About 5 years ago, I did this for the 1985 F5 that hit Moshannon National Forest in PA. You could still make out a bit of a scar then, 30 years later. If you know where to look, there's still a very vague difference now in vegetation, in a very slight tone of green between new growth and old growth.
A lot of people forget the Moshannon Forest tornado is one of the biggest ever recorded, 2.2 miles wide at it's peak and on the ground for 67 miles. Officially is rated as an F-4 but you never truly know, could've been F-5 wind speeds. Definitely a monster forgotten to time.
There is also the July 2003 tornado that destroyed the Kinzua bridge! I was there for that. But I distinctly remember back in 1997 i could still see the trees like tooth picks rolling miles over the mountains from the 1985 outbreak in NW Pennsylvania. Chilled my 7 year old heart to the core. Edit: I remember the area that tornado hit! It was the Tionesta tornado of 1985. I remember because my mom and my grandfather drove me up the Route 666 road off German Hill.
GOOD NEWS!! The Ontario tornado has been found! It was an F2 tornado that hit that area in 1973! That tornado track was over 11 years old when you found it!
Dude, what a strange coincidence. I randomly ran across your channel today with the newest TV meteorologist reaction video, and decided to have a look at some of your others. Here I am, and you randomly zoom into Southeast Missouri. I grew up outside of Poplar Bluff on the east side of Butler County. The one you locate at 2:42 was a devastating F4 that passed just north of town, and killed nobody thankfully. My family and I watched it dissipate about 2 miles to our northwest. Had it stayed down it would have either hit our place, or missed it just to the north--maybe. I was 12 years old, and it was the first tornado I ever laid eyes on, and cemented a passion for weather that I already possessed. My dad and I have chased since I was probably 10, and now living in the Kansas City area I still do often. Yesterday, as a matter of fact. Now, why is this somewhat significant. That tornado happened on April 24, 2002 tornado. Exactly 20 years ago. The odds of you literally throwing a dot at a map and finding that path, only 20 days ago, and me finding that today is just simply bizarre. Here's another crazy ass happenstance. Two years later, April 24, 2004, another tornado, I believe it was an F2, literally crossed the damage path of the F4 in Ellsinore, MO (pronounced Elle-sin-ore). Seriously, look up the tracks. tornadoarchive.com/explorer/1.0/ My dad and I had the discussion then, that we wouldn't be anywhere near Ellsinore on April 24, 2006. Since then they haven't had much activity in the direct vicinity.
Why do tornadoes go the same places, follow the same paths? I am from Moore OK and Moore and el reno are cursed with tornadoes every few years. Is it simply because of the abundance of weather events in the region? I personally believe the ground is cursed.
Kansas City is wild. A couple years ago I got caught in a microburst at Linwood and Troost while sitting in traffic, and then less than six months later my sister almost got hit by lightning at the same intersection. And that's practically downtown.
You talk about a place that's long overdue for a devastating tornado in the metro area. I live east of KC in a city that gets hit about once a decade. As a matter of fact, the house my wife and I bought was literally on the news in 2014 missing part of its roof when that F2 hit town. New roof and windows though!
The reason the forest in WI has the sharp demarcation line is because that is the Menominee Reservation. When I grew up back in the 70-80's out in the country of Adams County WI, we would see funnel clouds every summer, but touch downs were small and short lived and basically just crop or forest land. Our house had one of those Wizard of Oz style storm cellars. I was a latch key kid and when I got home from school around 4-4:30 I would go feed the animals. One spring when I was like 10 or 11 there was a bad storm and the sky got super dark and green and quiet. I went up on the hill behind the barn and saw a funnel cloud that looked like it was close so I hauled ass back down the hill and ran trough the barn scooping up barn cats as I went (cuz I loved those buggers even though they were micers). Then I ran in the house and grabbed the dog and scooted down into the cellar. The funnel I saw never touched down, but it was the only time I was ever really scared. I was worried about the rest of the animals. But other than a few downed branches in the yard, that was it.
Wisconsin resident here: Wisconsin tornado alley is actually central and south central parts of the state. The north rarely sees tornadoes, but when they do, it's more obvious because of the tree coverage. There's an interesting NWS diagram with all WI tornadoes on it and there's a pretty clear pattern of where they hit in the state and the north is a rare occurence.
ive never noticed that! ive seen a bunch of tornado warnings for south/central area my whole life but the actual touch downs (recently) at least tended to be closer to the central and north parts of the state, or near the mississippi river do you have a link to the diagram for recent years?
The reason the forest in Wisconsin has that specific shape is because it is land that is the Menominee Reservation. They care a lot about the land which is why it's well forested. EDIT: The 2007 tornado is still remembered by those living in Northeastern Wisconsin and the impact it had on the Menominee tribe, perhaps better remembered than the F2 tornado that hit Green Bay, WI in 1959 and to some extent the 2019 EF0 that also hit Green Bay.
Hey, I'm actually from near where you were looking in Wisconsin. That's really awesome that it's finally being mentioned in one of these videos. As far as the straight edge forest border, that's actually the border between Langlade and Menominee county. Menominee is a Reservation. Hope that clears things up!
I was on a team at the USGS (specifically the EROS center near Sioux Falls, SD) who built systems to migrate all of these public satellite images into the cloud to be used by Google and others in such a way that land change could easily be observed over time. Glad to see that you are putting the data to good use!
So it's 2002, I'm moving with my Mom from Phoenix, AZ to Farmington, Arkansas. I have never seen tornado damage in person, but I was always fascinated by them. So we are driving out there in June. My Mom who is from the Midwest, Lake Zurich, Illinois. She has witnessed many Tornadoes. We get thru Oklahoma and we drive into a Tornado Watch.My mom does all the precautions as we are checking into a Hotel for the day. Nothing happens and the next morning we are driving again, I'm looking to the right out the passenger window and I see this 2 mile wide dried out river. I tell my mom what I've seen, the size was incredible. So we stop to use the restroom maybe 3 miles away from the dried river. Now not knowing what I just seen, I struck up conversation with a local and I had mentioned the dried river. He laughed and said that wasn't a dried river, that was the Tornado Tattoo from the May 3 99 Moore Tornado. He told me about it and showed me another part of it from where we at. I was in complete and udder shock, trees still bent, but trees removed like nothing. That has always stuck with me. It was so massive and devastating.
@@j.b.3825 It was so impressive to just see amongst the landscape of trees and grass a void so wide. Reminds me of an eraser ran through a drawing. You can see the were it started to regrow something on the edges, but perfectly gouged in a smaller width, the actual Suction Cone or Vortices.
I'll never forget the 99 tornado. I was 14 and watching it live on the weather channel lol. Growing up in Fayetteville, I've always been fascinated by the weather! All those storms coming outta Oklahoma
@@13_cmi I don't live there anymore. I only stayed there for 2 years. Sorry I didn't know we had to ask the people if we CAN move there, last I checked this is the land of the free.
I'm screaming. My grandparents lived in White Lake Wisconsin for the past 40 years at least. And as soon as you said far north Wisconsin I knew it was that one. You made my day!!
You’ve been missed! Thank you for this! Please do one on the Barneveld tornado in Barneveld, Wisconsin. It happened in June of 1984. You have such a unique perspective on all of this and it’s so appreciated!!!!
Ya know, some people might find this boring but this type of video where you just explore Google earth and find history of tornadoes is definitely one of the most interesting things I’ve seen in awhile. Great idea! You should do more!
3:00 ive been looking for historical footage of this tornado track. Didnt know that you could see all the way back that far in Google Earth. I actually drove that stretch of highway a few weeks after that tornado went through. There was a lot of damage trees were twisted and ripped of their limbs. Some roofs missing from structures I especially remember a brand new motorhome that had the entire top blown off it but the bottom truck part was still there. Thank you for the video you taught me something today lol.
Heyo! Fan from Plainfield, IL, here! I would see if you can spot the scar from the F5 that passed through here in 1990! Also, about 80-100 miles west there is a place called Woodhaven Lakes. About 10 years ago a strong EF-2 passed right through it and destroyed hundreds, if not thousands, of mobile homes (it’s like a mobile home resort…the larger in the US if i recall correctly) as well as destroyed plenty of the forest the property sits on. I was there as recently as last fall and even then passing where the tornado struck you can see clear as day the old and new vegetation in that area.
My area is a great example of why just because the risk for tornadoes is low, it's never zero. We had twin tornadoes in may last year that I'm fairly confident were ef3 intensity at one point. I live in northeast Oregon where tornadoes are pretty much unheard of besides a few places not far from here that usually has a couple ef0s/ef1s every year.
I live about a couple of hours south of where that White Lake tornado hit in 2007 in Wisconsin. I remember going up there and seeing the path it cut through the trees but the most interesting thing was a large flag pole outside of a small town government building was bent over at the base. Not broken off, but bent clean over as if it had been heated up and bent and cooled again. There's weird stuff associated with tornadoes that I've always been interested in. I love these Google Earth videos you do--very interesting!
I live in Timmins ON and you really shocked me when you looked so close to where I live! You pronounced Biscotasing correctly the first time you said it. Most people just call it "Bisco." What's interesting is what appears to be the path of a tornado, crossed Highway 144 and next Low Water Lake. I don't ever remember anybody mentioning that spot being where a tornado crossed. I will have to do some research as to what happened there. I vaguely remember when I was younger somebody mentioning a tornado crossing that highway but I don't think it made the news. I do know that in 2002 a severe thunderstorm crossing Halfway Lake Provincial Park (a little ways South of there) and did damage in the park's campground and went across the highway. There was debate over whether it was a downburst or a tornado but I believe it was determined to be an F2 tornado. There was also a forest fire that swept through nearby about 5 years later.
My family lived in Van Buren, MO in 2002 and remember that tornado near Elsinore. It made the highway smell like someone spilled a huge bottle of Pine Sol for at least a month because of all the broken pine trees. Also, our garage got pushed off the foundation a little.
I would reccommend taking a look at the New Hampshire tornado in 2008. Longest tornado path on record for both NH and the New England area as a whole. Started just west of Deerfield, continued northeast past my hometown of Ossipee (and less than a half-mile from my grandmother's house), before dying out near Freedom. You can see the path on Google Earth (though it's a little clearer in the 2009 image) where it hops and skips along its path.
I lived in Northwood when that happened! My house was 1/4 mile away from the lake & narrowly missed being in the path of the tornado; it went over the lake before ripping up a whole hillside in Deerfield across the water. It was insane.
I was also going to recommend this as a NH resident. I was really surprised when he didn't mention it in the state-by-state tornado video. I was 9 or so when it happened and I remember it so clearly. I drove past some of the destruction in Deerfield a few years ago and still saw some of the buildings that had never been repaired or rebuilt, just abandoned.
Great stuff, I’m glad to see others find looking up tornado scars fascinating. Keep it up, I love your content. I was just noticing how prominent and obvious the 2011 Springfield/Monson, MA scar is, I guess the woodsiness of the area helps.
This is going to be my favorite new way to kill time, thanks for the inspiration! Also, I had no idea that many tornadoes in the northern hemisphere move south! I assumed most travel north-east, with the rare exception of Jarrell moving the other direction, and the El Reno taking a detour. Plenty of those you found were moving south...
Check out the April 6th 1991 Wichita/Andover Kansas tornado. Touched down southwest of Wichita,went across the southeast part of town,skirted McConnell Air Force Base then direct hit on Andover. It was EF5 (F5 rating at that time)
Just came across this video today, did a quick search for 1980s Biscotasing Tornadoes after you saw that one storm track in Ontario and there is mention of a tornado outbreak in SW Ontario in 1984 so you were most definitely on to something!
The tornado shown in the video was an extremely poorly documented F2 that touched down in 1973 (not to be confused with another F2 that touched down in Ontario for 30 seconds), Google Earth usually doesn't show older satellite footage than 1984.
Wow, what a fascinating activity. I never thought of looking for past tornadoes from satellite imagery but obviously it would work well in a wooded area. Very cool. Where I live there is grassland and crops so damage is largely erased within a year or two. But when it hits man made structures the damage is often indelible for generations.
I just discovered your channel , and i am happy to see you upload again after one year , your sound is very soothing , iHope the RUclips algorithm blesses you
my favorite example of a path like this is south east-ish of springfield massachusetts, where an ef3 tornado came through in 2011. The damage is still very visible and there is some street view going right through the path as well, so you can compare what it looks like at ground level
Woah I didn't think I would actually see a new video from you! I found your videos a while back and watched them all and have been hoping to get another one. Thank you :)
love the channel man. would be very interested in the May 3rd, 1999 tornado that hit Oklahoma. Arguably the most famous tornado for locals. i believe it has the highest wind speed ever recorded? you refer to it in another video as the Bridge Creek tornado.
Yeah! like 302 mph or something. You can kind of see it from google earth, but I might do a video on the 1999 Bridge creek Moore using aerial surveys that were done at the time.
@@SwegleStudios A Doppler on Wheels managed to record 318 mph. (It was 301 ± 22, but since there is too much uncertainty, the agreement was made at 318 mph.)
I have lived in Southern Illinois my entire life and grew up near the path of the Tri-State Tornado of 1925, even talked with a couple of people who lived through it. Hit me up if you ever want to talk about it.
Clarksville, Arkansas (one of towns you zoomed close into) was hit by an EF4 in 2011 during the big outbreak so I’m really surprised it didn’t have anymore substantial damage that can be seen. I live there now and tons of areas around us get hit yearly
I might be able to answer your rhetorical question as to why the forest in Northern Wisconsin just "begins" in a sheer line like that. I'm from WI and studied the lumber industry for my thesis. This is an educated guess, but I think that what you're looking at is an artifact from when Wisconsin was a major lumber producer in the mid- to late-19th century. The state was divided up as evenly as possible into squares on a grid called "townships," and this grid was used to keep track of the buying and selling of logging rights. If I'm correct, that lush green square the tornado track is running through is the remains of a township that did not see extensive harvesting like the townships around it, which were clear-cut and then resold as farmland (the fertility of which turned out to be middling at best). EDIT: Now I feel silly. The answer is right there on the map. It looks like it's the borders of the Menominee Reservation, which would explain why those parcels of land weren't deforested like the surrounding tracts.
The turkeys at RUclips put your videos in my feed. I have watched several of your videos to completion. This video is great. I am going to Google earth rn to check out Wisconsin.
if you wanna look at interesting AR tornadoes, I recommend ones closer to central AR. The one that hit Mayflower in 2014 comes to mind first, and im pretty sure you can still see some damage from it (it was rated EF4). Other places with lots of impacts are around the Clarksville/Russellville area. If anyone else has other good AR tornado hotspots, feel free to lemme know! (Source: I live here ^^) Wonderful videos as always!
HEYO! Check out Northern Lower Michigan as well! We still have a long scar from the Comins 1999 tornado, as well one near Mio from the Oct 2007 Outbreak. That event was crazy, and worth looking at for sure! Was super rare, and scared everyone up here.
Hey Jared! I spotted both those tornado scars and then started finding more around the state. I am pretty sure I see one just northeast of Free Soil, MI to just west of Wellston, MI. I may be mistaken but there also seems to be a faint scar from just east of Wolverine, MI to Tower, MI.
@@jamieb9168 wow you found the Black Lake tornado!! The Wolverine to Tower scar IS one of the 2007 tornadoes, in fact the only photographed one from that day!
I remember the Park Falls tornado the yr I graduated from hs. 1985! It was where we went on vacation every summer. My husband of 31 yrs chased that tornado when he was 20 yrs old..So yeah I married my teenage Summer bf. Look northwest in WI plz? Can you check out the May 2017 ef3/4 tornado in Barron County, just south of Rice Lake, WI? It set a record for the longest track on the ground in 88 yrs. 86 miles it traveled. Killed one man, injured several dozen. I went to see the damage the day after and it was incredible the loss of trees/homes and it hit a mobile home park where a man was killed trying to protect his pets. (2-3 dogs, cat, ferrets) And it hit the Jenny O turkey farm. We live just north of Rice Lake now. I have pics of the damage still. The governor traveled to the area, Gov Walker. Would love to see satellite pics of the path. It crossed three counties, lifted after it hit Bruce/Ladysmith, WI I believe. If it had traveled 1+ mile north it would have destroyed a brand new school in Cameron and 4 miles north it would have hit the city of Rice Lake, a more populated city. I'm surprised WI isn't included in tornado alley. We've had a lot of them over the yrs. I live just West of The Blue Hills so I think that is somewhat protective to Washburn/northern Barron County? Seems to be a hot spot just south of the blue hills. Curious if large hilly areas are protective? Thanks for including my state in your video! I wish you had gone a little west of Park Falls though to see the record setting tornado in 2017.
I'll check it out! Wisconsin seems so underrated for tornadoes.. I will probably do another similar video in the future so I'll be sure to revisit Wisconsin
I did some research on the "lost tornado" you found at biscotasing and the most relevant info I have found is of a small southern Ontario outbreak on the 2nd of September 1984 where 6 reported tornados occured between Windsor and London, however this is likely not the same storm that produced the unknown biscotasing tornado due to the extreme distance. but its probably the only relevant storm. Maybe you could do some more digging and research?
You were so close to the wadena, mn area in 2010. In wadena, bluffton, deer creek, even New York mills and perham. Two EF4 tornadoes hit on the same day
2014 Mayflower Arkansas. I was very young I remember going across the street to hide, the storm missed us (We are in Maumelle) and hit mayflower. On the way back to our house I looked toward mayflower and I saw one of the most horrific sights ever. A ginormous EF4 wedge tornado. Look into it not many people know of it.
That tornado will forever be etched into my brain. I live in WLR but I remember tracking the storm, watching as it hit mayflower and then seeing the damage firsthand a few days later. Absolutely horrifying what it did but also mesmerizing that it all came from nature. I think AR has a few hidden tornado gems, imo. Though preferably the ones that dont hurt or kill anyone ^^'
At 9:40 in your video there was two lines that pop up for a second but you focus on to the east. If you go to that same area and scrub between 2010 and 2011 you will see them. If you make another video about this subject you should check it out. Double whammy. Cool idea for a video keep on making them. Love the excitement when you find one. "Yooo, look at this one".
wisconsin citizen of my whole life (17ys) there was a tornado through hartford and it messed up the elementary school, Lincoln Elementary, before or after I was born, luckily school wasnt in session and it was a weekend or something, theres people i know that are graduated that still remember it to this day.
I live 45 minutes east of the tornado scar in Wisconsin. A lot of vegetation has grown back, so now the best viewing of the scar is in the winter. There are still spots you can see stumps or debarked trunks. When it hit Bear Paw Scout Camp, several canoes were shoved into the branch stubs on some of the trees. Very few trees were debarked, because the bark up here is much tougher. Trees have to deal with the harsh cold of winter. So when you get complete debarking, it is usually a sign of greater intensity. I plan on going there in the spring, and touring the remmanents. Some photos will be just for the channel, but some, I figure I will release for free use. So if you want some, I will let you know.
When i briefly lived in Oklahoma and saw the sprawling flat vistas with hardly any trees in sight the thought occurred to me that the tornadoes could potentially be responsible for the lack of trees in the plains states. Seeing this video further convinces me.
Many tornadoes across Arkansas the past 20 yrs. Look in the Ozark National Forest and Western Ark. There's been a few near Mayfield and that area as well
Yes!! I'm so glad to see more videos from you. I would periodically check your channel hoping I'd see some activity lol. Really unique specialized content. Keep up the good work!
I just found this video. When you did Arkansas. In the lower left of the video by your head near the town of Ozark and Etna. In 2011 a mile+ monster roared thru.
An EF-4 tornado destroyed my childhood home in 1984. I try to find news articles and videos but can not find anything. The tornado destroyed a bridge in Cleburne county after it destroyed my home. 3687 Highway 330 South, Shirley Ar. 72153. There are cabins and trees where my house used to be and it is hard to see any signs of the tornado.
NWS Little Rock usually posts pictures of the damage on the anniversary of that tornado. One of the deaths was a teacher at the school my mom was attending. Capsized a boat on the lake, didn't it?
May 8th 2009 . MO was hit with a derecho. It did spawn several tornadoes. They had to make a new class called Super Derecho. It was basically an inland hurricane. It was a light sprinkle when I left my house to walk to my sister's house. By the time I got to the end of the block it was pouring. Then after I crossed the road and was walking the last 3 blocks, I had to avoid a washed out street and sidewalk that just couldn't handle the amount of water flowing and the downpour. I was able to take a real quick shower right before the power went out. A massive black walnut tree missed the house and propane tank by just inches when it was uprooted. If it had hit the house, the area I always sat would have been crushed.
This is pretty niche, but you may find some interest. As of the time of this writing (January 2023), a lot of Google Street View images of parts of rural Jefferson County, Alabama are from 2014 and show up-close aftermath of the tornadoes from a couple years prior. 1499 Patton Road; Bessemer, AL shows a mostly-empty (yet cluttered) field that used to be a forested area.
About 5 years ago, I did this for the 1985 F5 that hit Moshannon National Forest in PA. You could still make out a bit of a scar then, 30 years later. If you know where to look, there's still a very vague difference now in vegetation, in a very slight tone of green between new growth and old growth.
That's so interesting. I need to check that out!
That's awesome!
A lot of people forget the Moshannon Forest tornado is one of the biggest ever recorded, 2.2 miles wide at it's peak and on the ground for 67 miles. Officially is rated as an F-4 but you never truly know, could've been F-5 wind speeds. Definitely a monster forgotten to time.
There is also the July 2003 tornado that destroyed the Kinzua bridge! I was there for that. But I distinctly remember back in 1997 i could still see the trees like tooth picks rolling miles over the mountains from the 1985 outbreak in NW Pennsylvania. Chilled my 7 year old heart to the core.
Edit: I remember the area that tornado hit! It was the Tionesta tornado of 1985. I remember because my mom and my grandfather drove me up the Route 666 road off German Hill.
@@colefrank1171 You seem to forget El Rino was bigger
GOOD NEWS!! The Ontario tornado has been found! It was an F2 tornado that hit that area in 1973! That tornado track was over 11 years old when you found it!
Wow, it's not even on tornado archive and was overshadowed by another tornado the same year. How the hell did you find it?
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@@Jesus_is_king1234 what does this have to do with the video, or the comment?
Dude, what a strange coincidence. I randomly ran across your channel today with the newest TV meteorologist reaction video, and decided to have a look at some of your others. Here I am, and you randomly zoom into Southeast Missouri. I grew up outside of Poplar Bluff on the east side of Butler County. The one you locate at 2:42 was a devastating F4 that passed just north of town, and killed nobody thankfully. My family and I watched it dissipate about 2 miles to our northwest.
Had it stayed down it would have either hit our place, or missed it just to the north--maybe. I was 12 years old, and it was the first tornado I ever laid eyes on, and cemented a passion for weather that I already possessed. My dad and I have chased since I was probably 10, and now living in the Kansas City area I still do often. Yesterday, as a matter of fact.
Now, why is this somewhat significant. That tornado happened on April 24, 2002 tornado. Exactly 20 years ago. The odds of you literally throwing a dot at a map and finding that path, only 20 days ago, and me finding that today is just simply bizarre. Here's another crazy ass happenstance. Two years later, April 24, 2004, another tornado, I believe it was an F2, literally crossed the damage path of the F4 in Ellsinore, MO (pronounced Elle-sin-ore). Seriously, look up the tracks. tornadoarchive.com/explorer/1.0/
My dad and I had the discussion then, that we wouldn't be anywhere near Ellsinore on April 24, 2006. Since then they haven't had much activity in the direct vicinity.
I remember that tornado too. I was a senior in high school and I was late to my shift at Kroger because the storm was so bad.
Why do tornadoes go the same places, follow the same paths? I am from Moore OK and Moore and el reno are cursed with tornadoes every few years. Is it simply because of the abundance of weather events in the region? I personally believe the ground is cursed.
Never been to Poplar Bluff myself but my step sister lives there. As far as tornadoes are concerned I wouldn't want to live in that area.
Kansas City is wild. A couple years ago I got caught in a microburst at Linwood and Troost while sitting in traffic, and then less than six months later my sister almost got hit by lightning at the same intersection. And that's practically downtown.
You talk about a place that's long overdue for a devastating tornado in the metro area. I live east of KC in a city that gets hit about once a decade. As a matter of fact, the house my wife and I bought was literally on the news in 2014 missing part of its roof when that F2 hit town. New roof and windows though!
The reason the forest in WI has the sharp demarcation line is because that is the Menominee Reservation. When I grew up back in the 70-80's out in the country of Adams County WI, we would see funnel clouds every summer, but touch downs were small and short lived and basically just crop or forest land. Our house had one of those Wizard of Oz style storm cellars. I was a latch key kid and when I got home from school around 4-4:30 I would go feed the animals. One spring when I was like 10 or 11 there was a bad storm and the sky got super dark and green and quiet. I went up on the hill behind the barn and saw a funnel cloud that looked like it was close so I hauled ass back down the hill and ran trough the barn scooping up barn cats as I went (cuz I loved those buggers even though they were micers). Then I ran in the house and grabbed the dog and scooted down into the cellar. The funnel I saw never touched down, but it was the only time I was ever really scared. I was worried about the rest of the animals. But other than a few downed branches in the yard, that was it.
Wisconsin resident here: Wisconsin tornado alley is actually central and south central parts of the state. The north rarely sees tornadoes, but when they do, it's more obvious because of the tree coverage. There's an interesting NWS diagram with all WI tornadoes on it and there's a pretty clear pattern of where they hit in the state and the north is a rare occurence.
ive never noticed that! ive seen a bunch of tornado warnings for south/central area my whole life but the actual touch downs (recently) at least tended to be closer to the central and north parts of the state, or near the mississippi river
do you have a link to the diagram for recent years?
It's also rarer on the eastern edge. I think the Lake breaks it up.
Barron county also gets their share of tornadoes
The reason the forest in Wisconsin has that specific shape is because it is land that is the Menominee Reservation. They care a lot about the land which is why it's well forested.
EDIT: The 2007 tornado is still remembered by those living in Northeastern Wisconsin and the impact it had on the Menominee tribe, perhaps better remembered than the F2 tornado that hit Green Bay, WI in 1959 and to some extent the 2019 EF0 that also hit Green Bay.
Hey, I'm actually from near where you were looking in Wisconsin. That's really awesome that it's finally being mentioned in one of these videos.
As far as the straight edge forest border, that's actually the border between Langlade and Menominee county. Menominee is a Reservation. Hope that clears things up!
I was on a team at the USGS (specifically the EROS center near Sioux Falls, SD) who built systems to migrate all of these public satellite images into the cloud to be used by Google and others in such a way that land change could easily be observed over time. Glad to see that you are putting the data to good use!
Thanks for your hard work and for sharing with the public 😊
So it's 2002, I'm moving with my Mom from Phoenix, AZ to Farmington, Arkansas. I have never seen tornado damage in person, but I was always fascinated by them. So we are driving out there in June. My Mom who is from the Midwest, Lake Zurich, Illinois. She has witnessed many Tornadoes. We get thru Oklahoma and we drive into a Tornado Watch.My mom does all the precautions as we are checking into a Hotel for the day. Nothing happens and the next morning we are driving again, I'm looking to the right out the passenger window and I see this 2 mile wide dried out river. I tell my mom what I've seen, the size was incredible. So we stop to use the restroom maybe 3 miles away from the dried river. Now not knowing what I just seen, I struck up conversation with a local and I had mentioned the dried river. He laughed and said that wasn't a dried river, that was the Tornado Tattoo from the May 3 99 Moore Tornado. He told me about it and showed me another part of it from where we at. I was in complete and udder shock, trees still bent, but trees removed like nothing. That has always stuck with me. It was so massive and devastating.
Tornado tattoo. Perfect description. Wow!
@@j.b.3825 It was so impressive to just see amongst the landscape of trees and grass a void so wide. Reminds me of an eraser ran through a drawing. You can see the were it started to regrow something on the edges, but perfectly gouged in a smaller width, the actual Suction Cone or Vortices.
I'll never forget the 99 tornado. I was 14 and watching it live on the weather channel lol. Growing up in Fayetteville, I've always been fascinated by the weather! All those storms coming outta Oklahoma
@@13_cmi I don't live there anymore. I only stayed there for 2 years. Sorry I didn't know we had to ask the people if we CAN move there, last I checked this is the land of the free.
I'm screaming. My grandparents lived in White Lake Wisconsin for the past 40 years at least. And as soon as you said far north Wisconsin I knew it was that one. You made my day!!
You’ve been missed! Thank you for this! Please do one on the Barneveld tornado in Barneveld, Wisconsin. It happened in June of 1984.
You have such a unique perspective on all of this and it’s so appreciated!!!!
I totally recommend the study of the Barneveld, WI tornado!
I live near Barneveld
literally 1984
If you live-streamed you doing this, I'd definitely watch. This is fascinating.
Completely
Ya know, some people might find this boring but this type of video where you just explore Google earth and find history of tornadoes is definitely one of the most interesting things I’ve seen in awhile. Great idea! You should do more!
As somehow who loves tornadoes and ASMR, this video is a treat. Your calm demeanor is very much welcomed.
3:00 ive been looking for historical footage of this tornado track. Didnt know that you could see all the way back that far in Google Earth. I actually drove that stretch of highway a few weeks after that tornado went through. There was a lot of damage trees were twisted and ripped of their limbs. Some roofs missing from structures I especially remember a brand new motorhome that had the entire top blown off it but the bottom truck part was still there. Thank you for the video you taught me something today lol.
Man I have missed your videos so much!! I wish you would upload a lot. I'm about to watch the video lol
Thanks! I got another planned for next week!
@@SwegleStudios Awesome!!! I'm happy man
Heyo! Fan from Plainfield, IL, here! I would see if you can spot the scar from the F5 that passed through here in 1990!
Also, about 80-100 miles west there is a place called Woodhaven Lakes. About 10 years ago a strong EF-2 passed right through it and destroyed hundreds, if not thousands, of mobile homes (it’s like a mobile home resort…the larger in the US if i recall correctly) as well as destroyed plenty of the forest the property sits on. I was there as recently as last fall and even then passing where the tornado struck you can see clear as day the old and new vegetation in that area.
My area is a great example of why just because the risk for tornadoes is low, it's never zero.
We had twin tornadoes in may last year that I'm fairly confident were ef3 intensity at one point. I live in northeast Oregon where tornadoes are pretty much unheard of besides a few places not far from here that usually has a couple ef0s/ef1s every year.
I live about a couple of hours south of where that White Lake tornado hit in 2007 in Wisconsin. I remember going up there and seeing the path it cut through the trees but the most interesting thing was a large flag pole outside of a small town government building was bent over at the base. Not broken off, but bent clean over as if it had been heated up and bent and cooled again. There's weird stuff associated with tornadoes that I've always been interested in. I love these Google Earth videos you do--very interesting!
I live in Timmins ON and you really shocked me when you looked so close to where I live! You pronounced Biscotasing correctly the first time you said it. Most people just call it "Bisco." What's interesting is what appears to be the path of a tornado, crossed Highway 144 and next Low Water Lake. I don't ever remember anybody mentioning that spot being where a tornado crossed. I will have to do some research as to what happened there. I vaguely remember when I was younger somebody mentioning a tornado crossing that highway but I don't think it made the news. I do know that in 2002 a severe thunderstorm crossing Halfway Lake Provincial Park (a little ways South of there) and did damage in the park's campground and went across the highway. There was debate over whether it was a downburst or a tornado but I believe it was determined to be an F2 tornado. There was also a forest fire that swept through nearby about 5 years later.
Do that fricken research!
My family lived in Van Buren, MO in 2002 and remember that tornado near Elsinore. It made the highway smell like someone spilled a huge bottle of Pine Sol for at least a month because of all the broken pine trees. Also, our garage got pushed off the foundation a little.
I don’t know if I’d like that smell or not. I don’t remember what pine wok smells like but I know rosemary. Tastes like soap.
I would reccommend taking a look at the New Hampshire tornado in 2008. Longest tornado path on record for both NH and the New England area as a whole. Started just west of Deerfield, continued northeast past my hometown of Ossipee (and less than a half-mile from my grandmother's house), before dying out near Freedom. You can see the path on Google Earth (though it's a little clearer in the 2009 image) where it hops and skips along its path.
I lived in Northwood when that happened! My house was 1/4 mile away from the lake & narrowly missed being in the path of the tornado; it went over the lake before ripping up a whole hillside in Deerfield across the water. It was insane.
I was also going to recommend this as a NH resident. I was really surprised when he didn't mention it in the state-by-state tornado video. I was 9 or so when it happened and I remember it so clearly. I drove past some of the destruction in Deerfield a few years ago and still saw some of the buildings that had never been repaired or rebuilt, just abandoned.
Great stuff, I’m glad to see others find looking up tornado scars fascinating. Keep it up, I love your content.
I was just noticing how prominent and obvious the 2011 Springfield/Monson, MA scar is, I guess the woodsiness of the area helps.
Happy to see you uploading again. Came across your channel just by chance and love what your doing with these videos. Hope things have been good.
I friggin' love these videos!
This is going to be my favorite new way to kill time, thanks for the inspiration!
Also, I had no idea that many tornadoes in the northern hemisphere move south! I assumed most travel north-east, with the rare exception of Jarrell moving the other direction, and the El Reno taking a detour. Plenty of those you found were moving south...
Check out the April 6th 1991 Wichita/Andover Kansas tornado. Touched down southwest of Wichita,went across the southeast part of town,skirted McConnell Air Force Base then direct hit on Andover. It was EF5 (F5 rating at that time)
Crazy tornado! I actually found the exact bridge that the camera crew hid underneath during one of the smaller tornadoes from that day.
@@SwegleStudios that's the video that caused the experts to say "never hide under an overpass"
from the future and this happened again
@@slider9675 except they did in 1999 in Moore and people died from it so they stopped saying that
This is fascinating. The ideas you come with. Hats off to you, and good job yet again.
Love your videos. You have a very easy listening voice and you truly enjoy doing these videos. Keep up the good work
Just came across this video today, did a quick search for 1980s Biscotasing Tornadoes after you saw that one storm track in Ontario and there is mention of a tornado outbreak in SW Ontario in 1984 so you were most definitely on to something!
The tornado shown in the video was an extremely poorly documented F2 that touched down in 1973 (not to be confused with another F2 that touched down in Ontario for 30 seconds), Google Earth usually doesn't show older satellite footage than 1984.
Had an EF4 go right behind my neighborhood in Ellabell, GA just a few days after you posted this video
You should check out Kokomo Indiana. They had several tornadoes go across town in the same spot in different years.
I will definitely check that out!
your channel is epic as hell bro.
I've missed your videos! I'm so happy you are back!
Wow, what a fascinating activity. I never thought of looking for past tornadoes from satellite imagery but obviously it would work well in a wooded area. Very cool. Where I live there is grassland and crops so damage is largely erased within a year or two. But when it hits man made structures the damage is often indelible for generations.
I love studying tornadoes and this is certainly an obvious way to locate them but a way I d never thought about.
Thanks so much for sharing.
I just discovered your channel , and i am happy to see you upload again after one year , your sound is very soothing , iHope the RUclips algorithm blesses you
“2014 was so long ago” 😭 making us feel like dinosaurs
Dude love the channel. Please keep up the content! Been obsessed with tornadoes since my childhood.
Elsinore Missouri was hit with E4 in April of 2002. So yes, that scouring path you say was from a large tornado.
We saw a huge wall cloud move super fast over lake namakogan while we were on it on a boat. That’s very far north in Wisconsin
my favorite example of a path like this is south east-ish of springfield massachusetts, where an ef3 tornado came through in 2011. The damage is still very visible and there is some street view going right through the path as well, so you can compare what it looks like at ground level
I helped my friend's clean up crew after that one. Glad you mentioned it, I sometimes still look for the scar on Google Maps.
I can’t even see anything on google maps cause there’s so many roads there
It’s directly east and has a funky direction. It goes straight east. No diagonals. Still there even on the mobile app. Cool
Woah I didn't think I would actually see a new video from you! I found your videos a while back and watched them all and have been hoping to get another one. Thank you :)
You are so awesome! Such an educational yet fun and relaxing video!!
that's so fascinating - they're like scars in the landscape. That's amazing.
love the channel man. would be very interested in the May 3rd, 1999 tornado that hit Oklahoma. Arguably the most famous tornado for locals. i believe it has the highest wind speed ever recorded? you refer to it in another video as the Bridge Creek tornado.
You cannot see this one on Google Earth Pro I believe
Yeah! like 302 mph or something. You can kind of see it from google earth, but I might do a video on the 1999 Bridge creek Moore using aerial surveys that were done at the time.
@@SwegleStudios A Doppler on Wheels managed to record 318 mph. (It was 301 ± 22, but since there is too much uncertainty, the agreement was made at 318 mph.)
Really cool to see the paths of these tornadoes going back in time. Great video.
I have lived in Southern Illinois my entire life and grew up near the path of the Tri-State Tornado of 1925, even talked with a couple of people who lived through it. Hit me up if you ever want to talk about it.
Definitely not hard to see, it was very clear. New subscriber, bit of a weather enthusiast from Australia. Loving your channel ❤️
Clarksville, Arkansas (one of towns you zoomed close into) was hit by an EF4 in 2011 during the big outbreak so I’m really surprised it didn’t have anymore substantial damage that can be seen. I live there now and tons of areas around us get hit yearly
Can't wait for more videos! We love these
I might be able to answer your rhetorical question as to why the forest in Northern Wisconsin just "begins" in a sheer line like that. I'm from WI and studied the lumber industry for my thesis.
This is an educated guess, but I think that what you're looking at is an artifact from when Wisconsin was a major lumber producer in the mid- to late-19th century. The state was divided up as evenly as possible into squares on a grid called "townships," and this grid was used to keep track of the buying and selling of logging rights.
If I'm correct, that lush green square the tornado track is running through is the remains of a township that did not see extensive harvesting like the townships around it, which were clear-cut and then resold as farmland (the fertility of which turned out to be middling at best).
EDIT: Now I feel silly. The answer is right there on the map. It looks like it's the borders of the Menominee Reservation, which would explain why those parcels of land weren't deforested like the surrounding tracts.
The turkeys at RUclips put your videos in my feed. I have watched several of your videos to completion. This video is great. I am going to Google earth rn to check out Wisconsin.
if you wanna look at interesting AR tornadoes, I recommend ones closer to central AR. The one that hit Mayflower in 2014 comes to mind first, and im pretty sure you can still see some damage from it (it was rated EF4). Other places with lots of impacts are around the Clarksville/Russellville area. If anyone else has other good AR tornado hotspots, feel free to lemme know! (Source: I live here ^^)
Wonderful videos as always!
HEYO! Check out Northern Lower Michigan as well! We still have a long scar from the Comins 1999 tornado, as well one near Mio from the Oct 2007 Outbreak. That event was crazy, and worth looking at for sure! Was super rare, and scared everyone up here.
Hey Jared! I spotted both those tornado scars and then started finding more around the state. I am pretty sure I see one just northeast of Free Soil, MI to just west of Wellston, MI. I may be mistaken but there also seems to be a faint scar from just east of Wolverine, MI to Tower, MI.
@@jamieb9168 wow you found the Black Lake tornado!! The Wolverine to Tower scar IS one of the 2007 tornadoes, in fact the only photographed one from that day!
I remember the Park Falls tornado the yr I graduated from hs. 1985! It was where we went on vacation every summer. My husband of 31 yrs chased that tornado when he was 20 yrs old..So yeah I married my teenage Summer bf.
Look northwest in WI plz? Can you check out the May 2017 ef3/4 tornado in Barron County, just south of Rice Lake, WI? It set a record for the longest track on the ground in 88 yrs. 86 miles it traveled. Killed one man, injured several dozen. I went to see the damage the day after and it was incredible the loss of trees/homes and it hit a mobile home park where a man was killed trying to protect his pets. (2-3 dogs, cat, ferrets) And it hit the Jenny O turkey farm. We live just north of Rice Lake now. I have pics of the damage still. The governor traveled to the area, Gov Walker. Would love to see satellite pics of the path. It crossed three counties, lifted after it hit Bruce/Ladysmith, WI I believe. If it had traveled 1+ mile north it would have destroyed a brand new school in Cameron and 4 miles north it would have hit the city of Rice Lake, a more populated city.
I'm surprised WI isn't included in tornado alley. We've had a lot of them over the yrs. I live just West of The Blue Hills so I think that is somewhat protective to Washburn/northern Barron County? Seems to be a hot spot just south of the blue hills. Curious if large hilly areas are protective? Thanks for including my state in your video! I wish you had gone a little west of Park Falls though to see the record setting tornado in 2017.
I'll check it out! Wisconsin seems so underrated for tornadoes.. I will probably do another similar video in the future so I'll be sure to revisit Wisconsin
I always drive through the Menominee reservation in Wisconsin with my grandpa and he told me about that tornado, we always god past that part
2008 Parkersburg Iowa, EF5 tornado would be a good one to look for. Good content, keep it up.
I found some info on the Ontario tornado in 1984 I think. It happened on September 2nd & there was 6 in the area injuring 30.
Would you like to share with the class, please?
Totally need more videos!!!!!!
I did some research on the "lost tornado" you found at biscotasing and the most relevant info I have found is of a small southern Ontario outbreak on the 2nd of September 1984 where 6 reported tornados occured between Windsor and London, however this is likely not the same storm that produced the unknown biscotasing tornado due to the extreme distance. but its probably the only relevant storm. Maybe you could do some more digging and research?
Check the top comment, the tornado scar in the video was caused in 1973.
You were so close to the wadena, mn area in 2010. In wadena, bluffton, deer creek, even New York mills and perham. Two EF4 tornadoes hit on the same day
2014 Mayflower Arkansas. I was very young I remember going across the street to hide, the storm missed us (We are in Maumelle) and hit mayflower. On the way back to our house I looked toward mayflower and I saw one of the most horrific sights ever. A ginormous EF4 wedge tornado. Look into it not many people know of it.
That tornado will forever be etched into my brain. I live in WLR but I remember tracking the storm, watching as it hit mayflower and then seeing the damage firsthand a few days later. Absolutely horrifying what it did but also mesmerizing that it all came from nature. I think AR has a few hidden tornado gems, imo. Though preferably the ones that dont hurt or kill anyone ^^'
I am from ellsinore mo and the April tornado of 2002 actually repeated its self a year later on the same exact day on the same path. Crazy stuff
Amazing work. Researching and providing information to the public. 👍 How to find tornado tracks 101.
Make this a series!!
Y'all are too early, the HD version hasn't even finished processing yet haha
At 9:40 in your video there was two lines that pop up for a second but you focus on to the east. If you go to that same area and scrub between 2010 and 2011 you will see them. If you make another video about this subject you should check it out. Double whammy. Cool idea for a video keep on making them. Love the excitement when you find one. "Yooo, look at this one".
Sorry i paused the video to make the comment when I should have watch the whole video. You caught them, I am an idiot.
Please do more of this! I love google maps investigations
I'm glad I'm not the only one obsessed with tornadoes.
12:21 it's also in the shape of a heart, so that's pretty cool.
wisconsin citizen of my whole life (17ys) there was a tornado through hartford and it messed up the elementary school, Lincoln Elementary, before or after I was born, luckily school wasnt in session and it was a weekend or something, theres people i know that are graduated that still remember it to this day.
Would love to see you do some video on the Plainfield IL tornado of 1991 grew up out there the area has boomed since
I live 45 minutes east of the tornado scar in Wisconsin. A lot of vegetation has grown back, so now the best viewing of the scar is in the winter. There are still spots you can see stumps or debarked trunks. When it hit Bear Paw Scout Camp, several canoes were shoved into the branch stubs on some of the trees. Very few trees were debarked, because the bark up here is much tougher. Trees have to deal with the harsh cold of winter. So when you get complete debarking, it is usually a sign of greater intensity. I plan on going there in the spring, and touring the remmanents. Some photos will be just for the channel, but some, I figure I will release for free use. So if you want some, I will let you know.
Did you ever end up going there?
@@numbersstationsarchive194Gonna visit in July.
the forest "begins right there" because it's a reservation, they obviously made the boundary a straight line
June 1984 was the Barneveld WI tornado that wiped out 90% of the town. That would be an interesting thing to see through the following years.
When i briefly lived in Oklahoma and saw the sprawling flat vistas with hardly any trees in sight the thought occurred to me that the tornadoes could potentially be responsible for the lack of trees in the plains states. Seeing this video further convinces me.
Glad you're back!
Awesome content dude tornado content is a super niche place that appeals to the weather nuts
I’m happy to say I’m a weather nut
Many tornadoes across Arkansas the past 20 yrs. Look in the Ozark National Forest and Western Ark. There's been a few near Mayfield and that area as well
For us who live there, Dixie Alley is not a new thing. Y'all just didn't notice.
You should've looked for the March 1, 1997 tornadoes that tore thru Arkadelphia and SW Little Rock, AR. I was barely missed by it in Little Rock.
Thank you for validating my enjoyment of doing this EXACT same thing on google maps. Thank you haha
It cool to see how there was more documentation on the Elsinore 2011 vs 2002 tornado due to social media coming into play.
Thanx for the new " super high" activity
You should make this a series
This was such a cool video! Glad it was recommended to me! Neat little idea.
Yes!! I'm so glad to see more videos from you. I would periodically check your channel hoping I'd see some activity lol.
Really unique specialized content. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for checking in! I kept getting busy with life but I'm hoping to post more frequently now!
More of this pls! Great content
Just started watching your chanel but 1 minute in it made me google this tornado tht hit the roller rink i went to for my 6th birthday
I just found this video. When you did Arkansas. In the lower left of the video by your head near the town of Ozark and Etna. In 2011 a mile+ monster roared thru.
An EF-4 tornado destroyed my childhood home in 1984. I try to find news articles and videos but can not find anything. The tornado destroyed a bridge in Cleburne county after it destroyed my home. 3687 Highway 330 South, Shirley Ar. 72153. There are cabins and trees where my house used to be and it is hard to see any signs of the tornado.
NWS Little Rock usually posts pictures of the damage on the anniversary of that tornado. One of the deaths was a teacher at the school my mom was attending. Capsized a boat on the lake, didn't it?
I'm surprised you didn't notice (or at least didn't call out) the long-track tornado that went through Arkansas in '08.
Lived in Western Grove AR for years haha so cool that you zoomed near that area 🤣🤘. Great vid!
Thanks!
Is that near altus and clarksville? I found those tracks on google maps and the damage assesment toolkit.
@@13_cmi it's a good couple hours from Clarksville if I remember correctly
Love this channel.
May 8th 2009 . MO was hit with a derecho. It did spawn several tornadoes.
They had to make a new class called Super Derecho.
It was basically an inland hurricane.
It was a light sprinkle when I left my house to walk to my sister's house. By the time I got to the end of the block it was pouring. Then after I crossed the road and was walking the last 3 blocks, I had to avoid a washed out street and sidewalk that just couldn't handle the amount of water flowing and the downpour.
I was able to take a real quick shower right before the power went out. A massive black walnut tree missed the house and propane tank by just inches when it was uprooted. If it had hit the house, the area I always sat would have been crushed.
We got hit with a terrible derecho back in 2020! It was insane, we didn't have power for 4 days.
This is pretty niche, but you may find some interest. As of the time of this writing (January 2023), a lot of Google Street View images of parts of rural Jefferson County, Alabama are from 2014 and show up-close aftermath of the tornadoes from a couple years prior.
1499 Patton Road; Bessemer, AL shows a mostly-empty (yet cluttered) field that used to be a forested area.
This was so relaxing and then you would go WOAH and scare the crap out of me😂
Love this channel
This is so cool haha. Never thought about using google earth to find old tornados.