The El Reno tornado technically was an EF-5 and arguably so. However, due to the damage it caused, regardless of the winds, it was classified as an EF-3.
As I have said before, El Reno staying on the path it was on instead of occluding would've been devastating. It would've levelled skyscrapers in downtown OKC. It might've been the deadliest single tornado since Joplin.
@@moblinmajorgeneral Excuse my limited weather terminology but did that storm have funnels dropping or spinning because I lived in okc at the time,not too far from el Reno and remember being in my shelter and later on electricity being out. During the following hours I saw pictures of places near by with damage, a gas station got its sign knocked off and things of The sort. So that being said if it had changed it’s path, it would’ve been a huge devastation, given what the non tornados part of the storm did to some places in the city.
The El Reno tornado, at one point, had reports of wind speeds, that had people talking about that a new F scale rating would be needed, then reports rating it at just an F3, had people shaking their heads. It was definitely the scariest, since it was making a few sharp turns. Which is what caught pro storm chasers off guard. And took the life of a great storm chaser of our time.
I think people need to understand that the F/EF scale is NOT a measure of a tornado's wind speed ala the S-S scale for hurricanes. It's a measure of the damage it causes and estimating the wind speed it takes to do that level of damage. A lot of what goes into an EF rating has less to do with the tornado as it does the sturdiness of whatever is in it's path.
Yeah I would love some solid rating on El Reno. Apparently someone said they got an instrument reading over 300 mph.. but tornadoes are rated by the damage they cause and when it was strongest there isn’t the damage they expect with an EF5, it doesn’t meet the criteria.. so EF3 it is. Because no matter what one instrument said… the nationwide system to rate tornadoes does so by its damage path. But professionals will still label it an EF5… it irks me. It’s just like Hurricane Katrina… it didn’t hit as a category 5 hurricane. It was a category 5 when it stalled in the gulf but it hit as a category 3. Clearly it did as much damage as a category 5 by breaking the levees but regardless of the damage and death toll, hurricanes are rated by sustained wind speeds and the pressure drop in the eye. Despite being one of the most memorable hurricanes it was not the strongest. We got to see how much they’ve improved construction and reinforced the levee’s when New Orleans was actually hit by a high end category 4 Hurricane Ida on the 16th anniversary of Katrina’s landfall.. and had a fraction of the damage despite being stronger and hitting New Orleans more directly. But people remember Katrina and forget about Ida. And Katrina holds its category 5 status even though that wasn’t so at landfall when it matters.
@@laurensmith43017 tte weird thing is about damage rating is that a tornado can have let’s say an impossible 800mph if it never hits anything but grassy Fields it would only have a rating of ef 1 or 0. El Reno if it the downtown area would surly be a ef5.
The Tri-State Tornado seemed determined to be a strange record breaker. On the ground for 3.5 hours, consistently powerful, track of over 200 miles, the deadliest in US history
@ End Of Age my birthday was the next day. I was watching Ryan’s stream when the edwardsville il Amazon warehouse was destroyed 10 miles from my house. That day was crazy
What most people don’t put into thought was that the El Reno tornado was so large and wide that the vortex couldn’t even touch the ground. Many people thought that what they were looking at was a low lying wall cloud and not a massive tornado rotating feet above the ground
@@mralmond693 5 years after the EF5 hit Greensburg an EF3 almost hit the town again. ruclips.net/video/fkAFmk1OBoI/видео.html And in 2015 Moore got hit again by a less powerful tornado ruclips.net/video/RLuEAPHG_L4/видео.html
Living in Alabama and having been hit twice on 4/27/11 I can tell you SO much of that day is overshadowed by Tuscaloosa.. which wasn’t the strongest or even the most deadly of the day. It was the scariest day.
Talking about wind speed, I believe the May 3rd, 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore tornado also pulled foundations off the ground. No debris, no concrete, just dirt remaining.
It did just not that many as the Jarrell tornado. But jarrel couldn't have been the fastest wind speed since the slow speed would have worn down the concrete that the tornado was beating on
For the first record I'm not too sure if you were counting sub vortices but according to a podcast called "Tornado Talk" the sub vortex that hit the Twist X team during the El Reno tornado could've traveling up to 180mph. If true, that is an insane statistic.
In the video by PecosHank, he had mentioned the El Reno sub vortices, but gave the official title of fastest tornado to the twin tornadoes as sub vortices are part of a parent tornado.
I remember the elreno tornado coming as close as 15 miles from our house at the time and sitting there watching it while it was coming in from the door of the storm cellar was the reason tornadoes still hold my interest today. That thing was absolutely massive, but at the same time it was beyond fascinating.
These are all amazing statistics. The one tornado that has always been etched into my memory was the Xenia, Ohio tornado that took place on April 3, 1974. I grew up in the neighboring town of Beavercreek. The tornado basically flew over Beavercreek and then touched down in Xenia and literally obliterated that town. My parents drove me (I was 10 at the time) through there and it looked like a war zone. 48 years later and I can still remember that quite vividly. On a side note, I admire your research into these tornadoes posted in this video. Your videos are ALWAYS interesting as well as informative. Keep up the great work! 👍
I’m up in Columbus and my mom is a Nurse at OSU. I remember her telling me that they were aware of that tornado and were worried that it would even come all the way up to Columbus.
Absolutely! I'm from Dayton, and that tornado still gets talked about to this day, much more than even the recent tornados that touched down in the city. The stories I've heard from those who lived thru that tornado in the town of Xenia are the stuff of absolute nightmares, it's a wonder it thankfully only took as many lives as it did. Gil Whitney was on top of it and reported as early as possible which no doubt saved many lives that day
it's also worth noting the intensity of a couple of the EF5s during the 2011 Super Outbreak, like Smithville and Philadelphia, they both did some extreme damage and, especially in the case of Philadelphia, really extreme ground scouring and I see many people mentioning that they may be among the strongest recorded, not only that but they were relatively fast moving as well.
Almost every large tornado was moving 60+mph. The Philadelphia tornado was intense. Definitely took greater than 300mph winds to rip up that much earth.
Smithville literally shattered foundations despite moving at over 60mph. My vote goes to Smithville for fastest wind speeds ever, though unfortunately we will never know for sure how fast those winds were.
A sub vortex inside the El Reno had a ground speed of about 78 meters per second, which is about 175 miles per hour. Simon Brewer, Justin Drake, Jim Bishop, and Jesse Duncan were all racing east on Interstate 40, captured a sub vortex rocketing directly towards their position, and wrapped around the main funnel at 175. In this sub vortex, for just half a second had a wind gust of 255 miles per hour.
I've lived through so many tornado outbreaks and such in Oklahoma that I could write a book. However, only two scared me. And they are the Ef3/ef5 2013 Tornado and the 2013 Moore ef5 tornado. I had family near the path of both. One of the many vortex's of the El Reno tornado damaged a large barn less than half a mile away from where my stepmom and little sister lived. Luckily it missed their house and property.
Excellent job again. You hit on everything that I would have hit on and even included non top tornadoes just because they deserve mentioning. I think it's really hard to measure that JarrellTexas tornado because of how long it was on the ground but for sure the devastation it caused and that one subdivision is unparalleled. Each of these tornadoes has unique things about it. The Joplin tornado made the sky turn dark as midnight, well the Tuscaloosa tornado was heavily filmed and came oh so close to a major university. As a graduate of Alabama I can tell you the devastation it would have caused if it was just a mile in the other direction would have put this at the top of any list. The 1999 moore-bridecreek tornado was one of the first filmed live and on TV. The footage was shocking at the time. These are all tornadoes that will be etched in our memories and you did a good job of covering them all
@@wrbowcalifyrobertson5087 Joplin did kind of come out of nowhere, but Jarrell was also kind of a surprise although maybe not as much. Tuscaloosa was for sure not a surprise nor any of the others. You can easily make a case of Joplin being the worst, so I can't really disagree. I still have yet to see a tornado make it look as dark as the Joplin tornado did. So eerie
That was the most appropriate scariest tornado pic. I’m sure you’re aware that the Jarrell tornado stalled over the Double Creek subdivision for a good 3-5 minutes; pulverizing everything away. Those poor souls. I’d listened to a podcast recently in which one of the guests had a brother who had perished at Double Creek. Sadly, he was found beheaded. To think that that tornado had transformed from a tiny rope, to a drill bit, then, a monster, terrifies me. The Jarrell tornado was the scariest ever, in my opinion.
These are awesome comparisons!! Not to mention, the Tri-State tornado was the deadliest in the U.S. but the Daulatpur-Saturia tornado in Bangladesh killed around 1,300 people, making it the deadliest.
One of the weirdest (and most specific) tornado records I've heard of is the most amount of tornadoes in the shortest time. In 1981, in a span of just under 5 and a half hours, 104 tornadoes touched down across England and Wales (a rate that, if consistent across 24 hours, would've spawned over 450). Luckily, tornadoes in the UK are almost always weak compared to those in the US, but it is a crazy statistic nonetheless. The UK also has the most (or second most) tornadoes per sq mile in the world, but again, very weak tornadoes, and seldom do major damage.
The scariest tornado for me was the November 6, 2005 tornado that hit Evansville, Newburgh, and Boonville, IN. It was an EF-3 and passed about 1/8 mile from my house. I was 11 at the time and had no idea just how bad the storm was until it was over. I could feel the wall of my bedroom moving, and I've never seen lightning like that at any point in my life. The damage in my neighborhood was devastating. 26 people were killed, most of which were from a trailer park. The tornado hit around 2am.
Dude, I was living 10 miles away at the time and I was around the same age (10 at the time). We had some neighbors that my dad had befriended that moved to Newburgh in 2003 whose house got hit by the tornado. We ended up going out there to help cleanup a few days after it happened and I just remembered it looked like a warzone there. Debris all over the streets, the person living next to my old neighbors house got leveled. Ever since then ive always had a very healthy respect for storms passing through Indiana
I love how in depth your videos can be and the tornados despite all my personal research I hear from your research. That then gives me more to look into
I've always wanted to do storm chasing, and honestly youtubers like you and Pecos Hank only make me want to do it more, as I feel that I could help with the science of tornadoes. Only issue is that here in New Zealand, tornadoes are rare. May come to America at some point to try catch some to study.
6:40 Another recent example was the Rolling Fork-Silver City EF4, although it did lift for a breif moment twice, it was very breif, so combining all three tornadoes, the total path length would be.... 125 miles, however there are some theories that it lasted for more than 150 miles, and the overall supercell track was more than than the Tri-State. Edit: 7:55 this is offical, several Tornadoes in history had paths wider than *4* miles, and even more 3, however these were in the early-mid 1900's so they put it as a error.
That was the only F 5 in Canada right? Has there been more stronger tornadoes since then? I think climate change will make more stronger and northern tornadoes as time goes on.
@@kakumee I think officially it only registered F4 as the measurements they had were not extremely accurate although I could be wrong. I'm pretty confident the only official F5 in Canadian history was Elie Manitoba in 07.
@@thatguyfromsaskatchatoon8638 yes, it's the 07 one that was F5, thank you for the correction! Qujanaq! (Thank you in kalaallisut Greenlandic language)
@@P_RO_ How was it a f*** up? It was rightfully rated an EF5 with windspeed estimates comfortably above the 200mph threshold. A real total f*** up was not giving the Vilonia, Arksnsas EF4 the max rating it deserved. Probably the most controversial rating error in recent years
I read somewhere that the 302 recording was taken 30 ft off the ground by radar. Meaning at ground level it would’ve been somewhere around 280. From what I understand the El Reno wind speed was taken at ground level. So it’s open to debate on which had faster speeds.
Hi Swegle Studios, so regarding the debate of recorded windspeed tornadoes, there is one that I think goes unnoticed for whateve reason - and that is the 1990 Plainfield, IL F5 tornado. It's windspeed was recorded at a maximum of 318 mph on radar but never verified in the field, so there is that of courelse. That storm was absolutely wild and broke numerous records, including being one of the lastest tornadoes of the season and the ONLY F5 storm in the US to have occured in August. Sadly it claimed 29 lives, and had it happened a day later, the school it hit would've certainly jacked that number up stratospherically. Interestingly enough, the failure to warn the public about this storm and the failure to track and predict it's path in progress actually spurred the creation of NEXRAD (and related technologies) as well as the modern procedures for warning supercells. This is why you see a marked improvement in radar and tornado meteorology several years after this event. This storm historically speaking had a tremendous impact and was extraordinary in a multitude of ways. Honestly, I am going to suggest you watch the documentaries about that storm, and I really hope you consider doing your own video on it. Too many people think the Chicago / Illinois are somehow not affected by tornadoes... as if they are oblivious to the fact that every year several significant tornado events happen locally. I mean shoot, today was May 25th 2022, and for the third time this reason we had a tornado wanted storm. Sirens blaring and everything. Do people not know what the sirens mean? Lol I digress. I hope you check this piece of history out!
Interesting I didn’t know wind speed could be Measured on radar but I know the 1990 Plainfield tornado was one of the strongest tornados in American history while the nws only rated it at 265 mph I saw damage of 300 + mph easy 318 mph seems possible which would make Plainfield a borderline f-6 the extreme ground scouring near rte 30 would indicate extreme wind speed just before entering Plainfield also some reports were of the mesmerizing sky color as it rolled in green greenish yellow black - purple orange even red was seen terrifying similar to the 1925 tristate monster in appearance I live close by to Plainfield and while I was not there that afternoon I walked the area several days later and saw damage that was horrific total devastation entire subdivisions wiped clean away trees debarked aphsalt removed and that heavy metal dumpster lodged and wrapped around a tree so yes Plainfield was a incredibly violent tornado and very underated
So the longest track record, I totally agree with you on this. I questioned the tri state tornado as being many. It’s so long ago and it would be tough to be sure that it was all the same. The damage path is almost a hundred years old so confirmation has to be impossible? But the December one was a huge terrifying night one that just kept going! I think it may be the longest ever. If nothing else it’s got more irrefutable evidence of how far it traveled
@@rmsg7504 I know they weren’t but record keeping was not the same as now. Also, going to where it happened would be hard to still find evidence of any kind from that long ago… So basically I think it may have been several
The tornado that went through Tuscaloosa and Birmingham 4/27/11 has a pretty significant path… and it would have been even more impressive but it lifted for a moment (right over my parents house, for which I am grateful. They would have never survived it). But it touched right back down doing EF4 damage again and stayed down til Georgia. Began in Mississippi. But so many of the tornadoes that day stayed on the ground for hours.. Not just warned but visually confirmed on the ground. I remember counting 16 of them down at once (one day when I am really bored I’ll watch all the coverage just to confirm that for myself… by the time the large ones hit that afternoon I was listening via an MP3 player I had for the gym that luckily I had fully charged and it picked up AM/FM radio too. And I haven’t seen one like it in a long time but I sure was grateful for it that day) because we had been hit that morning by an EF2 and there was no power (also threw trees on my house and fence and tore parts of the roof off)... it felt like, as James Spann said, “dodging bullets from hell.”
I was poking around the NWS's various resources and found a study they had asked someone to do on all the evidence thatwas available for the Tristate tornado. According to over 200 people 'interviewed' all along the Tristate's path, no one saw it recycle. They basically have a somewhat unbroken account of it from near the start until it lifted, with testimony overlapping from witness to witness. Some scientists were rushed there to investigate and they traveled the path, stating it was unbroken, with lessening but no lifting displayed along the tornado track. The victims also complained that they were not warned via telegraph etc, due to the banning of the word Tronado in news and such. So this tornado helped change that stupid "for your own good" law/rule. I know many graphics of the path seem to imply that it lifted and recycled, but with a little math you can tell that with its forward velocity, that the recycle would have had to have been literally under a minute, very unlikely. I WILL try to find my sources again for you all too. They are freely available on three different NWS/SPC sites dedicated to tornado research, offering all they have on every tornado on record as best as is possible.
i just recently got (like really super) into weather and your videos are just. PERFECT vibe for me i really enjoy them thank u sm i hope ur allergies get better king its tough out there
I suppose it’s kinda morbid, but I’m surprised you didn’t do “deadliest” tornado? Also what were the largest night-time tornadoes? Pictures of those are always chilling.
Hello from Australia. I haven't seen a Tornado first hand but I have seen small ones here in Australia over a large number of years to which end s few years ago the Weather Bureau issued for the first time in history s Tornado warning. So that they used to dismiss came back to haunt them. I have watched a lot of programs on Tornadoes and just viewed yours. Their can be no more frightening site than a Tornado classed as EF5 which was that which happened in 2013 was it in Moore Oklahoma and the trail of devastation was not lost on me, Unbearable pain must have been suffered by those that lived through that day. Thankyou for your Program, It gives me even more insight into this phenomenon. From John Woodall in Australia.
I live 25 miles north of Mayfield KY and watching live that tornado and the storm itself strengthen to what it became was insane. And goin down to mayfield to see the damage just made it more real. I’ve wanted to be a meteorologist and storm chaser since I was 10 and I’m 21 now and I decided to get the tornado warning polygon of the El Reno tornado tattooed on my arm and I got Threat: Catastrophic tattooed for the mayfield tornado down the front of my leg
the tornado that occurred after the greensburg tornado is another one that could have been larger the eI reno. infact the upper bound is around 4,6 miles wide for that tornado
SUPERB CHANNEL GOOD SIR! Tornado question; will you be doing a video on the 1965 Palm Sunday tornadoes? In 1965 I lived reasonably close to the areas that were affected and I would be interested in your findings. My next question isn't about tornadoes, but what type of microphone are using? That thing is COOL!
IMO, the fact that the Jarrell tornado sat on DC Estates for so long had to have an effect on the damage it caused (such as the extreme granulation and lack of debris). But I do not think it was the main factor in most of the insane devastation (the depth of ground scouring, sections of reinforced concrete slab foundations pulled out of the ground). IMO that was it's wind speed and I think it was in excess of 320mph. The thing that really sucks is we'll never know.
I recently stumbled upon and subscribed to your channel. Because I enjoy your videos, I want to share a tip to help you appeal to more viewers. Some people turn to RUclips, as opposed to podcasts, because they are visual learners and/or hearing impaired. The auto-generated closed captions often have misspellings that can prevent some people from getting all the information you are trying to share, particularly for place names. For example, this video repeatedly has Jarrell, TX written as Gerald (it also mistook an EF5 reference, writing efi, though it got most EF ratings correct). You can help viewers by adding place names (City, ST) to the screen, although adding EF ratings, dates, and cost estimates will also help visual learners absorb what you are sharing and that typed info adds another visual element of interest. All this information can be added to plain black screens (doesn’t have to be fancy or directly over video footage, particularly if that is challenging to do and/or adds the challenge of making text legible over wildly colored imagery) that are shown briefly (viewers can pause to read so you don’t have to kill momentum or make your videos longer), thereby also providing you with a visual element for tornadoes you are struggling to find videos for (or any good non-copyrighted visuals). It’s not necessary, but would help educate and expand your viewer base. Keep up the good content!🙂
The tornado that struck Xenia Ohio in 1974 had maximum winds of 300 miles per hour it was an EF5. It destroyed more than one thousand homes and businesses. Hardly any buildings remained standing in Xenia's downtown. Thirty-three people died in the storm, with approximately another 1,150 people injured. This was part of the super out break that year.
I am still hoping you can/will do some in depth review of the Jarrell TX tornado. Yeah, that was was scary. How it was so sprightly, just dancing around and 'posing' in pretty shapes, before it suddenly widened in under 120 seconds into that terrible wedge with multiple vortices [lol.] That one haunts me, and I find myself reviewing videos about it, finding some lost footage reclaimed and restored many times as I look, but... Not to sound too weird, but there is an honestly palpable menace to the Jarrell tornado after it expanded from the 'drill bit' it was born as. From it's meteorological setup to its direction of movement, to its landspeed dropping literally the moment it came to Double Creek Estates, how it went a bit faster once done devouring Double Creek and everything/everyone there, to lifting off within 5 minutes of leaving the neighborhood... Pecos Hank speaks of Sentient Tornadoes, and he is not joking or anthropomorphizing them. You can see these things sometimes have personalities, and act as if they have some plan or desire behind their track of movement. As if some tornadoes literally want to damage or destroy human property and human life. I don't mean they are "Evil" tho. Personality or not, Tornadoes are not human so cannot be labeled as Angelic or Evil. Hard to explain well, but... While I am wary of them [we do get them around where I live in the Appalachians] I do not fear them. They are expressions of the Earth's Nature and Cycles. We cannot stop them, only respect their power, and maybe learn about why this sort of storm occurs, what they do for the world, rather than being hateful for what they do to us humans. Do Jarrell, please?
I recently found the full TLC documentary here on RUclips and the narrator mentions the ancient Native American legend 'If you see the dead man walking in a tornado, you are about to die', shows that picture and sent chills down my spine a moment later with the declaration 'the dead man has just walked into Jarrell.' Every single thing about that tornado was scary, from how fast it grew in strength, to its appearance, to how its ground speed just pretty much stopped for up to five minutes, to the fact things were just shredded by it and there wasn't any large debris left once it dissipated. Terrifying!
Jarrell was terrible and unforgettable to those of us living in Texas. The Dead Man Walking pic of the tornado is bone chilling and you are right, there seemed to be an evil menace to it as it headed towards the Double Creek Estates. I remember the horrific stories of the Igo family and others who lost their lives that day. The Austin/Round Rock/Georgetown urban sprawl has built up Jarrell and at least quadrupled it's population in the last ten years but from what I hear from family in the area, there have not been many storm shelters or cellars put in.
The Joplin tornado struck down in just over 30 seconds! I was three when this happened (I lived and am still living in Pennsylvania) but I got wind of it when I was 5.
I think you should review the tornado's of Oregon. I nicknamed the area "Willamette Alley", as most of the tornado spin-ups we get are based in the Willamette Valley. A recent tornado in 2018 actually struck northwest Portland, and went straight over my house before officially touching down in the Alameda neighborhood, around 2 miles away from my house. Another more recent tornado in 2021 spun up near Lake Oswego (a suburb of Portland), and touched down across the Columbia River in Battleground Washington. It was considered an EF0 for Oregon, and an EF1 (briefley) in Washington.
0:04 I am here for this edit. LMAO "What are we talking about..? Tornados!" Hahahaha! 0:34 I'm loving these little edits. They kill me! Your energy and editing in this video was hysterical! I already know the answer to the costliest. Joplin Tornado of 2011. $2 billion dollars in 2011 ($3.37 billion when adjusted for inflation) I've done a lot of research on that tornado. Something about it just makes it super fascinating to me. The 2013 El Reno, tornado is estimated to have had wind speeds as high as 296 MPH, super close to the Bridge Creek Tornado, which had the highest recoded wind speeds ever documented on earth. (I typed this before you talked about it LOL) 6:40 If you look at this data, it goes through, technically, 5 states. That's insane. (Either 4 or 5, hard to tell at the bottom left) Am I a nerd for knowing a lot of this information? LOL Thank you for your work!
I have family that lives in Jarrell, TX, and helped with the clean effort after that F5 destroyed the double creek community. It was a horrific scene. 😢
Great video! One thing I've noticed from almost every tornado video is that we never get to see the moment it fades away back into the sky. Why is this lol? Is it not too exciting, or is it hard to capture?
There’s a video from a 1998 Columbus, Nebraska tornado where a farmer filmed it approaching for several minutes (the roar gets intense). He runs for cover, it cuts to them re-emerging and he films it roping out directly above them. So fascinating. Pecos Hank is in the comments praising the video. Link:ruclips.net/video/iNOlL5tWxTg/видео.html Bonus: When it got close, he abruptly exclaimed “Susan, go get my pants!” So real lol. There’s another funny/scary one filmed from a window which is more audio than video. It was filmed by an extremely chill older guy who watches a large tornado heading right for him which he calls a “bad hombre”. He ends up sheltering in the basement with his daughter, after which the audio captures their experience riding it out in the basement as the house takes a direct hit. Very intense. Link: ruclips.net/video/w8EYYEI0Jbo/видео.html
It's actually fairly common on videos to show the tornado "roping out", which is where it thins and the condensation funnel dissipates. One of the best examples of this in my opinion is Pecos Hank's video on the Dodge City 2016 EF3. This link shows the timestamp at the end of the video where the tornado ropes out: ruclips.net/video/Gfr8MExtDYI/видео.html On some storms it's visible, on a lot of other ones the tornado will actually become more stationary and wrapped in rain, so the tornado won't be very visible before it dissipates.
To add to these comments, I’ve seen a video of a tornado actually imploding once, it was really cool and it’s amazing how it just abruptly stops instead of roping out like they normally do.
This was really cool, I do Think that there was two tornadoes that happened on the same day that got up to be about 2.2 miles wide or so in Mississippi I remember watching a video about them on Pecos Hank
I still believe the May 3, 1999 Crescent-Mulhall F4 could be the largest but because there wasn't much written and it happened at night most people don't know about it. It is believed that the subvortices of this tornado might have been larger than the Bridge Creek-Moore tornado earlier that day.
@@SwegleStudios To me, that's one of the most fascinating strong tornadoes and there was very little ever written on it. You probably wouldn't find much. That makes it even more interesting to me.
The problem with the Mulhall tornado is the fact that its only recorded width was measured quantitatively. The damage path of the tornado was considerably smaller in width than its actual surrounding, orbiting wind field. It was at night, which made that harder to distinguish. Wind disturbance was observed as far out as 4.3 mi from the main circulation according to RaXPol radar trucks. However, these measurements were made a considerable distance from the ground by these trucks since the beam from the radar had to travel a pretty great distance to reach it. Overall, the width of the tornado is ascribed to the area of damage of at least F0/EF0 and above.
I think that the May 3, 1999 tornado that tore through Crescent and Mulhall isn't all that well-known because of the tornado that tore through Moore and Bridge Creek Oklahoma the same day. Much like how not many people outside of Oklahoma know about the tornado that hit El Reno on May 24, 2011 because it occurred just two days after the tornado in Joplin, Missouri.
What state are you from? It's so funny you mentioned allergies because I am going through the worst allergy attack I've ever had in my life! One week strong with laryngitis and a sinus infection....fun times. I totally feel for you. Love your channel!!!
A good video to do would be on Cordova Alabama on April 27 2011 the downtown area got hit by an high end ef3 in the morning and a high end ef4 in the afternoon
May 21th, 2024 the Johnston-Zearing, Iowa EF2 tornado travelled 41 miles in 35 minutes -- average ground speed was at 70.2 mph! The same day when a possible EF4 tornado ripped concrete slabs from the ground in Greenfield, Iowa.
The El Reno tornado technically was an EF-5 and arguably so. However, due to the damage it caused, regardless of the winds, it was classified as an EF-3.
As I have said before, El Reno staying on the path it was on instead of occluding would've been devastating. It would've levelled skyscrapers in downtown OKC. It might've been the deadliest single tornado since Joplin.
@@moblinmajorgeneral Agreed. Parts of Oklahoma city would have seen damage on par with what happened May 3rd, 1999, if not worse.
@@moblinmajorgeneral El Reno was a beast. Unfortunately, it killed chasers, but if it had hit a populated area, it would have been 100 times worse.
@@moblinmajorgeneral Excuse my limited weather terminology but did that storm have funnels dropping or spinning because I lived in okc at the time,not too far from el Reno and remember being in my shelter and later on electricity being out. During the following hours I saw pictures of places near by with damage, a gas station got its sign knocked off and things of
The sort. So that being said if it had changed it’s path, it would’ve been a huge devastation, given what the non tornados part of the storm did to some places in the city.
so then it's technically an EF-3 tornado...
The El Reno tornado, at one point, had reports of wind speeds, that had people talking about that a new F scale rating would be needed, then reports rating it at just an F3, had people shaking their heads. It was definitely the scariest, since it was making a few sharp turns. Which is what caught pro storm chasers off guard. And took the life of a great storm chaser of our time.
Rip Paul Samaras and his son. and the other guy
I think people need to understand that the F/EF scale is NOT a measure of a tornado's wind speed ala the S-S scale for hurricanes. It's a measure of the damage it causes and estimating the wind speed it takes to do that level of damage. A lot of what goes into an EF rating has less to do with the tornado as it does the sturdiness of whatever is in it's path.
Yeah I would love some solid rating on El Reno. Apparently someone said they got an instrument reading over 300 mph.. but tornadoes are rated by the damage they cause and when it was strongest there isn’t the damage they expect with an EF5, it doesn’t meet the criteria.. so EF3 it is.
Because no matter what one instrument said… the nationwide system to rate tornadoes does so by its damage path.
But professionals will still label it an EF5… it irks me.
It’s just like Hurricane Katrina… it didn’t hit as a category 5 hurricane. It was a category 5 when it stalled in the gulf but it hit as a category 3. Clearly it did as much damage as a category 5 by breaking the levees but regardless of the damage and death toll, hurricanes are rated by sustained wind speeds and the pressure drop in the eye. Despite being one of the most memorable hurricanes it was not the strongest. We got to see how much they’ve improved construction and reinforced the levee’s when New Orleans was actually hit by a high end category 4 Hurricane Ida on the 16th anniversary of Katrina’s landfall.. and had a fraction of the damage despite being stronger and hitting New Orleans more directly.
But people remember Katrina and forget about Ida. And Katrina holds its category 5 status even though that wasn’t so at landfall when it matters.
@@laurensmith43017 tte weird thing is about damage rating is that a tornado can have let’s say an impossible 800mph if it never hits anything but grassy Fields it would only have a rating of ef 1 or 0. El Reno if it the downtown area would surly be a ef5.
It just goes to show that the current EF system is very flawed and desperately needs a reworking.
The Tri-State Tornado seemed determined to be a strange record breaker. On the ground for 3.5 hours, consistently powerful, track of over 200 miles, the deadliest in US history
there were probably some errors due to sufficient tornado equipment not being available at the time
@@choppalungon Yeah for some reason it just sounds unlikely.
The most shocking tornado that I witnessed live was definitely the Mayfield tornado. Probably the most well organized supercell I’ve ever seen.
I was watching on Ryan Hall's RUclips channel as he covered the outbreak and openly cried.
@ End Of Age my birthday was the next day. I was watching Ryan’s stream when the edwardsville il Amazon warehouse was destroyed 10 miles from my house.
That day was crazy
@@brandonwilliam2618 Yes it was bro , I'm glad you survived it
@@pickelsvonbrine which video was this one? I'd like to check it out
@@maddievictoria4947 it wasn’t a video. It was Ryan halls stream that night
What most people don’t put into thought was that the El Reno tornado was so large and wide that the vortex couldn’t even touch the ground. Many people thought that what they were looking at was a low lying wall cloud and not a massive tornado rotating feet above the ground
That's Crazy
I think a video about near secondary tornado disasters would be interesting, Greesnburg, KS 2012, Moore , OK 2015, Jasper, AL 2011, etc.
Greensburg happened in 2007 and Moore happened in 2013
@@mralmond693 5 years after the EF5 hit Greensburg an EF3 almost hit the town again. ruclips.net/video/fkAFmk1OBoI/видео.html
And in 2015 Moore got hit again by a less powerful tornado ruclips.net/video/RLuEAPHG_L4/видео.html
@@mralmond693 They are talking about the smaller tornados that went through those cities that get overshadowed by the big ones.
@@landonsmith295 k
Living in Alabama and having been hit twice on 4/27/11 I can tell you SO much of that day is overshadowed by Tuscaloosa.. which wasn’t the strongest or even the most deadly of the day. It was the scariest day.
Talking about wind speed, I believe the May 3rd, 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore tornado also pulled foundations off the ground. No debris, no concrete, just dirt remaining.
It did just not that many as the Jarrell tornado. But jarrel couldn't have been the fastest wind speed since the slow speed would have worn down the concrete that the tornado was beating on
Is a ef6
My mom actually moved away from Oklahoma in like March of 1999. Scary to think she was living right where the tornado hit
For the first record I'm not too sure if you were counting sub vortices but according to a podcast called "Tornado Talk" the sub vortex that hit the Twist X team during the El Reno tornado could've traveling up to 180mph. If true, that is an insane statistic.
Twistex is the name
Sub vortices don't count bc they're a part of the larger parent tornado, just like a satellite tornado isn't counted for forward speed..
Yea I was gonna say, that’s probably the fastest movement we’ve recorded
Edit: but yeah if it doesn’t count then whatever.
In the video by PecosHank, he had mentioned the El Reno sub vortices, but gave the official title of fastest tornado to the twin tornadoes as sub vortices are part of a parent tornado.
the sub vortex stalled on teh cobalt
I remember the elreno tornado coming as close as 15 miles from our house at the time and sitting there watching it while it was coming in from the door of the storm cellar was the reason tornadoes still hold my interest today. That thing was absolutely massive, but at the same time it was beyond fascinating.
Was it really wide? Was it the size of a whole city
@@SMCwasTakenduh it was 2.5 mile or 4km
@@SMCwasTaken Yep. Luckly it moved the path it did. Otherwise I know I wouldn't be here either.
These are all amazing statistics. The one tornado that has always been etched into my memory was the Xenia, Ohio tornado that took place on April 3, 1974. I grew up in the neighboring town of Beavercreek. The tornado basically flew over Beavercreek and then touched down in Xenia and literally obliterated that town. My parents drove me (I was 10 at the time) through there and it looked like a war zone. 48 years later and I can still remember that quite vividly. On a side note, I admire your research into these tornadoes posted in this video. Your videos are ALWAYS interesting as well as informative. Keep up the great work! 👍
I’m up in Columbus and my mom is a Nurse at OSU. I remember her telling me that they were aware of that tornado and were worried that it would even come all the way up to Columbus.
Didn't Xenia get hit by two F5s in the same day?
@@dcrggreensheep You’re thinking of Tanner, Alabama.
For a momentary time before reevaluation was done, xenia was an f6 tornado but they bumped it down to 5
Absolutely! I'm from Dayton, and that tornado still gets talked about to this day, much more than even the recent tornados that touched down in the city. The stories I've heard from those who lived thru that tornado in the town of Xenia are the stuff of absolute nightmares, it's a wonder it thankfully only took as many lives as it did. Gil Whitney was on top of it and reported as early as possible which no doubt saved many lives that day
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@@SwegleStudios he just summed
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Doesn’t matter how many times I see the Jarrell TX dead man walking picture, it is terrifying every time. Thanks for your videos. Love them.
Reed Timmer once said: size isnt an indicator of strength
Only little guys say that
@@B3Band exactly
I mean, the Elie, Mantioba tornado was rated F5, but it was a cone
@@zeeboss2762drillbit
@@zeeboss2762it also did some loops
I have to agree that the Jarrell, TX Tornado is the scariest of all time!!
it's also worth noting the intensity of a couple of the EF5s during the 2011 Super Outbreak, like Smithville and Philadelphia, they both did some extreme damage and, especially in the case of Philadelphia, really extreme ground scouring and I see many people mentioning that they may be among the strongest recorded, not only that but they were relatively fast moving as well.
Almost every large tornado was moving 60+mph. The Philadelphia tornado was intense. Definitely took greater than 300mph winds to rip up that much earth.
mayfield also had extreme ground scouring of at least 1ft deep and that tornado was moving fast as well
Nobody really mentions Smithville or Fawn whatever, it's really only Hackleberg-Phill Campbell and Philadelphia
Smithville literally shattered foundations despite moving at over 60mph. My vote goes to Smithville for fastest wind speeds ever, though unfortunately we will never know for sure how fast those winds were.
A sub vortex inside the El Reno had a ground speed of about 78 meters per second, which is about 175 miles per hour. Simon Brewer, Justin Drake, Jim Bishop, and Jesse Duncan were all racing east on Interstate 40, captured a sub vortex rocketing directly towards their position, and wrapped around the main funnel at 175. In this sub vortex, for just half a second had a wind gust of 255 miles per hour.
I've lived through so many tornado outbreaks and such in Oklahoma that I could write a book. However, only two scared me. And they are the Ef3/ef5 2013 Tornado and the 2013 Moore ef5 tornado. I had family near the path of both. One of the many vortex's of the El Reno tornado damaged a large barn less than half a mile away from where my stepmom and little sister lived. Luckily it missed their house and property.
Seen that and when it also damaged the Vo-tech building as well.
Excellent job again. You hit on everything that I would have hit on and even included non top tornadoes just because they deserve mentioning. I think it's really hard to measure that JarrellTexas tornado because of how long it was on the ground but for sure the devastation it caused and that one subdivision is unparalleled. Each of these tornadoes has unique things about it. The Joplin tornado made the sky turn dark as midnight, well the Tuscaloosa tornado was heavily filmed and came oh so close to a major university. As a graduate of Alabama I can tell you the devastation it would have caused if it was just a mile in the other direction would have put this at the top of any list. The 1999 moore-bridecreek tornado was one of the first filmed live and on TV. The footage was shocking at the time. These are all tornadoes that will be etched in our memories and you did a good job of covering them all
Thanks so much!
All on money as far as I can tell it was well done. And I like to disagree, Joplin I studied the most it was brutal and caught many of guard.
@@wrbowcalifyrobertson5087 Joplin did kind of come out of nowhere, but Jarrell was also kind of a surprise although maybe not as much. Tuscaloosa was for sure not a surprise nor any of the others. You can easily make a case of Joplin being the worst, so I can't really disagree. I still have yet to see a tornado make it look as dark as the Joplin tornado did. So eerie
That was the most appropriate scariest tornado pic. I’m sure you’re aware that the Jarrell tornado stalled over the Double Creek subdivision for a good 3-5 minutes; pulverizing everything away. Those poor souls.
I’d listened to a podcast recently in which one of the guests had a brother who had perished at Double Creek. Sadly, he was found beheaded. To think that that tornado had transformed from a tiny rope, to a drill bit, then, a monster, terrifies me. The Jarrell tornado was the scariest ever, in my opinion.
These are awesome comparisons!! Not to mention, the Tri-State tornado was the deadliest in the U.S. but the Daulatpur-Saturia tornado in Bangladesh killed around 1,300 people, making it the deadliest.
god damnnnnnn 😱
Yes that was the deadliest
And it’s crazy how it was only an EF4. But houses in Bangladesh are not really strong so any tornado like that can do really bad damage.
Population density too
One of the weirdest (and most specific) tornado records I've heard of is the most amount of tornadoes in the shortest time. In 1981, in a span of just under 5 and a half hours, 104 tornadoes touched down across England and Wales (a rate that, if consistent across 24 hours, would've spawned over 450). Luckily, tornadoes in the UK are almost always weak compared to those in the US, but it is a crazy statistic nonetheless. The UK also has the most (or second most) tornadoes per sq mile in the world, but again, very weak tornadoes, and seldom do major damage.
and uk houses made out of bricks instead of paper
The scariest tornado for me was the November 6, 2005 tornado that hit Evansville, Newburgh, and Boonville, IN. It was an EF-3 and passed about 1/8 mile from my house. I was 11 at the time and had no idea just how bad the storm was until it was over. I could feel the wall of my bedroom moving, and I've never seen lightning like that at any point in my life. The damage in my neighborhood was devastating. 26 people were killed, most of which were from a trailer park. The tornado hit around 2am.
Dude, I was living 10 miles away at the time and I was around the same age (10 at the time). We had some neighbors that my dad had befriended that moved to Newburgh in 2003 whose house got hit by the tornado. We ended up going out there to help cleanup a few days after it happened and I just remembered it looked like a warzone there. Debris all over the streets, the person living next to my old neighbors house got leveled. Ever since then ive always had a very healthy respect for storms passing through Indiana
0:31 wow you spent 1500 robux on the dominator 3 in twisted XD
I love how in depth your videos can be and the tornados despite all my personal research I hear from your research. That then gives me more to look into
I've always wanted to do storm chasing, and honestly youtubers like you and Pecos Hank only make me want to do it more, as I feel that I could help with the science of tornadoes. Only issue is that here in New Zealand, tornadoes are rare. May come to America at some point to try catch some to study.
6:40 Another recent example was the Rolling Fork-Silver City EF4, although it did lift for a breif moment twice, it was very breif, so combining all three tornadoes, the total path length would be....
125 miles, however there are some theories that it lasted for more than 150 miles, and the overall supercell track was more than than the Tri-State.
Edit: 7:55 this is offical, several Tornadoes in history had paths wider than *4* miles, and even more 3, however these were in the early-mid 1900's so they put it as a error.
The '87 tornado in Edmonton, Alberta was pretty insane. Gotta be one of the most northern intense tornados ever
That was the only F 5 in Canada right? Has there been more stronger tornadoes since then? I think climate change will make more stronger and northern tornadoes as time goes on.
@@kakumee I think officially it only registered F4 as the measurements they had were not extremely accurate although I could be wrong. I'm pretty confident the only official F5 in Canadian history was Elie Manitoba in 07.
@@thatguyfromsaskatchatoon8638 yes, it's the 07 one that was F5, thank you for the correction! Qujanaq! (Thank you in kalaallisut Greenlandic language)
Me and my mom survived the Moore F5 in 1999. May 3 is a day we will never forget. Queensbury drive was completely gone
the smithville mississippi tornado is one of the most slept on tornados the damage was insane
Agreed. It gets overshadowed from everything that went on in Alabama that day. I'll do a video on it soon!
@@SwegleStudios One of the top 5 strongest tornadoes ever by damage, and a total fcku-up by the NWS in estimating windspeeds.
I would have to add the 2011 Piedmont-El Reno ef5 tornado and the May 3, 1999 Mulhall tornado to that list as well.
My uncles house was destroyed in that.
I live a few miles north of there in Fulton and it was insane on that day.
I'll never forget it.
@@P_RO_
How was it a f*** up? It was rightfully rated an EF5 with windspeed estimates comfortably above the 200mph threshold.
A real total f*** up was not giving the Vilonia, Arksnsas EF4 the max rating it deserved. Probably the most controversial rating error in recent years
Always look forward to your videos. Great job man
Glad you like them!
I read somewhere that the 302 recording was taken 30 ft off the ground by radar. Meaning at ground level it would’ve been somewhere around 280. From what I understand the El Reno wind speed was taken at ground level. So it’s open to debate on which had faster speeds.
Hi Swegle Studios, so regarding the debate of recorded windspeed tornadoes, there is one that I think goes unnoticed for whateve reason - and that is the 1990 Plainfield, IL F5 tornado. It's windspeed was recorded at a maximum of 318 mph on radar but never verified in the field, so there is that of courelse. That storm was absolutely wild and broke numerous records, including being one of the lastest tornadoes of the season and the ONLY F5 storm in the US to have occured in August. Sadly it claimed 29 lives, and had it happened a day later, the school it hit would've certainly jacked that number up stratospherically. Interestingly enough, the failure to warn the public about this storm and the failure to track and predict it's path in progress actually spurred the creation of NEXRAD (and related technologies) as well as the modern procedures for warning supercells. This is why you see a marked improvement in radar and tornado meteorology several years after this event. This storm historically speaking had a tremendous impact and was extraordinary in a multitude of ways. Honestly, I am going to suggest you watch the documentaries about that storm, and I really hope you consider doing your own video on it. Too many people think the Chicago / Illinois are somehow not affected by tornadoes... as if they are oblivious to the fact that every year several significant tornado events happen locally. I mean shoot, today was May 25th 2022, and for the third time this reason we had a tornado wanted storm. Sirens blaring and everything. Do people not know what the sirens mean? Lol I digress. I hope you check this piece of history out!
Interesting I didn’t know wind speed could be Measured on radar but I know the 1990 Plainfield tornado was one of the strongest tornados in American history while the nws only rated it at 265 mph I saw damage of 300 + mph easy 318 mph seems possible which would make Plainfield a borderline f-6 the extreme ground scouring near rte 30 would indicate extreme wind speed just before entering Plainfield also some reports were of the mesmerizing sky color as it rolled in green greenish yellow black - purple orange even red was seen terrifying similar to the 1925 tristate monster in appearance I live close by to Plainfield and while I was not there that afternoon I walked the area several days later and saw damage that was horrific total devastation entire subdivisions wiped clean away trees debarked aphsalt removed and that heavy metal dumpster lodged and wrapped around a tree so yes Plainfield was a incredibly violent tornado and very underated
So the longest track record, I totally agree with you on this. I questioned the tri state tornado as being many. It’s so long ago and it would be tough to be sure that it was all the same. The damage path is almost a hundred years old so confirmation has to be impossible? But the December one was a huge terrifying night one that just kept going! I think it may be the longest ever. If nothing else it’s got more irrefutable evidence of how far it traveled
People in the 1920's weren't cavemen, that's when Einstein came up with the Theory of Relativity
@@rmsg7504 I know they weren’t but record keeping was not the same as now. Also, going to where it happened would be hard to still find evidence of any kind from that long ago… So basically I think it may have been several
@@clutchthecinnamonsergal8493 thanks! That’s interesting
The tornado that went through Tuscaloosa and Birmingham 4/27/11 has a pretty significant path… and it would have been even more impressive but it lifted for a moment (right over my parents house, for which I am grateful. They would have never survived it). But it touched right back down doing EF4 damage again and stayed down til Georgia.
Began in Mississippi.
But so many of the tornadoes that day stayed on the ground for hours.. Not just warned but visually confirmed on the ground. I remember counting 16 of them down at once (one day when I am really bored I’ll watch all the coverage just to confirm that for myself… by the time the large ones hit that afternoon I was listening via an MP3 player I had for the gym that luckily I had fully charged and it picked up AM/FM radio too. And I haven’t seen one like it in a long time but I sure was grateful for it that day) because we had been hit that morning by an EF2 and there was no power (also threw trees on my house and fence and tore parts of the roof off)... it felt like, as James Spann said, “dodging bullets from hell.”
I was poking around the NWS's various resources and found a study they had asked someone to do on all the evidence thatwas available for the Tristate tornado. According to over 200 people 'interviewed' all along the Tristate's path, no one saw it recycle. They basically have a somewhat unbroken account of it from near the start until it lifted, with testimony overlapping from witness to witness. Some scientists were rushed there to investigate and they traveled the path, stating it was unbroken, with lessening but no lifting displayed along the tornado track.
The victims also complained that they were not warned via telegraph etc, due to the banning of the word Tronado in news and such. So this tornado helped change that stupid "for your own good" law/rule.
I know many graphics of the path seem to imply that it lifted and recycled, but with a little math you can tell that with its forward velocity, that the recycle would have had to have been literally under a minute, very unlikely. I WILL try to find my sources again for you all too. They are freely available on three different NWS/SPC sites dedicated to tornado research, offering all they have on every tornado on record as best as is possible.
Excellent video. Intriguing tornado footage without all the boring fluff. Great content! 🌪
i just recently got (like really super) into weather and your videos are just. PERFECT vibe for me i really enjoy them thank u sm i hope ur allergies get better king its tough out there
Thanks king. It's been awful this past week.
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I suppose it’s kinda morbid, but I’m surprised you didn’t do “deadliest” tornado? Also what were the largest night-time tornadoes? Pictures of those are always chilling.
Bangladesh 1989, 1400 killed.
I thought about it! But I was trying to keep this video more lighthearted since I have other more serious videos.
@@SwegleStudios oh, okay
This channel is now one of my favorite channels not only for weather but in all of RUclips
its always fun to take a certain 'thing' or topic and go through the extremes, and this is no exception.
It would be interesting to see other categories, like the highest altitude tornado, tornadoes in other countries, etc.
Okay, your channel is going to blow up. I absolutely love your delivery
Thank you so much!!
I'm glad I'm subscribed to this channel. 👍🙂
Hello from Australia.
I haven't seen a Tornado first hand but I have seen small ones here in Australia over a large number of years to which end s few years ago the Weather Bureau issued for the first time in history s Tornado warning.
So that they used to dismiss came back to haunt them.
I have watched a lot of programs on Tornadoes and just viewed yours.
Their can be no more frightening site than a Tornado classed as EF5 which was that which happened in 2013 was it in Moore Oklahoma and the trail of devastation was not lost on me, Unbearable pain must have been suffered by those that lived through that day.
Thankyou for your Program, It gives me even more insight into this phenomenon.
From John Woodall in Australia.
I remember the infamous 1302 EF5 in Iowa. Crazy stuff!
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Id say Dead Man Walking us the scariest photograph, but Moore and Joplin just had an ominous darkness to them. Imo scariest to see in life.
Interesting stuff, as usual. Thanks.
Hi Swegle! I love your content!
love seeing this type of content keep up the good work
Thanks so much!
Love all the videos man keep it up
Thanks! Will do!
I live 25 miles north of Mayfield KY and watching live that tornado and the storm itself strengthen to what it became was insane. And goin down to mayfield to see the damage just made it more real. I’ve wanted to be a meteorologist and storm chaser since I was 10 and I’m 21 now and I decided to get the tornado warning polygon of the El Reno tornado tattooed on my arm and I got Threat: Catastrophic tattooed for the mayfield tornado down the front of my leg
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Love your videos my bro
Dude you are THE channel to fill a niche for tornados
As an Okie, I salute you sir. Subscribed.
love these videos
love your videos!
Thank you!!
youre like wendigoon for tornadoes bro, love your content
the tornado that occurred after the greensburg tornado is another one that could have been larger the eI reno. infact the upper bound is around 4,6 miles wide for that tornado
Great content, homie!
Thanks so much!
SUPERB CHANNEL GOOD SIR! Tornado question; will you be doing a video on the 1965 Palm Sunday tornadoes? In 1965 I lived reasonably close to the areas that were affected and I would be interested in your findings. My next question isn't about tornadoes, but what type of microphone are using? That thing is COOL!
The 1896 Saint Louis Tornado often gets overlooked despite the high number of fatalities.
IMO, the fact that the Jarrell tornado sat on DC Estates for so long had to have an effect on the damage it caused (such as the extreme granulation and lack of debris). But I do not think it was the main factor in most of the insane devastation (the depth of ground scouring, sections of reinforced concrete slab foundations pulled out of the ground). IMO that was it's wind speed and I think it was in excess of 320mph. The thing that really sucks is we'll never know.
I recently stumbled upon and subscribed to your channel. Because I enjoy your videos, I want to share a tip to help you appeal to more viewers. Some people turn to RUclips, as opposed to podcasts, because they are visual learners and/or hearing impaired. The auto-generated closed captions often have misspellings that can prevent some people from getting all the information you are trying to share, particularly for place names. For example, this video repeatedly has Jarrell, TX written as Gerald (it also mistook an EF5 reference, writing efi, though it got most EF ratings correct). You can help viewers by adding place names (City, ST) to the screen, although adding EF ratings, dates, and cost estimates will also help visual learners absorb what you are sharing and that typed info adds another visual element of interest. All this information can be added to plain black screens (doesn’t have to be fancy or directly over video footage, particularly if that is challenging to do and/or adds the challenge of making text legible over wildly colored imagery) that are shown briefly (viewers can pause to read so you don’t have to kill momentum or make your videos longer), thereby also providing you with a visual element for tornadoes you are struggling to find videos for (or any good non-copyrighted visuals). It’s not necessary, but would help educate and expand your viewer base. Keep up the good content!🙂
I'll work on some of that this week! Thanks for the tip!
The tornado that struck Xenia Ohio in 1974 had maximum winds of 300 miles per hour it was an EF5. It destroyed more than one thousand homes and businesses. Hardly any buildings remained standing in Xenia's downtown. Thirty-three people died in the storm, with approximately another 1,150 people injured. This was part of the super out break that year.
I am still hoping you can/will do some in depth review of the Jarrell TX tornado. Yeah, that was was scary. How it was so sprightly, just dancing around and 'posing' in pretty shapes, before it suddenly widened in under 120 seconds into that terrible wedge with multiple vortices [lol.] That one haunts me, and I find myself reviewing videos about it, finding some lost footage reclaimed and restored many times as I look, but...
Not to sound too weird, but there is an honestly palpable menace to the Jarrell tornado after it expanded from the 'drill bit' it was born as. From it's meteorological setup to its direction of movement, to its landspeed dropping literally the moment it came to Double Creek Estates, how it went a bit faster once done devouring Double Creek and everything/everyone there, to lifting off within 5 minutes of leaving the neighborhood... Pecos Hank speaks of Sentient Tornadoes, and he is not joking or anthropomorphizing them. You can see these things sometimes have personalities, and act as if they have some plan or desire behind their track of movement. As if some tornadoes literally want to damage or destroy human property and human life.
I don't mean they are "Evil" tho. Personality or not, Tornadoes are not human so cannot be labeled as Angelic or Evil. Hard to explain well, but... While I am wary of them [we do get them around where I live in the Appalachians] I do not fear them. They are expressions of the Earth's Nature and Cycles. We cannot stop them, only respect their power, and maybe learn about why this sort of storm occurs, what they do for the world, rather than being hateful for what they do to us humans.
Do Jarrell, please?
I recently found the full TLC documentary here on RUclips and the narrator mentions the ancient Native American legend 'If you see the dead man walking in a tornado, you are about to die', shows that picture and sent chills down my spine a moment later with the declaration 'the dead man has just walked into Jarrell.'
Every single thing about that tornado was scary, from how fast it grew in strength, to its appearance, to how its ground speed just pretty much stopped for up to five minutes, to the fact things were just shredded by it and there wasn't any large debris left once it dissipated. Terrifying!
Jarrell was terrible and unforgettable to those of us living in Texas. The Dead Man Walking pic of the tornado is bone chilling and you are right, there seemed to be an evil menace to it as it headed towards the Double Creek Estates. I remember the horrific stories of the Igo family and others who lost their lives that day. The Austin/Round Rock/Georgetown urban sprawl has built up Jarrell and at least quadrupled it's population in the last ten years but from what I hear from family in the area, there have not been many storm shelters or cellars put in.
The Joplin tornado struck down in just over 30 seconds! I was three when this happened (I lived and am still living in Pennsylvania) but I got wind of it when I was 5.
I love your channel...
I think you should review the tornado's of Oregon. I nicknamed the area "Willamette Alley", as most of the tornado spin-ups we get are based in the Willamette Valley. A recent tornado in 2018 actually struck northwest Portland, and went straight over my house before officially touching down in the Alameda neighborhood, around 2 miles away from my house. Another more recent tornado in 2021 spun up near Lake Oswego (a suburb of Portland), and touched down across the Columbia River in Battleground Washington. It was considered an EF0 for Oregon, and an EF1 (briefley) in Washington.
The way the explosion at 3:14 blows away into the tornado is super cool looking.
Nice video man, I’m from the Uk and I’m fascinated with these colossal beast that produce in the mid west of America! 😅
Do you play the game Twisted?
0:04 I am here for this edit. LMAO
"What are we talking about..? Tornados!" Hahahaha!
0:34 I'm loving these little edits. They kill me!
Your energy and editing in this video was hysterical!
I already know the answer to the costliest. Joplin Tornado of 2011. $2 billion dollars in 2011 ($3.37 billion when adjusted for inflation) I've done a lot of research on that tornado. Something about it just makes it super fascinating to me.
The 2013 El Reno, tornado is estimated to have had wind speeds as high as 296 MPH, super close to the Bridge Creek Tornado, which had the highest recoded wind speeds ever documented on earth. (I typed this before you talked about it LOL)
6:40 If you look at this data, it goes through, technically, 5 states. That's insane. (Either 4 or 5, hard to tell at the bottom left)
Am I a nerd for knowing a lot of this information? LOL
Thank you for your work!
Yeah I decided to just have fun editing this video haha. It's more light hearted than some of my others. But thanks for watching!
I have family that lives in Jarrell, TX, and helped with the clean effort after that F5 destroyed the double creek community. It was a horrific scene. 😢
Great video! One thing I've noticed from almost every tornado video is that we never get to see the moment it fades away back into the sky. Why is this lol? Is it not too exciting, or is it hard to capture?
There’s a video from a 1998 Columbus, Nebraska tornado where a farmer filmed it approaching for several minutes (the roar gets intense). He runs for cover, it cuts to them re-emerging and he films it roping out directly above them. So fascinating. Pecos Hank is in the comments praising the video.
Link:ruclips.net/video/iNOlL5tWxTg/видео.html
Bonus: When it got close, he abruptly exclaimed “Susan, go get my pants!” So real lol.
There’s another funny/scary one filmed from a window which is more audio than video. It was filmed by an extremely chill older guy who watches a large tornado heading right for him which he calls a “bad hombre”. He ends up sheltering in the basement with his daughter, after which the audio captures their experience riding it out in the basement as the house takes a direct hit. Very intense.
Link: ruclips.net/video/w8EYYEI0Jbo/видео.html
It's actually fairly common on videos to show the tornado "roping out", which is where it thins and the condensation funnel dissipates. One of the best examples of this in my opinion is Pecos Hank's video on the Dodge City 2016 EF3. This link shows the timestamp at the end of the video where the tornado ropes out: ruclips.net/video/Gfr8MExtDYI/видео.html
On some storms it's visible, on a lot of other ones the tornado will actually become more stationary and wrapped in rain, so the tornado won't be very visible before it dissipates.
I love that video!
To add to these comments, I’ve seen a video of a tornado actually imploding once, it was really cool and it’s amazing how it just abruptly stops instead of roping out like they normally do.
I like that little sniffle at the end lol anyways awesome video like always
Haha yeah... Forgot to edit that out..
This was really cool, I do Think that there was two tornadoes that happened on the same day that got up to be about 2.2 miles wide or so in Mississippi I remember watching a video about them on Pecos Hank
And awesome video
lets go twisted made it in here 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
I still believe the May 3, 1999 Crescent-Mulhall F4 could be the largest but because there wasn't much written and it happened at night most people don't know about it. It is believed that the subvortices of this tornado might have been larger than the Bridge Creek-Moore tornado earlier that day.
Yeah I actually hadn't heard of that specific tornado until after making this video. I come ask you out on the line before the next video haha
@@SwegleStudios To me, that's one of the most fascinating strong tornadoes and there was very little ever written on it. You probably wouldn't find much. That makes it even more interesting to me.
The problem with the Mulhall tornado is the fact that its only recorded width was measured quantitatively. The damage path of the tornado was considerably smaller in width than its actual surrounding, orbiting wind field. It was at night, which made that harder to distinguish. Wind disturbance was observed as far out as 4.3 mi from the main circulation according to RaXPol radar trucks. However, these measurements were made a considerable distance from the ground by these trucks since the beam from the radar had to travel a pretty great distance to reach it. Overall, the width of the tornado is ascribed to the area of damage of at least F0/EF0 and above.
I think that the May 3, 1999 tornado that tore through Crescent and Mulhall isn't all that well-known because of the tornado that tore through Moore and Bridge Creek Oklahoma the same day. Much like how not many people outside of Oklahoma know about the tornado that hit El Reno on May 24, 2011 because it occurred just two days after the tornado in Joplin, Missouri.
Love the Twister movie reference!
What state are you from? It's so funny you mentioned allergies because I am going through the worst allergy attack I've ever had in my life! One week strong with laryngitis and a sinus infection....fun times. I totally feel for you.
Love your channel!!!
But whats the smallest?
Leaf eddy
Wow, and it was headed my way. Glad I missed it.
I was there for the 1302 Iowa Tornado, it was pretty dope.
love your stuff bro hope you felt better after this video lol.
People not understanding that the EF scale at heart is a damage scale will never get old.
2:12 I was hoping you’d use Skip’s footage!!!!! 😍
Nice you got some twisted footage in there do you play the game or just know of it?
Gosh I am your biggest fan:)
Thanks so much!!
A good video to do would be on Cordova Alabama on April 27 2011 the downtown area got hit by an high end ef3 in the morning and a high end ef4 in the afternoon
Another tornado to mention regarding width is the 1999 Mulhall F4. Doppler on Wheels measured wind speed of over 90 mph over a 4.3-mile distance!
circulation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As well as the interesting tornado facts, I had to watch Twisters again 😊
I agree the Jarrell TX tornado was very scary!!
nice to see that twisted got an appearance in the video!
Love that twisted clip 0:30
May 21th, 2024 the Johnston-Zearing, Iowa EF2 tornado travelled 41 miles in 35 minutes -- average ground speed was at 70.2 mph! The same day when a possible EF4 tornado ripped concrete slabs from the ground in Greenfield, Iowa.
In my opinion, Greenfield was an ef5, that was some of the worst damage I have ever seen...
Even my cat likes this RUclips channel
Just got back from the migration movie and got greeted by this?! Wow!