Tuscaloosa Tornado 4/27/11
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- Опубліковано 29 кві 2011
- On Wednesday April 27th, 2011 a significant tornado outbreak struck north and central Alabama leaving behind a wake of destruction.
An EF-4 tornado tore through Tuscaloosa, Alberta, and Holt, AL destroying thousands of homes and businesses.
This video starts about 15 minutes before the arrival of the tornado and continues until the tornado becomes rainwrapped and disappears. The video was shot from the North Ten Hoor parking deck on the campus of the University of Alabama - Наука та технологія
if youve never heard a tornado siren, you dont want to hear a tornado siren. absolutely terrifying.
Heard them in Kentucky every year. They are terrifying!
Lauren Stephens I can only imagine. Just seeing them in the Midwestern states last month during our travels, was unsettling.
Very scary
I've been in 6 bourbonnis IL dwight IL streator IL diamond IL pontiac IL Kankakee IL all were f2 solid f3s an seeing something like this in a video ..SIMPLY WOW. I feel all those effected simply it's all up to mother nature an God.. clearly can't do anything more but pray as mass destruction unleashed fiery rolls throu
I'm fortunate here in Saint Louis, MO. We heard them about 3 times last year none the year before and twice or so the year prior, nothing ever happened. Thankfully.
One happened on an evening I was supposed to go to a friend's grandmother's funeral as I was getting dressed to leave and I decided to stay home, thankfully no tornado occurred, better to be safe than sorry!
1. This is an *amazing* video. You really capture the feeling of dread before the tornado strikes.
2. You have not brass balls, but big PLUTONIUM balls to be able to stand on top of a parking garage and take pictures of that tornado! I am absolutely *amazed* you stayed composed enough to take this video!
carp bear if you think about it it’s a fairly safe place. The way it’s built it will not fall to the ground and he likely had a interior stairwell to fall back to for cover.
That part of Tuscaloosa was not hit by the tornado. The area around the university of Alabama was probably the safest place you could be that day. The tornado just missed it. Although some off campus apartments did get destroyed, the campus itself was ok.
He is way safer there. Completely surrounded in concrete.
I sit on my porch during tornados. It's a tornado alley thing. It feels weird when you dont watch tornados.
For someone who has never seen a tornado in person, I think the tornado warning sirens are creepier than the storm itself. Plus, there's so many different sounding sirens that it feels like theres always a creepier one out there
Sirens are among the scariest sounds you'll ever hear.
Having been a foreign engineering student from Greece at the University of Alabama, from 1977 to 1984, I have heard the tornado warning sirens many times but none of these tornadoes touched down inside the city of Tuscaloosa, like the 2011 one did. Tornado season is usually during March and April in the spring and during August and part of September in the fall. For some reason most of these tornadoes “liked” to move along McFarland Boulevard. I remember two instances of tornado alarms: In the first one, I was outside Ferguson Center and as I looked towards McFarland Boulevard, I saw one cloud moving northward that was almost black, with lightning all around it and very strong rain falling all over. The second, was during my last semester at the UoA in the spring of 1984. I was living at the time, in an apartment complex near 15th Street, where a Burger King restaurant used to be. These were really flimsy brick buildings with a ground floor and a first floor, without a basement and I was on the first floor. When the tornado warning sirens started, I realized there was no safe place close enough to go to in time. All I could do at the time was to open the door and the windows and I just stood in front of my apartment on the balcony leading to the staircase, deciding that "what ever will be, will be" and at least I wanted to see the tornado hit coming. Thankfully, it wasn’t meant to be, as that tornado did not touch down, but this is a memory I will not forget. Living back in Greece since, I was very upset to learn about the 2011 tornado hit, during 2018 and I am very sorry that much of the Tuscaloosa I new does not exist any more.
First, I'm a trained spotter and this is a discussion that I have been made aware of as going on throughout the weather community. Sirens were a warning system designed for a different sort of time when houses were not so soundproofed as they are in new builds and when there was a lot less competing noise. Sirens are, at best, useful for outdoor situations in a limited range. Many times they do not go off until a tornado is spotted, at which point it may be too late for shelter.
u are right about that i think they should have them go off when they know there is a really go chance of tornados not just when they see one
Definitely best to supplement with extreme weather alerts to your phone and an emergency alert radio.
SkullCrusher Scootering No way. People already get pissed when the sirens go off because rotation was spotted but tornado never really forms. People are annoyingly selfish. Like it’s inconvenient to them. Same people who complain about amber alerts waking them up. Damned if you and damned if you don’t. Meteorologists will always be criticized for crying wolf too many times, and for not warning people enough.
The one time I've had a tornado pass by my current apartment in the 5 years I've been here, I looked outside when the sirens started and the sky was much darker to the east. I think the funnel cloud had already been past my place for a while, and then it touched down in a town east of us. Exactly why you can't 100% rely on sirens!
first time ive ever heard sirens in the tuscaloosa tornado.
Keith Caulkins yeah they went off way before the tornado got there
Not that many heard them though,Did you see all the cars driving around like a bunch of idiots?..Don't feel bad though...there are more idiots out in the plains who love to drive around when there's a tornado..........and their not even chaser's!
Weird how they are in steady tone instead of wail like they usually are.
@@F5Storm1 these type are actually a regular type, had them in my hometown in northern Illinois. Not rare at all
Wow! The timelapse view of the meso motion is absolutely amazing. That thing was truly a beast.
@Enigma1677 One of the first buildings that was hit as the tornado moved into Tuscaloosa was the EMA building. Our sirens at that point were rendered inoperable.
Correct! Also, many down the line, already lost power from, the early morning events.. We were sitting ducks... I watched from the top of a hill, off 20/59.. Where I-459, 20/59 merges...
Made even worse by 2 other factors....
1. The tornado was intensifying as it moved through the city
2. There were around 250,000 without power or any way to get a warning from the morning round of storms that day
@@BamaDega hey 👋 there how are you doing this morning I’m just woundering ok 👌 bud lol 😂.
Absolutely AWESOME video beginning around the 7-minute mark. Love how you can see the circulation at the top of the tornado.
This is amazing footage!- especially from the top of the parking deck! My old Army Reserve unit was on 15th Street at the time the tornado 🌪 came through there. Sergeant First Class Matthews was actually IN THE BUILDING at the time of this incident! He survived by taking shelter in the main stairwell of the reserve center! It was truly a miracle, considering how destroyed the reserve center (and all of our military vehicles) were!
Thanks for sharing your amazing footage of this fateful day! Weather nerds like me get into this kind of stuff!
Your video from the upper deck was fantastic! What a horrific tornado this was!! Can't believe it was only rated an F4 because it's wind's were no greater 190. If they had been 200, it would've been rate an F5. Still, from the looks of it, I would say, if you weren't under ground when this sucker hit your home, chances at good, you wouldn't have made it through it. Again, great video, and glad you stayed safe!
+Lolita Grant
The Tuscaloosa tornado did not have maximum 190 mph winds. In fact, we don't know how fast the winds were since they were never recorded. The 190 mph figure is just an estimation based on damage, which is the real basis for tornado ratings. The Tuscaloosa tornado was very powerful, but it did not produce definitive EF5 damage, hence the high-end EF4 rating which is always given a 190-200 mph wind speed estimation after its assigned.
This tornado was rated a high EF-4, with winds of approximately 190 mph. The EF-5 category, the strongest, begins at 200 mph. The sirens sound as soon as a tornado warning is issued for approximately 5 minutes. They then stop, because pretty much everyone who can here them is by that point aware that they need to tune in to a source of information immediately. The sirens will sometimes sound again as the tornado approaches, but this storm destroyed most of the city's power grid as it came in.
The sirens in the background are ACA P-15's. They've since been replaced with Federal Signal 2001's after the tornado hit.
THUMBS UP IF YOUD BE THE PERSON RUNNING AND SCREAMING
I lost my roof, window, and front door. All my giant trees.
I have a question for you have you ever seen a tornado in person I'm just wondering ok
I lived all my life in the northern states, no tornados. But when visiting my Aunt & Uncle in MO in summer of my 16th year,, there were wild thunderstorms at night a LOT. My Uncle would get up in the night and just sit up, reading. I realize now, 50 yrs later, that he was “ on watch” .I dont think he had the tv on, didnt hear a radio, They lived in rural area, and he had a way of feeling or knowing when it was time to get in the basement. He was protecting his family while we slept. This was way before storm chasers or computers . Those Old Timers survived by knowing the signs. One afternoon, it was hot but couded over, and it was so still..so quiet, and I went out onto porch and looked up at the sky, I saw papers just floating around way up in the clouds. I told my Aunt, she said to come inside, now. Then she opened 2 windows on opposite sides of the room. Whoosh! the wind came up and billowed the curtains on one window, then quiet, then the wind billowed the curtains on the other side of the room. ie changed direction. She shut the first window, stood there listening and yelled “ everybody get down the basement!.,” I started down the stairs and went back to catch their little dog who ran away from me…She screamed at me…forget the dog, he will follow” Oh boy, I was in trouble later, for not following directions. Nothing bad happened that day. Whatever was going on…a tornado forming or approaching, passed us by. Watching tornado videos on you tube has been an education! Even with radar and sirens and warning systems, those monsters can sneak up, change directions, lull you into a sense of false security. There are a lot of jokes sbout texans and Oklahomans who go barbeque outside and watch a tornado approach.
This is the best tornado video I've seen. You had to have been terrified but you got amazing footage. That thing was RIGHT THERE! I got Independence Day vibes.
Omg the whole sky looked like it was rotating!
it was
It was, thats how it works lol
Jake Goodnight she means the whole sky was rotating not just an area like how most tornadoes are lol this tornado had a huge meso that was spinning like how el reno was... both had a huge circulation that was like 2-4 miles wide unlike most tornadoes
Yeah I've seen them like that before. It was that way over my dads house in bethel acres Oklahoma several years ago and the tornado was a few miles away.
That siren is bloody teriffying. Almost Biblical..
Ikr it kind of sounds like an angels warning
"Attack" (wail) sounds even more ominous.
I’m in the far north of the US and we hear this all the time. The difference is that we have basements so we are able to get somewhere safe.
Actually the first time I've been able to look at this, honestly. I lost some friends, family homes. Was this your first big tornado? I grew up just above B'ham, so I've seen a good many, only 2-3 F4s, and the one F5. I always say I'm not going to be scared, but once they get on top of you, especially those huge ones, how can you not be? Great footage.
I hope you weren't affected by the recent EF-3. Nighttime twisters are so dangerous
@@spcoll7587 Not to be rude or mean but he said he lost friends and family. Hopefully he is ok now. It's been almost 10 years since it happened but still. Bill if you are reading this I am super sorry to hear that and hope you are doing really well these days.
and to respond, yes night twisters are twice as deadly. most people are asleep. the reason i love the weather though is because one went over my house back in 1998...higher end EF-2 in Georgia. I was just a young kid but I will never forget. It sparked everything..my love and obsession for the weather, my fascination etc. I remember waking up to the golf ball sized hail falling...then my dad arriving home early from work--- windshield completely cracked up and all as he pulled into the garage, and then us in the closet and the ear pressure. We then drove by to see the damage after but for some reason I only vaguely remember that part. It's like I was so fascinated that I blocked it out.
Look up the *1998 Dunwoody Tornado* That's the 1 storm that did it for me. That same specific supercell had also produced an EF5 in Bham before it came over towards Metro Atlanta. I was raised in Dunwoody. Maybe we experienced the same supercell who knows.
@@Dana-ki6vs my comment was about the recent EF-3 that hit fultondale THIS yr.
may all the souls that were taken that day...RIP
Could you please say "rest in peace?" There are people who know what RIP means, but there are those who don't. It also takes away from the personal nature, as if it's more fashionable to say RIP, when it's really more convenient. For those who understand it in a more spiritual way, it just shows that it means something more respectfully. Thank you so much.
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@@heatherstub
Bitch get a life
@@fabiana7157 Lmaooo
cool video, i was in the joplin twister, which as i can see you uploaded this video on the very day it happened. this tornado was a beast, but joplin was a monster beyond abomination!!
I lost family in the Joplin tornado sad day
I picked up a garbage can lid 100+ miles away, the following morning.. In Pleasant Grove Cemetery... The tornado was moving 70-75 mph, and barely missed us. Glad you captured this and made it safely... This tornado was shaking the ground, picked up by seismologist in fact.
As is passed, was very hard to see, until right upon us.... The clouds were going towards the monster, and debris rained down. We had no power, from the EF3, quasi- linear complex system, from that morning... I believe it was 5 days, before power was restored and we lost most of our supplies. Live and learn... My condolences to the 250+ lost on that fateful morning-evening. MG
I have seen James Spann's video(s) and he is right about not solely relying on the sirens. People have done that for years and that will get you in trouble because they are called "Outdoor Warning Sirens" for a reason, b/c they are meant to be heard outdoors only. Also the newer sirens have battery back up so if the power goes out they can continue to run. My problem is that people are focusing on the negative and not how effective they have been and how many lives they do actually save.
The shot when the main funnel is just out of view but you can still see the whole sky moving super fast (5:48-ish) is absolutely terrifying. And then the shot of it out in the open happens
Google Earth has imagery taken right after and also of the following day, and the path of destruction is extremely clear. I used the ruler tool and this was shot roughly 1.6 miles from the main area of impact
I lived in Tuscaloosa when the 4/27/11 tornado came but didn't hit our house
Glad it didn't your lucky must been a terrible ordeal going through a ef5 tornado.
All things considered you stayed pretty cool under extreme stress. That was wild man!
Absolutely correct about redundancy. I was addressing the misconception that many people have that they shouldn't take shelter until they hear sirens.
That is so weird how the clouds came in from the left side of the screen, then they stopped, then it was like someone just put the storm in reverse, they went the other way, and then BOOM! there was the tornado! Absolutely terrifying!
Our son was in Krispy Cream when it hit head on. He was behind the one wall that was left standing. He came out without a scatch on his body then he stepped on a nail. Months later he told me that he suffer from survivor guilt.. He saw so many that didnt make it . I told him God wasn't through with him and it wasn't his time. He had a work here on earth to do.
I'm glad he made it. I hope he's mentally ok now. That had to have been traumatizing, for you AND him. My kids are everything to me, and I worry about them so much.
@@cyndianderson7056 he had survivors guilt for a while because wben he made it out he came across some bodies.
Do you still have that footage of the crazy lightning? Only 1 video existed on youtube of the sounds they made up close and then got taken off. It'd be awesome to see!
Agree would love to see the video if still had it with full sound when lightning is happening. But great capture. Reminds me what I do to watch lightning from parking deck but live in north east so not many tornado's
I still wonder why something so destructive can be so beautiful to watch! You caught some wonderful shots.
Unbelievable, so close to campus-excellent shot
It was not that close to campus as you may think. I lived on campus on this day. It’s just it was THAT HUGE. I can’t began to describe the size..... it was rumored to be a Mile wide.... which made it easy to see for every angle in the city.
I can't belive it's almost been 10 years, it still feels like it was yesterday (I was actually watching ABC 33/40 yesterday when they tracked a tornado just below b-ham)
You know the tornado is coming for the sirens...but when they stop ...you know it's really close...
This is the first time I've seen up near the top from that perspective.
Those tendrils were evil looking. That thing was evil altogether. 😭💔🧡
Example, I live in the Dallas area, which experienced an outbreak in April. A storm with a confirmed tornado was heading directly for my neighborhood (missed me by only a few blocks). I received the warning via TV and my smartphone (working from home) and had my wife and pets in our safe place 30 minutes before the first sirens went off in my neighborhood. The suburb immediately to our east doesn't even have sirens.
And the fact is that people don't really pay attention to sirens as it is. They're accustomed to the sound of the sirens, some like it. As a musician I just like the extreme dissonance created by sirens.. Anyway, they are just ineffective and people like to think that when sirens stop that you're okay. THIS IS COMPLETELY FALSE.
Even though I live where there are no tornados where I live (well we do get them apparently but they're not even EF1's and are very rare), I still get nervous when we get a bad storm and/or clouds start floating faster than normal.
You folks who live in the Midwest, are made of tough stuff!! I visited Oklahoma last month (I’m from California) and I was worried about tornadoes. Ironically, the first. Day of our trip, leaving California, was the day of the earthquake in Ridecrest. I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for a time, and lived close enough to Northridge in 1994, that I felt that earthquake too. I did not experience the 1989 Loma Prieta quake that happened during the World Series. The point I am making, is that tornadoes terrify me. Earthquakes, to so much.
Tornado season 2011 is abnormally one of the most active tornado seasons in USA history.
Watching a lot of tornado videos I notice the lightning has orange color to it just before the tornado strikes does anyone know why this happens?
Awesome capture!!
Sceary and beautiful storm and beautiful tornado
The original "Beast" Mode.
wow - powerful video. I have always watched tornadoes and videos but this one, being so quiet in the background watching that beast chew through town...wow and God bless those who it touched directly. Even after all of these years, I remember that day with all of the tornadoes in AL
Was it so quiet because the tornado was sucking up the sounds of its destruction? That video view from the roof is terrifying!!
to the right is that the top of the football stadium and a parking structure in front of it? This a great video very scary.
The speed those cars were going in the second part of the video is probably the speed I'd have been driving if I was aware there was a tornado coming......
so how long was tuscaloosa without siren service?
And what happens when your "smartphone" or weather radio dies? THEN what do you rely on?
I want to know where he went once it headed his direction?
There are NOAA weather radios that are battery powered or hand crank powered, which serves well if power is out in an area affected by a warning. Some can be programmed to only send out a warning if your community or neighborhood is in the specific warning polygon. The main risk is if the regional station gets knocked out, which it did in some areas back on 4/27, you have the same risk as sirens that lose power.
Thank you!! Because Tornadoes/Severe Storms are so destructive you need redundancy because more than likely electricity will go out which will render most telephony (cell phones and landlines) inoperable. I have been in storms where the weather radio didn't work cause the transmitter was knocked out, and i have been in storms where the siren system failed due to elements of the storm. It is a must to have more than one or two forms of warning. I have been through enough of these things to know!!
Interesting view of it, but going to the open rooftop of the parking garage? Crazy move. If it had changed direction, if you had been blasted with RFD, or exposure to lightning.... Very dangerous.
Thankfully, I've never had to expierence one in person, but I don't ever want to. Having said that, I watch these kinds of videos daily, and notice that right before the tornado hits, there's no sound, and an eerie like calmness, then that freight train-like sound comes and everything gets destroyed. Is that a pretty correct description?
Having watched over 200 tornado videos I've noticed a disturbing pattern with the tornado sirens. When sirens are even audible, and too often they're not, most of the time they are turned off despite a tornado still on the ground. I imagine most people interpret sirens being turned of as an "all clear" which in turn draws people out of protection and become extremely vulnerable. It happens in this video.
They do stop them early. I read someplace that they can't run continuously because they'll be damaged and won't work but I never understood why they can't be sounded a second or third time. I think in this comment section it mentions that the sirens became disabled.
great video what type of camera did you use ? nice HD video
Scary but amazing at the same time.
Excellent video.
I'm always interested by the comments saying how "chilling" or "terrifying" the sirens are. Having lived in or near Tornado Alley all my life, I was raised to understand that the sirens are my friend. To me they sound urgent, insistent, and not to be ignored, but they definitely do not sound chilling or terrifying.
I live in Tulsa, OK. Tornado sirens are tested every Wednesday at noon during spring and summer, unless weather conditios are already threatening. It a reminder to be vigilant about preparation and knowing where to take shelter at home, work, or other places.
OMG I remember this like it was yesterday! I was on the westside where is was sunny and the sky was golden and kids and people were just walking and playing........... But when you looked out the back window it was completely black almost to big to see it rotating! Uggggg I cried for 2 weeks straight seeing the devastation and hearing the stories of loss souls. To me ever city needs major underground shelters because so many have no where to go!
I agree. Especially in states that are in Tornado Alley. I’ve heard about several schools that built large shelters which are also used as community shelters. A few of them even double as classroom space.
0:23 Do I see someone riding a damn 🚲 at a time like this???
Yes. It was the wicked witch. Lol.
@@cyndianderson7056 😂
Oh thats so funny!! What a classic iconic scene from The Wizard of Oz. Wicked Witch of the East, riding her bicycle in the clouds having stolen Dorothy’s little dog Toto, and her evil laugh! . That scene gave me nightmares as a kid. Also I was afraid of tornadoes after that. In North Dakota, they call them cyclones.
This tornado, to me is the most intimidating, scary as fu#$ That I’ve yet seen.
The dead man walking in Jarell, TX and the Greensburg, KS tornado were terrible as well. Especially the Greensburg one, ot hit in the dead of night.
I wonder why the sirens didnt go off the entire time, especially when the tornado was right on top of you guys!
7:10 it looked so peaceful. But it was the exact opposite.
What was it flinging in the air?
@uabamagrl my uncle lives in Cardiff, which is this little town outside of Adamsville, and he said he found somebodys medical chart from DCH fluttering down into his front yard!!
@texasjagsfan That makes perfect sense then. Thanks for clarifying.
At least Publix survived... 🙏
that thing was a beast. i remember watching spann in the basement of one of the dorms thinking that i was about to die. it was so fucking terrifying.
What happened to the sound?
@thecompanycar Winds hit upwards of 135 miles/hour. People found clothes, pictures, papers from Tuscaloosa 60+ miles away in surrounding Birmingham areas. I was on 10th Ave. only 100 yards away from the tornado that tore through Rosedale and Charleston Square. One of the hardest hit areas other than alberta and 15th. It was THE SCARIEST thing I have ever seen/been apart of in my life.
Minus the sirens, it looks like a run-of-the-mill thunderstorm before the tornado comes. The rain and wind were nowhere close to the intensity I would anticipate prior to a violent, long-track tornado.
***** That only happens during the later half of the vid does the darker mesocyclone come into sight. The beginning is all stratus clouds, rain, and lightning with some relatively light wind.
It's strange that your April 15th video has more views than this one.
Oh yeah, the 2011 Super Outbreak in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Lots of casualties and injuries, as I'd heard reading articles.
What happened to the sound
Are you in the fire training thingy
Oh my god what' this flying in the Sky.
I lived on campus at this time. It was supposed to hit the UA but didn’t. Thank god.....
you must have thought that the tornado had hit campus, as it looks so close!
Thats not the sirens fault that the they didnt go off at the time of the Tornado Warning. That sounds like an issue of whomever was supposed to press the "button" to activate the sirens. Also it depends on the text alert service you subscribe to on your phone, I have had alerts come in after the tornado warning was over with. I emailed the service provider of the alerts and they said their server went down and didn't push the alerts out. Again technology is far from perfect.
Respect the 🌪
This is insane!
It definetly took awile 4 it 2 show up , changed colors , calm outside , definetly a F5 , huge twister ...
How close did it get to your location?
+tomshiba51 I'm from Tuscaloosa and went to UA. He was approximately 1.5 miles away from the tornado around 7:03.
"The finger of God"
You got that right !!!
Great siren sounds
I love ❤️ all of the tornadoes 🌪 videos. I always want to see a tornado in person but here in Ohio all we got is hail
Rain 🌧 and mist 🌫 tho lol 😂
I live in Ohio and we get them. Maybe it depends on where you're at. Dayton got nailed not long ago.
back in august of 2019 in nebraska i my first expiriance haveing to go down stairs at 3 am becuse of what we all thought was a tornado but there was not one i guess i was 13 at the time and it scared me of corse plus i had just got up and then things started hitting the windows and my mom said to go down stairs and i had to grab things like sock shoes pants and a shirt and the tornado sirins were going off becuse of the wind they do that in nebraska but we have 3 animals that we will most likely we will die becuse we went up in the middle of a tornado to get them cuz we love ours animals and idc if i do die saving them so yeah i now am scared of wind storms so thanks for that wind
If you only want to see the actual tornado, start at 6:56.
What?! Where do you base that from? Sirens have saved countless lives since they starting using them! The problem with sirens, weather radios, and cell phone alerts is they have one common denominator and that is they are all controlled by wireless signals, which is imperfect anyway you look at it. If that tornado would have hit a cell tower or NOAA tower then all those "effective" devices you claim are better would have failed to! Sirens are just as effective.. just for outdoor warnings.
sound of lighting barrage please 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
I was in one people says sounds like a train I thought it sounded like a big saw coming through my house I was crying thee worst nightmare I ever had
Oh darn you see, I watched this video and until it looked like it was getting good it stopped.. Wth & wtf!
Fr4dddddfdd
7:30 looks like a fire
the Octopus tornado!!
Tornado sirens are one of the least effective ways of warning. In fact, they are very weak in warning the public. There are just so many ways a person can be unable to hear them.
That's because they're meant to warn people who are outdoors to seek shelter and turn to the news/weather radio/phones etc for more info. They're called *outdoor* warning sirens for a reason & they're not meant to be the only form of warning.
thumbs up if you think the attack tone should be used for tornado emergencys.
I think the emergencies spelling should be used.
Sounds like absolute terrifying music from the siren 0:43 1:06
UM. IF THERE WAS A TORNADO ON THE 15 OF APRIL 2011 IN TUSCALOOSA, HOW IN THE WORLD IS THERE ANOTHER TORNADO ALREADY O-O
AND HOW IS NOTHING REKT
there was one in my area on April 15 2011, an ef2 i think and an ef4 on April 27 2011, 20 miles from my area
Always amazing watching debris going back into the updraft
Just terrifying