May 3, 1999 Tornado - KFOR Live Coverage 

That is amazing! I'm hoping my son becomes a meteorologist..he is 7 and absolutely obsessed with weather as I was at his age..I can live vicariously through him haha..my mum has videos of my cousins doing cheers and gymnastics as a child...she has videos of me telling the weather on the living room curtains 😂😂

Going to University of Oklahoma (Boomer Sooner! I’m a huge OU fan) and becoming a meteorologist is my dream. Like I am obsessed with weather. My friends literally call me Weathertech.

ive been studying to be a meteorologist no school i can track a tornado on radar have reported on to the news agency said that they were keeping a watchful eye on it was rapidly roatating (this is gaylor michigan) and the put out a tornado warning less then a miniute later i dont have gr2 anymore sadly looking to buy radarscope i hope to track

Very reminiscent of the Andover tornado. This tornado did more impressive ground scouring and the Andover tornado did more impressive wind rowing and debris granulation.

always wanted to be a meteorologist. too much math, though.

I'm surprised that when the Supersonics moved from Seattle to OKC that they were named the Thunder and not the Oklahomans.

Sounded so nice, they named it thrice.

Probably started as the city, then the county, then the state.

Ok-la-ho-ma where we don't care if we all have the same name!

@John Huffington "A Blazing Saddles joke", yessir and one of the funniest movies that this old black dude still loves to watch. Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder are two of my favorite comedic actors, among a great cast of actors. I'm sorry it is in the cross hair of the self righteous the sensitivity and pc crowd. I'm glad I have a dvd copy, unless there is a way to use EMF to selectively delete out the "objectionable" scenes, lol. Anyway my 2.5 cents worth.

What number mark is that

@@StunningShay I believe it starts at 37:29

@@StunningShay starts around 30:45

There are no words to describe this. Apocalyptic.

Bless you darling.

I am sorry for ur loss but I am happy that u were out of ur mothers custody

Awwww that was nice to hear :) im glad they took you in. It's nice to still hear about good people in times like these.

Brought tears! So glad you got away from your Mom, and God bless your Grandparents, may they rest in peace in heaven.

Amen 🌝

Charles Urban You should see StudioQ’s video, “EF6,” if you haven’t already. One of the tornado emergencies he uses in it uses the phrase, “a potential mass casualty situation.” It’s basically this situation put on the most insane steroids possible.

@@seanbrower6738 the only problem with that video is that it's a fantasy situation, and is essentially a chain of computer-read fake EMS broadcasts written with the fancy of an Old-lady smut novel writer. Now, all that being said it may be really exciting for some people and the maker did a great job conveying what he wanted to. Personally, I'd rather pound my balls flat with a wooden mallet than have to listen to ANY of that video ever again. (Seriously) Your mileage may vary though.

Leo Fender Well that’s lovely. To each his own, but one guy in one comment thread, who has a master’s in meteorology (yes, I know you can lie), enjoyed the video, despite its flaws. Again, though, to each his own.

@@GravyHucker You sir, are disrespecting users like ClayRanger143, EasAlert88 and others. You need to... GET A FUCKING LIFE.

@@macrofurry5741 Who cares?

You lucky duck! I have the worst luck. If I was in a situation like that, I would have teleported through the wall and into the tornado or something. That’s a crazy story that you can tell your grandkids one day.

@@epcacxid_on_wiiyt3865 yup

Glad your okay ❤️🙏🏽

God was definitely looking out for you! I would have been terrified! Tornadoes scare me worse than spiders! They are so beautiful, but can mess anything/everything/everyone up that is unfortunate to be in its path.

So did I. We lived in the neighborhood behind Ollison's or now Bridge Creek Convenience. I would have been 11 years old. My mom picked us up and we sped out going north on sara road just before the tornado reached Ridge Crest. It was up on the hills behind it....It didn't even look like a tornado, It was so large it just looked like the sky was on the ground. We fled north west to union city where there was ANOTHER tornado. We had to go to a public shelter while we were there. It was traumatic to say the least.

Hearing the buzz of the static is like hearing the pops and hiss on an old vinyl record. It's a comforting sound from a timeless media.

It actually freaks me out. I remember that whoever is watching it is within the danger zone, and when it starts to break up that means the tornado is coming closer.

vhs tapes creeps me out for some reason

Aaaa I love VHS tapes, even though I'm a gen Z

@@rabidrabbitshuggers I think this was pretty widely broadcasted. VHS usually have dropouts throughout the tape or the station having a failure. If the tornado was actually close the person, we probably wouldn't have this footage.

made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up

Very

That was nuts!

I would've kept filming.

reed timmer???

My thoughts there's some living debris on that thing

This. That moment when they zoom into the debris cloud is when you really feel the terror.

It is........

Right guyzzz

Scary ??? I remember standing in my moms front yard on this day watching this debris fly up in the sky. I was amazed and that day I wanted to become a storm chaser 😩

Rip

RIP

Thank you for sharing this, very sad story

My deep condolences my friend

Twisters dont forgive

Crazy

They seriously thought you should open your windows in the 1970s?

Hemp Rope Yes. They didn’t know.

you also had the underpass tornado in Kansas in 1991 which gave rise to the myth it was safer under an overpass. 99 really proved that wrong

my Boyfriend and his son were opening the windows during the storms on Tuesday,then after the storms I showed them a video of why you shouldn't

Don't forget 2003.

I know this is a dark joke but maybe the tornadoes didn’t like Monday

Ryan Jason creepy coincidence

a lot of bad tornadoes happen in May. (Joplin, El Reno, Moore, etc.) I guess May is prime tornado month?

Yea thats wierd

Timestamp?

32:48

@@Markus-be7ow insane

A picture that best sums up the devastation in Moore, Oklahoma after the tornado on May 20th, 2013 is a picture of firefighters pulling Jennifer Doan- a third grade teacher at Plaza Towers Elementary School- out from under the rubble of the school. What is particularly surprising about this story is that Jennifer was pregnant with her third child at the time of the tornado. Despite having sustained severe injuries to her neck, back and sternum due to a cinder block wall collapsing on top of her and her students; Jennifer did not lose her baby.

Tony nice catch. Damn that’s crazy

35:23

Wow

Prayers 🙏 for the tornado 🌪 victims in 1999 I hope 🤞 nobody got hurt or killed or injured 🤕 by the 1999 tornado warning ⚠️

Several people were killed.

Me too!

Omg me too. I lived through one when I was 3 and I’m 40 now. I still watch these every spring/summer

Me too. I Dream about tornadoes from time to time

Me too! Sometimes I also watch nuclear apocalypse stuff like Threads. I guess my brain is trying to tell me it could always be worse.

Wisprionix me to I’m just bored with this virus

Well you will be an expert by the time this is over unfortunately:-/

Same.. yet i duno why 🤔

@Jennifer Hall haha I didn't even see your comment when i posted mine 😂 I hadn't scrolled down yet... spooky

Mike Morgan and Gary England were the dynamic duo that residents of the Oklahoma City area looked to for guidance and comfort during a tornado. When Gary retired from KWTV Channel 9; a lot of people were really sad.

@@michaellovely6601 Mike, Gary, and David.... The Trinity of Oklahoma weathermen💯Also, don't forget Jim Gardener KFOR's helicopter pilot.

@@bekahdoug5572 Mm-hm. I admit that I felt really sad when Gary England retired. What's crazy is that Jim Gardner is now the helicopter pilot for KWTV Channel 9. I recognized his voice in a video where he was tracking the tornado that struck El Reno, Oklahoma on May 31st, 2013. Personally if I was a student at the University of Oklahoma and studying meteorology I would want to score an internship under either Mike Morgan at KFOR Channel 4 or Damon Lane at Oklahoma City's ABC affiliate KOCO Channel 5. If I were to choose Damon it would be because he was personally affected by the tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma on May 20th, 2013. In an episode of a show on The Weather Channel called "Tornado Alley: Real Time Tornado" which profiled the Moore tornado; Damon talked about how he was juggling two roles that day: chief meteorologist and husband. Damon was text messaging his wife and urging her to get herself and their dogs into their storm shelter.

I really enjoyed Mike telling people what to do and talking like a normal person. The other guy in this video just keeps repeating weatherman buzzwords and I lost count at the number of times he said "dangerous situation". It's like he was so shocked all he could do was repeat buzz words he'd been trained with. You can also tell that Mike learned from this and in 2013 gave a lot more advice. In this video he says things like he pleads and he prays, and in 2013 he's telling people what to do. Meanwhile the other guy just keeps saying this is a dangerous situation and to tell us where They are simulcasting.

He reeeeeeaally likes to hear himself talk!

This shot is the most crazy tornado coverage I’ve seen on RU-vid. Just insane, the type of stuff that sticks in your mind.

Crazy footage. I didn't realize zoom lenses were that good 20 years ago. I thought they were almost in the bear's cage. RIP to all the victims.

Absolutely, that shot is so embedded in my memory oh, I can watch this until you women the Sparks and which color are going to come out. We were recording this all on VHS tape live at the time. That shot was incredible and horrific at the same time. I could actually remember smelling natural gas clear up at Memorial Road and I-35! ... and I just remembered having debris, like photos in our yard.

bugalaman agreed ! The debris ball was massive in this thing! I’ve never seen anything like it. Catastrophic damage in this tornado. The horizontal vortex was just eerie! You know you have an EF5 with that!!

Man.. incredible footage. Unreal. God bless those people I couldn’t imagine being in front of this monster above ground

Additionally, there was an instance back in 1991 of a local TV news crew for KSNW-TV, the NBC affiliate in Wichita, Kansas, surviving a tornado while under an overpass that the tornado passed either over or very close to. As the video of that was widely played on cable TV network programs about tornadoes for a number of years after that tornado occurred, that gave many people an impression that a highway overpass is a safe place to seek shelter from a tornado, which is simply not the case. However, it wasn't until after the May 3, 1999 tornado outbreak did it become common knowledge that highway overpasses are one of the worst places to be when a tornado strikes, and that people should not take shelter in a highway overpass.

Aaron Camp One of the women I used to work for said that during this tornado, she and a few other people had to abandon their cars and they sought shelter under an overpass. She said when the tornado passed over, she was holding onto one other person's hands and that person was sucked right out of her grasp and out from under the overpass. She said she was traumatized by it.

Let's keep it real though. If you're outside and in the direct path of a tornado containing F4 or F5 power, it really doesn't matter what you do. If you try to outrun the tornado, you'll get blown off the road. If you go under an underpass, you'll get sucked out by the tornado. If you get out of your car and lie in a ditch, you still may get sucked up, and have debris pelting you, including possibly hail. It's a lose, lose, lose situation no matter what a person decided to do.

***** What about the ones who didn't survive? No, the people who were under the overpass weren't stupid, but it probably wasn't the best thing for them to do. The best thing for them to have done, once they heard about the tornado, would've been to get off the road and take shelter in a building somewhere, preferably one that has a basement or a storm shelter.

Louise Taylor well said, your pretty hot btw :)

I know right... Much love for that guy... Always lookin out for us 👍

Not to mention, Tulsa's now-Chief meteorologist KJRH NBC Dan Threlkeld. Also of note, listen to the names of the people working with Mike and KFOR here. These guys have gone on to become outstanding meteorologists Mike Morgan trained the best Dan Threlkeld - Now Chief Meteorologist for NBC KJRH in Tulsa David Payne - Gary England's successor as KWTV CBS Chief Meteorologist Steve Carano - KOCO Channel 5 ABC Meteorologist Damon Lane (might have come after, but he was with this team at a time) - Chief Meteorologist ABC KOCO Channel 5

You’re lucky he didn’t get you killed in 2013 when he said to try and drive away from that El Reno monster. If that thing had held together and slammed a gridlocked I35...

@@mikew5858 he was referring to the people who were stuck or if their continued route would have brought them right into it. If im about to drive into a Tornado and i have time to turn and drive away, I'm jumping the median and driving away

@@crazyman7671 Damon Lane didn't become the chief meteorologist at KOCO Channel 5 until 2009. Until that year he was a meteorologist in Dallas, Texas.

I thought that's what he said! Just shows how serious this was. No time for politeness.

I thought I heard that too but I wasn't sure that's why I decided to look to the comments to see if anybody else mentioned it.

When he said that it was at the corner of 134th and Western...... We lived and I don't know how.

He was fired for that line.........caused a big fuss 🙄

@@OnceUponACRIMEInTheWEST Regrettable, unprofessional, but hardly a slip worthy of termination, especially under such circumstances. Thanks for the 411!

This tornado was actually on my birthday (not the same year)

This is how I feel about El Reno 2013

@@StunningShay yeah both tornados are infamous, there just isn't as much footage of El reno as this one... some of the shots of this one are terrifying. El reno was so large and rain wrapped that recording it wasn't easy

cbehr91 2.0 yeah agree

Not just 2013 since 1999 Moore has been directly hit by tornadoes 8 different times. The last one was an EF2 in 2015. Since they started keeping records in the late 1800's, Moore has been hit 23 times. Who knows how many times before they started keeping records that this particular area has been hit. Even before there was a town or city there, it's just the most unlucky place in the world for tornadoes.

The OKC metro area is just tornado alley within tornado alley The extended hills near El Reno is just perfect for tornadoes as it's sorting the layers of air perfectly for the extreme, look it up on Google maps if you don't understand, but you'll see an extended part where the hills point at El Reno and the metro area

How about *MOORE*

@@0hNoFlyingMonkeys its a mini tornado ally

“No, I think we’ve had enough of your rounds.”

You should watch James Spann's 2011 tornado coverage

James Spann and Jason Simpson. April 27, 2011

I like to Mike in this video but the other guy to me was horrible. All he did was repeat weatherman buzzwords. You can have a drinking game with the number of times he says "dangerous situation". It was like he was reading a script. Maybe he was in shock at the events but Mike is the one talking everyone through it. On the horrific close-up of the tornado around the 32 minute mark, Mike is in awe while the other guy just keeps saying dangerous situation. Even when the helicopter is panning over all the damage, the other guy starts saying, well this is a dangerous situation. The guy could be in shock, so I'll give him that but I prefer a weatherman who doesn't just say buzzwords

Thats Dan Threlkeld and put some respect on his name

Insane

What about that debris ball on radar?

Logically, it makes sense, and it would be a safe place to go if that wind tunnel effect didn't exist. Unfortunately, it does exist, which makes this idea a dangerous idea. Let's face it..unless you can get underground, you might as well kiss your ass goodbye if you are caught in the path of an EF-5 tornado.

@@ki5aok no shit, Sherlock. Did you even read the original comment, or did you just see your trigger word "underpass" and immediately start typing to let us know how smart you are?

..yes, I do understand why they now say to NOT seek shelter in an underpass..HOWEVER...if I'm in a car, see tornado coming, and don't have any route to drive away from it...you can bet I am going to take my chances in the underpass rather than have my ass tossed through the air and tumbled around like Tim Samaras in a car and crumpled up like a soda can...at least you MIGHT have a fighting chance with the underpass, especially if it has a recessed area at the top you can crawl into to help shelter yourself from the winds and debris....I'd call it a "Measure of Last Resort", rather than a "Never Do It" thing....

@@dyer2cycle Right. You're as good as fucked anyways in this case so it's worth a shot

@@dyer2cycle even if you do survive sheltering under an overpass and aren't blown out of it due to the wind tunnel effect, you'll most likely suffer horrific, debilitating and permanent injuries. Some of the injuries from people sheltering under overpasses during this particular tornado ranged from severe lacerations to relatively normal fractures, to impalements, compound fractures, crush injuries, removal of skin, missing fingers, missing limbs, even missing ears and noses. Never shelter under an overpass from a tornado and never shelter in your car in a tornado. I would rather be in a low ditch away from vehicles and other large objects, covering my head with my hands. Still, the easiest way to avoid this situation is to pay attention to the weather; especially nowadays, when these severe weather events are forecast days and weeks in advance. And I get that this tornado outbreak wasn't apparent to the SPC until at least mid-morning the day of; that still gave people time to turn on the radio and listen to what was going on, especially as the weather was unusual for that time of year and the sky looked more and more threatening as the afternoon progressed.

That doesn't even seem like a real wind speed that should be possible

Unimaginable speeds

2024 and I’m crying when I heard the woman saying families are taking cover under bridges

Ronnie Hill Well idk if there were victims for sure, however no matter how many years pass the pain of witnessing such monstrous giant destroying everything is big. Time does not heal wounds.

Will G1986 take your political bullshit elsewhere.

@@TheLocalLt Take your Religious Bullshit elsewhere hun, its 2020.

@@TheLocalLt Truth hurts doesn't it bitch

@@ivaporizedmitski you make Gacha vids stfu lmao

+Boss Key Dual pol radar and the algorithms used with it have truly changed everything. This one was obvious as hell on the old school radar, but now seeing rotation is so much easier.

this was actually one of the very first times TV used cell connections to put live video on the air from chasers.

This is actually pretty high tech and quality for 1999.

I remember back in the day before we really had any tornado warning to speak of, although I didn't live in Oklahoma at that time, I lived in Texas. Yeah, we had a tornado siren, I think, but no way, in certain circumstances, of letting anyone know that a tornado was coming so that they could turn on the siren. Sunday, November 15th, 1987, was proof of that. That was the day a tornado struck my hometown of Palestine, Texas. That day, according to what I read, there was information available that a tornado could happen but not really any way to get the information out there. The local news station out of Tyler, Texas, tried to broadcast the information, but one thing working against them was the fact that there was a Dallas Cowboys game being broadcast on cable that day, and at that time, local broadcasts did not break into cable broadcasts. They either weren't allowed to or were unable to, I can't remember. Anyway, the local station broadcast the severe weather, but because there was a Cowboys game being broadcast on cable, that's what a lot of people were watching, not the local station. The sheriff tried to get the info out there, the local radio station KLIS 96.7 tried to get the info out there, but, again, not many people were listening to the radio. Also, a lot of people were in church still, so they didn't get the info. At some point, they did blow the tornado siren, but I don't think it was powerful enough for everyone in town to be able to hear it and some who did hear it, like my mom, didn't know what it was. She'd never heard the tornado siren before. I was 10 years old and that was the first time I'd even heard of such a thing as a tornado siren even existing. I may be wrong, but I don't think our town had used that siren in years and I don't know if they even tested it periodically to make sure it was working. Thank God not many people were hurt and only one person was killed. It did take out my elementary school--THANK GOD IT WAS A SUNDAY! And it did hit Lakeview Methodist Convention Center, where there had been a big crowd of people. It hit there about 15 minutes after they had been dismissed and left. A friend of mine who lived in town--we lived out in the country outside of town, so we didn't get hit with anything worse than rain and hail, really--but a friend of mine who lived in town said that he and his grandpa were watching the Cowboys game and his grandma noticed that things were getting bad outside, so she went outside to take a look...and then, the next thing he knew, she came inside and threw him and his grandpa into the hallway and pulled a mattress over them and then it hit...and that's all the warning they got that a tornado was coming! I think he said it moved their house off its foundations and turned it about 20° and I think he said it took their roof off, but I'm not sure.

...and still not too long ago a single tornado took over 150 people's lives and injured over 1,000... and people were given nearly 30 minutes in advance to take shelter, if that time was cut to the average 10 - 15 minutes the death toll could've probably doubled. Joplin isn't even that large of a city. If an EF-5 were to hit the heart of a major city such as Oklahoma City, Omaha, and Columbus, the death toll could easily rival that of Hurricane Katrina even with lead warning times.

Max F5 speed and was the last F5.

@@GevoGenesis92 Wasn't 2013 an EF5?

@@PuntaBaby Yes. 1999 was the last F5. 2013 was the last EF5.

@@GevoGenesis92 were there no f5’s from 99 to 2007?

@@lewkeee .....This F5 HAPPENED in 1999

easalert88 Hey! I like your EAS scenarios! Keep it up!

Do you mean on the fly?

@@ajcook7777 The term "tornado emergency" was never used before. The local NWS office had to come up with something to emphasize just how dangerous this thing was as it approached a heavily-populated area.

@@jimmyseaver3647 My comment was in relation to the original, the individual said, "on a fly", however, the terminology is, "in THE fly".

Charles Urban already said that 4 YEARS before you said anything.

I tho it was the el reno tornado

was hook echo even in the jargon back then? i noticed it right away and he doesnt point to it or mention it once

@@denknugz87 Gary England used it

@@denknugz87 "hook echo" is used a few times in this broadcast.

I was 23

Just watch it even more and listen closely. "IT'S COMING"

BAH GAWD KING

This made me cry.

@@yonnes42 Don't fart around with this storm!

@@EvanSchatz lmao

When did they say that!

Thank God! Thats the scariest thing I've ever seen and incredibly sad

Hey, I also went through this as a 6th grader in midwest city! I went to sooner rose. My family was in the hallway with a bed on top of us as well. When our windows started breaking I thought that was the end. Glad we both survived.

maybe curse his majesty for hurling inclement weather your way

@@jimcarlson6157 🤡

Honestly, why stay in this state? To anyone outside of tornado alley, it’s hard to understand why people would continue to stay in zones where you have a real chance at getting slaughtered by wind each and every year. It seems like a needless risk

I’ve never seen one that well defined on radar before Horrific

I commented that recently. Can't forget May the 3rd.

I was 6 yrs old at the time I'm 26 now hard to forget this day

@@albertoaguirre1507 | I was born the same year, on February 26; I was two months old when the storm hit. I'm 20 years old now.

@@lancecurry7538 being a kid at that time and seeing this rip to okc was really heart breaking man till this day it still feels like yesterday running from the storm

@@albertoaguirre1507 | R.I.P., the 41 people who perished that day.

+Deymon Edwards I want to be a meteorologist but my mom cries because she says they dont make enough money. And I want to make her happy, so Im going into the petroleum industry. But recently that hasnt been doing well either. Do what you love is what I have to say. If you dont, your going to regret it

+Deymon Edwards Going to OU, I presume?

Lethal forces of Na? You mean sodium

@@yorick22 hahaha 🤣 he's looking out for your cholesterol too

Six years later, how was college?

And the grim resignation in Mike's voice when he affirms that it's indeed F5 tornado damage... it's chilling. He can't just refer to what plowed through Moore as an "F4" anymore. F4 tornadoes smash homes... F5 tornadoes completely sweep them away.

The one thing that fucks with me the most in my recent binge of tornado news reports and reading all the stories in the comments is like, how people describe the unnatural colour of the sky. Like, in all of the comments I hear people talk about that day, the eerie calmness and how everything was lit up orange or, as I've seen myself, lit up green. It's genuinely otherworldly.

@@CaribouGirlMeat Mm-hm. In an episode of "Storm Stories" that profiled the August 28, 1990 tornado that hit Plainfield, Illinois; Plainfield resident Mary-Pat Gabor described the color of the sky as "pea soup green."

@@CaribouGirlMeat As someone who has lived in the south since I was 5 (in Arkansas and I'm 33 now). I know exactly what they mean. It gets eerily quiet, and the sky turns a sickly yellow/green. Thankfully though (knocks on wood) a tornado has never hit our house or street or anything like that.

I just watched the 2013 kfor coverage, and decided to look this one up when I kept hearing the news people refer to this tornado. And you had the same exact thought I did: hard, heartbreaking lessons learned in 1999. Very sobering to think about.

Damn!

I love thinking its famous.🤣🤣 like its at a restaurant and paparazzi are outside

318 mph winds were recorded at Bridge Creek Oklahoma.That was from this tornado!.The highest wind speed ever recorded on earth.

@@millhousemillard2140 lmaooo

@@snave59 did this tornado have sub vortices

Amanda Chapman Same here.

@@HeatwaveGFX more expected today. We've been hammered this year

Amanda Chapman yeah I know you guys have been. I moved away from Oklahoma after this to come back here to New Hampshire. The tornados you guys have been having out there is crazy.

@@HeatwaveGFX yeah the flooding too is unreal. And we had an earthquake lol

@@amandachapman5195 you guys are tough

In the world*

That wind speed record was broke in recent years tho I believe

@@paulinekrumbach9217 No, it wasn't.

​​@@paulinekrumbach9217 Of all the tornadoes whose wind speeds have actually been measured, this is still the highest. The monster El Reno 2013 tornado is a close second with its huge tornado-within-a-tornado subvortices measured at around 300mph

@@paulinekrumbach9217 It's pretty much been tied by the 2011 and 2013 el reno tornadoes. el Reno is ground zero for windy wind it seems.

I was in Marlow Oklahoma not to far from there. I was at work at a nursing home in that town and was scared to death.

I lived in chickasha also

Same. Was 4 and my grandmother put me and my 6 year old bother in the closet and kept an eye on the weather.

I was in Yukon...We always get missed. I can't help but think our time is coming. We were REALLY close in 2013 for that ElReno tornado.

Scott Langston I too have seen railroad cars twisted like pretzels thrown into a huge pasture from a EF-5 in Marmaduke,Arkansas I chased this Tornado it was two of them but I chased only the one,it was a very crazy sight to see!!!

It's like a plaything to a tornado

@@nativeflutterbynails3016 ur right, that tornado wiped out over 3000 homes off their foundation. It was amazing it only killed inbetween 40 an 50 people..looking at the path from the air afterwards? It looked like the finger of god drug threw the state in Oklahoma.. most in this state are always on guard an keep ourselves aware of these storms that come threw our state in the spring.. theres several companies that produce storm shelters here .. and none of them are out of business lol.

Yes those are actually 18 tons.. 36000lbs.. Unreal

@@roberth912 damn bro ur right. I was looking at the weight on the side of the car. My mistake , its 18 tuns,. Lol, my god it is unreal, that kind of power.

Does he really say that?

he did

That is an old term for don't fool around. Kinda an ancient term now. No we just say "Don't mess around with this storm."

I guess he would have been fired if he had said, "Don't fuck around with this storm."

@XxAdrianPerezxX It is a figure of speech. It is not to be taken literally.

I live in tornado alley on the 3rd level of an apartment building. Tornado season is very scary to me for that reason. I think all apartment complexes and trailer parks in tornado alley should be required to have a storm shelter for the residents to take cover in. That would make me feel way more safe.

Do you have storage areas on the lower level? When I lived in an apartment that was where I went during tornados. It was on the ground floor and in the center of the building. If not, hopefully you have a friend that lives on the first floor! Still, the odds of hitting you are very slim. You have a much better chance at getting hit by lightning... Twice! Heh Be safe!! :-)

Fuck you. I tell my friends the same thing when they talk about tornados and trailer homes or houses without basements. I was merely giving her a suggestion for keeping safe in a tornado. I'm guessing it took you an hour or two to complete your worthless reply. Btw, who the fuck do you think you were talking to?? I have a basement.

tscooter22 Ive Been in This tornado, And the May Moore Tornado of 2013. Alteast i have a stormshelter inside of my house :\

tscooter22 @

Lol

@@AngelTechno what’s funny about that?

@@AngelTechno You know people died because of that and you’re over here typing “loL PeOPLE dYInG Is fUNnY!”

Under a overpass would be a good location for a public storm shelter. Each one holding maybe 20 people? Seems more logical in heavy tornado areas than just libraries and community centers.

@@sandyclaws5247 No, overpasses turn into wind tunnels during tornados. Even library’s and community centers are better than that,

On top of P.T.S.D you would have no doubt developed Lilapsophobia; which is a fear of tornadoes. I learned about Lilapsophobia through the story of a woman named Karin Herrmann. Karin lives in Miami, Oklahoma with her husband Jerry and she developed Lilapsophobia as a result of seeing the devastation and destruction in Joplin, Missouri following the monstrous EF5 tornado that hit Joplin on May 22nd, 2011. After close to a year of therapy; Karin conquered her fear of tornadoes and established a page on Facebook to help people who suffer from Lilapsophobia know that they are not alone and with the combination of therapy and having a support system they can conquer their fear and learn how to not be afraid of the weather.

A theory I have is maybe the Wichita mountains (those random hills by Lawton) provide some extra natural lift on days with a very agitated atmosphere and that's what helps spin up these tornadic supercells that travel parallel up the i44 turnpike before becoming a right mover, making a b line for Moore. Just my theory though. A very similar thing occurs in the mountains in Mexico just across the border from tx. From del Rio to South of Laredo. Look it up. That area has seen multiple likely violent tornadoes, they rarely get reported due to the lackluster meteorology in Mexico, the rural area, and the violence there. But radar returns on radar in tx has almost guaranteed violent tornadoes have occurred there. They rarely make it into the us because once they leave the mountains, the cap kills the cells usually. But they sometimes do make it across. One event was the 2007 eagle pass, tx ef3

@@capitalisteconomist that is the same theory Greg Forbes of the weather channel has. He believes the the cooler air running down from the mountains affects the atmospheric conditions.

It’s not just two there was an EF-4 that followed this same path in May of 2003.

@@matthewjewett-williams7641 oh, Goody! Remind me to never visit that area in May because it seems like a sure as hell way to get killed.

Yup 2013

They would probably go to a neighbors house to get to a basement or smthn

It was the most afraid I had ever been in my entire life. I thought I was going to die 100% when our windows started breaking. I was only in 6th grade at the time, praying to god that I wouldn't die so young. I just kept repeating it to myself. We were only hit with the edge of it, but it felled a huge tree in our backyard. I'm surprised it didn't fall on the house and crush us, we were really lucky in multiple ways. My dad looked out the front door before in got in the hallway with us. He saw it and said it looked like a wall of blackness. My neighborhood looked like a warzone. The military actually came in and put our area on lockdown. You had to have a pass just to get in. The red cross came by multiple times a day. Some people came and stocked our entire pantry with food. It was honestly a wild time. I remember when the tornado had finally passed, it was like I was high. I had never felt so alive.

look up parkersburg 2008 tornado, a basement wont always save you from the more intense tornadoes

@@WorleyClan Ohhh my good, now that's what I call a really really really close call.

@@packerman7410 (Dances in no basement) And I know exactly why You could be trapped underground by so much debris and stuff

Well said......

James Gentry They must have had to compose themselves at least once.

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"As the large tornado approached western sections of the OKC metro area, we asked ourselves more than once, 'Are we doing all we can do to provide the best warnings and information?' It became apparent that unique and eye-catching phrases needed to be included in the products. At one point we used the phrase 'Tornado Emergency' to paint the picture that a rare and deadly tornado was imminent in the metro area. We hoped that such dire phrases would prompt action from anyone that still had any questions about what was about to happen.“

Where are the real weather enthusiasts at? There was a tornado emergency all across the state. That tornado was a huge tornado that caused damage in all parts of the state. This was also predicted months out and certain people wanted to withhold that info from the public so that they could prove that meteorologists were needed.

@@WilliamBrown-vb5ws no literally the term tornado emergency wasn't used ever until that tornado

Patti Hanlon I’m in Nebraska. We haven’t had anything bad in a few years. With all the crazy flooding this year feels a bit apocalyptic. I get a feeling this spring is gonna be bad.

Seems the storms are shifting eastward: www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2018/10/17/tornado-alley-shifting-east/1660803002/

I often wonder the same thing too. I find myself watching this particular video at least once a year, usually around tornado season, because its fascinating to watch the live news coverage of this disastrous tornado as it was happening, knowing what we do now about how devastating this tornado was.

I think this year is going to be another record breaker. I feel Moore is going to get nailed again. I also think some other areas that usually don't get any tornadoes, are going to get some major tornadoes.

@@cnacma Where in Nebraska are you Douglas?

I’m hoping you stayed safe during Ian

@@Bughy2236 we came out just fine, though it looked scary for a hot minute. Thanks for thinking of us!

@@Aeiacobelli that’s great to hear! Hopefully your friends, family, and neighbors can say the same

How about hurricanes on the Gulf Coast? I went through Hurricane Carla in Houston when I was 16...very bad.

Ay you good during nicole? I live about 40 miles south of where nicole made landfall.

Elite Four Bryan my parents always told me to stay down in a ditch when a tornado struck.

That’s an accurate thing to do during a tornado event

Pray to god why exactly? Don't we humans decide our fate for ourselfves? Why do we need god?

I-Deni-I take your political bullshit elsewhere

@@TheLocalLt Right?!! Ugh!

That fast no joke

i wish i could convince my mom for us to evacuate the rain tommorow. but she will say no.

Do you know who the weather man in the white dress shirt with tie is? Is he still on the air down there?

At 39:00 the one anchor tells folks to get under an underpass. Very dumb advice. That acts like a wind tunnel if the 🌪️ came up on it.

You are exactly right. This was the night you are speaking of. I was driving from Phoenix, AZ to Tulsa and was travelling behind the big tornado and the other one you mentioned was behind me. I was listening to this broadcast on the radio. My friend lived right across the river in Tulsa, and after I arrived we were waiting for the tornado to hit- but it dissipated just like you remembered. I'll never forget that day. I was afraid to stop because it would catch up with me.

@@robertbruce7772 Yes it is dumb and horrible advice. Not their fault though. That wasn't known at that time. Pretty much any meteorologist would be likely to say to take shelter under a underpass if you are driving and you have no other options (like a store etc). Obviously it was learned that doing will most likely get you killed.

Overpass deaths accounted for 3 out of 36 fatalities.

It wasn’t really revealed to be bad until terrible Tuesday in 1979

@@punkrockstormchaser This occurred way after the Super Tuesday outbreak...

@@MarisaKisame no Terrible Tuesday not Super Tuesday

@@punkrockstormchaser That was still before this particular tornado?

It's called "tracking control knob" - remember?

whetherMANE 1993 Yep 🌚😂💀

Yeah, I was born in '93, so I grew up with that static. Seeing it again after so long really takes me back.

whetherMANE 1993 Hell it was kinda like that with TVs too remind the VHS resolution quality on them 😂😂💯

Definitely. Some younger people (I'm 21 so I'm talking 16 and younger) need to realize how lucky we are to have this much footage of this storm.

This was the first monster tornado I watched live from my television as it touched down..... The second, The Moore Oklahoma EF5 Tornado that touched down, dissipated only to form again and grew to a two mile wide monster..... Broke my heart for everyone, especially seeing the heavily damaged schools and hospital in 2013.....

i dont know why am i watching this. there is something about tornados that has a mesmerising affect on me. i am deadly scared of tornados but video tornadoes dont actually scare me. just a teeny bit. be safe on Friday~

Wakka Warner, it keeps you on your toes so you know a emergency plan in case a storm like this were to hit..... As scary as it is to watch, we always need to be prepared and have an emergency plan......

Kathryn Smith of course! will do!

@@starfirecat7132 yeah me too its addicted me too!! By watching videos of them well we are brothers hahax😂💯

I bought the May's Fury video back in 1999 this Tornado is what made me want to become a Skywarn spotter. I live in AZ so the weather is boring here except during Monsoon season lol.

@@johnhill9162 I also live in AZ, also a Skywarn spotter! I had a lot more to report in Minnesota! lol

I moved here 20 years ago from Indiana and right before I moved a EF3 hit my city and that was my last tornado. I kinda miss the Tornado sirens going off one a month on a Saturday.

So they're saying it's safer to lay in a ditch? Really? I know you shouldn't lay in the highest part because the winds get stronger, but laying out in the open is surely a deather sentence. Loser either way. Out in the open. Dead.

Mimi Shella neither one is a great option in a megastorm like this but a good ditch would, in fact, be a better choice than an overpass

HR Hums 100 MPH winds become 190+ MPH winds when in a small over pass. Some people survive being tossed by tornadoes, does that mean every one should jump into one? You said physics never change, and the physics of being under an overpass says that it's not safe.

From what I have read, being in a ditch or depression puts you lower than the wind shear at the surface. While things can still possibly fall on you, being under the wind itself keeps you from being impaled or swept away - the wind skips over the top of the ditch. I mean, ultimately if it's your time to go then you're outta here, but given the option I'll take a ditch any day over a vehicle, overpass or even something like an outbuilding or even a "Large" store like Lowe's or WallyWorld

This was 20 years ago so they didn't know back then that going under an underpass would be dangerous. Now our Oklahoman news team informs everyone now to NOT take shelter under one!

4 possible tornadoes on the ground.

You know there had to be some people, cars and animals in that funnel also! I'm surprised how many cars were still driving on the highway as it crossed hwy 35.

Seeing the debris flying around during the May 3, 1999 tornado that tore through Moore, Oklahoma is at "shit your pants" levels of terror.

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The shots from the helicopter around 56:00 are some of the most widespread F5 damage ever. Absolutely unbelievable.

He is the best!

Brookiie Cookiie I can only imagine 😰 I have several anxiety and panic disorder, and this would haunt me every time a storm would come if I was you. I’m sorry you had to go through this.

Brookie god bless you 💯💛😍💕

izuo tee You’ll stay a virgin with comments like that.

Brookie so did i. I was in Newcastle

Do you still live in Oklahoma

Yeah I used to live in Oklahoma but I didn't move their until 2003, but I did see some pretty scary ones when I was there. There was one time a tornado was only about a mile from my house. but miraculously it turned away at the last minute. Also the May 24th 2011 one was intense as well.

Robert Sunderland I can’t even imagine. It’s such a tragedy

This is what happens when your Godless. You get owned, teeth in trees n stuff

@@uniteatonce35 wow. Your god is an asshole and you're an asshole for worshipping him.

@@uniteatonce35 You serious bro? Probably don't even have teeth

All our current hosts from across the different channels are in this! Its unreal!

Same storm

@@Marko3123 Nope. This tornado was on May 3rd, 1999. The El Reno tornado that was two and a half miles wide and killed storm chasers was on May 31st, 2013.

@@jmcsquared18 not to be that guy, but el reno is 2.6 miles wide

The technology measuring wind speed from DOW is a tricky science I believe sub vortices can go high but the DOW is interpreting windspeed based on readings that involve a lot of math I won’t pretend to understand This one I think is more comparable to Joplin

@@jmcsquared18 There was an El Reno in 1999 as well, holding the highest wind speeds of a tornado EVER

I remember watching this live when I was a kid

I have watched a video of KFOR Channel 4's coverage of the May 20, 2013 tornado that tore through Moore, Oklahoma and someone remarked in the comments section of the video how it was amazing that the station's helicopter pilot Jon Welsh was able to get the helicopter up into the air and successfully track the tornado from start to finish with his giant iron balls weighing the helicopter down. I admit that I snickered a little bit at that comment.

I wouldn't say they are rare. There's like a 3:2 years to tornadoes ratio of this type ever since these events were recorded.

My family was in a tornado at Roman Nose, we were swimming, and had to get in their shelter...But even then I don't remember feeling scared. May 3rd 1999, as a freshman, was terrifying! I have the same experience.

@@kiowahorse2561 there’s only been 60 something F5s in 60,000 documented tornados. That’s pretty rare. 0.1% rate

The tornado that I was in, was smaller than this, but I promise, youll never forget it. I can only imagine how scary one thst size is! I woukd never live back there without an in the ground storm cellar. No structure is safe...

Then after the May 20, 2013 tornado hit Moore; the residents who survived the May 3, 1999 tornado were saying "I can't believe it happened again!" Some reporters even speculated if the 2013 tornado was worse than the one in 1999; I would say that the 1999 tornado is still the deadliest tornado to hit the area because of the wind speed. The May 3 1999 tornado had wind speeds of 318 MPH; if you were living in Moore or Bridge Creek when the May 3 tornado hit, not getting below ground was a guaranteed death sentence.

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