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One of the eeriest feelings is just before a tornado, when the whole atmosphere is green, the clouds are weird and the pressure pushes down on you; the tornado sirens go off (one of the creepiest sounds ever) and you’re hiding in the closet under the stairs with couch cushions covering you, just praying it will skip over you.
My husband thinks that I am crazy when I talk about how the atmosphere is green when dangerous weather is on it's way.
We don’t have tornado sirens down here
Yep, If the skies ever turn a greenish color, that's your signal to get in your safe zone.
I lived in a town in Georgia that had no tornado sirens in the 90s. We were driving to visit my grandma in the hospital and the sky was so strange but the area had very dense trees. we only found out there was a tornado when we turned the corner next to a Kroger and people were running to their cars and pointing and that’s when we saw it. It destroyed a lot of the homes in the town next to us
I was taught that green sky or clouds meant hail. This was important information because I was raised on a farm. But I used the info while living in a large college town.
It's Tornado Alley not valley. I have lived in Oklahoma which is in the middle of Tornado Alley all my life, I am 70 years old. I have seen more tornadoes than most people ever will see in their lives. I have been In 3 tornadoes the first took the roof off my house. The second missed my house but destroyed the house next door. The last one hit the mobile home I was in knocking it off the foundation and rolling it across my land with me inside. I was a Stom chaser in Oklahoma for 20 yrs. The safest place to be is underground. Tornado season starts in April and goes until mid June.
Tornado season starts in March through May in the southeast US with April being the peak month.
I've lived in Oklahoma 22 of my 60 years. I've been close enough to see them and had the sign at my apartment complex torn down, but never a direct hit.
I'm in central Illinois and in Nov 2013 a tornado went through a field right behind my friend's house, which is one street over from me. It had already taken houses down in another town, then hit several houses blocks away from us and continued on to Washington, Illinois where it took out an entire neighbourhood.
I'm 63 I've spent the last 27 years in Oklahoma City and I've seen my fair share of tornadoes in that time my only close call was May 3rd 99 I was coming back from Tulsa took shelter in the gas station on I 44 west of Stroud everyone hit in the restrooms as all the glass shattered when it passed the interstate and destroyed the outlet mall
I was in a tornado North of Houston in FEBRUARY 1986!!!
It destroyed a regional airport and blew the 2 picture windows out of my parents' house while my mother was home alone.
September 20, 2002 an EF3 Tornado touched down in Indianapolis. It demolished my neighbors house, jumped our house, and landed again on my other neighbors. Let me just say, when you're 5 years old, the fear of storms sticks with you.
My mother has a similar story. She's in a wheelchair and couldn't go down into the basement, so she figured "If it hits the house, I'm dead anyway, might as well watch it and enjoy the show." She watched as the houses across from her were ripped right off their foundations, and yet the tornado jumped their block. She watched the whole thing from my grandparents' porch. Crazy!
That eerie train sound of the tornado will get you every time.
that video doesn't even tell you how eerie it feels to come outside after a tornado. The silence and shock running through you. Everything seems so foreign.
It's the true meaning of the Arabic word "islam".. It means "peace" in the context of a battle field right after a battle. It's so quiet and peaceful... Its friggin Fallout, man.
Yes. And the green sky before is just...weird.
Yes, it is. That green, eerie sky saved my dad's life one day. He had just left the garage he was sheltering in, and a few minutes later, it hit, and a tree fell and crushed the garage.
We just had 8 not far from my town at the same time yesterday
I’ve never been in a tornado but I’ve been in several hurricanes and it’s the same thing, the quietness of everything after the storm, not a single car, animal or tree is moving
You'll notice, it doesn't matter if they're made with wood or bricks. The roof is the first to go
Yeah, A lot of Europeans claim our houses are inferior. They have no idea.
@@reindeer7752 The houses look so weak because the tornadoes are just that strong... they all seem to SEVERLY underestimate tornadoes and think only the wind speed matters. You do not have the wind coming from a single predictable direction which you can reinforce against. You have it coming from any direction with it able to switch up at any time but also smash and pull with air pressure. Not to mention the debris that gets thrown around.
Also, sometimes one house can be totally destroyed while the house next door seems untouched
There are historic homes that have been up since the 1800's they are fine. These large tornadoes grind anything away. Wood, Bricks, Stone Blocks. does not matter. My parents old home was built in the 1930's and the construction is 4"x4" oak framing and it was hit directly with a tornado (a regular tornado) and it damaged some asphalt shingles. These slow moving grinder tornados are different. Best be underground.
@circuitd942 tornados don't care. My dad has a cabinet where a penny was put into the finger hole to open the door. Will never be able to safely remove it. Same one he said he found a display box pair of shoes as if someone had put them in the middle of the field like 20 miles from the original spot. There could be 2 houses next to each other & one just has like hail type damage & the other is fully gone. There's not any rhyme or reason for them
I worked at the hospital in Waco. On the day of the tornado, all of the administrators of the hospital were out of town at a conference. A nurse was left to organize the handing of all the patients arriving at the hospital by ambulance, cars and walking in. She did an amazing job and helped to save a lot of lives.
Correction: That guy was talking about the Jerrell, TX F5 from May 27, 1997 he mentioned the "1966" movie Twister was still fresh on peoples minds..."Twister" was released in 1996. And the new standalone sequel, "Twisters," will be released July 19, 2024.
There was a movie in 1966 called Twister. Google it
Should call it what it is: "Average Day in the American Mid-West and Plains... The Movie".
Native Oklahoman here. Tornadoes are a way of life here. Every spring during tornado season you make sure your shelter is cleaned out and is ready for occupancy. I would never consider living near Moore, that town is cursed in my mind.
Moore is cured.. with boredom
Boredom is correct lived here 40 years lol
They build it back up 2 inches to the left every year.😂
Well this aged like milk. I dearly hope you were not affected by the most recent outbreak.
@@CSharpMajor We were the worst affected. Look up Sulphur if you want to see the damages. Our entire historical downtown is pretty much gone.
It's not the wind that kills you, it's the debris flying in it or the effects of gravity after being thrown by it.
Our neighbor girl was thrown about 10 feet just from the wind of a tornado and survived
So, it's the wind 🤔
@@zackerytrenshaw1458We had one of those little pop up towable campers. We had been camping the weekend before, so we had it set up in our driveway so that it could dry out from the rain we had. Early morning, mom woke us up and said that we were under a tornado watch and there was a severe thunderstorm warning. We ran out to the driveway to get the camper refolded and stowed so the storm wouldn’t destroy it. We no longer got it latched back down when we were hit by a microburst/wind shear of about 100 mph. We lived on the east side of a lake, so when the storms came, we usually got hit pretty good since there was a half mile of water between us and the storm, so nothing to slow it down. The microburst ripped the tops of most of the trees off almost instantly and we were looking at a wall of sticks, branches and debris headed right for us. I was about 10 years old, so I wasn’t very big, but I remember the wind picking me up and pushing me back about 15-20 feet. Dad had just opened the screen door and it ripped it right off the hinges and out of his hand. Mom was able to duck to miss a big branch, but it hit my brother. Luckily, he saw it coming and was able to tuck his head and put up his arm. It knocked him off of his feet (he was about 15-16 and was 250+ pounds). He had a few scrapes, but was bruised all over one side of his body, his arm and then his hip from hitting the driveway. It looked like he’d been in a car accident, but was otherwise ok.
The main wind only lasted maybe 30-45 seconds and the worst 100 mph gust was only a few seconds at most. There was about 1/4 mile of shoreline that had a lot of tree damage. We lost a screen door and a few shingles. It basically relocated the top 20 feet of all the trees along the shoreline into the neighborhood that ringed the lake, so there were a lot of broken windows, damaged cars, roofs, etc, but not a lot of damage directly on the lakeshore. For a few years, if you were on the other side of the lake, you could see the section of shorter trees where it hit.
I’ll never forget the feeling of being picked up and tossed like a burger wrapper in a breeze. It was like I stuck my whole body outside of a speeding car getting instantly hit with the wind and then gravity just stopped working.
@@missam3404Unless you ARE the debris
FACTS!
I live in Oklahoma and the tornadoes that ripped through my state 2 days ago were devastating. For context: The city of Sulphur Oklahoma was literally wiped off the map. There is almost nothing left. From 4/25 to 4/28 there were 153 tornado reports, 138 wind reports, 276 hail reports and over 40 tornadoes that hit Oklahoma, Iowa, Nebraska and other central / midwest states. Ive lived in oklahoma my whole life and last Saturday was one of the worst storms I've ever encountered. I'm thankful my house wasn't in the path of one of these tornadoes. Also I know it's kinda "wrong" to suggest other creators but check out Pecos Hank and his videos. They're amazing on tornadoes.
Sending love to Oklahoma and surrounding states that got hit with those recent storms.
I’m glad to hear you’re okay. I live in Moore, OK and get just how bad they can be.
Glad you were safe and took no damage. Prayers and love to Oklahoma, Iowa, and Nebreska the massive damage by the tornados and severe storms. My heart goes out to families and those who lost loved ones in these storms.
Here in Texas, Houston was just hit really bad last week, and just a few days ago, Temple, TX. I may have missed you few areas with the number of storms.
We have been donating to specific charties to give what little help we can in the face of the devastation.
It looks like a war zone after a major tornado.
Our area was hit by an EF4 in 2015. Some areas got hit worse than ours, the town next to us had 4 or 5 fatalities. It did not appear to be on the ground the entire time in our town, and it was right after rush hour. I heard sounds that day I do not ever want to hear again.
Iowan here. Had a tornado pass by less than a mile north of me on the 24th of May.
And yes. He should check out Pecos Hank.
I love that without even hearing the name, he noticed the legs in the Dead Man Walking photograph.
anyway, when you see just a foundation left of a house... We call that getting "slabbed"
The newest EF5 entry happened today (26/4/2024) in Nebraska and Iowa. It's only been a handful of hours since it swept through, but there are already countless videos on youtube. It passed less than 10 miles from my house
Those weren’t EF5s in Iowa and Nebraska. Their last EF5s were in Parkersburg and Bennington.
Well not fully rated a EF5 but the DOW did detect 224 mph winds
@@dakotah_anderson yeah the EF rating system has knocked tornados down a notch or 2
@@deez26788not really
@@deez26788 their rated ef3 for now
The feeling around a tornado is the hardest to explain. It is like the air is charged up and you just know something is going to happen.
The light turns a sickly green, the pressure pops your ears, but for me the smell is what makes me run and hide. You can smell tornados. I live in Northeast TX and was once stationed in Ft. Sill, OK. You become a human barometer after a while.
I know exactly what you are talking about.
It gets yellow when they go by. Crazy.
@@Hollylivengood One storm chaser term for it: "Greenage"
I've lived in Moore for 30 years. It's a heartbreaking experience that we've gone through multiple times. That being said, I have never seen a community come together to help those in need after a tornado like those in Moore. Nearly every home that's been built in Moore over the last 15 years are being built with a shelter. It's almost May and they come out with a vengeance.
May 3rd 1999 was an “outbreak event” where hundreds of tornadoes hit most of the state. There was also an earthquake at the same time!! My first in person tornado was in El Reno just west of OKC and I lived near a prison. It the tornado that hit us was smaller but still removed fences (prison fences) trees and our backyard fence where my dogs were. I came outside just after the rumbling stopped to go check on the dogs and saw this perfect funnel cloud right across the street. Awe inspiring
I’m surprised they didn’t even mention el Reno just because of the significance to the storm chasing community
As a meteorologist for the past 44 years, I'm quite familiar with tornadoes. Many large and powerful tornadoes have multiple vortices - several funnels rotating around a common center. Such tornadoes are very violent and very dangerous.
I used to date someone who graduated as a meteorologist but never went into the field. I helped him with his education, a lot. lol.
I have shot a bunch of multiple vortices tornados. Those are the ones I have the most 'respect' for. Horizontal vortices just wanna make me find a hole to hide in
I’m half Indian, and a lot of the Indians have a saying. “If you see the dead man walking, you are about to die”.
I saw the dead man walking April 3rd, just north of Cincinnati. It’s mesmerizing watching it.
@@williamsporing1500 Indians are from India. It's weird seeing someone claim Native American heritage while not knowing how to refer to themselves correctly lol.
@@ObsidianChariot we’ve been referred to as Indians since Columbus landed here. I always say feather, not dot indian
I live in Joplin, Missouri and was here for the 2011 tornado that lost 158 lives. I also worked at the ER hospital that no longer exists. I was lucky and off that weekend. I lived 3 miles north of the Tornado and could see it happening, but the visual was so dark that you couldn't see an actual funnel.
I remember watching so many videos about that because it was just SO unbelievable. I'm so sorry for anyone you may have lost or things you may have seen
My daughter was living in Joplin when that one happen. I talked to her immediately after. She was at work and was in shock when I talked to her. Fortunately she wasn't hurt and her kids were 300 miles away with dad but she had to walk home because she couldn't drive down the streets and saw a dead body. We wanted to go get her, but she wouldnt leave. She said she felt compelled to stay and help.
I was there
St. John's. I remember.
My uncle was in that hospital when it got hit. He later passed away from complications that the tornado did not help... my dad was manager at the Rangeline Walmart that was hit, but thankfully was off that day and was home in CJ. I had moved away from the area but drove in to help friends and family. I remember the devastation and disorientation barely even being able to tell where I was on the streets... it is difficult to find words that do it justice.
Almost all homes and businesses have storm cellars and basements.
The moment you hear the piercing screams of the emergency storm sirens, you grab your kids, dogs, family and friends in the house and run downstairs. Normally you have battery radios, perhaps a TV, food and water, bedding and pillows, toys for kids, baby stuff, buckets for toilets prepared in advance in case you are trapped downstairs after the storm.
You may only have seconds of warning.
Everyone up and runs for safety.....NOW.
If you are out and driving, you find an area that is lower than the other areas and hope for the best.
Also good to have are bicycle helmets, helps prevent brain injuries, and airhorns for if you get trapped.
(^~^) 💕🦋
Amen
Survivor here! Moore resident all my life & I lived to tell of the 1st ever F5 tornado. May 3rd, 1999. Tornados hadn’t been rated that high before, so I do t know what that guy was talking about. It was the most intense event I ever experienced. It definitely looked post-apocalyptic & even though I moved away after living there for 50 yrs, I still get PTSD when I hear of tornadoes there. We were lucky that only our roof was taken off, windows blown out, every tree was laid down and cars were damaged. But we were alive. We hid in a closet and my hubs had to hold the door shut while I covered our kids w/my body. Our ears felt like they were going to burst from the pressure. It doesn’t sound like a train like people say it does. A family member across town had a 2x4 go thru her neck. & she did survive! Her house was demolished except for her kitchen sink. Her wedding ring was still on the sink. Just nuts. Moore is a very nice town with a good & bad side. More good though. Housing is much less expensive there obviously. Due to the weather. Especially compared to the rest of the country. For what people pay for apts on the east or west coast, you could have a McMansion in Moore. And the people are the best. Friendly, kind and helpful. Sometimes when we’d get a tornado watch or warning, we’d all gather outside (Neighbors included), grab a lawn chair, pop a top & wait to see what path it’d take. And just watch the ferocious beauty of the greenish sky. crazy!
The air is fresh and charged with electricity. Tornadoes are as mesmerising as they are destructive. Weird to say but, we kind of miss that crazy weather. At least the excitement and great thunderstorms. Lol. We have the BEST meteorologists in the world. Our radars can basically tell you what street the tornadoes coming down! Big props to our sirens and meteorologists! Oh and our sirens go off every Saturday at noon, testing. The tornado siren is the song of my people. 😂
amazing story! thanks for telling us what it's like! I've seen the green sky but wasn't hit by a twister. It's a sick green.
I think a lot of tornadoes have been retroactively rated an F5/EF5 but there have definitely been F5’s given prior to the May 3rd tornado. The 1974 Xenia tornado was originally rated an F6 but downgraded to an F5. The first recorded tornado that was believe to be an F5 was in Germany back in 1764. Will say the Bridgecreek-Moore does hold the record for the highest recorded wind speed at 302 but that doesn’t necessarily mean ones haven’t been higher and not recorded.
The 2011 Rainsville EF5 was one that might be up there but was poorly recorded due to the location and the nearest radars being knocked out by other tornados so meteorologist didn’t even know there was a tornado at the time. It’s the only one I’ve heard of that literally ripped a storm shelter part way out of the ground as well as an anchored 800lb liberty safe that was ripped from the ground and thrown 600ft completely destroyed with door ripped off. Not to mention the school bus stripped down to its bare frame and thrown across a highway where it also ripped up chunks of the pavement. There’s also a really cool “deadman walking” video of the tornado where it actually looks like the tornados are moving like the legs of a walking man.
The only tornado I’ve personally experienced was the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham EF4 but my grandmother has near gotten hit by 3 F5/EF5: the 1974 Tanner tornado was a few miles north of her, the 1974 Guin tornado just died out before directly hitting her (although was hit by a second F3 tornado formed from the same super cell), and the 2011 Hackleburg-Phil Campbell tornado missed her by less than half a mile. Also my aunt got picked up in a car and thrown several hundred feet by the 1989 F4 Huntsville tornado and where the elementary school she and my mom had gone to was leveled.
The first recorded ef5s were in Italy & Germany in the 1700s
When you asked “how often should they happen?”
We don’t know. Whatever Mother Earth feels like
Mother Earth?? 🤣
Right!! I live near Pittsburgh we have a heightened threat of one for tomorrow.. we’ve had three since I’ve been alive before 1985 it had been o we 50 years.
@@Xassawnever heard of that before? Mother Earth? Nature? The Earth?
Mother Earth is a very very common term that is also shared in multiple languages around the globe, I’m surprised you find it so hilarious
@@CafeDeDuy its not like we cant forsee storm systems having the posibility of forming a week or 2 in advance, when they pay attention to the jet streams and such, can things change from their initial predictions? sure, but theres also no way of knowing IF a storm system will drop a tornado or if it will just be a severe thunderstorm/mainly wind or hail event, at least until they can see circulation on radar
I'm in Meadville just north of you@@dawnchute7449
18:05 the scariest thing about rain wrapped tornadoes (along with the fact that if you can’t see the tornado moving it’s coming your direction) is that even without the rain you could be staring straight at it and see nothing moving until it’s right on you. With it rain wrapped you won’t even get the small hunch that there’s a tornado coming, you see that wall and before you realize there’s a tornado on top of you and it’s already too late to run.
If you look out a window and rain sideways it's up on you
@@KALICOE True!! I’m always terrified and staring at the rain to see if it changes direction during any nasty storm!
Good to know
Pay attention to wind directions in this case. S to N is trouble but W to E is what you want.
I’ve not been in that particular situation. Thank God. But I have nightmares about it and surrounding outbreaks. No bunker. No phone. It’s the #1 thing that I wish I could take off of my dream smorgasbord. 🫤
I've been in a F3 tornado. 3 o'clock in the afternoon, it was as dark as 2 AM. The wind turbulence around the tornado sounds like a freight train running right through your very soul, it is so loud and it vibrates your walls, floors, ceilings and your body. Hail the size of baseballs broke out all my home windows, shifted my tool shed over to the neighbor's yard and it "was" bolted to the ground. Our neighbor lost part of his roof and water damage was horrible for them, just about everything inside their home was ruined by water and wind. There was thunder and lightning with that tornado. The entire experience left me traumatized for years.
I have lived in northern Illinois for 37 of my 38 years. Tornadoes are common here, but rarely very strong. Last summer there was an outbreak of at least eleven confirmed tornadoes in one day, but none over EF1. There was a good bit of property damage, but no fatalities, and only minor injuries.
Fun fact, is that when you were asking if the tornado was even on the ground, the answer is yes. The "Funnel" of the tornado is just dust and debris the actual vortex has picked up that makes it truly "Visible". It is in fact just swirling air after all haha
My aunt was pregnant during the 1991 tornado in Haysville. My uncle wrapped a belt around her and some water pipes in the basement. The tornado took their whole house, leaving her holding on for her life. She was lifted upside down. That little leather belt and those rusty old pipes saved her life. Sadly, they lost their farm, though. I was 11 and 2 blocks away from that same tornado they recorded around 9:30 in the video. It was two blocks away from me. We were in my great grandmother's mobile home. She rolled her sofa over my sister and I for protection. The wind from that tornado sounded like a train and was deafening. We were very fortunate that evening.
Wow, your grandma was so smart! God bless her.
was your aunt in the hit 1996 film Twister by chance...?
@@schoolForAnts Ha Ha No LOL
Is your aunt Helen hunt and your uncle bill paxton
I live in Oklahoma . Im a volunteer search and rescue , My first tornado was the F-5 IN MOORE . A TOTAL NIGHTMARE . A baby girl found in a tree 4 days afterwards. All the destruction.
Then the one where you saw legs lol it was so bad saw a bull wagon loaded with steers compacted to where it would fit inside a 10 x 10 storage room. The Jerald Tx was life changing. I was in the Joplin one in my peterbuilt it rolled our truck 600 ft.
Now the Sulphur one last week. Welcome to the heart of the Ally
I live in Northern California and this year there had been tornado warnings in the Solano County area earlier this spring. During a trip to Costco, we saw a few people pointing at the shy and recording with their cells. Behind us a long ways in the distance a funnel cloud had formed, I fumbled to get my phone out and was lucky enough to snap a few pictures for myself. It never touched down, they rarely do, but it wasn’t the only one to form in that week. A few days later in the same area another funnel cloud was spotted. I can’t imagine how terrifying it would be to experience a real tornado!
Its kind of like anything really, one minute your calm and happy. the next minute it sounds like Godzilla or a frieght train is outside, and everything shakes. Depending on how fast it moves it can feel like you blinked, or like your entire life is nothing but that storm. Then, Like a fart in the wind. its gone. Or, if your unlucky, you watch the fat **** meander over and devour your neighbors house too. Tornadoes are amazing when you can safely watch them, and absolute existential nightmares if your in one.
Many homes in Tornado Alley have rooms in the basement or on the ground floor that are heavily reinforced with steel and concrete. They provide a safe refuge during a tornado. In pioneer days, many farms would have a "Storm Cellar" dug underground behind the house or barn.
Heck i live in Maryland and my cousin in NC and we both have rooms underground.
Pioneer days? Hell, half the older houses I lived in had a storm cellar.
Texas has clay soil. It is unusual to have a basement. Usually homes are planned to have a closet in the center of the house. It'll have no windows so it's safer to go there. Most will also have a central hallway fir the same purpose.
Newer homes often have a fortified safe room inside.
I just watched a new house in my neighborhood being built. The first thing they installed was the safe room. Tgen built the rest of the house around it!!!
@maryjane4432 ive lived in the dc area and in atlanta ive never seen a house w a storm shelter lol i think thats mainly a midwest thing
@@OkiePeg411I live in Dixie Alley in Alabama. We get hit regularly. Not many homes have basements here. The terrain is either clay or rock or the water table is too high.
Living in the US is not for the faint of heart.
We get it all.
Everywhere you go in the USA, you have to deal with one or more of Mother Nature's middle fingers.
@@AmaroqFanThere isn’t a place in any of our 50 states that is immune to disaster. Brutal cold and snow in the north. Tornadoes can happen just about anywhere. Hurricanes, wildfires, floods, oppressive heat, blizzards, earthquakes, volcanoes, etc.
Our beautiful land can be a harsh mistress, and the threat of the new madrid fault line makes tornadoes look like a joke!
@@stevewhiting556, don't forget that we also ave derechos (straight line winds), and sandstorms.
The only thing (thankfully) I haven't experienced firsthand) is volcanic activity.
We have, on average, 1300 tornadoes a year in America. That really suprised me. Every state and every month has had a tornado.
We got an F2 tornado last week. I was at work in a different city. My house is fine, but the neighborhood a couple miles away got hit. Wild. There is no greater jumpscare than hearing a tornado siren when you didn't even know your town had tornado sirens.
Tornado's are terrifying because they can come out of nowhere at times. You can quite literally feel the shift in pressure in the area when they are about to hit.
Everything gets really quiet.. the wind stops and there's a feeling in the air you can't explain and then chaos!! Thunderstorms, lightning, your electric shuts off and then the sirens start blaring... Then you better hide
And then there's microbursts which are pretty much the polar opposite. Same signs but suddenly a large boom and it's like a bomb made of air hit EVERYTHING around it. Had one hit NE ohio a couple years ago. Some were without power for weeks after. I still remember holding the bar doors closed with the bartender.
and the colors the sky turns, that grey-green, it's wild
And the air seems to turn green.
@@unity1016 it's just so creepy
It sounds like a train coming and the air gets a weird electrical feel that you can practically taste. It's strange and scary af.
Not to mention the "green" color the sky gets when it's potential rolling in.
@ladykatza I forgot about that. It seems like it's something you see only when a tornado is imminent.
as someone that's stood outside in the direct path of an EF5 tornado, it's like watching an invisible hand start ripping up the earth itself and sending it back to the sky... even at a distance where you're not affected by the tornado all that much, you can literally feel the air in your lungs shifting around threatening to steal your breath right out from under you
and in that eerie green glow and the angry clouds blocking out the sun, everything turns pitch black and you just see silhouettes of things being abducted in the distance, then the lightning strikes and you get a brief image of all of the destruction heading right towards you
It straight up feels like you've stepped on to another planet.
It is also the eerie quiet. No birds, no noise then suddenly noises. We lived in Birmingham in 2011, our neighborhood was in the v of it. Leave our neighborhood and just a little over a mile away was chaos and loss.
I was a junior in high school when the EF5 hit Hackleburg. We finished our year out in one of the church basements that was left over. You could see it from our house (which was a safe distance away from the damage), but it was massive and the destruction was devastating. We also had 2 smaller tornados come through my area that day as well. One of them hit our neighbors house and then jumped and missed ours. Other than small damage, and all the trees getting wiped out, we came out unscathed. Will never forget the weird green hue the sky had and seeing tree limbs and floorboards just floating in the sky
Iowan here. In 1944 our farm got slammed by a powerful tornado. It flattened the newly built house , ripped the barn loaded with hay off its foundation, rotated it 90 degrees and dropped it back down. Work horses were thrown over a mile away and were carefully nursed back to health. One of my grandpas brothers was at a neighbors house and watched helplessly as the farm was wiped. When the neighbors went to check out the aftermath they thought for sure everyone died
As I do live in Moore Oklahoma I can attest to the destructive power of F5 ... Missed me by half a mile ....we are a tornado magnet 😅
Hope you are safe tonight. Big pile of nasty storms out there, TX to Canada.
the worst tornadoes are actually thought to be multiple tightly packed funnels, but often the debris or the clouds sourrounding it obscure it, so we don't know for sure. the most dangerous tornadoes are rain wrapped ones that you can't see because of the rain, and night tornadoes. because people are asleep and often don't get alerted in time to get to safety.
I hate night tornadoes. I lived in Oklahoma for 15 years then Texarkana for 10. All of my family and friends were ok with tornado watches & warnings during the day, but those night time tornado watches and warnings are so deadly everyone of the adults would be up all night
Ours hit at night..
Our children were home alone they were 17 &18..
They heard it coming in time to react/ hide best they could.
They said it sounded like an ocean wave..
My hub and I were at work when our daughter called.. we were 2 small towns away.. my hub hit the ground running.. it was still raining.. cops in first little town started chasing him.. he didn't stop till he got to our road got and and ran climbing over downed trees as we lived in the woods..
The girl 2 doors down died she was same age as our daughter..
Ppl out back died.. many in elderly mobile home park died and more as it traveled many miles.
In daylight it looked like a bomb had been dropped.. so surreal.
Night tornadoes that are rain wrapped. Where all you see is the wall cloud when lightning goes off. Or a vague outline if you live near any light pollution. Eerie as all git-out. Is that just a storm or a tornado?
I’m watching this a day after 2 tornadoes went right past my small town here in TN. Very rough past few days with tornado and flooding every where you look.
2 weeks ago a tornado went right between my Aunt and Cousins houses here in KS. They live 1 mile apart, my Aunts neighbors were living in a camper while renovating their house. The tornado took their house and picked up the camper throwing the husband out and tossing the camper around the land. Both husband and wife are OK!! It also took my cousins neighbors barn. Thankfully there was no further damage from that particular tornado.
If you're honestly looking to do tornado videos, I highly recommend The Weather Channel's "Tornado Alley - Real Time Tornado" series. They have one on both the Moore and the Joplin tornadoes and several others. The Moore one was crazy tragic as it hit an elementary school just as the kids were getting out of school. And the Joplin Tornado actually picked up a multi-storey hospital and moved it 4 inches off its foundation. Both of those videos are totally worth a watch even if you don't react to them.
It's so crazy to watch the Moore one for me. I was living in tulsa at that time, but we moved to moore in 2017 and you can see my house in that documentary since we live across from one of the elementary schools featured. The roof and all windows were replaced after 2013 and the house across the street was torn down.
@@hkandm4s23 I always find the Moore one most tragic because of what has been removed from the video. During my first watching of it, several years ago, a
large section around the Elementary School story featured an interview with Xavier Delgado, a kid of 8 or 9 who survived the tornado. A lot of the kids in his class were the ones who died. That portion has now been removed because Xavier committed s**c*de at 14. Survivor's guilt is a b**ch, even for young minds.
Yes, we knew many of the children from my class at church and one who died was one that 3 of my teen girls babysat him and his brother and sister.
Don't mess with tornadoes. Do exactly as the National Weather Service advises and pray- hard.
I could not believe how casual everyone in the South is about tornado warnings. I’m hiding in my safe place and everyone is outside looking up at the sky 😳
@katiek1856 you go through enough and they are just entertainment till they get too close. Then you chill in the bathroom till the radio says it's safe
Yeah, i'm not religious at all, but there's nothing else you can do in that situation after following all the advice.
I was in the May 3rd, 1999 EF5 tornado. I have been a storm tracker ever since. Just had a tornado here in southern Oklahoma Saturday night that killed several people and caused leveling damage to the downtown area of Sulphur. Hey, great video brother. Love to see the Britts react. Lol. Thumbs up and a new sub.
you have to love the sheer destructive power of tornadoes. like, you work your whole life to get yourself a clutch 2 story house, and in seconds a tornado can turn it into an archeological dig site.
2:55 - "is this the foundation of a sumerian potmaker's hovel? or is it what's left of billy-bob's destroyed duplex? the world may never know."
1:03, that is what they call the “Dead Man Walking”. Its lore supposedly states that if it’s present, there are gonna be fatalities.
@@chrishebert5672 Dead Man Walking is the name Native Americans called the strongest tornados.
@@AB-gx4cp LOL No it isn't. Absolute nonsense.
i think it they say that if you see the dead man walking you will die because only f5 can form a dead man
The 'dead man walking' is a Native American urban legend where "if you see the dead man walking, you are about to die"
@@VexNovaYT No it isn't.
You CAN NOTimagine what it’s like to live through one of these. People say it sounds like a train, I say it sounds like a horrible monster. The one I live through destroyed an entire town,NOTHING left standing in 1965
I have lived through a tornado and straight line winds over 95 mph. I thought the wind sounded more like a jet engine. The rumble comes from the debris as it starts hitting your house.....
I'm with both of y'all. While living in Oklahoma I lived through my share of tornadoes. I have Never thought a tornado sounded like a train.
Agree - I think they are the worst things imaginable.
So sorry.😢
My children were 17 &18 when they were home alone at night since we worked at night.. when one came thru.. they both said it sounded like an ocean wave..
We had a lot of oak trees and lived on dead end road in wooded area so I'm thinking that may have made it sound that way to them.
There were fatalities in ours..a girl 2 doors down was killed and ppl in neighborhood behind us some died.
My mom raced away from a tornado with me in the car. The tornado was less than 1/2 mile behind us. And as a reference to your gen x video ... Thus was before seatbelts were mandatory so I was on my knees in the back seat eyes wide open staring at that thing. I don't think I blinked for 5 minutes until it went back up
On tornado number 2 they should have shown Gary England's broadcast. He said that if you're in the path of the tornado either get underground or leave the area or you will die. He knew hiding in a bathtub wasn't going to save you.
This is why you need to check the weather, before visiting the US. Check for Hurricanes, Tornado season, and Forest Fire season. Also good to check Flood zones and Snow drifts.
Hurricane 🌀 season, June to end of November
Tornado 🌪 season March - June
Forest fire 🔥 season July - October
Flood 🌊 zones March - November where heavy rains occur, or Southern Utah flash floods slick rock areas and slot canyons, heavy mountain rains Spring - Fall.
Snow ❄️ 🏔 🌨 October - April anywhere we have snowfall.
If you are going somewhere with snow there is no predicting if there will be travel issues or not. Hope for the best, and plan for the worst.
Fire season is also incredibly unpredictable. Last year most fire was in Canada.
Our county is in a unique location on earth we have the gulf of Mexico that's alot of warm water that produce warm winds from the tropics then we get cold air from Canada mix them together and bam
Ahhh...don't live your life scared. The odds a visitor to tornado alley seeing one are extremely small.
@@loyalrammy Still better to be prepared, than caught off guard. Installing a local weather app with notifications turned on, will help. Nor do you want to visit California, in fire season, and be stuck in a hotel the whole time. Giant waste of money.
@@LezArtist5iG A weather radio is ok (when it works). I rely on my eyes and cloud patterns. If it looks "green" outside or extremely dark, switch on the local radio. Take shelter if the tornado siren goes off. Looking out more than a day in advance is a waste of time, generally. A tornado watch will catch my attention, but will not stop me from doing chores, necessarily. A warning will, but that only happens if a tornado is actively on the ground which can't be predicted. Be aware, but don't let fear stop you from living life.
Yeah, it's crazy. I remember hearing that the tornado in Jarrel, TX, actually ripped some asphalt off the roads and concrete house foundations were torn up, as well. There were animals found in trees, and some with the hide removed by the horrifically strong wind. Very powerful, indeed. Nothing to mess around with.
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Jarrell scares the crap out of me. Many things were just gone. Fridges, washing machines, houses, cars, they weren't moved around, they were churned to dust. My above ground shelter wouldn't help me in a jarrell tornado.
@@lesterine77 The only people who survived that was a family that got in their car and left (which they tell us not to do but in this instance it saved this family) and one who had built an underground shelter because they had been in a tornado before. First responders still won't talk about it. The tornado was moving so slow that there was nothing left. No grass, asphalt was ripped up, plumbing was ripped out of the foundations...definitely scary.
You talk about the asphalt and I'm amazed about the pipes ripped out of the ground
My cousin in Arkansas refused to get a house, only mobile homes, in fear of tornadoes. Finally in his 40s, he got married and his wife convinced him to buy a two story house. Just a few months later, a tornado twisted the second floor of the house a full 180. He got rid of it and went back to mobile homes.
Native Texan and current Jarrell resident. I grew up in Georgetown. Which is 10 miles south. I know some of the first responders of the Jarrell tornado. To this day it still affects them. The property I built my home on was in the path of the tornado. It was a F3 on the ground when it crossed my property. I had a storm shelter installed in my backyard stocked with water, a light and chairs. We also let family in other towns know when we are in the shelter and when we are all clear and safe
Tornado alley resident here, been here for nearly 30 years, still never seen a tornado, but have had many nights bunkered down in the bathroom with my family with the wind, thunder, hail, and sirens blaring outside. Lotta hours spent without power because the wind alone blew down a tree or telephone pole and it hit a power line somewhere. Stuff's no joke.
Stick around long enough and you will. I've lived here my whole life and have seen more than I can count. Been too close in 5 of them. They can definitely make you respect nature.
@@TwistedSense Lol thirty years /is/ my whole life. I've just been really lucky.
Same here
Same... tornado alley resident for 36 years (my whole life), and while I've taken shelter several times a year and seen some MONSTER hail and wind damage, I've managed to never actually see a tornado (knock on wood).
@@TwistedSense some people never see tornadoes in their life, even in tornado alley (and dixie alley)
Storm cellars and underground houses are common in the Midwest
Or at least basements.
My state usually only gets tornado watches. Occasionally a tornado warning. I didn't even know a tornado "emergency" was a thing. That's wild.
Lived in Oklahoma all my life. Tornadoes are my number 1 fear so I’ve learned almost everything about them that I could. One crazy aspect about the 1997 tornado is Jarrell that made it so infamous was the location that it ripped through. It happened in the midst of a drought period to a bunch of open farm and ranch land. When those high winds picked up all the loose dirt, it basically turned the tornado brown and became a mega-sized sand blaster. Livestock was found skinned and paint was taken off (almost completely) from anything metal.
I was stuck in traffic on I 240 on May 3,1999. The tornado crossed 2 exits in front of me. We were redirected to I 40. The only way I can describe the scene is that it looked like a war-torn country. I still have panic attacks when the storms get bad.
Praise God you made it out safely, we were 3 blocks away from sw 89th street, I just went into Cop 👮♀️ mode... we all took shelter in a restaurant freezer!! The sound, I will NEVER forget the sound!!!
@@ShannonMorey-gx1kn we were just stuck on the highway. It was like watching a mountain move. I now have a severe phobia.
@debbieabrahamsen7458 you and me BOTH !!
May 3rd was pretty scary, we were at del city high school in the locker room inside the gym , I remember cars being covered in insulation from homes, it was a sad day
We were at del city high school that day taking shelter in the locker room of the gym, I remember insulation all over my dad's car , scary day
I could see the Joplin storm from my house in Kansas. I lived an hour away from Joplin and was graduating the next week. I remember it before and after the damage. I still remember my grandpa calling us telling us Joplin got hit by a tornado and that it was really bad. You could feel it was a bad storm just in the air where I was. A friend survived the tornado and had PTSD now. Our college helped with cleanup for years. I'll never forget it.
I was at my grandparents house south of neosho. I remember it being so hard but the clouds were moving fast. It sounded like a distant train
@@trailerparkthor9192 my brother lives in Neosho. I'm familiar with the area. I'm glad you guys didn't get hit.
I was in the joplin tornado when I was a few years old and I now hate any storms.
KC native here, I went down after it to help. I can't even think of the name Joplin without tearing up.
How long did it take to clean everything? How many years? That is just crazy. I had just graduated HS that May in 2011
Yes! You saying something about the piano reminds me of an EF4 tornado that happened near me and destroyed my brother's friend's house. All the roof was gone and house destroyed except for the small closet they were huddled in. Their piano was still intact and in the living room despite the roof being gone and all the couches sucked up in the tornado. Crazy.
It's incredibly common for American homes to have underground basement areas for shelter because tornados are a threat in several locations throughout the US. We've had to seek shelter three times in 2024 due to funnel clouds in my city already and it's only May 4th, the tornado season just began
This guy forgot one EF5 tornado in 2007 that wiped 95 percent of the town of Greensburg, KS off the map. They had to completely rebuild the entire town.
Plainfield, IL in 1990 was an EF5 that killed 29 people also.
ouch!
Yeh it's surprising how little you hear about that Greensburg tornado now days . I remember the day it happened . It was a BIG deal . Also that Smithville tornado that scoured the ground so hard that it ripped a drainage pipe out of the Earth. Incredible intensity.
F4's aren't much better. It pretty much erased Gifford here in Illinois.
If I remember right, the Greensburg tornado was the size of the town at its largest. The entire width of the tornado took up the whole city
I don't see any comments on this, but before the tornado hits we have super loud warning sirens that go off all over every town. So when you're here, go for cover if you hear it.
He actually heard a siren in his American Thunderstorms video.
Those sirens don’t always go off in time. Several tornadoes still come out of no where
Have you heard Chicago sirens? Sounds like something from Silent Hill. I had to ask my cousin if that was real. She said yes. I'm used to the blaring straight siren.
No sirens here but our phones all ring at the same time with a message from the weather station.
Sirens are certainly helpful, out in the sticks we don't have them, but we can get phone alerts now...but in all honesty, you can feel tornado weather.
You are so much fun to watch! A tornado went through my neighborhood just last week and I live in Michigan! We don't typically get them and it was only an F2. (It still caused quite a bit of damage). I also lived in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1979 and an F4 tornado tore through that town then. It was devastatingI , I can't imagine it getting any worse. I think most people who live in the states have witnessed a tornado.
As a native Texan I’ve witnessed many tornadoes and actually been in one. Yes in one, it picked up the rear end of my vehicle and set it back down. It destroyed serval buildings and tall metal ad signs/electrical poles near me, but somehow, by the grace of God I was unharmed. They test the warning sirens for tornadoes the first Monday of every month, and it’s always funny to see the reaction from people who don’t know what the sirens are lol. Rain wrapped tornadoes and night time tornadoes are what we all fear the most though.
I was 14 yrs old and lived 15 miles from #6 Xenia, Ohio in the super outbreak of 1974. It was the only time I ever saw real fear on my Dad’s face. What the narrator didn’t tell is how many funnel clouds didn’t touch down. We saw 3 that day! There have been several EF1s within just a few miles of me in the last few years. But I’ve not seen one since 1974 and hope I never see another. I will never live in a house without a basement.
The Xenia Ohio F5 was the most famous one of the 1974 Super Outbreak… but there was another F5 that struck that same day about 10 miles from where I lived, which hit Sayler Park just west of Cincinnati. I could see the funnel from where I was to the north in the suburb North College Hill. I was 7 years old (just shy of 8). The skies were the weirdest shade of green-gray, and the pressure changes made my head hurt. We had been on the porch watching the storms, but Mom and Dad made us go to the basement when we saw the funnel form to the south… I don’t mind admitting I was scared.
Living in tornado alley, I have nightmares about tornadoes. In some of them, I'm not home but am out and about in town, and I'm searching for a building that has an underground floor, which is actually silly, since you can't tell from the outside if a building has a basement.
My step-dad rebuilt the phone lines for Xenia after the tornado. They were destroyed.
A couple years ago on Memorial Day we had 5 we at the same time w significant damage in Dayton/Beavercreek which is the same and neighboring county
I'm from Xenia. I wasn't born yet for the '74 twister. The day after my 16th birthday (April 25th) our house was hit by an F1. It lifted the roof up on our house and set it back down. Our poor neighbors two doors down had their house leveled.
I lived in tornado alley my whole life. I've seen so many tornadoes. Its so funny when I talk about tornadoes because no one else understands, Having a storm cellar is something so normal for me, and other people don't understand.
I lived in Moore, Oklahoma and have first had experience of tornados. The EF4-EF5 in 2013 destroyed my childhood home while I was visiting with my husband and son. We were lucky to have had a neighbor with a storm shelter. Hearing it go overhead while holding my son then seeing my (former) bedroom completely gone afterward is something I still have nightmares about.
I can confirm these storms are as terrifying as they look here.
Something I think is interesting to think about is the fact that the EF scale is a damage scale, meaning just about all windspeed estimates are based on damage surveys. This means that in these past ten, soon-to-be eleven years, there very well may have been EF5 strength tornadoes, but they just didn't hit anything major, or there wasn't qualifying damage in the surveys. Essentially, if a 300 mph tornado passes by my town, but only throws a rock at my window and cracks it, it would not be rated that highly by surveyors.
Yup. My house got the roof ripped off and a giant tree thrown through the living room wall. I lived in a rural area so fortunately only a couple buildings were hit, so it was an F1.
This is basically what happened with the May 13 2013 El Reno tornado, it was initially called an EF5, but because of the lack of damage it caused despite being the widest tornado ever recorded and windspeeds in excess of 300+ mph, because it didnt hit any major areas where it could cause alot of damages was downgraded to an EF3.
I don't know what it is exactly but there is some kind of angle with insurance companies and the federal government. I know from photographs I have seen and descriptions from highly experienced storm chasers of the scenes that there have been several tornadoes since 2013 that met EF-5 damage levels but were officially rated as EF-4. Some of the reasoning I have heard through second hand sources is highly suspect. For example, I can't remember the specific tornado but there was one back around 2015 or so that did EF-5 level damage but was rated as EF-4 because one of the bolts in the foundation of a house that was completely swept away supposedly wasn't tigntened properly. Like one fricking bolt is going to make a difference between the foundation being swept completely clean or not.
That headline "TORNADO KILLS 100" wasn't in Tornado Alley. That was in Worcester, Massachusetts just 45 miles west of Boston.
I grew up in one of the towns the Mass tornado went through - the library used to have a section of a oak tree trunk that had tall grass blown all the way through it by the winds.
Ive lived in oklahoma most of my life. Even though i live in a very small town we have had several tornadoes touch down close by luckily never hitting us directly. Living in tornado alley is a way of life here and many if not all people have a disaster plan. Its even taught in our schools what to do and where to go.
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Keep in mind that the USA is *HUGE!* Tornadoes are generally local events. It's rare for one to go over more than one town or city, let alone cross from one state to another. Tornado Alley is also a huge area. However, Tornadoes can occur anywhere there's a thunderstorm, even outside Tornado Alley. Hurricanes have been known to have tornadoes associated with them, too. A hurricane forms from thunderstorms over the ocean. There's virtually no place on Earth that isn't prone to some kind of natural disaster, whether storms (including hurricanes and blizzards), earthquakes, floods, forest fires, volcano eruptions or anything I've missed.
I was a volunteer ambulance driver when the 1991 Andover tornado. The destruction was crazy!
Jarrell is one of those tornados that genuinely horrifies me. Having heard what happened to the people that died in that storm is horrible and horrific. It’s just so awful what tornados do and all I can say is please always stay weather aware
The fact that it ripped up pavement from the ground, and even the grass was completely gone… that’s just crazy
Dead man walking is an absolutely terrifying phenomenon.
The storm was going to kill anything above ground. It moved less than ten miles per hour at EF 5 speeds. Rescuers couldn’t tell cattle from human remains. Mail was found miles away and debris like large metal appliances were never seen again from multiple homes.
The horrific scene of finding bodies, some without their skin and no immediate way to tell their sex. Even cattle’s skin was ripped from their bodies! The news was so graphic I’ll never forget it, as no one had a chance to live through this
@@lantose and their lungs were torn out of their bodies
27:54 You go to a central room if you don’t have a basement because that gives you the best chance of surviving. Most tornadoes won’t completely wipe clear a building, so being in the center gives you structural support to maybe not get crushed under rubble and you won’t have to worry about projectiles coming through windows.
To answer your question at 16:10, yes. If you are caught out in the open by a large tornado like an EF5, you will be picked up off the ground and thrown by the force of the winds. It's even happened to people who were inside their houses when the tornado passed over the house. The winds are so strong and so fast that it can throw a human body hundreds, and sometimes even thousands, of meters from where it picked them up.
Honestly here in Iowa, we like to watch severe storms from our porches or windows (if it’s raining too hard and we were getting wet). I even saw the perfect meme once that had everyone else panicking while Iowans are like ‘where’s the tornado? I don’t see it. Let’s get in the roof for a better view.’ I remember going in a family trip to Florida when I was about 8. We were eating in a Chinese restaurant and there was a tornado on the ground not too far from us. Everyone in the restaurant was panicking as they watched the weather channel, while we continued to eat, saying to ourselves ‘we’re from Iowa, we’re used to this stuff.’
Tornado alley is very large- approx. 500,000 square miles. More than twice the size of France.
Tornadoes happen outside of tornado alley too, but those are generally much smaller. (You do have tornados in the UK, but much smaller and of shorter duration). I'm in the PNW - we've had tornados up to an EF3, though EF0 or EF1 are more typical. Homes have been destroyed, though it's usually just one or two, and more likely damage that can be repaired.
My cousin lost her home in the Moore tornado in 2013. When I was 7 a tornado hit the small town in Kansas that I lived in. So yes, I SAW a tornado in person. That was 1958.
This event led to a siren system being installed in the town.
Did you live in Udall?
@@janarheacartwright8361 We lived in El Dorado. I still have the newspaper photo of the funnel cloud and my uncle was up in an airplane a few days after the tornado and took photos of the clear path. It was also a tornado that came from Northwest to Southeast. For years people in town referred to the “wrong way tornado”. A dozen or so people died and I think over 80 were hospitalized. A boy in my class had a huge scar on his wrist where a chunk of 2x4 had been driven through his arm. I think I remember vaguely about a Udall tornado, but was pretty young.
Moore, OK was hit in both 1999 and 2013 by F5s. My uncle lost his house in the first one. He recently passed away, and despite having some fond memories of him, my most recent and vivid memories of him was going with him to survey the damage to his house and the neighborhood.
I've only had a close call once. One passed within a mile of my apartment. After it passed through, I went to where I worked to see if anything had happened there. Our store had minor damage, but the only thing left of the ice cream store across the street was the walk-in freezer. The tornado had hopped and skipped through town, so it was in the air over our store, but came back down on top of the ice cream place.
I know it wasn’t mentioned but I live in Topeka KS right off the base of Burnett’s Mound where an F5 beast came up over the mound and carved a huge path. Even took out a lot of Washburn University. The book “And Hell Followed With It” by Bonar Menninger is really good.
Topeka’s known as having the best tornado preparedness plan at that time so places all around were copying it for their own towns. Everyone thought that the legend of Burnett’s Mound would save the town but ironically enough the tornado came up and over it directly.
If you're serious about coming to America you really should watch The Wizard of Oz. Not only is it deep within the American Psyche, American idiomatic English is just full of references to it, whether the speaker is aware of it or not. Many of us get our first glimpse of what a tornado is from it. The special effects crew did such a good job in 1939, your jaw will drop.
I think all they used was like a black stocking on a spindle or something crazy like that and yea, for the time it looked pretty realistic.
Our OZ shelter came about when company needed name.
I live in St. Louis, MO most of my life. You have to pay attention to the weather person
If it's heading your way, get to your basement or the lowest interior room.
I have never actually seen a tornado because I am in the basement. I have heard one. I think that was in 2011. It was on Good Friday. It hit the airport, and I lived a mile or so south of the airport.
I was told by a friend who was at.my house.and not in the basement that it was all clear to come up.
As soon as I got upstairs, I heard what sounded like a jet, and my friend says "see, they're letting planes take off, they wouldn't be doing that if there was a tornado. Found out a few minutes later, it was the tornado that hit the airport. It wasn't a big one. Maybe an EF2.
@@godspotato8432 I remember that Tornado because it preceded the 2011 Super Outbreak by maybe a week or two. While it wasn't devastating it did produce some good footage from inside the airport and received a lot of media coverage because of it .
For whatever reason , it stuck in my mind because of what was to come across many states , including where I was ...
I love just a few miles from the Oz museum in wamego. It's supposedly where Dorothy lived in the story. We just had a nasty little tornado that went actually just north of the Oz museum itself a few days ago ended up killing one person not a huge tornado but obviously big enough do some pretty good damage. Read Tamara and many other Storm chasers have videos of it on UA-cam and some of them are saying it's the most incredible footage they've ever filmed. I think the footage that Reed got in 2022 of the Andover tornado was really good too but this one was something different really incredible. What's freaky is that tornado in 2022 was pretty close to the same track as the tornado in 1991 that destroyed the mobile home park. Pretty eerie
I was living in Moore (now living in Oklahoma City) during both of those Moore tornadoes. Lost everything I owned in the May 3, 1999 one, but was at work at the time. It looked like a war zone!
I was in Shawnee for the 99 and Midwest City in 2013. Those storms left a permanent impression on me for sure. The power of nature is surreal.
It destroyed the outlet in Stroud
@@jarrodmarker8590I was in Lawton. Where it actually started
Lived in Oklahoma City for both of those, but my brother and his wife ended up sheltering in the maintenance area of the mall in Norman.
@@MrsGator7 That’s wild!
My dad went into Jarrell, TX, right after the 1997 tornado to check the power lines. He had to walk part of the tornado's path and saw things he still can't talk about. But one thing he does share is how the asphalt had been sucked up, leaving behind dirt outlines where streets had been.
My favorite feeling in summer is when it starts to get stormy and a ton of storm chasers fly past you.
The United States averages over 1,200 tornadoes every year. That's more than any other country. In fact, it's more than Canada, Australia and all European countries combined. Canada actually ranks second on the list for most tornadoes, with an average of 100 per year.Dec 14, 2023
Yes we (Canada) do have a lot of tornadoes and 2021 was the worst year which freaked a lot of people out but thankfully the following 2yrs the number went down.
Lived in tornado alley most of my life, had a few close calls. 2011 outbreak happened when I was heavily pregnant with my second. My oldest, four at the time, and I hid in the bathroom (interior with no windows). I put a bucket over our heads and held the dog in one arm and my son in the other. When the power went out, my oldest cried, "Why?!" and then started crying. It was heading right towards us, got a mile away, and swerved off. Middle son was born a few weeks later, and he is now obsessed with tornados lol. He jokes it started when he was in the womb.
We had another close call just a few weeks ago, again hit about a mile away (but headed in the opposite direction). The silence and stillness before is eerie, the sky is green and there is no wind. You can feel it pressing down on you.
I left a comment just shortly before this about my girlfriend's dad's van being found seven houses away. That was the May 3rd 1999 bridge Creek Moore tornado their house. What was left was the concrete slab foundation with some plumbing pipes broken off sticking out the tip, but even the tile that had been laid on the concrete had been stripped off
2:45 - This is why it's REALLY good to have a basement in tornado and hurricane areas. They can take the place of a storm shelter without having to go outside to get to it.
I would rather be in an underground shelter, away from the house. People have died in basements cause their house falls on top of them. And people get stuck in their shelters cause they put it in their garage and the house falls on top of it and blocks the door so you can't get out. Away from the house, underground with two door ways closing me off, please. That would be my ideal.
@@GrumpyKay That's the ideal, IF you have enough warning to get to it before it becomes unsafe to go outside. Also, lot of houses don't have a storm shelter outside. As an ideal though, I'd agree. How about both? :)
@@Trifler500 ok lol!
Yep! My last houses' in MN foundation had steel strappings. It was a fortress.
The thing is, most hurricane areas can't have basements cuz of flooding. I live in Houston and no one has basements here. Tornadoes are quite a bit rarer here than in other parts of the U.S., but we do get them, and all you can do is go into an interior room and hope for the best. I realized after I moved into my house a few years ago that there is literally only one interior room in my house, a small closet. LOL. The two bathtubs are both on exterior walls.
My paternal grandfather and his parents (my great-grandparents) survived the F5 Tri-State tornado in 1925. They lived in Murphysboro, Illinois. My grandfather was 5 years old at the time.
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I love in Grandview Missouri, it used to be in tornado Alley, but not since it shifted. Everyone I know has at least seen one tornado attempting to form. We have pretty advanced tornado warnings and radar, and our tornado sirens are checked every two weeks to make sure they work, you can hear them go off at 4 pm every other Wednesday. I have heard enough tornado sirens to pretty well gauge when a tornado might come. And I've seen enough tornado vortexes trying to form that I can tell from looking up at the sky when a tornado is trying to form, and I can also sometimes tell when the weather conditions in the climate is good for tornado conditions.
Hi there, I live in Topeka, Kansas, which is the capital city of the state. Although before my time, one famous tornado that wasn't mentioned in the video was the 1966 Topeka F5.
It wiped out at least a third of the entire capital city, though I don't have statistics on the death toll, injuries, or damage value. The lore behind it is that the water tower built on Burnett's Mound had in vote in ancient Native American curse which caused the tornado to be formed out of vengeance by the spirits, or something along those lines
I moved to Oklahoma in 1995, and I was there until 2001. I have been in 3 tornadoes but the biggest and only big one I was in was an F3. Other ones were F2s. My boss sent us all to Moore in 1999 to help clean up. I cried the devastating was too much and the dead bodies were almost everywhere. The screams of survivors I can still hear in my sleep. I pray no one has to go through one of those ever again.
Thank you for your help. It was truly appreciated.
It is. At the same time the support from the whole country coming to help is inspiring. I was part of gathering supplies for Joplin in 2011
I was 9 in ‘99 and 23 in ‘13 and seeing the footage of both of these Moore, Oklahoma tornados instantly brings tears to my eyes. I still have a little PTSD from both of those storms, especially seeing the footage of the school where those babies lost their lives, it’s truly devastating.
I’m actually surprised that the 2013 El Reno, Oklahoma tornado didn’t make the list. They say that it was the strongest ever recorded, however it didn’t hit very populated areas so there wasn’t enough damage to actually confirm that it was in fact an EF5.
It’s the beginning of tornado season here in Central OK right now and you better believe that I am completely prepared to get my kids and my pets to the cellar with our storm kit that I have packed and ready to go. We don’t take any chances and the minute we hear that tornado siren sound, we’re underground!
Same. Been through both. Horrific.
I was finishing school at OU in the May 99 tornado. I had my senior presentation that evening in Norman. I had to drive from Del City to Norman, had the radio on the whole way to keep track of the storm. It passed through an intersection that I had passed about 10 minutes prior. 😳
It took me 3 hours to get from Norman back to Del City that night.
One of the scariest drives I've ever made seeing all the destruction on the way home. Didn't have a cell phone back then and didn't know if my parents were ok or not.
There was a neighborhood about a mile from my parents' neighborhood that was completely leveled to the foundations. Off SE 44th and Sooner, down the way from Tinker housing. My parents only had a few shingles damaged and that was it. Very fortunate.
I live in San Antonio now. Not many tornadoes here, maybe once every 3-4 years and on the milder side F1-2. But they are always at night and they don't have sirens down here, so it's quite unnerving. And the forecasters here aren't nearly as talented as Oklahoma's.
Every 4 or 5 years that place gets hit with a f4 or f5 that's insane same with El reno I was out there for 4 months I swear they don't have normal rain storms. Lol
The strongest tornado in the world was the Bridgecreek- Moore tornado on May 3rd. I believe the wind speeds were 318 per hr.
I grew up in Kansas, I was 3 or 4 yrs old in my dad's mechanic shop. AN afternoon tornado spun up quickly nearby. I heard what sounded like a freight train, mom screamed "tornado" and bent over me between 2 vehicles in the middle of the shop. Next thing I know, there was daylight all around & we were getting rained on. The tornado had taken the entire roof off the cinderblock bldg. Ahh, the memories... ;)
The Xenia Ohio tornado (as it travelled through Kentucky) on April 3, 1974, went right over my house. We were in our storm cellar (basically a big hole dug into the ground with a big steel door). It touched down several times across the state and a whole town was impacted about 60 miles from us. I was 4 years old. Tornadoes have been my worst fear since. In 1988, my senior year in high school, we had a tornado warning in which the tornado also destroyed a different town close to us. The worst that happened to me is that I put all of my Senior memorabilia in our clothes dryer in the basement and our basement flooded from the rain and it was all water logged. I'd take that over a touchdown any day. ~ Just found your channel - lover your videos!
Bro, I drove through Joplin right after the tornado hit it. I saw utter devastation everywhere!! Also, I flew into Lambert Airport in St Louis an hour before a trio of tornadoes hit it! Imagine my surprise when I was informed that I just cheated death! That event even has it's own Wikipedia page! Facts! Cheers mate!
I'm very old now, I'm from S. Ohio, N Kentucky, I moved out West because I couldn't handle the tornado watches and warnings anymore. It can happen in any season any time! Living my elder life easier in Nevada, no ice, snow or tornadoes around me so far! ❤from Vegas!
I live in Clinton MO and I have never seen a tornado in my life but just 2 days ago a EF1 tornado touched down near are house but luckily it missed, it didn’t do much damage but that day was a outbreak of 83 tornadoes in 24 hours. A EF3 Wedge tornado touched down in Waterloo/Omaha in Nebraska which did really bad damage, one hit Moore a EF4 that day. So ig you were right about a F5 hitting Moore lol a F4 is pretty much a F5 but not swepped off the foundation, that’s F5 damage. So yea that’s how my houses roof almost came off :)
I did a drive across country with my family, we had a hotel booked in Joplin Missouri, the 2011 F5 tornado rolled through like 3 days prior to when we were supposed to be there. We had no idea what the state of the hotel was, as the telephone was taken out by the tornado. When we got there, the hotel was untouched, the other side of the road was completely flattened. It was crazy to see how they just draw a line of damage, and barely touch the surrounding area.
Reminds me of seeing the aftermath of a tornado near me back in 2011. One side of the street was pretty much untouched while the homes on the other side were a wreck.