You mean the tornado? 😂 what if every tornado was just an occlusion and every storm could produce these if the pressure was able to drop enough?? 😳 5/19/2024 Oklahoma had a mile wide tornado. The meteorologists didn’t know what they were looking at because it was an WF1 mile wide tornado. Same thing they were trying to find one tight rotation. Scary part was the entire wall cloud was on the ground producing multiple vortices!
So many made the mistake of looking for a single cone tornado when the entire rotating cloud was the tornado and the cones were multiple vortexes around it.
Do you think Tim Samaras was fooled by the storm? Maybe he saw a subvorteses. & thought it was the main tornado. When he drove away from subvortex, he drove mistakenly into main storm? I can't understand
@@judyrothschadl3501 I believe he was trying to get in front of the main storm and was overtaken by it and a vortex tornado hit the car. The main tornado was an EF3 and the vortex tornadoes around it were EF5s in some cases.
Yeh, I was saying that the whole Meso was basically the tornado, with sub vortices being the manifestation of this. It was a unique storm. Pilger, Nebraska in 2014 was another unique storm.
Reed Timmer: "it's a almost a quarter mile wide an it's going to get half a mile wide." "we will not be intercepting this one" When Reed isn't trying to get directly in the path of a tornado to scream at it, you know its bad.
Crazy to think that so many people assumed it was wrapped in rain at the time. Only to find out that no, that was indeed the walls of the tornado spinning around. This sucker definitely changed the game forever.
I was watching some amateur chasers that started out North of it and there was a lot of intermediate rain. They didn't have a radar so they were having to follow an ambulance for awhile. They lost sight of him and were sitting between the base and a line of vortexes pretty hidden by rain until making out the funnels inside. About that time the Ambulance came by clearing out fast and they followed. Somehow they made their way to the South of it without without showing us how and were the car that came across the Chasing crew that got their car repeatedly rolled and flattened a bit as their camera filmed it from where it had landed on the ground behind them. So they took that team's injured driver to the hospital.
@@Andrew-fv4sj Nope, it was a cloud. Its called a wedge tornado, did you not see the entire cloud spinning low to the ground spinning out multiple tornadoes at once?? From a distance it would appear rain wrapped when in actuality its the entire cloud rotating on the ground. This particular kind of tornado is the deadliest in my view as it can produce multiple large sized tornadoes in one funnel because the entire wall cloud is spinning.
@@gandalfthegrey8236 Actually, you are BOTH correct. This tornado did something *extremely* bizarre. It was rain wrapped, but that rain wrap was also part of the tornado. This tornado, in my opinion, just isn’t… natural. Tornadoes do not naturally behave like this one did. I’m almost fully convinced it was *man-made.*
@@asuuki2048 no it wasn’t man-made. It’s climate change. Our earth is warming and the ice is melting rapidly. That ice has to go back into the atmosphere & so you know the reproduction process lol
OMFG I was thinking the SAME THING. They’re literally IN the tornado and unfortunately don’t realize it tell afterwards. STILL AN AMAZING SIGHT TO SEE AND SCRAY AF 👀
Today is the 11 year anniversary of the famous El Reno tornado. Falls on the same day the week it happened a Friday night. Never Forget. Rip Tim, Paul, and Carl.
That wall cloud is incredible. Look how huge it is and how insane the rotation is. And then the sub vortices came. It’s like the wall cloud was in fact the funnel. The overall tornado was a monster from birth!
I thought exactly the same thing.The whole wall cloud touch the ground with multiple vortisies spinning arround. This tornado wasn't for chasing, this tornado tell you to get fucki%g underground.
The entire cell was a muti funnel tornado and the rotation of the cell had hidden and exposed vortices around the outside never before seen that's how the weather channel got caught
It's incredible to me just how fast the cloud actually spins, even before any visible funnel touches ground. The aerial display alone is both breathtaking and fearsome at the same time.
That's a once in a century storm. El Reno, mistakenly called an EF3, was one of the most terrifyingly beautiful acts of nature observed, in my opinion. RIP to those it claimed.
Normally the wall cloud drops a tornado and the wall cloud stays in the sky somewhat. The whole wall cloud dropped and formed one unbelievable tornado. I’ve never seen anything like it. The rotation in that mesocyclone had to be unreal. A 2.5 mile wide tornado. I feel so terrible for those who lost their lives, but also grateful this storm didn’t happen in a densely populated area. Would of been worse than any hurricane on Earth …
The view at 10:50 looking upwards into the storm is incredible! You can really see the structure and see how the whole wall cloud is the tornado. That's insane!
I think storm chasing is something a lot of people would like to do until they see their first tornado so thank for what y’all do to help keep us as safe as possible
Probably more like until you come across the first person you have seen killed in a tornado when you stop to do search and rescue might make you not want to chase again
Living in Michigan I was terrified of tornadoes until one took out 4 houses across the street from me, crossed the road, and decapitated 5 trees 15 feet from my house. It continued in my backyard, causing some moderate damage there. The reason my house did not get hit was that it was 20 meters below street level, down a slope. It literally bounced over my house. For some reason, I lost my fear, even though I realize that they are insanely deadly. I would love to chase someday.
@11:47 that's one of the most awesome things I've ever seen. It's like it's taking these storm chasers personally and trying to envelope them. Such incredible footage! I'm in awe!
@@delaneycloete5920 yes holy crap that's INSANE! So insane! I'm not sure but I think the guys had to be a little crazy to get as close as they do sometimes.
The reason why this tornado was so dangerous to storm chasers and ended up sadly killing two of some of the greatest storm chasers to ever live, is because spotters and chasers thought it was rain fully wrapped, but it was actually the whole ass tornado. And it was shuffling around unpredictably. The width, the strength, the path changes, and the multiple vortexes all contributed to Tim Samara, his colleague, and his sons deaths. Chasers thought they were moreso a safe distance, then boom, one of the multiple vortices touches down right near you with ef5 winds. Like at 8:55, those people standing there would be relatively safe otherwise, but knowing what the tornado ended up doing soon after and how wide it was, they were actually quite possibly in grave danger there. Notice how the tornado directs its path right towards them. If this was peak width, they would have been wiped out right there.
well in other words the El Reno Tornado was the whole meso-cyclonic cloud structure on the ground with some random dangly bits (sub vortices) spinning wildly.
the path changes were the biggest problem, imo.....it didn't go where it was supposed to go.....the same tornado going south AND north on the same path is really strange.
@@kippnovak9833 yeah, I'm aware....? I said two of the greatest stormchasers. I know his son was also killed with them. Please inform me, what other chasers were killed in this tornado? I dont think youre right.
If you know a screenwriter, have them get a hold of me. I have the movie all worked out in my head. It's called "El Reno", and it's from the vantage point of 5 different storm chasers. Tim and his crew, the weather channel crew, Daniel Shaw and his sidekick, the guy that was just ahead of Tim on Reuter road, and one other...maybe the amateur chaser who got killed. It's very timeline and map driven, showing what each was experiencing and their decision making. No love stories. No stupid drama. This tornado speaks for itself... I also want to make the most epic movie in history based on the battle at Gettysburg. Each day would be it's own trilogy... Imagine the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan stretched out over 9 movies. Then there's one called "Lunar Eclipse". During a total lunar eclipse, an asteroid smashes into the blood red moon as stunned spectators on earth look on. Chaos ensues as the debris begins to rain down on earth. There's no happy ending, here. And lest we shall forget the movie I wrote 25 years ago when I was 15: "Boozin' & Blazin'". Look, we were pretty obsessed with Dazed and Confused back then. This was OUR version of that. The whole movie is just a big party at the moon tower...
The thing is, they’re aware that safety is ALWAYS an issue when you’re chasing the fingers of god. That’s why it’s so important to be situationally aware, be on a paved road, and have your escape routes, plural, planned well in advance. All of these chasers, including the ones impacted, did more than that bare minimum and still got into trouble. Nobody was ready for what this monster did because it’s such an outlier in size and behaviour. The standard rules of safety could not be applied here, and in fact, following them put them in harm’s way. Skip Talbot did an incredible breakdown of it.
Right as the first suction vorticees fell out of that wall cloud, Pecos Hank said, "@!%&*@!" on his video. He knew it was a Monstrosity of Death from the onset.
@@lucozade8373 I domt think it’s in this video. It’s probably on Hank’s channel. He has a video or two about this tornado. I highly recommend watching him.
I much appreciate the mapping showing where you are, and the compass. For some reason or another, I have been binge-watching the El Reno footage. Many thanks to all storm chasers and my condolences to those who died. And oh- the dislike? I pushed da wrong button 🙂 The 6.00 footage where the tornado follows you reminds me of a twisted Jurassic park scene ..
I agree! I love when they post their position in relation to tornado and roads. There is a video out there showing the gps positions of all chasers in relation to it at the same time and u can see the dots running from it and some not make it. What a crazy tornado. So glad there are people willing to study them for us despite the grave danger
Miss talking to Tim about coding on his lightning device. It was exponentially getting slower n happened to just be coding error. That man was a genius
I can’t imagine being stuck in rush hour traffic while a tornado was approaching. I guess i would probably have to get out of the car and try to find a ditch to get into and pray for an angel to hold me down as the tornado passed over.
Have been out a few times watching storms locally & having so many watchers on the road can be a very, very dangerous situation when trying to get out.
lol yeah, I think he like a lot out there that day misunderstood the tornado for a wall-cloud or something, and that the tornado would be inside it. The thing was like an entire different part of the atmosphere came down.
Imagine them asking that close at the end when it was dark "can you guys still the tornado?" " nah mate my torch battery is dead" Meanwhile tornado doing some John Cena shit ... "You can't see meeee" 😂😂
Among the eight casualties was Tim Samaras, a well-known storm chaser with over two decades of experience and the founder of Twistex. Samaras and his team chased the tornado near El Reno when the tornado suddenly changed direction. Their vehicle was tossed through the air and came to rest in a field a half-mile away. Sadly, Samaras and two crew members were killed in the accident. Samaras was found still inside the car, while his son Paul Samaras and colleague Carl Young were ejected from the vehicle, found a half-mile in opposite directions where the elder Samaras was found. Mike Bettes was covering the El Reno tornado for The Weather Channel. Around 5:15 pm, he and his team were inside their live vehicle when a large tornado struck. The car was picked up and thrown around by the tornado, eventually landing on its side. All survived the incident, with mostly scrapes and scratches and minor injuries. Both men were rescued by fellow storm chaser Reed Timmer and emergency responders and taken to a hospital. Fortunately, they both survived the ordeal and fully recovered, although Bettes later recalled suffering from PTSD due to the ordeal
Yeah, I'm still here... I like the longer videos.. Gives me a better perspective of what it's like dipping in and out of the storm path. Glad you guys were able to get away from the chaser traffic cos that's what got another chaser killed, during this same storm I think..
Thank you for this video. Had a weird-$(# dream about Twistex the other night and all of a sudden this video pops up a few days later. That day changed everything and I guess some part of the storm-chasing fan in me will never get over it. Glad you stayed safe.
When this tornado happened, I was in GA, right outside of ATL, rounding out the spring semester at college with a classmate who was Tim Samaras niece. I didn’t even realize it until he died. And she put up a post online. And I hadn’t watched storm chasers in so long I forgot that was his last name. It was so sad. She loved her uncle very much as we all did.
Wow! Incredible footage! I've always wanted to get that close to a storm like that. Ill definitely stay tuned. Thank you and modern technology for some amazing images, I truly have seen nothing, even in movies that was that awe inspiring. Keep up the great work and keep one foot on the ground or whatever you say to storm chasers.
I will tell you once you have been close to a tornado in a house or car you won't want to be in another one I have been in both I still have nightmares about them it's not good so keep watching and let the crazy film them for you
The modern criteria for classifying tornados does not give this one justice. 300 mph winds were detected on instruments of storm chasers who got really close. + it was freaking 2.6-2.7 MILES wide!.... A mile from my house it took a 40 Ft connex storage unit filled with a bobcat, heavy tools, and thousands of pounds of steel pipe and tossed it several acres over into a pond with connex still locked and contents intact inside.. It sucked grass straight out the ground if this went through town in El Reno it'd be classified as EF5.... period
It was only because it tracked mainly over open fields with no buildings that it was classified EF3 , if it had hit a built up area , they would of had to rethink the fugita scale EF6!!!
@@whufcjay73 exactly. That's why David payne and them will sometimes say ''this tornado is a f1/2 but if this was barreling through your neighborhood it's might be a f4"
At 7:17 that structure is insane! Usually a small wall cloud forms under the "Mothership," but in this case it was as if the entire mothership came down to ground level and was the wall cloud! 😵
No, it didn't. The University of Oklahoma’s RaXPol radar estimated a maximum wind speed of 296 mph (and nothing was recorded that high). The 1999 OKC tornado officially clocked at 318 by doppler (well, 301 +/- 20 mph but generally accepted at 318).
I absolutely love your video. You just got a new subscriber. Hope all is well and may the Lord keep you, your crew, and visitors safe with his love and mercy. Keep up the great work and videos
In Dan Robinson's video, that is when you can see things "clear up", and it becomes a massive dark grey mass behind him. You can only see the edge as the tornado proceeds from left to right slowly, before his back window gets blown out.
That was one heck of a ride, intense traffic jams, Even Dan Shaw took damage on I 40. But I think you had 2 very greatful flies that didn't get too wet from it.
@@vienthekiller2488 I think some are just thrill seeking photographers.... they would have gotten a fist to the face once out of there. We honk, and you ignore... jog... nope... Left there or bloody nose and black eye come getting back to safety. lol Full stop
@@vienthekiller2488the only reasom they stayed that long is because they thought they were looking at A wall cloud. They didnt realize the entire thing was A Tornado
Right? Same reason why we “haven’t” had an EF5 tornado in 11 years. If it doesn’t cause much destruction, they downplay the tornado. The El Reno tornado WAS an EF5, then got demoted because of lack of destruction. There could be an EF5 strength tornado over water and they wouldn’t even rank it because it’s over water. The scale definitely needs some improving. I honestly like the F-Scale more than the EF-Scale.
At 6:45.39 in to the video is a faint rainbow on the right of the outer part of the tornado in the lighter portion of the sky. Such beauty. Deadly, but beautiful.
Are you and the white van you seem to be following part of the same group? One of the storm chaser tour operators? At 8:30 when the crowd is out of the van, the big fellow in the black T-shirt and cowboy-type hat over to the left seems familiar from many of the chaser documentaries and action footage.
You can always tell when a GoPro is being used. That mount is rattling so bad there might as well be a Geiger counter going off the entire time. There's a few hurricane videos I've watched too, where the rain hitting the case made a similar sound. I don't know if they've ever fixed those issues, but it's tough to tune out. It's about the same as one hurricane chaser that ALWAYS has his wipers on high, for the entire 8 hours he's live streaming, was almost getting motion sickness from it haha
at 6:25 or so what i think is at the base it kinds of bands out and i think those are all vortices. ive herd "marry-go-round vortices" before but thats just on another level.
Even the lightning this monster storm produced was on another level. This Tornado had a vendetta and did it act on that. RIP to all those taken too soon by this Beast. Lastly the RFD I was told was comparable to some EF3 Tornadoes...... mind blowing 🤯😳
Such severely rolling clouds as beginning around 5:00, I guess they're seldom seen even by storm chasers. It looks extremely dangerous, the kind of stuff they're using in disaster movies.
that's what the tourists paid to do. they signed papers im sure. they are all adults. this isn't like parasailing at a resort where safety is the false assumption. they knew the danger. id say this group got the best tornado tour ever.
I feel like all your honking at 9:21 probably saved lives. People were starting to move, but they needed something to break them out of it and move faster. They needed that external reminder to get their asses in gear.
14:07 good for you guys for made a decision to turn south and not continue to east on 15th st before the tornado expand further more, as your position gonna parallel to it and the tornado is very close even on top of that easterly road.
I hadn't seen this tornado yet, that's something so scary, it stuck in my head to read the reports of people who witnessed all of this and seeing these images behind a screen is already scary, I wonder who was there, greetings from Brazil, friends
TheF5hunter, MesoStorm, 4Warn Storm Team, Tempest Tours, Team Dominator, and others chasers. All those guys in perfect position at S. Fort Reno Road. The road will never be the same.
9:14 you can see two of the subvortices circling around each other. That is so cool! In all, counted at least one or two active vortices and up to four at the beginning. At least what I saw lol.
I am not someone who understands the structure of tornadoes, but from watching a lot of El Reno-footage.. The with of the tornado doesn't seem to be as wide as reported on the ground itself. It's like the biggest part of the mass hovered very near the ground the entire time and rather shot multiple smaller vortices around in there at random? I mean on Skip Talbots analysis you see multiple chasers getting well inside the width of it, and most getting out again. That would seem out of the question if it meant getting inside a 2,5-mile funnel.
I also had the same question. I think the tornadic wind field (I think thats what its called) was 2.6 miles wide and that counts as a 2.6 mile wide tornado.
@@palmtrees2420 Correct and within that field were vortices, some of F5 strength. If the whole of it had hit a populated area it might've rated F5 off the effect of those. They don't go by the radar anymore. They go by damage. I think the thing was like a crapshoot depending on what in it hit you but that's what made it so deceptively dangerous. I believe the "Twistex" team that bought it got a spinoff, perhaps anticyclonic, dropped on them while their car was struggling against a hard headwind to get the hell out of it's way. Pays to have some horsepower if you're doing this. . I'd heard that some of the other deaths were caught in traffic from a chaser on RUclips but I can't remember who and don't have any solid reference about that. . Another RUclips poster said media people were advising residents to drive away from it because of the carnage in Moore the previous week so there were several traffic jams on about every road south of it but he said those that he knew of got a lucky pass..That was the aforementioned Skip Talbot Storm Chasing who did post an excellent pair of radar analysis and a personal account on RUclips.
My ex wife and i used to chase tornados together... ifact we developed a doplar drop aystem . We had split and I was going to wed a psychologist. When my wife failed to sign the divorce papers I chased her down while she chased tornados. Then this cow was floating around my truck and shit got crazy. After that I left the shrink and got back with my ex.. who ironically is Helen Hunt.
I've been watching several videos by several different people on this unique beast lately, on base Hunters there is at the midway point one of the best views I've ever seen of the El Reno beast.
Ef ratings are based on damage done to property etc. Since most of this tornado went over empty land and or farmland it didn't create ratable damage. If you look at things such as size and wind speed it does however meet the ef5 estimate for wind speed
This is classified as an EF5 Tornado.. Initially it was an EF3 but they soon changed it and this storm changed the way that they calculate the EF system
@@jerryalexander8803 Then they changed it back to EF3 as its final rating. weather.com/storms/tornado/news/el-reno-oklahoma-city-tornadoes-recap-20130601
@@SiebrenSportel That's not correct. If there was no ratable damage it would have gotten an EF-0 or EF-U. There were plenty enough structures that had EF-2 and EF-3 damage.
Be cause it kill eight people and damage some buildings but if it was in a heavy populations area it would rate it as ef5 I know I was like what I thought if winds are 265 to 300+ mph it would be a Ef5 I still say it is EF5
At 10 minutes into this video I wet my pants! What a wide and unpredictable storm this was. I had believed it was an F5 but after watching this I learned it was an F3. Still very scary and rain wrapped. I always wanted to get close like this to watch one. I may have second thoughts about that now. I was born in Flint, Michigan in 1955. On June 8th, 1953, the Flint/Beecher tornado struck. It was an F5, and it killed 116 people and left hundreds injured. Until not very many years ago it was in the top 10. Joplin and a few other storms of recent years has placed the Flint tornado somewhat higher. Even though the Flint tornado was a little bit before my time, I saw and heard the horror from the people who witnessed it or remembered the tragedy.
The people at 08:20 are waiting for a tornado to touch down, not realizing that the entire cloud covering the screen IS the tornado.
Yeah. The mesocyclone was enormous.
You mean the tornado? 😂 what if every tornado was just an occlusion and every storm could produce these if the pressure was able to drop enough?? 😳 5/19/2024 Oklahoma had a mile wide tornado. The meteorologists didn’t know what they were looking at because it was an WF1 mile wide tornado. Same thing they were trying to find one tight rotation. Scary part was the entire wall cloud was on the ground producing multiple vortices!
So many made the mistake of looking for a single cone tornado when the entire rotating cloud was the tornado and the cones were multiple vortexes around it.
Do you think Tim Samaras was fooled by the storm? Maybe he saw a subvorteses. & thought it was the main tornado. When he drove away from subvortex, he drove mistakenly into main storm?
I can't understand
@@judyrothschadl3501 I believe he was trying to get in front of the main storm and was overtaken by it and a vortex tornado hit the car. The main tornado was an EF3 and the vortex tornadoes around it were EF5s in some cases.
@@wispiwispi1889 Thanks for the explanation. I appreciate it. Such a terrible loss.
Yeh, I was saying that the whole Meso was basically the tornado, with sub vortices being the manifestation of this. It was a unique storm. Pilger, Nebraska in 2014 was another unique storm.
"this is the rfd"
well yes, but actually no.
Reed Timmer:
"it's a almost a quarter mile wide an it's going to get half a mile wide."
"we will not be intercepting this one"
When Reed isn't trying to get directly in the path of a tornado to scream at it, you know its bad.
@Southeastern777He has bigger balls than you still
@Southeastern777 Who wouldn’t it had multiple vortices
Many professional storm chasers, stayed away from this tornado!!!!!!!
@@mauricemotors8207 Reed has very tiny balls. That’s why he screams so much!
Reed Timmer doesn’t have shit on Pecos hank if we talking storm chasing 🐐 s
Crazy to think that so many people assumed it was wrapped in rain at the time. Only to find out that no, that was indeed the walls of the tornado spinning around. This sucker definitely changed the game forever.
I was watching some amateur chasers that started out North of it and there was a lot of intermediate rain. They didn't have a radar so they were having to follow an ambulance for awhile. They lost sight of him and were sitting between the base and a line of vortexes pretty hidden by rain until making out the funnels inside. About that time the Ambulance came by clearing out fast and they followed. Somehow they made their way to the South of it without without showing us how and were the car that came across the Chasing crew that got their car repeatedly rolled and flattened a bit as their camera filmed it from where it had landed on the ground behind them. So they took that team's injured driver to the hospital.
It was rain. The outside of the tornado was invisible.
@@Andrew-fv4sj Nope, it was a cloud. Its called a wedge tornado, did you not see the entire cloud spinning low to the ground spinning out multiple tornadoes at once?? From a distance it would appear rain wrapped when in actuality its the entire cloud rotating on the ground. This particular kind of tornado is the deadliest in my view as it can produce multiple large sized tornadoes in one funnel because the entire wall cloud is spinning.
@@gandalfthegrey8236 Actually, you are BOTH correct. This tornado did something *extremely* bizarre. It was rain wrapped, but that rain wrap was also part of the tornado.
This tornado, in my opinion, just isn’t… natural. Tornadoes do not naturally behave like this one did. I’m almost fully convinced it was *man-made.*
@@asuuki2048 no it wasn’t man-made. It’s climate change. Our earth is warming and the ice is melting rapidly. That ice has to go back into the atmosphere & so you know the reproduction process lol
11:13 “can you guys still see the tornado?”
These words are chilling knowing the fact that IS the tornado
OMFG I was thinking the SAME THING. They’re literally IN the tornado and unfortunately don’t realize it tell afterwards. STILL AN AMAZING SIGHT TO SEE AND SCRAY AF 👀
At around 11:50 it is really terrifying. Those clouds are moving at time lapse speed but that isn’t time lapse
Today is the 11 year anniversary of the famous El Reno tornado. Falls on the same day the week it happened a Friday night. Never Forget. Rip Tim, Paul, and Carl.
That wall cloud is incredible. Look how huge it is and how insane the rotation is. And then the sub vortices came. It’s like the wall cloud was in fact the funnel.
The overall tornado was a monster from birth!
The wall cloud was INDEED the funnel
I thought exactly the same thing.The whole wall cloud touch the ground with multiple vortisies spinning arround. This tornado wasn't for chasing, this tornado tell you to get fucki%g underground.
The entire cell was a muti funnel tornado and the rotation of the cell had hidden and exposed vortices around the outside never before seen that's how the weather channel got caught
"Ground-hugging wall cloud" is the best justification to use EF-6 I've ever heard.
Ef3 huh. Yeah maybe it didnt hit a city thank God, but I've never seen that!
It's incredible to me just how fast the cloud actually spins, even before any visible funnel touches ground. The aerial display alone is both breathtaking and fearsome at the same time.
Seeing how fast the tornado was spinning scared the absolute crap out of me
RIP Tim, Carl & Paul. You gave us great evidence, data, knowledge along with amazing videos!!
That's a once in a century storm. El Reno, mistakenly called an EF3, was one of the most terrifyingly beautiful acts of nature observed, in my opinion. RIP to those it claimed.
F6
@@liiiliiiliiiliiil EF5
Ohh you don’t know
incredibly rare yes - once in a century - not so sure.
@@liiiliiiliiiliiil no such thing. Most it can be is an F5
Cannot believe how at 26:59, the tornado fills almost the entire wide angle view of the camera.
"Alright mother nature how big are we making the tornado today?"
Mother Nature: "Eh, I'm bored. Drop the whole wall cloud!"
Right
Yep
Normally the wall cloud drops a tornado and the wall cloud stays in the sky somewhat. The whole wall cloud dropped and formed one unbelievable tornado. I’ve never seen anything like it. The rotation in that mesocyclone had to be unreal. A 2.5 mile wide tornado. I feel so terrible for those who lost their lives, but also grateful this storm didn’t happen in a densely populated area. Would of been worse than any hurricane on Earth …
The view at 10:50 looking upwards into the storm is incredible! You can really see the structure and see how the whole wall cloud is the tornado. That's insane!
I think storm chasing is something a lot of people would like to do until they see their first tornado so thank for what y’all do to help keep us as safe as possible
Probably more like until you come across the first person you have seen killed in a tornado when you stop to do search and rescue might make you not want to chase again
@@ricklawson9109 It's dangerous, not a good idea to get to close.
the our doing storm chasing tourism they ar enot spotters for news or weather sources. They are doing it for profit for tourism.
they actually put more motorists at risk then the storm does...
Living in Michigan I was terrified of tornadoes until one took out 4 houses across the street from me, crossed the road, and decapitated 5 trees 15 feet from my house. It continued in my backyard, causing some moderate damage there. The reason my house did not get hit was that it was 20 meters below street level, down a slope. It literally bounced over my house. For some reason, I lost my fear, even though I realize that they are insanely deadly. I would love to chase someday.
@11:47 that's one of the most awesome things I've ever seen. It's like it's taking these storm chasers personally and trying to envelope them. Such incredible footage! I'm in awe!
Did you see the skull forming in the cloud around @11:13??
You can see how strong the outflow is from the circulation by their roof antennas blowing the same direction.
When you grab a bull by the horns you get horned
@@johngoguen361 ok
@@delaneycloete5920 yes holy crap that's INSANE! So insane! I'm not sure but I think the guys had to be a little crazy to get as close as they do sometimes.
Rest In Peace To
Tim Samaras
Paul Samaras
Carl Young
Richard Charles Henderson
Dustin Bridges
Jesus Loves You all ✝️
This film captured every feeling of fear & excitement . I know it must have taken some time to put it together. Thank you so much for sharing it.
The reason why this tornado was so dangerous to storm chasers and ended up sadly killing two of some of the greatest storm chasers to ever live, is because spotters and chasers thought it was rain fully wrapped, but it was actually the whole ass tornado. And it was shuffling around unpredictably. The width, the strength, the path changes, and the multiple vortexes all contributed to Tim Samara, his colleague, and his sons deaths. Chasers thought they were moreso a safe distance, then boom, one of the multiple vortices touches down right near you with ef5 winds. Like at 8:55, those people standing there would be relatively safe otherwise, but knowing what the tornado ended up doing soon after and how wide it was, they were actually quite possibly in grave danger there. Notice how the tornado directs its path right towards them. If this was peak width, they would have been wiped out right there.
well in other words the El Reno Tornado was the whole meso-cyclonic cloud structure on the ground with some random dangly bits (sub vortices) spinning wildly.
the path changes were the biggest problem, imo.....it didn't go where it was supposed to go.....the same tornado going south AND north on the same path is really strange.
@@randallfloyd4476
The problem was people couldn't even see it. They became disoriented.
It killed more than two chasers...
@@kippnovak9833 yeah, I'm aware....? I said two of the greatest stormchasers. I know his son was also killed with them. Please inform me, what other chasers were killed in this tornado? I dont think youre right.
Someone should make a full night movie in a memory of the great Tim Samaras and the others. Them, and the nature.. both deserve it.
ruclips.net/video/a8OE0fk1Cac/видео.html
What is a full nite movie ?
What is a full nite movie ?
MADZ your so right
If you know a screenwriter, have them get a hold of me. I have the movie all worked out in my head. It's called "El Reno", and it's from the vantage point of 5 different storm chasers. Tim and his crew, the weather channel crew, Daniel Shaw and his sidekick, the guy that was just ahead of Tim on Reuter road, and one other...maybe the amateur chaser who got killed. It's very timeline and map driven, showing what each was experiencing and their decision making. No love stories. No stupid drama. This tornado speaks for itself...
I also want to make the most epic movie in history based on the battle at Gettysburg. Each day would be it's own trilogy... Imagine the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan stretched out over 9 movies.
Then there's one called "Lunar Eclipse". During a total lunar eclipse, an asteroid smashes into the blood red moon as stunned spectators on earth look on. Chaos ensues as the debris begins to rain down on earth. There's no happy ending, here.
And lest we shall forget the movie I wrote 25 years ago when I was 15: "Boozin' & Blazin'". Look, we were pretty obsessed with Dazed and Confused back then. This was OUR version of that. The whole movie is just a big party at the moon tower...
I'm just amazed at how they're so calmly standing around taking photos as if no danger is present. As if safety is not an issue
The thing is, they’re aware that safety is ALWAYS an issue when you’re chasing the fingers of god. That’s why it’s so important to be situationally aware, be on a paved road, and have your escape routes, plural, planned well in advance. All of these chasers, including the ones impacted, did more than that bare minimum and still got into trouble. Nobody was ready for what this monster did because it’s such an outlier in size and behaviour. The standard rules of safety could not be applied here, and in fact, following them put them in harm’s way. Skip Talbot did an incredible breakdown of it.
I agree at the beginning you can see people right in the path and then a mad rush to get out of dodge stupid
They understood the danger better than 99% of the viewers would have
@@intraterrestrial5035)) -Wanna mention that to the Dead Storm Chasers?
# Not a foriegn advasary
# No posing as an American
Lincoln, Nebraska🌱
@@intraterrestrial5035 nope, viewers would be nowhere near that shit
What a beast. The color of the sky behind it is insane.
Right as the first suction vorticees fell out of that wall cloud, Pecos Hank said, "@!%&*@!" on his video. He knew it was a Monstrosity of Death from the onset.
"people gonna die today, it might be me."
Timestamp?
@@lucozade8373 I domt think it’s in this video. It’s probably on Hank’s channel. He has a video or two about this tornado. I highly recommend watching him.
Ironically, the only people killed were Chasers.
@@andygossard4293 not true
This is the clearest, highest resolution storm chasing footage I’ve seen. Nice work.
I much appreciate the mapping showing where you are, and the compass. For some reason or another, I have been binge-watching the El Reno footage. Many thanks to all storm chasers and my condolences to those who died. And oh- the dislike? I pushed da wrong button 🙂 The 6.00 footage where the tornado follows you reminds me of a twisted Jurassic park scene ..
I agree! I love when they post their position in relation to tornado and roads. There is a video out there showing the gps positions of all chasers in relation to it at the same time and u can see the dots running from it and some not make it. What a crazy tornado. So glad there are people willing to study them for us despite the grave danger
Miss talking to Tim about coding on his lightning device. It was exponentially getting slower n happened to just be coding error. That man was a genius
The face of the Ghost Cloud Tornado is at 11:37. Crazy as hell.
I can’t imagine being stuck in rush hour traffic while a tornado was approaching. I guess i would probably have to get out of the car and try to find a ditch to get into and pray for an angel to hold me down as the tornado passed over.
Lol. ...this thing woulda taken the Angel for a ride....
Have been out a few times watching storms locally & having so many watchers on the road can be a very, very dangerous situation when trying to get out.
When you have this many people on the interstate bumper to bumper trying to get away from the tornado and they are scared it becomes tragic and deadly
“Chaser Convergence”. Or in-city congestion. Both are bad because people aren’t watching the road, but it’s always fun seeing anyone observe safely.
When he was honking the horn I was screaming go go go ! Seriously .. if the horn is honking the tornado 🌪 is knocking
He waited way too long to call them back. Almost got them killed
Luv it
I couldn’t believe he had to honk so much for people to realize they needed to get in the car. If the experienced one ants to run u RUN! 🏃 🏃♀️ 🏃🏻♂️
11:11 "Can you guys still see the tornado?" Ummm, yeah, I can still see it
lol yeah, I think he like a lot out there that day misunderstood the tornado for a wall-cloud or something, and that the tornado would be inside it. The thing was like an entire different part of the atmosphere came down.
“What do you guys see back there?”
“Looks like the end of the world”
@@ooklamoc4411 😂😂😂
Imagine them asking that close at the end when it was dark
"can you guys still the tornado?"
" nah mate my torch battery is dead"
Meanwhile tornado doing some John Cena shit ...
"You can't see meeee" 😂😂
I have limited knowledge and am no expert but cmon those "spinning clouds" were alot lower than most wall clouds@@Alexander_Tronstad
Among the eight casualties was Tim Samaras, a well-known storm chaser with over two decades of experience and the founder of Twistex. Samaras and his team chased the tornado near El Reno when the tornado suddenly changed direction. Their vehicle was tossed through the air and came to rest in a field a half-mile away. Sadly, Samaras and two crew members were killed in the accident. Samaras was found still inside the car, while his son Paul Samaras and colleague Carl Young were ejected from the vehicle, found a half-mile in opposite directions where the elder Samaras was found. Mike Bettes was covering the El Reno tornado for The Weather Channel. Around 5:15 pm, he and his team were inside their live vehicle when a large tornado struck. The car was picked up and thrown around by the tornado, eventually landing on its side. All survived the incident, with mostly scrapes and scratches and minor injuries. Both men were rescued by fellow storm chaser Reed Timmer and emergency responders and taken to a hospital. Fortunately, they both survived the ordeal and fully recovered, although Bettes later recalled suffering from PTSD due to the ordeal
I didn't know that Mike Bettes and his crew were injured by the tornado. They're lucky they weren't killed, as well.
Yeah, I'm still here... I like the longer videos.. Gives me a better perspective of what it's like dipping in and out of the storm path. Glad you guys were able to get away from the chaser traffic cos that's what got another chaser killed, during this same storm I think..
Some of the best footage recorded of the massive El Reno tornado. Great job!! Would love to do a Tempest Tour and see one myself.
You guys have the nerves of steel God bless you and please stay safe I absolutely love your content
Thank you for this video. Had a weird-$(# dream about Twistex the other night and all of a sudden this video pops up a few days later. That day changed everything and I guess some part of the storm-chasing fan in me will never get over it. Glad you stayed safe.
Quality footage and narration along with good music to add to the mood. Really liking your content.
When this tornado happened, I was in GA, right outside of ATL, rounding out the spring semester at college with a classmate who was Tim Samaras niece. I didn’t even realize it until he died. And she put up a post online. And I hadn’t watched storm chasers in so long I forgot that was his last name. It was so sad. She loved her uncle very much as we all did.
Rest In Peace, Twistex team. 😢
Thank you ,For all of the outstanding coverage with tornadoe locations ! ! Some scary but beautiful scenes too behold ! ! 😮🤗🌪
Thank you for this video. With every video I watch I learn something new.
Wow! Incredible footage! I've always wanted to get that close to a storm like that. Ill definitely stay tuned.
Thank you and modern technology for some amazing images, I truly have seen nothing, even in movies that was that awe inspiring.
Keep up the great work and keep one foot on the ground or whatever you say to storm chasers.
I will tell you once you have been close to a tornado in a house or car you won't want to be in another one I have been in both I still have nightmares about them it's not good so keep watching and let the crazy film them for you
The modern criteria for classifying tornados does not give this one justice. 300 mph winds were detected on instruments of storm chasers who got really close. + it was freaking 2.6-2.7 MILES wide!.... A mile from my house it took a 40 Ft connex storage unit filled with a bobcat, heavy tools, and thousands of pounds of steel pipe and tossed it several acres over into a pond with connex still locked and contents intact inside.. It sucked grass straight out the ground if this went through town in El Reno it'd be classified as EF5.... period
SparkyWatts14. holy cats sparky she was a wild one Prairies of Alberta. Don't see the. big. Big ones
Jesus Christ man.
@@PBCTKT source ?
It was only because it tracked mainly over open fields with no buildings that it was classified EF3 , if it had hit a built up area , they would of had to rethink the fugita scale EF6!!!
@@whufcjay73 exactly. That's why David payne and them will sometimes say ''this tornado is a f1/2 but if this was barreling through your neighborhood it's might be a f4"
28:51 holy cow. that thing doesn’t even LOOK like a tornado🌪! I still can’t believe how big that thing got.
It looks like a spaceship thats about to take over the world
@@oanatudor1339 theres no spaceship lol
@@iamf6641 he’s saying that it LOOKS like a spaceship, not that it is a spaceship
At 7:17 that structure is insane! Usually a small wall cloud forms under the "Mothership," but in this case it was as if the entire mothership came down to ground level and was the wall cloud! 😵
Absolutely riveting footage - the annotations and location maps made the trip come alive. Very well done 👏👏👏👏
This tornado had wind speeds of over 300 mph so it almost broke the record for highest recorded wind speeds too.
No, it didn't. The University of Oklahoma’s RaXPol radar estimated a maximum wind speed of 296 mph (and nothing was recorded that high). The 1999 OKC tornado officially clocked at 318 by doppler (well, 301 +/- 20 mph but generally accepted at 318).
@@waltblackadar4690 apparently there was a mobile doppler radar that clocked in wind speeds of 302 mph
no it didn't...shut up
May not have been over 300 mph winds but if I remember correctly, it was the widest at either 1.5 or 2.5 give or take miles wide
Can you guys still see the tornado? You'll feel it in a minute, pedal to the metal!
insane to stay that long when a tornado is approaching
I absolutely love your video. You just got a new subscriber. Hope all is well and may the Lord keep you, your crew, and visitors safe with his love and mercy. Keep up the great work and videos
I stayed til the end. Excellent video.
Around 28:10 is when you can see the true size of the tornado clearly.
In Dan Robinson's video, that is when you can see things "clear up", and it becomes a massive dark grey mass behind him. You can only see the edge as the tornado proceeds from left to right slowly, before his back window gets blown out.
That was one heck of a ride, intense traffic jams, Even Dan Shaw took damage on I 40. But I think you had 2 very greatful flies that didn't get too wet from it.
9:10 my god.. get the hell out of there..
they're tornado chasers so they won't get the hell out of there
@@vienthekiller2488 I think some are just thrill seeking photographers.... they would have gotten a fist to the face once out of there. We honk, and you ignore... jog... nope... Left there or bloody nose and black eye come getting back to safety. lol Full stop
@@vienthekiller2488the only reasom they stayed that long is because they thought they were looking at A wall cloud. They didnt realize the entire thing was A Tornado
It’s as if the whole mesocyclone dropped to the ground and became one enormous tornado.
That is exactly what happened
Yesss
It was insane, it literally had an eye like a hurricane!
Ive never seen anything like this
Watched the whole thing! Those flies on the windshield were getting on my last nerve!
Good job filming!
Just LOVE the Enhanced Fujita determining this 300mph+ 2.6 mile wide tornado was an EF 3.
Ef3 my ass.
Right? Same reason why we “haven’t” had an EF5 tornado in 11 years. If it doesn’t cause much destruction, they downplay the tornado. The El Reno tornado WAS an EF5, then got demoted because of lack of destruction. There could be an EF5 strength tornado over water and they wouldn’t even rank it because it’s over water. The scale definitely needs some improving. I honestly like the F-Scale more than the EF-Scale.
Yeah, that was no F3 tornado, even if it has to do with where it was formed.
el reno is a EF-LIE
@@jada._marieIf we rated tornados on strength and magnitude, rather than damage, this would borderline be an EF6.
At 6:45.39 in to the video is a faint rainbow on the right of the outer part of the tornado in the lighter portion of the sky. Such beauty. Deadly, but beautiful.
Are you and the white van you seem to be following part of the same group? One of the storm chaser tour operators?
At 8:30 when the crowd is out of the van, the big fellow in the black T-shirt and cowboy-type hat over to the left seems familiar from many of the chaser documentaries and action footage.
That was intense! For a while it seemed like the storm was chasing You instead of the other way around
You can always tell when a GoPro is being used. That mount is rattling so bad there might as well be a Geiger counter going off the entire time. There's a few hurricane videos I've watched too, where the rain hitting the case made a similar sound. I don't know if they've ever fixed those issues, but it's tough to tune out. It's about the same as one hurricane chaser that ALWAYS has his wipers on high, for the entire 8 hours he's live streaming, was almost getting motion sickness from it haha
Like this video. Great footage and very respectful. Thanks
at 6:25 or so what i think is at the base it kinds of bands out and i think those are all vortices. ive herd "marry-go-round vortices" before but thats just on another level.
00:53 - I panicked because it looked like you were gonna rear end that truck. The speeding up is really throwing my sense of time off!
Really reminds me of the Nashville tornado back in the late 90s. Instead of a discrete funnel, just the whole wall cloud comes down.
Props to the fly that witnessed the whole thing
That has to be the most frightening experience; to be in the path of a tornado at night with zero visibility. 😱
Even the lightning this monster storm produced was on another level. This Tornado had a vendetta and did it act on that. RIP to all those taken too soon by this Beast. Lastly the RFD I was told was comparable to some EF3 Tornadoes...... mind blowing 🤯😳
I love time lapse! You can really see formation!
What was that flying at 47:56. Left hand top corner. Weird!!
Good eye! It looks like a reflection of the headlights on the car driving by.
Looking for tims headlights. Seen em in one video
Still blows my mind that they decided to rate it on damage alone and not for the actual intensity of the cell.
small hats trying to pump up the number of "(E)F5" tornados. Gotta sell that extreme weather :^)
That is the scariest storm I've ever seen..
Whoever downgraded the rating needs to have their head examined
I think it may be for the best tbh, now it's understood that the scale isn't everything.
Beautiful images but a lot of risks.... you were very very close
I work 3 miles from home. The fact that this tornado could basically destroy my entire work commute is bonkers to me.
Such severely rolling clouds as beginning around 5:00, I guess they're seldom seen even by storm chasers. It looks extremely dangerous, the kind of stuff they're using in disaster movies.
I like how he’s talking to them calmly asking questions about what they see when he full well knows they almost all died on his watch. 😂🤦🏻♀️
really refreshing and calm instead of yelling and jumping up and down like an idiot
And it would've been his fault
that's what the tourists paid to do. they signed papers im sure. they are all adults.
this isn't like parasailing at a resort where safety is the false assumption. they knew the danger. id say this group got the best tornado tour ever.
I feel like all your honking at 9:21 probably saved lives. People were starting to move, but they needed something to break them out of it and move faster. They needed that external reminder to get their asses in gear.
14:07 good for you guys for made a decision to turn south and not continue to east on 15th st before the tornado expand further more, as your position gonna parallel to it and the tornado is very close even on top of that easterly road.
Mae, Tim and Paul Samaras, and Carl Jung, and all the other people killed by this tornado rest in peace.
I think you meant Young instead of Jung lol. Carl Jung was a famous psychiatrist
Idk if I'd be jumping around, and getting pumped up for the tornado. That looked pretty big ,and probably took lives with it.
Excellent footage and very educational. Thanks.
At 9:30 the man is honking to get in.
The fly at 9:34 : Im allready in sir lets go!!!
Excellent video, great work guys!
Those idiots just standing there whilst you were beeping warning them, they deserved to be left lol
So true lol
@@yahircepulveda2454 what lmfao
@@yahircepulveda2454 ummmmmk ok lol
The fly wanted a ride out of there too 😂
Poor guy said, imma die!
@@FFEMTB08 Exactly lol
Loved this video!
What is the object that comes into frame from the right @ 5:58:20 next to the telephone pole,stops and takes off to the left? UFO,cockroach,debris ?
Imagine cheering and celebrating as a mile wide killer F5 tornado forms directly infront of you and start heading directly towards you
I hadn't seen this tornado yet, that's something so scary, it stuck in my head to read the reports of people who witnessed all of this and seeing these images behind a screen is already scary, I wonder who was there, greetings from Brazil, friends
TheF5hunter, MesoStorm, 4Warn Storm Team, Tempest Tours, Team Dominator, and others chasers. All those guys in perfect position at S. Fort Reno Road. The road will never be the same.
9:14 you can see two of the subvortices circling around each other. That is so cool! In all, counted at least one or two active vortices and up to four at the beginning. At least what I saw lol.
I am not someone who understands the structure of tornadoes, but from watching a lot of El Reno-footage.. The with of the tornado doesn't seem to be as wide as reported on the ground itself. It's like the biggest part of the mass hovered very near the ground the entire time and rather shot multiple smaller vortices around in there at random? I mean on Skip Talbots analysis you see multiple chasers getting well inside the width of it, and most getting out again. That would seem out of the question if it meant getting inside a 2,5-mile funnel.
There was multiple cars disabled or totaled out. Not even counting the transportation of the fatalities.
I also had the same question. I think the tornadic wind field (I think thats what its called) was 2.6 miles wide and that counts as a 2.6 mile wide tornado.
@@palmtrees2420 Correct and within that field were vortices, some of F5 strength. If the whole of it had hit a populated area it might've rated F5 off the effect of those. They don't go by the radar anymore. They go by damage. I think the thing was like a crapshoot depending on what in it hit you but that's what made it so deceptively dangerous. I believe the "Twistex" team that bought it got a spinoff, perhaps anticyclonic, dropped on them while their car was struggling against a hard headwind to get the hell out of it's way. Pays to have some horsepower if you're doing this.
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I'd heard that some of the other deaths were caught in traffic from a chaser on RUclips but I can't remember who and don't have any solid reference about that.
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Another RUclips poster said media people were advising residents to drive away from it because of the carnage in Moore the previous week so there were several traffic jams on about every road south of it but he said those that he knew of got a lucky pass..That was the aforementioned Skip Talbot Storm Chasing who did post an excellent pair of radar analysis and a personal account on RUclips.
My ex wife and i used to chase tornados together... ifact we developed a doplar drop aystem .
We had split and I was going to wed a psychologist.
When my wife failed to sign the divorce papers I chased her down while she chased tornados.
Then this cow was floating around my truck and shit got crazy.
After that I left the shrink and got back with my ex.. who ironically is Helen Hunt.
😂🤣
At 0:11 if you turn around, & go 1 mile south that's my town...LOL
How in the world did you survive that thing jesus
That's insane
this is the best video of the biggest tornado of all time . full movie rights .
Shouldn't the classification for this tornado be higher than a 3? That's what the video says anyways.
awallner1 It’s a 3 because if the damage but I think it would be a 5 for wind speed
I've been watching several videos by several different people on this unique beast lately, on base Hunters there is at the midway point one of the best views I've ever seen of the El Reno beast.
What I don't understand is why this was only classified as a F3 tornado... If there ever was a poster child for F5, this one was it, Imo.
Ef ratings are based on damage done to property etc. Since most of this tornado went over empty land and or farmland it didn't create ratable damage. If you look at things such as size and wind speed it does however meet the ef5 estimate for wind speed
This is classified as an EF5 Tornado.. Initially it was an EF3 but they soon changed it and this storm changed the way that they calculate the EF system
@@jerryalexander8803 Then they changed it back to EF3 as its final rating. weather.com/storms/tornado/news/el-reno-oklahoma-city-tornadoes-recap-20130601
@@SiebrenSportel That's not correct. If there was no ratable damage it would have gotten an EF-0 or EF-U. There were plenty enough structures that had EF-2 and EF-3 damage.
Be cause it kill eight people and damage some buildings but if it was in a heavy populations area it would rate it as ef5 I know I was like what I thought if winds are 265 to 300+ mph it would be a Ef5 I still say it is EF5
At 10 minutes into this video I wet my pants! What a wide and unpredictable storm this was. I had believed it was an F5 but after watching this I learned it was an F3. Still very scary and rain wrapped. I always wanted to get close like this to watch one. I may have second thoughts about that now. I was born in Flint, Michigan in 1955. On June 8th, 1953, the Flint/Beecher tornado struck. It was an F5, and it killed 116 people and left hundreds injured. Until not very many years ago it was in the top 10. Joplin and a few other storms of recent years has placed the Flint tornado somewhat higher. Even though the Flint tornado was a little bit before my time, I saw and heard the horror from the people who witnessed it or remembered the tragedy.
I feel bad for the people who lost their homes and lives