Yup even though large tornadoes tend to be stronger than smaller ones that's not always the case. There have been VERY wide F2 tornadoes and very narrow F5 tornadoes. It happens. The power of the wind is all that determines destructive force. Larger tornadoes will of course have wider area of damage.
The way it throws trees hundreds of feet up and pulls them back around mid air, as if they were darts. Next time you get a chance give even a smaller tree a tug and think about how strong those winds had to be to pull something like that up and keep it in the air like that. I had to move some small trees and limbs one year after they fell during a bomb cyclone in NY, they were smaller and it was far from easy. :O
I just wanted to recognize everyone who took the time to share both positive & negative feedback on this video. I appreciate your suggestions and thoughts! I try to read each comment and intend to improve my methods based on your advice. Thank you!
This storm was relentless from the start amazing footage you wouldn't want to get up close to this storm to unpredictable in it's movement it's a beast.
Wow dude that was EXCELLENT filming!!!! I loved that you didn't move the camera up to the sky when the tornado was right next to the houses like 99% of storm chasers do!!! So frustrating when they do that I want to scream!!😡 your video filming is one of the best!! You are very brave and glad you are ok!!!! Thank you soooo much for a fantastic tornado video!!! 👏👏👏👏
Check out Pecos Hank! No screaming/yelling, no shaking camera, he bleeps out cuss words with the EAS sound, he loves animals, one of his previous chasing cars was named the T.I.T., he sleeps in really bad quality Hotels without complaining, and he writes and preforms his own music for his videos!
HA! More Reed Timmer admirers! How about you just tell the man what a good job he did instead of comparing Hank and Reed. They both react differently and have a different style of chasing! I like both because of how they do things differently, and if you don't like Reed, then don't watch his videos, like I am sure you Timmer whiners do!
@@lokiisbestantihero Hank is the best. He's calm and explains well what's going on, and he sometimes finds some local wildlife to show in his videos as well. I love his style. And he's funny too. (Jan Griffiths).
This is THEE BEST footage of the first 4 minutes of this tor you'll see! Awesome job JP, and congrats! This is an inimitable storm for you. Thoughts and prayers are with those affected.
This has to be the finest footage ever mainly because the cameraman here seems to have a very steady hand and captures the base of this twister and follows its path carefully
I've been fascinated by tornadoes since I was a little kid even though I've never seen one. I've watched most of the vids on YT and this is one of the best ones I've seen. I can't imagine how scary that is to see in person, hope no one perished in that storm.
I know exactly how you feel. I've loved storms since I was a kid too, and think this is an excellent video. Don't know how I haven't seen it until now, I've watched pretty much every other tornado video on YT, both good and bad. Also, I, unfortunately, do know at least one person was killed in this tornado, he knew it was coming and was taking shelter, but didn't think he would survive, and the last thing he did was text his mom goodbye.
Im sorry to inform you but i know of 2 casualties caused by this tornado. The wife and neighbor of the man recording passed but last I heard he made a full recovery. I linked the video below but it is one of the scariest videos I've ever seen. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Szwd-0tatdo.html
Wow I've been obsessed with this particular storm for a minute and I'm barely coming across this. Thanks for capturing the beginning, really appreciate it.
Beautiful footage. probably the best I've seen of any tornado's birth. Utterly amazing how you shot it starting as a spindly thing to a scary twister. I live close to Rockford and our sirens went off 5 separate times due to different funnels being spotted- we were scared to death. This tornado dumped a muddy wallet from Rochelle into my father's yard in Belvidere, along with shingles and metal pieces. He wasn't home at the time, but his neighbors watched this giant wedge pass by their subdivision while on it's last legs. Scary stuff.
Heart goes out to all the families effected by this tornado. But as for this video and Mother Nature, Amazing! Great video and hearing the sirens sound towards the end made so much better. Erie sounding. Thanks for sharing!
I actually lived in Kirkland at the time and seen 6 of the tornados, it was amazing but terrifying. I sat outside and there were just tornados surrounding my house. I knew the woman that ended up passing away. I was like 11 years old
WOW!! That's the first video where I've seen that shows the extent that debris gets sucked up and flung around in a tornado. Just amazing shots. I think this is the same tornado that a man filmed as it hit his house, injured him, and killed his wife. Again, fantastic video.
Awesome video bro. I swear, I like these raw, uncut and unedited tornado vids WAY more than the polished, edited and clean-cut ones. For some reason, you can just capture the true nature of a tornado with an unpolished video.
I only live about 25-30 miles from where this took place!! Why is it that so many communities don’t sound the siren till the tornado is on the ground?!?!? I’m also trained Weather Spotter.
Started southwest of Fairdale and eventually grew into an EF 4. Some claim it grew to EF 5. The damage was unreal. Tractors thrown like toys at the corner of 251 and 64. Near the begining of its birth, it hit a warehouse in Franklin Grove as an EF 1 or 2.
This is incredible footage, and that's coming from a jaded twister-watcher. Just wonderful! And thank you, more than you can imagine, for not screaming.
This is one of the best videos of a tornado I have ever seen. I almost started wondering if it was sped up a but because of how fast it was rotating, but thst wasn't the case. That was some very violent rotation.
Justin, thank you sooooo much for your bravery in filming this AWSOME beast!!! I think you did a very good job, the only thing you did wrong was that you stopped filming! I don't know if this was your first time to film a tornado but if so you really did a great job!! Thank you for posting this video, I love tornadoes, in fact I am obsessed with them and wish I could see one in real life!! Only been in one, but was ten years old and it was at night! Thank you again!!!
Holy smokes, this is amazing, it looks like the upper disturbance attaches itself with the ground like an umbilical cord, rotates faster and faster, then just stays glued to the ground and travels forward devouring everything in its path, wow, send it to NOAA, bet they want to see this!
Your video is a superb depiction of the erratic dynamics of tornado movement/development, at least in its early stages, and at ground level. With all the right ingredients in place the atmosphere finally reaches a critical point and the "plug is pulled". Suddenly all hell breaks loose. While you were in the right place at the right time, sadly others were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Ah, 2015, when the sirens still meant get to cover and people filmed from a safe distance. Seven years later and idiots think the wail means grab your stupidphone and drive into the tornado for your chance to go viral.
Glad that you were inside your vehicle in case of lightning. Also glad that you zoomed in for greater detail but still held the camera steadily. But none compares to drone views which enable better perception of location, size and ferocity.
Is this the same tornado that hits the house with the old man filming in the attic? I know a ton about specific tornadoes and videos. However, my brain is not as sharp as it was when I was younger🤷♂️
Wow man reminds me of the jarrell footage early on just a thin powerful laser and we all know how it ends up. Great footage. I have no clue how the house at 4:10 survived my heart dropped bc I knew what was coming but I was happy to be wrong
Look at how violent the motion is even on the early stages of this monster. I caught it from the other side but wasn't close enough to see this level of detail and speed. Had a good indication how strong it was by how high it lofted debris into the air, but this was a strong-violent tornado from the start!
So far as of September 6th, it is the only violent tornado of 2015 so far, meaning rated EF4 or EF5. The tornado received a final rating of very high-end EF4 with winds at 200 MPH. EF4 tornadoes have winds of 166-200 MPH, but it was not like other EF4's such as Harrisburg, IL or some of the lesser known weak-end EF4's from the 2011 Super Outbreak such as Cordova/Ringgold-Cleveland (winds at 170-180), this was like Vilonia, Arkansas or Washington, Illinois (190 MPH+) just under EF5 not just above EF3.
Okay, the funnel is off the ground, not touching the building anymore, then somehow even when it's not touching, a big portion of the roof implodes. This video proves the fact that tornadoes can still do damage/hurt/injure/kill you even when it looks week/the full condensation isn't on the ground.
Stunning footage which is detrimental in helping understand these beast. I can't believed I just moved out this way. I remember when this hit we heard about it in burbs. F4 is insane and wow I would have filmed it too because I love tornadoes.
According to opinions this tornado is EF4, but now there is the possibility this could have been an EF5. Several houses that were well built were completely swept away outside of Rochelle, with one having its concrete walkway pulled out of the ground. Unfortunately, due to incomplete sweeping of all debris and shrubbery not being debarked, those contextual discrepancies it did not warrant an EF5 rating, so that's why they went with extremely high-end EF4 with peak winds of 200 MPH. It had a peak width of half a mile wide, traveled about 32 miles for a little under an hour from Ashton to Kirkland near Belvidere and Rockford. At one point it had a satellite EF0 that did damage with it.
Unbelievable! Pretty good quality; what a great video! You did a fantastic job! This tornado took a couple lives and created a lot of destruction. I wonder why one of the victim's husband (Clem Schultz) was on the second floor, video-taping, however? I'd been long gone, at the first sight of that. That thing turned out to be as tumultuous as it looked.
I live close to that town and visited there a while back and damn that tornado did some damage. I saw what I think was a church or house completely gone, what's left of it is just the concrete stairs leading to nothing. really powerful stuff
I think it's really crazy to the see the debris cloud just pop up out of nowhere, right onto a house, and it just literally explodes. Never seen anything like it. I feel bad for all those affected by this and hope they are recovering well.
Just the sound with the creepy siren going is scary enough. To me this tornado was underrated if it had more towns in its path it would got a ef5 this storm was nasty but fact it didn't hit that much and Fairdale was a tiny town is why it got a ef4 but if u look at fully grown from a distance all the lightning the structure of it it was a monster
Man, those sirens were late. The tornado was on the ground and already lofting *major* debris before they ever came on. That's the thing you never want to see... tornadoes lofting people's houses and lives into the air like that.
Of course, the sirens go off AFTER the tornado complete destroyed that one building. That's why you can't trust sirens. Get a NOAA weather radio. A good, reliable one costs $20.
