I'm so sorry for your loss. It's such a sudden, random, unexpected way to lose someone, & although I'd never say "I know how you feel", my guess is it hits different when it comes about in this way. Much love & sunny blue skies to you. 🤗♥️🙏🏻
@Meghan Haisley In most of the videos, it gets so dark people are using flash lights, street lights come on, people are commenting on just how dark it is. So many people talk about this when they remember this tornado. It turned to night in a matter of seconds.
@@caristewart481 Definitely. I'm not saying tornado skies never get dark during the day, but in this instance, in the first clip, it was mostly due to the camera quality and automatic lighting adjustment of the camera which made it look much darker than it was.
@@meghanh2511 You shouldn't comment on something you know nothing about unless you experienced with your own eyes what we went through that day. I can assure you that it went from day to night with a blink of an eye. I had to use my phone flashlight to keep from running into walls. I couldn't even see anything out my window. Keep in mind too that this was a rain wrapped tornado which contributed in the darkness that surrounded us...
You can't protect yourself from a storm like this . People should seek immediate shelter . They are not guaranteed that they are safe though . We lost 57 lives in the Carolinas in 1984 . I knew some of the family members who lost loved ones and everything they owned .
The guy at 14:00 thought he was perfectly safe for some reason even though the twister got so close that you could hear the violent core windrowing debris across a concentrated area dangerously close to his home. They seem like they had a heck of a time having their home destroyed - we all react to these kinds of situations differently, I guess - but I bet their moment of happy relief faded fast when they saw the rest of the neighborhood. This family was lucky to survive.
@@timmytacoburrito Yeah, and I'm not even sure the hospital was even cored directly since the EF-5 indicator was actually at the high school's automotive shop (edit: the hospital WAS directly impacted, as it turns out - I definitely wouldn't have wanted to have been there!). Look at how all of that waiting room just flies around in the compilation - this was occurring all across that hospital. I would not have wanted to have been in a room with anything remotely similar rattling around in it. Given that it mainly hit homes converted from old badly anchored miner houses, I imagine there were many cases where people underground didn't even survive. This tornado was very similar in strength, size and intensification to the Parkersburg tornado, which sucked people right out of their basements. You probably had to have had a storm shelter to get through this one if you were directly in the path of the intense core of this storm.
I hope that child at 1:36:30 is okay. Having a deadly tornado come through your home and a giant lady sitting on top of you berating you to get up and calling you stupid, telling you to stop crying, I hope she was able to get away from that awful woman. Disgusting behavior. Never once did she ask that child if she was okay, only concerned about herself and her damn windows. Screw her windows.
I grew up in Kansas and Oklahoma and experienced many tornadoes. We had a cellar, which saved us other than once when the house fell in on top of us. It took nearly two whole days to get rescued. Years later as an adult, I moved to California where I went through raging fires, floods, and earthquakes that killed many people...Mother nature, no matter where we are, has her own agenda...
Oh no why would you love to California omg that’s literally the worst natural disaster state. You where safer in Kansas because at-least rebuilding wouldn’t cost as much also you had a shelter! I just really don’t like California compared to Kansas and Oklahoma but it’s just my opinion
It makes me think that there's really know safe place on this planet to live. Like you said, if it's not Tornadoes, it's fires, floods, earthquakes. It'll be something. What bothers me is the stupid comments people make. The one female wants to tape it to sell it. The one guy says, this is awesome. What in the hell is awesome about people losing their home and possibly their lives. He was told to shut up, good! Prayers go out to all.
Texas has it all and more. You name it Texas has it. Giant Hail,Tornadoes, freezing temps, long dry hot windy dry spells with killer heat & fires. Earthquakes from fracking,hurricanes,flooding ,high crime. Don't believe the hype
@@frankwoods4532 There aren't many safe places as far as natural disaster go. You can also add hurricanes and volcanic eruptions to the list. We have seen them all here in the U.S. We see volcanoes erupt on the Hawaiian islands a lot. Do you remember Mount St. Helens in 1980? Here in Texas, no one forgets the 1997 Jarrel tornado or what Hurricane Harvey did to Houston. I think the young man was displaying the awe that comes from witnessing a tornado in action. I also agree that when a monster like that is within city limits, curb your enthusiasm. Life and property are on the line at that point. If that twister is spinning in the middle of a field and is a threat to no one, fine, show that enthusiasm.
What is so terrifying about this tornado was how *rapidly* it intensified from the initial "rope carousel" to a mile-wide EF5 wedge. it happened in *under 60 seconds.* Now you combine that with variable foward motion (adding even more power to the winds) and a city blatantly unprepared to take violent tornadoes seriously, and you had a massive tragedy just waiting to happen. They had almost 20 minutes' lead time. It wasn't enough. I often say there are photogenic tornadoes and ugly tornadoes, but there's a third category I reserve for these monsters. These just look like death. And death is what it brought. 9:52 was just pure distilled terror. A giant shaft of rain poorly hiding a sledgehammer whirling around at close to 300 mph. A lot of people rag on Jeff Piotrowski for the histronics but I say ANYONE in his position would be in a blind panic too. He was watching a maxed-out tornado blow right into a major populated area. He knew exactly what it was going to do to Joplin, and he was trying his absolute best to save lives during this terrible event.
I’d say the only ones that rag on Jeff is the ones that have never faced the terror of a monster like this. He had seen several tornadoes, he knew what was fixing to happen, like you said. I’ve learned in life to never speak against anyone. I have never walked in others shoes. I am a survivor of a tornado. Not this one thank God, but one that heavenly damaged my home, and killed my neighbors. God bless🙏🙏🙏
@@janledford3010 He was forced into a first responder role that he was just plain unprepared for. He was literally caught in the middle of a catastrophic tornado. He and his wife were doing their absolute best to be helpful (and to be fair, emergency services were so badly trashed by this tornado they had to call all the neighboring counties and invoke mutual aid). I don't blame them for breaking down in the middle of such a horror. No storm chaser ever, ever wants to face the nightmare of an EF5 rampaging through the heart of a city.
@@ArchTeryx00 All you said is so true. I had to be sort of a first responder at a bad wreck. The young 16 year old girl driving was badly hurt, as was the elder couple she had hit. I held her hand until the ambulance and actual first responders could get there. She was badly hurt, crushed grin tge waist down and her head was badly injured. This was only one young girl, and it was awful. I cannot imagine the horror on a scope such as this, and seeing and experiencing what he and his wife did. Everyone can see he is a good man, with a kind heart, and he cares for others. I would hope and pray that all of us would do the best we could to help in any situation we find ourselves in. Let’s all be like the good samaritan in the Bible. We never know what life will throw our way🙏🙏🙏
@@BlessedTruly2014I think they were saying that the kind of person who talks to a child that way doesn't care whether or not it's the last thing she says to her. But I agree with you, I cannot imagine talking to any person like that, let alone a child and ESPECIALLY in that type of circumstance. The girl was probably terrified and that lady was more concerned with being comfortable in a tornado. She treated the dog better than the child, that says a lot. I hope the girl is old enough to be on her own now and got away from them as soon as she could.
She was just upset! She just knew that Duncan doughnuts and Krispy Kreme were most likely destroyed. Golden Corral was gone, and she didn't have power. Therefore, she couldn't cook her personal ham.
I was a first responder from a neighborhood nearby. Joplin's loss that day is a scar on my soul. As a Midwesterner my entire life... The devastation was beyond comprehension. God Bless Joplin Missouri ❤
The scariest part of this is I remember hearing of a RUclipsr named Will Norton who was coming home from his high school graduation and got sucked out of his Hummer's sunroof and they found his body in a pond along Schifferdecker a couple days later. And his dad was in the car with him and survived. This one was scary all over.
It is true about Will Norton. I worked at the High School at the time and Will had just graduated and was a wonderful person. I was so grateful that the graduation was held at the college instead of the high school or there would have been many, many more casualties from this. There wasn't much left of the school nor the home that I lived in at that time. It came right over the top of the home and caused tremendous damage to it. We were in the basement at the time. Thank God!
Yes I know the story I wonder if he didn't land in the pond would he have had a chance to survive. I'm guessing he drowned in the pond or was he dead before he hit the pond.
What’s makes it sadder is that in may of 2009 he nearly died in another storm and made a RUclips video about, its scary to think that almost 2 years after nearly surviving a storm he would that die in another.
5 days later, his sister posts videos all the time, does memorial videos of her brother. Really sad story but only thing comforting is knowing will was saying scriptures as he was sucked out, God was taking him to heaven is only way I can find comfort in stuff like that
i heard this story too … i also heard a kid got his head severed from debri in front of his father. the horror stories haunt me. i was 16 when this happened and left the graduation early because my aunt called me home. i lived just a couple blocks up from 7th and rangeline by the kansas borderline where it started. thankfully it went the other way if not i would not be here to tell my story.
To see the blackness of the sky, coupled with the haunting tornado sirens is probably the most terrifying and eeriest thing to experience. The tsunami sirens in Japan are a close second.
@@Viva-la-de-hs4ub Bruh, they can both end you, its eerie to hear the danger approaching. I said nothing about what is deadlier. Why dont you enlighten us all with your data discoveries??
What's really eerie is that with hindsight we know the Joplin F-5 was a monster, but as this was being filmed none of these people had any idea what was coming.
They should have. First, that morning, the SPC had issued a moderate risk that included Joplin, and the SPC had said that strong to intense tornadoes were a possibility. I am sure that, in the morning & early afternoon the local meteorologists would have communicated the SPC forecast. Later, after the tornado had touched down, the local TV station had interrupted regular programming to share the tornado warning, and the TV station even had its tower cam pointed at the tornado as it approached Joplin & entered Joplin. So anyone watching TV would have seen an obvious tornado on the TV screen. Also, the local radio station & NWS weather radio were broadcasted the severe weather watch & then the tornado watch earlier in the afternoon, then they broadcast the tornado warning with plenty of lead time. Given that it was in May, you would think that most people would be paying attention to the weather, as it was during the peak of spring tornado season (especially given the Super Outbreak in April that killed hundreds of people). Unfortunately, there was a lot of apathy among residents about the dangers of severe weather (*). To make matters worse, the tornado became heavily wrapped in rain as it entered Joplin, so any residents who looked at the storm would not have seen an obvious tornado funnel until the tornado was very close to them. (*) I knew a couple who moved to Joplin, and they spoke to me at length about how shocked they were with by the general apathy about severe weather that town residents had (the couple heeded the warning & took cover in a nearby storm shelter. The tornado just missed them & they survived...
I was there and impacted I think ppl really disregarded the warnings because it was always warnings and sirens but nothing never happened until you looked down towards Kansas and seen how black it was idk it just happened all so fast me being from Chicago never seen or heard anything like it it was an outer body experience Beyond terrifying
I knew it was coming and had tried to warn people liike 2 weeks before it ever hit that we were going to get something like we had never seen before but no one would listen to me. I can't tell you how I knew this. I just did. Everyone I haad talked to said that they thought we would get a bad storm but that was it. I told them it was going to be much worse than that but still no one believed me.
As far as I could gather, that was her grandmother and the guy that was with her was her grown son. Still doesnt make the grandma right to say that to a panicked grand-daughter :( i felt bad the whole time for her. Probably wouldnt want to visit her for a long time afterwards if she were my grandma
@@laurabu6459 I couldn't imagine finding the time to do that to anyone, let alone a scared child, during a major tornado event. Wicked woman that was, completely mental.
That's incredible. Can I ask what area of town you were in when it hit your location? I can't imagine being buried alive for 2 days, but I'm glad you survived that monster of a tornado.
@@DJhutcherson I was working a nursing home about 2 blocks from the hospital. When I was rescued, I looked around and all that was left standing was the cross at the church next door.
@@DJhutcherson When I got to work, there was not a cloud in the sky. Within an hour, the day turned into night, I didn't know we had bad weather coming because I worked 2 jobs, I didn't have time to watch the news. I was helping my coworkers evacuate the residents, and I could hear it, but I had no clue how bad it was, I was too busy to be scared. I came out of the last room I had to clear, took about 10 steps, the lights went out, the emergency lights came on for about 10 seconds and then it was complete darkness, then I could just hear the building being ripped apart. I dropped to the floor and covered my head, the tornado picked me up for a brief second, and the next thing I remember was pulling my phone out of my scrubs and I was buried at exactly 5:41 pm. At that time I started to scream for help, then I realized there was nobody out there to help.
@@stacey9372 that just sounds unbelievably terrifying...the stuff of nightmares. Do you remember how long it took for it to pass over you, from when it first hit you until it ended? If I'm not mistaken, I think it was around three-quarters of a mile wide at that point, so I'm guessing it must have lasted at around one minute or more. Thank you for sharing your story by the way, I really appreciate it.
41:28 I can't explain why, but there's an eerie suspense aspect to silent black and white security camera footage. There's nothing happening. Then a magazine casually flips pages by itself. Then total blackness. Then EVERYTHING is happening. 😟🌪
I can explain. You already know the tornado will come in and wipe out everything. That feeling of suspense is like the build up to a jumpscare in a horror game, or the feeling of a build up. You know it's gonna happen because it's a horror game. Similar to that, you know the tornados coming, but when?
2011 was definitely the year of the worst natural disasters. We had the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, 2011 Super Outbreak, April 2011 Tornado Outbreak, and many significant others in 2011. 2011 was a hell of a year I’ll say.
Not to mention the forgotten El Reno EF5 that occurred just 2 days after the Joplin Tornado. Honestly, 2011 is *the* year I look to when it comes to severe weather
I lost my entire home, down to the slab. Most traumatic event I've ever had to go through in my life. I told myself I could never return to Joplin, I just had to move as far away as I could to an area that does not experience that type of deadly destruction.
I haven’t seen a lot of these videos and I’ve been obsessing over this tornado for a few years now. Good job putting this together. There’s something so visceral about seeing first hand encounters with this absolute beast of tornado. Has my heart racing!
It sure was a day I’ll never forget. I was 14 years old when it hit and the sound is what I’ll NEVER forget. Growing up in the Midwest, I’ve been in close proximity to numerous tornados and this one just sounded… demonic for lack of a better term.
@@chaselyons2033 completely agree.. i was a couple blocks up from 7th and rangeline by the kansas border, right pass the big mansion that sat there. if it would have went the opposite way i would have been dead with my family. the sounds were of a train coming right at you. i was the same age as you.
That guy starting at around 11:20 stayed outside for waaay too long given all the cues that a monster was heading right for him. Frankly, I don’t know how that family escaped with their lives. That looked and sounded about as bad as it can get. It had to have just skirted their house given the strength of that tornado.
You know, I always think about the possibility that in the 160 lives lost that day there were likely people who treated the approaching tornado as nonchalantly as the man at 11:20, standing outside, recording. But unlike this lucky family , they took a direct hit not realizing how close it was until it was too late and paid with their lives. I also think about the possibility that within the memory of their destroyed phone, lost in the mountains of debris, there is likely the most harrowing footage of the storm that we’ll never see.
This extremely violent tornado 🌪 which wasn't on the ground long still managed to kill 158 people and injured thousands.Even tornadoes that are on ground for hours do not even come close to this fatality rate.Imagined if this tornado stay the course and was on the ground for another 30 mins to an hour with the strength that it was able to maintain he easily could've had over a 200 plus fatality rate.But in this day and age with the technology warning systems death and destruction of this magnitude by a tornado is extremely rare.None of us will ever see a tornado this devastating again in our lifetime.
@@dallascowboysnumber1fan The harsh reality is that 160+ people did not die because it was exceptionally large & violent for an EF-5 monster...it wasn't....but because (a) the vast majority of structures that were impacted were old & had been poorly maintained through the years, and/or they had been poorly designed, and/or they had been poorly constructed (not built to code), (b) because the tornado hit the parts of Joplin with a high population density & where a lot of people were out shopping, (c) many residents were rather apathetic regarding the threat of severe weather & the chances of Joplin getting hit by a tornado (*), the residents were poorly prepared for a day when severe weather had been forecast (no tornado safety plan), and/or residents were not aware of the tornado watch & then the tornado warning (despite the warnings being broadcast on local radio & local TV), and/or the residents did not take the watches & warnings seriously and continued to do what they had been doing. (*) FYI, I know a couple who lived in Joplin at the time, and several years prior to the disaster, they talked with me at length about the apathy among residents regarding tornadoes...both of them had grown up in elsewhere & when they moved to Joplin, they were shocked with how little local residents worried about watches, warnings, etc. Fortunately for the couple I knew, they heeded the warning & took shelter in a nearby storm shelter. The tornado just missed them & they survived the disaster. BTW, yes, warning systems & warning lead times are better now, but the fact is that Joplin's local TV station had broken into regular programming to talk about the tornado warning, and then they broadcasted live video of the tornado as it approached Joplin & as it entered the city (until the tower camera was knocked out). Furthermore, the local radio station & NWS weather radio were broadcasting the tornado warning with enough lead time for people to take cover. So, I'm not sure if newer technology would have made much of a difference with the Joplin tornado event.
11:20 Though this is between the era of the camcorder and of better-quality smartphones, I think this is the best clip of the reel. The guy's coolheadedness is unreal. He even steps out to get a peek of its arrival at 14:20 before sheltering and capturing what sounds like a chainsaw at the 15:00 mark. Judging from the length of time the tornado took to pass over, he sustained a direct hit, so this noise could very well be the sound of the twister's violent core windrowing debris across a concentrated path dangerously close to his home. "That was fun! What do we do next?"
@@bethdjohnson1 Yes you are correct. When viewing this a second time, I think the guy's house didn't blow over entirely and that he was further from the core than I suspected he was. It seemed to blow the windows out of the home and then rush air through/out of the house so fast (possibly with debris) that we had that chainsaw sound overtake the "train sound" throughout the worst of their experience. I'm happy they weren't as impacted as others were, because that guy was hanging right on the edge between crazy and brave.
I think that guy opened a beer at ... that guy cracked a beer at 12:25, didn't he? I think the only guy with more cajones (or foolishness) was the guy who filmed Tuscaloosa approaching and hitting his house (honorable mention to the parking lot dude on that same tornado). I mean who does that? Tell me that sound I think is a can being opened is really a piece of hail or something ... 🤨
I absolutely agree! There’s nothing like it! These things can either be seen forming and within minutes it’ll destroy everything OR, like what happened to us, it can pop up out of a beautiful clear sunny day and do the same. I absolutely HATE these things!!!
Dude this tornado is my worst nightmare. I still stand by that I'll take a hurricane over a tornado ANY day, and I took direct hits from both Charley and Ian. This is just...I don't have words. I'd be paralyzed with fear.
@@AG00FYG00SE Anyone can get PTSD and it doesn't have to affect everyone in that way. Do not gate keep. PTSD isn't reserved for soldiers in war, its post traumatic stress syndrome it can affect anyone who has been through a traumatic experience... so calling it trauma is still the same thing.
15:50 It's honestly really nice to hear people staying calm and even laughing amidst a terrifying situation. They handled it very well. I hope like hell I can maintain that level of calm if I ever find myself in a similar, life-threatening situation.
They did but it seemed like everyone was saying it, almost to reassure themselves. If everyone who was saying remain calm had room income no one would need to say it. But they did do well and did not curse and scream like in some cases or like I probably would have done
This tornado in particular is one of the most terrifying... largely because of the sheer darkness and how massive it is, but also how every time you think "Okay, it's letting up now" it just keeps going and going for several minutes.
I was in one tornado, a direct hit but only from an F1. I don't know if it's the case with every tornado but there was a brief one or two seconds where it got quiet and then it got way worse. It gives you a brief moment where you think you're safe and then it hits you even harder. It seems like that happens in some of these videos as well
Recent footage from Reed Timmer inside a fully condensed, likely EF3 strength tornado backs up the idea that a tornado has a calm-ish middle, there’s a brief moment midway through where I guess the pressure is the lowest and there’s a bit of calm, and then the backside hits like a train. Scale that up and add subvorticies, and you get graphic violence like you had here
I have been obsessed with this tornado since the day it hit. I was visiting my mom in NW Arkansas at the time. It was so awful from the on set. I felt so scared for everyone there. I could not get enough info about it. Such a good job of putting this together. Almost a year later I was heading back to Oregon and we drove through Joplin. I cried all the way through, the devastation was still obvious. Terrifying. Watching these videos of the actual storm is bringing tears to my eyes still. then reading all these comments. heartfelt is my reaction. I grew up early years in this area. I still remember tornados we lived through. I have spent all my adult life away from there on the west coast. My sisters and Aunty still reside in NW Arkansas so I keep a very close watch on the storms that brew. Always fearful of what maybe heading their way. My prayers go out to all of you and for my family. Mother Nature has a nasty temper and her rath is beyond any other.
Yessss!!! I’m in Indianapolis and we had a tornado watch. Never had a tornado in the city. But that year for some reason it hit very close to the city. I was about 5miles away. We worked at a Carwash and the dark went from bright blue to black. It went from 4pm to 10pm in minutes. Everyone was told to stay inside the garage and go into the tunnel. Everyone went home, myself included. I lived east- tornado was west. I hauled ass. By when I got home 30m later- you saw on the news it had touched down 5miles from my job.
This tornado was just violent. All the right ingredients converged on a very populated area. So scary. Hopefully a once in a lifetime event for this area.
My Grandma and Aunt were in a hotel in Joplin that morning and decided to leave early to get back home quicker. A few hours later the hotel was levelled. Glad I got those extra years with them.
Some men see cars pulled over to wait something out as a challenge - and those are usually the ones who die in flash floods or tornados. @@heywoodfloyd9
If I owned the truck/company. I would fire and sue the driver. He had the radio on and even makes comments about the tornado, saw all the other cars and trucks, pulled over on the side of the road, sees how dark it got all of a sudden, and continues to drive into the damn thing! He was either, on drugs of some sort (legal and or illegal), too tired and shouldn't have been driving, or stupid. Either way he made the decision to drive into it.
Thank you for listening to us, and putting a fantastic video together. I actually seen footage I had never seen before. It is astounding what this city went through. For some reason this tornado seems the worst. Even the El Reno doesn’t seem as bad as this one. I guess because it hit a city and the El Reno stayed out on farmland. This one also seems to have taken a lot of people by surprise. Keep up the good work.
If you swapped El Reno and Joplin, you'd have had more fatalities, but only because El Reno was just a bit larger. Given the unfortunate timing, location and rapid intensification of this tornado, it caught people unaware - if it kept its initial 45 MPH speed, it would have easily killed more people on the east side of town, possibly including two very professional chasers in Jeff Piotrowski and the gentleman who ran the chase tour featured in this reel that barely escaped town (I'll keep his name private). Hackleburg (if not all the Super Outbreak EF5's) probably was worse, as it killed half the people Joplin did even though it impacted far less densely populated areas - those tornadoes were just as powerful and huge, if not even more powerful, and had the added danger of extremely fast speed. This channel has good analyses of these twisters, as well.
You said the rest of what I was thinking, but didn’t get that part typed.😁I posted a long text, still didn’t get said all that was on my mind. You can read it and see. God bless🙏🙏❣️
@@roughindividual147 True but only because it tracked largely over open land. It also had recorded winds close to that of the Moore/Bridge Creek tornado which are the highest winds ever recorded on earth. So if El Reno had hit a high population center like the Joplin tornado did I shudder to think what it would have done, especially considering it's rapid intensification, quickly growing size and erratic movements.
@@miah-y5s - it was like 5:30 in the evening. Still had at least 3 hrs of sunlight left. The guy who shot the video lived. There was a picture of his truck that was blown over. The trucks you saw parked under the overpass, were blown over too.
My wife and I were staying at a Hotel in Joplin the day of this disaster. We had left town and drove about 30 minutes west to a Casino in Oklahoma to celebrate my birthday. There was nothing left of our hotel when we returned. I've never been so happy to lose $500 bucks in my life!
Growing up in coastal New England and now up in the Pacific NW I can't imagine what this is like. This footage is terrifying and gripping at the same time. Props to those who recorded it so we can see it and inform those that seeking storm shelters is imperative in these situations.
Thank you for your comment...and yes it was the most terrifying day for most/if not for ALL of us... though it is still freshly on our minds...such catastrophe can never forget.... but we must move forward
You keep putting out such great content! I'm a tornado video junkie and you post tons of stuff I've never seen before! I hope your channel blows up big, you deserve it!
The Joplin and Jarrell tornadoes disturb me on a primal level. I know tornadoes are natural and neutral, but those 2 just seem like pure evil. EDIT: I just think of that tornado that hit Hattiesburg, MS not too long ago, which was a big beefy EF-4. No sirens sounded, went through a city of 50k + people, but no fatalities. The Christmas day Mobile, AL tornado, which was a strong EF-2 went right through the middle of a city with more than 150k people with no fatalities. Then you have tornadoes like these that leave blood, guts and devastation in its wake. I can't imagine what it feels like to be in the path of a storm that will kill you unless you're underground or out of its way.
11:30 dude stayed remarkably calm for basically coming face to face with the tornado. Casually wonders if it’s time to go inside while hell is on the loose right in front of him… sheeeeeesh. I’m both impressed by it and dumbfounded at how stupid that was to wait that long to seek the shelter.
He really sounds like a Navajo. (Married one, so that's why I say that.) If he is, it wouldn't surprise me none. They're built different. It's like they compartmentalize things that are terrifying. My husband broke his leg, and even though he was in immense pain, he still called me on the phone right after it happened and the first thing, in the same tone of voice as always, he said, "Ok, so don't be mad, but something happened at work today..." 😅😢
confusing around the 39:00 mark. . . You think you're still watching nearly totally dark footage of the people in the house, then all of a sudden all hell breaks loose again! I didn't realize the one clip had ended, and the next clip started out totally dark as well! The second clip is footage from the inside of a walk-in cooler at a gas station, iirc.
15:20 The family laughing about the windows all breaking. I wish I could be that optimistic, glad their okay and they kept a level head. 24:59 but the guy here, omg. I hope he’s ok. 39:13 everyone saying “i love you” to everyone is just so saddening.
This tornado was my first EF5 of my chase career. It took 161 lives that day. My heart STILL goes out to those families haunted by it. This tornado was an absolute nightmare. It went from zero to 1000 real fast. There's no surviving an EF5 unless your underground or out of the path entirely.
Hands down the darkness of this storm is number one. Completely dark in daytime. Also with this storm the parts that weren't affected by the tornado were in a very intense storm so they faced straight line winds that must've felt like you were in the tornado itself. The hail core was vicious to. All around badass supercell
I’ve watched a lot of footage of tornadoes and I can’t recall another one that blacked out the sky and everything else to the level of the Joplin tornado. It was broad daylight and it was darker than the darkest night you would ever see in a populated area. It was not only blocking out the sunlight, but all power was systematically wiped out. Leaving everything pitch black with only the wail of sirens and the roar of approaching death. It's the type of experience that has the ability to fundamentally change who you are as a person for the rest of your life. Because now you know that monsters are real.
This is a very similar to the Moore, 2013 tornado. Just some very terrifying ominous clips of people freaking out possibly before death. Practically the moore 2013 and joplin tornado are like brothers of fear. Both having dark Sky's so you cant watch them. Seeing this footage makes me wonder what I would do during this. My heart races when I hear the sirens, so something like this is a nightmare to behold.
If. These are the. Real. Vidoes. They. Did. Before. Death. Well. It. Is. The most. Sadess. Wired. Moments. I. Ever. Seen. Humans. On. Earth. Go. Threw. May. God. Let. Them. Rest. In. Him. So. So. Sad
The difference between Moore 2013 and Joplin is the fact that Moore had coverage from every angle. It was rain wrapped but was monitored from start to finish. Joplin came out of nowhere. It had very rapid development and moved alot faster than Moore 2013. Moore 2013 was scary, but Joplin was evil.
@@valmarwilson3476 agree with this. i lived in the Joplin at the time of this tornado and I was at my dads in Okmulgee (where i live now) OK just a few towns over from Moore and i will say our Tulsa Weather Team is something of no other , they cover EVERY angle and their workers are all over the states tracking and tracking especially News on 6. i remember during the Joplin tornado they had just let out from the graduation ceremony … i had to go home early because i had been in trouble at school and my aunt said i couldn’t stay long .. i lived right up the road from 7th and rangeline literally blocks away from where it all started , had it went the opposite way it would’ve killed us all. and when i tell you in a matter of moments from day to night .. from rain to train sounds .. i mean it. i have ptsd bad from that storm but thankfully our news is great here
If a viewer has ever been curious about what "tornado noise" sounds like, listen from 11:27 until 14:28, when the videographer wisely elected (but far too late) to take shelter inside the structure. Descriptions of "it sounds like a freight train" didn't apply here. It was the unimpeded sound of over 250-MPH winds slowly approaching and reminds me of my airline employee days when the maintenance folks were testing aircraft turbine engines at full power. It is hard to fathom what was taking place in the dark but the aftermath proved the indescribable violence of circulating air. I'd be curious where the person was in relation to the vortex and I'm guessing they narrowly escaped its center. If so, it likely saved several more lives. This is a great example of where the audio tells the story.
the clem shultz video ( MAN FILMS MONSTER TORNADO HITTING HIS HOUSE! Fairdale IL #Tornado ) is the scariest and most realistic tornado video i've ever seen and shows exactly the freight train/airliner metaphor
At 1:18:03, I can't tell if there's something electrified there, or if the tornado is whipping car scrap metal across the beams so fast that they're sparking like a piece of flint. It seems almost otherworldly how fast this tornado got.
The beer cooler video from the original documentary is probably the most intense & closest u can get to experiencing the raw force & command of the twister... It's depicted here a little before the half way mark...
A lot of tornado sirens overheat if they are on too long, so usually they blare for a while, then stop, then resume again. Witness reports say they heard the sirens, but when they stopped, they thought that the danger had passed. Regardless, the SPC had given the area a moderate risk, and the forecast spoke of the possibility of strong to intense tornadoes. I am sure that the morning & noon forecasts on local TV/radio would have mentioned that the day could be dangerous. Furthermore, it was May, in tornado alley. Finally, when the tornado did touch down, the local TV station used its tower cam to show live video of the tornado as it approached & then entered Joplin, plus the local radio station & NWS weather radio were broadcasting the tornado warning. The reasons for such a terrible number of injured & dead had nothing to do with a lack of warning.
@@derekbaker3279 Where I lived at, there were no sirens that sounded. I was outside watching this move in the whole time and not a siren one sounded. I lived around 32nd and Shifferdecker. That was when it first started moving into town so I'm not even sure they knew it was here to sound them.
My close family live in both Moore Oklahoma and Joplin MO. I saw the devastation of the 2013 and 2011 tornadoes in those cities, and it's absolutely insane. My fam in Joplin lost friends...
28:25 Does anyone know what happened to this guy? This may be the most terrifying of all the footage to me. Looks and sounds like this guy took a direct hit. This tornado was absolutely a force to be reckoned with. I’m usually in awe when watching tornado footage, as I’ve always had a fascination with them. But this one is just heartbreaking knowing the damage it did to the town of Joplin.
I think she meant if it starts raining normally, like nothing is sucking in the rain, or making it move erratically, then yes it’s probably over, but you should always be cautious still. It’s when the rain starts to look like a hurricane that you should start worrying.
Heads up for any recent posters: The truck driver at 25:00 survived! From his original YT video: ruclips.net/video/TcUkArSFiIc/видео.html "when i said ''here we go again'' i wasn't aware of fact that there was a tornado, i was driving thru Joplin every day and it was normal for heavy rain, hail,strong winds,out of the blue, so with the time ive been driving this specific route i was use-to this so when i said that i was thinking it was just another whether like usual, had i known i would of freaked out probably , and i did after the tornado passed and i got out ."
@@erinrenee980 Unfortunately, I don't know. I don't know who filmed that one; I've never seen it before this compilation video. I just knew about the truck driver because I'd seen his video before. I wish OP had put where they got their videos from in the description. :(
I'm from Monett Missouri so about 45(?) Minutes away from Joplin. We go there almost every weekend just for fun and to shop around yknow and you can tell in a lot of places that they haven't fully recovered but it is AMAZING to see the amount they have recovered in only 12 years.
These are some of the worst tornado recordings that I have ever seen/heard. The people go from driving to a tornado ripping through the car in a matter of seconds. Truly horrifying. I hope they’re okay but I don’t know how anyone could survive that. It’s so hard to see that you’re in a tornado when they’re rain wrapped until it’s too late. I always think about the poor father and son driving home from the son’s high school graduation. The son was sucked out of the car and did not survive. Truly horrific. I watch a lot of weather content on RUclips but I have never seen many of these videos. It’s horrible hearing the tornado destroying homes and people screaming. I held my breath until I could hear voices again. My heart goes out to everyone affected.
Exactly. Their only to warn people outdoors. Not indoors. Even then, still you need to find other ways to get your warnings. Not on some crappy air raid siren.
9:37 is a clip everyone who lives where tornadoes are common should watch. A lot of people don't fully understand that Tornado Sirens are manual and therefore not reliable means of knowing if a tornado is heading for you.
The guy at 9:55 is a great visual aid to show how the wind isnt just powerful in the actual visuak funnel but there is still wind circulating around it in soeeds that may in some cases be stronger especially at the rear. Which is why it’s important not to wait last second to take shelter and to also wait a bit before getting out if safety after the tornado passes
There's just something about this tornado that seems more ominous than any other tornado in recent memory. Edit: After thinking about this and reading everyone's comments I think I can rephrase this better. I will agree that comparing just the characteristics of the tornado itself, Jarrell probably beats the Joplin tornado. But in terms of the entire storm cell as a whole, I think Joplin is the scarier storm. Being rain wrapped in wall of darkness caused even the local news broadcasts to be unaware there was tornado on the ground until they saw it on the sky cam already as a wedge. And the videos taken from places that weren't even directly hit by the tornado still looked like it was the end of times.
Difference is this tornado wasn't posted happen, it touchdown in city limits people only seconds or minutes and it was rain rape and other tornadoes wasn't . That's the difference
@@Michael-tc1dm That happened due to the rapid intensification right over an urban area, which is pretty much a first. Most tornadoes give some courtesy of distance or of slower intensification or of just hanging out over rural areas like Hackleburg earlier that year. Wichita Falls '79 is the only other one that formed into a rapid destructive wedge at birth over city limits that I can think of, but even that one rolled over unpopulated sports fields first before impacting homes.
The part around 13 min is the very 1st time I've heard a good recording of what the sound is like and I've watched hundreds of videos. All u usually hear is wind blowing into the microphone. Also my hat goes off to the gentleman who tries to keep others calm. He really did have a very calming way about himself. Good on him!! I hope they're all doing well today!
I remember that awful day very well. 160 lives lost. The sky was frighteningly dark. In the years since then, the town of Joplin has undergone an impressive rebuild.
It was actually 161 lives that were recorded lost here but I still tend to believe there were more than that due to the things I know about the aftermath of it. I wasn't so sure that I was going to make it through it myself. It's amazing that any of us made it through it alive.
@Chrissy Lynne I can’t answer your question for this guy but living in Joplin now I can see how the community came together for a while, but with all the PTSD that came along with the storm and everything else that comes along with that it’s hard to say that Joplin had fully recovered, even though it may look that way as far as infrastructure and stuff goes. The community is still deeply hurt and many people turned to drugs and alcohol to deal with the trauma of this tornado
My dad lived two blocks west of the hospital. We got down there from KC a little after dark. Found his house, but he was nowhere to be seen. People were screaming and crying for help all around us. My brother and I searched and dug for people for hours. My dads neighborhood was leveled. Flattened. His house was built in 1901 of solid stone. It stood through the storm with only roof damage. Only structure left standing. Elderly couple next to him were both killed, unable to get to any sort of safety. Finally found my dad. He had walked 3 miles with bare feet and found a satellite phone somehow and contacted us. When the sun came up the next day, it looked like a mile wide lawn mower had razed the earth.
@@TheBrownSys Hannah is correct. If that tornado would’ve been a block or two more in their direction, they might not be alive. Flying debris is no joke.
Omg 33:26 was the most terrifying....those poor people are so lucky given the fact being hit by an F-5 , and only having a bathroom for shelter omg , thats one intense video , i just wanna say that woman was tough as nails , the way she kept her composure and kept the kids safe , they all did a great! Job! At doing what to do , and when to do it , they reacted quickly , most people would seize up and be mesmerized by a tornado this big , ...
I am a Cali transplant as well but been here over 20 years. 1st time I heard sirens I cleaned that's how scared I was. Had to get rid of my nervous energy somehow.😂 NOW I prep the interior room of my home. At the time of this tornado I lived just north of Joplin and was in the storm's path. All this to sayI understand the culture shock of it. Never thought I'd miss earthquakes. There's a comfort in NOT knowing impending disaster is about to come your way.
@@wesleywarsmith1113 And now you’re closer to the New Madrid fault. Last major quake in 1814. It rang church bells. IN BOSTON. And swallowed the town. And changed the Mississippi River course. Oh and made it flow backwards for a few hours.🤔😎🍻have a nice day.😁
The first few minutes of this footage are some of the most terrifying to me. The way the tornado just swallows everything within eyesight in minutes. It’s something straight out of nightmares. Beyond me how those people managed to keep their composure.
@@Awakeonuwuno place is free from natural disasters it will happen regardless we just need to build better structures to withstand what nature throws our way
@Daddykins0 I was born and raised in NJ, where I went through direct hits from Hurricane Irene, which produced a tornado nearby close enough for me and my 2 coworkers to be seeing green lightning, and Hurricane Sandy. NJ has an average of like 3-4 tornadoes a year and they have gotten up to the EF3 level. We get Nor'easters that can produce major amounts of rain or snow, blizzards, long periods of bitter cold winter weather, a large part of the state is covered in an area known as the Pine Barrens that has a history of major forest fires, and we even have earthquakes. I relocated to AR 8 years ago so the bulk of any true hurricane or Nor'easter threat is gone, and the entire state shuts down if we get an inch of snow. (And no, I'm not kidding.) If we get any truly cold weather, it doesn't last very long. But the obvious flip side to this is AR is part of Dixie Alley. We have a Spring and Fall tornado season. I'm terrified of them, but I'm trying to learn as much as I can about them so I can be prepared when the weather people say they're possible. I'm 1st responder trained and have 2 go bags. 1 in my house, and 1 in my truck. I'm not really the type to freak out under pressure as a rule, but facing a monstrous demon like this? 🤷♀️ I can only hope that my life will be blessed enough that it won't ever happen.
This was the compilation I was waiting for. The Joplin tornado may have not been one of the strongest tornadoes (compared to other EF5s I mean), but it was definitely one of the most ominous. Because it was rain-wrapped, it was impossible to make out. This tornado hid behind a wall of death. Edit: Compared to other EF5 tornados, Joplin wasn’t the strongest. That’s what I meant to imply. Joplin was still very strong and horrifically devastating, and despite it not being the strongest of EF5s, it ended up being one of the most deadliest. Very, very tragic.
@@69toddgak Yep. Probably part of the reason the death toll was so high. The other reason was the fact it suddenly and violently intensified right outside the city. Even if people got a warning, I don’t think they had a lot of time. I don’t even want to think about the unfortunate people that were stuck in traffic at the time.
@@musicalhearts2879 There were NO Trained Weather Spotters anywhere in Jasper,Co Missouri. Also the Storm Prediction Center In Kansas City,MO issued a regular Tornado Watch instead of a PDS. Also, local reporters following the Radar and Skycam Incorrectly claimed the warning was for North Joplin when you can CLEARLY see a Hook Echo on the SOUTH of Joplin. There was also No Tornado Emergency issued when it was Clear that there SHOULDA been. The blame on the massively high Death Toll lies entirely on the Weather Protocol that Sunday in Kansas City and in Southwest Missouri. Everything was done TOTALLY Wrong,”.
53:08 omgosh! You see 2 ppl emerging from where ever they were hiding running across what's left of the garage. Before that at the beginning you can the guys down in the pit and one guy standing behind the semi. Wild!
I did not mean to laugh or want to laugh through this..... But the guy at the 12:30 mark who cracked a beer.... Was the most humorous thing to me , despite the atrocity that this tornado created.. Was the most " here we go again", type of reaction..
Us midwesterners deal with tornados often...its why half of them say "well, should we go inside now?" When the tornado is literally in their front yard lol...crack a beer and watch it come
Us midwesterners deal with tornados often...its why half of them say "well, should we go inside now?" When the tornado is literally in their front yard lol...crack a beer and watch it come
Jeff the chaser his footage was unbelievable...yea I know he was talking alot but it showed the true fear and destruction a tornado like that has a humanity.
@@GevoGenesis92Miraculously, he survived. Apparently, the tornado only flipped and spun his truck on its side a couple times, but never managed to pick it up. He was very, VERY lucky.
@@cosmictraveler1146I’m trying to find the video, but I believe he was in a semi-truck. Might’ve been the only thing that protected him at that moment. Edit: Correction, it was Chevy Blazer, not a truck. If you want to find the video, look up Doug Hopper’s Joplin tornado video.
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My dad died in the tornado. Michael Eugene Tyndall. I miss him so much.
I'm so sorry for your loss. It's such a sudden, random, unexpected way to lose someone, & although I'd never say "I know how you feel", my guess is it hits different when it comes about in this way.
Much love & sunny blue skies to you. 🤗♥️🙏🏻
I'm so sorry for him and you and family. I take tornados very seriously. I lost a friend in Moore ok......
I'm sorry for the loss of your dad.
may he rest in peace
I'm so sorry
It's crazy how fast the sky got dark, the moment the tornado touched down and began to gain momentum. It went from daylight to complete darkness.
Duh
Yes, but also the camera quality back then wasn't great so it was very underexposed making it look darker than it actually was.
@Meghan Haisley In most of the videos, it gets so dark people are using flash lights, street lights come on, people are commenting on just how dark it is. So many people talk about this when they remember this tornado. It turned to night in a matter of seconds.
@@caristewart481 Definitely. I'm not saying tornado skies never get dark during the day, but in this instance, in the first clip, it was mostly due to the camera quality and automatic lighting adjustment of the camera which made it look much darker than it was.
@@meghanh2511 You shouldn't comment on something you know nothing about unless you experienced with your own eyes what we went through that day. I can assure you that it went from day to night with a blink of an eye. I had to use my phone flashlight to keep from running into walls. I couldn't even see anything out my window. Keep in mind too that this was a rain wrapped tornado which contributed in the darkness that surrounded us...
My heart dropped when he said “my wife works at the hospital and she will be safe.” No one was safe from this monster.
While that is true, I would rather have been in the hospital than a house or a trailer in a trailer park, vehicle etc...
@@trendmassacre8423 seeing as how the hospital was heavily hit and people died.. i dunno about that.
You can't protect yourself from a storm like this . People should seek immediate shelter . They are not guaranteed that they are safe though . We lost 57 lives in the Carolinas in 1984 . I knew some of the family members who lost loved ones and everything they owned .
The guy at 14:00 thought he was perfectly safe for some reason even though the twister got so close that you could hear the violent core windrowing debris across a concentrated area dangerously close to his home. They seem like they had a heck of a time having their home destroyed - we all react to these kinds of situations differently, I guess - but I bet their moment of happy relief faded fast when they saw the rest of the neighborhood. This family was lucky to survive.
@@timmytacoburrito Yeah, and I'm not even sure the hospital was even cored directly since the EF-5 indicator was actually at the high school's automotive shop (edit: the hospital WAS directly impacted, as it turns out - I definitely wouldn't have wanted to have been there!). Look at how all of that waiting room just flies around in the compilation - this was occurring all across that hospital. I would not have wanted to have been in a room with anything remotely similar rattling around in it. Given that it mainly hit homes converted from old badly anchored miner houses, I imagine there were many cases where people underground didn't even survive.
This tornado was very similar in strength, size and intensification to the Parkersburg tornado, which sucked people right out of their basements. You probably had to have had a storm shelter to get through this one if you were directly in the path of the intense core of this storm.
I hope that child at 1:36:30 is okay. Having a deadly tornado come through your home and a giant lady sitting on top of you berating you to get up and calling you stupid, telling you to stop crying, I hope she was able to get away from that awful woman. Disgusting behavior. Never once did she ask that child if she was okay, only concerned about herself and her damn windows. Screw her windows.
Yea that was disgusting.
Came to the comments to see if anyone else heard that. SHAME that on woman!!
Oh absolutely! Screaming at the already terrified child who yelled “I’m trying!!”, calling her a “stupid little girl!” What an awful b#%@&.
THIS!!! I was SO MAD when she talked to that baby girl like that. Makes me sick.
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. I immediately ran to the comments
I grew up in Kansas and Oklahoma and experienced many tornadoes. We had a cellar, which saved us other than once when the house fell in on top of us. It took nearly two whole days to get rescued. Years later as an adult, I moved to California where I went through raging fires, floods, and earthquakes that killed many people...Mother nature, no matter where we are, has her own agenda...
Oh no why would you love to California omg that’s literally the worst natural disaster state. You where safer in Kansas because at-least rebuilding wouldn’t cost as much also you had a shelter! I just really don’t like California compared to Kansas and Oklahoma but it’s just my opinion
It makes me think that there's really know safe place on this planet to live. Like you said, if it's not Tornadoes, it's fires, floods, earthquakes. It'll be something. What bothers me is the stupid comments people make. The one female wants to tape it to sell it. The one guy says, this is awesome. What in the hell is awesome about people losing their home and possibly their lives. He was told to shut up, good! Prayers go out to all.
Texas has it all and more. You name it Texas has it. Giant Hail,Tornadoes, freezing temps, long dry hot windy dry spells with killer heat & fires. Earthquakes from fracking,hurricanes,flooding ,high crime. Don't believe the hype
@@frankwoods4532 There aren't many safe places as far as natural disaster go. You can also add hurricanes and volcanic eruptions to the list. We have seen them all here in the U.S. We see volcanoes erupt on the Hawaiian islands a lot. Do you remember Mount St. Helens in 1980? Here in Texas, no one forgets the 1997 Jarrel tornado or what Hurricane Harvey did to Houston.
I think the young man was displaying the awe that comes from witnessing a tornado in action. I also agree that when a monster like that is within city limits, curb your enthusiasm. Life and property are on the line at that point. If that twister is spinning in the middle of a field and is a threat to no one, fine, show that enthusiasm.
And now we got tornados in California
What is so terrifying about this tornado was how *rapidly* it intensified from the initial "rope carousel" to a mile-wide EF5 wedge. it happened in *under 60 seconds.* Now you combine that with variable foward motion (adding even more power to the winds) and a city blatantly unprepared to take violent tornadoes seriously, and you had a massive tragedy just waiting to happen. They had almost 20 minutes' lead time. It wasn't enough.
I often say there are photogenic tornadoes and ugly tornadoes, but there's a third category I reserve for these monsters. These just look like death. And death is what it brought. 9:52 was just pure distilled terror. A giant shaft of rain poorly hiding a sledgehammer whirling around at close to 300 mph.
A lot of people rag on Jeff Piotrowski for the histronics but I say ANYONE in his position would be in a blind panic too. He was watching a maxed-out tornado blow right into a major populated area. He knew exactly what it was going to do to Joplin, and he was trying his absolute best to save lives during this terrible event.
I’d say the only ones that rag on Jeff is the ones that have never faced the terror of a monster like this. He had seen several tornadoes, he knew what was fixing to happen, like you said. I’ve learned in life to never speak against anyone. I have never walked in others shoes. I am a survivor of a tornado. Not this one thank God, but one that heavenly damaged my home, and killed my neighbors. God bless🙏🙏🙏
@@janledford3010 He was forced into a first responder role that he was just plain unprepared for. He was literally caught in the middle of a catastrophic tornado. He and his wife were doing their absolute best to be helpful (and to be fair, emergency services were so badly trashed by this tornado they had to call all the neighboring counties and invoke mutual aid). I don't blame them for breaking down in the middle of such a horror. No storm chaser ever, ever wants to face the nightmare of an EF5 rampaging through the heart of a city.
@@ArchTeryx00 All you said is so true. I had to be sort of a first responder at a bad wreck. The young 16 year old girl driving was badly hurt, as was the elder couple she had hit. I held her hand until the ambulance and actual first responders could get there. She was badly hurt, crushed grin tge waist down and her head was badly injured. This was only one young girl, and it was awful. I cannot imagine the horror on a scope such as this, and seeing and experiencing what he and his wife did. Everyone can see he is a good man, with a kind heart, and he cares for others. I would hope and pray that all of us would do the best we could to help in any situation we find ourselves in. Let’s all be like the good samaritan in the Bible. We never know what life will throw our way🙏🙏🙏
This tornado is a beast on its own, not suprised if its the strongest or fastest forming tornado ever.
This is what happened last night in Mississippi.....
12:26 I love how this dude casually cracks another beer as a tornado is coming straight for his house 🤣🤣
Gotta have your last 🍻
One last beer💀
@@mentlincfaxxxxx yo
Here’s to you Mr. Violent Wedge F5 Tornado (cue singer: “Real American Heroes”)
If Im gonna get beat down Id rather be drunk too
The lady at end calling her daughter a stupid little girl owes that baby a huge apology.. what if that was the last thing you said to that baby...
Probably doesn't care at all about the last statement
@@BlessedTruly2014I think they were saying that the kind of person who talks to a child that way doesn't care whether or not it's the last thing she says to her. But I agree with you, I cannot imagine talking to any person like that, let alone a child and ESPECIALLY in that type of circumstance. The girl was probably terrified and that lady was more concerned with being comfortable in a tornado. She treated the dog better than the child, that says a lot. I hope the girl is old enough to be on her own now and got away from them as soon as she could.
That person was saying the mother probably doesn't care, not that the actual commenter doesn't care.@@BlessedTruly2014
She was just upset! She just knew that Duncan doughnuts and Krispy Kreme were most likely destroyed. Golden Corral was gone, and she didn't have power. Therefore, she couldn't cook her personal ham.
I was a first responder from a neighborhood nearby. Joplin's loss that day is a scar on my soul. As a Midwesterner my entire life... The devastation was beyond comprehension. God Bless Joplin Missouri ❤
You're an angel for helping out🔥
Were you really there? Did you actually see the tornado? You’re beautiful btw too 🌹
@@bugcatcher8989i waa bagging heads. Ptsd today
Bagging heads? My God...@@JohnnyDanger36963
11:30, dude waited until the tornado was practically on top of him before casually suggesting to go inside
Then the one idiot standing at the windows with it "right on top of them!" Dude! U think those glass windows will protect u?? 🤦🏼♀️
The cameraman never dies 💅
@@Thing1DadaThing2KikiYes I was thinking that standing next to a window while a tornado is coming at your house is not the greatest move to make
@@Thing1DadaThing2Kiki glass window is better than nothing
@@smartfck4 not really, you gotta worry about getting injured by wind AND glass AND the window frame. Really, it’s worse
8:23 “I think this was supposed to happen.” “Son, shut up.” 😂
i thought i was the only one who wanted to comment on that. LOL it actually made me laugh.
@@spellbugg I rewatched that part three times. I still laugh!
Lol wtf do you suppose he meant?
42:20 ghost reading the paper
@@Thechezbailey it was a demonic reference made out of religious fervor.
The scariest part of this is I remember hearing of a RUclipsr named Will Norton who was coming home from his high school graduation and got sucked out of his Hummer's sunroof and they found his body in a pond along Schifferdecker a couple days later. And his dad was in the car with him and survived. This one was scary all over.
It is true about Will Norton. I worked at the High School at the time and Will had just graduated and was a wonderful person. I was so grateful that the graduation was held at the college instead of the high school or there would have been many, many more casualties from this. There wasn't much left of the school nor the home that I lived in at that time. It came right over the top of the home and caused tremendous damage to it. We were in the basement at the time. Thank God!
Yes I know the story I wonder if he didn't land in the pond would he have had a chance to survive. I'm guessing he drowned in the pond or was he dead before he hit the pond.
What’s makes it sadder is that in may of 2009 he nearly died in another storm and made a RUclips video about, its scary to think that almost 2 years after nearly surviving a storm he would that die in another.
5 days later, his sister posts videos all the time, does memorial videos of her brother. Really sad story but only thing comforting is knowing will was saying scriptures as he was sucked out, God was taking him to heaven is only way I can find comfort in stuff like that
i heard this story too … i also heard a kid got his head severed from debri in front of his father. the horror stories haunt me. i was 16 when this happened and left the graduation early because my aunt called me home. i lived just a couple blocks up from 7th and rangeline by the kansas borderline where it started. thankfully it went the other way if not i would not be here to tell my story.
To see the blackness of the sky, coupled with the haunting tornado sirens is probably the most terrifying and eeriest thing to experience. The tsunami sirens in Japan are a close second.
Yeah when the tsunami sirens rev up and you notice even the birds have gone silent 💀
Those sights and sounds of the sirens makes every hair on your body stand on end.
I mean, the sirens were originally intended to warn of nuclear war, but it also works with severe weather....
Bruh a tsunami is 100 times worse than a tornado what's wrong wichu
@@Viva-la-de-hs4ub Bruh, they can both end you, its eerie to hear the danger approaching. I said nothing about what is deadlier. Why dont you enlighten us all with your data discoveries??
What's really eerie is that with hindsight we know the Joplin F-5 was a monster, but as this was being filmed none of these people had any idea what was coming.
They should have. First, that morning, the SPC had issued a moderate risk that included Joplin, and the SPC had said that strong to intense tornadoes were a possibility. I am sure that, in the morning & early afternoon the local meteorologists would have communicated the SPC forecast. Later, after the tornado had touched down, the local TV station had interrupted regular programming to share the tornado warning, and the TV station even had its tower cam pointed at the tornado as it approached Joplin & entered Joplin. So anyone watching TV would have seen an obvious tornado on the TV screen. Also, the local radio station & NWS weather radio were broadcasted the severe weather watch & then the tornado watch earlier in the afternoon, then they broadcast the tornado warning with plenty of lead time. Given that it was in May, you would think that most people would be paying attention to the weather, as it was during the peak of spring tornado season (especially given the Super Outbreak in April that killed hundreds of people). Unfortunately, there was a lot of apathy among residents about the dangers of severe weather (*). To make matters worse, the tornado became heavily wrapped in rain as it entered Joplin, so any residents who looked at the storm would not have seen an obvious tornado funnel until the tornado was very close to them.
(*) I knew a couple who moved to Joplin, and they spoke to me at length about how shocked they were with by the general apathy about severe weather that town residents had (the couple heeded the warning & took cover in a nearby storm shelter. The tornado just missed them & they survived...
I was there and impacted I think ppl really disregarded the warnings because it was always warnings and sirens but nothing never happened until you looked down towards Kansas and seen how black it was idk it just happened all so fast me being from Chicago never seen or heard anything like it it was an outer body experience Beyond terrifying
I hope that truck driver made it he and many were driving right to it, it was day light and he was diving to the dark!
I always think watching these videos that those poor souls are dying at same time 😭 breaks my heart
I knew it was coming and had tried to warn people liike 2 weeks before it ever hit that we were going to get something like we had never seen before but no one would listen to me. I can't tell you how I knew this. I just did. Everyone I haad talked to said that they thought we would get a bad storm but that was it. I told them it was going to be much worse than that but still no one believed me.
“Get up you stupid little girl!”
“Why doesn’t my daughter talk to me anymore?”
As far as I could gather, that was her grandmother and the guy that was with her was her grown son. Still doesnt make the grandma right to say that to a panicked grand-daughter :( i felt bad the whole time for her. Probably wouldnt want to visit her for a long time afterwards if she were my grandma
@@laurabu6459 I couldn't imagine finding the time to do that to anyone, let alone a scared child, during a major tornado event. Wicked woman that was, completely mental.
My thoughts exactly.
Stop getting offended by every damn thing. Gezz
@@kiera..ishere I can't imagine getting offended by the choice of words of someone panicking during a natural disaster.
I was buried alive in this monster and very thankful to be alive, many people around me did not survive.
That's incredible. Can I ask what area of town you were in when it hit your location? I can't imagine being buried alive for 2 days, but I'm glad you survived that monster of a tornado.
@@DJhutcherson I was working a nursing home about 2 blocks from the hospital. When I was rescued, I looked around and all that was left standing was the cross at the church next door.
@@stacey9372 wow, I can't imagine what that must have been like...
@@DJhutcherson When I got to work, there was not a cloud in the sky. Within an hour, the day turned into night, I didn't know we had bad weather coming because I worked 2 jobs, I didn't have time to watch the news. I was helping my coworkers evacuate the residents, and I could hear it, but I had no clue how bad it was, I was too busy to be scared. I came out of the last room I had to clear, took about 10 steps, the lights went out, the emergency lights came on for about 10 seconds and then it was complete darkness, then I could just hear the building being ripped apart. I dropped to the floor and covered my head, the tornado picked me up for a brief second, and the next thing I remember was pulling my phone out of my scrubs and I was buried at exactly 5:41 pm. At that time I started to scream for help, then I realized there was nobody out there to help.
@@stacey9372 that just sounds unbelievably terrifying...the stuff of nightmares. Do you remember how long it took for it to pass over you, from when it first hit you until it ended? If I'm not mistaken, I think it was around three-quarters of a mile wide at that point, so I'm guessing it must have lasted at around one minute or more. Thank you for sharing your story by the way, I really appreciate it.
41:28 I can't explain why, but there's an eerie suspense aspect to silent black and white security camera footage. There's nothing happening. Then a magazine casually flips pages by itself. Then total blackness. Then EVERYTHING is happening.
😟🌪
I can explain. You already know the tornado will come in and wipe out everything. That feeling of suspense is like the build up to a jumpscare in a horror game, or the feeling of a build up. You know it's gonna happen because it's a horror game. Similar to that, you know the tornados coming, but when?
"Oh crap, why are you doing that?" still the most honest comment in a tornado chaser video ever.
2011 was definitely the year of the worst natural disasters. We had the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, 2011 Super Outbreak, April 2011 Tornado Outbreak, and many significant others in 2011.
2011 was a hell of a year I’ll say.
And I was born at the very end of it, in December. So glad me and my mom weren’t injured.
Yes I was in Mississippi during the super outbreak scariest time and I have been in 5 hurricanes in Florida also.
Not to mention the forgotten El Reno EF5 that occurred just 2 days after the Joplin Tornado. Honestly, 2011 is *the* year I look to when it comes to severe weather
@@joshbrony2204fr it’s forgotten despite having the 3rd strongest winds Seen from a tornado
Yes it was
17:08 "well that was fun, what do we do next?" every family has one of 'those' uncles.
That would be me after a tornado
I lost my entire home, down to the slab. Most traumatic event I've ever had to go through in my life. I told myself I could never return to Joplin, I just had to move as far away as I could to an area that does not experience that type of deadly destruction.
The Blarps are known for their cowardice.
Where'd you move to?
@@npvuvuzela Henderson NV
@@VladimirBlarp nevada is a great place to go if you don't ever want to see a tornado again! Sorry you had to go through that
Especially Joplin.. It's had a few tornadoes.. 🤔
I haven’t seen a lot of these videos and I’ve been obsessing over this tornado for a few years now. Good job putting this together. There’s something so visceral about seeing first hand encounters with this absolute beast of tornado. Has my heart racing!
It sure was a day I’ll never forget. I was 14 years old when it hit and the sound is what I’ll NEVER forget. Growing up in the Midwest, I’ve been in close proximity to numerous tornados and this one just sounded… demonic for lack of a better term.
@@chaselyons2033 I’m sorry that you had to experience that. What part of town were you in that day?
@@chaselyons2033 completely agree.. i was a couple blocks up from 7th and rangeline by the kansas border, right pass the big mansion that sat there. if it would have went the opposite way i would have been dead with my family. the sounds were of a train coming right at you. i was the same age as you.
That guy starting at around 11:20 stayed outside for waaay too long given all the cues that a monster was heading right for him. Frankly, I don’t know how that family escaped with their lives. That looked and sounded about as bad as it can get. It had to have just skirted their house given the strength of that tornado.
You know, I always think about the possibility that in the 160 lives lost that day there were likely people who treated the approaching tornado as nonchalantly as the man at 11:20, standing outside, recording. But unlike this lucky family , they took a direct hit not realizing how close it was until it was too late and paid with their lives. I also think about the possibility that within the memory of their destroyed phone, lost in the mountains of debris, there is likely the most harrowing footage of the storm that we’ll never see.
@@threeminuteshate Deadly indifference. "Oh look it's the apocalypse, we should probably go inside"
This extremely violent tornado 🌪 which wasn't on the ground long still managed to kill 158 people and injured thousands.Even tornadoes that are on ground for hours do not even come close to this fatality rate.Imagined if this tornado stay the course and was on the ground for another 30 mins to an hour with the strength that it was able to maintain he easily could've had over a 200 plus fatality rate.But in this day and age with the technology warning systems death and destruction of this magnitude by a tornado is extremely rare.None of us will ever see a tornado this devastating again in our lifetime.
@@dallascowboysnumber1fan The harsh reality is that 160+ people did not die because it was exceptionally large & violent for an EF-5 monster...it wasn't....but because
(a) the vast majority of structures that were impacted were old & had been poorly maintained through the years, and/or they had been poorly designed, and/or they had been poorly constructed (not built to code),
(b) because the tornado hit the parts of Joplin with a high population density & where a lot of people were out shopping,
(c) many residents were rather apathetic regarding the threat of severe weather & the chances of Joplin getting hit by a tornado (*), the residents were poorly prepared for a day when severe weather had been forecast (no tornado safety plan), and/or residents were not aware of the tornado watch & then the tornado warning (despite the warnings being broadcast on local radio & local TV), and/or the residents did not take the watches & warnings seriously and continued to do what they had been doing.
(*) FYI, I know a couple who lived in Joplin at the time, and several years prior to the disaster, they talked with me at length about the apathy among residents regarding tornadoes...both of them had grown up in elsewhere & when they moved to Joplin, they were shocked with how little local residents worried about watches, warnings, etc. Fortunately for the couple I knew, they heeded the warning & took shelter in a nearby storm shelter. The tornado just missed them & they survived the disaster.
BTW, yes, warning systems & warning lead times are better now, but the fact is that Joplin's local TV station had broken into regular programming to talk about the tornado warning, and then they broadcasted live video of the tornado as it approached Joplin & as it entered the city (until the tower camera was knocked out). Furthermore, the local radio station & NWS weather radio were broadcasting the tornado warning with enough lead time for people to take cover. So, I'm not sure if newer technology would have made much of a difference with the Joplin tornado event.
Agreed. The real question is that if his IQ is higher than the number of beer tabs littering his front porch.
The fact that all those people survived in the cooler at gas station was a miracle.. there was nothing left of the place. Bless them 🙏
the pizza hut man who died a hero 💔 trying to just save everyone 💔
That story will always give me chills. And no I am not making a pun.
@@dryasmrlover6299the ones who survived in the pizza hut said they would not be alive if it was not for Chris Lucas doing what he did.
@@Sj430 yes soooo sad, he was seriously a HERO 😣🫡
@@Sj430what's the story behind this? What happened?
One of the best compilations of the Joplin tornado that I've seen!
11:20 Though this is between the era of the camcorder and of better-quality smartphones, I think this is the best clip of the reel. The guy's coolheadedness is unreal. He even steps out to get a peek of its arrival at 14:20 before sheltering and capturing what sounds like a chainsaw at the 15:00 mark. Judging from the length of time the tornado took to pass over, he sustained a direct hit, so this noise could very well be the sound of the twister's violent core windrowing debris across a concentrated path dangerously close to his home. "That was fun! What do we do next?"
It’s also crazy to hear the tornado sucking all the air practically out of the house which affected the speakers on the phone
I believe the chainsaw noise is actually the tornado sucking air from the house from the seems of the roof from the RFDs at the back of the storm
@@bethdjohnson1 Yes you are correct. When viewing this a second time, I think the guy's house didn't blow over entirely and that he was further from the core than I suspected he was. It seemed to blow the windows out of the home and then rush air through/out of the house so fast (possibly with debris) that we had that chainsaw sound overtake the "train sound" throughout the worst of their experience. I'm happy they weren't as impacted as others were, because that guy was hanging right on the edge between crazy and brave.
I think that guy opened a beer at ... that guy cracked a beer at 12:25, didn't he? I think the only guy with more cajones (or foolishness) was the guy who filmed Tuscaloosa approaching and hitting his house (honorable mention to the parking lot dude on that same tornado). I mean who does that? Tell me that sound I think is a can being opened is really a piece of hail or something ... 🤨
I believe this was 2400 block of Minnesota. Right on the ef3 contour with f4 damage starting just several houses to the north
12 year memorial just passed .. no one understands the PTSD we have all gained from this storm 💔 we lost so many people.
Most of us don't have PTSD
@@naughtyskweet6 maybe you don’t , but me and basically everyone else i know do. 👍
I absolutely agree! There’s nothing like it! These things can either be seen forming and within minutes it’ll destroy everything OR, like what happened to us, it can pop up out of a beautiful clear sunny day and do the same. I absolutely HATE these things!!!
Dude this tornado is my worst nightmare. I still stand by that I'll take a hurricane over a tornado ANY day, and I took direct hits from both Charley and Ian. This is just...I don't have words. I'd be paralyzed with fear.
@@AG00FYG00SE Anyone can get PTSD and it doesn't have to affect everyone in that way. Do not gate keep. PTSD isn't reserved for soldiers in war, its post traumatic stress syndrome it can affect anyone who has been through a traumatic experience... so calling it trauma is still the same thing.
15:50 It's honestly really nice to hear people staying calm and even laughing amidst a terrifying situation. They handled it very well. I hope like hell I can maintain that level of calm if I ever find myself in a similar, life-threatening situation.
They did but it seemed like everyone was saying it, almost to reassure themselves. If everyone who was saying remain calm had room income no one would need to say it. But they did do well and did not curse and scream like in some cases or like I probably would have done
@@GR-bn3xj my last words would be “f-ck you stupid ahh tornado u so goofy like bbffr bozo imagine tryna kill me like you’re a mother fu-“
That doesn’t sound like laughter to me, it sounds like sobbing.
Trucker at 22:30 should have tuned into local weather radio instead of getting slammed
Uncomfortable laughter I assume.
That first 2 minutes and 41 seconds went from blue skies to black in a very short time!😮 Jeff Pitrowski's footage starting at 9:23 is unbelieveable!
His footage is absolutely terrifying. The sound of the tornado is insane! Amazing footage, but so so sad as well
Of the footage of the Joplin tornado Jeff and his wife have the best footage.
1:05:34 you can see a tree get uprooted and blown away like nothing!
@@jimmycline4778The power involved is staggering!
@@Sj430true I just wish he was able to keep his composure better he was all over the place and on many occasions he got way too close for comfort
This tornado in particular is one of the most terrifying... largely because of the sheer darkness and how massive it is, but also how every time you think "Okay, it's letting up now" it just keeps going and going for several minutes.
I was in one tornado, a direct hit but only from an F1. I don't know if it's the case with every tornado but there was a brief one or two seconds where it got quiet and then it got way worse. It gives you a brief moment where you think you're safe and then it hits you even harder. It seems like that happens in some of these videos as well
@@GR-bn3xj...that calm is the eye
It was wrapped in rain, hard to even tell it was tornado, it looked terrifying!
Recent footage from Reed Timmer inside a fully condensed, likely EF3 strength tornado backs up the idea that a tornado has a calm-ish middle, there’s a brief moment midway through where I guess the pressure is the lowest and there’s a bit of calm, and then the backside hits like a train. Scale that up and add subvorticies, and you get graphic violence like you had here
@@GR-bn3xj when a tornado is approaching ,I believe it is common for everything to go practically silent and calm before it hits
I have been obsessed with this tornado since the day it hit. I was visiting my mom in NW Arkansas at the time. It was so awful from the on set. I felt so scared for everyone there. I could not get enough info about it. Such a good job of putting this together.
Almost a year later I was heading back to Oregon and we drove through Joplin. I cried all the way through, the devastation was still obvious. Terrifying. Watching these videos of the actual storm is bringing tears to my eyes still. then reading all these comments. heartfelt is my reaction. I grew up early years in this area. I still remember tornados we lived through. I have spent all my adult life away from there on the west coast. My sisters and Aunty still reside in NW Arkansas so I keep a very close watch on the storms that brew. Always fearful of what maybe heading their way. My prayers go out to all of you and for my family. Mother Nature has a nasty temper and her rath is beyond any other.
Why would you be obsessed? My grandpa got sued because he “pushed” somebody into the tornado. He died 4 days after due to a poisoning
Same, we had just gone through the April 27th tornadoes in Alabama so I was hurting so bad for all of Joplin also
When day turns to night you're in big trouble.
Yessss!!! I’m in Indianapolis and we had a tornado watch. Never had a tornado in the city. But that year for some reason it hit very close to the city. I was about 5miles away. We worked at a Carwash and the dark went from bright blue to black. It went from 4pm to 10pm in minutes. Everyone was told to stay inside the garage and go into the tunnel. Everyone went home, myself included. I lived east- tornado was west. I hauled ass. By when I got home 30m later- you saw on the news it had touched down 5miles from my job.
This tornado was just violent. All the right ingredients converged on a very populated area. So scary. Hopefully a once in a lifetime event for this area.
It happened the other day in northern indiana and the winds were so strong!
I just watched the window terrified hoping no tornado formed
Unless it’s an eclipse, and your not a flat earther, in which case enjoy the spectacle,
My Grandma and Aunt were in a hotel in Joplin that morning and decided to leave early to get back home quicker. A few hours later the hotel was levelled. Glad I got those extra years with them.
Rest In Peace to them and best of luck to you.
Wild how the guy transitions from “this is pretty cool” to “shit this is scary” to “there’s a car flying” in such a short time
Hes full of crap.he says theres 2 cars flying at the end,he saw NO cars.lol
1:19:01 Now THATS a terrifying scene, absolute darkness outside and constant flashes like fire alarm strobes
Looks like a scene from a horror movie
When that dad said "son... shut up" my drink almost went everywhere XD
I loved that too...I heard a lot of my Dad right there!
25:23 that truck flipping gotta be the scariest moment of his life
Here is the aftermath of the truck - filmed by a chase crew.
You'd think he would've pulled over after seeing everyone else pulled over and how the sky went ftom blue to black.
Some men see cars pulled over to wait something out as a challenge - and those are usually the ones who die in flash floods or tornados. @@heywoodfloyd9
I saw that video and it IS crazy that the sky went from blue to black. (The song in the background of that video I love.)
If I owned the truck/company. I would fire and sue the driver. He had the radio on and even makes comments about the tornado, saw all the other cars and trucks, pulled over on the side of the road, sees how dark it got all of a sudden, and continues to drive into the damn thing! He was either, on drugs of some sort (legal and or illegal), too tired and shouldn't have been driving, or stupid. Either way he made the decision to drive into it.
Thank you for listening to us, and putting a fantastic video together. I actually seen footage I had never seen before. It is astounding what this city went through. For some reason this tornado seems the worst. Even the El Reno doesn’t seem as bad as this one. I guess because it hit a city and the El Reno stayed out on farmland. This one also seems to have taken a lot of people by surprise. Keep up the good work.
If you swapped El Reno and Joplin, you'd have had more fatalities, but only because El Reno was just a bit larger. Given the unfortunate timing, location and rapid intensification of this tornado, it caught people unaware - if it kept its initial 45 MPH speed, it would have easily killed more people on the east side of town, possibly including two very professional chasers in Jeff Piotrowski and the gentleman who ran the chase tour featured in this reel that barely escaped town (I'll keep his name private). Hackleburg (if not all the Super Outbreak EF5's) probably was worse, as it killed half the people Joplin did even though it impacted far less densely populated areas - those tornadoes were just as powerful and huge, if not even more powerful, and had the added danger of extremely fast speed. This channel has good analyses of these twisters, as well.
You said the rest of what I was thinking, but didn’t get that part typed.😁I posted a long text, still didn’t get said all that was on my mind. You can read it and see. God bless🙏🙏❣️
El Reno was only the widest, not the deadliest
@@roughindividual147 True but only because it tracked largely over open land. It also had recorded winds close to that of the Moore/Bridge Creek tornado which are the highest winds ever recorded on earth. So if El Reno had hit a high population center like the Joplin tornado did I shudder to think what it would have done, especially considering it's rapid intensification, quickly growing size and erratic movements.
It snuck up on the town being rain wrapped. Caught everyone by surprise. I chased that tornado that day. It was my first EF5 tornado.
The inflow at 14:25 is just insane. The guy filming is incredibly lucky he didn’t get sucked into the monster.
@Moon Cricket This is what your life has come to ? 💀
@Moon Cricket ..shut up
that trucker's dash cam at around the 22:00 mark was incredible! It got black as a moonless midnight!!! smh!!!
I wish I knew if he was alright. That was insane.
Yeah he pushed it just a bit too far..... It sounded like it hit him square. Odds of him being alive are slim.
@@katiehenry7 I think I remember hearing he survived.
@@the.nerdy.mermaid thank you so much for letting me know!
@@katiehenry7 you’re so welcome friend!
22:02 - 25:45 is like a horror movie. Everything starts out good and cheery . . and progressively gets much much worse.
Yea that clip scared the shit outta me
The disturbing part was it was daytime then went complete black 😳
P.S did they get scooped by the tornado and the video lived?!
@@miah-y5s - it was like 5:30 in the evening. Still had at least 3 hrs of sunlight left. The guy who shot the video lived. There was a picture of his truck that was blown over. The trucks you saw parked under the overpass, were blown over too.
I wonder why he kept driving into it??
@@brookek9076 it was rainwrapped, you couldn't know until it's too late
My wife and I were staying at a Hotel in Joplin the day of this disaster. We had left town and drove about 30 minutes west to a Casino in Oklahoma to celebrate my birthday. There was nothing left of our hotel when we returned. I've never been so happy to lose $500 bucks in my life!
Damn!
Growing up in coastal New England and now up in the Pacific NW I can't imagine what this is like. This footage is terrifying and gripping at the same time. Props to those who recorded it so we can see it and inform those that seeking storm shelters is imperative in these situations.
Thank you for your comment...and yes it was the most terrifying day for most/if not for ALL of us... though it is still freshly on our minds...such catastrophe can never forget.... but we must move forward
You keep putting out such great content! I'm a tornado video junkie and you post tons of stuff I've never seen before! I hope your channel blows up big, you deserve it!
100%
Yeah I just love watching videos with enough shakiness to give someone motion sickness
@@Jason-gg4lm HA! Agreed. And the ones that go back & forth, back & forth so fast there’s like, just blobs of color. 😂
Me too! I’m always looking for new stuff and new channels! Huge fan of compilations!
That first guy thought to warn his neighbors. Good man. Thats small town life. You take care of your neighbors too
The Joplin and Jarrell tornadoes disturb me on a primal level. I know tornadoes are natural and neutral, but those 2 just seem like pure evil.
EDIT: I just think of that tornado that hit Hattiesburg, MS not too long ago, which was a big beefy EF-4. No sirens sounded, went through a city of 50k + people, but no fatalities. The Christmas day Mobile, AL tornado, which was a strong EF-2 went right through the middle of a city with more than 150k people with no fatalities. Then you have tornadoes like these that leave blood, guts and devastation in its wake. I can't imagine what it feels like to be in the path of a storm that will kill you unless you're underground or out of its way.
That Jarrell tornado acted like it had a personal vendetta with the people it killed.
Tuscaloosa gives me the same vibes. Seeing those tendril-like vortices spawning out the sides of it in that one video is just pure nightmare fuel
The Moore, OK and Joplin top my list.
I forgot Jarrell. I have to take a look back at that one.
Now unfortunately, we have a new nightmare wedge. The Rolling Fork vids are pretty horrific too.
11:30 dude stayed remarkably calm for basically coming face to face with the tornado. Casually wonders if it’s time to go inside while hell is on the loose right in front of him… sheeeeeesh. I’m both impressed by it and dumbfounded at how stupid that was to wait that long to seek the shelter.
I wouldnt be suprise whatsoever if he got injured.
He really sounds like a Navajo. (Married one, so that's why I say that.) If he is, it wouldn't surprise me none. They're built different. It's like they compartmentalize things that are terrifying. My husband broke his leg, and even though he was in immense pain, he still called me on the phone right after it happened and the first thing, in the same tone of voice as always, he said, "Ok, so don't be mad, but something happened at work today..." 😅😢
@@ghostsuru8429 Hispanic access also. I would think he’s a Hispanic with a heavy accent. But we are built different lol
@@Chechii773I noticed the same in a few Tuscaloosa videos. They were way too casual/unserious for me!
@@KimFuller-fh5bw truth be told!!
confusing around the 39:00 mark. . . You think you're still watching nearly totally dark footage of the people in the house, then all of a sudden all hell breaks loose again! I didn't realize the one clip had ended, and the next clip started out totally dark as well! The second clip is footage from the inside of a walk-in cooler at a gas station, iirc.
40:34 is that a ghost? Do you see it as well? I see a face that just didn't look alive.
@@xerotonin6776 They're inside a cooler, pretty sure that's a shelf.
there seems to enter a wall of water at the end, what the hell was that?
15:20 The family laughing about the windows all breaking. I wish I could be that optimistic, glad their okay and they kept a level head.
24:59 but the guy here, omg. I hope he’s ok.
39:13 everyone saying “i love you” to everyone is just so saddening.
@telet, I think it was scared laughter
25:25 He’s dead.
This tornado was my first EF5 of my chase career. It took 161 lives that day. My heart STILL goes out to those families haunted by it. This tornado was an absolute nightmare. It went from zero to 1000 real fast. There's no surviving an EF5 unless your underground or out of the path entirely.
Hands down the darkness of this storm is number one. Completely dark in daytime. Also with this storm the parts that weren't affected by the tornado were in a very intense storm so they faced straight line winds that must've felt like you were in the tornado itself. The hail core was vicious to. All around badass supercell
Nn bb
I’ve watched a lot of footage of tornadoes and I can’t recall another one that blacked out the sky and everything else to the level of the Joplin tornado. It was broad daylight and it was darker than the darkest night you would ever see in a populated area. It was not only blocking out the sunlight, but all power was systematically wiped out. Leaving everything pitch black with only the wail of sirens and the roar of approaching death. It's the type of experience that has the ability to fundamentally change who you are as a person for the rest of your life. Because now you know that monsters are real.
This is a very similar to the Moore, 2013 tornado. Just some very terrifying ominous clips of people freaking out possibly before death. Practically the moore 2013 and joplin tornado are like brothers of fear. Both having dark Sky's so you cant watch them. Seeing this footage makes me wonder what I would do during this. My heart races when I hear the sirens, so something like this is a nightmare to behold.
If. These are the. Real. Vidoes. They. Did. Before. Death. Well. It. Is. The most. Sadess. Wired. Moments. I. Ever. Seen. Humans. On. Earth. Go. Threw. May. God. Let. Them. Rest. In. Him. So. So. Sad
Joplem. Mo. Was. So. Unforgettable. To. This. Very. Day.
The difference between Moore 2013 and Joplin is the fact that Moore had coverage from every angle. It was rain wrapped but was monitored from start to finish.
Joplin came out of nowhere. It had very rapid development and moved alot faster than Moore 2013. Moore 2013 was scary, but Joplin was evil.
@@valmarwilson3476 agree with this. i lived in the Joplin at the time of this tornado and I was at my dads in Okmulgee (where i live now) OK just a few towns over from Moore and i will say our Tulsa Weather Team is something of no other , they cover EVERY angle and their workers are all over the states tracking and tracking especially News on 6. i remember during the Joplin tornado they had just let out from the graduation ceremony … i had to go home early because i had been in trouble at school and my aunt said i couldn’t stay long .. i lived right up the road from 7th and rangeline literally blocks away from where it all started , had it went the opposite way it would’ve killed us all. and when i tell you in a matter of moments from day to night .. from rain to train sounds .. i mean it. i have ptsd bad from that storm but thankfully our news is great here
If a viewer has ever been curious about what "tornado noise" sounds like, listen from 11:27 until 14:28, when the videographer wisely elected (but far too late) to take shelter inside the structure. Descriptions of "it sounds like a freight train" didn't apply here. It was the unimpeded sound of over 250-MPH winds slowly approaching and reminds me of my airline employee days when the maintenance folks were testing aircraft turbine engines at full power. It is hard to fathom what was taking place in the dark but the aftermath proved the indescribable violence of circulating air. I'd be curious where the person was in relation to the vortex and I'm guessing they narrowly escaped its center. If so, it likely saved several more lives. This is a great example of where the audio tells the story.
the clem shultz video ( MAN FILMS MONSTER TORNADO HITTING HIS HOUSE! Fairdale IL #Tornado ) is the scariest and most realistic tornado video i've ever seen and shows exactly the freight train/airliner metaphor
You want to put the car in Donna? Donna was smart enough to ignore the old man.
It's more just a straight up roar combined with someone screaming into a blender just behind a jet turbine.
At 1:18:03, I can't tell if there's something electrified there, or if the tornado is whipping car scrap metal across the beams so fast that they're sparking like a piece of flint. It seems almost otherworldly how fast this tornado got.
It might have been downed power lines whipping around from the wind. IDK….
It’s debris scraping against the concrete and sparking yes
I'm glad somebody uploaded this again
Thank you for the in-depth video on each tornado.
really a good job
Thank you for assembling this footage
The beer cooler video from the original documentary is probably the most intense & closest u can get to experiencing the raw force & command of the twister... It's depicted here a little before the half way mark...
The lack of sirens going off at the beginning is troubling
They are only good for people outside out of vehicles without shelter.
A lot of tornado sirens overheat if they are on too long, so usually they blare for a while, then stop, then resume again. Witness reports say they heard the sirens, but when they stopped, they thought that the danger had passed. Regardless, the SPC had given the area a moderate risk, and the forecast spoke of the possibility of strong to intense tornadoes. I am sure that the morning & noon forecasts on local TV/radio would have mentioned that the day could be dangerous. Furthermore, it was May, in tornado alley. Finally, when the tornado did touch down, the local TV station used its tower cam to show live video of the tornado as it approached & then entered Joplin, plus the local radio station & NWS weather radio were broadcasting the tornado warning. The reasons for such a terrible number of injured & dead had nothing to do with a lack of warning.
@@derekbaker3279 Where I lived at, there were no sirens that sounded. I was outside watching this move in the whole time and not a siren one sounded. I lived around 32nd and Shifferdecker. That was when it first started moving into town so I'm not even sure they knew it was here to sound them.
By the time the tornado was already in Joplin the tornado siren went off by then it was to late for people to react to what was going on.
My close family live in both Moore Oklahoma and Joplin MO. I saw the devastation of the 2013 and 2011 tornadoes in those cities, and it's absolutely insane. My fam in Joplin lost friends...
28:25 Does anyone know what happened to this guy? This may be the most terrifying of all the footage to me. Looks and sounds like this guy took a direct hit. This tornado was absolutely a force to be reckoned with. I’m usually in awe when watching tornado footage, as I’ve always had a fascination with them. But this one is just heartbreaking knowing the damage it did to the town of Joplin.
unfortunately i've never seen anyone answer this and i've seen this clip several times, which leads me to believe he might not have made it.
He posted the video so he was probably pretty banged up but he lived.
@@caseydowd9516 that's true actually! i hope he's doing well.
He lived! I saw it with a link to his own video from this
@@valerieschoettmer9736 w send link
12 years ago today. Where has the time gone?
I know right! It was forever ago this thing hit. Here it is 2023 & I still remember this beast tornado.
It’s not true that it’s over when it starts raining. Some tornadoes are rain wrapped
I think she meant if it starts raining normally, like nothing is sucking in the rain, or making it move erratically, then yes it’s probably over, but you should always be cautious still.
It’s when the rain starts to look like a hurricane that you should start worrying.
Heads up for any recent posters: The truck driver at 25:00 survived! From his original YT video: ruclips.net/video/TcUkArSFiIc/видео.html
"when i said ''here we go again'' i wasn't aware of fact that there was a tornado, i was driving thru Joplin every day and it was normal for heavy rain, hail,strong winds,out of the blue, so with the time ive been driving this specific route i was use-to this so when i said that i was thinking it was just another whether like usual, had i known i would of freaked out probably , and i did after the tornado passed and i got out ."
Thank you💗💗
Holy crap, I was searching the comments for this!
What about 28:25?!
@@erinrenee980 Unfortunately, I don't know. I don't know who filmed that one; I've never seen it before this compilation video. I just knew about the truck driver because I'd seen his video before. I wish OP had put where they got their videos from in the description. :(
@@erinrenee980 Doug Hopper survived
Wonder what happened to the guy in the car at 28:25. Hope he survived.
He did
My God I was on the edge of my seat for him!
I'm from Monett Missouri so about 45(?) Minutes away from Joplin. We go there almost every weekend just for fun and to shop around yknow and you can tell in a lot of places that they haven't fully recovered but it is AMAZING to see the amount they have recovered in only 12 years.
These are some of the worst tornado recordings that I have ever seen/heard. The people go from driving to a tornado ripping through the car in a matter of seconds. Truly horrifying. I hope they’re okay but I don’t know how anyone could survive that. It’s so hard to see that you’re in a tornado when they’re rain wrapped until it’s too late. I always think about the poor father and son driving home from the son’s high school graduation. The son was sucked out of the car and did not survive. Truly horrific.
I watch a lot of weather content on RUclips but I have never seen many of these videos. It’s horrible hearing the tornado destroying homes and people screaming. I held my breath until I could hear voices again. My heart goes out to everyone affected.
Too easy to make videos that looks better than the actual event.
You just earned a subscriber, extremely underrated channel
May I recommend watching Ryan hall y'all on RUclips. Great coverage on info on all weather particularly tornados.
Yes hannah “milk bread sandwiches” I’m a long time fan lol😂
1:20:44
The light periodically binking just to show you how much debris is being tossed around is far scarrier than any horror movie I've ever seen
25:20 scary realizing the driver went through that after the truck tipped over
Truck tipped over and got caught blasted by a whirlwind. Insanity!
The lack of sirens is eerie to me. Sometimes silence says it all.
And this is why you need multiple ways to receive your warnings for your area...Never rely on sirens they can get you hurt or worse
Exactly. Their only to warn people outdoors. Not indoors. Even then, still you need to find other ways to get your warnings. Not on some crappy air raid siren.
My phone is the primary warning device … scares the bejesus out of me every time it goes squawking, almost had a heart attack last time.
Too many siren tests was the reason so many people died here.
9:37 is a clip everyone who lives where tornadoes are common should watch. A lot of people don't fully understand that Tornado Sirens are manual and therefore not reliable means of knowing if a tornado is heading for you.
The guy at 9:55 is a great visual aid to show how the wind isnt just powerful in the actual visuak funnel but there is still wind circulating around it in soeeds that may in some cases be stronger especially at the rear. Which is why it’s important not to wait last second to take shelter and to also wait a bit before getting out if safety after the tornado passes
What happened at 41:00? It just cuts off. Did those guys make it out ok?
I saw the original ones they did survive!
I was looking for this comment. I thought the absolute worst😢
There's just something about this tornado that seems more ominous than any other tornado in recent memory.
Edit: After thinking about this and reading everyone's comments I think I can rephrase this better. I will agree that comparing just the characteristics of the tornado itself, Jarrell probably beats the Joplin tornado. But in terms of the entire storm cell as a whole, I think Joplin is the scarier storm. Being rain wrapped in wall of darkness caused even the local news broadcasts to be unaware there was tornado on the ground until they saw it on the sky cam already as a wedge. And the videos taken from places that weren't even directly hit by the tornado still looked like it was the end of times.
The 160 deaths maybe?
Difference is this tornado wasn't posted happen, it touchdown in city limits people only seconds or minutes and it was rain rape and other tornadoes wasn't . That's the difference
@@michealwolf4295 gotta watch out for that rain rape.
100% agree
@@Michael-tc1dm That happened due to the rapid intensification right over an urban area, which is pretty much a first. Most tornadoes give some courtesy of distance or of slower intensification or of just hanging out over rural areas like Hackleburg earlier that year. Wichita Falls '79 is the only other one that formed into a rapid destructive wedge at birth over city limits that I can think of, but even that one rolled over unpopulated sports fields first before impacting homes.
Wow😯 great comp! I had not seen some of the footage and it's incredible that more lives weren't lost. Thank you!
Dude... The guy in the truck at 23 min. got balls man.. Driving straight into that Tornado. Crazy footage
He never seen it coming..just thought it was a real bad thunderstorn
The tornado became heavily rain wrapped they would not see it until it was to late
Did he make it
@@brettbookman8729this is what I wanna know also
Plus the trucker had his Funky music going. He passed about 50 cars to end up directly in the path of the tornado.
The part around 13 min is the very 1st time I've heard a good recording of what the sound is like and I've watched hundreds of videos. All u usually hear is wind blowing into the microphone. Also my hat goes off to the gentleman who tries to keep others calm. He really did have a very calming way about himself. Good on him!! I hope they're all doing well today!
The footage at 1:03:11 is some of the most terrifying stuff i've ever seen. Gives you a good idea as to the ferocity of a tornado.
Trampoline held it's own
It took just a little over 5 minutes to pass. All of that damage in 5 minutes. Damn.
I remember that awful day very well. 160 lives lost. The sky was frighteningly dark. In the years since then, the town of Joplin has undergone an impressive rebuild.
Not true at all ✨
@Chrissy Lynne he's just an idiot that's trying to get a rise out of people
Naders got a wild KDR
It was actually 161 lives that were recorded lost here but I still tend to believe there were more than that due to the things I know about the aftermath of it. I wasn't so sure that I was going to make it through it myself. It's amazing that any of us made it through it alive.
@Chrissy Lynne I can’t answer your question for this guy but living in Joplin now I can see how the community came together for a while, but with all the PTSD that came along with the storm and everything else that comes along with that it’s hard to say that Joplin had fully recovered, even though it may look that way as far as infrastructure and stuff goes. The community is still deeply hurt and many people turned to drugs and alcohol to deal with the trauma of this tornado
My dad lived two blocks west of the hospital. We got down there from KC a little after dark. Found his house, but he was nowhere to be seen. People were screaming and crying for help all around us. My brother and I searched and dug for people for hours. My dads neighborhood was leveled. Flattened. His house was built in 1901 of solid stone. It stood through the storm with only roof damage. Only structure left standing. Elderly couple next to him were both killed, unable to get to any sort of safety. Finally found my dad. He had walked 3 miles with bare feet and found a satellite phone somehow and contacted us. When the sun came up the next day, it looked like a mile wide lawn mower had razed the earth.
The guy that told his family to stay calm for the kids did a super job in keeping everyone from panicking
Absolutely, I was taking notes from that guy!
After staying out for too long and not being in a safe place. Tear up your notes.....
@@hannah4peace Why? He was no worse off for it. Keeping my notes.
@@TheBrownSys Hannah is correct. If that tornado would’ve been a block or two more in their direction, they might not be alive. Flying debris is no joke.
Lightning at 2:27 must've been crazy close, how it goes from pitch black to looking like a sunny day for a few frames
Omg 33:26 was the most terrifying....those poor people are so lucky given the fact being hit by an F-5 , and only having a bathroom for shelter omg , thats one intense video , i just wanna say that woman was tough as nails , the way she kept her composure and kept the kids safe , they all did a great! Job! At doing what to do , and when to do it , they reacted quickly , most people would seize up and be mesmerized by a tornado this big , ...
I had just moved to Missouri a few monthes before this from So Cal.
Massive culture shock.
I am a Cali transplant as well but been here over 20 years. 1st time I heard sirens I cleaned that's how scared I was. Had to get rid of my nervous energy somehow.😂 NOW I prep the interior room of my home. At the time of this tornado I lived just north of Joplin and was in the storm's path. All this to sayI understand the culture shock of it. Never thought I'd miss earthquakes. There's a comfort in NOT knowing impending disaster is about to come your way.
And yet shake rattle and roll is normal for you.😊
@@jimreilly917 It was very rare and usually only a few seconds. Maybe once every three years.
@@wesleywarsmith1113 And now you’re closer to the New Madrid fault. Last major quake in 1814. It rang church bells. IN BOSTON. And swallowed the town. And changed the Mississippi River course. Oh and made it flow backwards for a few hours.🤔😎🍻have a nice day.😁
35:15 hearing them realize that their house is destroyed is so fucking heartbreaking
The first few minutes of this footage are some of the most terrifying to me. The way the tornado just swallows everything within eyesight in minutes. It’s something straight out of nightmares. Beyond me how those people managed to keep their composure.
Excellent showcase of why peeps need a tornado plan BEFORE the storm hits
In Aus we just gotta hope we don't get one. People don't have storm cellars here. There's no public storm shelter or anything either.
Sometimes, they happen too fast for anything you’ve planned. This was one of those times.
Apparently a lot of houses in this area didn't have basements to the plan was essentially hide in a room and hope for the best.
If you dont live in the tornado alley you dont understand how terrifying this is😢
Why would you live there if you know this happens, OFTEN?
@@Awakeonuwu If you move south or east you get hurricanes, if you move west you have wildfires. where is safe nowadays
@@Awakeonuwuno place is free from natural disasters it will happen regardless we just need to build better structures to withstand what nature throws our way
@Daddykins0
I was born and raised in NJ, where I went through direct hits from Hurricane Irene, which produced a tornado nearby close enough for me and my 2 coworkers to be seeing green lightning, and Hurricane Sandy.
NJ has an average of like 3-4 tornadoes a year and they have gotten up to the EF3 level. We get Nor'easters that can produce major amounts of rain or snow, blizzards, long periods of bitter cold winter weather, a large part of the state is covered in an area known as the Pine Barrens that has a history of major forest fires, and we even have earthquakes.
I relocated to AR 8 years ago so the bulk of any true hurricane or Nor'easter threat is gone, and the entire state shuts down if we get an inch of snow. (And no, I'm not kidding.)
If we get any truly cold weather, it doesn't last very long. But the obvious flip side to this is AR is part of Dixie Alley. We have a Spring and Fall tornado season. I'm terrified of them, but I'm trying to learn as much as I can about them so I can be prepared when the weather people say they're possible. I'm 1st responder trained and have 2 go bags. 1 in my house, and 1 in my truck. I'm not really the type to freak out under pressure as a rule, but facing a monstrous demon like this? 🤷♀️ I can only hope that my life will be blessed enough that it won't ever happen.
@@nox6438 Not to mention rampant crime! Mother Nature isn't the only victimizer.
F5 tornado approaching..."you wanna put the car in Donna"? Lol
Thanks for uploading my request
This was the compilation I was waiting for. The Joplin tornado may have not been one of the strongest tornadoes (compared to other EF5s I mean), but it was definitely one of the most ominous. Because it was rain-wrapped, it was impossible to make out. This tornado hid behind a wall of death.
Edit: Compared to other EF5 tornados, Joplin wasn’t the strongest. That’s what I meant to imply. Joplin was still very strong and horrifically devastating, and despite it not being the strongest of EF5s, it ended up being one of the most deadliest. Very, very tragic.
That and the fact that Joplin is a densely populated metro.
@@69toddgak Yep. Probably part of the reason the death toll was so high. The other reason was the fact it suddenly and violently intensified right outside the city. Even if people got a warning, I don’t think they had a lot of time. I don’t even want to think about the unfortunate people that were stuck in traffic at the time.
@@musicalhearts2879 There were NO Trained Weather Spotters anywhere in Jasper,Co Missouri. Also the Storm Prediction Center In Kansas City,MO issued a regular Tornado Watch instead of a PDS. Also, local reporters following the Radar and Skycam Incorrectly claimed the warning was for North Joplin when you can CLEARLY see a Hook Echo on the SOUTH of Joplin. There was also No Tornado Emergency issued when it was Clear that there SHOULDA been.
The blame on the massively high Death Toll lies entirely on the Weather Protocol that Sunday in Kansas City and in Southwest Missouri. Everything was done TOTALLY Wrong,”.
Isn’t an F5 a strong tornado?
It was very strong, f5
Did that car or truck that was playing that music flip? I couldn’t tell
Yup
53:08 omgosh! You see 2 ppl emerging from where ever they were hiding running across what's left of the garage. Before that at the beginning you can the guys down in the pit and one guy standing behind the semi. Wild!
I did not mean to laugh or want to laugh through this..... But the guy at the 12:30 mark who cracked a beer.... Was the most humorous thing to me , despite the atrocity that this tornado created.. Was the most " here we go again", type of reaction..
12:25 is a better time stamp.
Us midwesterners deal with tornados often...its why half of them say "well, should we go inside now?" When the tornado is literally in their front yard lol...crack a beer and watch it come
Us midwesterners deal with tornados often...its why half of them say "well, should we go inside now?" When the tornado is literally in their front yard lol...crack a beer and watch it come
Some of that indoor audio is terrifying. That would scar me for life. 32:15
Yes!
I'm wondering if there was two tornadoes or was that just one tornado and it's width was what hit the second time?
Jeff the chaser his footage was unbelievable...yea I know he was talking alot but it showed the true fear and destruction a tornado like that has a humanity.
28:23 😟Oh my God......
What do you even DO in that situation…why tf was he outside!!?😢
@@cosmictraveler1146 I guess you just....pray and prepare. Hopefully they both survived.🙁
@@GevoGenesis92Miraculously, he survived. Apparently, the tornado only flipped and spun his truck on its side a couple times, but never managed to pick it up. He was very, VERY lucky.
@@cosmictraveler1146I’m trying to find the video, but I believe he was in a semi-truck. Might’ve been the only thing that protected him at that moment.
Edit: Correction, it was Chevy Blazer, not a truck. If you want to find the video, look up Doug Hopper’s Joplin tornado video.
@@GevoGenesis92Wait are we talking about the trucker or the guy in the previous clip?