30sec Unseen scene of El Reno Tornado! Explosion in Size!

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  • Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
  • Up there with the closes call, May 31, 2013 ties my current near collision back on May 24, 2008. Stupid HP BEAST! .... Anyways, HIGH CONTRAST will show an array of features we can not see in the field. It was brought to my attention if there was technology to make a shield like this To see throught the rain curtainsl. I can vouch in a snowstorm looking through my camera phone allowed me to see farther in snow. Same concept.

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  • @sgtpepper3161
    @sgtpepper3161 5 лет назад +1078

    When you have the realization it's not just getting closer, it's getting bigger.
    ....then it shifted direction when no one expected and that made it way worse

    • @llla_german_ewoklll6413
      @llla_german_ewoklll6413 3 года назад +25

      The only unexpected part in the shift was that it started going south, which is normally pretty safe, but in this case, it was the largest tornado ever recorded.

    • @wallyman292
      @wallyman292 3 года назад +37

      @@llla_german_ewoklll6413 What's amazing about this particular tornado were the multi-vortices, and how far out from "center" they were occurring. Each one by itself probably would have rated an F3 or F4, I would imagine. You can see one to the left of the main "cloud" early in this vid. They just spin up for a few seconds, then vanish. Spooky!

    • @llla_german_ewoklll6413
      @llla_german_ewoklll6413 3 года назад +17

      @@wallyman292 Yeah, i think they clocked some of those sub-vortices moving across the ground at EF 3 - 5 speeds.

    • @jakeg3733
      @jakeg3733 2 года назад +14

      @@llla_german_ewoklll6413 Up to 195mph forward speeds. That's what made this thing a killer. A lot of people didn't realize they were inside the parent circulation until it was too late then got hit by suction vortices. There's a video of Mike Bettis's vehicle getting lifted and slammed by these

    • @ItsMeFreemanCooper
      @ItsMeFreemanCooper 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@jakeg3733 Could you link to the video you're talking about?

  • @ItsKryptick
    @ItsKryptick 11 месяцев назад +560

    I don’t know if we’ll ever see anything like this ever again. The multiple vortices are large enough to be massive wedge tornadoes on their own. But in this case, they’re just the offspring of something much bigger. Been a decade and I’m still fascinated by this tornado. RIP to the Twistex crew, your work will never be forgotten.

    • @ACE_1923
      @ACE_1923 7 месяцев назад +45

      God Imagine if el Reno hit Oklahoma City head on 300mph winds at a 2.7 mile radius would be devastating

    • @brizzle3903
      @brizzle3903 5 месяцев назад

      @@ACE_1923that would’ve been destruction on a biblical level had it passed right over El Reno or went towards the greater Oklahoma City area although someday that’s going to happen it’s not a matter of if but when the ingredients come together once again to create a monster tornado just like this again

    • @builderman912
      @builderman912 5 месяцев назад +18

      you can expect to see it again.....we have really only started seriously tracking tornados in the 50's which means we have next to no data on it.

    • @ItsKryptick
      @ItsKryptick 5 месяцев назад +24

      @@builderman912 I don’t doubt we’ll see a bigger tornado someday. Or something with an even crazier sub-vortex structure, but we only have a few tornadoes (this one, Jarrell, Bridge Creek-Moore) that really change what we think about tornadoes. And no storm had everything like this one did. Speed, size, acceleration, etc. People say it’s like it had a mind of its own and they’re right. Thing seems nearly sentient at times.
      Always a chance something else comes around that really changes everything once more, but it’ll take a real monster to do that imo.

    • @ceeinfiniti1389
      @ceeinfiniti1389 5 месяцев назад +13

      @@ItsKryptick I think we will. The May 3rd 1999 Mulhull F4 tornado could have been as wide as 4.3 miles, though the official width is only around a mile. This is likely due to the radar technology used and how width was estimated from a radar standpoint. I personally never heard of it until I looked more into this because when people think of May 3rd 1999 they immediately think of Bridge Creek/Moore. And in 2004 the Hallam tornado was clocked in at 2.5 miles wide. El Reno also had a lesser known EF5 in 2011.
      Under the right conditions which are not a matter of if but when, it will happen again.

  • @johndeeregreen4592
    @johndeeregreen4592 5 лет назад +296

    I watched a tiny EF0 grow to a 1/4 mile wide EF3 in about 2 minutes years ago and thought that was something. The El Reno tornado was mother-nature saying, "Hold my beer and watch this shit!"

    • @bearzdlc2172
      @bearzdlc2172 3 года назад +44

      its an EF5 no matter what anyone says. The damage measurement is so stupid. If this thing were to happen again and hit any population it would've been an EF5, it should be based on wind speed, not damage.

    • @johndeeregreen4592
      @johndeeregreen4592 3 года назад +21

      @@bearzdlc2172, well, that's the way the system works. Yes, it is beyond flawed. I have seen plenty of tornadoes that reach EF4 intensity, only to be classified as an EF1 of 2, for example. There was a nasty EF2 multi-vortex tornado here in central Indiana, which if it would have actually hit something, it would have been a solid EF4+ this year.

    • @SpedSukuna
      @SpedSukuna 2 года назад +23

      Let's reuse the Fujita scale for the wind speeds and we can keep the Enhanced fujita scale for the damage.

    • @johndeeregreen4592
      @johndeeregreen4592 2 года назад +24

      @@SpedSukuna, agreed. It needs to be a two-tier system of the old for classification of potential strength; with a 2nd classification for the damage recorded.

    • @jamiethomas3768
      @jamiethomas3768 Год назад +5

      Just like Joplin

  • @Leidern
    @Leidern 3 года назад +1303

    I've seen several videos of this tornado. I understand that this tornado's path was unpredictable and grew in size too quickly for anyone to react. However, I can't help but entertain the idea that this monster had a vendetta against anyone who tried video recording it.

    • @Creativeabandon
      @Creativeabandon 3 года назад +207

      I have noticed this too in all the chaser videos and it's super creepy!!! At some point, in each chasers video, the storm quickly turns and chases them and then also at some point you can see the storm either stop and go another way, chasing after another car, or the crew veers a different way and out of the storms path. Pretty scary!!!

    • @marianamendoza7263
      @marianamendoza7263 2 года назад +76

      So shocking the way you describe this tornado,i've ever watch maybe 10 videos about this beast and it's true as you say's,for mention some of those people,included:storm chasers or normal people trying to scape: Dan Robinson probably the only witnesses storm chaser that could've see the real size of that monster in from of his face on the i-40 l,he saw when twistex got trapped in one of the subvortexes front his rear camera,James burch and his son completly scared,they were in the outer edge of the tornado,James took the right decisión to turns left and go to south,his son was anxious cause they were in front of a wedge from the main circulation,thankfully they were very far and survived,Allan gwyn another storm chaser and his partner were inside the rain curtains,i don't remember the name routh, they're passing there and suddenly a subvortex with the size of a tornado Ef4 passed in front of them, sorrounded their vehicle, thankfully they survived,the weather channel team being hitted by 5 subvortexes and sending the car very far,rolling over and over again like 30 times,all survived but with injuries and some fractures,i mean this tornado had an underratic anormal path,was moving fast at the same not was the tornado asself that killed people but the multiple snakes coming from that thing did it,the only visible of this monster we're the multiple vortexes becoming in big wedges like the size of normal tornados, just horrible i couldn't imagine how has to be inside this.

    • @SpedSukuna
      @SpedSukuna 2 года назад +76

      This is probably one of the only tornadoes that had a mind, A brain, A consciousness. It deliberately went after chasers by Un expectingly turning at them and growing in size, Mother nature knows how to make monsters.

    • @joshdee7639
      @joshdee7639 2 года назад

      With how stupid of an idea that is, I hope that if youre ever caught in a tornado that the tornado, does in fact, grow consciousness and seek you out to rid the world of dumb. I cant believe I have to say this, but tornadoes are not an act of your make believe GOD, they are a natural phenomena.

    • @SpedSukuna
      @SpedSukuna 2 года назад +2

      @@joshdee7639 I think it's a metaphor.

  • @maxtew6521
    @maxtew6521 5 месяцев назад +334

    That green glow is downright sinister.

    • @joe1972
      @joe1972 5 месяцев назад +4

      Yes it is. Too bad the cameraman took it for granted and drove away. A one in a million opportunity to get some first rate footage squandered... At least the first ten seconds were pretty good.

    • @msanon1001
      @msanon1001 5 месяцев назад +93

      @@joe1972 storm chasers died due to this tornado… I say they made a pretty good choice in prioritizing their own life. We saw in this video how quickly things can change.

    • @peculiarstraw8648
      @peculiarstraw8648 4 месяца назад +22

      @@joe1972 I hope you realize the immortal cameraman is only a joke.

    • @btv7206
      @btv7206 4 месяца назад

      I’ve noticed this on a few tornados…. I’ve been trying to find the answer but I can’t seem to find anyone talking about it…
      Why does it seem to glow blue? Is it the sunlight coming through the very center of the cyclone?

    • @joe1972
      @joe1972 4 месяца назад +1

      @peculiarstraw8648 I didn't know that. In many comments I've read people comment on the cameraman never dying. There's a tornado vid of a house hit by an f4. The cameraman lived after his house caved in all around and on him.

  • @icanhearcolors3984
    @icanhearcolors3984 Год назад +118

    It took 2 minutes for the El Reno tornado to cross highway 81. When the tornado slammed into 81 at 55 miles per hour, it was 2 miles wide, and the collision with 81 was like a trigger for it. It started to grow unbelievably rapidly. In just 2 minutes, the tornado grew from 2 to 2.6 miles wide. Meaning it reaches all the way from 15th street, all the way to Reuter road. On Reuter, the Twistex team was killed when the tornado reached max width and intensity, exactly 20 minutes after it touched down.

  • @Revelationxxx
    @Revelationxxx 6 лет назад +455

    if you watch the sky in the background at 0:13 at the leading edge you can really see it. It grows so fast it's like the entire mesocyclone suddenly touches down.

    • @mirhasanoddname
      @mirhasanoddname 5 лет назад +53

      And only 10 seconds later it's already +3 times bigger. I would have pissed my pants.

    • @xalynnn3783
      @xalynnn3783 5 лет назад +9

      Yep that’s a tornado

    • @llla_german_ewoklll6413
      @llla_german_ewoklll6413 3 года назад +4

      Thats just a subvortex.

    • @gfool4749
      @gfool4749 3 года назад +1

      @@llla_german_ewoklll6413 the subvortices merged then became very large idiot

    • @lancel71
      @lancel71 Год назад +5

      Yep it filled in very quickly

  • @RBG-ez7pd
    @RBG-ez7pd 5 месяцев назад +135

    This man noped out with appropriate timeliness!

    • @catherinehubbard1167
      @catherinehubbard1167 5 месяцев назад +7

      And it was still a near thing. I wonder how fast he was going - he was running for his life.

    • @joe1972
      @joe1972 5 месяцев назад

      The best footage ended only ten seconds in... Every opportunity, (one in a million) to record after 0:10 was wasted because the driver was driving away. Why bother recording at all?

    • @yaboileeroy3038
      @yaboileeroy3038 5 месяцев назад

      @@joe1972Because some people still want to live, you fucking moron

    • @STURDYvids
      @STURDYvids 4 месяца назад +9

      @@joe1972you dont get it - thats what the video is about! the explosion in size - we see the “small” tornado at 10 seconds and a couple seconds later, thats still tornado, just all of it!

    • @claireingles-sj6xz
      @claireingles-sj6xz 2 месяца назад +1

      Smart, smart person.

  • @murph4432
    @murph4432 6 лет назад +183

    The vortices are visible it's scary

  • @petergriffin383
    @petergriffin383 5 месяцев назад +34

    The adrenaline rush chasing these monsters must be huge. This footage is amazing in so many different ways. I was tensing up just watching it

    • @joe1972
      @joe1972 5 месяцев назад

      It was only good for ten seconds. After 0:10 it was a video of someone driving their car. It would have been nice to have gotten more footage of the storm and less of a person's car headed down the road. 🙄

  • @WillieDines1
    @WillieDines1 3 года назад +46

    You were extremely lucky to out run that sucker Brendon because not only did it suddenly grow very quickly, but it had also made it's first left turn to the east and also increased in ground speed from around 30mps to around 40/50mph as it was increasing in size and intensity and also, some of those large suction vorticies had secondary suction vortices inside them.
    This was an extremely rare type of tornado that was made up of a complex of large suction vortices that were the size of parent tornadoes, but they also had secondary vortices and the main part of the tornado itself was essentially a micro-mesocyclone or a tornadocyclone as Reed Timmer and a few others had described it.
    Great video indeed and most importantly, I'm glad you were able to outrun it and get out of there alive.

  • @JCBro-yg8vd
    @JCBro-yg8vd 5 месяцев назад +50

    That explosion in size is very much part of the reason why even professional storm chasers were caught off guard by this tornado.

  • @snackentity5709
    @snackentity5709 4 года назад +122

    the tornado is really spooky in this vid. just an amorphous mess of demonic death vortices dancing in a field, becoming increasingly obscured by a lowering curtain of ghostly origin. like it wanted to hide its true form. even the sounds are spooky. the camera begins a constant tremble from the growing wind field. and 0:19 or 0:20 sounded like some ghostly soul that was captured by an F5 tornado 200 years ago, trying to escape its eternal captivity during the chaos.

    • @lightningfreek
      @lightningfreek  4 года назад +12

      Well that escalated quickly

    • @lightningfreek
      @lightningfreek  4 года назад +19

      Are you related to that weird satanist dude that does all those interviews...Choke me devil daddy.

    • @Marianne-Bachmeier-Extremist
      @Marianne-Bachmeier-Extremist 6 месяцев назад +8

      You forgot to mention that green shine comming from it.

  • @marianamendoza7263
    @marianamendoza7263 2 года назад +48

    The way that thing expanded just in seconds was the cause of many deaths,a truly monster this tornado,when you're passing that blue barrel and the trees being knocking down you can see the situation is critical and you were in danger.

  • @Plumpbobb
    @Plumpbobb 5 месяцев назад +22

    holy shit that dude was booking it

  • @jjollie4334
    @jjollie4334 5 месяцев назад +23

    That went from tornado to judgement day real quick

  • @wutzittoya
    @wutzittoya 2 года назад +13

    wow what a view of that beast glad you were able to skate by it that was close!!! Cant believe i havent seen this til now im from ny where if we get a tornado its a quick spin up(usually) nothing even close to this, this video gives me chills seeing how quickly that tornado expanded in size and intensity

  • @texaskushkings7069
    @texaskushkings7069 5 месяцев назад +12

    Literally in the video within seconds this tornado grew to an enormous size, I can see why many didn't escape, got caught in it and like Twistex, ended up killed..If you watch all the videos of it and the maps of the live map from the chasers, it literally chased everyone in different directions. This is one of the most amazing yet sad tornadoes that we could possibly never see again.

  • @wadewilson8011
    @wadewilson8011 5 месяцев назад +8

    That's terrifying. It was coming, and it was growing and coming FAST!

  • @7249xxl
    @7249xxl 5 месяцев назад +7

    The whole problem with this tornado is that it's even bigger then perceived here on film.
    The thing on the right is the primary condensation funnel and the fiddley vortex on the left is just one of many sub vortices.
    The tornadic wind fields stretched a substantial distance from what was visible here and the wrapping rain curtains really made it a killer.

  • @Jocelynjade
    @Jocelynjade Месяц назад +2

    This is just proof that humanity will never be able to fully understand the world around, no matter how hard we try. We are at the mercy of the greater forces we cannot comprehend.

  • @iondetox
    @iondetox 29 дней назад +1

    You had to be in the right spot to even see what it was really doing, or it looked like wind and rain. Great shots! Close to a monster.

  • @WillieDines1
    @WillieDines1 4 года назад +20

    I'm convinced that the El Reno tornado may have been 2 strong multiple vortex tornadoes in the same circulation area.
    at 0:14 there are 2 vortices on the South side, but they are rotating around each other and to me that is an indication of a second multiple vortex tornado within the same circulation.
    Since the beginning I have felt like the El Reno tornado was not a typical multiple vortex tornado, but a multiple vortex mesonado.

    • @bearzdlc2172
      @bearzdlc2172 3 года назад +1

      That would make a lot of sense, wasn’t this beast formed by two massive storm fronts colliding and combining?

    • @ryyyan4795
      @ryyyan4795 Год назад +11

      That whole storm was a damn weapon, period. One interesting hypothesis I saw someone on here make a while ago was that the deviant motion that got a lot of chasers was literally the meso being rotated counterclockwise around an area of low pressure in the supercell, that being the massive hail core. I’m of the belief that this was definitely one tornado, but whatever turbocharged conditions present caused such ungodly amounts of turbulent air that the whole meso was basically divided up, and physics did the rest in making those divisions so damn powerful.

    • @WillieDines1
      @WillieDines1 Год назад +11

      @@ryyyan4795 as I recall from various other videos documenting the storm, the El Reno storm was essentially an acumulation of 1 dominant supercell to the SW of a group of 3, and it didn't take long before the dominant storm converged with the other 2 neighbouring storms and the amount of inflow the final storm had was insane on a level that can't be described.
      The mesocyclone was way too big to even fit half of it into wide view of the cameras and there were at least 3 inflow tails to the East side, with potentially other inflow tails to the NW side.
      The rotation was so potent that when the El Reno tornado began to show signs of forming, it already was formed from a secondary sub mesocyclone, but from various still photos and videos I have seen, I couldn't help spot multiple tornadic rotation spots within the circulation before the initial suction vorticies funnels started to show.
      I have not seen any video of the tornado in it's later stages, when it's nothing, but a giant carousell of wedge tornadoes circulationg before occluding and dissipating.

    • @M8NR8E
      @M8NR8E 5 месяцев назад +2

      I wouldn't be surprised if this tornado, if viewed down to the quantum level, was in fact a Mandelbrot Fractal tornado pattern of infinite vortices... hehe, just playing, BUT YOU NEVER KNOW! 😜

    • @brizzle3903
      @brizzle3903 4 месяца назад

      Bruh I am so late to this comment but OMG that actually makes a lot of sense and I didn’t notice those vortices rotating around each other 😳

  • @just888another888ide
    @just888another888ide 10 лет назад +108

    Must've been doing 95+mph... out ran it very well.

    • @caelanreeves9760
      @caelanreeves9760 7 лет назад +6

      Spectator 98 I doubt that, looks more like 70-90 mph

    • @Stormviation
      @Stormviation 7 лет назад +13

      I mean, this video is sped up a little which makes it look like he's going way faster, but in the original video, it looks like he was going about 80 mph.

    • @4ohm531
      @4ohm531 6 лет назад +7

      It looks 100 - 110

    • @bman3020
      @bman3020 6 лет назад +1

      108

    • @tomw2919
      @tomw2919 6 лет назад +1

      102

  • @markmiller489
    @markmiller489 3 месяца назад +3

    It’s so crazy it looks completely out of range safe and then just sneaked up on people like that, I wonder if there has ever been a tornado weather event like the multiple vortex’s of El Reno tornado? Once in a billion years freak weather happening??

  • @trace6402
    @trace6402 3 года назад +12

    You are driving like you had to have had a premonition of what the storm was about to do. Would really like to hear your insight on what clued you.
    Great video.Thanks for sharing.

    • @lightningfreek
      @lightningfreek  3 года назад +16

      How fast it was coming at me, and the intensity when I saw the multivortices in-between those cedar trees. I said oh God. Luckily I am a photographer who enjoys the whole picture so I'm usually not directly under the meso.

  • @ryyyan4795
    @ryyyan4795 Год назад +8

    Not sure about the timing, but those two large subvorticies may have been the ones that got Twistex. I remember from Dan Robinson’s video and descriptions that he could see the barrel-like vortex cross the road him and Twistex were on at 6:22ish, immediately before the entire rain-curtain filled circulation fully wedged out and condensed-he saw this after he had stopped in that video. Part of me wonders if any other similar angles would have seen either car. Just so eerie.

    • @xilentjay4298
      @xilentjay4298 Год назад +3

      I believe the subvorticies may have been different ones as it was stated that they were going had speeds of up to 200 mph but who knows. Is it just me or is it really eerie how the subvorticies stopped on them, tossed them only to pick them up again, and circle back around to them once more

  • @flynnzilla8796
    @flynnzilla8796 9 месяцев назад +6

    Anytime i want to terrify myself, i just watch this…

  • @noahkb80
    @noahkb80 5 лет назад +9

    Thats insane. Best shot ive seen the growth

  • @LizardBo
    @LizardBo Месяц назад +2

    I was a resident of the El Reno tornado next thing you look back second thing it gets bigger, but it shifts towards you….

  • @xalynnn3783
    @xalynnn3783 5 лет назад +7

    Now that’s what you call *rapidly intensifying*

  • @eliad6543
    @eliad6543 5 месяцев назад +12

    0:38 is that.. more small tornadoes in the distance? What the hell?

    • @angrydragon4574
      @angrydragon4574 5 месяцев назад +2

      It is. The twister had multiple snaller vortices around it until they merged into a rain-wrapped beast.

    • @eliad6543
      @eliad6543 5 месяцев назад

      @@angrydragon4574 No but the distance on these is insane and there's nothing in the middlr

    • @Trahzy
      @Trahzy Месяц назад +2

      It's multiple vortex tornado. Basically a giant mesocyclone with a bunch of tornadoes dropping down under it. It was doing this 2.6 miles around the center.

    • @historictick8179
      @historictick8179 Месяц назад +1

      The el Reno tornado is basically just a supercell (giant rotating thunderstorm) that touches the ground with multiple tornadoes inside of it. These tornados collectively make the single el Reno tornado. One of these tornadoes were recorded touching the ground for 3 seconds with wind speeds of 302 mph. That was the fastest recorded wind speed ever to date.

    • @historictick8179
      @historictick8179 Месяц назад

      @@eliad6543that’s just how big the el Reno tornado was, the video here shows a crazy event that happened during the el Reno tornado where it grew double its size from 1 mile to 2 miles in diameter in just 40 some seconds. Crazy

  • @diontaedaughtry974
    @diontaedaughtry974 4 месяца назад

    I didn't pay attention to this when it happened. I'm going to try to stop missing historic events 🌪. Great video 👍👍

  • @FalseHope61
    @FalseHope61 11 месяцев назад +2

    Holy shit. If you watch it a few times. It goes from a few hundred feet off the road, to completely engulfing the road in 3-5 seconds

  • @hunterchey02
    @hunterchey02 5 месяцев назад +1

    Such a gorgeous muli vortex tornado… this tornado I knew Fs knew its self was going to be life changing and record breaking…. RIP Tim, Carl, and Paul and the other storm chaser💔

  • @KillerMoth3
    @KillerMoth3 4 месяца назад +1

    As an Oklahoman, what was the most terrifying thing of that tornado was when all the weather men immediately told the residents of Yukon, Oklahoma City, and Midwest City to get the hell out of the metropolitan area and so many people fled south to Moore or north to Edmond because they literally thought this behemoth was going towards OKC area. Thankfully it gave up by the time it got near Yukon

  • @Jinx1927
    @Jinx1927 2 месяца назад

    That sudden drop in the entire wall cloud is terrifying, a truly deadly tornado.

  • @tubingtomtom
    @tubingtomtom 4 года назад +5

    That thing is blowing up! Doubled in size in one minute. And moving 50 mph at the same time!

  • @FalcoSusgott
    @FalcoSusgott 5 лет назад +45

    imagine a police officer pulling you over in the middle of a tornado just to give you a speeding ticket lmao

    • @aaronbarber6238
      @aaronbarber6238 4 года назад +15

      In other videos you’ll see an officer speeding with a few other cars to get away from this monster.

    • @gl3618
      @gl3618 4 года назад +10

      We were trying to outrun one in East Georgia couple years back and my wife was worried about cops....the cops were going the other direction. We kept seeing new sets of headlights behind us every time we would go by one. Good times.

    • @Ellie_420
      @Ellie_420 2 года назад

      Both of you are D.E.A.D

    • @GenericPast
      @GenericPast Год назад +1

      Kansas troopers don't play around. They will ticket you while it's on the ground

    • @Marianne-Bachmeier-Extremist
      @Marianne-Bachmeier-Extremist 6 месяцев назад

      Dich kenn ich doch von Twiter lel

  • @kainhall
    @kainhall 5 месяцев назад +2

    0:40 the wall coulds and funnels WAY off in the distance have haunted me for 10 years........
    scariest crap ive ever seen.... originally thought they were closer

  • @finisher3x
    @finisher3x 5 лет назад +19

    0:19 - Twistex team and Robinson?

    • @SleepyOddish
      @SleepyOddish 5 лет назад

      I don't think so. There are 4 cars there

    • @TheLocalLt
      @TheLocalLt 4 года назад +5

      finisher3x no it was on a dirt road called Reuter road there are vids of people behind him they were (I believe amateurs I wish I had the link, they are going down Reuter road and you can sadly see it unfold much more clearly than in Robinson’s video. However you don’t see Tim actually get hit due to being over a hill, but you see is this group of people going straight across this highway but were about to be trapped once the tornado changed direction. In this video the tornado hadn’t changed direction yet. The people end up turning around the guy films backwards as the gigantic 2.6 mike behemoth moves across Reuter road. The tornado was so wide, when the driver started the a 3 point turn the left edge of the tornado was in frame, when he turned 90 degrees the right edge was in frame!

    • @MoneyTrees2012
      @MoneyTrees2012 3 года назад

      @@TheLocalLt damn, id like to see it if you ever find it

    • @TheLocalLt
      @TheLocalLt 3 года назад +9

      @@MoneyTrees2012 here it is: ruclips.net/video/HcWrJGSIaGc/видео.html they turn onto Reuter at 2:35, you can’t see Samaris but he is directly ahead of them and you’re essentially seeing what he saw. It is similar to the early part of Dan Robinson’s video as well. The craziest part is at 3:05 when they turn around in the nick of time, the tornado’s left edge is coming into view when the car stops, when it turns 90° the right edge is now in view. It was the full 2.6 miles wide at this point, plus the whole thing was now condensed, hiding the powerful and intimidating subvortices but showcasing its impressive width. The video is pretty crazy too because they missed taking a path of no escape on three or four occasions, even actually making the doomed turn onto Reuter before fatefully turning around.

    • @ArunKumar-dv8zw
      @ArunKumar-dv8zw 3 года назад +2

      @@TheLocalLt Thank you

  • @codyking4848
    @codyking4848 5 месяцев назад +2

    Pretty scary how rapidly it gew and changed direction. Like it was on rails. Wow.

  • @16dragons
    @16dragons 5 месяцев назад +3

    That moment when the clear slot is just the vortex hole making it down to ground level

  • @luiscanamarvega
    @luiscanamarvega 4 года назад +2

    A short video, but one that best describes what this monster was.

  • @jazzoYT
    @jazzoYT Месяц назад

    in 60 secs, the tornado grew from one mile to two miles wide. truly incredible

  • @algomaone121
    @algomaone121 5 месяцев назад

    The orange light behind the tornado is eerie!

  • @myflatlineconstruct
    @myflatlineconstruct 4 месяца назад +1

    The rpm on the motor. You had of just floored it, looks almost like running in place. Damn

  • @chad6472
    @chad6472 5 месяцев назад +2

    I remember watching on radar 3 thunderstorms merge into eachother and make this monster sized storm 😮

  • @han2868
    @han2868 5 месяцев назад +1

    is that the twistex vehicle in the background?

  • @ej_makesvideos
    @ej_makesvideos 3 месяца назад +1

    why is it glowing

  • @am74343
    @am74343 5 месяцев назад +1

    Why does it look orange? Were there fires happening too?

  • @R2D2C_3po
    @R2D2C_3po 5 месяцев назад

    What's interesting is that there was recently a tornado in early May of 2024 in East Texas that literally made a hairpin turn! It's similar to the u-shape path of the El Reno Tornado, but much more drastic. In fact, I believe that this recent tornado in Texas is the first recorded tornado to ever make a hairpin turn.

  • @SimpleManGuitars1973
    @SimpleManGuitars1973 4 года назад +1

    Tons of videos that I've seen of this storm seem to all have this sort of reddish "tint" to them. Why is that? It looks extremely eerie that's for sure.

  • @duolingo4899
    @duolingo4899 5 лет назад +3

    The blue part is terrifying

  • @VexNovaYT
    @VexNovaYT 5 месяцев назад +1

    The fact that it just looks like rain with two small tornadoes inside.
    Nope, that whole thing is the tornado.

  • @donkey3187
    @donkey3187 5 лет назад +15

    harrowing escape - the speed he was going...he clearly was very aware of what was happening next to him.

    • @icanhearcolors3984
      @icanhearcolors3984 Год назад

      Well the og video looks slower, because this was sped up. There was a weather channel crew about a mile behind him on the same road, unfortunately their vehicle took off like a plane, but all 3 occupants survived

  • @keyboardwarrior4092
    @keyboardwarrior4092 10 месяцев назад +1

    I don’t know if this is some camera thing or my eyes are messed up, but what is that blue light coming from inside the tornado?

    • @DA_TV71
      @DA_TV71 10 месяцев назад

      That’s the power lines ripping off from the tornado

    • @keyboardwarrior4092
      @keyboardwarrior4092 10 месяцев назад

      @@DA_TV71 if those were power flashes-as you had described-then that blue hue was there for what seems to be way too long for them to be power flashes caused by torn power lines

    • @DA_TV71
      @DA_TV71 10 месяцев назад

      @@keyboardwarrior4092 so ur saying I’m wrong, right? Cuz that was what I think it happened

    • @keyboardwarrior4092
      @keyboardwarrior4092 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@DA_TV71 Not necessarily(mainly because neither of us were there, so I guess we’ll never really know what it was), I’m just kinda skeptical of the fact that those were power lines

    • @DA_TV71
      @DA_TV71 10 месяцев назад

      @@keyboardwarrior4092 yea, same to me 😕

  • @GrandCamino6
    @GrandCamino6 5 месяцев назад

    Sounds like a 4g63 to me. Were you in an Evo 8 or 9?

  • @fauxpinkytoo
    @fauxpinkytoo 2 месяца назад

    Please don't tell me the white car they passed was a Chevy Colbalt...

  • @keyakku935
    @keyakku935 5 месяцев назад

    They warn you about green skies before a tornado, How often is it when you see the green skies touching the ground.

  • @dicky4519
    @dicky4519 4 месяца назад

    isnt that the one pecos hank captured?
    he captured it from another angle

  • @RicardoPerez-rz8pu
    @RicardoPerez-rz8pu 3 года назад

    Never thought I'd see that the sky was falling down with the twister touching down

  • @auburntrojan2010
    @auburntrojan2010 6 лет назад +5

    Is all that bright blue (rain-curtain looking) part the tornado too? Or is it just the darker part to the left? That was the confusing part of this whole storm system to me.

    • @yeetspageet5679
      @yeetspageet5679 6 лет назад +13

      The entire bears cage had wind speeds high enough to be considered part of the tornadic wind field / circulation with very powerful sub vortices embedded in it. The entire meso kind of dropped to the ground. In short yes the blue part is the tornado.

    • @ciearakimberly523
      @ciearakimberly523 6 лет назад +3

      In short the bears cage (The entirety of the greyish blueish mass on the ground) is the tornado

    • @GOOD-oc9kk
      @GOOD-oc9kk 6 лет назад +5

      I believe the bluish tent is the hail core. So I have heard before.

    • @xalynnn3783
      @xalynnn3783 5 лет назад

      charlie saville the blue part is called the core so no it’s not part of the tornado but does mean it’s most likely a tornado will be produced but close

    • @xalynnn3783
      @xalynnn3783 5 лет назад

      GOOD 1980 yes thank you

  • @Michael65698
    @Michael65698 10 лет назад +3

    beautiful video

  • @mexa_t6534
    @mexa_t6534 7 лет назад +5

    Woooooow it's glowing

    • @xalynnn3783
      @xalynnn3783 5 лет назад

      GreenBear 73 no that’s called the core when the sun shines in and the updraft and the tornado ingredients are that’s what will happen

  • @asaschlobohm
    @asaschlobohm 5 лет назад +2

    Hello! Can we use your video on our channel with credit to you?

  • @lacedzaza
    @lacedzaza 9 месяцев назад

    Bro videos don’t do it justice I mean this thing looked so breathtaking in person not in a good way ofc that thing was a scary beast

  • @Mike-e1h1z
    @Mike-e1h1z 5 месяцев назад

    At certain points it almost appears as if the whole thing is just a nest of huge subvortices with the larger ones concentrated in the middle. Of course I can't prove this, but that's what it looks like to me. What I REALLY want to know is: what are the true wind speeds in the most intense subvortices? I recently read that speculation has been made that some may contain winds upwards of 500-600 mph, but until someone can get a handheld lidar or microwave device directly on one at close range we won't know.

    • @friedtoaster4059
      @friedtoaster4059 5 месяцев назад +2

      Don't listen to random people on the internet,, especially with tornadoes. Usually people who spread around these "speculations" are kids that want a massive deadly tornado to happen. A DOW (doppler on wheels) is a vehicle that has a radar mounted on the back of it. They measured windspeeds about 300 mph but couldn't scan the center.

  • @karar.kendall4872
    @karar.kendall4872 5 месяцев назад +1

    That thing's glowing blue like that one tornado!

    • @TylerChamb
      @TylerChamb 4 месяца назад +3

      Yeah the 1955 blackwell tornado was said to have a mysterious blue glow. This one clearly has it too. Wtf is that?

  • @Eggly69
    @Eggly69 4 месяца назад +2

    If this is your footage, you have no idea how close you came to dying.

  • @PhoenixKoopion
    @PhoenixKoopion 5 лет назад +21

    So it went from \/ to \. /

  • @elitepersonality9515
    @elitepersonality9515 5 месяцев назад

    Imagine crashing at that speed, and laying there unable to help yourself while the tornado consumes you

  • @derekbaker3279
    @derekbaker3279 4 года назад +5

    Excellent video, which - for some reason - never appeared in my searches or as a recommended video until now (..WTF?..lol..)
    To follow-up on some of the conservations here: During the last 5 seconds or so, you can see the 'new' (post-expansion) outer edge of the tornado quite clearly. It's far off in the distance, where the sunset colours are. You can see the edge of the circulation, as well as some of those intense suction vortices that made this monster extremely dangerous for storm chasers & television crews.
    It should be noted that these suction vortices were in addition to the usual ones that exist in any multi-vortex tornado, which is the aqua wedge-shaped feature visible from the beginning of the video. Some of those suction vortices revolving around the central wedge were as large & strong as a 'normal' tornado. In fact, Dr. Josh Wurman & his team used the DOW to record windspeeds near ground level in one suction vortex as almost 300mph! (*)
    (*) quite possibly the one that impacted the Twistex team in their car while they hunkered down in the outer circulation of the beast. IMHO, normally, they may have had some chance of surviving the outer circulation of a large multi-vortex tornado, where damage would have been between EF0 & EF-2. Most unfortunately, this tornado was not typical, and a hyper-intense suction vortex in the outer circulation struck them, threw their vehicle more than a quarter-mile & killed all three men. 😢

    • @lightningfreek
      @lightningfreek  4 года назад +1

      Yes, I am likely the one of few who. Noticed the edge of the tornado I escaped towards the end of the video. Thank you for your time to respond. I enjoyed reading your insight.

  • @MattMorganJP
    @MattMorganJP 4 месяца назад +1

    You got extremely lucky.

  • @eyenfinityface-thecosmiclo2717
    @eyenfinityface-thecosmiclo2717 5 месяцев назад +1

    A georgous and colorful creation of GOD.

  • @MarcusCollins69
    @MarcusCollins69 3 месяца назад

    i can't tell what is and isn't the tornado, even with just google images. looking at images and seeing a 3.3 mile wide tornado is crazy, that's like 7 km big

  • @Jet-ok7qm
    @Jet-ok7qm 5 месяцев назад

    This tornado was more than a tornado. It was something else altogether. Its like its not even real...feels like something that should only exist in sensationalistic disaster movies, and yet, here this thing is. Its 11 years later, and im still looking at this thing, mezmorized and dumbfounded.

  • @Corium1
    @Corium1 5 месяцев назад

    It is literally over taking the car by continuing to expand, this tornado was truly something unexpected and terrifying

  • @tHebUm18
    @tHebUm18 5 месяцев назад +1

    Drove past a lot of stopped/slow cars in not good spots.

  • @clancybenedict6647
    @clancybenedict6647 4 месяца назад +1

    Second that thing hit the ground it grew fast as hell

  • @roadkillavenger1325
    @roadkillavenger1325 5 месяцев назад

    Um... it isn't unseen. We've seen it. Perhaps a change of title is in order.

  • @OhNoEughghuhg
    @OhNoEughghuhg 2 месяца назад

    god its like the video was cut that thing just came outta nowhere like that holy shit i've never seen one grow so fast

  • @sgperformer
    @sgperformer 4 года назад +3

    Good to have a V-8 engine in the bear’s cage.

  • @metalprincesses5073
    @metalprincesses5073 4 месяца назад

    That looks surreally scary!

  • @MyFatherLoves
    @MyFatherLoves 5 месяцев назад

    Twistex was very likely one of the pairs of headlights we saw in the video. sad.

  • @bayonetta9395
    @bayonetta9395 5 месяцев назад

    0:21 so the tornado takes up the whole frame at here ?

  • @Elephant-Puppet
    @Elephant-Puppet 26 дней назад

    It’s like something out of mad max

  • @violetsterling67
    @violetsterling67 5 месяцев назад

    El Reno was the creepiest, scariest tornado ever in my book.

  • @tripwire3992
    @tripwire3992 20 дней назад

    I think if any tornado was given the class of "EF6" it'd be this one

  • @xtruejudgementx5017
    @xtruejudgementx5017 5 месяцев назад +1

    Never seen the green sky thing on the tornado itself that is horrifying

  • @mardooks
    @mardooks 5 месяцев назад

    Does anyone know exactly what the green color in the cloud is? Or what causes that colouring?

    • @Aceuchiha.
      @Aceuchiha. 5 месяцев назад

      The green sky indicates Hail in the Storm.

  • @Playlist_sharingaccount
    @Playlist_sharingaccount 3 месяца назад

    I wonder how fast this person was going and what they were driving

  • @redirish311976
    @redirish311976 3 года назад +1

    That tornado blew up to about 2 miles wide in that 30 seconds

  • @thomasswihart85
    @thomasswihart85 6 лет назад +1

    JESUS CHRIST.... THAT IS INSANE

  • @helhoelhoelo
    @helhoelhoelo 20 дней назад

    Caught in a serious el reno situation.

  • @jasonchiu272
    @jasonchiu272 4 месяца назад

    Caseoh's first day walking outside:

  • @j.e.513
    @j.e.513 5 месяцев назад

    30 seconds of unseen video seen 112k times. 🤯

  • @kuypersoos
    @kuypersoos 5 месяцев назад

    Am i crazy or is that thing having multiple tiny neighbour tornado s around him??

  • @revivetime123
    @revivetime123 4 месяца назад

    You had approximately one minute to escape before the revival

  • @ardonsito7206
    @ardonsito7206 2 дня назад

    Bro was almost inside the tornado?