STONGEST TORNADO IN HISTORY? 300+ mph winds measured inside the Greenfield, IA tornado!
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- Опубликовано: 21 июн 2024
- Breaking news! A 300+ mph wind gust was measured above 160 feet above ground-level by mobile radar inside this #tornado near Greenfield, Iowa, making it one of the most powerful tornadoes documented in History. Incredibly, this rare drone footage was captured just prior to this historic wind measurement! The multiple vortex nature of this compact tornado vortex is a characteristic of the more powerful tornadoes of the Great Plains!
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Advice: if you ever see Reed standing in the middle of the road recording himself. Drive very very far away from him. 😂
we fear him as we do Jim Cantore
@@AndrewBlechinger or Jim Kramer, for that matter!
😂😂😂
Where was this and when ??
I actually ran into Reed some 20 years ago, when I was chasing by myself. I pulled off the main road to look at a forming tornado, and there are some other people in the turnoff I chose. I noticed they had laptops and radar and measurement gear on their vehicle, so I knew they were researchers. They also had really nice cameras compared to most of us amateur chasers. Reed would have been a graduate student at the time. I had no idea who he was until a few years later, when he became famous.
Those subvorticies had subvorticies... Whata gnarly beast
That drone footage is surreal 🌪️👀
That is probably the most appropriate use of the term "gnarly" I've ever seen. Well done!
@@-108-Right? It was the same word I used to describe it an earlier post of this tornado. This is one I'll never forget.
An obvious EF5 just by looking at it
@@fredharvey2720idk about all that
To see the moisture flowing off the barn like that. Crazy
I was wondering what that was. I thought it was on fire
I think that was blown in (now blown out) insulation.
@@Franklin-jj4jz oh yea that could be.
@@dalebechtel8904 Inflow jet feeding into the tornado being of an extremely low pressure + condensation coming from how fast the air is feeding into the tornado rapidly cooling the air around
@@hennytopherthanks for explaining. I thought it was
To have a drone record this without getting it destroyed, is some serious flying skills 👌.
Or fake.
@@mikepalmer2219 as in cgi?
I really don’t believe anything I see anymore, real or fake. It’s too easy to mimic and copy things these days. What is so sad about it, is when it’s a real, and you don’t believe it. All because of evilness that goes on in the world today.
@@ready4jesus534a lot of people watched this live… I did and it looked exactly like this
It's C G
This was unequivocally the gnarliest and most photogenic tornado of 2024.
Not to mention historic!
Leaving my mark on a historical video. June 23, 2024 at 3:33:00 PM EST. Virginia, USA.
Also leaving my mark. June 23, 2024 at 3:49PM EST, New Jersey, USA.
@@itzjusttanxd_5684 Nice 👍
@@CamcorderHomeVideos same to you👌
Yet no sponsorship (yet) from a drone company whose drone captured this incredible video near 300+mph winds.
DJI just got banned by Uncle Sam.
@@zeitgeistx5239 Bill still needs the senate to sign it. Which will most likely happen.
Forget a drone company. How about a chain of auto body shops?
@@AndrewBlechinger don’t need an auto body shop when you use rentals lol
@@zeitgeistx5239 it's a Chinese (CCP) owned company 🤷♂️
Would be better if it was reverse engineered and built in America.
0:33 What a monster. Multiple vortices along with some going violently horizontal. And a couple seconds later it snaps the windmill on the right in half even when the main funnel is pretty far away. Really shows you that a tornado is wider than your eyes can see
I'll be that guy: it's called a turbine my guy not a windmill.
@@vulpinemachine Ah I see, English is not my first language
@@MartHommes fair enough! There's lots of native English speakers who call them windmills (as evidenced by people talking in this very video!).
@@vulpinemachine I'll be the other guy 🤗.
Specifically the structure is called a "wind turbine" 🤓... of the many types and forms of turbines in use. 🧐
However... I will still call them windmills even though there is no mill attached, descriptive nickname just like a "car" even though it's not a carriage. 😁
@@DFWCASSANOVA as a linguistic descriptivist myself, I find your logic unassailable.
This might be my favorite tornado that you have had on stream. The vortices are mesmerizing.
That’s an understatement - this might be my favorite tornado footage EVER
That is the most terrifying yet majestic thing that I have ever seen. It doesn't even look real. Truly mind boggling.
It makes all those pretty photos of 'solid' funnels look unreal!
I agree if I didn’t know better, I would have thought it was a Hollywood studio’s special effects for a movie.
I think at least in part, that is because of there being no sound. I think hearing it while seeing it would make a huge difference in how we perceive it. Edit: for the first 2 1/2 min.
Never seen any special effect like that.
It looks like several tornados feeding off of each other . It looks like they are dancing.
Dead men dancing
@@GalacticNovaOverlord why. just why.
@@oldrusty20 Dead men getting funky!!
@@Mig_V
True
@@oldrusty20The Jarrell Tornado back in the 90s looked like a dead man walking. Multiple vortices in an F5.
The day you posted this I went on record saying that this historically significant capture will still be referenced by the meteorological community 100 years from now.
- I stand by this
I still remember watching the first tornado footage live that day with tens of thousands of others - it is one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, bits of tornado footage I’ve ever seen. Absolutely mesmerizing. Incredible work, Reed and team! Stay safe but never stop chasing!
The footage only seems to get better every tornado season. Of course it all started with the Andover, Ks F5 in 1991.
watching those wind turbines snap in half was insane!
I found it kind of ironic that they weren't really spinning in a tornado. Id have thought they'd be going off like a box fan
I was surprised only one windmill blew over...
Several was destroyed. They were flying around in the nader
@@zenunderground They are a giant turbine generator, which means they have brakes. The reason why in high winds you see them catch fire before they tear themselves apart is because the turbine inside is literally glowing hot from the uncontrolled rotation. The brakes have apparently gotten better over the years to prevent that.
@@zenunderground I believe they regulate the speed of the turbine so it doesn't turn too fast.
Insane this is a once in a life time tornado. Congratulations Reed!!
When was this? April?
@@shawnchristianson324 May 21
He had the once in a lifetime tornado on his first official Chase
I expect many more insane weather events
I mean.... I HOPE it's a once in a lifetime with the way things are going
Wow! That monster was glorious! This footage is some of the most beautiful I’ve ever seen!
This looks like something out of a movie! Doesn’t even look real, this is insane!
its because its not real...its called CGI... Computer Generated Image
Reed Timmer has now witnessed three 300+ mph tornadoes, the largest tornado and the second largest tornado, and intercepted many tornadoes. REED TIMMER IS THE BEST STORM CHASER EVER IN MY EYES
Which ones are these?
@@angrydragon4574 the 3 strongest tornadoes: this greenfield, iowa tornado 2024, 2013 el reno, oklahoma tornado and the 1999 bridge creek-moore, oklahoma tornado. Largest tornadoes: 2013 el reno, oklahoma tornado and the 2004 Hallam, Nebraska Tornado. Notable tornado intercepts are the 2023 spalding, nebraska tornado, the 2024 nebraska tornado outbreak and the 2024 oklahoma tornado
@@stormchasernichtpit1493 The strongest tornado Reed ever saw was the 2011 Philadelphia, MS tornado. That thing dug a trench slightly over 3 feet in length.
Reed Timmer sucks. He's always screaming like a little girl, annoying AF.
@@angrydragon4574he was there for the 1999 bridge creek Moore tornado
That's unsurvivable if you're above ground
It slabbed houses and I’m pretty sure had 250mph winds recorded from ground level
No it didn’t
It did slab houses
@@RockyTop85yes it did...
@@DimensionalGD-cg8xqyeah, easily 250+
One of the best videos: the inflows, multiple vortices, wind turbine, drone footage. How that drone doesn't get sucked in is beyond me.
How some of those sheep didn’t get sucked in is beyond me, too. Most were moving around after it had passed, but I obviously don’t know the original flock size. I’m assuming these are sheep.
I've never seen anything like that before. Incredible watching a tornado actually shred like that chaser was saying through that windmill. Devastating force.
I couldn't believe this was real watching it on the livestream, very memorable chase day man
This day broke me. My brain shut down watching this. There was a tornado that almost hit my place a couple hours later. I think I'm still frozen tbh. It's just utterly incomprehensible..
@@Lucky9_9 then why do you live in tornado alley
@@IntrovertedLoLo None of your business 👌😃
@@Lucky9_9 don’t complain then.
@@IntrovertedLoLo Mind your own business 😃👌
NWS be like “that’s a solid EF2”
I think they rated it EF4 in the end. It should've been a 5 since it clean-slated houses and bent foundation bolts almost 90 degrees at ground level. I don't think they like to give EF5 ratings to anything short of catastrophic situations like Joplin.
@@zebrion5793 either that or I feel they are trying to retire ef5.
@@zebrion5793 construction quality.
@@zebrion5793 I'm really wondering if they've been intentionally downgrading EF5s... or America stopped building well constructed buildings altogether. I'm a fan of updating the Enhanced Fujita scale to incorporate windspeed measurements and metrics that weren't available when it was put together, to bring a more realistic image of the tornado potential.
@@DorotaGabalIt's intentional. That nonsense began back in 2011 when the April EF-5s struck the Southeast. The Tuscaloosa tornado was rated EF-5 by most meteorologists (and even an amateur like me examined the footage and noticed that two story buildings were swept away clean from their slabs) but the NWS decided to go with EF-4 just because.
1999 Oklahoma tornado: Fastest wind ever recorded.
2024 Iowa tornado: Hold my beer.
Iowa tornado 309 mph
Oklahoma tornado 318 mph.
Per the law of the land NWS
@@NoVidsAtAll9mph slower than 99
@@MrAaaaaaaaa9 it was officiall that the wind speed for 99 tornado was 302 right? 😐
@@NoVidsAtAllyes but on wilipedia 10 hrs ago they changed 1999 to 322 mph due to a “2021 reanalysis” somethings up
@MrAaaaaaaaa9 how do u know this tornado 🌪 in the video 📹 was 309 mph? Like no way
This tornado felt like it came from the future. Just an unbelievably powerful storm.
If this thing isn’t upgraded to an EF5 we will never see one. A tornado will have to pull the moon down from space at this point.
Why do you want it to be an EF5? you know that's not a good thing right.
@@VexNovaYT I think it's more a comment on how it seems they're reluctant to rate tornadoes EF5 even though they almost certainly are
@@stewpidasso8810agreed
This is an IF5, not an EF5. You can have an EF0 that would've been an IF5.
@@SpeedBird6780 the heck is an IF5? and why haven't i heard of it?
(If it does exist... it ain't showing it for me on google)
This footage will be studies for years to come. Absolutely insane
Studied*
That drone footage is beyond cool!!! Thanks for what y'all do.
I cannot stop watching Reed and his team members. It's not only entertaining, it's educational and quite frightening
That’s one of the most beautiful, horrific, mesmerizing monsters I’ve ever seen. The drone footage especially was incredible.
It could have winds of 800 mph, but if it doesn’t hit anything, it would never get properly rated I hate the EF scale.
There really needs to be two ratings. One for windspeeds and one for damage done
El Reno was a perfect example of the EF scale's flaws. Measured winds of at least 302 mph but it only caused EF3 damage (thankfully not worse).
They even changed the data for Moore '99, for years records showed DOW-measured winds of 318 mph, then someone changed it to 301+.
This one literally hit a fairly big town with many homes slabbed.
Erm the nws doesn’t survey slabbed houses 🤓
Ground speed wind and wind at 50m are substantially different on a normal day. As are they during meteorological events. A ground speed measurement is necessary to understand the true scale of the wind damage.
The EF Scale really needs to account for windspeeds aswell rather then just damage, if we actually accounted the windspeeds, this would probably be the first ef 5 in a long time, or others.
Wind farm vs. Tornadoes - never gets old
Some of the best footage I've seen on RUclips, great job guys!
So much data in 2024. Reed and his team are on the top of the best chasers and scientist. Keep up the good work
Well, to split hairs, the Moore tornado of '99 would have something to say about that, being that it had those same confirmed wind speeds at a lower altitude. But, this one is definitely movie-worthy, the way it ate those pinwheels, the carousel structure of it, the clarity of the camming...a new iconic twister image.
The ability you have to capture this footage never ceases to amaze me.
Dang, its crazier that this isn't a large mile wide wedge
Yeah, although, many very strong tornadoes are small, like canadas EF 5, which was very thin, and the oakfield Wisconsin f 5, which were both thin, but incredible destructive.
The tornado is listed as nearing one mile in width at one point in its life, not quite sure when that happened. It was clearly not that large in this video.
Yeah it grew as the video went on. Wow.
The tornadic wind field was certainly a mile wide or larger
You did notice that the wind turbine was at least as far away from the rotation center as the visible condensation funnel was wide, right? Those towers fail between 163-183 mph. And it was on the edge of the rotation there.
What was happening to the house/shed at the beginning of the video? It looked like it was on fire. It couldn't have been turbulence condensation (at ground level) from the inflow, right?
Just insane how powerful this thing was.
It turned that windmill into a wacky flailing arm guy from a used car lot!
Lol great description. This whole thing was amazing footage. And a very unique tornado.
🤣🤣❤
Best description of windmill destruction ever!! Specially since those flailing arm balloons themselves crack me up! 😂😂😂
Nature is both beautiful and destructive at the same moment. This was the first stream I watched and have been hooked ever since. You are amazing Reed, Egar and Natalie. ❤
I knew watching this live it was history in the making. The clear vortices, the power, taking down the turbines. Happy to say thanks to Reed I saw this live. I knew it was a beast! Thank you guys and congratulations on the footage!!!!! Total beast!!!!!! It looks like a ghost…..
Well said. I was watching live, glued to RUclips for an entire day as we waited to run to the shelter.
@@alivewithhemp4989 it was terrifying for sure! I’m glad you’re safe. I can’t imagine experiencing that……
It's amazing that you guys were able to get close enough to measure the wind speeds to get such important data with this particular tornado.
Are you referring to the 300 mph data? Because that wasn’t them but a DOW-radar that measured it
Measured by radar.
They were not the ones who measured the winds
They have an anemometer on top of the vehicle for the clueless replies.
@@King_George_W_Kush they obviously didn’t measure the 300 mph winds
This one is absolutely stunning. Destructive art in motion. This is the best tornado video I have ever seen. TY
What a crazy season. Thanks for inviting us to ride along.
Watching this live on twitch was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. Imagine witnessing this live with a bunch of other people.. seeing random people coming in who've never been on the channel or seeing anything even remotely like this.. all the shock and awe.. it was awesome to share in that experience with the others watching. I felt incredibly fortunate, witnessing a historic event.. Ya'll, might want to catch the streams on youtube and twitch!
Tornado season is starting to chill out, but there's definitely still some happening, and chasing all weather goes on year around. The community is great. I can't wait for next season, but know I'll enjoy the community and learning through the rest of the year for sure!
Their bodies fight or flight at such an intense immediate threat has them coughing from the adrenaline after. So crazy.
That must be why he yells all the time! But the others don't yell like that.
The yelling is annoyed ng AF
@@brent829Mute it then.
It's acting. 😂
IMO, Reed is one of THE most passionate chasers on the planet.... and definitely, THE most "audibly passionate" 😅 ❣ He has successfully made "weather/tornado chasing" into a gloriously terrifying form of art.
EF3 and an EF4 now historically have the highest winds twice now lol
Why are they so stingey with the ratings? Or even calling it a tornado at all in many cases?
This was EF4 I thought?
It’s an EF4, should be an EF5 though
This was a strong F5 that caused EF4 damage.
@@twobitsandpepper8235Because the EF scale is based on damage, not recorded winds. If there ia crazy winds but it doesn't hit anything that meets EF-5 standards, than it won't be ranked an EF-5. I do think it's current rating is still preliminary though. They may eventually update it.
thank you so much for not constantly cutting this with a bunch of radar maps and selfies like some other youtubers.
I am confident that as we get more data on more tornadoes we will see that these wind speeds are not really that rare at all.
This is one of (if not the) the best tornado videos I’ve ever seen in my life and I’ve been obsessed with them since I was a kid in the 90’s watching Twister on repeat. But I had no idea that this was an EF5! 300mph winds!? That’s insane!
it actually wasn't rated as an EF 5 surprisingly!
I had the honor of seeing this live. God Bless Reed, You have to be one of the most legendary people I have ever witnessed in action. Wish You a good luck on mondays chase!
How long ago was this? He wasn't even streaming today.
@@jaymarshall5425 I think it was like 3-4 weeks ago
HONOR or HORROR? ? ?
Cookie?
Was chasing in Iowa that day. Did not see much. We needed to have been closer to Reed, I guess. 😉 😜
Congrats on such amazing footage!
Thank you for both being willing to chase the storms for science, and being willing to share your video with the world.
Reed is the #1 best chaser out there. No doubt about that.
Reed is #1 there's NO doubt about it
Just wish he would stop SCREAMING all the time.
Best chaser for sure but needs a better editor for his videos.
As long as you turn down the volume because of the little girl like screaming ...
@@Mr.Tica. No one asked, no one cares.
That's what your volume is for in the bottom right hun
You're adding so much to science and storm data!!!! Truly priceless... past a few windshields
Did they upgrade it to an ef5? Definitely should if the tornado clocked winds of over 300+ mph
So glad to have caught this live! This was one I got kinda nervous for the team, but God, what a beautiful, memorizing monster!
This is an award-winning video 😮 absolutely incredible 🎉
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40 years ago in the early morning hours of June 8th 1984 in Barneveld ,Wisconsin an F5 tornado with winds of 300 plus mph leveled that little town in the southwestern part of the state killing 9 people. It's rare, but it does happen. Stay safe out there. Thank you for what you do.
And that one struck late at night.
I remember it well. Lived about 26 miles away. That was the hottest, most humid day I have ever experienced.
@@dianemelnyk62 I live in Milwaukee and I heard about it at work, because I was on third shift. Scary stuff. We had storms and tornadoes move through Wisconsin last nite. They're accessing the damages today. It looks like it going to be one of those Summers.
Yeah, there's been many more 300+ mph tornadoes than people realize.
@@Trahzy I was the driver on a tornado chase in August of 2005. We were sent northwest first and then the front got strong south of Madison, Wisconsin. So we were sent southwest by channel 12. It was getting dark and we heard about the F3 that hit Stoughton. So we were heading back to Milwaukee trying to stay ahead of the fast moving front. It caught up to us on highway 36 by Waterford. We stopped for gas and the straight line winds were easily 100 mph. So it blew past us and we watched as the storm collapsed to the east and a down burst or heat burst came rushing across the road. It was pretty intense. A few other storm chases that year and the next and that was enough for me. I'll leave it up to the younger guys and gals.
I'm still amazed that this was the first one I ever managed to see live.
Thanks for making history Reed, awesome footage!😮❤
Tornado teaching the wind farm about wind
That farmhouse was insanely lucky they didn't get a direct hit from this monster. Freakiest tornado footage I've seen in a long time. This is a historic catch
That turbine curtsied to that Queen of all tornados.. WOW you deserve an award for best so far footage.
How you were able to maintain the drones satiability is remarkable Reed, you kept your head.
One of the most beautif and photogenic tornados ever recorded. Great job Reed and the dominator team
Cool fact: it takes three weeks for those wind turbines to be installed. It only takes a massive powerful tornado like this one to destroy them in seconds. 😮
But massive powerful tornadoes sometimes wouldn’t form for months.
@@Nomation10 huh.
@@Nomation10🤔🧐
Incredible footage! Reed you are a rockstar! Be safe out there!
Thanks Reed, incredible footage 👍🌪
That footage at 0:50… it’s crazy how much that RFD reminds me of Dr. Orf’s recent computer simulations. This is an astonishing capture 👏
Surreal, powerful, beautiful in its way.
I live on the Ms. Gulf Coast about a 7 -10 minute drive to the Gulf of Mexico. Since 1979 I have been nearly hit 4 times by a tornado.
Stay safe out there, Dr. Timmer, and God bless you and your team.
Holy that’s insane wind speed. Amazing video capture
What is the white smoke coming from the house?
I’ve been wondering that too since watching this chase live… Anyone know? It doesn’t look like smoke from a fire… I’m baffled & it’s bothering me!
maybe bags of lye or something used on the farm? good question.
Maybe the wind is so strong, the wall is just powder?
It might have been the fertilizer, ammonium nitrate, since it's a large farm.
Tornadoes have extremely low pressure as the tornado passes close to a building. The sudden drop in pressure can cause the air temperature to fall rapidly and condensate all of the humidity that a building would have it is specifically called adiabatic cooling in meteorology.
Horrifically mesmerizing! A carousel of destruction 😮!
I've seen a lot of tornadoes but this one looks absolutely terrifying
The inflow on this one blew my mind, I have never seen it so powerful so far away from the twister
Yeah but I don't believe it was 300 mph
@@cs77smith67how not I can almost guarantee there has been several tornadoes that have had over 300 mph and I would almost say high 300’s
Literally the vortices had vortices!!!!
They were singing but I don't believe it was 300 mph like no way
@@cs77smith67it was over 300 mph welcome to the real world were tornado can get that strong
I think there’s been a lot more tornadoes than people think that have had well over 300 mph
That drone footage is arguably the best tornado video I've ever seen. I don't see how you could get anything more incredible than that unless you had a camera right in the middle of one.
Brother, you have a new fan member here, by far the best tornado 🌪 footage throughout the history of storm chasing, the drone footage is what really took the cake, just an awesome job on storm chasing, thank you and stay safe and blessed 🙌
Those cows are like”oh no there’s Reed!…you know what that means…there’s a tornado nearby fellas!”😂😂😂❤❤
Now you understand why Reed yells so loud ... he has to get above the noise 😂. He's the real deal, and he's not playing 😎.
It's in his DNA! His passion shows he was put on this earth for this reason and this reason only
Nah, it's twister tourette's syndrome. 😂🤣
@@lonewolf9390 😂 Too funny ... I agree 😁
First of all, wow! That is a monster! Great footage.
Secondly, what’s up with that house? Why all the steam or smoke pouring off the entire roof?
The tornado that single handedly ended the El Reno debates.
…and probably started a new one.
A gargantuan beast! A historic colossal monster.
Terrifyingly beautiful
Reed's summer vacation videos
That is incredible!! I watched this live and was in absolute awe, never have I seen multiple vortexes spinning seemingly in the same axis!! To now read it was over 300mph is mind blowing!!.....And we watched it live!!! High five to all the dedicated watchers ✋️
I've been watching tornado videos since the 90s and this one truly is a 1 of a kind....so far anyway
This has to be THE tornado of the season.
The torque it takes to do that to a wind farm tower is off the charts!
The unusual shape , all the vortices around it , the suction is all beyond anything I have ever seen
It's incredible how much of the damage is just done by the inflow winds; you can see the farmhouse, barn and trees didn't take a direct hit but they are producing dust that shows the direction of the wind and it's all just getting sucked in near the ground.
It's like it's having a dance with itself.
Those wind turbines were not prepared to face the final boss.
Level "??" white skull wind elemental.
That is one of the craziest looking tornadoes I've ever seen! All those subvotices around it, and all the dust and such just getting sucked in along the ground! Seriously epic footage of a monster.
That is the most impressive video of a tornado I have ever seen. Nice catch!
It was incredible seeing this live!
And yet they still rated it an EF4💀
“Damage scale only” isn’t the scale meant to find the wind speeds why do you need to if it’s recorded
probably because most violent damage from this tornado were high end ef3 to low end ef4, fool.
@@Joek329 most of these wind speeds are above the ground level, and we don’t have any wide spread effective way of recording wind speeds for tornadoes which is why they use damage indicators
Its because the EF scale is terrible at measuring tornado strengths as it legit put el Reno tornado as an EF3, even though it was a clear ef 5 tornado with 300+mph winds, they really need to modify the current ef scale.
Also this had weakened some as it moved into Greenfield because if it had hit Greenfield at peak intensity it most certainly would have been an EF5
What drone are you guys using to remain so stable in such high winds?
Great work! Way to go on the footage!
Wow insane... That shape shifting one 9 months ago was odd too