboslice589
      @kimboslice589 4 роки тому +67

      Dorothy seemed fine :D hahaha

    • @ssentamurobinah7551
      @ssentamurobinah7551 4 роки тому +133

      Probably end of the world 😅

    • @FallingGalaxy
      @FallingGalaxy 4 роки тому +190

      Probably the thing most people think when they discover something devastating that they don't understand. 'the gods are mad, let's sacrifice Bob to them, or Bob's kids, so they'll lay off the rest of us.' Still happens to day. (coughJesuscough) and people just accept it as moral and okay, because they don't wanna think realistically that we're living on a rock spinning through space and don't have control over it and neither does anything else.

    • @cawfeepot8564
      @cawfeepot8564 4 роки тому +163

      “Ooga? Ooga Ooga Ooga! Oo-“ *fucking dies*

    • @idiomasentusiasticos7954
      @idiomasentusiasticos7954 4 роки тому +55

      KirsaKaboom - Due to early civilizations being polytheistic, I believe that they thought that tornadoes were the work of the Gods. Some people still believe that tornadoes are caused by God. It’s not too farfetched to believe that earlier and less developed people in America and India thought that tornadoes were a wind God of some sorts. There is no Native American evidence of this, though, since natives didn’t utilize a writing system.

  • @WendysCove
    @WendysCove 2 роки тому +12

    RIP TO ALL who've died in a 🌪. Tornado. I respect them. RIP TO ALL

  • @Sea_Enjoyer
    @Sea_Enjoyer Рік тому +2

    From what I've seen with F4, F5 tornadoes, a basement isn't always enough. You need a basement under your basement, or at least a very strong room in your basement. A direct hit from an F5 WILL take the roof off a basement and suck out everything inside. If you don't have a good basement, then drive south, or if that's not possible, north. Tornadoes come from the Southwest. If you have time, then drive south fast. Most tornadoes aren't very wide, and, if far away, can be avoided by driving south or north.

  • @oldauntzibby4395
    @oldauntzibby4395 4 роки тому +182

    5:25 "An F2 tornado . . . right up here on this hill. . ." *indicates a flat expanse stretching for miles*

    • @tiffanythompson6178
      @tiffanythompson6178 4 роки тому +19

      Haha, that is kansas for you.

    • @oldauntzibby4395
      @oldauntzibby4395 4 роки тому +1

      @@tiffanythompson6178 lol

    • @Kg123garcia
      @Kg123garcia 4 роки тому +5

      That’s a hill for us southerners

    • @robinsea
      @robinsea 4 роки тому +8

      the tornado did that, it used to be a hill
      (i'm joking in case that doesn't come across)

    • @absolutetruthgirl
      @absolutetruthgirl 4 роки тому +2

      i know...i thought that too!

  • @bruvmoment1046
    @bruvmoment1046 4 роки тому +164

    Imagine the first people to see a tornado

    • @candeid3424
      @candeid3424 4 роки тому +53

      They were probably like, *yo wtf is that*

    • @folowowoowowdodkdcnc
      @folowowoowowdodkdcnc 4 роки тому +30

      Or maybe,
      *lmao what’s that it may be a living thing lol let’s catch it*

    • @ooferrell
      @ooferrell 4 роки тому +19

      im pretty sure they would have tried to eat it lol

    • @elsieeyi
      @elsieeyi 4 роки тому +11

      Maybe they were like *Da hell is that thing?*

    • @thew2842
      @thew2842 3 роки тому +19

      "Boooga ooga? OOOOOGA!" *gets consumed by the tornado*

  • @indy_go_blue6048
    @indy_go_blue6048 2 роки тому +42

    Always loved Mega-Disasters. Good science and good speculation about future events, though a bit over the top with its worst possible outcome scenarios.

    • @brianwade879
      @brianwade879 Рік тому

      There may be some exaggerating with the "Super Tornado" but, I do believe a tornado moving from the F5 to, a not yet witnessed, F6 is in our future. As temps keep rising and breaking records, the energy will be there for something more powerful than an F5. Weather where you would definitely need to be underground, to have a good chance of survival.

  • @elaineanderson4966
    @elaineanderson4966 Рік тому +4

    I remember living in a small farmland in Australia. Clouds starting forming and winds kicked up. I remember looking out over around 20 paddocks away a whirly wind spinning like a top in the distance, I remember yelling to my mother and she called to my brothers and sister to head to the bathroom which was the sturdiest built part of the house. The scariest part was this ominous silence and then winds hit. We huddled together until it passed and then ventured out to check for damages. We were lucky that it passed us by.

  • @sammysheartsgoodwin8835
    @sammysheartsgoodwin8835 3 роки тому +112

    I think everyone should have shelters, the couple were so lucky, RIP Sugar. No tornado 🌪️ sirons, RIP to the animals and the people and children. Sorry for your loss.

    • @midnitesilverrun8631
      @midnitesilverrun8631 3 роки тому +8

      Most people don’t understand the prices or the logistics of the areas these tornados come thru.most of these places didn’t even have basements for multiple reasons.high ground water loose soil sand and rocks make it almost impossible to have a underground shelter anyway.

    • @SKC193
      @SKC193 Рік тому +4

      I live in Tulsa. The sirens are tested at noon every Wednesday during the off season. But I grew up in Osage county, just southwest of here. As a child we spent a lot of time at my grandparents’ house where they had a cellar. Of course back then (I’m 68 now) by the time you heard the sirens, it was almost too late. But We spent a lot of time in the cellar. Especially at night. My grandpa would round everyone up & get ‘em in the cellar & he would stand outside & watch. If he finally came down, you knew it was bad! They even had a bed in there for the kids.

    • @joycebarker1488
      @joycebarker1488 3 місяці тому

      RIP to all the animals, people and children!

  • @pepsimax6671
    @pepsimax6671 4 роки тому +90

    Every new house built in tornado alley should be mandated to have a tornado shelter

    • @happyhavent_t6163
      @happyhavent_t6163 4 роки тому +6

      Yes but people in the eastern US you miight wanna think bout doin that too tornado alley has been mocing east slightly more ans more

    • @conservitarian1737
      @conservitarian1737 3 роки тому +2

      That is not possible for many reasons, plus it would just allow for the companies making shelters to build crappier shelters for more money.

    • @tandiparent1949
      @tandiparent1949 3 роки тому +2

      In lots of places here in Oklahoma, you can't even put in a storm cellar because of the water table 😪😪

    • @blykem6420
      @blykem6420 2 роки тому +6

      I can tell you don’t live in tornado alley just by this comment.

    • @maryb6672
      @maryb6672 2 роки тому

      Clearly, you have never lived in tornado alley.

  • @PopcornLoverr
    @PopcornLoverr 2 місяці тому +2

    I live in a small town in Illinois. The only thing scarier than those sirens is wrestling a cat into a pillowcase while the wind howls.

  • @beckyshock3099
    @beckyshock3099 Рік тому +13

    I've never been so glad to live in the Appalachian Mountains and to be called a "hillbilly". We've had some terrifying storms, and straight wind, damaging trees and a very few homes. I live with high mountains all around me, sometimes I hate being boxed in except for these videos, I sleep better at night because I don't have to worry about a tornado getting me while I sleep.

    • @ozone8897
      @ozone8897 Рік тому +1

      Tornadoes have happened in the Appalachian mountains before

    • @T.SYomTov
      @T.SYomTov Рік тому +1

      Amen

    • @eveslady100
      @eveslady100 Рік тому +1

      Read about the Rye cove. Tornado

    • @samjones9282
      @samjones9282 2 місяці тому

      May 31, 1985 the deadliest outbreak of tornados in the 1980s occurred. Tornados struck Canada on down to West Virginia. A wide tornado traveled from Ohio to Western PA. Left a 2 mile wide path of destruction in Venango County, PA. Just looked like a bomb went off and flattened everything EVERYTHING! What I remember most is losing a friend and her infant child. Finding a report card from Newton Falls, Ohio in western PA. Both were heart wrenching. You’re probably thinking-so you found a report card. That means the tornado hit that families home -the report card traveled at least 85 miles (approx 1-1/2 hr by vehicle) from Ohio to PA via a tornado😢 We Don’t usually get tornados in western PA. The elders of the local communities said that about every 50 years a tornado hits the area. We have had several smaller tornados since then, through the same area that was hit hardest in 1985.

  • @tracyd693
    @tracyd693 4 роки тому +105

    I went through the 2013 Moore Oklahoma tornado and holy hell it's terrifying! I moved there to teach school with my two kids. I have never been so scared in all my life. Needless to say, we moved back home to NY a week after the storm. My youngest has since been diagnosed with PTSD bc of the tornado. I wouldn't live in a tornado prone area ever again!

    • @Karrambide
      @Karrambide 2 роки тому +6

      I lived in OK for only eight months but hated living in it. Experienced a tornado in IL when i was 10. Im now in the mountains but its absoluteky horrible to hear strong winds that remind me of what ive been through

    • @DocKingliveshere
      @DocKingliveshere 2 роки тому +4

      My first thought: How cool that your kids were teachers too! Just kidding. Glad y'all got through it safe and hope only the best for the PTSD treatment.

    • @KanyeTheGayFish69
      @KanyeTheGayFish69 2 роки тому +1

      Ny can get tornadoes too

    • @MysticMae21
      @MysticMae21 2 роки тому

      @@KanyeTheGayFish69 anywhere can get tornados. But there's a difference between living where you get one rarely, and living where tornados seem to be able to appear any second.

    • @snowbird7614
      @snowbird7614 Рік тому

      @@DocKingliveshere yeah. Me too. That’s tough for a kid. For anybody

  • @hattorihonzo8340
    @hattorihonzo8340 4 роки тому +45

    1:20 “generally the faster the wind speeds, the deadlier the tornado”
    Well my mind is absolutely blown

  • @kolasis4994
    @kolasis4994 2 роки тому +5

    I remember that Pampa Tornado vaguely. I was 3 years old, but I my Aunt, Uncle, and Grandma lived there during it! I recall going up there with my family from Amarillo during the following days and seeing the destruction.

  • @whatfreedom7
    @whatfreedom7 Рік тому +17

    Tornados seem to be getting more frequent more eastward and in the south east. These areas aren’t used to tornados and most areas don’t have any type of tornado warning systems or under ground shelters. We had one hit close several years ago and it started forming in the mountain area passed my house and we had high winds and a really deep surging rumbling sound and right after that one touched in the lake then demolished some neighborhoods on the other side. I don’t if what I hear was the tornado forming or what but it scared the hell out me.

    • @harryparsons2750
      @harryparsons2750 Рік тому +2

      Yeah seems like the southeast is the new tornado alley

    • @favoinousscum3718
      @favoinousscum3718 Рік тому +1

      I live in VA and normally my town gets missed by storms but last summer we had a REALLY bad one. My neighborhood has a lot of 100+ year old trees and one fell on our neighbor's porch and destroyed it. Scared me shitless

    • @paulrivers7248
      @paulrivers7248 Рік тому +2

      I live in north GA and I will agree with yall it is getting worse here I used to say it's the best place to live as far as storms go but recently we'll since around the 2000s it gas been getting worse I remember in 2011 or it may hv been 2013 we had around 11 that one night in March one big one hit the city of Ringgold about 10 miles from me to my knowledge that is the worst and biggest in this area but yeah its getting worse..

    • @sterntaler64
      @sterntaler64 Рік тому +1

      They call it Dixie Alley. Stay safe!

    • @tyronemaroney335
      @tyronemaroney335 8 місяців тому

      ​@@paulrivers7248they call it Dixie alley and yall have been getting large ones for a long time before the 50s

  • @drakesmith4437
    @drakesmith4437 3 роки тому +160

    Considering how old the earth is, I guarantee tornados larger than an F5 have hit prior to us civilizing the Midwest.

    • @coryCuc
      @coryCuc 3 роки тому +31

      Absolutely. And think of all the tornadoes, even today, that occur and are never recorded just because nobody witnessed them.

    • @farhatk6054
      @farhatk6054 3 роки тому +4

      like the red spot in Jupiter

    • @zerogtoxik6020
      @zerogtoxik6020 3 роки тому +21

      @@farhatk6054 the red spot isn’t a tornado, it’s a fucking hurricane. Different things kid

    • @shadetreader
      @shadetreader 2 роки тому +16

      "civilizing" 🙄

    • @coryCuc
      @coryCuc 2 роки тому +6

      @@shadetreader What's wrong with the way he used "civilizing?"

  • @x220rulz
    @x220rulz 4 роки тому +213

    11 min in..how many more times will i see the same roof fly off?

  • @PeytonBroseusProductions
    @PeytonBroseusProductions 2 роки тому +5

    Anyone else just so satisfied with tornados but scared to death by them?

  • @Bristecom
    @Bristecom Рік тому +16

    I remember seeing my grandparent's neighborhood badly damaged with some houses demolished in Indiana. My grandma has PTSD from tornadoes as she's been in three and almost lost her life in two. Amazingly, they still insist on living in Indiana. To me, tornadoes are the scariest natural disaster because you have very little warning and can do very little to avoid being killed. I've been in a somewhat large earthquake in California and hurricane in Florida but those were not nearly as concerning to me as being close to a tornado. Even when there is a bad storm brewing, it feels ominous because you wonder if there will be a tornado that will take your home or your life that day. I do plan on moving away out of tornado alley again but unfortunately most my family lives here...

    • @jamescarpenter855
      @jamescarpenter855 10 місяців тому +1

      You realize watches are issued hours out and warnings are issued the moment funnel activity is spotted in the area so you got about 20 30 minutes to make your actions to hunker down to keep your life

  • @conspiraciesarejustgreatst2059
    @conspiraciesarejustgreatst2059 4 роки тому +249

    Of course I'm always thinking of people first, but can you imagine what those cows went through? They are in a large group as a loud roar can be heard...the sunlight slowly dims....and Bam! They're smashed into each other and thrown all over the place....also getting pelted by debris like rocks all the way up to full sized vehicles. Must have been terrifying for those animals.... assuming they know fear and can recognize a tornado

    • @Louis-mt7cg
      @Louis-mt7cg 4 роки тому +27

      conspiracies are just great stories from what i've read, most animals know something is happening. Like i heard that before my. St. Helens. Erupted, there were tons of animals running away. My guess is also the animals could also pick up on a tornado too

    • @lauragadille3384
      @lauragadille3384 4 роки тому +11

      Tornadoes kill livestock

    • @japhiawillis486
      @japhiawillis486 4 роки тому

      @Bea Torres love youu
      😊

    • @JayTor2112
      @JayTor2112 4 роки тому +15

      @@lauragadille3384 I know, nothing worse than good hamburger going to waste.

    • @savagebougiesouthern489
      @savagebougiesouthern489 4 роки тому +9

      I’ve lived through May 3 1999 tornado and the May 20 2013 tornado in OkC. What’s even more sad is the PEOPLE. I’ve lost friends and family and pets. People are worried about freaking cattle. Makes me sick.

  • @cIeetz
    @cIeetz 4 роки тому +52

    gotta throw that "BaCk ThE FuC* UP" on a tape recorder and just play it whenever people annoy me

    • @KaileyB616
      @KaileyB616 4 роки тому +3

      New Me That's Reed Timmer for ya 😂

  • @jay-rus4437
    @jay-rus4437 2 роки тому +3

    When the lady from Moore said that her and her son were barefoot, it hit home. When under severe threat Ive always made my family get completely dressed, hiking boots, work type clothing. We each have emergency backpacks that include many things like gloves and parachute glasses. If one were caught in the middle of the tornado, then these things likely doesnt change anything. However, if severe damage is inflicted on our home or surrounding, we arent left with insufficient clothing. Just something that has always been a part of our emergency plan

    • @j.w.1419
      @j.w.1419 12 днів тому +1

      As soon as I hear thunder I yell "Anyone who want's coffee make it now!"

  • @texasray5237
    @texasray5237 2 роки тому +6

    They mention apocalyptic darkness at the beginning. When I was in high school back in 1970 one day it got as black as midnight outside. It was a storm that spawned several tornadoes. It's hard to even imagine how dark it was in the middle of the day.

    • @joycebarker1488
      @joycebarker1488 3 місяці тому

      Cant even imagine how horrible that was !

  • @jacobwatson8688
    @jacobwatson8688 4 роки тому +153

    As someone who lives in Dallas I can certainly understand a lot of concern and see a problem because underground shelters just aren’t a thing here

    • @TrashPanda2801
      @TrashPanda2801 4 роки тому +16

      you're not able to, i live in dfw and you go a couple feet down and its bedrock, the cost to do it in a lot of areas would just be too high. above ground shelters have proved to be a very solid solution, and from the way i see it, a much better one. you have an above ground shelter installed in your house, you are just a couple steps away, and don't have to run outdoors and deal with the rain, winds, and sometimes very dangerous hail, also above ground shelters are a fantastic solution for physically handicapped people where it is difficult to climb down into a shelter.

    • @jacobwatson8688
      @jacobwatson8688 4 роки тому +7

      Justin Walters certainly true but there is the problem of space to have the shelter and cost of it as storm cellars are expected in a house in other places in tornado alley but Dallas would be well behind in above ground shelters even if they are better. They just aren’t used.

    • @TheJulithegreat
      @TheJulithegreat 4 роки тому +9

      A concrete drain pipe in-laid in some land is probably your best bet.

    • @bbgorman562
      @bbgorman562 4 роки тому +8

      I just spoke to my son about tornadoes we live in so calif but he now attends SMU in Dallas. We always worry about earthquakes.

    • @D-Loccsta817Tx
      @D-Loccsta817Tx 4 роки тому +10

      I live in ft worth and a f3 hit downtown..It blew glass all over the city.. Luckily it wasn't a wide tornado or it wouldve be been horrific

  • @JesusBeTheAnswerToEverything
    @JesusBeTheAnswerToEverything 3 роки тому +76

    I’m terrified of tornadoes & when they broadcasted the Moore tornado I was sick to my stomach and crying my eyes out for those people. It was heart wrenching tbh bc if I felt this way watching I could only imagine what the people going through it were feeling ... God bless them and anyone who had to go through something like that.

    • @Hearts4_chanel
      @Hearts4_chanel 2 роки тому +4

      Yea yea ok

    • @snowbird7614
      @snowbird7614 Рік тому

      Yes. That was horrific watching the video of that tornado. I can’t even imagine

  • @Anomeley
    @Anomeley Рік тому +4

    Having been born and raised in Joplin I have been through many. I lost an investment property there with the 2011 tornado, my mom lived in it and somehow survived in the closet with her dog 'Stormy'. I moved mom down here to NWAR, rebuilt it and sold it a few years later. That one was a bad one and took me back in time to the other big one in the 70's we had when I was a kid.

    • @boxsterman77
      @boxsterman77 16 днів тому +1

      The dogs name was stormy?

    • @Anomeley
      @Anomeley 15 днів тому

      @@boxsterman77 LOL, yes. I never cared for that dog yet his ashes and picture sit on a table under a portrait of my mom alongside her ashes for some odd reason. Odd that I see this today, it would have been her 95th birthday today.

  • @NeliusSan
    @NeliusSan 2 роки тому +10

    Tornadoes are so fascinating and beautiful to me. But I can never begin to imagine the horror of being in one. I live in south Arkansas. Tornadoes hit near my town as often as you'd expect but they dont really touch down often in my town. Most people say its because the city is in a valley and too low for one to really form here, although it has happened. But there's just something about tornadoes that are beautiful to me, even when I was a kid. Maybe even more so back then with less concern for mortality. Anyway, I send good vibes to anyone that's been impacted by tornadoes.

  • @TheCausticbeat
    @TheCausticbeat 4 роки тому +488

    "Kilometers per hour"
    And I'm lost.

    • @corbinmcnabb
      @corbinmcnabb 4 роки тому +21

      Mark Brown kilos are about .62 miles, if that helps.

    • @jennifermartin40
      @jennifermartin40 4 роки тому +4

      Same😂

    • @kgrimes842
      @kgrimes842 4 роки тому +3

      Lol me too.

    • @sadayukinaga9363
      @sadayukinaga9363 4 роки тому +9

      240 mph

    • @corbinmcnabb
      @corbinmcnabb 4 роки тому +20

      Contre Viole 32 Works for me. Unfortunately, the people who made this didn't ask my advice.
      Incidentally, if my "if that helps" at the end of my original post was interpreted as critical, I apologize. It certainly was not my intention.

  • @ashxamvs
    @ashxamvs 2 роки тому +27

    “Dogs are smart. They know what’s going on”
    “And… it killed their dog, sugar” 😭💀
    I just found that ironic. But dogs really do be smart. And hearing how their dog died makes me so sad.

  • @MadamSnowgal
    @MadamSnowgal Місяць тому +1

    I was stuck in traffic just one mile away from the tornado. Talk about scary!!! The tornado peeled the hides off of the cattle. I'll never forget that days 😢😮😢😢😢😢

  • @Meme_Lord123
    @Meme_Lord123 Рік тому +3

    me as a fricking 48-year-old, I witnessed so many tornadoes, EVEN THE BIGGEST! the best advice I can give is go under ground

  • @brandonmichael5529
    @brandonmichael5529 3 роки тому +32

    8:00 The mental image of some guy furiously shaking his camera out on some farm in Iowa is killing me.

  • @puppylove1429
    @puppylove1429 4 роки тому +285

    RIP SUGAR :(

  • @SkilledLegend
    @SkilledLegend 10 місяців тому +6

    It’s surprising to me that no one ever mentions the 2004 Hallam, Nebraska tornado. Considering it was the largest tornado before the El Reno, Oklahoma one at 2.5 miles wide and still holds the record for largest condensation funnel as an EF4 that tore through the entire town and had people worried that Lincoln and Omaha were next in the line of fire being Nebraska’s largest cities less than an hour away from there.

    • @carlmay9532
      @carlmay9532 9 місяців тому +1

      “2nd place is the 1st loser” - Ricky Bobby.

  • @AcaciaBieberLove
    @AcaciaBieberLove 2 роки тому +6

    this is terrifying, i couldn’t imagine, we haven’t had a massive dangerous tornado here since an F4 in 1987 (which is insane on its own considering we never get them here) but i wasn’t even alive for it, although i’ve always wondered what it’d be like. but definitely don’t wanna experience it fr.

  • @HW.37
    @HW.37 4 роки тому +167

    Camcorder. Now that’s a word you don’t hear anymore.

  • @susiearviso3032
    @susiearviso3032 4 роки тому +111

    Wow, I'm sorry for your loss of your dog, Sugar. Glad you two made it. >> 7:10

    • @airsickspace9272
      @airsickspace9272 3 роки тому +3

      Thank you for putting time stamp I didn’t want to hear about it. Didn’t want to go through that today and I am glad you gave me the time stamp

  • @brandonb1681
    @brandonb1681 9 місяців тому +2

    25:07 Nice footage there. I don't want anyone to die in a tornado, but I am shocked there aren't more fatalities with these storms.

  • @brianthesnail3815
    @brianthesnail3815 2 роки тому +4

    I once sandblasted the back of my hand with an industrial sandblaster for a few seconds. I still have the scar. It literally eroded skin and nerve tissue so fast I never felt it. I live in the UK and just and fascinated and horrified in equal measure by tornadoes.

  • @thatmemeygurl3978
    @thatmemeygurl3978 4 роки тому +32

    People don’t realize how scary it is to actually experience one. Even if it’s not that close. Once I was in Florida, and a tornado touched down near Sanibel, it was 11pm and since I live in b.c I’m not used to tornadoes, so I was freaking out.

    • @jamescarpenter855
      @jamescarpenter855 10 місяців тому

      I ran trash while at work and was close enough to feel all 3 wind directions that thing was less than 1/2 a mile away in a field

  • @DreamsRDriven011
    @DreamsRDriven011 3 роки тому +21

    Honestly tho good on Belinda's dad for saying no when she asked if they could stand out and watch the tornado. It's got to be hard giving up an opportunity to see something that incredible with your own eyes but ya gotta be smart I guess

  • @person6757
    @person6757 2 роки тому +5

    Anyone here from the Midwest Tornado?

  • @RyanMaukStormChaser
    @RyanMaukStormChaser Рік тому +2

    The Jarrel Tornado is a great example of how parameters aren't EVERYTHING forecast-wise

  • @tepokk
    @tepokk 4 роки тому +179

    " a small hurricane "
    *shows huge hurricane*

  • @deniseshephard3347
    @deniseshephard3347 4 роки тому +60

    This is so Sad whole families wiped out the warning sign wasnt loud enough for everyone to hear but also animals

    • @peachxtaehyung
      @peachxtaehyung 3 роки тому +1

      Yes most of the time you cannot hear warning sirens inside especially in the middle of a storm. you should use a NOAA weather radio and apps on your phone and have WEA alerts enabled

  • @blykem6420
    @blykem6420 2 роки тому +6

    Was in Joplin, Missouri when the big one hit. Such an awful day I’ll never forget.

    • @conniegeorge8982
      @conniegeorge8982 2 роки тому

      I hear ya. I live in Joplin and it went right over my house and destroyed it. Thank God we had a basement or we may not have made it through that one.

  • @jjb1974
    @jjb1974 Рік тому +3

    That is terrifying. I have only seen a few in my lifetime and they were way off in the distance, except for one that hit 3/4 mile from us at night while we were sleeping. Had it hit our home at that time we would have been very injured or worse. . . and it was VERY loud. Now we have a weather radio next to the bed that will alert us when we are asleep.

  • @Cellmate412162
    @Cellmate412162 4 роки тому +29

    About the Tri State Tornado, the program forgot its biggest key factor... and that it was a heavily rain wrapped tornado. It would have been interesting to see why some supercells that spawn tornadoes are low precipitation, & others are high precipitation.

    • @stephenlevine011
      @stephenlevine011 4 роки тому +6

      It was also huge and many people mistook it for fog

    • @davidvance6367
      @davidvance6367 4 роки тому +4

      Gargoyle Man , Sometimes during outbreak of Tornadoes. Alot of humidity. Your face & forehead become real greasy. Can't wipe it off. STRANGE, soda cans explode

    • @michaellovely6601
      @michaellovely6601 Рік тому +1

      This was also the case with the Joplin, Missouri tornado on May 22, 2011; the tornado was hidden by heavy rain and difficult to see.

  • @KMartin1311
    @KMartin1311 3 роки тому +44

    I remember the day of the Jarrell tornado clearly, and I wasn't even near it.
    I was on a Southwest Airlines flight from Harlingen, TX to Houston Hobby and about midway through the flight, I could see these massive high thunderheads off in the distance to the north west. I've seen my share of big thunderheads before, but these had to be some of the biggest and highest (altitude) I've ever seen in my life. I just knew that whatever was underneath those massive clouds, something terrible was happening.
    Sure enough, after I landed at Hobby Airport in Houston, the reports of the Jarrell, TX tornado and the utter devastation it caused was hitting the airwaves. To those 27 who lost their lives that day, Rest in Peace.

    • @kimthomas8717
      @kimthomas8717 Рік тому +1

      Wow to see things from up in the sky and learn later it was in jarrell omg 😳

    • @joycebarker1488
      @joycebarker1488 3 місяці тому

      It sounds horrible! My condolences to everyone RIP!

  • @erniewagner4737
    @erniewagner4737 26 днів тому

    Thanks for the great video and dedication, as I know watch live video when there is tornado threats in my area!!! The coverage is 99% percent better than my local news... Your bravery is much appreciated, and it's not only the tornados you have to worry about as the person who ran that stop sign almost hit you!!!

  • @champton911
    @champton911 Місяць тому +1

    Lived in Moore, OK through 2 EF5 tornados, currently in Norman. You can feel the difference in the atmosphere when it’s twister weather. The sky gets dusky orange and the air feels eerily still. That means buckle up

  • @jaxx3l83
    @jaxx3l83 4 роки тому +6

    I tell you what. I grew up in Montana. Whenever I go to a place that I'm not surrounded by beautiful mountains. I feel vulnerable. I love my mountains 🙂

    • @mshayashi
      @mshayashi 4 роки тому +2

      I've been in the west-coast U.S. I found it very beautiful...I've never been in Montana state...Is it a beautiful place?

  • @hufflepuffxlovex
    @hufflepuffxlovex 4 роки тому +30

    I searched the list of the tornadoes featured and the result showed that this is the Ultimate Tornado documentary which came out in 2006

  • @emilymancuso
    @emilymancuso 2 роки тому +4

    rest in peace Sugar, i feel like she could have been saved :(

    • @Built2spill505
      @Built2spill505 Рік тому +2

      I continue to ask myself why people don't just pick up their dogs if they're small enough

    • @emilymancuso
      @emilymancuso Рік тому +2

      @@Built2spill505 right? i’d do anything in my power to save my fur children.

  • @roachy_leon
    @roachy_leon Рік тому +1

    Wow it's scary to think when a tornado 🌪️ strikes that moment u have no power no strength to even survive it wow scary RIP to every person who has lost there lives going through that😢

  • @LunarRose-lh4wr
    @LunarRose-lh4wr 4 роки тому +31

    Pampa TX tornado, my the bring's back memories and i was a kid back then when it came though town. i remember it all to well the damage after was crazy to see, i even got to watch the tornado leave town just outside of my house.

  • @ericwitcher952
    @ericwitcher952 4 роки тому +88

    I watched this the day after Dallas got hit with ef3.

    • @sofialara4449
      @sofialara4449 4 роки тому

      Eric Witcher same way

    • @plushman3685
      @plushman3685 4 роки тому

      Eric Witcher Same, we got hit with the one in Midlothian

    • @angelsartandgaming
      @angelsartandgaming 4 роки тому

      I was there, well not there there but it was close.

    • @Sg4809
      @Sg4809 4 роки тому +2

      @@angelsartandgaming so you were there?

    • @christianmarkey3025
      @christianmarkey3025 4 роки тому +2

      I live two blocks south of the tornado and am thankful it didn’t hit downtown

  • @313blahblahblah
    @313blahblahblah 13 днів тому

    That elderly couple were so cute telling the story together. ❤

  • @jessicalee5260
    @jessicalee5260 Рік тому +2

    I lived in Oklahoma for a little over a year. It was scary in the spring, with several warnings, and once I saw a funnel cloud that never touched down. Ironically, my first time experiencing a tornado happened years after I moved away from Oklahoma to Ohio. Memorial Day 2019. 13 tornadoes in one night. The one that hit us was an F3. It just brushed us, tearing up the roof and breaking a few windows, knocking limbs off the huge oak trees in the backyard. We were lucky. Less than a quarter mile away, homes were flattened. The sound of it as it approached is something I will never forget.

  • @matthewprince6157
    @matthewprince6157 4 роки тому +30

    It's always amazing to me the things that producers of shows like this who never lived in this or even seen it compare and try to explain things.

    • @lawless1538
      @lawless1538 4 роки тому +3

      Matthew Prince learn to speak English

    • @matthewprince6157
      @matthewprince6157 4 роки тому +3

      @@lawless1538 wtf are you talking about.

    • @NoName-ms8jb
      @NoName-ms8jb 3 роки тому +1

      @@lawless1538 Learn to read English.

    • @justinworld9
      @justinworld9 3 роки тому +2

      @@lawless1538 another fortnite kid that knows nothing but gaming callouts. Sad

    • @reenXsham
      @reenXsham 2 роки тому +1

      Wth u jus said?

  • @dekuthesussybaka...966
    @dekuthesussybaka...966 4 роки тому +94

    Why do i like watching tornadoes? XD 🌪⛈⚡

  • @cfluff6716
    @cfluff6716 Рік тому +2

    Not sure why it wasn’t on list with lots of footage is Tuscaloosa, AL 2011 tornado 1.5 miles wide, high EF4, 1 hour 31 min long, 64 fatalities, $2.4 billion damages. True story… The blue moon bbq delivery van was found in Birmingham over 40 miles away.

  • @MissAshuhlee
    @MissAshuhlee 2 роки тому +2

    I've been in two tornados, one in 2009 in Murfreesboro, TN & then again in my hometown in southeast TN Easter 2020.. it wasn't until after that tornado that I realized the most the debris left afterwards is basically just that, debris. Nothing is recognizable. Just house insulation & pieces of steel/metal/wood.. it's absolutely insane.

  • @skatatataatje
    @skatatataatje 4 роки тому +86

    "What do we do?"
    "We pray"
    Amazing parenting!

    • @volo1826
      @volo1826 4 роки тому +20

      Well shit. Theres literally nothing else you can do at that point Haha

    • @kompst_tu
      @kompst_tu 4 роки тому +15

      @@volo1826 True, especially if that's someone's faith, it's the best thing they know to do because of their faith. I say, good on them, and shame on those who think otherwise.

    • @jquest43
      @jquest43 4 роки тому +1

      @@volo1826 haha,dig a shelter,haha

    • @Bravo-Too-Much
      @Bravo-Too-Much 4 роки тому +13

      Why pray to a god who’s let you be put in the position in the first place? Oh wait I know what God’s doing, he’s testing your faith. What a gracious God and a gracious way of testing your faith and belief.

    • @TheBandit7613
      @TheBandit7613 4 роки тому +3

      @@Bravo-Too-Much If I was God, I wouldn't allow much of the suffering that takes place around the world. But what do I know?

  • @ArsPraestigium
    @ArsPraestigium 4 роки тому +66

    There's great footage here, but important information that was left out. The most distinctively unusual aspect of the Jarrell tornado was not the fact that it acted as a "sandblaster," the winds were in fact, incredibly strong. The primary thing that set it apart was its path. The Jarrell storm traveled from northwest to southeast, precisely backward, compared with most tornado systems. This video, of course, was made before the massive tornado outbreak that killed hundreds from Alabama through Joplin, Missouri, in April of 2011, and of course, the 2013 storm system that struck Moore, Oklahoma, and its environs, in 2013. Both were much more powerful and costly storms.

    • @texasray5237
      @texasray5237 2 роки тому +3

      Well no,
      Normal tornadoes generally travel from southwest to northeast. That would be at a right angle to northwest to southeast not backwards. Tornadoes often occur when a cold air mass comes in from the northwest and collides with clockwise driven warm moist air of the gulf anticyclone over the plains. The frontal area between the two air masses creates a rectangle from southwest to northeast and tornadoes are spawned along the front as it rolls eastward.

    • @aewtx
      @aewtx 2 роки тому +8

      No, what set the Jarrell tornado apart was the speed of the tornado. It was an EF5 strength, but EXTREMELY slow moving, so it was eating up everything in its path, more so than other fast EF5 tornadoes. Usually the big ones, though it's scary, are over within like a minute or so as it moves over you. The Jarrell one was moving something like 5 mph, so it was much, much longer over those poor victims. It's only because Jarrell was a small town that there weren't more casualties. Can you imagine the devastation if it had happened somewhere with a bigger population, like Joplin?

    • @GottaWannaDance
      @GottaWannaDance 2 роки тому

      Ha hahaha! Oh brother . You need to get out a map of the US.
      First find Alabama. It's between Georgia and Mississippi. Then look at Joplin. That's in Missouri. Look to it's SW corner very close to Oklahoma's NE corner. Now look back to Alabama. Now Joplin. Repeat. What do you see?
      Also, it's extremely rare for a tornado to track any direction besides north, northeast, east. The 2013 El Reno 2.6 mile wide tornado was one exception traveling in every direction and even remaining stationary and traveling at 50-55 mph.

    • @tsalvo9290
      @tsalvo9290 2 роки тому +2

      @@GottaWannaDance the el Reno tornado path is nuts, because of it there was a building that was actually hit twice.

    • @braydonpeterson7127
      @braydonpeterson7127 2 роки тому +4

      I survived Joplin

  • @donotdisturb9406
    @donotdisturb9406 2 роки тому +3

    i learned more about tornadoes from this video, than i ever did in my science class.

  • @tammysims8716
    @tammysims8716 Рік тому +2

    I feel bad for the people who live in Tornado Alley. Maybe a wealthy company that studies tornadoes could buy their land and then the people living there could move to a safer place. Just a thoughr.