A Swede reacts to: Tornado Alley - Real Time Tornado Tuscaloosa, Alabama 

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R.I.P. to Mike Wilhelm who passed away in 2019 of natural causes. He helped a lot of people on April 27, 2011 and many other times with his dedication, weather knowledge, and his compassion.

being a first responder hearing a child cry is music to my ears , they are moving air and feeling pain cry baby cry

The nurse Sharon Allen has such a soothing and comforting voice, perfect for a nurse, a true Southern Belle.

James Spann was a true hero that day! It was 48 hours we in Alabama will never forget.

Thanks for reacting. I will always remember that day.

I was in Alabama working during this horrible day. When I saw one tornado merge with another one on the other side of the Tennessee river it was time for me to get gone. I ran to my Bronco and drove as fast as I safely could back home to my family in Tennessee. While I was driving west on I-24 I saw the sky get a little darker. What I saw was debris flying overhead. I did make it home that day and was spared unlike so many that weren't as fortunate. The next day I returned to my power plant to unbelievable devastation. There were so many terrifying and miraculous stories to hear. One really stuck in my head to this day. Local authorities found a man's body. Turns out he was missing from Huntsville, 60 miles west of us. One of the numerous tornados that day had sucked him up and carried him 60 miles then spit the poor soul out. 62 tornadoes touched down in Alabama alone on April 27th 2011. 360 touched down during an 18 hour period across the southeast that terrifying April day.

I had a baby blanket in my yard once a tornado passed by us, we had no idea where it had come from, but it had to have traveled nearly 30 miles from its origin given the path of destruction along the route of the tornado. This storm was part of the historic April 2011 outbreak that came as far east as NC.

I remember that day very clearly. I was still living with my mother and stepdad back home in Virginia and it was all over the news. By the way the University of Alabama is in Tuscaloosa

Tornado winds are crazy like that. Tornado winds and hurricane winds too for that matter can do some crazy stuff. A huge gas grill on a back deck can fly more than one hundred feet across a yard but a bath towel hanging on the deck railing wont be touched. I have lived through both tornadoes and hurricanes.

I live in northwest Alabama. April 27th was a day I'll never forget. Four of my family members were killed in Phil Campbell, AL that day. I've lived through both Super Outbreaks, 4/1974 and 4/2011.

I know you posted this going on a year and a half ago but I always find it fascinating seeing people reacting to extreme weather especially tornadoes if you are not familiar with them. I was in Tuscaloosa that day and honestly should have lost my life that day but by random chance I was spared when someone I was with was not. Even though I experienced this I was a weather nerd my whole life and even though one of these monsters should have and almost took my life I am still so obsessed with weather and extreme weather at that. I have since 2017 now traded tornadoes that I dealt with my whole life for hurricanes now that I am in Florida. I will take preparing and doing what I need to for hurricanes over tornadoes any day. I got 24-72 hours to make decisions with hurricanes. Tornadoes you got 10-15 minutes.

The strings of clouds that drift around the funnel are sometimes called spaghetti. I call them tendrils. The large tubes from the funnel (or condensation cone) are called horizontal vortices. Horizontal vortices only occur on very strong tornados.

Tornadoes that powerful, really do debark trees. The winds in a tornado can put two by four boards through houses. I was in a tornado in South Carolina, on a street I had just driven down 25 minutes before. On the return trip from my daughter's house to the hotel the tornado had ripped a pecan tree out of the ground and launched it through this woman's house, from side to side, more than 40 feet. The roots that had been ripped out of the ground were still attached to the tree. It was unbelievable.

Was in the Channelview tx tornadoes in the 90's. My aunts entire neighborhood was flattened by 3 tornadoes I believe in 1 night.

I've seen and been around alot of tornadoes in my life growing up in the Texas panhandle, but the most scared I've been was in Louisiana. We were driving across the Causeway going to New Orleans and it was raining, not unusual for spring there. About halfway across we see a waterspout form right next to the Causeway and there was nowhere for us to go. We were blessed that it moved away from the Causeway not towards us.

When the sky turns blue/green.....get below ground so as not be seen!!!

I was in Columbus GA watching it on TV as it was happening. Terrifying. We had lost our home in Statesboro GA in 1984 to a big tornado

To the Big Swede Recky. I live in the greater Chicago Metropolitan area. I was traveling up Interstate 92 in Oklahoma, going home from a trip down in Texas. Encountered a badass T Storn. Suddenly I noticed brake lights all to my right. And headlights way off on the distance, but no oncoming Interstate traffic. I wondered, pondered then glanced to my left. And there sat a monster the likes I never imagined. I slammed on my brakes and drove my vehicle to the right side ditch. That thing missed me by roughly 500 yards. Will carry that memory to times end.

I remember that tornado from 2011! We are still recovering some parts of are county! I remember seeing that tornado and that thing was crazy!

R e c k y. I was a weather man in the army. I really feel for these people. I saw a tornado in Oklahoma. You are doing good by showing these. Thank You

Yes......F5 tornados can and do debark trees as well as scrubbing pavement. The Jarrell, Texas tornado was famous for tearing up pavement because it was a slow moving, very powerful tornado.

I live in Alabama and am 68 yrs old. Alabama is just one State in what they call Dixie Alley in the Southeast US. Tornado Alley is in the Midwest US however Tornadoes occur sporadically in most of the 50 states. The two Alleys just have lots of tornadoes every year. In Alabama we have had what they call a Super Outbreak every few decades. Near my home in North Alabama there have been 2 that affected dozens of States and caused hundreds of fatalities. 1974 and 2011 come to mind but every year there are scattered tornados with fatalities. .

Yes a tornado can do wild things. I’ve seen it put a piece of straw through a tree that was so big around you can’t put your arms around it. I’ve seen the whole front of a three story house be gone and look like a dollhouse. No furniture left in it yet rugs still on the floor and China dolls still sitting on the fireplace mantle. I was in one that just missed our house but leveled a barn that had just been built and kill every animal in it. They’re scary and unpredictable.

Watch the 10 year anniversary video of this. Change your world

My son survived this tornado and as a mother I was so relieved but at the same I still feel guilt because mothers lost their children.

Air pressure changes and you can feel it in your ears...

Yeah Recky. American tornadoes not only have the ability to debark trees, they can stick straw into brick, pull asphalt out of the ground, pull the very earth out of the ground, they can be that violent. Not to mention what they're capable of when passing through structures that rely upon gravity to keep them standing......

The end result of this day of tornadoes was 4 ef5s, this was a ef4, but high end, with winds measured to at most 196 miles per hour (in American freedom units) its only so devastating and well known cause it hit Tuscaloosa directly and just barely edged Birmingham, Alabama, 80 Miles away

I'm...still....here Reki! 👏👏👏

I live on the edge ov tornado alley in Princeton Illinois

During the Tuscaloosa was so bad because some of its communications like many other places, went down so there was no way to tell people information needed.

This was one of 360n tornadoes that day. Look up 2011 Super Outbreak.

at 24.53 still here

Still here, Recky; I stayed all the way to the end. I always do.

Oh. Just got to the missing baby/ doll cry. Appreciate the pause. 😢

I would maybe look at covering some hurricanes. Check out Hurricane Andrew or Hurricane Sandy, and definitely Hurricane Katrina.

You got through it. You did good. Life is fragile for sure. Did you watch the Brandon Ivey Inside a tornado video? Less than 10 minutes. A special tank parked in the path of a tornado and filmed it for IMAX cinema. 1/2 mile (1km) wide. That is a wild ride. It was rural so only hay bails involved. Great insider look at an EF3 or EF4 tornado. And yes, debarking trees at those high wind speeds is common. The Jarrell tornado is one of the worst I have seen. Not even debris left. 1/2 meter of top soil stripped. But please give yourself a break and watch some happier things. Or watch disaster preparedness videos and learn how to get prepared. We have a 'bug out' bag with stuff so we can leave the house immediately.

Great reaction ♥️♥️♥️

120km long track and 1.5km wide

It’s a natural event! The Science of it is insane, but the devastation is horrible!

Multiple vortices. That gap.

I don't know what the weather is like where you live if you live in a generally cool area or a cold area the chance of a tornado is nothing. I did the first 25 years of my life up north in New Jersey and we never saw a tornado heard of them but didn't see them. In Florida we have them but they're very very tiny small and they don't last more than probably 5 minutes

till the end.

i looked up the converter for you and one mile wide is 1.6 kilometers wide according to the unit converter. So it was 1600 meters wide.

I remember when this happened!!! I use to travel through Tuscaloosa to get to Birmingham, Al. This one was bad!!!

I think the best word to describe Mother Nature is brutal.

Still here.

Still here, Buddy!

I am still here Recky

I don’t understand why they had no tornado shelter ? If ya live in tornado alley dig a good shelter . If you never use it God bless you . The day you need it GOD blessed you .

i'm still here, Recky

I was in the middle of it. Terrifying. Thousands more killed than reported. Sigh... I was a mental wreck for years, not just from the storm but the gross govt and Insurance companies not wanting ot pay and never did pay what they owed us.

252 people died in Alabama that day.

Still here!

Still here recky

I live in north west Alabama we got hit here too not my town but a small one close by I lost people I knew it was such a tragic day my family and i went to help with clean up. It looked like a warzone I'll never forget it.

The meteorologist is James Spann. And when he takes his jacket off, you know it's going to be bad.

Yes the tornado debarks trees. It is a combination of high wind speed and tons of debris. Imagine all the little pebbles, sand, mulch, etc swirling around at unbelievable speeds. Like sand blasting.

James Spann was on the air for almost 9 straight hours. He saved so many lives.

I watched to the bitter end... some things worth noting for you: 1) tornadoes in places like Alabama have a tendency to become rain-wrapped, making it nearly impossible to tell exactly where the tornado is until it's very, very close. Add to that the hills and trees other commenters have mentioned, and it becomes incredibly difficult to keep track of a tornado on the ground. In comparison, tornadoes in Kansas have a tendency to not become rain-wrapped, and a lot of the state is flat, open farmland, where you can see for miles. 2) the 250 dead number quoted is the death toll for the entire state of Alabama. This tornado in Tuscaloosa was just one of a huge outbreak that occurred, dubbed the 2011 Super Outbreak. 360 tornadoes were confirmed in that outbreak, 4 of which were rated EF-5. I think it would be worth it for you to watch videos on some of the other tornadoes from this outbreak, for example, Carly Anna WX has a great video on the Hackleburg - Phil Campbell EF5 called "2011 Super Outbreak: The Hackleburg - Phil Campbell Tornado."

One of the tornados I experienced as a kid drove a stalk of oats straw into a telephone pole. Flung a house trailer 6 miles away... moved a house in total 1/4 turn on its foundation, slid another house about 1000 feet across the way to withing a couple of feet of a friend's house...its crazy what winds can do.

Yes, trees can be fully de-barked. Entire buildings can be removed from their foundations and reduced to toothpicks. Straw and hay has been found piercing wooden telephone poles, and sod can be stripped from the ground. And that tornado traveled 80 miles, the equivalent of almost 129 km. One tornado drove one young woman thigh deep into the the soft ground. She had to be dug out. She survived and was interviewed for that program.

Still here, Recky! The Tuscaloosa tornado was only part of a super outbreak in 2011 that lasted three days, caused 360 confirmed tornadoes- four of which were EF-5-and 348 deaths, 238 in Alabama alone. It had torn its way across Arkansas two days earlier, but thankfully we didn’t get it near as bad as Alabama or several other states.

I'm in Alabama and this was a very bad day for us. We'll never forget what it felt like to watch it unfold. Thanks for reacting to this.

Mother Nature is neither good nor evil, she is indifferent which is the really scary part

6:45 -- Severe weather (tornadoes) is like making bread. I can give you all the ingredients to make the bread, but unless you follow the instructions just right, you won't get bread. Same applies to tornadoes.. Mother nature can have all the ingredients(that's how they determine the weather is right for tornadoes).. But if mother nature doesn't mix all those ingredients just right, you won't get a tornado. People get pissy when storms don't happen and say "The weather man said it was gonnna be bad" -- -No.. the weather man said it COULD be bad... All the ingredients were there.. Mother nature just didn't mix it right. But when she does... look out.

This one made me cry. I used to be a nurse. I couldn't have worked in the ER that day and not broke down especially with all the children who were injured and died.

I'm still here Recky!! Stayed to the end my friend. That was terrifying to watch. Those poor people. A mile is 1.6 km. 80 miles long = 128.75 km.

Being a sky watcher is not a paid job. It is all voluntary, and done for the love of helping people. I personally am a National Weather Service trained sky watcher. It is fun and exciting, but can also be very scary, and deadly. Tim Samaris, his son, and a a good friend were all killed in the El Reno tornado a few years ago. This was a high end EF-4, or EF-4+. The Joplin and Oklahoma City tornado's were EF-5's. I live about 30 miles South East of where this storm hit, and am also included in this Eastern tornado alley. We had just had an EF-3 hit about 5-6 miles West of us at about 5 am the very morning of this storm. Only one person was killed, but that is one too many. Thank you for reacting to this storm. Great work! Stayed all the way until the end.

I'm still here ! I watched this from my front porch live ,here in Tuscaloosa Alabama, the base was about 3/4 of a mile wide and there where several smaller tornadoes circling the vortex. Tornadoes usually follows a travel pattern most never touch down or are near this big and in Alabama they normally come at night / late afternoon due to temperature and pressure changes . We have less visual distance here vs some place out in mid west USA. Because of the tree's hills and valleys. We bounced back ,got to work and rebuild our city bigger and better. I still live out in the rural area of Tuscaloosa.

I live in Alabama...there were multiple tornadoes that day...it was an absolutely horrible day...so many deaths.

I’m still here. This was horrifying. The power of these tornadoes is terrifying. I have a suggestion for you. It’s a hard watch but no other video I’ve see shows the power a tornado can have. Dead Man Walking is the name. The story of the Jarrell Texas tornado. Thank you

As one of the guys described, he and his friend were driving along and didn’t see the tornado because of all the trees blocking their view along the side of the road- this is a major issue in areas like that, or where I live in Arkansas, which is still 56% forested, and a lot of it is very hilly as well, especially with the Ozark and Ouachita (WASH-i-tah) mountains to the west, bordering Oklahoma. When I was only in third grade (early 80’s, before more modern and pinpointed meteorology to help us out), I remember a particularly bad tornado outbreak, we basically spent the better part of the day in the hallways at school (at least my mom was also a teacher there). But my dad was having a way worse time on his 20 minute drive home from work in Little Rock: The interstate he was on has thick trees on either side and gently rolling hills, he did not see the large tornado-on the ground, where it had just demolished a church and was about to cross the interstate in front of him-until it was nearly too late! He slammed on the brakes and pulled over as fast as he could, and bailed off in the ditch full of water, watching entire trees, pieces of buildings, and everything else imaginable swirling overhead. There were a couple of 20-something year-old guys in the ditch with him; just ahead of them a car had stopped, but they didn’t get out of the car: a large metal road sign was blown through the windshield and decapitated the driver. My dad had to partially see that when he was finally able to get up and get going again. He tried to see as little of it as possible, obviously there was no way he could help anyone- he just needed to get home.

14:40 you can see the little horizontal vortexes coming off the tornado, the dude screaming to go back had the right call. That's so dangerous.

I always stay till the end Recky. This was a tough one. We get tornados here in Illinois, I have seen several myself. But we rarely get one this size, and even more rare in a large city.

Made it to the end with you, Recky... Absolutely incredible!!!

The only comfort I have is knowing that all those lost, especially the children were with Jesus and without pain.

Some that you've watched previously have been rain-wrapped tornadoes. Those do not let you see the actual funnel cloud as easily. Much of the damage can come from the winds surrounding the funnel, so it is not just the funnel itself that is dangerous.

Im still here Recky. Sunshine = heat, that means increased energy going into the storm. Cold weather tornados are weaker and smaller than those in hot, humid conditions for this reason. This does not mean that being directly hit by a smaller, weaker tornado is less deadly, but you do not have to worry about an massive footprint of damage.

19:45 thats the college football stadium for the University of Alabama football team. They are the best college football team in the USA. The stadium is called Bryant Denny Stadium and seats 101,000 people, it is HUGE. I live in Tuscaloosa now, and you can still see empty lots and other effects from this tornado even after 11 years. 35:45 Tornados are so powerful they will debark trees, can rip up concrete roads, can even rip up dirt from the ground up to a couple feet deep. Only the most powerful tornados possible can do this, and these only occur 1% of the time in all tornados. This was a very rare day in tornado history, this 2011 event was one of the largest tornado outbreaks ever in recorded history.

I live about an hour from Tuscaloosa. We were hit by a tornado in my town that day and I lost my carport, car, front porch and mailbox. I was so lucky that day. So many weren’t. I think we lost 245 across Alabama that day and more people died from their injuries days and weeks afterwards. So much devastation. Our meteorologist James Span is a legend and he’s the man everyone watches during these situations. It’s been 12 years and every single time we get a tornado watch or warning I feel that terror coming back. I’ll never forget that as long as I live.

Also, 190 mph is 305 km/h...that's the wind speed. This was an EF-4 that my dad barely managed to get out of the way of 128 km later in Birmingham. He's lived in Alabama all his life, and I got my love of storms from him, but this is the one he said scared him more than anything. Earlier in the day, there was another EF-4 in the city of Cullman, which is where my grandmother lived, and that one went just two miles from her house, and we didn't have a way of knowing if she was okay until almost a week later. The fatalities in Alabama alone accounted for over half the deaths for the entire outbreak, which I think lasted either three or four days. James Spann is like a hero because of his and Simpson's coverage of this outbreak, but he blames himself for a lot of the deaths that happened that awful day.

I was 17 years old and survived this tornado in the Alberta area of tuscaloosa. Lost some people dear to me but I can be grateful that I'm still here. A day I will never forget, it still brings tears to my eyes and I get super scared when I hear a siren. 🥺 thank you for your reaction sir! 🙏🏾

Watched to the end. Very sad video. You presented it very well. Thank you Recky.

I live in Alabama. April 27th lives in infamy in this state. I was directly in the path of the Tuscaloosa tornado as it moved Northeast to Birmingham and beyond. If you look at the map of the tornado track, there is a small break in the line north of Birmingham. That small break occurred because the tornado encountered a mountain and drew back up into the clouds. That small area is where I live. I remember hearing the reporters almost speechless. I remember them praying on air for people in the path. I remember the sky turning green and the garage doors bowing outward from the pressure. And I remember telling my father goodbye and that I loved him. Luckily, I was spared, as was my family. But it's a fear that cannot be put into words. You feel so helpless. So powerless. Thank you for reviewing this video and others like it. It's amazing to see someone become educated about weather that we experience here often. Also, James Spann is a celebrity around here. He is AMAZING when it comes to his job and an even more amazing human in general. He saved lives that day and on many other occasions. Respect the polygon!

Thanks for this one Recky. April 13th,2011 my 13 yr old son died~so I wasn't even AWARE of this,wasn't aware of anything except my own grief at that time. I had no idea this tornado even happened.......

I lived in Jacksonville, in northeast Alabama, on April 27, 2011. My family and I watched James Spann's coverage of this tornado as it tore through Tuscaloosa and continued on out of town. The broadcast turned to radar images at that point, since there was no more live video coming in. But it was obviously still on the ground. As it neared the Birmingham metro area, Spann had one of the tower cams turned toward the direction of the approaching storm. You could see the whole horizon darkening as Spann and the other meteorologists struggled to pick out where the funnel was. Then they realized in horror that nearly the whole horizon WAS the tornado. It had grown to over a mile wide and was destroying towns like Concord, Pleasant Grove, and McDonald Chapel. It was far more intense at this stage than it had been in Tuscaloosa, with winds approaching EF-5 strength. It missed that threshold by a mere 10 mph (16 kph). My wife asked me if we should be concerned. It's *highly* unusual for a tornado to stay on the ground that long, and the storm was still about 75 miles (120 km) from us, but it was coming right at us. We decided to go ahead and clear a safe space in the basement, but I told her I wasn't going to worry unless Spann started warning people at the Birmingham airport to take cover. About 30 minutes later, he did just that. We got the kids and animals into the basement, grabbed a crank radio, and waited. About 15 minutes later, the tornado warning sounded. We could see the southwestern sky through a window in the basement and saw the wall cloud swirling as the tornado hit the nearby town of Ohatchee. We knew Jacksonville was next, but we didn't know which part of town would be hit. It was the scariest, most helpless situation I've ever been in. I was in a basement with my wife, our 9 year old son, and our 1 year old baby girl, and there was absolutely nothing I could do to protect them but hide and pray. The tornado ended up missing us by about 5 miles. It tore up the rural north part of town before moving into Piedmont and continuing on into Georgia. As soon as it passed, we had another brief tornado warning for a storm to our south. Luckily, that one didn't touch down. Once the storm surveys were completed, it was determined that the EF-4 Tuscaloosa-Birmingham tornado had lifted briefly near the airport. Then a new tornado dropped down from the same supercell in Argo and Shoal Creek. That second tornado would intensify into another EF-4 monster that would take 22 lives, many in Ohatchee as we watched it from our basement. We got lucky that day, but it scarred us all the same. April 27 is firmly etched into my core memories. Just hearing that date sends shivers down my spine. I'll never look at thunderstorms the same way again.

I live in Alabama and I'll never forget that day😪

Still here. This happened a couple week(s)...before the Joplin tornado. This was a particularly bad year. It has been been an ongoing issue. There are more EF-5 & EF-4 tornadoes than we've ever recorded. When a really bad tornado destroyed an entire town in the 1920's, it was left behind if it wasn't on a major highway or train-line. Because in the 20's, we had issues with the recovery after the Spanish flu, WW1, etc. In the 30s, it was guaranteed to be a "forgotten" town because of the Depression and the Dust Bowl. There's a lot of vanished towns in the history of the US. Keep going back to the origins of the US, there are diaries & journals of people who survived in caves or huts built into the hills.

The Jarrall, Texas tornado in 1997 sucked the grass out of the yards.

Crazy day here in AL during this outbreak. i think what also made such an impact for us locals to the region was the fact this mostly happened in daylight. The vast majority of storms and tornadoes we get here occur at night and you can't see them coming at all. Chasing storms here is also rather dangerous because of the terrain and all the trees often block your view.

This tornado was part of the 2011 Super Outbreak which saw over 360 tornadoes touchdown between April 25-28. Tornadoes were reported from Texas and Oklahoma all the way to the US Atlantic coast and as far north as New York and southern Ontario in Canada. The outbreak was responsible from 324 total fatalities with well over 3,000 injuries. The Tuscaloosa tornado occurred on April 27th, which was the most active and deadly day of the outbreak. The Tuscaloosa tornado alone claimed 64 lives. 2011 was an exceptionally bad year for tornadoes in the US with nearly 1,705 confirmed (average is 1,200 per year) and over 553 fatalities (average is about 80 fatalities per year) making it the deadliest since 1925. Joplin, Missouri would be struck by its deadly tornado nearly a month after this one. The kinds of destruction that strong tornadoes are capable of causing can be both impressive and scary. Strong tornadoes are capable of peeling the bark off of trees, rip asphalt off roads, and scour the ground down to depths exceeding 30cm. Cars can be thrown well over a kilometer away and even train cars can be picked up and thrown several hundred meters. What these winds can do to a person can be described as gruesome. I think it was after the F5 that struck Jarrel, Texas in 1997 that numerous victims could only be identified using dental records.

Thanks for these reactions. If you decide to look at other weather events in the US, there's a 1995 documentary about the wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald in Lake Superior (near the Canadian border). You have probably seen worse storms off the coast of Sweden that impact shipping, but because of that you might appreciate just how dangerous it can be to cross water in a more northern climate -- especially without modern meteorology. ------- Stiil here, Recky! And yes, I watched to the end. If you get tired of tornado videos, though, the name of the video is "Edmund Fitzgerald Documentary 1995 Excellent!"" Also, yes, there is a Gordon Lightfoot song about the wreck. It might be worth listening to as well -- before if you're okay w/ spoilers, after if you're not. ;)

I’m still here! This tornado was part of the 2011 super outbreak. It was on the ground for 1 hour and 31 mins. From April 25-27, there were 360 confirmed tornadoes. That averages 7.5 tornadoes per hour in those 48 hrs. It was CRAZY. I could have lost 2 friends and 4 family members in Georgia. My old college friend’s house got hit, but him and his family luckily survived. One passed only 2 miles from from my grandparents’ home (my brother & his wife lived next door to them). Funny story: My grandparents’ satellite/cable went out so they had no idea where the tornado was and told my mom just to wake them up if the tornado started heading their way(it happened in the middle of the night) lmao 🤣 They’re from Kansas so it was just another day for them. But in all seriousness, it truly was a terrifying 2 days. James Spann is one the best weathermen out there and he’s a blessings for all of us in the southeast USA. He’s so caring and passionate. Edit: I just reached the end of your video. Thank you for reacting to these videos. If it’s too much for your mental health, please take a break. Tornadoes may be an every year event for us, but they’re still very difficult to see. The deaths and destruction is heartbreaking. Hope you’re doing well ❤️

YASSS another tornado alley react!! This one is is a doozy too!

I'm still here, Recky! I recommended the series "Tornado Chasers". Season 2 I free on RU-vid on Reed Timmer's channel. His crew TVN is the focus of the show and season 2 is the 2013 tornado season including Moore and El Reno

Not only are trees debarked, animals are skinned alive... Like any cattle and horses in fields, the debris literally acts like sandpaper and takes off their hides. It can happen to people left outside, too. People have been found dead, in pieces, torn apart.

I have to say, after living through being in 7 tornadoes, two of them F5's (before they developed the EF scale), one of which had the highest wind speeds ever recorded about a half mile from my house (over 300 miles per hour), that a common thread after tornadoes for me has been the people, even when suffering severe loss, manage to rise above the loss and help other people. Some instinctual part of human thought after these things seems to be better than when we're not necessarily nice to each other. I developed lifelong friendships after that massive tornado in Moore Oklahoma in May of 1999. Neighbors I barely knew were with me trying to help others throughout the night, and it changed all of us. (Also, miles are a roughly 1.6km, so 300mph would be roughly 480kmh)

Still here - I've always been fascinated by the weather. You commented about someone being a storm spotter. The National Weather Service has a program called Skywarn which I've been a part of for around 20 years. They give a class, which is free, on how to report dangerous weather. We do touch on tornados, since there have been some in this part of the country. I live in a small desert towns between Phoenix and Tucson Arizona, and we have a monsoon season in the summer. We see a lot of flash floods, hail, huge thunderstorms, and dust storms, which are called haboobs. I'm originally from Ohio so the desert is a whole new world! Anyway, I love knowing someone so far from here is interested in Mother Nature - keep up the great reactions!