That thing you do where you read your entire script in front of the camera is actually a lot harder to do than it looks and I appreciate it enormously. Additionally from watching your older videos you've been exponentially getting better at it. Many props to you!
@@leopluerodong4244 It is so close because I need to keep the mic close to my face to not pick up the room reverb. The mic is just out of frame. Otherwise the audio would change quality between off screen and on screen appearances.
Thank you for this channel sir. I am a 42 year old man with a 22 year old brother. He is a tornado enthusiast similar to yourself as described on your channels bio. I am personally a fan of extreme weather as well, but severe thunderstorms are more my thing. Regardless, learning about tornados has brought the two of us closer together and your channel in particular just has the perfect tone, pace and necessary information making for a complete and engaging video. Keep it up!
Gosh I remember this tornado. I was 12 at the time. I remember my mom deciding to take 49 out of the town about 20 minutes before it got here, with me in tow. Thankfully our home happened to only have minor damages, but it was extremely scary not knowing if we would have a house... or dad... to come back to.
In Dixie Alley, if you don't have a tornado shelter, why? I know why. Because most folks here are poor, and just putting food on the table is hard. My husband and I are not rich, but we're better off than a lot of folks we know. When we moved here, we purchased an above ground shelter that our neighbors and us can get in, if needed. We congregate in my husband's shop, and continuously monitor the weather. If things start looking bad, we all move to our shelter. It is slated for up to twelve people, but we've had fifteen along with three good size dogs, and room for more. My thought is, Parents with children get in first. Then elderly. Then us. After that, any pets we can get in. My husband's shop is slated for 120 mph winds, plus he built a loft structure inside that has sturdy 4X4 posts attached with long bolts into the concrete to support it, along with 4x4 beams probably making it even stronger. Then he has heavy work benches beneath the loft . It's safer than our home, and our neighbor's trailers, to be inside that shop. I put families with kids before anything, because kids need their mother AND their father. I'll squeeze as many in the shelter as I can get, then the rest of us will hang on to each other in the back of the shop. As for the shelter, I got it from a company called Fain Storm Shelters in Western Middle Tennessee. There are other concrete above ground shelters you can get, at similar prices, in case that store is too far out of reach. My shelter cost around $8000. I had to pay extra, because I was out of their regular range. As I said, mine was slated for 11 or 12 people, but I've had several more than that inside, along with three relatively large dogs. I have lived here since 2019, and I have the best neighbors in the world! Why wouldn't I include them in my protection plans? I know they can't afford it. But we're a community and help each other when we can. I do what I can for them. They do what they can for me. I love my neighbors.
Wrong, most people here historically because of the Yazoo clay soil. It will shift and destroy it. Not to also mention high water tables. Recently people started building safe rooms into their homes.
Thanks for the work you did on the video. I live here, actually. I was at work in town when it came through. We didn't have any power for several weeks. Very hot, too. I spent that summer helping a friend fix his house that a tree went through. There's a road east of yazoo that used to have a dense canopy of foliage. It's still barren from that tornado. Everytime I drive down it it still looks odd, even though it's been 14 years. It's crazy how something like that can affect a place. To this day, whenever those sirens go off it'll send a shiver down your spine. Great vid.
i don't think it would have got much attention but for the Storm Chasers episode. i remember watching it way back when it aired and it was insane seeing the dmg. hearing how quiet it was after the tornado went thru was also eerie.
I think that episode of Storm Chasers, sticks in my mind the most. Just watching the emotions of Reed, Joel (RIP) and everyone else was heartbreaking. RIP to all who lost their lives that day.
In my opinion it should be regulatory that mobile home parks should have a communal storm shelter large enough to hold all tenants. Would save so many lives. If not regulatory, then some kind of tax or insurance benefit to incentivize it.
would love to see a video on the Good Friday 2011 EF4 Tornado in St. Louis!! it touched down a few miles from my house and ripped through St. Louis city, it even hit the international airport and caused millions of dollars of damage!! It tracked all the way into Illinois & then dissipated.
Your story about that mother sacrifice her life reminds me of a story I heard years ago. I was in the U S. Air Force stationed at Sheppard AFB; Wichita Falls, Texas August, 1977 to May, 1979. There developed a tornado in Southwest Wichita Falls on April 10, 1979. A lady got her two young kids in a bathtub and herself with a mattress over them as the tornado was getting louder. Her house was being torn apart. She got on top of the mattress like a paperweight holding down papers. She got sucked up in the air. Her two kids survived. She was flying the length of this tornado. She could have died anytime like sivers of wood hitting her like bullets. Her dead body was found in a tree where the tornado disapated. This story of this woman got caught up in the tornado was told to the rescue people. In turn they contacted a group like American Red Cross to relatives of those kids.
I drove by here on the interstate right after it hit, but wasn't aware of the tornado until I saw the damage. It had a massively wide path cut through the woods.
I don't live somewhere that typically has tornadoes (though the timing is a bit poor to say that---Florida, rest in peace to those who passed) and they equally terrify and fascinate me. My dad has newspapers from an outbreak near Louisville Kentucky that shows photos of the devastation of F4s and 5s. Mother nature isnt to be downplayed, and your videos help spread that message well.
Another great video, but anyways, heres a question, whats the strongest or most powerful, maybe even most scary tornado that you have ever experienced or know about, i would love to know
Bawling my eyes out, especially as a mother of three young daughters, because she must have had unbelievable will to protect those babies. My heart aches for them and her.
Your videos aree genuinely incredible!! Its surprising that you arent a qualified meteoroligst based on the amount of passion in these videos!! Keep it up!
I remember driving past the damage path. It was unbelievable. This made me really take weather as a trucker. I drove past and just saw a clearing in the trees and was in shock. Especially since i was supposed to be driving around the time of the storm but decided to slow myself down.
This was probably the first storm chase livestream I saw that had me on edge. Following the radar and the locations of chasers on the map, and then seeing this quirky name of a town, and the downed trees in front of the car. I assume it was Reed Timmer's stream.
I live 45 mins to an hour outside of yazoo and have family there. I just recently heard about this tornado and it’s insane how close this was to me but I was only 5-6 years old at the time.
What I think was especially creepy about this one is that for a lot of its life it didn't even look like a tornado, which reminds me of the Tri-State Tornado back in 1925. Hackleburg, AL in 2011 was also like this.
i read the 150 mile EF4 and just about lost both of my remaining braincells. *Edit** will june first reply? i hope so because it would mean a lot to me and it would make me feel important in a way that isnt lowering the global average IQ by at least 1 IQ point.
An Ef3 hit my town on this day): I wasn't born then(born 2012, 12 yr (won't say which town btw)), but I always knew about it, and I did look for image's for that tornado that hit my town 14 years ago and found nothing, I wondered why, and now I know, it was probably overshadowed by that tornado(there was probably more chasers down there based on the high risks, and the forecast models), I never knew that the Yazoo city EF4 tornado took place on that same day. Although I very much knew about the Yazoo city tornado, mainly because it's relatively close to rolling fork and the Rolling Fork tornado is the tornado that really got me extra into weather(made me want to find way's I could protect people from severe weather events). God bless.
great video.. A couple of minor pronunciation errors tho.. It's not Duront.. it's Durant, like the little bitey insect ant. Yazoo is pronounced as you would say "at" but obviously without the t.. but the A has that sound... it isn't YAH zoo as you said throughout. YA'zoo and not YAH'zoo. But aside from that nitpicking, it was very well done and I remember sitting at home in central Arkansas watching this monster rip across my home state.
Next you should do one on the biggest what if tornado. That would be the 2024 Hollister tornado. Probably one of the most insane, and powerful storm ever produced. Luckily it was in rural fields in Kansas. Definitely had the velocity and impact to be an EF five
People Live and Die, in Mobile Homes because they can't afford to Build Stronger Homes with Shelters, because "some people" are obsessed with "Greed and Power" and can't get over the idea of sharing This Country's Great Wealth and Opportunity.
If I were ever to win the lottery big-time, some of that money would go into an R&D facility for building tornado shelters. Something where 200+ mph winds could be produced (detached jet engines?) for designs to be tested with.
I remember this day like yesterday. It happened early in the day. I worked insurance claims for this. You can still see tree damage to this day on I55.
I just looked at the Delta Forest on Google Earth. I rewound the imagery to 2010, and you could really see the scar. It's still faintly there as of a year ago
This is pretty overshadowed of other tornadoes that are long tracked and a large wedge (like Mayfield and HPC) unfortunately, such a devestating tornado that no one talks about
That tornado destroyed the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where the generations of my family are buried. It took a couple of years, but we rebuilt it better than before.
Pecos Hank for chasing videos, and June First for detailed breakdowns on known and well known tornadoes.
don't forget Reed Timmer
@@superpenguinzzzand Freddy McKinney for amazing, yet terrible storm chasing.
Carly Anna is also really good, especially for discussing the impacts and rebuilds
And swegal studios.
I'd definitely recomend Convective Chronicles for meteorological breakdowns!! they are the best on the internet
That thing you do where you read your entire script in front of the camera is actually a lot harder to do than it looks and I appreciate it enormously.
Additionally from watching your older videos you've been exponentially getting better at it. Many props to you!
I need a teleprompter, haha. I’ve been memorizing lines this whole time lol.
The camera being so close is weird though.
@@leopluerodong4244 It is so close because I need to keep the mic close to my face to not pick up the room reverb. The mic is just out of frame. Otherwise the audio would change quality between off screen and on screen appearances.
@@junefirst coax a friend into holding up cue cards for you 😂 (compensated with free pizza ofc)
@@junefirst hey i am jasmine leshae walker and i am 30 years old
Nikki. Was the definition of a mother taking her life to protect her sons. May she rest in peace
Thank you for this channel sir.
I am a 42 year old man with a 22 year old brother. He is a tornado enthusiast similar to yourself as described on your channels bio. I am personally a fan of extreme weather as well, but severe thunderstorms are more my thing.
Regardless, learning about tornados has brought the two of us closer together and your channel in particular just has the perfect tone, pace and necessary information making for a complete and engaging video.
Keep it up!
This was a lovely comment to read. So glad to hear that! More of them on the way!
Cheers, Ethan
SOMEONE FINALLY MADE A VIDEO ABOUT IT!
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Yesss
I'VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG WOOOOOO!
Gosh I remember this tornado. I was 12 at the time. I remember my mom deciding to take 49 out of the town about 20 minutes before it got here, with me in tow. Thankfully our home happened to only have minor damages, but it was extremely scary not knowing if we would have a house... or dad... to come back to.
Furry 🫵👁👁
@@MidasCat Is that really the correct way to respond to something like this? You must've been raised in a barn by sows.
I'm sorry for your loss. I'm glad you were safe
@@bastianrattler1392 We had no losses, outside of some relatively minor property damage.
@@MidasCat yes.
In Dixie Alley, if you don't have a tornado shelter, why? I know why. Because most folks here are poor, and just putting food on the table is hard.
My husband and I are not rich, but we're better off than a lot of folks we know. When we moved here, we purchased an above ground shelter that our neighbors and us can get in, if needed. We congregate in my husband's shop, and continuously monitor the weather. If things start looking bad, we all move to our shelter. It is slated for up to twelve people, but we've had fifteen along with three good size dogs, and room for more.
My thought is, Parents with children get in first. Then elderly. Then us. After that, any pets we can get in. My husband's shop is slated for 120 mph winds, plus he built a loft structure inside that has sturdy 4X4 posts attached with long bolts into the concrete to support it, along with 4x4 beams probably making it even stronger. Then he has heavy work benches beneath the loft . It's safer than our home, and our neighbor's trailers, to be inside that shop.
I put families with kids before anything, because kids need their mother AND their father. I'll squeeze as many in the shelter as I can get, then the rest of us will hang on to each other in the back of the shop.
As for the shelter, I got it from a company called Fain Storm Shelters in Western Middle Tennessee. There are other concrete above ground shelters you can get, at similar prices, in case that store is too far out of reach. My shelter cost around $8000. I had to pay extra, because I was out of their regular range. As I said, mine was slated for 11 or 12 people, but I've had several more than that inside, along with three relatively large dogs.
I have lived here since 2019, and I have the best neighbors in the world! Why wouldn't I include them in my protection plans? I know they can't afford it. But we're a community and help each other when we can. I do what I can for them. They do what they can for me. I love my neighbors.
Wrong, most people here historically because of the Yazoo clay soil. It will shift and destroy it. Not to also mention high water tables. Recently people started building safe rooms into their homes.
Thank you for being so caring!!
@@aliciageary7653 That's what this country needs, more caring for all our neighbors.
We call it “Yeah-zoo” down here. Thank you for your great work with these videos.
FINALLY ANOTHER JUNE FIRST UPLOAD 🙏
Thanks for the work you did on the video. I live here, actually. I was at work in town when it came through. We didn't have any power for several weeks. Very hot, too. I spent that summer helping a friend fix his house that a tree went through. There's a road east of yazoo that used to have a dense canopy of foliage. It's still barren from that tornado. Everytime I drive down it it still looks odd, even though it's been 14 years. It's crazy how something like that can affect a place. To this day, whenever those sirens go off it'll send a shiver down your spine. Great vid.
40 miles from Rolling Fork. Insane.
So happy you got to follow your passion in creating these videos. They’re so good. I hope you keep them coming & thank you for doing so 🙏🏽
Next script already completed :)
You know it's a bad tornado when Reed doesn't wanna put himself in the middle of the thing.
This guy is intense. The way he looks into your soul.
Me sees reed timmer: ITS WEDGING OUT!
Nothing wrong with this video except for the way you say Yazoo.
Here in MS we say Yeah-zoo
Yea sure, but down in MS you can hardly even call what you guys sound out as english.
@@SomeDudeOnTheInternet75😂
The indigenous tribe that created the name taught everyone else the correct pronunciation...
...and it's not "Yah-zoo." 🤣🤣🤣
@@SomeDudeOnTheInternet75 fuck you too guy I’m not making fun of the way you talk
@@mr.dennis5503 It is Yahzoo. If you want it to be Yeahzoo, spell it that way.
i love your content. its my 24th bday today and im really enjoying your videos
Same
Well, bday to you
Im 68 yesterday i bid you a very happy birthday . You have so much ahead of you in life dont waste it son.
Happy birthday!!
Happy birthday to you!
i watched the storm chasers episode about this tornado its amazing how some of these people survive
Quick, In Depth, High Quality, and much more, such an amazing video with so much effort and work! I love it!
I still remember seeing this Tornado on storm chasers back in the day. It was truly incredible and devastating
Another amazing video! I've been waiting for this one for a while! I live about 3 hours away, near Tupelo, Mississippi
For a minute I thought the tornado was 150 miles wide....😮
Me too😂
That would be damn near apocalyptic for anything in its path if a tornado ever got THAT wide.
If a tornado ever got that wide...
...it would be called Hurricane Camille!
I thought the Supercell was that long
150 mile wide is impossible as of now ...
Underrated tornado because never heard of it. Super vid btw
i don't think it would have got much attention but for the Storm Chasers episode. i remember watching it way back when it aired and it was insane seeing the dmg. hearing how quiet it was after the tornado went thru was also eerie.
finally someone talks about yazoo city
This tornado is well documented in season 4 episode 1 of storm chasers reed timmer and they helped the Yazooh city tornado victims
Could you possibly cover all Forgotten F5 Tornadoes in a video?
Glad to have this channel back.
That had to be scary. Got a new subscriber. Was fun to watch. Great video
JOEL! You are missed. RIP.
rip??
Joel Taylor passed in 2018 :(
YAZOO CITY TORNADO FINALLY GETS RECOGNITION
I think that episode of Storm Chasers, sticks in my mind the most. Just watching the emotions of Reed, Joel (RIP) and everyone else was heartbreaking. RIP to all who lost their lives that day.
love your videos man keep up the good work 🔥🔥🔥🔥👍
My friend dated a guy from Yazoo City. He invited us to his family house for dinner. Some of the nicest people in that small town I’ve ever met.
I live in yazoo and this affected us for over 2 years to rebuild and it was tough thanks for the video keep doing what you do
Another quality video, Ethan‼️👍🏻
Another incredible video man. Thank you so much!
Your videos never disappoint!
It's a good day when June First posts. 🤘🔥
Wow 150 miles, that is so wide lol
edit: nvm, I rechecked and it was length not width
would it even be fair to call it a tornado if it was 150 miles wide?
@@PhantomCat-wm8dtit’s path was 150 miles, not width
1.75 miles wide is an absolute monster.
That would be a hurricane lol
@@Easton555 i know, that's why i'm asking, if it was 150 miles wide would you even be able to call it a tornado at that point?
In my opinion it should be regulatory that mobile home parks should have a communal storm shelter large enough to hold all tenants. Would save so many lives. If not regulatory, then some kind of tax or insurance benefit to incentivize it.
Keep up the great content!!! When you can, could you make one about Greenfield or Tuscaloosa?
Thanks!
Outstanding! Thanks for all that you do. ❤
I'm from Kansas and now live in Idaho. I will never miss the terror of hearing the sirens and only being able to hide and hope.
I just LOVE your Meso-analysis videos!
yeahhhh love the channel buddy thank you
Unfortunately there's a reason why this region is called Dixie Alley
the mobile home problem won't be solved until people can afford better homes. but try telling that to southern politicians
Affording a home is up to you, not politicians, if you are waiting for politicians to make your life better you will die waiting
Good for you for putting this video up.
would love to see a video on the Good Friday 2011 EF4 Tornado in St. Louis!! it touched down a few miles from my house and ripped through St. Louis city, it even hit the international airport and caused millions of dollars of damage!! It tracked all the way into Illinois & then dissipated.
I would love to see a tornado one of these days with my dad.
June first is my birthday and I love tornados so this is a great channel for me lol
I grew up in Yazoo, still have family there…..I miss home!
Your story about that mother sacrifice her life reminds me of a story I heard years ago. I was in the U S. Air Force stationed at Sheppard AFB; Wichita Falls, Texas August, 1977 to May, 1979. There developed a tornado in Southwest Wichita Falls on April 10, 1979. A lady got her two young kids in a bathtub and herself with a mattress over them as the tornado was getting louder. Her house was being torn apart. She got on top of the mattress like a paperweight holding down papers. She got sucked up in the air. Her two kids survived. She was flying the length of this tornado. She could have died anytime like sivers of wood hitting her like bullets. Her dead body was found in a tree where the tornado disapated. This story of this woman got caught up in the tornado was told to the rescue people. In turn they contacted a group like American Red Cross to relatives of those kids.
I drove by here on the interstate right after it hit, but wasn't aware of the tornado until I saw the damage. It had a massively wide path cut through the woods.
I don't live somewhere that typically has tornadoes (though the timing is a bit poor to say that---Florida, rest in peace to those who passed) and they equally terrify and fascinate me. My dad has newspapers from an outbreak near Louisville Kentucky that shows photos of the devastation of F4s and 5s.
Mother nature isnt to be downplayed, and your videos help spread that message well.
Nice video, can you make one of Joplin 2011?
Another amazing video Ethan
FINALLY, YOU MADE A DOCUMENTARY OF AN UNDERRATED TORNADO!!!!!
lets gooo june first uploaded
Another great video, but anyways, heres a question, whats the strongest or most powerful, maybe even most scary tornado that you have ever experienced or know about, i would love to know
I hope those kids are doing alright now.
Bawling my eyes out, especially as a mother of three young daughters, because she must have had unbelievable will to protect those babies. My heart aches for them and her.
Your videos aree genuinely incredible!! Its surprising that you arent a qualified meteoroligst based on the amount of passion in these videos!! Keep it up!
My degree is mechanical engineering, which has a lot of foundational overlap with meteorology. A lot of the same math and physics principles (:
@@junefirst Youre really getting me into the engineering side of it!!!!!!
I remember driving past the damage path. It was unbelievable. This made me really take weather as a trucker. I drove past and just saw a clearing in the trees and was in shock. Especially since i was supposed to be driving around the time of the storm but decided to slow myself down.
LETS GO A JUNE FIRST VIDEO
Possibly one of the scariest looking tornadoes.. because well.. you could hardly see it. Terrifying.
Im a canadian, I always wanted to go down to OK and see a Tornado. Summer of 2019, an Ef1 nearly hit my house. Now I'm good.
I tell you I was in those tornadoes outbreak in Alabama in 2011.. if you're tuned in on weather your body will tell you. You will never forget
that tornado literally started in the same day as i was born and finally someone made a video abt it i am so happy
This was probably the first storm chase livestream I saw that had me on edge. Following the radar and the locations of chasers on the map, and then seeing this quirky name of a town, and the downed trees in front of the car. I assume it was Reed Timmer's stream.
Let’s go another massive video!
I live 45 mins to an hour outside of yazoo and have family there. I just recently heard about this tornado and it’s insane how close this was to me but I was only 5-6 years old at the time.
What I think was especially creepy about this one is that for a lot of its life it didn't even look like a tornado, which reminds me of the Tri-State Tornado back in 1925. Hackleburg, AL in 2011 was also like this.
i read the 150 mile EF4 and just about lost both of my remaining braincells.
*Edit** will june first reply? i hope so because it would mean a lot to me and it would make me feel important in a way that isnt lowering the global average IQ by at least 1 IQ point.
happens to the best of us!
An Ef3 hit my town on this day): I wasn't born then(born 2012, 12 yr (won't say which town btw)), but I always knew about it, and I did look for image's for that tornado that hit my town 14 years ago and found nothing, I wondered why, and now I know, it was probably overshadowed by that tornado(there was probably more chasers down there based on the high risks, and the forecast models), I never knew that the Yazoo city EF4 tornado took place on that same day. Although I very much knew about the Yazoo city tornado, mainly because it's relatively close to rolling fork and the Rolling Fork tornado is the tornado that really got me extra into weather(made me want to find way's I could protect people from severe weather events). God bless.
Poor people who had to suffer through that
How have I never heard of this tornado before?? 3 hours on the ground is WILD!
Quality content as usual. 🎉🎉🎉Keep the good work up! ❤ 1:15
You can still see the path today at Yazoo City and Chester .
Another great video!!!
Hey June! Do you have the music used at around 2:50?
great video.. A couple of minor pronunciation errors tho.. It's not Duront.. it's Durant, like the little bitey insect ant. Yazoo is pronounced as you would say "at" but obviously without the t.. but the A has that sound... it isn't YAH zoo as you said throughout. YA'zoo and not YAH'zoo. But aside from that nitpicking, it was very well done and I remember sitting at home in central Arkansas watching this monster rip across my home state.
I love your videos
Next you should do one on the biggest what if tornado. That would be the 2024 Hollister tornado. Probably one of the most insane, and powerful storm ever produced. Luckily it was in rural fields in Kansas. Definitely had the velocity and impact to be an EF five
People Live and Die, in Mobile Homes because they can't afford to Build Stronger Homes with Shelters, because "some people" are obsessed with "Greed and Power" and can't get over the idea of sharing This Country's Great Wealth and Opportunity.
RIP Nikki 😢 🙏 🪦 vaya con Dios y en paz descansen.
"We're in a mobile home during a tornado, WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG!"
If I were ever to win the lottery big-time, some of that money would go into an R&D facility for building tornado shelters. Something where 200+ mph winds could be produced (detached jet engines?) for designs to be tested with.
I remember seeing it on stormchasers later and I got goosebumps seeing it on tv
ur channel is underated
the fact that you can get a phone line but not an alarm siren in an area is crazy. youd think it would be the other way around
I remember this day like yesterday. It happened early in the day. I worked insurance claims for this. You can still see tree damage to this day on I55.
When even the storm chasers that are dedicated enough to attract television crews “nope” out of the way: it’s bad.
I just looked at the Delta Forest on Google Earth. I rewound the imagery to 2010, and you could really see the scar. It's still faintly there as of a year ago
This is pretty overshadowed of other tornadoes that are long tracked and a large wedge (like Mayfield and HPC) unfortunately, such a devestating tornado that no one talks about
I remember this from Storm Chasers
Rest in piece Nikki always know ur a hero😢
Why ia your channel called JuneFirst again?
I witnessed a tornado hit my hometown on June 1st, 2011. Changed my life forever.
One should NEVER seek shelter in a mobile home. Literally one of the most dangerous places to be when a tornado strikes.
That tornado destroyed the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where the generations of my family are buried. It took a couple of years, but we rebuilt it better than before.