CHICAGO, The Unknown Tornado Magnet
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
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Chicago, The Unexpected Tornado Hotspot. Home to some of the strangest, most violent, and Deadliest Tornadoes in history, yet for some reason nobody ever talks about it.
Video Credits:
• F-Scale | Mr. Tornado ...
• WGN Weather Aug 29 1990
• 1967 Oak Lawn tornado ...
• Tornado In Chicago (1961)
• August 28, 1990 superc...
• Jordan, Iowa Tornado O...
• Lemont, Illinois Torna...
• Lemont - Argonne Illin...
Photo Credits:
Oak Lawn Public Library
Texas Tech University
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shave the bush!
Can you please do El Reno tornado? do it please!❤ also, the Washington tornado video was my favorite video!
this is very scare, my cat is sad
Did those deadly tornadoes referenced in the video avoid Waukegan and other portions of Chicago's LAKE County area?
During the war of 1812 after the British captured washington DC including yhe burning of the Whitehouse it wasn't the American army that drove the British out of yhe capital. There was a huge tornado that decimated the occupying British army driving the remnant army out of the capital and was the beginning of the end of what looked like an easy British win. Definitely Devine intervention!
“The tornado hit my childhood friends home, but more importantly it almost hit my favorite burrito place” got me dying💀
i guess to him burritos are more important than friends
Real.
Nahhhhh
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LOL YO I live and grew up in the northern section of red in this video. McHenry/Lake/Boone County.. captured it perfectly. Houses are replaceable.. Tacos El Norte is not
Anyone else coming to this video after the 10+ tornadoes that just hit tonight?
Looking for this comment
@@galacticbeats292me too
Yup
Yeah
10??????? I thought it was like one or two!!!!!!!!!
His mom saying "No this is cool!" in reference to getting in the basement makes me realize where he got his attitude towards tornadoes from.
GOOD CATCH 👍
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His Mom sounds so wholesome though😊
Trying to imagine my face after seeing Twister in 96 and then being told that in 2024 I'd be watching a pube trimming ad amidst an independently made tornado documentary on a platform like UA-cam. What a time to be alive
Dildo ads are just around the corner.
😂
Odd times indeed
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It's well known in Chicago that Joliet is NOT where you want to be during severe weather!
I was 11 years old when the 1976 Lemont tornado hit. My Mom was driving me and my 7 year old sister, from a carnival in Chicago, back home to Darien. We went through torrential rain driving south on the Stevenson Expressway. As we topped a hill and approached County Line Road, the rain stopped and the sky in front of us was that horrible green color. My Mom took the ramp for County Line north, and I was old enough to know that wasn't our exit. As we were on the ramp, the radio announcer said there might be a tornado in Burr Ridge, by County Line Road.
It didn't get that far, but we were literally driving straight at it.
That was good for years of nightmares.
My friend's condo got hit a couple years ago in Woodridge. He was driving right at it. He could barely see well enough coming home from work, to get into a parking spot and then it passed about 60 feet away from him. All he saw was leaves and branches flying. Every car around him got damaged except for his. Some were pretty smashed up
@@j.kristineemmons Really, I think the scariest thing about tornadoes is that many of them are rain-wrapped and, as such, you can't actually tell if there's a tornado right in front of you until it's too late.
my dad is also from darien!
Joliet here 👋 we had the EF1 from the recent recordbreaking outbreak go over our house… virtually right on top of the same track an EF1 took last July. I think I’m outta luck, we’re moving soon 😅
A man at the end of my block in Lemont died from that tornado.
The fact that the 1967 Oak Lawn tornado impacted a cementary while being the deadliest tornado in the Chicago area is ironic.
I lived a little less than a block away from that cemetery. We spent the tornado in the pantry in the basement. We lost a small tree my father had just planted and had some other minor damage. But right over the fence in the cemetery, giant oak trees were pulled up by the roots.
That tornado was why I got interested in emergency management. I never worked in the field, but I did get the credentials later in life.
Why is this shock video even of any value? Clearly, tornados are not lured into Chicago. I knew of my relative in Norridge side near the forest preserves before O'hare. He had a tornado take out a tree in front and a neighbors garage got damaged, but that was it in the 70s.
Just Chicago has less risk than central or southern IL. So this video linking a Chicago or Chicagoland to Oklahoma is all hype for our views and comments for $$$. It is in the Midwest so... it has more risk then by me in PA appalachia in retirement to my home county. A few years ago it got a tornado outside my hometown and took out a bunch of trees but really no damage to homes not far.
There is a risk and every decade expect something in Chicagoland. Just not a high risk the video-maker wants to SHOCK us with. It at least is not Houston with both tornado and hurricane and severe thunderstorm risk.
I remember Chicago in the late 70s. Fall of 1977 was a thunderstorm every day for weeks. Then a very high lake-effect snow winter.... where snow that fell in Dec was still there in March as it kept pilling up.
Next will be Hurricane prone NYC is at hand. Where is a this increase risk of hurricanes in Chicago? Climate change did not do that yet? Now Houston.......
I grew up in Oak Lawn, wasn’t born until after the big OL one but i will never forget growing up with tornado warnings ALL the time…. Our Museum of Science and Industry has an amazing Tornado exhibit…
Also my best friend’s mom was at the hospital when all the children were brought in from the Roller Rink that died. She was a nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn…
@@Pharmerlynda I used to skate at that roller rink. All the local kids did. It hit us hard.
I am so glad someone is talking about this! I get so frustrated and confused when there is severe weather and tornadoes in the Chicagoland area and people act shocked and surprised that it happened. People need to realize that the Chicagoland area is very prone to severe weather, particularly tornadoes, on the same level as more recognized metro areas. Just because a tornado hasn’t hit your town, or even the town next to you in your lifetime doesn’t mean that they are rare, or that it hasn’t happened before you were born. Chicagoland needs to wake up and take ALL severe weather warnings seriously.
We just had a tornado warning for downtown Chicago last night 🥴
@@MadamWilson yep I saw that, I was watching that line nervously. 💯
i also have lived in this area my whole life, severe weather is very common especially during the hot summer months and is rarely taken seriously. i have seen/been involved in many very crazy storms. things outside are not cancelled until it's too late and things are blowing around and everyone is getting poured on. sadly it's just normal for people to drive like maniacs during bad weather here. and when a crazy storm is coming, people are often hanging out in their garages to watch (hey, i do that too honestly).
@@Early90sBaby same… I’m in Wilmette and had fingers crossed no outages.
A lot of people experienced this past Sunday and Monday nights.
Watching this right after a tornado warning in Chicago 😅
we had two tornados touch down that day , and so did NW indiana
Yall got hit good lbs. I talked to my mom in Chicagoland the next day. They didnt have power for 2 days.
You mean the Chicagoland area...
I live south of Chicago and we saw a tornado, it was pretty scwry
I literally live in Chicago
HAHAHAAAA we did it fellow chicagoans!!!!!!! We survived the 10+ tornadoes that cbs said were active at the same time
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I live not in chicagow
yessir!
24 now
Yes we did 😂lol, even tho half of those where in the burbs.
I am here in Chicago. I heard Tom Skilling say some years back...that Chicago is LONG overdue for a BIG tornado to come through here.
Key words... long overdue does not correlate to some grandiose claim of being more prone. Stats can... just is Chicago city getting tornados I do not know of? Watches and warnings get common even in the northeast, yet not seen as near tornado alley. Just more just-in-case for any cell that it is possible today as I live in retirement in the mountains of PA. Just more by being proactive more than the past and not more on the ground types as I think Chicago might have?
When we get tornadoes in the Chicago area, we don’t go small.
Thank goodness they aren’t frequent.
Yeah the question isn’t when but where like what part of the Chicago area will be hit
@@Joshua429 That is most of the Nation.... most in their lifetimes will not... most will know of somewhere in their county or next one that got hit.
Suburbs of Chicagoland highest chance... city lower and coming off the lake even less chance. Still a much higher chance the Gulf Coast and south Atlantic will get hit with a hurricane and for Houston every few years for sure and other kinds of flood events.
That still is not Chicago for tornados... though a flood even is increasing in high rain events. I know winters are with less large snow events vs the 90s 80s.
Tom Skilling does not predict the weather, he creates the weather.
This is so ironic, considering our area had a huge outbreak the last two days with 17 tornadoes and counting (surveys are still ongoing).
I think they counted 33 between both days!
I live 30 or so minutes north of Chicago and I did in fact pick up on the fact that since 2020, there had been a noticeable uptick in tornadoes hitting in and around the area. I noticed we have been getting more frequent tornado warnings every summer, having two nearly hitting where I live in just this past year. On the July 12th, 2023 outbreak, an EF0 passed to my south in Long Grove, I even got video of the storm moving east from my balcony and the second was from the February 27th, 2024 outbreak, where an EF1 ripped the roof off of an apartment building in Mundelein, just a couple miles north of where I live. That tornado passed just to our west along route 83 and I remember my dad and out on the balcony watching the storm. I remember feeling how cold the air was from the inflow once that came through. That was such an insane night!
I agree I live right next to here in Parkridge and last July out of nowhere. There was an EF zero I remember watching NBC or Brent Miller was like oh my God that’s a tornado at O’Hare when I was younger I remember when hitting very close to where I lived on the far south east suburbs it was just over the border in Indiana, but did some damage on the other side of the state line
@@athena10867I think it got again at O'Hare the other day, and wind moved and damaged a Southwest plane at Midway
@@j.kristineemmons Yea, I heard that too! From the derecho last Monday, right?
Crazy you post this video, and then 6 days later, a derecho passes through Chicago with several spin-up tornadoes likely hitting the city (I counted 5 different areas of defined rotation on TMDW radar just within the city of Chicago at about 9:50 PM CDT, with several others in the suburbs). The timing! Of course, the setup was nothing close to some of these...but still, a heck of a coincidence.
On the topic of Chicago tornadoes...my parents both have told me of several tornado stories from around the Chicago area...the 1965 Palm Sunday outbreak and the '67 Oak Lawn tornado feature heavily in their stories... My dad was out and about, saw the tornado, decided to stop in a bar for shelter (and, presumably, a drink or two), and when he came out, every vehicle in the parking lot had been flipped over.
That’s crazy
Not one, but two back-to-back derechos. One on the 13th, and the stronger one on the 15th. Quite a wild coincidence, honestly, though I guess it is tornado season still.
@@linkly9272 WOW
@@linkly9272one more derecho is possible before the cold weather really kicks in
This video showed up on my timeline the same day there were several tornado warnings in Chicago and a large tornado near O’Hare
My Mom watched it, always told me how green the sky was, that story saved me years later, was driving up to Chicago around Louisville, and the sky turned green, I stopped at the next exit got under a manual car wash as I was in a Mustang convertible, as soon as I did the sky went black as night, after it passed I drove to the next exit, every car at the truck stop looked like someone took a sledgehammer to it, softball size hail and tornado passed nearby. TL;DR You see a green sky, get to a safe place. Hope the tornado breakout tonight wasn't as bad in Chicago 7/15/24 found this video looking for damage reports on the storm, as it was in the area. Hope you and yours are safe, great video.
As a native Chicagoan the spring is scary here. We had 11 yesterday and the day before that 6. Terrifying. Illinois has had the most tornados a year recently.
as someone from Chicago, just a few years ago we had large supercell go right over the loop, I think it was the closest we've ever had to a genuine downtown tornado scenario, because it had rotation and everything but it floated over and went farther east over the lake before it could produce anything
That was the June 13th, 2022 Supercell right? That was an awesome storm and thankfully stayed relatively tame for no fatalities.
@@ejstreasurehunting6627 That supercell developed over Carpentersville, IL and tracked east over the lake, then right-turned as it reached northwest Indiana. No tornado from it but it had an impressive life span.
It's kind of weird how a lot of Chicagolands most infamous tornadoes come from strange weather set ups
Yup. I was born in 1961 and grew up outside of Chicago. I remember a grade-school teacher of mine talking about the 1967 outbreak. He had lived in Belvidere IL where school kids were just being let out right as an F4 hit. He showed us pictures of the damage and they really made a big impression on me. Twice in my childhood I remember the skies going green and mom taking us down into the basement. I didn't leave the Chicagoland area until the early 80's so many of the storms mentioned here are etched into my own memories, but it's nice to see it all detailed out like this. Thanks!
I’m from Chicago too
@@Metrarailfan98 I grew up in Rockford. But my heart belongs to Chicago.
I was only 4 when the Plainfield tornado hit, but I know the stories of it. My bro and his best friend had just started to leave school to walk home when the storm that produced the tornado went over Hinckley, and the winds were so strong that they nearly sucked my bro and his best friend out of the school's doors.
My mom was at work in Plano when it passed over them. She and her boss went outside to watch it and she said it looked like a giant green steamroller just rolling overhead and sounded absolutely horrifying. She and her boss both looked at each other and were like, "Is that...? Nah, can't be. We would have gotten a warning or something." And then she got home from work and heard Plainfield had been hit and realized how lucky she'd been.
I was almost 3 living in Oswego. It's probably my earliest partial memory. By partial I mean all I really remember is some of the neighbors that lived in second story apartments coming to ours to take shelter, and everyone being really scared
I was 4, living in Minooka, I'll never forget how dark and cold it got so quickly. A foundational memory for me for sure.
P.S. Loved hearing your mom's native accent lol
I was 10 living in Sheridan, but went to Hinsdale quite often (parents worked at the hospital). We drove though Plainfield the day after it hit and I remember seeing the damage and how terrible it was.
My mom just left the school before it hit, buried friends houses and businesses
As a resident of a far chicago suburb, the last two days have been intresting to say the least
I actually moved to Naperville a week after Plainfield. We lived in an apartment complex right off 88 and Rt. 59. Not long after moving in, we had a EF1 tornado that hit right by us. Ended up hitting Fox Valley Mall. I remember seeing our sliding glass door literally jumping up and down, and rain coming underneath it. Scary stuff.
Now I live in Englewood Ohio. The eventual EF4 Memorial Day Tornado went down Westbrook Road about half a mile away from my house. It was only EF3 then. 😂 I was actually in the US Air Force as a weather observer. I’m just a weather magnet. I am just grateful that, while I have been close to some severe weather, I have never been struck by it… great video!
Fox Valley Mall is in Aurora.
@@ILoveOldTWC yes, I know. I lived in Country Lake Apartments. In 1990. Moved there to open a Cooper’s Watch Works in Chicago Ridge Mall. Was living with friends who opened one in Fox River. I now live back in Ohio. Two different episodes.
Chris, I do not know if you will ever see this comment but please look at what happened last night in the Chicagoland area. There were multiple tornadoes that potentially dropped down - at O’Hare Airport, Midway Airport, Homer Glen, Frankfort, etc.
Last I heard it was 10 touchdowns. It was crazy watching the news meteorologists trying to keep up with all of them. And then the NWS crew had to take shelter. Fortunately family is not far away. Basement, wide screen TV and most importantly, a Generac.
It uprooted a tree in my town
@@critterscute3642 The National Weather Service stated today that there were 19 confirmed tornadoes!
Tornado scares are moving closer to even MY neighborhood! I live a couple miles west of Wrigley Field! The technical name of the area I live in is called North Center/Irving Park. Back in the day, we NEVER got threats this far close to the lake. Now, the tornado threats seem to be looming closer inland heading east towards Lake Michigan for some reason. We don't actually get hit with tornados, but we get a lot of threats of then through weather reports....
6 days later... Chicago is getting hit by a tornado rn
Fr I am cooked
My father actually witnessed the Plainfield F5 from his childhood home in Oswego. Sadly he doesn’t have footage of it but he does remember how dark it was. Greetings from Plainfield Il!
didnt it end near oswego
Wow that's really wild. Not many saw it! He should write about his experience
@@highriskchrisHi, there is a tornado coming to where I live in Chicago this night. AND 2 FLOOD WATCHES 😭
@@highriskchris *Chris! The timing of this video is incredible, considering just today, Chicagoland had 10 confirmed tornadoes touch down, including one in Naperville and one in Joliet. Also, I wanted to add…don’t forget the famous Fairdale IL, just 20 miles outside of Chicago. It is the tornado in the infamous Clem Schultz video - which is potentially the most famous tornado footage of all time.*
Interesting. I’m going to look for that. Thanks!@@strongestnattyever-videos2247
This aged great
yea..monday
In 1967, my mom lived in Oak Lawn and the tornado there missed her by 2 blocks (she said it was raining debris). On the same day, my dad's childhood home in Lake Zurich was destroyed.
Great video once again man. I never knew Chicago was such a tornado magnet!
i’m subscribed to both of yall. definitely my two of my favorite weather channels!
weathermodificationis worldwide👎👎👎👎
had a feeling that it was aaaaa
Yo, Will any Vids come out in the record breaking tornados after Hurricane Beyrl
your channel is my least favorite one, it always includes false info
It’s so cool seeing someone finally talk about this place I live in the Chicago suburbs and the amount of severe weather we get every year is crazy
I live in the Chicago area. Tornadoes are somewhat rare, but they happen. I live 20 min away from the 2021 EF3 and went to take pictures. I never saw tornado damage before in my life like this one
Dad finally came back with the milk!
😢❤
We experienced another tornado outbreak last night here in Chicagoland. There was damage 4 miles from my house, I was worried all day yesterday because the weather reminded me so much of the weather on August 28th 1990. One of my brothers was in Plainfield that day when the tornado struck and the building he was in collapsed. Fortunately he managed to get under a desk and it saved him! My other brother was on the road and watched in horror as the tornado ripped apart the building with our brother in it. It was horrible waiting to hear if they were both ok! The time moves very slowly when you’re waiting to hear news like that. I also remember the Lemont tornado, we found debris scattered around our neighborhood afterwards.
Funnily enough I was thinking the exact same thing regarding Plainfield on Monday. It was super hot and super humid, and just like the day of Plainfield the NWS predicted a derecho would be the worst threat.
I noticed that a cell did fire up ahead of the line and caused one heck of a lightning frenzy over Waukegan, but fortunately it did not start rotating. I was working as the line approached and I got home literally 5 minutes before the sirens went. Fortunately the NWS gave a long lead time of 15-20 minutes before the storms hit and the news stations used strong language to urge people to shelter. I live about 5 minutes away from O'Hare and I heard there was a tornado there.
Crazy how we had one of our largest outbreaks a week after this video was posted
The lake aspect is wild, I swear anytime a nice looking cell enters Chicago it splits😭😭
This summer has sucked so bad for severe storms in Chicago. Wisconsin gets pummeled every time but we barely get anything..
@@csmith1927 Be careful what you wish for.
FRR, I have always lived near the lake and it's true
I live in kendall county along the Fox River. Was sitting on my front lawn with blue clear skies, when I saw a Ryan Hall live feed warning about a tornado coming straight at me. I watched the radar and it came to the edge of the Fox and suddenly lifted without warning. The dark cloud went over my house and kept going east, circling like it was holding back the tornado. 20 minutes later it dropped on a Amazon factory.
This neighborhood has some ancient native protections going. Severe weather goes around this small half mile area. You can literally see it on live radar it will just split going north or south of just this small neighborhood the reform together on the other side. It's the coolest thing ever.
Hi Chris, I do work at the Plainfield Historic Society and loved your video, if you’re ever in the area I’d love to have you, we have photos of the tornado in the vault as well I believe
Actually, I will be in the area next month. Here's my email, Chriske627@gmail.com, would be great to link up!
I remember the Woodridge tornado like it was yesterday. My house was so close to the tornado that the house was shaking like we were in a earthquake
Woah, my mom also wasnt far from this tornado. She was a little older than your mom at the time.
I remember that last one, I had just gotten done with my first round of chemo and was heading home. Yes, it was successful and now I'm cancer free.
My wife & I moved from Pawtucket RI to Chicago on Halloween in 2019. On August 10,2020 I witnessed my first derecho. After it was over I saw first hand tornado damage with trees down crisscrossing Jarvis Street in Rogers Park.
I remember that day. I was at the lake with some friends. We had run out of our beverages, so jumped on the train at Morse and went to the Jewel on Howard Street to pick up some fried chicken and some cold ones and while in the store, the F-0 hit, just blocks away. There were trees down all over the road on Jarvis St. just east of Sheridan Rd. People came from all over with chain saws to help clear the mess. It was a wild weather day. There's a video of that day on YT. It was taken by a couple who lived on Jarvis, should anyone want to view it.
Last year, 2023, we a severe weather system hit the City and the Chicago area, and there were 13 tornadoes that hit the area. I remember thinking, wow, that's hard to believe. I believe that was a two day event. Then just over a week, 2024, we had a total of 24 tornadoes hit the area over Sunday and Monday. That was the final count, I think. I sat tracking the system on radar, as it was too dark to see anything outside, so I stayed inside, and called some family members to warn them of the weather coming from North, to South. I had suggested that my daughter move her hanging porch plants and whatever was out in the yard that could go airborne. I could tell from her voice, she didn't take me seriously. It wasn't too long after I called her that the sirens went off. I sent her a message when there were about 10 tornadoes on the ground at the same time. We have family that lives out in Naperville ~ Aurora area, and I hoped she would spread the warning, as I don't have their numbers anymore. I never heard back from anyone. It was definitely two days of wild violent weather. 🌪️
The animation of the tornado over the grocery store on Cicero was a great touch! My dad telling me about this storm is how I got interested in tornadoes & weather in general. I live in the subdivision 91st & Oak Park in my dad's childhood home my grandma had to scream at my dad to get him to come in the house and she shoved the kids in the crawlspace. My grandfather was coming home from work from the north & pulled around a police barricade because the cop wasn't going to let him go check on my grandma & three young kids. The subdivision was build 1957-1958 so there were still barely any trees in 1967 as it used to be the south field of the Harlem Airport so they had a crazy view looking south at the tornado. My dad is the same age as your mum. My uncles childhood home is just northwest of the highschool it barely missed his house. 5 houses down was where a line of houses that collapsed started.
@@sarabresnahan9775 I can confirm: a lot of prairie and empty lots back then. It's why, these days, I puzzle over how to explain why I lived so very near the city _and_ spent my childhood catching frogs and garter snakes. It was a matter of which direction you pointed your banana bike in when looking for adventure :)
@@birchtree2274 my uncle lived in the old chicken coop for a while haha I grew up in Evergreen on a dead end Street and had the train tracks behind my house so lots of fun playing there and in the bank parking lot catching snakes haha
With Tornado Alley moving eastward and climate change this worries me. Especially since we had the F2 - F3 Naperville - Willowbrook tornado of 2021 that was on the ground for 18 miles headed towards the Southwest side of Chicago. Midway actually had everyone get into the designated shelter area since they thought it was going to pass by.
Another close call last year with a tornado trying to form over O'Hare Airport and Des Plaines live on air when the news stations broke into broadcasting during a severe thunderstorm warning/ tornado watch. That was crazy, I was on the El going Downtown and remember all the sirens going off all over the city, people's phones sounding the EAS alert and people wondering what to do/ where to go.
Then there was the F1 of 2009 that tore through Rogers Park on the North Side of Chicago. The Oak Lawn tornado of 1967 that wen through the South Side of the Chicago. And the 1990 Planfield monster F5 tornado. Remember that system creating a severe thunderstorm with a microburst that uprooted a lot of big old trees in the lakefront suburb I grew up in about 65 miles north of Plainfield.
How ironic this video was posted a few days before the July 15th & 16th tornado outbreak of 2024. A record 29 tornadoes varying from EF-0 - EF-2 occurd in the city (including one going right over Downtown which is very rare), and West & South suburbs. Not many touched down but they did a lot of damage to trees.
I like how this was recommended to me hours before the storm that happened awhile ago in chicago
UA-cam algorithm is SO intelligent! That's also why we get vids from 2006.🥴
One of my college professors went through the Plainfield tornado. She was a senior in high school, and witnessed it. I have a photo of the tornado that struck Woodridge that I got from a customer who came in the next day at my job in New Lenox. Then in 2023, I saw the funnel cloud of the tornado that went through Burr Ridge and ended in Stickney as I was driving home from work. It was freaky.
The Oak Lawn Public Library actually has a cool little exhibit room for the 1967 tornado. Check it out if you're ever over there!
I plan to next time I'm in town!
As someone who lives/travels in the areas you’re talking about this is terrifying 😭 the woodridge tornado actually hit my best friends house at the time. The house down the street was missing the entire top half of it. It still looks weird driving in that area with all the trees missing
Love these types of vides Chris, keep up the great work!
I had a teacher that was in the oak lawn high school when it got hit. People dont realize chicago is it's own tornado little alley
Ayy, I'm out here in the burbs. The father's day tornado on 75th Street in Naperville was wild, it pretty much followed 75th Street perfectly.
I live in Naperville, and I remember calling my friend during the 2021 Woodridge EF3, telling him how damn close he was, since he was in Downers Grove,.
His quote: "Whatever, I have renter's insurance"
I witnessed the 2023 outbreak in downtown Chicago and saw the EF1 for myself
I was in oak brook at the Hilton resort hotel for a training seminar for work that Friday thru Sunday. The 3 flags were right outside my window on 6th floor… they were blowing hard then went dead still then went wild I thought they were going to get pulled right off the flagpoles!
I was watching Ryan Hall’s livestream and I did go in the stairwell for about 30 minutes or so once the flags went wild as I also got the tornado warning on my phone alerts.
There were so many tornados that night! And so many in Illinois! Thankfully none hit where I was at but I think there were 4 being called for in the Chicago area.
I was the only one that I saw at the hotel who seemed to be the least bit concerned about the weather.
That livestream was pretty wild too- I think 146 confirmed tornadoes over 8 or 9 states that night.
Why are you watching Ryan Hall? He was a vape peddler just a few years ago…
@@DeeGee-mv6eq you’re not even a good troll 😂
Glad you covered that Woodridge tornado. I’ll never forget that day, me and my buddy were out driving around on either 355 or 55 like half an hour before the storm when we decided it was time to head back. I lived right on 75th street and the Tornado luckily missed us, but that was such a scary night.
You said the Oaklawn tornado spawned your fascination with tornadoes, for me it was the Plainfield tornado, I grew up in Plainfield, and went to the rebuilt high school. So many members of my community, family, friends, teachers, all have wild stories from that day!
us chicagoans are built different, not only can we go outside in 30 degree weather in shorts, but we can survive both 100 degree heat waves and tornadoes like it’s nothing
THANK YOU LAKE MICHIGAN
I grew up in Plainfield. I was 12 yrs old when the F5 hit. I lived less than 1/4 mile from the highschool. Never heard or seen a thing. My dad's car did have some hail damage. I now live not far from where the Oak Lawn tornado hit. My husband got to see the tornado that hit around Burr Ridge in 2022. You can still tell because the tops of the trees are bare. I drive through the area everyday to go to work in countryside.
That's where I grew up. Thankfully I was too young to remember the Rochelle tornado before I was aware of how terrifying they are.
Ironic how 6 days later a tornado outbreak happens in Chicago
I’m glad someone finally looked more into these tornadoes near Chicago and/or in northeast Illinois. Most people usually don’t think much of tornadoes in Illinois outside of Plainfield and/or the Tri-State tornado. Especially with that Lemont tornado, I’ve been trying to find more of it for an awhile now. Apparently it had an anticyclonic satellite, but I can find no images of the Lemont F4 outside of the single image on the NWS website.
I remember going to sleep right before the 2021 tornado struck, secure in the fact that no really nasty weather ever came to Naperville. I could have walked to where the tornado crossed Washington St. near the beginning of its life (you can actually see the street where I live just to the south of the path)... and I slept through it all. I'd always been a bit of a weather nerd, but after that storm I became a certified weather spotter. No more tornadoes are going to sneak up on me!
That Oak Lawn tornado hit my childhood Rink and then they rebuilt it and tore it down in 95' but Oak Lawn Roller Rink was, is, and is still a huge part of my life. I'm 43 and I still skate at Tinley and Lynnwood ✌️💜🛼
This aged well, This area just got hit by a strong storm with 11+ tornados touching down
It's now been confirmed to have been 27
@@WillHellmm Yeah, first tornado in my town since the 1960’s, didn’t know I had a tornado till two days later
And only couple days after this video the Chicago area has been bombarded by severe weather for the past 3 days.
Wow, this actually happened on Monday. We had a EF-1 TORNADO 🌪️ The whole city had tornadoes even downtown Chicago. It happened on Monday, July 15, 2024. At this moment, we have 12 tornadoes that have been confirmed since Monday that number could go higher.
My mom was 3 when the 1967 Oak Lawn tornado happened. My grandma grabbed her, and 3 of my 4 uncles and took shelter in their basement under the stairs, not realizing until several minutes later, that she left my 4th uncle upstairs still sleeping in his crib. My oldest uncle, who was old enough to remember that tornado, moved to Plainfield years later and was also impacted by the 1990 Plainfield F5. His house was fine, but he was a firefighter and responded to the damaged area to help with search and rescue.
I live in Northwest Indiana and it seems like severe weather frequently splits or weakens just before reaching where I live. I was able to witness my first funnel cloud last year though.
Gotta love when you have primary sources in the immediate family.
Timing could not be better with all the warnings last night
I survived the Plainfield/Joliet tornado of August 1990. I was 3 years old and that whole experience changed my life forever and is why I ended up living in Minnesota after losing everything. I was born in St. Charles and have much of my family in Elgin.
As a person in the Chicago metro, I’ve gotten several tornado watches and a few tornado warnings.
But we always survive somehow
This actually opened my eyes a little because I always saw tornadoes as harmless little things since they were so common.
same
Planefield & Tornadoes go together like pancakes and syrup.
Anyone living in the Midwest knows that Tornado Alley runs from Oklahoma through Wisconsin. We rarely get twisters touching down due to the effects of the skyscrapers and lake on wind currents. We usually get lots of very damaging winds.
The 10 twisters were awesome...not in a good way.
I'm born and raised in this area and find I have to explain the weather here for many who don't know. In specific, explaining the Watches, Warnings, sirens and where to seek shelter (SW corner of basement or bathroom (walls reinforced by plumbing). DO NOT shelter under viaducts on the open road.
Stay away from glass windows in public buildings.
It's crazy how there've been over a thousand tornadoes in only half a year. 😮
I live in South Africa and we had an EF3 in June which killed 12 people and caused half a billion Rand in damage (about $28 million).
If things are this bad with El Nīno, what will happen with La Nīna?
the opposite id imagine
The ENSO cycle doesn't really make tornadoes worse. It combined with other global weather osscilations like the North Pacific Oscillation may affect where they strike in a particular year. Both the 1974 and 2011 super outbreaks occurred during La Nina years.
La..Nina 😂
i was just in long beach indiana, right near chicago. i live in arizona, so ive never been in a tornado warning or watch ever. i got my first tornado warning at night and i was terrified. i’ve always been so fascinated with tornados but never thought id be in a warning. i for real thought i was going to die. i found myself looking at radar frantically searching for a tornado (my hyper fixation on tornados made me learn to read radar lol). thankfully it was only a RF0 or RF1, but it will definitely stay with me
Great video Chris. My house was in the path of the woodridge EF3. Luckily my whole family was okay but it was the most scariest thing ever. I was glad that someone finally mentioned it because it was so emotional for most people.
Yessir I remember that Gmoney
My dad grew up just south of oak lawn and vividly remembers the 1967 tornado. My mom was on a commuter train heading back to the suburbs during the Plainfield F5. She said the sky looked scarier than she’d ever seen it. We grew up also hearing stories about all the Lemont tornadoes like they were ghosts. It’s crazy how many tornado stories surround the Chicagoland area.
so all the chicagoans here after getting tornado warning two nights in a row ToT
Fr lol, cant catch a break from the warnings
As a Chicagoan I burst out laughing after I saw this comment
i graduated from Oaklawn HS and i would always remember how school staff would always bring up the destruction that occurred back in 67’ so it’s really cool seeing it mentioned here
The 1967 Oak Lawn tornado occurred just 90 minutes after the infamous Belevidere, IL tornado, also an F4, where the high school was hit precisely when was school letting out and students were boarding buses. 12 students and a bus driver unfortunately lost their lives. A memorial sits outside the rebuilt school today.
Another thing about Oak Lawn is that is wasn't the only deadly tornado that day in northern Illinois. While Belvedere is much closer to Rockford, and outside the Chicagoland area, that one hit as kids were on school buses, just having left school for the day. That was the second deadliest tornado of the day, 24 dead, 13 of which were people on the buses that the twister tossed around. A very interesting video of Chicago's tornado history. Thanks for posting.
I lived in Carol Stream for 2 years in the early 80s. People always told me that Carol Stream doesn't get tornadoes, but Elmhurst and Joliet did. At 5 years old, I never fell for that garbage. I always had a fear that Carol Stream would be hit off guard.
I went through the 1967 Oak Lawn tornado. I was 17 and my mother worked in the court house in Oak lawn. It shook our house and scared us. It was a mess. It destroyed a mobile home park. Tore into the high school gym at 95th and southwest highway and crushed the Coral movie theater at 95th and Cicero avenue and crushed a grocery store at 95th and southwest highway. Destroyed our wonderful indoor roller rink. Today I live in that same mobile home park. I shiver every time we get tornado warnings. It was not just one tornado. There were three tornados that separated when they jumped 294 and went in different angles into oak lawn. I was in the driveway of our house and watched them jump the tollway. There were many deaths and the National Guard was in the town for at leas a week to make sure 95th Street was closed off totally from Harlem avenue to Pulaski. I would make a 32 cup coffee make and sandwiches, put them into a wagon and pull it to 95th and Harlem as I lived at 93rd and Harlem and made sure the National Guard men had food, coffee and water as well as bottles of soda. My mother finally was allowed to leave work 4 hours after the tornado and had to drive west on 95th to Harlem. When she got home she was crying due to the things she witnessed on the way home.
Imagine an f4 just mosying onto your house and instead of needing to survive just a matter of seconds it decides to chill and hang at your place for literally minutes
My Dad was at his job in Aurora when the Plainfield tornado formed. He said the sky was the darkest he had ever seen. Everyone from the prior generation around here has their "where were you" story when it came to that tornado.
it was the scariest thing as a kid growing up in the south suburbs of Chicago
still scary here! Had 4 touchdowns within 15 mins of me this year
Even though Fujita studied tornadoes, I read that he never actually saw one in real life. He had a cool tornado simulator that created mini tornadoes in his lab. There were 27 confirmed tornadoes last Monday, July 15th, 2024, in Chicago. Broke the previous record of 22. One touched down in my town, Bolingbrook. Also saw the crazy tornado on the live feed of O'Hare airport camera that ripped across the tarmac.
This ironic considered we just got hit by a derecho 💀
Thank you for posting! I had family members living in Chicago since the late 1940's. They would recall such tornadoes whenever we would visit. To this day, I am fascinated with tornadoes and straight line wind stories.
And only days later from the videos release, Chicagoland gets hit with a ton of tornados
Chris...thank you for covering the plethora of tornadoes in my home city of Chicago, IL. I lived through the 1967 Oak Lawn tornado and it was truly terrifying. Imagine not having any warning back in 1967....crazy huh? If you want any more information on it I can always help :) Stop video at 9:12...look at the top of the 8 in 87th st. you will see a street heading left and my house was the 3rd in on the north side of the street. 2908 W. 86th Pl. My mother, myself at 3 years old, my little brother was just 1 and my mom would have my other brother on July 1, 1967 so she was really showing. I dont know HOW she she did it, but she picked up my brother under 1 arm and basically carried me down by my arm into the basement....all while carrying a blanket. It was scary. i remember the sound like a very loud jet engine and glass breaking. I now spot for the NWS so i can help save lives :)
there’s gonna be a tropical storm near chicago (i got a notification on my computer)
I was living in Darien at the time of that EF3 in 2021. It went right down our street. Only one home had significant damage on the side. It was scary because we didn't have a basement in our townhome.
I remember June 20th,2021. It was Father’s Day and I was sick at the time and later that night we had a huge storm come in. I was 10 at the time and was so scared of watching the news not knowing that it would be one of my biggest passions in the future. Being sick didn’t help the situation of me being panicked but now I remember it all.
I live in a chicago suburb,and I can confirm that there are many many tornados in my area Edit: 3:13 that's the town that I live in
Grew up with the legends of the tornado that hit Crystal Lake. The subsequently built elementary school's lunchroom was literally an underground bunker.
LETS GOO HE POSTED
Seeing my town on here multiple times is actually crazy. (Crystal Lake)
The tornado there actually hit my middle school, tore off a corner of it. My science teacher in the 6th grade told me he was there for it.
The fact we had an outbreak the past 2 days as of this comment😭
As someone from the Chicago area, we get at least one tornado warning over here per year. I remember recording the tv eas for the July 12, 2023 on a Spanish speaking channel all while sirens were going off outside my home. The June 2022 tornado scare was the sky getting dark after getting the tornado warning but luckily the tornado didn't form but it resulted high wind damage around the area with a few trees down and a roof collapse on an apartment building in the next town over
Honestly, Mississippi is the real unknown tornado magnet now
What about Arkansas?
Really the entire Mississippi river valley from St. Louis southward to Baton Rouge is. I'd also say this is nothing new. The three deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history all crossed the river.
@@scarpfish wow.
The power flashes on the Oak Lawn animation was a really nice touch💯