One tornado I've never seen mentioned is the Gans, Oklahoma F4 tornado. Considering its the tornado with the deepest ground scouring in recorded history, its definitely underappreciated, dug a pit in the ground 20 feet wide and 3 feet deep near the beginning of its life.
I tried looking it up for my own research purposes and I was sent to a list made by weather.gov detailing a list of killers in Oklahoma, and the ground scouring reports conflict with what you've said. It says the holes were ten inches in diameter with a maximum depth of 1*1/2 feet, which isn't anything to sneeze at mind you. Not trying to start anything, YT comments can be rancid as is.
As a native michigander I absolutely love any bits on the Hudsonville or Flint Beecher F5s. I live 30min from Gaylord which was hit by an EF3 few years ago, usually don’t get strong boys like that how far north I am, but they can happen. They scare & fascinate me greatly! Great video !
I remember the Gaylord EF3 tornado. I was actually tracking that on radar that afternoon. and watched as the supercell tracked into Lake Huron, where it eventually re-intensified as it moved into Canada.
Hudsonville was expected with “ basic “ tools Flint Beecher however had eyes witnesses say it dropped from the sky and formed a V shape and they took a guess that it was a tornado (mind you it’s rare) and they were right It was headed right for their factory and they got out the way of it
I remember watching this one on radar but I’ve had a bunch within 10 miles of me including both Williamston tornadoes. The 2023 Williamston tornado would’ve been high EF3-EF4 as well if it had hit anything more than one house
I am also a native Michigander and i didnt really know much about Hudsonville as im up in onaway, which from rumors around town saying that in July of 2020 (i don't exactly remember) of a small ef0 that went through town doing small damage, it actually was down the road from my house as i seen it through the window despite all the hail and lightning, and also when the Gaylord tornado hit my town also got the eas alert for that tornado as it was heading north. Scared the hell out of me because it was graduation day for my brother and i feared that it would've come and hit the school while he was there
@@lilhillbilly01 that Gaylord tornado was scary, especially with the strength and little warning. I’m down in the Williamston area so we had that big EF2 in Williamston/Webbervile (would’ve been EF4+ if it hit anything based off radar data), then there was 2 in Mason (EF0s) one in Perry (EF1) one in Potterville (EF1) and a bunch of smaller ones that went unreported but you can see where they went through trees. We’ve also had some big ones in previous years like in 08 when Williamston took a direct hit from an EF2
The Woodward, Oklahoma tornado is what got my father into meteorology, ultimately getting me into meteorology. It’s a pretty mysterious tornado, I wish more was known about it.
As I said on the other version (uploaded before), my husband was born and grew up in Antlers Oklahoma. That tornado darned near wiped the town out. The Army was called in from Camp Maxie in Paris Texas and assistance from all over the Texas border and SE Oklahoma sent help to help dig out, clean up, and start the rebuild. Their house was built right after that, the other one was destroyed. His family wasn't there at the time, they moved to the town in 1955, his father was the county abstractor for decades. One of the first thing they did was build a shelter (and then put a room above it). When we got married, we were gifted a silverware set in a very nice wooden box. The story is that it came through that tornado, still sitting on a shelf, intact.
Because the 2013 one is without a doubt the strongest tornado in modern history. Simply based off damage it’s EF3 but if it happened in a populated city it would be catastrophic damage warranting a EF6 rating
No it wouldn't. The 330 mph winds were in milliseconds and they only happened in small subvortices well above ground level. El Reno 2011 had so many insane feats its pretty much stronger in every way except width than the 2013 one,@@xanderc1225
The 1945 F5 is one I've not heard of before. I've always had an interest in the April 11, 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak - Ted Fujita did a paper on that outbreak in 1970, and it makes for fascinating reading. A paper I've read on the El Reno - Piedmont EF5, mentioned that the Midway tornado may have been two tornadoes, but for a very short time. The photo of the F4 tornado in Toledo is very strange looking. It looks like two vertical lights instead of two tornadoes. I'm surprised you made no mention of Tanner, Alabama, which was hit by two F5 tornadoes on April 3, 1974. Then was hit by an EF5 on April 27, 2011.
An amazing video. I noticed on the map of EF5 tornadoes it showed the April 12 1927 Rocksprings TX tornado. I know that it was unusual in the fact that, after killing 71 in Rocksprings, it moved SE for 62 miles, roping out west of Uvalde, Tx. There were obviously a rare atmospheric setup to cause this movement.
That sorta happens when they’re rain-wrapped. The Joplin tornado was confirmed late because it was hidden so well everyone thought it was just a massive storm cell with the possibility of forming. You literally couldn’t see it coming, especially if you were on the ground
You should check out the 1998 Spencer South Dakota twister. It took out the town and had winds over 250 mph . Cool footage on RU-vid as well. It was huge
The oakfield Wisconsin tornado is a very close subject to me because it happened 6 years exactly before I was born when my dad was heading home from west bend to fond du lac. He used to tell me stories of him driving his Volkswagen bus through the storm and when he was going through oakfield lightning was striking all around his bus and hitting the road around him. He could have very easily been the only one to die that day but he didn’t. The fact nobody ever discusses how strong this tornado was just surprises me.
Absolutely amazing video on some incredible forgotten tornadoes. it is crazy that the Lawrenceberg F5 is completely forgotten despite it being the strongest tornado of the outbreak. Or that the Mulhall F4 tornado was possibly over 4 miles wide but it’s completely forgotten.
finally, a video that acknowledges the Mulhall tornado’s size. I think the craziest thing about this specific tornado also has to do with the fact that many who were there that day said the Mulhall tornado was as strong, if not stronger, than the Bridgecreek-Moore F5.
So it was the tornado of all tornadoes then and it’s underrated ? If it’s 4 miles wide and Could of obliterated like the bridge creek estates It’s #1 then
My understanding is that the winds that were considered tornadic strength were at around 100 mph, which is what was 4.2 miles wide, the max winds were measured to be around 180 mph, so I don't think it was as strong, but it was definitely a much larger beast!
For 1965 with Indiana it’s actually Wanatah not Wantah, I’m from Wanatah and some people are familiar with the F3 that happened but sadly you can’t find anything damaged anymore since it’s been so long
Mulhall had a wind reach of 4.2 miles, not part of the tornadic circulation, every tornado has a wind reach, it is very well seen in the town hall footage of the ef3 in andover
I wasnt even born when the ruskin tornado happened, but i had a teacher tell me how when she was younger and that tornado first came along, the entire suburbs she lived had to be flattened because you couldnt even rebuild from what was left. Her and her friends used to dig in the dirt where the old houses were and would find shards of glass and buried pieces of rubble. Ruskin was truly an interesting tornado you dont hear to often about.
You should talk about the 1984 barneveld EF5 tornado which was at the time considered the strongest tornado ever due to completely destroying 90% of the village and how the debris was scattered all over the state of Wisconsin
where we are located we had 3 spawn and i could hear them around us. pretty scary . Now since Michael we lost all the trees here. @@samuelraytheweirdcontentgu8551
What's your thoughts of them raising the EF level to EF6? Some people think that people wouldn't consider EF5s to be dangerous anymore, and try to ride them out... I cannot imagine something carving 3 foot deep trenches in the earth let alone particles blown so fast by wind stripping flesh off of people, living or dead... My roommate was to the south of Kalamazoo Michigan as a child in the mid to early 50s. They said they were 3 or 4 years old and a tornado came through the area and shoved a tree through the house while they were home alone- their mom had to take the younger sister to the local doctor for some emergency and no one was available to babysit. The family wasn't rich enough to fix the hole in the wall so they turned it into a window...
@@highriskchris I still think that anything is possible at any given moment, so an actual F6 could become a real thing if weather conditions were bad enough to allow such a thing to exist. That being said, F5s are still the most terrifying and devastating tornadoes that we know of to date of course.
Pretty sure the 1999 Mulhall tornado was 4.2 miles wide at the top, but the ground damage was ~1.5 miles from what I've heard. Also heard that El Reno was still wider at the top, at 4.5 miles.
Here is a forgotten one Waco 1953 F5 tornado May 11th 597 injured and sadly 114 killed (idk if its forgotten i just havent heard of it until I looked on the website)
I grew up in Decatur, Il and i remember when the Cantrell tornado happened. I went fishing on the lake that day and remember seeing the Supercell develop and later seeing it maturing. It was an amazing looking storm and ill never forget it. My family was watching the live coverage of it on WAND. That was such a nice looking Cumulonimbus cloud.
Great video. We get so used to being bombarded with videos of the El Reno tornado that its easy to forget about all the other destructive monsters that have been lost to time. I also appreciate the plugs for my state of Michigan. I’ve lived here my whole life, and never knew about the Branch county F4.
The Depauw, Indiana tornado on April 3, 1974 was rated F-5, but it isn't talked about much. While it moved through mostly open country, it has some interesting features about it which may be worth considering for program.
There were several known tornadoes that went on to do more damage that surprised me most. You really just don't hear of all mischief they caused and damage done due to the spotlight somewhere else. Really great idea. Thanks.
Another F4 tornado that got little info on it is the one that hit Cincinnati in ‘90. Despite hitting a lumber yard and going over multiple high population areas, it didn’t kill anyone.
I'd forgotten about the Ruskin Heights tornado. I was a kid then and we live in the country south of there. It was all people talked about for months. I have been a spotter since 1974. Our home was hit by the Andover tornado. I was stationed there and had a horse ranch about a mile east of Clearwater. I was spotting with the local volunteer FD at that time . I submit that I and others have tornados that are much larger and more violent than have been studied. Because they stayed in open fields, lots if those from Texas to Canada, and didn't damage any structure the NWS doesn't bother with them.
The April 21st 1967 oak lawn tornado is always forgotten bec of Belvedere even though oak lawn was first strongest to hit metro Chicago and caused more loss Belvedere out shadow oak lawn due to hit hitting the HS when people were getting out so the loss were mainly at the school
I remember the Andover,Kansas tornado 🌪️ f5 in 1991 but not the Winfield tornado on the same day-it didn’t get any attention because it was on p open country-there was a video of that twister on another RU-vid channel! Good stuff on the forgotten tornadoes 🌪️! 😊😊😊😊😊
i was trying to fall asleep until i heard you bring up an F5 tornado that ran through my home town then complimented its beauty, awesome feeling, and i knew i should be nervous about tornados cause holy hell
There is another forgotten tornado that I saw on a map in a previous video. When you mentioned the May 4, 2003 outbreak I saw an F4 in Tennessee. That tornado my mom and dad were in. It was very undocumented in their town since it previously hit a larger town. It did at least F4 damage as it lifted a gas station only 200 yards from their apartment.
@@Tarv1 yeah I don’t remember that one. My grandmother told me about the one that dropped after Lawrenceburg f5 and told me that there was a woman who had her house blown away and the only way she new it was coming was because of a Huntsville news station. All the stations in Nashville were worried about trees that fell over in Nashville
I lived in Hudsonville Michigan before moving out in August but I hope to move back there again someday it’s such a lovely place my photo in my profile is a storm that I saw in Hudsonville that was so big at the the border of Michigan and Indiana I was able to see it
I feel like powerful tornadoes in the Chicagoland area are forgotten a lot, and I’d like to see a video on powerful tornadoes in the Great Lakes region, most Wisconsin F5s are forgotten.
I wouldn't call the April 26, 1991 outbreak a "forgotten" tornado outbreak. I knew about the Red Rock, Oklahoma tornado that Howard Bluestein in the early version of the DOW, measured 286 mph. That outbreak was featured on nearly all tornado documentaries of the 1990s. About Birmingham, not only was there 2 F5 tornadoes to follow that similar path in 1977 and 1998, respectively, but also 2 F4/EF4's in 1956, and 2011, to hit those same areas of the western and northern Birmingham suburbs.
I usually despise when people say this in the comments, but I’m going to make an exception here: Chris, your channel is “criminally underrated”. Thank you for uploading quality content.
Thank you, Chris! I lived in Junction City, Kansas, and had no idea the famous Hesston tornado came so close to there. Granted, I lived there in 94, 4 years after, but still cool.
The Great Barrington tornado in Massachusetts was an F4 in an area that almost never gets tornados. There were a lot of tornados in the northeast that day. Whole thing is forgotten.
I didn’t fully realize the scale of the distance some tornados travel. Like, I live in San Diego. I cannot comprehend being concerned that I could be hit by a tornado that started in Riverside
The Tri state tornado of 1925 was the deadliest tornado in U.S history at 690-750+ fatalities and over 10 thousand injured and the 3 worst tornado in world history, classified as an F5 it leveled Town after town after town, and after 2 and a half hours later after traveling at speeds of 69 MPH it finally disapated.
The Oakfield tornado's worst damage was (fortunately) outside the community it struck. Several houses were completely swept off their foundations, and one foundation's rebar supports were bent 90 degrees. Incredible damage.
The Hudsonville tornado film is one of my favorite go-to specimens when it comes to highlighting the phenomenon of how repeat exposures can change how old film footage looks, and especially how this can often make old tornado films look surreal and otherworldly. Like, we have your relatively first-gen iteration of the tornado at 1:55, but then there's this equally well-seen iteration: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VOkyyMZwuzI.html where the same footage now looks like it's taking place during a fiery sunset. Another example I like to reference involves the 1973 tornado footage from Salina KS. This ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0Zjc2lKxpus.html and this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uaQxU3wnX7k.html are the same film, but the coloration/crushing are completely different between them.
We were in the 1991 andover tornado. We lived off of pawnee and Greenwich right outside McConnell afb..we lost everything but our lives. OUR neighbor did die along with her two nieces. Our lives were never the same.
There are some f4s that gets my attention from 1 year 1978 theres one that hit sherve port i think it directly hit it theres the one near oklahoma city its near it 2 of them near grand island another one was in south dakoda i guess you can say there kinds forgotten
Could also mention the Van Wert Ohio tornado that was in November 2003 or 2004 (can’t remember). Theres actually a lot of people that I know that don’t even remember it.
Tupelo(F5)/Gainesville(F4) outbreak in the mid 1930s is one I wish more people would cover. Those are still two of the deadliest tornadoes in history and the Tupelo tornado spared a just born Elvis. Gainesville also got smacked pretty hard in the early 1900s, has two of the top 20 deadliest tornadoes of all time, which both hit the same factory in town. Also the Appalachia Outbreak of 1944, two major F4s going through WV was quite the event and the Shinniston WV F4 is one of the deadliest of all time as well.
Honestly no tornado should be forgotten, Those tornadoes can improve our storm research, how they Get so strong and how we can defend better, basements may not be enough to save a life
Chris, my birthday is on March 24. I never knew about the rolling Fork tornado on my birthday now I’m worried for these next few few years because then another tornado could happen on March 24 and any other year.
You forgot to mention, even though it was a F2 tornado at marshall county in Alabama in April 27, 2011 I like to call it "The tornado that skipped along the Guntersville lake" we got around 6 tornadoes in Marshall county
