Every US State Ranked By Tornado Activity - Tornado State Tier List
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2022
- In this tornado tier list video, I rank every state based off the state's historic tornado activity from 50 to 1. Its def just my opinion so if you disagree that's cool! Let me know your thoughts in the comments below! Thanks for watching!
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many states share tornadoes and fatalities if said tornado crosses state lines.
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Fun fact, during the 1974 Super Outbreak, there were so many tornadoes on the ground in Indiana at one time that one TV station issued a tornado warning for the entire state, the only time so far that this has ever happened in any state.
Wow
Wow rly
Holy shit lmao
I'm from Indiana and I didn't know that haha, thanks for the fun fact
My entire city was destroyed by an EF5. Xenia Ohio.
As a born and raised Wisconsinite, any tornado that doesn’t wipe Illinois off the map is rated F for failure.
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!!!
K. B. thats some funny stuff.
Ouch
We need an anti-Illinois bumper sticker for us Midwesterners!
If one wiped Chicago off the map Illinois would suddenly become a much better place. They don't give a fuck about the rest of the state nor do they even represent us whatsoever. Even us Illinoisans hate Illinois and it's all thanks to Chicago. They'd have us turn into another California.
Moore, Oklahoma is Tornado Alley point blank. I say that as a lifelong resident. We have to get in the cellar at least twice a year. When I was a kid only like 1 of 10 houses in an area had a shelter. Now there are shelters in or near every house. I feel way safer now days. People used to hide under bridges until May 3, 1999 made that a horrible idea. Gary England and David Payne are the GOAT weather men in my opinion.
Are you ok after these latest storms?
@@Bbpierced yes ma’am. The last couple years I’ve had multiple supercells capable of producing tornadoes come over my place. All low hanging rotations but fortunately no touch downs. By now everyone who lives here is good about being weather aware and we keep each other safe and Check on one another. It’s been over ten years since the big one hit so hopefully it stays that way.
one of the most recent ones just missed us and it really shook up our town! i can’t imagine how it would be for multiple close calls like that, much less multiple a year!
I love David Payne and dislike Mike Morgan
Yeah, I used to live in Moore, I was in both the 1999 and 2013 F5 tornadoes. The 1999 had the highest wind speeds ever recorded in a tornado, it lifted some types of tornado shelters right out of the ground so that changed how they built tornado shelters. I remember watching video of that tornado in the days afterwards that had been recorded by one of the people that sheltered under the overpass and survived. That horror sticks in my mind seeing people sucked from under the overpass. He filmed a family with 2 small children running towards the overpass, they didn't make it there and the dad had the 2 children hang onto an interstate guardrail and he got on top of them and hung on, the video of the mother shows her running towards them and suddenly starts getting blown backwards then is lifted straight up. The man and children miraculously survived, the mother was found over a quarter mile away. The stuff nightmares are made of. But that video let meteorologist get the word out to never shelter under a bridge or overpass; it actually causes a wind tunnel and is the worst place you can be. You are right Gary England and David Payne are the GOATS. David Payne was a storm chaser where Gary England was the meteorologist and he has amazing video of the 1999 F5 that he chased.
Massachusetts Native here. I was 14 when the 2011 outbreak occurred. I’d been fascinated by Tornados at the time and went deep into the rabbit hole of tornados, learning everything I could, hoping one day I’d see one (safely of course). Imagine my surprise and shock to see my hometown of Springfield get ravaged by the outbreak. My house and family were fine, and there was only minor damage done to my grandmas house. The horror came when my family tried to leave the state south and when we got to Enfield CT, my mom got word another tornado just touchdowned just north of Enfield, so my family booked it hard South. After a while, the storms subsided and we traveled back home north. The damage was astounding to see. Thankfully no one in my family was hurt but I sadly can’t say the same for many in Springfield. It was a hell of a time living in a state I never thought to see a tornado in.
That’s actually insane
Amazing story but no one talked about how he pronounced Worcester in the video.
It's obvious why Alaska's ranked at the bottom. You don't need tornadoes to cause mayhem in Alaska when you've got the Alaskan bullworm. Which might I add, is BIG, scary, PINK, and forced the people of a city to push their whole city to another spot even though it was still destroyed by it.
Despite its small size, Rhode Island made up for this in not just tornadoes, but it was also once the state with the longest state name. Up until 2020, its official name was the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. After voters decided to drop the Providence Plantations part in 2020, it lost the longest state name title to its longtime rival, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
What’s an Alaskan bullworm
@@pixilmon spongebob reference
@@pixilmon cmon man did you not have a child hood
@@devv__VFX yes it’s spongebob but
I live in Alaska and I'm thankful that all we have to worry about is Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Tsunamis, Forest fires, Bear Attacks, the Bullworm (obviously) and freezing to death. The tornadoes are probably too scared to come here.
I'm from Oklahoma and I do agree with your ranking. What's strange about it though is I have spent 30 years of my life here and 25 all over the nation. (I was in the military so we moved a lot.) I have seen 5 tornadoes in my lifetime. None of those were in Oklahoma strangely. I have definitely seen the damage from them afterwards as many nearby communities have been hit. I have even had two times that I have been traveling here in the state and within a few hours of leaving a place it was hit. Just weird luck i guess.
Once a wise man said: Don't jinx it!
@@DarkPrevaitor ive lived in oklahoma my whole life now, and our town hasnt been hit by a tornado in a long time, the 2013 moore tornado barley missed it. we have what we call a "Tornado Bubble" over our town just south of OKC.
Stay lucky!
im from New Jersey and the one time i visited Oklahoma i saw a tornado from the highway
Luck?? Blessed!!
I live where Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma meet. Joplin Missouri. May 22, 2011. Scariest day of my life. I’m a grown man and I have flashbacks hearing the weedwacker smack the side of my house.
Coming from that area of Kansas. If you live in Missouri technically you do not live where Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma meet
I’m watching this on the way to help with tornado clean up in Sulpher Oklahoma
Thank you for helping. You're a wonderful person
I wish I could help! Too bad I live far away.
God bless you!
I live in Tishomingo, Ok. We were spared the night Sulphur got torn up. There were many Tornadoes that followed that same Marietta, Ardmore,Sulphur,Ada path that night. Some of that outbreak had us in the cellar that evening.
i went there on saturday with my grandparents to look at all the damage, and it almost had me crying! i saw this little minion thingy and it had a sign that said "i survived the 2024 sulphur tornado!"
The Joplin tornado happened when I was 12 going on 13. As a child growing up in tornado alley i was a big fan of movies like Twister and was always infatuated with their alarming power and capabilities. Never in my wildest dreams could I have Imagined how much it’d change my hometown. It was devastating, crippling the city in ways you can never imagine. The death toll alone connected/touched everyone in the city, the devastation and poverty were unprecedented . I’m only 24 and I have never witnessed anything quite like this trauma before. Glad to hear it was mentioned, you just never know how long will go on after you survive these situations.
I remember this one too. I was watching the news that night and saw the report about it. Even remember my Grandpa's reaction when I pointed it out.
I’ve lived in north Texas DFW area my whole life, and the first dream I remember having was a dream about running from a tornado.😅 I vividly remember that when I looked at the tornado, it was stormy in the sky, but the tornado was literally a floating tomato🍅 in the sky. I was around 2 years old and didn’t even know what a tornado looked like. All I knew was that it coincided with storms
God Bless you and Joplin. My town was hit too 23 years ag and it's a displaced insecure feeling like I had never thought about until it happened.
Liberal Democrats will not rebuild smaller places like Joplin after emergencies. They want everyone out of the countryside and into the cities. They hate rural people.
Same exact experience for me. I live in western KY. On Nov 15th 2005 when i was in 4th grade, we got dismissed early from school due to approaching extreme weather. It was an outbreak, 49 tornadoes total. The strongest of which, was an F4 (before EF scale). I saw it from my dads jeep, as a funnel. It touched down and destroyed multiple brick homes in Madisonville/Earlington, but nobody was killed thankfully. I was too young to really understand the weight of something like that. I became obsessed with tornadoes, watching footage online, watching movies like twister. Then, on Dec 10 2021 (he mentions it in this video) we woke up one morning and it was about 70 degrees and sunny all that day. Not a cloud in the sky. I knew that was bad. A historic long LONG track ef4 tornado ripped right through my hometown of Dawson Springs and decimated over 60% of the entire downtown. After already producing tornadoes in Arkansas, NW Tennessee, then hitting Cayce KY, Hickman county KY, Mayfield KY, and Southern Princeton KY. After my town it went on to kill in Bremen KY. You can find drone footage of Dawson Springs the day after. It was bad bad. 16 were killed from my hometown alone. It missed my house by about 3/4ths of a mile and missed my grandmothers house by less than 1/4th of a mile.. Ever since then, I've had PTSD and even the slightest indication of a tornadic storm drops my heart into my stomach
I'm from Kansas and even I think the crown deserves to be worn by Oklahoma, purely based on the numerous record breaking tornadoes they've had.
I absolutely knew from the beginning of the video that Kansas and Oklahoma would pretty much be neck and neck. Awesome video in general, I totally agree with *most* of your rankings!
Oh come on ....jk
I definitely agree. I definitely feel like I've heard about Oklahoma more than here.
I don't live in any states in tornado or dixie alley, but I knew it would probably be head to head between Kansas, Oklahoma, & Texas. I'm surprised Texas didn't rank higher, because while I get it's a huge state, it also has had the most tornadoes ever recorded.
Where did you get your information? Kansas has had over 400 more tornadoes all time than Oklahoma has. Kansas also averages 96 tornadoes a year while Oklahoma averages only 62. Kansas has way more tornadoes.
@@kaileesi I’m a native Dfw. Yes we get get a lot of tornadoes but really are chances are still minimal in some parts.
Born and raised in Indiana and honestly wasn't expecting it to be so high. I didn't realize just how many tornadoes we've had here and how many were rather intense ones. It's certainly quite a lot given our states size.
Remember last year when we had 23 Tornadoes in one day? 🤣
Lol yea @captaincurtis9829
I hear you. People really don't think of Indiana when they're talking tornadoes, but we have plenty here. I live just outside of Kokomo, and we had two within a few years that came right through Kokomo, and did a lot of damage. I can remember several from my childhood, that passed very close to us. I can totally understand a statewide tornado warning being issued, when you have storm fronts that span the entire state, and generate multiple tornadoes. I stood on my porch, and watched an f3 pass just blocks from my house in Greentown, which is about 5 miles east of Kokomo. BTW it didn't sound like a freight train....It sounded like thousands of screaming cats.
I think having access to SM has greatly improved awareness.
“Don’t be scared, be prepared!” Who else follows Ryan Hall Y’all?
I do!
As someone who was born and lived in Oklahoma for a lot of my life, I can agree with this. Most houses have a tornado shelter in the backyard for a reason, and if you don't have one, you know someone close by who does.
My parents house is that house for our neighborhood. We go down there twice a month to spray for pests as black widows love that thing.
My grandpas orginal house got completly swept away by an ef4 or 5 i dont remeber
I can confirm as I’m from Oklahoma
kansas is fun right
I just moved to Tulsa, I dont know anyone with a shelter, nor do we have one lol. I am from Arizona and not used to seeing Tornado stuff all over.
Highly recommended video topic for you: in CA, at least one of its EF3s was a 2018 fire tornado. Major outlets reported at the time that it was not a common gustnado you see in fires, but an actual tornado. A forest fire had such an intense updraft it caused a "pyrocumulus" cloud to form overhead and drop an EF3 tornado with 140mph winds right onto the fire. The story has always blown me away and I've wanted someone to shed light on it for a while.
Wow! I'll definitely check that out.
*Ba Dum Tsss...*
it was actually in 2017 i lives around there when that happened :)) october
@@SwegleStudios thanks, big fan of your videos! Really well researched and high quality
If you're interested, there is footage from Australia of several fire tornadoes, such as this one in 2003:
m.ruclips.net/video/phDcVxse91Y/видео.html
I was born over here in Oklahoma and still is in OKC and I can't even tell you how many times I've heard the nadar sirens in the last 5 or so years.
Well they come on every Saturday at noon so at least 1800 times
Great content, especially love the Goldeneye soundtrack! But seriously you are doing an amazing job
Growing up in Iowa but now raising a family in a less tornadic state, I feel kind of bummed that my kids probably won't experience "tornado culture". I looked forward to summer when I got to hang out with my family in the basement with a transistor radio waiting for tornadoes to pass. Good times.
Same… tornadoes were fun in a weird way while growing up.
It’s crazy because some people will say Iowa isn’t even part of tornado alley… it’s like uhh we have the second most tornadoes per mile in the country and third most overall with a huge amount of violent tornadoes, so why wouldn’t we be??
I got scared every time I heard a train pass after watching Twister in school.
this is so true. I moved from Oklahoma to a state that doesn’t really have them and I honestly
miss it
Yeah I also love having my home torn to shreds with my children. (i dont have any) BUT YEE HAW TEXAS
I remember the El Reno tornado. I was at my aunts house and all of our phones were going off, and it was hella dark outside. One of my scariest moments
Same here!!
This one formed right above my house I was young I did not know what was going on all I knew was to run to the storm shelter, I went outside after it was safe I looked out on the fields massive ground scouring most of the field was gone
I can't imagine being in that situation at all I probably would have given myself a heart attack from the anxiety I would have
Wow! That had to be terrifying!
That evening was pure chaos. The people on the west side of the metro trying to escape south due to advice from at least one TV meteorologist then being stuck in their cars. Then the torrential rain for hours caused flash flooding and a father and his small children drowned because they hid underground in a drainage pipe because the TV guys said get underground or go south so they went underground. It was like the meteorologists who usually tell people to take shelter immediately switched to run for your lives and the people did just that. The vibe from the experts was off that evening.
I watch your videos just so I can listen to you talk because DUDE it's pure butter. I love weather but its so calming to listen to you talk. So relaxing. tornado asmr.
Living in Iowa, I didn't realize that we had that many tornadoes. We hear sirens all the time, but we tend to not pay that close attention to it. That's absolutely nuts.
Also to add to it, not only is does Oklahoma have the largest tornado on record, the 1999 Bridge Creek- Moore tornado was also home to the fastest wind speeds ever recorded on planet earth. Great video!
Wasn’t el Reno bigger?
@@Nexpeon El Reno is the "BIGGEST" tornado ever caught on tape. Bridge Creek- Moore was the "FASTEST" wind speeds ever recorded. Both were very fascinating tornadoes
@@ncrveteranranger4454 NVM i read it wrong I thought he was calling moore bigger than el reno
Even scarier than that, its been surmised the tornado to the north of the OKC that was near Cimmaren City on the same night, was even stronger and bigger, but failed to hit a populated area during its strongest state. That was a crazy day, an EF4 rolled into south Wichita that same day and killed 6 people, but there were so many big tornadoes during that outbreak that not many remember it.
@@jcamp788 the Mulhall tornado? That’s the largest tornado ever measured by radar. The core flow was 1 mile wide, and the tornado extended anywhere from 2.8-4.3 miles wide. It looked like a mini hurricane it was so absurdly large. The wind speeds in the sub-vortices averaged 245-260 mph!
Thankfully the core flow blasted past Mulhall by about a mile, but even then the town sustained F4 damage. Had THAT tornado tracked any closer to Mulhall, the damage would’ve exceeded what was seen at Bridge Creek. I even suspect it would’ve been close to warranting an F6 rating.
29:49 I have a strong personal connection to the Andover, KS tornado, despite living and being about a thousand miles away when it happened. About 4 years before the tornado, my dad was on a list of finalists for a job as the chief of police for Andover. My parents had picked out a house for us to buy and move into if he got the job. Instead, it went to someone else, and we eventually moved to a different state. When the Andover tornado happened and the national news was showing footage of the destruction it had caused, we saw the ruins of the house my parents had picked out! It's likely that if my dad had gotten that job, our family would have been killed in the tornado.
Damn, dodged it....
Gods plan if ya believe it wasn't his picked time for you if not the universe pulled your family out of danger I was leaving the house one day forgot my keys on the table took all about 10 seconds to grab them and get back In the car driving 55mph coming up to a intersection and a car blows through at like 80 mph me and my buddy look at one another he said had you not forgot the keys I'd took that car direct hit one my side I'd be gone and possibly you 2 it's crazy how things happen and wind up keeping you out of threatening situations
Wow that's crazy... Wichitan here, and that sounds about right
I was the manager on duty at the FAA's Autoated Flight Service Station on the Wichita airport that night. Watched it on radar for over two hours tracking from south of Wichita all the way up northeast of El Dorado. That was a terrifying night - phone lines were down and was unable to call relatives of mine that were in the path.
Wow thats crazy,
I also have a story of a dodged could have been death my family decided to take a trip a while back we were choosing which week to do it on this week or the week after anyways we went on the trip it was Galveston Texas and once we got back we found out that if we went the next week instead of the one we went on we would have been caught in something i forgot what it was but it was something that caused death and we most likely would have died
Can't believe you only got 139k subs. You deserve waaaaaayy more tbh keep up the amazing videos
I enjoyed this a lot. In 1974 I lived in Dayton, OH, 10 miles from the Xenia tornado. We watched on TV what might have been the first televised radar tracking of the tornado, described by the late, great weatherman Gil Whitney. Driving through Xenia afterwards I could not believe the magnitude of destruction. 32 deaths in Xenia.
I live in Murfreesboro, TN. We were in the 2009 tornado, under the side walls, and it touched down 200 yards behind our house. We were in our basement but saw the debris in the air and later in our yard. We lost a tree. A lady and her baby were killed not far from us. No, it didn’t sound like a train, it sounded like a powerful jet aircraft. Scary. My son and I were allowed to go into the stricken area by police to get pictures. I took about 200. Unbelievable and we were lucky to have not been victims. But our area was just one of many it hit. It crossed almost the whole north end of Murfreesboro. Lots of damage! We’re definitely a magnet here.
Oh, we also lived close to the Palm Sunday tornadoes in Indiana. I was 6. Maybe WE’RE the magnet.
I’m from Rochester, MN. After the F5 tornado, the father of the Mayo brothers was brought in by the sisters of St. Francis to build a clinic. He thought that the number of people in the area would not support it, but it grew rapidly. His two sons graduated college as physicians and joined the Rochester clinic. That’s how it all began.
There was a tornado in New brighton mn in 2018
@@christiandipaola1217 You would find a way to bitch and moan no matter where you live
Fellow Minnesotan!
Looking on the map he uses, I couldn't find what I am about to talk about, but I do remember it well.
A few years ago (2017 or 2018 I think), and everybody is in the downstairs bathroom. Sirens are going off outside, and were looking at the FOX website on a laptop. Changing between the broadcast and the NWS, we see 2 tornados in my city. One started north, headed east and made a 90° turn south. The other started to the south, went west, and again 90° to the north. It made a square around my area, like an orbit. They may have only been minor (no more than an EF2) but still, so... strange
I'm glad. My aunts life was saved by this place and thank for its existence
I’m from the New York one. I am just glad I haven’t had any tornadoes in my life time yet
1:54 = Alaska
2:26 = Hawaii
2:48 = Nevada
3:10 = Vermont
3:37 = California
4:04 = Maine
4:47 = Oregon and Washington State
5:11 = Utah
5:50 = New Hampshire
6:28 = Idaho
6:59 Rhode Island
7:20 = Arizona
7:36 = New Jersey
7:50 = New Mexico
8:37 = Montana
9:08 = Wyoming (also my second favorite state)
IM GONNA POST THIS AND EDIT THIS SO I DONT LOOSE MY PROGRESS FROM MY PC SHUTTING OFF
9:44 = Delaware
10:03 = New York
10:43 = West Virginia
11:04 = Connecticut
11:19 = Maryland
11:40 = Virginia
12:00 = Massachusetts
Yall tell me if you want me to skip to A tier or do all states! When i get some replies of the question, Ill see how many want it! BYEEE IM TAKING A BREAK
12:47 = Florida
13:30 = North Carolina
13:58 = South Carolina
14:33 = Pennsylvania
15:10 = North Dakota
15:32 = Colorado
15:59 Ohio
16:36 = South Dakota
16:55 = Georgia
17:23 = Kentucky
17:53 = Louisiana
18:26 = Michigan
18:58 = TENNESSEEE! WOOO MY FAVORITE STATE! LET'S GET IT
19:39 = Arkansas
20:24 = Missouri!
21:17 = Wisconsin (there you go)
21:47 = Minnesota
22:29 = Nebraska
23:12 = Illinois
23:42 = Indiana
24:23 = Texas
25:44 = Mississippi
27:04 = Alabama
27:57 = Iowa
29:16 = Kansas
29:58 = Oklahoma
THERE IM DONE!
Where's TEXAS?
@@ShogunHull Ill keep working on it.
27:57 Iowa... I know no one cares about my state but here it is anyways
@@Wulfstan1938 Im gonna work on it!
@@Wulfstan1938 Ill add the rest today
I reside in Oklahoma, and I hadn't expected my state to be at the top of your list. While we're accustomed to tornadoes, this really brings it into perspective for me.
OK, i've watched several of your videos and now I'm subscribing. In fact, this is probably the best RUclips video I've ever seen. It's so well researched and presented - absolutely masterful - about such a riveting subject. I've been obsessed with tornado videos recently, but have taken comfort in the fact that I live in Eastern Pennsylvania where "tornadoes don't happen", I thought. Not so! it looks like tornadoes are a reality in all 50 states. So I guess the solution to this problem, if there is one, is to stay informed and take tornado preparedness seriously. Live in house with a basement (we do!), don't hide in your car or under an underpass, and don't expect it will never happen (it could!). I love your tour guide delightful details about each of the 50 states. They really are all treasures, aren't they? That said, why the heck would anyone live in Moore, Oklahoma? I don't mean to be mean, but gosh, it's just too dangerous there, IMAO! Your channel is terrific and you deserve 1 million subscribers, at least. Keep up the good work: it's fun and informative, and you're probably saving lives!
The Joplin tornado kind of shook the whole state. I was born and raised here in Missouri and live approximately 3 hours away and the storm later hit us but had MASSIVELY weakened by that point. I believe I read it was an f2 when it got here. I graduated high school that day and we knew we had the risk for bad weather that day but nobody imagined that a tornado that deadly would happen in Joplin.
The Ruskin Heights tornado outside of Kansas City was rated as one of the worst in 1957. It missed my home by about half a mile.
I’m from the bootheel area and can agree that it shook people around here too. Loads of churches were preparing care packages and aid to load in trucks, trailers and vans to go help.
20:23
Just visited Cunningham Park recently to pay respects to Joplin. Very nice tribute.
@@rondodson5736 wow very insane!!
missouri really is an odd case when it comes to weather in general. i’m from there and i’ve studied a lot of the events that happen here, and safe to say, no other state can claim the things we can. we have a fault line, there’s high tornado activity, we’re extremely flood prone, we get both blizzards and severe droughts, it can dip as low as -51 degrees in the winter and get as high as 118 in the summer, the list goes on. the weather in missouri is so insanely and unbelievably random at times, i find myself questioning if it even makes sense with my current understanding of climatology.
From Missouri as well, and you nailed it.
Fellow Missouri guy here, specifically STL, I can certify we have 12 sessions vs the 4 others have
Anyone remember the crazy tornados in December of 2021?
I could only find -40 as the record cold temp but still cold. Funny both the record cold -41 and record high 118 occured in the same town Warsaw...
As a Missourian that temperate climate go brrrr
arkansas is the warmer version -29 to 120
I think you selected your criteria wisely, considering there are so many factors to consider. With each state varying in so many ways, it's not easy to find a fair way to put them all on the same "playing field" when it comes to ranking natural disasters of any kind. Good job!
Dude. Between the weather channel background music and ur soothing voice I am enthralled. And great video too
As an Alabamian, James Spann is a LEGEND in this state! He saved tons of lives back in 2011 during the super outbreak. I have cousins that still to this day live in Tuscaloosa and every time me and my family went to visit them, we always checked out updates on the recovery for Tuscaloosa after the tornado of 2011.
I pray we never see a day like that ever again.
I’m from Jasper, AL and my whole family pays attention to literally everything James Spann says lol. The guy is a legend 👍💯
Huntsvillian here lol I was 10 when it happened, crazy birthday for my brother too April 27th haha scary shit tho I remember seeing the 100% precipitation probabilities on the news and thinking "that's probably not good" since I'd never seen it before and don't think I have again
HE IS A LEGEND! Also, funny story, we had some family from New Jersey come to visit the state. They left our house and needed a place to stay for one night and I said, “Well, just don’t go to Tuscaloosa, there is always a bad storm there. And sure enough, I got text messages from my cousin explaining it was the worst storm they had ever witnessed. It was a pathetic storm compared to what Tuscaloosa normally gets lol
I agree!
James spann is the ma fukkin man
As someone who lives in Iowa, I'd totally believe we are so high in the ranking. While the number of tornadoes isn't that high, the amount of violent ones is so significant. Parkersburg still to this day isn't quite 100% since it was destroyed and most of the townspeople ended up moving away. Such a wild spot, but when you're basically the middle ground of a cold Minnesota and a warm Missouri, it's bound to happen.
Hey there's a reason why it's the Iowa State Cyclones.
Bugger off cornflake.boy ...it's the Sooner state by an F5 MILE!....uh...although I guess we are talking tragedies....uh well jes practicing my Trollin'....can't become a pro without practice, practice, practice!😬
We get a shit ton of tornadoes here in upper Missouri
@@ReaIly not at all. Missouri's bullseye is actually around Springfield
@@thechasestormers321 I live in a straight up field out in the country I get tons of tornadoes
Murfreesboro Tennessee resident here! Yes, Murfreesboro is indeed a tornado magnet. Having grown up in Texas for the first decade of my life has helped me navigate the situations much more naturally, almost nonchalantly at this point. I’m glad my city got a shoutout, though!
I grew up in a small town about 30 minutes east of Greensburg, Kansas. The Greensburg tornado decimated the town so badly it’s seared into the minds of everyone from the small farming towns around it. For years after it was nearly impossible to buy a house in my hometown because so many people moved there after. There’s actually a museum inside what was before the tornado the worlds largest hand dug well.
Born and raised in Oklahoma. Tornadoes are an unfortunate part of our lives here. I knew it would be close call between OK and KS.
We’ve already been in the cellar once this season. Had tornado sirens going off again day before yesterday. It’s hard with a disabled child to try and decide when/if to start heading to the cellar.
Yeah I agree. I live in goldsby right now, but before I lost two separate homes to tornados, so it does kinda suck.
I live in Dixie Alley. We have our fair share. Look at April 27, 2011. Also April 2nd and 3rd 1974. We live in areas where there are hills, mountains, and valleys. Many times we can’t see them approaching. Regardless of where one lives…tornadoes are terrifying. I’ve worked with multiple children who lost a significant family member of the family. Several lost both parents because they were spending the night with someone. Just scary and sad!
As a Nebraska resident, I'm sad you didn't mention the "Night of the Twisters". It was an event in 1980, which a cell formed seven unique tornadoes on the city of Grand Island. From what I could find, one was an EF4, two were 3's, and then the rest were 2's and 1's. So not the most destructive system ever, having only three deaths from the whole ordeal, but over 300(if I'm not mistaken) injuries and is seen as one of the most unique storm systems to this day. Fun fact, the whole system had spawned over 25 tornadoes in just two days, over the span of multiple states.
where in Nebraska?
Grand Island they said. Which I think is kind of south
There were five deaths and the destruction from the F4 was high-end F4, which is easily EF-5 using today’s scale. One of the craziest weather events in history. Three of the seven tornadoes were anti-cyclonic, too.
1980? I wonder if that’s the year I experienced a tornado, about 90 miles northwest of Grand Island.
I would’ve been 7, I was at my Geanddad’s for a few days, and there was a tornado nearby. He told me we were going get in the car to drive away from it. We drove out and were pretty close to it, and suddenly it changed directions and headed straight for us. My granddad slammed on the brakes and did a quick U-turn to get away.
Maybe 5 years ago I mentioned it to my dad. He said, “Your granddad didn’t drive to get away from the tornado, he drove out to look at it.”
I instantly knew he was right, I don’t know why I had never thought of it before. My granddad was cool like that. 😎😂
I was 10 years old and living in Grand Island when that happened. It was an intense night. The tornado sirens were nearly constant. When they did stop, we'd have just enough time to see if the house was still standing before they'd start up again.
Fortunately our house survived with only minimal hail damage.
I lived in southwest Ohio when the 1974 super outbreak and lived in fear of tornadoes my whole life. I moved to Clearwater, Florida, where I got used to seeing green skies pop up at all times of day. I moved to northern California in the Sierra nevada foothills, where i never thought I'd see a tornado. One Christmas Eve, we had a small tornado literally chug up the road, pass between 2 apartment buildings, blow over our dumpsters, an airplane, and some cars. I'm back in Ohio, and we'll see how it goes. We've had a few so far.
Great job man. Enjoyed every second. Cheers.
I live in Oklahoma, and I am glad to see someone finally acknowledge this state when it comes to tornadoes, most people do somehow forget about it
Really? Oklahoma and Kansas are the first two states that come to my mind when I think about tornadoes.
Same, in Edmond (Deer Creek). Everything always seems to hit south of us, Moore/Norman and small towns.
Edmond, OK here!
@@davidpatrick2997 small world!
Bethany, OK here! We've had a few close calls over the last few years, but like it's been said previously, Moore/Norman is a huge bullseye for tornadoes.
The sheer amount of work in editing and passion you put into this list clearly showcases how much you love this stuff, you just got another subscriber
Very informative video my guy. Loved the soundtrack as well 💪🏼🤜🏼🤛🏼
As an Ohioan, we might not be too close to tornado alley, but we’re still a midwestern state and I think we live relatively close to the outskirts of TA. Either way, shits crazy when it’s stormy. Only once did I see skies get green and I got scared. However now I’m 17, witnessed the siren by my house go off 5-6 times in one hour, now I’m obsessed with the weather all over again
As an ohio resident, I can confirm as a kid the stories I used to hear about the Xenia tornado from older folks. It's something of a legend.
My dad remembered it as a kid, because one of his friends from school didn't come back to school for a long time. Eventually when he did, it was revealed he lost his house in Xenia.
And then in the recent years, the memorial day tornados... I now have nightmares 😭 15 in one night is no good.
@@nerdtasticzelda1737 hang in there
I lived through it, I now live in a little town just outside Xenia
@@Theylieohio I live pretty close myself, closer to Cincinnati.
There's a great book called "F5" that was written about that tornado based on what people who experienced it told the author. Pretty good book
I was expecting Florida to be higher due to the consistent tornados it gets, especially during the hurricane season, but a lot of those far out coastal states don't necessarily get the stronger tornados nearly as consistently as the great plains states.
Hi. Im in Florida, and you’re right. We get a bunch but they are often related to big hurricane events. I’ve been through a cat 5 and there were so many mini tornados spawned it was insane. However, relative to the overall damage from hurricane force winds and giant storm surge, they almost seem insignificant- even though they really aren’t.
I'm from Central Florida and seeing a defined tornado like in the midwest is extremely uncommon. We have crazy severe storms during the summer that pass through quickly(15 minutes is a long storm)~ so I'm guessing the tornadoes we do get last seconds and are nearly indistinguishable from the storm itself. I've gotten plenty of tornado warnings but have never seen one or gotten any property damage from one. But you're right, hurricanes do play a massive part in the count, I'm sure!
@@avelinedressus6477 do you ever get over 1 hour lasting severe thunderstorms in Fl?
Dude you just got a subscriber for loving Maine! Born and raised there almost my whole life and have never seen a tornado
love that this was recommended for me a year later. sweet video
As a resident of Alabama, I'm surprised we beat out most of the Tornado Alley states, though I'm sure part of the reason Tornado Alley makes the media coverage is because climbing the hills of Dixie in pursuit of a twister makes things much more challenging, when Tornado Alley is just flat. I also wasn't expecting that mention of James Spann.
Spann's the goat
I’m not surprised tbh. Mississippi and Alabama are known for having lots of long track tornadoes and have bad night tornadoes. Most tornadoes that occur in those states happen in late afternoon, evening, or night time hours when people aren’t expecting tornadic activity. Also those two states have way more forests and trees than plain states and makes spotting tornadoes much more difficult when it’s not dark outside. They are definitely the odd ball states when it comes to tornadoes. Lol
There's kinda two Tornado Alleys. Traditional Tornado Alley and Dixie Alley, with Alabama being the equivalent of Oklahoma.
The hills and dense forests make chasing tornadoes in Dixie Alley a lot more difficult so it's no quite as famous. Tornadoes in this area, especially in Alabama, tend to happen around evening/nighttime and also tend to be rain-wrapped, which is why there's a lot less footage and another reason why they don't really get chased as much.
I just moved from Birmingham to Shreveport Louisiana and it took just one tornado warning to realize how much of an absolute G James spann is. Much like my ex girlfriend, I didn’t know what i had until it was gone 😢
I live in Arkansas and we get storm chasers who will live in Arkansas or stay in Arkansas during storm season to travel between tornado alley and Dixie alley and recently a lot of them have been saying that they are seeing more and more big tornados in Dixie alley compared to tornado alley.
Never imagined saying this before I saw this video, but this is like the Bob Ross Tornado history video. Who'd have thought a history of tornadoes could be this relaxing. Nice job.
love the metal gear and resident evil save music u used great video :)
I'm a new sub; and I dig the WS4000 emulations! Is that music Network? Cool stuff!
I grew up in Alabama and I have to say that the April 27th, 2011 super outbreak was the scariest day of my life. The whole state was completely destroyed and we didn't have power for days. The days following the outbreak were really peaceful though and we managed to come back from it stronger than ever. I eventually moved to California when I got older but looking back at the time definitely makes me appreciate how nice the weather here is.
Same, as a northern Alabamian. It wiped out at least 75% of buildings in the city right next to us. And went through other parts of my city. Absolutley horrified, I think the only thing more people remember is "The Blizzard of '93"
Nah april 27th is more remembered I think. April 27th coming up once for a passing mention is kinda annoying but if you did all of it would’ve probably made the video hours long
I remember my mother making me come back home to their house in (middle east ish) AL from my apartment an hour away in GA just so she knew me and my 2 kids were safe. Even though we were lucky that the worst wasn’t close to us. We’re an hr and a half from Tuscaloosa. But I remember thinking to myself, I’m closer here to the outbreak than I was just staying at my apartment lol I eventually moved back to my hometown and in the past 5 years of being back here, there have already been at least 2 or 3 minor touchdowns and 1 big one (I think it was at least a F3 if not a 4) that shredded a bunch of houses down the road from here. That one jumped over into GA and tore Newnan up
@@Mr.ThatOneDudenever forget the blizzard! That is for sure! 😂😂
Just stay out of Lake County. The summers here are not only extremely hot but also terrifying because it's literally California's tornado alley but for fires. I think 60% of this county has burned in the past 5 years.
My mother lived through the 1936 Tupelo, MS. tornado, pronounced Too pa low, and she said the death toll was much higher because there was a large Black population and many were killed because the tornado ripped through that part of town and they were not counted in the death toll.
Northerners still don't know how to pronounce Biloxi.
I live in Smithville
@@drbuckley1 how do you pronounce it?
@@rawhidelamp bil-luck-see
@@mrh6237 yeah okay just had to make sure i was right haha
Whoa. Just had this show up in my suggestions. Already loving the retro intro.
Thank you for putting this together
I’m originally from Alabama, grew up with a fascinating for tornadoes. We had our test sirens go off the very 1st Wednesday of every month at 10am. I have since moved from Alabama to Oklahoma!! LOVEEEEE Oklahoma, having more flat lands also plays a huge part. But they test their sirens EVERY SATURDAY at Noon!!! That’s Insane!
Kansan here! Mondays at noon every week! Once a month sounds crazy for a state in the A tier! Especially lately
Wisconsin it here. They test the sirens every Saturday at noon when the warm weather sets in and winter is done.
being from oklahoma and living here my whole life, i’m so used to the sirens going off every saturday, it would be weird to NOT experience that 😂
The weirdest thing about the El Reno Tornado was that it was big and scary but the extremely rural area it hit negated a lot of that potential tragedy. Instead, we had this awesome photo of the Vocational College with its display plane wedged up to its tail in the Aviation Training Center on our front page the next day instead of stories about bodies everywhere. Gotta love Oklahoma humor.
Really informative video! I would have thought Texas would have been #1 but you’re right, you can make five big states out of one Texas so taking that into account it’s ranked appropriately.
Check out your pronunciations of some of these town names. La-Play-ta, Maryland, Natchez, Mississippi rhymes with Matches with a Z sound at the end and Elvis is from Two-pah-low. But come on man, Wus-ter Massachusetts!!! Everyone knows that. lol
Really fun video and I’m glad I found your channel.
Jake, this was a fantastic breakdown. I figured my state of Illinois would be ‘up’ there. There was the F4 Belvidere tornado in 1967 that was not mentioned, we had tornado warnings beginning just before my day at school ended (2nd grader) and all the rest of the day and night. My town was not hit, but I have relatives that live in Belvidere and were affected by the tornado. The Fairdale tornado happened very close to where I live, my town in DeKalb county sounded the tornado warning siren. At the time, we knew it was close but not for sure where it was heading other than it was in Ogle county and DeKalb counties.
I lived in Raleigh for the Sanford-Raleigh Tornado, which passed less than a mile from my house. It did some serious damage during its 40 + mile track from Sanford to Raleigh. While I didn't see any flattened homes, there were quite a few exposed upstairs areas, and many that were structurally totalled, pushed off their foundations, and w tree damage. I'd hate to live in Tornado Alley
Kind of ridiculous how tense I was waiting to see where you'd rank Kansas, lmao. I was expecting us to be #2 but this video revealed to me that being raised in The Tornado State is like incredibly integral to my identity.
Haha, same. I don't put up with every Wizard of Oz joke every time I leave the state to not be ranked in the top 2.
Felt the same way, knew Oklahoma would almost have to be first with the El Reno and Moore tornadoes, but tornado culture is huge in Kansas
@@flyingblind5677 Surpsing to me KS has had more tornados overall and more F5s but i would agree OK is abit smaller and more populated than KS. Only major City is Wichita where as OK has OKC and Tulsa
@@cynricsaxon2945 Knasas City?
@aaronwade1940 Kansas City, Kansas is not very big, if anything overland park would be the closest thing to a second major city in kansas. The kc metro is huge in kansas just not necessarily the city itself
As someone from Texas, I can assure you, none of us were disappointed that we weren't no. 1. I admit, we have a lot, but I think you did a very good and impartial job of ranking the states, mine included! I also couldn't help but notice, your data confirms what I already know about my area. For some reason, Lake Texoma seems to have some kind of a bubble over it that diverts anything too severe. Idk why, maybe you could do a video on it one day? Or at least a video on anti-tornado "bubbles" in general? The town I'm in has had several tornadoes just hop over us and keep going in the time I've been alive.
My great-grandmother, from Colbert, once told me she felt safe there. According to her, Native Americans don't believe a tornado will touch down between two bodies of water. She believed it and felt good about it. I thought that was interesting.
We actually get the most in the world while uk gets most in area
I am actually glad Alabama and Mississippi were on up there but I’ve lived in both states for 34 years and had a few close calls but never direct hit. 🤞🤞
I lived in Durant for about 5 years...people there used to talk about that. One thing I noticed in that 5 years is how storms approaching from the west would be really bad, until they reached the lake, then weaken, only to strengthen again as it moved east. I always assumed it was the cooler temps in the atmosphere above the lake, caused by the cooler temps of the water. That should lead to at least some weakening of a storm.
I’m from Texas and the country I got closest to is Mexico and I was on the gulf of mexico
One thing should be noted especially with Gulf Coast and the Southeastern coast states, is tornadoes do have a tendency to get spawned from hurricanes
5,077 tornadoes in Kansas, plus however many we have had this year. I am 50 years old, and I have yet to see one in person. I don't even know how that's possible!?
We were really close to the Greensburg tornado in '07. It came within a quarter of a mile of hitting the house we had just moved from a few months earlier. , We just happened to be back visiting my parents that night.
In April of1974, we lived about 15 miles from Xenia, Ohio. The power company set up a museum of tornado artifacts. A small rock had punched a hole in an electric meter and a bird moved in. They had a phone pole with a weed embedded in it. There was a section of blacktop that the tornado removed from a road or parking lot. I was 8 and will never forget that s*it.
What would be interesting is to see how this is changing. "Tornado Alley" seems to be spreading east and south.
We’ve become keenly aware of this in the southeast…
Once the trailer park was invented the SE states became part of tornado alley.
How much do we have to pollute to get to float out to sea? Or at least put in on Florida?@@jdwylde7
it's just generational patterns. this has happened historically.
@@dustinleonard3408 Oh cool. Could you link somewhere to look at that historical data? or any papers that analyze them? Perhaps you've written one yourself because you seem so certain.
As an Arkansansan, I feel like tornadoes just happen all day every day. From April to October when the sirens go off, I just go to sleep if it’s late. I’m like, if it’s gonna take me it’ll take me, lol. I can’t get in the closet for every siren.
as a kentuckian i did NOT expect to be so high on this list, i think i assumed people in every state had to be on edge every time there's a severe thunderstorm LOL. also, i watched this with my partner whose dad lives in indiana and didn't think indiana would be as high either!!! and THEN imagine my shock when alabama is ranked #4, because that's where MY dad is from and i really didn't know they have tornadoes like that either!!!!!!! many revelations today LOL
Recently in my home state of New Hampshire, we just had a EF1 tornado touch down on the border of Vermont off route 12 in Charlestown. You can find a video of it on youtube. Also, our most recent tornado that was very devastating, at least by our state's standards, was from 2008 when an EF2 touched down in Deerfield and barreled through Northwood Lake, unfortunately killing a 57 year old woman. It traveled pretty far too, a whopping 50 miles. Which is insane, not to mention it stayed on the ground for an hour and a half. Unheard of within the region!
EDIT: On a slightly unrelated topic, I would fly back from college in Ohio all the way into Boston Logan Airport in Massachusetts. From 33k feet in the air, no joke, you can see the whole entire state of Rhode Island from an airplane window. Definitely a very small state. Also, fun fact, anything you read on a Massachusetts map is not how it's pronounced. We call Worcester, 'Wooster' and Lowell 'Lull', just to name a couple examples. Massachusetts is truly a unique state by itself, I'm even shocked that it had that many tornados.
It annoys we when people pronounce Worcester wrong, its very confusing to those who arent from New England.
Btw I know Southern names might be confusing to some, but I love how you hesitated at "Natchez" while nailing it, but then proceeded to butcher "Tupelo" without hesitation.
TOOP-uh-Low
I grew up a few miles north of the path for the PA tornado you mentioned in 1985. You can still see it today very easily.
Moore resident. I knew you'd have a tough time between KS & OK. Either would have been fair. Good job!
Born and raised, and still living in Kokomo, IN. Having 2 EF3 tornadoes in a 3 year span was wild. I remember driving through the debris and helping cleanup for weeks afterwards. My house was missed by the ‘16 tornado by about 2 blocks.
Edit: apparently the ‘13 tornado was reduced to an EF2. Still nuts IMO.
Im in indiana and I havent seen a tornado and im kinda upset with with it. But im also glad ive never been hit by one but just seening one would be amazing
Being an Alabama native, I've always been infatuated with tornadoes. Love your content and all the historical statistics you gather! Keep up the great work bud!!
remember the january 25th 2021 tornado that destroyed my home town?
bro alabama gets a tornado every week and i hate it
the tornado we had few weeks ago was a disaster, my heart goes out to everyone in Selma 🫶🏻💕
Congrats on 200k!
Great video! Good work!
Okay, two-part comment:
1) I saw the 2013 Hattiesburg tornado hit the university from my apartment across the street, through my apartment doors peephole.
It was absolutely terrifying realizing you’re THAT close to a tornado AND you’re on the second story, AND you have no clue which first level neighbors may be home. Being from Indiana (I’ll come back to this in a sec), I KNEW better than to stay on the 2nd level, during any tornado warning, however I had laid down to take a nap and was only woke up by the sirens going off.
I commented on your other video earlier about how we still need sirens for this very reason! I immediately grabbed my phone to call my neighbor to go to his first level apartment and grabbed my dog.
Afterwards, we drove around to see the damage. Uprooted trees, downed power lines, flooding, the skies were still grey, dark and heavy- it was horrible. That day was one of the most surreal days of my life.
2) In a different video you mentioned how there is a lesser common tornado hotspot called “Hoosier alley.” I think it was the iceberg video but idr.
I just wanted to comment on it saying how that’s fascinating that they’re starting to recognize Indiana as having its own nuisances with tornadoes.
Growing up, I always thought Indy was in the infamous tornado alley until I got older and started seeing maps of tornado alley, and started wondering why in the heck we got hit with so many of them then if we weren’t even in that area! (Like that’s not fair, those things suck lol)
Tornadoes are the scariest weather phenomenon to me.
They’re soooooooo unpredictable, that you can literally just wake up (to the lovingly harsh, life saving wails of a tornado siren- yes, we still need those) and there’s one in your front yard.
I was at Southern Miss as well during the tornado in Hattiesburg. I lived in some apartments on West 4th Street near the baseball field, but when the Tornado hit I was over on Hardy Street at a friend's apartment. We literally saw the tornado cross over Hardy Street and hit the corner of USM's campus by the intersection of HWY 49 and Hardy. Absolutely nuts.
I was a grad student during the 2013 Hattiesburg tornado (passed barely south of the apt I was living in at the time) and now 10 years later I work at the university. From around November to March of this past year, at least once a week the campus would shut down due to severe weather and tornado watches and warnings.
In our office, we have started referencing Tornado Tuesdays as a phenomenon here.
I have always been amazed at the fact that MS and AL are nowhere near tornado alley (born and grew up on the MS coast).
Random asf, but I was absolutely shocked by your use of the old comcast weather channel/radar music. Hit me with a huge wave of nostalgia fr. I’m from Georgia, and that jazz loop always makes me think of falling asleep under severe storm warnings during the spring, and listening to the sound of rain. Gives me the most comforting type of anxiety, and I love it.
Agreed. Its like i transported back into the 90s lol
That was my favorite opening to any of your videos ❤
Growing up in southeastern Michigan my most vivid memories are the multiple tornados we were in. My great aunt was just telling me about her time as a child during the flint tornado and how horrible it was!
I was born and raised in Michigan and never really knew that we had that many tornados, I was very surprised with the ranking in this video 😂
It's very comforting to know that I live in the state that you picked for the top spot. I guess the fact is that it's bad enough to have the tornado with the highest recording wind speeds, the largest tornado of recorded history and my little town hit national news for getting hit by two tornadoes in one night and a third two nights later. A local news channel actually one some awards for their coverage of the damage my town received.
As a proud #1-er here as well, we shall accept the dubious honor on behalf of our fellow Sooners.
We gotta be #1 at something!
babe wake up, A new Swegle Studios vid has dropped
Very funny😐
@@mcweather8995 ok
Amen
@@mcweather8995”according to my calculations that joke wasn’t very humorous”🤓
MFW Aliuheana 😂😂😂
Hey man! Love watching your videos. I'm a kansas guy, I won't complain about our ranking either I said I'd be happy if we were top 3 so 🤷😂
Would love if you did a video on the Hoisington, KS F4 tornado that hit april 21st of 2001. I am a survivor of that and there's alot of stories from that night but not much on RUclips about it other than a storm stories segment. It hit in the night and we had almost no warning time! And it was prom night at the high school! Pretty wild ordeal. 😊
Thanks for making this list. Quite interesting. The state I live in is in the A Tier. My only consolation is that maybe one day I'll get to meet Reed Timmer as he's chasing storms in the Dominator.
Congrats on your subcount, you're on par with Pecos in terms of being incredibly relaxing to watch.
Thanks! Any comparison to Pecos is a major compliment so thanks!
I AGREE! Pecos is my fav tornado 🌪 guy and this guy is becoming my number one also.
Keep ‘em coming plz!!!
Pecos Hank #1 with this guy a #1 alternative
I'm going to co-sign on this one, both SS and Pecos are very relaxing watch, especially when it comes to tornadoes. And everyone knows if you need to get psyched up before an outbreak you watch a Ryan Hall Y'all forecast.
As a current resident of Indiana and having grown up in Illinois near Iowa I was happy to see those three states in the top 8 alot of people don't realize how crazy common tornadoes are here
We get one every few months in northwest Indiana
Nice I live near Kokomo where are you from
Yup, northwest Indiana here. Every summer we get so many tornado warnings. One passed within 3 minutes of me last year.
Thanks for your informative show. I was in the 1953 Waco , TX tornado. My mom and I were at a friends Bday party at a skating rink close to downtown where it hit majorly.
The sound of huge hale was deafening in the large metal quansit building. We drove home and my dad had collected 3 to 4 inch hail stones. WOW! Konnie
WOW I really enjoyed this! I survived the April 3rd 1974 outbreak. Tornado started as an F3 went F5 then back to F3 went thru out neighborhood. I only recently
found out that Dr Ted Fujita and student Greg Forbes were part of the damage survey team! I would have loved to have met them! Glad I found your channel!
I recently found your channel and it's great content. When rating Nebraska you missed what has been called the most unusual tornado outbreak in U.S. history. In Grand Island, NE on June 3, 1980, supercells moved over the city at only 8 mph; of the seven tornadoes, three of them were anticyclonic; and the tornadoes did not move in a straight line, with most looping back over their own path at least once. Fujita came to Grand Island himself to survey the damage and plot the paths of the SEVEN tornados (yes, I said seven) that hit the city in a three-hour time period. A great book and movie were made about the Grand Island tornado outbreak called "Night of the Twisters." While our state has a relatively low tornado fatality rate, we shouldn't have been downgraded for our weather wisdom and fantastic soil that allows for basements. We're #1 in so many other categories, Oklahoma can have that ranking for tornadic activity.🙂
When I was younger as an Iowan I was always taught that iowa wasn’t a part of the true tornado alley. however, over the last few years they’ve occurred more and more often. Including a strange December break out where the night before it was 20 degrees and snowing .
Who taught you that? As a child in the 70's I knew Iowa was at the northern end of tornado alley.
fr just my town alone has 3 or 4 a year
@@sixchuterhatesgoogle3824 we were taught it was on the northern edge but barely, it was that wave shape of red that reached up but iowa wasn’t much in it which gave people the impression we didn’t get many
@@societl and the glaciers missed iowa
When you were younger iowa was NOT part of true tornado alley. However due to a warming planet tornado alley has been expanding.
A born, raised, and current Texan here and I do agree with your ranking. We get a ton but we are a huge state. I would be interested to see a ranking of where the tornados originate and how it compares to this one since a number of them cross state lines.
Awesome video as usual! Honestly, who was even a little bit surprised that Oklahoma and Kansas took the two top spots?
From Georgia here. I’d love to see Newnan be talked about on this channel. Newnan’s EF4 had some amazing probabilities and was insanely rare for us. Georgia has had some amazing tornadoes and I’d love to see it talked about more!
I am also from Georgia, and same here! The Newnan EF4 was the storm that got me back into weather and tornadoes :)
I am also from ga. And newnan has been smashed a couple of times since the 1980s
Can we agree that all tornadoes that were heading towards us most of the time were stolen by Florida.
Alabama and Georgia have seemed to be climbing steadily within the last few years.
I've lived in Oklahoma my whole life and since 9 years ago i've noticed the tornados hot spot has shifted. towards Alabama, mississippi, around those states. I'm a weather enthusiast and it might be climate change moving the tornado alley
@@rooteddwellings well, you're sorta on the right track. Tornado alley isn't so much moving as it is intensifying. While the main tornado alley is the plains one everybody knows, there's also Hoosier Alley and Dixie Alley, centered in Indiana and Missippi, well known hotspots (albeit to a lesser extent than OK or KS). Dixie Alley just happens to get the most high intensity tornadoes relative to total number of tornadoes of anywhere, particularly EF5's. Hoosier Alley though is statistically overdue for an outbreak, especially Indiana, as we've not had an EF3 or higher since 2016 and an EF4 in 2012 being the only one this millennium.
Edit: I should've probably added that we're overdue for an EF5 in general as well, as even with EF5's being more rare than F5's were, we're still in the longest (E)F5 drought (since well recorded data has been kept) following the 2013 Moore tornado.
Yeah, I live in Indiana and it was odd to see my state ranked so high. I’m young enpugh to not recall many prominent tornados.
Havent had to go down to the basement in a good few years.
Always had a ton of bad tornadoes in the deep south, they are just more widely reported now. They move so fast here, lot of them after dark, heavily forested, lot of rural areas...many were missed before the radar era.
Global warming baby
Excellent video and you are both photogenic and articulate! ( I will note that Tupelo, MS pronounced "TOOP-a-low." Just sayin'...
I love how concrete halls is blasting in the background it fits so well
The April 2011 tornado in Birmingham passed very close to my house. We climbed up on the porch railing to see it coming and ran back down to the basement. We had no power for a week. It was a devastating event. I have never seen nor heard a tornado of that magnitude since. We had had smaller tornadoes the night before and had just finished clearing debris out of the yard and then the macdaddy tornado came ripping through and wiped the area out again. I will never forget that day or how the pressure changed and the sky looked. It was a monster.
Tell us more fellow survivor
Wow I remember this as a kid. And the funny thing is I moved from Alabama to Iowa back in 2012. And I still get so many tornadoes here’s wtf!
There are actually 4 tornadic events that should've been mentioned in Ohio, you got Niles, you have Xenia of course, but Van Wert is an important mention, and definitely Dayton, Ohio in 2019, 15 tornadoes in one night and the most notable, the monster EF4 that went through Brookville, Trotwood, and Dayton. Followed by the EF3 that went through Beaver Creek through the north side of Xenia. Enjoyed this video.
As an Iowan I can confirm there has been quite a few tornados I remember in July 17, 2018, 3 tornadoes were in my hometown, one was a high-end EF-2 and the others didn’t do any damage in town
As a professional truck driver who regularly goes to Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin as well as living in Ohio.
This makes me feel very comfortable.
Jokes aside id love to see a tornado firsthand. Ive always been a HUGE fan of tornadoes and severe weather.