A Swede reacts to: Tornado Alley - Real Time Tornado Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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Quad-state tornado they gave the tornado a nickname it was called the beast this tornado crossed 4 state's in 4 hours
I AM STILL HERE RECKY!!!
I WILL STAY UNTIL THE END!!!
I have stayed until the end.
I moved away from Michigan to Washington State thinking I would be "safer" .
Shortly after the move I felt my first Earthquake and I thank God that it was a small one.
Move from Tornado 🌪 Alley to the Ring of Fire 🔥 .
Hi Recky, I hope you and your family are doing well. I fell out of bed the other day so I'm all banged and bruised up.
@@lorettasearcy1471 ouch! Get well!! ❤️🩹
@@Reckyj thanks I'm trying to
The meteorologist is James Spann. And when he takes his jacket off, you know it's going to be bad.
I know this is an old comment, but James Spann is the GOAT of meteorologists. I don't even live in Alabama, and I follow him. And you're right, when you see his suspenders, you know it's serious.
YES! Spann is the GOAT. My daughter got to meet him a month ago during a school weather event. He is awesome with the kids and giving them information
@@paulinekeown2472your beautiful💜
For us in the BR metro in LA we have the same in the form of Jay grimes
If he strips down to t-shirt, things are getting really bad! If you are beyond the point of shame to save humanity, take cover and heed his words!!
R.I.P. to Mike Wilhelm who passed away in 2019 of natural causes. He helped a lot of people on April 27, 2011 and many other times with his dedication, weather knowledge, and his compassion.
Absolutely! 💯💓
tHANKS FOR FOR YOUR MANY GREAT CONTRIBUTIONS. REST IN PEACE, MIKE.
may he rest easy and forever.
Rest in peace Mike
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James Spann was on the air for almost 9 straight hours. He saved so many lives.
Jacket and tie off, we knew it was bad
The nurse Sharon Allen has such a soothing and comforting voice, perfect for a nurse, a true Southern Belle.
Exactly. A true southern Belle.
Yep, she sounds like she could be any one of dozens of women I know here in Arkansas and across the South.
I definitely have an accent and have been called “a true Southern Belle” more times than I can count in my 47 years, but I’m not always so soothing and comforting sounding! 😂
(And if you haven’t noticed, we Southern women may get all dressed up and perfectly made up, but there’s also a lot of grit and toughness beneath the pretty exterior.)
@@ashleydixon4613 Amen
@@lorettasearcy1471 and now I’m thinking how badly @Recky needs to watch Steel Magnolias.
@@ashleydixon4613 ikr?
Yes the tornado debarks trees. It is a combination of high wind speed and tons of debris. Imagine all the little pebbles, sand, mulch, etc swirling around at unbelievable speeds. Like sand blasting.
At my grandparents dairy farm half the barn roof was stripped and the metal shed wall was peeled back like a sardine lid. And the most disturbing thing that I still think about, single blades/stalks of hay and tall weeds were driven straight into tree trunks up to 3” and just like darts. I couldn’t imagine standing there and being stabbed by hay 😮
Wind speeds over 150mph will debark trees. (AL tornado 2011).
James Spann was a true hero that day!
It was 48 hours we in Alabama will never forget.
being a first responder hearing a child cry is music to my ears , they are moving air and feeling pain cry baby cry
Mother Nature is neither good nor evil, she is indifferent which is the really scary part
14:40 you can see the little horizontal vortexes coming off the tornado, the dude screaming to go back had the right call. That's so dangerous.
I was going to mention this. That is a bad sign
Yes, trees can be fully de-barked. Entire buildings can be removed from their foundations and reduced to toothpicks. Straw and hay has been found piercing wooden telephone poles, and sod can be stripped from the ground. And that tornado traveled 80 miles, the equivalent of almost 129 km. One tornado drove one young woman thigh deep into the the soft ground. She had to be dug out. She survived and was interviewed for that program.
Holy crap slammed into the ground?
One of the tornados I experienced as a kid drove a stalk of oats straw into a telephone pole. Flung a house trailer 6 miles away... moved a house in total 1/4 turn on its foundation, slid another house about 1000 feet across the way to withing a couple of feet of a friend's house...its crazy what winds can do.
The one I decided to try to watch (like a dummy) was after dark, and took the roof off of the high school gym and damaged the awning of a gas station, but had apparently lifted a little/was dissipating as it came our way. A coworker had followed me outside, but beyond a few brief comments I requested quiet, cuz I knew I couldn't see crap and was having to rely on hearing. When I heard a change in the sound that did not sound at all "right" (it really is an indescribable sound), I had been standing next to the lobby doors (where the bathrooms were) but by reflex instead badged myself into the main office, with my coworker following me.
When we got in, we saw ALL the glass vibrating, and found the guy who'd been on the phone with somebody saying people were freaked out over nothing (vs answering all the calls from people concerned about us, or, ya know, work related calls, part of why I decided to take my break as it was getting closer) huddled under the desk *I* had intended to dive under. Heh. It passed fast, and per the meteorologists the storm had lifted high enough that what caused all that was just straight-line winds. It knocked over the fencing all in the same direction, and a pair of railway crossing guides/poles were also blown down in the same direction as the fencing.
They say God looks out for drunks and fools.... and all I can say is I hadn't been drinking. ;)
My dad was in the "79 WitchataFalls, TX tornado. He saw a stalk of wheat, unbroken, through the middle of the tree. The strength of the pressure pulled the wood apart and drove the stalk through then slammed it shut over the wheat. Tornados are crazy! I lived in Tornado Alley on and off for years.
@@olpossum i remember that one. it was a beast.
Our dairy farm had barn roof and metal sheds just peeled back and curled like a tin lid. And yep, we had single hay stalks and tall weeds driven into the oak and pine trees around the sheds and house. Up to 2-3” and still standing at attention. But the cows knew to run down the hill to the pasture stream which was the lowest point and were completely fine
I've seen the straw in the power pole also. 1973, Brent, Alabama. I was 8 at the time.
I'm in Alabama and this was a very bad day for us. We'll never forget what it felt like to watch it unfold. Thanks for reacting to this.
This one made me cry. I used to be a nurse. I couldn't have worked in the ER that day and not broke down especially with all the children who were injured and died.
Nurses are my heroes!
I watched to the bitter end... some things worth noting for you: 1) tornadoes in places like Alabama have a tendency to become rain-wrapped, making it nearly impossible to tell exactly where the tornado is until it's very, very close. Add to that the hills and trees other commenters have mentioned, and it becomes incredibly difficult to keep track of a tornado on the ground. In comparison, tornadoes in Kansas have a tendency to not become rain-wrapped, and a lot of the state is flat, open farmland, where you can see for miles. 2) the 250 dead number quoted is the death toll for the entire state of Alabama. This tornado in Tuscaloosa was just one of a huge outbreak that occurred, dubbed the 2011 Super Outbreak. 360 tornadoes were confirmed in that outbreak, 4 of which were rated EF-5. I think it would be worth it for you to watch videos on some of the other tornadoes from this outbreak, for example, Carly Anna WX has a great video on the Hackleburg - Phil Campbell EF5 called "2011 Super Outbreak: The Hackleburg - Phil Campbell Tornado."
Yes your exactly right even with Carly also pecos hank
Another thing worth noting is that many of the rain-wrapped tornadoes happen in the evening and night. So it’s damn near impossible to visually track them.
Still here, Recky!
The Tuscaloosa tornado was only part of a super outbreak in 2011 that lasted three days, caused 360 confirmed tornadoes- four of which were EF-5-and 348 deaths, 238 in Alabama alone. It had torn its way across Arkansas two days earlier, but thankfully we didn’t get it near as bad as Alabama or several other states.
Yes, the Tuscaloosa one is the most famous because of all of the video coverage it had, but it wasn't the deadliest one that belongs to the Hackleburg-Phil Campbell EF5 Tornado. Go and look that one up, that one will chill you to bone to what it did and how long it stay on the ground.
@@meghanhause9435 I live in Muscle Shoals about 25 mins north of Phil Campbell and that storm was pure evil unleashed on this state. At the time, it was the worst storm to ever hit America. 75 dead, 145+ injured in a 1.25 mile wide gouge in North Alabama 132 miles long. 3 whole towns wiped clean with the asphalt pulled off the streets and anchored brick houses wiped clean to the foundation.
Being a sky watcher is not a paid job. It is all voluntary, and done for the love of helping people. I personally am a National Weather Service trained sky watcher. It is fun and exciting, but can also be very scary, and deadly. Tim Samaris, his son, and a a good friend were all killed in the El Reno tornado a few years ago. This was a high end EF-4, or EF-4+. The Joplin and Oklahoma City tornado's were EF-5's. I live about 30 miles South East of where this storm hit, and am also included in this Eastern tornado alley. We had just had an EF-3 hit about 5-6 miles West of us at about 5 am the very morning of this storm. Only one person was killed, but that is one too many. Thank you for reacting to this storm. Great work! Stayed all the way until the end.
I live about an hour from Tuscaloosa. We were hit by a tornado in my town that day and I lost my carport, car, front porch and mailbox. I was so lucky that day. So many weren’t. I think we lost 245 across Alabama that day and more people died from their injuries days and weeks afterwards. So much devastation. Our meteorologist James Span is a legend and he’s the man everyone watches during these situations. It’s been 12 years and every single time we get a tornado watch or warning I feel that terror coming back. I’ll never forget that as long as I live.
6:45 -- Severe weather (tornadoes) is like making bread. I can give you all the ingredients to make the bread, but unless you follow the instructions just right, you won't get bread.
Same applies to tornadoes.. Mother nature can have all the ingredients(that's how they determine the weather is right for tornadoes).. But if mother nature doesn't mix all those ingredients just right, you won't get a tornado. People get pissy when storms don't happen and say "The weather man said it was gonnna be bad" -- -No.. the weather man said it COULD be bad... All the ingredients were there.. Mother nature just didn't mix it right. But when she does... look out.
19:45 thats the college football stadium for the University of Alabama football team. They are the best college football team in the USA. The stadium is called Bryant Denny Stadium and seats 101,000 people, it is HUGE. I live in Tuscaloosa now, and you can still see empty lots and other effects from this tornado even after 11 years.
35:45 Tornados are so powerful they will debark trees, can rip up concrete roads, can even rip up dirt from the ground up to a couple feet deep. Only the most powerful tornados possible can do this, and these only occur 1% of the time in all tornados. This was a very rare day in tornado history, this 2011 event was one of the largest tornado outbreaks ever in recorded history.
I live in Alabama...there were multiple tornadoes that day...it was an absolutely horrible day...so many deaths.
I'm still here Recky!! Stayed to the end my friend. That was terrifying to watch. Those poor people. A mile is 1.6 km. 80 miles long = 128.75 km.
This tornado looked really creepy... 128km.. its just crazy. Cant even grasp it. Thank you for staying!
Well, like 1.63 km to be exact, but yeah...around 130 km.
So 180-190 mph wind speed would be 290-305 km/h.
I was 17 years old and survived this tornado in the Alberta area of tuscaloosa. Lost some people dear to me but I can be grateful that I'm still here. A day I will never forget, it still brings tears to my eyes and I get super scared when I hear a siren. 🥺 thank you for your reaction sir! 🙏🏾
My pleasure!
@Lady-Shun94 My favorite great uncle used to live in the Alberta area of Tuscaloosa. I haven't thought about that area since he passed, but I have many fond memories of hanging out at his house. Thank you for unlocking those memories; it was nice to remember them.
I live in Alabama. April 27th lives in infamy in this state. I was directly in the path of the Tuscaloosa tornado as it moved Northeast to Birmingham and beyond. If you look at the map of the tornado track, there is a small break in the line north of Birmingham. That small break occurred because the tornado encountered a mountain and drew back up into the clouds. That small area is where I live.
I remember hearing the reporters almost speechless. I remember them praying on air for people in the path. I remember the sky turning green and the garage doors bowing outward from the pressure. And I remember telling my father goodbye and that I loved him.
Luckily, I was spared, as was my family. But it's a fear that cannot be put into words. You feel so helpless. So powerless.
Thank you for reviewing this video and others like it. It's amazing to see someone become educated about weather that we experience here often.
Also, James Spann is a celebrity around here. He is AMAZING when it comes to his job and an even more amazing human in general. He saved lives that day and on many other occasions. Respect the polygon!
Just to add on to my comment for anyone who stops by, the best thing you can do after a natural event like this is donate time and energy to the recovery efforts. Cleanup, donation and passing out of supplies, and general love and support goes so far to helping people rebuild their lives. I remember climbing under power lines and over trees to take food and formula to a local church used as a staging area. A young mother cried when she saw we had formula for her baby. Something so small can be life changing after a tragedy. If you ever get the chance to help, thank you! It means more than you know. 💚
I’m still here. This was horrifying. The power of these tornadoes is terrifying. I have a suggestion for you. It’s a hard watch but no other video I’ve see shows the power a tornado can have. Dead Man Walking is the name. The story of the Jarrell Texas tornado. Thank you
Jarrell was hit so badly.
next, in my tornado reaction series
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I'm still here ! I watched this from my front porch live ,here in Tuscaloosa Alabama, the base was about 3/4 of a mile wide and there where several smaller tornadoes circling the vortex. Tornadoes usually follows a travel pattern most never touch down or are near this big and in Alabama they normally come at night / late afternoon due to temperature and pressure changes . We have less visual distance here vs some place out in mid west USA. Because of the tree's hills and valleys. We bounced back ,got to work and rebuild our city bigger and better. I still live out in the rural area of Tuscaloosa.
This tornado looked strange. It liked like it was morphing… if you understand what I mean.
@@Reckyj I do .this one was very unusual it was so powerful we found pieces of houses and cars miles away, it churned the soil and did some powerful things like sending wood house construction boards we call 2×4s though cars trees brick walls . Sand blasted the paint down to the metal on one side of cars . It took large stores completely away with everything in them and left behind concrete foundations. The temperature changes before, during, and after a tornado is dramatic. This particular storm had a lot of rain thunder and lightning. It sounded like mortar rounds landing really close every time it thundered and it shook house's and broke glass just from the sound alone .
@@Jeffbambam a freaking awesome!!
The only comfort I have is knowing that all those lost, especially the children were with Jesus and without pain.
Thanks for reacting. I will always remember that day.
I lived in Jacksonville, in northeast Alabama, on April 27, 2011. My family and I watched James Spann's coverage of this tornado as it tore through Tuscaloosa and continued on out of town.
The broadcast turned to radar images at that point, since there was no more live video coming in. But it was obviously still on the ground.
As it neared the Birmingham metro area, Spann had one of the tower cams turned toward the direction of the approaching storm. You could see the whole horizon darkening as Spann and the other meteorologists struggled to pick out where the funnel was. Then they realized in horror that nearly the whole horizon WAS the tornado. It had grown to over a mile wide and was destroying towns like Concord, Pleasant Grove, and McDonald Chapel. It was far more intense at this stage than it had been in Tuscaloosa, with winds approaching EF-5 strength. It missed that threshold by a mere 10 mph (16 kph).
My wife asked me if we should be concerned. It's *highly* unusual for a tornado to stay on the ground that long, and the storm was still about 75 miles (120 km) from us, but it was coming right at us. We decided to go ahead and clear a safe space in the basement, but I told her I wasn't going to worry unless Spann started warning people at the Birmingham airport to take cover.
About 30 minutes later, he did just that. We got the kids and animals into the basement, grabbed a crank radio, and waited. About 15 minutes later, the tornado warning sounded. We could see the southwestern sky through a window in the basement and saw the wall cloud swirling as the tornado hit the nearby town of Ohatchee. We knew Jacksonville was next, but we didn't know which part of town would be hit.
It was the scariest, most helpless situation I've ever been in. I was in a basement with my wife, our 9 year old son, and our 1 year old baby girl, and there was absolutely nothing I could do to protect them but hide and pray.
The tornado ended up missing us by about 5 miles. It tore up the rural north part of town before moving into Piedmont and continuing on into Georgia.
As soon as it passed, we had another brief tornado warning for a storm to our south. Luckily, that one didn't touch down.
Once the storm surveys were completed, it was determined that the EF-4 Tuscaloosa-Birmingham tornado had lifted briefly near the airport. Then a new tornado dropped down from the same supercell in Argo and Shoal Creek. That second tornado would intensify into another EF-4 monster that would take 22 lives, many in Ohatchee as we watched it from our basement.
We got lucky that day, but it scarred us all the same. April 27 is firmly etched into my core memories. Just hearing that date sends shivers down my spine.
I'll never look at thunderstorms the same way again.
As one of the guys described, he and his friend were driving along and didn’t see the tornado because of all the trees blocking their view along the side of the road- this is a major issue in areas like that, or where I live in Arkansas, which is still 56% forested, and a lot of it is very hilly as well, especially with the Ozark and Ouachita (WASH-i-tah) mountains to the west, bordering Oklahoma.
When I was only in third grade (early 80’s, before more modern and pinpointed meteorology to help us out), I remember a particularly bad tornado outbreak, we basically spent the better part of the day in the hallways at school (at least my mom was also a teacher there).
But my dad was having a way worse time on his 20 minute drive home from work in Little Rock: The interstate he was on has thick trees on either side and gently rolling hills, he did not see the large tornado-on the ground, where it had just demolished a church and was about to cross the interstate in front of him-until it was nearly too late! He slammed on the brakes and pulled over as fast as he could, and bailed off in the ditch full of water, watching entire trees, pieces of buildings, and everything else imaginable swirling overhead. There were a couple of 20-something year-old guys in the ditch with him; just ahead of them a car had stopped, but they didn’t get out of the car: a large metal road sign was blown through the windshield and decapitated the driver. My dad had to partially see that when he was finally able to get up and get going again. He tried to see as little of it as possible, obviously there was no way he could help anyone- he just needed to get home.
Oh my gosh! I remember that on April 25, 2011 Vilonia, Arkansas was hit by a tornado and looking back on it one could say that the Vilonia tornado was a vague foreshadowing for what happened two days later in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Within this vein, I didn't know that El Reno, Oklahoma was hit by an EF5 tornado on May 24, 2011; but it is because this tornado happened just two days after the tornado that tore through Joplin, Missouri. Many people agree that of all the tornadoes in the outbreak of late May 2011 the Joplin tornado takes the cake. Many people wonder why the Joplin tornado was so deadly; it can be chalked up to three key factors:
1.) It formed too quickly for the National Weather Service office in Springfield, Missouri to issue a Tornado Warning for Jasper County or a Tornado Emergency for the city of Joplin as well as not giving the residents of Joplin ample time to take shelter.
2.) It formed on the boundary of and went through a densely populated area (Joplin is the fourth largest city in Missouri due to it being home to Missouri Southern State University.)
3.) The tornado was hidden by very heavy rain and difficult to see.
That’s incredible, so sorry you went through all of that. My grandparents lived on top of the bluffs by the Mississippi River WI/IA border, surrounded by farm land on top but then all the roads winding down the bluffs completely forested. You never see it coming until the trees are just flattened next to you. You can still see the 2003 tornado’s path up and down the hills when there are no leaves on the trees.
Im still here Recky. Sunshine = heat, that means increased energy going into the storm. Cold weather tornados are weaker and smaller than those in hot, humid conditions for this reason. This does not mean that being directly hit by a smaller, weaker tornado is less deadly, but you do not have to worry about an massive footprint of damage.
I live in Alabama and I'll never forget that day😪
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Same here
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Wetumpka here!
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Made it to the end with you, Recky... Absolutely incredible!!!
Thank you. Hard to watch.
My husband came from Sweden. We have been married and living in Kansas for 27 years. Your reactions remind me of my husband the first few years he lived here in tornado alley. Thanks for what you do.
The Jarrall, Texas tornado in 1997 sucked the grass out of the yards.
And Completely pulverizef the body to a point where they have to use dental records to identify them
And reduced big metal appliances to shrapnel
That one was unique cause of it's very slow movement. Sometimes in one spot for two minutes which is why everything and everyone impacted was, well, basically ground up so bad. Like being sandblasted. Truly horrifying
And skinned cows.
@@user-ob9ms8oc4mit sat over those poor families house for 90 seconds. That's insane.
Some that you've watched previously have been rain-wrapped tornadoes. Those do not let you see the actual funnel cloud as easily. Much of the damage can come from the winds surrounding the funnel, so it is not just the funnel itself that is dangerous.
Yes such was the case of the El Reno tornado of 2013, probably the most dangerous tornado for chasers which proved just that as it cost some of the most experienced their lives.
Watched to the end. Very sad video. You presented it very well. Thank you Recky.
I always stay till the end Recky. This was a tough one. We get tornados here in Illinois, I have seen several myself. But we rarely get one this size, and even more rare in a large city.
Thanks for this one Recky. April 13th,2011 my 13 yr old son died~so I wasn't even AWARE of this,wasn't aware of anything except my own grief at that time. I had no idea this tornado even happened.......
My pleasure. Or.. you know what I mean.
Crazy day here in AL during this outbreak. i think what also made such an impact for us locals to the region was the fact this mostly happened in daylight. The vast majority of storms and tornadoes we get here occur at night and you can't see them coming at all. Chasing storms here is also rather dangerous because of the terrain and all the trees often block your view.
Also, 190 mph is 305 km/h...that's the wind speed. This was an EF-4 that my dad barely managed to get out of the way of 128 km later in Birmingham. He's lived in Alabama all his life, and I got my love of storms from him, but this is the one he said scared him more than anything. Earlier in the day, there was another EF-4 in the city of Cullman, which is where my grandmother lived, and that one went just two miles from her house, and we didn't have a way of knowing if she was okay until almost a week later. The fatalities in Alabama alone accounted for over half the deaths for the entire outbreak, which I think lasted either three or four days. James Spann is like a hero because of his and Simpson's coverage of this outbreak, but he blames himself for a lot of the deaths that happened that awful day.
This one actually turned out to be an EF-4; tornadoes that big will demolish entire buildings, but an EF-5 can actually sweep foundations clean and grind the debris into little middlings. During this same outbreak, the Hackleburg/Phil Campbell tornado turned out to be an EF-5 that destroyed several towns, but Tuscaloosa went through a large city in a heavily populated area, so it was really bad, too.
I was in Alabama working during this horrible day. When I saw one tornado merge with another one on the other side of the Tennessee river it was time for me to get gone. I ran to my Bronco and drove as fast as I safely could back home to my family in Tennessee. While I was driving west on I-24 I saw the sky get a little darker. What I saw was debris flying overhead. I did make it home that day and was spared unlike so many that weren't as fortunate. The next day I returned to my power plant to unbelievable devastation. There were so many terrifying and miraculous stories to hear. One really stuck in my head to this day. Local authorities found a man's body. Turns out he was missing from Huntsville, 60 miles west of us. One of the numerous tornados that day had sucked him up and carried him 60 miles then spit the poor soul out. 62 tornadoes touched down in Alabama alone on April 27th 2011. 360 touched down during an 18 hour period across the southeast that terrifying April day.
Still here. This happened a couple week(s)...before the Joplin tornado. This was a particularly bad year. It has been been an ongoing issue. There are more EF-5 & EF-4 tornadoes than we've ever recorded. When a really bad tornado destroyed an entire town in the 1920's, it was left behind if it wasn't on a major highway or train-line. Because in the 20's, we had issues with the recovery after the Spanish flu, WW1, etc. In the 30s, it was guaranteed to be a "forgotten" town because of the Depression and the Dust Bowl. There's a lot of vanished towns in the history of the US. Keep going back to the origins of the US, there are diaries & journals of people who survived in caves or huts built into the hills.
I had a baby blanket in my yard once a tornado passed by us, we had no idea where it had come from, but it had to have traveled nearly 30 miles from its origin given the path of destruction along the route of the tornado. This storm was part of the historic April 2011 outbreak that came as far east as NC.
They even had tornadoes confirmed in New York State in that 3-day outbreak! There were several smaller tornadoes across Arkansas that killed a total of five here, but it got worse as it went east, into Tennessee and Mississippi- the other two states that got the most damage besides Alabama.
Still here! I was still here at the end too! I appreciated your reaction to this horrific scene!
YASSS another tornado alley react!! This one is is a doozy too!
Glad you enjoy what I do!
I’m still here! This tornado was part of the 2011 super outbreak. It was on the ground for 1 hour and 31 mins. From April 25-27, there were 360 confirmed tornadoes. That averages 7.5 tornadoes per hour in those 48 hrs. It was CRAZY. I could have lost 2 friends and 4 family members in Georgia. My old college friend’s house got hit, but him and his family luckily survived. One passed only 2 miles from from my grandparents’ home (my brother & his wife lived next door to them). Funny story: My grandparents’ satellite/cable went out so they had no idea where the tornado was and told my mom just to wake them up if the tornado started heading their way(it happened in the middle of the night) lmao 🤣 They’re from Kansas so it was just another day for them. But in all seriousness, it truly was a terrifying 2 days. James Spann is one the best weathermen out there and he’s a blessings for all of us in the southeast USA. He’s so caring and passionate.
Edit: I just reached the end of your video. Thank you for reacting to these videos. If it’s too much for your mental health, please take a break. Tornadoes may be an every year event for us, but they’re still very difficult to see. The deaths and destruction is heartbreaking. Hope you’re doing well ❤️
I watched untill the end. Tornados are one of the most scariest events you can imagine. Where I used to live here in Georgia we had 4 touch down on the same day. We ended up with 6 pine trees on our house. No one was hurt thank God. I thank the Lord that those trees where there because if they hadn't been that one would have hit us directly.
Thank you Debbie!
Yeah this is why we go to the bottom of our tri level when there is a watch and warning, and the actual basement is just 5 steps down. We have old maples, pines, and oaks all around our neighborhood and we have seen the trees or limbs come down.
That poor woman asking to use those guys' phone to call 911 was absolutely in shock and traumatized. For some reason that one just puts my stomach in knots. She was so traumatized. I can't even imagine what she went through.
Thanks for these reactions.
If you decide to look at other weather events in the US, there's a 1995 documentary about the wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald in Lake Superior (near the Canadian border). You have probably seen worse storms off the coast of Sweden that impact shipping, but because of that you might appreciate just how dangerous it can be to cross water in a more northern climate -- especially without modern meteorology.
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Stiil here, Recky! And yes, I watched to the end. If you get tired of tornado videos, though, the name of the video is "Edmund Fitzgerald Documentary 1995 Excellent!""
Also, yes, there is a Gordon Lightfoot song about the wreck. It might be worth listening to as well -- before if you're okay w/ spoilers, after if you're not. ;)
My grandad was a sailor and was good friends with Captain McSorley. He sailed the Great Lakes many times with him. I was young when it happened, but remember it clearly. They were so close to Whitefish Bay and relative safety.
I camp in Northern Minnesota every year, way up the Lake Superior shoreline.
There is something eerie about the lake that doesn't give up her dead...
@@Cory_Springer Ask a Mortician did a great video about the families trying to get the wreck site protected from adventurers wanting to check out what is essentially a graveyard.
@@catbyte0679 I truly feel for those who lost relatives or people they knew. I do hope that more modern ships can survive such storms, and that modern meteorology can more easily predict such storms and let ships know to get to safe harbor. From what I've read, there was an incorrect weather forecast many captains relied on to plan their routes.
@@brighitfire yes! I love Caitlin's videos, and that one specifically was a very interesting one.
I moved to AL for school in 2012, from AR. Grew up with tornado drills. There was a tornado very close to my historic apartment the first year i lived there. I was young and all alone. James Span doesnt know how much comfort he gave me as i sheltered in place. That was my first experience with the GOAT meteorologist and ive been a huge fan of his ever since even though dont live anywhere near tornado/dixie alley anymore.
I have to say, after living through being in 7 tornadoes, two of them F5's (before they developed the EF scale), one of which had the highest wind speeds ever recorded about a half mile from my house (over 300 miles per hour), that a common thread after tornadoes for me has been the people, even when suffering severe loss, manage to rise above the loss and help other people. Some instinctual part of human thought after these things seems to be better than when we're not necessarily nice to each other. I developed lifelong friendships after that massive tornado in Moore Oklahoma in May of 1999. Neighbors I barely knew were with me trying to help others throughout the night, and it changed all of us. (Also, miles are a roughly 1.6km, so 300mph would be roughly 480kmh)
Still here, and will watch until the end. I've watched it before. This is where I grew up (I live in Arizona now), and all of my family still lives in Alabama with one exception. This tornado hit my uncle's home after going through Tuscaloosa and took an oak tree about 3 feet (roughly one meter) thick and threw it through my uncle's bedroom minutes after he and his wife woke up and got out of the bedroom. One of the limbs hit the area of the house he was in and crashed through and hit him. He survived but not without some damage.
I remember that day very clearly. I was still living with my mother and stepdad back home in Virginia and it was all over the news. By the way the University of Alabama is in Tuscaloosa
My children and their adoptive family were living on the opposite side of the state when Tuscaloosa got hit.
These people are such good souls to help like that
I'm still here, Recky!
I recommended the series "Tornado Chasers". Season 2 I free on RUclips on Reed Timmer's channel. His crew TVN is the focus of the show and season 2 is the 2013 tornado season including Moore and El Reno
I think he misses Moore, but he is in the heart of the El Reno tornado, also if do watch Reed's videos, turn the volume down, the guy tends to yell a lot, despite that, he knows his stuff.
@@meghanhause9435 haha very true, when Reed gets hyped up on adrenaline and energy drinks, he can really scream in intense situations lol
Alabama girl here. Yes, tornadoes will de-bark and de-leaf trees, and even strip paint off of cars. They will also do VERY odd things. One in particular that I remember once seeing in a photo was a piece of straw or hay that had gone through a tree trunk, the velocity of the tornado was so strong. We're in Cullman, Alabama and we had tornadoes come through our area on that same day (that was part of the same weather system). We had damage too but not to the degree that Tuscaloosa had.
Wow! I like the first hand accounts of event from so many different perspectives.
This will probably affect them for the rest of their lives.
Man your content picks have been crushing it lately!💯♥️
It’s not me. It’s the great community of RECKERS. I ain’t taking the cred for that. 😃
@@Reckyj awwe so humble♥️
Recky, my daughter is 41 now...in 1989 Hurricane Hugo came the furthest inland than any previous hurricane. I lived in Charlotte NC at the time. We heard a mini twister come through between our house and the house next door - it was (she was 8) next to my daughter’s bedroom and to this day, she is still afraid of storms
Many of us were wuthout power for weeks! Thank goodness I had a gas grill - we ate like kings so the food woukdny spoil!!!!! Leftovees we put in a cooler unless neighbors needed it more!!!!
Gotta makevthe best of it!
I couldnt imagine living in a place where “real“ tornadoes are the norm. So scary!
I live just south of Myrtle Beach not far from where it came on land. What was really strange was one of our friends left to go inland to Sumter to his brothers house. Well a big ass tree fell on his brothers house and his house here which was just a trailer wasn't touched. We actually had a tornado go through my neighborhood right around Christmas and when I was at my house in AL last year we had one go through our neighborhood there too. My dog sure is smart though. She went into one of the closets on her own and hid. Now every time there is a bad storm she goes and hides in the closet. Actually for Christmas after Hugo we got I think it was 14 inches of snow. Unheard of. It never snows here and if it does its normally just in the air. In the last 20 years or so I can only remember 2 times we had snow that stuck and one time it was just dust and the other was a couple inches that came down at night and by noon was gone. Tornados though are getting more and more frequent here. This is the 3rd most active tornado zone in the US they call it Carolina Alley its basically right here through this area of the coast of SC and NC. I have my other house on the AL Gulf and we get quite a few there too. That one we had there when I was there with mom a while back there was 3 straight weeks where there was a warning on I think it was Wed and all were at night and the one we actually had one. It didn't do much damage. I heard it. Quite a few houses near me had shingles blown off and some trees came down there was a tractor business that got hit pretty good that I think the roof caved in but it wasn't to serious. I think it started as a water spout over Mobile bay and continued on once it came on land on the eastern shore into Baldwin county. The hurricanes though can get pretty scary when they kick up tornados. We got pretty lucky here in 2020 that schools were closed down because there was a tornado that took out a school but schools were closed for the virus so no kids were there. Then a year or so later another one went to I think it was Loris. Didn't hit the school but went through the student parking lot and tossed the kids cars around. There was another one not long ago that went up by my cousins house in the Carolina Beach area up into NC think it destroyed like 50 houses
This tornado was part of the 2011 Super Outbreak which saw over 360 tornadoes touchdown between April 25-28. Tornadoes were reported from Texas and Oklahoma all the way to the US Atlantic coast and as far north as New York and southern Ontario in Canada. The outbreak was responsible from 324 total fatalities with well over 3,000 injuries. The Tuscaloosa tornado occurred on April 27th, which was the most active and deadly day of the outbreak. The Tuscaloosa tornado alone claimed 64 lives. 2011 was an exceptionally bad year for tornadoes in the US with nearly 1,705 confirmed (average is 1,200 per year) and over 553 fatalities (average is about 80 fatalities per year) making it the deadliest since 1925. Joplin, Missouri would be struck by its deadly tornado nearly a month after this one.
The kinds of destruction that strong tornadoes are capable of causing can be both impressive and scary. Strong tornadoes are capable of peeling the bark off of trees, rip asphalt off roads, and scour the ground down to depths exceeding 30cm. Cars can be thrown well over a kilometer away and even train cars can be picked up and thrown several hundred meters. What these winds can do to a person can be described as gruesome. I think it was after the F5 that struck Jarrel, Texas in 1997 that numerous victims could only be identified using dental records.
Learning that over 360 tornadoes occurred in the 2011 Super Outbreak made me think to myself that it was the 1974 Super Outbreak on steroids. I once asked my mother about the tornado that tore through Xenia, Ohio during the 1974 Super Outbreak and she said that Xenia looked like a war zone in Vietnam after the tornado had dissipated.
I live here. I watched as the one coming for my house merged with the larger storm. Then I watched on tv as it tore up familiar places. I cried the whole time. My husband had to be at work and he was so close to where it tore up. Then he had to go out to help. It was absolutely awful. But the community was amazing. I worked sorting the donations and it was just amazing how much love poured in.
Still here - I've always been fascinated by the weather. You commented about someone being a storm spotter. The National Weather Service has a program called Skywarn which I've been a part of for around 20 years. They give a class, which is free, on how to report dangerous weather. We do touch on tornados, since there have been some in this part of the country. I live in a small desert towns between Phoenix and Tucson Arizona, and we have a monsoon season in the summer. We see a lot of flash floods, hail, huge thunderstorms, and dust storms, which are called haboobs. I'm originally from Ohio so the desert is a whole new world! Anyway, I love knowing someone so far from here is interested in Mother Nature - keep up the great reactions!
I stuck around until the end! It’s really interesting to see you react to tornadoes because it’s easy to take it for granted that tornadoes are just a normal part of life
I stayed to the bitter end Recky. I can remember as a kid when a tornado went thru in Ohio. It took straw and stuck it INTO the wood telephone poles making them look like porcupines. And yes tornados do strip the bark right off of trees.
I'm still here, Recky!
The human cost is so hard to see but so important to remember! ♥
I live in Washington state, US. My husband videoed tv news for many years, including weather stories. And he was friends with the meteorologist who encouraged his geekiness. Anyway- hubby is an official ‘weather watcher’ for the local weather station. He has a call number and everything. Each time he has called something in, I can’t help but chuckle.
It was a day I will never forget. Thank you for your reaction. 💜
Linda from Huntsville Alabama
Hi Linda! Glad you "enjoyed" watching!
I'm still here despite having watched it the day it happened and this show on The Weather Channel. Watched till the end.
I live in northwest Alabama. April 27th was a day I'll never forget. Four of my family members were killed in Phil Campbell, AL that day. I've lived through both Super Outbreaks, 4/1974 and 4/2011.
35:40 F-2-3 tornadoes will uproot trees or snap their trunks, but usually leaves the leafs on the branches. F-5 winds are so strong they rip leafs and bark and branches off the trees before the trunks even have a chance to snap, and once the leafs and branches are gone its just a thick wooden pole standing against the dust and debris filled storm. Whatever bark isnt ripped off by the wind gets sandblasted off by the dust.
Im still here & lived through all the tornadoes that hit us. I live in Jasper about 50 miles away from Tuscaloosa. It was the most scared ive ever been & we spent a lot of time in our neighbors storm pit because we lived in a mobile home.
Yes! Tornadoes can strip bark off of trees... Tornadoes can do some really weird things. It won't strip the bark off of every tree but the high wind velocities can definitely strip the bark completely clean on some trees. I've even seen pictures of sticks driven into telephone poles by the force of the wind... Literally a simple stick flying like a missile and then embedded into a telephone pole!
Tornados can do ANYTHING. I have seen pictures where straw was piercing a telephone pole.
I stayed til the end Recky... the multiple stuff about the kids passing hit me hardest.
The aftermath of a massive explosion is a great definition
THAT is how tornados look in the south-eastern US. I live in the far south-eastern part of Mississippi & I remember all the tornados we had in 2011. We’ve been lucky & in the 39yrs I’ve lived on this property it’s been hit 3 times but thankfully none have ever hit our house…just our business roughly 100-150yrds from our house. I also once watched a small tornado lift up just in time to miss our house & set back down across the road! While hurricanes are often more destructive…at least you typically know they are coming & have a chance to evacuate. Tornados can hit with little to no warning. When every tornado hit our property we *were NOT* under a tornado watch or warning! Scary stuff
Tornado winds are crazy like that. Tornado winds and hurricane winds too for that matter can do some crazy stuff. A huge gas grill on a back deck can fly more than one hundred feet across a yard but a bath towel hanging on the deck railing wont be touched. I have lived through both tornadoes and hurricanes.
I used to live in Alberta, next to the fire station and apartment building the young lady referenced toward the end of the vid. I actually met my neighbors, Fred and Aida, during a tornado warning in 2001 or so. I saw they had little ones, and my house had a basement, so I invited them to come take shelter. Had Yahtzee and such for the kids. That house and my old neighborhood were obliterated by this tornado...wiped away down to the slab.
12:16 that was a multi vortex. Imagine several small tornadoes merging. It always is the sign of POWERFUL tornados
James Spann is the GOAT. I was in the Cullman tornado that happened the same day to the north. EF-4. This day will go down in history.
A small tornado came within .66 kilometer from my camper about 2 years ago at night so I couldn't see it, damn scary! I can't imagine what these people were feeling. My heart goes out to them.
As a life long native of Oklahoma...downtown tornado country....the simplest I can say it is...of course random and mindless, but it sure feels personal when you are faced with one. I remember as a small boy in our back yard shelter and my father holding the door down as one came over us...hard not to take personally
I lived in Birmingham Alabama 2011 & that was the scariest day, day watching all the tornadoes tear towns & people apart then have to take shelter around 8 that night, luckily it wasnt as bad as all the rest that day. So sad
Still here, it is too intense. I've grown up with these, so I'm used to it. Thanks for sharing your reactions!
The way the tornado lifts is cold like giving them false hope. Could you imagine seeing that thinking shew that was close just to see it drop back down and then your like well im screwed
Hi! I live in Mississippi [the state where Hattiesburg happened - I'm 40 minutes north] and tornadoes are all too common, especially in the later part of spring. I've been watching your videos and I really enjoy them. It's interesting to see our lives and the things that happen to us through someone else's eyes. Thanks for posting these, and I hope people can learn not only about different things, but how to keep themselves safe should they be faced with something like this.
Exactly, Recky....the sense of community in America when there is a natural disaster is IMMENSE!!!!
I was in school at the University of Alabama. It was my mother's birthday. I was lucky and had a friend's parents with a tornado shelter and went there. I only suffered minor cuts and bruises but my car and apartment were destroyed. I lost all my possessions but lived!
I'm still here.
I experienced this storm. This day was a nightmare for all of Alabama. We got like 200 tornados in one night, and so many of them were wrapped in rain and invisible. I still have nightmares. We had one baring down on our house and lift up over us at the last second. It went on to destroy the church that hosted our boy scout troop.
If you look at Tuscaloosa right now on google maps, you can still see a huge, huge treeless scar running from Birmingham through Tuscaloosa. It looks exactly like it does at 40:38. It connects the cities, and the two cities are 60 miles apart. (60 miles is 100 kilometers)
Yes. It debarks trees, removes asphalt from the road all the way down to dirt, and can set a teacup gently down without damage. Tornadoes are nature’s amazing, scary beasts. I’ll never forget the times I’ve lived through them and none were as nasty as this one.
I live in Tuscaloosa and work at the University. My office is directly opposite the WUVA studios and the stadium. First, to this day every Alabamian knows if James Spann is on air without his jacket and his sleeves rolled up, then it’s very serious. To this day, 11 years later, if you look at Tuscaloosa from the sky, you can see the path of that monster,
I know you posted this going on a year and a half ago but I always find it fascinating seeing people reacting to extreme weather especially tornadoes if you are not familiar with them. I was in Tuscaloosa that day and honestly should have lost my life that day but by random chance I was spared when someone I was with was not. Even though I experienced this I was a weather nerd my whole life and even though one of these monsters should have and almost took my life I am still so obsessed with weather and extreme weather at that. I have since 2017 now traded tornadoes that I dealt with my whole life for hurricanes now that I am in Florida. I will take preparing and doing what I need to for hurricanes over tornadoes any day. I got 24-72 hours to make decisions with hurricanes. Tornadoes you got 10-15 minutes.
Hi Recky! I live in the northwestern corner of Alabama. I remember that day like it was yesterday. What that video didn't say was 360 tornadoes touched down that day. It was unbelievable.
That day alone, there were 216 different tornados that touched down throughout the central and eastern part of the US. 59 of those touched down in my state, the one in this video. I was not near Tuscaloosa that day but I was near where another monster touched down and did a lot of damage. I worked in IT and that morning was on my way to a business in Ohatchee, AL but early morning storms(mostly straight line winds) had blocked the road to the business. That was fortunate for both me and the 6 employees of that small business, as later that day an EF4 tornado leveled the small business. That early morning storm made sure nobody was in that building, including me.
I personally haven’t seen trees stripped of bark but I have seen a plastic drinking straw embedded in the trunk of an oak tree once.
Terrifying. Thankyou Recky. Your programme conveys the fear with empathy and humanity
Watched the whole thing.
Recky you are learning about life in Tornado Alley. Your reactions are pure human, sympathy and awe for a force of nature, that no one can stop, at least not yet.
This footage is very upsetting for me to see even after 11 years as Alabama has been my home my entire life. The feelings this is envoking in me right now are overwhelming and I find myself crying and mentally being right back into that very day and watching this unfold. I have not gotten to the part in the video where you see the aftermath, but I already know it's going to be very disturbing for you to see bc I can tell by your reactions so far. The outpouring of love and care and help following this was absolutely massive.
Please forgive me as I am just now subscribing to your channel and I'm not entirely sure how your channel operates, but you mentioned you had a poll maybe or that this one spoke to you, so I'm pretty sure that someone has already mentioned Enterprise, Alabama to you, which is about 30 minutes away from me that was probably second to Tuscaloosa, but I do not know if there is an actual show/documentary on it like this one that's put together well. These memories are bittersweet bc it's very painful, but it also reminds me about the strength and love that the people of Alabama have for each other. Thank you for watching and caring. ❤️