European Shocked by the Strongest Tornado Nobody Talks About
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America really has it all. Unfortunately, even catastrophic events in epic proportions. 💔
tsunamis are probably the rarest natural catastrophe in north America
@@leonstrand329 Alaska has entered the chat.
Absolutely do not mind you adding something about your own life and experiences in Portugal. This isn't a one-sided exchange.
Thanks for sharing Andre.
Tornadoes are the most wicked thing to live through and experience. Weather doesn’t have a brain, only humidity, dry, heat, cold, rain, snow, wind, she’s a wicked beast and the warmer our Gulf Coast gets, intensifies the hurricanes AND tornadoes!!
Several Europeans react to these storms and suggest we should build our homes out of bricks. We who have lived through these storms say no, bricks just become more destructive and dangerous debris flying around in the wind. This video should convince anyone that brick and concrete are useless if the tornado hits with full force. Afterall, they can pick up a loaded 18 wheeler with a trailer and whirl it in the vortex. Thanks for your concern for the people here in tornado/hurricane country.
@@VirginiaPeden-Harrington-qd5zu Not even Practical Pig would get through a tornado unscathed!
I live in NJ & yet I agree with you. Bricks would just become worse projectiles. Building into the side of hills or underground might offer better protection.
No one is safe from Mother Nature!
EXACTLY THIS! I see many people who haven't lived here say that our houses are flimsy and poorly built, or that the reason our weather is so destructive is because of our construction methods. The real reason American homes are designed in the way that they are is so that in the unfortunately non-0% chance that your home is swept away by a force of nature, it doesn't turn into a field of debris that can strike you or your neighbors.
I was team driving a semi truck from Texas to northern Virginia during this outbreak. We dodged tornadoes from Texas all the way to Virginia. We missed the F4 that hit Tuscaloosa and Birmingham by 2 hours. When approaching Chattanooga, Tennessee, we stopped and watched 3 tornadoes go through that town. We left a truck stop 20 minutes before a tornado hit that truck stop and town that killed 7 people. Horrible time! Terrifying. Great reaction. I love your channel. Thank you! #16
Chattanooga is a city
I have a really dumb question, what does team driving mean? Is it a group of truckers who are traveling together?
When my husband was driving, I was sleeping. When he was sleeping, I was driving. This allowed the truck to keep moving and get the load to the destination faster than if a single driver was transporting the product.. We made the trip from Edwards Airforce base in California to Delaware in 2 and a half days, where it would have taken most single drivers about 4 days, due to laws on how long a driver was allowed to be behind the wheel. Team driving simply means 2 drivers take turns driving the same truck.
@@HBC423 Yes. In southern Tennessee. We stayed just south of the city until the tornado warnings were over.
@@jeannebrown3254 Thank you. Have done the same with my husband (in a car) in order to get to places as fast as possible. My only problem is I have difficulty sleeping with him driving and he can sleep anywhere/anytime.
I am very happy that no one was hurt by the tornado in Lisbon last year. I hope that the event has helped your country to properly prepare for severe weather in the future.
For the people in Europe who ask why we don't build houses out of bricks, this is why. Launch a brick at 150 miles an hour and a piece of plywood and see which one does more damage. We deal with tornados, earthquakes, floods, fires, blizzards, droughts, and everything else. You'll never find a more diverse weather system on earth. The reason we build from wood instead of bricks is because tornadoes make brick houses extremely dangerous. In earthquakes, wood bends with the tectonic movement whereas brick tends to implode, fires are easily put out and everyone knows how to do it, blizzards can be insulated more easily against and if it floods, the material is easier to replace since black mold will grow if you don't. Not to mention, it's easier to drill a hole in wood walls instead of brick.
In California we can't either due to earthquakes.
Some people say there is no such thing as a monster but I am from Oklahoma and I know monsters are real.
Exactly ! ❤
I’m from Texas, but I’ve lived in Oklahoma for a few years. We have TERRIBLE tornados here!!! I was by myself in our brand new house in 2011 when it was hit by a tornado. The winds had blown our patio set on top of our storm cellar door, so the dog and I huddled together in a closet. The tornado was so loud and the roof was ripped off the house. I think it was by the grace of God the dog and I weren’t pulled into the tornado.
Everyting is bigger in Texas, except tornadoes. Oklahoma has bigger tornadoes.
Oklahoma is where the federal national weather service is located, it covers all the country. It sends out severe weather warnings to local area news center to put the warnings out
Yeah the National Severe Storms Laboratory is in Norman, OK as well.
To correct you, they send out watches. Warnings are issued by other weather offices (aka your local NWS office), and as far as I'm aware, they dont go by "Federal", they go by "national", tow different words, two different definitions, not interchangeable.
That's the Storm Prediction Center.
@@BattleshipOrion give me a break I'm 62 but you're right
@@TheSkyGuy77 Yes that is what I meant but misspoken
No matter what your videos are about I love watching them. Your voice is so soothing to me. And the care and love you have for our wonderful country is amazing just like you!! I am so glad I found your RUclips channel! 💚💚
This is the tornado that hit my house. It was a harrowing experience. We were physically okay, but never the same.
I live in the desert. Yeah, it gets to 115 F (46 C?) In the summer, but with AC or even a swamp cooler you can survive. Better than tornadoes, hurricanes, and blizzards IMHO.
I live in the desert/dry grassland of Texas. Does the temperature get to 110°F? Yes, do we get grape fruit size hail and strong tornados? Yes. Do we get lots of wildfires? Yes!
@paradoxicalpoet1525 I'm in the Mojave desert. It just gets very hot and windy. No tornadoes or giant hail.
As much as we Americans love to complain, we have a lot of support from the government, states and the community. I live in florida and have been in hurricanes in the past. We have amazing information systems, so you can find out what is going on at all times, we have shelters placed everywhere, evacuation routes, food banks, etc... I work in a hotel and fema provides vouchers for people to have shelter, it's not nice and comfortable, but you have support. In regards of the house , well no. That depends on you and your insurance. But compared to any country out there we have a pretty good organization in events like this and definitely more support in catastrophic times.
The EF5 is sometimes referred to as "The Finger of God" because of the raw destructive power it unleashes. Typically, you have to be under ground to have an even chance of surviving. I remember the super outbreak. Funny story, I was waiting on a pizza after high school and I looked toward the southwest and saw a wall cloud/vortex at near ground level going at a decent speed across the highway. I watched it and said "hmm did I just witness a tornado?" Next thing you know, got an emergency alert text of a tornado warning for my county.
For those not already familiar, CAPE value refers to Combined Atmospheric Potential Energy and is a mathematical product of temperature differential, wind speed, wind shear, humidity and instability (vertical temperature difference the most important of which is thermal inversion where the hot air is below and cold air aloft).
It is typically given as kilojoules per cubic meter of air volume.
*convective available potential energy, and it's listed in joules of energy per kilogram
Yes, the government does respond and heip. The agency is called FEMA. They sent massive amount of men and women as well well as equipment, supplies (meds and water,etc). Money will be made available to help those affected .
I've seen people claiming the gov isn't helping people, which is clearly not true.
I hate it when people play politics after a disaster. 😢
@@TheSkyGuy77 Thx. That's really going on today after Helene.
@@deewallace7437JLR INVESTIGATES
@@TheSkyGuy77there's victim testimonials from people who were threatened with arrest if they didn't stop airlifting people out with their private aircraft.
There's victim testimonials from people who had supplies and donations CONFISCATED by gov officials.
This is being said by the people involved, and the families of people who were forced to be left behind.
Joe already said on camera that there's no more in the budget for aid.
So no, it's not false. The vids are on here too, just gotta look.
This wouldn't even be the first time they've done it either so idk why you'd be surprised.
Lots of volunteers and charities involved in disaster relief as well.
Yes, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Administration) DOES help individuals after major tornado damage.
They sure are doing a terrible job in North Carolina right now.
Personally, I think it's important that you learn as much as you can. As an American, the more people like yourself learning about the USA, the better.
You are watching true facts, not only stupid stories spread about the US that causes people to make stupid comments or laughter or disrespect towards all Americans as though we are all alike.
❤I love your comments and your heartfelt response ❤️
ty so much
@@european-reactsit’s not just America. These hurricanes are happening everywhere
@@nunnery14 tornados
@@michaelsmith-iu1be Helene brought forth a lot. Yes my friend. I know all too well about Tornadoes. Nashville strong.
#16 Thank you for acknowledging Hurricane Helene. I've lived in Florida for three years and have dodged major hurricanes 3 times. I'm getting the hell out of here!
We have an agency called FEMA, Federal Emergency Management Agency, they go into area’s that are designated as Federal Disaster, they give relief to Hurricane, Tornado, Flooded displaced residents, they provide shelter, food, clothing, cleaning supplies, bedding, furniture and all sorts of other items plus they provide a shoulder to lean on when needed.
And look at how they're doing in the southeast...it's pathetic...
@@BattleshipOrion
They're doing the best they can.
It's a _lot_ of destruction. Many roads washed out.
@@BattleshipOrion According the all the governors, FEMA is doing excellent. My relative lives in one of those towns that was cut off outside. They have been going in with chainsaws and trucks and food and gas. And actually providing funding to the states if needed, besides all the people that are volunteering.
Andre- I survived hurricane Irma with my carport and the roof of my garage torn off. The Federal Emergency Agency(Fema)is useless. They gave money to renters to pay for motel stays, but homeowners got nothing. Anytime there is a large government agency, it is full of waste and mismanagement. Now, we didn't have a tornado, just a hurricane, but the property damage was enormous. Property insurance in Florida is almost impossible to get. Several companies left the state because they lost so much money. My homeowner's insurance doubled to $3000 a year and my house is only worth $45,000 (manufactured home) so I had to drop homeowners. If another large storm hits, there will be many uninsured people. And with $25,000 worth of damage, they gave me $7,000 due to depreciation. And the sad part is building along the coasts is dangerous. The interior has wind damage, but few storm surges. Yet we pay the same insurance rates as someone along the water. The system is broken. And climate change will only make it worse.
Yep it’s a system designed to fryck us over
You've been watching the Hurricane Helene devastation, and thank you for helping! If you remember one thing, it's that most damage done by a tornado is done by the high winds - an EF5 is over 200mph winds (322kph). Meanwhile, the most damage done by hurricanes is water - rain over a foot/30cm, storm surges along the coasts that whip the water inland, and as we've just seen, water-logged areas with nowhere for water to go. Yes, wind is an issue, especially as soaked ground makes trees topple more easily. For example, Helene was a Cat 4, with winds at 140mph (225kph), which is nothing to sneeze at, but not over 200/322.
A tornado with 170mph winds will also do far more damage to a building than a hurricane with the exact same wind speed will
1925 Tri-state tornado. For 3.5 hours, it tore across three states, 13 counties, and at least 19 communities. It's path was 219 MILES long, averaging 3/4 mile wide. 695 deaths, including 33 at one school, and 234 deaths in one community. Over 2,000 were also injured. 15,000 homes were destroyed. PER the National Weather Service.
There is tornado insurance which can cost quite a bit. FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) can offer limited assistence, like roof repair, temporary housing , etc. This is help, but they can't go in and build everyone a new house.
If they have homeowners insurance they will be covered. If they don't the government will help with F.E.M.A. A federal emergency management. So what you have been hearing about the hurricane that just came through Florida, North Carolina and Tennessee where the worst damage is. That they aren't getting help is wrong. It's such a large devastating areas that were affected it's going to take time for everyone to get the help. Each state has emergency response teams to handle immediate emergency and getting food water and shelter to it's citizens. Depends on the state response as to how fast that help arrives.
I'm from Texas. I've seen a few tornadoes in the distance. They were small in a cow pasture as I drove down the highway. But I saw the aftermath of the Jarrel tornado that took everything away it came close to. Absolutely devastating. But never had one come close to my home in all the years I've lived there. Oklahoma gets way worse tornadic activity and seems always severe. I feel bad for our sister state. Good people in Oklahoma. No one deserves to have to go through anything like that.
Howdy y'all from the Great State of Texas 🤠🇺🇸
I live in Oklahoma City and we get our share of them here I've been lucky I haven't had any damage but it's been closed
I'm in Oklahoma but was born/raised and lived in Texas for 40 years. Yes, Texas and Oklahoma are tight!!! We have a rivalry, but there's a bind between the 2 states like no other!!!
@@OkiePeg411 it's because our cultures are very similar and yes I hate the short horns but there is one team that I hate more and that is okie pokie State
Hey neighbor! Arkansas here. We obviously get our fair share of tornadoes, but I don’t envy the monsters they get in OK on the regular.
@@ashleydixon4613 yeah we get our share of them
We lived near Huntsville, Alabama during this outbreak. We had $27K in damage to our property from tornados. We were very fortunate.
I really enjoy watching your channel!! We just found you a couple of days ago, so glad we did!
I visited a friend in Hoover, Alabama a couple years after this and our travels took us past the path of one of the tornadoes in this video. The damage was still visible where it cut a 1/4 mile wide swath right through a forest and turned it into a bare field. There was nothing left, no tree stumps, not even the top soil- everything had been blown away. After seeing that I realized why the local building supply stores sold steel tornadoes shelters that can be anchored into concrete. But after seeing this video I think even they would be torn out of the ground unless they were extremely well anchored.
Tornados occur in dozens of states across America, not just in "Tornado Alley". I experienced a small one in Ann Arbor, Michigan (far to the north of Alabama). It damaged the houses and trees in my neighborhood, but was so localized that people a 1/2 mile away never even knew it happened. That's the nature of tornados.
Ive been less than a mile from 2 tornadoes in Texas. One North of Houston when i was about 19-20 yrs old, I worked in a daycare and had to care for my little ones (about ten 3 years olds) the building had 2 very large glass walls. There wasnt tornado shelters required at that time. We had all the children gathered in the center of the building. My little ones were all crying because the sky was that ominous green and the wind was terrible, the sounds were freightening!!! I put the little one all in a bunch along the wall and wrapped my arms around them. We survived but all the damage from the storm was pretty bad. It normslly took me 15-20 minutes to drive home... took me over an hour that evening!!!
ne in the Arlington area when a tornado hit Fort Worth and that same system spawned the tornado that hit a new neighborhood about 1 mile from my home. Wiped this brick homes down to the foundations... cleaned. No bricks left in place!!
Andre one thing that you can do is Pray for those who have lost a Loved one during this hurricane. Many people won't be recovered and this brings no closer to their Loved ones 😢😢
I don't remember the 2011 outbreak since I was too young at the time and we lived in Washington back then, but I have directly experienced some tornadoes before after moving to Nebraska. The 2017 outbreak was the worst I can remember. My house was sandwiched directly between two tornadoes, with an EF2 just one mile south of my house. In the end, the oak tree in my backyard fell down (thankfully just on the fence and not on the house) and a bunch of the shingles got torn off of the roof. There were even a few dents in my parents' cars from the hail.
This year we also got a really bad outbreak, and some towns like Elkhorn in Nebraska got completely leveled by an EF4 tornado. Can't imagine how bad this must have been for those who were directly affected by the 2011 outbreak.
Andre' we were part of this outbreak and some of our family lost neighbors and friends in Rainsville. We are north of there and had two tornadoes go through one in the morning and a much stronger one in the afternoon. The local tire and auto repair shop was leveled to the ground. The tire shop owner struggled to hold the door shut in his home across the street to keep the winds from ripping into the room they were in. We were lucky that they went around our house! The area looked like a war zone where bombs had been dropped and stayed that way for years. The trees and vegetation are finally grown back but the big ones are gone. RIP to all who lost their lives.
What you paused on at the start is of the F4 tornado just north of Birmingham, Alabama. The same tornado can be watched on RUclips as it passed through Tuscaloosa. I live northwest of Birmingham and remember that day like it was yesterday. It seemed that tornadoes were popping up everywhere practically all day
In Nashville… we just heard a train sound…pop pop pop! (The electrical breakers blowing up…) what it did was extraordinary.
It passed a block from my house. What saved my street was I lived on the top of a valley. It basically hopped over my valley.
This was in 2020 right before the pandemic. The tornado bent steel electric poles like a piece of rubber.
I never understood why they don’t build underground in Tornado Alley.
Our country has a great response team in FEMA. They help people after disasters.
The short answer is "money"; the more complex answer is "people don't want to live that way". Yes, one can build a tornado-proof structure - but it would look a bit like a missile silo. Safe, but not very appealing.
@@MrJest2 and then there are the floods that sometimes accompany the storms. I grew up in Iowa.
Truly love these tornado videos
3:00 this is a picture of downtown Birmingham, Alabama with the infamous Tuscaloosa-Birmingham F4 tornado. This is my home and thank go it happened to hit a few miles north of downtown and the majorly more populated suburb region to the south. Obviously prayers to everyone affected to the north but if it hit downtown or south of the city it could’ve killed thousands. The metro is 1.2 million people. The majority of which live in the downtown and south metro region
I lived in Alabama during that time and they had predicted like 4 days before. I woke up to take my boys to school and took them.. got there, and they sent everyone home. Our home didn't get hit luckily, but I remember vividly, getting my boys, 9 and 4 at the time and placing football helmets on them and us getting under our stairs, with our two dogs . My husband's factory was leveled in Hackle burg but luckily he was ok. I'll never forget that day .
You said it correctly. All you can do is pray and wait. I love your reactions!❤🤠🇨🇱
That homemade video of the tornado going through that woman's back yard shows just how powerful tornadoes are. It's difficult to judge scale, but the funnel cloud itself appears to be roughly a kilometer from her location and yet the winds at her location are so intense that it's bending and breaking stout trees from that distance. Trees being destroyed like that but with common houses remaining more or less intact is about EF-1 to EF-2 levels of destructive power.
I live in Oklahoma and tornadoes are just a part of life we deal with it and we move on
Amen!
Sounds like how we view hurricanes for us down here on the Gulf Coast. They happen, we know what to do, we expect them, and we move on.
3:20 Hurricane Helene's damage is most catastrophic in the mountains inland over which it poured lots of rain. states like Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia experienced severe flash flooding, mudslides, and landslides.
The Government, private organizations, and the general public from around the nation help these people through the aftermath of this tragedy because they are our fellow countrymen, friends, and neighbors, no matter where they live in this country.
"EF" scale is the Fujita wind scale. EF1: ~150 km/h; EF2: ~200 km/h; EF3: ~230 km/h; EF4: ~300 km/h; EF5 > 325km/h
Love your tornado reactions...rainsville was wild
Andre, your comment about tornadoes before we had the technology to have a warning…I’m 49, old enough to remember when a tornado warning was for a whole county and you didn’t have any idea exactly where, unlike now, where we can pinpoint cloud rotation down to the nearest intersection. These days you know exactly where it is. Back then, we got a warning, and the whole county took cover.
My dad had a VERY close call in 1982 during a major tornado outbreak; I remember spending almost all day at school in the hallways (my mom was also a teacher there), and a funnel cloud spotted near our school. Dad was on his way home from work early and leaving Little Rock (we live about 20 minutes away). The interstate he was on (still in LR) is rolling hills, w/trees on either side: this is the issue with tornadoes in Arkansas, too many hills and trees to see them coming! He had no idea there was an F-3 on the ground about to cross the interstate, until he was right up on it. He pulled over as quickly as possible and dove off into a water-filled ditch. (He said he thinks he peed his pants, but kinda hard to tell. 🤷🏻♀️😂) He laid there watching all sorts of debris swirling overhead as the tornado crossed the interstate in front of him, then got back in his truck and carefully drove around the debris in the road and made it home, shaken, but in one piece.
Unlike the guy in a car just ahead of him: he didn’t get out of his car in time and a large road sign was blown through his windshield. Dad had to get around that-he knew what had happened and knew enough to know not to even look as he passed him. He felt bad for not stopping to help, but rationally knew better, the guy was killed instantly.
I unfortunately was a victim of this event. Definitely a life changing moment.
Hurricanes, Tornado's, Dust Devils, Water Spouts, Blizzards, Flooding and Super Storms happen. Not in every state but each state has its own weather issues.
I was living on a boat on lake Guntersville that day. We had been warned that the 27th of April, 2011 was going to be bad. I woke up at 6:30 am that morning because my phone was alerting me to a tornado in the area. As I was making my coffee, a waterspout went directly behind the boat and destroyed the dock behind the boat. The tin from the roof above my boat was torn off and thrown into the parking lot. The boat I was on lifted slightly off the water from the force of the tornado. The tornado was one of the first tornadoes that occurred that day. I used to love storms, but not anymore. I will never forget that day.
02:30 200 tornados in a single day is possible when you consider how spread out they were over the entire Midwest.
TBH the narrator underestimated the total count: twas 350 across the lower Midwest to just shy of New England area. From Texas to Florida, up to Michigan to the Inland New York area. That's a LOTTA land covered. More than enuff space for far, far more than 350 twisters. This count included the weaker twisters from F1 all the way up to super F5 tornados that did or didn't hit any occupied place.
In 1965 we had a series of bad weather ranging from March until May. in March we had a blizzard on March 17. In April we had flooding so serious that the Mississippi River Rose into the backyard of our neighbors. On May 6th we had tornadoes ranging from 2 to 4 in strength
2011's SuperOutbreak is one of my favorite weather events because of just how fascinating it was, but it is also one that has an incredibly ominious message in it: Outbreaks like 2011 are possible, and it is believed that these will only get stronger over time due to the human impact on Earth's climate.
I live in Dekalb County Alabama we lost 10 people killed that day.I was about a mile away from this.
April 27th was a very scary day. One family near us lost five people that day. Sheltering from the storm were Ann and Phillip, their son, Shane, and his wife, Jennifer. As well as Shane’s daughter, Ari, and his niece and nephew (Belonging to Shane’s brother Ricky), Jayden and Julie.
Ann, Phillip, Shane, Jennifer, and Jayden all died in the storm. Julie and Ari survived.
Ari wrote a book called “To Heaven After the Storm”
I’m reasonably familiar with the family.
Ricky works at the funeral home, and I’ve been on the receiving end of how caring he is with grieving families.
Ari used to come to my (former) church with her great aunt (her maternal grandmother’s sister).
Hurricanes (typhoons or cyclones in other areas of the world) spawn tornadoes here as well. Living in the south (Arkansas) I remember this day very well.
Tornadoes are uncommon in Portugal, but not unheard of - there have been 195 tornadoes recorded in Portugal since 2000.
Multi-vortex tornadoes are incredibly strong once they get going.
This is why when Europeans ask shouldn't we build our houses out of concrete or brick we say it doesn't matter.
The center of a tornado is quiet. I have experienced this one time. Coming towards you the building shaking and wind blowing sound like you're standing next to train tracks as a freight train goes by. Then it is still and quiet for maybe 5 seconds (feels longer) while you are in the eye of the tornado. Then back to sounding like a train while the tornado moves away from you. And my ears popped from the changing air pressure.
I have heard the center of a hurricane is also quiet but I've never experienced a hurricane.
Tornadoes have a mind of their own. You will see rows of houses torn to smithereens then just a foot or two away no damage. My home has been here since 1903. While a home 250 feet away totally demolished. It will die out just as quick as it starts. Weathermen do a wonderful job. Yet they can not predict the behavior of a tornado. Mother nature is her own boss.
Alabama has a high tendency for strong tornadoes especially in the early spring. I happened to be living in Enterprise AL when an E4 hit and had a front row seat watching it pass through. Close enough to see cars and building obliterated but just far enough away I was safe. It was absolutely heartbreaking. I know that fear. It’s something I don’t wish on anyone. I moved to Buffalo NY after that to avoid another big one. We had an epic blizzard over Christmas 2022 that I feel was just as bad (emotionally) as the tornado but lasted days. You may want to look into that storm as it really impacted a ton of states and made life stand still for the holidays. Thanks for your content I really look forward to your posts. ❤
12:00 Yes, the tornado is NOT limited to the visible part. There's an invisible portion of air mass that's spinning around the visible core. Sometimes you'll get lucky and see something that gets flung out of the visible funnel and get caught up in the outer vortex to circle around the visible vortex like a planet around the sun.
When I was a child in Georgia we had a tornado that took the roof off our home, filled it with four feet of water, and destroyed everything we had. Back then there were no warnings unless if you were listening to the radio. Luckily for me, my mother, and my brother, we had to pick up my father from work that day so we were not at home. We drove home dodging all the debri and downed power lines only to find our home uninhabitable. Tornadoes are devastating, and yes Oklahoma gets probably more than any other state.
When u were asking about gov assistance my heart broke because right now the people suffering from Helene are in dire straights because the FEMA funds have been used up for the massive migration. I'm heartbroken & furious at the same time. America is in a MESS right now.
10:45 Dangerous to stay by the window, yes, that's an understatement, friend.
Tornadoes generally happen in the spring, from March to June are the main months, but I've known them to happen in December and be deadly here. America's unique topography and climate create a perfect arena for powerful storms to grow.
16! We get plenty of tornadoes here in Texas. There are several storm chasing tour companies around if you ever feel inclined to experience it first hand.
All EF5's from that outbreak were incredibly powerful, fast moving behemots. Smithville EF5 is also worth mentioning. It was probably stronger than the Rainsville tornado.
I used to live in an area that had a lot of tornados, and I had recurring dreams/nightmares of tornados for years as a kid.
tornadoes that we see are the condensation from the pressure drop however the wind field is always larger than the visible funnel.
I live in Michigan and we get tornadoes usually in May. NOTHING compared to what this was but last year was a little different. We had a F2 come through. My job's building (Mail sorting facility) was given a new sun roof and front door the size of a football field, a trailer park was destroyed and homes damaged. About 2 weeks ago, we finally got a replacement building to temporarily work in while repairs happen. Between May (when it happened) and 2 weeks ago, we had options to work at other locations, some out of state. The company covered transportation and drive time to these other locations. It's nice to be back home again but I cant wait till our building is repaired.
I like the Portuguese stories.
You’re the best, Andre.
The best protection against a tornado is basically getting under ground - a basement. and even then, there's always a small chance that your home will be damaged enough to just collapse on top of you.
I lived near Nashville Tennessee back then, I remember that day very vividly. We were in and out of our shelter the entire day... so scary!
16! While tornadoes are fairly common in Oklahoma and north Texas, it's not common for them to be E4s or above. Locals like to sit on the front porch in hopes of seeing one
I generally don't like to remember this day. The wife, myself, two dogs, a pet bird and lizard taking cover in a bathroom to watch the ceiling/roof disappear above us. The country took a lot of damage that day. But many days you wake up and say "there will be a tornado today, just a matter of where"
Oklahoma is part of what we call tornado Alley. This "alley" tends to get a lot more tornados than other places. The tornados are rates F1 to F5. F5's are the worst.
Depending on the force of the spin in the storm, tornado force winds are felt well away from the visible funnel. I've been as far as five miles from them and felt it.
I helped with the first week after the greensburg kansas tornado during the search and resuce phase. Cool pic of me in the museum. roasting marshmallows for smores with some local kids about 3 days after. Love your videos as I learn more portuguese. I will follow your lead, not making videos but watching them. Great content 👌 having fun watching some videos.
Tornadoes are wild, their scale is determined by the destruction left behind; there's so much we still don't know about them.
That phenomenon with those trees getting uprooted 12 minutes in? To put into perspective how dangerous tornadoes like this are, El Reno in 2013 also had a wind wall very similar to this, and because of that (and it's unusual path) many good stormchasers lost their lives, because though they were at what was thought to be a safe distance, the winds where they were were still tornadic.
I am no expert, but I have watched a lot of video explanations about how tornados work, and this is my dumbed-down summary. (If someone sees that I got something wrong I am happy to be corrected.) --- Rain storms form when a layer of cold dry air moves across a layer of moist hot air. Since hot air rises the warmer air is forced upward in what is called an updraft. As the warm air gets swept upward, it starts to cool and condense which forms the clouds. When this air gets cool enough, it falls back down out of the cloud, often bringing some rain with it, and that is called a downdraft. At the same time, if the original layer of warm air is moving in a different direction or at a different speed than the layer of cold air, a horizontal rotation can develop between the two layers. Sometimes this horizontal spinning will die off and nothing more happens.
But sometimes, the updraft/downdraft action can act on the horizontal rotation, causing it to tilt into a vertical position. And if all the conditions are just right, the vertical rotation will spin faster and it will tighten and stretch down toward the ground. As this happens, it will start to suck in water particles from the cloud and that is the bit you see when the funnel first starts dropping out of the storm. And, of course, once the funnel touches the ground, it starts picking up dirt and debris and that's when the shape of the spinning vortex becomes more defined. Some tornados spin out and disappear in seconds. Others grow into monsters that are spinning so forcefully that the storm itself will also start to spin. And that’s when you will see destructive winds quite a distance away from the actual funnel. It is just so powerful that it is spinning all that air around itself.
The US government sends FEMA - the Federal Emergency Management Agency. This agency is responsible for helping people in areas devastated by natural disasters. The agency is very good, they show up as soon as they can get to the area.
MOST OF AMERICA DOESN'T GET ANY OF THIS CRAZY WEATHER. 😊
Tornadoes are always closer than they appear.
Typically only the central core is visible and the rest is clear...you don't see it(!)
They do produce an intense low frequency shudder that some people can hear and most people can feel.
If you feel the shudder....dive!, dive!, dive!
Oklahoma is called "Tornado Alley" for a reason. The center for severe weather in the state is a major factor tool for addressing all forms of severe weather and is situated in Oklahoma City. It's why the University of Oklahoma is considered the 1st or 2nd in the world for meteorology.
Aaaaaaand they don't usually have basements because RED CLAY! Yay!
I enjoy hearing about your homeland and how you live
I am from Alabama and experienced this day of the super outbreak. There were so many Tornadoes it was hard to keep them straight.
I was not expecting to see James-Paul Dice, AKA J.P. (The WBRC meteorologist early in the video. I know him because he used to work for WHNT, one of my local stations.) today, but I am pleasantly surprised.
"Tornado Alley" used to be through Kansas, Oklahoma and North Texas. While that area still gets tornados, the epicenter for the last few years has been a strip from Arkansas across to Alabama. I'll keep my hurricanes here on the Gulf Coast where I have time to prepare. If only I could afford my insurance. 😞
That's why I prefer where I live. Philadelphia has fewer damaging weather. We have some. But nothing on this scale.
3:54 - you see that "hook" echo on the radar? That is a tell tale that a tornado is spinning. If you see a black pixel form in those hooks. That's usually a debris cloud ( Homes, Dirt, etc)
5:54 Portugal DOES have horrific natural disasters. 1755 Lisbon earthquake, anyone?
16. Texas doesn't get a lot of tornadoes, but being right on the Gulf means that they have a lot of warm, humid air that, when they do get them, makes them much worse than they otherwise would have in different regions of the US.
Tornadoes can happen year-around here in Dixie Alley, but April is by far, the worst. I've loved tornadoes since I was a child. I became a trained storm spotter and even have a tornado chasing tattoo. I've been directly in an F1 at work, and an EF2 at home. Yet nothing compares to just how horrifying the entire day of April 27th, 2011 was. The whole day was like experiencing hell on earth. No exaggeration. The cell that dropped the tornado on Tuscaloosa ended up putting another EF4 monster down a half mile from my house in east Alabama and I was terrified to look up for weeks for fear of finding bodies in the tree tops. Some people were never found.
Oh yes like that you shared y’all tornado and glad nobody was hurt!
You should look up the May 11, 1970 tornado in Lubbock, Texas. Dr Fugita himself did the damage assessment for both that hit that night. I believe this was the first designated as an F5 from his scale. There are many before that as strong, but it was investigated by him and the others were done clinically. Those hit at about 9:30 pm. I lived in the area directly southwest of the worst damage. I was 4 yo and remember a lot of what it was like.
16. And yeah, tornados are quite common in Texas.
I live in Florida and have been in 3 hurricanes, but, these things are too much.
16 I can't even imagine what the survivors of tornadoes go through. I am only familiar with the little ones that do no damage here in Australia.
Meanwhile in NY we got 25 tornados this year, a record.
No... We had Alfa insurance at this time and Alfa decided to drop coverage of everyone affected in Northwest Alabama by this outbreak. We had to pay out of pocket to repair our home. Insurance is nothing but a scam in America. The letter they sent out is that they didn't have the money to cover the damages despite the years we paid for coverage. Also, despite asking for financial aid for repair to the state, we were denied, however, wealthier neighborhoods had no trouble getting the aid. Those outside of the city municipalities saw very little aid. Welcome to America.