The Tornado That Broke World Records - The 2013 El Reno EF3 Tornado
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- During the early evening of Friday, May 31 2013, an extremely large and powerful tornado occurred over rural areas of Central Oklahoma.
This rain-wrapped, multiple-vortex tornado was the widest tornado ever recorded and was part of a larger weather system that produced dozens of tornadoes over the preceding days.
The tornado initially touched down at 6:03 p.m about 8.3 miles west-southwest of El Reno, rapidly growing in size and becoming more violent as it tracked through central portions of Canadian County.
Remaining over mostly open terrain, the tornado did not impact many structures; however, measurements from mobile weather radars revealed extreme winds up to 302 mph; 486 km/h within the vortex.
These are among the highest observed wind speeds on Earth, just slightly lower than the wind speeds of the 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore tornado.
As it crossed U.S. 81, it had grown to a record-breaking width of 2.6 miles, beating the previous width record set in 2004.
Turning northeastward, the tornado soon weakened. Upon crossing Interstate 40, the tornado dissipated around 6:43 p.m after tracking for 16.2 miles, it avoided affecting the more densely populated areas near and within the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.
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I can still remember this day 11 years ago and how dark it got with it being the highest wind speed recorded in history and in size with a top speed of 310 mph
The El Reno twister had to be the scariest tornado in modern history. Not only was it 2.6 miles wide and had the second highest wind speed ever recorded, but it was unpredictable in its path, forward speed, and it was rain-wrapped. No telling what the maximum wind speed was of the sub-vortex that hit the Twistex Team and TWC Team. Before the rain obscured it, this monster looked like a nightmare carousel or an enormous spider crawling over the landscape. I wholeheartedly believe this should’ve been rated an EF5, and I hope scientists are working to develop a more accurate rating system. To think that had it not hit any structures it could’ve been rated an EF0 is ridiculous.
It was the most evil looking tornado. Like it had a mission To get the storm chasers that died. It suddenly got over them and paused destroying them. No chance. Very unpredictable path. I remember watching it and many were doing 60 miles an hour in the mud to get away. So many narrowly got a way that day .
@@jackie5522that tornado is truly evil it like it has a mind of its own. Seeing the videos about the storm chasers, thinking the el Reno tornado is not a threat and not dangerous, till they realize they need to go because it moving quicker and getting much bigger. Seeing all the storm chasers in a panicked and really driving fast that they never done before, is really scary. Seeing one of the storm chaser actually trapped inside the tornado and there window smashed, and there video cameras came out of the window and we see there car rolling, thank goodness they’re okay. Then, we see one storm chaser, I forgot his name but this tornado was literally after him, and Tim, Paul, and Young were behind him. He was super lucky he made it out, but not Tim, Paul, and Young. There a video of him driving super fast to get away from the tornado and you see Tim, Paul, and Young behind him. Once he clear away from the tornado you don’t see Tim, Paul, and Young anymore which gives me chills down my spine. Seeing how Tim, Paul, and young die is nightmare fuel because the vortex literally on them and stayed there, it like that tornado really want them dead. Four chasers died from that tornado.
Right around the same time the tornado was approaching Reuter road the rain cleared out temporarily for those viewing the tornado from the north although from the south it still looked like the entire meso was scrapping the ground. Go to 13 minutes into this video and you can see the tornado approaching reuter shot from the north and can clearly see the tornado structure. Some people believe the headlights at the base of the tornado is Tim fleeing Reuter road.
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This tornado was officially rated as an EF3
I hate the rating system. The fact that you can have a 500mph wind tornado rated an EF0 is freakin dumb
I've been a spotter since 1975. Spotted in Arkansas, Texas, Kansas and Louisiana. I've seen hundreds of tornados. El Reno is an example of everything wrong with the EF scale. If a tornado doesn't damage a 'significant structure ' it didn't exist. I and many spotters have seen huge violent wedge tornados but no one even hears about them. We call them corn storms. I've seen tornados bigger than El Reno in massive wheat fields. The rural roads in Kansas are a grind of mile long roads. Makes it easy to estimate the width of a tornado. RIP to the Twistx team.
This. They know the winds were at least 296 MPH, just give it an EF5 rating.
Would you be able to say what the widest tornado you have ever seen is? I am curious to hear more about these corn storms
@Glizzyyyy420 well over two miles. Around Wichita the rual area is divided into square mile sections. I watched one take down crops and timber for two full sections and almost a third. Don't equate size with strength. Just because a storm is huge, or small does indicate wind speed.
I have no problem with the EF scale as long as it's used *_only_* as a measure of the damage any given tornado actually causes. However, its use as the *_sole_* indicator of tornado intensity is shortsighted, arrogant, and stupid. What was wrong with the F scale as a measure of storm severity? What's wrong with using different scales to measure different effects? What kind of lunacy demands that all possible effects be represented by a single scale? It's utterly idiotic.
There's precedent for using multiple scales you know. Earthquakes are rated by different scales. The Richter scale is a measure of seismic intensity. The Mercalli scale is a measure of the severity of damage to structures. It's the equivalent of the EF scale for tornadoes, but for earthquakes. *_Both_* scales have their uses.
The insistence on using a single scale for rating tornadoes shows how mind-numbingly backward & unrealistic the "official" bureaucrats are. It misrepresents reality, and therefore destroys information. It is anti-scientific, and downright shameful.
I just wanted to be the ten thousand person to say this should have been a Ef5 tornado
Funny how it’s always armchair “experts” whining about the scale and not scientists. The scale was made to measure damage. That was its purpose. If you think you have a better scale, no one is stopping you from getting that information out.
I agree 100%
A Doppler On Wheels (DOW) measured 296+ mph. Unless you want to question the functionality of the Doppler radar used, I don't think you can question the measurement.
Holy crap the damage to that storm chasing vehicle was insane 😧
I can't tell if it the compaction was from it rolling and being whipped around at the ground or if the wind speeds alone caused the compaction. I can't even imagine what Tim's body looked like when he was removed. I think all the professionals who's currently in the industry uses the lessons learned from this storm to this day.
R.I.P Tim,Carl,Paul gone but never forgotten.
We spent 12 hours running from this thing, got trapped in flood water for hours on the way back home, came home to a little damage on our patio and no power for 3 days. This was after *very* narrowly escaping the F-5 11 days earlier. If only missed me by about ¼ mile. Killed our next door neighbor's granddaughter at Plaza Towers. I still have all the photos I took of our area the days after. That was a very bad May! I still live with the trauma. We now have THREE tornado shelters on our 1 acre property because of our May '13 experience.
Crazy season the whole way through. There's a great documentary about all of them that year.
Very smart! That way you are always close to a shelter
If there was ever a definite EF5 tornado, this was it. No way in hell this is an EF3 tornado
Yeah. Even if it had weaker winds, if it were to go over something, it's going to be devastating
@@baddog6003 It had stronger winds 296 miles per hour isn't EF3 range.
@@sharknadofartquake2449 that was for like 1 second in a small sub vortex, the main funnel had WAY weaker winds
@@oldrusty20 Where does the video say that
@@sharknadofartquake2449 I never said that it was mentioned in the video, I got it from other sources
Bless Gary's heart!❤ As well as all those badass spotters & chasers.. RIP to the ones who died doing what they loved..
Someone want to tell me why we classify hurricanes based on wind speed but tornadoes by how much damage they do? It seems like a bad way to do things.
The old Fujita scale was based on wind speed but they changed it to a damage scale. You'd think they'd do both
There is not always mobile radar near a tornado to get accurate readings. We only know those exact windspeeds because mobile doppler radar was near the storm. This isn't the case for 99 percent of tornadoes. They can only estimate the windspeed based on the damage it did.
In all technicalities wind speed still has bearing on the Classification, but not wind is not the only thing that's used to messing a tornado, size and damage are also considered.
Just a guess, but prob bc an F1 can still pick up a house. Had one drop right down on my house, pick it up and drop it in a second, then disappear. Had 2x4’s buried halfway in the ground. Also knocked my Fifth Wheel trailer over. Damage.
I watched a great documentary called Mr. Tornado about the man that created the scale. It was originally done using wind/travel speed to calculate potential damage, and scaled from there- able to pick up a car/tear bark from trees/leave behind only a house's base/tear up roads. They moved to the Enhanced scale based on actual observed damage. I don't understand why we don't have two scales- one for actual damage and one for wind speed etc. Sure there's a lot that we can't record but the ones we're not recording we're also not really studying, so we could just put "estimated based on footage" next to those.
That footage of the El Reno twister was amazing; some of the best recordings I have ever seen .
Watching the multiple votices dancing around in that tornado is just amazing
It’s surreal. It isn’t even a dead man walking, it’s like a spider walking across there are so many vortices. 100% the scariest looking tornado caught on film.
Wasn't it a satellite tornado that took out TwistEx?
@@EnlightnMe48 it was one of the suction vortices
I've had a few close calls with tornados in my life, but this one scared me the most. I lived in Ann Arbor at the time. I remember swimming across the main road with our bug-out bags to get to the safety of the church. There were several of us that were directing people to park and get inside, and then helping them swim to safety. I remember seeing people afterward literally rowing down the road in canoes because of how bad the flooding was. My father was living in Yukon at the time. He had some minor damage, but he and the dogs turned out okay. My heart goes out to the Young and Samaras families and friends. I grew up in OK, so stormchasers, meteorologists, and everyone else involved in tracking and understanding these horrifyingly beautiful beasts of nature have always been by heroes, and they always will be.
What? 😂
Crazy how that thing could have the second highest wind speed ever recorded on earth and be classified as a EF3 😮 Rip to those who lost their lives !!!
Well, the EF scale is a damage scale, not a windspeed scale. Although I hear it's being revised and mobile radar measurements may be included in ratings.
That’s what I hate about the EF scale. If there’s a tornado that shares the same characteristics as an F5, it should be classified as such and not based on damage. It’s like the old question of “if a tree falls in the forest, does it still make a sound if no one is around?”
To be honest, this tornado was weak compared to actual record winds. Just because a sub vortex had nearly 300 MPH for 1 second doesnt mean that the main funnel itself is strong like that, it only had mid-high end EF4 winds in the main funnel.
Agreed. I don't think you can dismiss an actual measurement by a sophisticated piece of equipment in favor of an "estimate" based on damage done on the ground.
@@oldrusty20If this tornado had moved into the OKC metro area, we all would have seen how "weak" it really was. There is a reason Gary England was telling people they had to be below ground to survive. Weak? Nope, not even close.
I live in the inland northwest. 2012-2013 we had one of the driest winters on record. We just had that again from 2023-2024... so I pray history doesn't repeat itself for the people in this area
2011 was the worst year for weather. 2011 had so many ef 5 and went through bigger cities.
@@jasonoverton1106 2011 was the start of it for us in the inland northwest. We went from some of the best winters 09-10 we called "snowpocalypse" because we had record snow. I had 4 feet of standing snow at my house. But 2011 spring things changed and we haven't had a winter like that since. I know 2011 was the worst because of Joplin, but 2013 was the biggest ever with El Reno.... I just pray for the people of those areas that history doesn't repeat itself
@32:21 man seeing those sub vortices over and over in this tornado it is like nightmare fuel. I hope to never witness a tornado like this in person. This tornado has become my obsession. It’s unique and intense
El Reno was horrible, but the worse one was the 1997 Jarrell, TX tornado that killed 27 people in one neighborhood, Double Creek Estates. It was an F5 with winds estimated to be between 260-300 mph, and it was moving at only about 5 mph. It sat over those houses for nearly 3 minutes. No one above ground survived. All the houses were swept clean from their foundations. The only family who did survive had excavated a crude storm shelter in their garage using only shovels because they had lost their home in a previous tornado in Mexico, I think. All the other houses had no basements or storm shelters. Lots of kids died too and whole families. When people began looking for bodies, all they found were pieces, and they couldn’t tell if it was people or livestock. Identification had to be made from dental records. There was at least one person they never found at all.
I have watched every single storm chaser video of this tornado, and some of them twice. Nearly all of the chasers went south because south is usually away from the tornado. This tornado went south. What I *still* find interesting (and disturbing) about this tornado is that the entire lowering became the tornado. I'm guessing that isn't out of the ordinary, or all the chasers would have fled faster than they did.
I remember watching Tim Samaras and the Twistex team on the show Storm Chasers, really sad what happened to them 😰
I watched it too, and that camera view is stuck in my head. That was horrifying for me to watch, especially since i was 7-8 and i swore i saw blood then too
Same here. I also remember watching the documentary about this tornado and where they explained that there is footage from their fatal encounter with the tornado, just not shown because of the wishes from the family
@@mikulitsi1819 Shoot, I used to show that in my classroom and cant find it ANYWHERE. Would love a copy, but hate to step on any toes.
I watched that show too. I was heartbroken when I heard about what happened.
Unfortunately the iconic "Deadman Tornado* lived up to its name
In my opinion the sub vortex tornadoes that were mentioned are still part of the tornado, so it should count toward the wind speed.
Tornadoes aren’t rated by wind speed, though. They’re rated solely on damage inflicted and if no Doppler-indicated wind speeds are available, they are estimated by damage. The NWS needs to add other factors into their ratings, though. I haven’t heard one chaser who was there say that the EF-3 rating was accurate.
@@djamo1969ur response has nothing to do with the original comment by chaos cams
If a subvortex bent a steel beam of a house the tornado would be an F5. Ridiculous.
@@djamo1969They're working on further revising the Enhanced Fujita Scale to be more than just a damage scale.
Agreed. The sub vortex couldn't exist without the parent vortex, so it cannot be considered a separate tornado.
There needs to be a different way to classify tornadoes.. not by damage but by size or I guess wind speed.
I remember hearing about this down in Florida back in 2013. Tornadoes have always been very fascinating to me as a kid, still are. They gracefully beautiful and full of rage. My mom used to tell me it was mothers natures rage and way of trying to remove what we built to try and take back her home. Hearing it only made EF3 was crazy, still is weird how they decided to knock it down from EF5. There was even rumors to make it a EF6 bc of how strong and erratic it was. This tornado is even the first tornado that had storm chasers scared bc of its unpredictable u turns and patterns. And the first in a eons that killed storm chasers.
I lived in El Reno when this tornado came through, i lived next to I-40 in an apartment complex and still to this day i cant believe how lucky i was that this thing missed us, i watched it drop on the other side of I-40 behind Walmart (my apartment complex was across rhe street from Walmart). I didnt realize how bad this storm was until later that afternoon. I was out driving around in it taking some people i knew in the apartments that had kids and no way to get out to shelters, then i went back home and watched the news
This video only tells me that what I suspected for years about the EF scale was true.
The only way to get a high reading, regardless of actual damage is for the tornado to hit an urban center.
If your a rural guy, sorry folks. that EF5 monster that terrorized you fgor that afternoon will be dismissed as a joke.
Which honestly makes my blood boil.
I don't think *anyone* that is familiar with it believes this tornado was a joke. Also, there was a tornado in May 2011 in El Reno/Piedmont that got an EF-5 rating, as well as one earlier that same year on April 27 that hit the rural town of Philadelphia, MS that got an EF-5 rating. It's just rural areas are often lower income and the buildings often aren't to the highest structural standards.
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It is ridiculous. A tornado doesn't magically become stronger once it moves into a more populated area. Based on that "logic", the 1997 Jarrell, TX tornado would have been an EF-0 if it hadn't hit that subdivision. Total nonsense.
Whenever I watch a video of El Rino Tornado, I immediately think of Tim and Paul Samaris and Gary Young. The Twistex team. Tim was always safe, made sure everyone was safe, Reed Tier even said that Tim, always checked with him about staying safe. RIP Tim, Paul and Gary.
sure if he was it wouldnt have had happened
@@VinhTran-lu6gmAll humans make mistakes. What’s crazy is that two apparently did not have their seatbelts on (although the one who did still died)
The third member of Twistex was Carl Young.
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Heartbreaking 💔 😢
This Tornado took such a crazy path, going south, then east, then north east, then east again, no wonder it caught people by surprise
it also was expanding rapidly AND speeding up at the same time it was moving in an unusual direction. it's amazing that more storm chasers weren't killed honestly, this thing was not at all behaving like most tornadoes
Yeah this monster had a mind of its own
Yeah this monster had a mind of its own
The abnormal movement of the 2013 El Reno, Oklahoma tornado coupled with its rapid growth in size and strength as well as its highly erratic behavior caused conditions that forced many storm chasers to flee for their lives.
Amazing video. Thank you for not using music.
You can just hear in Gary’s voice that he’s afraid of another devastating situation like there was just 11 days prior to this tornado.
I believe this was the tornado that made him decide to retire, wasn't it?
@@ToriMaria12 sadly it was
@@mikeyj9607Wasn't he getting close to retirement age anyway?
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I find these videos very interesting. RIP to the Twistex team.
My heartfelt condolences to all... Tornado spotting and their study is incredibly important. That being said, getting so close is needlessly reckless. It should have been plainly obvious to all that they were seeing an unpredictable monster of historic proportions. Everyone please remember that you have family members who will be forever grief stricken if you get yourselves killed. Always expect the unexpected.
It's incredible to me that an F3 tornado wind speeds in this 2013 storm only missed the recorded speeds of the 1999 F5 Bridgewater -Moore storm by less than 10 mph.
Great video, I liked the map showing where each video was taken from
Great video! Some of these chasers are driving in what has to be, like a microburst. Solid 100mph plus straight wind. These are amazing videos.
16:20 That is terrifying! That tornado bearing down on you if the stuff of nightmares
Worse yet it doesn't require a road like cars do. You get stuck its still coming.
The fact that this thing reached a whopping 2.6 miles wide is absolutely amazing. This tornado may not have left behind EF-5 damage, but it definitely was one. Imagine if this thing had hit populated areas, imagine the damage and the deaths this would've caused. That is truly haunting to think about.
Exactly my thoughts. Nobody would be talking about this being a "relatively weak" tornado if it had moved into the OKC metro area.
I was driving east through el Reno at the time of this tornado as it was to the south of the highway. It was rain wrapped and you could barely even tell it was an actual tornado because of the size and amount of rain. The worst part was there were people stopped on the side of the highway right in the area as it was about to come through.
The 2013 El Reno, Oklahoma tornado stands out in my mind because it occurred on the day of my high school graduation ceremony even though I live in Ohio. While I was having the time of my life the people of central Oklahoma were enduring Hell on Earth.
I watched this tornado on a storm chaser's livestream. Think it was called stormscapelive.
Its a tornado that i will never forget.
The width was 2.6 miles wide, an all time record.
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if that monster of a tornado hit a decently populated area, the amount of damage and deaths would be devastating
But according to some people, it was a "relatively weak" tornado (extreme sarcasm).
OMG! What a giant monster! Complete nightmare!
I think the weather service got it wrong, should have been classified as a EF5 Tornado
Yeah I agree with you even tho I don't live in America, El Reno should have been a EF5
It’s based on the damage, everyone already knows wind wise it should have. But they don’t make the rules. This Tornado didn’t hit enough populated areas, thankfully.
The weather service doesn’t base tornadoes based on wind speeds alone, it’s based on damage. The damage wasn’t F5 based.
@@charliesheppard3496 And the NWS generally does not go out to super rural BFE boondocks and check the damage on fence posts, grass and an barn. Holy SH**T! I was maybe 3 years old and I will always remember how weird that was. The grass was ripped out and the asphalt on the road was gone! The fenceposts has grass sticking out of them and the side vortexes had graded loops and twists 2 or 3 inches deep into the earth out in the grassland.
That's not how the Enhanced Fujita scale works. The scale is based on damage done, not wind speeds. They should add radar windspeed to the mix, but at this point I'm doubtful this will ever happen.
dag nang it thats some mighty power stuff right there
Lifelong tornado alley resident here, do not attempt to out run a tornado by going just the opposite direction. Drive in right angles TOWARD the tornado. That’s how you get behind the thing! When you start seeing more and more daylight, you’re getting safer. Also if it looks like it isn’t moving at all, that means it is coming straight for you.
Thank you for acknowledging that it was an EF5. I think the NWS has lost their minds downgrading it to a 3 when that conflicts with their own rating criteria.
I recently read a comment about a different tornado that I think is very apt about the El Reno tornado. The comment was that measuring a tornado by the damage it leaves behind is as ridiculous as measuring an earthquake by the damage it leaves behind. Meteorologists must find a way to directly measure the strength of tornadoes, just as geologists came up with the Richter scale.
Tim Samaras car was dropped from a height, no way rolling would of caused that much damage. just the impacts alone looks like a car accident that was traveling over 100 mph.
Omg that's so amazing 😲🌪
Tell the victims that it slammed into that it wasn’t an EF5. I’m sure they will disagree with you.
27:44 - "...it's not really moving that much..." Then he gets warned that he's not in a good position, and he's actually in the circulation, and at 28:00 he argues "...it's not moving though!" WTF? That tornado was never "not moving" once it formed up, and certainly not at the point where its diameter was 1.5 miles. That's why it looked like it wasn't moving; apparently, they were already inside it and moving with it, which would explain why it appeared to be "not moving".
Sheesh...they're lucky they came out alive.
That explains why me and the guys I work with that were traveling through that area survived that big SOB. It was massive, dark, and terrifying as it came from out of nowhere to the highway we were traveling on. We were just on the edge of it I believe on the weak side of the tornado.
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"Its not moving though!" ...odds are if it doesnt appear to be moving its coming directly at you and you need to get out of there
for the people that say the tri state tornado was the strongest and biggest, there were multiple vortices
I think you mean to say multiple tornadoes. multiple vortices usually means a multivortex tornado which is a tornado with smaller tornadoes inside of the main tornado
Of course there isn't much proof of this because in 1925 we didn't have things such as Doppler radar or storm chasers. The reason why 695 people lost their lives in the Tri-state Tornado is because in 1925 we didn't have the advanced warning systems we have today. Watching coverage of the 2013 El Reno tornado via Oklahoma City's CBS affiliate KWTV Channel 9 was extremely bewildering. Seeing the footage from the station's news helicopter Bob Mills Sky News 9 was mind-boggling because even though it was just after six in the evening the sky was so dark you would think it was late at night.
If I moved to America, i would never live in Oklahoma
Such a great video I can't wait till they release the footage that twist X and the others had
If it doesn’t look like it’s moving that means a good chance it’s coming towards you! MOVE!!!!
Don't call it an EF3, this tornado was easily an EF5!
Edit: 30:32 when he is trying to warn what is coming, and the news guy is talking over him...
19:09 I was so hoping to see Dominator team as well! And was not disappointed. Tornado Chasers season 2 episode Nemesis have this video from Dom2 car.
Jesus Christ what an absolute monster of a tornado!! 😮🌪️
I remember this 😢 this thing was so violent we had light debris raining down in our yard all the way in Tulsa, OK which is about 140(ish) miles away
Not bad for an EF-3 tornado, huh? (sarcasm)
Absolutely horrendous! Do not mess with Mother Nature. This storm was a perfect example of fk around and find out.
2.6 mph is just scary. What happened to the Twistex team was sad. I also heard of a pregnant mother and her fetus were also killed. RIP. ❤️❤️ I watch the show Storm Chasers a lot.
Tim Samaris's Chevy Cobalt looked like a giant stepped on the car.
3:13 "...1996 Bridge Creek-Moore tornado..." The Bridge Creek-Moore F5 was in 1999. Small oversight, but jic someone sees this they'll have the correct info 😊
Edit: saw it was corrected on the screen with an *, my bad guys! I was listening to it in my pocket with the screen off via Premium! Great doc!
The fact that it had the second highest wind speed in history( I think) and it’s only a ef3 bc of dmg lvl wasn’t high enough
yeah I remmber this one very well,was at work and they pulled us to the back with any customers who wished to stay and just like the One that hit Moore 11 days before I sat in the break room to watch the legend Gary Englands broadcast .hearing his words watching his demenor and dread as this thing barreled down on OKC a really deep dread hit me .All the others I watched all went somewhere else,this was headed towards me and yeah thousands of others ,then people started to panic I guess because of Moore or maybe a local wether person said for them to run what ever the freeways and hiways in the city soon became parking lots of cars full of people trying to get out.Gary England was about flipping out and I never seen that.Lucky for the city that monster died before it hit us,have read that if it went into the city way it was and the roads jammed with cars,over 500 peeps could have been killed ,WE was lucky, sadly people did lose their lives and a week later Gary England said it was time for him to retire ,yeah I never forget that day one never forgets the sinking feeling one gets watch something like that heading your way
wow crazy how they died when they know so much about how tornado's work and how not to get in there way 😲
this tornado was not at all like others, the direction of travel + the rapid increase in size + simultaneously increasing in forward speed, it's honestly a surprise more people weren't caught and killed who were following this tornado
How is this the first time ever that storm chasers were killed? That’s insane
This tornado was so gnarly it deserves an EF5.
I lived in moore Oklahoma in 2013 with an ef5 it was terrifying
This may have been classified as an EF3 but it had the second highest wind speed EVER recorded on earth. Since there weren’t as many houses/structures around and they base the scale off of amount of damage it was only classified as an EF3 but this was easily an EF5+. Not to mention almost 3 miles wide and the path was all over the place. This monster had a mind of its own which made it even more dangerous.
This video is a good compilation of close encounters but a lot of these are from storm chasers that put these videos on their own channels. I know there was a clip posted by Silverlining Tour Group and one by Mike Bettes. The Silverlining tour group is the one were the driver is honking at everyone to get in. One of the vans did flip and one passenger had serious injuries. Mike's is the one when the car flips and he tells everyone to put their seatbelts on and then duck down. I think one if them might be Hank Schyma (Pecos Hank) because there's an a registration sticker in the bottom corner of his windshield that looks like the ones we get in Texas. Hank is from Houston. While it's probably not against fair use, it'd been nice to see some credit somewhere either at the beginning of the clips or maybe in the description of the video.
The reason I'm able to recognize some of these is from watching a couple of documentaries by Carly Anna WX and a few others plus watching Skip Talbot's video about the event in retrospect. I then checked out the others videos because they were credited in those videos. It just promotes traffic to their videos and increases their view counts too.
This channel is using an AI voice, I could see them using ChatGPT to summarize other creators transcripts and pump out the video.
You forgot el reno tornado 2011 ef5.
If this had hit OKC…..😮
1996 Moore tornado?? I’m sure you meant 1999 right? 3:13
Sorry yes you are correct, we did put a correction in the video
Thats a monster
You have to respect mother nature and all that comes with it. Don't play Russian roulette with your life by getting too close...clearly you can see it from a distance (that still puts you in harms way), but getting too close is suicide. Never under estimate the power of these anomalies. Sorry for all those who lost loved ones during these natural events.
You can see dead man walking at @19:37
The fact they call this an EF3 is beyond me!!!!! 😯. It looks more like a EF5-6.
Tornadoes being big has nothing to do with them being strong, not every big tornado is strong, same applies to not every small tornado is weak
This tornado deserved an EF4 rating at most.
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It's a big tornado Gary.
The El Reno Tornado is the tornado that Tim Samaris was killed in.
I cant belive mike bettes drove head on into this monster... leroy jenkins😂
It may not have made a difference, but it just seems that Tim, Paul, and Carl should have been in a bigger, more powerful vehicle so they could have had a better chance to fight their way to safety.
they were stationary and waiting for it to pass, thinking that it would, when it hooked back on them. They would have needed to be in a tank. They risked it for the biscuit and got flattened like a pancake. Occupational hazard.
Imagine a 5.8 mile wide tornado happens in tornado alley
Anything voiced by an Ai gets an Automatic thumbs down.
This El Reno happened in May 2013, the strongest magnitude 7.5 earthquake devastated the Island of bohol Philippines Oct 2013, then came Typhoon Haiyan (yolanda) a category 5 typhoon that devastated the island of Leyte Philippines in Nov 2013. These genocide disaster level forces of nature happened within the year 2013.
Um... is is just me, the way the announcer says "tornado" sounds weird to me. There's just an odd emphasis on the end of the word.
The El Reno monster was God flexing and showing mercy at the same time. It doesn’t seem right it was classified as a EF3 because it didn’t eat enough.
29:04 it always amazes me how little things like these antennas on the car or a stop sign will remain unharmed in these situations but a whole brick building just is demolished with ease like wtf
haha real shit
My dad once had to drive to school instead of walk the 200 mile yawn. On the way, a tornado launched his truck into the sun. His gigantic balls kept him planted firmly in the middle of nowhere Kansas. Without proof of damage to the truck, it was only rated an EF0 but dad says it was easily 1,000,000 mph winds. He used to fight in the same tournaments as Chuck Norris by the way.
Tornado ratings are the most subjective B.S. system in wide use. Any other storm is literally rated by ACTUAL wind speed when possible.
EF3??? Pretty sure El Reno was an EF5!!
OKC in 2013:
Aw shit here we go again
Those poor storm chasers 😢
As an Oklahoma resident that saw this first hand anyone that thinks this was an F4 is nuts. If the one in 99 was an F5 but the 2013 one was worse explain that logic other than it didn’t destroy enough or kill enough.
It was May 3rd 1999
@14:17 to @16:20...Terrifying.