The Tornado That Changed The World - Bridge Creek - Moore F5 Documentary
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- The Tornado That Changed The World - Bridge Creek - Moore F5 Documentary
On the evening of Monday, May 3, 1999, a large and exceptionally powerful F5 tornado registered the highest wind speeds ever measured globally; winds were recorded at 301 miles per hour or 484 km/h by a Doppler on Wheels (DOW) radar. Considered the strongest tornado ever recorded to have affected the metropolitan area, the tornado devastated southern portions of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, along with surrounding suburbs and towns to the south and southwest. The tornado covered 38 miles (61 km) during its 85-minute existence, destroying thousands of homes, causing 36 fatalities (plus an additional five indirectly), and leaving US$1 billion (1999 USD) in damage, ranking it as the fifth-costliest on record not accounting for inflation. Its severity prompted the first-ever use of the tornado emergency statement by the National Weather Service.
The tornado first touched down at 6:23 p.m. Central Daylight Time (CDT) in Grady County, roughly two miles (3.2 km) south-southwest of the town of Amber. It quickly intensified into a violent F4, and gradually reached F5 status after traveling 6.5 miles (10.5 km), at which time it struck the town of Bridge Creek. It fluctuated in strength, ranging from F2 to F5 status before it crossed into Cleveland County where it reached F5 intensity for a third time shortly before entering the city of Moore. By 7:30 pm, the tornado crossed into Oklahoma County and battered southeastern Oklahoma City, Del City, and Midwest City before dissipating around 7:48 p.m. just outside Midwest City. A total of 8,132 homes, 1,041 apartments, 260 businesses, eleven public buildings, and seven churches were damaged or destroyed.
Large-scale search and rescue operations immediately took place in the affected areas. A major disaster declaration was signed by President Bill Clinton the following day (May 4) allowing the state to receive federal aid. In the following months, disaster aid amounted to $67.8 million. Reconstruction projects in subsequent years led to a safer, tornado-ready community. However, on May 20, 2013, nearby areas adjacent to the 1999 storm's track along with some of the same areas in the path of the tornado were again devastated by another large and violent EF5 tornado, resulting in 24 fatalities and extreme damage in the South Oklahoma City/Moore area.
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The Tornado That Changed The World - Bridge Creek - Moore F5 Documentary
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i like the lightning cloud on the map ⚡☁️
My uncle survived this tornado. He moved to Moore around the end of December than had to move back to Atlanta because his house was leveled. He was in a storm shelter but he said it was really loud in the shelter and could hear trees and cars getting lofted. His house was hit with around EF3-EF4 level damage. He and his wife were perfectly fine but I think his neighbor passed away actually.
I was just a few miles away… then I was in the same neighborhood that got leveled in the 2013 tornado. Luckily my house only had minor damage… yet a few blocks away the houses were leveled!
I wasn't in this tornado, but I am a survivor of the Xenia tornado during the 1974 super outbreak
I barely survived The tornado almost hit my house.
I remember Gary telling people on TV ‘if you’re not below ground you won’t survive.’
I remember that too. I thought OMG
I was 9 on this day. I lost my two adult front teeth being hit in the mouth by a steel pole. Every year I go to the dentist to have my porcelain teeth checked & cleaned and I cry for about a week before my appointment. Fear, PTSD, pain, the memories… it all floods back as if it happened yesterday, not 24 years ago. We’re lucky to be alive & im thankful for that. It’s the memories we have to live with. Our state was never the same, but it was rebuilt. 14 years later… Moore suffered through another EF5. It hit two elementary schools, so many kids lost their lives that day. I think as an adult and a mother, that one hit me even harder than what we experienced in 1999.
Regardless, I am proud of being an Oklahoman and seeing how our state comes together after these tragedies. We may be in the heart of Tornado Alley, but I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
Sending love to all my fellow Okies and anyone who’s weathered through the storms as we have. ❤
2 teeth 🦷 ow that was painful 😢
I’m glad you survived and I’m sorry about your teeth and the PTSD. Thank you for sharing your story.
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I was in middle school at the time. My dad, like all midwestern dads, was one of those who would stand on the porch and watch tornadoes. I remember making a pallet of pillows and blankets in the closet and putting my cat in a kennel and collecting the dogs. Our power went out so we were listening to the news forecast over radio. I remember there was a weather reporter named Scott that the studio lost contact with at one point with the guy yelling, "Scott? Scott are you there?!" I think we lost Scott." We said, "Oh no they lost Scott!" kind of laughing it off. Some time later we heard a loud thud on our roof and my dad joked, "There's Scott." None of us were taking it very seriously. We were all used to tornadoes.
My dad went back outside and was watching for it so I went out to see what he was seeing and I remember seeing this strange brown and gray-what I would describe as a cloud wall. It didn't look like it was spinning, the way you'd think of a tornado. It looked like it was all blowing one way but getting closer. Later I would learn that was because it was a mile wide and rain-wrapped so you couldn't really see the edges. It was confusing to me and I said, "where's the tornado?" as I looked up to my father, for the first time I saw fear on his face, and he said, "That IS the tornado." Then under his breath he said, "I think we should get in the closet." And THAT'S when I got scared. My family (four of us), three dogs, and my cat all huddled together in the closet. I heard loud bangs and wind and in a few moments it went quiet.
It missed our house just barely. We were kind of on the very edge of the damage. Our side of the street had a lot of debris and our house had some damage. We found a huge piece of hail a little bigger than a softball just inches from my dad's jeep. And the most interesting thing was, we found a washer-like a clothing washer-in our back yard. It looked brand new, as if someone just picked it up and sat it down there without a scratch on it. Aside from that there were many tree limbs and our neighbor's tree was completely destroyed.
As soon as we were done inspecting the damage to our house my dad and I jumped in the jeep to drive around and see if we could find anyone who needed help and to see what was still standing. I took photos that I still have them to this day. I remember it took out the Cracker Barrel where's my brother's wife worked and the only thing left standing of it was the fireplace. There were so many "fields" that used to be homes that were just leveled. Flattened. It was quite a sight to see.
In the aftermath, many of my family's friends and neighbors lost everything. Insurance companies were literally the F*ing worst. I remember one of my brother's friends fighting their insurance company because their neighbor's tree fell on their house and the insurance company said they couldn't prove it was because of the tornado.
I look back now and I am so grateful to have gotten photos of that day. I had no idea at the time how significant they would be.
Thank you for sharing your story. 🩵That was awesome and yes, insurance companies are the phukking devil.
This story sure is needed.
Did they find Scott?
I hope your sister in law was OK. I hope all of your family made it through safely. I can't even begin to imagine the horror of something like that. Thank you for sharing.
we have friends in Newcastle who's house 'looked ok' but all the rafters were splintered. They had a 2 year battle with their insurance company. We had friends that lived on the first street south of WestMoore HS. Hubby was on a job in Canada that flew home as soon as he could. He said the pilot showed them the red path (our ground here is red clay) - and the grass had been sucked out.
Was 16 when this tornado hit. Watched on tv as it leveled my grandmother's neighboorhood and continued on in a direct oath towards our home.We hunkered down in the hallway with pillows and a mattress, and could hear it approaching, roaring like a freight train. It lifted off the ground in my neighborhood, and went directly over our house. Worst damage we got was a lot of shingle damage and the entire house was coasted with debris, but the thing that sticks with me to this day was the sound as it went overhead. It sucked all the air out of the house through the vents. All the vents were howling, the air got still and hard to breathe, and it was the most frightening moment in my life. The moment it passed my father and I jumped in his truck to drive to my grandmother's house. Almost our entire neighborhood was destroyed, and we spent hours digging my grandmother (alive, but injured) out of the rubble of her home.
3rd GENERATION OKLAHOMAN HERE -- I'VE SEEN QUITE A FEW AFTERMATHS -- WAS IN MOORE LESS THAN A YEAR AFTER , REWIRING A COUPLE OF STORES - I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT -- HUGE PATHS JUST CLEANED DOWN TO THE SLAB -- REALLY HARD TO COMPREHEND WHAT IT MUST HAVE BEEN LIKE
That’s Reed Timmer’s video from under the overpass. His first tornado chase came very close to being the last. This was when people thought it was safe to hide under the overpass. Don’t ever do that!!
Yeah, they found out really quick overpasses were not a safe place after a lady got sucked out of one in this tornado and died.
@@themousefiles 1 died under the overpass,6 died in the ditch next to it.
This is & was in fact Timmer's first tornado. A tornado from hell.
@@themousefiles i'm sorry but if there's a tornado approaching quickly, and there's an overpass where you can "get up under the girders", I'm taking my chances there as opposed to out in the open. Or I'm gonna try to out run it
@@KaileyB616 as a kid living in tornado alley, I was always taught that you were supposed to get low if you got caught by a tornado out in the open. Overpasses were specifically singled out as dead traps in a tornado, as were mobile homes for obvious reasons.
It will always be eerie when meteorologists tell the people they will only survive under ground. How scary and powerless it must feel if you hear that and have no basement near by.
Sad to know that underground isnt always safe. A tornado was going through piedmont Alabama and a local church went to the basement. It was so intense that the church collapsed in on them. No one survived
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@@dewaynesmith1718think they mean a buried tornado rated shelter
@@dewaynesmith1718 A basement is not a Tornado shelter.. sure you can use a basement if you don't have a proper tornado shelter but without a buried shelter you run that risk.. and even a buried shelter isn't 100% safe, would say bout 99% safe but I have heard stories of people getting sucked out of those shelters for one reason or another.
@@tohurSucked out yes if the basement is right in a powerful slow moving twister path.
I lived in Moore in 1999. Just before it hit us it shifted its track slightly missing us, but not by much, I wanna say it was roughly 4-5 blocks over. It leveled the addition across from ours, hit the High School at the worst time, it was packed due to a Graduation Ceremony.
Once the news said that it was moving slightly from my area my dumb 14 yr old self went outside to jump on my trampoline and see if I can see it. I could not see anything however I could hear it. I dont think ill ever forget it either. It sounded like hell was opening up, growling is the best way to describe it.
That AND it sounds like a helicopter. A lot of ppl say a freight train bc the movies. But my best comparison is growling/helicopter sounds
@@JessicaRodriguez-zy5gz I was a little ways from the one in 99, the growling is my best description hearing one from afar.
However, a cpl years ago we had ,,,"sisters" spin up and was gonna catch me with a direct hit but luckily it actually jumped my house and touched back down about 6 miles away. It sounded like a helicopter blades spinning or someone slinging a rope/cord above their head. Whipping sound. Shit scared the hell out of me lol
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the movie "twister" used growl noises.
I didn't live there, I didn't experience it. I just wanted to say I was 15 when this happened, a year older than you. It's funny how you said your dumb 14 year old self lol.
This news coverage from around 20:00 is a million times better than what we get in the internet age. Educated, informed, live reporters and presenters and a dedicated news chopper right in the scene.
I agree, I remember when the news was truth reported by individuals with professionalism and integrity. If you wanted garbage, you could easily obtain it in the checkout stands at the grocery store... The National Enquirer or The Star. Not anymore, the news today is less credible than The Enquirer! Most of the reporters shouldn't have a job with a school newspaper!
Yes, it's impressive, especially for that year. However, when it comes to modern coverage that is educated and informational, take a look at www.youtube.com/@RyanHallYall live coverage. If they're not live when you take a look, you can get an idea of their coverage from the many videos on their page. :)
I agree!! Gary stayed calm, much easy to understand & let those you have best info & vantage point have the mic too! Will never forget…
We still have meteorologists exactly like this in Oklahoma and they are on air nonstop any time there are possible tornadoes in Oklahoma. Gary England has since retired, but Mike Morgan was on air during this tornado and he’s still on air here to this day. I experienced a tornado in Texas in 2010 or so, while traveling for work, and I was shocked at how much worse their weather coverage and their meteorologists are than ours. Thankfully we have incredibly professional, serious and experienced meteorologists doing storm coverage in Oklahoma, along with all their traveling teams and choppers. It makes a huge difference when it counts.
My aunt and her 2 daughters rode out the storm under the stairs in their house. My mom was on the phone with her sister. They were very lucky to survive. Everyone else was out of town. I'm amazed to this day they they are still here. Everything around them was gone. The roof and garage gone. If it had not been a 2 story house I would not be able to post this.
I know that everyone who survived is meant for a higher purpose. Only when we are called home will we know why.
End of the video they talk about houses not being built properly, I had a cousin go through this storm, he was in an underground shelter with a 6inch concrete with rebar roof and this tornado still ripped that layer right off as it went by. With wind speeds that high there is nothing it cant tear apart.
Like increasing the building code is going to produce a structure that is going to withstand the forces and windspeed (300+ mph) for an EF-5 tornado.
It may not be possible to build something that can survive an F5. But if building up to code can make a building survive the more common F2 and F3 tornados, then that’s something that should be included in local laws.
How far down was the shelter?
@@dw8840 Would be interesting to know.
12 inch multi 5/8 rebar enforced shelter
this one, Joplin and Jarrell never fail to scare me more than others
And Moore was hit again in like 2013.
Don’t forget el rino. It may have stayed mostly over open country, but there’s never been another beast like it. Still amazes me how many seasoned storm chasers it killed and injured
@@nahmastay3300el reno 2013 and 2011 were beasts
@@amyraszipovits810Both tornadoes produced excessive ground scouring
@@jamestaylor4480the El Reno EF5 (2011) completely destroyed Cactus 117 (oil derrick)
My sister and I were both twelve at the time and home alone. Mom was at work and Dad was on a business trip. We had a storm shelter but were terrified of going down there. We were on the phone with our mom when my Dad's secretary showed up at our door (she'sknown us since we were babies). His office was only a few blocks away and she knew we were alone. When we opened the door we could see the funnel cloud. She took the phone and reassured our Mom while she dragged us to safety. We were very lucky as we suffered no damage but I knew several kids who weren't so lucky.
Wow close call, what an angel that secretary was for showing up to help also!
Just curious, was she hot?
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Thanks for sharing. That sounds traumatic as a 12 year old!
Wow! So happy your family is ok. great story to tell. RIP all who didn't make it
I don't care what building standards are implemented, an F-5 tornado with +300 mph winds would absolutely decimate today's toothpick structures.
It's now 12:02am so it's now May 3rd. Every year I watch in remembrance, because i will truly never forget.
They say lighting and tornados never strike the same place twice....well that's B.S. My sisters house was leveled in 1999 May 3rd during this storm while living in Bridgecreek. Then we both got hit again May 6th 2015, ripped her roof off the ceiling in the entire house got wet and their insulation got wet and fell on the interior ruining everything. Furniture, carpet rugs bedding and beds everything. Her insurance was better than mine that I fought with for 3 months before they paid up. Sister was cut a check immediately for displacement, living expenses, food, each a check to buy clothes to wear a few changes, tooth brushes ect... and it took her months to compile a list of 40 pluse years of her life now ruined and gone forever. That was the 1st one, the second one the same thing but they had a very nice brick and cedar wood trim with beautiful landscaping. A real beauty, a show home. Her insurance was once again standin with her to fix and make her 100 % almost whole again. This one I got hit, lifted the roof off my home and every where there was a rivet on my metal roof it leaked causing the massive leakage my insurance was just content since it was my sisters and husbands little apartment they built for me..I replaced many major items and took my clouthes to a laundry to save them. Such a wet sloppy mess but you feel good and blessed when you could have a mobile home frame sticking next to their fire place out the op of their roof. I Saw crazy things that storm. Livestock stuck in trees, cars that looked like a mass of balls of metal that were un- recognizable. We both have anxiety due to storms but we love living here. Our families are all here. Wouldnt live any where else in the world. Okies do ban togeather and help each other that's just our standard. Love on and help those in need and God bless them!!
May o ask who she has for insurance? I’m moving to okie and I’m trying to research the best insurance companies out there
I'll never forget that day ever. I lived in Midwest city, Ok (still do) and after the tornado destroyed most of Moore it headed to Del City and Midwest city area. I remember thinking that's not a tornado because you couldn't see a funnel. It was like a massive black wall over a mile wide. Living in Ok you get used to tornadoes to the point it's not even scary and you sit on your porch and watch them when you see a funnel touch down. The May 3rd tornado was the first time every one was scared shitless. My family and I got in the drainage ditch located on side of the road. We crawled into the sewer pipes that were under the ground and we heard the tornado go right over us. It was so freaking scary. I'll never forget it.
I always feel so terrible for the animals that dont understand and have no way to protect themselves 😢
The most Okie thing I’ve ever seen is someone running at a tornado with a camera to the sound of his flip flops in the back ground😭💀 8:35
Dude that's Hillbilly Hysterical right there!😂
Yeah buddy 😆
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That’s Reed Timmer for ya. Dudes nuts, in a good passionate sort of way. He’s one of the most prominent chasers today, got a great reputation for literally intercepting tornados with his dominator tornado vehicle, literally parking letting tornados go over it. Gets readings and video inside tornados, it’s absolutely bonkers.
This F5 tornado of May 3rd, 1999 was straight from hell. If any of you are here today after surviving this true monster, I want you all to know you have not been forgotten by nearly every storm chaser out there. I will however have to correct the windspeed said in the video. It hit a staggering 320mph + or - recorded by Doppler on wheels. That record hasn't been broken to this day. When Moore EF5 2013 happened I began to think this town had some sort of curse over it. Reed Timmer's first tornado in fact was this exact tornado. His footage starts at 6:11. All footage of this tornado is considered the holy grail of all tornado footage. Now whenever I hear the name Moore OK, I instantly get chills. This tornado still is & was by far the most powerful tornado ever seen & recorded on earth. If you are a witness to this tornado with your own eyes, I pray to god it never haunts you again & that you NEVER see another like it in you're lifetime.
Both Moore 1999 & 2013, Joplin 2011 EF5, El Riño 2013, & Jarrell F5 are the only tornadoes that have truly scared me as a storm chaser.
I believe the speed recorded by the DOW was 301 mph +/- 20 mph. Or at least, that's the speed that I find referenced by the National Weather Service.
@@ullrich Yes. That is it. Which is why i directly say it was more than likely 320mph. If there was even a hint it was that strong from what the DOW picked up, it likely was.
@@StormChaserMaci. It's a margin of error with respect to the accuracy of the DOW, so there's just as much of a hint that it was 281 mph. You can find a number of other DOW records for different events that give the +/- 20 MOE, so I don't think it's correct to say that the upper end of the MOE is "more than likely" because that's not what a MOE means.
@@ullrich Well what I do know is that computers tend to estimate things either to greatly or too little. Considering Moore Ok 1999 was already a baseline reading of 301mph without estimates, I do not see that estimation being lower in any way. It could only have been higher since they got an official reading off that tornado.
@@ullrichI came to make your exact comment. It eas never confirmed at 320mph. But it was recorded at 301 with the+/- factor it's dafe to say it was at least 311-ish mph.
On May 3rd I had just dropped my friend off at his house. When I got back to my house my mom was watching the weather. A pretty nasty tornado was headed our way. I called my friend to tell him to turn on the news and that I was coming back to his house. When I got there... it was heading directly for us & was 11 minutes away. I told my friend I'm not sticking around for this one (I could tell this was a storm you need to be underground for)... so he grabbed his dog and off we went. His dad opted to stay behind and get into a storm drain next to the house if he needed to.
We drove a mile east, then started heading south toward norman... and then cut back over to western (toward the storm) to see if we could see it. We had a perfect vantage point - we had eyes on it when hit those high voltage transmission lines. We trailed the storm back to his neighborhood which was right next to westmoore. We were literally the first people into the neighborhood because we got there immediately after it passed.
It looked like a bomb went off. Complete destruction. We checked on his dad and then went to start helping people get to the street to get treated. One girl (she looked maybe 15) had a deep gash in the top of her head and was probably in a state of shock. One guy had part of a tree branch sticking out of his arm which appeared broken (arm was dangling). One very large woman possibly had a heart attack because she was completely out of it... we had to put her in a wheelbarrow that we found but the wheels didn't hold up and we ended up having to carry her in it.
At this point one of the cops at the entrance of the neighborhood tried to stop me from going back in... I said look man I'm helping people.... what are you doing!? and it was like a mutual understanding where he immediately turned his back to me as if to say go ahead...
As I was walking down what was left of 126th street we heard a faint cry for help. It was coming from a pile of debris that had a full-sized HD truck on top of it all. A group of us rolled the truck over and started digging through the debris. We got to a lady and her only concern was her husband... so we kept digging. When we got to him it was too late. He was purple...even the EMS didn't attempt CPR which really bothered me for years... tormented by not knowing if I could have done more.
Oh... and my friend's dad said he made it to the storm drain just in time...He was really shaken up by the ordeal (looked like he had seen a ghost). He said by the time he got over the fence and got into the drain things were already flying at him and he barely made it (along with a cat that apparently had the same idea as him).
The houses on both sides of my friend's house were levelled... but his house was still standing with some severe damage.... a big part of the roof was missing and from the living room you could look up at the sky. We decided the house probably wasn't going to fall on us... so the three of us decided to stay there for the night (even though we weren't supposed to)...firemen had already kicked in his front/back door and ordered us to leave, but his dad had a cooler completely full of beer so we weren't going anywhere lol. We sat in the living room, looking up at the sky, watching helicopters circling all night while we got hammered.
I left a lot of details out but it was a hell of a day, that's for sure. RIP David Henry.
I'm glad your friend, his dad and you are ok. I hope you adopted that cat.
Hello, my grandson is a new meteorologist (congrats). We had a family gathering last month and my first question was, "which tornado was most powerful," without hesitation he said, "Jarrell." He proceeded to show me aerial/ground photos from his laptop and those vacant concrete slabs were visually shocking. He said, "twisting speed was around 300 mph but what made this tornado so extraordinary was it's slow movement intensifying it's destruction." Anyhow I did my own 20 day research and what I saw was mesmerizing yet eerie. First and foremost R.I.P. to those that perished and my condolences to all family/friends.
27 deaths caused by the tornado occurred within one subdivision of Jarrell, a neighborhood of 38 well built houses called Double Creek Estates. Each residence was completely swept away and reduced to a concrete slab. The twister produced some of the most extreme ground scouring ever documented as the earth at and around Double Creek was scoured out to depths of 18 inches reducing lush fields of grass to vast expanses of mud. The tornado left an unbroken swath of barren earth vacant of fences, telephone poles, trees, pavement and homes that once dotted the landscape. Cars and heavy wreckers were granulated into small pieces and scattered across the earth never to be identified, think about that for a ..moment.
The cause of death for most of the victims was tactfully listed by the county coroner as "multiple trauma", although the truth was obviously far more grisly and difficult to explain to next of kin. Human and animal body parts reportedly littered the area for miles, creating an unbearable stench of decay. Police were forced to close off the entire area as a biohazard zone for weeks as cadaver dogs worked to find human body parts buried throughout the wreckage. Pieces were spread out on the floor of a local volunteer fire department - recovery teams tried to distinguish human remains from animal remains. Most had to be identified through dental records. Many were never recovered at all. What a nightmare.
Timothy P. Marshall is a structural and forensic engineer as well as meteorologist. He has conducted more than 10,000 damage surveys of tornadoes, hurricanes and hailstorms. Tim is best of the best and after surveying Jarrell he said, "Houses were obliterated. The destruction was so intense, it serves as a baseline for which all other tornadoes are rated against."
Regardless if tornado is moving forward at 8 mph or 80 mph, fact remains that so many surveyors consider Double Creek storm to be the most catastrophic tornado in terms of intensity still today 2022. I've seen photographs of Bridge Creek, Hackleburg-Phil Cambell, Bakersfield Valley, Smithville, Pomeroy, Udall, Brandenburg, Pampa, Parkersburg, Loyal Valley, Philadelphia-MS, Plainfield, Greensburg, Xenia, El Reno, Joplin and they do not compare to Double Creek Estates duration intensity, Nothing Does.
I've learned and seen enough
What did i learn ?
That "Dead Man Walking" is an understatement
And my advice ?
If you see one
RUN !!!
D, Anderson USMC
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They weren't well-built houses. We've known for several decades what kind of housing structures can withstand these type of weather events but refuse, and often create obstacles to have them built instead. Or went straight for the looks department, which is dumb but it worked.
Joplin built a domed school and that is the only chance they have next time and it's not a full-on monolithic dome. So it's not 100%. If they even make it to the school in time. Everyone else got four more walls.
Anything with four walls will not make it in our increasingly disastrous weather cycles. No matter how reinforced it is.
Good info. No tornado disturbs me as much as this one. Everyone should see your thorough breakdown of this Catastrophe. Well done and thank you for your service.
@@syolyte Why do some always find the need to find fault or belittle? I'm sure you understood the context of "well built." They were brand new houses for Pete's sake.
No kidding, it's not like these were clapboard shacks....@@blackDavidFrost_Stout_Krout
Tri State tornado.
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A young Reed Timmer recorded the clip at around the 6:00 mark. He's researched and recorded some of the absolute most devastating tornadoes in US history, and continues to do so to this day. I have alot of respect for him and his dedication.
It's because of him and Tim why I became so fascinated with tornadoes and watched in awe at their devastating beauty. Watching Storm Chasers with my dad every other week were some of the best days. I was surprised to see his RUclips videos pop up in recommendations one day, but happy to see he's still doing what he loves and doing great work for the field.
I'd like Reed if he wasn't so loud and was more calm and reserved
lol @ 'in US history'
Dude he makes me want to do this profession but i fear danger
Reed is a bit self-aggrandizing, and though I respect his research, I lost respect for him years ago.
I live in Moore. I lived through this tornado and the 2013 outbreak, as well as several other less publicized tornados. I vehemently disagree that it was poor materials and subpar construction as the reason there was so much damage! It was because we suffered tornados over a mile wide (2 1/2 miles wide in El Reno in 2013) and 300 miles per hour wind speeds! That will destroy any residential neighborhood!!! The end of this video is kind of insulting to the people who lived it.
I want to take a second to say the only reason more people did not die was because of the meteorologist and teams we have in Oklahoma. ❤❤❤
You are 100% correct, they do a brilliant job in keeping the public safe!
I flew out to OKC two weeks after the tornado hit Moore to watch my son graduate from Norman High School and just before we pulled onto Shields boulevard I remember asking my Dad if he had seen any of the damage from the Moore Tornado. He told me, Howard I can not possibly describe what you are about to see, and as we turned onto Shields heading towards I-35 south my jaw just dropped. I could not believe what I was seeing, as though a nuclear bomb 💣 had gone off in Moore in a very clear and distinctive path. Horrifying, an apartment complex I use to live in as well as an old friends house and hundreds more were absolutely gone, nothing but rubble.
That would have been a terrifying drive seeing all of the damage 😔
I also saw the damage days later before I went back to Ohio and seeing the damage on TV was nothing compared to seeing it in real life. It's gut wrenching.
I couldnt imagine what it was like just weeks after the tornado hit there. I drove through Greensburg, KS 2 years after their EF5 hit and it was still a disaster area. I feel for everyone involved in these, and now I live in an area that has been seeing multiple tornadoes already this year (Iowa), so that is a fear I am having of one being near me now.
I drove through there 6 MONTHS after this, and what I saw made me sick.
Stupid is as stupid does! And they breed!
This happened on my 6th birthday and I remember watching this on TV. It really started my fear and interest in severe weather and tornadoes.
I'm a truck driver from Indiana but I remember I delivered a load to Moore earlier that day and then I headed out towards Omaha. The next day I saw what happened and it blew my mind.
We were in our storm cellar when this tornado hit. I live about 50 miles northeast of Moore/Norman. Once we were told it was safe we came out and there was debris from Moore falling in our yard. We knew it was from Moore as some of the debris was self addressed envelopes.
That is amazing, 50 miles away and it traveled that far.
It just shows the incredible power of this Tornado and storm system!
I was about that south in Lindsay, and we had some down here, too. I watched Mike Morgan through it. Go news 4.
At least you knew where to return them to.
That's gotta be eerie ! Stuff floating down from above, and the still silence.
I like reading of people's experiences with wild weather. There was a chaser who commented on Bridge something Town. And a subdivision... The chaser talking about an F-5 . His description of the Twister, and the damage done, and, oh my, what he'd seen all around him, scattered about. And the smell...I was trembling. He said he'd never seen and witnessed, anything like it. I've got "mad respect" for chasers !
Keep Chasing, Stay safe.🌪️
@brianwade879 that was Bridgecreek. It was bad there, it is a small town. When President Clinton came to see all the damage, he just flew over the town. There was no damage to see. Most of the town was just gone. It left behind a mile wide track of dirt. I will never forget a cop who found a little like 1 year old in a tree. She was ok. He would hold her, put her down to check her, and just pick her up again. He couldn't let her go long enough to look her over. He just wanted to hold her in his arms, safe. I'm crying thinking about it now. An ambulance was in bridgecreek, and no one else could get in or out. They set up an emergency room and morgue in the gym, and them and a local doctor did what they could.
Over 300mph winds.
This was right after twister came out the movie and everyone said a tornado would never be on the ground that long. Then this happened and changed everything
Had they not heard of the Tri-State tornado?
@@warriyorcatalso it was 4 hours long and passed by 3 states and was more than a mile long 💀💀
Twister came out in 1996, there were many strong tornadoes that occurred up until this one. Birmingham got hit with an ef5 and Jarrell to got hit by an ef5.
Sorry, but people that thought that apparently do not know too much about tornado history. As another mentioned, nothing was even close to being on the ground as long as the 1925 Tri-State tornado.
Twister 1996, had a great soundtrack
I had no idea how bad this tornado actually was, that wind speed is just incredible
It's true windspeed recorded hit 320mph. Recorded by Doppler on wheels right underneath the storm itself. That record has never been broken to this day.
The sub vortexes in el Reno are said to have been around 500 mph wind
@@corralzin4909who said that lol
@@corralzin4909 298 mph
sub-vortices: and sub-vortices can add 100mph to ground-relative wind speed in a tornado circulation. That still doesn’t get to 500mph,however.
Can we all agree that Gary and his storm chasers are heroes and each have a set of Jupiter sized balls. Great video!!
Heroes?? Why? God commands the winds! Don't upstage Him.
Don't end up like Tim Samaris, especially if you have a family.
Add also made of titanium
I was watching Gary that evening. I had just gotten home at my Exs insistence from North OKC. Only to hear it was at 240 and Sunnylane. That was a mile south of where I lived at the time. Cable went out about time, and we were in the closet. What this report does not tell you, is all of the news stations had what they called street something, that was showing where the tornado was. It was off. They stopped using that for quite a while after this storm. Don’t get me wrong. The reports of where the funnel was was close enough, but that street thing was way off…
Probably closer to Neptune's size and made of granite. But yeah big.
Whats that sucked out and full of gas😂😂😂
Fun Fact: The clip starting at 6:04pm is Reed Timmer.
Considering how terrible this tornado was, can you imagine the devastation that the 2013 El Reno could've wrought if it had gone over a populated area instead of a field? The El-Reno tornado footage is by far and away the most terrifying footage I've ever seen. I can't imagine what those chasers went through trying to escape.
Also it was his very first F5 and his last, as the next time that he would see a tornado that would be the max ratting, would be the EF-5 Philadelphia, MS during the Super Outbreak of 2011.
I've watched so much of his content, I recognized his voice 😅
A lot of people have said that over the years but you can say that about any tornado that happened in a rural area. And it's not like there were no damage indicators with El Reno. The damage path was mostly EF-2 with some spots of EF-3 damage including a near direct hit on a house. Other nearby houses had EF-2 damage. And it was nearly stationary for 5 minutes just north of the highway and did EF-3 damage to commercial buildings. So it didn't just go through a field.
A few actually didn't escape and lost their lives in that tornado 😔
If that El Riño tornado went through populated area.... I'm too scared myself to even think of the records it would have shattered, the catastrophic damage it would have done, & what it would have done to people.
On May 3rd of 1999 I was truck driving OTR.
That morning I woke up in Sioux falls and about 8:00 in the morning. And about 9:00 I headed west on I-90.
By 11:00 they were saying on the radio high winds were possible in South Dakota and high profile vehicles should take caution of tip-overs.
I had a light load and balls of brass so I pushed on.
By noon the wind was blowing so hard that my rear tandems we're in the left lane and my cab was in the right lane.
And anyone who has traveled west on 90 knows in that day and age there was no place for a big truck to stop and pull over.
So I keep driving all the way across South Dakota with my rear tandems in the left lane and between 4:30 and 5 the wind finally died down and about 6pm I made it to Wall, South Dakota.
I was so very lucky my truck didn't tip over,
there was a few times things got a little hairy but I pushed on and made it through.
I was just outside Fort Leonard Wood, MO, yesterday. Have been hauling a light load from Detroit down to Amarillo. Got pictures of a wall cloud and some hail and quick but heavy rain that dumped on me, at that Road Ranger, on the hill, in Saint Robert. Nearly the whole state was under tornado warnings, yesterday. Sitting talking to the driver next to me, I told him, "Ya know, if one of these drops near the lot, you and I will be the first two missiles." He laughed, as he was also running a light load. What a day.
My son and I were in Sapulpa OK when they were still talking about the tornado, we went to the high school be caused we lived in a mobile home. I think it was about 10pm when they let us go home. Luckily all we had was a broken window in my son's room and a damaged gas grill. We lived on the side of a hill so it kinda went over the mobile home park. There was a massage oak tree across the road and a lot of branches everywhere. I'm also from SD so I know about the wind driving across the state.
My husband is a driver and I worry about him terribly this time of year.
As a lifelong Floridian, my first remembrance of a hurricane was Hurricane Fredrick in ‘79. It was scary, but it was night hurricane. So we sat up with lanterns and played cards. The next ones were Erin and Opal in ‘95. The worse one was Ivan in ‘04 (I think) it was bad but we come together and got thru it. The day storms we stayed on the front porch and watched it. I say all this to say, you people in OK, KS , upper TX y’all are a different breed. I’d take a hurricane every month than 1 tornado!!! God Bless Y’all and the grit y’all born with. Y’all have my ultimate admiration. ❤️❤️❤️🌪️🌪️🌪️
Hurricanes last for days or weeks. Are you sure about that? I'd rather take a tornado.
In the age of "RUclips reporters," this is a cut above and professionally done. Thank you👏👏.
Except the AI voice
Im a survivor of an f5 tornado, the best way to describe how it felt, hell on earth
I can only imagine. My experience was with an EF3
When I was 14, I dealt with a pair of EF1s (F1s at that time) in an odd location in 1992. (Las Vegas, NV) Just two traditional elephant trunks that any Okie would just say hey what's up to and drive on. But I'm in Vegas, I was told for 14 years we don't get tornadoes, but we got tornadoes that day as if Vegas was 20 miles south of OKC.. and my girlfriend at the time named Jamie couldn't calm me down at any level.
I don't know how I would handle an EF5 rated wedge coming at me. But Jamie ( were still good friends to this day) would probably be glad I'm another woman's problem now..
Watched it from the back porch with my Dad. Mom was yelling at us to come inside, and I remember Dad saying, "Why? If it turns we're gonna die anyway. Might as well kick back and watch it."
Obviously, it didn't turn. I remember driving up I-44 after the tornado, it was strong enough that it had ripped grass out of the ground. You could literally see the path it had taken. Once you hit Moore it looked like a war zone. Houses got reduced to basically matchsticks. Honestly amazing that more people didn't die, really.
My sister lived in Del City and we had lived in Moore for years. I remember traveling up to see her that summer and it did just flatten neighborhoods. Places I had lived as a kid were gone.
LOL! I guess, sometimes you just gotta face the facts and be ready to give up the ghost. There's no sense in being overly dramatic about it. Glad y'all ended up being OK.
I got to see the destruction of the 2013 Moore tornado while traveling on I-44. Trees looked like someone cut them all level.
I'll never forget this day. I lived in South OKC but worked on new homes in Bridge Creek. The new house we had just finished was totally wiped away. There was no debris even. It was just gone. Out in Bridge Creek the tornado even pulled the asphalt off the roads. It also hit my neighborhood. My corner of the neighborhood was spared but the rest of my neighborhood was destroyed. I've never seen such destruction. Watching this footage all these years later still makes my hair stand on end.
Were the houses you were building , part if the ones they were talking about not being up to code?
@@dw8840 300+ mile an hour winds. Building codes don't matter.
Ah.. 1999, the year I graduated high school. It's amazing how different the world was not so long ago.
I was 6 at a friends birthday party down the street, my dad came and got me saying “we have to go now” he and my mom the dogs and I all in the blazer hauling ass in some direction my dad had determined safe. We didn’t have a shelter, they say trying to run from them aren’t a good idea due to maybe getting stuck in traffic. But after listening to Gary England emphasize how unless you’re underground you’re absolutely not safe. My parents decided to risk it. We got back to a neighborhood leveled..it was absolutely incredible. There isn’t a building code today that would have withstood it.. semi trucks thrown through apartment buildings, cars launched 1/2-1 mile in the air, 2x4’s sticking half way though concrete retaining walls still intact, hay (for horses) impaling trees 1-2 inches deep. It cleared all the grass on its path…almost unfathomable.
I was in the Air Force stationed at Tinker AFB. Left for an assignment in Germany two months before the Bridge Creek tornado. My house in Moore, which I sold before I left, was completely removed down to the foundation. I'm thankful that I wasnt there, but Ive often wondered how I would have reacted, had I been.
Thank you for service❤
Thanks everyone that shared their stories. Hard to find good comment sections on RUclips nowadays
I was stuck in a cellar for a big chunk of that night. The only thing I remember is my grandpa and dad watching the storms push east past us and my dad mentioning that it would be out of our range in another hour and my grandpa pointing out the next few hours would probably be talked about for several years. This was about 20 minutes before Moore got absolutely slammed.
I was in this tornado. We moved to El Reno after that, but I worked in Moore. So I was also in the F5 that hit Moore in 2013 and the F5 that hit El Reno in 2013. But none of them compared to the F5 in Moore in 1999. The F5 in 1999 was so powerful it lifted some types of tornado shelters right out of the ground. My family was in that type of tornado shelter with an inclined door above the ground. It lifted us up and dropped us straight back down; we were lucky. Our house was gone, our cars were gone, our neighborhood was flattened our storm shelter was cracked open, but we were alive. I remember them announcing this as a Tornado Emergency and to try to get underground. I had never heard of a Tornado Emergency before. This tornado changed how they built tornado shelters. Before this tornado, most insurance companies didn't cover foundations in tornadoes, because tornadoes would take houses but not lift foundations, but this tornado decimated some foundations and even lifted pieces of asphalt road. I will never forget coming out of the tornado shelter, it looked like a bomb had gone off. There was nothing left as far as we could see. The one thing I will never forget and haunts me, is seeing videos taken from a storm chaser that took shelter under an overpass while driving down the interstate, and kept filming. He miraculously survived, but had video of people getting sucked up from under the overpass. What was really horrifying was he filmed a family with 2 small children running to the overpass, but couldn't make it. The dad was carrying the kids and got on the ground by a highway barrier and had his kids hold on, he got over the top of them and held on, they somehow survived. But his wife, you could see her running, then suddenly got blown backwards and lifted straight up. She was found dead over 1/4 mile away. That video made me weep and haunts me anytime I am driving and there is a tornado watch. But that video also made meteorologists warn people to never shelter under an overpass, it is one of the worst places you can be because it causes a wind tunnel as the tornado goes over.
Looking at the damage map, that thing intensified rather rapidly. It was strong to violent well before it became a wedge. Horrifying.
I’ll never forget this day.
I was at a house in Moore that got destroyed by this tornado as a kid, luckily we made the decision to run while we still had time. It's crazy hearing the news tell you to leave shelter during a storm to get underground.
The man filming at 21:55 is lucky to be alive. That is some of the most awesome video of actually being inside a tornado I've seen.
That was a conglomeration of several peoples videos
@@hillcountrypestsolutions5943 but specifically, the man at 21:55 had the craziest video in this compilation.
Was he on the ground in a ditch or under an overpass? The way his feet are on the grass immediately after appears to be a ditch.
My aunt and uncle. They were headed to wally world. My aunt got a bad feeling, made my uncle turn around and get away. They lived.
I was 12 and lived Northside OKC and was never truly in danger. We went to school the next day, busses didn’t run. My buddy’s mom took us. Her car had hail damage that went through the hood. No classes. We watched Oklahoma. This happened again to Moore in May of 2013.
Gary really earned his pay check that day. Outstanding work.
That video of the wedge and satellite funnels is probably one of the most iconic images in tornado history.
I miss Gary England
I remember watching news reports and videos of this tornado when i was in 10th grade. It was one of the inspiration for me to try and get into meteorology and become a storm chaster. sadly this dream never came true for me as i failed Chemistry (but passed all over sciences with flying colors). But i still have a huge interest in weather and tornadoes specifically in though i'm 41 now.
While I'm not from the area, I lived through a tornado during Hurricane Andrew in 92 when it slammed South Florida. Besides being a cat 5 hurricane, Andrew spawned a lot of tornados (something that wasn't well understood back then), and the telltale sign was areas that were completely decimated in patches.
Our house, as well as the neighbor's house to the left was completely leveled, but the neighbor's house to the right suffered minimal damage. I was 9 yo and have been intrigued by storms ever since.
Hurricane Andrew was it's own special kind of hell. That storm was an absolute monster.
I had a childhood friend die in Andrew; we were both just 11 years old and he hadn't even been in Florida A MONTH before that horrible hurricane...RIP Brandon and Marty (his Grandfather)...We only knew one another for about a Year - this was just when I was starting to leave my House and walk up the street to his. He was originally from Florida but moved to Kentucky, but we were out of School so he went back down to visit his Grandparents. Only his Grandmother survived....11 years old is WAY too young to die..😢
My youngest son was 10 then and vacationing at his grandma's in Boynton Beach. My fiance and I were heading out to Las Vegas when we got the news about the predicted wind velocity of Andrew. I was terrified! Worse, there was no communication available for a week.
@@KaileyB616hurricanes cannot spawn strong tornadoes such as supercells as their rotations work differently and tornadoes do not have an eye and have to have some sort of structure on them with sub vortex
*This tornado caused a change to the thinking that freeway overpasses were safe places to wait out a tornado. I am telling you, as an engineer, that this should NEVER have changed. People only needed to be educated on how to use an overpass properly!*
At the 7 minute mark of this video, you see people sitting on the ground as if they are sheltering from rain and hail. You should *NEVER* do this. You can be hit by debris or blown right out the other side (which is what happed in Moore) *You should: Climb the slanted ground to the top and you will see a concrete wall with an over-poured ledge about 18 inches thick. Get your meaty booty up on that wall, lift your legs and hold those beams like your life depends on it.*
All of the so called "experts" changed this solid advice based on a fluke storm that makes up 2% of all tornados ever! *None* of the advice given to people in the path of a tornado would've worked that May 3rd. Only way you were surviving a direct hit from this storm was underground
That is actually some great advice!
@@Weather-Report *THANK YOU* I really appreciate you saying so! I didn't just come up with this...Every structural engineer I've mentioned this to agrees with me. As a population, we still need solid advice on what to do if we are caught outside with an approaching tornado and this is the advice I would give my own mother and children.
I think there was a parent whose child was pulled out of their arms while sitting under the overpass. It was a terrible thing.
@@Doktracy oh it certainly was terrible. I feel so sorry for ANYONE caught in a tornado like this. And this is why I feel the weather community needs to really sit and think about why people died and how to give better advice on being caught outside. Fluke or no fluke, we will see a tornado this strong once again pass through a population center during rush hour. People have to know how to stay safe if they aren't lucky enough to be close to underground shelter.
@@DoktracyThat was Kathleen Walton. Kathleen had been sheltering underneath one of the highway overpasses with her eleven year old son Levi. Kathleen realized that the winds were too strong for both her and Levi to hold on; so she made the difficult decision to let her son live: Kathleen told Levi she loved him and let go of the girder.
Unless , you've been near one of these, you have no idea, how terrifying this is.
I was extremely close to a smaller EF2 tornado and that was bad enough. I can’t imagine seeing a monster like this in person.
I once got my brolly turned inside out,I was living in Berkshire UK at the time,very windy day indeed.
Actually El Reno had higher winds at 302 mph. My son had a friend who survived the Moore 1999 tornado. He told us his family survived because his dad had dug out the bottom of one of their closets and made a makeshift basement under the house. He also stated he does not know how they lived as the house was swept clean off the foundation. He had moved out of state to where we live because they did not want to go through that again.
El Reno was 295 mph. Moore was 318 mph.
@AfroCentauri no the 1999 May 3rd Bridge Creek Moore tornado was 321+- mph Which holds the world record of the most powerful fastest wind speeds on Erath. Even the movement speed was just extremely fast for a tornado of that size.That Which made it even more volatile and dangerous. The damage that tornado caused was so horrific. How could one imagine such A storm, nothing could escape from its wrath.
now the one you would be referring to be is the Texas Jarrell Tornado May 27, 1997,. Which hit wind speeds of whopping
318 mph on the DOT at maximum wind speed It came second to the fastest on record. Next to the fastest wind speeds ever recorded.
AKSHULLY lol
What a story, their dads forward thinking likely saved their lives
@@AfroCentauri wow.
Me and my mom survived this on Queensbury rd in Moore in our bathtub. Scariest thing I've ever been thru. That sound. That day still haunts me. My neighbor was killed in it and left 3 sons behind
Im glad you made it through, im sorry to hear about your neighbor, this was a tornado that people will never forget
Good thing none of you ever dug a shelter.
@@JohnnyDanger36963🙄
@@KaileyB616 yeah,stupid idea,huh? Sweating and digging a tornado shelter in tornado country.
At the 41.42 mark shows an apartment complex and then the tornado crossing the interstate. I was living there with my daughter. We had a second floor unit and went downstairs to huddle with neighbors, in their bathroom, whom we didn’t know. We had seen the tornado coming and of course had been watching the live coverage. We were lucky. Missed us by half a mile. Very humbling. A complex across the interstate was totally flattened. It looked like a war zone for miles.
We were in Moore that previous weekend for a softball tournament. We chartered a bus, arriving fri. Thank God we left Sunday night! The hotel we stayed at was demolished, as were the fields we played the tourny on! We actually drove thru the storms on way back to Albuquerque. Felt so bad for thr folks that endured that horrific storm. One of the good things about living in Albuquerque is mother nature really leaves us alone. No tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods etc.
I was 16 when this tornado hit and living in OKC. I wasn’t in the tornado but I did volunteer to help with clean up efforts in the days following the storm.
We met at a church in Moore that I sadly can’t remember the name of now. But it had a 50ft cross that rose up from the front of the building. The cross stood but there were huge planks of wood imbedded in the top of the cross. It really drove home to my teenage self that raw and awe inspiring power of the storm.
The television reports don’t do justice to the absolute devastation. Just miles of nothing but the shattered remains of buildings and homes.
Even years later, you could see the scars on the trees in Blanchard/Newcastle from where the storm raged through.
This storm is one of the events that will stay with me for the rest of my life as well as a healthy respect for Mother Nature and her ability to devastate.
I was living in a small suburb of Tulsa to the east. Watched footage of this for hours that night. Drove to Moore 5 days later... The devastation was mind blowing. The first sign of damage was at around Stroud, Ok, about halfway between Tulsa and Oklahoma City, where there used to be an outlet mall but it was completely gone. There were clothes and shoes for miles. It just kept getting worse and worse the closer we got to Moore. My best friend was with me that day, and we had to exit the highway in order to turn around, and the National Guard was at every exit in tanks. The only way they could get through the massive amount of debris were tanks. It was surreal to exit the road and have armed men in tanks stop you and tell you that you could not drive through the neighborhood. When I explained that we were just turning around, he said that's fine. I asked him how the people who lived in the neighborhood were going to check their homes for anything that might be saved, he just shook his head and said there hadn't been any one who had come there that he was aware of. I was 22 at the time and I remember thinking this man in front of me was just a teen, and he was visibly upset thinking about everything that was lost that day. The biggest thing I remember was how all of the news stations just kept saying how huge the tornado was, they must have said it a thousand times during their broadcast. I have survived 5 tornados in my lifetime, but the only day I have ever been scared of one is on this day. Had the tornado continued on its path, my house was less than a mile off I-44 on the far side of Tulsa away from OKC. To be sure, it would have wiped us out. So thankful for surviving that day, and so devastated by the loss everyone experienced, from businesses to schools to homes to loved ones. Bless all who lost something or someone that day.
Amazing how the movie "Twister" replayed this scenario.
In the original Twister movie, a few scenes were shot in Oklahoma and some of the cast and crew went out to places with NWS staff and learned alot about severe weather. So cool.
Especially since the movie came out in 96' and this happened in 99'
I lived in Moore at the time, near 12th St and Santa Fe. I also worked for Del City PD at the time. I got a double whammy. I still have PTSD from that day's events to this day.
Standing ovation 👏 & hats off to the 14 year old young man animating those little Lego guys. Congratulations!
I survived the 1974 Zenia, Oh tornado. I was 10. For about 3 years after that I would actually throw-up when the sirens went off. Seeing this footage as a 60 year old still makes me queasy. ❤️❤️🤢
We watched from the Tulsa area horrified as those huge tornadoes devastated the OKC area. We lived west of Tulsa near I44 and knew it was coming to us. We were hunkered down under our stairs in a small closet with our two cats in carriers. Lots of clothes hanging on rods made it hard to move, breathe. Our cats heard it coming and raised their heads as it went over our new house. It raised up off the ground over our house, saving us. We watched it go into west Tulsa and hit from our front porch. Our military son heard about Oklahoma tornadoes on the national news and called us on our cell phone while we were in the closet as the tornado went over our house. Whew! So scary. Not my first experience. My parents farm was destroyed by an F3 in Arkansas 6 weeks before my husband and I married. After this horrific experience in Oklahoma, we installed a safe room that can withstand an F5. We take this seriously.
I started to wonder after a bit why they kept filming and not taking cover
And then I realized who was filming it
Legend, he is, and damn lucky to still be in one piece today
As they say- the camera man never dies
Reed timmer
I kinda don’t talk about that
Or we kinda don’t talk about that
Reed Timmer. This was his first tornado. The odds of his first tornado being a true monster to this day has left me shocked.
I was a kid and i remember hearing about Moore. I think i saw on Discovery or some place that Reed Timmer decided to storm chase full time as a result of this storm. Some of this footage is absolutely incredible and way too close for comfort.
Storm chasers back then did it on gut instinct. Or they used second hand information. While radar and other tracking technology existed, it was big, bulky, and expensive. Some of these guys just couldn't afford it. They are regular civilians at the end of the day.
Most of their reporting was done via early cell phones. Which costed between 200-400 for the unit, and required you to be locked into a contact. These contracts usually provided *free incoming calls* but charged you on average about .35 cents a minute for outgoing calls. At least, that how much my first cell phone plan (Nextel) costed me. I remember watching live coverage of a storm once, a tracker called in, and the news anchor told him "hang tight we are calling you back, answer your other line." They would do this, so the tracker wouldn't be charged for the call.
This Moore tornado was the first ever to receive a tornado emergency, which is higher than a tornado warning.
I was 4 when it started in northeast Comanche county. I remember my mom was at work at the local new station. KSWO. This in fact was Reed Timmers first F5 that made him famous. RIP to all the people.
Did the Jarrell tornado start in northeast Comanche County? I now live in the northwest tip of Comanche County, less than 4 miles from the county line with Eastland county.
@@christinestephenson1742the Jarrell tornado was in central Texas.
The Jarrell Tornado still haunts me until this very day....a deadman walked through Jarrell
Tornadoes like the Bridge Creek, Jarrell or even the Joplin tornado should’ve gotten a higher classification than an EF-5. Just the raw power of these cyclones were otherworldly.
We plan on doing a future video on the Joplin, Jarrell and El Reno Tornadoes
EF-5 doesn't have an upper maximum cutoff point, so there's really no reason to have another higher level.
@@RT-qd8yl There is theoretically no limit or boundaries for how strong tornadoes could actually become. But one like the Bridge Creek monster with winds reaching close to 317 MPH is not a traditional EF-5. Maybe a separate scale specifically for the measurement of these kinds of storms could be implemented to help further categorize wind speeds that exceed past 300 MPH.
The 2011 Philadelphia Mississippi Tornado cashed Jerrell Damage moving at 50 plus mph and the Xenia Ohio Tornado had 300 mph winds
@@RT-qd8ylcringe. The difference between ef4 and ef5 isnt that huge. But not all ef5s are created equal. Plus the scale is not at all indicative of the strength of a tornado, only a VERY rough approximation of the damage to structures that it caused
I was 8 and lived in Edmond, Oklahoma at the time. I remember watching the weather with my mom and seeing eight or nine circles on the TV indicating where tornadoes were. My dad is a doctor and had to rush to the hospital to treat victims. Luckily one of the tornadoes missed our house, it flew right over. I was so scared being alone in the house with just my mom and I thought my dad was going to get hurt driving in the storm. It was terrifying. After the storms we drove through Moore, Oklahoma to help victims as well as a couple of family members affected by the storm. I live in Arkansas now but still visit Oklahoma regularly.
Another one hit Moore in 2013 as well, should do a follow up video on that
Oh yeah, that one was BAD too and it's the last official ranked EF5 as of this comment. The 13 twister went entirely through Newcastle and Moore and was slightly larger. This tornado from 1999 Went through Amber, Bridgecreek, and finished off in Moore.
I worked for Aspludh Tree Expert Co. Back then, we were contracted by OG&E to maintain certain vegetation away from power lines. I and my crew among many others helped clean up and restore electric service after this storm. The damage was unbelievable
Anytime someone mentions there were big orange trucks in the neighborhood I always have to clarify if they're talking about OG+E or Asplundh.
I was on an extended work assignment in Moore and Norman that ended the Friday before the tornado. I was there for 6 weeks and met some great people so I decided to spend the weekend and fly out on Monday morning. I missed the tornado by a few hours. When I got home I saw the coverage on the news and could barely believe it. The office building that I was working out of was badly damaged but all my coworkers and friends made it through ok, but most lost homes, vehicles, etc.
Thanks for sharing!
My wife and I lived in Norman at the time; we saw it from 5 to 7 miles away, not close, not a great view. I remember each raindrop on our windshield seemed like it was big and heavy as a fist. We were never in danger, but it was a scary , scary night. Really the only one that I ever saw in person. Unbelievable and amazing and horrifying power and destruction.
In addition to the lives lost, I feel horrible for the animals caught in this
25 years later to the day...
Wow the size of that is astounding
heh..
That's what she said😆
It's just so long😂
Due to living in the south part of Texas we don’t get tornadoes often. Now I’m on a tornado watching journey after being confronted by a nocturnal tornado a few weeks back. Scariest thing of my life, let alone the mass destruction that they cause. my condolences go out to family, friends, neighbors, etc who lost loved ones. This is one of the worst tornado destruction I’ve ever seen. (and again ive been binging these type of videos!)
I'd love to see more of these documentaries, there is so many tornadoes you could do it on
Carlywx here on yt has a lot of documetaries on tornados.
I'm watching this on the 25th anniversary.
I remember this day well. I was stationed at Fort Sill and was out doing Field Exercises when the storms moved in. We had a wall cloud come right over the top of us. Dropped golf ball size hail and had a nice rotation going on. Once it passed over, we took off and headed just north to a hill that looked over the area north of Fort Sill and East of Lake Lawtonka. A minute later, it dropped. We saw 3 cones coming down and forming 1 large Tornado. It immediately hit a farm and we could see semi-truck, trailers, cows flying in the air and started racing northing, leaving behind a huge destruction trail. For the longest time, I always thought that it was the beginning of the F5 Tornado, but after buying a DVD about this day and seeing where all the tornados were, I realized that this was a just a F3. For the whole year, of 1999, I saw 2 other Tornados around Fort Sill. I saw a F1 hidden within a rain cloud going South to North over the Wichita Mountains and I saw, what I call a worm, in the clouds above Fort Sill. After watching videos from Reed Timmer, I learned that Tornados could form vertically within the clouds and then gets tilted down to the ground. This was just that, but how I saw it looked like a Sky worm, wiggling through the clouds. If only cell phones with great video capability were a thing.
I was stationed there at that time,too. 3 Corps HHB, I was living just on the northern edge of Fort Sill,outside of Medicine Park/Lake Lawtonka area.
@@Doktracy Were you home or on the base still and any dmg?
It's probably a huge blessing there weren't cell phones like we have today, I'm sure the death count would have been much higher. Just sayin. Thank you for your service.
Hey if you need a real voice actor for this channel - let me know. Using AI ain't good mate.
'Isn't ' good, mate. Not, 'ain't '. I'm just saying.
@@user-ld1do2si9z The way the saying goes in places like the UK and Australia is "ain't good, mate."
Twister got me excited for severe weather. Went to the movie with my older and 1 of my younger brothers. Went to the afternoon movie. After the movie, we walked out with the tornado sirens going off. A small ef1 dropped in a field with some light structure damage in Fairmont, MN. I joined the army in 2004 and wanted to become a meterologist but got denied top secret clearence due to an expired registration ticket on my snowmobile. Really wanted to do that. Missed out.
Twister also started my passion for extreme weather!
Over a snowmobile ticket? Thats geart breaking. Im sorry buddy
@@cmygamelife yes, over a snowmobile ticket. The DNR chased me for about 35 minutes. I drove infront of a Mcdonalds and saw a truck slow down. I took off and turned down a gravel road. about a mile down the road when I looked back and saw the officer go past the road, stop and back up. So I kept going and I could have stopped out in the middle of the trees by the lake but I popped out and saw him coming and I stopped. Dude had the guts to ask if I saw any poachers of geese (I hate poachers) but told him I aint fucking telling you shit. He gave me a 500$ expired ticket. Dick lol
This was so insane. Ungodly loud a mile away, literally. A mile from my house. It scoured the earth. My tornado bug-out bags were never the same after this one
Lol I hate to break it to those Texas Tech folks, but anything less than a concrete bunker was going to get trashed by that tornado. “Not up to code” is just just silly.
I was 5 and grew up east of Tulsa, My dad worked for GRDA, he was gone for 9 days maybe even longer, working with FEMA and other agencies to try and get people with power again and meet the immediate needs of the people. Reading these comments has me in tears. Oklahomans are tough as hell.
I DESPISE this AI Chatbot voice. Wonderful documentary, that voice aside.
Every year, I complain about our Florida hurricanes.
Then, I watch vids like this.
Hurricanes are worse than tornados.
@@PaulHosey Bullshit. They're bigger. That's all. Things can survive 110mph, not 300mph.
@@petem.3719 they also last a lot longer. I'd take 2 hours of a tornado before 2 weeks of a hurricane any day. But some how you pretend to know about Hurricanes. Very cute.
@PaulHosey Yeah. Lived 67 years in South and Central FL. I know a bit about hurricanes since I've lived through more of them than I can even remember, most recently a direct hit from Idalia. Hurricanes don't last 2 weeks anywhere. The aftermath might, but a tornado's aftermath can be just as long if there's anything left to label the aftermath. It's a rare hurricane that levels entire blocks of buildings.
110mph wind or 300mph wind. It doesn't take a genius to figure out which one you'd rather be in the path of..
@PaulHosey Also, if you're caught in a hurricane, it's usually by choice. You can prepare and mitigate hurricane damage. With tornadoes, you're lucky if you have time to save your ass, let alone property..
That tornado lifted about two blocks from my house and I still ended up with over $4,000 in damage. Wrap the electric lines all the way around my shop. I had always respected tornadoes but after that one I was nervous for a long time. It sounded like the flight line at Tinker was in my yard as they were landing and taking off Jets one after the other. It was very sad to see people's lives scattered in my yard, pictures marriage certificates etcetera. When we came out from the storm cellar the place wreaked of natural gas for about 30 minutes. And the next year all of us spent a lot of time having Nails pulled out of our tires LOL
I had people from May Oklahoma in the northwest corner of the state who called and told us we needed to watch out for the tornado coming out of Frederick Oklahoma. That tornado was 100 miles away from us so honestly I thought that will never get here. And then it arrived in my town a suburb of Oklahoma City. I totally blame the movie Twister for the collective conscience that made it possible😅
When I arrived home from work in south OKC about 5 PM, the air was warm and sultry,. It felt like the atmosphere was supercharged with energy.
About 5:30 I decided we should find shelter more substantial than our house. Had trouble convincing my wife, who wanted to stay with her beloved dogs. Finally convinced her that if she stayed and got hurt, no one would do anything for the dogs until she was taken care of, so she came with us.
Tried the Capitol Hill branch library, which I knew had a basement level. The door was locked, with a sign: "Closed due to Inclement Weather."
No shit, Sherlock.
Wound up at a furniture store nearby that had a steel and concrete vault. Luckily the storm did not come near us, or our house.
I'm sorry to those effected. I was within a mile of an EF1 and it scared me, I can't even being to imagine this terror. The videos alone drop my jaw.
Really well put together video, straight to the facts i like it
That guy sitting in a field, casually recording a tornado right in front of him, then gets into his old boat of a car ....what a beast. And he's as calm as can be. "Here's where the tornado took grass." Jesus, dude. And it wasn't Reed this time. (Thank God, because I dislike Reed Timmer immensely)
This guy just cracked me up!!
@Gsdmom Me too. Its like "welp ...another one."
I also kind of dislike him. But I respect his passion and drive. Dude can be an annoying asshole
@EntityXeno Exaclty. He has seen thousands of tornadoes and flips out, repeats "tornado on the ground!"(yes, Reed, we see it) and I've seen him drive into oncoming traffic to go see the things he's seen a million times. If he's not doing that, he's farting around on his phone while interns to ALL THE WORK. Which they do in every case. He just gets to go on TV. I hate his "dominating" shtick. When he's on any RUclips video, he must wear that dumb flex seal hat and ..... this irritates me but he's constantly slurping coffee or whatever with his mic on. Drives me up a wall. I wanna smack the cup out of his hand and tell him to earn the money he actually makes. And before anyone starts to defend him and come at me with his knowledge, that's good and happy, but people do exactly what he does and know more than he does but make squat. Or they work for SPC/NOAA and try to save lives, not be a Twister movie cosplayer.
@@Wolf_GhostI love peco bank lol he got me and my son into tornadoes
Love this documentary and loved learning more about this tornado. You did an amazing job with this. Sidebar though lol, as somebody who lived through 1999... bro we had internet, we all used it daily. We had computer labs in school and computers in our libraries, and a lot of our projects were based around computer use. It was definitely not a simpler time. 🤣 ❤It always makes me laugh when people treat the 90s like the Stone Age. Phone thing though, accurate. Very few of us had phones because we were all on the internet and didn't care about them. 💀
The phone thing must've been regional differences then, same with PCs and internet, yes it was there but it'd say much more people had and used phones than had and used a computer
But I assume it's different depending on regions
@@littleloner1159 - I'm definitely willing to cop to regional difference Re: the phone use and the internet use. I think I'm mostly smiling at the reference to 1999 as some kind of pre-internet "simpler times" utopia. It was definitely difficult to thread it out into the sticks, but most people in the suburbs and cities had internet and used it daily. And it was such a pre-Google paradise, omg. Google used to be the underdog we all rooted for while we used Yahoo or Ask Jeeves or Dogpile search. But yeah, no, we had thriving fanfic communities, AIM, chatrooms, forums, email penpals, just about everything except for centralized video sites like this one.
I agree. There were 10's of millions of computers, monitors, and modems bought prior to this event. A comment about there not being smart phones would have been more accurate. I was online around 1996 with a Win95 OS.
@@Deucealive75 - I think the one thing that made life easier was the lack of smartphones specifically, yeah. Like there was still cyberbullying, but it was text-based vs image-based because most of us plebs only had instant cameras that couldn't load onto a computer. I myself had a camcorder at that age, but it wasn't nearly as easy to whip out as a smartphone is nowadays, so I always tip my hat to people who shot footage in the pre-smartphone era. You had to be very intentional about it, and if you didn't have your camcorder with you, you missed out.
Yeah by 1999 computers and being online was pretty common.