Use code SWEGLESTUDIOS50 to get 50% off your first Factor box at bit.ly/47A0mU3! I was sick while I filmed this so if I sound a bit rough. My b. Also in terms of European tornadoes, I do plan on doing a dedicated video to the topic so stay tuned for that! Thanks for watching!
The 1984 soviet tornado outbreak was truly insane, you should read more in-depth into the damage reports of the Ivanovo-Lunyovo & Kostroma-Lyubim tornadoes. Not sure why it was downgraded to F4, but Torro still has it as a T10 F5 equivalent to 270-300 mph. The torro rating fits perfectly when you had both tornadoes do this: - a 350 ton crane lifted 3 meters into the air and twisted - another 353 ton crane toppled and insanely mangled - a 55 ton water tank thrown 200 meters - the asphalt of a highway scoured off - Complete obliteration of a reinforced concrete building (likely a commie block) - dropped 1kg hailstones
I will never forget the 2015 F3 Bützow Tornado here in northeast Germany. This tornado made me realise that we, too, can get strong tornadoes. The local radiostation were talking about it for days. Through my own research, I even found out that only like 1 hour away an F5 Tornado touched down in Woldek, but that was in 1764. This one is apparently well documented. I definitely have to read these documents in the near future
In general Europe has quite a lot Tornadoes including strong and severe ones. Still a lot of People completely deny its existance or compare it with the US in an incorrect way. (Meaning they claim that entire Cities regularely get completely destroyed regularely or just compare the total numbers of Germany and the US without acknowledging the very different size of both countries)
My grandfather was in Boston at the time of the Worcester tornado. He said he was on a street that ran right in that direction, and when you looked down towards Worcester, "it looked like night had fallen"
That's crazy, Worcester is about 20 minutes drive from me, hard to imagine that level of destruction or that sized tornado here. We had one that did a bit of damage I think about 12 years ago, not terribly much though at least by southern/midwestern standards. Since then had a couple little itty-bitty anorexic ones, my brother looked out his window and saw one strolling down the street before it blew out.
My dad was driving on Rte. 9 in Southboro when the 1953 tornado hit. He had to pull over and stop when the high winds and hail came and the sky went black, but he had no idea there was a dangerous tornado right behind him. (In 1953, no one thought such a thing could happen in Massachusetts.) As soon as it cleared a little he continued on his way not knowing that the building he had just gone past was now destroyed and the storm's last 3 victims taken. He learned about it all after he got home.
Wow! Didn't know you were a Daddy, and twins at that! Enjoy your little ones, they'll be big before you know it. Awesome content.....you have a unique way of looking at things and presenting it to us weather weenies.
Thanks a lot for covering the Czech F4. It was a huge and unexpected tragedy, but unfortunately (probably because it was overshadowed by the pandemic), it only remains a horrible memory here in Czechia and it basically isn’t known anywhere else. Great video as always
In germany we heard the tragic news and were warned the day before about the potential of big tornadoes, nothing happened that day, but the next day as the danger moved to east a big supercell dropped the tornado.
its not true, just because us media tells you otherwise doesnt mean no one has noticed it, netherlands, denmark, germany, luxembourg etc. it was all over the news.
This is something that I really love from RUclips where you can find people talking about the things that they like. I wanted to know more about tornadoes so I was looking for a channel and found you. Thanks man Pietro Maximoff: This is RUclips? Steve Rogers: This is what RUclips is supossed to be
A few notes: that supposed tornado path in Russia at 9:23 is 100% in Asia. Also, pretty much all powerful tornadoes come from cumulonimbus clouds. Cumulus clouds clouds rarely spawn tornadoes and if they do they are generally super weak.
@@RT-qd8yl it is however worth noting that russians originated in the europe and colonised the siberian parts, they are asian only geopolitically. tribes like the ket, tuva, etc. are the real asians here
I think the UK gets those because I saw a uk tornado and it was small (it was the Birmingham F3 tornado) I saw a roof get toppled over onto another house then a tree get snapped in half (by the way I think the uk had a stronger tornado once years ago)
*Czech viewer's perspective and story:* Hi from a new subscriber here! I've only recently discovered your channel (it's a great one!), but I've always been fascinated by tornadoes. I had never considered them a real danger in my country (in the middle of Europe), tornadoes were "the big ones happen only in America" kind of a thing, but I always took interest in videos explaining how they form, the structure of storms, accompanying weather phenomena etc. I live and work in Prague, but my family lives in the region of South Moravia, Hodonin district. In the summer of 2021 we had some severe thunderstorms. On the 24th ofJune I was looking at an online rain forecast, planning my evening activities. The radar showed a huge incoming complex of strong storms spanning across our whole country. I told to myself "damn, this looks nasty", because they looked like real supercells and a thought "if I'd live in the US, I would be afraid that there could be a tornado" actually did cross my mind. That evening, I called my mum, to chat about how my family was doing. My mum told me that a huge storm was coming. That the air "felt weird", that she had never experienced anything like that before a storm. They have also seen some "strange clouds" and she described mammatus clouds to me. I could hear thunder rumbling over the phone. Then I heard my father come over to my mum and tell her with a grave voice that a strong tornado had just completely levelled a nearby village of Hrušky to the ground. My father is a retired firefighter, so he got the news immediately, probably when the tornado was still on the ground. As you've said in this video, it reached the strength of EF4. It destroyed 5 villages and killed 6 people, its path was 26 kilometres long and at some stages it reached a width of 500 metres. It stopped 15 km from the village where my family lives. If you'd climb the hill behind our house, you could actually see it. Some of my father's former coworkers lost their homes or were injured. Most of the people had no clue what was coming, because no one thought such a strong tornado could happen in our country. We don't have any tornado warning system, no tornado shelters. So you can find some crazy footage on youtube from people who shot "a strong storm" on their phones from their balconies, not knowing they are staring at an EF4 tornado coming right at them, not realizing that they should hide... There's a great 2-years-old video that doesn't have enough views, made by Jakub Třešňák named "Tornádo na Břeclavsku a Hodonínsku/South Moravia F4 Tornado 2021 (Synced)" that compiles basically all of those videos, chronologically as the tornado happened, with English subtitles. On the other hand, the most viewed video is called "Inside of an F4 tornado (full version)" on channel "mmhardky". It has 7,4 mil. views and you could rename that one "showcasing what not to do when there's a tornado close by"... I think you used part of that one in your video, but not the most insane part.... I can tell you all, expecting a storm here is nowadays totally different! Just 10 days before the one year anniversary of the Hodonin district EF4 tornado, we've got a small EF1 tornado in a village just 7 kms from one of those villages that were destroyed last year. Since then, my parents have actually felt the weird air once more before a strong storm and thought they'd seen a rotating wall cloud forming.... well, we hope South Moravia won't become another European tornado alley, but one can never know.
England just had a tornado the other day, big enough to make international news. Quite significant damage, no deaths. Here in Australia we had 2 small ones EF0-1 on christmas day during severe storms.
In Australia, 1989, my grandpa was selling seed (since he’s a farmer) in Elsmore, NSW. While he was there, he was out having a break in his brother’s smoko shed when the EF3 tornado touched down. Keep in mind that it is so rare to have tornadoes on places like that! The tornado passed over the shed (it hadn’t quite reached 3 at this point) and tore the roof off. My pa ran down to his brother’s house to warn everyone, but was caught on the neighbour’s property. The neighbour’s son was working on the field and ran down to my pa to ask who he was (since he was technically trespassing). The tornado changed direction and my pa managed to drag the boy to a telephone pole to root themselves to the ground. It was shaking and literally being sucked up out of the ground, but my pa held onto the boy and never let go. ❤
@@annabelwestwood6192 I actually found an F2 near the Elsmore area, November 6, 1989. "317," TORNADO PATH 18 KM LONG AND UP TO 500 M WIDE, THIS TRACK 17 KM SE OF ELSMORE TRACK",
@@EdvardTheGreat Wow! That’s awesome. I had been told it was officially an EF2 but it is apparently believed it got to EF3. Regardless, scary experience!
Yo! Beautiful wife, beautiful home, gets to upload some sick tornado content for all of us to enjoy AND has twins?!? You’re truly living the life!! Congrats on your bundles of joy, enjoy them as they will grow so fast! (Also as a mother of a toddler, that no sleep line is so real)
These last years were quite active for tornadoes here, in France. You mentioned the Bihucourt tornado, undoubtedly the most violent and fascinating of all, but other ones were interesting. Im' thinking of the Juvigné tornado that occured last september which seemed to be coming strait from Oklahoma, the Pontarion tornado (a high-end EF2 with a very narrow but powerful path), the Oléron/Port-des-Barques tornado which was a very impressive mesocyclonic waterspout that came on land, or the Longwy/Bascharage tornado (this one initiated in France but caused very severe damages and several injuries in Luxembourg). And I have also to mention the two frenchs (E)F5, in Montville in 1845 and in Palluel in 1967. Two extraordinary tornadoes.
the Bihucourt tornado was strong, but not exceptional (a low EF3) but it is especially its 209km journey which is rare... As for tornadoes in France, they have not been more "active" in recent years, but more filmed, thanks to smartphones and European stormchasers....Not to mention Keraunos, the official organization for tornadoes in France.
Doubt you read comments, but I wanted to mention the 2023 Didsbury Alberta tornado. It was a strong EF4 tornado just north of Calgary that completely leveled multiple houses. Pretty rare for such a strong tornado to occur so close to the Rocky Mountains
Hey Jake! Just recently went in and watched some of your content and now I’m addicted to tornadoes. Your videos are so easy to understand and entertaining, really nice to watch😊❤
I have family living in Hungary and go visit them every few years. One time about three years ago, the forecast said it would be very windy in the area with high chances of rain or even hail. It wasn't anything remarkable until a large swirling cloud started to form directly above the house we were staying at, and producing incredibly strong winds blowing away nearly all the outdoor furniture. Fortunately the swirling cloud never managed to touch the ground or form a proper tornado / twister, but it was a very rare sight and an interesting experience. I even managed to record a video of the whole ordeal!
Another fascinating choice of topic as usual. As someone from the UK I was waiting for a topic like this, just a shame we didn't get a mention. We don't seem to get the larger ones in more recent times like France, Italy, Germany and some other Eastern European countries do, but worth noting we had the biggest tornado outbreak in European history in 1981 - 104 confirmed tornadoes in the space of 5 and a half hours.
A suburb of Manchester just had a EF-2/T5 the other day, there was a tornado on the south coast yesterday, not to mention the T6 which would be a tornado with winds of 161 - 186 mph, while the one in Manchester had somewhere between 137-160mph
@@deathcrashtest64 Yes I heard about that. There was also the 2005 Birmingham tornado. I think it was an F2 and probably the most well known of the UK's more recent tornados with various bits of footage of it. I would imagine we are due a more powerful one before long at some point, given how long it's been since the last F4 and with climate change having an influence.
I'm from Colorado. And was told in school we can't have tornados due to the mountains. Come to find out in the 90s three tornados touched down in the city of Denver at the same time 😂
After being in the 2011 Tuscaloosa tornado, these videos have been a big part in helping me with the fear of tornadoes (and especially windows now). Thanks man, keep it up!
I live in eastern Massachusetts and there was a tornado in Revere, MA several years ago. Revere is only a few towns away from me and also it’s right on the cold Atlantic coast. It was an EF-2 I believe. It also it touched down at 8 in the morning. Absolutely unbelievable that happened. Thunderstorms almost always fall completely apart when they get close to the cold marine air
Great video Swegle, tho there are some points i want to point out, because the lack of research lacked heavily in some areas. 6:56 “europe isn’t known to be tornado active” is actually a pretty contradictory believe a lot of people have. Looking at ESWD, the number of tornado reports in europe is way more than what most would assume. Even in 2021, the number of tornado reports for the year “2021” as far as i can see on the database is over 900. 7:11 If you look at the damage survey by ESSL & CHMI, only a few Damage Indicators in rural areas saw an IF4 rating, including some trees near Moravska nova ves. Most of the IF4 DI’s were exactly within the populated areas, most notably in Mikulcice where a decent amount of IF4 DIs were made. it was even stated that a building would have earned an IF5 rating if the connection between the roof & walls wasn’t found to be faulty, Nor was the IF4 tornado the first in czechia since the Prague tornado of 1119 was rated F4. Let’s also not use the EF scale for european tornadoes since the F, EF & IF have different DI ratings. EF scale DI’s are also not suitable for our buildings standards, as it’s based on american standards. 7:36 Using TA for international tornadoes is not reliable at this moment because it hasn’t been updated to show 2022 & 2023 tornadoes. TA is generally reliable, but shouldn’t be used for international tornadoes until they update it. Alone for 2022 & 2023, they’re missing over 1500 tornadoes from these periods in europe. That does not include the older tornadoes reported in that period. As an example, when TA updates europe, some areas are gonna be more filled with sig tors. In particularly scandinavia where an extreme amount of sig tornadoes through time was discovered & collected by ESWD in that time period, including 4 F4 tornadoes with the recent F4 being from 1928 8:50 To clear up confusing some may have, outbreaks is not the same as individual tornadoes. A number of tornadoes have caused more fatalities in europe than the ivanovo tornado. One famous example is the F4 tornado in spain back in the 1600s that claimed the lives of 600 people
well you should recheck your first point because europe typically has 300-400 tornados. in 2021 they had around 350, and about 550 waterspouts, which are similar to tornados but almost always weaker than than weakest tornado.
@@IraDiaboIi Waterspouts are tornadoes over water, hence why they count it. ICWR mentioned this as well. Fair weather waterspouts are landspouts over water, so intensity is almost identical. Same with a tornadic waterspout/mesocyclonic waterspout. In sweden in the 1960s a boat was tossed by a waterspout which claimed 3 lives. Small Boats itself can weight as much as a car. Obviously boats are more flat & small, and can function like a trailer in terms of DIs, but that’ll still take some strength. ferries here in denmark also have doppler radars from Furuno, which would help contribute to wind speed measurements by radar using gate to gate technique if hit or passed next to it which is a DI on the IF scale.
There was also a large, fairly long tracked Tornado that hit the City of The Gold Coast in Australia on Christmas Night this year. The 1970 Buladelah tornado which occurred in Australia, although unrated is another candidate for a possible F4/F5 level tornado.
was going to raise this tornado, that think was a monster in buladelah. the photos of the tornado on the gold coast on chrissy eve are amazing and i think it ended up being a ef2 @@southGoldcoast
Yesss!! Thank you so much for talking about Australian tornadoes! As an Australian myself, I've been completely fascinated by them, we've certainly had a few interesting events. Sadly, since a lot of the country is completely empty with no people whatsoever, we could've had several more EF4s, or even an EF5 and we'll never know about it. I'll talk about a couple more interesting events below: The Bulahdelah tornado in 1970 was potentially an F5, though it never received an official rating. It destroyed over 1 million trees... and that's basically all the information I can find on it. Possibly the most interesting event (in my personal opinion) was the Brighton tornado of 1918. It was actually an outbreak of 2 (possibly 3, according to some sources) tornadoes which hit the Melbourne suburb of Brighton pretty hard, killing two people, and were officially given a rating of F3. It's just crazy that MULTIPLE large tornadoes hit a place near where I live today. Strong tornadoes tearing through suburban Melbourne is just completely mind blowing. Also just the other day, there was a tornado which hit the Gold Coast (possibly an EF2 from what I've read, though they've received no official rating).
I was in the path of the tornado! Touched down right next to us. I thought it was just a freakishly strong thunderstorm on par to the cyclones that come through until we all saw the damage in the morning. I’ve also been really intrigued and amazed by tornadoes (and cyclones) and to have one right next to me?? To be in one??? My little brain exploded with awe and fear dude I never want to be in that again 😅
God, Swegle. Don't stop what you're doin'. You have brought together two of my favourite areas of study, in this video, that being meteorology and geography. I value that you continuously present new information and stories through your channel. God speed, you magnificent bastard.
Thank you for mentioning Australia. Our biggest tornado was Bulahdelah I believe, which could of been an F5. It'd be nice to see a video about Aussie tornados though!
I remember coming across your channel not long ago and you were still up and coming with not many subs. Its awesome to come across your channel again and see you pushing for 200k and a massive boost in your video quality. I've subbed this time so i don't lose your channel again.
I currently live at the top of Tornado Alley in Minnesota, USA. 42 years before I was born the town I grew up in (Fergus Falls) was hit by an F5 in 1919. Even by the time I grew up there in the 60’s, there were large areas where all houses were relatively newer.
And this this is why you live in Scotland, no tornados, no tsunamis, no volcanos, no bears, no wolves, no venomous or poisonous animals, plenty of parties, good food, and the worlds most beautiful landscape.
Adding another Canadian tornado. Didsbury, Alberta (little over 200km south of Edmonton) recently had an ef4 tornado. Weird coincidence that central Alberta got 2 ef4s
@@lightthroughdark Not likely, as is the case here in he US(and everywhere else) the technology for detecting them is just a lot better. As well as everyone having phones with cameras to capture footage of them. I hear people in the area I live say tornadoes are more and more common but that comes with the correlation of rapid advancement of radar technology over the last few decades. It COULD be that there are more tornadoes, but we won't know one way or the other for a few more decades with modern radar technology to compare the numbers to. Just 60 years ago a tornado could've occurred someone rural, but if no one saw it and reported it then it might've just gone completely unnoticed.
@@lightthroughdark Well we have had more active years in terms of tornadoes but the intensity is quite something this year. It’s also a coincidence that there is little to no affect on tornadoes in the UK because of climate change.
i was never really interested in weather topics except like some documentaries on the tv but when i discovered your channel i fell in love, now i'm an weather nerd haha
Incredible video. I was in Canberra Australia when my passion for storms really started. During the 2003 fires there's been a long track Ef2 tornado generated by the pyrocumulonimus clouds. It's really like the fires genererated a supercell which generated a tornado. I think it's the only reported case of Pyro-tornadogenesis. Later there's been debate whether the Carr fire tornado was also caused by PyroCB clouds. These clouds can even produce black hail as ice mixes with ashes. Fire, tornado, lightning, black hail, a hell of a landscape.
I appreciate the way you handled this video, not too serious but handling the tornados with human casualties with an appropriate level of restraint. I also appreciate relevant visual aid instead of pointless B roll. Great video.
The first time I ever heard of a tornado was when I was 6. I was watching an animated tv series of the Wizard of Oz. I live in the Netherlands and tornadoes are very rare over here. So when the tornado scene came, I didn't even think it could be real. I thought it was just part of the magic in the story. Still, even though I thought it couldn't be real... the sudden weather changes, the way the tornado slowly came closer and closer to the house, the lamps shaking, the floor cracking, the sound of the wind... it was so scary I never forgot. My fascination for tornadoes began right there. And now it continious with your videos. Thank you for all the hard work!
Though the Edmonton tornado actually happened in 1987, the year 1985 saw two tornadoes rated f4 hit Canada, most notably the Barrie f4. That was the same outbreak that produced the Niles-Wheatland f5 in the US.
I'm actually from Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada and that EF5 tornado in Elie actually almost hit my grandparents farm. My grandpa was at the farm at the time and could see the tornado from his truck out in his field. If it would have continued on it's path, it likely would have hit my grandparents farm. If you go back and look on the map, for reference, my grandparents farm is located on 426 Rd by the Hutterite colony (that's all I'll share so I don't dox myself lol). That tornado and the storm it came from actually gave me a fear of tornadoes for a few years, and I would have pretty bad anxiety attacks every time there were bad storms in Winnipeg as tornadoes are pretty common here. I find them fascinating now though, as an adult.
I live in a tiny desert valley of central Arizona and a few years ago we got hit by hurricane remnants when my mind was blown as I stepped outside and saw cloud rotation over my house, the sky turned green and everything. An EF0 ended up touching down a couple miles up the road. Now my tiny Arizona town is mentioned in a Wikipedia article about a hurricane lol
When you were checking for Europe, hopefully a little F4 in Hungary also popped up from 1924. I wasn't able to find any photos, only written records. It's the biggest tornado in Hungary to date. Cool video, as usual!
To clarify for anyone who's curious, tornadoes in South Africa aren't as rare you think. We get about 5-10 of them annually, which is quite rare compared to the US but still it's not unheard of here.
Here's a fun thing you can cover once in terms of "rare tornadoes": pyrocumulus tornadoes. Often times when people talk about "fire tornadoes," they're talking about fire whirls/fire devils. But it turns out there are a few genuine instances of pyrocumulonimbus clouds forming mesocyclonic tornadoes, and one of those instances was in Canberra, .Australia, in 2003! It was even rated an EF3. I believe there was another one relatively recently in California.
There have been two tornadoes in La Paz, Bolivia (South America) in the past few years. You might have heard about them due to how recent they are, but I think they are worth it for this list. They occurred in December 2019 and December 2022. I saw the 2022 from very far away and I still can’t believe what I saw. We are not known for having tornadoes.
Not a tornado, but during the nascar race at Daytona in august of last year there was a sizable water spout behind the track, the cars were still going around at the time, really cool to witness
Fun fact about the Worcester E4: In addition to the E4, three powerful rain wrapped E3’s also touched down. One E3 went through the small town of Franklin, MA where I live. In our town archive, the local newspaper covered it extensively. The most interesting account documented a first hand account of a women and her three children who were directly in its path but miraculously survived. No one talks about the other three tornadoes that touched down that day!
There was an EF4 that struck Delores, Uruguay in 2016. The compilation of videos from that tornado show some of this most impressive "inside a tornado" footage that exists. The shoe store security footage especially, as it shows inside the core of the EF4 without the camera being directly hit, so you can see the flood of debris rush into the street like a tsunami.
We had a tornado outbreak in NJ two years ago from remains of Hurricane Ida. EF3 hit my area and got deployed with the FD to assist in rescue efforts. We’ve only had 180 confirmed tornados here but only a very few have been anything more than EF2
There was also a crazy tornado in MA in 2011, an EF3 touched down about a half mile from my house. I'll obviously never forget it. I'd love it if you cover this one sometime.
We occasionally get tornadoes here in Western Washington. I remember one a few years ago that hit just offshore of DuPont, less than 3 miles from where I lived at the time.
I live on the Pacific Coast just south of San Francisco, CA. In the 1980's when I was a teenager a freak tornado destroyed 3 houses and ripped the entire roof from another home and left it hundreds of feet up a mountain. Pretty wild stuff!
This summer I was driving from Drumheller to Calgary. While I was driving me and my partner both received a tornado warning alert on our phones. Later once we reached Calgary we found out about the EF4 tornado that had hit a town (Airdrie) just a few km from us. Scary stuff. Thankfully I don't think anyone was killed.
I was there in Edmonton when that tornado hit. There's also the Canada Day Tornady near Didsbury, Alberta, which struck just this year (2023) on Canada Day. I drive by the place it strikes on my way to work.
Thanks for including some footage of the Billings MT fathers day tornado at 1:23, I remember that day well. As a billings MT native I've seen 3 tornadoes, it blows my mind that there's people that live in Oklahoma that have never seen one when I've seen 3.
Whenever I heard news of tornadoes hitting in Australia, it’d nearly always seemed to occur near Ballarat. But it seems mid north and mid western Victoria is a bit of a tornado magnet. And the funny thing is that Australians reacting to these disasters is so different to those in the US because we understate everything. Like in US reports you’ll have people in tears, inconsolable, and rightly so. But then there was this news report of a tornado hitting I think Albury which destroyed a caravan park, and the one local they interviewed was like, “Not looking too good mate, nah.” As Carl Barron said, we understate everything.
3:24 that’s us! It was a small and random twister that was just down the road from my work. We get a decent amount of water spouts and small tornadoes for having such a small land mass. During hurricane michael in 2018 there was a tornado that hit just below the quality inn we were staying at in niceville Florida just across the bay. It twisted and tore up a boat warehouse and sounded like a semi truck barreling past you on the highway
There are several places in the US that have been hit multiple times by F3+ tornadoes in recent history. Taking a look at these places would be interesting.
I’m from Texas in the United States, I live in the more northern areas of Texas where tornadoes or, “twisters” we often call them where I am from, are quite common I see at least 10 twisters each year, and hear about many, many more near me. Despite this familiarity twisters are still a very scary thing, and I have healthy respect for their potential and power, and I always move to safe place to help protect myself. Due to this my heart goes out to those from places such as Europe and lesser affected areas of the United States, because they aren’t as familiar with these beasts, and often do not know proper ways be safe when they hit. Making twister a far scarier experience for them.
You should check out the recent tornado that hit Jersey in the Channel Islands in November. It was rated a T6, equivalent to an EF4, very rare for the UK! It was associated with extratropical storm Ciarran, and also contained large hail.
Usually T6 should be only considered (low end) F3, the ESWD only confirms T5. In different Scales the damage Descriptions are the metric which should be compared and not the assigned windspeeds to the ratings, since these are only there for better understanding but not the metric on which Tornadoes get rated. (Corrected mistake, originally i wrote T6 is high and F3, which was wrong)
A great video. We get a lot in the UK but they’re all pretty weedy. I’ve actually seen the odd funnel being born in certain storm clouds but they never amount to much
We just had a short lived tornado in Manchester two days ago that ripped rooves off of houses and damaged well built brick buildings, no deaths reported thankfully.
Being from the UK myself I've regrettably never seen even a funnel but they do say we get more tornadoes per square mile than anywhere else outside of the US I believe. It's either us or the Netherlands anyway.
I remember back in 2021 at my home in Woods Cross, Utah, when a super strong storm hit late in the evening. It was raining pretty hard, but for about 30 seconds the rain pelted the house super hard. I looked outside and all I saw was dense rain and clouds, but it turned out that an EF1 tornado had passed straight over my house. Utah doesn’t receive many tornados, so having one pass right over my house was quite an experience!
Weirdest one for me was in the UK a few years ago. There it was, large as life, then the camera panned down to a sign saying - 'Lincoln 8 Miles, Sleaford 10 Miles'. Not something I'd ever thought I'd see !
Canada is the second-most active country for tornados, although most are in EF1 territory. I saw one in Woodbridge, ON while I was travelling through in 2009. Alberta's topography is the same as Tornado Alley so it's not surprising they've gotten the worst ones.
I lived in Vancouver at the time, but was visiting family in Calgary when the tornado hit Edmonton. It was so windy in Calgary there was corrugated metal dancing through the parking lot. I went back to Vancouver and started the school year with a story, saying how I was glad to be back in a nice, safe earthquake zone 😆
My country (Hungary) did experience one deadliest F4 tornado back in 1924, Starting from Bia, swept through the entire Zsámbéki, destroying the villages as far as Vác with winds of 324 km/h. 4 confirmed dead and injured 30 people.
There was a big, random EF4 in Didsbury, Alberta this year, and tornadoes that close to the Rockies are generally pretty rare, especially a violent one
Also did you know on the border town of fort smith in the N.W.T, there was a ef3 tornado the touched down in the centre of town it was pretty crazy. It happened in June of 2019 when I was living there nothing crazy happened and the tornado lasted about 1-3 min while it flipped trampolines and tore shed apart. Both of these circumstances are pretty rare places for tornadoes. But now impossible.
My family survived the Black Friday tornado in Edmonton. My grandfather in particular tried to warn his coworkers at the factory he worked at that it was coming and that they needed to get to cover, but no one believed him, and a lot of them lost their lives because of it
almost done with the video now, and i have to say, i love the quality of your content so much. weather/tornadoes are my special interests, and your videos give me so much new, fun information to expand my knowledge. i will also say, i don't appreciate the use of AI for the thumbnail. I think real photos are much cooler and more striking!
We had one touch down in Hurricane, WV a few years back. It wasn’t massive and didn’t last long. I will never forget it. It was about 11 at night and it was storming bad out. The wind woke us up. I love storms so I opened my door and looked down the street and saw a freaking tornado about 1500 ft away. I grabbed my 2 year old daughter and wife and ran downstairs. It was scary. After it passed, I went outside to check the damage. We will in a subdivision. On the other side of my street, a couple houses roofs were gone and a ton of trees down on homes. But on our side, nothing. Only damage to my house was my trampoline was flipped over. We were blessed to have no damage. Could not believe it. Just 10 feet away homes were destroyed. But not my side of the street. Never knew West Virginia could have tornados. Pretty sure I still have photos of the damage on my old phone. Wish I could have filmed it but honestly the only thing going through my mind was my wife and daughter and wanted to get them to safety.
Hey Swegle! Great video. I just wanted to say that the Edmonton tornado is actually a tornado that happened July 31, 1987 😊 and Eli is actually said like this Ee-lie. Merry Christmas and happy new year from 🇨🇦 Canada
My mother told me her story of the Worcester, MA tornado: She was 14 at the time and staying with her uncle and his family in Worcester. She saw how bad the weather was getting and had a bad feeling about it. So she called my grandfather, said she was scared and didn't want to stay. He drove along Route 9 to get her and drove all the way back to Hyde Park. Later they heard about the tornado. My mom has always had an intuitive streak and it served her well that day. Nothing happened to her uncle's house, by the way.
Congratulations to you and your wife on your twin bubs! 🎉🌻 awesome video as always, always informative and interesting!! Love your channel, thanks for mentioning Australia 🇦🇺
We actually had one somewhat recent tornadoes neat my German home town (in Lippstadt/Paderborn and Höxter) last year in 2022 (they were registered as F2s, if I remember right), I'm just happy we don't get them as often, they generally don't seem as strong as yours in the US and that thry usually don't leave as much destruction in their wake (might be because the brick'n'mortar to wooden house ratio is leani g more towards the brick ones, too) 😅
@@WanderingRoeYep, the Fujita-Torro-Scale used in Germany (though we slowly switch to "International Fujita Scale) describes F3 already as severe structural damage of massively built homes and collapse of a few ones.
In March 1990,a powerful 1,7 km wide stove pipe F4 tornado hit several towns, businesses and farms in South Africa. It is believed that this tornado tracked over 200 km before ending it's terror,possibly making this tornado the longest track tornado in Africa.South Africa is also the most tornadic African country with 10-20 tornadoes each year.Tornadoes may be uncommon in South Africa but they have been in South Africa for decades. My grandparents told a few stories about tornadoes they've encountered before.
I live in the greater Montreal Area in Quebec, Canada. Tornadoes here are unheard off. People will honestly laugh if you told them there's even a remote chance of one happening, but last summer, in july, we got a tornado watch, and it got upgraded to tornado warning. In the end, we got, I think, two weak ones. We had another similar scare in may of 2021 (my parents, who live farther north, suffered propriety damage from that storm, and lost power for the most part of a week, other friends of mine got affected too), and even if this feels like not much to "complain" about, it's actually frightening. Supercells aren't a thing here, yet, we now see them. As someone who is fascinated by storms, I guess I do dig more, look more closely and maybe, I worry more. But I prefer to have a plan in the back of my mind, just in case. I told the same to those I love too.
Great timing on this as we got hit by a Tornado (T5, low F3) on Wednesday 27th December just after 11pm in the UK! A supercell thunderstorm was passing over, with heavy rain and wind causing our dogs to bark. I was watching the storm out of the bedroom window and didn't realise the roaring jet engine wind, something we'd never heard before, was an approaching tornado - honestly given where we live it's not the first thing that pops into your mind! Wind became incredibly intense, windows felt like they were going to blow out, our ears popped, car alarms went off, roof slates came down, branches blew past and xmas lights ripped from houses. Lasted 10 to 15 seconds and then fell quiet. Turns out we were incredibly lucky. The tornado passed right over our street and house as it intensified. Just 200m further up it began wrecking houses, leaving over 100 badly damaged before it passed into moorland and presumably dissipated. Walking around in the daylight the level of damage was shocking to see, even just the roads around home were covered with pulverised branches and roof tiles. Personally we got off lightly with a violently re-arranged garden and some roof tile damage. The community has rallied together to help people who've lost their homes, clean up downed trees and start getting everything back together. Incredibly nobody was injured, probably helped by the time of night it hit. I'd always wanted to see a tornado, I'd just never intended it to be from our bedroom window.
One of the most forgotten F4 tornado ever was in Smiths Station Georgia in a little bit of Columbus Georgia. I live in Columbus and it just barely missed the city of Columbus.
My dad was in edmonton during the black Friday tornado, he was working downtown about 1km from the tornado, he remembers the streets flooding from debris clogging drains
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I was sick while I filmed this so if I sound a bit rough. My b. Also in terms of European tornadoes, I do plan on doing a dedicated video to the topic so stay tuned for that! Thanks for watching!
Don't worry, lots of people are sick at this time of year. Just take it easy and rest!
Pleasr make a video on Tornadoes in India too.
please don't use ai for your thumbnails
Just shows your dedication bud. We appreciate you and your content!
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The 1984 soviet tornado outbreak was truly insane, you should read more in-depth into the damage reports of the Ivanovo-Lunyovo & Kostroma-Lyubim tornadoes. Not sure why it was downgraded to F4, but Torro still has it as a T10 F5 equivalent to 270-300 mph. The torro rating fits perfectly when you had both tornadoes do this:
- a 350 ton crane lifted 3 meters into the air and twisted
- another 353 ton crane toppled and insanely mangled
- a 55 ton water tank thrown 200 meters
- the asphalt of a highway scoured off
- Complete obliteration of a reinforced concrete building (likely a commie block)
- dropped 1kg hailstones
Some people questions the accuracy of these proported event details report you listed
Pp poo poo
i do really doubt it but thats fucking insane if true
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I will never forget the 2015 F3 Bützow Tornado here in northeast Germany. This tornado made me realise that we, too, can get strong tornadoes. The local radiostation were talking about it for days. Through my own research, I even found out that only like 1 hour away an F5 Tornado touched down in Woldek, but that was in 1764. This one is apparently well documented. I definitely have to read these documents in the near future
In general Europe has quite a lot Tornadoes including strong and severe ones. Still a lot of People completely deny its existance or compare it with the US in an incorrect way. (Meaning they claim that entire Cities regularely get completely destroyed regularely or just compare the total numbers of Germany and the US without acknowledging the very different size of both countries)
No Europe doesn't really get that much tornadoes and strong ones are very rare in Europe@@lukasrentz3238
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I was about to write that comment....
Ja, ich vergesse auch manchmal, dass wir selbst hier in Schland Tornados haben können. 😮
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My grandfather was in Boston at the time of the Worcester tornado. He said he was on a street that ran right in that direction, and when you looked down towards Worcester, "it looked like night had fallen"
That's crazy, Worcester is about 20 minutes drive from me, hard to imagine that level of destruction or that sized tornado here. We had one that did a bit of damage I think about 12 years ago, not terribly much though at least by southern/midwestern standards.
Since then had a couple little itty-bitty anorexic ones, my brother looked out his window and saw one strolling down the street before it blew out.
Yeah. I remember the EF3 2011 Tornado. A bit recent but still in Massachusetts.
My dad was driving on Rte. 9 in Southboro when the 1953 tornado hit. He had to pull over and stop when the high winds and hail came and the sky went black, but he had no idea there was a dangerous tornado right behind him. (In 1953, no one thought such a thing could happen in Massachusetts.) As soon as it cleared a little he continued on his way not knowing that the building he had just gone past was now destroyed and the storm's last 3 victims taken. He learned about it all after he got home.
Goes hard
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Wow! Didn't know you were a Daddy, and twins at that! Enjoy your little ones, they'll be big before you know it. Awesome content.....you have a unique way of looking at things and presenting it to us weather weenies.
Those kids are gonna be studying correlation coefficients by 5 years old 🤣
@@RT-qd8ylyou think they be doing that at like 5 they’ll probably do more science than that
Thanks a lot for covering the Czech F4. It was a huge and unexpected tragedy, but unfortunately (probably because it was overshadowed by the pandemic), it only remains a horrible memory here in Czechia and it basically isn’t known anywhere else.
Great video as always
In germany we heard the tragic news and were warned the day before about the potential of big tornadoes, nothing happened that day, but the next day as the danger moved to east a big supercell dropped the tornado.
its not true, just because us media tells you otherwise doesnt mean no one has noticed it, netherlands, denmark, germany, luxembourg etc. it was all over the news.
As a Moravian who lives in Moravská Nová Ves i confirm that the F4 tornádo way destructive
This is something that I really love from RUclips where you can find people talking about the things that they like.
I wanted to know more about tornadoes so I was looking for a channel and found you.
Thanks man
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A few notes: that supposed tornado path in Russia at 9:23 is 100% in Asia. Also, pretty much all powerful tornadoes come from cumulonimbus clouds. Cumulus clouds clouds rarely spawn tornadoes and if they do they are generally super weak.
yeah and most of Asia is Russia
asia is continent russia is continent sised country
@@s.8186 Most of Russia is Asia. Most of Asia is other than Russia. Remember, the middle east and India are Asia too
@@RT-qd8yl it is however worth noting that russians originated in the europe and colonised the siberian parts, they are asian only geopolitically. tribes like the ket, tuva, etc. are the real asians here
I think the UK gets those because I saw a uk tornado and it was small (it was the Birmingham F3 tornado) I saw a roof get toppled over onto another house then a tree get snapped in half (by the way I think the uk had a stronger tornado once years ago)
*Czech viewer's perspective and story:*
Hi from a new subscriber here! I've only recently discovered your channel (it's a great one!), but I've always been fascinated by tornadoes. I had never considered them a real danger in my country (in the middle of Europe), tornadoes were "the big ones happen only in America" kind of a thing, but I always took interest in videos explaining how they form, the structure of storms, accompanying weather phenomena etc. I live and work in Prague, but my family lives in the region of South Moravia, Hodonin district. In the summer of 2021 we had some severe thunderstorms. On the 24th ofJune I was looking at an online rain forecast, planning my evening activities. The radar showed a huge incoming complex of strong storms spanning across our whole country. I told to myself "damn, this looks nasty", because they looked like real supercells and a thought "if I'd live in the US, I would be afraid that there could be a tornado" actually did cross my mind. That evening, I called my mum, to chat about how my family was doing. My mum told me that a huge storm was coming. That the air "felt weird", that she had never experienced anything like that before a storm. They have also seen some "strange clouds" and she described mammatus clouds to me. I could hear thunder rumbling over the phone. Then I heard my father come over to my mum and tell her with a grave voice that a strong tornado had just completely levelled a nearby village of Hrušky to the ground. My father is a retired firefighter, so he got the news immediately, probably when the tornado was still on the ground. As you've said in this video, it reached the strength of EF4. It destroyed 5 villages and killed 6 people, its path was 26 kilometres long and at some stages it reached a width of 500 metres. It stopped 15 km from the village where my family lives. If you'd climb the hill behind our house, you could actually see it. Some of my father's former coworkers lost their homes or were injured. Most of the people had no clue what was coming, because no one thought such a strong tornado could happen in our country. We don't have any tornado warning system, no tornado shelters. So you can find some crazy footage on youtube from people who shot "a strong storm" on their phones from their balconies, not knowing they are staring at an EF4 tornado coming right at them, not realizing that they should hide... There's a great 2-years-old video that doesn't have enough views, made by Jakub Třešňák named "Tornádo na Břeclavsku a Hodonínsku/South Moravia F4 Tornado 2021 (Synced)" that compiles basically all of those videos, chronologically as the tornado happened, with English subtitles. On the other hand, the most viewed video is called "Inside of an F4 tornado (full version)" on channel "mmhardky". It has 7,4 mil. views and you could rename that one "showcasing what not to do when there's a tornado close by"... I think you used part of that one in your video, but not the most insane part....
I can tell you all, expecting a storm here is nowadays totally different! Just 10 days before the one year anniversary of the Hodonin district EF4 tornado, we've got a small EF1 tornado in a village just 7 kms from one of those villages that were destroyed last year. Since then, my parents have actually felt the weird air once more before a strong storm and thought they'd seen a rotating wall cloud forming.... well, we hope South Moravia won't become another European tornado alley, but one can never know.
England just had a tornado the other day, big enough to make international news. Quite significant damage, no deaths. Here in Australia we had 2 small ones EF0-1 on christmas day during severe storms.
In Australia, 1989, my grandpa was selling seed (since he’s a farmer) in Elsmore, NSW. While he was there, he was out having a break in his brother’s smoko shed when the EF3 tornado touched down. Keep in mind that it is so rare to have tornadoes on places like that!
The tornado passed over the shed (it hadn’t quite reached 3 at this point) and tore the roof off. My pa ran down to his brother’s house to warn everyone, but was caught on the neighbour’s property. The neighbour’s son was working on the field and ran down to my pa to ask who he was (since he was technically trespassing). The tornado changed direction and my pa managed to drag the boy to a telephone pole to root themselves to the ground. It was shaking and literally being sucked up out of the ground, but my pa held onto the boy and never let go. ❤
I was there too.
I searched and searched for this tornado on the tornado archive. Do you think it happened in the Winter? (Or 1st of July) or Summer (November 6th)
@@EdvardTheGreat Sadly I don’t remember it very well. He is no longer with us to tell me, but it was in Elsmore in I believe 1997.
@@annabelwestwood6192 I actually found an F2 near the Elsmore area, November 6, 1989.
"317," TORNADO PATH 18 KM LONG AND UP TO 500 M WIDE, THIS TRACK 17 KM SE OF ELSMORE TRACK",
@@EdvardTheGreat Wow! That’s awesome. I had been told it was officially an EF2 but it is apparently believed it got to EF3. Regardless, scary experience!
Yo! Beautiful wife, beautiful home, gets to upload some sick tornado content for all of us to enjoy AND has twins?!? You’re truly living the life!! Congrats on your bundles of joy, enjoy them as they will grow so fast!
(Also as a mother of a toddler, that no sleep line is so real)
These last years were quite active for tornadoes here, in France. You mentioned the Bihucourt tornado, undoubtedly the most violent and fascinating of all, but other ones were interesting. Im' thinking of the Juvigné tornado that occured last september which seemed to be coming strait from Oklahoma, the Pontarion tornado (a high-end EF2 with a very narrow but powerful path), the Oléron/Port-des-Barques tornado which was a very impressive mesocyclonic waterspout that came on land, or the Longwy/Bascharage tornado (this one initiated in France but caused very severe damages and several injuries in Luxembourg). And I have also to mention the two frenchs (E)F5, in Montville in 1845 and in Palluel in 1967. Two extraordinary tornadoes.
the Bihucourt tornado was strong, but not exceptional (a low EF3) but it is especially its 209km journey which is rare...
As for tornadoes in France, they have not been more "active" in recent years, but more filmed, thanks to smartphones and European stormchasers....Not to mention Keraunos, the official organization for tornadoes in France.
@@Lodai974Man, even tornadoes now have official organizations that sponsor them... That's wild!
heh
Doubt you read comments, but I wanted to mention the 2023 Didsbury Alberta tornado. It was a strong EF4 tornado just north of Calgary that completely leveled multiple houses. Pretty rare for such a strong tornado to occur so close to the Rocky Mountains
Hey Jake!
Just recently went in and watched some of your content and now I’m addicted to tornadoes. Your videos are so easy to understand and entertaining, really nice to watch😊❤
I have family living in Hungary and go visit them every few years. One time about three years ago, the forecast said it would be very windy in the area with high chances of rain or even hail. It wasn't anything remarkable until a large swirling cloud started to form directly above the house we were staying at, and producing incredibly strong winds blowing away nearly all the outdoor furniture. Fortunately the swirling cloud never managed to touch the ground or form a proper tornado / twister, but it was a very rare sight and an interesting experience. I even managed to record a video of the whole ordeal!
I was there too.
Another fascinating choice of topic as usual. As someone from the UK I was waiting for a topic like this, just a shame we didn't get a mention. We don't seem to get the larger ones in more recent times like France, Italy, Germany and some other Eastern European countries do, but worth noting we had the biggest tornado outbreak in European history in 1981 - 104 confirmed tornadoes in the space of 5 and a half hours.
A suburb of Manchester just had a EF-2/T5 the other day, there was a tornado on the south coast yesterday, not to mention the T6 which would be a tornado with winds of 161 - 186 mph, while the one in Manchester had somewhere between 137-160mph
@@deathcrashtest64 Yes I heard about that. There was also the 2005 Birmingham tornado. I think it was an F2 and probably the most well known of the UK's more recent tornados with various bits of footage of it. I would imagine we are due a more powerful one before long at some point, given how long it's been since the last F4 and with climate change having an influence.
Birmingham was a T5 but wider area of T5/EF-2 Damage. @@joewhite22
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It is believed the strongest tornado to hit the UK was in 1666 in Lincolnshire and it was a t9
I love this channel! It always manages to satisfy my craving for this specific topic with a well researched video!
I'm from Colorado. And was told in school we can't have tornados due to the mountains. Come to find out in the 90s three tornados touched down in the city of Denver at the same time 😂
Had no idea you were married or had babies! Very cute and congratulations Sweg ^^ scary video clips too...
After being in the 2011 Tuscaloosa tornado, these videos have been a big part in helping me with the fear of tornadoes (and especially windows now).
Thanks man, keep it up!
I live in eastern Massachusetts and there was a tornado in Revere, MA several years ago. Revere is only a few towns away from me and also it’s right on the cold Atlantic coast. It was an EF-2 I believe. It also it touched down at 8 in the morning. Absolutely unbelievable that happened. Thunderstorms almost always fall completely apart when they get close to the cold marine air
Oh yeah I remember that too
We got a weirdly high amount of tornados this past year as well. But yeah I also remember that.
Central here. I think I remember that one, they played that porch window view footage looking out at the bridge over and over for a couple weeks.
Great video Swegle, tho there are some points i want to point out, because the lack of research lacked heavily in some areas.
6:56 “europe isn’t known to be tornado active” is actually a pretty contradictory believe a lot of people have. Looking at ESWD, the number of tornado reports in europe is way more than what most would assume. Even in 2021, the number of tornado reports for the year “2021” as far as i can see on the database is over 900.
7:11 If you look at the damage survey by ESSL & CHMI, only a few Damage Indicators in rural areas saw an IF4 rating, including some trees near Moravska nova ves. Most of the IF4 DI’s were exactly within the populated areas, most notably in Mikulcice where a decent amount of IF4 DIs were made. it was even stated that a building would have earned an IF5 rating if the connection between the roof & walls wasn’t found to be faulty, Nor was the IF4 tornado the first in czechia since the Prague tornado of 1119 was rated F4. Let’s also not use the EF scale for european tornadoes since the F, EF & IF have different DI ratings. EF scale DI’s are also not suitable for our buildings standards, as it’s based on american standards.
7:36 Using TA for international tornadoes is not reliable at this moment because it hasn’t been updated to show 2022 & 2023 tornadoes. TA is generally reliable, but shouldn’t be used for international tornadoes until they update it. Alone for 2022 & 2023, they’re missing over 1500 tornadoes from these periods in europe. That does not include the older tornadoes reported in that period. As an example, when TA updates europe, some areas are gonna be more filled with sig tors. In particularly scandinavia where an extreme amount of sig tornadoes through time was discovered & collected by ESWD in that time period, including 4 F4 tornadoes with the recent F4 being from 1928
8:50 To clear up confusing some may have, outbreaks is not the same as individual tornadoes. A number of tornadoes have caused more fatalities in europe than the ivanovo tornado. One famous example is the F4 tornado in spain back in the 1600s that claimed the lives of 600 people
Jesus uh.. Someone mind breaking this down, I'm NOT reading all that.
well you should recheck your first point because europe typically has 300-400 tornados. in 2021 they had around 350, and about 550 waterspouts, which are similar to tornados but almost always weaker than than weakest tornado.
@@IraDiaboIi Waterspouts are tornadoes over water, hence why they count it. ICWR mentioned this as well. Fair weather waterspouts are landspouts over water, so intensity is almost identical. Same with a tornadic waterspout/mesocyclonic waterspout. In sweden in the 1960s a boat was tossed by a waterspout which claimed 3 lives. Small Boats itself can weight as much as a car. Obviously boats are more flat & small, and can function like a trailer in terms of DIs, but that’ll still take some strength. ferries here in denmark also have doppler radars from Furuno, which would help contribute to wind speed measurements by radar using gate to gate technique if hit or passed next to it which is a DI on the IF scale.
@@IraDiaboIi are you kinda confused? watersprouts ARE tornados, they do everything like tornados, the clouds, the pressure differencial etc.
There was also a large, fairly long tracked Tornado that hit the City of The Gold Coast in Australia on Christmas Night this year.
The 1970 Buladelah tornado which occurred in Australia, although unrated is another candidate for a possible F4/F5 level tornado.
we just had on Christmas night this year
was going to raise this tornado, that think was a monster in buladelah. the photos of the tornado on the gold coast on chrissy eve are amazing and i think it ended up being a ef2
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@@tomknox5952 yea they say it was a EF2 that we got hit by I would say it was easily have been a Ef3
@@southGoldcoast absolutely, the couplet on radar looked crazy that’s Higgins storm chasing out up as well as a house being flattened at mt tambourine
Even had a weak echo hole which is normally a sign of a huge tornado
I love this topic! Thank you for making this! You made this tornado fanatic’s day🦋
I remember when that happened. I lived in the town next to revere(winthrop) . Everyone was shocked by that tornado
Yesss!! Thank you so much for talking about Australian tornadoes! As an Australian myself, I've been completely fascinated by them, we've certainly had a few interesting events. Sadly, since a lot of the country is completely empty with no people whatsoever, we could've had several more EF4s, or even an EF5 and we'll never know about it. I'll talk about a couple more interesting events below:
The Bulahdelah tornado in 1970 was potentially an F5, though it never received an official rating. It destroyed over 1 million trees... and that's basically all the information I can find on it.
Possibly the most interesting event (in my personal opinion) was the Brighton tornado of 1918. It was actually an outbreak of 2 (possibly 3, according to some sources) tornadoes which hit the Melbourne suburb of Brighton pretty hard, killing two people, and were officially given a rating of F3. It's just crazy that MULTIPLE large tornadoes hit a place near where I live today. Strong tornadoes tearing through suburban Melbourne is just completely mind blowing.
Also just the other day, there was a tornado which hit the Gold Coast (possibly an EF2 from what I've read, though they've received no official rating).
I was in the path of the tornado! Touched down right next to us.
I thought it was just a freakishly strong thunderstorm on par to the cyclones that come through until we all saw the damage in the morning.
I’ve also been really intrigued and amazed by tornadoes (and cyclones) and to have one right next to me?? To be in one??? My little brain exploded with awe and fear dude I never want to be in that again 😅
That 2007 Elie F5 in Canada seems like the most Canadian tornado ever.
Showed up, kept looking beautiful, didn't harm a soul, and left.
God, Swegle. Don't stop what you're doin'. You have brought together two of my favourite areas of study, in this video, that being meteorology and geography. I value that you continuously present new information and stories through your channel. God speed, you magnificent bastard.
Thank you for mentioning Australia. Our biggest tornado was Bulahdelah I believe, which could of been an F5. It'd be nice to see a video about Aussie tornados though!
Aussie here too and yes, would love a full video on our tornadoes!
We also just had one on the gold coast lol
We get a few fire tornadoes too, so that would be cool to mention.
could have.
I remember coming across your channel not long ago and you were still up and coming with not many subs. Its awesome to come across your channel again and see you pushing for 200k and a massive boost in your video quality. I've subbed this time so i don't lose your channel again.
I currently live at the top of Tornado Alley in Minnesota, USA. 42 years before I was born the town I grew up in (Fergus Falls) was hit by an F5 in 1919. Even by the time I grew up there in the 60’s, there were large areas where all houses were relatively newer.
And this this is why you live in Scotland, no tornados, no tsunamis, no volcanos, no bears, no wolves, no venomous or poisonous animals, plenty of parties, good food, and the worlds most beautiful landscape.
Nah me hungary
After England's bullshit, they earned it
You have the most scary out of all, an accent nobody can understand
Only downside is the close proximity to England
@Bush4Ever2004 LOL
Always great as usual, Jake! Keep up the good work, and the excellent research!
Adding another Canadian tornado.
Didsbury, Alberta (little over 200km south of Edmonton) recently had an ef4 tornado.
Weird coincidence that central Alberta got 2 ef4s
A T5 (EF3) tornado hit Manchester UK the other day, thats fairly unusual i'd say.
A T6 tornado (EF3) hit Jersey as well around 2 months ago.
@@thetallweatherman2246It seems tornadoes in the UK are becoming more common, or just stronger.
that is highly unusual for england! storm gerrit was a wild storm for sure.
@@lightthroughdark Not likely, as is the case here in he US(and everywhere else) the technology for detecting them is just a lot better. As well as everyone having phones with cameras to capture footage of them. I hear people in the area I live say tornadoes are more and more common but that comes with the correlation of rapid advancement of radar technology over the last few decades. It COULD be that there are more tornadoes, but we won't know one way or the other for a few more decades with modern radar technology to compare the numbers to. Just 60 years ago a tornado could've occurred someone rural, but if no one saw it and reported it then it might've just gone completely unnoticed.
@@lightthroughdark Well we have had more active years in terms of tornadoes but the intensity is quite something this year. It’s also a coincidence that there is little to no affect on tornadoes in the UK because of climate change.
i was never really interested in weather topics except like some documentaries on the tv but when i discovered your channel i fell in love, now i'm an weather nerd haha
Incredible video. I was in Canberra Australia when my passion for storms really started. During the 2003 fires there's been a long track Ef2 tornado generated by the pyrocumulonimus clouds. It's really like the fires genererated a supercell which generated a tornado. I think it's the only reported case of Pyro-tornadogenesis. Later there's been debate whether the Carr fire tornado was also caused by PyroCB clouds. These clouds can even produce black hail as ice mixes with ashes. Fire, tornado, lightning, black hail, a hell of a landscape.
I think it was an EF3, actually, even crazier. That thing was horrifying, but incredibly fascinating.
I appreciate the way you handled this video, not too serious but handling the tornados with human casualties with an appropriate level of restraint. I also appreciate relevant visual aid instead of pointless B roll. Great video.
The first time I ever heard of a tornado was when I was 6. I was watching an animated tv series of the Wizard of Oz. I live in the Netherlands and tornadoes are very rare over here. So when the tornado scene came, I didn't even think it could be real. I thought it was just part of the magic in the story. Still, even though I thought it couldn't be real... the sudden weather changes, the way the tornado slowly came closer and closer to the house, the lamps shaking, the floor cracking, the sound of the wind... it was so scary I never forgot. My fascination for tornadoes began right there. And now it continious with your videos. Thank you for all the hard work!
Though the Edmonton tornado actually happened in 1987, the year 1985 saw two tornadoes rated f4 hit Canada, most notably the Barrie f4. That was the same outbreak that produced the Niles-Wheatland f5 in the US.
I'm actually from Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada and that EF5 tornado in Elie actually almost hit my grandparents farm. My grandpa was at the farm at the time and could see the tornado from his truck out in his field. If it would have continued on it's path, it likely would have hit my grandparents farm. If you go back and look on the map, for reference, my grandparents farm is located on 426 Rd by the Hutterite colony (that's all I'll share so I don't dox myself lol). That tornado and the storm it came from actually gave me a fear of tornadoes for a few years, and I would have pretty bad anxiety attacks every time there were bad storms in Winnipeg as tornadoes are pretty common here. I find them fascinating now though, as an adult.
I live in a tiny desert valley of central Arizona and a few years ago we got hit by hurricane remnants when my mind was blown as I stepped outside and saw cloud rotation over my house, the sky turned green and everything. An EF0 ended up touching down a couple miles up the road. Now my tiny Arizona town is mentioned in a Wikipedia article about a hurricane lol
When you were checking for Europe, hopefully a little F4 in Hungary also popped up from 1924. I wasn't able to find any photos, only written records. It's the biggest tornado in Hungary to date.
Cool video, as usual!
It's always a good day when Swegle uploads a new vid. Carol Ann WX makes alot of good videos on foreign tornadoes too.
To clarify for anyone who's curious, tornadoes in South Africa aren't as rare you think. We get about 5-10 of them annually, which is quite rare compared to the US but still it's not unheard of here.
It's always a good day when Swegle Studios uploads
Here's a fun thing you can cover once in terms of "rare tornadoes": pyrocumulus tornadoes. Often times when people talk about "fire tornadoes," they're talking about fire whirls/fire devils. But it turns out there are a few genuine instances of pyrocumulonimbus clouds forming mesocyclonic tornadoes, and one of those instances was in Canberra, .Australia, in 2003! It was even rated an EF3. I believe there was another one relatively recently in California.
There have been two tornadoes in La Paz, Bolivia (South America) in the past few years. You might have heard about them due to how recent they are, but I think they are worth it for this list. They occurred in December 2019 and December 2022. I saw the 2022 from very far away and I still can’t believe what I saw. We are not known for having tornadoes.
1:06. I noticed all the tornadoes were pretty much moving in the same direction. Fascinating.
Not a tornado, but during the nascar race at Daytona in august of last year there was a sizable water spout behind the track, the cars were still going around at the time, really cool to witness
Fun fact about the Worcester E4: In addition to the E4, three powerful rain wrapped E3’s also touched down. One E3 went through the small town of Franklin, MA where I live. In our town archive, the local newspaper covered it extensively. The most interesting account documented a first hand account of a women and her three children who were directly in its path but miraculously survived. No one talks about the other three tornadoes that touched down that day!
There was an EF4 that struck Delores, Uruguay in 2016. The compilation of videos from that tornado show some of this most impressive "inside a tornado" footage that exists. The shoe store security footage especially, as it shows inside the core of the EF4 without the camera being directly hit, so you can see the flood of debris rush into the street like a tsunami.
We had a tornado outbreak in NJ two years ago from remains of Hurricane Ida. EF3 hit my area and got deployed with the FD to assist in rescue efforts. We’ve only had 180 confirmed tornados here but only a very few have been anything more than EF2
There was also a crazy tornado in MA in 2011, an EF3 touched down about a half mile from my house. I'll obviously never forget it. I'd love it if you cover this one sometime.
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i remember this one, was a kid but i still remember it as clear as day
My mom got creepy damage photos from that tornado
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We occasionally get tornadoes here in Western Washington. I remember one a few years ago that hit just offshore of DuPont, less than 3 miles from where I lived at the time.
I live on the Pacific Coast just south of San Francisco, CA. In the 1980's when I was a teenager a freak tornado destroyed 3 houses and ripped the entire roof from another home and left it hundreds of feet up a mountain. Pretty wild stuff!
This summer I was driving from Drumheller to Calgary. While I was driving me and my partner both received a tornado warning alert on our phones. Later once we reached Calgary we found out about the EF4 tornado that had hit a town (Airdrie) just a few km from us. Scary stuff. Thankfully I don't think anyone was killed.
I was thinking about Airdie!
That was a photogenic one, even being as violent as it was!
I was there in Edmonton when that tornado hit. There's also the Canada Day Tornady near Didsbury, Alberta, which struck just this year (2023) on Canada Day. I drive by the place it strikes on my way to work.
Sweet video as always! However as an Edmontonian I would like to inform you that the Black Friday tornado happened in 1987, not 1985!
That is correct
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The Birmingham 2005 tornado was pretty peculiar, was a high end F2 that tore through the city
You mean Birmingham uk? That sounds pretty normal in Birmingham al
Yes Birmingham UK.
You should specify Birmingham, United Kingdom because Birmingham alone is no stranger to tormado enthusiast
Thanks for including some footage of the Billings MT fathers day tornado at 1:23, I remember that day well. As a billings MT native I've seen 3 tornadoes, it blows my mind that there's people that live in Oklahoma that have never seen one when I've seen 3.
Whenever I heard news of tornadoes hitting in Australia, it’d nearly always seemed to occur near Ballarat. But it seems mid north and mid western Victoria is a bit of a tornado magnet.
And the funny thing is that Australians reacting to these disasters is so different to those in the US because we understate everything.
Like in US reports you’ll have people in tears, inconsolable, and rightly so. But then there was this news report of a tornado hitting I think Albury which destroyed a caravan park, and the one local they interviewed was like, “Not looking too good mate, nah.” As Carl Barron said, we understate everything.
3:24 that’s us! It was a small and random twister that was just down the road from my work. We get a decent amount of water spouts and small tornadoes for having such a small land mass. During hurricane michael in 2018 there was a tornado that hit just below the quality inn we were staying at in niceville Florida just across the bay. It twisted and tore up a boat warehouse and sounded like a semi truck barreling past you on the highway
There are several places in the US that have been hit multiple times by F3+ tornadoes in recent history. Taking a look at these places would be interesting.
I’m from Texas in the United States, I live in the more northern areas of Texas where tornadoes or, “twisters” we often call them where I am from, are quite common I see at least 10 twisters each year, and hear about many, many more near me. Despite this familiarity twisters are still a very scary thing, and I have healthy respect for their potential and power, and I always move to safe place to help protect myself.
Due to this my heart goes out to those from places such as Europe and lesser affected areas of the United States, because they aren’t as familiar with these beasts, and often do not know proper ways be safe when they hit. Making twister a far scarier experience for them.
You should check out the recent tornado that hit Jersey in the Channel Islands in November. It was rated a T6, equivalent to an EF4, very rare for the UK! It was associated with extratropical storm Ciarran, and also contained large hail.
Usually T6 should be only considered (low end) F3, the ESWD only confirms T5.
In different Scales the damage Descriptions are the metric which should be compared and not the assigned windspeeds to the ratings, since these are only there for better understanding but not the metric on which Tornadoes get rated.
(Corrected mistake, originally i wrote T6 is high and F3, which was wrong)
T6 is more equivalent to low-end F3 since the TORRO scale and Fujita scale line up when it comes to windspeeds, eg T2 and T3= F1, or T6 and T7=F3
had NO clue this fella had a whole family wow. no wonder you've been looking incredibly tired the last couple vids! Great stuff!
A great video. We get a lot in the UK but they’re all pretty weedy. I’ve actually seen the odd funnel being born in certain storm clouds but they never amount to much
We just had a short lived tornado in Manchester two days ago that ripped rooves off of houses and damaged well built brick buildings, no deaths reported thankfully.
Being from the UK myself I've regrettably never seen even a funnel but they do say we get more tornadoes per square mile than anywhere else outside of the US I believe. It's either us or the Netherlands anyway.
I remember back in 2021 at my home in Woods Cross, Utah, when a super strong storm hit late in the evening. It was raining pretty hard, but for about 30 seconds the rain pelted the house super hard. I looked outside and all I saw was dense rain and clouds, but it turned out that an EF1 tornado had passed straight over my house. Utah doesn’t receive many tornados, so having one pass right over my house was quite an experience!
Weirdest one for me was in the UK a few years ago.
There it was, large as life, then the camera panned down to a sign saying - 'Lincoln 8 Miles, Sleaford 10 Miles'.
Not something I'd ever thought I'd see !
Northern Ireland is under a tornado warning today 🤷♀️ something I never thought I’d see
Really cool to see the Florida F4 that crossed the entire state mentioned :)
It's like the G-Man said: "The right conditions in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world."
The man himself has uploaded. Time to stop what I'm doing and watch
Canada is the second-most active country for tornados, although most are in EF1 territory. I saw one in Woodbridge, ON while I was travelling through in 2009. Alberta's topography is the same as Tornado Alley so it's not surprising they've gotten the worst ones.
Ya Alberta is just an extension of the Midwest. Tornadoes don’t stop at the border.
I lived in Vancouver at the time, but was visiting family in Calgary when the tornado hit Edmonton. It was so windy in Calgary there was corrugated metal dancing through the parking lot. I went back to Vancouver and started the school year with a story, saying how I was glad to be back in a nice, safe earthquake zone 😆
My country (Hungary) did experience one deadliest F4 tornado back in 1924, Starting from Bia, swept through the entire Zsámbéki, destroying the villages as far as Vác with winds of 324 km/h. 4 confirmed dead and injured 30 people.
There was a big, random EF4 in Didsbury, Alberta this year, and tornadoes that close to the Rockies are generally pretty rare, especially a violent one
Also did you know on the border town of fort smith in the N.W.T, there was a ef3 tornado the touched down in the centre of town it was pretty crazy. It happened in June of 2019 when I was living there nothing crazy happened and the tornado lasted about 1-3 min while it flipped trampolines and tore shed apart. Both of these circumstances are pretty rare places for tornadoes. But now impossible.
My family survived the Black Friday tornado in Edmonton. My grandfather in particular tried to warn his coworkers at the factory he worked at that it was coming and that they needed to get to cover, but no one believed him, and a lot of them lost their lives because of it
almost done with the video now, and i have to say, i love the quality of your content so much. weather/tornadoes are my special interests, and your videos give me so much new, fun information to expand my knowledge.
i will also say, i don't appreciate the use of AI for the thumbnail. I think real photos are much cooler and more striking!
I agree, I hope it doesn't become his go-to for creating thumbnails
I can’t believe how much this guys channel has grown I started watching him when he was only at 2k subs
The Tornadoes in New Zealand are always pretty rare and interesting. Had one less than 10km away from me about a month ago
We had one touch down in Hurricane, WV a few years back. It wasn’t massive and didn’t last long. I will never forget it. It was about 11 at night and it was storming bad out. The wind woke us up. I love storms so I opened my door and looked down the street and saw a freaking tornado about 1500 ft away. I grabbed my 2 year old daughter and wife and ran downstairs. It was scary. After it passed, I went outside to check the damage. We will in a subdivision. On the other side of my street, a couple houses roofs were gone and a ton of trees down on homes. But on our side, nothing. Only damage to my house was my trampoline was flipped over. We were blessed to have no damage. Could not believe it. Just 10 feet away homes were destroyed. But not my side of the street. Never knew West Virginia could have tornados. Pretty sure I still have photos of the damage on my old phone. Wish I could have filmed it but honestly the only thing going through my mind was my wife and daughter and wanted to get them to safety.
Hey Swegle! Great video. I just wanted to say that the Edmonton tornado is actually a tornado that happened July 31, 1987 😊 and Eli is actually said like this Ee-lie. Merry Christmas and happy new year from 🇨🇦 Canada
My mother told me her story of the Worcester, MA tornado:
She was 14 at the time and staying with her uncle and his family in Worcester. She saw how bad the weather was getting and had a bad feeling about it. So she called my grandfather, said she was scared and didn't want to stay. He drove along Route 9 to get her and drove all the way back to Hyde Park.
Later they heard about the tornado.
My mom has always had an intuitive streak and it served her well that day. Nothing happened to her uncle's house, by the way.
Your family is so beautiful 🥰
Congratulations to you and your wife on your twin bubs! 🎉🌻 awesome video as always, always informative and interesting!! Love your channel, thanks for mentioning Australia 🇦🇺
We actually had one somewhat recent tornadoes neat my German home town (in Lippstadt/Paderborn and Höxter) last year in 2022 (they were registered as F2s, if I remember right), I'm just happy we don't get them as often, they generally don't seem as strong as yours in the US and that thry usually don't leave as much destruction in their wake (might be because the brick'n'mortar to wooden house ratio is leani g more towards the brick ones, too) 😅
For weaker tornadoes that might be true. But put those brick houses in front of an EF5 and it’ll treat it like straw. 😅
@@WanderingRoeYep, the Fujita-Torro-Scale used in Germany (though we slowly switch to "International Fujita Scale) describes F3 already as severe structural damage of massively built homes and collapse of a few ones.
In March 1990,a powerful 1,7 km wide stove pipe F4 tornado hit several towns, businesses and farms in South Africa. It is believed that this tornado tracked over 200 km before ending it's terror,possibly making this tornado the longest track tornado in Africa.South Africa is also the most tornadic African country with 10-20 tornadoes each year.Tornadoes may be uncommon in South Africa but they have been in South Africa for decades. My grandparents told a few stories about tornadoes they've encountered before.
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I live in the greater Montreal Area in Quebec, Canada. Tornadoes here are unheard off. People will honestly laugh if you told them there's even a remote chance of one happening, but last summer, in july, we got a tornado watch, and it got upgraded to tornado warning. In the end, we got, I think, two weak ones. We had another similar scare in may of 2021 (my parents, who live farther north, suffered propriety damage from that storm, and lost power for the most part of a week, other friends of mine got affected too), and even if this feels like not much to "complain" about, it's actually frightening. Supercells aren't a thing here, yet, we now see them. As someone who is fascinated by storms, I guess I do dig more, look more closely and maybe, I worry more. But I prefer to have a plan in the back of my mind, just in case. I told the same to those I love too.
U forgot about the UK bc it has had multiple tornado outbreaks in the last century
June 13, 1924 an EF4 Tornado hit Hungary. It was our only EF4 tornado. it traveled 65 kms towards Vác and it caused 6 Fatalities and 33 injured.
That shot at 1:36 - where was that?
Earth
I forgot
miami i believe
pretty sure it was a rare EF3 that managed to spawn near the downtown area then turned into the massive waterspout you see there when it hit the water
Great timing on this as we got hit by a Tornado (T5, low F3) on Wednesday 27th December just after 11pm in the UK!
A supercell thunderstorm was passing over, with heavy rain and wind causing our dogs to bark. I was watching the storm out of the bedroom window and didn't realise the roaring jet engine wind, something we'd never heard before, was an approaching tornado - honestly given where we live it's not the first thing that pops into your mind!
Wind became incredibly intense, windows felt like they were going to blow out, our ears popped, car alarms went off, roof slates came down, branches blew past and xmas lights ripped from houses. Lasted 10 to 15 seconds and then fell quiet.
Turns out we were incredibly lucky. The tornado passed right over our street and house as it intensified. Just 200m further up it began wrecking houses, leaving over 100 badly damaged before it passed into moorland and presumably dissipated.
Walking around in the daylight the level of damage was shocking to see, even just the roads around home were covered with pulverised branches and roof tiles.
Personally we got off lightly with a violently re-arranged garden and some roof tile damage. The community has rallied together to help people who've lost their homes, clean up downed trees and start getting everything back together. Incredibly nobody was injured, probably helped by the time of night it hit.
I'd always wanted to see a tornado, I'd just never intended it to be from our bedroom window.
YOU HAVE WHAT 5:40
One of the most forgotten F4 tornado ever was in Smiths Station Georgia in a little bit of Columbus Georgia. I live in Columbus and it just barely missed the city of Columbus.
no offense but 7:13 killed me inside
My dad was in edmonton during the black Friday tornado, he was working downtown about 1km from the tornado, he remembers the streets flooding from debris clogging drains