A Swede reacts to: Tornado Alley - Henryville, March 2 2012
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Still here Recky!
@@megandelynn6114 thank you Megan!
@@Reckyj You got it friend!
@@megandelynn6114 so do you.
One mother used her body to protect her 2 children. She lost her legs when a beam from their home landed on her legs crushing them. Years later she still doesn't regret saving her children even though she lost her legs.
@ashleywatts6235 I'm looking for that episode as we speak. I can't find it anywhere though. It's sad how Tornado Alley is practically just gone.
A school bus was thrown into the restaurant in town. It reopened with the name “ The Bus Stop”.😊.
Thats so cool!
Survival rule: if Jim Cantore is in your area leave asap.
The Midwest generally has the best video coverage of tornadoes because of their terrain, mostly flat with great visibility.
Yeah, your right. When he said they the tornado is count over the hill.. that freaked me out.
As a Nebraskan/Midwesterner you are correct.
As someone from nebraska, yes, we get the best views but the plains is a tornados playground.
As a Southwest Iowan you're right and it's freaky.
Recky, growing up in a tornado heavy area... you just get complacent because you get 10-20 watches/warnings a year on average depending on where you're at. 99% of them will turn out to miss you or weaken before they get to you etc. So you'll go 20 years of warnings with no real hit and then one of these monsters comes and there's no way to know it's going to be different until it's too late to really do much about it.
Also, the ground speed of most tornadoes is slower than a car but you don't usually know what direction they will turn. In a car you're stuck to travelling on the road, the tornado can cut corners and put you in an untenable situation. It's rarely smarter to run than to take cover, but if I saw that giant thing and didn't have a good basement I'd drive off too.
Happens with any major natural disaster that happens honestly. Living in an area where hurricanes hit somewhat frequently, and every year get told at least one hurricane is headed your way, you just get used to it. We used to sit on our porch and watch the storm roll in. It's crazy how calm everything gets before a big storm and hurricanes even more so.
I remember getting excited for hurricanes and still do to a certain extent, because the lights would go out, the candle would be lit and the family would sit in the living room and play games or read books and have fun. It was more of a family bonding time and even during big hurricanes that were supposed to hit us nobody really panicked. I know tornados are different but that apathy for the storm is real, it just becomes part of life to be honest.
One more cool thing about hurricanes real quick. I was in the middle of a cat 4 when it landed and we got hit directly by the left wall. Which is the worst, most violent part. It's the left wall of the eye and I remember the winds going crazy, rain pouting down so hard it was just a constant noise with no end and 2 windows just shattering in the kitchen, and we were in the bathroom. All of a sudden within 2 minutes it went from chaos to quickly become silent. No birds, no wind, no rain, no cars, just dead silence. Me and my dad decided we needed to see outside because we had finally gotten to the eye. It was insane how fast it went from 2 to 3 days of solid rain and around 8 hours of increasing wind to nothing and outside you could see where the eye wall was, it was the single most amazing sight to see. Shortly after that the hurricane move enough for us to get hit by the wall again but that moment in the eye still sticks with me.
@@ReaIJackhammer Yes it happens with all storms but to a much lesser degree than tornadoes, which is why they're so deadly. Hurricanes sometimes do unexpected things, but that's over the course of days or a week or longer which usually gives people some time to prepare even if it's not much. Whereas when a tornado does something unexpected, it's happening in minutes or seconds, which means there is essentially no time to react.
I get probably the same 10-20 warnings/watches a year and the ones that do land tend to only be EF-2s with the odd EF-3, and they usually stick to the open fields. I was pretty much right in the middle of the Illinois outbreak of 2013, and it was a wild experience. I kept hearing reports of tornados all around me, though I didn't have anything too crazy beyond standard thunderstorms. In the span of like 10 minutes I had my own sirens blaring and a warning which turned into an EF-3. I'll always argue that the most dangerous thing about tornados is how difficult they are to predict. All we can do is acknowledge that the conditions are set for one to occur.
I’ve been complacent and just desensitized as well. We need these reminders. I live in Roland Oklahoma high-risk area.
This
Lenora's story is one that is just heartbreaking to me. She was so excited to see a tornado and I'm sure neither her nor her husband had any idea it would be a direct hit until it was too late and there was nowhere safe to be. House leveled, no basement likely, survival is pure luck.
It literally was impossible for me not to start tearing up when they said Wayne died. T_T
I like how stormchasers stop chasing ince they see people hurt. Amazing community. It's the mission to save lives.
I live in Tornado Alley. The sad thing is there's not a lot of warning or anywhere for a lot of us to go. Suddenly there's hail and a lot of rain. All we can do is wait and hope we're still alive once the storm passes. This year has been active with tornado activity.
A softball is a bit larger than a baseball. Thanks for reviewing this. If you live in tornado areas, you kind of know when they're coming. Atmosphere changes, strange wind begins to blow, you look up and the sky may be blue, but soon the clouds move in. I used to say if it's quiet, you may be okay, but if you hear the freight train & your ears pop, best be somewhere safe. They can change directions quickly for such big phenomena. I always keep my eye on the sky when the weather is right for them. Nothing you can do but get to a safe place and pray.
The "wall cloud" is typical in tornadic thunderstorms. It consists of a lowered cloud base that will rotate and it sometimes appears to look like a carousel. The first wall cloud that I ever photographed was right over Colorado Springs, CO, and I followed it and it subsequently dropped a small tornado out over the plains. When you see a wall cloud, that is indicative that a Mesocyclone is present and that the storm is rotating. They can be fairly distinctive.
Hey Recky, just letting you know that for many of us living in these areas, its not a feeling of nothing will happen to us. Its more that you know that the chances of getting hit are actually very low, and there is actually nothing that you can do to prevent getting hit if it happens. If it is close, you take shelter and pray for everyone in the effected area, but panic and fear will just make for bad choices, just like stupidity and feeling invincible. I have seen many in my 56 years, from .5 miles to 10 miles away, and actually I have been in greater danger from extreme wind and hail storms than from any tornado I have seen.
i would sum it all up with "resoluteness".
A tornado has two speeds; ground speed (which can be as slow as 10mph), and wind speed, which is where the EF rating comes from.
These Weather Channel productions don't get the honors they deserve. I have a HUGE respect for those in this industry, and they only get complaints from the public. Incredibly under appreciated profession.
Yikes. Softball size hail is about 4" (10cm) in diameter...bad enough it's a tornado now nature is going to throw ice grenades at you.
It´s just insane!
Even though the context is tragic I laughed at your comment and it throwing "ice grenades" as it is the best description of large hail. That crap is dangerous and deadly.
Not even a tornado hail but we got a severe storm one day a gew years ago and the hail was ping pong ball sized and took out my vans back window. Its still broken, we cant afford to fix it and we only had basic insurance so it wouldnt cover cost of storm damage. Youd think small sized hail wouldnt do anything but it came down like a curtain so get enough hitting on vulnerable spot and the window shatters. The back of the van was against the wind so that didnt help. We were just glad our front windshield wasnt touched. We are in located in lincoln nebraska.
We had a tornado in 1999 with grapefruit size hail. It came straight through my roof and took out my answering machine.
Bigger than a baseball
Watched to the end Recky. Hard to watch but great to see people coming together in the face of tragedy.
Still here.
Watched through the whole thing. I knew this one would surprise you. Before this video I had never heard of two tornados hitting so close together. If you go back and look at the diner at the end, they put up a sign by the door where the bus went through. Thanks for watching this one. Stay safe and have a great week.
Hi Jennifer! i appreciate it you watching it.
well, they're called "supercells" for a reason. and if one can spawn, then that simply means another can too. there have been situations where two *_or more_* tornadoes have been orbiting each other, forming a weird _"Ballet Of Destruction"_ .
(that would be a great name for a metal band!)
There's a town called Tanner, Alabama.
Was hit with 2 F5 tornadoes 30 minutes apart in 1974, and then an EF5 in 2011.
I watched the whole thing, and I'm not gonna lie, I cried several times.
Yeah Tina... It´s freaking hard to watch these.. Im nervous, ii HATE seeing good people get hurt.
So many of these tornado videos get me in tears too.........
They also remind me to count my Blessings tho,and to stay vigilant about being prepared ahead of time~!!
@@vivienneclarke2421 yeah.. it’s not easy. Good people getting hurt…
@Reckyj I knew before it was said that Lenora's husband died. I don't know how I did...but I did. And I cried then. That poor woman. And the fact he died holding her and that's what saved her... 😭
I’ve been in a couple of bad tornadoes. You can’t believe how loud it is. The one that hit my house 2 years ago was preceded by 100mph wind. It felt like it would never end. When it hit I thought I was going to die for sure but the worst part was feeling unable to protect my kitties and family. They’re just awful in a way words can not describe. Thanks be to God for sparing me and my family.
I live 9 miles from there. It was a horror that can’t be explained. My boyfriend’s house was moved off it’s foundation about 2 inches. He was very lucky.
"Covered in a white dust." Ah damn. If Henryville's school was built around the same time as the high school I went to in the early 2000s, that's probably asbestos... That's a whole 'nother level of "not good" on top of everything else.
Recky, I see in the background your cats are tornadoes in your apartment! Laugh out loud!
yes... They are like kids going mental!
Tornados move at various speeds, it's rare that they move as fast as this one, over 50mph. Some can be almost stationary, and anything in between. It's a blessign in a way when they move this fast, they don't hang around very log and eat things up, but they would be harder to get away from if you have to run of course.
The wall clou is the part of the supercell that lowers when rotation is forming. There are good videos about the structure of tornadic storms.
This is near the area of the country where I live. A co-worker lived in Henryville. A softball is about the size of a small grapefruit.
The size... It could kill.
This happened about 25 miles from where I grew up. My sister saw this particular tornado start to form right above her house, but it didn't get to ground until it was closer to Henryville. This storm system had a total of 18 tornadoes in Kentucky (just across the Ohio river from Indiana, and 4 in Indiana, and more in other states. In total, 70 people died. It's a very rural area, which is the only reason there weren't more deaths. Henryville was pretty much decimated. :(
I live in South Mississippi. We don’t get as many tornadoes, but still time to time. I’ll never forget though. I was a preschool teacher with a class of 3yr olds. K3 and K4 was in a separate building from the main building. Over the intercom, we hear, “Teachers, a tornado has been reported coming down hospital st. (The street our school was on) please seek shelter immediately. This is not a drill. Please seek shelter immediately.” I gathered my class of 14 3yr olds in a single stall bathroom. We could hear the roar and the power went out. I used the glow of my cell phone screen and we sang camping songs so the kids wouldn’t be so afraid. Thankfully, it passed by us without anymore damage than the power lines and some roof damage. Was one of the scariest moments of my life though
This happened only 30 minutes from where I used to live, I was lucky enough to get away before it all happened, and then the Mayfield tornado happened near a friend's old house who lost a friend that was the neighbor. Happy to see you have interest in tornados and even feel empathy as well. Tornadoes are amazing but then the damage and injuries happen, itsexciting until then.
One story from the Mayfield, Kentucky tornado that just pisses me off is that the managers of the Mayfield Candle Factory ordered the workers to stay or be fired. Factories are the worst type of building in which to take shelter from a tornado. Seems to me that the owners and the managers were more preoccupied with trying to fill back orders to meet their Christmas quota instead of being concerned about the safety of their employees. I just hope that the owners and the managers are left bankrupt by the numerous lawsuits that are no doubt going to be filed against them by the families of the deceased and the survivors to cover the cost of their funeral expenses and medical bills, respectively.
I would suggest the video: When weather changed history: Greensburg Kansas. It would probably be in the conversation of most devastating considering what happened to the town it went through
I know it's an old video, but to answer your question at the 05:30 mark, the underestimation aspect is that, quite often unfortunately, we get false alarms with tornadoes. Tornadoes are typically determined first by radar and warnings are issued based on that radar hook echo, yet more often than not it's upper level rotation that simply never manifests into a tornado. People who live in Tornado Alley (a region that stretches from eastern Colorado to the Appalachian Mountains, and from the tip of southern Texas all the way north to North Dakota) live with the potential for tornadoes with each T-storm. In a weird way, because they're a constant threat, people become apathetic towards warnings.
I moved to the area 2 years after this tornado hit. My daughter graduated from the Highschool that was hit. The incident left a profound impact on the community even 2 years later. But, Tornadoes happen in that area more often than people would think.
Recky,
Everytime I watch a video reaction of a certain place, I Google Map the location at the beginning of the video to see exactly WHERE it happened.
I find it fascinating to see the actual location and surrounding areas.
Just thought I'd share that little tidbit with you.
Have a blessed day!
ohh thats a good one !
The scar from the Tuscaloosa tornado is still plain to see
@@peaceoutbruh7085
I have NO DOUBT about that...! 😢
I lived in Sellersburg when this tornado hit, which is about 10 miles south of Henryville.
I now live on the outskirts of Henryville, maybe a mile away. Looking out my back door, I would've had a bird's-eye view of it.
If you look on Google maps at the Henryville exit on I-65, scroll up, maybe a 10th a mile, and you can see where the tornado crossed over the interstate. The scars are still there...
My family church was destroyed by that tornado, and my uncle's house was barely missed. He lived maybe a quarter mile from the church.
They've rebuilt it across the street from the original location. Luckily, there was a basement in the church that saved quite a few lives that day.
I live right off Speith Rd/ Howser Rd in Henryville now. Speith turns into Howser Rd. Very sad day.
Greetings from Killeen, Texas. Who could NOT still be here until the end? I've been watching nothing but tornado videos on YT for a month now.
I live in Indiana and I can tell you that people rarely take the warnings and sirens seriously bc they rarely mean anything serious is happening. I know its not right but when you hear them so much it gets to the point that you can't run to the basement everytime or you just live in your basement thru spring.
Watching this actually had me go see if I could find anything on the night of the tornadoes I was in. Turns out, the news station recently uploaded the entire coverage of that night. It is like 4 hours. I found the part of the building I was in, and it brought back so many memories seeing it again.
Edit for the softball question. It is like a baseball, but bigger. It is about 12 inches in circumference.
Recky, I have several stories from this storm. The family that was taken by the storm was in Pekin, Indiana which was hit before Henryville. They were a young family, and the dad had been so excited because he had just bought a van and was starting a job at the hardwood mill. They were all killed immediately except for the little girl, Angel, who was found covered in mud in the field. They took her to the hospital and she lived a few days after that, but her injuries were too severe and she passed away.
One of my friends was a teacher at Henryville and was in the building when the storm hit. She showed pictures of her car after the storm, it was totalled smashed, but her water bottle that she had left in the center console was undisturbed. She also had a stuffed Blue (the Indianapolis Colts football team mascot) sitting on her desk, and when they finally deemed it safe to go back into that portion of the school she found Blue sitting right where she had left him, even though her classroom was pretty much destroyed.
Another friend was a paramedic who responded to the Interstate highway to help those who had been in vehicles. They were treating someone when the second storm came thru and when the hail started Jessica actually threw her body over the patient to protect them. She ended up with massive bruises on her back, and she later received a commendation for her service.
A couple of friends had their homes destroyed, and another had the church his family attended completely swept away, only the steps leading up to it remained. The one friend who lost her home got her picture in Time magazine, and she said that it wasn't the way she would have wanted to get in Time magazine.
A reporter was caught by the approaching tornado as it neared Henryville. There were two gas stations across from each other and he sheltered in one of them. Fortunate choice, since the other station was swept away, with only the ATM (which was bolted to the floor) remaining...
A few days after the storm, we had a snowstorm, quite a contrast to the weather a few days prior. The cold and snow hampered the recovery efforts a bit.
Something really good happened though. The country music group Lady Antebellum was running a contest with the winning school getting to have the group play at their prom. The rival school Silver Creek, instead of trying to win for their school, made a video asking Lady A to consider Henryville since they had gone thru so much. Henryville ended up winning, and the surrounding communities made sure that all the students had tuxes and dresses for the prom. Lady A couldn't come to the actual prom because they already had a concert booked for that same night, but they did donate a large sum of money to help make the prom special, and then later they did a private concert for the Henryville students.
The rebuilding of the school was an absolute miracle, the tornado happened in March and the students had to finish out the school year in facilities in neighboring counties, but there was a massive effort to get all the construction done, so when the beginning of the school year came in August, the students were able to come back to a brand new school which was pretty much exactly like the one that had been destroyed.
Oh, and the driver of the school bus that returned to the school to have the kids shelter there, was named Angel. I don't know if you caught it or not, but the diner that the bus ended up in was rebuilt and renamed the Bus Stop. The bus that returned to the school was the one that ended up in the diner, and there is actual video from inside the bus when the tornado struck, you see debris flying thru the windows and you can see the bus being moved and smashing into the diner.
The story of Wayne and Lenora always upset me, I saw the video and kept saying, "Don't just stand there and look at the tornado, get in your car and get out of there!" If they had done that and driven south they would have been fine.
There seems to be a very common attitude of, "Oh, it won't hit us" and you get the warnings so often then nothing happens, so people tend to ignore them. Having been thru a few in my life (I am a lifelong resident of Indiana) I pay attention when there is a warning. One went over my house just a year or two ago and I didn't know it (I was asleep) but I got on Facebook later and there were some videos on there, and when I looked and saw the landmarks, I was like, "Hey, that is right over my house.!" So many people don't really have a safe shelter like a basement or sturdy interior room so they are especially at risk. We have had a total of 5 tornadoes in the time that I have lived in this house, which is up on a ridge, all of which hadn't touched down until after they had passed the house.
Not a small comment ! I read it all. Thank you
I live at Pekin. That family were my neighbors. I live a little on out past their home. I was at work in Louisville. The news came on, mentioning Pekin and specially my road. I headed home. The police had my road blocked and every road leading to my home blocked. It took me 4 hours to get home, even though I could see my road. Finally, they let me get to my house. I disabled my son, and my elderly parents were at home. This tornado started at Pemin than went over the hills to Henryville. But, the news never mentioned it. Also, the factories it destroyed were at Pekin.
Oh, when I and my wife stayed at a Wisconsin resort cabin outside Hayward, Wisconsin, we experienced the birth of a tornado right above the resort bar building. This was about 1978 or 1979,it got very dark and the owner and us went outside ,we looked up and the huge gray cloud was all bumps underneath looking like boulders. Suddenly, the center of the cloud opened up into a large hole and a strong wind came straight down on us as it began spinning and blew lawn chairs several yards away and we ducked inside. It had formed there and moved onward to (i think it was) Winter ,Wisconsin where it did damage. Seeing it form from the start was amazing! Peace.
Still here Recky. Thankyou for reminding us that every day is precious, not promised.
Exactly!
Hats off to that school bus driver for quick thinking in getting to kids to the school
This is the day my husband and I were flying to Tampa, Florida from Indiana's next door neighbor, Illinois. There was rough tornadic storms. We could tell where the tornados were from flying over them. There tended to be a dip in the high clouds.
As for your question ... When I was by myself with the not really a tornado because I was the only one to see it, I stopped watching as it crossed the road and glanced up. I was under a tree and the branches started snapping. Beyond the trees were odd rotating clouds. I jumped into my truck and drove out of that area but then slowed and stopped to watch it go through a field - heading away from me. Another time my husband wanted to go chase one. I directed us away from the storm because the funnel was rain wrapped.
Oh, and Ricky, I think in Oklahoma you can go on a chaser vacation.
One more thing ... there are two speeds. one is how fast is it spinning and te other is how fast it is moving over the ground.
I think, thanks to henryville, my kids’ schools keep the kids out of school if there’s a definite threat of a tornado. I was definitely grateful, last April, when the kids stayed home as we watched our pine tree go down and huge wall clouds surround us. My kids and I just held one another and kept an eye on the tornado tracker my son pulled up on our computer.
Hey Recky, watched thru to the end. Softball-size would be a hailstone about 10 cm in diameter! These were powerful tornadoes for March, very early in the season.
For your next tornado video, I'd recommend the Jarrell Texas F5 Dead Man Walking documentary. It's extremely sad and horrifying, but also an extremely interesting and rare tornado event. Keep up the great videos!
Hi AJ! Thank you for watching the entire video.
Part of this storm went over my house. Had a lot of straight line wind damage in my town. Living in the Ohio Valley will keep you on your toes with weather. It gets so wonkie here that there is a running joke around my area "Welcome to the Ohio Valley, the only place on Earth were you will experience all 4 seasons in 1 week"
I’m just across the river in Kentucky, and can attest to experiencing all four seasons in a week before! Just last Christmas one of our pipes froze from subzero temperatures one weekend and by the next weekend it felt like springtime! This area really doesn’t know what it wants to be! 😂
We say that too in Tennessee! 😂
Softballs are approximately twice the size of baseballs.
OH DANG! Thats huge tho!
For hail size reference, a softball is 8.89 cm, a baseball is 7.6 cm, a golf ball is 4.27 cm, and a quarter is 2.43 cm.
A wall cloud is a major updraft formed cloud with intense energy and typically mesocyclones within its structure. These clouds or thunder-heads, produce heavy rain, hail, lightning and thunder, and tornadoes. They're formed typically at frontal boundaries, where cold air pushes up warm moist air, causing a rapid and distinct "wall" of cloud at the frontal boundary.
Thank you for these tornado reactions. The midwest u.s. is a volatile environment and I'm glad people in other countries know this and have us in their thoughts. Were born here and stuck here but home can be dangerous
It is a known fact that being in your car is the last place you wanna be in during a tornado. That’s what actually claimed the life of a former classmate and dear friend of mine years back to the tornado that struck Springfield, Massachusetts. Thing sucked up her car and she didn’t survive 😢
It's crazy to look back at that day. I was about 40 minutes north east of there. I was in school. It looked like a war zone driving through it that weekend.
Still here I still watch through all of them
i appreciate it my friend!
Still here! I live in Indianapolis and followed this closely as my neighbor has property near there.
I live in Southwest Michigan where we rarely get tornadoes because Lake Michigan protects us. They will dissipate before they reach the bluff. Myself and 2 friends of mine went to Henrysville to deliver water, baby formula and baby diapers. What struck me was the people walking around like zombies. They were so devastated. Ironically my community in Michigan got hit with a EF 3 last Tuesday. Luckily we didn’t lose our home but many did as it’s a pretty well populated area.
When he said everyone in the school knew exactly what to do and exactly where to go… every school in tornado zones practice tornado drills just like a fire drill. If school is in session, every class and staff member has an assigned “safe” area. We practiced once a month like clockwork where I taught. So those teachers and staff knew the safest areas to put the children from that bus. It’s never a guarantee as you’ve seen with the Moore tornado, but at least it gives everyone in the school a better chance at survival.
The name of the bus driver who saved the lives of the students is Angel Perry. She was only three miles away from the Henryville school complex when she noticed the tornado; so Angel fell back on her training to ensure the safety of the children who were in her care. Angel knew that the safest place to be for them was the Henryville school complex; so she turned around and hurried back to the school complex. After counting off the children on her bus as they ran for their lives into the office area of Henryville Elementary School; Angel hurried into the building herself. Her bus was the one that got hurled into a diner across the street from the school. In the episode of "Real Time Tornado" that profiled the Moore, Oklahoma tornado on May 20, 2013 a teacher at Briarwood Elementary School by the name of Robin Dziedich was taking shelter in a girls bathroom with several students and when the tornado hit the school; Robin screamed bloody murder. After the tornado had moved past the school; Robin and several of her fellow Briarwood teachers sprang into action to safely evacuate the students. The following day Robin returned to the school and felt an immense sense of loss seeing the school and her classroom destroyed. Robin explained that as a teacher her classroom is a home away from home for her and she felt so sad that her classroom was destroyed. However she reconciled her feeling of loss with her relief that her husband and children were okay and she didn't lose her actual home. Two other stories from the Moore episode that really caught my attention were the stories of Sam Peña and DeAnna Scofield. Sam displayed nearly superhuman abilities to keep his son Benji along with Benji's friends and classmates safe by using all of his physical strength to hold up a cinder block wall as they took shelter in a boys bathroom of Briarwood Elementary School. DeAnna is a stay-at-home wife and mom of two boys. She was at home alone on May 20, 2013 and was shooting video footage of the tornado from her kitchen window when she had a moment of "Oh shit!" as the tornado crossed Interstate 44; which is only ten minutes away from her home on SW 10th Street and Penn Lane. At that point she hurriedly ran into a storm shelter in her backyard. DeAnna explained that her storm shelter is very old and creepy and that she was scared to death worrying about her sons because they were in school; she wasn't as concerned about her husband because he was at work in downtown Oklahoma City. When the tornado dissipated at 3:36 PM Central Time DeAnna tentatively climbed out of the shelter and was begging for the storm to be over. Fortunately; both of her sons were okay, her husband was physically okay but emotionally shaken and their home was unscathed.
I live about 10 miles from this. Still remember the damage and loss of life
There is storm chasers here in the USA that take people for a ride along to see tornadoes in person
I remember this one very well. We passed through later in the year and the place was still torn up pretty badly. For years afterward, you could see scars from the tornado in the trees along the interstate.
That was my dad good friend that passed away in the tornado, that is his friend’s widow…
I also enjoy these tornado videos. I watch from start to finish.
Along with many others that have commented, I too live a section of the USA that has many tornadoes.
I agree, many people do become somewhat complacent as these are so common in our part of the country.
Hey Recky, I think you may be confusing wind speed with ground speed. The wind speed is how fast the wind rotates around the tornado, while ground speed is how fast a tornado travels over the ground. Wind speed is *way* higher than movement speed, usually. Someone else here mentioned that you should cover the Jarrell Texas tornado from 1997; that tornado moved at roughly human walking speed, but had wind speeds well over 200 mph. Ground speed and direction can be really unpredictable which is why it's not usually a good idea to try to outrun a tornado, but if you live in a mobile home, it might be a better option since mobile homes are basically tornado death traps.
Recky, great job. I just love your videos. Greetings from Killeen, Texas. I'm about 35 miles north of Jarrell. We certainly have our share of bad weather. About 4 weeks ago, we had very bad storms and several tornadoes in the area, which I think would have qualified as a derecho. So much damage to houses in the area and tornadoes did touch down in Belton and Temple, to our east.
Very kind words! Many thanks for that. =)
i was 11/12 and home alone when a tornado warning hit, i went to the neighbors and sat in their tub with them. when a family friend/roommate came home, he got me and walked me back to our house. i remember seeing a funnel cloud directly right above us. if conditions were right for a tornadoes to touch down, we would have been a direct hit. just last year, an ef0 tornado dissipated right before it reached our neighborhood. too many close calls, i know one day i could very likely be in the path of a nasty tornado. really wish storm shelters were more common.
Still here Recky. Thank you for this reaction. I can tell that you get emotionally exhausted from watching these but it's so important to remember and to respect the power of nature. Love from Ohio, USA ♥
When the weatherman points at the map "watching a storm passing through Southern Dubois County" Huntingburg is where I live, West of Henryville about 1.5 hours.
My house was hit in 86.
It's a part of life in Hoosier Alley.
Petersburg 40 mins NW was hit by an F4 destroyed the Southern half of town including Main Street taking 13 lives, like 90 or 91.
Evansville IN 35 miles SW, Nov 2005 an EF4 grazed the SE side of town hitting Ellis Park then striking a trailer park killing 35 people.
We had debris all over our fields from that, the debris fell for many miles across several counties.
When storms come you (most, idiots everywhere) pay attention or have friends paying attention and are generally aware and you hv your favorite weather person, radar app, a plan.
I've used my radar and local TV weatherman to get in my car and evade the storm, large hail too "we've got time to get South, let's go" then watch it safely pass us to the North.
The videos of the tornado are unbelievable-they look like scenes from a movie.
Still here. Watching tornadoes on video is emotional, but , being in a place where you know one will hit or having friends and family living where you know one will hit is emotionally and mentally draining.
Hey Recky, another tornado recommendation I have is the Jarrell, Tx tornado. A really great video on it is called Jarrell Tornado: 20 years later | KVUE. It's by the local tx news station and covers the topic really well can be found on KVUE RUclips channel. It's not too long either just 22 minutes.
So agree! Dead Man Walking. That was an incredibly powerful and disastrous tornado.
I am from an hourish from there. I was in Malmö at this time but heard about it because this storm went through my hometown.
29:33 in a bigass prairie thunderbumper... golf ball sized hail would be a blessing.
i have seen hail the size of grapefruits or *_LARGE_* oranges.
Oh gosh, was it really 7 months ago that you posted this? I remember recommending for you to watch the Henryville video, but then my life got sidetracked and I didn't watch your reaction to it 😅
Henryville really was a nightmare. My family drove 2 hours to help with relief efforts, and the damage was way worse in real life than how it looks in this documentary. There was nothing left. I went back and found the photos my mom had taken while we were driving through the town on the way to the place where we were supposed to meet the relief team. Absolutely horrible. And people still talk about it today. Especially the school. It was like the school never even existed. It's amazing looking at Henryville today and seeing how they've managed to completely rebuild everything to the point where you'd never know this tornado ever happened. Nobody ANYWHERE in Indiana will ever forget, though. We will never forget the Henryville tornado.
the tornado has high speed winds but they generally don't move 50 or 60 mph. you can out run them in a car if the roads aren't blocked
Hello Recky, I'm watching this in March,2023. I grew up and now live in north Indiana. We don't get many tornadoes up here but we have. I think the last state wide outbreak was on Palm Sunday in about 1974. I was driving down to the Indiana Prison Farm to see a friend there and passed through Monticello where Indiana Beach Amusement Park and Lake Shafer are (between LaPorte and Indianapolis). It was early afternoon and I was shocked to see the top floors of two story buildings gone with just a tub and toilet supported by pipes at one and devastation all around. A policeman was directing traffic , I was the only car out at the time and he said the tornado came through a few hours earlier. I parked by a section of the lake and saw that a complete steel bridge was gone and fell into the lake. To my right was a street light made of all metal that had been bent one foot from the ground where it was bolted down and the the bulb top was resting on the ground from the tubular pole being blown to a full bend. The hanging traffic light where I talked to the cop was entirely gone. It was surreal to see so much damage. I had left my hometown in the north ,LaPorte, and hadn't heard the news on it, since my VW's radio didn't work. I still prefer living here instead of the stormy south & southeast U.S. and Hurricane alley of Florida. Keep up the reviewing . I dig it. I am 73. Peace.
Im reading thid in march, 2023. You drove right where the tornado just roamed.. Thanks for sharing
Absolutely terrifying for the guy in the hallway of the school. Im glad hes okay. Someone was definitely watching over him.
I'm always here bro! Much love from AZ! We even get tornadoes here. It's very very rare and usually f1 or less.
Literally just drove by this town coming back from Kentucky.
I still remember that day vividly it was terrifying. School was basically out at the time (2:55pm) but we were on tornado warning so every student was to stay in school and take shelter. At the time I was in the 1st grade at the town just south of henryville, being rushed in the a dark room for almost an hour in total silence. Nowhere near what those people went through, but still pretty terrifying.
Hey Recky! Made it through the entire thing. This was amazing. Two storms in 15 minutes. Thanks for your reaction.
My pleasure budda! I love these, but there is almost always heartache. Good people getting hurt.. hate it
11:36 do not conflate wind speed with the ground speed. as you have already learned, a tornado's *_WIND speed_* can sometimes top 250mph (400Km/h). but the *_GROUND speed_* rarely gets over 60mph (100Km/h). so while they can sometimes catch a car, it really depends on factors such as the roads, the driver, and any debris that may be blocking the vehicle's path. a tornado will usually gallop along at roughly 20 ~ 30 miles per hour (30 ~ 50Km/h).
Ears pop with changes of air pressure as we all know and a tornado is an extreme low pressure spot where lots of air is rushing towards to fill in the extreme low pressure. The closer that tornado gets to you the bigger the change in pressure gets so the more intense the ear pain! Also tornados travel slower than the typical speed of a car on the highway, a tornado could have wind speeds of 250mph+ yet only travel at the speed of 40mph. The slower the tornado usually the more time it has to do damage
I live 8 miles from there. I was almost home from work when I heard the sirens going off.
It's like Hurricaine season in the south east. We get tropical storms and minor hurricanes all the time, but it's hard to tell which ones will be bad until they make landfall. They can be strong in the water and weaken when they hit land
with paths soo narrow, getting hit is a matter of watching the path. Then again... after season after season o hearing storm warnings people can get complacent. Some get soooo mesmerized by them once they see one.. they fail to take cover in time.
Hey, Recky, great job reviewing the most devastating winds on the planet. I just learned that there's a place that suffers great devastation not just from tidal surge flooding during cyclones but also from tornados. That place is Bangladesh. Maybe you could arrange to get some clips from their outbreaks which happen around this time of year each year March, April and May.
Hi Recky...Incredible footage on the tornado. Thanks for sharing. You may have already looked this up but they mention hail the size of softballs...Softballs are generally 12 inches (30.5 cm) in circumference, weighing between 6.25 and 7 ounces (177 and 198 grams).
I'm so happy tornadoes don't happen that much at all here in Massachusetts. We get a lot of blizzards.
I love your "tornado" reactions! Still here, Recky.
I had to drive through Henryville a few days after this storm. Absolutely unbelievable doesn't even describe it. Seems unnatural and you don't really know what to do
Watching from Indiana. It was a very destructive storm. We all came together and tried to help those in need. I will say as from as the one woman saying she didn’t think they would be hit by it. As a 42 year old woman that’s lived in Indiana my whole life I’ve never personally seen one even though I’ve helped others clean up from being hit by them. We have alarms that alert us but most of the time we never see one. ( thankfully)
I have never seen so many cases of bottled water in my life. I worked as a paramedic in that area at that time, and seeing these people come together was amazing!
Most underestimate tornadoes simply because they are hard to predict even with advanced Doppler Radar. They can rapidly develop and they can direction at any given moment
Just started the video but I will edit this message as I watch it. I know you watched the Tuscaloosa tornado, I wasn’t sure if you knew about the outbreak that caused it. It was a little over 3 days long and produced 359 tornadoes. The day the Tuscaloosa tornado occurred on April 27th 2011 and there were 200 tornadoes that day. I live in the south and was impacted by it. The data was mind blowing. It was CRAZY. The discovery channel did a good documentary. The video of the documentary is on RUclips. It’s called/labeled ‘Discovery channel tornado rampage 2011 avi RUclips 1280x720’ .There’s some crazy footage in that documentary. It’s worth a watch! It was wild to experience. I could have lost many people I knew that day. 2011 was such a terrifying year. We had 1,705 tornadoes that year.
Edit: I’m still here! Softballs usually have a circumference of 12 inches and a diameter of 3.8 inches. They’re BIG. Bigger than baseballs
i appreciate it
@@Reckyj No problem! Thank you for watching these videos even though they’re hard. It’s our reality each year unfortunately. I hope we can keep improving our systems so less people are lost.
@@Reckyj Yes a softball is a larger, less dense baseball.
I was at my grade school in Louisville during this tornado. It hit the neighborhood my school was in.
Here till the end Recky.
I remember that one.
Lived 11 miles north of Henryville and I was in my basement crying because I didn’t know if it was coming towards me my mom pulled me out of school(they tried to keep us at school) and we got home as fast as we could it was such a scary day I will always remember that day
I recently came across your channel and have been watching your reacts to tornadoes...as a Midwest lifer...indiana and ohio...I can affirm...they are wicked scary and unpredictable and sometimes seem to be not only alive but angry too and looking for targets.
I'm not sure if Ricky would ever read this comment but Jim Cantore is the guy who stands out in the middle of hurricanes for The Weather Channel. He does the live rather reports in severe weather out there in the middle of it.
Well, Recky sees all comments, and tries to respond to as many as possible.
I was a Freshman in high school at Hamilton Southeastern High School in Fishers, Indiana when this storm hit Henryville, Indiana. The absolute devastation that was done to this small town was incredible. And driving through that small town current and trying to imagine the devastation from that EF-4 was impossible to comprehend.
Recky, I'd suggest the EF2 near West Union, OH from the same outbreak. But, I dunno if Tornado Alley covered it. Aditionally, there was an EF0 that hit close to the EF2. The EF3 that started in Kentucky (Peach Grove area) before crossing into Ohio (Moscow area) might have a better chance, though.
Also, you should consider yourself lucky that Sweden only gets occasional storms due to geography because tornado-adjacent conditions can make it into the central Ohio area occasionally.
You have to check out the 2013 El Reno tornado. It broke one impressive record for sure, the confirmed largest tornado in recorded history. And it possibly broke a second even more impressive record, for the fastest wind speeds ever recorded on planet Earth. Though the latter of the two is up for debate. It is one of the most iconic storms ever.
I think part of the reason people can become so complacent is from the sheer number of tornado watches that don't result in tornados, and warnings for tornados that don't touch down, or don't affect us. (I'm in Ohio, next door to Indiana). In the 20 years I've lived here we've had countless watches and warnings, and only two actual tornados within 10 miles of us. It gets easier and easier to dismiss them as false alarms.
I watched until the end.
5:30 It’s almost like “The Boy That Cried Wolf”. If people constantly get severe weather warnings but nothing bad happens to them, they start to get comfortable and let their guard drop; it’s almost like background noise to them by then. Like, ‘This happens all the time and we’ve never had anything bad happen here. We’ll be fine.’
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Was in a weather system that was trying to drop unsuccessfully. that pressure change feeling where the ceiling tiles lift and the walls shake and your ears pop is utterly, and completely TERRIFYING. it feels like a vacuum inside your head. on full suction.
There is a reason why the word granulation is in the damage indicators....brick and cement get GRANULATED meaning reduced to grains or particles...its insane to think about brick being reduced to sugar grains or paritcles