Video idea: the 1900 Great Galveston Hurricane. It was the deadliest natural disaster in US history, and absolutely decimated the town. It has had major meteorological impacts. What's also significant was that in 1900, Galveston was one of, if not the largest, cities in America. It was one of the only cities with electricity and lights and was a major part of the maritime trade in the Gulf of Mexico. But the hurricane completely wiped that, and Houston became the major harbor city, causing its boom.
@@toesniffer9452 Yeah, I remember having to watch a documentary on it for my Texas History class (required to take 2 different ones in Texas). It was definitely heartbreaking to watch, but it was important to learn since it had some of the most fundamental impacts on the state of Texas, if not the US. Edit: I looked at his requested storm forms, and it seems he's not super interested in storms before 1960, but I hope this one piques his interest since it had major impacts on the second Industrial Revolution.
I think the Chenire Caminada hurricane killed more, but I could be wrong. But yes I'd love a video on that storm. Specially about the meteorologist who tried to save everyone
@@dustinschouest8405 Looking it up, I get that the Cheniere Caminada hurricane killed about 2,000 people, & that the Galveston killed around 6,000-8,000
I’m SO glad you’re covering the Dayton EF4! I’m from central Ohio and I feel like everyone forgets about that devastating tornado, but I remember watching it unfold from my house in north-western central Ohio on TV. It was a really scary night. The sirens were blaring for what felt like hours, and it was night, so you couldn’t see anything. I didn’t get much sleep that night. Again, THANK YOU for covering this!
The EF2 that tracked just north of the northridge EF4 had JUST missed my house, while destroying two of my neighbors, I remember the sound of a screeching train and then what felt like an earthquake all around me, I was still fairly young but observant, my family called me overdramatic and skeptical and assured me nothing was gonna go wrong, then 10 minutes later my lifelong friends backside portion of their house was completely blown out, and another neighbors house almost completely destroyed, I'll forever remember thinking it was the worst of the worst and then we decided to drive down towards northridge the next day and all we saw was destruction, families crying and kneeling over their once house now rubble and many many medical opertaions like ambulances and police officers. Im thankful you did something on this, I feel it isn't talked about much compared to many other tornado disasters so thank you deeply for this.
I'm from Dayton, and the tornado barely missed the house. I had watched everything go down that night, and it was terrifying, nothing had ever scared me that much, and when I went with my parents and sister to go check on my brother by Daytoh Children's, it honestly looked like a bomb went off, roofs gone and things scattered all over, even the Lay's factory was destroyed. Even over in Brookville, it looked like a bomb went off, along with Trotwood and Clayton. I'm just glad everyone got a chance to rebuild, but the Hera arena had to get tore down, and it took awhile for things to go back to normal, heck, there are still scars from missing trees and building that are still up that have yet to be torn down. Also being a student from Trotwood, it makes me proud to be apart of school that didn't wait to rebuild or anything and they got straght to work, even if it was really hot, I'm still proud.
I was just south of you, in Miamisburg, keeping an eye on the sky whenever lightning would flash. As close as West Carrollton got a tornado warning, but we never did.
@@lilliebug4728 I’m an Uber driver in the city. I had planned on working that night but something told me not too. So I stayed home, which is about an hour from Dayton to the north. What a night
me and my family were in Clayton at the time at the border with Trotwood I had a weather radio. Me and my family went to the closet my mom was at a friend's house across the street having a great time and I was home babysitting with the little kids I remember having the TV on the news specifically WHIO TV and I remember us getting a tornado warning we had inside the closet and then my mom came and got us and she was like guys were about to have a tornado and we all ran to the neighbor's house across the street my sister's cover got caught and was later found wrapped around a fire hydrant 2 miles away while we was in shelter I had my weather radio with me and the tornado emergency was issued at this point we're still in shelter by the time we got out the huge tree that was in front of the apartments were gone my sister's tire was flat and we went home to go to sleep. We woke up the next morning to helicopters flying above us there were two helicopters when was the news helicopter and the other was a police helicopter we didn't have any water at that point since the city and almost the entire County lost water since the pump were damaged but all in all everything was okay it took us about 2 weeks to get back on her feet still to this day when it storms we get a lot of anxiety from what happened that day.
Thank you so much for covering this, Alferia. As a longtime fan, seeing this was something I was surprised and expecting. I'm from Dayton, I still remember how the day was damn near picture perfect - barbeque, a trip to the store, and a relaxed day. I still remember how when it became night fall I just felt seriously off and kept checking the weather. The second I saw a tornado warning in Warren that kept etching closer, I just knew something was going to happen and kept telling my mother to come to the basement with the dog. She even knew it was serious watching McCall Vrydaghs' report (saying 'when the weather person is choking up, you have to take it serious'). The tornado nearly hit my uncle and best friend - for the former less than a block away and the latter, he called me to tell me hes okay and in a safe spot because he knows of my paranoia and that while it was practically on top of him, he was safe. Seeing the nearby strip mall be completely destroyed as well as the Hare Arena, something that used to be one of the most popular Dayton places for entertainment before its shut down be destroyed, a nearby track of woods basically wiped out- it hurt me entirely even though nobody was hurt. Even a family friend of ours who lived in Dayton for over 50 years said shes NEVER seen anything like it. I even remember how the very next day, there were people giving out water bottles near the destroyed strip mall and the local Sinclair Community College handing out essentials to people in need. Its seeing the people come together that showed to me that despite the flaws in Ohio, I will always love the state, just seeing people instantly help without a second thought moments after disaster - the fast response time to work on repairs and get power back on, its one of my scariest life events (to the point I believe I have PTSD from it) to one of the most memorable events.
My aunt and uncle were in the path of this devastating storm. They were just enjoying the night and relaxing when my aunt said she had a feeling something was wrong. She went to the bedroom and just as she closed the door the tornado passed right over their house and she was left shaken after it passed. My uncle somehow slept through the whole thing if I remember correctly. We visited the house a few weeks afterwards and the entire roof was ripped off and the rest of the house including valuable items, were destroyed. My aunt believed that God was watching over her that night and I believe so too. My aunt passed during May of last year. She was a strong and beloved woman and this event showed me that it's important to always call and tell your loved ones that you love them because something like this could take them away from you.
16:22 Are you freaking kidding me?! Deadly tornadoes are being spawned left and right around the area, and people are more concerned about the warnings and coverage interrupting a damn television show, to the point of taking time away from meteorologists trying to do their jobs just to complain about it?!🤡 What the hell is wrong with those people?!! I mean seriously, PRIORITIES MUCH?!!😡 So stupid...🤦
@timothyvanhoeck233 I feel like way too many people in Ohio are like that. We've had tons of warnings that never developed anything, so the "crying wolf" phenomenon is strong. People forget just how many tornados Ohio has had and how many were violent. This spring was non-stop warnings that produced tornados, so hopefully, some people wake up. We're over 50 for the year and lead the nation for a bit. Also, we have a ton of people migrating from different states. Many of them have never heard a tornado warning in their life.
@@LyleH45 Which is ironic considering that much of Ohio, alongside most of Indiana and portions of Kentucky lie within Hoosier Alley, an area almost as notorious as Tornado Alley and Dixie Alley, for being a hotbed of tornadic activity.
@@LyleH45AMEN! I’m from Ohio and I literally did a speech over the Joplin EF5 for my public speaking class at my college, and I spent a good amount of time discussing how we’ve become desensitized to tornado sirens due to “false alarms,” just like how the people of Joplin became desensitized. As I was driving home, I watched a storm start to roll in to the west of I270. As I drove through Dublin, the storm was directly over me, but it wasn’t raining. Then, the tornado sirens started going off, and I laughed. The timing seriously couldn’t have been better. I went home and pulled up Connor Croff’s livestream and saw him driving through the storm about 5 minutes from my house, which is crazy to see. If I remember correctly, the storm did not produce any tornadoes, but there was rotation. Ohioans need to take serve weather seriously. It’s better to be safe than sorry.
@fishbowlliz I like to think I made some progress in that direction. Most of my family and friends pay more attention on their own, or they consult me because I soak up as much info as I can. Some of them even have radar omega. Two stories, I live about a mile from where the EF-1 hit Hilliard earlier this year, and it did some real damage. One house was demolished because the top floor was gone, and other houses were deemed unsafe because they had huge chunks taken out of them. I was also in Indian Lake the week before and the week after the EF-3, to say it was a huge shock seeing the damage in person was an understatement. I have family an hour west of Columbus, and I'm always keeping a lookout for them. Several areas of rotation have passed over both of the towns this year and at night! They were all areas of rotation that had produced tornados earlier, usually around Piqua. My wife's hometown doesn't even have sirens despite the fact that they've had multiple tornados pass within miles, and I personally have seen a wall cloud move through town. I still think sirens are an important tool, even with everyone having cellphones. I don't remember if I watched Connor that day, but I remember watching Vince Waelti and Brandon Copic drive through 270. It was weird seeing my hometown on their streams and knowing exactly where they were at. It was also hilarious watching Vince get pissed at they way people drive around here lol.
My story of this night: My family came home from vacation in Canada that evening and because of the trip I hadn't been keeping track of the weather which is rare. So when I heard there were tornado warnings just north of us I was shocked. I live in Lebanon Ohio about half an hour south of Dayton. I went outside and I watched the radar and listened to Dayton SKYWARN while I watched the storm pass to the north. It was the most lightning I have ever seen, just constant lightning. A few days after the storm I had to take a CPR class for work, I took the class at the red cross in Dayton and it was amazing seeing all the people working to load food and water into vans and trucks to take it into the areas impacted by the tornadoes. More recently I took an advanced spotter class from the NWS in Wilmington Ohio, it was hosted at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, which was very close to where the EF4 ended. The class was amazing and told a lot about what went on inside NWS ILN that night. When you drive to the NMUSAF on I675 north you can see the new houses that were built where old ones were destroyed and you can see where the trees were blown down by the tornado.
I was in Hilliard and I remember the sirens going off in the middle of the night. It was just constant blaring. I wasn’t interested in weather at that point in time, but it’s definitely a storm that I’ll remember for the rest of my life.
I remember that night so vividly. When the storm rolled in I was freaking out because at the time I was TERRIFIED of storms. My mom’s solution was to give me a slice of American cheese. A few minutes later the warning came. Then I remember 6 people being crammed in our small bathroom And me singing songs to soothe our nerves. We got EXTREMELY Lucky that the Ef4 lifted before it hit our area. After I was so terrified that I slept in the bathtub until morning. Oddly enough 5 years later my obsession with tornadoes and storms is crazy.
holy shit a new video on this. I actually went to high school at BHS and that tornado spawned literally in my backyard. Seeing it rip through the school was genuinely insane and seeing all the damage in person genuinely puts a different sight on what we see here on youtube. The worst parts of the schools damage was over the auditorium, high school gym, and the east wing where home ec, art, and the woodshop was. I've always loved storms and even wanted to be a storm chaser like reed timmer but seeing the damage and having to literally bike into town seeing 2 story homes just slid off their foundation like a stack of cards was just...wtf. storms still today take me back to the night and just gives me insane anxiety. Brookville absolutely needs to invest in more tornado sirens on the New Lebanon side because when the tornado was on the ground we had to go outside just to hear the tornado siren that was on the other side of the town. i think prolly the "best" part about this was the last two years of high school there for junior and senior year i didnt have finals: tornado through our school in 2019 and covid in 2020 lmao. anyways glad you made a video on this man much love i still cant believe this shit was 5 years ago. oh also for lima OH its leema ohio...we cant speak for shit leema ohio, rooshie instead of russia ohio lmao
I remember this happening! I’m from Richmond Indiana in Wayne County. The sirens were sounding over and over to get people to go to their spots. I remember going out to help my mom take down our hanging plants and hide our chairs and such outside so they don’t become projectiles. We were getting some neighborhood strays in a somewhat safe spot and one of our neighbors across the street was yelling for everyone to get inside. Seeing Dayton a few months afterward was insane.
Oh geez this just reminded me of a storm that happened a month after these ones! I was struggling with Postpartum Depression a couple months after my kid was born and I knew it would get bad if I left it untreated. So the fastest way to get help in my area was to just admit myself into a psyche hospital and get outpatient therapy when I was discharged. A couple days before they let me out, we had a tornado warning and the entire hospital had to take shelter. The absolute sick irony of a wing full of mental heath impatiens being trapped in a tornado shutdown was insane. Never have I seen so many people in a hallway having panic attacks and losing it with nurses desperately trying to keep the calm. And funny enough a tornado did touched down just a couple miles away from the hospital. It was such a nightmare, and even so much as thinking of that place gives me flashbacks to the pandemonium.
Thanks for covering this. That was a scary night for my family even though the only damage was a bit to the roof (roof was replaced a few months later). We live in Huber Heights, a few miles from Dayton/Northridge damage. My son and I watched Whio on my phone in the hallway bathroom. The tornado siren in Thomas Cloud Park was installed a week before the tornado. We heard it in the bathroom. It wasn't funny that night but I can laugh at the Jamie Simpson going off on Bachelorette fans. I now take tornado watches/warnings more seriously because that night was the closest I have been to a tornado. If there is a warning for Montgomery County I get our dog in his harness and my shoes and socks on if I don't have them on. I will put Whio on my tv and if he is streaming I will have Ryan Hall on my computer.
I'm happy someone finally talked about this and had a focus on the Montpelier tornado which is was just a mile north of and heard the roar. I was even surveying damage the following day while my Dad responded to runs to houses struck head on the night prior. From then till now, damage is still pretty obvious throughout, especially damaged and bent trees and still structure damage with a cow barns frame still being left; but I have always been happy no one was killed, and that this tornado never went through Montpelier. So thank you for this video, everyone focuses on Dayton which I see why and even I do when looking at this outbreak, but no one ever focuses on the first major tornado of this outbreak and I always thought it deserved it. Great video, hope to see more.
This happened a little over a month after I moved to Montgomery County, Ohio (Miamisburg, just south of Dayton), from western Washington state. Being a storm spotter, I was keenly aware -- I thought -- of what was going on. Kept watching the dark sky via the lightning going on west, north and east of me -- but not OVER me. I didn't know till a few days later that it was a lot worse than I thought it was. Thor had His magick shield over my sister/housemate and me that night! I learned what a PDS and "tornado emergency" were from this outbreak, yet we barely had any lightning & thunder.
Great video, Alf! As an Ohioan, this is definitely one outbreak that stands out in my mind. It was such a great night for television meteorologists. They truly do make a difference. We got to hear from some of them at the 2020 OSU Severe Weather Symposium and some of their stories were just mesmerizing.
The news were alerting about deadly tornadoes on their way, but braindead spectators were complaining that the news report interrupted a new episode of The Bachelorette. My God. We are, indeed, surrounded by idiots.
I remember this storm, had just gotten hired at a plant outside of Medway, so most of the folks I worked with were from Dayton. Almost everyone had some sort of damage to their homes. My poor mother who experienced the Xenia tornado was petrified for the rest of the night.
Not mentioned in this video, but a few notable tornadoes from May 2019, that I do think deserve some mentions are the Jasper-Carthage EF3 which touched down on the north side of the Joplin metro area on the 8th anniversary of the 2011 Joplin EF5. There's also the Elwood-Jefferson City EF3 that occured on the same day. And on the day after the Memorial Day outbreak, an EF4 tornado touched down in Douglas County, KS in what would be known as the Linwood-Lawrence EF4 which hit the SW outskirts of Linwood and the western outskirts of Bonner Springs, It was a rainwrapped torando that ended up being Kansas City's version of the 2013 El Reno EF3.
@@maxwasson2000 thank you so much for mentioning the Linwood tornado, cause no one ever does. It was on track for my house and ended up destroying multiple houses on my dad’s delivery route near Stilwell from 174 st to Bear Lake while he was still working. Also, I like the comparison you make of it to the El Reno tornado, I have compared it many times to that as well due to the fact that it also got chasers, was huge and rain wrapped, and is really the only other time massive tornado has almost plunged into a huge city, causing an apocalypse.
I was in dayton that night, I lived right where the tornado recycled onto. houses up and down the street were roofless, I remember one building in particular lost the entire 2nd floor, and a house across the street had a tree through the garage wall. the block of apartments down the road had every window blown out, and trees were split or uprooted everywhere. I moved about 3 years later and people still hadn't moved into the repaired apartment block. I had to call out of work for a few days cause downed power lines and repair work on the road prevented me from going out. Sadly people dont really talk about the storm because it hit a major city at night and didn't kill anyone. so people ignore it cause it's not sensational or picturesque.
During that i was 9 years old and used to watch tornado chasers I was obsessed with it. I learned so much from watching that it was crazy. That day I was getting picks up from my baby sitters and I said man it feels like a tornado could happen today. Few hours later the memorial day tornado was formed.
Not me saving this video for today when I have a pile of tedious paperwork that bores me to death. You've become one of my work besties. Plus you're just really good at breaking these storms down without glossing over how it affected the people impacted.
My family was affected by this tornado outbreak, I've lived in Ohio my whole life and I remember that night very clearly, I wasn't personally hit by the tornados but some of my family was. My grandparents were affected by the Beavercreek tornado and their neighborhood is still recovering from that tornado to this day, a lot of the trees in the area were gone to the point where you could see and hear the highway that's near there, there were many destroyed houses and debris everywhere. I'm glad that my family is okay and that the people of Ohio came together to help the people who were affected by the tornados, I will forever love the people of this state. Thank you for covering this outbreak.
This was a hard watch. My family was on the highway, arriving just northwest of Dayton when we saw the tornado emergency on our phone. I remember the thunder was horrifyingly loud. I saw large hail from the windows peering into the pool. We tuned into the TV until the receptionist told us to take shelter in the laundry room. NWS Wilmington is such an unbelievably helpful and skillful office, and this past spring has proved that. Without their help and the help of many TV meteorologists on 5/27, many more people would have been seriously injured or killed. Thank you for making a video on this.
I remember this day of this outbreak, or what I wasn't doing(and hate myself for it.). I was napping. Woke up to my dad knocking on my door and saying that Dayton got hit by a tornado, and due to family living in the Dayton suburbs, my heart sank as I began mentally beating myself up for not paying attention to the weather that day. Fortunately my family in Huber Heights, Tipp City and Beaver Creek were alright. My uncle was activated in disaster response as he was a Tipp City firefighter at the time.
I remember this day. I was 14. My family was asleep but I was the designated "night watch" for when we had bad weather, as I'd be up anyway. I remember listening to it storm, hearing the wind, and then McCall Vrydaghs get emotional. Thats when I finally woke them up. Just in time, too. It didn't hit us directly but we could hear it. It was horrifying, being alone at night, listening to the wind, hoping I wouldn't need to do anything. I'm still "night watch". I'm glad you covered it, I only saw one other person do so, and for awhile it was always heartbreaking to look it up and see only we cared about happened to us.
So happy you finally did a video on this. I was involved with this tornado in darke county Ohio. We only had an ef1 I think. But I’ve never been involved with a tornado before until this. I’ve always been curious, thank you!!
This was a insane time, I remember watching the lives from a international perspective and it did get a few of us emotions and sorrow. Thank you again for covering in depth documents and footage from that day and onwards.
People had the gall to complain about something that will save their life because it was cutting into a dumb show that will not save their life during a tornado outbreak.
The attitude towards severe weather in Ohio is very dismissive. People tend to think the storms will fall apart or won’t be as dangerous as predicted. As an Ohioan myself, I’m confident that people were complaining because they didn’t think it was as bad as it was.
Great video!! I was born in Dayton and was living in beavercreek that night. I'm wheelchair-bound so getting down to the basement was one hell of a struggle but I handled it. Interestingly the next morning I had a medical emergency that had nothing to do with the tornadoes but because of the people out there clearing the way I was able to get to the hospital. Just pointing one thing out and it's a tiny nitpick. Beavercreek is one word but it's a very very very very very very common mistake. Keep up the great work!
I remember that because I was babysitting at the time and one touched down right outside the city and we were all huddled in their basement bathroom and I watched as the radar showed the tornado go around the city. I have never felt so lucky. I will remember that forever and so do they.
Remember the tornado that went through just south of me in Beavercreek, it lifted right before it came my direction. Was expecting it to hit us and it did not. Destroyed buildings along N. Fairfield Rd and shut down others in that shopping area for a month. And that was not the EF4, that was just EF3. Can still see the broken trees along 675. Edit: Want to say also about the response. People still really remember the Xenia F5 around here. That is probably why there were so few deaths, people remember and take tornadoes seriously, and they know what needs to happen to get back to normal afterrwards. We don't get a lot of tornadoes in Ohio, not at the level of Oklahoma, but we have a lot of cities and tornadoes tend to do a lot of damage unlike the ones that happen in the middle of nowhere in the plains.
@@alanamccool7409 The "we don't get many around here" seems to be changing. I grew up and still live in the Troy area. We've seen more touchdowns in the past 5yrs than I can ever remember in the prior 25. But I also remember warnings and stories of the Xenia tornado. We have been raised and the fear of God instilled in us when it comes to something that basically never used to happen. Edit: I just got to the mention of the West Milton EF3. That one directly affected my parents and not 1/4mi from them, there were several houses that just didn't exist anymore
The emotion given by that woman is a great example of the seriousness of these situations. I wish that our society could provide better education about severe weather threats.
Thank you for covering! No one talks about the tornadoes we get here in Ohio! My aunt lives up in St Paris north of Troy/Dayton. That night I came home from working at KI and was very worried. I knew looking at the radar that was something was going to happen. You could feel the dread that night and it was really sticky out. Watching all of those hook echos into that area had me alarmed. I prayed for my family's safety and I am very thankful they were okay. This year was similar. I was literally watching the radar when the tornado warnings were tracking up near the Dayton area earlier this spring. I had to call my aunt and let her know to get to safety. That area is a tornado magnet for Ohio (just look at the history, there are ALOT of tornadoes!). People ask me with my passion for severe weather why not chase tornadoes?? Up north it is a little easier but in southern Ohio it is too dangerous to chase ( I live east on Cincy). We have a lot of forests/trees and hills. It limits visibility. It is not as safe to chase here for an amateur. Up in St Paris, it is easier to see as there is a lot of farmland/flat land. But we do not get nearly as many tornadoes to chase and when they do happen it is typically at night.
I remember this storm VIVIDLY. I was 15 and I think I had just finished my freshman year. A tornado touched down in Pendleton, IN and that's where my older sister lived at the time. Me, my parents, and my 3 younger siblings were in the car to go to my sister's house so my parents could give her babysitting money. We left and turned back around because it was raining too much, and then 10 minutes later, we left again and we were at the bank and tornado sirens started going off and my mom got a tornado warning on her phone and I screamed that we were all gonna die, making all of my siblings freak out even more. My dad was trying to drive away from the storm and we just kept driving deeper into it. It felt like we were never gonna escape. We got back home and then left to get dinner later and I couldn't even eat because I was really shaken up. We went to Pendleton a couple days later to give my sister her money and we looked at the damage around Falls Park. It wasn't too bad, the tornado was only an EF2, but it sucked.
Im from dayton and me and my family were in Clayton at the time at the border with Trotwood I had a weather radio. Me and my family went to the closet my mom was at a friend's house across the street having a great time and I was home babysitting with the little kids I remember having the TV on the news specifically WHIO TV and I remember us getting a tornado warning we had inside the closet and then my mom came and got us and she was like guys were about to have a tornado and we all ran to the neighbor's house across the street my sister's cover got caught and was later found wrapped around a fire hydrant 2 miles away while we was in shelter I had my weather radio with me and the tornado emergency was issued at this point we're still in shelter by the time we got out the huge tree that was in front of the apartments were gone my sister's tire was flat and we went home to go to sleep. We woke up the next morning to helicopters flying above us there were two helicopters when was the news helicopter and the other was a police helicopter we didn't have any water at that point since the city and almost the entire County lost water since the pump were damaged but all in all everything was okay it took us about 2 weeks to get back on her feet still to this day when it storms we get a lot of anxiety from what happened that day.
I live in Ohio. I slept through the whole thing without a clue how bad the weather was. My mom (in another country) sent me a message during the night asking if we were okay, but my phone was on Do Not Disturb, so I didn't see it right away. I had to actually go through Facebook and see who posted what to figure out how close a tornado was. Probably about a 10-15 minutes' drive away was how close it got.
That night was one of the most intense nights of my life. We were lucky to not be hit directly, but I did catch a glimpse of the tornado ripping through East Dayton through my front window - highlighted by power flashes. My husband ignored the warnings and felt really dumb when we got up the next day to try to find ice, and everything a mile or two north of us was damaged and/or destroyed. It was a strong wake up call, and he now acknowledges the gravity of warnings. I cannot thank our local meteorologists for braving the risk to keep our community safe. We do not celebrate these heroes often enough!!
Hey Alferia! I’d love to see you cover West Virginia’s “thousand year flood” of 2016, it was totally unexpected and devastating. I’d love to see a comprehensive documentary about it.
Man i remember this one. This was a tornado that got me really into storm monitoring and studying them. If i recall correctly this also hit some of Jefferson City Missouri and i think Defiance or Wright city (please correct me if im wrong) but I was up late and just got out of the shower and saw so many lightning flashes outside my window and something intrigued me to monitor it for the next few hours from 11pmish-1:30am. I remember there was a tornado warning at 1am and hearing a dropdown about 23 minutes away from my house. I immediately woke my family up and was met with a eh we’ll be fine. Don’t be those people. If you hear the sirens and know the location. take shelter and be safe people
Meant to say Alferia lol but the islands got no chill he be making videos even though he takes a beating from hurricanes 3-4 times a year full respect.
*This is in multiple parts, see replies* Alright, I already made a comment on this video, but that was before I watched it. I was honestly so excited to see that Alferia was covering a tornado that I had recommended he cover. Now that I’ve watched the video, there’s more that I want to say. First of all, THANK YOU ALFERIA for covering this storm & for doing such a fantastic job (as always)! I often feel like this tornado is forgotten about & it makes me so happy to see that it’s finally getting attention. Now onto what I want to add to my original comment: As a native Ohioan, it is extremely common for people to not take severe weather & tornado warnings seriously. So many people believe that storms will “just fall apart” once it gets to the outskirts of the 270 outer belt, or “the meteorologists are over predicting” & “the storms won’t be nearly as bad as what they (the meteorologists) are saying.” But that’s far from the truth. I actually gave a speech over the Joplin EF5 for my college public speaking class, & I spent a lot of time talking about how the people of Joplin were desensitized to tornado sirens because false alarms were common. People didn’t take the sirens seriously, which was one of the contributing factors to the high death toll. Ohioans are the same- we hear tornado sirens & instead of heading to the basement, we look outside or tune into our local news station to see if there’s *actually* a tornado on the ground before seeking shelter (which some people from Joplin did!). On my way home from class, a storm rolled in & had rotation. The sirens went off in my area as I was on my way home & I went to the basement as soon as I got home. While it didn’t produce a tornado, I wasn’t going to mess around & find out.
*PT 2* I’m sure many Ohioans remember how the SPC placed a ⅘ severe weather risk over the majority of the state earlier this year in April (I believe it was April 2nd), & how the storms weren’t nearly as bad as predicted. That’s because we got EXTREMELY lucky. Pop-up thunderstorms that occurred earlier in the day stopped the atmosphere from getting to the point where tornadic storms could have developed later in the afternoon. Had that not happened, things very well could have been catastrophic. We're not going to be lucky like that all the time, which is why it’s SO important to heed the warnings & be prepared if/when severe weather occurs. I’m convinced that people were complaining about the severe weather coverage interrupting The Bachelor on May 27th, 2019 because they didn’t believe that the storms were actually that bad, because the attitude surrounding severe weather in Ohio is so dismissive. With how active of a season it’s been this year, it’s time for Ohioans to change their attitude towards severe weather & start taking it more seriously. Next, my story from that night, because I remember it better after talking to my family about it: At the time, we lived in Hilliard, Ohio, which is west of Columbus & north east of the Dayton area by a good distance. Other than for horse shows, we never went down that way, so I wasn’t familiar with the Dayton area at all. Late in the night, I don’t remember what time, the sirens started going off. I was sleeping or about to fall asleep when I was jolted awake by them. I’ve always been scared of tornado sirens, but that night, they felt different… more serious. We lived on the border of multiple counties, so sirens were going off all around us. I went to my older brother’s room because I knew I wasn’t going to be able to sleep for a while with the constant blaring sirens, claps of thunder, and heavy rain pounding the roof. My older brother has always been interested in storms & enjoys tracking them via radar from home. He had a TV with the local news station on & I remember watching coverage of the storm, but not in much detail. As my brother watched the Dayton storm on radar, he knew it was bad.
*PT 3* I don’t remember exactly what he said, but I remember the feeling of that night. The sirens went on for what felt like hours & the storms just did not want to let up. Eventually, I went to bed, & in the morning, our front yard had turned into a lake. That property always had drainage issues after heavy rain, so it wasn’t too uncommon. The worst of the damage in my area (that I remember!) was flooding, fallen tree limbs, & maybe some wind damage. Honestly that night was a bit of a blur. What I do remember is seeing the damage on TV the next day. It was devastating, to say the least. Here are some things I’m taking away from this video: First of all, it was a great refresher for what happened that night, as my memory of it wasn’t super clear until I watched this video. Second, I had NO idea that there were other tornadoes in Ohio that night. I wasn’t at all interested in weather at the time, so I wasn’t paying attention to radar, or else I would’ve known about those other tornadoes. I also think most people were focused on Dayton, & for good reason- it was the worst tornado of the outbreak. And third, it was a little surreal, but also frightening, to see my hometown on the map in this video (it’s not marked but I know where it is). I want to give a HUGE round of applause to everyone who helped that night- NWS Wilmington, local meteorologists, neighbors, communities, & everyone else who made a difference. You guys are SO appreciated for the work that you do!
I was in the Dayton tornado. I’ve loved tornadoes since I was a child but let me tell you, being in one is a different experience. We were so lucky. Scariest night of my life. Never prayed harder than that moment in the basement with my children.
Do you plan on doing a video on hurricane Michael at any point in the future? It's the only hurricane I've ever actually experienced. I saw stuff that month that was like out of a movie. Looked like the whole city got nuked. I don't ever really hear anyone talk about it much either even though it was a CAT 5.
I was driving through Dayton when it hit. It went right over 75. I got extremely lucky as it passed behind me. Had to have missed it by a a minute or two. I was driving to Detroit for work and about 5 days later when I drove back home to Kentucky I saw all the damage. Unbelievable
I live just south of Dayton. I actually drove thru there the next day for work. I knew it was big when I saw the hotel you mentioned. it had just been purchased and was going thru a complete remodeling. it was shifted on its foundation!
I was on I-75 that night and drove into the Dayton Tornado and captured it on my dashcam. I uploaded the video to youtube. I got out of my car and helped as many people as I could.
I was in michigan when this happend (and still am). that one tornado was the only one to come to michigan and that came RIGHT. FOR. ME. The day started off particularly normal, as michigan only saw some thunderstorms coming in. i was young, and like today, i’m still interesting into tornados. at night when we watched the weather. jesus christ. there was thunder, lightning, everything. When we looked outside, it felt like several leaf-blowers tried to push us back in. that’s when the sirens fired up. at this point, i was extremely interested on what was going on. but my family were terrified. we rushed down to the basement, and when we came back up, everything seemed fine. we didn’t even know there was a tornado. a few days later, we saw the coverage. that thing was only a few miles away in a field, picking up corn and whatnot. luckily it was only an EF-0 and didn’t kill anyone (from my knowledge) but that was the first and closest time a tornado got to me. later that day i learned about the outbreak and was actually terrified but also empathetic and sad. all of these states had to go through horrid tornados and mass damage and death, while we were lucky and got just 1.
I live south of the heart of Dayton(around Kettering and Centerville) and I was 7 at the time, I was terrified and had no idea were any city was so I was on edge constantly every time the word tornado was said. Eventually I think we were put in a tornado watch or warning (I don’t remember) so we had to be in our safe space but just 10 before I threw up because I was so scared and we couldn’t hear the TV from the bathroom so we had to rely on the crappy connection the bathroom tended to have with WiFi to know if we were about to be hit by a tornado or not. Luckily we were not hit and even if I don’t remember we went to see the damage in the areas hit in the morning after
The Dayton EF4 happened the night before I buried my grandpa that weekend. I was staying with my boyfriend (now husband) in Leesburg in Highland county (Ohio) when that had a massive hook on radar
This outbreak was only just under three years after another major outbreak in the Midwest that the NWS initially did not forecast to be at significant risk. And like this outbreak, that surprise 2016 outbreak thankfully had very few deaths too. It always seems like, just when meteorologists think they have tornadoes figured out, mother nature finds new ways to surprise them.
I'll say this, if you thinking coverage about a severe and deadly tornado is ruining your show that you want to watch. You have walnuts for a brain. If I had severe weather in my area, I'm tuning into that more because I want to know where it heading and see if I'm safe.
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I hate when people get mad at meteorologists for being "too dramatic." I'd rather them be overly cautious than careless.
Video idea: the 1900 Great Galveston Hurricane. It was the deadliest natural disaster in US history, and absolutely decimated the town. It has had major meteorological impacts. What's also significant was that in 1900, Galveston was one of, if not the largest, cities in America. It was one of the only cities with electricity and lights and was a major part of the maritime trade in the Gulf of Mexico. But the hurricane completely wiped that, and Houston became the major harbor city, causing its boom.
Or typhoon tip
Such an interesting story. I guess everyone though the only meteorologist there was insane as he was pretty much reed timmer before cars
@@toesniffer9452 Yeah, I remember having to watch a documentary on it for my Texas History class (required to take 2 different ones in Texas). It was definitely heartbreaking to watch, but it was important to learn since it had some of the most fundamental impacts on the state of Texas, if not the US.
Edit: I looked at his requested storm forms, and it seems he's not super interested in storms before 1960, but I hope this one piques his interest since it had major impacts on the second Industrial Revolution.
I think the Chenire Caminada hurricane killed more, but I could be wrong. But yes I'd love a video on that storm. Specially about the meteorologist who tried to save everyone
@@dustinschouest8405 Looking it up, I get that the Cheniere Caminada hurricane killed about 2,000 people, & that the Galveston killed around 6,000-8,000
I’m SO glad you’re covering the Dayton EF4! I’m from central Ohio and I feel like everyone forgets about that devastating tornado, but I remember watching it unfold from my house in north-western central Ohio on TV. It was a really scary night. The sirens were blaring for what felt like hours, and it was night, so you couldn’t see anything. I didn’t get much sleep that night.
Again, THANK YOU for covering this!
The EF2 that tracked just north of the northridge EF4 had JUST missed my house, while destroying two of my neighbors, I remember the sound of a screeching train and then what felt like an earthquake all around me, I was still fairly young but observant, my family called me overdramatic and skeptical and assured me nothing was gonna go wrong, then 10 minutes later my lifelong friends backside portion of their house was completely blown out, and another neighbors house almost completely destroyed, I'll forever remember thinking it was the worst of the worst and then we decided to drive down towards northridge the next day and all we saw was destruction, families crying and kneeling over their once house now rubble and many many medical opertaions like ambulances and police officers. Im thankful you did something on this, I feel it isn't talked about much compared to many other tornado disasters so thank you deeply for this.
I'm from Dayton, and the tornado barely missed the house. I had watched everything go down that night, and it was terrifying, nothing had ever scared me that much, and when I went with my parents and sister to go check on my brother by Daytoh Children's, it honestly looked like a bomb went off, roofs gone and things scattered all over, even the Lay's factory was destroyed. Even over in Brookville, it looked like a bomb went off, along with Trotwood and Clayton. I'm just glad everyone got a chance to rebuild, but the Hera arena had to get tore down, and it took awhile for things to go back to normal, heck, there are still scars from missing trees and building that are still up that have yet to be torn down. Also being a student from Trotwood, it makes me proud to be apart of school that didn't wait to rebuild or anything and they got straght to work, even if it was really hot, I'm still proud.
I was just south of you, in Miamisburg, keeping an eye on the sky whenever lightning would flash. As close as West Carrollton got a tornado warning, but we never did.
@@lilliebug4728 I’m an Uber driver in the city. I had planned on working that night but something told me not too.
So I stayed home, which is about an hour from Dayton to the north.
What a night
@JDGurg Yea, it was pretty hectic.
me and my family were in Clayton at the time at the border with Trotwood I had a weather radio. Me and my family went to the closet my mom was at a friend's house across the street having a great time and I was home babysitting with the little kids I remember having the TV on the news specifically WHIO TV and I remember us getting a tornado warning we had inside the closet and then my mom came and got us and she was like guys were about to have a tornado and we all ran to the neighbor's house across the street my sister's cover got caught and was later found wrapped around a fire hydrant 2 miles away while we was in shelter I had my weather radio with me and the tornado emergency was issued at this point we're still in shelter by the time we got out the huge tree that was in front of the apartments were gone my sister's tire was flat and we went home to go to sleep. We woke up the next morning to helicopters flying above us there were two helicopters when was the news helicopter and the other was a police helicopter we didn't have any water at that point since the city and almost the entire County lost water since the pump were damaged but all in all everything was okay it took us about 2 weeks to get back on her feet still to this day when it storms we get a lot of anxiety from what happened that day.
Thank you so much for covering this, Alferia. As a longtime fan, seeing this was something I was surprised and expecting.
I'm from Dayton, I still remember how the day was damn near picture perfect - barbeque, a trip to the store, and a relaxed day. I still remember how when it became night fall I just felt seriously off and kept checking the weather. The second I saw a tornado warning in Warren that kept etching closer, I just knew something was going to happen and kept telling my mother to come to the basement with the dog. She even knew it was serious watching McCall Vrydaghs' report (saying 'when the weather person is choking up, you have to take it serious'). The tornado nearly hit my uncle and best friend - for the former less than a block away and the latter, he called me to tell me hes okay and in a safe spot because he knows of my paranoia and that while it was practically on top of him, he was safe.
Seeing the nearby strip mall be completely destroyed as well as the Hare Arena, something that used to be one of the most popular Dayton places for entertainment before its shut down be destroyed, a nearby track of woods basically wiped out- it hurt me entirely even though nobody was hurt. Even a family friend of ours who lived in Dayton for over 50 years said shes NEVER seen anything like it. I even remember how the very next day, there were people giving out water bottles near the destroyed strip mall and the local Sinclair Community College handing out essentials to people in need. Its seeing the people come together that showed to me that despite the flaws in Ohio, I will always love the state, just seeing people instantly help without a second thought moments after disaster - the fast response time to work on repairs and get power back on, its one of my scariest life events (to the point I believe I have PTSD from it) to one of the most memorable events.
My aunt and uncle were in the path of this devastating storm. They were just enjoying the night and relaxing when my aunt said she had a feeling something was wrong. She went to the bedroom and just as she closed the door the tornado passed right over their house and she was left shaken after it passed. My uncle somehow slept through the whole thing if I remember correctly. We visited the house a few weeks afterwards and the entire roof was ripped off and the rest of the house including valuable items, were destroyed. My aunt believed that God was watching over her that night and I believe so too. My aunt passed during May of last year. She was a strong and beloved woman and this event showed me that it's important to always call and tell your loved ones that you love them because something like this could take them away from you.
Bro your uncles a beast.
16:22 Are you freaking kidding me?! Deadly tornadoes are being spawned left and right around the area, and people are more concerned about the warnings and coverage interrupting a damn television show, to the point of taking time away from meteorologists trying to do their jobs just to complain about it?!🤡
What the hell is wrong with those people?!! I mean seriously, PRIORITIES MUCH?!!😡
So stupid...🤦
@timothyvanhoeck233 I feel like way too many people in Ohio are like that. We've had tons of warnings that never developed anything, so the "crying wolf" phenomenon is strong. People forget just how many tornados Ohio has had and how many were violent. This spring was non-stop warnings that produced tornados, so hopefully, some people wake up. We're over 50 for the year and lead the nation for a bit. Also, we have a ton of people migrating from different states. Many of them have never heard a tornado warning in their life.
@@LyleH45 Which is ironic considering that much of Ohio, alongside most of Indiana and portions of Kentucky lie within Hoosier Alley, an area almost as notorious as Tornado Alley and Dixie Alley, for being a hotbed of tornadic activity.
@@LyleH45AMEN! I’m from Ohio and I literally did a speech over the Joplin EF5 for my public speaking class at my college, and I spent a good amount of time discussing how we’ve become desensitized to tornado sirens due to “false alarms,” just like how the people of Joplin became desensitized. As I was driving home, I watched a storm start to roll in to the west of I270. As I drove through Dublin, the storm was directly over me, but it wasn’t raining. Then, the tornado sirens started going off, and I laughed. The timing seriously couldn’t have been better. I went home and pulled up Connor Croff’s livestream and saw him driving through the storm about 5 minutes from my house, which is crazy to see. If I remember correctly, the storm did not produce any tornadoes, but there was rotation. Ohioans need to take serve weather seriously. It’s better to be safe than sorry.
@fishbowlliz I like to think I made some progress in that direction. Most of my family and friends pay more attention on their own, or they consult me because I soak up as much info as I can. Some of them even have radar omega. Two stories, I live about a mile from where the EF-1 hit Hilliard earlier this year, and it did some real damage. One house was demolished because the top floor was gone, and other houses were deemed unsafe because they had huge chunks taken out of them. I was also in Indian Lake the week before and the week after the EF-3, to say it was a huge shock seeing the damage in person was an understatement. I have family an hour west of Columbus, and I'm always keeping a lookout for them. Several areas of rotation have passed over both of the towns this year and at night! They were all areas of rotation that had produced tornados earlier, usually around Piqua. My wife's hometown doesn't even have sirens despite the fact that they've had multiple tornados pass within miles, and I personally have seen a wall cloud move through town. I still think sirens are an important tool, even with everyone having cellphones. I don't remember if I watched Connor that day, but I remember watching Vince Waelti and Brandon Copic drive through 270. It was weird seeing my hometown on their streams and knowing exactly where they were at. It was also hilarious watching Vince get pissed at they way people drive around here lol.
Fox viewers. They tend to think any news unless its Fox News is fake news.
My story of this night:
My family came home from vacation in Canada that evening and because of the trip I hadn't been keeping track of the weather which is rare. So when I heard there were tornado warnings just north of us I was shocked. I live in Lebanon Ohio about half an hour south of Dayton. I went outside and I watched the radar and listened to Dayton SKYWARN while I watched the storm pass to the north. It was the most lightning I have ever seen, just constant lightning. A few days after the storm I had to take a CPR class for work, I took the class at the red cross in Dayton and it was amazing seeing all the people working to load food and water into vans and trucks to take it into the areas impacted by the tornadoes.
More recently I took an advanced spotter class from the NWS in Wilmington Ohio, it was hosted at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, which was very close to where the EF4 ended. The class was amazing and told a lot about what went on inside NWS ILN that night.
When you drive to the NMUSAF on I675 north you can see the new houses that were built where old ones were destroyed and you can see where the trees were blown down by the tornado.
I was in Hilliard and I remember the sirens going off in the middle of the night. It was just constant blaring. I wasn’t interested in weather at that point in time, but it’s definitely a storm that I’ll remember for the rest of my life.
The fact that a tornado warning just got issued while i am watching this is crazy
@@Banana-w7h be safe lol
@@drezzydrez thanks bro lol
how did you comment this 2 days ago when this video got uploaded today 💀 ☠️ 💀 ☠️ 💀
@@magic_cattt members of the channel
I remember that night so vividly. When the storm rolled in I was freaking out because at the time I was TERRIFIED of storms. My mom’s solution was to give me a slice of American cheese. A few minutes later the warning came. Then I remember 6 people being crammed in our small bathroom And me singing songs to soothe our nerves. We got EXTREMELY Lucky that the Ef4 lifted before it hit our area. After I was so terrified that I slept in the bathtub until morning. Oddly enough 5 years later my obsession with tornadoes and storms is crazy.
holy shit a new video on this. I actually went to high school at BHS and that tornado spawned literally in my backyard. Seeing it rip through the school was genuinely insane and seeing all the damage in person genuinely puts a different sight on what we see here on youtube. The worst parts of the schools damage was over the auditorium, high school gym, and the east wing where home ec, art, and the woodshop was. I've always loved storms and even wanted to be a storm chaser like reed timmer but seeing the damage and having to literally bike into town seeing 2 story homes just slid off their foundation like a stack of cards was just...wtf. storms still today take me back to the night and just gives me insane anxiety. Brookville absolutely needs to invest in more tornado sirens on the New Lebanon side because when the tornado was on the ground we had to go outside just to hear the tornado siren that was on the other side of the town. i think prolly the "best" part about this was the last two years of high school there for junior and senior year i didnt have finals: tornado through our school in 2019 and covid in 2020 lmao.
anyways glad you made a video on this man much love i still cant believe this shit was 5 years ago. oh also for lima OH its leema ohio...we cant speak for shit leema ohio, rooshie instead of russia ohio lmao
Definitely Lye-ma as I live here lol
I remember this happening! I’m from Richmond Indiana in Wayne County. The sirens were sounding over and over to get people to go to their spots. I remember going out to help my mom take down our hanging plants and hide our chairs and such outside so they don’t become projectiles. We were getting some neighborhood strays in a somewhat safe spot and one of our neighbors across the street was yelling for everyone to get inside. Seeing Dayton a few months afterward was insane.
Thank you for looking out for those strays. I'm glad that people like you exist
Oh geez this just reminded me of a storm that happened a month after these ones! I was struggling with Postpartum Depression a couple months after my kid was born and I knew it would get bad if I left it untreated. So the fastest way to get help in my area was to just admit myself into a psyche hospital and get outpatient therapy when I was discharged. A couple days before they let me out, we had a tornado warning and the entire hospital had to take shelter. The absolute sick irony of a wing full of mental heath impatiens being trapped in a tornado shutdown was insane. Never have I seen so many people in a hallway having panic attacks and losing it with nurses desperately trying to keep the calm. And funny enough a tornado did touched down just a couple miles away from the hospital. It was such a nightmare, and even so much as thinking of that place gives me flashbacks to the pandemonium.
Thanks for covering this. That was a scary night for my family even though the only damage was a bit to the roof (roof was replaced a few months later). We live in Huber Heights, a few miles from Dayton/Northridge damage. My son and I watched Whio on my phone in the hallway bathroom. The tornado siren in Thomas Cloud Park was installed a week before the tornado. We heard it in the bathroom. It wasn't funny that night but I can laugh at the Jamie Simpson going off on Bachelorette fans. I now take tornado watches/warnings more seriously because that night was the closest I have been to a tornado. If there is a warning for Montgomery County I get our dog in his harness and my shoes and socks on if I don't have them on. I will put Whio on my tv and if he is streaming I will have Ryan Hall on my computer.
I'm happy someone finally talked about this and had a focus on the Montpelier tornado which is was just a mile north of and heard the roar. I was even surveying damage the following day while my Dad responded to runs to houses struck head on the night prior. From then till now, damage is still pretty obvious throughout, especially damaged and bent trees and still structure damage with a cow barns frame still being left; but I have always been happy no one was killed, and that this tornado never went through Montpelier. So thank you for this video, everyone focuses on Dayton which I see why and even I do when looking at this outbreak, but no one ever focuses on the first major tornado of this outbreak and I always thought it deserved it. Great video, hope to see more.
This happened a little over a month after I moved to Montgomery County, Ohio (Miamisburg, just south of Dayton), from western Washington state. Being a storm spotter, I was keenly aware -- I thought -- of what was going on. Kept watching the dark sky via the lightning going on west, north and east of me -- but not OVER me. I didn't know till a few days later that it was a lot worse than I thought it was. Thor had His magick shield over my sister/housemate and me that night!
I learned what a PDS and "tornado emergency" were from this outbreak, yet we barely had any lightning & thunder.
Great video, Alf! As an Ohioan, this is definitely one outbreak that stands out in my mind. It was such a great night for television meteorologists. They truly do make a difference. We got to hear from some of them at the 2020 OSU Severe Weather Symposium and some of their stories were just mesmerizing.
Thank you so much for doing this video!! I live in Dayton and remember this night very clearly. You did an absolutely amazing job with it! 👏
The news were alerting about deadly tornadoes on their way, but braindead spectators were complaining that the news report interrupted a new episode of The Bachelorette. My God. We are, indeed, surrounded by idiots.
@anonymoususer855 if your critics are people who watch the fuckin Bachelorette, keep doing what you're doing, you're doing great 😂
Welcome to Nature's Fury!
What a great way to introduce yourself!
I remember this storm, had just gotten hired at a plant outside of Medway, so most of the folks I worked with were from Dayton. Almost everyone had some sort of damage to their homes. My poor mother who experienced the Xenia tornado was petrified for the rest of the night.
Not mentioned in this video, but a few notable tornadoes from May 2019, that I do think deserve some mentions are the Jasper-Carthage EF3 which touched down on the north side of the Joplin metro area on the 8th anniversary of the 2011 Joplin EF5.
There's also the Elwood-Jefferson City EF3 that occured on the same day.
And on the day after the Memorial Day outbreak, an EF4 tornado touched down in Douglas County, KS in what would be known as the Linwood-Lawrence EF4 which hit the SW outskirts of Linwood and the western outskirts of Bonner Springs, It was a rainwrapped torando that ended up being Kansas City's version of the 2013 El Reno EF3.
@@maxwasson2000 thank you so much for mentioning the Linwood tornado, cause no one ever does. It was on track for my house and ended up destroying multiple houses on my dad’s delivery route near Stilwell from 174 st to Bear Lake while he was still working.
Also, I like the comparison you make of it to the El Reno tornado, I have compared it many times to that as well due to the fact that it also got chasers, was huge and rain wrapped, and is really the only other time massive tornado has almost plunged into a huge city, causing an apocalypse.
I was in dayton that night, I lived right where the tornado recycled onto. houses up and down the street were roofless, I remember one building in particular lost the entire 2nd floor, and a house across the street had a tree through the garage wall. the block of apartments down the road had every window blown out, and trees were split or uprooted everywhere. I moved about 3 years later and people still hadn't moved into the repaired apartment block.
I had to call out of work for a few days cause downed power lines and repair work on the road prevented me from going out.
Sadly people dont really talk about the storm because it hit a major city at night and didn't kill anyone. so people ignore it cause it's not sensational or picturesque.
During that i was 9 years old and used to watch tornado chasers I was obsessed with it. I learned so much from watching that it was crazy. That day I was getting picks up from my baby sitters and I said man it feels like a tornado could happen today. Few hours later the memorial day tornado was formed.
Not me saving this video for today when I have a pile of tedious paperwork that bores me to death. You've become one of my work besties. Plus you're just really good at breaking these storms down without glossing over how it affected the people impacted.
Looking forward to this one. One of the tornados passed about 2 miles from my house. This was one of the most terrifying nights of my life.
This video brought tears to my eyes I because I remember hiding in my basement in Dayton scared
Once the storms cleared around 2ish in the morning me my dad and my sister when and drove around looking at all the damage
My family was affected by this tornado outbreak, I've lived in Ohio my whole life and I remember that night very clearly, I wasn't personally hit by the tornados but some of my family was.
My grandparents were affected by the Beavercreek tornado and their neighborhood is still recovering from that tornado to this day, a lot of the trees in the area were gone to the point where you could see and hear the highway that's near there, there were many destroyed houses and debris everywhere.
I'm glad that my family is okay and that the people of Ohio came together to help the people who were affected by the tornados, I will forever love the people of this state.
Thank you for covering this outbreak.
This was a hard watch. My family was on the highway, arriving just northwest of Dayton when we saw the tornado emergency on our phone. I remember the thunder was horrifyingly loud. I saw large hail from the windows peering into the pool. We tuned into the TV until the receptionist told us to take shelter in the laundry room. NWS Wilmington is such an unbelievably helpful and skillful office, and this past spring has proved that. Without their help and the help of many TV meteorologists on 5/27, many more people would have been seriously injured or killed. Thank you for making a video on this.
I remember this day of this outbreak, or what I wasn't doing(and hate myself for it.). I was napping. Woke up to my dad knocking on my door and saying that Dayton got hit by a tornado, and due to family living in the Dayton suburbs, my heart sank as I began mentally beating myself up for not paying attention to the weather that day. Fortunately my family in Huber Heights, Tipp City and Beaver Creek were alright. My uncle was activated in disaster response as he was a Tipp City firefighter at the time.
I wish I were joking. I was devastated for literally 12 hours till most of them called to tell us they were alright.
I remember this day. I was 14. My family was asleep but I was the designated "night watch" for when we had bad weather, as I'd be up anyway. I remember listening to it storm, hearing the wind, and then McCall Vrydaghs get emotional. Thats when I finally woke them up. Just in time, too. It didn't hit us directly but we could hear it. It was horrifying, being alone at night, listening to the wind, hoping I wouldn't need to do anything. I'm still "night watch".
I'm glad you covered it, I only saw one other person do so, and for awhile it was always heartbreaking to look it up and see only we cared about happened to us.
So happy you finally did a video on this. I was involved with this tornado in darke county Ohio. We only had an ef1 I think. But I’ve never been involved with a tornado before until this. I’ve always been curious, thank you!!
The 2019 Memorial Day Tornado Outbreak - When a tornado goes Wonderhoy
I'm from Dayton and this is one night that will NEVER be forgotten!
This was a insane time, I remember watching the lives from a international perspective and it did get a few of us emotions and sorrow. Thank you again for covering in depth documents and footage from that day and onwards.
Great video once again!!
My cat hated this outbreak, during the tore she was legit scream-meowing
thank you for providing something cool to listen to while I clean the house, love your videos :]
People had the gall to complain about something that will save their life because it was cutting into a dumb show that will not save their life during a tornado outbreak.
The attitude towards severe weather in Ohio is very dismissive. People tend to think the storms will fall apart or won’t be as dangerous as predicted. As an Ohioan myself, I’m confident that people were complaining because they didn’t think it was as bad as it was.
I feel like there was an implied yet in "I'm not insane enough to do that"
Great video!! I was born in Dayton and was living in beavercreek that night. I'm wheelchair-bound so getting down to the basement was one hell of a struggle but I handled it. Interestingly the next morning I had a medical emergency that had nothing to do with the tornadoes but because of the people out there clearing the way I was able to get to the hospital.
Just pointing one thing out and it's a tiny nitpick. Beavercreek is one word but it's a very very very very very very common mistake. Keep up the great work!
oooh hype for this one. i got put under a tornado warning during this outbreak, northern indiana, luckily we didnt get hit
I love these video's, it drives me to want to study meteorologist even tho I live in South Africa and barely get tornado's.
I remember that because I was babysitting at the time and one touched down right outside the city and we were all huddled in their basement bathroom and I watched as the radar showed the tornado go around the city. I have never felt so lucky. I will remember that forever and so do they.
Remember the tornado that went through just south of me in Beavercreek, it lifted right before it came my direction. Was expecting it to hit us and it did not. Destroyed buildings along N. Fairfield Rd and shut down others in that shopping area for a month. And that was not the EF4, that was just EF3. Can still see the broken trees along 675.
Edit: Want to say also about the response. People still really remember the Xenia F5 around here. That is probably why there were so few deaths, people remember and take tornadoes seriously, and they know what needs to happen to get back to normal afterrwards. We don't get a lot of tornadoes in Ohio, not at the level of Oklahoma, but we have a lot of cities and tornadoes tend to do a lot of damage unlike the ones that happen in the middle of nowhere in the plains.
@@alanamccool7409 The "we don't get many around here" seems to be changing. I grew up and still live in the Troy area. We've seen more touchdowns in the past 5yrs than I can ever remember in the prior 25.
But I also remember warnings and stories of the Xenia tornado. We have been raised and the fear of God instilled in us when it comes to something that basically never used to happen.
Edit: I just got to the mention of the West Milton EF3. That one directly affected my parents and not 1/4mi from them, there were several houses that just didn't exist anymore
I can hear a difference in the audio in this one! It sounds great!
Great video Alferia. I am so thankful for such organizations like Operation BBQ and so many others.
The emotion given by that woman is a great example of the seriousness of these situations. I wish that our society could provide better education about severe weather threats.
Video from Alferia today?!
What a wonderful birthday gift!
Thank you for covering! No one talks about the tornadoes we get here in Ohio! My aunt lives up in St Paris north of Troy/Dayton. That night I came home from working at KI and was very worried. I knew looking at the radar that was something was going to happen. You could feel the dread that night and it was really sticky out. Watching all of those hook echos into that area had me alarmed. I prayed for my family's safety and I am very thankful they were okay. This year was similar. I was literally watching the radar when the tornado warnings were tracking up near the Dayton area earlier this spring. I had to call my aunt and let her know to get to safety. That area is a tornado magnet for Ohio (just look at the history, there are ALOT of tornadoes!). People ask me with my passion for severe weather why not chase tornadoes?? Up north it is a little easier but in southern Ohio it is too dangerous to chase ( I live east on Cincy). We have a lot of forests/trees and hills. It limits visibility. It is not as safe to chase here for an amateur. Up in St Paris, it is easier to see as there is a lot of farmland/flat land. But we do not get nearly as many tornadoes to chase and when they do happen it is typically at night.
I remember this storm VIVIDLY. I was 15 and I think I had just finished my freshman year. A tornado touched down in Pendleton, IN and that's where my older sister lived at the time. Me, my parents, and my 3 younger siblings were in the car to go to my sister's house so my parents could give her babysitting money. We left and turned back around because it was raining too much, and then 10 minutes later, we left again and we were at the bank and tornado sirens started going off and my mom got a tornado warning on her phone and I screamed that we were all gonna die, making all of my siblings freak out even more. My dad was trying to drive away from the storm and we just kept driving deeper into it. It felt like we were never gonna escape. We got back home and then left to get dinner later and I couldn't even eat because I was really shaken up. We went to Pendleton a couple days later to give my sister her money and we looked at the damage around Falls Park. It wasn't too bad, the tornado was only an EF2, but it sucked.
Im from dayton and me and my family were in Clayton at the time at the border with Trotwood I had a weather radio. Me and my family went to the closet my mom was at a friend's house across the street having a great time and I was home babysitting with the little kids I remember having the TV on the news specifically WHIO TV and I remember us getting a tornado warning we had inside the closet and then my mom came and got us and she was like guys were about to have a tornado and we all ran to the neighbor's house across the street my sister's cover got caught and was later found wrapped around a fire hydrant 2 miles away while we was in shelter I had my weather radio with me and the tornado emergency was issued at this point we're still in shelter by the time we got out the huge tree that was in front of the apartments were gone my sister's tire was flat and we went home to go to sleep. We woke up the next morning to helicopters flying above us there were two helicopters when was the news helicopter and the other was a police helicopter we didn't have any water at that point since the city and almost the entire County lost water since the pump were damaged but all in all everything was okay it took us about 2 weeks to get back on her feet still to this day when it storms we get a lot of anxiety from what happened that day.
Babe its bed time, the YT algorithm has blessed me with a 30 minute Alferia weather documentary for a cozy sleepy time
I live in Ohio. I slept through the whole thing without a clue how bad the weather was. My mom (in another country) sent me a message during the night asking if we were okay, but my phone was on Do Not Disturb, so I didn't see it right away. I had to actually go through Facebook and see who posted what to figure out how close a tornado was. Probably about a 10-15 minutes' drive away was how close it got.
That night was one of the most intense nights of my life. We were lucky to not be hit directly, but I did catch a glimpse of the tornado ripping through East Dayton through my front window - highlighted by power flashes. My husband ignored the warnings and felt really dumb when we got up the next day to try to find ice, and everything a mile or two north of us was damaged and/or destroyed. It was a strong wake up call, and he now acknowledges the gravity of warnings. I cannot thank our local meteorologists for braving the risk to keep our community safe. We do not celebrate these heroes often enough!!
This one had me feeling really emotional over people coming together and everything. Sorry I've been out of the loop for awhile -ivan
Hey Alferia! I’d love to see you cover West Virginia’s “thousand year flood” of 2016, it was totally unexpected and devastating. I’d love to see a comprehensive documentary about it.
Another great documentary! Thanks Alferia!
Snowmageddon, 2010!
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Need more winter videos :)
The beaver creek tornado remains as the only clear cut image of a tornado I have ever taken. Truly a nightmare of a night.
Man i remember this one. This was a tornado that got me really into storm monitoring and studying them. If i recall correctly this also hit some of Jefferson City Missouri and i think Defiance or Wright city (please correct me if im wrong) but I was up late and just got out of the shower and saw so many lightning flashes outside my window and something intrigued me to monitor it for the next few hours from 11pmish-1:30am. I remember there was a tornado warning at 1am and hearing a dropdown about 23 minutes away from my house. I immediately woke my family up and was met with a eh we’ll be fine. Don’t be those people. If you hear the sirens and know the location. take shelter and be safe people
Pretty chilling night, lived a couple miles away from dayton and was hit by some.
I love this dudes work and your doing great maybe try out beryl after it passes?
Meant to say Alferia lol but the islands got no chill he be making videos even though he takes a beating from hurricanes 3-4 times a year full respect.
Great job in reporting this terrible day and evening. McCall has moved on to s different job and we miss her passion and accuracy in reporting.
Another great video as always thank you
*This is in multiple parts, see replies*
Alright, I already made a comment on this video, but that was before I watched it. I was honestly so excited to see that Alferia was covering a tornado that I had recommended he cover. Now that I’ve watched the video, there’s more that I want to say.
First of all, THANK YOU ALFERIA for covering this storm & for doing such a fantastic job (as always)! I often feel like this tornado is forgotten about & it makes me so happy to see that it’s finally getting attention.
Now onto what I want to add to my original comment:
As a native Ohioan, it is extremely common for people to not take severe weather & tornado warnings seriously. So many people believe that storms will “just fall apart” once it gets to the outskirts of the 270 outer belt, or “the meteorologists are over predicting” & “the storms won’t be nearly as bad as what they (the meteorologists) are saying.” But that’s far from the truth. I actually gave a speech over the Joplin EF5 for my college public speaking class, & I spent a lot of time talking about how the people of Joplin were desensitized to tornado sirens because false alarms were common. People didn’t take the sirens seriously, which was one of the contributing factors to the high death toll. Ohioans are the same- we hear tornado sirens & instead of heading to the basement, we look outside or tune into our local news station to see if there’s *actually* a tornado on the ground before seeking shelter (which some people from Joplin did!). On my way home from class, a storm rolled in & had rotation. The sirens went off in my area as I was on my way home & I went to the basement as soon as I got home. While it didn’t produce a tornado, I wasn’t going to mess around & find out.
*PT 2*
I’m sure many Ohioans remember how the SPC placed a ⅘ severe weather risk over the majority of the state earlier this year in April (I believe it was April 2nd), & how the storms weren’t nearly as bad as predicted. That’s because we got EXTREMELY lucky. Pop-up thunderstorms that occurred earlier in the day stopped the atmosphere from getting to the point where tornadic storms could have developed later in the afternoon. Had that not happened, things very well could have been catastrophic. We're not going to be lucky like that all the time, which is why it’s SO important to heed the warnings & be prepared if/when severe weather occurs.
I’m convinced that people were complaining about the severe weather coverage interrupting The Bachelor on May 27th, 2019 because they didn’t believe that the storms were actually that bad, because the attitude surrounding severe weather in Ohio is so dismissive. With how active of a season it’s been this year, it’s time for Ohioans to change their attitude towards severe weather & start taking it more seriously.
Next, my story from that night, because I remember it better after talking to my family about it:
At the time, we lived in Hilliard, Ohio, which is west of Columbus & north east of the Dayton area by a good distance. Other than for horse shows, we never went down that way, so I wasn’t familiar with the Dayton area at all.
Late in the night, I don’t remember what time, the sirens started going off. I was sleeping or about to fall asleep when I was jolted awake by them. I’ve always been scared of tornado sirens, but that night, they felt different… more serious. We lived on the border of multiple counties, so sirens were going off all around us. I went to my older brother’s room because I knew I wasn’t going to be able to sleep for a while with the constant blaring sirens, claps of thunder, and heavy rain pounding the roof. My older brother has always been interested in storms & enjoys tracking them via radar from home. He had a TV with the local news station on & I remember watching coverage of the storm, but not in much detail. As my brother watched the Dayton storm on radar, he knew it was bad.
*PT 3*
I don’t remember exactly what he said, but I remember the feeling of that night. The sirens went on for what felt like hours & the storms just did not want to let up.
Eventually, I went to bed, & in the morning, our front yard had turned into a lake. That property always had drainage issues after heavy rain, so it wasn’t too uncommon. The worst of the damage in my area (that I remember!) was flooding, fallen tree limbs, & maybe some wind damage. Honestly that night was a bit of a blur. What I do remember is seeing the damage on TV the next day. It was devastating, to say the least.
Here are some things I’m taking away from this video:
First of all, it was a great refresher for what happened that night, as my memory of it wasn’t super clear until I watched this video.
Second, I had NO idea that there were other tornadoes in Ohio that night. I wasn’t at all interested in weather at the time, so I wasn’t paying attention to radar, or else I would’ve known about those other tornadoes. I also think most people were focused on Dayton, & for good reason- it was the worst tornado of the outbreak.
And third, it was a little surreal, but also frightening, to see my hometown on the map in this video (it’s not marked but I know where it is).
I want to give a HUGE round of applause to everyone who helped that night- NWS Wilmington, local meteorologists, neighbors, communities, & everyone else who made a difference. You guys are SO appreciated for the work that you do!
I was in the Dayton tornado. I’ve loved tornadoes since I was a child but let me tell you, being in one is a different experience. We were so lucky. Scariest night of my life. Never prayed harder than that moment in the basement with my children.
Do you plan on doing a video on hurricane Michael at any point in the future? It's the only hurricane I've ever actually experienced. I saw stuff that month that was like out of a movie. Looked like the whole city got nuked. I don't ever really hear anyone talk about it much either even though it was a CAT 5.
LMAO NVM... JUST found your video on it. Cool cool thanks.
Can you please make a video about hurricane Lee?
I was driving through Dayton when it hit. It went right over 75. I got extremely lucky as it passed behind me. Had to have missed it by a a minute or two. I was driving to Detroit for work and about 5 days later when I drove back home to Kentucky I saw all the damage. Unbelievable
As a resident of northern Illinois I remember this day for the 2+ diameter hail that hit just south of my house
The Dayton tornados were crazy. I live 20 minutes north of Dayton. The news staff were yelling at people and crying. It was an awful situation.
The April 12-16th 2012 outbreak sequence would be really interesting
Can you do the April 27-28 2024 outbreak it’s ok if you can’t do it
Live in Beavercreek. Opposite side of town but remember this like it was yesterday. WHIO did a phenomenal job during this event as they always do
I live just south of Dayton. I actually drove thru there the next day for work. I knew it was big when I saw the hotel you mentioned. it had just been purchased and was going thru a complete remodeling. it was shifted on its foundation!
I was on I-75 that night and drove into the Dayton Tornado and captured it on my dashcam. I uploaded the video to youtube. I got out of my car and helped as many people as I could.
I was in michigan when this happend (and still am). that one tornado was the only one to come to michigan and that came RIGHT. FOR. ME. The day started off particularly normal, as michigan only saw some thunderstorms coming in. i was young, and like today, i’m still interesting into tornados. at night when we watched the weather. jesus christ. there was thunder, lightning, everything. When we looked outside, it felt like several leaf-blowers tried to push us back in. that’s when the sirens fired up. at this point, i was extremely interested on what was going on. but my family were terrified. we rushed down to the basement, and when we came back up, everything seemed fine. we didn’t even know there was a tornado. a few days later, we saw the coverage. that thing was only a few miles away in a field, picking up corn and whatnot. luckily it was only an EF-0 and didn’t kill anyone (from my knowledge) but that was the first and closest time a tornado got to me. later that day i learned about the outbreak and was actually terrified but also empathetic and sad. all of these states had to go through horrid tornados and mass damage and death, while we were lucky and got just 1.
The EF4 missed my house by less than a mile I don’t remember much of what happened that night but it is the night that I grew interest in tornadoes
Another video Idea... The Northwoods tornado outbreak of 1966 (or 69, I can't quite remember)
I remember watching the weather Channel before school and I just see all of this from the night before
Whats up with the one random tornado in Idaho?
@@otf7466 great question
I have no idea
I live south of the heart of Dayton(around Kettering and Centerville) and I was 7 at the time, I was terrified and had no idea were any city was so I was on edge constantly every time the word tornado was said. Eventually I think we were put in a tornado watch or warning (I don’t remember) so we had to be in our safe space but just 10 before I threw up because I was so scared and we couldn’t hear the TV from the bathroom so we had to rely on the crappy connection the bathroom tended to have with WiFi to know if we were about to be hit by a tornado or not. Luckily we were not hit and even if I don’t remember we went to see the damage in the areas hit in the morning after
The Dayton EF4 happened the night before I buried my grandpa that weekend. I was staying with my boyfriend (now husband) in Leesburg in Highland county (Ohio) when that had a massive hook on radar
i love the islands. they're favourite youtuber
This outbreak was only just under three years after another major outbreak in the Midwest that the NWS initially did not forecast to be at significant risk. And like this outbreak, that surprise 2016 outbreak thankfully had very few deaths too. It always seems like, just when meteorologists think they have tornadoes figured out, mother nature finds new ways to surprise them.
Yep, May 2019 had a wall cloud go right above my house. Eerie and cool at the same time. It was in Memorial day, in northern Illinois.
SO EXCITED !!!!
I remember that day
Isnt it crazy that hurricane beryl in a category 5 already
I'll say this, if you thinking coverage about a severe and deadly tornado is ruining your show that you want to watch.
You have walnuts for a brain.
If I had severe weather in my area, I'm tuning into that more because I want to know where it heading and see if I'm safe.
Would love a video on Hurricane Ian!
great video
What kind of dense do you have to be to complain about ‘nado warnings interrupting your tv show 🗿
They don't call the area around Xenia the place of the devil winds for nothing!
Could you maybe do hurricane milton or the other one that hit Florida
do you think a Beryl 2024 video could happen, broke quite a few records and was terrible in jamaica yucatán and houston is still being evaluated
I love your videos!!