Without a doubt. The subvortices within that colossal wedge were all extremely violent, at least one if not a few of them had to have 300+ mph wind gusts at periods. The funeral home damage has to be amongst the most extreme DIs ever recorded in a tornado.
I'm pretty sure all the 5s that day had winds at least 300. Smithville and Philadelphia both dug 2 or 3 foot deep trenches while moving 60mph and Hackleburg and Rainsville partially excavated underground storm shelters.
I saw where someone "did the math" and said that for the damage caused, with the winds sitting on no object more than 1.5 seconds, with the tornado's forward speed of 60 mph, that the max winds reached 340-350 mph at points.
Man, that twister got HUGE. Not quite as wide as the Hackleburg tornado, but it was just unbelievably violent. So much so that it dislodged a few slab foundations. This was like a heftier, long-tracked, fast-moving Jarrell. The 2011 tornadoes were absurd, the volatile atmosphere pretty much gave those supercells an all-you-can-eat buffet of energy. These cells had UNLIMITED potential basically.
The hackleburg tornado was so big you couldn’t even see the funnel or nothing but it was rain wrapped that’s why. I remember this outbreak it was crazy
@@joebankz6478 The few times you could visualize the Hackleburg tornado, it just looked like a giant wall of darkness, much like the Parkersburg EF5 but foggier. It went from just a small, "dead-man walking" little multi-vortex twister to monster wedge fairly quickly too.
This tornado and the one that hit Philadelphia ms that day are some of the only tornados to scour the ground up too 2 feet deep in certain areas. Think about that
Facts. Im working in Amory MS rn cleaning up after the EF3 that could’ve been an EF4 easily but I’m only 10 min from Smithville and the water tower is still standing and you can still see the dent from the explorer that was thrown into it
This is easily one of the most violent tornadoes to have ever touched down since records began to be kept. The moment it touched down it was debarking and bulldozing sections of woods. It imbedded an RV in the ground, dislodged foundations, scoured up to twenty inches of soil (if memory serves) and asphalt from roads, along with obliterating a brick funeral home, turning it into sandblasting media. It also destroyed a semi so bad that only its bumper was found wrapped around the towns water tower, shredded welded pipe that required 70,0000 POUNDS OF FORCE TO BREAK. This was so unbelievably violent it's hard to put into words.
The trenches this thing dug into the ground is obviously one of the most violent tornados to ever touch earth, the images of hard ground dug up so deep, while it was moving fast is insane.
Came here after my comment after the Hackleburg one. Wish you had so much more to this. I dont know where Tornado forensics got there's but there is soooooooo much more to this tornado.
This was an EF5. This tornado literally dug 3 foot trenches into the ground it was so powerful. This quite possibly if it had gone directly through a major city would top the Bridge Creek F5 of Moore OK back in 1999. It's a big tornado & the more I look at it, the more I see how deadly this one in particular was.
@@somestormchaseridjitwithwi2024 not really tbh. While a whole order of magnitude deadlier than Bridgecreek-Moore, the super violent wtf damage of Smithville was contained to the tight core, which was only a street wide at most. Bridgecreek-Moore was a massive wedge that would wipe entire neighbourhoods flat.
What a terrifying tornado! As much as I love a good tornado video, I hate seeing the destruction of people's homes and businesses, and it breaks my heart to hear about the deaths and injuries that tornadoes cause. This one was truly a beast from hell!
And it's crazy just how organized this tornado was. Usually, tornadoes that big and that angry with multiple vortices are erratic and volatile in terms of the damage they produce. This one however was very consistent with the extreme damage it caused. If only this tornado passed through open plains and fields because you hate to call a tornado as catastrophic as this one gorgeous in terms of structure. Very photogenic midwestern-style wedge in the southeast.
Beyond that... incomprehensibly violent. The Smithville Tornado was moving at such a breakneck pace that anything it hit... the damage would've been done in 0.5 seconds. Literally everything it hit got turned to dust, ground into particles within the 200+ MPH winds. A lot of people compare this storm to Jarrell, but Jarrell was a sluggish tornado that, while having violent winds, also accomplished so much damage thanks to its slow forward movement. The Smithville Tornado - as well as the EF5 tornadoes in Philadelphia, Hackleburg, and Rainsville - were all fast-moving, incredibly violent twisters. And they caused that much damage while moving at 55-70 MPH forward. No way were they just around 205-210 MPH... it had to be at least 250 MPH at least to be doing that much damage _that fast._ At most, it was 290, around the same speed as the Piedmont EF5 that happened on May 24, 2011.
@@lancecurry7538 Smithville was such a highly organized wedge, it's insane. The ground base of Smithville was around the same as that of Jarrell at 3/4 of a mile wide, yet it was a significantly larger and faster-moving twister. So much concentrated power with an unbelievable atmosphere. Insanely photogenic too.
@@dannyllerenatv8635it’s like it forced as much power in as large of an area as it could. It wasn’t an amorphous blob like some of the others. It was a finely tuned killing machine.
@@13_cmi this is true. You don’t see wedge tornadoes that large become so tight and precise the way this tornado was. Hell, the Philadelphia MS EF5/Rainsville EF5 twins from the same outbreak were erratic. Smithville and Hackleburg on the other hand were so tightly organized, it was as if a new atmosphere were coming into town rather than a storm. These are the type of things you hear in hypotheticals, but in 2011, many hypotheticals sadly became reality
Firstly, thank you for the excellent compilation of this truly remarkable and terrifyingly powerful storm. The legacy of this tornado will live on in infamy for all time and will likely go down in meteorological history as one of the most powerful tornadoes. Secondly, is this footage compiled chronologically in sequence and do you know where the second clip came from or the location of where it was being shot from? I'm just trying to get a better understanding of what the storm looked like at particular points along its path. Thank you again for the upload.
The sign of a violent tornado. Pretty much all the EF5 tornadoes during this outbreak did the dead-man walking formation minus the Philadelphia EF5. That one was a drillbit before it turned into a large stovepipe.
@@Titanusgojira54 It was running since it was a mere funnel. That storm produced this monster smack after producing the New Wren tornado, which apparently produced un-surveyed EF5 caliber damage.
Jarrell and Smithville are always compared as one is stronger than the other but imo they are equal. The dead man walking as Danny Llerena says (actually remember meeting him on another tornado video in the comments) is common in EF5/F5 tornadoes. Plus indicates a extremely strong EF/F5 what scale you prefer
@@MD21037 dude for them to hear a sonic boom the winds in that tornado would have to be around 700 mph, cmon man they were probably just hearing big debris smashing into the ground combined with the roaring wind
Seeing as you have nearly have the entire lineup for April 27, 2011 already uploaded... am I correct in guessing/hoping an upcoming compilation of the Hackleburg/Phil Campbell storm?! Its my favorite. Also would be interested in seeing one for another notable an often overlooked tornado that happened this year.. El Reno 2011 (NOT the 2013 one that comes to many minds, primarily b/c of the chaser fatalities.) And then there is always that once-in-a-century, legendary (and tragic) fan favorite - Jarrell, TX. Lot of new footage has surfaced lately, I'm not even sure anymore if I have seen it all at this point. Anyway, thanks for the vids and it'll always be appreciated if you continue what you're doing in the future!
I wont be doing the Hackleburg/Phil Campbell tornado because there is already a compilation with basically all the good videos on it: ruclips.net/video/OkEv5X52wtA/видео.html But I will make a compilation of the El Reno 2011 EF5 in a few days, I have been a little busy lately.
I know Angel Escobales Jr. has been working to archive various videos of the Jarrell tornado, but his channel seems to have disappeared. I'm not sure what happened, but we will see.
@@jmstudios457 I KNEW I should have saved those youtube videos from Mr. Escobales channel when I had the chance! I suspect he got copyright-striked or otherwise intimidated by people over those videos (many of which had never been publicly available prior to that.) Those bastards.
@@StormChaserMaci.We have proof that Moore crossed 300 mph and easily was one of the most unfortunate areas to get hit with violence of that level. Moore was ruthless, and a beast. Watch the KFOR footage ariubd the time the cam is zoomed on all the debris that's swinging. Look how fast that moves, and that puts into indication the crew and Morgan's speechlessness. I, first when getting into tornadoes was like "unbelievable" but now recognising how violent a tornado can be by the motion itself. It's a whole tension in that studio and knowing the areas getting teared apart. Those winds captured are sine of the best footage of a tornado of that magnitude and was CERTAINLY F5 around the time
@@kevinjoyce285 Windspeed exceeded 300mph. Doppler on wheels truck measured 318mph + or - that day. That storm from May 3rd, 1999 in Moore/Bridge Creek is by far the most powerful tornado ever seen on the face of this earth hands down. I don't care what anyone else says. I know people that lived there when that storm occurred and that F5 tornado leveled everything and stripped pavement off the ground. Catastrophic is an understatement for a storm like that. If there was such a rating as F6 on the scale (I know there isn't): that would definitely ranked as one of them.
The Smithville Tornado And the May 3rd Tornado were equal pretty much in terms of violence The Smithville Tornado Caused Damage that could be considered 320 to 350 MPH Wind damage and the May 3rd tornado has its highest winds measured on a radar that could've been inaccurate which means the may 3rd tornado could've been as strong if not stronger then the smithville tornado, however if you look at pictures of both of their damage the damage theae 2 tornadoes have caused gives Jarrell a run for it's money, in short i believe the smithville tornado is said to he the most violent tornado on earth only because it's tied with one of the actual confirmed most violent tornadoes on earth The Bridge Creek Moore tornado. My actual Guess for the Smithville Tornado And Bridge Creek Tornadoes top winds are easily 302-336 MPH For Bridge Creek Tornado And 305 to 336 MPH For The Smithville Tornado, Both of these tornadoes could've had 350 MPH Winds as there's no real way to tell any huge diffrence between what damage these 2 tornadoes caused in their prime, their damage looks literally identical If you see the Damage The Bridge Creek tornado did in bridge creek and see the damage that the smithville tornado caused in the photos and compare it There isn't much diffrence if not, no diffrence at all. Both of the towns were completely pulverized And both of these tornadoes like said couldve had 700 MPH Winds for split seconds in their core As it turns out sub-vorticies are literally the strongest parts of tornadoes if they have any, so these tornadoes could've literally been equal withor without the sonic boom sound effect in terms of strength. In short im closing the Debate The Smithville Tornado Is Violent, but does it for sure have 700 to 350 MPH Winds? No thats a pure overestimate. The actual winds if im gonna tell the truth Definitely would've been 305 to 336 MPH Just Like The Bridge Creek Tornado Most likely could've had measured if the doppler radar was more accurate. In short These tornadoes are pretty much equal in strength and in realistic windspeed, proved by damage they caused. And don't get me started on how the smithville tornado ripped up an underground pipe system The bridge creek tornado showed signs of doing damage equal to the smithville tornado and if it passed over the same area as the smithville tornado did in its theoretical prime it definitely would've caused the same damage. So yes, it's a tie no bias included. This is to simply end the debate on which one of these tornadoes is stronger in raw power and windspeed.
It was 2011. Phone cameras sucked back then. Now you can zoom in but still phone cameras aren’t that good. The crystal clear zoom shots are always from fancy cameras that cost over $1000 not including the lenses. Not everyone has thousands of dollars for cameras. Even less in 2011.
Uhh it could have been so much worse had that tornado like gone through a major city. I’m not glad it hit small towns but it could have been much worse had it hit a city
@@lancecurry7538it would have killed well over 100. This tornado remained at an EF-5 intensity for most of its life producing winds in excess of 300mph.
@@stillchillin7580 many of the buildings in the core of the tornado's path only sustained EF4 damage. Not only that, but no asphalt scouring occurred (despite the tornado going directly through the town), which is something that even an EF3 is capable of doing.
@@cmertonno, the tornadic winds did that. It went through an open field for about a half mile before entering Smithville and dug a two foot deep trench hundreds of feet wide leading up to the impact. There were a few trees in the way during that time and they were fully disintegrated.
Does anyone know why F-4 to F5 tornadoes 🌪 in particular have evil looking faces in them? Some very disturbing images the tornadic clouds! Any reasonable answer I would like to hear.
It's called pareidolia. Humans tend to seek out faces, as faces are the first objects we learn to recognize as infants. A person sees a violent tornado, and the mind constructs "angry looking faces" within them. People see similar in building fires and such. It puts a "face" to something we know can cause us and humans in general great harm.
Oh, no... it was one of _360_ tornadoes that touched down throughout the entire Super Outbreak, and was shared with the Philadelphia EF5, the Cullman-Arab EF4, the New Wren "EF3" Tornado which preceded this EF5, the Hackleburg-Phil Campbell EF5, the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham EF4, the Rainsville EF5, and numerous other violent tornadoes.
What if this was the tornado that hit Joplln a month after this? I think it would've killed 500 +. Wouldn't be surprised if this tornado was stronger than 1999 Bridge Creek.
Yall keep arguring about how powerful tornados were to me nothing tops jarelle point blank period!! If you were underground or basement tub or whatever you were dead if you were in its path!! Dismemered evrey human and animals to small pieces tell me another tornado that did that!! I know cause there arent any other tornados that did that!! Send me a comment i am a tornado expert!! I live for them and probably one day die by it but im fine with that!
I totally agree with you about Jerrell tornado. No other tornado did the kind of freakish uncomprehensible destruction that Jerrell tornado did. Not saying that other tornadoes weren't horrific in damage, but Jerrell tornado was never rated by any Doppler radar. Therefore we will never know just how powerful the wind speed was. In other videos, images of other powerful tornadoes, there still remains partial structures, trees and even ground vegetation. Jerrell tornado left absolutely NONE OF THAT stuff. EVERYTHING, AND I MEAN EVERYTHING including the ground vegetation was COMPLETELY GONE! No bodies, just fragments of pieces of the remains of bodies where all that was left. Including livestock. No dismantled homes that were partially standing, nothing was there!...not even plumbing. Those who argue against Jerrell tornado being the most powerful, say it only did the damage because it moved very slowly across the area. There have been other big slow moving tornadoes that didn't even come close to what Jerrell tornado did. There wasn't any debarked trees left standing... there wasn't ANYTHING NOTHING left from Jerrell tornado. It was reported that some vehicles were never found, ever anywhere! Not just being thrown a few hundred yards away or even a couple of miles away (which would be a incredible feat). Those vehicles were never found. How does a vehicle completely disappear???? I can't even comprehend that. Jerrell tornado doesn't get the due attention that it deserves, because it happened before Doplar radar was really developed as we have currently. My top tornadoes of all time regarding sheer power. Jerrell, Tx Greensburg, KS Bridge Creek 99' Those last two could be flipped flopped.
To me the smithville tornado gives Jarrell a major run for its money both where extremely powerful but Jarrell was slow this one was booking it while turning stuff into powder
It can and has happened before that a tornado has sucked and killed people out of their basements. The Parkersburg EF5 of 2008 unfortunately did that, several times. Hackleburg and Rainsville both heaved and exposed storm shelters, but thankfully I believe the survivors came out rather unscathed from the twister, meaning the shelter did its job exceptionally well despite getting ripped open. This tornado could've probably achieved those feats as well at peak intensity. Look at what this thing did to the funeral home. What was a massive cemetery was reduced to traces of powder. That's easily a top 3 DI ever observed in a tornado.
@@Titanusgojira54 I honestly would argue this tornado and the Parkersburg EF5 of 2008 to be stronger. Jarrell was gruesome and absolutely disgusting, but one could argue some of the DIs produced by the Smithville and Parkersburg twisters were above any DI produced by the Jarrell storm. They were THAT bad. When you have large wedge tornadoes with incredibly violent windfields knit so tightly and organized within a condensation funnel the way the Parkersburg and Smithville EF5s did, there's really not much you can do unfortunately.
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Could you do one of the Bassfeild-Soso Mississippi tornado. Was 2.25 miles wide
This tornado had to have had at least 300 mph+ winds
Without a doubt. The subvortices within that colossal wedge were all extremely violent, at least one if not a few of them had to have 300+ mph wind gusts at periods. The funeral home damage has to be amongst the most extreme DIs ever recorded in a tornado.
I'm pretty sure all the 5s that day had winds at least 300. Smithville and Philadelphia both dug 2 or 3 foot deep trenches while moving 60mph and Hackleburg and Rainsville partially excavated underground storm shelters.
I saw where someone "did the math" and said that for the damage caused, with the winds sitting on no object more than 1.5 seconds, with the tornado's forward speed of 60 mph, that the max winds reached 340-350 mph at points.
@@TaurusMoon-hu3pd wow
Man, that twister got HUGE. Not quite as wide as the Hackleburg tornado, but it was just unbelievably violent. So much so that it dislodged a few slab foundations. This was like a heftier, long-tracked, fast-moving Jarrell. The 2011 tornadoes were absurd, the volatile atmosphere pretty much gave those supercells an all-you-can-eat buffet of energy. These cells had UNLIMITED potential basically.
The hackleburg tornado was so big you couldn’t even see the funnel or nothing but it was rain wrapped that’s why. I remember this outbreak it was crazy
@@joebankz6478 The few times you could visualize the Hackleburg tornado, it just looked like a giant wall of darkness, much like the Parkersburg EF5 but foggier. It went from just a small, "dead-man walking" little multi-vortex twister to monster wedge fairly quickly too.
This tornado and the one that hit Philadelphia ms that day are some of the only tornados to scour the ground up too 2 feet deep in certain areas. Think about that
@@brettulmer5300 What's even crazier is that the Philadelphia MS EF5 has a sister tornado, the Rainsville EF5. What a day that was.
Facts. Im working in Amory MS rn cleaning up after the EF3 that could’ve been an EF4 easily but I’m only 10 min from Smithville and the water tower is still standing and you can still see the dent from the explorer that was thrown into it
This is easily one of the most violent tornadoes to have ever touched down since records began to be kept. The moment it touched down it was debarking and bulldozing sections of woods. It imbedded an RV in the ground, dislodged foundations, scoured up to twenty inches of soil (if memory serves) and asphalt from roads, along with obliterating a brick funeral home, turning it into sandblasting media. It also destroyed a semi so bad that only its bumper was found wrapped around the towns water tower, shredded welded pipe that required 70,0000 POUNDS OF FORCE TO BREAK. This was so unbelievably violent it's hard to put into words.
The May 3rd, 1999 Bridge Creek EF5 holds the record for the fastest recorded winds on Earth.
@@jonn443 indeed, but given the violence seen with this tornado, I've got a feeling that the Smithville storm was close in power
@@jonn443 Smithville and later Philedelphia f5 (same system) both had inner core mph of 320+
@@jonn443Smithville likely had winds well over 350mph and vortex breakdown winds of over 700mph. Bridgecreek-Moore had ~300mph max winds.
@@deinocheirusgaming6920 It prolly reached around 330-340 mph max. No way it had 700 mph winds bro that's stronger than winds on Uranus.
@6:08 the roar it’s making is unbelievable and scary. And that’s what it sounded like moving away. Can only imagine what it sounded like coming.
That was 1.3 miles away, too. The twister was busy tearing into the forest at that time, and would cross from Mississippi into Alabama later.
Sounded so angry.
@@lancecurry7538That's wild!!
The trenches this thing dug into the ground is obviously one of the most violent tornados to ever touch earth, the images of hard ground dug up so deep, while it was moving fast is insane.
Came here after my comment after the Hackleburg one. Wish you had so much more to this. I dont know where Tornado forensics got there's but there is soooooooo much more to this tornado.
I love how on the news segment, the only interview clip they got was, "We got a desk in there..." and that was it. XD
This was an EF5. This tornado literally dug 3 foot trenches into the ground it was so powerful. This quite possibly if it had gone directly through a major city would top the Bridge Creek F5 of Moore OK back in 1999. It's a big tornado & the more I look at it, the more I see how deadly this one in particular was.
Worse. This going through a highly populated area wouldve been worse than Bridge Creek.
@@somestormchaseridjitwithwi2024 not really tbh. While a whole order of magnitude deadlier than Bridgecreek-Moore, the super violent wtf damage of Smithville was contained to the tight core, which was only a street wide at most. Bridgecreek-Moore was a massive wedge that would wipe entire neighbourhoods flat.
Smithville scoured 1 foot into the ground, not 3.
@@SadElk122 It's 3. Go look at official NWS records on it.
1 foot 4 inches
What a terrifying tornado! As much as I love a good tornado video, I hate seeing the destruction of people's homes and businesses, and it breaks my heart to hear about the deaths and injuries that tornadoes cause. This one was truly a beast from hell!
It was rated an EF5 but it could have been an EF6
Its crazy how fast this thing was moving!
And it's crazy just how organized this tornado was. Usually, tornadoes that big and that angry with multiple vortices are erratic and volatile in terms of the damage they produce. This one however was very consistent with the extreme damage it caused. If only this tornado passed through open plains and fields because you hate to call a tornado as catastrophic as this one gorgeous in terms of structure. Very photogenic midwestern-style wedge in the southeast.
Beyond that... incomprehensibly violent. The Smithville Tornado was moving at such a breakneck pace that anything it hit... the damage would've been done in 0.5 seconds. Literally everything it hit got turned to dust, ground into particles within the 200+ MPH winds.
A lot of people compare this storm to Jarrell, but Jarrell was a sluggish tornado that, while having violent winds, also accomplished so much damage thanks to its slow forward movement.
The Smithville Tornado - as well as the EF5 tornadoes in Philadelphia, Hackleburg, and Rainsville - were all fast-moving, incredibly violent twisters. And they caused that much damage while moving at 55-70 MPH forward.
No way were they just around 205-210 MPH... it had to be at least 250 MPH at least to be doing that much damage _that fast._ At most, it was 290, around the same speed as the Piedmont EF5 that happened on May 24, 2011.
@@lancecurry7538 Smithville was such a highly organized wedge, it's insane. The ground base of Smithville was around the same as that of Jarrell at 3/4 of a mile wide, yet it was a significantly larger and faster-moving twister. So much concentrated power with an unbelievable atmosphere. Insanely photogenic too.
@@dannyllerenatv8635it’s like it forced as much power in as large of an area as it could. It wasn’t an amorphous blob like some of the others. It was a finely tuned killing machine.
@@13_cmi this is true. You don’t see wedge tornadoes that large become so tight and precise the way this tornado was. Hell, the Philadelphia MS EF5/Rainsville EF5 twins from the same outbreak were erratic. Smithville and Hackleburg on the other hand were so tightly organized, it was as if a new atmosphere were coming into town rather than a storm. These are the type of things you hear in hypotheticals, but in 2011, many hypotheticals sadly became reality
Could you do the 2015 Rochelle-Kirkland-Fairdale Illinois EF4 tornado?
Firstly, thank you for the excellent compilation of this truly remarkable and terrifyingly powerful storm. The legacy of this tornado will live on in infamy for all time and will likely go down in meteorological history as one of the most powerful tornadoes. Secondly, is this footage compiled chronologically in sequence and do you know where the second clip came from or the location of where it was being shot from? I'm just trying to get a better understanding of what the storm looked like at particular points along its path. Thank you again for the upload.
7:42 I don't think I've ever heard a tornado "whistle" before
I believe the last tornado is the Hamilton Phil Campbell hackleburg tornado, not Smithville.
It was Smithville, it had passed into Alabama and weakened, taken in the town of Shottsville
It literally leveled the entire town of Smithville
7:44 dead man walking, eerily similar to Jarrell.
The sign of a violent tornado. Pretty much all the EF5 tornadoes during this outbreak did the dead-man walking formation minus the Philadelphia EF5. That one was a drillbit before it turned into a large stovepipe.
Ain't walking its running
@@Titanusgojira54 It was running since it was a mere funnel. That storm produced this monster smack after producing the New Wren tornado, which apparently produced un-surveyed EF5 caliber damage.
Jarrell and Smithville are always compared as one is stronger than the other but imo they are equal. The dead man walking as Danny Llerena says (actually remember meeting him on another tornado video in the comments) is common in EF5/F5 tornadoes. Plus indicates a extremely strong EF/F5 what scale you prefer
Smithville was only a low end EF5 😁
This is the most violent tornado to ever touch down on this planet. It was described by Smithville residents as sounding like a "Sonic Boom."
Na
@@robertwipf Ya
No. The most violent tornado is still the 1925 Tri-State Tornado. It killed 695 people.
@@MD21037 dude for them to hear a sonic boom the winds in that tornado would have to be around 700 mph, cmon man they were probably just hearing big debris smashing into the ground combined with the roaring wind
@@robertwipf just quoting what they said, DUDE. Watch Smithville second by second video by Tornado forensics.
one of the most powerful tornadoes to ever touch the ground.
About ten miles from my house...was a scary day
Nothing but Jarrell has done Jarrell like damage.
@BOS37631It was supposedly traveling at 70 from what I’ve read
Correction: THE most powerful tornado to ever touch the ground
@@carlmay9532 False, this tornado did damage worse than Jarrell while moving like 70 mph on the ground, so it did that damage in literal seconds.
Seeing as you have nearly have the entire lineup for April 27, 2011 already uploaded... am I correct in guessing/hoping an upcoming compilation of the Hackleburg/Phil Campbell storm?! Its my favorite. Also would be interested in seeing one for another notable an often overlooked tornado that happened this year.. El Reno 2011 (NOT the 2013 one that comes to many minds, primarily b/c of the chaser fatalities.)
And then there is always that once-in-a-century, legendary (and tragic) fan favorite - Jarrell, TX.
Lot of new footage has surfaced lately, I'm not even sure anymore if I have seen it all at this point.
Anyway, thanks for the vids and it'll always be appreciated if you continue what you're doing in the future!
I wont be doing the Hackleburg/Phil Campbell tornado because there is already a compilation with basically all the good videos on it: ruclips.net/video/OkEv5X52wtA/видео.html
But I will make a compilation of the El Reno 2011 EF5 in a few days, I have been a little busy lately.
I know Angel Escobales Jr. has been working to archive various videos of the Jarrell tornado, but his channel seems to have disappeared. I'm not sure what happened, but we will see.
@Rainy_Saturday if its possible can you make a dayton ohio ef4 compilation?
@@jmstudios457 I KNEW I should have saved those youtube videos from Mr. Escobales channel when I had the chance!
I suspect he got copyright-striked or otherwise intimidated by people over those videos (many of which had never been publicly available prior to that.)
Those bastards.
This is an update, the channel is back! Virtually all of the videos are there except for one or two that were uploaded right before it went dark.
Man where do you find these clips, i dont see any of them on youtube when i search these tornados
I'm researching this tornado for a video, the footage is haunting, and that CCTV from where the cars were parked was downright scary.
The color just pops ,and then the ears do
This Tornado was Pissed Off
I think Jarrel was the most violent because it lingered over the town for minutes. Top wind speed goes to Bridge Creek, I believe.
Oh do not get me started with that Moore OK 1999 F5 tornado. That thing was straight from hell.
The bridge creek one is moored 1999 💀
@@StormChaserMaci.We have proof that Moore crossed 300 mph and easily was one of the most unfortunate areas to get hit with violence of that level. Moore was ruthless, and a beast. Watch the KFOR footage ariubd the time the cam is zoomed on all the debris that's swinging. Look how fast that moves, and that puts into indication the crew and Morgan's speechlessness. I, first when getting into tornadoes was like "unbelievable" but now recognising how violent a tornado can be by the motion itself. It's a whole tension in that studio and knowing the areas getting teared apart. Those winds captured are sine of the best footage of a tornado of that magnitude and was CERTAINLY F5 around the time
@@kevinjoyce285 Windspeed exceeded 300mph. Doppler on wheels truck measured 318mph + or - that day. That storm from May 3rd, 1999 in Moore/Bridge Creek is by far the most powerful tornado ever seen on the face of this earth hands down. I don't care what anyone else says. I know people that lived there when that storm occurred and that F5 tornado leveled everything and stripped pavement off the ground. Catastrophic is an understatement for a storm like that. If there was such a rating as F6 on the scale (I know there isn't): that would definitely ranked as one of them.
@@StormChaserMaci.Smithville nado threw a truck into the town's water tower, the dent is still visible today.... that tower is over 100' up😮
Nicely done.
The Smithville Tornado And the May 3rd Tornado were equal pretty much in terms of violence
The Smithville Tornado Caused Damage that could be considered 320 to 350 MPH Wind damage and the May 3rd tornado has its highest winds measured on a radar that could've been inaccurate which means the may 3rd tornado could've been as strong if not stronger then the smithville tornado, however if you look at pictures of both of their damage the damage theae 2 tornadoes have caused gives Jarrell a run for it's money, in short i believe the smithville tornado is said to he the most violent tornado on earth only because it's tied with one of the actual confirmed most violent tornadoes on earth The Bridge Creek Moore tornado.
My actual Guess for the Smithville Tornado And Bridge Creek Tornadoes top winds are easily
302-336 MPH For Bridge Creek Tornado
And 305 to 336 MPH For The Smithville Tornado, Both of these tornadoes could've had 350 MPH Winds as there's no real way to tell any huge diffrence between what damage these 2 tornadoes caused in their prime, their damage looks literally identical
If you see the Damage The Bridge Creek tornado did in bridge creek and see the damage that the smithville tornado caused in the photos and compare it
There isn't much diffrence if not, no diffrence at all. Both of the towns were completely pulverized
And both of these tornadoes like said couldve had 700 MPH Winds for split seconds in their core
As it turns out sub-vorticies are literally the strongest parts of tornadoes if they have any, so these tornadoes could've literally been equal withor without the sonic boom sound effect in terms of strength.
In short im closing the Debate
The Smithville Tornado Is Violent, but does it for sure have 700 to 350 MPH Winds? No thats a pure overestimate.
The actual winds if im gonna tell the truth Definitely would've been 305 to 336 MPH Just Like The Bridge Creek Tornado Most likely could've had measured if the doppler radar was more accurate. In short These tornadoes are pretty much equal in strength and in realistic windspeed, proved by damage they caused.
And don't get me started on how the smithville tornado ripped up an underground pipe system
The bridge creek tornado showed signs of doing damage equal to the smithville tornado and if it passed over the same area as the smithville tornado did in its theoretical prime it definitely would've caused the same damage.
So yes, it's a tie no bias included.
This is to simply end the debate on which one of these tornadoes is stronger in raw power and windspeed.
Liar.
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Why don't they zoom in like to see the action
It was 2011. Phone cameras sucked back then. Now you can zoom in but still phone cameras aren’t that good. The crystal clear zoom shots are always from fancy cameras that cost over $1000 not including the lenses. Not everyone has thousands of dollars for cameras. Even less in 2011.
When one of most powerfull tornados ever roars near your neigborhood... what more to say..
Uhh it could have been so much worse had that tornado like gone through a major city. I’m not glad it hit small towns but it could have been much worse had it hit a city
Yeah, imagine if this had hit Tuscaloosa in the place of the EF4 that took place there.
@@lancecurry7538it would have killed well over 100. This tornado remained at an EF-5 intensity for most of its life producing winds in excess of 300mph.
They were 295-300 mph subvortices. The sustained winds in the main funnel were only around 200 mph.
@@SadElk122where are yall getting these winds? Anyways it would’ve have been that bad since the core was only 100 feet wide for most of its life.
@@stillchillin7580 many of the buildings in the core of the tornado's path only sustained EF4 damage. Not only that, but no asphalt scouring occurred (despite the tornado going directly through the town), which is something that even an EF3 is capable of doing.
The ground being gouged 2' was horrifying, and it was moving fast, it's amazing to think a tornado could dig into the earth that deep.
The tornado itself did not do that. The whirling debris did that,
@@cmertonno, the tornadic winds did that. It went through an open field for about a half mile before entering Smithville and dug a two foot deep trench hundreds of feet wide leading up to the impact. There were a few trees in the way during that time and they were fully disintegrated.
one day i hope the other videos from 2:40 resurface in full
Does anyone know why F-4 to F5 tornadoes 🌪 in particular have evil looking faces in them? Some very disturbing images the tornadic clouds! Any reasonable answer I would like to hear.
It's called pareidolia. Humans tend to seek out faces, as faces are the first objects we learn to recognize as infants.
A person sees a violent tornado, and the mind constructs "angry looking faces" within them. People see similar in building fires and such. It puts a "face" to something we know can cause us and humans in general great harm.
WOW! I hope everyone is okay.
This one killed 23 I think 😢
16 in Mississippi (all in Smithville), 7 more in Alabama.
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This was the only tornado that touched down that day, right? 😉
Oh, no... it was one of _360_ tornadoes that touched down throughout the entire Super Outbreak, and was shared with the Philadelphia EF5, the Cullman-Arab EF4, the New Wren "EF3" Tornado which preceded this EF5, the Hackleburg-Phil Campbell EF5, the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham EF4, the Rainsville EF5, and numerous other violent tornadoes.
It was definitely one of the many tornadoes that got over looked because of Tuscaloosa
What if this was the tornado that hit Joplln a month after this? I think it would've killed 500 +. Wouldn't be surprised if this tornado was stronger than 1999 Bridge Creek.
Yeah. If you weren't underground you quite literally had a zero percent chance of surviving in the direct path. Everything was disintegrated.
Bridge creek 318 mph winds highest ever recorded, perhaps 340 mph gusts
Smithville 230 mph winds, 300 mph gusts
Ive often thought. The way humans are with tornadoes. It’s like what a rat feels when a big overweight 30lb cat chases him down!
Yall keep arguring about how powerful tornados were to me nothing tops jarelle point blank period!! If you were underground or basement tub or whatever you were dead if you were in its path!! Dismemered evrey human and animals to small pieces tell me another tornado that did that!! I know cause there arent any other tornados that did that!! Send me a comment i am a tornado expert!! I live for them and probably one day die by it but im fine with that!
I totally agree with you about Jerrell tornado.
No other tornado did the kind of freakish uncomprehensible destruction that Jerrell tornado did.
Not saying that other tornadoes weren't horrific in damage, but Jerrell tornado was never rated by any Doppler radar. Therefore we will never know just how powerful the wind speed was.
In other videos, images of other powerful tornadoes, there still remains partial structures, trees and even ground vegetation.
Jerrell tornado left absolutely NONE OF THAT stuff. EVERYTHING, AND I MEAN EVERYTHING including the ground vegetation was COMPLETELY GONE!
No bodies, just fragments of pieces of the remains of bodies where all that was left. Including livestock.
No dismantled homes that were partially standing, nothing was there!...not even plumbing.
Those who argue against Jerrell tornado being the most powerful, say it only did the damage because it moved very slowly across the area.
There have been other big slow moving tornadoes that didn't even come close to what Jerrell tornado did.
There wasn't any debarked trees left standing... there wasn't ANYTHING NOTHING left from Jerrell tornado.
It was reported that some vehicles were never found, ever anywhere!
Not just being thrown a few hundred yards away or even a couple of miles away (which would be a incredible feat).
Those vehicles were never found. How does a vehicle completely disappear????
I can't even comprehend that.
Jerrell tornado doesn't get the due attention that it deserves, because it happened before Doplar radar was really developed as we have currently.
My top tornadoes of all time regarding sheer power.
Jerrell, Tx
Greensburg, KS
Bridge Creek 99'
Those last two could be flipped flopped.
To me the smithville tornado gives Jarrell a major run for its money both where extremely powerful but Jarrell was slow this one was booking it while turning stuff into powder
It can and has happened before that a tornado has sucked and killed people out of their basements. The Parkersburg EF5 of 2008 unfortunately did that, several times. Hackleburg and Rainsville both heaved and exposed storm shelters, but thankfully I believe the survivors came out rather unscathed from the twister, meaning the shelter did its job exceptionally well despite getting ripped open. This tornado could've probably achieved those feats as well at peak intensity. Look at what this thing did to the funeral home. What was a massive cemetery was reduced to traces of powder. That's easily a top 3 DI ever observed in a tornado.
@@Titanusgojira54 I honestly would argue this tornado and the Parkersburg EF5 of 2008 to be stronger. Jarrell was gruesome and absolutely disgusting, but one could argue some of the DIs produced by the Smithville and Parkersburg twisters were above any DI produced by the Jarrell storm. They were THAT bad. When you have large wedge tornadoes with incredibly violent windfields knit so tightly and organized within a condensation funnel the way the Parkersburg and Smithville EF5s did, there's really not much you can do unfortunately.
@@dannyllerenatv8635 yeah In my personal opinion smithville and parksburg 2008 were stronger than Jarrell
No cows
The Smithville Drill.
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This was a terrible terrible day for the United States in general.
Probably not as bad as 1974, but still bad.
MAY 3RD 1999 and MAY 20TH 2013 F5 TORNADOES 🌪 IN MOORE OKLAHOMA 1999 REGISTERED 318 MPH: THE HIGHEST WIND SPEED EVER RECORDED ON PLANET EARTH 🌎 2013 F5-210 MPH. MAY 31ST 2013 F5-NEAR 300MPH IN EL RENO OKLAHOMA.
If I lived in Oklahoma in particular and definitely in the town of El Reno and Moore…I would absolutely have a shelter built into the ground about 15-20ft deep minimum!!! 🌪🌪🌪😵💫😵💫😵💫😬😬😬🤐🤐🤐😳😳😳😵😵😵
1999 May 3rd tornadoes: both 318 mph (310+).
2013 May 31st tornado: 296 mph
fake.
Do you think this Tornado is fake? this thing killed 23 people.
@@Bird452 proof?
@@carlitosdinkler5213 google it and there are news
@@carlitosdinkler5213 The NWS says 15 fatalities, do you need to see the bodies to believe it?