Tornado in Washington, IL on 11/17/2013. Captured this video as it was becoming more defined and as it tears up from south of Cummings to just before it hit Devonshire
You captured the sound! I have always heard it talked about, and have watched lots of videos, but even the storm chasers don’t seem to get that sound. Thanks for posting.
bkriegel95 i also wanna comment on his quote. Meteorologists are actually right more than wrong, but the wrongs are because they can only make predictions based on satellite readings they get about the atmosphere. No other source of knowledge besides having chasers in the field helps them make accurate predictions. People need to stop viewing them as gods that know everything and they need to view them as look outs, because when it actually does happen and people think they are wrong, we have a joplin missouri or tuscaloosa death count. it doesnt matter how much they are wrong, you should still take into consideration that it could happen and that there should be a game plan for when it goes horribly wrong.
yes, from the standpoint of potential loss of human life, I didn't want to see this. On the other hand, my statement that has everyone up in arms comes from the side of me that loves severe weather. During the summer of 2013, meteorologists would frequently predict severe storms but nothing happened...so this was just to reflect my feeling of how they finally predicted the weather correctly that day...and being my first live tornado...it was an awesome display of mother nature's power. Thankfully, the loss of human life wasn't nearly as great as what it could have been!
Oh yes, forecasting any type of weather is usually quite difficult! I've been making my own severe thunderstorm forecasts for the last 3 years (actually, more like 3.5, this event on November 17 got me started in it) with a pretty good success rate. But meteorology, as you can understand, is in no way an exact science, so forecasting is really a best guess at what will happen. I'm not meaning anything against you, Mr. Ludwig, but I strongly advise that you monitor forecasts and heed all warnings by the NWS. And, of course, this video is epic!! I saw my first tornado on that day in Kokomo, Indiana.
I feel bad that I express how awesome and excited I am to see an event like this as people's lives are being destroyed. But it's not everyday I get to see something like this. I hope anyone watching this video isn't offended by my comments.
Ryan Ludwig I understand and I'm not offended. Right afterwards I saw a few videos, but nothing that captured it like this one. Just thinking about it all today, probably because another northern IL town was devastated by a tornado a couple days ago.
This is a haunting video. My daughter and her family live right beyond the water tower - they were home and lost their house to this monster of a tornado. Most have rebuilt on the same lot - new homes but missing the big trees, sad. So many organizations and people pitched in to help, Washington is a very nice community. Thanks for posting this footage.
i glad we could get help on our town the tornado was devastating. there was another tornado and i got a video of it just 2 days ago. it didnt touch down but it was VERY close to going the same route. the tornado in the video went straight through my house and it was still standing strong(my house is almost all underground). still livin in the same house today. after the tornado i guess everyone forgot about this town because the state wont put any money towards the roads now and they are terrible. we grew double in population but at the worst time.
Wow, I haven't viewed this recently, it still terrifies me to think my daughter, her husband, and my little grandson were huddled under the staircase in their split- level home. They built a new home on the same lot but moved to Arizona last year. Maybe Washington needs new leadership...there could be some corruption...from what I've been told.
Can’t believe this happened 7years ago, I live in Marseilles IL, I remember watching this storm coming in and then hearing it hit Washington and I found a piece of paper in my yard with a Washington address
the entire playground i had in my yard when the tornado came through got demolished and landed INSIDE a house in eureka. that is a 15 minute drive from washington or about 7-10 miles. the swing set was huge and weighed thousands of pounds and was gone just like that.
Totally. I think the jet engine comparison (or large waterfall) is far more relevant and accurate than the overused, tired, and often misunderstood freight train description (some people, believe it or not, think of a train whistle rather than the roar of a train as it passes along the tracks).
Weather is fickle and predicting it has many variables....they get more than you might think, it is just because everyone focuses on what they don't get right and not add in all they do get right.
I remember my friend freaking out from this because she lived in a town close to Washington. She texted me and called me... she was like crying... I felt really bad
i feel bad for the lady. you yelled at her to get to shelter, when she just wanted to watch a little bit. then you got to watch? she said she wanted to see it and you told her she had a video. haha what a jerk!
Yeah when your a man and your girl is in danger your first instinct is to tell her to get to safety and start giving clear and firm directives. Trust me as a married man there was a tornado that dropped in that area about 30 minutes prior in a town called Pekin and I was there at a park they have in the middle of town with a small lake. My wife and I were eating a box of donuts we got there, then we just felt an extremely strong wind pulling us out of nowhere just as my phone alarm went off saying a tornado was close and to take shelter. My wife wanted to stay run back and grab the donuts, 🤣 I grabbed her by the arm and physically pulled her to the car as she was trying to run to the box of donuts sitting on the bench. 🤯😂😘We later found out a very small EF 1 tornado had dropped in that town at that exact moment less than a quarter-mile away from where we were sitting. That pull was the rear flank downdraft sucking us towards the thing. Guy was already out there watching in the video when his wife said she wanted to come out and stay out to watch it, he did the right thing to do, to tell your girl to take safety… It’s our protective nature deep down in our DNA. So don’t rag on this guy for being a real man. Any man that doesn’t protect his girl is a soy boy. DISCLAIMER: No females were traumatized, abused, psychologically damaged, misogynized, drawn n quartered, or otherwise obliterated by this man recording a video. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 smh
I wish I could have gotten more video but when I ended the video, it was due to the rain as it was preventing me from viewing it. I'm still very surprised no one over on devonshire or westminster (among other neighborhoods) died due to this storm. Just the one fatality on the SW end of town where it first touched down.
I was hanging with some friends at my house in Pekin and the tornado smashed apart a couple of houses in my area and I had nailed 2x4's flying around in my yard. Lucky my house didn't get smashed. EDIT: It was still awesome to see the nailed 2x4's flying around though!
Galactic Marine CZ-6492 I was there! I was at Mineral Springs Park when it touched down. We felt the RFD pulling us from that far a distance! Little did we know that the Washington Tornado was part of the same storm system rolling east to smack Washington just 30 minutes later…
there was a tornado 2 days ago and the sirens were going off before then. i think since 2013 they slacked on the sirens but now they are on top of it so we dont lose 3 lives like we did then.
One weekend a large tornado went through their town and then the next a Cyclone (Springfield Sacred Heart Griffin's mascot) tore right through their football team. Oh, the irony!
Jeff, I was on Jadens Way just north of 24 and just east of Cummings. I think I started to record when it was developing around west lake (just outside of town).
the tornado started behind the private lake neighborhood called westlake i watched it form then biked back to my house. it moved diagnal north east and went straight through my house and georgetown before going through the main school neighborhood and destroying half of washington. it went through a couple corn fields then dissapated. he was on the other side of the corn fields by 24 or on 24. (edit) it took out 1 house and damaged others in my small neighborhood before going to my house then georgetown.
Sirens good timing.... Obviously the people who set off the sirens were playing clash of clans eating a bag of Cheetos at the time of the EF-4 TORNAD THAT ALMOST KILLED MY LOVED ONES.
Smart man! That thing was coming your way and if it pulled to your right towards the end, you would have been toast. I hope you, your family and house were ok in the end. Too close for comfort!!!
considering the track record around here, it's perfectly fitting. Predictions for rain or sun are rarely right around these parts Mr Chaser, hence my comment on their getting it right on that day.
Gotta love the mentality of "Oh! there's tornado off in the distance, gotta go in the basement right now because it could suddenly jump over here in 2 seconds!" Not..... Just watch it and if it starts getting closer then go in the basement.
Yeah, most people aren’t well informed on tornadoes but still it’s dangerous to stand somewhat close even if one seems far away, you could still technically already be in it and struck by debris so it’s always a risk
While I get what you mean, a.) it’s way more difficult to gauge if a tornados headed your way given it’s swirling, changing, and even shifting sizes and b.) just because the condensation funnel isn’t on you doesn’t mean you aren’t in the tornadic wind field
Can't stand it when people claim that meteorologists never get anything right. These men and women are GREAT at their job and are accurate 95% of the time. People only seem to notice when the forcast doesn't quite go as predicted. Even then, they will be the first to tell you that no forcast is 100% certain. There are so many variables that go into it and it's a shame that these brilliant people don't get the credit that they deserve
the tornado scale is stupid because the tornado that went through washington was definitely f-5 if it didnt miss the one neighborhood when it first started then it would have been f-5
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Really Natalie this guy here is an a-hole. Bossing his wife around when she just wanted to watch something that most people do not get to see. I hope and pray I never do by the way. But treating her like shes brainless. It was obvious that tornado wasn't going your way hero.
Homes and lives are being destroyed and people died and you think it's awesome and chuckle about it? People need to think or at least not publish on UA-cam such insensitive videos.
You captured the sound! I have always heard it talked about, and have watched lots of videos, but even the storm chasers don’t seem to get that sound. Thanks for posting.
"Finally, something around here the meteorologists get right"......I'm pretty sure that this is the one thing you wish they were wrong about.
yes, you are very right
bkriegel95 i also wanna comment on his quote. Meteorologists are actually right more than wrong, but the wrongs are because they can only make predictions based on satellite readings they get about the atmosphere. No other source of knowledge besides having chasers in the field helps them make accurate predictions. People need to stop viewing them as gods that know everything and they need to view them as look outs, because when it actually does happen and people think they are wrong, we have a joplin missouri or tuscaloosa death count. it doesnt matter how much they are wrong, you should still take into consideration that it could happen and that there should be a game plan for when it goes horribly wrong.
No it sounds like he was enjoying it.
yes, from the standpoint of potential loss of human life, I didn't want to see this.
On the other hand, my statement that has everyone up in arms comes from the side of me that loves severe weather. During the summer of 2013, meteorologists would frequently predict severe storms but nothing happened...so this was just to reflect my feeling of how they finally predicted the weather correctly that day...and being my first live tornado...it was an awesome display of mother nature's power.
Thankfully, the loss of human life wasn't nearly as great as what it could have been!
Oh yes, forecasting any type of weather is usually quite difficult! I've been making my own severe thunderstorm forecasts for the last 3 years (actually, more like 3.5, this event on November 17 got me started in it) with a pretty good success rate. But meteorology, as you can understand, is in no way an exact science, so forecasting is really a best guess at what will happen. I'm not meaning anything against you, Mr. Ludwig, but I strongly advise that you monitor forecasts and heed all warnings by the NWS. And, of course, this video is epic!! I saw my first tornado on that day in Kokomo, Indiana.
I feel bad that I express how awesome and excited I am to see an event like this as people's lives are being destroyed. But it's not everyday I get to see something like this. I hope anyone watching this video isn't offended by my comments.
Ryan Ludwig I understand and I'm not offended. Right afterwards I saw a few videos, but nothing that captured it like this one. Just thinking about it all today, probably because another northern IL town was devastated by a tornado a couple days ago.
Ryan Ludwig It might be bad, but these cry babies should have never clicked on the video. Obviously they like tornados and show excitement
Well at the time, it had not become a monster yet. It only did that in the minutes afterward.
I've always said it's not either/or. You can marvel at the spectacle _and also_ mourn the losses. The tornado is going to happen regardless.
This is a haunting video. My daughter and her family live right beyond the water tower - they were home and lost their house to this monster of a tornado. Most have rebuilt on the same lot - new homes but missing the big trees, sad. So many organizations and people pitched in to help, Washington is a very nice community. Thanks for posting this footage.
C Ellison and a very STRONG community as well!
i glad we could get help on our town the tornado was devastating. there was another tornado and i got a video of it just 2 days ago. it didnt touch down but it was VERY close to going the same route. the tornado in the video went straight through my house and it was still standing strong(my house is almost all underground). still livin in the same house today. after the tornado i guess everyone forgot about this town because the state wont put any money towards the roads now and they are terrible. we grew double in population but at the worst time.
Wow, I haven't viewed this recently, it still terrifies me to think my daughter, her husband, and my little grandson were huddled under the staircase in their split- level home. They built a new home on the same lot but moved to Arizona last year.
Maybe Washington needs new leadership...there could be some corruption...from what I've been told.
Can’t believe this happened 7years ago, I live in Marseilles IL, I remember watching this storm coming in and then hearing it hit Washington and I found a piece of paper in my yard with a Washington address
the entire playground i had in my yard when the tornado came through got demolished and landed INSIDE a house in eureka. that is a 15 minute drive from washington or about 7-10 miles. the swing set was huge and weighed thousands of pounds and was gone just like that.
@@Raccoonwithab1unt I watch Ryan Hall Y’all every time I hear there’s going to be bad weather, the guy’s amazing.
@@appleslorri2012 yea so do i but i did not realize that a tornado would almost touch down and be double the size of the tornado in 2013
@@appleslorri2012 do you have discord or some other way i can send you the video? i mean this tornado was HUGE that i caught.
The sound toward the end was perfection.
That roar though, sounds like a jet engine
Totally. I think the jet engine comparison (or large waterfall) is far more relevant and accurate than the overused, tired, and often misunderstood freight train description (some people, believe it or not, think of a train whistle rather than the roar of a train as it passes along the tracks).
The jet engine hits the nail on the head! To me, it sounds like the very loud roar when thrust reversers are deployed on landing. Exactly like that!
Your camera is like an artist. Its Black and White where the tornado is, but when he pans out. You can see color of the blue sky just left of it. Lol
Weather is fickle and predicting it has many variables....they get more than you might think, it is just because everyone focuses on what they don't get right and not add in all they do get right.
I remember my friend freaking out from this because she lived in a town close to Washington. She texted me and called me... she was like crying... I felt really bad
you can see the top tower part of the Sleep Inn hotel where we were taking cover and just how close it was
That's gorgeous with the sunlight behind the tornado!
i feel bad for the lady. you yelled at her to get to shelter, when she just wanted to watch a little bit. then you got to watch? she said she wanted to see it and you told her she had a video. haha what a jerk!
I thought the same exact thing. Typical man behavior.
Yeah when your a man and your girl is in danger your first instinct is to tell her to get to safety and start giving clear and firm directives. Trust me as a married man there was a tornado that dropped in that area about 30 minutes prior in a town called Pekin and I was there at a park they have in the middle of town with a small lake. My wife and I were eating a box of donuts we got there, then we just felt an extremely strong wind pulling us out of nowhere just as my phone alarm went off saying a tornado was close and to take shelter. My wife wanted to stay run back and grab the donuts, 🤣 I grabbed her by the arm and physically pulled her to the car as she was trying to run to the box of donuts sitting on the bench. 🤯😂😘We later found out a very small EF 1 tornado had dropped in that town at that exact moment less than a quarter-mile away from where we were sitting. That pull was the rear flank downdraft sucking us towards the thing. Guy was already out there watching in the video when his wife said she wanted to come out and stay out to watch it, he did the right thing to do, to tell your girl to take safety… It’s our protective nature deep down in our DNA. So don’t rag on this guy for being a real man. Any man that doesn’t protect his girl is a soy boy.
DISCLAIMER: No females were traumatized, abused, psychologically damaged, misogynized, drawn n quartered, or otherwise obliterated by this man recording a video. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 smh
I wish I could have gotten more video but when I ended the video, it was due to the rain as it was preventing me from viewing it. I'm still very surprised no one over on devonshire or westminster (among other neighborhoods) died due to this storm. Just the one fatality on the SW end of town where it first touched down.
they went to their basements, its safe down there
Ryan Ludwig RFD brought you in !
They sound like a turbine/jet engine.
I lived on westminster, and I have been wanting to see what the tornado looked like when it destroyed out house.
once those sirens went off it was only seconds from hitting Kris Kraft house
This beast hit Pekin, East Peoria, Washington and who knows where else. We lived in East Peoria and our house was ok but not many of our neighbors.
the washington tornado hit not to far from my apartment it happened on my sister's birthday i had to call her up and tell her happy CRAZY birthday
Cool color to the video. Gives it anold timey eerie vibe
I was hanging with some friends at my house in Pekin and the tornado smashed apart a couple of houses in my area and I had nailed 2x4's flying around in my yard. Lucky my house didn't get smashed.
EDIT: It was still awesome to see the nailed 2x4's flying around though!
Galactic Marine CZ-6492 I was there! I was at Mineral Springs Park when it touched down. We felt the RFD pulling us from that far a distance! Little did we know that the Washington Tornado was part of the same storm system rolling east to smack Washington just 30 minutes later…
What was the Tornados Strength EF? it looks incredible
This was rated as an EF-4 in Washington where winds were estimated to be 190 mph.
would like to speak with you about this vid and your experience - we are producing a TV episode about this storm
Interesting how long it took them to set off the sirens.
there was a tornado 2 days ago and the sirens were going off before then. i think since 2013 they slacked on the sirens but now they are on top of it so we dont lose 3 lives like we did then.
One weekend a large tornado went through their town and then the next a Cyclone (Springfield Sacred Heart Griffin's mascot) tore right through their football team. Oh, the irony!
I hope no friends or family got hurt. Seems like you made it ok.
Just incredible footage! Was you north of 24 and east of Cummins lane? I'm trying to pinpoint where it started
Jeff, I was on Jadens Way just north of 24 and just east of Cummings. I think I started to record when it was developing around west lake (just outside of town).
the tornado started behind the private lake neighborhood called westlake i watched it form then biked back to my house. it moved diagnal north east and went straight through my house and georgetown before going through the main school neighborhood and destroying half of washington. it went through a couple corn fields then dissapated. he was on the other side of the corn fields by 24 or on 24.
(edit) it took out 1 house and damaged others in my small neighborhood before going to my house then georgetown.
He want to see the majestic beauty but sends her downstairs.. 🙄
All the rain around it is called a rfd fun fact rfd's can blow out windows and they usally make tornados super hard to see
tone would have been a little different being inside it lol.. watch some of those videos
He sounds so excited...
...while the dang thing is destroying other people's lives and property! 😔
it is so dark
In the beginning it’s all ohhh and ahhhh, then it’s all screaming and running....
Sirens good timing.... Obviously the people who set off the sirens were playing clash of clans eating a bag of Cheetos at the time of the EF-4 TORNAD THAT ALMOST KILLED MY LOVED ONES.
I'm xDzR The sirens accually went off once way before the tornado hit
They had sounded several minutes before the tornado moved in. It was one fast moving storm though.
I'm xDzR agreed there it was in front of my hpuse when sirens went off
Smart man! That thing was coming your way and if it pulled to your right towards the end, you would have been toast. I hope you, your family and house were ok in the end. Too close for comfort!!!
Terrifying yet awesome
The clouds!!!
We get it right most of the time. How about you try to forecast tornadoes?
considering the track record around here, it's perfectly fitting. Predictions for rain or sun are rarely right around these parts Mr Chaser, hence my comment on their getting it right on that day.
That was one hell of a messed up day! Missed me by a half mile.
It missed my by like 100 miles...........
Daaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmnnnn!😱😲😲😧
Gotta love the mentality of "Oh! there's tornado off in the distance, gotta go in the basement right now because it could suddenly jump over here in 2 seconds!" Not..... Just watch it and if it starts getting closer then go in the basement.
Yeah, most people aren’t well informed on tornadoes but still it’s dangerous to stand somewhat close even if one seems far away, you could still technically already be in it and struck by debris so it’s always a risk
While I get what you mean, a.) it’s way more difficult to gauge if a tornados headed your way given it’s swirling, changing, and even shifting sizes and b.) just because the condensation funnel isn’t on you doesn’t mean you aren’t in the tornadic wind field
Can't stand it when people claim that meteorologists never get anything right. These men and women are GREAT at their job and are accurate 95% of the time. People only seem to notice when the forcast doesn't quite go as predicted. Even then, they will be the first to tell you that no forcast is 100% certain. There are so many variables that go into it and it's a shame that these brilliant people don't get the credit that they deserve
Atrox 084 Come to Michigan..they are right 25% of the time at best!
Ehhhhhhh that’s debatable
l used to live at Georgetown.
i was in it
I was in that tornado
I can see my house in this video!!!! Omfg we were so lucky not to get hit.
It was rated an E-4 but I swear by the end of this video it looks as strong as an F-5
the tornado scale is stupid because the tornado that went through washington was definitely f-5 if it didnt miss the one neighborhood when it first started then it would have been f-5
That sounds nothing like fright train, I here a roar or like a jet engine
Fuck that day!
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Really Natalie this guy here is an a-hole. Bossing his wife around when she just wanted to watch something that most people do not get to see. I hope and pray I never do by the way. But treating her like shes brainless. It was obvious that tornado wasn't going your way hero.
Awesome and deadly
Homes and lives are being destroyed and people died and you think it's awesome and chuckle about it? People need to think or at least not publish on UA-cam such insensitive videos.
I know, what a jerk!
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Ryan is bored, but a deadly tornado excites him.
Don't be like Ryan