"Susan get my pants!" I'm cracking up. On evenings when we are at risk for severe weather here in Oklahoma we frequently post a reminder to Facebook for everyone, "Bras on and teeth in, ladies and gents." LOL
Lolololol! Was going to say this. 😅 I put my husbands pants in my emergency bag the other day. Just easier, wallet & keys were all in the pockets, yanno. Wasn’t worried enough to have him put them back on.
You do NOT want to be standing by no damn window watching a tornado. After my Mom’s house got hit by a tornado, I flew in to help with cleanup. In the dining room wall next to a big window, a roofing tile had embedded itself into the wall like a ninja throwing dart, right at neck level. That’s a good way to get denogginated.
Going back to 1967, there’s a rather famous photo from Oak Lawn, IL of a piece of straw embedded into a tree trunk like an arrow. It’s shocking, but magnificent.
I remember seeing pictures of blades of grass blown into trees like nails during the Zenia, Ohio tornado in 1974. I was outside at a recreation area when the West Bloomfield (MI) tornado hit in 1976, it was an EF4, almost EF5. An experience I hope to never relive.
"Denogginated" is something I'm using from now on lmfaoooo. But on a serious note, I live in the Omaha NE area, and take tornadoes VERY seriously. Its one thing to see footage online, and a completely different thing to see that sickly yellow-green sky, hear sirens going off, feel the pressure change, and then gradually a roar getting louder and louder. You never forget that. I live in a trailer park too; the worst place to be during a tornado. I've been hit once, and narrowly passed one other time, thankfully both being ef0's. But that dread of knowing how bad it can be, and that that potential mobile catastrophe is in your area... its a special kind of terror.
@@Bradleehage Well, to be fair, tornados don't usually hit those states until later. It's a bit too cold there now. WI had a tornado in October a few years back, that was weird.
From what I remember from a documentary about special effects, "The Wizard of Oz" used a stocking wrapped around a wire frame that was attached to a gantry. They moved the gantry back & forth, with a fan blowing dirt over the base of the stocking to create the "debris ball".
100 tornados over the weekend in the midwest, billions of dollars of damage, life loss, it has been wild and dangerous. 5 states, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma.
There was a lot of coverage on RU-vid of all the tornados. Nebraska had some massive ones. I am in Iowa and we had sirens and alerts all evening and into the early morning. There were several towns destroyed and lots of other damage.
I haven't watched the full video yet, so you might mention it, and as others are saying...it's been a rough week for those in the path of the outbreaks the past few days.
Ryan Hall Y'all, is a meteorologist but also has storm chasers on the ground during his live streams. Reed Trimmer has that tank version called the Dominator. He's a chaser and has a crew also. ❤
I used to think that tornado chasers were nothing more than crazy thrill seekers. Then I learned that they perform an important service in reporting the location of tornadoes on the ground, what direction they are heading, wind speeds, size, and lots of other data that can help prepare people and save lives.
Ryan is our go to for weather now. There have been multiple times local news completely failed us and Ryan's group had the best and most informative information. ❤
I’ve seen and heard 3 tornados, my first was a ef5April 3, 1974. To me it was not like a train , but maybe the whistle noise of the wind makes people think of a train. To me it was banging and rumbling ? The first was awful it did not hit our house but it did destroy our city. They almost called the tornado a ef6. I was 16.
What they mean by train is not the whistle or the horn. If you stand next to a train track as a train goes by it has a rumbling sound along with like a low guttural boo-boom boo-boom. That's what its typically described as. Yep the infamous Xenia Ohio one am I right? @@cspat1
I saw recently that we've already had over 50 tornados this year. CORRECTION: That was just one storm system. There have been over 350 according to the A.M.A.
Actually, that was just in one night. I think there's been well over 300 from the past 3 storms and more severe weather has been forecasted for the next 2-3 days.
@@gwendyrose8905 You're right. The 50+ was in one storm system. How crazy is that. It has been a wild year. I hate to think about what the hurricane season will bring. Wishing you the best, stay safe.
Watch some of the storm chasers. Reed Timmer is the GOAT. He's live now. I like Ryan Hall and his video's and livestreams. He has saved a lot of lives.
Yes...I love how he orchestrates the rest of the chasers. While providing updates of where nado's are and where there going. And his chasers live video feeds.
Ryan is unironically faster than the national weather service at warning potential danger ahead of time, consistently. Subbed to him for a while now, and the accuracy and overall service he provides is unmatched. On top of that, he raises so much money for relief aid too. Just recently he raised around $400,000 for Greenfield that got hit by a high end ef4. Lots of respect for him.
Kalamazoo native here. The May 13, 1980 tornado is still talked about to this day. Changed the skyline of our city. I was 2 months shy of my 2nd birthday when that tornado hit. My Aunt Terri followed the thing through town, and by the time she got home, she was in a panic, and Grandpa had to actually slap her to calm her down.
@@SylvesterCarl, at least 3 people were killed, that I can recall. I suppose I should have looked the stats up, but I remember hearing that one got killed in a laundromat, and 2 were killed at Gilmore's downtown.
I'm sure you'll get this reccomendation, but the "Joplin in real time" documentary is a really comprehensive one for people unfamiliar, and that one was probably one of the largest and more recent in memory.
Having grown up in Tornado Alley, watching that documentary reduced me to tears The tiny space between your house is not touched, and next door neighbor doesn't make is so hard to understand.
@@gl15col Makes me cry every time, and I appreciate that it gives you an honest, empathetic look without being dramatized or sensationalized to capitalize on the disaster like some do.
I saw three funnels on the ground and two funnels in the air on 4/29/2024. I have seen over 140 tornadoes in 60 years. My first was the only F5 in Nebraska and came within 1 mile of our house. You 100% respect them, but learn what happens and why. On the 29th a train was hit and the crew video the direct hit inside a BNSF locomotive.
As a lineman we got a lot of overtime recovering from a tornado or hurricane. I recall some 80 miles of a transmission line towers fell down like a string of dominoes when a tornado ripped through it... It took three weeks to recover that major power link...
My home town (Westminster, MD) had a "micro burst" (some say a tornado) come through last August that took down power lines on two major roads. It left power out for about 4 days for some, more for others. My cats flew down the steps when it came past our house and were at my feet screaming!
Last weekend there was over 100 tornados in a 48 hour period. I watched Ryan Hall Y'all for two days straight. My heart was breaking knowing how scared everyone must have been. Dealing with hurricanes is one thing, but a tornado ... Terrifying.
If you want to see a good channel, look at Reed Timmer videos from yesterday and today through Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma and Iowa and Nebraska. There is some sidewinder tornadoes ones that loop and the first time I’ve ever heard the term octopus tornado. It’s a multi funnel. Crazy footage.
While I've only experienced 2 tornadoes, I will say this. Before the funnels form, the atmosphere turned sinister. That's the only way to describe it - just an evil feeling in the air.
Also had two tornado encounters, one a direct hit and another a close miss. Both times, a couple minutes before it shows up, you can just FEEL it. The best way I can describe it is that you can sense with your whole body that something is very off.
I live in Indiana and have seen several tornados i was looking out a window in the basement looking back at our barnyard watching our barn flying away I will never forget it 🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪
reed timmer's crazy "sidewinder" tornado from yesterday or the day before is completely insane. that guy's seen over 700 tornados in person and said outright that it's the wildest tornado he's ever seen. saw the livestream of it, but the edited videos from the better cameras are amazing.
Yeah, I was watching live on 4/30/24 from my basement since sirens sounded several times in Topeka. Looked so much like a normal tornado until they panned up. Local news isn’t like they used to be with weather situations so I’m now subscribed to RU-vid chasers and meteorologists!
I have been binge watching your videos. I love your take on things and your humor. . . "Wait. Hold up. Let me rephrase that. That's massive bro". . . Just cracks me up! Thank you for being you. I needed this today.
I've been in a couple of small tornados and it is scary. Since I live near the coast I can see waterspouts sometimes when storms are rolling in. Waterspouts are absolutely beautiful.
@@mrwiseguy3063 Wow! Small world. That was the one and only time I got to see a double one sadly but I sure am grateful I got to at least once. I live in Baldwin County, AL
Our sirens actually went off for the first time in years where I live here in the Midwest. We are in the busiest year for Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. Storm chasers are staying busy...getting great data for better advance predictions and warnings. They 're very frightning, but at the same time, very beautiful. Our community has never been hit. We're located in a basin and at the bend of a river. They tend to dissipate before they reach us.
That doesn’t stop a tornado at all. It’s just pure chance. They can cross rivers, cross canyons, cross mountains if they please. It’s just really hard for a tornado to hit a specific place.
Yeah, southeastern and east-central Nebraska got hit hard. I'm in Lincoln, not far from Waverly, and seeing the footage of one of the early tornados ripping right through the center of town gave me that sinking feeling you get when you look at something and think "that could've been me." It was terrifyingly close.
In the early 70s, I had one hit the house next door while I was pouring concrete in the backyard. It took down a heavy oak branch which landed on the garage. Meanwhile, I scooted under the concrete forms I'd been pouring into, for parking lot bumpers, and held on for dear life. It lifted me off my back while I held onto the forms and blew sandy grit all up my t-shirt, it felt like I was being sand-blasted. It really does sound like a choo-choo train! It also liked to pop my eardrums but I swallowed like crazy when I felt the pressure, it hurt like hell.
They are gaining more than just video. There's usually meteorological instruments and many other devices in play with most tornado chasers intercept vehicles.
Reed Timmer actually has a Ph.D., as mentioned already, has instruments on and around the vehicle and often sends that data back to the National Weather Service for further analysis. However, after watching him chase on several different occasions, I completely agree! He's ABSOLUTELY crazy!!! 😁
I was in that 1980 kzoo tornado wasn't much fun. We lost over 30 trees on our property and the pool locker room is where we were stuffed ironically the pool area was the worst damage. The roof was gone. I remember the vacuuming and rushing wind the ceiling tiles all going away the heavy doors flapping like they were paper. And all the girls screaming . We were trained to put a book over our head while in the " duck n cover " mode but my book was gone. Never saw it again.
RU-vidr and storm chaser Pecos Hank has the most spectacular and beautiful footage of tornadoes, lightning and other weather events that I have ever seen. Plus, he is very informative, funny and laid back. No screaming and carrying on; I love his work.
Newer fan here, and I'm just gonna copy/paste this from one of the many wiki's out there. The "tornado" was a thirty-five-foot-long muslin stocking, photographed with miniatures of a Kansas farm and fields. Gillespie rigged up a gantry crane, rotated by a motor, that traveled the length of the soundstage. The base of the tornado was fastened to a car below the stage, where the crew moved it along a track. The farmhouse, fence, barn, and prairie all were done in miniature, and clouds were painted on glass. Wind machines and dust added the final touch. They filmed the tornado sweeping across the prairie from several angles, at distances, coming close to the camera and going away from it.
The sky only turns green because of the light being shifted by the clouds and it only happens at a specific window of time during the day. It doesn’t mean there will be a tornado it just means the storm is powerful.
@@gtequest5058 We are blessed to have a storm shelter that was here when we moved to our farm! But it is really really close to the house. I always have a fear of the house collapsing on the shelter...
Most of the photos that you had the strongest reaction to were ones with, "multiple vortices," that rotate around each other or around a main center tornado. They can be the scariest since they usually come from massive super cells. Also, storm chasers might get too focused on a center funnel and not notice that their vehicle is dangerously close to the larger radius circulation that is spawning those additional vortices. 10:53 😂 You absolutely want to go binge the videos from Pecos Hank. His content is amazing.
Prayers to those affected by the Nebraska and OK tornadoes 🌪 🙏. And also TY to all the ph cam documentation to help researchers and meteorologists to collect multiple views and timelines. Even though it is risky to do so I appreciate your bravery.
Greetings from Waco, TX. The sirens went off last week and a small tornado was photographed from the airport and China Springs outside of Waco. It's expected in the springtime. In 1953 an F5 hit Waco killing 114 and devastating downtown.
The tornado from the Wizard of Oz was basically a sock attached to some wires at the top to 1. keep from flopping around, and 2. to attach to a crane on set. The bottom of the sock was also on rollers, and a stagehand rolled it from beneath to simulate the cone’s movement. They didn’t have cgi back in the day, after all, so they went thru tons of other trial and error attempts before Gillespie took inspo from weather socks. Pretty neat, and forever in the film hall of fame. Practical effects are some of the greatest tools filmmakers could (and should) spend their budget on, imo
Those skinny tornados are called Rope Tornados. There is an amazing, great "Deep Purple" album cover with one of these. I think it's called Stormbringer.
You should see the video of the tornado that went through Bartlesville 2 nights ago, just west of me. A couple of guys were standing at the door of the hotel when it got hit, and got it on video. It's one of the most intimidating tornado videos you'll see. Other people got videos of it in the distance. Was a scary site to see in the dark. It ended the lives of 2 people.
In 1980 when I lived in Clute Texas there was a story on the local news about a couple of small towns that had just gotten pounded with huge hailstones bigger than golf balls almost the size of baseball some of them and they were darkish Brown greenish looking, there were pictures on the news of some of the locals carrying them around and sucking on them like popsicles as it was really hot outside at the time. As it turns out a tornado spawned by a thunderstorm about 20 or 30 mi away had sucked an entire sewage treatment plant dry and dropped the contents as hailstones on a the towns. Never lick hailstones!
Last week there were almost 80 tornadoes. Look up the 2 Brothers sucked out of their house by a tornado last week. Just search April tornadoes 2024, it was an unbelievable line of systems. My son was on an interstate almost to St. Louis, MO, and there were 3 on the ground at the same time. 2 north of him and 1 very close to the south of him. One hadxtennis ball size hail !
America has been experiencing a very large outbreak of tornadoes for the last 14 days or so. Hundreds of tornadoes have been recorded and some have been very severe. Folks in tornado alley have been on high alert for sure. There is endless footage of this weather outbreak. It’s really unbelievable. Praying for the people who have been affected by this outbreak ❤
Ryan Hall Y'all is awesome. When there are big outbreaks he does a live stream with chasers as well. There were a couple of mass outbreaks here in the States over the last couple of weeks. A town I had clients in before I left my job to care for my mother got hit hard and there is nothing left of the downtown. A few neighborhoods in the lower-income part of town got destroyed as well. Completely flattened. Just gone.
Western Kansas Native here! Tornadoes are absolutely terrifying and straight from nightmares but they are beautiful and fascinating! Twister scared me for years as a kid, and I didn't get into the beauty and science of them until I was in college. I have seen some, in person, and they are eerie. Even the weather before one drops can make your skin crawl. I live vicariously through storm chasers in the area, who live stream their footage, just so I can stay informed on what is out there, especially when I have to take cover. The last few days in the Midwest have been crazy with tornadoes all over, various sizes and terrible damage. My heart goes out to everyone who found themselves in the path of those tornadoes. I watched the Storm Chasers show, and watched Reed with his Dominator tornado tank vehicles and they are so cool. He drove one through town at the beginning of this outbreak and it definitely catches your eye. If you see those vehicles running around, you know the weather is going to get chaotic.
There were 27 Tornadoes in and around Sulphur Oklahoma just a few days ago. It ran right through the center of the Historic downtown area of Sulphur. Many people injured, 4 people have died. There is a lot of video coverage if you look, especially in the videos of homesteading channels.
The Clinton tornado video from KWTV most likely ended up in a landfill. In the late 90s KWTV just wholesale dumped a ton of footage in a giant dumpster. Another photojournalist and myself went through the dumpster and rescued what we could. A ton (quite literally) of history went to the landfill.
Even if it survived that purge, when Gary England left they just threw out everything in his office. I was able to save some, but most of the video was lost. That is why I only have an aircheck low quality copy of the 2009 Pig Farm memorial day outbreak.
I live in Michigan, and when I was little, I watched a tornado head right towards my home out the picture window in my living room until my Mom and Dad rushed us to the basement. We lived in a small town of Waldron on the Michigan/ Ohio border. It was around Easter. It picked up a shed we had and threw it at our house, but our clothesline stopped it before it hit our home. It picked up the roof off our home and set it back down off center. It was weird.
I live in Oklahoma and since this past weekend we've had close to 40 tornadoes we had 30 on Saturday the largest a EF-3 that demolished downtown Sulphur Oklahoma we're expecting to have more in the next 48 hrs, this time of year can get really exciting
Had the sirens going off in the middle of the night a couple weeks ago. Ain't nuttin like standing outside at 2am, sirens all around, watching the clouds overhead being lit by the city below.
Hey, bubby. I have been enjoying your reaction. I thought you would like to know one of your viewers survived the tornado " Terrible Tuesday" April 10th, 1979, that struck Wichita Falls. This video didn't mention this tornado. I suggest you search for the documentary and view it. My folks moved into the Faith Village area only six weeks earliest. This monster came all the way up to our front door. The whole neighborhood was flattened. Tornadoes are hella scary.
Love watching pecos hank. He’s super entertaining and informative. Great video. I’m in kansas and we’ve had so many thunderstorms and tornado watches where I live. Be safe everyone 😊
From the Weather Network - Arnold Gillespie, special effects director of The Wizard of Oz, created the tornado by suspending a muslin cloth from a steel gantry. And, from Quora - They used a 35′ muslin stocking and wrapped it around chicken wire to make it look like a funnel. Then they rotated it with a motor from a crane, fastened the bottom to a car underneath the stage and drove it around.
Several years ago in Dallas, we had a tornado come through about 8 or 9 at night. The news had a story about a lady on the highway who was going to her hair salon and was killed by a tornado. It was dark and stormy and nighttime, and she didn't see it coming.
Im from eastern Nebraska. Last Fri was insane. 144 tornadoes in 10 hrs from Oklahoma, Kansas & Nebraska. 150 homes damaged and destroyed in Nebraska alone. Not 1 death here.
I grew up outside of Xenia, Ohio, where a teen filmed the F5 from the 70s. It was one of the first times we realized larger tornadoes can have multiple vortices (ie multiple little spirals). We grew up with tornado drills and if you got a tornado warning, everyone took it seriously. 3 days after I graduated college and moved out of state, our college town had a tornado hit. Yeah, I don't miss the threat of those bad storms!
Well I have came to the conclusion that you are my favorite RU-vid reactor! Every reaction is full of funny surprises and some of the very best comments and questions...thank you for all the content you give us. 😊
My area was hit in the east and west ends Friday afternoon in Nebraska. I live about 12 miles, both directions, from two separate touchdowns in Elkhorn and at the airport. That entire storm system looked nasty. Some of the amateur storm chasers recording were way too close to these storms.
Okay in my midwestern defense, tornadoes are so unstable that they often fizzle out quite quickly. They're more likely to stay down in big but still. My whole family gets our stuff and pets into the basement and then watch them from the deck until it gets real bad. Usually, it doesn't, and we watch it disappear. Which is another thing, cause the news can be kinda slow (understandably) so you might be in your basement for an hour after the tornado they saw is gone and there's been no new ones. Hoping we don't have too many shows this spring lol.
Bit late, but yeah there were some pretty bad tornadoes that had occurred in Nebraska and Iowa just after you recorded this. My house received some damage from the tornado that ran through Elkhorn, NE.
That "Wizard of Oz" tornado was rather genius. If I recall, it was made of chicken wire wrapped in cloth and cotton, covered in dirt, base was on a tracked dolly and there was a fan to blow dust around. I think they recorded just that and then superimposed the footage on green screen (or equivalent).
My ex-girlfriend was from South Africa. We dated back in the 90's. During that time, the movie, "Twister" came out and she thought tornados were pure fiction. It took quite a bit of convincing to get her to believe that they were, in fact, real! I guess South Africa doesn't have tornados.
Lots of unbelievable footage coming out on this year's tornado season. People are getting really close now and catching some spectacular videos. I recommend "Strong Tornado tears through Lincoln, Nebraska" but I saw one earlier that was probably even more intense but can't find it now. But other than that one, I've never seen any better footage than this one out of Lincoln.
My second earliest memory was 3 tornadoes that touched down in Colorado (same day) the sky was green - my mom actually sent me an article on it but also saw a handful throughout my life
@@gl15col yeah it was in Denver Colorado in 1997 Denver isn't often hit at all but got 3 in rapid succession that day (all during our 45 minute ride home)
I lived in Tulsa, OK for a year and a half and was there about 2 months when the sirens went off. I was terrified and was walking back and forth in my living room saying out loud "I want my Mommy!" and I was 50 years old at the time! I told my mother about it when I talked to her later that day and she laughed so hard. LOL Needless to say, I moved out of "tornado alley" and have no regrets.
I follow Reed Timmer and he has a video from last year when they intercepted a tornado in Spaulding, NE in his specially built vehicle named Dominator 3. There have been tornadoes this week in Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa and Texas. Today outside Abilene, TX the storm chasers became first responders. Freddy McKinney, a storm chaser saw the tornado he was observing hit a house. He drove immediately to find the house basically destroyed and the family, mom, dad, two kids with injuries as well as their dog injured who was also injured. He got them into his vehicle, including the dog and raced them to the hospital. I believe another chaser Vince Waelti also stopped to act as a first responder. I was watching Reed Timmer’s feed when he was tracking the Rolling Rock tornado in Mississippi and stopped to help people out of the rubble, into his vehicle and took them to the hospital.
I remember being in 4th grade during a tornado, through a window I and the kids around me could see the tornado dipping down to the ground then splitting into two skinny tornadoes, spooked us real good 😂.
December an f3 tornado passed behind my house in Clarksville Tennessee. Wasn't in the real damage zone but had a lot of trash and debris in my yard. A friend's place was completely wiped out.
Shout-out from Kalamazoo, Michigan! That was the 1980 tornado that went through downtown Kalamazoo. I'm not even originally from here and I know about that tornado because it is always talked about on its anniversary. I'm a follower of Reed Timmer and Ryan Hall Y'All as well as our local Michigan Storm Chasers.
❤❤❤❤❤Lewis, I get the most laughs out of watching your reactions. I'm a retired R.N. and I live in a travel trailer in Dallas suburb. Hope you really get to come to Texas soon.
I've lived 53yrs in tornado alley in Norman Oklahoma, about 5 miles from Moore, and as scary as it is, you get used to it, except the middle of the night ones. I didn't even know there was a small tornado at our airport Saturday night, and I live two miles away. I didn't hear the sirens, much less knew other parts of the state were getting hammered, I just thought it was raining and a tornado warning.They used to tell us if you're driving, go under a highway bridge, until a woman got sucked out in front of her kid and everyone else that was taking cover under the bridge in 1999. Get in a ditch, but not a storm drain, a Guatemalan family of 7 drowned doing that in 2013. Now, an earthquake, those are scarier, you never know where or when one will happen, and there's no warning unlike a tornado.
Right here with ya. The earthquake thing I really can’t handle. You can get out of the way of a tornado, generally, or take shelter. And you can see it. Earthquakes just…happen.
My grandmother was born in Kansas, and she told a story of a tornado that lifted the house and put it back down! A bag of groceries never moved! Insane!
It's fairly common now for people in their houses to build an above ground tornado shelter which is cinder block filled with rebar and then poured concrete through the cinder block to make it a solid wall. They'll do that with the roof as well. As you know, still reinforced and a heavy steel door and you'll have like a big closet that then also serves as your tornado shelter. There are even a lot of people who will build their entire house that way now so that literally the only exposure you have is the roof and windows
I’ve been in a tornado once. I saw it coming but it was late at night and no time to get to shelter. So we grabbed our baby son and went into a closet. We could see out a window and it was loud. Luckily our store and where we lived above it were not badly damaged. This was in the 1970s small town Minnesota at 10:15 pm. I had first seen it forming in the field behind us. It didn’t last long. It did destroy my father in laws barn but the homestead was unoccupied and no animals there. I’ve seen them since while traveling but that was before cell phones. Now later in my life in FL we just have to deal with hurricanes 😂. It’s always something here in the USA. Right now is tornado season in the Midwest and it’s been very busy and deadly. Hurricane season starts in June.
FYI: the tornado shown in the pic at 1:49 is the F5 that hit my community in 1957 (Ruskin Heights tornado). I recognized that pic immediately. There is a book about it called Caught in the Path, and my parents neighborhood where they lived later (pictured in front of a drive in theater on one of the historic damage pics) was completely leveled and had to be rebuilt after existing for not even just a year. As a kid I used to dig up all sorts of tornado debris in my back yard from all the erosion in the back of the yard (I mostly found busted dishes, vases, bath tiles, etc) but the most wild thing I ever found in my back yard was a piano tuner that I found when I was 6. Unfortunately this tornado killed 44 people and injured at least 500 people and I heard constant stories about it growing up-- including how my great uncle spotted it from the front porch of the house where I now live (which didn't get hit) and my great grandmother saw it and said "it's a big ol tornado, it must not be doing much damage" (she soon ate her words), about how my great grandpa took until after midnight to get home from work due to having to go clear all the way to the next county south just to get to the other side of the disaster zone, and how my grandma's neighbor was shopping in a shopping center that was a directly hit so she threw her kids in the trunk and played chicken with the tornado by outracing it in her car (and made it home safe with everyone alive). I heard there is a street over by my high school (which was also hit and had to be repaired) where there was only one house with a basement on that particular street, and people knew which house, so 50+ people piled on top of each other in that basement in order to survive the tornado. My great grandfather, after not being able to have this house with a basement, built a storm shelter encased in concrete in the back yard. In the end my community put up a tornado memorial in front of my high school with 3 lit windows in a brick wall with a tree arbor behind it. it has since been replanted and rededicated on the 50th anniversary. Because it was in disrepair by the time I was in high school some clueless brothers from los angeles who were absolutely terrified of tornadoes absolutely did not want to be informed that it was in fact, a tornado memorial in front of the school. Recently, speaking of tornado intercept vehicles, someone saw the Reed Timmer's Dominator 3 going through Kansas City and apparently he was en route to Nebraska (thankfully since you don't want to BE where he is because it almost always means bad news if he's sticking around). Apparently i have learned in people talking about this vehicle that it's a modified Ford F350 that is outfitted to be as sturdy as it can be against a tornado and can actually shoot spikes to burrow into the ground to stabilize it from being flipped over by a tornado. I'm still terrified of tornadoes though. I know too well what the worst of them are capable of.
since about April 20th there have been a couple dozen ef3+ tornados in the midwest, a particularly bad year. However it has provide some of the most incredible video ever captured.
16:38 Tornados make a very distinct ROAR that is deafening. Its like a low rumble from a dance club subwoofer and the sound of sticking your head out of a car windows traveling at 100 miles per hour at the same time. Nothing sounds like one, but if I had to describe it the only thing that comes close would be riding on a motorcycle with no Helmet at 100 miles per hour while being pelted with with WATER ROCKS.
I was working with a classmate on a tornado project, years ago. She said she remembered the sound of the one that nearly ripped her out of her mother’s arms as they were heading for shelter. Then unleashes this unbelievable lion’s roar/shriek of a sound. The class was stunned. Keep in mind, this classmate was a whisp of a girl that looked like she’d break if you shook her. She added, “I’m almost certain the screaming was my mom as she was holding onto me. But She almost lost her grip, and I just remember the sound of that day.”
@@icarusbinns3156 Yea its a uniquely terrifying sound that is both subharmonic lows and and blood curdling highs. Tornados are a total attack on your senses, especially your hearing and the fact that the sound of a tornado is so loud you can't communicate with screams with someone right beside you even when you are a safe distance away from it. Its a terror most people will never have to experience, because its insane and does stick with you for life.
@@joesalyers there was one utterly horrific storm my sister and I were in… if not for the weirdness of where we lived, that would have been a tornado, right on our house. We were at home, I was stress-baking, and the weather report was zoomed in on this deep burgundy hook in the storm, with the meteorologist talking about the intense wind, rain, lightning, hail, and if not for the mountain disrupting the air currents, that hook would absolutely be deadly. Our parents were at a concert, and could only see this huge, dark mass. Mom asked if we could see it… “Yeah. We’re IN that! It’s getting pretty scary.”
@@icarusbinns3156 Yea I grew up in the Mountains of Appalachia, so Tornados just were not a thing, and my first trip working on a record in the Mid-West was to Fort Worth Texas in the area of Benbrook near the lake. They experienced a small Tornado while I was their in 1998 I was 17 years old. I was mesmerized and scared to death all at the same time. It was far enough away that we were safe but we could see it and hear it. I had marks on my face from the rain smacking be so hard, it looked like shaving forehead and cheeks with a cheap razor. The sound though was unforgettable. I have been a musician all of my life so I'm no stranger to loud sounds but this was so loud it is indescribable. I try to avoid the Midwest during tornado season if at all possible! Cheers!!
the creepiest thing about it is that this year we had a big outbreak of tornadoes from April 25-28. 129 total touched down. The strongest being Marietta/ Harlan at an EF4 but DOW recorded wind gusts that if it left damage could have been an EF5. (gusts recorded at 224mph/360km h) when was the last historic outbreak? April 25-28th 2011...
