Driving close to tornadic circulation south of El Reno, May 31, 2013

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  • Опубликовано: 4 июн 2013
  • Video on car roof from 23:18 UTC to 23:29 UTC. We drive east on Jensen Road, which is south of El Reno and just south of Interstate-40. You see cop blocking south highway 81, which makes sense, because there is the tornado. At crossing Jensen Road / Radio Road, two miles further east, and at 23:23 UTC, we turn northwards, because we realize that the tornado would come too close on our further route east.

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  • @christinablakley7261
    @christinablakley7261 10 месяцев назад +8

    Way back in the eighties, we used to buy beer at the store you stopped at at the end. I was just in high school but, they sold it to me. You brought back some old memories. Thanks😊

  • @criticalthinking3709
    @criticalthinking3709 7 месяцев назад +5

    This El Reno was like a really nasty mini hurricane. 2.5 miles wide is almost unobservable when rain wrapped. Freak of a storm like no other.

  • @xapianoman
    @xapianoman 3 года назад +26

    Skip Talbot has a video where he discusses escape routes and concludes that yes, escaping northward into the storm's core is sometimes the best option, because it's better to take your chances with large hail than put yourself in the path of a large tornado. It looks like you were thinking the same thing that day. Good call!

    • @joshuacorrington153
      @joshuacorrington153 2 года назад

      That storm had many cores..

    • @MrTedMcForehead
      @MrTedMcForehead 2 года назад

      skip talbot is a monday morning quarterback

    • @aralornwolf3140
      @aralornwolf3140 Год назад +5

      @@MrTedMcForehead ,
      He admits that he nearly was hit by the El Reno tornado... he's a professional storm chaser giving advice on how not to chase storms.

    • @peppergrand1072
      @peppergrand1072 10 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@MrTedMcForeheadI. I believe that he also played in the game Sunday, so its his option to review game footage.

    • @bdunk914
      @bdunk914 6 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@aralornwolf3140Skip Talbot was a a good distance from the tornado what are you talking about?Go look at his video and channel before you talk.

  • @Gildhattie
    @Gildhattie Год назад +19

    I can't get enough of these videos (especially the El Reno tornado) I know the May 3 1999 was the strongest, but I think this one was the most dangerous and craziest tornado in history! (And it was right there as far as wind speed 295 vs 302)

    • @si_xx
      @si_xx Год назад +5

      Indeed. This doubled its width in under a minute, made a hard left turn and increased its ground speed. It also spawned sub vortices with winds well over 200 mph.

    • @eg300
      @eg300 Год назад

      Smithville Philadelphia and hackleburg. Were the strongest

    • @peppergrand1072
      @peppergrand1072 10 месяцев назад +3

      Were they...Jarrell was the sickest

    • @Deucealive75
      @Deucealive75 7 месяцев назад

      @@si_xx The tornado slowed down after the left turn. It was moving fastest when it was running east before the turn. The damage path map has timestamps.

  • @CH3CH2OCH2CH3net
    @CH3CH2OCH2CH3net 5 лет назад +6

    That is some of the most RELENTLESS rain and wind I've ever seen -- absolutely NO letup!

  • @flappah
    @flappah 5 лет назад +19

    Wow, that was a close call. The circulation would've caught up on you guys for sure if you'd continued on on Jensen Rd. Good call!

    • @xCmOn3yx777
      @xCmOn3yx777 4 года назад +1

      was dan robison on the other side of the twister... ruteger road?

    • @flappah
      @flappah 3 года назад +3

      @@xCmOn3yx777 He was on Reuter Rd. That's one road to the south from Jensen Rd.

    • @bigthunder2860
      @bigthunder2860 2 года назад +1

      Richard your in the circulation already,and this cell is packing a RFD is huge,I don't think I would want to be in unless I had special glass so it don't blow in on me

    • @flappah
      @flappah 2 года назад

      Yeah. This was a close call for sure!

    • @thorntonmellon
      @thorntonmellon 10 месяцев назад +3

      If they turned North onto Radio at 6:23 like it says in the description they probably would have been okay continuing east on Jensen. The Tornado was just crossing Router (and sadly hitting the Twistex team) at that time.
      Going North was absolutely the right choice, but I think they barely had time to continue east if they didn't dally.

  • @peppergrand1072
    @peppergrand1072 10 месяцев назад +4

    I keep on thinking that you are driving without your windshield wipers .

  • @lauragadille3384
    @lauragadille3384 4 года назад +7

    Weird how it's so sunny out and hear comes a tornado

  • @xCmOn3yx777
    @xCmOn3yx777 4 года назад +24

    so basically the entire rotating mass of clouds (at the start of the video) became a 3mile wide f5 tornando?!

    • @andie_pants
      @andie_pants 4 года назад +11

      Crazy, isn't it? If you want to see some incredibly dramatic footage of this one, look up Daniel Shaw's videos. He got hit by it and escaped unscratched.

    • @nick128
      @nick128 3 года назад

      2.6 miles but ok

    • @xCmOn3yx777
      @xCmOn3yx777 3 года назад +4

      @@nick128 close enough

    • @badideass
      @badideass 3 года назад +1

      @@andie_pants Tim Samaras didn't

    • @andie_pants
      @andie_pants 3 года назад

      @@badideass you're so edgy. we're all offended. oh em gee.

  • @motherfuckerjones3854
    @motherfuckerjones3854 6 месяцев назад +2

    All it needs now is “Driving Home for Christmas” by Chris Rea playing over the whole thing.

  • @sigsin1
    @sigsin1 6 лет назад +8

    At the point where you turned, it was going to follow you no matter what direction you went. Glad you were okay.

    • @melissaallinp.e.5209
      @melissaallinp.e.5209 3 года назад +4

      Yeah, he was exactly 1 mile north of the Twistex team at the exact moment they were hit. At 6:23 he is turning north on Radio Rd. off Jensen. The Twistex team got hit at 6:23 at the intersection of Radio and Reuter a mile south.

    • @joeschoe4477
      @joeschoe4477 Год назад +2

      @@melissaallinp.e.5209 Melissa, I think they turned north on Manning, which is 2 miles east of Radio. Given the path of the storm, had they continued on Jensen they probably would have been hit.

    • @peppergrand1072
      @peppergrand1072 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@joeschoe4477
      And they were hit

  • @peterolbrisch1653
    @peterolbrisch1653 3 года назад +7

    It took some tornadic circulation to clear the toilet this morning let me tell you.

  • @joshuacorrington153
    @joshuacorrington153 2 года назад +4

    I'm certain you weren't aware at that moment of the unprecedented monster that was about to drop down, still, that entire mesocyclone was much more ominous than usual.. Had to have some balls that clank driving through it..

  • @melissaallinp.e.5209
    @melissaallinp.e.5209 3 года назад +7

    Wow. Beginning about 5:10 he starts over I-40 heading north on Radio Rd overpass. You can see the vehicles stopped in the westbound lanes of I-40 (to his right). He's crossing I-40 at about 6:24 pm CT. At 6:33 pm the tornado will cross I-40 just to the east of Radio Rd...so just 9 minutes later those people are directly in the path of this killer. :(

    • @thorntonmellon
      @thorntonmellon 10 месяцев назад +1

      The tornado started crossing I-40 closer to 6:26-27 local time. By 6:33 it was doing that weird little loop just north of I-40 sadly killing a woman and her child who were in a car on I-40.

  • @sigsin1
    @sigsin1 3 года назад +9

    So, when you made the turn northward, Twistex was getting hit one mile to your south.

  • @TheLocalLt
    @TheLocalLt 4 года назад +6

    In the last part of the vid you were in the circulation

    • @joshuacorrington153
      @joshuacorrington153 2 года назад

      Could have been most likely RFD, which for this particular tornado, was a healthy and large mass of fast moving air.. Anybody in the actual tornadic circulation at the point of where this video ends, would be toast.

    • @thorntonmellon
      @thorntonmellon 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@joshuacorrington153 Dan Robinson WAS in the tornadic circulation at this point. His video is AWESOME if you haven't seen it.

  • @DrRyanHooker
    @DrRyanHooker 3 года назад

    If there was no reason, could you imagine what this thing would look like?

  • @cosmiccharlie8294
    @cosmiccharlie8294 5 месяцев назад

    We're chasers the only ones to die that day?

  • @trevormaxwell3480
    @trevormaxwell3480 5 лет назад

    Tornado that size would not happen very often so

  • @elishanolan
    @elishanolan 5 лет назад +2

    Very hard to see anything with the rain blobs. Would've been easier to watch if you used your wipers.
    Glad you made it safely away from this twisted.

    • @dreemsnake1
      @dreemsnake1 5 лет назад +9

      Elisha Nolan they said video was on the car roof.

    • @elishanolan
      @elishanolan 5 лет назад +2

      dreemsnake1
      Aha. Thank you for the clarification. I missed hearing that. That's understandable then.

  • @marygeorge8969
    @marygeorge8969 5 лет назад +2

    I would say you were in the outer xirculation. Scary to watch.

  • @donnalromero4481
    @donnalromero4481 3 года назад

    That Twister has eyes

  • @niagra898
    @niagra898 7 лет назад +6

    Thank God I didn't see RIP twistex for once.

  • @JC-ht5nw
    @JC-ht5nw 6 месяцев назад

    A boring video

  • @JC-ht5nw
    @JC-ht5nw 6 месяцев назад

    What a bad video