OMG ! Thanks for the laugh! PS. My husband and I were looking at houses - one within a community that had a HOA. We had no idea what that was, but the word "association" didn't sound like anything we wanted to be part of, and we later realized that we unknowingly dodged a huge bullet !!
And we are all FUNDING their despicable expedition. How many people have become homeless just this year? Climate change and property owners GREED are the two top drivers.
Yeahhhh.. this is exactly what my neighborhood would look like. Every single one of our dumbasses would be outside in the driveway watching. “Ya’ll seein this? Holy sheeeaat!” 😂😂😂🤦🏻♀️
@@JohnJohnsonIamxtoxandIdontaWe bought our first home last year. I’d heard enough horror stories to make me go out of my way to avoid an HOA. Those creeps can actually take your home under the right set of circumstances! And I don’t see any harm in some weeds or longer grass once in a while, or taking a few hours to bring in a trash can. It’s worth the occasional inconvenience and lack of a pool.
I love how midwesterners instead of going to the cellar go outside to look!! I do the same thing here in Kansas but if it’s night time, I don’t take that chance.
Its not every day you see a tornado that big so you watch it until you have to take cover. Like California a few years ago, a tsunami was coming across the Pacific. Everybody stay away from beaches......yep people are so predictable. The beaches were crowded.
Fun Fact: The last recorded EF-5 tornado was in 2013 Moore, Ok. The Latest F4 was on April 27 2024 Marietta, Lake Murray & Dickinson in Ok. This is a textbook Stovepipe Tornado. Nice shot
@@HandlingItAllthe size of the tornado doesn’t matter, rope tornadoes have produced ef4 strength and cone tornadoes not even a quarter mile wide have produced ef5 damage. It’s based off damage not looks
@@galbro480261not impressive. Dandelions are pollinators food and edible and medicinal for humans. I guarantee the lawn is full of poison. Irresponsible and destructive to the planet.
1990 let's get the camcorder and record this tornado/ get in the basement there's a tornado 2024 I'm going to record this tornado on my phone/ get to the storm cellar there's a tornado
@@tmacmi9095 I think, for safety purposes, you have to just assume it's coming for you and make a run for it. You wouldn't want to find out you're wrong.
The last tornado outbreak that happened where I live was at night. It wasn't til the 3rd time my phone's emergency alert woke me that I decided to see what was going on, so I opened the blinds from my bed. The strobe lightning made 12am look like noon, and I remember the oak trees looking like they were gonna blow over and hoping my car was okay. Sirens kept going off so I finally got up and turned on the news, and weatherman was trying to keep himself calm. We had a total of 20 tornadoes that night, two EF3 and one EF4 that left four entire neighborhoods in a federal state of emergency. My parents came to my apartment to shower since they didn't have water or electric, and neither did my sister and grandfather. The interstate was closed because of debris, and my 20 minute drive to work took TWO HOURS. So...I guess sometimes weatherman gets it right
According to the National Weather Service, the tornado was officially ranked an EF-3. The tornado had windspeeds of 165 mph (max). The tornado was on the ground for 30 miles, and it left some houses without exterior walls or roofs.
The Minden tornado traveled 41 miles. By Harlan, Iowa it had the size and wind speed of an Ef-5. Only reason it wasn't an EF-5 was because it didn't hit Harlan, Iowa... my town.
Whether it's a five or a three, I think it's completely and utterly shameful to put laughing faces up while people 's properties and lives are being uprooted!
I couldn’t agree more. Yes, they are indeed fascinating but the storm chasers who are shouting “woo hoo baby” should be more sensitive to the fact that lives are being destroyed.
"And lives are being uprooted" That's the best pun I've heard all day! Lmfao😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I’m a weather nerd and I would’ve done the same. It’s going to happen regardless if it’s videoed or not. The loss of life is still devastating, but it is what it is.
I stood outside under the rotation that became the late 90’s Salt Lake City tornado (we were 10 ish blocks from where it touched down and killed a guy). I argued with coworkers about whether it really was a tornado.
I grew up in Tornado Alley - we didn't stand waiting on the tornadoes... we drove away in the opposite direction as fast as we could and came back to whatever was left.
I grew up and still live in tornado ally. When the sirens go off, we either head to the basement or to the root cellar if we have one. Many of these things are moving so fast you can't outrun 'em, but i you get in the southwest corner of the basement or down in the root cellar, you'll usually be safe, even if your house is gone. They always recommend against trying to outrun it.
And then everyone else decides to do the same thing, and then a traffic jam happens, and then bang, the tornado plows right through all of those cars and mass casualty happens. That's why they say to head into your basement/shelter.
@@TheRealestEricRight, but what are you supposed to do if a monster tornado is barreling toward you, and you have no lower area to go? Bathtub and a mattress won't protect you from anything above maybe an EF2 or EF3 if you're lucky. An EF4 or especially an EF5 will... Do very very bad things if that's your defense. Can't really blame people for driving the opposite direction. Besides, if a jam is on the road, you'd find my ass tearing through crop fields to get moving again, and so would everyone else. Is it risky? Extremely. But your other choice? Guaranteed gruesome death.
The odds that the people recording will lose their houses are very slim when it's at that distance and not heading toward them. Tornadoes have a narrow path and don't zigzag around wildly, actively looking to clear out as wide an area as possible. They figured that in the unlikely case it takes a turn in their direction they had plenty of time to get into the cellar. Also, since they obviously live under the thumb of an HOA, they probably don't care if they die.
@@adiinbar993idk if they dont care if they die the tornado is so far and since its going to the right its looks safe enough too record, regardless nobody should take a chance
I'm 51 years old and I saw one of these in my life it literally come down the street where we lived on. The house was going in and out like it was breathing and it sounded like a freight train was coming right by. You want to know what a tornado sounds like it sounds like a very fast moving freight train.
I used to hear people say that about the train when I was a kid, and always wondered... the rumbling of a train on the tracks, or the sound of its whistle blowing? So since I didn't know, whenever I'd hear tornado sirens blowing I assumed that was the tornado (until I was old enough to know better)
That tornado is farther away then you think. Notice that the leaves on the trees are not blowing that hard and there is no rain. Having said that. I wouldn't test fate much longer.
"Honey where are you going?" "I need to record the neighborhood being destroyed so the insurance company doesnt screw us over" (Thank god i updated the life insurance last week)..."ok, be safe"...😂🤣😂
I had to provide video of 2 hail incidents that occurred in one day. A small strip of hail may not be picked up by weather radar. If the number of vehicles/buildings effected is small the insurance companies may lean towards you might be making a false claim.
Un fact, Flying debris causes most tornado injuries. Large tornadoes have thrown debris more than 40 miles. Cars have been thrown more than a mile. EF5 tornadoes regularly tear up road pavement, leaving nothing behind but bare dirt.
fun fact: just because it’s an ef5 doesn’t mean it’s extremely dangerous, the eg scale is based off of how much damage the tornado causes rather than the size of the tornado (to prove my point, the second biggest tornado ever recorded touched down in a field a few days ago, but it didn’t destroy anything. It will likely be rated an ef2. THE SECOND STRONGEST TORNADO.)
@@propo-999 It's based on wind speed. F 1-5 is purely related to the highest wind within the storm path. Now, the EF (Enhanced Fujita) takes into account the amount of damage caused to certain structures, trees, and buildings by using them as damage indicators. I think that's what you're talking about. That is a better way to determine how much devastation is caused by the storm, after the event, and before the next event. But, we can have F5s out over the water that may not cause damage to anything. We get hurricanes here in Florida and the scariest thing about them is not necessarily the wind but, the water. Storm surges on the coast can be terrifying!
We had an F5 here in north western Pa back in 1985 and I tell you, nothing says power until u see metal right through a tree trunk. I was 19 and trying to get rid of my fear of storms.
Fascinating and terrifying! I live in a wooded area where you can't see them coming, which gives me great anxiety. I don't wish the destruction that tornados bring on anyone!
They say they sound like a train bearing down on you. I live in the woods also, and have the same issue as you. Well, I heard that train about 6 years ago and headed for my basement. Luckily, it missed my house but did a lot of tree damage and a few neighbors lost roofs. You'll know that sound when you hear it!! Believe me!
As someone who lived 90% of my life in a frequent tornado area & surrounded by trees, you have to put your safety in God's hands and trust him to preserve you through it. I've been through several, a bit too close for comfort. Life is too short to live in fear. I have "spidey sense" about storms. maybe God gave me that. 3 blocks away from my bed is a bit too close for comfort.But I know when my ears & sinuses pop like a plane landing & I hear trees breaking with that roar & whistle, it is right on me. No basement but an interior windowless bath is my "shelter are" & when we have high warning I have clothes & a Go Bag already there, in plastic, with a week of meds, so if it ever does, I plan to survive & be equipped to get out with my survivor bag. Being prepared means I never have to be afraid. I pray you find a way to not be afraid.
When a tornado alert came on the tv, my husband would go out in the driveway to watch for it. My very young son would follow him, yelling "The tomato is coming! The tomato is coming!"
Well, he was getting close to seeing the right thing, but I still find it adorable and they do so very close together. But I do hope everybody stays safe.
Men proving their manhood: Yeah Bob. Uh huh. The wife and kids were all hunkered down in the tub. Me and billy was out front making sure it didn't get too close. Yeah, of course he had his AR-15 with him. This is Texas! (It's all fun and games until the tornado takes a hard right. 😮😂 then it's just a better video.)
How is everyonfe.. I hope you're safe. I'm sorry a tornado showed up in your neighborhood. I'm so sorry of the misfortunes that happen after a tornado cut through your neighborhood I just hope and pray people, family everyone are safe
that was dangerously close. those guys needed to stay inside bc the tornado can change direction at any moment in time. this is what storm chasers are for people...
We the people are the storm chasers in America. We don’t need no storm chasers to follow a tornado because we live in America!! Freedom for all!!!!! 🇺🇸✊🏼
Tip: if the tornado looks like it’s not moving that means it’s coming right for you, and you need to take cover:) Edit:731 likes???!!!! And 51 replies? Thanks guys!
could it also mean that it's not moving? Just spinning in place? I heard that is it stays in place long enough it can dig down and find a water well, then the force of the water heats up as it smashes alongside the newly forming well and the heat of that friction turns the sides of the well into clay and that is were humans got the idea of turning mud in to clay pots to carry to the well. I never thought of it that way until I did and then I realized that yeah, .... that makes total sense. if I were an early or even middle caveman and I was tired of rinsing out my wooly mammoth gall bladder sack that I used for water carrying and then I stumbled across a tornado standing still drilling into the dirt. then me, if I were a caveman I would certainly investigate the phenomenon (even though I wouldn't actually think that word at that time cuz it didn't exist then.) then I would see the well drilled by the stationary tornado and then I would have felt the heat from the newly formed clay sides of the well, it is very very plausible that at that moment the realization that heat could melt earth into early pottery even before fire was invented. This is probably the first traces in the mind of Neanderthal to make pottery. irregardless of he had the idea of the wheel, since they had that at that time all he would have to do is lay that wheel on it's side and spin it for a pottery wheel to switch from gall bladder water sack to clean pots of clay. it also wouldn't alway have that certain taste of that animals organs depending on which body part sack you would use. I mean think about it, if you used the urine bladder of say a prehistoric animal, that water probably always had that subtle to hard tase of piss. that would make me want to turn the potters wheel. Hey that could be the name of movie. Cromagnon turns the potters wheel. Showing at the cliff wall behind the fire at your local hunting and gathering tribal village drive up at dusk. I bet they could have a double feature with Dances with Wolves. The original Aboriginal American native Indians would probably call a truce so they let there kids watch the showing. it could certainly bring people together who wouldn't normally want to get together cuz of all the fighting which happens when humans brains were so small back then. which reminds me, my brain just ate a small carton of chocolate milk and 7 mini donuts (and a very small canister of pringles.}. it made typing all that theoretical evolutionary theory straight from the department of redundancy department possibly faster that it is for a person reading it. For cryin' out Hoot..... now I'm startin to see why people are so into this internet thing these days. which makes me wonder what the neanderthal would have done had he/she/they had it back then. and if you were transgender back than they would probably just kill you with there clubs cuz they hadn't evolved as a society to that high of a level of sophistication. just some thoughts.
i though about the same thing i think weather channel would advise people to get in basement even if close like lightning strikes if thunder roars go indoors.
I love how when you watch a tornado from a far distance where you won't be affected and it's not going your way it's like "Mother Nature at its finest" but when its close to you and heading your way it's just "HOLY SHIT THAT'S A MONSTER!!!!!!"
For anyone wondering, this was rated an EF3 tornado. Reported peak windspeeds of 160 ish mph. (This is the Lincoln, NE tornado) -- Regardless, my condolences go out to those who lost their lives in this violent event. --
@lukecoleman9229 The Manitoba F5 was maybe a third as wide as this guy, and it ripped an anchored home off the ground & threw it like it was yesterday's garbage. Appearance doesn't mean crap with these things lol
@@lukecoleman9229 never assume anything is not violent or lesser violent 160mph winds vs 200 mph doesnt make that much difference if you get hit with a volvo. secondly to that size does not determine strength of a tornado also.
@@anotherHelldiver depends on alot of variables such as wind speed, damage and size. 2 of those 3 can be detected during an active tornado by certain radar, but no this is not an EF4 even
I’m an Oklahoman and I still don’t understand people standing outside watching tornadoes. I remember being young during the May 3rd tornadoes and they terrify me.
I understand what you're saying, and I agree, but this is 1, probably a once in a lifetime chance to somewhat safely view a tornado for these people, 2, May, 3rd tornadoes.....that's a different breed, no one was standing outside to watch those monsters.
@@Lucky9_9 My eyesight ain't what it used to be, but it certainly looks to be moving left to right on my screen, and from what I understand about tornadoes, if it looks stationary THEN it's coming straight for you.
@@Brodyelmore1234 The last EF5 we had was back in 2013. If this was an EF5, it would be huge news. And looking at the tornado outbreak, the highest rating was EF3 .
I was thinking this too. F2-F3. F5, is a massive funnel , that would not have the visible "pipe", when it touches down . F5 would have taken this entire neighborhood. Nobody would be outside.
@@aae7583 I agree that it's definitely not an EF5, but the size of the tornado doesn't determine its destructibility. Look up the tornado in Rainsville, Alabama in 2011. That was about as wide as this one and that was an EF5.
@@aae7583#1. The Enhanced Fujita Scale has been in use since 2007, so it is EF, not F. #2: Looks have absolutely nothing to do with the strength of a tornado lmfao. Sure, usually mile wide wedge tornadoes are associated with the strongest and scariest of tornadoes, but any tornado of any size can and WILL do high end damage. We haven’t had an EF5 since 2013, so I have no idea what this poster is trying to yap about. But wedge tornadoes usually take the cake when it comes to EF4 and EF5 damage because they are so large and have a greater chance of hitting things. A smaller drill bit tornado can have winds just like that of a wedge, but it’s so small that the likelihood it hits something is lower. It’s like dragging a vacuum cleaner over your carpet vs a syringe.
The first rule of tornados is: It is not THAT the wind is blowing. It is WHAT the wind is blowing. 😊 We had an EF5 go through our town (Hesston tornado 3/13/90) and bank papers were floating from the sky 100 miles away afterwards. It had a "stovepipe" shape like this one and was on the ground for 2 and 1/2 hours. It took two lives...a six year old boy sheltered in his basement and a woman in her 80s who tried to outrun it in her car. Being behind the camera gives a false sense of security and distorts distance, so you are not aware of how close these tornados really are. Videos do not show how massive these are or how destructive they can be. Leave the cameras to the professionals. 😊❤
Absolutely! It's fairly far off. Were it closer I would be hiring. But this is record.with my eyes wide and mouth open distance so recording is totally warranted.
If that tornado zigs instead of zags your going to have a really bad day, I personally after having been in 8 of them would be underground a long time ago :)
Wowser, y'all are wild!! I'm from Indiana and a🌪 warning meant gather up blankets/pillows, food/water, books/toys, the radio.....and off to the basement we'd all go! If the neighbors didn't have a basement, they came over and shared your safe space. I guess we were chickens. 🤷🏾♀️
Oh cool! An EF5! Known for chucking debris like parts of houses, cars, cows, splintered fence posts and other deadly projectiles at high velocities! LETS GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY IN IT! HONEY GET OUT HERE!
@@Kyonfilmsanimations8606 Uh did ya miss the EF 4 in Sulpher a little more than a week ago? It killed ppl and completely leveled dam near the entire town!
That's exactly right. Easy to spot the nervous ninnies with zero sense of curiosity or wonder. In Oklahoma, if we saw this we'd know at this point it isn't going to hit us. Even if it were to dramatically change direction (which this one won't), we'd still have at least one minute to get to the shelter.
I live in earthquake country but because we haven’t had a really large one lately that I don’t prepare myself and my home as best I can to try and survive it.
This is one of the best Tornado vs Neighborhood videos I have ever watched I wasn't sure what was better the tornado or the crazy people watching it live 😂
Yes, but it's not an EF5! The title is so misleading in fact that he's ripping up straight up American history, with his title he's saying "Fuck Joplin Missouri, my city has it worse". While Joplin Missouri is still fuckin rebuilding itself!!!
@@greatunz67 you poor confused soul. Man creates gods out of rocks and carved images, and this trend has been going on for hundreds of thousands of years. There is only one God. One Creator, who has created man in His own image. You wouldn't be able to think, breath, feel, or even see if it weren't for a Creator, just like it took a creator to invent the internet, robots, cars, etc. Even things without internal organs need a creator. "The fool says in his heart that there is no God." The is straight out of the Bible. You know, the thing God inscribed unto man to write. You are a fool for thinking there isn't a Creator when that is the reason for your very existence. But the Bible warns us of people like you. You're going straight to hell if you deny the existence of your very Creator and don't acknowledge Him, so I'd start believing if I were you.
@@sammontanez6908 he probably didnt notice that, most of the time people dont notice tornados getting too close visually, but the moment he feels those winds picking up, he should take shelter the moment he can
They determine if its a EF3 or EF5 by wind speed, and the damage it leaves behind. You can't tell by looking at it. That's why they wait and estimate the damage before they tell you what it was on the scale. EF4's and EF5's have higher wind speeds, and usually leaves nothing left of a house. Sometimes, only the foundation is left. Like the May 3rd, 1999, and 2013 tornados that hit Moore, Ok. Trees looked like tooth picks. No limbs, leaves, nothing but trunks, if that.
I was told it was wind speed in the funnel. 200 and above was an ef5. But what people are saying it includes the damage. So if a 300 mph tornado goes through an empty field and does no damage, is it an ef1 ?
@@DaveTison EF4 TO EF5 ARE A MILE WIDE AND THEY KNOCK DOWN EVERYTHING and they usually find cows and horses and people in trees up to a mile away,only place safe is 12 foot underground
@@DaveTisonliterally yes. Look up the 2013 El Reno tornado. Widest tornado in history. Mobile radar picked up wind speeds of 300+mph. But it didn’t really hit anything so it was downgraded to an f3. I think the fujita scale says it must use damage to determine wind speeds, not data from radars.
@@DaveTison because of the lack of damage, they added a new classification of an EFU, which means undetermined. I looked up the experts on the weather channel Fuji scale.This is the only reason why I know.
1999? Bro there weren’t strong tornadoes 25 years ago. Tornadoes and hurricanes have only been on the rise in the last few years due to global warming and climate change.
I’m not looking I live in Dixie Alley where that tornado is lifting bricks 🧱 my guy bricks 🧱 ok we not taking that chance it’s haul ass to the basement with the bike helmet and a matress and a tub or closet
I’m from Georgia and we had a tornado scare earlier this week. We had a REAL one that was an EF4 about three years ago. I was scared shitless but luckily we were unhurt. Praying for all involved in these storms 🙏
In Newnan? Yes, I was living there at the time. Fortunately I only lost a few shingles off my roof. So many others weren't that lucky. Couldn't believe the devastation out by the high school, large trees snapped like matchsticks.
I hope the families that are actually getting crushed and were in the path of this, and possibly losing their homes or love ones, I truly pray and hope they made it out safe.
This was actually the EF3 tornado that struck Andover Kansas back in late April 2022. To put your fears to rest nobody was killed and only a few minor injuries were reported. The title is a bit misleading, but it was an EF3 and not an EF5.
@@shariys1 They can be any shape, in fact some of the strongest tornadoes are actually shaped like an hourglass or have multiple small funnels. I survived an EF4 tornado that had windspeeds estimated between 200 and 190 mph from damage alone and it was a 1/2 mile wide stove pipe with multiple vortices.
Its really a common mis-conception that EF5 tornadoes are always wedges. Same thing with the southwest corner of your basement. Tornadoes can move any way or direction and even loop or stall. Just get under the stairs if you can and cover yourself with something to protect yourself from flying debris.
I wonder why nobody planned to build tornado resistant houses and buildings in the tornado alley areas. This move, although very expensive, could save many lives and properties too.
The same reason why people who live in hurricane zones still build a house in the same area over and over again after it was totally wiped away from its foundation.
Because humans cannot beat Mother Nature, it’s just fact. The homes would probably be really expensive and it’s easier said that done. EF4/EF5s have swirling winds over 100 mph that are capable of literally putting a large, well built house out of existence.
@@deathpunch23 like Juan said, expensive, as well as the fact that Mother Nature always beats humans; EF5 tornados literally put well built houses out of existence. I’ve seen EF3 damage in person and it’s awful. Watch your tone.
Lets take worst case scenario, joplin tornado. The tornado lifted and physically moved the hospital. Secondly, unlike commiefornia, the midwest simply cannot afford to. Average person makes like 30-40k a year. A tornado resistant house would be around a million bucks....
I’m from Bennington, if you’ve heard of Newport landing lake, well that’s where I live. My house got full struck, and what’s crazy is that our boat ended up on the other side of the lake.
An F5 in Texas a few decades back went through central texas. People did not stay in their homes and jumped cars and ran away That was the right decision in this case . Their homes were leveled When I say leveled I mean the debris was gone and elsewhere leaving only naked slab and a few pieces of pipes sticking up out of foundation. Everything else gone - no carpet - no tile , nothing but cement slab
That's horrible!!. I live in Michigan now and I've never lived in a tornado state before and I thought I never would. Scares me so bad that we will have a tornado sometime!.I pray we won't!
When you live in these areas, everyone knows how to seek shelter. Lived in Kansas, often looked for a while. Mother Nature is amazing. But we know when to go to the crawl space.
Dang that’s insane we just got slammed by a derecho here in New York Albany got hit by a tornado form this same storm that hit us I saw rotation on it before it was more outflow dominant gust in our being very violent we lost power 3 hours ago still not back running off generator rn
Hope everyone is safe and uninjured. That's scary as hell. I'm in Canada and we drove past the area of a category 3 and it was shocking the destruction, all the trees were bent over. A sight to see for Canadians, ef5 no thank you. Good bless you all.
Horrible here, we cannot get a drop of rain even! Rained twice in April, nothing in May.. everyday 85+ degrees scorching sun.. drying and dying 😢 Bradenton Florida
Last year was 11 months of drought. ..it rain three times in June and three days in July. ..we went from Sept 3-oct 3 with no rain. The hurricane that passed by us in the gulf Aug 26-28 only lessened severity of drought.. did NOT get us out of drought. ..in Dec 2023 it finally started to rain..
You have to love how these people have no idea which way is freaking F5 tornado is going… Yet they are all out in their driveway taping it like they are directing the movie twister! Lol., How about shelter or GTFOH immediately!?!
@@DS-lu5ygSo far for us in Alabama yes it has when James says go to ur safe place we there either the ⛑️ on and a pillow or mattress on god . Like we be running skipping steps to get to that Lv
if the houses are built like the ones in my area, it probably wouldn't matter too much if they were inside or outside :( lol we don't even have basements here in my neck of the woods.
Grew up in Oklahoma and we always went outside and sat on the front porch with my dad to watch the sky, weather, storms, or tornadoes when the sirens went off. Those are some of our fondest memories with my dad. I love bad weather, not for the people, just the wind, thunder that rattles your insides, windows, house, I love the rain and the dark clouds.
Not just in the Midwest. In the south, we have deadly tornados every year. In our city, the tornado alarm sounds every Wednesday at noon to remind people what it sounds like . They don't do that in places where tornados aren't common.
This was in Elkhorn Omaha located in Nebraska. During this tornado I was in the tornado shelter at my school ducking in cover as it came towards my school. Luckily the tornado stopped and went back up before it hit but it was really close to me and I thought I was going to die. Scariest moment of my life. Thankfully me my house and my family was okay but my friend had there has destroyed sadly.😢 Prays for everyone who was involved I was part of it
Even if this isn’t the exact nado that you had to go through, I’m glad you made it out safely! These beasts are scary- even as an adult I’m terrified yet intrigued by them. Sorry you had to deal with the chaos and fear at school!
I sure hope people that loose their homes, think to build UNDERGROUND next time. Like basements or even ground houses. Weather is going to STAY BAD over the next several years. Build safer for the next house you make.
@@KAH5371 thats true but everyone is going to have to build back SOMETHING to live in. And for anyone reading the comments, thats what i was trying to instill in them. To build underground in some way, even if its partially underground because WHAT PEOPLE OF THE EARTH IS *NOT* BEING TOLD IS...this harsh weather, is NOT going to stop...in fact, it WILL get worse...because whether you believe this or not, mankind is actually in the very end days described in the Holy Bible where things are going to be hard til the end. So building back a home to live in like we have been so used to building, is just not going to be a wise decision...it will just be torn down again likely. People NEED to prepare for the times at hand. I seen in the news where that one place had 17 tornados on the ground at one time...now, i dont think ANYONE can think thats normal. Can you?
That was actually and EF3 tornado with max winds of 155mph. This same storm went in to produce another bigger and stronger tornado in the Omaha region. And it was just upgraded to EF4 with winds of 170mph.
The only reoccurring nightmare I've ever had after growing up on the Ohio valley was exactly this. Standing outside like a dummy and watching a tornado come at me?! Which I would never do! Why are these people outside?!
James Span got us from Dixie Alley aka Tornado alley yeah when James says get in ur safe place we be like yes sir how quick you want us to get there like we in the army boi shit sirens on oh we acting like we got a man overboard my guy strait hauling ass to the basement I have actually jumped steps from one floor to the other literally skipped steps going down you can here me and my brothers like we a football team literally runing to get to the basement with the helmet 🪖 like we in ww2
Not all tornadoes shaped like that is an EF5, we typically don't have EF5 tornado nowadays, the last time we had an EF5 was in Moore, Oklahoma in 2013 where as an EF5 hit almost the exact same route as the 1999 Moore, Oklahoma EF5, so yeah this may be an EF4 or EF3
Any strength of tornado can be any size. Look at the Elie, Manitoba F5. There's a little controversy about it's rating but it was crazy strong and very thin all the same!
@@markelbauer F5, so not EF5 then. Canada being completely different topography from Tornado Valley doesn't help your case either. What people are on about is in Tornado Valley, thin white funnels are usually (keyword here, usually) not even EF2.
It was a similar setup to the Ottumwa EF4 last year, which had a gorgeous rain free tornado. These storms were part of the left exit region of a cold core low pressure system, which allowed upper level winds to vent the precipitation away from the storm path.
That neighborhood looks like the HOA already has letters informing you of violations from tornado damage.
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lol
Good one, 😂 lol 😅👍
That’s why I despise cookie cutter neighborhoods
🤣🤣🤣🤣 this comment should be pinned
FYI -Theyre not recording the tornado. Thats the HOA capturing the truck parked on the street past 3pm on a Tuesday.
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OMG ! Thanks for the laugh! PS. My husband and I were looking at houses - one within a community that had a HOA. We had no idea what that was, but the word "association" didn't sound like anything we wanted to be part of, and we later realized that we unknowingly dodged a huge bullet !!
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And we are all FUNDING their despicable expedition.
How many people have become homeless just this year?
Climate change and property owners GREED are the two top drivers.
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Yeahhhh.. this is exactly what my neighborhood would look like. Every single one of our dumbasses would be outside in the driveway watching. “Ya’ll seein this? Holy sheeeaat!” 😂😂😂🤦🏻♀️
Not me I’m running!!
@@tracey9076 thats smart Obviously these people have not seen a tornado make a sharp turn UGH
So frigging stupid!! Get the f*CK in low lying ditch away from that thing!!! Don't stand there looking at it!! WTF.... They are so dangerous
Got to have pictures to remember
Lol u from Oklahoma too?
This was on a Monday. HOA rules clearly state that tornadoes can only visit on weekends and holidays.
I sold my home for one reason only. The HOA. Will never again buy another home with one..
Why are people outside 😮
@@JohnJohnsonIamxtoxandIdonta what they do to piss you off or out i should say
@@JohnJohnsonIamxtoxandIdontaWe bought our first home last year. I’d heard enough horror stories to make me go out of my way to avoid an HOA. Those creeps can actually take your home under the right set of circumstances! And I don’t see any harm in some weeds or longer grass once in a while, or taking a few hours to bring in a trash can. It’s worth the occasional inconvenience and lack of a pool.
That tornado mind you is returning from war, when he touched down in the middle east. It fought for your country blowing enemies all around
I love how midwesterners instead of going to the cellar go outside to look!!
I do the same thing here in Kansas but if it’s night time, I don’t take that chance.
Its not every day you see a tornado that big so you watch it until you have to take cover. Like California a few years ago, a tsunami was coming across the Pacific. Everybody stay away from beaches......yep people are so predictable. The beaches were crowded.
Us to it’s like a Kansas thing🤷🏼♀️
Nobody has a basement here. Might as well go outside and meet our demise in person.
We do the same here in Missouri. I was born and raised for 51 yrs in Missouri and I remember doing it as a kid and so did everyone we knew.
When you live by the gulf if the hurricane is a 1 or 2 we sit outside under the carport and watch the trees bend 🤣🤣🤣
Fun Fact: The last recorded EF-5 tornado was in 2013 Moore, Ok.
The Latest F4 was on April 27 2024 Marietta, Lake Murray & Dickinson in Ok.
This is a textbook Stovepipe Tornado. Nice shot
Looks more like an F3. Not a very wide funnel at all
Looks have nothing to do with ratings.
@@HandlingItAllrating is based on the amount of damage it does, not size or speed of winds.
@@HandlingItAllthe size of the tornado doesn’t matter, rope tornadoes have produced ef4 strength and cone tornadoes not even a quarter mile wide have produced ef5 damage. It’s based off damage not looks
@@scarpfishexactly, it’s how much damage the tornado causes
The hell with the tornado 🌪️, I was amazed by how perfect the lawn was.
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i didnt see one dandelion on the grass very impressive.
@@galbro480261not impressive. Dandelions are pollinators food and edible and medicinal for humans. I guarantee the lawn is full of poison. Irresponsible and destructive to the planet.
Little longer where the grass met the driveway but we’ll let it slide, this time
That’s what happens in communities where people actually care about their way of life lol
1990 - “everyone in the basement!”
2024 - “I need to get this on my cell phone!!”
If it didn’t take so long to find and set up the camcorder back then, they would have videotaped them too.
So true
People these days aren't very bright
@@azurekutella3812and they did. There’s plenty of footage from the 90s, too.
1990 let's get the camcorder and record this tornado/ get in the basement there's a tornado
2024 I'm going to record this tornado on my phone/ get to the storm cellar there's a tornado
Always remember if it doesn't look like it's moving, it's moving towards you. Certified front porch tornado watcher
Or maybe moving away from you? I’m not a certified tornado watcher though
Thank you, I didn't know that!
@@tmacmi9095 I think, for safety purposes, you have to just assume it's coming for you and make a run for it. You wouldn't want to find out you're wrong.
I'm so glad we have a youtube meteorologist like yourself to let us know what to do.......
Youre a good man heres your like good sir
Weather man inside on tv screaming “take shelter now” these people run outside saying “mind ya business, I’m gonna go 👀 look!” 🤣🤣
Ya none of your bees wax
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I know right 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@pinkyofmetal8778 😂
@@emelyrico74 🤣
The last tornado outbreak that happened where I live was at night. It wasn't til the 3rd time my phone's emergency alert woke me that I decided to see what was going on, so I opened the blinds from my bed. The strobe lightning made 12am look like noon, and I remember the oak trees looking like they were gonna blow over and hoping my car was okay. Sirens kept going off so I finally got up and turned on the news, and weatherman was trying to keep himself calm. We had a total of 20 tornadoes that night, two EF3 and one EF4 that left four entire neighborhoods in a federal state of emergency. My parents came to my apartment to shower since they didn't have water or electric, and neither did my sister and grandfather. The interstate was closed because of debris, and my 20 minute drive to work took TWO HOURS. So...I guess sometimes weatherman gets it right
According to the National Weather Service, the tornado was officially ranked an EF-3. The tornado had windspeeds of 165 mph (max). The tornado was on the ground for 30 miles, and it left some houses without exterior walls or roofs.
I was wondering... An ef5 is much bigger and scary af.
Ya you'd know right away if that was a EF-5 tornado lol 😅
Where is this?
Thanks I was just going to say that looked like a three
The Minden tornado traveled 41 miles. By Harlan, Iowa it had the size and wind speed of an Ef-5. Only reason it wasn't an EF-5 was because it didn't hit Harlan, Iowa... my town.
The neighbors are the paparazzi and the tornado is the celebrity
Its feeling fabulous with all its fans 😂
Whether it's a five or a three, I think it's completely and utterly shameful to put laughing faces up while people 's properties and lives are being uprooted!
I couldn’t agree more. Yes, they are indeed fascinating but the storm chasers who are shouting “woo hoo baby” should be more sensitive to the fact that lives are being destroyed.
I absolutely agree.Nothing funny about a tornado that kills a mommas 4 month old baby😢
Talk to the people with the PHONES!!
@@geegstarThe people with phones are in public and are exercising their rights to film.
"And lives are being uprooted"
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O.K. Everybody outside to watch a tornado destroy our neighborhood.
Hahahah
I’m a weather nerd and I would’ve done the same. It’s going to happen regardless if it’s videoed or not. The loss of life is still devastating, but it is what it is.
Some people think it's not going to destroy the area...until it's too late to find cover...God bless
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I stood outside under the rotation that became the late 90’s Salt Lake City tornado (we were 10 ish blocks from where it touched down and killed a guy). I argued with coworkers about whether it really was a tornado.
I grew up in Tornado Alley - we didn't stand waiting on the tornadoes... we drove away in the opposite direction as fast as we could and came back to whatever was left.
I did too, but my crazy self be right outside 🥴
I grew up and still live in tornado ally. When the sirens go off, we either head to the basement or to the root cellar if we have one. Many of these things are moving so fast you can't outrun 'em, but i you get in the southwest corner of the basement or down in the root cellar, you'll usually be safe, even if your house is gone. They always recommend against trying to outrun it.
Now THAT makes sense to me!
And then everyone else decides to do the same thing, and then a traffic jam happens, and then bang, the tornado plows right through all of those cars and mass casualty happens.
That's why they say to head into your basement/shelter.
@@TheRealestEricRight, but what are you supposed to do if a monster tornado is barreling toward you, and you have no lower area to go?
Bathtub and a mattress won't protect you from anything above maybe an EF2 or EF3 if you're lucky.
An EF4 or especially an EF5 will... Do very very bad things if that's your defense.
Can't really blame people for driving the opposite direction. Besides, if a jam is on the road, you'd find my ass tearing through crop fields to get moving again, and so would everyone else. Is it risky? Extremely. But your other choice? Guaranteed gruesome death.
Literally my neighborhood, we would all be standing outside just to make sure it's there😂😂😂
That dad recording had to of been getting yelled at by his wife
I guess they figured, if they were gonna lose their houses, might as well record it first.
For the insurance companies. You know how they’re always gaslighting about damage! 😂
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its ef3 😭
The odds that the people recording will lose their houses are very slim when it's at that distance and not heading toward them. Tornadoes have a narrow path and don't zigzag around wildly, actively looking to clear out as wide an area as possible.
They figured that in the unlikely case it takes a turn in their direction they had plenty of time to get into the cellar.
Also, since they obviously live under the thumb of an HOA, they probably don't care if they die.
@@adiinbar993idk if they dont care if they die the tornado is so far and since its going to the right its looks safe enough too record, regardless nobody should take a chance
I'm 51 years old and I saw one of these in my life it literally come down the street where we lived on. The house was going in and out like it was breathing and it sounded like a freight train was coming right by. You want to know what a tornado sounds like it sounds like a very fast moving freight train.
Yep. Defeaning. M
I would rather be in a blizzard while in my underwear than inside of a tornado.
*lived. Not lived on.
I used to hear people say that about the train when I was a kid, and always wondered... the rumbling of a train on the tracks, or the sound of its whistle blowing? So since I didn't know, whenever I'd hear tornado sirens blowing I assumed that was the tornado (until I was old enough to know better)
@@Soniphex I'm doing everything within my power trying not to laugh.
Reminds me of when California had a possibility of having a tsunami hit. A bunch of people went down to the beach to watch it come in. So dumb.
It’s not
Going to hit them, tornadoes have a very predictable path.
As if you wouldn't go outside to take a look if someone told you a tornado was in sight. 🤡
hang gliding weather fer sher .
@@cindybrown7527he said tsunami not tornado are you dumb?
Damn scary!
the whole neighborhood was out there like it was a sunny day😹💀
Down bursts, side swipes of a tornado, the sudden shift of the tornado. As it heads towards you. I wouldn't tempt fate.
Tornados can kill!, Jesus saves sinners! God bless you!
Anyone who lives in tornado alley knows exactly how many seconds it will take to get from their front or back porch to their basement.
That tornado is farther away then you think. Notice that the leaves on the trees are not blowing that hard and there is no rain. Having said that. I wouldn't test fate much longer.
@@robertgoodman7114 They're a safe distance away and the tornado is clearly passing to their right.
So how close was that tornado to that man standing there recording? 😢
"Honey where are you going?" "I need to record the neighborhood being destroyed so the insurance company doesnt screw us over" (Thank god i updated the life insurance last week)..."ok, be safe"...😂🤣😂
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🤣 Hilarious! Yet true!
I had to provide video of 2 hail incidents that occurred in one day. A small strip of hail may not be picked up by weather radar. If the number of vehicles/buildings effected is small the insurance companies may lean towards you might be making a false claim.
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Un fact, Flying debris causes most tornado injuries. Large tornadoes have thrown debris more than 40 miles. Cars have been thrown more than a mile. EF5 tornadoes regularly tear up road pavement, leaving nothing behind but bare dirt.
Wow😮
fun fact: just because it’s an ef5 doesn’t mean it’s extremely dangerous, the eg scale is based off of how much damage the tornado causes rather than the size of the tornado (to prove my point, the second biggest tornado ever recorded touched down in a field a few days ago, but it didn’t destroy anything. It will likely be rated an ef2. THE SECOND STRONGEST TORNADO.)
@@propo-999 It's based on wind speed. F 1-5 is purely related to the highest wind within the storm path. Now, the EF (Enhanced Fujita) takes into account the amount of damage caused to certain structures, trees, and buildings by using them as damage indicators. I think that's what you're talking about. That is a better way to determine how much devastation is caused by the storm, after the event, and before the next event. But, we can have F5s out over the water that may not cause damage to anything. We get hurricanes here in Florida and the scariest thing about them is not necessarily the wind but, the water. Storm surges on the coast can be terrifying!
I think I could see a car coming at me
We had an F5 here in north western Pa back in 1985 and I tell you, nothing says power until u see metal right through a tree trunk. I was 19 and trying to get rid of my fear of storms.
Once in 2017 two to tornados were reported in my area
One was EF3 and the Other was EF1
Fascinating and terrifying! I live in a wooded area where you can't see them coming, which gives me great anxiety. I don't wish the destruction that tornados bring on anyone!
There are terrible women in back sounds like she is horrible sounds from her listen
Why don't you move away..I would never live in a place like that
If you ever hear the sound of a large airliner sounding like it's about to land .Then see the trees move all around .Run to the cellar !
They say they sound like a train bearing down on you. I live in the woods also, and have the same issue as you. Well, I heard that train about 6 years ago and headed for my basement. Luckily, it missed my house but did a lot of tree damage and a few neighbors lost roofs. You'll know that sound when you hear it!! Believe me!
As someone who lived 90% of my life in a frequent tornado area & surrounded by trees, you have to put your safety in God's hands and trust him to preserve you through it. I've been through several, a bit too close for comfort. Life is too short to live in fear. I have "spidey sense" about storms. maybe God gave me that. 3 blocks away from my bed is a bit too close for comfort.But I know when my ears & sinuses pop like a plane landing & I hear trees breaking with that roar & whistle, it is right on me. No basement but an interior windowless bath is my "shelter are" & when we have high warning I have clothes & a Go Bag already there, in plastic, with a week of meds, so if it ever does, I plan to survive & be equipped to get out with my survivor bag. Being prepared means I never have to be afraid. I pray you find a way to not be afraid.
Grew up in Iowa and loved watching tornadoes. My grandfather and I stood outside and watched as my family yelled get in the basement. 😂
Nature is beautiful and scary. I would have run to the basement at the last minute 😅
I love it!!! 😂🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
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Yeah, same here. Mom hollered from the basement when we lived in Ceder Rapids Iowa.😂😂
Same! Lmao😂 but from Minnesota
When a tornado alert came on the tv, my husband would go out in the driveway to watch for it. My very young son would follow him, yelling "The tomato is coming! The tomato is coming!"
Well, he was getting close to seeing the right thing, but I still find it adorable and they do so very close together. But I do hope everybody stays safe.
That is freaking adorable. Incredibly adorable.
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Men proving their manhood:
Yeah Bob. Uh huh. The wife and kids were all hunkered down in the tub. Me and billy was out front making sure it didn't get too close.
Yeah, of course he had his AR-15 with him. This is Texas!
(It's all fun and games until the tornado takes a hard right.
😮😂 then it's just a better video.)
How is everyonfe.. I hope you're safe. I'm sorry a tornado showed up in your neighborhood. I'm so sorry of the misfortunes that happen after a tornado cut through your neighborhood I just hope and pray people, family everyone are safe
that was dangerously close. those guys needed to stay inside bc the tornado can change direction at any moment in time. this is what storm chasers are for people...
We the people are the storm chasers in America. We don’t need no storm chasers to follow a tornado because we live in America!! Freedom for all!!!!! 🇺🇸✊🏼
@@HondaCivicat3AMsounds like you are ready to die
Tornados don’t work like that bud
@@arkocastro they do
Tip: if the tornado looks like it’s not moving that means it’s coming right for you, and you need to take cover:)
Edit:731 likes???!!!! And 51 replies? Thanks guys!
could it also mean that it's not moving? Just spinning in place? I heard that is it stays in place long enough it can dig down and find a water well, then the force of the water heats up as it smashes alongside the newly forming well and the heat of that friction turns the sides of the well into clay and that is were humans got the idea of turning mud in to clay pots to carry to the well. I never thought of it that way until I did and then I realized that yeah, .... that makes total sense. if I were an early or even middle caveman and I was tired of rinsing out my wooly mammoth gall bladder sack that I used for water carrying and then I stumbled across a tornado standing still drilling into the dirt. then me, if I were a caveman I would certainly investigate the phenomenon (even though I wouldn't actually think that word at that time cuz it didn't exist then.) then I would see the well drilled by the stationary tornado and then I would have felt the heat from the newly formed clay sides of the well, it is very very plausible that at that moment the realization that heat could melt earth into early pottery even before fire was invented. This is probably the first traces in the mind of Neanderthal to make pottery. irregardless of he had the idea of the wheel, since they had that at that time all he would have to do is lay that wheel on it's side and spin it for a pottery wheel to switch from gall bladder water sack to clean pots of clay. it also wouldn't alway have that certain taste of that animals organs depending on which body part sack you would use. I mean think about it, if you used the urine bladder of say a prehistoric animal, that water probably always had that subtle to hard tase of piss. that would make me want to turn the potters wheel. Hey that could be the name of movie. Cromagnon turns the potters wheel. Showing at the cliff wall behind the fire at your local hunting and gathering tribal village drive up at dusk. I bet they could have a double feature with Dances with Wolves. The original Aboriginal American native Indians would probably call a truce so they let there kids watch the showing. it could certainly bring people together who wouldn't normally want to get together cuz of all the fighting which happens when humans brains were so small back then. which reminds me, my brain just ate a small carton of chocolate milk and 7 mini donuts (and a very small canister of pringles.}. it made typing all that theoretical evolutionary theory straight from the department of redundancy department possibly faster that it is for a person reading it. For cryin' out Hoot..... now I'm startin to see why people are so into this internet thing these days. which makes me wonder what the neanderthal would have done had he/she/they had it back then. and if you were transgender back than they would probably just kill you with there clubs cuz they hadn't evolved as a society to that high of a level of sophistication. just some thoughts.
@@DaneMichael69 Only chocolate milk and donuts ? Anything else ?
Looks a bit small for an F5 sorry but that nado just looks like a strong F3 possibly F4
Or moving away from you, this is by no means a true statement and instead downplays the complexity of tornado movement and development
it also could be moving away from you..
It could shift and be in that area in seconds . Never underestimate a tornado . Stay in your basement an interior room or storm shelter.
i though about the same thing i think weather channel would advise people to get in basement even if close like lightning strikes if thunder roars go indoors.
If you're in your basement and an ef5 tornado comes too close you're still dead either way.
@@droc742then it’s a crappy basement
The tornado has a higher IQ than the people recording. At that range, a course change is going to probably be unpleasant.
Same
SMH....They should have been taking cover.
These storms can turn on a dime with no escape.
It's Nebraska no shi
Tell me you know shit about tornados with out telling me. Hahahahah mook
I love how when you watch a tornado from a far distance where you won't be affected and it's not going your way it's like "Mother Nature at its finest" but when its close to you and heading your way it's just "HOLY SHIT THAT'S A MONSTER!!!!!!"
For anyone wondering, this was rated an EF3 tornado. Reported peak windspeeds of 160 ish mph. (This is the Lincoln, NE tornado)
-- Regardless, my condolences go out to those who lost their lives in this violent event. --
Never assume
Thank u for making that correction bc that did not look like a f5 by any means.
@lukecoleman9229 The Manitoba F5 was maybe a third as wide as this guy, and it ripped an anchored home off the ground & threw it like it was yesterday's garbage. Appearance doesn't mean crap with these things lol
That’s so right ❤❤
@@lukecoleman9229 never assume anything is not violent or lesser violent 160mph winds vs 200 mph doesnt make that much difference if you get hit with a volvo. secondly to that size does not determine strength of a tornado also.
That screeching noise is terrifying, heard it once during a tornado
It sounds like a banshee.
That is a terrifying noise! Omword!!
Sounds like a very angery animal. Rino of some sort 😮
I thought that was sirens I was hearing through my phone until I read your comment, put headphones on and realized what you were talking about..... 😳😳
If that was an E5 tornado, people wouldn't be standing there
Agreed! That ain’t even close to an F5
Plus, I don't think they actually announce the severity of the Tornadoes as it happens, so I don't think they can tell.
@@anotherHelldiver depends on alot of variables such as wind speed, damage and size. 2 of those 3 can be detected during an active tornado by certain radar, but no this is not an EF4 even
@@topshelflycan Well, I meant more "Announce" as They tell you with the EAS system on your phone.
They can definetly tell from the SPC.
Bloody idiots stand there with phones out
DAM*, JUST BEAUTIFUL.. 🌪️
I’m an Oklahoman and I still don’t understand people standing outside watching tornadoes. I remember being young during the May 3rd tornadoes and they terrify me.
I understand what you're saying, and I agree, but this is 1, probably a once in a lifetime chance to somewhat safely view a tornado for these people, 2, May, 3rd tornadoes.....that's a different breed, no one was standing outside to watch those monsters.
May 3rd tornadoes were on a whole other level. No way anyone was standing outside watching those.
@@sylentknightYou think that distance is safe? It is coming straight towards them...
@@Lucky9_9 My eyesight ain't what it used to be, but it certainly looks to be moving left to right on my screen, and from what I understand about tornadoes, if it looks stationary THEN it's coming straight for you.
when they get hit they'll put the cameras down...seeing it once is enough you go hide and Pray...
Not quite an EF5, but good job getting such a beautiful shot of a non-rainwrapped tornado of that size.
Yea yea it is
@@Brodyelmore1234 The last EF5 we had was back in 2013. If this was an EF5, it would be huge news. And looking at the tornado outbreak, the highest rating was EF3 .
There was an EF-4 in Marietta, OK Saturday night.
Just watched a video on here of an EF5 in Andover Kansas from 1991 and it did look much larger than this one
@@paulym9969 tornadoes arent rated off size
This looked like an EF2-EF3 category.
I was thinking this too. F2-F3. F5, is a massive funnel , that would not have the visible "pipe", when it touches down . F5 would have taken this entire neighborhood. Nobody would be outside.
looks have no correlation with the rating of a tornado
@@aae7583 I agree that it's definitely not an EF5, but the size of the tornado doesn't determine its destructibility. Look up the tornado in Rainsville, Alabama in 2011. That was about as wide as this one and that was an EF5.
@@PlagueRavenRX 2007 Manitoba had a thin drillbit tornado
@@aae7583#1. The Enhanced Fujita Scale has been in use since 2007, so it is EF, not F. #2: Looks have absolutely nothing to do with the strength of a tornado lmfao. Sure, usually mile wide wedge tornadoes are associated with the strongest and scariest of tornadoes, but any tornado of any size can and WILL do high end damage. We haven’t had an EF5 since 2013, so I have no idea what this poster is trying to yap about. But wedge tornadoes usually take the cake when it comes to EF4 and EF5 damage because they are so large and have a greater chance of hitting things. A smaller drill bit tornado can have winds just like that of a wedge, but it’s so small that the likelihood it hits something is lower. It’s like dragging a vacuum cleaner over your carpet vs a syringe.
The most devastating part about this is the guy in the driveway recording it vertically
😂😂😂😂😂 right?
The first rule of tornados is: It is not THAT the wind is blowing. It is WHAT the wind is blowing. 😊
We had an EF5 go through our town (Hesston tornado 3/13/90) and bank papers were floating from the sky 100 miles away afterwards. It had a "stovepipe" shape like this one and was on the ground for 2 and 1/2 hours. It took two lives...a six year old boy sheltered in his basement and a woman in her 80s who tried to outrun it in her car.
Being behind the camera gives a false sense of security and distorts distance, so you are not aware of how close these tornados really are. Videos do not show how massive these are or how destructive they can be. Leave the cameras to the professionals. 😊❤
How about bank money??
Everyone camming because the internet told them cameraman never d!es. Run away!!
*leave the filming to the professi* shut up
Tater Tot!
Ron White is cool huh ?
I'm not going to lie, I would be out there too
100%
Absolutely! It's fairly far off. Were it closer I would be hiring. But this is record.with my eyes wide and mouth open distance so recording is totally warranted.
If that tornado zigs instead of zags your going to have a really bad day, I personally after having been in 8 of them would be underground a long time ago :)
I’m not gonna lie either , would never even think of living in Kansas , Nebraska Iowa okie No thank you
Most definitely. Going out with some tornado chasers is on my bucket list.
I’m impressed that the entire neighborhood puts so much effort into lawn maintenance. 👍
😲 😅 😂 🤣 !!
That's an HOA neighborhood. You have to force people to do right lol. 😅
This place looks like a barren suburban nightmare. Almost no trees, no flowerbeds to help the ecosystem, just gross
They're probably fined by the HOA if they don't! 😂
The grass lawn is technically America's number one crop. The fact that it is entirely non-productive doesn't seem to bother anyone.
The fact you captured this footage is incredible
Thanks for sharing this beautiful photogenic tornado!
I’m from Kentucky and a tornado watch meant goin out on the porch and watchin for it. You have made every Kentuckian proud.
and Tennessean
Wowser, y'all are wild!! I'm from Indiana and a🌪 warning meant gather up blankets/pillows, food/water, books/toys, the radio.....and off to the basement we'd all go! If the neighbors didn't have a basement, they came over and shared your safe space.
I guess we were chickens. 🤷🏾♀️
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Praying for you guys in Kentucky tonight! Saw on Ryan Hall Y'all how bad those tornados are. Hope all is well with you.
..it figures 🙄
Oh cool! An EF5! Known for chucking debris like parts of houses, cars, cows, splintered fence posts and other deadly projectiles at high velocities! LETS GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY IN IT! HONEY GET OUT HERE!
its not a ef5 its a ef4
Would it make a difference anyway though? If it's in their path there's nothing they can do anyway
@@Kyonfilmsanimations8606 Uh did ya miss the EF 4 in Sulpher a little more than a week ago? It killed ppl and completely leveled dam near the entire town!
I'd be first in line 😂
Nah I think it’s an EF3
Ok people not from the midwest, we experience tornadoes year after year. We know when it’s time to get in the basement.
That's exactly right. Easy to spot the nervous ninnies with zero sense of curiosity or wonder. In Oklahoma, if we saw this we'd know at this point it isn't going to hit us. Even if it were to dramatically change direction (which this one won't), we'd still have at least one minute to get to the shelter.
EXACTLY!! I AM STILL HERE IN MIDWEST.
I'm in the tornado capital of the world and I wouldn't go out there. It's the arrogant ones who end up dead.
how many dead people say you're wrong?
I live in earthquake country but because we haven’t had a really large one lately that I don’t prepare myself and my home as best I can to try and survive it.
Just so you know, a tornado is not rated until after it is over and it is rated from damage assessments. Also, the last EF5 was in 2013.
This is one of the best Tornado vs Neighborhood videos I have ever watched I wasn't sure what was better the tornado or the crazy people watching it live 😂
This video is like something out of the "Wizard of Oz" movie. Tornado in the near background and people outside watching.
This is not real.
@@janledford3010What makes you so sure?
I mean... with it being that far from you and not moving towards you... why not film it?
Yes, but it's not an EF5! The title is so misleading in fact that he's ripping up straight up American history, with his title he's saying "Fuck Joplin Missouri, my city has it worse". While Joplin Missouri is still fuckin rebuilding itself!!!
My dad was born in Lincoln, Nebraska 1912. They had a farmhouse with an underground room incase of a tornado.
Aren't those usually called "basements"?
How old are you your dad was born in 1912😧that was long ago are you in your 60s or 70s
My grandmother was born in 1901, my mother 1935 - mom is still with us.
RUN! And be safe! Pray for your neighbors.
I think everyone is on their phone saying,
"I love you, if I don't make it out alive, well, pawn my ring. ADVENGERS..., ASEM-"
I think this is Gods way of reminding us who is really in control
Facts.
Nope, it's called weather, and it's not controlled by some imaginary being.
@@gseric4721 As opposite of facts as you can get. The weather isn't controlled by some imaginary being made up by men in the dark ages.
@@greatunz67 you poor confused soul. Man creates gods out of rocks and carved images, and this trend has been going on for hundreds of thousands of years.
There is only one God. One Creator, who has created man in His own image. You wouldn't be able to think, breath, feel, or even see if it weren't for a Creator, just like it took a creator to invent the internet, robots, cars, etc. Even things without internal organs need a creator.
"The fool says in his heart that there is no God." The is straight out of the Bible. You know, the thing God inscribed unto man to write. You are a fool for thinking there isn't a Creator when that is the reason for your very existence. But the Bible warns us of people like you. You're going straight to hell if you deny the existence of your very Creator and don't acknowledge Him, so I'd start believing if I were you.
@@greatunz67do u have proof of that tho ? 😏
It’s amazing how far away it is and still has a powerful effect on everything around it.
Now that's a real tornado. Look at the clear outflow behind it.
Solid scary tornado
@@brendaburrow3745yeah and it’s heading straight towards the cameraman! He should be getting out of there and taking shelter immediately!
@@sammontanez6908 he probably didnt notice that, most of the time people dont notice tornados getting too close visually, but the moment he feels those winds picking up, he should take shelter the moment he can
Bro that’s Insane hope you safe tho ❤
EF3 at most. Still extremely dangerous though.
I love how you can just see some people calmly walking by as if there’s just a light gust of wind, and nothing else
They determine if its a EF3 or EF5 by wind speed, and the damage it leaves behind. You can't tell by looking at it. That's why they wait and estimate the damage before they tell you what it was on the scale. EF4's and EF5's have higher wind speeds, and usually leaves nothing left of a house. Sometimes, only the foundation is left. Like the May 3rd, 1999, and 2013 tornados that hit Moore, Ok. Trees looked like tooth picks. No limbs, leaves, nothing but trunks, if that.
I was told it was wind speed in the funnel. 200 and above was an ef5. But what people are saying it includes the damage. So if a 300 mph tornado goes through an empty field and does no damage, is it an ef1 ?
@@DaveTison EF4 TO EF5 ARE A MILE WIDE AND THEY KNOCK DOWN EVERYTHING and they usually find cows and horses and people in trees up to a mile away,only place safe is 12 foot underground
@@DaveTisonliterally yes. Look up the 2013 El Reno tornado. Widest tornado in history. Mobile radar picked up wind speeds of 300+mph. But it didn’t really hit anything so it was downgraded to an f3. I think the fujita scale says it must use damage to determine wind speeds, not data from radars.
@@DaveTison because of the lack of damage, they added a new classification of an EFU, which means undetermined. I looked up the experts on the weather channel Fuji scale.This is the only reason why I know.
1999? Bro there weren’t strong tornadoes 25 years ago. Tornadoes and hurricanes have only been on the rise in the last few years due to global warming and climate change.
bro i would go in my basement and pray you know how deadly a ef5 is
Dang, other people were not so lucky, it went right into and through them. Homes completely removed from the slab foundation.
Nature is so damn AMAZING!!! I might have a look or 2 before I haul ass into the basement!! 😮
Nature? lol GOD ALMIGHTY
I’m not looking I live in Dixie Alley where that tornado is lifting bricks 🧱 my guy bricks 🧱 ok we not taking that chance it’s haul ass to the basement with the bike helmet and a matress and a tub or closet
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@@miamac63 Its not caused by god, its cause by weather which is nature.
Looks like a f3 tbh. But those people outside have that "can i pet that dawg" energy
Definitely looks more then a EF3
That can I pet that dawg video is so dang cute! 👍🏼😉I wish it was a longer video! God Bless 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
It was an EF3, officially.
Yikes! I’m glad you’re okay!
This is what we adults do after we tell the kids to shelter in the basement. 😅
Yesterdays tornados damage has not been examined enough to be given a rating yet. I’d predict that one is EF3.
I’m pretty sure the EF scale uses wind velocity rather than damage to rate tornadoes. The original Fujita scale measured damage.
It was EF3 at LEAST so far still investigating
@@samgould8567actually both. You could have ef5 winds but no damage which will drop it down.
Minden Iowa is probably going to be an EF5 but who knows
Okay thanks I was just guessing
I’m from Georgia and we had a tornado scare earlier this week. We had a REAL one that was an EF4 about three years ago. I was scared shitless but luckily we were unhurt. Praying for all involved in these storms 🙏
Oh yea the one in Newman
@@Oliv_garden Yeah it was crazy 😳
@@urgedviper81isback47 ya I was born in Georgia but I moved to Oklahoma in 2020 lol
In Newnan? Yes, I was living there at the time. Fortunately I only lost a few shingles off my roof. So many others weren't that lucky. Couldn't believe the devastation out by the high school, large trees snapped like matchsticks.
@@richardblayneamerican8149 ya we drove by when they were cleaning up when we took a trip back to Georgia for a week and it was crazy
Tornado: come take my picture
Neicgbors : ok
I hope the families that are actually getting crushed and were in the path of this, and possibly losing their homes or love ones, I truly pray and hope they made it out safe.
This was actually the EF3 tornado that struck Andover Kansas back in late April 2022. To put your fears to rest nobody was killed and only a few minor injuries were reported. The title is a bit misleading, but it was an EF3 and not an EF5.
@Proxations You see EF5's, they're usually those low-riding wedges.
@@shariys1 They can be any shape, in fact some of the strongest tornadoes are actually shaped like an hourglass or have multiple small funnels. I survived an EF4 tornado that had windspeeds estimated between 200 and 190 mph from damage alone and it was a 1/2 mile wide stove pipe with multiple vortices.
Its really a common mis-conception that EF5 tornadoes are always wedges. Same thing with the southwest corner of your basement. Tornadoes can move any way or direction and even loop or stall. Just get under the stairs if you can and cover yourself with something to protect yourself from flying debris.
@Proxations thank God for Jesus you are safe.
I remember way back in the old days .. people used to run from tornados .. we were so stupid back then! .. chuckle!, chuckle!
Ah, the good ole days. 🤭
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That's when people feared God....
Thats when people feared God....
I wonder why nobody planned to build tornado resistant houses and buildings in the tornado alley areas. This move, although very expensive, could save many lives and properties too.
The same reason why people who live in hurricane zones still build a house in the same area over and over again after it was totally wiped away from its foundation.
Because humans cannot beat Mother Nature, it’s just fact. The homes would probably be really expensive and it’s easier said that done. EF4/EF5s have swirling winds over 100 mph that are capable of literally putting a large, well built house out of existence.
maybe that somebody is supposed to be you. get to work.
@@deathpunch23 like Juan said, expensive, as well as the fact that Mother Nature always beats humans; EF5 tornados literally put well built houses out of existence. I’ve seen EF3 damage in person and it’s awful. Watch your tone.
Lets take worst case scenario, joplin tornado. The tornado lifted and physically moved the hospital.
Secondly, unlike commiefornia, the midwest simply cannot afford to. Average person makes like 30-40k a year. A tornado resistant house would be around a million bucks....
I’m from Bennington, if you’ve heard of Newport landing lake, well that’s where I live. My house got full struck, and what’s crazy is that our boat ended up on the other side of the lake.
An F5 in Texas a few decades back went through central texas.
People did not stay in their homes and jumped cars and ran away
That was the right decision in this case .
Their homes were leveled
When I say leveled I mean the debris was gone and elsewhere leaving only naked slab and a few pieces of pipes sticking up out of foundation.
Everything else gone - no carpet - no tile , nothing but cement slab
That's horrible!!. I live in Michigan now and I've never lived in a tornado
state before and I thought I never would. Scares me so bad that we will have a tornado sometime!.I pray we won't!
Wow 😳
Lubbock 1970?
@@notarotomwithhair5637 Jarrell 1997
@@notarotomwithhair5637jarrell 1997
With those crowds you'd think the president was driving through that neighborhood.
They would be armed then.
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Oh my God these people are crazy. Just standing there watching this tornado really😮😮😮😮
They are just curious to see how it turns out
When you live in these areas, everyone knows how to seek shelter. Lived in Kansas, often looked for a while. Mother Nature is amazing. But we know when to go to the crawl space.
@@sharonmullins1957and when do you know how to run? aren't they faster than you if they turn towards you?
Dang that’s insane we just got slammed by a derecho here in New York Albany got hit by a tornado form this same storm that hit us I saw rotation on it before it was more outflow dominant gust in our being very violent we lost power 3 hours ago still not back running off generator rn
Hope everyone is safe and uninjured. That's scary as hell. I'm in Canada and we drove past the area of a category 3 and it was shocking the destruction, all the trees were bent over. A sight to see for Canadians, ef5 no thank you. Good bless you all.
There are tornadoes in Canada, just less frequent.
This wasn't an EF5 lol they were joking in the title.
No basements in Fla. Here we have hurricanes, just as scary but somewhat fascinating. God bless and be safe. 🌹🌴🇺🇸
No rain here in Bradenton FL.. rained twice in April nothing yet in May
Hurricanes you get plenty of warning. Tornadoes... Not so much...
Horrible here, we cannot get a drop of rain even! Rained twice in April, nothing in May.. everyday 85+ degrees scorching sun.. drying and dying 😢 Bradenton Florida
@@Romans1.24-27how long have you lived there? June is usually the month when you get most of the rain fall. It should pick up soon.
Last year was 11 months of drought. ..it rain three times in June and three days in July. ..we went from Sept 3-oct 3 with no rain. The hurricane that passed by us in the gulf Aug 26-28 only lessened severity of drought.. did NOT get us out of drought. ..in Dec 2023 it finally started to rain..
❤ Glad you're safe and really appreciate the NO SCREAMING! 😅
The last EF5 to happen was in Moore, Oklahoma and was a wedge. This one appears to be a stovepipe.
You have to love how these people have no idea which way is freaking F5 tornado is going… Yet they are all out in their driveway taping it like they are directing the movie twister! Lol., How about shelter or GTFOH immediately!?!
You are never going to be able to bet on the direction a tornado is really headed! Just be educated the best you can.
What difference does it make. Think laying in your bathtub is gonna save you?
@@DS-lu5ygSo far for us in Alabama yes it has when James says go to ur safe place we there either the ⛑️ on and a pillow or mattress on god . Like we be running skipping steps to get to that Lv
No idea which way it's going? They're literally WATCHING it move.
😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮...I would not venture outside like this man does.!!!!
There was a bunch of people outside..crazy!
There's no way that I would stand watching 😮😮😮😮😮😮
if the houses are built like the ones in my area, it probably wouldn't matter too much if they were inside or outside :( lol
we don't even have basements here in my neck of the woods.
Grew up in Oklahoma and we always went outside and sat on the front porch with my dad to watch the sky, weather, storms, or tornadoes when the sirens went off. Those are some of our fondest memories with my dad. I love bad weather, not for the people, just the wind, thunder that rattles your insides, windows, house, I love the rain and the dark clouds.
That sounds awesome.
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Rare sighting of Jeff Hardy using the Super Twist Of Fate
Our last ef4 tornado in Massachusetts was the 1953 Worcester tornado. I have so much respect for Midwesterners. They get worse winters than us to.
Not just in the Midwest. In the south, we have deadly tornados every year. In our city, the tornado alarm sounds every Wednesday at noon to remind people what it sounds like . They don't do that in places where tornados aren't common.
The 3 not too long ago gave a nice bikini wax to monson and nw soringfield area
And that Worcester tornado was stronger than anything we've seen in 10 years. They estimated the wind speed to be over 250mph, possibly up to 300mph.
This was in Elkhorn Omaha located in Nebraska. During this tornado I was in the tornado shelter at my school ducking in cover as it came towards my school. Luckily the tornado stopped and went back up before it hit but it was really close to me and I thought I was going to die. Scariest moment of my life. Thankfully me my house and my family was okay but my friend had there has destroyed sadly.😢 Prays for everyone who was involved I was part of it
No it wasn't this was the 2022 Andover Kansas tornado. It was an EF3.
You see this video was posted before it happened...
So it cant be that but sorry if you were actually affected by it I heard it was bad. I was in an EF4 tornado back in 2013. In Washington Illinois.
Even if this isn’t the exact nado that you had to go through, I’m glad you made it out safely! These beasts are scary- even as an adult I’m terrified yet intrigued by them. Sorry you had to deal with the chaos and fear at school!
@@brielliott04 Each one are bad some just are in the wrong place at the wrong time and people die.
I sure hope people that loose their homes, think to build UNDERGROUND next time. Like basements or even ground houses. Weather is going to STAY BAD over the next several years. Build safer for the next house you make.
That’s not always possible. Some places have sandy soil and not able to dig a basement.
Many people can't afford adding a basement or even a storm shelter in their yard. Especially now with the cost of living is so high. 😢
@@KAH5371 thats true but everyone is going to have to build back SOMETHING to live in. And for anyone reading the comments, thats what i was trying to instill in them. To build underground in some way, even if its partially underground because WHAT PEOPLE OF THE EARTH IS *NOT* BEING TOLD IS...this harsh weather, is NOT going to stop...in fact, it WILL get worse...because whether you believe this or not, mankind is actually in the very end days described in the Holy Bible where things are going to be hard til the end. So building back a home to live in like we have been so used to building, is just not going to be a wise decision...it will just be torn down again likely. People NEED to prepare for the times at hand. I seen in the news where that one place had 17 tornados on the ground at one time...now, i dont think ANYONE can think thats normal. Can you?
You need bricks and concrete and also do a hot chilli peppers and reach higher ground
That was actually and EF3 tornado with max winds of 155mph. This same storm went in to produce another bigger and stronger tornado in the Omaha region. And it was just upgraded to EF4 with winds of 170mph.
Not an EF5. This tornado was, I believe, rated EF3. Tornados are rated based on damage and it occurs after the fact.
Correct
That was a monster! It almost didn’t look real. Must have been terrifying to be that close! 🙀
Or exciting.
The only reoccurring nightmare I've ever had after growing up on the Ohio valley was exactly this. Standing outside like a dummy and watching a tornado come at me?! Which I would never do! Why are these people outside?!
Yet several people are outside just to record it! Common sense is circling the drain folks, it’s no wonder the world is falling apart.
My nerves would've been shot to hell, way too scared to take a picture. Great video 🌪
Beautiful and terrifying at the same time.
I truly wonder is tornado injuries have increased significantly with the advent of cameras in phones.
Holy crap, that’s amazing 🤩
Meteorologist: Take cover now
Humans: take cover photos and video, got it!
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James Span got us from Dixie Alley aka Tornado alley yeah when James says get in ur safe place we be like yes sir how quick you want us to get there like we in the army boi shit sirens on oh we acting like we got a man overboard my guy strait hauling ass to the basement I have actually jumped steps from one floor to the other literally skipped steps going down you can here me and my brothers like we a football team literally runing to get to the basement with the helmet 🪖 like we in ww2
"But first, let me post this on social media to get my likes. Then I will take shelter." 😮
Not all tornadoes shaped like that is an EF5, we typically don't have EF5 tornado nowadays, the last time we had an EF5 was in Moore, Oklahoma in 2013 where as an EF5 hit almost the exact same route as the 1999 Moore, Oklahoma EF5, so yeah this may be an EF4 or EF3
Any strength of tornado can be any size. Look at the Elie, Manitoba F5. There's a little controversy about it's rating but it was crazy strong and very thin all the same!
It was actually Andover KS in 2022. EF3.
Prob an ef3 based on the area it’s hitting and not open fields
An E5 hit outside of Birmingham while my mom was in the hospital after giving birth to my baby sister what a day that was 😅
@@markelbauer F5, so not EF5 then.
Canada being completely different topography from Tornado Valley doesn't help your case either.
What people are on about is in Tornado Valley, thin white funnels are usually (keyword here, usually) not even EF2.
I am amazed at the lack of rain with these storms.
Some EF5 are rain wrapped and probably one of the most deadliest. Especially at night.
It was a similar setup to the Ottumwa EF4 last year, which had a gorgeous rain free tornado. These storms were part of the left exit region of a cold core low pressure system, which allowed upper level winds to vent the precipitation away from the storm path.
And sirens
god tornadoes are so beautiful but so scary at the same time, i’ll always be fascinated by them