Seen a wedge tornado myself almost took my house but it took the flea market out luckily it was Sunday and it was closed everyone was watching my falcons in semifinals when it happened
@@mandoso7222 look up the rainsville Alabama tornado in 2011 that might have been even more powerful than this one. It sucked a storm seller out of the freaking ground and removed asphalt and pluming
Oh no, it would still get an EF5 rating. This produced the most extreme damage surveyed. it ripped a few slabs out of hard, red OK clay within Bridgecreek and reduced many large homes to fine powder, many of which had little to no debris remaining at all.
The Mayfeild Kentucky tornado created a massive deep trench in the ground and sucked asfault off the road and was rated EF4 the Rainsvillie Alabama Tornado might have been even stronger than this one and it sucked a storm seller out of the ground while moving at 60 plus mph but they say 200 mph. The El Reno Tornado which basically had the whole wall cloud on the ground and had 300 mph winds and was only rated EF3
I was 7 when this monster hit. It was the thing that instilled in me my mental trauma for tornadoes. We didn't have a shelter. I begged my mom for us to move after that. She said we couldn't afford it. After all this time, I'm finally making plans to move out of Oklahoma and find a place where weather just isn't quite this intense on a yearly basis. It's been a rough season in 2024, and I'm getting tired of fleeing every time things start picking up. I'll be glad when this season is over, and I'm able to actually think clearly again.
I was hit by the 2013 moore tornado and moved to Arkansas 5 months later. I understand. Here in NWA we got a lot of mountains that break up the bad storms. Havnt been scared since moving here.
Back in the 70’s a tornado 🌪 went through a hay field to the wsw of our barn, lifted and dropped into the field on the other side of the barn leaving a trail of flattened hay and corn about 50-75 feet wide. It went right over the milking parlor portion, right above me, my dad and my brother. I remember the roar lasting about 30 seconds. My brother was nervous and pacing. My dedicated father kept milking cows through it all.
So what, you think we should get rid of tornado warnings? Maybe we should just make it illegal to take shelter. Next time there's a tornado warning we can all run out in the field and wait for it to come wipe us all out to prove we're hot shit. 🙄
The costliest tornado in us history was not the Tuscaloosa tornado but rather the joplin missouri tornado that same year and i believe the cost of the joplin damage was $2.8 billion. And i think it also peeled up some asphalt and also ripped several concrete parking stops up out of the ground.
@@kevinh.6587 The Joplin tornado have cause such an impression on me ! i actually survived the 12-10-2021 Mayfield Kentucky tornado working at thecandlefactorythatnight ,it was a high end EF4, it's winds surpassed the190 mph and kill 9 of my coworkers ,it lasted for almost 3 hours and it was at night and wrapped in rain at times !
Winds are up for debate as these things are ridiculously complex. However, this tornado and the Piedmont-El-Reno EF5 of 2011 are the only two tornadoes thus far where the severity of the worst DIs matches or is near what was observed in the DOW readings.
When you started talking about how finely granulated all the debris was and that it was just shredding everything, I was instantly reminded of the "Will it Blend?" series.
The Henryville tornado from 2012 on March 2nd also ripped up asphalt, twisted half-inch steel I beams like twizzlers, and threw a power substation bolted into concrete a few hundred yards away while absolutely shredding entire towns and a school. Was stupidly rated EF4. Had numerous indicators of EF5 damage and wind speeds. It cut through the Clark State forestry like a knife, a mile wide path, and killed multiple people while injuring hundreds.
Totally agree. The EF-scale either needs seriously upgrading or abandoned and go back to the F scale and improve upon it. There are far too many tornados being rated EF-4 that were clearly EF-5's.
Based on the Current Fujita scale, tornado rating is determined by the DAMAGE that they cause, while the old one was just based on wind speed, (regardless?) of sustainable wind or gust speed I still feel like they are actively trying to make stronger-end tornadoes EF-4's, and there hasn't been a single EF-5 in 10+ years now
The 318mph at the top of the old F scale was measured when the May 3’99 tornado was in south OKC. I walked into that Greenbriar Eastlake subdivision afterwards to check on my wife’s grandmother who lived there and survived. There were dozens of 2x12 rafters driven into the green belt at the same angle like a giant porcupine’s quills. Trees along a creek were sheared off at about 12” high like a giant weed-whacker had cut them off. The subdivision was unrecognizable many of the homes were gone, even the bathtubs were swept away. Just bare slabs. It was heartbreaking.
since 1955 (when things started being recorded) joplin is definitely the deadliest tornado, and including tornadoes past that, its the 7th deadliest in the US
this storm was so horrific. it was so slow moving. it literally would stand on top of these poor houses and just turn it into sand. ive never seen a tornado leave barely anything left. i mean those people had no chance.
Jarrell, Tx 1997. The tornado hit the Double Creek Estates and had slowed to 1-2 mph. It pulverized everything and there was literally NO debris visible.
As a trained severe weather spotter I appreciate this. May 99 was instrumental in research and further defining EF ratings and data analysis. The biggest problem today? Cowboy Joe Redneckey chasers who are not educated and fill the roads instead of being in their safe place so scientists (including Reed Timmer) can do their job. Anyone interested in becoming a trained spotter has access to free Skywarn classes each spring, in addition to material on RUclips from the NWS in Norman. Skip Talbot also has outstanding tips for spotters on his channel.
They have just as much a right to be out and chase storms as others do. If they chase and are learning field work is the best training. Why gatekeep? Also why give Reed a slide when all he wants to do is drive to the center path of a tornado? How is that okay and not Cowboy Joe?
@negan2714 Having the right doesn't mean people should. There is a tipping point where it becomes dangerous to the public at large. Chaser convergence is a real problem now affecting county rescue as well as experienced trained spotters that are reporting directly to NOAA. Many of these chasers feel they have priority on the road because they are on fb and RUclips streaming, in turn causing accidents. Fatalities are rising because of this. El Reno showed this, and the smart chasers have learned this. Skip, Hank, and others like them are good examples this.
There are people here actually concerned about the pronouns of a tornado. Unbelievable. Tell me you have first world problems without telling me you have first world problems
@@David_Mattox Believe they are speaking on the people that argue over the attached ratings for tornadoes. Generally the usual ones are talking about how 2013 El Reno should've been rated higher or some EF 3-4 tornado in the past decade that people think should've been higher. It rubs people the wrong way since some are just concerned over numbers forgetting the actual catastrophe at hand and the numerous lives affected.
@@uwot7289 While I do believe tornadoes should be rated on power and the potential damage they can do (frankly, El Reno should’ve stayed EF-5), I’ve actually dug through the comments after replying and… people were arguing over HitD referring to tornadoes as ‘she’. I thought it was just a joke, but he does reference these storms as such, and some people were upset about it. Makes sense for him to do it, though. He’s a historian. We generally tend to refer locomotives, ships, and other machines as ‘she’. If tornadoes and hurricanes enter the mix… might have to adjust how hurricanes are named cause Andrew and Ivan are bad names for girls lol. Honestly, I don’t have a problem with this sort of thing. Makes it easier to say that a tornado can an absolute bi-…
Living in southern OKC I can verify we take our tornadoes seriously. I don’t remember this tornado being only a small child at the time but this tornado was only 6 miles from my house. However I do vividly remember the 2013 Moore EF5. And have personally ridden out a EF3-EF4 I took most of my neighbors house to the foundation and it took years for our road to become even a shadow of what it was. I appreciate you making this excellent video.
I just survived the 5-25-24 tornado in Valley View Tx. F 3.5 I was in my mobile home. Had no warning until my ears popped ran into my bathroom and rode it out. Within 2 houses on the corner, I'm #3, 2next door, 6 across the street most in the neighborhood behind me, I'm still somehow still standing. Moderate but not structural damage. All 8 of my Dobies are ok. I have no explanation other than God's mercy. Why me? Survivors guilt....
I understand. Unfortunately, we get tornadoes everywhere in the South. And it really doesn't matter what time of year it is. We've had tornadoes in January in Texas.
I remember watching it on TV and my mom sending all of us to the hallway closet to prepare. We were lucky and it completely missed us. I remember driving to my aunts house and seeing the damage go on for miles. it looked like an atomic bomb went off. It was absolutely horrible.😢
This one by Mulhall was possibly even More powerful, but sure glad that didn’t go to any populated areas! I believe it was a different cell as well, so just a day of storms w/ INSANE power..!
Locomotives are chunks of mostly steel that weigh 400k+ pounds compared to a 36k pound box car, also the windows are double paned/bulletproof on locomotives as well.
that wouldn't have mattered in this situation. There's a picture of the cement car that this tornado hit floating around on the internet somewhere. It was fully loaded but the tornado mangled it to the point that it was unrecognizable as a train. It was just a heap of steel.
I favor the "Taco" analogy when discussing Tornado warnings. Tornado Watch = Taco Watch. All the ingredients for a taco are present, but nobody has made a taco yet. Tornado Warning = Taco Warning. The ingredients have been combined. A taco exists. Tornado Emergency = Taco Emergency. You've picked up the taco and have taken a bite, but the crinkling of your nasal hairs & the watering of your eyes are screaming that bad things are going to happen in the very near future, involving very high windspeeds, unimaginable pain and anguish, and everything in the area changing color to brown...
Did you get this from Ryan Hall by any chance?? I love this analogy because it simplifies it down for those who don’t understand and give something that most of us like to relate to lol
@@mattwestern9373 The Watch versus Warning parts, yup, straight from Ryan. The Emergency part is my own, it seemed a logical extension of the analogy. Haven't we all been there, mid bite, with a little voice in the back of your head saying "This is a BAD IDEA!", usually at 0-dark-hundred after too many adult beverages...?
@@mattwestern9373There's a problem with the taco analogy. Many "Taco Warnings" are issued, with all ingredients combined, yet a taco can still not be made, and therefore does not exist. It is only when the taco is made and dropped on the ground that it then exists. What exactly happens before then still remains a mystery. In other words, why do less than 30% of super cell thunderstorms, with all ingredients combined, make a "taco" that is dropped on the ground and then exists, while the rest, with all ingredients combined, do not make a "taco" that is dropped on the ground and therefore does not exist. Some really weird things with this taco analogy... Edit-- l do take tornado warnings very seriously. I've lived on the south side of Oklahoma City for six decades, and this monster went a little over a mile south of me. It came a little closer than the 2013 monster
If a twister that big is heading for your home or anywhere in your town, don't seek shelter or the bathtub, or the hallway. Instead, get into your vehicle and leave the area.
Really, that's one of the worst things a person can do. A tornado can pick up a vehicle and throw it like a toy. They are unpredictable, you know. It can be unclear which direction they're heading. They can speed up or slow down (forward speed), change direction at random. If there is enough lead time (20 minutes or more), you may have a chance to escape. My dad and I outran one in Michigan when I was a kid, but it wasn't a monster like the Moore one was. (Jan Griffiths).
While a good amount of tornadoes had their wind speeds surveyed by DOW before and after the May 3rd, 1999 event, what makes this tornado and the 2011 El-Reno Piedmont EF5 so significant is that the worst damage indicators basically matched the DOW readings or came very close to matching them. 2013 El-Reno for example had 300+ wind gusts within one of the sub vortices, but it did not produce the damage necessary to verify said reading. Piedmont and May 3rd on the other hand DID.
And 2 days later, I was born. My adopted family had to drive through Moore on 35. They came through just under and hour after the tornado. My dad was just under an hour late getting out of work. Had they been on time, they would've been right in thr path of this monster
😢😮 yeah I heard the guy's comment. He did good commentary boy. Can he talk about something that's good? I heard him say it took 1 inch of the tire off the road. I heard this quite a while ago. Boy. What a bad tornado that was was on the ground for an hour and a half. I seen a video boy and did a lot of damage. Good video though thank you.
Hey man I love your videos but… tone it down when you’re covering stuff like this. The high energy you bring especially to your railroad vids really doesn’t work with coverage of tornados. These things are horrible, man. I lived through this and the 2013 storm and seeing it covered in such an almost nonchalant way feels disingenuous. Also like… I know anthropomorphizing weather events like this is something people do especially with hurricanes but tornadoes are not male or female. They are just monsters.
I'm sorry, but your voice and speaking style doesn't lend itself to tragic stories. It is too high pitched, and even when you are talking about topics _where people died_ your voice has to much of a comedic sound and cadence. And then you throw in some levity here and there. It is too much or me to sit through. Stick to light-hearted material or use AI.
@@kylewood4852 I don't need to produce content in order to have an opinion, you twit. This guy's voice discussing serious/tragic topics is the equivalent of typing a report on terminal childhood cancer cases in Comic Sans font.
Thank you for not claiming people didn't take the warnings seriously honestly my friends from Oklahoma will straight run someone down if they get in the way of cover in a warning lmao
You guys should look up Rainsville. Absolutely gives this tornado a run for its money, it was covered so little and was hands down the scariest tornado because it couldn't fully stabilize leading it to simply being paired with the most powerful tornados instead of the most powerful tornado of all time, it had everything perfect to give it infinite power, it didn't even leave foundations behind, it didn't leave tornado shelters behind because they got ripped out of the ground. It was like the hulk of tornados, it had the most power potential of any tornado ever but couldn't reach it until the very end of its long life and holy crap are people lucky that it was simply a MF F5 TORNADO A LOT OF ITS TIME AND NOT MORE.
mankind has created a lot of dooms day weapons and used them, but Mother Nature has the most powerful of all that mankind cannot match not even close, an EF-5 tornado.
This one is the reason the Fujita scale was replaced with the Enhanced version. Basically it BROKE the old scale. I remember there was talk on the news at the time that this might have been the first ever F6. Then after some debate they replaced the old scale.
Not to sound like "that guy," but actually, that tornado would be the '97 Jarrell Texas tornado. Essentially, surveyors found that most of the buildings destroyed could've been done so by an F3. The published surveys were one of the first surveys to critique the F scale and would prompt the meteorological community to begin reworking it.
As far as RAW Power, Phil Campbell had pure endurance (most EF-5 DIs on record). Smithville did Jarrell damage in 1 to 2 seconds, plus some of the wildest DIs ever observed. Overlooked tornadoes: Birmingham 1977, Palm Sunday 1965 (likely at least 2 or 3 F-5s reported as F-4s).
@jonathanwhite5132 In their defense, they quite had nowhere to go, since I believe all but two houses in the area that was hit (double creek estates I think) didn't have basements.
Boy, it seems everyone that’s interested in trains eventually also gets hooked on tornadoes. It happened for me. It happened for several other people It’s like there’s some kind of connection Between the two.
The tornado that hit Huntsville in 1994 I think . took a Camara z28 and stuck it in the side of the movie theater in whitesburg shopping Plaza about 20 feet high on the wall with driver still in car .
Jesus, imagine that debris field. Cars, people, building materials, asphalt, untold other objects screaming around at 300 plus miles an hour blasting into stuff. It's like nature's delete button
This one was EERILY similar almost identical to the greensburg tornado. but since then radars got a lot better and so did predictions. but the greensburg one happened after 9pm central time or so. it was dark when that fucker with a strong sattelite tornado it. the entire town is GONE within an hour. it is not damaged. it is just GONE. i know 2 families there. they said they saw this thing and drove away. they saw it from the lightning and felt it in their ears and they knew.... just drive away. i think a lot of people in greensburg did that. so only 13 died. they saw some nonsensical wall of death coming at night. right at bed time. and just said fuck that got in their cars and drove away. thats what the two different households i know that were there did.
America... your country is terrifying. Your San Andreas and Cascadia faults are fear inducing. Your hurricanes induce a sense of dread. Your tornadoes are mobile wrecking balls. Is anywhere truly safe? 😮❤😮
Maybe you should take a look at the rest of the world and tell everyone that America is terrifying. Our terror is unexceptional. What's exceptional is the lack of it. When was the last time an earthquake in the U.S. killed 10,000+ people? Never, that's when.
Almost every place, almost every day is safe. No different than the rest of the world. /\ HEY RUclips AND YOUR CENSORBOTS, IS THIS ANSWER SAFE ENOUGH FOR YOUR HAIR TRIGGER BANHAMNER OR IS IT GOING TO GET REMOVED/SHADOWBANNED LIKE THE LAST ONE. I AM SO SICK OF THIS 💩.
Tornado's happen pretty much everywhere on the globe. Swegle Studios has a vid about this, with examples from throughout Europe, Asia, Africa & (IIRC) the Arctic. Wherever the right meteorological symptoms combine in the right way, Tornado's happen...
The safest parts of america I'd say are around the northeast away from the shorelines, as it avoids most of the dangerous storms and disasters. America still has far too many storms, however.
It was from a sub vortice that's why El Reno's winds weren't considered to be over 300. The sub was also over a 100 yards in diameter. It wasn't just a gust
I just survived an F 3.5 in Valley View Tx. Folks you do NOT want to be in these storms. I was lucky to sustain only moderate damage to my mobile home and i can live in it. All my neighbors 2 doors all around werre wiped off their blocks and the tie down tethers blew. 2 children across the street were sadly killed.. How i was spared was God's mercy. Why me? Survivor's guilt is setting in...
I just watched a short documentary about the Jarrell, TX tornado in 1997. That one was extremely nasty and brutal. It destroyed a recycling center on the way to a neighborhood. Those poor families got stuck in a giant blender full of razor sharp metal flying everywhere. What was worse is the tornado stopped in the neighborhood for 5 min straight, so entire families literally got chewed up and spit out. They could only identify the bodies with dental records. that is still the most brutal tornado i have read about. Just a giant razor sharp blending machine. Yuck. 😱🤢
I wonder how they come up with potential death toll. How would they know how many people would have died if the warnings hadn’t gone out? It’s just something I’ve always wondered about. Good video.
They look at what was destroyed and what the occupancy of those locations was and add it up. If a house is gone and 4 people might have been in that house if they had not abandoned it then they count as potential victims.
To be fair did anyone survive this tornado in a ditch while the tornado passed directly overhead? Probably too powerful period! If the tunnel/overpass worked before, its probably still decent advice for most tornados(if no other option). The variable of being directly hit(by the central vortex of the tornado) by(in) such a monster may be important when other monster have sucked people right out of basements and roofed their storm shelters!
MAKE NO MISTAKE - AN F-3 TORNADO CAN PRETTY MUCH RUIN EVERYTHING IN IT'S PATH - ESPECIALLY IF IT'S SLOW MOVING -- 150+ MPH WINDS FULL OF DEBRIS WILL REDUCE NEARLY EVERYTHING TO RUBBLE OR A TWISTED MESS
They need to change advice on what to do when theres slow moving tornadoes vs fast moving, if jarrel happened again theyd still advise people to remain indoors instead of driving east of west plenty of time in advance
Not gonna lie this wouldve somehow been an ef4 theyd say: as you can see the homes were built 2 years ago and some have faulty construction as there seems to be some loose screws on the door.
2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying 🌪️ roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
I got hit last year by a tarnado F3, while i was in my car, scary, it blew out my windows 🪟 in while i was hanging on seat 🪑 terrifying, lost everything! Cole Ok
4 I will bring 🌪️ forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and stones thereof. Zech 5
She was slabbing, ripping at my amchor bolts, blowing as hard as she could, i had to brace the suction so i didnt release my scoured seeds into her vortex
3 Then said he unto me, This 🌪️ is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
The Greenfield, Iowa now has the highest windspeeds. They exceeded 310 MPH (approximately 313 MPH). These winds were measured by DOW, they were recorded around 100 feet off the ground from the actual tornado.
@@EliRicke-xl9mw The El Reno tornado is unconfirmed, and the Bridge Creek only reached a little over 300 MPH (around 305 MPH) from several sources. But I wouldn't doubt that one of the 2 could be stronger than the Greenfield tornado. However, the 2 are unconfirmed and Greenfield has confirmed windspeeds. so that's why people are calling it the strongest tornado ever.
@@CBUS_RR_KING a survey was recently done on Jarrell, Bridge creek, and El Reno that confirms their wind speeds. Old estimates: Jarrell - 260 mph+ Bridge creek - 301 mph (302 +-20) El Reno - 260-340 mph New estimates: Jarrell - >261 mph (possibly >300 mph) Bridge creek - 321 mph El Reno - 313 mph Bridge creek and El Reno are now confirmed, and these wind speeds were measured by Doppler On Wheels (DOW). Greenfield's estimated wind speed is 309-313 mph. Look it up, it's official.
The original 302 estimate in Bridge creek just got revised to exactly 321 mph by the NWS in recent reanalysis. And they found that the winds in the sub vortex in the 2013 El Reno tornado was 313 mph, not 302.
@@CBUS_RR_KING the reanalysis on the 2013 El Reno tornado was actually done in 2015. In 2021 lots of severe weather experts, including Josh Wurman himself, reanalyzed the Bridge creek tornado and found that the exact wind speeds were actually 321 mph. It was confirmed by the NWS and was recently made official.
It feels and sounds so odd to keep hearing this guy refer to the tornado as a “she”. That and the odd music and cadence of his speaking voice made this one hard to listen to.
doesnt scare me. i'd walk right through it with just mild annoyance onh a monday morning to buy a couple shots of fireball and a hotdog and walk back but the wind would cure my hangover and work would probably be closed so i wouldnt care and i'd just go back to home which . okay do you really need a roof? just lay on ur mattress and watch the stars bro.
I grew up in Bridge Creek and was there that day. I saw things you wouldn't believe.
C beams glistening off the tanhauser gate?
Seen a wedge tornado myself almost took my house but it took the flea market out luckily it was Sunday and it was closed everyone was watching my falcons in semifinals when it happened
I saw a truck wrapped around a tree there. Both bumpers were touching.
It was awful!
@@Mr.wilson949 no joke I didn’t know the tornado was that strong
So sorry I herd horror stories.
If this happens today they would rate it a EF4 and say 170 mph winds
Do you think they’ve tried covering up tornado categories recently? If so give me some keywords to search up please
@@mandoso7222 hey man, I'll explain here! this guy smokes dick and has no idea what he's talking about. hope that helps bro.
@@mandoso7222 look up the rainsville Alabama tornado in 2011 that might have been even more powerful than this one. It sucked a storm seller out of the freaking ground and removed asphalt and pluming
Oh no, it would still get an EF5 rating. This produced the most extreme damage surveyed. it ripped a few slabs out of hard, red OK clay within Bridgecreek and reduced many large homes to fine powder, many of which had little to no debris remaining at all.
The Mayfeild Kentucky tornado created a massive deep trench in the ground and sucked asfault off the road and was rated EF4 the Rainsvillie Alabama Tornado might have been even stronger than this one and it sucked a storm seller out of the ground while moving at 60 plus mph but they say 200 mph. The El Reno Tornado which basically had the whole wall cloud on the ground and had 300 mph winds and was only rated EF3
I was 7 when this monster hit. It was the thing that instilled in me my mental trauma for tornadoes. We didn't have a shelter. I begged my mom for us to move after that. She said we couldn't afford it. After all this time, I'm finally making plans to move out of Oklahoma and find a place where weather just isn't quite this intense on a yearly basis. It's been a rough season in 2024, and I'm getting tired of fleeing every time things start picking up. I'll be glad when this season is over, and I'm able to actually think clearly again.
Just be calm and check around for a neighbor with a basement or storm shelter. Keep an eye on the weather and plan ahead. Trade fear for knowledge.
Same was 7 when it hit. 2003 was just as scary.
I was hit by the 2013 moore tornado and moved to Arkansas 5 months later. I understand. Here in NWA we got a lot of mountains that break up the bad storms. Havnt been scared since moving here.
@CleeTaurus I'm sure you know by now Arkansas is prone as well. Maybe not as much, but still keep your eyes out.
@@CleeTaurus mountains don’t stop tornadoes. This has been known for a long time now
Back in the 70’s a tornado 🌪 went through a hay field to the wsw of our barn, lifted and dropped into the field on the other side of the barn leaving a trail of flattened hay and corn about 50-75 feet wide. It went right over the milking parlor portion, right above me, my dad and my brother. I remember the roar lasting about 30 seconds. My brother was nervous and pacing. My dedicated father kept milking cows through it all.
Your Dad was a stud.
Reason they called it “The Greatest Generation!” …. Could’ve been a “Boomer”. Either way, obviously NOT a member of the current crop
So what, you think we should get rid of tornado warnings? Maybe we should just make it illegal to take shelter. Next time there's a tornado warning we can all run out in the field and wait for it to come wipe us all out to prove we're hot shit. 🙄
Nature's Godzilla. The delete command. The plains equalizer. Nothing else compares.
The costliest tornado in us history was not the Tuscaloosa tornado but rather the joplin missouri tornado that same year and i believe the cost of the joplin damage was $2.8 billion. And i think it also peeled up some asphalt and also ripped several concrete parking stops up out of the ground.
No. Tuscaloosa-Birmingham overtook Bridge Creek - Moore for the costliest spot and then Joplin overtook it less than a month later.
@@kevinh.6587 The Joplin tornado have cause such an impression on me ! i actually survived the 12-10-2021 Mayfield Kentucky tornado working at thecandlefactorythatnight ,it was a high end EF4, it's winds surpassed the190 mph and kill 9 of my coworkers ,it lasted for almost 3 hours and it was at night and wrapped in rain at times !
The winds are up to debate, it’s within the margin of 300 to 320 mph
If it went above 318 that would put it at an F6
@@JJJJ-he8bz Unfortunately the F / EF scales are based solely on damage indicators.
I believe that if wind data is available it should apply.
Winds are up for debate as these things are ridiculously complex. However, this tornado and the Piedmont-El-Reno EF5 of 2011 are the only two tornadoes thus far where the severity of the worst DIs matches or is near what was observed in the DOW readings.
Josh Wurman who recorded the wind speeds said it had sustained winds of 301mph but had one gust of wind reach 318
No it's 301 +- 20
Would you consider doing the 1997 Jarrell F5 next?
Yes! Jarrell was a monster and very rare
Utube has all on here go under search you will find it
When you started talking about how finely granulated all the debris was and that it was just shredding everything, I was instantly reminded of the "Will it Blend?" series.
Will the City of Moore Oklahoma, Blend?
I thought you were gonna say Double Creek Estates in Jarrell.
@@RT-qd8yl nope, my sense of humor is a bit more screwed up than that.
@@EliRicke-xl9mw When tf did I say any of this was funny?
Great use of Those Chosen By The Planet. Fits this perfectly.
The Henryville tornado from 2012 on March 2nd also ripped up asphalt, twisted half-inch steel I beams like twizzlers, and threw a power substation bolted into concrete a few hundred yards away while absolutely shredding entire towns and a school. Was stupidly rated EF4. Had numerous indicators of EF5 damage and wind speeds. It cut through the Clark State forestry like a knife, a mile wide path, and killed multiple people while injuring hundreds.
Agreed 💯
Totally agree. The EF-scale either needs seriously upgrading or abandoned and go back to the F scale and improve upon it. There are far too many tornados being rated EF-4 that were clearly EF-5's.
That Nader I believe dug trenches into the ground 2 feet deep also if I remember right
@@TheRivrPrncessthe Greenfield this year should have been rated f5... They are botching the ratings
Based on the Current Fujita scale, tornado rating is determined by the DAMAGE that they cause, while the old one was just based on wind speed, (regardless?) of sustainable wind or gust speed
I still feel like they are actively trying to make stronger-end tornadoes EF-4's, and there hasn't been a single EF-5 in 10+ years now
The 318mph at the top of the old F scale was measured when the May 3’99 tornado was in south OKC. I walked into that Greenbriar Eastlake subdivision afterwards to check on my wife’s grandmother who lived there and survived. There were dozens of 2x12 rafters driven into the green belt at the same angle like a giant porcupine’s quills. Trees along a creek were sheared off at about 12” high like a giant weed-whacker had cut them off.
The subdivision was unrecognizable many of the homes were gone, even the bathtubs were swept away. Just bare slabs. It was heartbreaking.
The May 22, 2011. Correct me if I am wrong is by far the one of deadliest tornados in history. It was a EF 5 and 161 souls were lost.
since 1955 (when things started being recorded) joplin is definitely the deadliest tornado, and including tornadoes past that, its the 7th deadliest in the US
@@ryanwehofer567 that's Joplin isn't it?
@@trenton73 Yep. (Jan Griffiths).
Mother Nature will, unfortunately, always try to out perform herself.
this storm was so horrific. it was so slow moving. it literally would stand on top of these poor houses and just turn it into sand. ive never seen a tornado leave barely anything left. i mean those people had no chance.
Jarrell, Tx 1997. The tornado hit the Double Creek Estates and had slowed to 1-2 mph. It pulverized everything and there was literally NO debris visible.
It's amazing how many times Moore Oklahoma has been hit by the biggest tornados of all time! After 3 times it would be hard to live there
@@julielefler9747 Same with Jarrell, Texas. It's been hit 8 times. I live in Killeen, 35 miles from Jarrell.
@@excalibur1812 Stay safe.
Darkness, you are awesome. Thank you for venturing into tornados.
As a trained severe weather spotter I appreciate this. May 99 was instrumental in research and further defining EF ratings and data analysis. The biggest problem today? Cowboy Joe Redneckey chasers who are not educated and fill the roads instead of being in their safe place so scientists (including Reed Timmer) can do their job. Anyone interested in becoming a trained spotter has access to free Skywarn classes each spring, in addition to material on RUclips from the NWS in Norman. Skip Talbot also has outstanding tips for spotters on his channel.
You can also do the skywarn training classes online in some places. That's how I received my training here in GA.
They have just as much a right to be out and chase storms as others do. If they chase and are learning field work is the best training. Why gatekeep?
Also why give Reed a slide when all he wants to do is drive to the center path of a tornado? How is that okay and not Cowboy Joe?
@negan2714 Having the right doesn't mean people should. There is a tipping point where it becomes dangerous to the public at large. Chaser convergence is a real problem now affecting county rescue as well as experienced trained spotters that are reporting directly to NOAA. Many of these chasers feel they have priority on the road because they are on fb and RUclips streaming, in turn causing accidents. Fatalities are rising because of this. El Reno showed this, and the smart chasers have learned this. Skip, Hank, and others like them are good examples this.
I’d expect Mother Nature to thin he herd regarding the numb skull road cloggers 🤷🏼
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Because ‘arrow guy’ is hoping to buddy up to Reed Timmer. And make frands to he . Maybe even more 😉🌈
There are people here actually concerned about the pronouns of a tornado. Unbelievable.
Tell me you have first world problems without telling me you have first world problems
Wait people actually have problems over the pronouns of a tornado?
Tornadoes have pronouns?
@@David_Mattox Believe they are speaking on the people that argue over the attached ratings for tornadoes. Generally the usual ones are talking about how 2013 El Reno should've been rated higher or some EF 3-4 tornado in the past decade that people think should've been higher. It rubs people the wrong way since some are just concerned over numbers forgetting the actual catastrophe at hand and the numerous lives affected.
@@uwot7289 While I do believe tornadoes should be rated on power and the potential damage they can do (frankly, El Reno should’ve stayed EF-5), I’ve actually dug through the comments after replying and… people were arguing over HitD referring to tornadoes as ‘she’.
I thought it was just a joke, but he does reference these storms as such, and some people were upset about it.
Makes sense for him to do it, though. He’s a historian. We generally tend to refer locomotives, ships, and other machines as ‘she’. If tornadoes and hurricanes enter the mix… might have to adjust how hurricanes are named cause Andrew and Ivan are bad names for girls lol.
Honestly, I don’t have a problem with this sort of thing. Makes it easier to say that a tornado can an absolute bi-…
@@David_Mattoxbad names for girls?
Living in southern OKC I can verify we take our tornadoes seriously. I don’t remember this tornado being only a small child at the time but this tornado was only 6 miles from my house. However I do vividly remember the 2013 Moore EF5. And have personally ridden out a EF3-EF4 I took most of my neighbors house to the foundation and it took years for our road to become even a shadow of what it was. I appreciate you making this excellent video.
I just survived the 5-25-24 tornado in Valley View Tx. F 3.5
I was in my mobile home. Had no warning until my ears popped ran into my bathroom and rode it out.
Within 2 houses on the corner, I'm #3, 2next door, 6 across the street most in the neighborhood behind me, I'm still somehow still standing. Moderate but not structural damage. All 8 of my Dobies are ok.
I have no explanation other than God's mercy. Why me?
Survivors guilt....
I understand. Unfortunately, we get tornadoes everywhere in the South. And it really doesn't matter what time of year it is. We've had tornadoes in January in Texas.
@@Melanie-sx5ol that’s true they come at all times of the year
Now Just the other day there was a Tornado with Recorded wind speeds that exceeded well over 300+MPH apparently. Just saw a video about that one.
I love the way this guy presents this video. Very enthusiastic and matter of fact! LOVE THIS!
I remember watching it on TV and my mom sending all of us to the hallway closet to prepare. We were lucky and it completely missed us. I remember driving to my aunts house and seeing the damage go on for miles. it looked like an atomic bomb went off. It was absolutely horrible.😢
This one by Mulhall was possibly even More powerful, but sure glad that didn’t go to any populated areas! I believe it was a different cell as well, so just a day of storms w/ INSANE power..!
Yes the muhall one was a beast was likely twice the size of the Moore one luckily went threw a rural area
RIP to the 36 people who died in the disaster.
Locomotives are chunks of mostly steel that weigh 400k+ pounds compared to a 36k pound box car, also the windows are double paned/bulletproof on locomotives as well.
that wouldn't have mattered in this situation. There's a picture of the cement car that this tornado hit floating around on the internet somewhere. It was fully loaded but the tornado mangled it to the point that it was unrecognizable as a train. It was just a heap of steel.
I favor the "Taco" analogy when discussing Tornado warnings.
Tornado Watch = Taco Watch. All the ingredients for a taco are present, but nobody has made a taco yet.
Tornado Warning = Taco Warning. The ingredients have been combined. A taco exists.
Tornado Emergency = Taco Emergency. You've picked up the taco and have taken a bite, but the crinkling of your nasal hairs & the watering of your eyes are screaming that bad things are going to happen in the very near future, involving very high windspeeds, unimaginable pain and anguish, and everything in the area changing color to brown...
This is dumb
Did you get this from Ryan Hall by any chance?? I love this analogy because it simplifies it down for those who don’t understand and give something that most of us like to relate to lol
@@mattwestern9373 The Watch versus Warning parts, yup, straight from Ryan. The Emergency part is my own, it seemed a logical extension of the analogy. Haven't we all been there, mid bite, with a little voice in the back of your head saying "This is a BAD IDEA!", usually at 0-dark-hundred after too many adult beverages...?
@@mattwestern9373There's a problem with the taco analogy. Many "Taco Warnings" are issued, with all ingredients combined, yet a taco can still not be made, and therefore does not exist. It is only when the taco is made and dropped on the ground that it then exists. What exactly happens before then still remains a mystery.
In other words, why do less than 30% of super cell thunderstorms, with all ingredients combined, make a "taco" that is dropped on the ground and then exists, while the rest, with all ingredients combined, do not make a "taco" that is dropped on the ground and therefore does not exist.
Some really weird things with this taco analogy...
Edit-- l do take tornado warnings very seriously. I've lived on the south side of Oklahoma City for six decades, and this monster went a little over a mile south of me. It came a little closer than the 2013 monster
When you have 300 plus winds it's time to have a EF6 rating.
Probably so with climate change. I know the Alley has been extended East.
I lived in south Oklahoma City during this. Can't explain the aftermath and destruction.
I saw the title but expected to see a picture of Biden
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If a twister that big is heading for your home or anywhere in your town, don't seek shelter or the bathtub, or the hallway. Instead, get into your vehicle and leave the area.
That’s the dumbest shit you can do lol
Really, that's one of the worst things a person can do. A tornado can pick up a vehicle and throw it like a toy. They are unpredictable, you know. It can be unclear which direction they're heading. They can speed up or slow down (forward speed), change direction at random. If there is enough lead time (20 minutes or more), you may have a chance to escape. My dad and I outran one in Michigan when I was a kid, but it wasn't a monster like the Moore one was. (Jan Griffiths).
That's how you get yourself killed. Cars are some of the most dangerous places to be in a tornado. You're better off laying in a ditch than in a car.
While a good amount of tornadoes had their wind speeds surveyed by DOW before and after the May 3rd, 1999 event, what makes this tornado and the 2011 El-Reno Piedmont EF5 so significant is that the worst damage indicators basically matched the DOW readings or came very close to matching them. 2013 El-Reno for example had 300+ wind gusts within one of the sub vortices, but it did not produce the damage necessary to verify said reading. Piedmont and May 3rd on the other hand DID.
I can tell you are an Okie because you call it the "May 3rd" tornado. I've never heard anyone outside of oklahoma call it that.
There were two extremely powerful May 3rd 1999 tornadoes.
@@EliRicke-xl9mw Yup, Mulhall
Noticed the soundtrack. Background Sephiroth and Jenova FF7 music
And 2 days later, I was born. My adopted family had to drive through Moore on 35. They came through just under and hour after the tornado. My dad was just under an hour late getting out of work. Had they been on time, they would've been right in thr path of this monster
Recently heard of this 2 weeks ago in a Emplemon video, quite a scary beast.
I am familiar with it. The EF scale ratings are based on damage alone.
I guess you will have to review the 2013 sequel
More like a threequel.
@@danieldoesdumbstuff An eightquil if you want to include the smaller tornadoes.
Dont forget 2004 amd 2011.
😢😮 yeah I heard the guy's comment. He did good commentary boy. Can he talk about something that's good? I heard him say it took 1 inch of the tire off the road. I heard this quite a while ago. Boy. What a bad tornado that was was on the ground for an hour and a half. I seen a video boy and did a lot of damage. Good video though thank you.
Hey man I love your videos but… tone it down when you’re covering stuff like this. The high energy you bring especially to your railroad vids really doesn’t work with coverage of tornados. These things are horrible, man. I lived through this and the 2013 storm and seeing it covered in such an almost nonchalant way feels disingenuous. Also like… I know anthropomorphizing weather events like this is something people do especially with hurricanes but tornadoes are not male or female. They are just monsters.
It worked for me.
This is the liveliest commentary I ever heard talk about Tornadoes. Great video 👍👍
I'm sorry, but your voice and speaking style doesn't lend itself to tragic stories. It is too high pitched, and even when you are talking about topics _where people died_ your voice has to much of a comedic sound and cadence. And then you throw in some levity here and there. It is too much or me to sit through. Stick to light-hearted material or use AI.
Hot Damn, show us your expert content Sir Topham Fat!!
@@kylewood4852 I don't need to produce content in order to have an opinion, you twit. This guy's voice discussing serious/tragic topics is the equivalent of typing a report on terminal childhood cancer cases in Comic Sans font.
Subjective opinion is subjective. Personally I thought they did an excellent job narrating the video. And that's my opinion.
Thank you for not claiming people didn't take the warnings seriously honestly my friends from Oklahoma will straight run someone down if they get in the way of cover in a warning lmao
Well there's also some Oklahomans that'll open a beer and watch the dang thing and not worry about it one bit.
Great narrator. Music, bell tone of dread, great content. 👍
The voice is making my ears bleed
@@harryparsons2750 No kidding man
You guys should look up Rainsville. Absolutely gives this tornado a run for its money, it was covered so little and was hands down the scariest tornado because it couldn't fully stabilize leading it to simply being paired with the most powerful tornados instead of the most powerful tornado of all time, it had everything perfect to give it infinite power, it didn't even leave foundations behind, it didn't leave tornado shelters behind because they got ripped out of the ground. It was like the hulk of tornados, it had the most power potential of any tornado ever but couldn't reach it until the very end of its long life and holy crap are people lucky that it was simply a MF F5 TORNADO A LOT OF ITS TIME AND NOT MORE.
mankind has created a lot of dooms day weapons and used them, but Mother Nature has the most powerful of all that mankind cannot match not even close, an EF-5 tornado.
Look up the tsar bomba. We have definitely outpaced f5 tornados in capacity for violence
6:07 I hear "At Sixty seven PM..." anyone else?
I love the music choice 🙂
This one is the reason the Fujita scale was replaced with the Enhanced version. Basically it BROKE the old scale. I remember there was talk on the news at the time that this might have been the first ever F6. Then after some debate they replaced the old scale.
Not to sound like "that guy," but actually, that tornado would be the '97 Jarrell Texas tornado. Essentially, surveyors found that most of the buildings destroyed could've been done so by an F3. The published surveys were one of the first surveys to critique the F scale and would prompt the meteorological community to begin reworking it.
This tornado was just beaten a few days ago. Reed Timmer got it on camera.
Nope, Greenfield was 313 mph. Reanalysis shows 321 mph in the Bridge Creek-Moore tornado.
They need to change the name of their town to Les.
Dude,lay off the coffee.
R.I.P. all animals and people killed in this tornado
I know it’s debatable but now we got the Greenfield Iowa tornado for the strongest debate.
As far as RAW Power, Phil Campbell had pure endurance (most EF-5 DIs on record). Smithville did Jarrell damage in 1 to 2 seconds, plus some of the wildest DIs ever observed.
Overlooked tornadoes: Birmingham 1977, Palm Sunday 1965 (likely at least 2 or 3 F-5s reported as F-4s).
Nope, definitely not Smithville. Piedmont had by far the worst DIs ever recorded in the modern EF scale Era.
@@EliRicke-xl9mw how EF-5 DIs for Piedmont? I'm sure Piedmont would win a 100 meter dash, but not an Ironman.
@@abfutrell Damage at the Cactus oil rig speaks for itself.
@@EliRicke-xl9mw I get it, you're a troll. Have fun with yourself.
I bet many people sought shelter when that destructive F5 tornado hit.
The Jarrell tornado back in 97 would prove that isn’t always the case
There were people trying to crawl through manholes on the street to try and get away from this monstrous tornado.
@jonathanwhite5132 In their defense, they quite had nowhere to go, since I believe all but two houses in the area that was hit (double creek estates I think) didn't have basements.
@@SonicSpeed0705 given that Jarrell was ripping solid concrete up as well O don’t think any of the safety precautions were affective
Boy, it seems everyone that’s interested in trains eventually also gets hooked on tornadoes. It happened for me. It happened for several other people It’s like there’s some kind of connection Between the two.
Most descriptions I've heard of tornadoes people tend to say the tornado sounded like a train going by.
Your commentary combined with the music was sooooooooo goood A+++++++ content i love this lol💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾🔥🔥🔥 definitely subbing
The tornado that hit Huntsville in 1994 I think . took a Camara z28 and stuck it in the side of the movie theater in whitesburg shopping Plaza about 20 feet high on the wall with driver still in car .
Jesus, imagine that debris field. Cars, people, building materials, asphalt, untold other objects screaming around at 300 plus miles an hour blasting into stuff. It's like nature's delete button
Across has no past tense, it's not even a verb
This one was EERILY similar almost identical to the greensburg tornado. but since then radars got a lot better and so did predictions. but the greensburg one happened after 9pm central time or so. it was dark when that fucker with a strong sattelite tornado it. the entire town is GONE within an hour. it is not damaged. it is just GONE. i know 2 families there. they said they saw this thing and drove away. they saw it from the lightning and felt it in their ears and they knew.... just drive away. i think a lot of people in greensburg did that. so only 13 died. they saw some nonsensical wall of death coming at night. right at bed time. and just said fuck that got in their cars and drove away. thats what the two different households i know that were there did.
When you said "Look what I can do"... All I can picture is Mad Tvs Stewart
America... your country is terrifying. Your San Andreas and Cascadia faults are fear inducing. Your hurricanes induce a sense of dread. Your tornadoes are mobile wrecking balls. Is anywhere truly safe? 😮❤😮
Maybe you should take a look at the rest of the world and tell everyone that America is terrifying. Our terror is unexceptional. What's exceptional is the lack of it. When was the last time an earthquake in the U.S. killed 10,000+ people? Never, that's when.
Almost every place, almost every day is safe. No different than the rest of the world.
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Tornado's happen pretty much everywhere on the globe. Swegle Studios has a vid about this, with examples from throughout Europe, Asia, Africa & (IIRC) the Arctic. Wherever the right meteorological symptoms combine in the right way, Tornado's happen...
The safest parts of america I'd say are around the northeast away from the shorelines, as it avoids most of the dangerous storms and disasters. America still has far too many storms, however.
@wileycoyote7481 Thanks for your reply. I guess the only query about the North East is the size of the snow storms?
I live in Tulsa Oklahoma and even though we live in tornado alley we don’t usually get tornado but I’m going to not jinx it
Check out the TORNADO that hit Lubbock Texas in 70s
What about the 1974 Xenia, Ohio tornado?
>305 mph. The only "F6" ever to exist.
@EliRicke-xl9mw Lubbock Texas was also given a preliminary rating of F6
Technically, a tornado emergency is an imminent impact on a significant population.
so this is the low end speed of jupiters red spot. 300 mph winds is insane.
Love the ominous FF7 soundtrack at the beginning.
It was from a sub vortice that's why El Reno's winds weren't considered to be over 300. The sub was also over a 100 yards in diameter. It wasn't just a gust
Lol why is this narrator continually referring to this tornado as “she”? 😂 I’ve never heard something so silly
joplins 2011 was pretty darn bad too like this one
Am I the only one vaguely amused by Darkness referring to tornadoes as "she"? Serious subject, but it makes me smile for some reason.
It’s a habit as a historian ti name objects as she
Anthropomorphising natural events is a hard habit to break.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 this ^
He must be married.
@@neiloflongbeck5705Why though?
You said it couldn't be understated. You meant overstated.
I just survived an F 3.5 in Valley View Tx.
Folks you do NOT want to be in these storms. I was lucky to sustain only moderate damage to my mobile home and i can live in it. All my neighbors 2 doors all around werre wiped off their blocks and the tie down tethers blew. 2 children across the street were sadly killed..
How i was spared was God's mercy.
Why me?
Survivor's guilt is setting in...
I just watched a short documentary about the Jarrell, TX tornado in 1997. That one was extremely nasty and brutal. It destroyed a recycling center on the way to a neighborhood. Those poor families got stuck in a giant blender full of razor sharp metal flying everywhere. What was worse is the tornado stopped in the neighborhood for 5 min straight, so entire families literally got chewed up and spit out. They could only identify the bodies with dental records. that is still the most brutal tornado i have read about. Just a giant razor sharp blending machine. Yuck. 😱🤢
I wonder how they come up with potential death toll. How would they know how many people would have died if the warnings hadn’t gone out? It’s just something I’ve always wondered about. Good video.
They look at what was destroyed and what the occupancy of those locations was and add it up. If a house is gone and 4 people might have been in that house if they had not abandoned it then they count as potential victims.
To be fair did anyone survive this tornado in a ditch while the tornado passed directly overhead? Probably too powerful period! If the tunnel/overpass worked before, its probably still decent advice for most tornados(if no other option). The variable of being directly hit(by the central vortex of the tornado) by(in) such a monster may be important when other monster have sucked people right out of basements and roofed their storm shelters!
MAKE NO MISTAKE - AN F-3 TORNADO CAN PRETTY MUCH RUIN EVERYTHING IN IT'S PATH - ESPECIALLY IF IT'S SLOW MOVING -- 150+ MPH WINDS FULL OF DEBRIS WILL REDUCE NEARLY EVERYTHING TO RUBBLE OR A TWISTED MESS
They need to change advice on what to do when theres slow moving tornadoes vs fast moving, if jarrel happened again theyd still advise people to remain indoors instead of driving east of west plenty of time in advance
During the 2013 moore tornado, the news anchors told everyone: "if you don't have a cellar, you will not survive. Get in your car and leave the area".
@Dee-nonamnamrson8718 Yeesh 😬 That was terrible advice, bc there was already gridlocked traffic on all main roads out of Moore
Finally some weather videos!
Not gonna lie this wouldve somehow been an ef4 theyd say: as you can see the homes were built 2 years ago and some have faulty construction as there seems to be some loose screws on the door.
That month was not a fun month even in MO. We had to take shelter numerous times that when I was in grade school.
This Change Life And Death For this Moore Tornado Destorying buildings And Cars 4:25
May 2024 has been very active
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I got hit last year by a tarnado F3, while i was in my car, scary, it blew out my windows 🪟 in while i was hanging on seat 🪑 terrifying, lost everything! Cole Ok
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She was slabbing, ripping at my amchor bolts, blowing as hard as she could, i had to brace the suction so i didnt release my scoured seeds into her vortex
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Good video, I was in del city and this day will always be in our heads!
It really took "I wanna be where the people are..🧜♀️" seriously..😔
There are no such things as tornadoes. These are figments of your imagination. Now let's go smoke some weed.
1990 Plainfield, IL tornado was between 290-318 mph
I didn't give an opinion on my wishes. The Fujita scale is just a tool. Tornadoes don't need to be rated to understand them.
The Greenfield, Iowa now has the highest windspeeds. They exceeded 310 MPH (approximately 313 MPH). These winds were measured by DOW, they were recorded around 100 feet off the ground from the actual tornado.
@@EliRicke-xl9mw The El Reno tornado is unconfirmed, and the Bridge Creek only reached a little over 300 MPH (around 305 MPH) from several sources. But I wouldn't doubt that one of the 2 could be stronger than the Greenfield tornado. However, the 2 are unconfirmed and Greenfield has confirmed windspeeds. so that's why people are calling it the strongest tornado ever.
@@CBUS_RR_KING a survey was recently done on Jarrell, Bridge creek, and El Reno that confirms their wind speeds.
Old estimates:
Jarrell - 260 mph+
Bridge creek - 301 mph (302 +-20)
El Reno - 260-340 mph
New estimates:
Jarrell - >261 mph (possibly >300 mph)
Bridge creek - 321 mph
El Reno - 313 mph
Bridge creek and El Reno are now confirmed, and these wind speeds were measured by Doppler On Wheels (DOW).
Greenfield's estimated wind speed is 309-313 mph.
Look it up, it's official.
The original 302 estimate in Bridge creek just got revised to exactly 321 mph by the NWS in recent reanalysis. And they found that the winds in the sub vortex in the 2013 El Reno tornado was 313 mph, not 302.
@@EliRicke-xl9mw Hmm, interesting. I didn't know they reversed it.
@@CBUS_RR_KING the reanalysis on the 2013 El Reno tornado was actually done in 2015. In 2021 lots of severe weather experts, including Josh Wurman himself, reanalyzed the Bridge creek tornado and found that the exact wind speeds were actually 321 mph. It was confirmed by the NWS and was recently made official.
It feels and sounds so odd to keep hearing this guy refer to the tornado as a “she”. That and the odd music and cadence of his speaking voice made this one hard to listen to.
doesnt scare me. i'd walk right through it with just mild annoyance onh a monday morning to buy a couple shots of fireball and a hotdog and walk back but the wind would cure my hangover and work would probably be closed so i wouldnt care and i'd just go back to home which . okay do you really need a roof? just lay on ur mattress and watch the stars bro.
1990 Plainfield, IL tornado was between 290-318 mph
Plainfield wasn't even the strongest tornado of 1990.