I lived in Tyler, Texas when my son was 2. His father worked 4 days a week out of town, so I was alone with him one night and was making dinner while he played in the living room. He was in front of the TV watching Toy Story. All of the sudden I heard a roar so loud it was like a freight train and I ran toward my son. There was a huge boom and the lights went out and wind was howling through the house. I couldn't get to the living room because there was something in the way and I noticed that someone was screaming. I didn't realize it was me until the next day when my voice was gone. Straight line winds or a derecho had twisted a 60 foot pine tree next to the house out of the ground like a corkscrew, flipped it upside down and drove it like a javelin through the living room roof and down into the floor. The living room was gone and the wind was so loud that I had to wait for the sound to stop to start calling for my son. I sat there just terrified until I heard "mama, mama?" quietly from behind me. It was my baby. He said that a nice man had walked over, picked him up and carried him into the hallway. Then he told him to sit down and cover his face with his hands and not to move until all of the noise stopped. Then the man smiled at him and left. I know that an angel saved my son. The house was completely destroyed but I didn't care. Now, every time I see a tornado, I pray for the people in it's path. I hope that they're being kept safe too.
@@KimKinzer I never heard about that. That's amazing and beautiful. I'm going to try to read about it. Thank you!! My son is 26 and he still remembers what he calls the man made of light.
I'm so happy to hear that it lifted before hitting. I live in Killeen and have a friend in Temple, about 25 mins from Killeen, who lost his house and both their family cars.
We had one like that last month west of Clarendon, one on the ground and headed towards town and another funnel started forming next to it. Shortly after the second funnel started forming the first tornado began to weaken and went back up in the cloud about a mile or two from town. The internet was out that day and the weather stations in Amarillo only had fire danger warnings so the first warning we got was when someone spotted the tornado 6-8 miles from town and they blew the sirens.
Please continue, Recky. I think it's important for others to understand what we deal with. Too many people think we, in the USA, just live day by day like nothing in the world touches us. Not true. We have disasters that take lives everyday. Some people just don't know. Thanks.
If Carol is interested, and it appears so, I think it's wonderful to include her in these videos. The videos are amazing, and her input is heartfelt and sincere. Qualities you both possess and refreshing to watch! ❤ Thank you for sharing.
Not far from Hawley, in a town called Hodges , Tx. During this same storm. A Storm Chaser actually saved a family of 4 and got them to the nearest hospital. There is a Video showing the rescue
For the past 3 weeks (daily), the Midwest, Central Plains and Ohio Valley have been getting slammed with tornadoes and derecho’s (damaging wind storms)! Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Arkansas are just a few of the states with massive destruction in cities from these storms! I would love to see you do more reactions on tornadoes especially ones that have happened this year!
Agree the chasers have said these are the biggest they've seen. And was especially difficult for the YT weathermen (Ryan Hall) to keep up there were Soo many popping up in several states at once.
Add North Alabama to your list. We've had several confirmed this past three weeks as well, and I was actually under the one that hit Columbia, Tennessee, just north of us an hour past the state line, while driving on the highway the wind became intense in a way I knew was not safe just as our phones alerted for the tornado warning. I asked my friend who was not driving to tell me where the tornado is. When he pulled up the warning they provided, and was loading a radar app, he said with a hollow voice, "we just lost gps" and just a few seconds later, the wind intensified in a way that is indescribable only in part because I could only see it briefly before we could not see anything besides water and debris for 15 seconds or so, followed by the tornado we could then see heading from the highway out into an adjacent neighborhood. I didn't tell very many people that anything happened at all, and this is the first time I've described it fully and I definitely have the weirds in my stomach from recalling it so vividly.
Last Saturday a tornado hit Valley View and Celina, TX. 7 people were killed in Valley View (4 children). Then in Celina the same tornado hit a stable and killed 4 horses. They found one of the horses in the top of a tree the next day. It's just so hard to imagine the force of the wind. Celina is about 20 miles northwest of me. KVUE channel (Austin, TX) has good videos and survivor stories of the 1997 F5 tornado in Jarrell, Texas that killed 27 people, many of them children and entire families. That one was absolutely devastating and still makes me cry. I personally have been in 2 small ones, EF0 and EF1, and I hope that is the worst we ever experience. We also had a microburst once that did more damage than the tornadoes. It is the scariest feeling you can imagine.
I live in Florida where we get Hurricanes and one of the worst things about a Hurricane are the Tornadoes that it spawns and then the winds and the Rain.
I would LOVE to see Carol's reaction to the Joplin and/or Moore (2013) tornado. If she is amazed by this one, she wouldn't believe those tornadoes are even real.
I agree with you that either Joplin or Moore tornado documentaries are the ones to watch, although it will break her heart to see the devastation. It's still unimaginable, even after watching it. She would also see the community coming together to help their neighbors out in their time of need.
I saw the aftermath of a tornado in Illinois uproot a mature pine tree and thread it through a chain link fence. The fencing was intact around the tree and the tree trunk was horizontal and completely through the fence.
Recky, you and Miss Carol should watch a video of the 1965 Palm Sunday Tornadoes. It's an outbreak no one talks about anymore. Your storm reactions mean alot. Thank you! Thank you for this one with both of you!
@dalefunk2457 I was in Southern Michigan. That was a horrendous, unbelievable day. So many souls gone, terribly hurt, and lost everything. And some of the strangest tornado anomalies ever. That's the one that Dr Fujita surveyed and instituted the F scale. I'm so glad youre ok.
I am in Texas and have not had electric off and on for 2 weeks-- all food in fridge is lost- thank for good neighbors- power back on and just had eggs, sausage and toast no tornado, just lots of trees down on lines
During the 2 week time we didn’t have power after the Longview 2019 derecho, we ended up cooking food non-stop for our closest neighbors because they had only electric and we have gas stoves. We also had lots of people using our shower. Since then, our neighbors have converted to gas-powered stoves and hot water. Good thing too, since shortly after was the Snowpocalypse. Just a tip for people If you rent, make sure you have renter’s insurance. Ours replaces all the food lost during outages lasting longer than 24 hours.
Texan here! We’ve gotten wrecked this month and our huge oak trees in our yard were ripped in half this week, took out our fence and power lines. We got lucky our house was safe
Definitely more tornado reactions. I've lived all of my 68 years here in the upper Midwest (Michigan) and this is the time of year where I'm paranoid of every dark cloud. Those beasts mean business no matter what their size.
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I've literally seen a drinking straw shoved into a tree from a tornado
My grandmother lived on a farm in Kansas back in the 1930s-40s and went through several tornados. The strangest thing she ever saw was _pieces of straw_ driven all the way through a tree trunk deep enough to come out the other side.
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Carol the largest tornado ever recorded was the El Reno tornado it's 2.6 miles wide at the ground level
Tornado Alley: Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and the Eastern part of Colorado. Then there's "Dixie Alley" which is an oval shaped off shoot of Tornado Alley. Includes Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina, and North Carolina, Kentucky. Parts of Florida too are prone to tornadoes but hasn't really been designated in either "alley".
That’s right don’t forget my state neighbor👆🏻…we’ve been through heaps! IL got you IN, we share so much and I’ve jumped our boarders more times then I can count👍🏻
I live in Louisiana. We are not in tornado alley, but this year we have had quite a few tornados. Thank God none have been to severe. Texas has taken a beating this year. God bless our neighbors, As I write this, the weather here is very stormy, and from what I understand, there could be a threat of tornados tonight. In Louisiana it is not possible to have a basement or underground shelter. The water table is so high here if you dig down 15 feet you hit water. You would have a big pond for a basement. My daughter built a house a few years ago and they decided to have a tornado safe room built (per government specifications). It is plated in steel - walls and ceiling with no windows. The door going in has 6 deadbolt locks on it and weights 500 pounds. They made their laundry room in the safe room so it serves double duty. In the last few years I have been in it several times because of tornado warnings, and it is a comfort to know that they have it. Thank you Recky and Carol for doing this reaction. As always it was great. Well done.
This was Thursday May 2. The road that he stopped on and got out of the car is the road my parents lived on while they were alive. My nephew lives on the last little road that he turned down to check on people after the tornado passed. The camera didn't catch his house, it was on the right side further down. He was lucky compared to his neighbor across the road and a neighbor north of them. It totally obliterated their houses. I subscribed to your channel 2 days after this happened as I was looking for Hawley tornado videos. Thankfully, no one was killed, a few minor injuries. It was 5mph shy of an EF-4 when it came his little road, 165mph wind. I can't believe you reacted to this one! This is where I live. Thanks for your reactions. I love them.
16:15 That debris is your primary danger. I am a decades long resident of Joplin, did not experience F5, but lived 25min or so south. Saw next day damage to my 15+ year neighborhood 1/2 block N of destroyed hospital. I can never see that old neighborhood again. It was all wiped clean like a chalkboard. I saw a quarter ton pick-up wedged up in a tree’s branches! Some died of impalement by debris. A broken 2x4 in Joplin was driven through a curb and left imbedded there. I currently live just east of El Reno, OK. If they have a pds and there is a ‘violent tornado’ they will say “You have to be underground to survive this.”, and they mean it. A common practice is to have a motorcycle helmet if you must shelter at ground level. Just a heavy blunt object alone at those speeds will nalive you.
I am 62yrs old. I grew up in Missouri right along side the Mississippi river and now live in Illinois right along the Mississippi river. When I was in 8th grade (back in the very early 1970s) our school had just let out for the day. A tornado was heading straight toward where me and my friends were walking home. We took shelter in a hardware store. My mother happened to come to get us because of the sirens going off. 5 mins after she picked us up and sped away the hardware store was hit. Totally demolished the store. Luckily the people that were still there made it to a storm shelter behind the store. It saved their lives. This wasn't the first or last time our community was hit by tornados. Where I live now is right close to where the Illinois Amazon warehouse was totally destroyed by a tornado. 6 or 7 people were killed. I have always lived in fear of tornados. My family was on our way to New Jersey in the 1960s when our car was picked up by a rain wrapped tornado. We were spinning around for at least 10 minutes before being set down in the middle of a corn field, 2 miles from where the highway we were on. That was right outside of Canton, Ohio. Life in the USA is dangerous. If it aint tornadoes, its earthquakes which we have all the time or major floods along the Mississippi river. But I really love it here anyway.
That's crazy... I was let out of school during tornado sirens. Got lost walking home, my dad was out looking for me. He gave the teacher hell, l was 5.
Your father must have been frantic!! Why aren't our schools built with tornado shelters? And why do they let children out of school knowing dangerous weather is present? This is something all americans need to push to have changed. Americas children are our next generation. We should protect them from dangerous weather better!
I live in central Texas and I remember when the F5 jarrel tornado touched down out side of Austin and saw where it came thru and there was a swoth of trees ripped out of the ground by their roots and 3 inches of asphalt worn off of the road where it went across. It's mind blowing the amount of force that they produce. And when you see an 18 wheeler 200 feet up flying around like a toy that really brings it home.
I live near Plainfield Illinois, and my aunt's house was right across from the high school. The day after the August 28th 1990 tornado I headed there to see what could be saved, It was a brick house, without a wall left standing! As I drove there I went on Renwick road. The tornado crossed that road which was about a half mile from my aunts home. There was a section perhaps 300 feet wide where the top 2 inches of asphalt had been sucked off the road, and the undeveloped lots next to the road had ALL the grass sucked out of the ground, along with what looked like 2 inches of the ground itself. Those observations stuck with me, but not as much as the utter destruction this storm caused.
I'm a Texan of Swedish descent who found you that way. Nice to see your reaction to an all-too-common phenomenon here. I live not far from there, and I heard a tornado during the night in that storm when it made it further east. It's quite a sound in person.
Please have Carol do more tornado reactions with you Recky, especially those with real time people involved...even if you've seen it already Recky. Thank you....I saw on my feed Carol and you doing a tornado reaction and I clicked right away because I know Carol never sat with you during all your tornado reactions over the past year. Thank you Carol for your reaction too. As devastating as most of these footages are, you still know that humanity and caring for your fellow human being always exists in all our souls. And you also know how truly destructive Mother Nature can be at a moment's notice when the conditions are just right. This one was barely an F1 Recky, and dissipated very quickly, thank God. 💙🌺
This is gonna be a rough weather year here in the States. Oklahoma has had 80 tornadoes so far this year, from what an Oklahoman told. Nebraska, Ohio and Texas have been hit a lot this year. 2 hit in Temple, TX last week (25 mins from me here in Killeen). Friend of mine lost his home and the family's cars.
@@TexArizocan I’ve lived in south central Texas for 28 years. Tornadoes are not normal this low in the state (unless there is a Hurricane. I remember 2 “warnings” in this time frame. I’m originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, hands down, I’ll take an earthquake over a tornado any day. These things are very scary. (I have a friend who was an unwilling participant of the storm a couple of weeks ago, in the town above me San Marcos. Her trampoline from the back yard is still gone, but they received the neighbors mangled trampoline in exchange. They are in a mobile home, felt the push, they road it out in the closet. Her husband was preparing for heart surgery that following week. Crazy few hours during that storm, and, as she said when they finally checked in, we are all alive!) I was watching Max Velcity on RUclips watching it develop. I have concluded, I don’t understand these storms, this year as last year, nothing is “normal” about them.
Yes I was going to recommend this as well, it's the best tornado footage I've ever seen! Absolutely stunning! The drone footage doesn't even look real!
Gotta see the Greenfield, Iowa tornado from a few weeks back. It is just unreal. The number of sub-vortices was unfathomable, and they've clocked winds at 300+ mph.
People often think that a large tornado is stronger then a tornado with a smaller base but overall width has nothing to do with actual wind speed and large circulations at times can actually indicate rotation that isn't as tight. Larger "wedge" tornadoes with F3 and stronger ratings are rare and only account for less then 1% of all tornadoes. F5 tornadoes with a 1 mile or larger diameter are once in a decade or two monsters. The largest and strongest tornadoes in recorded history happened in the same area just west of Oklahoma City; the 1999 Bridge Creek tornado with the highest radar indicated wind speed ever recorded at 307 mph and the 2013 Moore, Oklahoma tornado with wind speeds up to 210 mph and the largest ever recorded width of 2.4 miles at the base. Both were devastating but the Bridge Creek tornado didn't even leave the concrete slabs of some of the homes it took.
Oh, wow! You said Hawley correctly. I know because it's only a 20-minute drive from where I am now, and where my grandparents lived for all of my life. I knew there had been a tornado there, but didn't know about this video. I've been watching you, Recky, for awhile, and am also following the two of you as Becky has joined. Keep up the great work! [I was born here and have seen 2 tornados with my own eyes. And while they can be devastating, they are still fascinating and, many times, beautiful. My brother has a place in town where he goes to "hide" from tornados (an underground structure) and we have a pact that he will always come get me ... I have no car of my own.]
I'm in central TX. It's been a couple of months since our last tornado warning. It's always good to pay attention. The tornado was spotted from the airport and China Springs outside of Waco. Thankfully there were no casualties and I'm not sure if it actually hit any homes.
When I was a child a tornado touched down on a farm a few miles from our farm. A few days later we went over and saw the damage. Fortunately their home was untouched, but a huge barn and several other outbuildings were destroyed. The thing that impressed me, however, w ere the two trees that had sheets of metal roofing wrapped tightly around the trunks. The owner left them there and they stayed there for years, a constant reminder of the power of tornadoes and how you don’t mess around with them.
If you’re looking for more tornado content, I highly suggest a show called Tornado Alley. Each episode covers a major storm in real time told by witnesses, and you can find the show here on RUclips. Great video!
Hej! My daughter is a dual citizen of the US and Sweden. She turned me on to you. She knows I'm a tornado fanatic. I survived a pretty nasty one as a kid and have been fascinated ever since. I like these reactions. You have a great channel.
This was great, I’d love to see more tornado reactions from Carol! 👏 You both now know more about tornadoes than the average person. Sometimes it can be surprising how many people, particularly those who live in Tornado Alley, don’t know about tornadoes or what they can do (I actually recall someone saying they were glad they don’t get tornadoes in Texas. I was shocked, they might as well have said you don’t get rain in a rainforest.) But yes let’s hear it for tornado awareness! 🙌
I’m 62 yo live in PORT LAVACA Texas and I will sit home through hurricanes but run away from tornadoes because you don’t know how scary it is until you’ve been through one and sadly I’ve seen a lot 😊
I've lived in Tornado Alley most of my life. (Texas and Oklahoma) and the smaller portion was mainly spent on the Texas and Florida coasts, so we had hurricanes. Though off the Texas coast I once saw 5 water spouts at once. Here in Oklahoma I've spent part of 3 nights in the past month crouched in an interior hallway with my cats because of tornadoes in the area. A lot of hail frequently comes with them. But I'm a weirdo that actually looks forward to tornado season because I love the thunderstorms.
Now I can't wait for her reaction to more videos. It's amazing to see folks that haven't learned about them before to see how truly devastating and massive they can be. I'm a survivor of the Xenia Ohio F5. There's no words that can truly describe
I had gone shopping in Victoria, TX in 2013 and we knew we were gonna get some storms, but didn’t think too much of it. While at my last stop, they shut the store down and told us all to hang tight for a bit. We had no idea what was happening outside, as we were in Sam’s Club - so metal warehouse with no windows. But my friend sent me a picture of 4 tornados on the ground just north of where we were! Glad I wasn’t on the road, because I would’ve been heading right into them! We’ve been getting some pretty wild weather here recently! Been having a bunch of freak thunderstorms popping up out of nowhere, and just had our first tropical storm of the season (Alberto) come through. They’re predicting it to be a busy one, so… yaaaay hurricane season! 😬
Mais yeah we need more of Carol on the channel.... SW Louisiana here and I will say mother nature is off her meds lately...we haven't even started hurricane season good yet and she's already been pre-gamming the last few week. It's like every other day we are getting severe weather or tornado warnings.
Carol, it doesn't matter how or what it's built with. A big one is taking it down. If you're really interested, check out the Joplin Missouri and Moore Oklahoma tornados.
Recky over in Valley View Texas, a tornado killed seven including kids. The kids were found later in a field deceased, that storm roared through like freight train. Prayers needed, that storm killed twenty people in total. 99 percent of tornado's rotate counter clockwise, the other 1 percent which are very rare, rotate clockwise.
Love your reactions. You guys are awesome. We love ya Recky but we are glad Carol is in these now too! 😁 You should have her react to the "Tornado Alley - Real Time Tornado: Joplin, Missouri" video. Its one of the best tornado depictions on youtube in my opinion. I believe Recky, you already reacted to that one but Carol DEFINITELY needs to see it too. 👍
The comment about the warning system being much better is probably true in most areas but I can tell you from my local area that it is horrible. They " test " the tornado sirens at random times which makes it unreliable because if it goes off you have no idea if they are testing it or if it's malfunctioning or if it's a real tornado
Have you ever watched a livestream of people chasing tornadoes? A couple of storm chasers that come to mind are Reed Timmer and Connor Croff; I think Connor is storm chasing right now. My all-time favourite tornado guy, though, is Pecos Hank. He's such a cool, funny guy. I'd recommend watching some of his videos.
I totally agree with the love/hate of tornadoes. They are absolutely beautiful, fascinating, and its power is beyond imagination. However, they also need to be respected as they can be so destructive. Even in the aftermath you can also see the most beautiful thing as people come together to morn their losses or others losses together and rebuild. I just wish that in tornado prone states all residents should be given a safe underground place to take shelter.
Glad your wife joined you Recky,you're getting quite knowledgeable about tornadoes and tornado alley, I live in Oklahoma. This video is indeed a storm chaser, all those cars you see on the side of the road are other storm chasers, they call them Congo lines
Hawley is indeed pronounced like "Holly". Family was founding members of that town, though they moved around a lot afterwards, we are all around Texas.
You should show Carol some of the ones you watched on your channel early on so she can see the full coverage, beginning to end and not just a storm chaser. They can be devastating but it's also great to see how people come together to help each other.
The thing about Tornado Alley is that it seems to be extending every year. As weather patterns change, you hear more and more about states to the East, which are totally unprepared, getting hit by twisters.
I lived in Tyler, Texas when my son was 2. His father worked 4 days a week out of town, so I was alone with him one night and was making dinner while he played in the living room. He was in front of the TV watching Toy Story. All of the sudden I heard a roar so loud it was like a freight train and I ran toward my son. There was a huge boom and the lights went out and wind was howling through the house. I couldn't get to the living room because there was something in the way and I noticed that someone was screaming. I didn't realize it was me until the next day when my voice was gone. Straight line winds or a derecho had twisted a 60 foot pine tree next to the house out of the ground like a corkscrew, flipped it upside down and drove it like a javelin through the living room roof and down into the floor. The living room was gone and the wind was so loud that I had to wait for the sound to stop to start calling for my son. I sat there just terrified until I heard "mama, mama?" quietly from behind me. It was my baby. He said that a nice man had walked over, picked him up and carried him into the hallway. Then he told him to sit down and cover his face with his hands and not to move until all of the noise stopped. Then the man smiled at him and left. I know that an angel saved my son. The house was completely destroyed but I didn't care. Now, every time I see a tornado, I pray for the people in it's path. I hope that they're being kept safe too.
It reminds me of the Joplin butterfly people. Children reported that they saw butterfly people coming down to protect them during the tornado.
@@KimKinzer I never heard about that. That's amazing and beautiful. I'm going to try to read about it. Thank you!! My son is 26 and he still remembers what he calls the man made of light.
Oh my heart!! That’s such a beautiful thing. I’m so glad you were both saved and that the Angel came to help your son.❤️🤗🐝
If not an angel, perhaps Christ himself. What a fascinating story. Thank you for sharing it!
@@deborahdanhauer8525 Thank you Deborah. What a sweet, beautiful comment.
I live in Hawley... i watched the tornado come straight towards my house and it lifted right before it got here thankfully 🙌
I'm so happy to hear that it lifted before hitting. I live in Killeen and have a friend in Temple, about 25 mins from Killeen, who lost his house and both their family cars.
Glad you are ok. I grew up in Michigan. We had warnings all the time but no close calls thankfully.
We had one like that last month west of Clarendon, one on the ground and headed towards town and another funnel started forming next to it. Shortly after the second funnel started forming the first tornado began to weaken and went back up in the cloud about a mile or two from town. The internet was out that day and the weather stations in Amarillo only had fire danger warnings so the first warning we got was when someone spotted the tornado 6-8 miles from town and they blew the sirens.
I'm in Abilene and was watching the radar and watching the storm from here. Glad it lifted.
Please continue, Recky. I think it's important for others to understand what we deal with. Too many people think we, in the USA, just live day by day like nothing in the world touches us. Not true. We have disasters that take lives everyday. Some people just don't know. Thanks.
If Carol is interested, and it appears so, I think it's wonderful to include her in these videos. The videos are amazing, and her input is heartfelt and sincere. Qualities you both possess and refreshing to watch! ❤ Thank you for sharing.
Not far from Hawley, in a town called Hodges , Tx. During this same storm. A Storm Chaser actually saved a family of 4 and got them to the nearest hospital. There is a Video showing the rescue
Where can I find this video??? Hi from Killeen, TX
@WolfLove89 The chasers name is Freddie Mckinney. If you look up texas family saved by storm chaser it should come up.
@@sanoraray Thank you
I remember seeing that.
Recky is the tornado teacher now, I LOVE IT!
For the past 3 weeks (daily), the Midwest, Central Plains and Ohio Valley have been getting slammed with tornadoes and derecho’s (damaging wind storms)! Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Arkansas are just a few of the states with massive destruction in cities from these storms! I would love to see you do more reactions on tornadoes especially ones that have happened this year!
Agree the chasers have said these are the biggest they've seen. And was especially difficult for the YT weathermen (Ryan Hall) to keep up there were Soo many popping up in several states at once.
Kentucky, Missouri also, it’s been wild.
Add North Alabama to your list. We've had several confirmed this past three weeks as well, and I was actually under the one that hit Columbia, Tennessee, just north of us an hour past the state line, while driving on the highway the wind became intense in a way I knew was not safe just as our phones alerted for the tornado warning. I asked my friend who was not driving to tell me where the tornado is. When he pulled up the warning they provided, and was loading a radar app, he said with a hollow voice, "we just lost gps" and just a few seconds later, the wind intensified in a way that is indescribable only in part because I could only see it briefly before we could not see anything besides water and debris for 15 seconds or so, followed by the tornado we could then see heading from the highway out into an adjacent neighborhood. I didn't tell very many people that anything happened at all, and this is the first time I've described it fully and I definitely have the weirds in my stomach from recalling it so vividly.
If Carol wants to see more...then Recky needs to show Carol more...and then we will be here to watch Carol watch more 😉
They need to watch some Reed Timmer videos of him intercepting in the Dominator.
Last Saturday a tornado hit Valley View and Celina, TX. 7 people were killed in Valley View (4 children). Then in Celina the same tornado hit a stable and killed 4 horses. They found one of the horses in the top of a tree the next day. It's just so hard to imagine the force of the wind. Celina is about 20 miles northwest of me. KVUE channel (Austin, TX) has good videos and survivor stories of the 1997 F5 tornado in Jarrell, Texas that killed 27 people, many of them children and entire families. That one was absolutely devastating and still makes me cry. I personally have been in 2 small ones, EF0 and EF1, and I hope that is the worst we ever experience. We also had a microburst once that did more damage than the tornadoes. It is the scariest feeling you can imagine.
My sister has been assisting in the relief from that tornado
@@benjeminecarpenter2894 That's very kind of her.
Great to have Carol on board. You folks work well together.
I live in Florida where we get Hurricanes and one of the worst things about a Hurricane are the Tornadoes that it spawns and then the winds and the Rain.
I would LOVE to see Carol's reaction to the Joplin and/or Moore (2013) tornado. If she is amazed by this one, she wouldn't believe those tornadoes are even real.
I agree with you that either Joplin or Moore tornado documentaries are the ones to watch, although it will break her heart to see the devastation. It's still unimaginable, even after watching it.
She would also see the community coming together to help their neighbors out in their time of need.
I saw the aftermath of a tornado in Illinois uproot a mature pine tree and thread it through a chain link fence. The fencing was intact around the tree and the tree trunk was horizontal and completely through the fence.
Recky, you and Miss Carol should watch a video of the 1965 Palm Sunday Tornadoes. It's an outbreak no one talks about anymore.
Your storm reactions mean alot. Thank you! Thank you for this one with both of you!
It hit the neighboring town to me (Monroe WI). They've had several more throughout the years.
I was 4 years old and the tornados went over our house, broke every window.
That was in Toledo Ohio
@dalefunk2457 I was in Southern Michigan. That was a horrendous, unbelievable day. So many souls gone, terribly hurt, and lost everything. And some of the strangest tornado anomalies ever. That's the one that Dr Fujita surveyed and instituted the F scale. I'm so glad youre ok.
@@dalefunk2457 I'm glad you're ok.
I am in Texas and have not had electric off and on for 2 weeks-- all food in fridge is lost- thank for good neighbors- power back on and just had eggs, sausage and toast no tornado, just lots of trees down on lines
During the 2 week time we didn’t have power after the Longview 2019 derecho, we ended up cooking food non-stop for our closest neighbors because they had only electric and we have gas stoves. We also had lots of people using our shower. Since then, our neighbors have converted to gas-powered stoves and hot water. Good thing too, since shortly after was the Snowpocalypse.
Just a tip for people If you rent, make sure you have renter’s insurance. Ours replaces all the food lost during outages lasting longer than 24 hours.
Texan here! We’ve gotten wrecked this month and our huge oak trees in our yard were ripped in half this week, took out our fence and power lines. We got lucky our house was safe
There is a endless supply of tornado videos. Carol can be busy for a long time watching these.
I love when you react to tornados and I’m glad Carol is joining you.
Definitely more tornado reactions. I've lived all of my 68 years here in the upper Midwest (Michigan) and this is the time of year where I'm paranoid of every dark cloud. Those beasts mean business no matter what their size.
I've literally seen a drinking straw shoved into a tree from a tornado
I saw that in a tornado film 40 years ago at school in kansas
On par with paper sliced into a tree from a hurricane.
I've always heard stories like that but I've never actually seen one in person but boy do I believe it
@@BAYBAY_316 it was the Plainfield Illinois tornado 1990, it was a McDonald's drinking straw, I seen it with my own eyes
My grandmother lived on a farm in Kansas back in the 1930s-40s and went through several tornados. The strangest thing she ever saw was _pieces of straw_ driven all the way through a tree trunk deep enough to come out the other side.
Carol the largest tornado ever recorded was the El Reno tornado it's 2.6 miles wide at the ground level
Tornado Alley: Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and the Eastern part of Colorado. Then there's "Dixie Alley" which is an oval shaped off shoot of Tornado Alley. Includes Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina, and North Carolina, Kentucky. Parts of Florida too are prone to tornadoes but hasn't really been designated in either "alley".
.....and Indiana.....
That’s right don’t forget my state neighbor👆🏻…we’ve been through heaps! IL got you IN, we share so much and I’ve jumped our boarders more times then I can count👍🏻
Basically the whole middle and eastern part of the country gets them. Look up a tornado map, most of the flippin states are covered. 😰
@@ReidandGracie Yes, the Ohio Valley especially. Grew up in Newburgh but moved to Kansas years ago - from the frying pan into the fire!
You forgot Iowa
It's been bad here in Texas this year and it's just the beginning.
I live in Louisiana. We are not in tornado alley, but this year we have had quite a few tornados. Thank God none have been to severe. Texas has taken a beating this year. God bless our neighbors, As I write this, the weather here is very stormy, and from what I understand, there could be a threat of tornados tonight. In Louisiana it is not possible to have a basement or underground shelter. The water table is so high here if you dig down 15 feet you hit water. You would have a big pond for a basement. My daughter built a house a few years ago and they decided to have a tornado safe room built (per government specifications). It is plated in steel - walls and ceiling with no windows. The door going in has 6 deadbolt locks on it and weights 500 pounds. They made their laundry room in the safe room so it serves double duty. In the last few years I have been in it several times because of tornado warnings, and it is a comfort to know that they have it. Thank you Recky and Carol for doing this reaction. As always it was great. Well done.
I'm from Arkansas. We're part of Dixie alley.
@@ghost56539....and part of "traditional" Tornado Alley too. Just say'n. Take care!
I am a survivor of the chandler lake wilson, Minnesota tornado of June 15th 1992, it was an f5, nothing left.
This was Thursday May 2. The road that he stopped on and got out of the car is the road my parents lived on while they were alive. My nephew lives on the last little road that he turned down to check on people after the tornado passed. The camera didn't catch his house, it was on the right side further down. He was lucky compared to his neighbor across the road and a neighbor north of them. It totally obliterated their houses. I subscribed to your channel 2 days after this happened as I was looking for Hawley tornado videos. Thankfully, no one was killed, a few minor injuries. It was 5mph shy of an EF-4 when it came his little road, 165mph wind. I can't believe you reacted to this one! This is where I live. Thanks for your reactions. I love them.
Recky you should know, we can’t get enough tornado reactions. All tornadoes all the time would be fine.
yes more reaction from you both on tornados. Illinois resident here I have seen and been in many, very scary.
I vote for more - perhaps Joplin. Definitely intense but it's like you're actually there.
I'm afraid the Joplin tornado may be too intense for Carol, Recky had a hard time watching it
Rick B.
I don’t think she’s ready for Joplin, but I’m not sure many of us were💔
I did think about that. You both are probably right😉
16:15 That debris is your primary danger. I am a decades long resident of Joplin, did not experience F5, but lived 25min or so south. Saw next day damage to my 15+ year neighborhood 1/2 block N of destroyed hospital. I can never see that old neighborhood again. It was all wiped clean like a chalkboard. I saw a quarter ton pick-up wedged up in a tree’s branches! Some died of impalement by debris. A broken 2x4 in Joplin was driven through a curb and left imbedded there.
I currently live just east of El Reno, OK. If they have a pds and there is a ‘violent tornado’ they will say “You have to be underground to survive this.”, and they mean it.
A common practice is to have a motorcycle helmet if you must shelter at ground level. Just a heavy blunt object alone at those speeds will nalive you.
I watched this live on the news so i just wanted to stop by and give a like and a comment👍👍
Thanks for the Reaction - the past month has been heavy with severe tornados over a large range of states.
The Jarrell Texas tornado was actually 700kph wind because it was 320mph so they can actually go much faster than 400kph.
I love your reaction videos. You both seem so kind and caring. ♥️
Yes, I would love for you both to react to more!
Awe supervisor Moa and love you guys!
They can be beautiful and Deadly at the same time.
Houston here, we had a huge storm this week, over 200 trees down in our neighbourhood.
Kingwood here! Yes, the storms have been insane this season, praying hurricane season isn’t as bad as they are forecasting!
@@artifactdad Kingwood too.
@@artifactdad And earthquakes
I am 62yrs old. I grew up in Missouri right along side the Mississippi river and now live in Illinois right along the Mississippi river. When I was in 8th grade (back in the very early 1970s) our school had just let out for the day. A tornado was heading straight toward where me and my friends were walking home. We took shelter in a hardware store. My mother happened to come to get us because of the sirens going off. 5 mins after she picked us up and sped away the hardware store was hit. Totally demolished the store. Luckily the people that were still there made it to a storm shelter behind the store. It saved their lives. This wasn't the first or last time our community was hit by tornados. Where I live now is right close to where the Illinois Amazon warehouse was totally destroyed by a tornado. 6 or 7 people were killed. I have always lived in fear of tornados. My family was on our way to New Jersey in the 1960s when our car was picked up by a rain wrapped tornado. We were spinning around for at least 10 minutes before being set down in the middle of a corn field, 2 miles from where the highway we were on. That was right outside of Canton, Ohio. Life in the USA is dangerous. If it aint tornadoes, its earthquakes which we have all the time or major floods along the Mississippi river. But I really love it here anyway.
That's crazy...
I was let out of school during tornado sirens. Got lost walking home, my dad was out looking for me. He gave the teacher hell, l was 5.
Your father must have been frantic!! Why aren't our schools built with tornado shelters? And why do they let children out of school knowing dangerous weather is present? This is something all americans need to push to have changed. Americas children are our next generation. We should protect them from dangerous weather better!
We live around the same area! I hope you’ve been safe in all this crazy weather we’ve had, and hopefully we won’t have it as bad in June!
Tornadoes are really gorgeous. Structure is pretty, cloud colors, they are just startlingly pretty. But so deadly.
I live in central Texas and I remember when the F5 jarrel tornado touched down out side of Austin and saw where it came thru and there was a swoth of trees ripped out of the ground by their roots and 3 inches of asphalt worn off of the road where it went across. It's mind blowing the amount of force that they produce. And when you see an 18 wheeler 200 feet up flying around like a toy that really brings it home.
There were twin tornadoes videoed in Midland Texas a few days ago. Traveling side by side.
Really enjoyed watching you both react. Would love to see more.
There are quite a few youtube channels that cover tornadoes live. Lately it's been every night.
Watch Reed Timmer! He’s one of those daredevil storm chasers!
Look up Lubbock tornado 1970. There are several documentaries. That tornado was the basis for the F1-F5 rating system.
would love to see you both reacting. always fun to see carol too ;) thanks for sharing
Tornados are the worst! The destruction can be immense. I have been through 2 in my lifetime and fortunately was never in the direct path.
Ohh wow, this town is about an hour away from me. Congratulations Recky you pronunciation oh Hawley was perfect.
We get them all the time down here in Canton TX. My chainsaw needs a break.
I live near Plainfield Illinois, and my aunt's house was right across from the high school. The day after the August 28th 1990 tornado I headed there to see what could be saved, It was a brick house, without a wall left standing! As I drove there I went on Renwick road. The tornado crossed that road which was about a half mile from my aunts home. There was a section perhaps 300 feet wide where the top 2 inches of asphalt had been sucked off the road, and the undeveloped lots next to the road had ALL the grass sucked out of the ground, along with what looked like 2 inches of the ground itself. Those observations stuck with me, but not as much as the utter destruction this storm caused.
It’s been an active year so far for sure 😢
I'm a Texan of Swedish descent who found you that way. Nice to see your reaction to an all-too-common phenomenon here. I live not far from there, and I heard a tornado during the night in that storm when it made it further east. It's quite a sound in person.
Please have Carol do more tornado reactions with you Recky, especially those with real time people involved...even if you've seen it already Recky. Thank you....I saw on my feed Carol and you doing a tornado reaction and I clicked right away because I know Carol never sat with you during all your tornado reactions over the past year. Thank you Carol for your reaction too. As devastating as most of these footages are, you still know that humanity and caring for your fellow human being always exists in all our souls. And you also know how truly destructive Mother Nature can be at a moment's notice when the conditions are just right.
This one was barely an F1 Recky, and dissipated very quickly, thank God. 💙🌺
Thank you guys for viewing these. It’s been a very ruff Tornado 🌪️ season for us all, specifically Texas. Last nights were crazy also!
And they are predicting a very active hurricane season. 😩
This is gonna be a rough weather year here in the States. Oklahoma has had 80 tornadoes so far this year, from what an Oklahoman told. Nebraska, Ohio and Texas have been hit a lot this year. 2 hit in Temple, TX last week (25 mins from me here in Killeen). Friend of mine lost his home and the family's cars.
@@TexasRose50I heard that too. 😢
@@TexArizocan I’ve lived in south central Texas for 28 years. Tornadoes are not normal this low in the state (unless there is a Hurricane. I remember 2 “warnings” in this time frame. I’m originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, hands down, I’ll take an earthquake over a tornado any day.
These things are very scary. (I have a friend who was an unwilling participant of the storm a couple of weeks ago, in the town above me San Marcos. Her trampoline from the back yard is still gone, but they received the neighbors mangled trampoline in exchange. They are in a mobile home, felt the push, they road it out in the closet. Her husband was preparing for heart surgery that following week. Crazy few hours during that storm, and, as she said when they finally checked in, we are all alive!)
I was watching Max Velcity on RUclips watching it develop. I have concluded, I don’t understand these storms, this year as last year, nothing is “normal” about them.
@@TexasRose50 I’ve heard this also. I’m a good 200 miles north of Corpus, but Harvey proved to me, no area is immune. Stay safe!
Greenfield Iowa got hit with an EF4 tornado about 2 weeks ago. 153 homes were completely destoyed, and 4 people killed.
Hey Recky!! How nice to see you ( & your wife ) Again!! Hello from Florida 🇺🇸. We just started our Hurricane Season. 🙏🙏
Tornadoes are no joke!
Check out Reed Timmer's drone vid that came out last week. It's the best tornado footage ever
Yes I was going to recommend this as well, it's the best tornado footage I've ever seen! Absolutely stunning! The drone footage doesn't even look real!
The dead man walking? That one was a behemoth and the details were so crisp.
Gotta see the Greenfield, Iowa tornado from a few weeks back. It is just unreal. The number of sub-vortices was unfathomable, and they've clocked winds at 300+ mph.
People often think that a large tornado is stronger then a tornado with a smaller base but overall width has nothing to do with actual wind speed and large circulations at times can actually indicate rotation that isn't as tight. Larger "wedge" tornadoes with F3 and stronger ratings are rare and only account for less then 1% of all tornadoes. F5 tornadoes with a 1 mile or larger diameter are once in a decade or two monsters. The largest and strongest tornadoes in recorded history happened in the same area just west of Oklahoma City; the 1999 Bridge Creek tornado with the highest radar indicated wind speed ever recorded at 307 mph and the 2013 Moore, Oklahoma tornado with wind speeds up to 210 mph and the largest ever recorded width of 2.4 miles at the base. Both were devastating but the Bridge Creek tornado didn't even leave the concrete slabs of some of the homes it took.
I would love to see both of you do more reactions together....
Storms and tornadoes have been especially crazy and prolific this year.😣
Oh, wow! You said Hawley correctly. I know because it's only a 20-minute drive from where I am now, and where my grandparents lived for all of my life. I knew there had been a tornado there, but didn't know about this video. I've been watching you, Recky, for awhile, and am also following the two of you as Becky has joined. Keep up the great work! [I was born here and have seen 2 tornados with my own eyes. And while they can be devastating, they are still fascinating and, many times, beautiful. My brother has a place in town where he goes to "hide" from tornados (an underground structure) and we have a pact that he will always come get me ... I have no car of my own.]
We went through one in Shawnee Oklahoma very scary. Luckily our shelter saved us
Carol and Recky remember this
if there is no debris you can not see the tornado
I loved seeing her reaction too!!
I'm in central TX. It's been a couple of months since our last tornado warning. It's always good to pay attention. The tornado was spotted from the airport and China Springs outside of Waco. Thankfully there were no casualties and I'm not sure if it actually hit any homes.
When I was a child a tornado touched down on a farm a few miles from our farm. A few days later we went over and saw the damage. Fortunately their home was untouched, but a huge barn and several other outbuildings were destroyed. The thing that impressed me, however, w ere the two trees that had sheets of metal roofing wrapped tightly around the trunks. The owner left them there and they stayed there for years, a constant reminder of the power of tornadoes and how you don’t mess around with them.
Glad I live in Washington State. Tornadoes are almost unheard of.
If you’re looking for more tornado content, I highly suggest a show called Tornado Alley. Each episode covers a major storm in real time told by witnesses, and you can find the show here on RUclips. Great video!
Tornados definitely are an amazing visual force.
Hej! My daughter is a dual citizen of the US and Sweden. She turned me on to you. She knows I'm a tornado fanatic. I survived a pretty nasty one as a kid and have been fascinated ever since. I like these reactions. You have a great channel.
This was great, I’d love to see more tornado reactions from Carol! 👏 You both now know more about tornadoes than the average person. Sometimes it can be surprising how many people, particularly those who live in Tornado Alley, don’t know about tornadoes or what they can do (I actually recall someone saying they were glad they don’t get tornadoes in Texas. I was shocked, they might as well have said you don’t get rain in a rainforest.)
But yes let’s hear it for tornado awareness! 🙌
We live in Abilene and we saw this tornado thru photos from our friends in Hawley. Hawley is only 15 miles from us, it was a wild night.
The most tornadoes a friend of mine living in Kansas saw at one time was 4.
It was a high-end EF-3 with 165 mph wind speed.
I’m 62 yo live in PORT LAVACA Texas and I will sit home through hurricanes but run away from tornadoes because you don’t know how scary it is until you’ve been through one and sadly I’ve seen a lot 😊
I've lived in Tornado Alley most of my life. (Texas and Oklahoma) and the smaller portion was mainly spent on the Texas and Florida coasts, so we had hurricanes. Though off the Texas coast I once saw 5 water spouts at once. Here in Oklahoma I've spent part of 3 nights in the past month crouched in an interior hallway with my cats because of tornadoes in the area. A lot of hail frequently comes with them. But I'm a weirdo that actually looks forward to tornado season because I love the thunderstorms.
Now I can't wait for her reaction to more videos. It's amazing to see folks that haven't learned about them before to see how truly devastating and massive they can be. I'm a survivor of the Xenia Ohio F5. There's no words that can truly describe
I had gone shopping in Victoria, TX in 2013 and we knew we were gonna get some storms, but didn’t think too much of it. While at my last stop, they shut the store down and told us all to hang tight for a bit. We had no idea what was happening outside, as we were in Sam’s Club - so metal warehouse with no windows. But my friend sent me a picture of 4 tornados on the ground just north of where we were! Glad I wasn’t on the road, because I would’ve been heading right into them!
We’ve been getting some pretty wild weather here recently! Been having a bunch of freak thunderstorms popping up out of nowhere, and just had our first tropical storm of the season (Alberto) come through. They’re predicting it to be a busy one, so… yaaaay hurricane season! 😬
Mais yeah we need more of Carol on the channel.... SW Louisiana here and I will say mother nature is off her meds lately...we haven't even started hurricane season good yet and she's already been pre-gamming the last few week. It's like every other day we are getting severe weather or tornado warnings.
Carol, it doesn't matter how or what it's built with. A big one is taking it down. If you're really interested, check out the Joplin Missouri and Moore Oklahoma tornados.
Recky over in Valley View Texas, a tornado killed seven including kids. The kids were found later in a field deceased, that storm roared through like freight train. Prayers needed, that storm killed twenty people in total. 99 percent of tornado's rotate counter clockwise, the other 1 percent which are very rare, rotate clockwise.
Love your reactions. You guys are awesome. We love ya Recky but we are glad Carol is in these now too! 😁
You should have her react to the "Tornado Alley - Real Time Tornado: Joplin, Missouri" video. Its one of the best tornado depictions on youtube in my opinion. I believe Recky, you already reacted to that one but Carol DEFINITELY needs to see it too. 👍
I'm from Kansas, which is also in tornado alley. Have been in 5 watches and 2 warnings so far this year. Half the time, I didn't even get rain lol.
The comment about the warning system being much better is probably true in most areas but I can tell you from my local area that it is horrible. They " test " the tornado sirens at random times which makes it unreliable because if it goes off you have no idea if they are testing it or if it's malfunctioning or if it's a real tornado
Watched this live. Storm chasers have been live every day here, it seems. They have seen some incredible tornadoes.
The largest recorded tornado was 2.6 miles (4.18 kilometers). So they can get really huge.
I live in Nebraska tornado alley welcome Carol this happens every spring and summer. Welcome Carol to tornado alley
Have you ever watched a livestream of people chasing tornadoes? A couple of storm chasers that come to mind are Reed Timmer and Connor Croff; I think Connor is storm chasing right now. My all-time favourite tornado guy, though, is Pecos Hank. He's such a cool, funny guy. I'd recommend watching some of his videos.
It's been a sad year lots of tornados and victims
And I'm not looking forward to the hurricanes starting up. My family/friends are in the south.
Had 3 at same time in May 2024 in Tallahassee Florida. Morning - woke to phone siren. It was scary.
I totally agree with the love/hate of tornadoes. They are absolutely beautiful, fascinating, and its power is beyond imagination. However, they also need to be respected as they can be so destructive. Even in the aftermath you can also see the most beautiful thing as people come together to morn their losses or others losses together and rebuild. I just wish that in tornado prone states all residents should be given a safe underground place to take shelter.
Hawley, TX is just north of Abilene. This was like 2 1/2 - 3 hours East of where I live.
Glad your wife joined you Recky,you're getting quite knowledgeable about tornadoes and tornado alley, I live in Oklahoma. This video is indeed a storm chaser, all those cars you see on the side of the road are other storm chasers, they call them Congo lines
Hawley is indeed pronounced like "Holly". Family was founding members of that town, though they moved around a lot afterwards, we are all around Texas.
One of my earliest memories is running through wet grass with my family to get to the neighbors shelter with a tornado looming in the didtance
You should show Carol some of the ones you watched on your channel early on so she can see the full coverage, beginning to end and not just a storm chaser. They can be devastating but it's also great to see how people come together to help each other.
The thing about Tornado Alley is that it seems to be extending every year. As weather patterns change, you hear more and more about states to the East, which are totally unprepared, getting hit by twisters.