Top 10 Worst Tornado Years
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2024
- Hello everyone! Thanks for watching :) Were there any significant years that I missed? Let me know what year you would put at number 1!
Special thanks to the Tornado Archive - www.tornadoarchive.com GREAT website if you want to look up any tornado in the past 70 years!
contents:
0:00 intro
0:26 disclaimers
1:00 Number 10 - 1990
1:53 Number 9 - 1968
2:45 Number 8 - 1942
3:57 Number 7 - 1908
4:55 Number 6 - 1957
6:22 Number 5 - 1896
8:12 Number 4 - 1965
9:26 Number 3 - 1953
11:12 Number 2 - 2011
13:05 Number 1 - 1974
#tornado #weather #history
Thanks for watching everyone! We're getting close to 100K. SO AMAZING THANK YOU SO MUCH :). What significant years did I miss?? Also what year would you put at number 1?
i think i’d put the year 6000 on number one, crazy outbreak of ef10 tornadoes all over the globe…
wait, did i just reveal my time traveling capabilities!?
Hey can you just make The tallest Of the whole world I mean you did so in America 50 States Can you do it?
Sorry I might spell it wrong
I’d put it 1925 on #1
id put 2011 on number 1 because 1974 happened before the ef scale meaning it was much easier to get strong ratings and a bunch of the f5s probably wouldnt have been rated ef5 today
Fun fact, 2023 has already seen the third largest tornado outbreak of all time, from March 31st. However most people will likely forget it even happened as most large, violent tornados hit rural Iowa and impacted few buildings. The worst likely to be remembered is the Little Rock EF-3. However about an hour or so south of me the Keota EF-4 was the worst of the batch damage and wind speed wise
The Wynn and Bethel Springs ones were really bad too
It wasn’t a strong outbreak just wide
I filmed the aftermath of one of these tornadoes ua-cam.com/video/BhbmLn5UDPY/v-deo.html
@@dingle37 doesn’t have to be strong to be the third largest ever. The only 2 outbreaks with more tornados in it were 2011 and 1974
The squall line that developed at night produced 23 tornadoes of varying size in the NWS Chicago region…one was less than a mile from my house before it dissipated!!!
"don't take any tornado lightly" very good words. This year my city was hit by severe weather and the resulting storm dropped 3 tornados in the town/local surrounding area. One tornado which was "only an EF-1" caused a building that was full of people (including some of my friends) to collapse which killed 1 person and injured 40. Every tornado is dangerous and should be treated with the utmost respect.
We lived a couple of counties away from Xenia. I was on the second floor. I saw huge old trees bend at a right angle and felt the house shiver. Ever since then, I have had a deep respect for bad weather. I remember not hearing any sirens. But it was a awful hot muggy day and everyone was hoping for a storm to cut the heat and humidity.
My dad lived *in* xenia during that tornado. Even to this day, some of the trees in town have twisted bark, and you can tell that a tornado had been through there.
Did it cut the humidity
AMIGOS
Another reason the El Reno EF5 in 2011 was overshadowed a lot is because of what they got 2 years and a week later. But Pecos Hank called the 2011 one the darkest afternoon he ever witnessed
My mom was pregnant with me during the 1990 Plainfield tornado. She was on a commuter train going from Chicago back home to the suburbs. She said it was the eeriest, scariest weather she’s ever seen.
I'm glad you're okay today. I've only seen one in person but tornados are terrifying.
My wife is super pregnant now and I get nervous every time we have to travel somewhere in the car lol, so I'm glad she stayed safe!
I was 9 years old at the time, and I remember driving with my mom and friend and the storm didn't hit us but we could see it in the distance and it was one of the blackest, darkest, most frightening storms I've ever seen, and sparked my interest in weather ever since.
That was the same year we had a tornado cross the Mississippi river and go up the street by our house dumping fish all throughout the neighborhood
Dang
I'm a simple man. I see a new Swegle upload, I stop whatever I'm doing and watch it. As someone who was obsessed with tornadoes and storms as a kid, your content fits a special place in my heart!
Thanks a ton Supra Guy!
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I'm from Chattanooga Tennessee and 2011 was terrifying. I went on top the roof of the hotel I was working, 24 floors up....I know not the best place to be during a tornado...but I could see a tornado in every direction, and I'm pretty sure I saw a walking man tornado northeast. There were three EF4's and over ten EF2's and EF1's with 22 deaths and nearly 300 injured. THATS HOW CRAZY 2011 was that my area was hit so hard and it didn't even get mentioned.
As someone in Ireland who desperately wants to witness a tornado, I ENVY YOU SO MUCH! That must have been a magical moment. Or terrifying.
@@filthov Both.
Did you freeze or head to the basement at a sprint?
@@filthov You don’t need to go looking for Death, it will come for us all. Stay safe out there, Tornados are a serious thing.
@@locustboy8448 Lol, I'm not looking for tornadoes seeking out death. I'm not trying to be all morbid about them. I just think that they're a very pretty phenomenon! I would never go up to a tornado within a dangerous range, nor do I underestimate their wrath. I would just love to get to see their beauty, in a situation with no casualties. They're so fascinating and I've never witnessed anything like them, the only whirlwind that I have ever seen was a wind eddie. When I say I envy them, I in no way wish to experience the terror and danger that they endured. I just really want to see one, y'know? But don't worry, I am well aware that they are equally as dangerous as they are pretty. Not like I'll ever see one anyway, they hardly occur here in Ireland. About ten a year, I believe usually in rural areas.
2011 was a game changer in a way as before that Dixie alley wasn't as well known in mainstream outside of those who chased there and the local weathermen (ex. James spann). Also every major tornado from 2011 was weirdly unique, just an insane year!
I live in North Carolina and 2011 was devastating to us.
1974 was actually worse for Dixie Alley.....we don't have the media of those storms like we do the 2011 outbreak. 1974 storms hit a few highly populated areas around the Birmingham metro.
The 2011 super outbreak generated a lot of high quality video content showing off very photogenic, powerful tornadoes with writhing, wriggling subvortex structures.
The Plainfield tornado wasn't even warned! So many more people could have possibly survived, had it been properly warned!
Born and raised in the Plainfield area and my mom still tells me that she didn’t even know there was a tornado until she walked outside and saw bricks all over her front yard.
Nowadays the National Weather Service is afraid of what is known as the Plainfield Syndrome. They're afraid of issuing either too many tornado warnings or not enough warnings. So they are in a "Damned if we do and damned if we don't" situation.
@@michaellovely6601 yeah but in case of tornadoes personally better more than less
this channel is seriously underrated Keep up the good work!
Literally my favorite weather channel on YT
Thanks you so much!
@@SwegleStudios gonna email you some Canadian tornadoes in the region I've grown up in/experienced, sharing experiences is always so interesting
@@SwegleStudios is there an email or way to send you stuff?
My grandpa was 18 during the 1974 outbreak, one of the F5 tornadoes that hit Ohio he saw from his porch and watched it until it dissipated. Apparently he went to go survey the damage but he couldn’t even get close due to a roof in the road but he told me he saw live birds which had their beaks stuck in to the trees around him. I always ask him to retell his story every time I see him.
If the birds hit the trees hard enough to make their beaks stick into the wood it would have killed them. I think grandpa might be exaggerating just a little bit 😂
There have definitely been some outrageous tornado damage occurrences.. even straw stuck into trees, but birds living through that?
El Reno is only forgotten about by people not in the community or long-time fans of storms and storm chasing. We'll never forget Tim Samaras, Paul Samaras, and Carl Young. RIP.
When he said forgotten, he was referring to the 2011 El Reno-Piedmont tornado, not the 2013 El Reno tornado where the storm chasers died.
@@rodolfobrenner5404 Thank you for the update! Sometimes I get the El Reno's mixed up.
I’m definitely a fan so I remember El Reno quicker than I do Joplin 2011 I had my twins so I can’t forget either .. it was a rainy year
@@rodolfobrenner5404you’re right
Some sources say that the entire state of Indiana was put under a blanket tornado warning during the '74 Super Outbreak.
It was. The only time in history for an entire state to be under a blanket warning. They did the same thing to the northern half of Indiana during the Palm Sunday 1965 outbreak
That's crazy! I've honestly never heard of that happening before!
It was done, and was the only time that it has ever been done
1999 should be an honorable mention. Not only did the Bridge Creek-Moore tornado happen, but the Mulhall tornado that people thought was 4 miles wide and the Stroud, OK F3 that took out Tanger Outlet Mall happened as well, among others
I agree. 2013 should be another honourable mention too.
1925 was worse than 1999. It caused A LOT more fatalities.
1999 also had the tornado that hit downtown Salt Lake City, which in meteorological sense wasn’t super impressive but where it happened is kinda crazy
@@naswii4360 In Utah we get tornadoes once in awhille. I have been living in Salt Lake City since 1999. It was an F3 tornado. I still think 1925 was just deadly. There was a tornado that travelled around 200+ miles (covered 3 states).
1999 also had a pair of highly unusual F-3s outside of San Leonardo de Yague and Teruel in Spain with the San Leonardo tornado debarking trees and the Teruel tornado destroying mining equipment worth 15 million Euros in the area of a mountain range known as the Sierra del Rayo (Lightning Mountains). The Teruel storm touched down at an elevation exceeding 1450 meters or just under a mile in elevation and eventually climbed to near 5800 feet.
Edit: Miscalculated the elevation from metric to imperial.
My father lived through the 1974 Xenia tornado. I myself lived through the lesser-known 2000 tornado, after which my family moved further south to Wilmington, where I now live. That second tornado actually sparked my fascination with extreme weather events, as well as my innate fear of tornados, for pretty much my whole life. My dad would always tell me stories about the 1974 one, seeing the aftermath, as well as living in town when it happened. Even regardless of that, I never realized that it was so well-known, until I heard you mention it in a different video, just before I came to watch this one. The only reason I came to watch this one is because I saw the year on the thumbnail and knew that you would at least mention the Xenia tornado.
Nature really is crazy.
I was a little boy, staying at my uncle’s house in Beavercreek. We watched a couple of tornadoes from his backyard in the distance. He said Xenia is probably getting nailed. When my parents came to get me, we had to go through Xenia. It was gone. I’ll never forget that.
I currently live in Xenia in 2024 and you can still see major damage from the 1974 tornado. At this point time my father lived in one of the buildings downtown and he describes it as pure panic. The streets were dark and one of the old factories nearby had been blown over.
I have family that survived a direct hit from one of the Palm Sunday EF4s and the stories are insane. That pic of the double tornado in Dunlap gives me chills.
So actually I heard stories of the Flint F5 from 53. It originally tried dropping down on my great grandma's property and my grandma and great grandpa watched it try to lower back by our pond and pine woods only for it to go back up. We still actually have that same property in the family and while the tornado didn't fully go down you could see on the end of the pond where it tried touching down where trees were knocked into the water.
If there's damage on the ground, it was "down". A condensation funnel isn't always visible from every angle of a tornado because of how light interacts with water particles.
So the worst tornado in Michigan history touched down on your great grandma's property is what you're saying.
As James Spann once said: "Just because you don't see a condensation funnel, doesn't mean it's not down."
I always found it odd that when it came to the 90s, they started off extremely active, died out mostly in the middle, and peaked towards the end.
Just like social unrest in the 90s
Weather is weird like that. Can have places that usually are warm get dumped with freezing storms, places that get little rain get dumped on, and places that get a lot of tornadoes not see a single one some years.
There was one F5 in the mid-90's the small but powerful Oakfield F5.
Well, perhaps part of that can be traced to a volcano erruption in 1991. The volcanic ash it spewed lower global temperatures for a couple of years afterward. After all, 1990-1994 were also very low activity hurricane seasons.
@@JCBro-yg8vd That was most likely Mount Pinatubo in The Philippines. Mount Pinatubo erupted on June 13, 1991 and affected air traffic to and from The Philippines.
I remember watching James Spann nonstop during the 2011 super outbreak. Luckily a lot of businesses and schools had closed since we knew the weather was going to be bad the day before, but no one knew exactly how bad it was going to be.
I haven’t watched this yet, but 2011 takes the cake for me. The Joplin tornado alone was enough for me to say it’s the worst tornado in Missouri history
Discovered your channel about a month ago and you’ve revived my interest in Tornados! As a Wisconsinite we don’t often get very large Tornados but we do enough to where it’s super interesting to see!
hello, fellow Wisconsinite.
My hubby is a Wisconsonite too :D
Hello fellow Wisconsin Friend
Thanks so much! My brother in law is from Wisconsin lol.. Oconto Falls baby!
@@SwegleStudios Awesome stuff!
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Great content. I’m surprised 1925 wasn’t included on the strength of the tri-state tornado alone, though.
I also learned a lot about 1953 as well. I’ve always thought that the Warner Robbins, GA tornado was the most well-known from that year because it was one of the first filmed tornadoes.
That's what I was thinking
I was also thinking that!
same
I remember being so obsessed with tornadoes as a kid. I'd watch the weather channel for literal days on end every single Spring. This content scratches that itch for the little kid inside me. Great job man
Thank you for all your research on Tornadoes. I loved your “Dead Man Walking” special. I’ve always been fascinated by these storms. Keep up the great work!!!
I got another one similar to that video coming out soon :)
2:34 cool that you mentioned germany! since europe also has alot of tornado activity and also gets violent tornados, really good video! :D
The British Pathe has great coverage of the damage, if you're interested!
@@SwegleStudios yea ive already seen it, im from germany btw XD
Its always nice when People acknowledge the existance of European Tornadoes.
@@lukasrentz3238 yes!
It’s also worth mentioning that the Waco, TX tornado in 1953 was the first officially rated F5 tornado.
I remember watching your very first video analyzing the aerial images of the 2013 Washington, Illinois EF4, a tornado I lived through. I've watched everything else you've made since. So awesome to see how far you've come and nearly getting 100K subscribers! I know you'll get there and far surpass that. Keep up the great work man!
I love your work! I’ve been obsessed with all things tornadoes since I was a little girl. I’m now in University working to get my Masters degree in Meteorology & Atmospheric sciences. Keep up the great work 🤍
Wow that's awesome! Thanks so much for watching!
1949 was one of the most strangest weather seasons in recorded history. In Los Angeles, in one storm they received 6 inches of snowfall. In Wyoming they received around 20 feet of hard heavy snow in one storm.
1949 was a crazy year. LA had snow up in the hills a few months back!
@@SwegleStudios Have ever thought of making videos about rare/strange tornado paths? Or f3 or higher anti cyclonic tornadoes?
My parents grew up in Flint after the Beecher tornado. My mom used to tell us stories about their tornado drills in school, she said the teachers were the most strict for those drills. She even had a principal that lost an arm in the tornado.
The quality of your videos is insane. I can tell you put a lot of effort into it and I'm glad your channel is picking up traction. Very happy to see it pay off! Early congrats on 100k!!
I saw notification, I click notification, I watch video. My life if simple and complete.
I won by 15
1985 tornado outbreak was horrible as well. I was 6 years old when Niles and Newton Falls Ohio both got hit. Some of the worse damage I've ever seen.
My mom recalls the Plainfield tornado being the scariest tornado she’s ever seen. She said the tornado was like a table saw due to the vortices moving in different directions. My hometown is Joliet, IL, which is only a 5min drive to Plainfield depending on where you were. The tornado destroyed some subdivisions and apartment complexes in Joliet, and you can still see the empty plots where the apartments once stood. It was eerie driving by them. What was most unsettling to me was that the hallway those kids took shelter in was the only structure in the school to survive the tornado. It’s like mother nature knew. So scary.
The worst I know of is the 2010 Lake Township tornado. It was an EF4 tornado in Northwest Ohio that couched down in Wood County. Touching down at 21:20 local time on June 5th, it tore apart Lake Highschool. The thick cloud layer and heavy rain also made it nearly impossible to see and track. With a width of 1200 feet (1/4 mile) and lasting for almost 9 miles, it killed 7 people and injured another 30.
The 1965 Palm Sunday tornado stands out in my mind. I wasn't quite a year old, but my folks kept me safe in our basement even though our house was trashed. We lived in Comstock Park, just outside of Grand Rapids, Michigan. I don't remember it, of course, but I'm sure there somewhere in my subconscious because I've been a weather weenie for as long as I can remember. Outstanding video as always. Thanks!
My Dad was from Branch county MI and was under 10 years old. He rembers the 65 outbreak really well but doesn't remeber the 74 outbreak which also came close to him. He wasn't hit in 65 but a relative in Indiana had their house thrown in the river and where he lived they had pictures and checks from Indiana fall into their farm fields. Memory is a crazy thing! He has pictures of the aftermath on slides 😂.
@@rettathompson1222 wow that's amazing, glad everyone in your family is okay after that! Luckily where I live in Canada we don't get tornadoes as much 😅
Woah. I was 2 1/2, riding this one out in a basement in Dunlap, Indiana with my mom and my aunt. I have little memory of this day, but my family heard it on the ground. My aunt and uncles's home was thankfully spared. My dad didn't have the sense God gave geraniums, though, and was on a beer run in Southern Michigan with my uncle at the time the Palm Sunday tornado struck, as it was a Sunday afternoon.
Been with you since 6k subscribers! I’ve loved your videos since I found your channel. Binge watch them regularly while I wait for new ones haha. Proud of you, my man! Love what you’ve done with the backdrop as well! You’ll be at 100k in no time!
agreed i’ve been hear since 16k and it’s so nice to see him get the recognition he deserves. he honestly still deserves more than just 100k
@@moonwatcher2921totally agreed. At this rate it’s just a matter of time really.
NICE! You've been here since the long hair days haha. Thanks so much for being subbed for so long!
@@SwegleStudios yeah I miss the long hair, honestly lol. Cool to see the new setup, much more professional and fits with your style. Can't remember how many subscribers I was but I'm pretty sure it was the single digits as well. Algorithm doing it's work. See your videos getting recommended on the family yt account on the TV at my place and I am not the one doing it, so that's cool to see your stuff spreading like it deserves.
@@SwegleStudios Yes sir! (Great look btw)
Proud of you, my friend. I’ve learned so much from you. You really are easily in my top 3 favorite UA-camrs!
Be easy, buddy!
man your videos are so relaxing to watch. super good stuff (aside from hearing how people lost their lives and stuff)
I've always been FASCINATED by tornadoes, given that they seem to follow me throughout life like I'm a magnet for them despite not being near Tornado Alley lol my mom told me her wedding to my dad was interrupted by a tornado, there was one in the trailer park I lived in when I was VERY little (thankfully missed due to a grocery shopping trip) and my favorite place to play as a kid was a driveway to nowhere from it, on a trip to Tennessee to visit family just a few years ago, we had to pull over and shelter in a gas station from a tornado that was, like, FEET from throwing our car, and my birthday is even smack in the middle of twister season, so I constantly hear about devastating tornadoes that happened on my birthday. This channel is so entertaining and informative to me, keep up the great work!
Amazing research here, I commend you!! Your number one is my number one, 1974. As I’ve stated earlier, I remember April 3, 1974 vividly, the day of the Xenia (pronounced Zeen-ya) tornado because I lived in Beavercreek, Ohio which borders Xenia. I was in the 4th grade at the time. I remember the newscasts, photos in the papers, and actually driving through there a few weeks later and seeing the damage myself. It was unbelievable and it made a lasting impression on me. I believe Xenia got hit again sometime in the 1990’s, but it wasn’t nearly as severe. Once again, great job! 👍
They did in 1989, and again in September 2000, by an F4 that took almost the same path as the 1974 storm. It had one fatality, a man killed in his car at the fair grounds
My great uncle was in the Ohio national guard during the 1974 outbreak. He got trapped in a basement then it caught fire. He died in the hospital after being rescued but according to my dad they apparently hid how he died from my family for a bit
So excited to have found your videos! They are so well laid out. Subscribed, of course! But I’m very much intrigued with this weather phenomenon; I’ve lived in Tornado Alley my whole life and have never actually seen one thankfully. 😅
As often as i look up tornado videos, this is the first time that your channel has come up for me. New subscriber.
I grew up near Charles City. Interesting trivia: The Charles City Tornado was three tornadoes that merged and went through town. Every police station and church in town was destroyed. Every bar was spared.
That tornado loved booze.
Wow that's crazy! I want to travel to Charles City this summer to see if I can find any remnants.
@@SwegleStudios The place has pretty-well rebuilt. It's a medium-sized place by Iowa standards. The Floyd County museum has an exhibit with some artifacts. On the other hand Jordan, Iowa never really recovered. That might still have the odd bit of debris scattered around. (Dr Fujita said Jordan was one of the worst he'd ever seen. It was an F5 accompanied by an anticyclonic F3)
Such an interesting overview! Living in tornado alley and seeing the wreckage up close makes even the footage of these years gone by hold my breath and tear up. Those people saw horror up close!
Thank you for all of your tornado videos. Very informative and entertaining.
James Spann and Gary England are the GOATS of Meteorologists.
You and Carly Anna are the GOATS of doing Videos on Tornadoes.
great video man i’ve always been fascinated by tornados and your videos answer all my questions
I've already watched it 7 times and I can now say it is a certified Swegle classic.
Haha thanks Walrus
I did a marketing internship for a hospital about an hour north of the Flint-beecher tornado and did their throwback Thursdays for social media. As a history and tornado person I made sure there was one about that F5. There were so many injuries that they had to send people out to other hospitals. A lot of the people the hospital I worked at received were people who had been at a drive-in theater. I know they tried to leave as they saw it was coming but I can't imagine being a sitting duck in a car like that.
That would be terrible.. It reminds me a video of drivers who were sitting at a red light in Joplin as the tornado was approaching them.
Even worse was that the drive-in theater wasn't really damaged by the tornado. In fact I believe some people actually turned into the tornado trying to escape it. I think it was this: turn left, you escape; turn right, you died.
This is probably my favorite channel!! Tornadoes facinate me. You da best!!
Thanks! You do an awesome job breaking it down and narrating!
Almost at 100k! Well done, I like how this channel covers so many unique and interesting tornado facts as well as other weather phenomena! Which suits me perfectly since I've been fascinated with tornadoes all my life.
Wasn’t born when the Plainfield tornado hit but I live 15 mins from Plainfield. I’m only 5 mins away from where it started. Crazy thing is they only had 5,000 people in Plainfield in 1990. They have over 45,000 now and 4 high schools
Joliet native, my mom and I will talk about the tornado every once in a while and she always likes to bring up how much Plainfield expanded after the tornado.
My aunt and uncle lived in Plainfield during the 1990 tornado. It missed their house by about a mile. My aunt was at work as a hair stylist when it hit central Plainfield and she took shelter at the back of the store. The tornado missed her by only a few blocks. My uncle was a volunteer firefighter for Plainfield and was away at work when the call came in to respond to “wind damage”. No one knew at first it was a tornado or how bad it was because of how fast the storm moved through and that there was no tornado watch or warning issued at all until the storm had moved out of Plainfield. Had the tornado occurred a day later, my cousins would have been at Plainfield HS for the first day of school when the tornado struck. My cousin’s husband said that his neighborhood was hit and his house was one of five that wasn’t swept away. My aunt says that thunderstorms make her uneasy since that day.
love your channel man it’s great, tornados are amazing and i love when your videos show up
It's so sad how back in 1908 black deaths weren't included in tornado death counts... I'm glad we aren't there anymore!
I totally agree with you
The death tolls for tornadoes of the 19th century (e.g. 1840's Natchez Tornado) could have been much higher than the official records indicate due to the slaves not being counted as victims. Tragic and disgusting.
@@dieterdelange9488 yes 100%. It just shows how racist people were and how no one cared about poc back then..
@@peachxtaehyung Chances are that even with the Tri-State tornado of 1925 (official death count 689), PoC who were killed were not included or even identified.
@@dieterdelange9488 that's crazy to think about... There may have been 1k deaths or so if that's the case... That's so unfortunate and upsetting
If Swegle does a part 2, he should include 2013 because it had the El Reno tornado, The Bennington tornado, the Moore tornado, the Shawnee tornado, etc
No. Just because it had tornadoes that hit places that get them all the time anyway, in a short two-week period (that only had one EF5, should've been 2) doesn't make the ENTIRE YEAR a bad year.
El Reno is really only notable because of it's absurdly large (and record breaking of course) size. Despite that, it still barely hit anything.
Your channel has grown so quick man, well deserved.
Hey, amazing video!!
When should I expect the tornado tier list part 3? I'm really curious about that DC tornado, and much more.
One tornado outbreak that give me the chills is the 2011 outbreak
You grew SOO MUCH since the last time I’ve watched one of your awesome videos
Fun fact, in 2023 there was 3 tornados in Tulsa, Oklahoma(and some other places) it hit really hard and took out the power for 5 days and knocked down a lot of power lines
I adore your awesome, vintage Weather Channel "outro".
Bro I'm shocked that you don't have one million you make banger twister videos
Its your editing and commentary style that makes you stand out, Its pretty rare to have a 100K weather UA-cam channel... Keep it up!
Thank you so much!
12:03 is when the tornado was coming through a small community of Shottsville, AL. And that footage used was one that my buddy's dad took. That's awesome to see in this video! The video itself is great and very detailed 🌪️
Also, at 14:26, you said Guin wrong. Not pronounced as "Gwen." It's actually pronounced as "Gue-in."
Yes I'm a Bama guy if you're wondering 😅
I was in grade school (5th grade about 11 yrs old) for this out break of 74. I can remember being in the car seeing a tornado hit a couple houses way off across this giant field. Then riding around with the parents looking at all the damage post event. The parents talking in front of the station wagon, making comments about homes with dead folks in them not knowing I had big ears.
I remember any free moment and likely some not free at school making pencil sketches of funnel clouds afterwards. Then drawing a good face on them. Guess that means I was pretty F^cked up at the time.
Fun fact 20 years after this I took a job in small southern town. A tornado warning came across the tv then we lost power. No tornado warning sirens in the town. It took me back to the out break of 74.
Long story made short we started a grass roots demand to fix the broken for (10 years) siren system. Debated the mayor at town meeting. We ended up getting the system repaired by the fall, he got voted out.
Yes to this day tornado warnings bring terror to me. A hurricane I can deal with, but tornadoes are the anti christ in my head.
Tornadoes are evil. I remember the April 21 1967 tornado in Belvidere Illinois. I was in school and a relative came and got me out of school and off we went to my grandmother’s basement. We heard that the high school in Belvidere had been hit just as school was done for the day and kids were getting on buses. The sirens were going off the entire afternoon and even through the night. Scariest night of my life.
Excellent video! I watched the Xenia (ZEEN-yah) F5 go by at age 12. It's the only tornado I've ever seen and hope to ever see. Chillicothe is pronounced Chill-ah-KAH-thee or Chill-oh-KAH-thee.
great video, your tornado content is always interesting, onto 100k!
Congrats on almost hitting 200k subs🎉
who else knew 1974 and 2011 would be the top 2?
Awsome a new video😊 The day is saved. Much love from Germany
Good video. I wasn’t alive for it, but the 1974 Super Outbreak always amazes me to learn about
Thank you for saying Worcester correctly! Massachusetts does get some tornadoes, tho they are usually very small. I was a baby when one hit Springfield(I think) and luckily it lifted before hitting my house. We have had many severe thunderstorms and tornado warnings but not many actual tornadoes.
Tell me why he sounds like daily dose of internet
Rejoice! for he has graced us with the tornado videos again!
This year was crazy. I live in Michigan where we usually get a tiny EF0 that tips over garbage cans, and a few days ago we had an outbreak of 7 tornadoes that actually did some pretty significant damage and killed a couple people. In a 3 hour period, 7 tornadoes spawned.
Amazingly put together very informative
He forgot to tell about 1925 tornado 🌪
when
The March 18 or 19 1925 Tri-State tornado
2011 is likely my #1
Great Video! If you are into other storms, I would love a top 10 worst Hurricane Years, to get in the summer mood!
A quick note about 9:05 - The outbreak happened on the evening of May 6th, and there wasn’t just the one F4 in Fridley. The suburbs of Minneapolis and St. Paul actually had 4 separate F4 tornadoes (which were part of a massive severe weather outbreak that included 6 total tornadoes) over the course of three hours. Three of them were on the ground simultaneously. The outbreak destroyed over 1,000 homes and unfortunately claimed the lives of 13 people, and people afterwards referred to the outbreak as “The Longest Night.” I’m not sure if it still is, but at the time it was the most damaging single severe weather event in the state’s history. The damage path of one of them actually goes right through where I went to high school.
Love tornadoes 🌪️ want to see so bad, but hate the destruction
Number 2 footage is from my home town of Wilson NC!!! Sadly a dry cleaning business was destroyed. But, we got a waffle house on that same location. 😤
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Holy heck, you've gotten an additional 1k subscribers already, 100k is definitely coming soon.
2013 has to be an Honorable Mention
Kinda but no
@@Yeaggghurte It's debateable it had the biggest tornado and top 10 in most powerful tornadoes in history.
@@rileymosby8147 no if that’s the case you have to mention 100 other years like 1985 for example
Excellent video. Your scholarship and presentation skills, outstanding. Well done.
I just found your channel and I love it. I really enjoyed the “dead man walking tornado” there something about them that always I also have a tornado shape birthmark on my arm so that’s probably another reason
Again, thank you for another enjoyable presentation
I just drove through Xenia on my way home to Minneapolis the other day, and it’s crazy to think about how I was in a town where an F5 tornado happened all those years ago.
I just moved to Saint Louis but was born and raised in Oklahoma City. Iv seen both Moore tornados, 2011 El Reno and the anomoly El Reno tornado of 13 .
So i have a HUGE appreciation for tornados. As tragic and the Saint Louis 1896 tornado is, i had no idea about it until i moved here. Seeing the map and my neighborhood on it (Carondolet) was surreal. Especially since i like a few block away from the park. Work in Central West End snd walk Tower Grove Park all the time. Hell i was just sledding in Forest Park a few weeks sgo.
Seeing history like that makes me appreciate the rebuild this city has gone through.
Another great Sir Swegs Production 🔥🔥
Awesome video! This has become of my fav channels, instant click when i see a swegle studios vid
In 1974 there was also a tornado that went through a super small town in Indiana. I had a friend who told me his uncle was a kid then, and he was grounded the day of the tornado. His parents weren’t home so he decided to sneak out and go to his friends house. A couple hours later the tornado completely leveled his house and threw one of their project cars into a tree almost a quarter mile away. So if anyone ever tells you breaking the rules will have bad consequences, think about that story. It saved his life
My great grandma was 7 and lived just outside of Pryor, OK, when that monster came through. She still remembered it pretty well too
1990 Heston Tornado: Bet you've never seen video of a tornado this big roaring directly into a town before.
1991 Andover Tornado: Hold my beer!
This narrator is so chill. I watch just to drop my blood pressure.