Hey there! You want to know about weather but don't want a mathematically-induced headache? I can help.
My name is Steve and I have a degree in meteorology, an unrelenting itch to make things, and a pet Quaker parrot. Tune in every Wednesday at 5pm eastern for your dose of weather madness.
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I was living north of Lewiston/Auburn and in 8th grade. Three things made this storm wildly memorable for me: 1.) we had no school & no power for two weeks 2.) I had gotten a battery powered cd player for Xmas 3.) my grandma had just been diagnosed with Alzheimer's & she had moved in with us
Isn't your "long thin stovepipe" an "elephant trunk"? Not criticizing, just asking. This is a great video, like all of them you painstakingly make about tornadoes. Thanks for your efforts and hard work!
I live in hermitage, while i was born over 20 years after this event, most adults in my life experienced it when they were younger (either as kids or younger adults) and i even knew someone who lost thier brother in it
This is a fantastic video!!! Seriously, as a part-time stormchaser since 1982, I remember very well the days without internet and GPS. But how the science developed with the USAF is something I never knew about. It's the research by Dr. Fujita and university scientists who study tornadogensis that seem to make up the bulk of information vids on RU-vid. First. you're a very good narrator with clear diction, excellent accentuation, and a nice tone overall. Secondly, your vids are well-organized and emphasize the important points, instead of focusing on tedious details. Finally, the compilation of the video is very professional. I don't give many compliments on RU-vid, but here's my hat off you!!!
I don't believe that the Tuscaloosa, Henryville/Marysville Indiana, Mayfield KY, El Reno, Rolling Fork tornado's were not EF5's.... They took down full schools, full towns, a candle factory..... Literally looked like the towns were in a nuclear holocaust.
You're completely right that a lot of people underestimate how much of damage in storms is simply how bad they are relative to the mean. I live in Kansas now but in 2021, I lived in Texas when what we like to call Snovid '21 hit(honestly, might be another good video idea at some point) and shut the entire state down. Most people understood that concept but a lot of people online were making fun of Texans for "not being able to deal with a little bit of ice and snow." Thankfully, we did not get the worst of it in the NE Texas town I lived in, in the sense that though it did get very cold and icy, the grid held but I had friends from college who live/lived in Dallas, who lost power for 3 days in temperatures hovering around zero. Both of these storms are great reminders, that it isn't just the weather itself, but also infrastructure not built to withstand once-in-a-generation storms that can kill. Infrastructure doesn't just grow on trees, it has to be bought, and it makes no sense to😊 waste money on things that won't be used.
That photograph of the tornado that hit New English has 2 wicked horizontal vortices on the right side. As you know, this indicates very high windspeed. Maybe it wasn't known back then, but it's clear this twister was a monstrous beast! It also shows that photographs of such vortices existed long before Skip Talbot's famous photo of the Henryville tornadio, which "proved" the existence of visible horizontal vortices. Another good example, which has the hoizontal vortices higher up on the tornado is Xenia, OH in the 1974 outbreak.* At the end of your video, you ask people for suggestions of tornadoes for future videos. I would like to offer the Hudsonville, Michigan tornado. It started in Lake Michigan, off the coast of Holland, Michigan (home of Hope College and the only windmill ever taken from The Netherlands and rebuilt in another country). If I remember the details correctly, the tornado disipated before it could pulverize Holland and then reformed later on. It hit Hudsonville as a full-blown EF5. Unfortunately, it's Michigan's "forgotten EF5", probably due to the Flint-Beecher Tornado. However, for a state has doesn't get many tornadoes let alone big violent ones, the Hudsonville Tornado is worth remembering. Really good video you made with about the 1953 outbreak with excellent narration. Thanks!
I love your editing and educational bits. I love watching storm videos, but I've never "been learned" by one. There's a reason I subscribe. Also, mothafuckin'lovethatsweaterman. <3
I've been obsessed with watching your videos while deployed. I was wondering if you could do a short one covering a minor incident back in I want to say 2015-16ish where a Tornado watch was issued in Northern Nevada. I remember seeing the cycling clouds (I don't know the specific term) coming towards my house and the massive hail that had fallen from it.
The jab gave me a-fib and SVT, this was confirmed by my cardiologist Dr. Scarboro after he changed practices in 2022. I got the shots in 2021. I am otherwise incredibly healthy, blood tests showed that I was practically perfectly in balance and in terms of cardiovascular health, I should have no worries. Yet it happened, and things have never felt quite the same since. And I'm not able to corroborate this with anyone else's experience, or have any recourse from here since I signed in agreement to not sue the manufacturer if things went wrong. I'm just stuck with this. But I'm one of the lucky ones, so life goes on.
Butler County Emergency Management dropped the ball SO hard on this; if it wasn't for Chris Luhring and his department these people would've been screwed. Emergency Management never even knew there was a severe weather risk until AFTER the tornado hit. I think Carly Anna touched on it briefly.
03:25 You're saying this particular tornado engaged in _sexually-motivated _ shenanigans? Feelin' cute, might impale some concrete with pinestraw later 🤪🤪🤪 ✨#JustTornadoThings✨ ... ... ... ... ... ...or did I hear the word "conceptual" as the word "sexual.?"
The tornado in Beaver falls is one of my earliest memories. My great aunt and uncle's cottage was in the path on the connoquenessing creek. We only lived a few miles from the path of that tornado. Craziness
We get alot of those storms here in Ireland, the ones ramped up by the jet stream we even name our storms as well , our last tornado 🌪 was last month (may) and there was 7 funnel clouds spotted also
Pretty cool actually, I remember driving down 75 through the affected area 2 or 3 days after the tornados ripped through the city when we were going to Wright Patterson and the museum of the USAF with my family
Why is it that so many weather enthusiasts fail to remember that 4/27/2011 had a total of four EF-5 tornadoes? He say here at 9:06 that there was one, just one? My meteorology professor even got it wrong by saying there was three and leaving out one. The tornadoes rated EF-5 on 4/27/2011 are: 1. Philadelphia, MS EF-5 2. Smithville, MS EF-5 3. Hackleburg - Phil Campbell, AL EF-5 4. Rainsville, AL EF-5
16:21 the tarped roof building on the right has wrapped styrofoam insulation on the side of it. That tells me it was in the process of being either rebuilt, or renovated back to code from the damage.
Tornado warnings are scarier than they used to be, in the 70s when I was living on the Mississippi gulf coast. Back then, a watch or warning was for the entire county -- a tornado could touch down anywhere in that county. NOWADAYS, they're far more precise, "respect the polygon" as it were. So when I was in Miamisburg, OH we might get a warning for Montgomery County, but probably not Miamisburg specifically. Luckily, we weren't included in all of the 'naders that happened Memorial Day weekend 2019, just after I moved to OH. (That's when I learned what a PDS is, had never heard that phrase before.)
Only a few places, on the coast, get 100 inches, the population centers in the Willamette Valley and Puget Sound get more like 45 inches. And the towns East of the Cascades mountains get only about 20 inches a year.
My history teacher and my mother were both caught in eye’s view of the storm! My history teacher swears it almost went over him, although he adds a grain of salt because he was too nervous to glance over and confirm that it was, in fact, the tornado a few streets down from him… CAN’T SAY I BLAME HIM EDIT: today i learned the tornado literally followed the street I lived on as a child. I didn’t live there until 2005, but that explains a LOT of the infrastructure and the way it looked when i was a kid… it never occured to me that “something bad happened,” but i was confused as to why so many buildings were broken down-looking…
Your videos are great because they present these monster life-changing (and sadly life-ending) weather events not just from a meterological standpoint, but also a human one, and that's important.
Taco Watch: on the counter sits tortillas, salsa, sour cream, lettuce, peppers, cheese. I stand at the stove browning burger. Taco warning: the tortilla is filled with the ingredients and folded up Taco emergency: I raise the taco to my mouth and take a bite.
I've been binge-watching your videos, and I have to say your videos are fantastic! Its easy to understand because as of what i've seen, theres a lack of complexity, making it simple to understand. And the music that accompanies the videos is amazing! I've been trying to find them but haven't gotten close. Anyway, amazing video!
I worked at the Lansing, Michigan Fox TV affiliate at the time and had the overnight master control shift the evening of Sat 5/30 into Sun 5/31. Our chief meteorologist called me down to the studio around 1:00 am and showed me the blob moving onto the lake from Wisconsin. I asked him for an ETA. He said 4:00 am at the latest, adding "if you need to get anything done, might wanna do it now 'cause it's gonna be busy when this hits". By golly he nailed it! Just about 4:00 tornado warnings started popping one county after another. We lost utility power at our transmitter and trunked over to generator. Fortunately we didn't lose power at the studio but I saw a lot of tree limbs in the road on my way home. Won't forget that night.
Thank you for covering Canadian weather events. Have you heard of the F3 tornado that ripped through center square of Goderich Ontario. Most beautiful town too😢 And the literal Parade of Trees they brought in to replant
@weatherboxstudios dude that's legendary! I'm bald and look like a thumb so I'd have to go as one of the henchman from spy kids lmao!! You must have got amazing reaction on the Scott set up?
We had a neighbor that lives around Tims Ford State Park at the time of the EF4 that struck the area. He said places he knew and had saw all his life were unrecognizable. People's lives were changed forever. There was one account of someone's boat that was picked up and found 25 miles north in a completely different town.
Here's another (VERY weird) way of explaning it: imagine your house is a toilet, the taco bell in your town (well, general area) has just opened on taco tuesday (possible tornado day). There is a possibility that some poor toilet in town is gonna have a bad time. That would be a tornado watch. A tornado warning would be if the owner of your house has just entered the taco bell (Decent chance you will be impacted but who knows, maybe they'll just stay inside the taco bell and use those restrooms or go to a friends house) A tornado EMERGENCY would be if the owner of your house has just arrived home after eating taco bell. You are about have a BADDDDDDD TIME.
Thanks for mentioning kennard Indiana, I was 14 and lived only 4 miles away from kennard and I was on my school bus and I saw this f4 tornado at only a mile away, I had an aunt and uncle that lived in downtown kennard and I jumped from the back of the bus and ran there, the destruction was incredible, it destroyed over half of the town, I helped dig many people out of the debris and I also helped rebuild
Great work. One piece of constructive feedback: I like that at one point you made a correction via graphic, but I sometimes just listen to your video. It would be useful to have you correct your voice over. Keep up the good work!
I think we had one like that here in the Philippines before, a rare EF0-EF1 spawned on top of the capital metropolitan area of Manila. Just as a weak tropical storm or something slightly weaker. The tornado lasted few minutes and impacting an area near one of the slums of the city, lucky the tornado mostly marched through concrete structures. Most of the damage we're broken corrugated roofs, some wooden structures, windows broken, and alot of items not fixed in place like clothes, goods, and random stuffs. No one was killed, maybe at least few we're injured. Tornadoes are a pretty rare sight in the Philippines, but they have been showing up alot lately usually EF0-EF1s. Mostly centered at the large plains and river valleys of the country, including the capital city
My father warned me about his experience with three inches of snow shutting down Atlanta. I still came here to survive Snowmageddon. The forecast wasn't accurate at all early enough to react appropriately. Local news was lacking. Watching the NOAA predictions weren't concerning before 10am. By then it was almost too late and few were aware.
I love that the football team members rushed to the elementary school to help the younger kids. So sad about Sharon Gracer, but I'm glad she was able to save several young children before she passed away. 😢 So, the part where the lady says there was wind but no clouds...how can there be a tornado without clouds? That's so confusing! 🤔
I was in third grade living in Brookline, mass. when my friends and I walked to school the snowbanks were taller than we were. there were a ridiculous amount of snow and no where to put it.
