I remember the movie "Places In The Heart" They had a 🌪️ & in the beauty parlor scene, the man runs in & says, "We gotta get the windows open, the place is going to blow!" Something to that effect. Now, it's not recommended...lol... We've come a long way, baby.
Joplin was gistory ... So many people died that day from the massive wedge tornado that took on its own monster characteristic from its origin ... Problem is no one saw it coming til it became heavily wrapped in rain when it struck town... I'll never forget the images of the destroyed hospital, Pizza Hut, Home Depot, Walmart, Taco Bell, and the business district of Rangeline Rd ... Truly heartbreaking
I wonder why Mike advised to take shelter under an overpass even though that is the worst place to find shelter because the underpass will turn into a wind tunnel and is very dangerous
"Look at that horizontal vortex!" Dude is geeking out and doesn't even realize it. Poor special bright spark. It's ok, no shame. He was doing so and saving lives.
definitely should have been rated ef5 in my opinion, many homes were just swept away, especially right after hitting Elkhorn and for the rest of the path
@@neethanscott yes, but radar very close by recorded 230mph wind gusts. EF scale doesn't rate by wind or at least take it into account unfortunately even though we have the technology for it
@@highseas11605 Yes, the Fujita scale and the Enhanced Fujita Scale are damage scales, windspeed recorded does not matter as those winds are measured hundreds of feet in the air, not on the ground.
@highseas11605 Except we don't have the technology for it, at least not in the respect you're trying to apply it. What wind a Doppler radar measures is very different when it's 20 miles from the tornado than it is at 40, or 60 and with the elusive beasts that tornadoes are, there simply isn't going to be a lot of good opportunities to get measurements up close with a mobile unit. The Fujita scale is NOT like the scale used for hurricanes where you get readings by flying a plane into the core. It is meant to measure ground level impact on human life. Several hundred feet in the air is not the ground. A ratings system based on modern technology has another serious flaw. It leaves no means to measure storms before the time the technology existed. Even the Fujita system is flawed in this respect, but at the very least, it can use historical records to guesstimate ratings for tornadoes that occurred decades before it's implementation. If you EF5 bro types want to create your own tornado ratings scale based on whatever "new tech" criteria you like, have at it. You're going to encounter the very problems I desribed here. Please stop trying to assume you know more than credentialed experts do with respect to the existing ratings system. Your ignorance is nowhere near as good as their knowledge.
David Payne is a bit too hyperactive for my taste, but that's just me. I know a lot of people like KWTV. I prefer Mike Morgan's coverage. A little calmer but he still gets the point across.
No. It appears the tornado formed between 7pm and this the start of this clip when KFOR was airing regularly scheduled programming (with warning overlay graphics). This county is technically in the Wichita Falls / Lawton TV market.
This coverage was a joke. There were 200 tornadoes and they covered two of them. The Weather Channel is not a good source for weather or vital warnings.
My thoughts exactly. The Des Moines and Omaha metropolitan areas are both nearing a million people each. This damn thing could have hurt a lot of people if it had crossed either region. Sorry to hear about Greenfield.
It kinda gets on my nerves how so many people spread misinformation, that one crazy multi vortex tornado at around 15:00 isn't the same one that hit moore it was the one that formed southwest of chickasha (in laverty i believe supercell A tornado 6)the one with the perfect satellite (satellite is A7 then the chickasha f2 (a8) then bridge creek (a9) mikes a little silly sometimes
5:33 EF5 tornado just went through Philadelphia, Mississippi. 25:35 EF5 tornado in progress destroying Hackleburg & Phil Campbell, Alabama. 26:00 New Wren, Mississippi EF3 lifts, Smithville, Mississippi EF5 tornado touches down. 33:00 Forbes raises the TOR:CON from 9 to 10! First of only two times he did so (other was 3/2/2012). Around 1:00:00 Smithville shredded by EF5 fifteen minutes prior, tornado dissipates after hitting Shottsville, Alabama. 1:06:00 It has officially become the most tornadic outbreak in US history. Blows the 1974 Super Outbreak record of 148 in 24 hours. 1:08:06 Tuscaloosa-Birmingham EF4 touches down. 1:15:50 Cordova is struck by an EF4. It's the second to strike the town that day. An EF3 struck during the morning hours. 1:17:05 Worst case scenario unfolds. 1:43:10 Hackleburg & Phil Campbell EF5 tornado crosses into Tennessee and dissipates after 132.1 miles & 2 hours and 35 minutes. 1:53:00 Jeff Morrow shows off small debris from the Tuscaloosa area while getting bombarded by lightning. 2:01:00 Tuscaloosa-Birmingham tornado shows its ugliness, inflicting EF4 damage with winds at 190. It dissipates near Fultondale after 80-81 miles. 2:15:00 Sylvania-Rainesville, Alabama EF5 touches down. It lifts after crossing into Georgia, and the supercell quickly drops an EF4 that hits Ringgold.
Unrelated, but isn't hominy like puffed up corn? Ate it when I was little...ok just watched farther in and they mentioned it hitting granola....I mean come on..a tornado seems to eat what we do....
I wasn’t there to witness it after the tornado or the immediate aftermath, but I went through there on greyhound in Mid August 2011. It was late at night, like 1am, so couldn’t see a lot. Seen a bunch debarked trees, and as soon as we were approaching 71, clear as day could see how bad that hospital was.
