*I remember it like it was yesterday. There was not as much warning as people say there was. Anyways... We all huddled down in our basement. There were 6 of us. As soon as it hit, you could hear the roof get torn completely off...then, the next second...you can hear the first level floor get ripped off. We can see the sky at this point. This is the moment where I completely deployed all of my brown defense ink into my pants. All I could feel was it running down my legs and onto the floor. In the strangest way, it took my mind a bit off the tornado because part of me wondered if anyone else could smell it. Well...after everything settled, it looked like the dried chocolate shell they put on strawberries. Stay safe everyone.*
I was 12 during the "Super Outbreak" of 1974. The Sonny and Cher show was on the television, and kept getting interrupted every few minutes with weather bulletins about tornados touching down in all these surrounding counties. Finally the Civil Defense symbol flashed upon the screen with that warning buzzer, then the entire station went off the air. It was at that point my parents got concerned and we went down to stay with some neighbors that had a basement, and we all had a pretty good time as I remember. During the nervous laughter someone would shush everyone, and say they heard something and we all got quiet and listened as we heard the roar from outside. Once our ears popped. It hit the high school one street behind our location. I don't think anything can top that night April 3, 1974, and I pray nothing ever will.
observer of madness , my girlfriend and I were living in AL just north of Birmingham in 74. We were playing at a club “EL Cids” in a bowling alley (common in the 70’s) I stepped outside the club on break and I swear at 140 pounds could lean into the wind and it would hold me up. It wasn’t a gust, it was a constant flow of wind! I went to our apt and my girl had tv on and like you said tornados were hitting all counties around us but thankfully in Jefferson county they never got close to where we were! Very thankful and you’re right it is a night we will NEVER forget especially being yankees (CT and NY) and never experienced storms that intense!
I lived in Lafayette Indiana at that time. And I remember that outbreak. Although Lafayette did not get hit during that outbreak, Monticello Indiana did. I remember seeing pictures of the White county court house in the news paper and what was left was just a skeleton. The court houses steel frame was really eerie looking. That tornado was F4.
No. It def would not have removed OKC, a much smaller city Joplin had a massive EF5 rip through it and 8 years later the city is better than it ever was. With a city like OKC I wouldn't imagine that the tornado would do much in the way of removing it from the map when Joplin came out just fine.
Salted Potato El Reno's Vorticies Can do a outstanding EF5 damage, thats why tim samaras, paul samaras, and carl young died (they got caught by one) Edit: i named paul incorrectly, and it was carl young
Lance Ryder Wilson Nigga which is why the ef scale is kinda dumb. If ef5 damage can be caused by winds as low as 200mph but much higher winds were discovered they should at least say ef3 with plausible ef5 force winds discovered and put that in the report. You can have wimds measured 300 mph but if its in open country and doesnt hit anything how is an ef0 an accurate rating. Theres other things like ground scouring that can show it had much more than ef0 winds.
+matthew harris mobile radar data is determined to be inaccurate ( apparently) because EF rating is determine by ground level winds, not upper circulation, it's hard to measure the ground winds with mobile radar so this way means there are lots of underrated tornadoes but no overrated tornadoes. I don't agree with it myself but I think that's why it's done that way.
I’ve been in 2 tornadoes in my life. It’s crazy how fast they change directions and come straight for u. Scary hopeless feeling. My prayers go out to all in this years tornado season.
Centerville,AR I think it was 78, our track meat was cancelled, 2 buses one girls one boys, as we're coming in to town we let 4 Boy's off, then Everything just Stopped. No wind, no noise at All, really a hair raiser, and then Boom. It was like we were dropped into the middle of a Hurricane. One boy is down got hit by a brick, others dragged him to a storm shelter, bus driver punches it, we could see the Tornado to the NW of us, the girls driver didn't think he could out run it, so he pulled in to the only store and puts the bus right next to the store, which saved the bus, we out ran it, I'll Never forget what that Tornado looked like. Could of reached out and touched it. So the T is at the Hwy7 intersection it hits a Building on the corner, then it Jumps over the Store with the bus next to it, lands on a Home it again Jumps up and over another home then on it's way. When we got back to Centerville about an hour later, Hwy 7 was blocked by a Home that was picked up, still in one piece and set it on the hwy. Have a Good One.
I was an insurance adjuster for 40 years and worked a lot of tornado storms. The damages are inconceivable. The ones that hurt the most was when the family lost a loved one.
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The el reno tornado was 2.6 miles across. BUT even crazier imo is the fireball from the Tsar Bomba was 6 miles across. Today’s nukes some estimate just the fireball could be around 15 miles across
i live in oklahoma and we literally have a whole “tornado season” that starts from april and ends on june. it really sucks and every year there’s always that 1 that’s devastating but this tornado and the more recent Moore tornado we much more than devastating. i still keep those families in my prayers bc they still haven’t gotten their lives back to normal yet
Why would you live in a place where your home and family could be lost in an instant like that? Disasters happen everywhere, but sitting in an area which is disaster prone is like painting a target sign on your head.
@@wantbeefimyourfarmer2813 i do lmao i only said that cause it happened to me about 5-6 days ago. Supposed to get more this coming week so its gonna be fun
It was headed right for my house in Moore Oklahoma, when it shifted its track it missed us by less than 1/4 a mile. I'll never forget that sound. I had friends that lost everything at school but nobody I knew lost their life. I'm 34 now and that still gets to me now
Actually the 318MPH figure is from the 1990 Plainfield F5, the fastest recorded Tornadic Windspeed, but not necessarily the strongest or largest. Very deadly though.
Eric Christian i personally believe the jarrell tornado 1997 was the highest wind speeds ever recorded, to bad there wasn’t a Doppler on wheels to back that up. It dug up 18 foot trenches , ripped flesh and skin off cows to an extent where authorities after didn’t know if they were human or not.
One of my earliest memories was of this storm. I lived in Edmond with my family, just above OKC. These things are absolutely beautiful and deadly all at the same time.
I was 2 years old in 1999 I lived off of telephone road in moore oklahoma and we have pictures after the tornado of cars the size of barrels and you can see the blood. I chase tornadoes now when I was 16 me and my brother chased the 2013 moore tornado and saw it hit the school and shred neighborhoods the worst thing was hearing moms freaking out looking for their kids and walking by the applewood ranch and seeing the owner shooting his horses because they were injured. But the el reno tornado was by far the absolute scariest we got within half a mile to 3/4 mile from it our windows were blown out by the wind alone. Crazy stuff.
We use to measure wind speed and destruction. But after learning the secret of Fujitsu, we measure how well it can take a punch and a kick. Thanks Smithsonian!
05/03/1999: Bridge Creek, OK - Most powerful tornado ever recorded by doppler radar. 05/22/2011: Joplin, MO - Most fatal tornado in modern day history. 05/31/2013: El Reno, OK - Largest tornado ever recorded.
Unfortunately, El Reno was rated an EF-3 because it didn't hit heavily populated areas. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad denser areas didn't get hit, that would've been a bigger tragedy. El Reno had the traits of an EF-5, the near 300 mph winds at a few points, the wedge shape, and the mini vortices spiraling around it. The thing is that the EF scale deeply relies on the damage it causes rather than potential. If El Reno hit denser populations, for sure it would have been one of the most powerful tornadoes ever.
20 years! Hard to believe. My girls were still small, and I remember having to tell my older daughter that we were pretty safe from tornadoes in the mountains. I think she is still worried about them.
We were traveling from Vegas to Oklahoma on that day. We were in front of the storm then it passed us in Texas. We were 5 hours behind it. We had to stay just outside of OKC bc the I40 was closed down. The next morning when the I40 opened up we continued home, driving right past all that devastation. You could smell the dirt. The things we saw were crazy. 2x4 sticking out of brick buildings cars tossed everywhere. It was horrible something my family will never forget and hope we don't ever experience anything like it again.
You're confused. The "storm" didn't originate from Texas. The storm quickly spun-up inside the State of Oklahoma, as did most of the storms/tornadoes that day, and they moved towards the Northeast from the Southwest. The tornado in this video hit Moore, Oklahoma which is about 9 miles south of 140.
For sure, ive lived in Oklahoma my whole life (19 years old) and I never really noticed how bad Oklahoma was for tornadoes until I moved out of my mom's house. I'm definitely planning on leaving this state because I don't want all of my life's work to be destroyed by all these damn tornadoes. A shelter is nice but it won't save you're home!
The scary thing about the El Reno tornado was that it caught the majority of the storm chasers off guard, moving in a southerly direction first. One of the things that made it so dangerous was the sub vortecies that were swirling around it, one of those claiming the lives pf renowned storm chaser Tim Samaras, his son, and a colleague.... had this tornado been over a city like Moore, who knows how many lives could have been lost
I lived in Bridge Creek when this happened. My grandparents & sisters houses were destroyed. Missed mine by a 1/4 of a mile. My friend lives in Moore. May 20th another F5 hit, destroyed his home. May 31st came, his brother lives in El Reno. Another F5 hit. I live in between Moore & El Reno. I was lucky.
I live within 15 minutes of this path. They've had 3 tornadoes in this same path over the last decade or a little more. Many Oklahomans moved out of this path. Some even believe it's cursed land alongnot this stretch. Who knows. We dread may/June every year. Moving to your storm shelter 3-4 times each month with threats. Otherwise, great place to live.
I live in the area now. Didn’t realize I was in the heart of the heart of tornado alley. I’m right by briarwood. The f5 in 2013 damaged the house I’m renting now. The 99 one came close but didn’t hit this house.
I'm from there and there was a tornado in 2013. I was in the 1st grade and the tornado was coming right for my school, but it somehow turned around and destroyed a school called Plaza Towers. RIP to the children who never got out of that fallen school alive.💔💔
Yep, it's that time of year again. I survived the Wichita Falls, TX tornado of 1979; the rotational winds were slightly less (estimated 280mph) but at 1.5 miles wide it wiped 6000 homes, 1500 businesses and made 20,000 people instantly homeless. RIP to the 45 souls who didn't make it out alive.
My teacher was In that tornado. She told me that she was a teacher and she was teaching her 2nd grade class and they had to take cover and she looked out the window and the tornado was at the play ground and the ceiling came off. All of the kids were okay but she had scratches all over her body.
This day felt so ominous. It was the first and only time I'd ever heard Oklahoma weathermen advise leaving your home for better shelter. Because vehicles are dangerous during a tornado, the state has a shelter in place policy. This day, weathermen advised that if time allowed, get out of the path of this storm. Sitting East of OKC, we were advised by newscasters that those sheltering in place in Moore were not surviving. What is not mentioned in this video is that there were other smaller tornadoes active at this same time. We reached a point where were flanked in a corridor with tornadoes to our east and west. I remember walking outside and even with everything going on around us, there was absolute silence and stillness. No birds, no wind, no sirens, no traffic. Just a weird yellow sky. We lucked out as neither storm jumped paths. Looking back, I don't know how a regularly staffed weather newsroom handled notifying the public of all the simultaneous weather events that day. But they did manage to keep that news rolling out in real time.
“Fujitsu” scale. ITS THE FUJITA SCALE, YE FECKIN NOOBS! Edit: I just now realized what I said was fucking stupid. I have massive respect for Ted Fujita.
My great grandmother, who's husband was in the Civil war (yankee officer), told me about tornadoes with over 300mph winds, straw would go right into solid wood. I think around the time they changed from F1-F5 to EF1-EF5, some top meteorologists were saying a tornado couldn't produce over 300mph winds. Moore may be the fastest winds in modern times - but shouldn't say ever !
Most powerful by destructive power is the Jerrel F5 in 1997. "The Jarrell tornado defined the concept of “swept away.” Other tornadoes have left pockets of scoured pavement, but the Jarrell tornado left an unbroken swath of barren earth vacant of roads, grass, fences and the homes that once dotted the landscape. The storm completely removed trees and telephone poles in the devastated areas and pulverized the remains, leaving little for rescue workers to sift through. Surveyors also documented the disappearance of more than a dozen vehicles known to have been in the area (Grazulis, 2001). Unlike most tornadoes that cause a high number of fatalities, the tornado encountered less than two dozen homes along its 7.6 mile path (Mankowski, n.d.). The tornado was practically unsurvivable above ground, however, resulting in a disproportionately high death toll."
That right but most do not know about that tornado but it most powerful I ever saw, I think that tornado could have thrown a tank, blow skyscraper off their foundation, It was slow moving but I wonder how high it winds where?
CS77 Smith We'll never know the wind speeds, but the rotation was as violent as any tornado I've seen. It snapped telephone poles at their base. That is mind-blowing to me.
Blake Martin Yes, I agree, I never seen a rotation that fast in any tornado. That tornado even blow away the homes foundation, to this day I'm like, where did all that stuff go to?
The tornado was moving very slowly and, at times, stationary. If you have 200+ MPH circulating around a similar area, everything in that area is bound to get uprooted/tossed/ripped out of the ground.
Consider this: "Tornado Alley" has shifted 500-600 miles to the east over the past several decades. That's the reason why we see more tornadoes being spawned out of states like Alabama and Mississippi!
That's not true, if anything Tornado Alley has shifted ever so slightly west. What you're referring to is "Dixie Alley". Tornado Alley (Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas) is still plenty active. The only reason I believe Tornado Alley has shifted slightly west is because I've lived in Kansas City, MO for over 20 years and we very rarely have them it seems like.
I was in a semi on I40 just outside of AmarilloTX,285 miles away from Moore OK and I could easily see this tall huge anvil shaped superceil....in 20 yrs of coast to coast driving I never saw anything close to the size of this storm.
Lol..no. You've seen videos of tornados and you've seen the huge anvil shaped supercells that spawn tornados...ok. This supercell was so tall we could see to top of the anvil shaped storm from 285 miles away, pretty sure I've got a photo I took of it.
This tornado spent 1000 years training in the art of Fujitsu before releasing its rage upon a small town near Oklahoma City. He is expected to return in the year 2999 with one mission, to destroy Oklahoma City once and for all.
Jarrell Texas was the most intense in modern history. Well over 300 mph winds but no Doppler radar to measure it. It didn't leave anything intact. Just shredded everything into tiny pieces of debris. It swept neighborhoods clean, no houses left, nothing. Dug channels 5 feet into the ground and tore the pavement out down to the bedrock.
I remember that day well. I live in Georgetown,Williamson County Texas just 15 miles southeast of Jarrell Texas, At 3PM a hot sweltering day turning into night and the wind was so intense. Lighting like you would not believe and in strange blue/green colors. Hail stones as big as baseballs that busted every window in the house. That was truly a legendary monster! I have not seen a storm that intense before or since.
I witnessed the destruction aftermath stuck on I35. Beyond belief. I still have flashbacks to that day and make visits to the area wondering how anything could be that powerful.
the scouring was only 18 inches, it did not tear pavement down to the bedrock, and it was only moving at around 5 mph making it alot easier to cause violent damage
I'm quite positive that considering the age of the Earth and the drastic changes it has been through, this would not even be a breeze compared to what the Earth actually have faced or might do.
Why the used car supersale voice for the warning? EMERGENCY for only 199 a month you too can replace your car after this tornado destroys it, which is an F5 with wind speeds of 300+ MPH, no money down!
Massive adrenaline surges do things to your voice. It's hard to stay cool and calm when this kind of thing is going on. I live north of OKC and chased many of these storms. Also used to be a police dispatcher/LEO and in spite of all the professional voice training and experience your voice is going to change during stuff like this.
Unfortunately the fujita scale isnt a measure of a storms destructive power as stated, its more a measure of its destruction. I think it needs to be revised personally.
My grandmother got hit by that tornado. Both cars were totaled, all windows were replaced, front door replaced, all carpet was replaced, car port replaced, but she is still alive!
The west coast has earthquakes, the southeast has hurricanes, upper northeast has blizzards and the midwest has tornadoes. Everywhere you go, you gotta face a constant natural disaster.
My 8th birthday, and I live in Oklahoma City. All I could do was watch Gary England and the weather channel. My family wasnt worried but I was. It didnt hit Bethany where I lived, but many of our friends lost loved ones and everything they owned. Ill never forget this day.
I was at a graduation party in Indiana in 1997 when an f3 tornado touched down and I can tell you that the sound of the thing and the sound of big trees cracking was something I haven't forgotten. It was continuous lightning and a sound so loud it was terrifying. Out in the middle of a field is no place to be when a tornado hits. All we had time to do was hit the deck or get in or under our cars . The destruction it left was absolutely unbelievable in the woods and a few nearby houses. The same storm touched down in Ohio that day and people were killed.
Claireabella, I am absolutely terrified of tornadoes & never experienced one directly living in Virginia. I have wondered every time I think about Oklahoma if I wouldn't be so scared if I were born there & lived there. You have answered my question. Seriously, I could never live there because I don't think my nerves could be sedated enough. And I am not laughing. RUclips has afforded me the occasion to hear what people have recorded & the sights are horrible & I turn the volume down. Oklahoma has some of the most resilient people. I know my mental health would worsen to a point I can't imagine. Your brief statement caused me to write you an essay. I apologize. But I happen to discover you here months after your comment & you were the right person to affirm what I always thought. Can't visit or live there.
I lost my best friend in that tornado, rest in peace Russell Reeves, Moore, Oklahoma has seen its fair share of tornado's.
Sorry for your loss
My condolences
So very sorry for the loss of your friend!
I don’t think he will see your comment
Sry brother
Can you imagine hearing that warning live? That gave me chills and it didn't even happen to me. The absolute fear you would feel in that moment
*I remember it like it was yesterday. There was not as much warning as people say there was. Anyways... We all huddled down in our basement. There were 6 of us. As soon as it hit, you could hear the roof get torn completely off...then, the next second...you can hear the first level floor get ripped off. We can see the sky at this point. This is the moment where I completely deployed all of my brown defense ink into my pants. All I could feel was it running down my legs and onto the floor. In the strangest way, it took my mind a bit off the tornado because part of me wondered if anyone else could smell it. Well...after everything settled, it looked like the dried chocolate shell they put on strawberries. Stay safe everyone.*
@@thefartingcell-phonevideos4011 are you serious or trolling
@Taylor Kay I know the feeling. It's scary and no joke.
No, maybe just you Taylor
It was an F5 on the Fajita scale. Peppers and onions everywhere.
lol
Over 9000 on the Vegita scale
It's called the Fagina scale!
Fujita*
Lol I just spit out my drink
I was 12 during the "Super Outbreak" of 1974. The Sonny and Cher show was on the television, and kept getting interrupted every few minutes with weather bulletins about tornados touching down in all these surrounding counties. Finally the Civil Defense symbol flashed upon the screen with that warning buzzer, then the entire station went off the air. It was at that point my parents got concerned and we went down to stay with some neighbors that had a basement, and we all had a pretty good time as I remember. During the nervous laughter someone would shush everyone, and say they heard something and we all got quiet and listened as we heard the roar from outside. Once our ears popped. It hit the high school one street behind our location. I don't think anything can top that night April 3, 1974, and I pray nothing ever will.
Wow, your old
observer of madness , my girlfriend and I were living in AL just north of Birmingham in 74. We were playing at a club “EL Cids” in a bowling alley (common in the 70’s) I stepped outside the club on break and I swear at 140 pounds could lean into the wind and it would hold me up. It wasn’t a gust, it was a constant flow of wind! I went to our apt and my girl had tv on and like you said tornados were hitting all counties around us but thankfully in Jefferson county they never got close to where we were! Very thankful and you’re right it is a night we will NEVER forget especially being yankees (CT and NY) and never experienced storms that intense!
@@amongify1269 wow you're easily amazed
You must have been scared to death! Glad you were okay.
I lived in Lafayette Indiana at that time. And I remember that outbreak. Although Lafayette did not get hit during that outbreak, Monticello Indiana did. I remember seeing pictures of the White county court house in the news paper and what was left was just a skeleton. The court houses steel frame was really eerie looking. That tornado was F4.
That tornado was less than a mile away from removing Oklahoma City off the map.
C. Who Dat yup, we almost got lucky.
@@SloppyballsMcGuillicutty 😂😂
No. It def would not have removed OKC, a much smaller city Joplin had a massive EF5 rip through it and 8 years later the city is better than it ever was. With a city like OKC I wouldn't imagine that the tornado would do much in the way of removing it from the map when Joplin came out just fine.
Sloppyballs McGuillicutty 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
If Oklahoma left then no more Oklahoma memes
The "Fujitsu" scale? The Moore F5 must have been a black belt. 🤣
Fajita scale, i think-
Fujitsu = secret airbending technique?
@@DNephi-xu7gx was that an ATLA reference?
Lol
The Moore tornado trained extensively with the Gracie Brothers
I remember that day....I looked right at it, and I evacuated. Good thing my house turned out ok
Do you still live there or moved away?
SonJinYasha ! Same state
That must be terrifying
Then you might of dealt with the tornados in OK this week hope your okay
i honestly thought you said you looked right at it and you ejaculated.
They say powerful, not largest. The el reno tornado of 31 may 2013 was the largest but not the strongest
Salted Potato you're my new favorite person XD
Salted Potato El Reno's Vorticies Can do a outstanding EF5 damage, thats why tim samaras, paul samaras, and carl young died (they got caught by one)
Edit: i named paul incorrectly, and it was carl young
Salted Potato Annd Fun fact! The el reno tornado is a ef3
Lance Ryder Wilson Nigga which is why the ef scale is kinda dumb. If ef5 damage can be caused by winds as low as 200mph but much higher winds were discovered they should at least say ef3 with plausible ef5 force winds discovered and put that in the report. You can have wimds measured 300 mph but if its in open country and doesnt hit anything how is an ef0 an accurate rating. Theres other things like ground scouring that can show it had much more than ef0 winds.
+matthew harris mobile radar data is determined to be inaccurate ( apparently) because EF rating is determine by ground level winds, not upper circulation, it's hard to measure the ground winds with mobile radar so this way means there are lots of underrated tornadoes but no overrated tornadoes. I don't agree with it myself but I think that's why it's done that way.
I’ve been in 2 tornadoes in my life. It’s crazy how fast they change directions and come straight for u. Scary hopeless feeling. My prayers go out to all in this years tornado season.
Centerville,AR I think it was 78, our track meat was cancelled, 2 buses one girls one boys, as we're coming in to town we let 4 Boy's off, then Everything just Stopped. No wind, no noise at All, really a hair raiser, and then Boom. It was like we were dropped into the middle of a Hurricane. One boy is down got hit by a brick, others dragged him to a storm shelter, bus driver punches it, we could see the Tornado to the NW of us, the girls driver didn't think he could out run it, so he pulled in to the only store and puts the bus right next to the store, which saved the bus, we out ran it, I'll Never forget what that Tornado looked like. Could of reached out and touched it. So the T is at the Hwy7 intersection it hits a Building on the corner, then it Jumps over the Store with the bus next to it, lands on a Home it again Jumps up and over another home then on it's way. When we got back to Centerville about an hour later, Hwy 7 was blocked by a Home that was picked up, still in one piece and set it on the hwy. Have a Good One.
I'm Currently Under A Warning I Just Heard A 2001 Siren Go Off
@@Vigilance108 same lol
These Tornadoes Are Veering Away From South Texas Where I Live
Do tornadoes literally sound like trains?
I was an insurance adjuster for 40 years and worked a lot of tornado storms. The damages are inconceivable. The ones that hurt the most was when the family lost a loved one.
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Also Smithsonian: Fujitsu
In Oklahoma, it's called the Fujita Scale...
It cracks me up every time I hear the narrator say it
was literally just about to comment to see if anyone else noticed that. pretty embarrassing oversight there
Shadowclone Fujitsu!
Literally
commentary on A8: "What a storm!"
A9: "Hold my updraft."
Don't know why find this so funny😂😂
I inhaled sharply at this, thank you 😂😂
9 months since you posted this comment and it's still hilarious 😂
2% Facts.
6% Spam, memes, or other random comments.
92% Talking about and being triggered by how the narrator said "Fujitsu".
He was talking about the tornado grappling martial art lol
oh frick you found me lol
100% concentrated power of will.
ENHANCED FUJITA!!
BluesDude underrated comment 😭
it's hard to imagine a tornado a mile wide. I think I would crap my pants.
What about 2.6 miles?, what ya doing then
@@ey7290 i was about to comment that 🤣
The el reno tornado was 2.6 miles across. BUT even crazier imo is the fireball from the Tsar Bomba was 6 miles across. Today’s nukes some estimate just the fireball could be around 15 miles across
@@jonathankey6444 imagine...
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id literally dig a hole into the floor, in my house, sit in it, and ball my eyes out.
The tornado was so powerful that Fujita scale couldn't handle it, then called his brother Fujitsu to help out XD
Zenos Ashblade haha funny 😕
Hahahah
@@kieran197 why the frown?
🤣🤣🤣 I would never live there. I take snowstorms anyday. Lol
Tornado created its on martial art!
i live in oklahoma and we literally have a whole “tornado season” that starts from april and ends on june. it really sucks and every year there’s always that 1 that’s devastating but this tornado and the more recent Moore tornado we much more than devastating. i still keep those families in my prayers bc they still haven’t gotten their lives back to normal yet
It’s not just Oklahoma my dude
Elijah Warren I live in Alabama and we have tornadoes year long
Does everyone have tornado shelters under ground at their homes where you live?
So umm maybe move?
Why would you live in a place where your home and family could be lost in an instant like that? Disasters happen everywhere, but sitting in an area which is disaster prone is like painting a target sign on your head.
Tornados are beautiful and scary at the same damn time 😱
not so beautiful when you see one right in front of your house and you have no basement
@@fallendust3279 yeah luckily i dont live in an area where tornadoes are common
@@wantbeefimyourfarmer2813 i do lmao i only said that cause it happened to me about 5-6 days ago. Supposed to get more this coming week so its gonna be fun
smack the shit outta anybody same
@@fallendust3279 make a pic for me
It was headed right for my house in Moore Oklahoma, when it shifted its track it missed us by less than 1/4 a mile. I'll never forget that sound. I had friends that lost everything at school but nobody I knew lost their life. I'm 34 now and that still gets to me now
Joe Rogan is a master in fujitsu
The fact this showed up in my recommended after watching a Joe Rogan video is scary.
Have you ever heard of dmt
It's in entire possible that my good friend Joe Rogan is a black belt in fujitsu.
@@CatWith-AHat 😳the algorithm knows all..
noahkb80 so am I, I will Fujitsu my fist straight up dat ass......
"The fujistu scale" Why am I dying 💀
Yeah I thought it was called the Fujita scale wtf
@@melissal.6162 It is. lmao. And to think this is the fucking Smithsonian channel...
Sounds like some odd martial arts name
@@dr2d2 i've heard its a cool combo between Kung-Fu and Jujitsu.
Isn't that the enhanced Fujita scale?
I love how most tornadoes look like they're just living their life, but this one actually looks incredibly angry
@J-Money I'll have you know I'm a God-fearing 16 year old who loves Jesus and would never touch the giggle cabbage
One spinnyboi
*s p i n n y b o i s*
One autistic beyblade
it later turns into a thicc succ
otakuMCkid6969MRstealYOgirl SPINNY CLOUDZ X3
Darrin Robinson Wtf
Max wind speed recorded in this one was 318 mph. Fastest wind speed ever recorded on earth
Officially, the Moore tornado is listed at 302 MPH. Still the fastest official tornado recorded on earth.
How long have tornado wind speeds been recorded? 1880s?
This was the fastest tornado
Actually the 318MPH figure is from the 1990 Plainfield F5, the fastest recorded Tornadic Windspeed, but not necessarily the strongest or largest. Very deadly though.
Eric Christian i personally believe the jarrell tornado 1997 was the highest wind speeds ever recorded, to bad there wasn’t a Doppler on wheels to back that up. It dug up 18 foot trenches , ripped flesh and skin off cows to an extent where authorities after didn’t know if they were human or not.
One of my earliest memories was of this storm. I lived in Edmond with my family, just above OKC. These things are absolutely beautiful and deadly all at the same time.
The Fajita scale, 10 being spiciest.
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Tasty!
Oh really? I'd like to place an order!🤣🤣🤣
He clearly said Fujitsu
I was 2 years old in 1999 I lived off of telephone road in moore oklahoma and we have pictures after the tornado of cars the size of barrels and you can see the blood. I chase tornadoes now when I was 16 me and my brother chased the 2013 moore tornado and saw it hit the school and shred neighborhoods the worst thing was hearing moms freaking out looking for their kids and walking by the applewood ranch and seeing the owner shooting his horses because they were injured. But the el reno tornado was by far the absolute scariest we got within half a mile to 3/4 mile from it our windows were blown out by the wind alone. Crazy stuff.
We use to measure wind speed and destruction. But after learning the secret of Fujitsu, we measure how well it can take a punch and a kick. Thanks Smithsonian!
Yeah what a ridiculous thing to get wrong by the Smithsonian, of all organizations
Oh, yeah. The narrator is likely NOT a weather dude..."...on the Fujitsu Scale..." That's all I have to say about that.
The Mitsubishi scale
Yeah I caught that too
The Juijitsu Scale
Thank you Forrest Gump
what about it
Not the FUJITSU SCALE!
Everybody RUN........out of toner.
Their MDF modules are $2,500. Bastards.
Fluffle Puffle I was wondering when tornadoes took karate
Is that a new martial art? :p
300+ mph and a mile wide and went for 30-something miles and only killed 36? That's a miracle in and of itself
Check out the stats on El Reno, OK in 2013.
Well when they happen in places no one lives.
Not for the families of those 36 people killed by the storm.
Nor for the owners of the horses that were injured and killed.
Every life matters.
05/03/1999: Bridge Creek, OK - Most powerful tornado ever recorded by doppler radar.
05/22/2011: Joplin, MO - Most fatal tornado in modern day history.
05/31/2013: El Reno, OK - Largest tornado ever recorded.
Storm all in May !!
Joplins was also an EF5 that exceeded 300 + mph
Unfortunately, El Reno was rated an EF-3 because it didn't hit heavily populated areas. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad denser areas didn't get hit, that would've been a bigger tragedy. El Reno had the traits of an EF-5, the near 300 mph winds at a few points, the wedge shape, and the mini vortices spiraling around it. The thing is that the EF scale deeply relies on the damage it causes rather than potential. If El Reno hit denser populations, for sure it would have been one of the most powerful tornadoes ever.
@@robwhite3671 No. In fact, there were debates as to weather the Joplin tornado deserved EF5 rating based on wind speeds. It was a low end EF5.
(starts video) OKLAHOMA CITY
YOU KNOW OKLAHOMA IS A GREAT PLACE and I would know
@@ninabellax it is I love it
Never forget this one. From Moore, OK
20 years! Hard to believe. My girls were still small, and I remember having to tell my older daughter that we were pretty safe from tornadoes in the mountains. I think she is still worried about them.
This fkn guy just said Fujitsu scale, way to be professional buddy.
The Futa scale
I see a lot of posters caught that malapropism
Who cares
@@eligebrown8998 , intelligent people care, as a professional documentary should know better.
I'm sure he meant Fujita lol
If I lived in a place where there were tornadoes, my bedroom and anyone else’s would be down in a tornado cellar.
We were traveling from Vegas to Oklahoma on that day. We were in front of the storm then it passed us in Texas. We were 5 hours behind it. We had to stay just outside of OKC bc the I40 was closed down. The next morning when the I40 opened up we continued home, driving right past all that devastation. You could smell the dirt. The things we saw were crazy. 2x4 sticking out of brick buildings cars tossed everywhere. It was horrible something my family will never forget and hope we don't ever experience anything like it again.
Sandy LaFontaine What was the point?
That sounds terrible I was out when Marahalltown and Pella hit
You're confused. The "storm" didn't originate from Texas. The storm quickly spun-up inside the State of Oklahoma, as did most of the storms/tornadoes that day, and they moved towards the Northeast from the Southwest. The tornado in this video hit Moore, Oklahoma which is about 9 miles south of 140.
Midnight Rider I was in Texas,I saw the storm spin up from there.
@@jquest43 Ok, what part of Texas were you in? What city/town were you near?
''Storm A spawns it's first tornado, later named, 'A1'.'
Me: Ha! It's a steak sauce!
A1 Steak Sauce: Yea it's that good 🍖
Adding A1 to a steak is a sin.
@@LetTheWritersWrite no
Emilee Heili xD
Ha ha I get it, it’s a joke
“Is there an F5? What would that be like..?” (Eating utensils drop to the plates). “ Finger of god.”
Almost every one of his video, I scroll through the comments to find a Twister reference and you’re the first one I’ve seen.
Finger of gawwwd!
I just watched this part of the movie 5 minutes ago.
Cow.
I need to call you back, we've got cows!
Investing in a bunker sounds like a good idea in Tornado Alley. I have relatives who live in Moore Oklahoma too.
For sure, ive lived in Oklahoma my whole life (19 years old) and I never really noticed how bad Oklahoma was for tornadoes until I moved out of my mom's house. I'm definitely planning on leaving this state because I don't want all of my life's work to be destroyed by all these damn tornadoes. A shelter is nice but it won't save you're home!
Mine is 10 feet from my front door
I wonder if their insurance rates are sky high with so many major storms that seem to hit that particular area...
Super scary
@@snaupl home insurance bruh...cmon man we live near tulsa just get a bunker...red cross has programs and rebates to help cover the expense
I've lived in Northeastern Ok my entire life and this was absolute devastation for our Sooner state. Rest in peace all victims.
It should be illegal to look like you.
Them: Strongest
El Rino: Yea but THICC tho.
*THICKNESS*
What about the Mulhall Tornado of that same day!
The scary thing about the El Reno tornado was that it caught the majority of the storm chasers off guard, moving in a southerly direction first. One of the things that made it so dangerous was the sub vortecies that were swirling around it, one of those claiming the lives pf renowned storm chaser Tim Samaras, his son, and a colleague.... had this tornado been over a city like Moore, who knows how many lives could have been lost
I was born 5 months after this tornado in OKC...glad I missed this...
What about your parents?
@@NikeAirJordanGabes They were in a basement the entire time and perfectly safe :) It missed our house as well
wow! i was born on may 3rd actually, but not until 5 years later.
I was about 6 when this storm hit. Remember it like it was yesterday. It was on the news for weeks
@@XFSAngelOfDeath Lies
Man be like "I run this planet"
Mother nature "that's cute"
Tornado of 99': Yeah nothing will beat me on top
14 years later, The El Reno tornado: Let's see what history will look at me to this day.
@@mr.sugarsbakery2929 The El Reno tornado was larger but weaker.
@@Chris-uu9ce Well okay, but still it was the largest of them all.
I lived in Bridge Creek when this happened. My grandparents & sisters houses were destroyed. Missed mine by a 1/4 of a mile. My friend lives in Moore. May 20th another F5 hit, destroyed his home. May 31st came, his brother lives in El Reno. Another F5 hit. I live in between Moore & El Reno. I was lucky.
How lucky are you gonna get?
The El Reno Tornado was a EF3
@@RoderiusFrl but it had EF-5 winds.
I live within 15 minutes of this path. They've had 3 tornadoes in this same path over the last decade or a little more. Many Oklahomans moved out of this path. Some even believe it's cursed land alongnot this stretch. Who knows. We dread may/June every year. Moving to your storm shelter 3-4 times each month with threats. Otherwise, great place to live.
Keep your most valuable stuff in storm shelter XD
I live in the area now. Didn’t realize I was in the heart of the heart of tornado alley. I’m right by briarwood. The f5 in 2013 damaged the house I’m renting now. The 99 one came close but didn’t hit this house.
I'm from there and there was a tornado in 2013. I was in the 1st grade and the tornado was coming right for my school, but it somehow turned around and destroyed a school called Plaza Towers. RIP to the children who never got out of that fallen school alive.💔💔
Yep, it's that time of year again. I survived the Wichita Falls, TX tornado of 1979; the rotational winds were slightly less (estimated 280mph) but at 1.5 miles wide it wiped 6000 homes, 1500 businesses and made 20,000 people instantly homeless. RIP to the 45 souls who didn't make it out alive.
My teacher was In that tornado. She told me that she was a teacher and she was teaching her 2nd grade class and they had to take cover and she looked out the window and the tornado was at the play ground and the ceiling came off. All of the kids were okay but she had scratches all over her body.
D:
This day felt so ominous. It was the first and only time I'd ever heard Oklahoma weathermen advise leaving your home for better shelter. Because vehicles are dangerous during a tornado, the state has a shelter in place policy. This day, weathermen advised that if time allowed, get out of the path of this storm. Sitting East of OKC, we were advised by newscasters that those sheltering in place in Moore were not surviving. What is not mentioned in this video is that there were other smaller tornadoes active at this same time. We reached a point where were flanked in a corridor with tornadoes to our east and west. I remember walking outside and even with everything going on around us, there was absolute silence and stillness. No birds, no wind, no sirens, no traffic. Just a weird yellow sky. We lucked out as neither storm jumped paths. Looking back, I don't know how a regularly staffed weather newsroom handled notifying the public of all the simultaneous weather events that day. But they did manage to keep that news rolling out in real time.
I've heard of the Fujita Scale, but what the hell is the Fujitsu Scale?!?
Random Stuff In Oregon you know what he meant
Random Stuff In Oregon it’s named after a meteorologist scientist to make a measurement of size and wind strength.!
May mean Jujitsu, instead of Fujita....don't want either, thank you very much. Both can be deadly.....👆👊
A measurement to grade the intensity of AC Units! Hahaaaa!
*ENEMY AC-130 ABOVE*
“Fujitsu” scale. ITS THE FUJITA SCALE, YE FECKIN NOOBS!
Edit: I just now realized what I said was fucking stupid. I have massive respect for Ted Fujita.
Jacob Ornduff lol true
Jacob Ornduff lol
Jacob Ornduff Its The Past Participle for Fujita you fat fuck
Actually it's the shiatsu scale
No..no...Its "Kisama scale"
"I know fujitsu"
"Show me"
A+ comment.
You think that’s air you’re blowing now?
@@codeblue8922 everyone I know who has stood their ground against an EF5 has died.
You hear that Mr. Anderson?... That is the sound of inevitability... It is the sound of your death... Goodbye, Mr. Anderson.
My great grandmother, who's husband was in the Civil war (yankee officer), told me about tornadoes with over 300mph winds, straw would go right into solid wood. I think around the time they changed from F1-F5 to EF1-EF5, some top meteorologists were saying a tornado couldn't produce over 300mph winds. Moore may be the fastest winds in modern times - but shouldn't say ever !
Agree
Most powerful by destructive power is the Jerrel F5 in 1997. "The Jarrell tornado defined the concept of “swept away.” Other tornadoes have left pockets of scoured pavement, but the Jarrell tornado left an unbroken swath of barren earth vacant of roads, grass, fences and the homes that once dotted the landscape. The storm completely removed trees and telephone poles in the devastated areas and pulverized the remains, leaving little for rescue workers to sift through. Surveyors also documented the disappearance of more than a dozen vehicles known to have been in the area (Grazulis, 2001). Unlike most tornadoes that cause a high number of fatalities, the tornado encountered less than two dozen homes along its 7.6 mile path (Mankowski, n.d.). The tornado was practically unsurvivable above ground, however, resulting in a disproportionately high death toll."
That right but most do not know about that tornado but it most powerful I ever saw, I think that tornado could have thrown a tank, blow skyscraper off their foundation, It was slow moving but I wonder how high it winds where?
CS77 Smith We'll never know the wind speeds, but the rotation was as violent as any tornado I've seen. It snapped telephone poles at their base. That is mind-blowing to me.
Blake Martin Yes, I agree, I never seen a rotation that fast in any tornado. That tornado even blow away the homes foundation, to this day I'm like, where did all that stuff go to?
CS77 Smith Yep, and there are still cars that disappeared that day that have still yet to be found. I'm telling you man, that tornado was Pure Evil.
The tornado was moving very slowly and, at times, stationary. If you have 200+ MPH circulating around a similar area, everything in that area is bound to get uprooted/tossed/ripped out of the ground.
As of today 6/22/2024, it has been confirmed that the Greenfield IA tornado broke the record with 313mph winds.
Consider this: "Tornado Alley" has shifted 500-600 miles to the east over the past several decades. That's the reason why we see more tornadoes being spawned out of states like Alabama and Mississippi!
That's not true, if anything Tornado Alley has shifted ever so slightly west. What you're referring to is "Dixie Alley". Tornado Alley (Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas) is still plenty active. The only reason I believe Tornado Alley has shifted slightly west is because I've lived in Kansas City, MO for over 20 years and we very rarely have them it seems like.
*1 YEAR AGO*
I think the tornado alley is expanding, not shifting. The cause of this expansion is from global warming.
I was standing on my balcony drinking coffee when this happened.
Like a boss
@@Hunter2847 I was in the front yard trying to keep a fire going in a fire pit
Hope you enjoyed that.
@@jonesy514 yeah it was not that fun I cried I lost something special, I lost... *sniff* I lost the coffee I had in my hand...
I was outside my house waiting for it to arrive, it never reached....NY.
"Fujitsu? I'm going to learn... Fujitsu?" xD
I was in a semi on I40 just outside of AmarilloTX,285 miles away from Moore OK and I could easily see this tall huge anvil shaped superceil....in 20 yrs of coast to coast driving I never saw anything close to the size of this storm.
you best pray to Jesus Christ that storm didn't fuck you up
Just to make sure I read correctly--you could see the tornado from almost 300 miles away!?!
@@latinguy67 Please don't use Jesus and profanity in the same sentence. 😣
@@VintageRose75 Jesus doesn't give a shit
Lol..no. You've seen videos of tornados and you've seen the huge anvil shaped supercells that spawn tornados...ok. This supercell was so tall we could see to top of the anvil shaped storm from 285 miles away, pretty sure I've got a photo I took of it.
That's incredibly scary..it must really be a challenge to be born and raised in this State 😟
I'm born and raised in more Oklahoma
I am proud to be Oklahoma tough.
This tornado spent 1000 years training in the art of Fujitsu before releasing its rage upon a small town near Oklahoma City. He is expected to return in the year 2999 with one mission, to destroy Oklahoma City once and for all.
Me: WOW, TORNADOES MUST BE SCARY
Me today: Dear god, Let's hope a tornado doesn't happen to me this weekend.
Princess Rainbow Knight ikr especially in May
@@JohnSmith-we7tb IKR! AND IT'S MAY ALREADY!
Jarrell Texas was the most intense in modern history. Well over 300 mph winds but no Doppler radar to measure it. It didn't leave anything intact. Just shredded everything into tiny pieces of debris. It swept neighborhoods clean, no houses left, nothing. Dug channels 5 feet into the ground and tore the pavement out down to the bedrock.
They think that one generated wind speeds approaching 400 mph
I remember that day well. I live in Georgetown,Williamson County Texas just 15 miles southeast of Jarrell Texas, At 3PM a hot sweltering day turning into night and the wind was so intense. Lighting like you would not believe and in strange blue/green colors. Hail stones as big as baseballs that busted every window in the house. That was truly a legendary monster! I have not seen a storm that intense before or since.
I witnessed the destruction aftermath stuck on I35. Beyond belief. I still have flashbacks to that day and make visits to the area wondering how anything could be that powerful.
Smithville did worse damage while moving at 70 mph
the scouring was only 18 inches, it did not tear pavement down to the bedrock, and it was only moving at around 5 mph making it alot easier to cause violent damage
Wow, winds well over 300 mph he said, and you never know when the next ones coming...
Does everyone have PTSD around Tornado Alley ?
I’m in Southwest Missouri and we had an F-5 rip through my entire town in 2011. I have PTSD from it. We lost 151 lives.
We had an F1 go through our town and nobody cared
@@MienemLeben Joplin?
Dale Thelander yes
@@MienemLeben I'm sorry.
If you guys lived in Oklahoma you would understand how deadly these tornadoes are TBH
Dyson engineers:
Hold my beer
Twot twist
Me and my mom were hit by the Joplin tornado in 2011 and it was very heart breaking with all of are stuff being gone 😩😥💔
My fiancé’s grandparents died in this storm 21 years ago today
I'm quite positive that considering the age of the Earth and the drastic changes it has been through, this would not even be a breeze compared to what the Earth actually have faced or might do.
Why the used car supersale voice for the warning? EMERGENCY for only 199 a month you too can replace your car after this tornado destroys it, which is an F5 with wind speeds of 300+ MPH, no money down!
Sounded more like a Kamen Rider/Power Rangers villain
Sounds more like a auction
Massive adrenaline surges do things to your voice. It's hard to stay cool and calm when this kind of thing is going on. I live north of OKC and chased many of these storms. Also used to be a police dispatcher/LEO and in spite of all the professional voice training and experience your voice is going to change during stuff like this.
Unfortunately the fujita scale isnt a measure of a storms destructive power as stated, its more a measure of its destruction. I think it needs to be revised personally.
I was in this tornado and my house got blown away.
Moore, OK must be an awesome place to live if its citizens decide to stay despite the frequent tornadoes.
Kevin Butler it doesn’t matter where you live in central Oklahoma. Tornadoes will come for you lol
@@jarredah Word.
Okla n kansas r just the worst
My aunt lost her home in okc in this tornado.
U can probably buy a 4bd 3bath 3000sqft for $ 50,000..
You know it's a big tornado when you have to say "one side of the tornado".
My grandmother got hit by that tornado. Both cars were totaled, all windows were replaced, front door replaced, all carpet was replaced, car port replaced, but she is still alive!
Fujitsu?! Lord 🤦🏽♀️
The west coast has earthquakes, the southeast has hurricanes, upper northeast has blizzards and the midwest has tornadoes. Everywhere you go, you gotta face a constant natural disaster.
The May 3, 1999 tornado is one to remember
We had one in springfield Massachusetts almost pulled me and a friend off the porch! But it was nothing compared to that omg those poor people!
I live in Tornado alley, It gets scary out here....you soul knows it's coming for you, and theres nowhere to hide. God have mercy.😪
My 8th birthday, and I live in Oklahoma City. All I could do was watch Gary England and the weather channel. My family wasnt worried but I was. It didnt hit Bethany where I lived, but many of our friends lost loved ones and everything they owned. Ill never forget this day.
1:19
If I could eat fajitas and be a master at jujitsu I would be an F5 on the Fujitsu scale
I remember Oklahoma City May 3rd 1999 tornado. It was Devastating. 🙁
Winds of over 320mph++++.strongest ever, forget the others if possible!
Moore*
True, end of story & they've had more devastating tornadoes than anywhere in the USA!!!
Thanks, Val Hatch.....✊👊👆
I was at a graduation party in Indiana in 1997 when an f3 tornado touched down and I can tell you that the sound of the thing and the sound of big trees cracking was something I haven't forgotten. It was continuous lightning and a sound so loud it was terrifying. Out in the middle of a field is no place to be when a tornado hits. All we had time to do was hit the deck or get in or under our cars . The destruction it left was absolutely unbelievable in the woods and a few nearby houses. The same storm touched down in Ohio that day and people were killed.
You really can't say that it was "the most powerful tornado ever"... It's more like the most powerful tornado ever recorded...
Picky, picky, picky.
1:19 he said Fujitsu scale. LOL
I facepalmed!
why, whats wrong with that
@@SeatLeonMK2 *Fujitsu*
@@SeatLeonMK2 It's called Fujita scale
It was a EF-5th degree black twister
I had the privilege of being in one once. Surprisingly it doesn't take a storm to spawn a tornado. It can be a partly cloudy day as well.
The Vegeta scale, no supercells, only super Saiyan.
*SUPER SAIYAN NOISES*
This is why we all need to make a underground shelter for when these tornados strike!
Most people don’t live in the mid-west
That day no shelter would've mattered
@@flamingoxe5984 Ain't no EF-5s in Los Angeles lol
Growing up in Oklahoma I was always so frightened at just the idea of a tornado. They can really be so scary some years.
Claireabella, I am absolutely terrified of tornadoes & never experienced one directly living in Virginia. I have wondered every time I think about Oklahoma if I wouldn't be so scared if I were born there & lived there. You have answered my question. Seriously, I could never live there because I don't think my nerves could be sedated enough. And I am not laughing. RUclips has afforded me the occasion to hear what people have recorded & the sights are horrible & I turn the volume down. Oklahoma has some of the most resilient people. I know my mental health would worsen to a point I can't imagine. Your brief statement caused me to write you an essay. I apologize. But I happen to discover you here months after your comment & you were the right person to affirm what I always thought. Can't visit or live there.
Tim Marshall is an absolute legend. Love that guy!!
🎶 Oklahoma, where the tornadoes come ripping apart the plains...🎶
Man : " I am in charge"
Nature : "Come deal with me "
20y anniversary for this was yesterday...
My cousin lives in Moore. His home was destroyed by this storm. He lives right behind the school where all the kids were killed.
This was the 1999 tornado.
Was behind me across OKC and turned before getting to our home yet still dropped pieces of homes all over our acreage. Was massive.
Thank God
I thought it was recorded on Jupiter.
It always comes back to Moore when there's tornados in Oklahoma.