I'm in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Last week, an EF-4 hit Barnsdall, Oklahoma (40 mi. north of Tulsa. ) 2 people died. One poor soul wasn't found for 6 days. He was found in Bird Creek. He was 81 years old.
The one who was missing broke my heart. I hoped for days that he was just injured somewhere and could not reach his family. On that day as soon as they mentioned the tornado would hit barnsdall I saw the radar signature and told myself "that's about to be a violent tornado."
@@ATippePodcast well watching velocity data it was apparent but about 2 minutes before the warning was issued the circulation became rain wrapped. 2 minutes later they had confirmation from storm chasers of seeing it on the ground. It grew quickly once it was on the ground.
During the EF5 that hit Hackleburg and Philcambell, only in ground storm shelters that saved lives had heavy metal doors. the Fibor Glass shelter doors where ripped away. It was the worst call I have ever responded to as a first responder. This tornado was so strong it ripped Asphault from the ground.
For "regular" tornadoes, your basement is a safe place. For EF4 and EF5 tornadoes, it can be a death trap (which is terrifying) because it can cave in the basement and everything lands on top of them.
You ask an elderly person from Flint about the Flint-Beecher tornado, they are speechless. One lady even wouldn't call it a tornado. She said, "That thing? Well, it destroyed everything." Absolutely heartbreaking.
Also, tornado shelters are not an option everywhere. I live in a place with no basements because of a high water table and clay soil. Technically, you could get a prefabricated concrete box/tube shelter and bury it, but it would be very expensive and problematic, not possible for the average person. IDK why, but it really bothers me how a lot of people just assume everyone has tornado sirens, lots of warning and shelters. We typically do not where I live even though we have many tornados. We also have a lot of trees so you really cannot look out and see the tornado. You sense it more than anything: green sky, everything gets very very still all of the sudden (shortly before, not during), the pressure drops and your ears hurt, your head hurts, the water in the toilet rises with the pressure drop, and if you go outside, you will feel like you just stuck your head out of a moving car on the highway. the wind feels more like water than air rushing over you. The house groans and creeks and the traps flap flutter open and closed, you can feel a breeze inside. And of course huge trees snapping like toothpicks and flying through the air are a pretty good indication... Probably at least part of the reason we are religious here. God is your only hope.
I love Swegle's videos. SO informative. I'm in eastern NC; we don't have sirens. But, tornadoes are my biggest fear, so I'm glued to my phone when we have severe weather coming our way. We had 2 tornadoes cause damage yesterday a couple counties over. No deaths or injuries reported (thankfully)!
I'm in mid NC. We just had two EF1s near me last week. My area does have sirens, but not many, and they are also the volunteer fire department sirens and barely audible from my house.
F5/EF5 tornadoes are the worst on the scale, but they make storm shelters to help with surviving them. Those shelters help, but having the proper supplies to stay alive inside them is CRUCIAL. Without those supplies, you're screwed.
Most towns test their sirens regularly. The first Wednesday at noon our goes off. Sometimes tornado sirens don’t sound because they are electrical and when storms move through it cuts the electricity.
Generally speaking even if the bombers were picked up by the tornado, the safety features placed in placed in the nukes should keep them from detonating no matter what happens to them. Keep in mind, these safety features will keep them from detonating from taking a thirty thousand foot free fall from a plane.
yes it could be a dirty storm due to the uranium, but you would have nuclear bombs going off. to have an actual nuke go off you need to have your initial detonation uniform and in fractions of a second.
I've lived in Oklahoma my entire life. Growing up, we went to the basement whenever there was a tornado warning. The May 3, 1999, in Moore, OK, was the worst tornado I've ever watched. There's a story about that tornado about the "Mud Baby". It's a story with a good ending. A state trooper found a baby who was covered in mud, and it was all caught on his dash cam. I definitely pay attention to the weather this time of the year.
We would take shelter in a nordic looking sod barn on the farm. Its built into a hill and reinforced with limestone. Like an underground barn. It was built couple centuries ago, and has taken direct hits over the years. You can tell it was built with care Sucker is solid.
This year, the Xenia tornado had it's 50th anniversary. I was a teenager then, and lived 1/2 hour drive away. The weather surrounding it was also severe. I saw 20 ft + trees bend over from the wind and felt my house shake. That tornado even threw a train off it tracks in Xenia. Glad you noticed the dead man walking. I suspect if the Andover tornado had hit the planes with the nuclear arms... it would have been classified as an EF 6.
First recorded in U.S. History was either July 5 or July 8, 1680 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We get tornadoes here in Florida, but they're rare, and don't come close to EF5. We DO get them during hurricanes, though. I was born and raised in Illinois, and grew up with tornadoes - the first I remember seeing was when I was in second grade. It passed by the school, through the corn field that was right off of the school lawn - where the 3rd & 4th graders were playing volleyball as the storm went by. The last Illinois tornado I lived through was the Plainfield Tornado - that destroyed the Plainfield High School. It also destroyed the apartment complex that I had once lived in - killing the current residents of my old apartment. My sister's home was a couple blocks from there - homes were demolished on either side of hers, as well as across the street. She found someone's dresser-drawer on her roof, but no damage to her home. So, yes, I've experienced a few tornadoes, (and several hurricanes). The August 28, 1990 Plainfield Tornado is the ONLY F5/EF5 recorded in the month of August. It killed 29 and injured 353. It is the only F5 to hit the Chicago area.
Yup. I’m in Minneapolis. I’m near one of those sirens. Kinda wish they were a little louder. Years ago a tornado came through Minneapolis about a mile from my house. The curfew zone started 6 blocks from my house. I love stormy weather but this was too close.
To answer the question about tornado or general sirens in the US places that do have them test them regularly. I live in the midwest in a tornado prone area and the first Saturday of every month the tornado sirens are tested. It wasn't until the 90s though that it was common for most places to have tornado sirens and there's a lot of parts of this country that don't get tornados regularly where I've never heard of them testing them. It's scary when you move here and nobody warns you their testing the tornado sirens and they just start going off on a random Saturday lol
I also live in the Midwest and our sirens are tested every first Wednesday of the month at noon. Working at a moving company, I’ve had to explain to several people who had just moved here about the sirens because they started freaking out. I have empathy for those that haven’t grown up with it…but it’s still kind of funny to see them panic for a few moments.
Just a little correction on the Tri-State. The outbreak itself lasted 7 hours but the tornado in question was on the ground for around 3 and a half hours. Still insane but if it had lasted 7 hours it would have gone over 400 miles.
I think you were thinking of the 1925 Tri-State tornado. Also, we've had several outbreaks recently. This spring has been particularly bad for severe weather. You were speculating about the planes. The military now takes caution because of that incident. In one of our most recent outbreaks, Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma actually evacuated their planes because the weather reportes were so alarming for that day.
The double tornado photo is from the palm Sunday out break 1965. First time a Blanket Warning was used. It covered 9 counties in Indiana because of so many violent tornadoes at once. Love your reaction videos thank you so much!!!!
My mom told me they could see the Xenia tornado from their house being miles away. She said it was the most terrifying thing she’s ever seen. And, we do have a monthly test of our emergency sirens… first Wednesday of the month in Ohio.
Loving the tornado content, since I think we’ve covered all of the Real Time stuff it’s great to see you watching Swegle Studio’s content. Major thumbs up! 👏👏👏
In basic, we were under a tornado warning while at a training site. We had a sheet metal covering with a door. We were marched outside to a ditch where we lied down linking arms and legs, as it passed. It was safer...
Even with an EF5 tornado, sheltering in your basement is usually sufficient. With any tornado it depends on many factors and how your home is constructed however, so it's always best to have a dedicated shelter spot in your basement or a storm shelter setup if you live in a region prone to tornadoes.
Hello Recky! I live in Wichita Kansas and was in my teens when the 1991 tornado hit McConnell Air Force base. We lived only 7 miles away, it was terrible! They have updated our warning system since then and it is tested weekly; every Monday at noon, unless there is bad weather occurring. Thank you for checking out our crazy weather!
We also have the sirens go off on the first of every month here in Hawaii. The tall sirens closest to our house is right behind us, between our police and fire stations. In the older days, they used to blow 3 different sounding sirens, one for tsunami, one for hurricane, and one for attacks or air raids...as a child I was terrified of the different sounds, knowing it was monthly testing, and waiting for it to end. But they changed it to one steady blow for a minute long, but you always get a twinge in your heart for a split second of terror, then you tell yourself "oh it's the first of the month" and brush it off as a calendar reminder....yeah, right....
29:45 That image was from the 1965 Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak. A significant tornado outbreak before the 1974 Super Outbreak that had ~20 tornadoes reach F4 damage (no F5 tornadoes in this outbreak). Also, the Tri-State tornado lasted three hours, not 7 hours.
We have our EBS (emergency broadcast system) that will go off randomly. They typically happen really early in the morning or at a random time in the mid morning/ afternoon when most people are at work or out doing something. It’s usually a VERY loud commercial that comes on your TV & blares a siren & says something like “THIS IS A TEST This station is currently conducting a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this was a real emergency, more instructions would follow. THIS IS A TEST” It goes away & you go back to watching 30 Rock. You can get them on your phone as a text message, sometimes on the radio but this is typically the most common. If there is an actual emergency, it’ll say “The National Weather Service in ___ has issued a Tornado Warning for your area until 05:14 PM for (insert counties here) please seek immediate shelter” This goes for flood warnings, Wild fires, earthquakes, Mothra attacks, you name it
Awesome video! I grew up without any kind of sirens. Thankfully they aren't needed where I'm from. As far as which tornado was the worst, I guess you would have to ask the survivors. They all look pretty horrible to me.
I live in Missouri. We drive through Joplin every few years and it is weird that all the trees are so short since they are newly planted. Just imagine not having aby trees taller than a building.
In metro Atlanta, Cobb County specifically, our emergency sirens are tested at noon every Wednesday. We can hear a harmony of 3 different rotating horns. Very eerie sound.
In Milwaukee, (I lived there from 1955-78) the tornado/air raid sirens blared every Weds at noon, basically to test the system and make sure they were all working. There was a siren at every public school and post office all over town; you can imagine the noise.
I have no words, there's not one thing that can make any of these, and others, 'better'. I believe loss of life is a first criteria, followed by $$ amount of damage but they are all so devastating. So sad and truly heartbreaking.
14:18 When I lived in Tullahoma, Tennessee, the town tested the sirens about every 2 weeks during the spring (and less occasionally throughout the rest of the year). They would forewarn us so that no one freaked out lol. Still did bc those sirens are so haunting. Side note: in my town, most people didn't have underground shelters bc tornados directly in that area were "so rare" and literally the first week my family moved there, there was a tornado 2 miles away. I was like 7. Been 11 years and I still remember that night fearing for my life in the bathtub.
If you want to find out more about the Xenia twister outbreak, there's "April 3, 1974: The day of the killer tornadoes", "Weather that changed history super outbreak" and "The day the clock stopped 50 years later" (if you haven't watched those yet.)
In Houston they got rid of all that so you have to depend on weather radios and TV and Radio. Now Around refineries and chemical plants they have sirens to warn of accidents in the plant. But they will set them off for tornado warnings.
Every month we have a tornado sirens test here in my town and the schools have fire and tornado drills also lock down drills in case of a shooter and owatonna is very lucky at the most extreme tornado we got is f2 and it’s very rare. We do have flooding problems but I rather have flooding then a tornado
Thete was the rain wrapprd Plainfield. Illinois tornado on Aug. 30, 1990. This F-5 tornado was strong enough to actually to pull asphalt off the road surface.
I live within 45 min of Waco, see that Alico building all the time. And I witnessed the Jarrell tornado, and aftermath, in 1997, horrific and tragic. Living where I do, this is why I glued my ..... to my ......., again! 😂
I live in Southern Indiana. Our sirens are tested every Friday at Noon during tornado season. They are tested on the first Friday every month after the season. We had one last March that killed two people in the state park where I work. I was there the next morning and it was horrible. It hit at night.
TN was hit with an F4 less than a month ago. My house was shaking, the windows shook and vibrated so hard I thought they might shatter. My basement flooded, and the gutter outside the front of the house was half torn off. My husband and I were lucky we just got the edge of it. Almost every tornado comes with a flood warning here.
Where I live (at least went to school) we check the sirens every first Wednesday of the month. As a kid we would run around screaming since the sirens are super close to the Elementary school.
we have Sirens, in alot of areas so far apart, so that all areas in the area can hear it, and it goes off, normally once a week, some daily, also have a test of the "Emergency Broadcast System" done weekly, specially on the radio
You should read into the 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. There were like 7 tornados that went through or near the city. One tornado was anti cyclonic and at least one did a loop di loop apparently. My dad told me about it and i just couldnt believe the map they made of each tornados tracks. That must have been such a wild day.
I'm from Wichita Ks. The 1991 Andover tornado is the reason why we fly our jets out of state when it storms. We know if McConnel is flying jets out that day its gonna be serious.
On May 20, 2024, Greenfield, Iowa came 20mph. short of an EF5. I live in Iowa, fairly close to there, and I'd call it an EF5 due to the destruction alone. It was a record breaking storm based on debris cloud height and +75mph ground speed along it's pathway. And there were fatalities and injuries.
I thought the 1925 Tri-state twister would be number 1. It was billed until recently as the longest single track tornado. (I live in Illinois near Plainfield site of a horrific tornado in 1992, so we learned about this.) Every first Tuesday at 10 AM, the civil defense sirens go off to test them in case of a tornado. Unless weather is particularly bad and then they cancel it and let everyone know. The advice to get underground is because tornadoes scour the surface. Tornado shelters are common in trailer parks and older farm houses. A tornado will make houses into confetti, but don't dig into the earth. So that is good advice. The 1925 tornado jumped the Mississippi River. The houses were built to no basic specification, but would not necessarily be poor. It also felled trees.
I think you could rate the Jarrel tornado an EF 6!! For their not to be even any debris left, and it debarked trees and skinned cattle makes it stronger than any other tornado recorded
In tornado alley, sirens are normally tested every week at a preset time, unless there is storms in the area. Oklahoma city tests Saturdays at noon. Tulsa tests Wednesdays at noon. I can't speak for other areas but normally storms start forming around 2pm to 2:30pm. But just like tornado season normally starts late April and ends late June, we can get them throughout the year and depending on conditions, while rare, a tornado can form any time of day. Side note, a tornado could not set off a nuclear bomb due to redundant safety features. Not even a plane crash would likely set it off.
We now get tornado warnings and other emergency warnings sent to mobile phones. It is definitely good to have redundant systems. We can't stop tornados but we are getting really good at warning people which saves countless lives.
I may have responded to a previous tornado video. My hometown in northeast Illinois had a “small” ef 1 tornado in February. It tore the roof off an apartment building. Fortunately there were no serious injuries. Unless you have a storm shelter the basement is your best bet. But even that can cave in and trap you.
I know one thing for certain. If it's getting bigger but doesn't appear to be moving,it's coming straight at you. If you can't get underground go to the center of your house. The room with the most walls and hunker down. Most people use a bathtub. My grandpa and I sat on the porch and just watched a multi vortex wall cloud pass over a hill in front of us. We started to go inside but decided we'd probably die anyway so we just stayed outside and watched. It never touched down. Thank God!
I live in Columbus, Ohio and we test our tornado/emergency sirens every Wednesday at noon. This year we’ve had quite a bit more tornados in Ohio. A rare one hit my community on February 28th, about 2 miles from my home but it was only a F1.
Our sirens are tested every month but don't rely on sirens. Have multiple other ways to get warnings weather apps, weather radio and here lately word of mouth on social media. Were always in the basement well before the sirens go off bc our phones alert first.
So 1680 was the year that the first tornado was "officially" recorded in the United States, apparently in Cambridge MA. First "unofficial" written evidence was recorded in the 1500's. The earliest tornado record I can find for the world is 788 in Freising, Germany.
EF 4& 5, you best be underground in a storm shelter! Though a basement is underground, the house can be swept away and the basement walls collapsed. The May 31st F5 that hit Trumbull county Ohio, Niles, Ohio years ago… the Well built two story house next to my husbands bosses house was gone and it looked like the house was picked up and all the appliances and furniture was dumped in the basement before the house was taken away. Thank goodness they were not home or they would have been killed if they were home and in the basement when it hit. We went there after it hit with chainsaws etc to clear paths and help out…what devistation!
So in my area of the US, we dont have tornado sirens or other emergency sirens. However, what we do have is sirens for a nuclear power plant meltdown which basically would be like Chernobyl. The nuclear power plant is 45 minutes away but would require evacuation of every town within 90 minutes away. The only test those sirens once a year. In school we did do severe weather drills but having done those and then studied in the field of severe weather, those drills are clearly outdated. We have two large EF2s (almost EF3s) hit my area in recent years, one in 2016 and one in 2017 which for my area is rarer than Tornado Alley. No sirens or anything to alert us of the impending danger, just warnings on cell phones. Without cell phones being able to alert people (which some weren't looking at their phones) things could have been much worse because the one was a 4pm tornado when everyone is heading home from work and the other was a 10pm tornado when it was dark outside and couldnt even see it coming. Now of course, with my education in the field, I was already preparing for rough weather days which I had my cats in their pet carriers about 30 minutes before the warnings went out along with having my basement couch over turned to crawl under if needed and kept my shoes on and grabbed my wallet and important documents box but ppl in my state aren't normally prepared like this bc of the rarity of tornadoes so for what it was worth, I likely was the only one here to prepare like that. Thankfully neither tornado struck residential areas but did do a large amount of damage where they did strike. Tornado chasers had been flocking to the area all day afterwards to look at the damage. Which ironically my area, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania is mentioned in this video at the Xenia tornado part due to the 1972 Hurricane that caused the river by my house to flood which caused flooding in my home's basement, main floor, and a foot into the second floor along with the homes of all of my neighbors and even over a mile away homes were flooded just as bad so for President Nixon to say Xenia was worse than this level flooding in my city, yeaaaa...
The national Emergency system is a national public warning system that allows the president to address the nation within 10 minutes during a national emergency. Other authorized federal, state, local, tribal and territorial alerting authorities may also use the system to deliver important emergency information such as weather information, imminent threats, AMBER alerts and local incident information targeted to specific areas
I imagine we maintstreamed sirens/sound-based warning systems cause blaze/torch or visual-based long range communication wouldn’t last in most severe weather. If we disregard technological advances and just look at it bluntly.
Most if not all states have warnings sirens, like we’re you are they are tested the first Monday monthly at 11:00 a.m. People like me with NOAA weather warning radios which are tested every week on Wednesday at 11:00 a.m.
The advice of going to an interior room, away from windows, on the lowest floor of your house if you don't have a basement...yeah, an EF4-5 will fuck you over. if you're down underground, in a basement, you're at least protected from the majority of the debris, but it's also good to cover your head with a helmet or something to act as such.
Alabama is probably the state with the most, if not a close second or third, as far as sheer amount of tornadoes per year. Interestingly, tornado alley has spread/moved over the decades. Check it out sometime! I have a coworker who purchased an old train car (she originally wanted an empty large propane tanker) and buried it deep underground on her property. Interestingly enough, because it was a train car it had electricity and other features perfect for a good long-term storm shelter.
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4:44 EF5 tornadoes have destroyed underground shelters before, especially when it comes to the door being ripped off
I lost friends and family in that 1st tornado in Alabama. It was devastating.
@@dibutler9151 Very sorry to hear that!
I don't see the link to the channel you got this from. You said it was in the description, but it's not. 😕
I'm in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Last week, an EF-4 hit Barnsdall, Oklahoma (40 mi. north of Tulsa. ) 2 people died. One poor soul wasn't found for 6 days. He was found in Bird Creek. He was 81 years old.
The one who was missing broke my heart. I hoped for days that he was just injured somewhere and could not reach his family. On that day as soon as they mentioned the tornado would hit barnsdall I saw the radar signature and told myself "that's about to be a violent tornado."
I spotted that tornado on radar a couple minutes before the warning was issued. Idk what the delay was
@@ATippePodcast well watching velocity data it was apparent but about 2 minutes before the warning was issued the circulation became rain wrapped. 2 minutes later they had confirmation from storm chasers of seeing it on the ground. It grew quickly once it was on the ground.
I watched that storm unfold on Ryan Hall, Y’all. Was praying for everyone in the path.
@hopegeoghegan4184 Ryan is my go-to guy! He is absolutely the BEST national forecaster.
During the EF5 that hit Hackleburg and Philcambell, only in ground storm shelters that saved lives had heavy metal doors. the Fibor Glass shelter doors where ripped away. It was the worst call I have ever responded to as a first responder. This tornado was so strong it ripped Asphault from the ground.
For "regular" tornadoes, your basement is a safe place. For EF4 and EF5 tornadoes, it can be a death trap (which is terrifying) because it can cave in the basement and everything lands on top of them.
....and will then, sometimes, fill up with water.
Retired Captain Joplin Fire Dept. Testing sirens, Our area test the sirens every week and have for as long as I can remember.
Larger communities have sirens and test them monthly, however many rural areas are not close enough to hear the sirens.
You ask an elderly person from Flint about the Flint-Beecher tornado, they are speechless. One lady even wouldn't call it a tornado. She said, "That thing? Well, it destroyed everything." Absolutely heartbreaking.
Also, tornado shelters are not an option everywhere. I live in a place with no basements because of a high water table and clay soil. Technically, you could get a prefabricated concrete box/tube shelter and bury it, but it would be very expensive and problematic, not possible for the average person. IDK why, but it really bothers me how a lot of people just assume everyone has tornado sirens, lots of warning and shelters. We typically do not where I live even though we have many tornados. We also have a lot of trees so you really cannot look out and see the tornado. You sense it more than anything: green sky, everything gets very very still all of the sudden (shortly before, not during), the pressure drops and your ears hurt, your head hurts, the water in the toilet rises with the pressure drop, and if you go outside, you will feel like you just stuck your head out of a moving car on the highway. the wind feels more like water than air rushing over you. The house groans and creeks and the traps flap flutter open and closed, you can feel a breeze inside. And of course huge trees snapping like toothpicks and flying through the air are a pretty good indication... Probably at least part of the reason we are religious here. God is your only hope.
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I'm in eastern NC; we don't have sirens. But, tornadoes are my biggest fear, so I'm glued to my phone when we have severe weather coming our way. We had 2 tornadoes cause damage yesterday a couple counties over. No deaths or injuries reported (thankfully)!
I'm in mid NC. We just had two EF1s near me last week. My area does have sirens, but not many, and they are also the volunteer fire department sirens and barely audible from my house.
I live in Raleigh and Garner was hit a couple of months ago. About 5 miles north east. Didn't even rain at my house. Crazy
F5/EF5 tornadoes are the worst on the scale, but they make storm shelters to help with surviving them. Those shelters help, but having the proper supplies to stay alive inside them is CRUCIAL. Without those supplies, you're screwed.
I have never heard of anyone dying in a storm shelter because they didn't have supplies.
@@d0ublestr0ker0ll you are correct. People have died in them because they were trapped and the underground shelter filled with water. They drowned.
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Mr. Recky, thank you for doing these. So many right now in America are being battered by Tornadoes. Thank you.
Most towns test their sirens regularly. The first Wednesday at noon our goes off. Sometimes tornado sirens don’t sound because they are electrical and when storms move through it cuts the electricity.
yall ony do once a month? in central AR we go every wednesday march till like october
Its every first Tuesday at noon, for my area in southern Illinois.
Generally speaking even if the bombers were picked up by the tornado, the safety features placed in placed in the nukes should keep them from detonating no matter what happens to them.
Keep in mind, these safety features will keep them from detonating from taking a thirty thousand foot free fall from a plane.
yup, last i knew, you had to input a certain code for said bomb in order for it to activate, best thing they could have done, besides not make them
yes it could be a dirty storm due to the uranium, but you would have nuclear bombs going off. to have an actual nuke go off you need to have your initial detonation uniform and in fractions of a second.
I've lived in Oklahoma my entire life. Growing up, we went to the basement whenever there was a tornado warning. The May 3, 1999, in Moore, OK, was the worst tornado I've ever watched. There's a story about that tornado about the "Mud Baby". It's a story with a good ending. A state trooper found a baby who was covered in mud, and it was all caught on his dash cam. I definitely pay attention to the weather this time of the year.
We would take shelter in a nordic looking sod barn on the farm.
Its built into a hill and reinforced with limestone.
Like an underground barn.
It was built couple centuries ago, and has taken direct hits over the years.
You can tell it was built with care Sucker is solid.
Here in St. Louis we have tornado/emergency sirens. They test them at 10 am on the first Monday of every month.
11am but yeah. First Monday of every month we have the sirens tested here in St. Louis.
This year, the Xenia tornado had it's 50th anniversary. I was a teenager then, and lived 1/2 hour drive away. The weather surrounding it was also severe. I saw 20 ft + trees bend over from the wind and felt my house shake. That tornado even threw a train off it tracks in Xenia. Glad you noticed the dead man walking. I suspect if the Andover tornado had hit the planes with the nuclear arms... it would have been classified as an EF 6.
First recorded in U.S. History was either July 5 or July 8, 1680 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We get tornadoes here in Florida, but they're rare, and don't come close to EF5. We DO get them during hurricanes, though. I was born and raised in Illinois, and grew up with tornadoes - the first I remember seeing was when I was in second grade. It passed by the school, through the corn field that was right off of the school lawn - where the 3rd & 4th graders were playing volleyball as the storm went by. The last Illinois tornado I lived through was the Plainfield Tornado - that destroyed the Plainfield High School. It also destroyed the apartment complex that I had once lived in - killing the current residents of my old apartment. My sister's home was a couple blocks from there - homes were demolished on either side of hers, as well as across the street. She found someone's dresser-drawer on her roof, but no damage to her home. So, yes, I've experienced a few tornadoes, (and several hurricanes). The August 28, 1990 Plainfield Tornado is the ONLY F5/EF5 recorded in the month of August. It killed 29 and injured 353. It is the only F5 to hit the Chicago area.
I'm in Minnesota and we have had an emergency alert test the first Wednesday of the month for at least 51 years
Yup. I’m in Minneapolis. I’m near one of those sirens. Kinda wish they were a little louder. Years ago a tornado came through Minneapolis about a mile from my house. The curfew zone started 6 blocks from my house. I love stormy weather but this was too close.
To answer the question about tornado or general sirens in the US places that do have them test them regularly. I live in the midwest in a tornado prone area and the first Saturday of every month the tornado sirens are tested. It wasn't until the 90s though that it was common for most places to have tornado sirens and there's a lot of parts of this country that don't get tornados regularly where I've never heard of them testing them. It's scary when you move here and nobody warns you their testing the tornado sirens and they just start going off on a random Saturday lol
I also live in the Midwest and our sirens are tested every first Wednesday of the month at noon. Working at a moving company, I’ve had to explain to several people who had just moved here about the sirens because they started freaking out. I have empathy for those that haven’t grown up with it…but it’s still kind of funny to see them panic for a few moments.
Our town tests the sirens every Wednesday at noon. We had an EF2 last week.
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Just a little correction on the Tri-State. The outbreak itself lasted 7 hours but the tornado in question was on the ground for around 3 and a half hours. Still insane but if it had lasted 7 hours it would have gone over 400 miles.
I think you were thinking of the 1925 Tri-State tornado.
Also, we've had several outbreaks recently. This spring has been particularly bad for severe weather. You were speculating about the planes. The military now takes caution because of that incident. In one of our most recent outbreaks, Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma actually evacuated their planes because the weather reportes were so alarming for that day.
The double tornado photo is from the palm Sunday out break 1965. First time a Blanket Warning was used. It covered 9 counties in Indiana because of so many violent tornadoes at once. Love your reaction videos thank you so much!!!!
My mom told me they could see the Xenia tornado from their house being miles away. She said it was the most terrifying thing she’s ever seen. And, we do have a monthly test of our emergency sirens… first Wednesday of the month in Ohio.
Recky, I love your tornado video reactions. You truly seem to care about and show such respect to the victims of these.
I sure do. It’s heartbreaking..
I’m still here Recky! Loving all the recent tornado content!
Loving the tornado content, since I think we’ve covered all of the Real Time stuff it’s great to see you watching Swegle Studio’s content. Major thumbs up! 👏👏👏
Any tornado 🌪 you've lived through is ranked #1 in your mind.
In basic, we were under a tornado warning while at a training site. We had a sheet metal covering with a door. We were marched outside to a ditch where we lied down linking arms and legs, as it passed. It was safer...
In Minnesota we test our sirens every 1st Wednesday of the month at 1pm
In Columbus Ohio, it's EVERY Wednesday at noon
Even with an EF5 tornado, sheltering in your basement is usually sufficient. With any tornado it depends on many factors and how your home is constructed however, so it's always best to have a dedicated shelter spot in your basement or a storm shelter setup if you live in a region prone to tornadoes.
Hello Recky! I live in Wichita Kansas and was in my teens when the 1991 tornado hit McConnell Air Force base. We lived only 7 miles away, it was terrible! They have updated our warning system since then and it is tested weekly; every Monday at noon, unless there is bad weather occurring. Thank you for checking out our crazy weather!
If I'm not mistaken, Moore, Oklahoma has been hit by 2 f-5's.
May 3rd 1999 and May 20th 2013
@@Wes4Trump Those poor people! It's hard to imagine experiencing one f-5, but 2!
We also have the sirens go off on the first of every month here in Hawaii. The tall sirens closest to our house is right behind us, between our police and fire stations. In the older days, they used to blow 3 different sounding sirens, one for tsunami, one for hurricane, and one for attacks or air raids...as a child I was terrified of the different sounds, knowing it was monthly testing, and waiting for it to end. But they changed it to one steady blow for a minute long, but you always get a twinge in your heart for a split second of terror, then you tell yourself "oh it's the first of the month" and brush it off as a calendar reminder....yeah, right....
Two stick out to me, although l don't mean to downplay ANY of the others. The Jarrell and the Joplin tornadoes come to my mind first.
29:45 That image was from the 1965 Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak. A significant tornado outbreak before the 1974 Super Outbreak that had ~20 tornadoes reach F4 damage (no F5 tornadoes in this outbreak). Also, the Tri-State tornado lasted three hours, not 7 hours.
Recky: You are a poised and confident presenter. And yet your style is never offputting. You do good work.
Ohh I was kinda freaking out, i thought it was a bad comment. But it was not. I appreciate your honesty. Thank you!
I'm in Indiana, every month on Tuesday at 11am they test the sirens
We have our EBS (emergency broadcast system) that will go off randomly.
They typically happen really early in the morning or at a random time in the mid morning/ afternoon when most people are at work or out doing something.
It’s usually a VERY loud commercial that comes on your TV & blares a siren & says something like
“THIS IS A TEST
This station is currently conducting a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.
If this was a real emergency, more instructions would follow.
THIS IS A TEST”
It goes away & you go back to watching 30 Rock.
You can get them on your phone as a text message, sometimes on the radio but this is typically the most common.
If there is an actual emergency, it’ll say “The National Weather Service in ___ has issued a Tornado Warning for your area until 05:14 PM for (insert counties here) please seek immediate shelter”
This goes for flood warnings, Wild fires, earthquakes, Mothra attacks, you name it
Awesome video! I grew up without any kind of sirens. Thankfully they aren't needed where I'm from. As far as which tornado was the worst, I guess you would have to ask the survivors. They all look pretty horrible to me.
I live in Missouri. We drive through Joplin every few years and it is weird that all the trees are so short since they are newly planted. Just imagine not having aby trees taller than a building.
Jerrell was awful because it moved extremely slowly AND packed extremely high wind speeds. It literally ground the street pavement down to bare dirt..
I live in Columbus, GA and our warning sirens are tested every Saturday at noon.
Always watch till the end Recky. Thanks for the video.
In metro Atlanta, Cobb County specifically, our emergency sirens are tested at noon every Wednesday. We can hear a harmony of 3 different rotating horns. Very eerie sound.
In Milwaukee, (I lived there from 1955-78) the tornado/air raid sirens blared every Weds at noon, basically to test the system and make sure they were all working. There was a siren at every public school and post office all over town; you can imagine the noise.
I have no words, there's not one thing that can make any of these, and others, 'better'. I believe loss of life is a first criteria, followed by $$ amount of damage but they are all so devastating. So sad and truly heartbreaking.
Hey, Recky just discovered your channel a few weeks ago and love the content. Especially your weather related reactions.
14:18 When I lived in Tullahoma, Tennessee, the town tested the sirens about every 2 weeks during the spring (and less occasionally throughout the rest of the year). They would forewarn us so that no one freaked out lol. Still did bc those sirens are so haunting.
Side note: in my town, most people didn't have underground shelters bc tornados directly in that area were "so rare" and literally the first week my family moved there, there was a tornado 2 miles away. I was like 7. Been 11 years and I still remember that night fearing for my life in the bathtub.
If you want to find out more about the Xenia twister outbreak, there's "April 3, 1974: The day of the killer tornadoes", "Weather that changed history super outbreak" and "The day the clock stopped 50 years later" (if you haven't watched those yet.)
Hi Recky from Fargo North Dakota. Concerning the Joplin tornado- reference "the butterfly people".😮
Thanks for the video. I enjoy them a lot. I'm in Minnesota, we had a tornado a year ago. No damage to our house thankfully. They are so scary....
In Houston they got rid of all that so you have to depend on weather radios and TV and Radio. Now Around refineries and chemical plants they have sirens to warn of accidents in the plant. But they will set them off for tornado warnings.
Every month we have a tornado sirens test here in my town and the schools have fire and tornado drills also lock down drills in case of a shooter and owatonna is very lucky at the most extreme tornado we got is f2 and it’s very rare. We do have flooding problems but I rather have flooding then a tornado
14:00 Here in Moore and my old hometown in Wynnewood we tested our sirens every Saturday at noon.
Thete was the rain wrapprd Plainfield. Illinois tornado on Aug. 30, 1990. This F-5 tornado was strong enough to actually to pull asphalt off the road surface.
I live within 45 min of Waco, see that Alico building all the time. And I witnessed the Jarrell tornado, and aftermath, in 1997, horrific and tragic.
Living where I do, this is why I glued my ..... to my ......., again! 😂
I live in Southern Indiana. Our sirens are tested every Friday at Noon during tornado season. They are tested on the first Friday every month after the season. We had one last March that killed two people in the state park where I work. I was there the next morning and it was horrible. It hit at night.
TN was hit with an F4 less than a month ago.
My house was shaking, the windows shook and vibrated so hard I thought they might shatter. My basement flooded, and the gutter outside the front of the house was half torn off.
My husband and I were lucky we just got the edge of it.
Almost every tornado comes with a flood warning here.
I love Swegle studios! Once again you are like chocolate and peanut butter Recky🥰 (I originally found your channel on a tornado react recommend) 🌪
Where I live (at least went to school) we check the sirens every first Wednesday of the month. As a kid we would run around screaming since the sirens are super close to the Elementary school.
You can survive an EF5, if you’re underground, sometimes. Depending on the structure.
Our sirens here were initially air raid sirens. In my area, Tennessee, they test every Saturday at noon.
The path of the tri state tornado hit 5 mins from my house. It's crazy to think an ef5 hit so close where i live so long ago
we have Sirens, in alot of areas so far apart, so that all areas in the area can hear it, and it goes off, normally once a week, some daily, also have a test of the "Emergency Broadcast System" done weekly, specially on the radio
Check Palm Sunday 1965! 55 tornadoes.
You should read into the 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. There were like 7 tornados that went through or near the city. One tornado was anti cyclonic and at least one did a loop di loop apparently. My dad told me about it and i just couldnt believe the map they made of each tornados tracks. That must have been such a wild day.
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I'm from Wichita Ks. The 1991 Andover tornado is the reason why we fly our jets out of state when it storms. We know if McConnel is flying jets out that day its gonna be serious.
On May 20, 2024, Greenfield, Iowa came 20mph. short of an EF5. I live in Iowa, fairly close to there, and I'd call it an EF5 due to the destruction alone. It was a record breaking storm based on debris cloud height and +75mph ground speed along it's pathway. And there were fatalities and injuries.
I thought the 1925 Tri-state twister would be number 1. It was billed until recently as the longest single track tornado. (I live in Illinois near Plainfield site of a horrific tornado in 1992, so we learned about this.)
Every first Tuesday at 10 AM, the civil defense sirens go off to test them in case of a tornado. Unless weather is particularly bad and then they cancel it and let everyone know.
The advice to get underground is because tornadoes scour the surface. Tornado shelters are common in trailer parks and older farm houses. A tornado will make houses into confetti, but don't dig into the earth. So that is good advice.
The 1925 tornado jumped the Mississippi River. The houses were built to no basic specification, but would not necessarily be poor. It also felled trees.
I think you could rate the Jarrel tornado an EF 6!! For their not to be even any debris left, and it debarked trees and skinned cattle makes it stronger than any other tornado recorded
In tornado alley, sirens are normally tested every week at a preset time, unless there is storms in the area. Oklahoma city tests Saturdays at noon. Tulsa tests Wednesdays at noon. I can't speak for other areas but normally storms start forming around 2pm to 2:30pm. But just like tornado season normally starts late April and ends late June, we can get them throughout the year and depending on conditions, while rare, a tornado can form any time of day. Side note, a tornado could not set off a nuclear bomb due to redundant safety features. Not even a plane crash would likely set it off.
We now get tornado warnings and other emergency warnings sent to mobile phones. It is definitely good to have redundant systems. We can't stop tornados but we are getting really good at warning people which saves countless lives.
I may have responded to a previous tornado video. My hometown in northeast Illinois had a “small” ef 1 tornado in February. It tore the roof off an apartment building. Fortunately there were no serious injuries. Unless you have a storm shelter the basement is your best bet. But even that can cave in and trap you.
I know one thing for certain. If it's getting bigger but doesn't appear to be moving,it's coming straight at you. If you can't get underground go to the center of your house. The room with the most walls and hunker down. Most people use a bathtub.
My grandpa and I sat on the porch and just watched a multi vortex wall cloud pass over a hill in front of us. We started to go inside but decided we'd probably die anyway so we just stayed outside and watched. It never touched down. Thank God!
I live in Columbus, Ohio and we test our tornado/emergency sirens every Wednesday at noon. This year we’ve had quite a bit more tornados in Ohio. A rare one hit my community on February 28th, about 2 miles from my home but it was only a F1.
Growing up in Michigan USA they tested the sirens every day at noon
Our sirens are tested every month but don't rely on sirens. Have multiple other ways to get warnings weather apps, weather radio and here lately word of mouth on social media. Were always in the basement well before the sirens go off bc our phones alert first.
In the greater Tulsa metropolitan area, the NWS tests our sirens every Wednesday at noon, given that the weather is clear.
Each city does have an emergency siren test every Wednesday at 12:00pm.
I’m in Oklahoma. Our sirens are tested every Saturday at noon, unless there’s inclement weather in the area.
So 1680 was the year that the first tornado was "officially" recorded in the United States, apparently in Cambridge MA. First "unofficial" written evidence was recorded in the 1500's. The earliest tornado record I can find for the world is 788 in Freising, Germany.
EF 4& 5, you best be underground in a storm shelter! Though a basement is underground, the house can be swept away and the basement walls collapsed. The May 31st F5 that hit Trumbull county Ohio, Niles, Ohio years ago… the Well built two story house next to my husbands bosses house was gone and it looked like the house was picked up and all the appliances and furniture was dumped in the basement before the house was taken away. Thank goodness they were not home or they would have been killed if they were home and in the basement when it hit. We went there after it hit with chainsaws etc to clear paths and help out…what devistation!
So in my area of the US, we dont have tornado sirens or other emergency sirens. However, what we do have is sirens for a nuclear power plant meltdown which basically would be like Chernobyl. The nuclear power plant is 45 minutes away but would require evacuation of every town within 90 minutes away. The only test those sirens once a year. In school we did do severe weather drills but having done those and then studied in the field of severe weather, those drills are clearly outdated. We have two large EF2s (almost EF3s) hit my area in recent years, one in 2016 and one in 2017 which for my area is rarer than Tornado Alley. No sirens or anything to alert us of the impending danger, just warnings on cell phones. Without cell phones being able to alert people (which some weren't looking at their phones) things could have been much worse because the one was a 4pm tornado when everyone is heading home from work and the other was a 10pm tornado when it was dark outside and couldnt even see it coming. Now of course, with my education in the field, I was already preparing for rough weather days which I had my cats in their pet carriers about 30 minutes before the warnings went out along with having my basement couch over turned to crawl under if needed and kept my shoes on and grabbed my wallet and important documents box but ppl in my state aren't normally prepared like this bc of the rarity of tornadoes so for what it was worth, I likely was the only one here to prepare like that. Thankfully neither tornado struck residential areas but did do a large amount of damage where they did strike. Tornado chasers had been flocking to the area all day afterwards to look at the damage. Which ironically my area, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania is mentioned in this video at the Xenia tornado part due to the 1972 Hurricane that caused the river by my house to flood which caused flooding in my home's basement, main floor, and a foot into the second floor along with the homes of all of my neighbors and even over a mile away homes were flooded just as bad so for President Nixon to say Xenia was worse than this level flooding in my city, yeaaaa...
For me it’s Joplin, because it’s in my State and at one point both my sisters lived there before that Tornado.
In Oklahoma we have sirens that go off every Saturday at 12pm
The national Emergency system is a national public warning system that allows the president to address the nation within 10 minutes during a national emergency. Other authorized federal, state, local, tribal and territorial alerting authorities may also use the system to deliver important emergency information such as weather information, imminent threats, AMBER alerts and local incident information targeted to specific areas
In my area, DFW area in Texas, we have warning test every Wednesday if it is nice
The Phil Campbell-Hackleburg tornado came within 3 miles of my house, and I was 8 at the time
I imagine we maintstreamed sirens/sound-based warning systems cause blaze/torch or visual-based long range communication wouldn’t last in most severe weather. If we disregard technological advances and just look at it bluntly.
Most if not all states have warnings sirens, like we’re you are they are tested the first Monday monthly at 11:00 a.m. People like me with NOAA weather warning radios which are tested every week on Wednesday at 11:00 a.m.
The advice of going to an interior room, away from windows, on the lowest floor of your house if you don't have a basement...yeah, an EF4-5 will fuck you over. if you're down underground, in a basement, you're at least protected from the majority of the debris, but it's also good to cover your head with a helmet or something to act as such.
Alabama is probably the state with the most, if not a close second or third, as far as sheer amount of tornadoes per year. Interestingly, tornado alley has spread/moved over the decades. Check it out sometime!
I have a coworker who purchased an old train car (she originally wanted an empty large propane tanker) and buried it deep underground on her property. Interestingly enough, because it was a train car it had electricity and other features perfect for a good long-term storm shelter.
I have a photo of a tornado passing in front of my house in Southern Illinois.
We can’t have storm shelters in south Louisiana. The water table is too high.
First tues at 9am here in IL
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Nuclear weapons have three to four fail-safe systems. All of the systems have to be disengaged in sequence. They can’t be detonated by impact,alone.