@@markjames4495 He's talking, yes (and under those conditions, who wouldn't?) but the roar of the storm is completely audible. When I've been close to upper-end EF tornadoes, I talk just to keep myself calm.
@@CH3CH2OCH2CH3net There is another video of someone filming from their front porch as it passes 1.5 miles north of the persons house. It sounds like 20 jet airliners at full power. Just a non stop high pitched almost mechanical sounding roar. Look up Close Up of May 20 2013 Moore Tornado. Richard Miller is the name its with.
@@CH3CH2OCH2CH3net strongest tornado I've been close too was a high end ef3, and it was loud, I can't imagine how loud the roar of this bad boy was in person
This is one of the most impressive videos I've seen of this tornado! As much as I enjoy watching storm chasers videos, non professional, every day people videos I always love the best! What an incredible beast! A mile away, and it looks like THAT! I would be shaking so badly and running for shelter, I have no idea how this guy stays so calm!
@Lionel York When a tornado circulation "occludes" & the tornado is getting close to dissipating, it can turn north (sometimes quite suddenly). This is not uncommon, and it can be quite dangerous for chasers & local residents, especially if the tornado is rain-wrapped, which would prevent folks from seeing the sudden change in direction until it could be too late. (if I recall correctly, some chasers tracking the EF-4 tornado that struck Garland, TX around 5-7 years ago almost got hit when it occluded & turned sharply north). Also, it should be noted that the tornado may not weaken a lot when if/when it first turns north. Then, to further complicate things, there is always a chance that the supercell will 'cycle', and as the original mesocyclonic rotation 'occludes', a new area of rotation to the N or NE of the old rotation can form quickly & spawn another tornado. So, situational awareness is crucially important, and it's also why residents in a warned area need to take cover, even if it doesn't look like the tornado is headed directly toward them.
First time I've ever seen this footage. I thought I had seen every Moore OK EF5 2013 tornado video out there. I STILL remember this one. This video perfectly captured that freight train roar sound near the end.
I watched another video last night friend. When I looked at the picture the whole block was gone. This the cement foundation was left of the house. That's how powerful that tornado was. They estimated the winds to be over 300 mph an hour and the guy that was doing the narrating of the story said it took one inch of tire off the road. That's how powerful that tornado was. I felt sorry for all the homes that were lost there and if all the businesses too. Thank you for shooting such a close video. If you had a storm shelter in the ground very good, I'm happy for you.
I was in the storm shelter praying and holding 3 hyperventilating doggies! I could see a chrome truck bumper hanging in the sky for several house lengths. I am not talking in this video. My husband is talking with our neighbors.
+tomshiba51 Thanks, My daughter and I actually heard it for about 5 minutes before we saw it. It was the first time seeing one for us, and we couldn't figure out what the noise was. The sound kept getting louder and louder, and then we saw the debris. People often say it sounds like a freight train, but I honestly believe it was more like 10 trains. My wife was in our under ground storm shelter and could feel the walls vibrating. Thankful we didn't get hit, but sorry for those who did. Thanks for commenting.
+Danny Berry A friend of mine and i were fishing at his pond with our backs up close to a tree line to the west. We were hearing some weird noise for 5 or 10 minutes when all of a sudden we heard sirens go off in the distance. We got up and backed up to take a look and there it was, a half mile wide, ef4 monster that had already left a 7 mile path of destruction. Our jaws dropped to the ground because it was only a short distance away and was very wide in our line of sight, and it was roaring. We took cover and it went by just out of any danger to his property. I'll never forget that.
Bob Kerbs Your situation is one that I would like to experience. I've never seen a tornado yet, but I really do and want to live to tell about it. Glad you are safe. thank you for your comment.
+tomshiba51 Looking back i think it was a gift. To be able to watch videos of them is one thing,but to be right up near it where any closer you could be killed was kinda neat. Like a thrill ride of another level. I was also caught out on a lake in a house boat on Bull Shoals Lake back in the late eighties when one came out onto the water. Me and five friends were napping in the late afternoon (after a big meal and quite a few beers), when the weather radio went off waking me immediately. Well the thing was right there about a half a mile away coming towards the lake. It cruised across the front of the boat about a quarter mile distance away and created large waves lifting the front of the boat way too high and then the boat would drop down hard throwing us around like rag dolls. That was the making of an interesting vacation. lol! Just like Gilligans Isle.
I've watched enough videos to know that 4:20 it's heading right towards you before later changing paths! You're so lucky it didn't hit your neighborhood. RIP all who did get killed and I hope those who lost everything got help rebuilding.
😢😮 yeah I watched another video on the more tornado Oklahoma and they said that one was on the ground for an hour and a half and it did 1.2 billion in damage. It destroyed 600 homes and two or $300 businesses. Not too many lives were lost up cuz people were notified. That's good boy. That thing would scare me if I ever saw it. Thanks for the video you shot at that at the time.
Hats off to you man, that " WAS" coming straight for your neighborhood. And none of that DAMN screaming panic. It turned away just in time sshhhwwwooo. Good job..good composure.
@@cmerton Elaborate? How do you look at a Map when there is no proof of what way he was heading the Camera in. north east west or south get it. WTF are you getting at.
@@trafficjon400 He tells you where he took the video from in the description. The whole world knows the tornado path. A simple glance at the map of Moore shows this was never "heading straight for the neighborhood".
Thank You for being Sophisticated and not using Curse words, taking the Lords name in vein, or using any foul language. You are such a minority, and I really appreciate being able to watch this video again without having to click off because of peoples ignorance! Thanks again.
Sarah, I'm so glad that you survived and are OK now. I remember watching it live on TV as it was happening, and I'm all the way east in North Carolina. I happen to be watching the Weather Channel, and they tuned into the live broadcast that was being aired by OKC Chanel 9 news. I was completely dumbfounded by the live pictures of the tornado tearing up your town. Then after it passed the news 9 helicopter was hovering over the damage, and over Briarwood Elemenrary School. I was sick to my stomach!
I like people who at least have a general sense of how storms/tornadoes behave. He was aware that tornadoes very rarely go straight north and at the same time was realizing that this tornado was slowly moving from west to east. He was in minimal danger.
Jesus christ!! That thing is terrifying!! Just seeing the true power of the tornado is unbelievable. You guys are so very lucky and thank goodness it didn't hit you. To you and the people who were affected by this, I pray for you and your families.
Yes, it was wiped out in 99. The only wall left standing at our house was the west wall, we didn't live here at that time. The 99 F5 crossed the street 4 houses east of ours. Both were horrific.
There are a lot of people asking why the sirens aren't sounding (including the guy filming). They had already sounded. At about 2:55 pm. They only sound for 3 minutes and then they go silent. They don't continuously blare the sirens through-out an entire storm event here. The guy started filming well after 2:55 pm.
Actually, if you listen closely, you can hear some faintly off in the distance. I've seen other videos of this tornado and it sounds the same, especially when the sirens wind down.
I remember the tornado and what happened before and after it to me. After I got out from my storm shelter with my parents my whole neighborhood looked like a war zone. I was just 4 years old at the time. I also survived the Joplin tornado I was 2 years old when that one hit. From the time I was 2 years old to the time I was 8 years old I had a phobia of them. I’m now 12 years old and I wanna tornado chase when I’m older
@@billbombshiggy9254 having lived right outside of Joplin when the 2011 tornado went thru, I’m calling BS as well. We moved from there to SC so now we mainly deal with hurricanes, but we did have a tornado barely miss our house here last year, too. It happened with very, VERY little warning and was triggering. If I go my whole life without experiencing another tornado, I’ll live a happy one 😂 but our area gets all the weather events. Having said all of that and knowing Moore’s history, I would never eeever move my young family from Joplin to an even more severe tornado prone area. Never. So unless this kids parents are crazy, I’m calling BS, too. So many people lost absolutely everything in both of these storms, so if what the op is saying is actually true, then I say play the lottery bc you must be one hell of a lucky person. I wouldn’t storm chase bc eventually that luck will wear out.
For those unfamiliar with this area, this is right beside Westmoore High School. The tornado is impacting/just impacted Briarwood Elementary and heading towards downtown. About to be in the Plaza Towers neighborhood and flatten the 7Eleven on 4th st by the end of the video. This is peak intensity of this tornado. Good video.
His neighbors who "just had a baby" that was seen leaving in both of their cars in a hurry were VERY SMART. Any time you have a good visual on an approaching tornado, and you DON'T have a good underground storm shelter, DON'T JUST SIT THERE ASSUMING YOU CAN "MAKE IT" INSIDE YOUR HOUSE. THAT IS A DEATH WISH. Just get in your car & get the hell out of there, but leave in plenty of time in anticipation of HEAVY TRAFFIC from people fleeing just like you are. Traffic jams are no place to be with an approaching killer tornado. NO HOUSE, BE IT BLOCK OR BRICK, CAN WITHSTAND EVEN A STRONG EF3 TORNADO. A strong EF3 tornado "can" totally level ANY home. And stands absolutely NO CHANCE of withstanding an EF4 or EF5. I get so pissed off when I see videos of IDIOTS just sitting there on their front porch watching a huge tornado that's miles away, yet heading straight towards their house, and they think they can "hide in the bathroom or closet". I'm assuming the folks making THIS video do have a proper storm shelter. Even if the tornado misses your house, it is far better to flee and be "inconvenienced" with a false alarm........rather than risk "waiting around to see where it's going to go" and quite possibly LOSE YOUR LIVES.
And when you’re leaving in your car before it gets close, PLEASE don’t listen Mike Morgan’s directions on where to avoid the tornado. That guy was leading leading our citizens directly towards death like the prehistoric times when they ran animals off a cliff to their death
Interesting how the Inflo actually sucked the trees into the tornado rather than away from it. Great video! I’m still wondering why people say “It sounds like a freight train.” It does not! It sounds like what it is; a huge wind tunnel. The big ones roar!! I’m a trained Weather Spotter so I’ve heard a couple.
This is the first time I've listened to this video, and you really captured the audio of this so very well! I can visualize in my mind just how scary it must look, because I've survived two tornadoes: an EF5 in 1974, and ten years to the day later, a multi-vortex, EF4 tornado! I never want to experience anything like that ever again. That mountain of air and debris is what amplifies that roar, and it's no joke! I've been totally blind since birth, and I can tell you I'm not missing some of those visuals! And yes, blood pressure medicine is a must, but when your ears pop, and you become violently ill during and just after the tornado, it is not a good experience! I'll never forget just how light-headed I was and how dizzy I was once the tornado left. I'll also never forget how all the pavement on our driveways and streets in our neighborhood were completely scoured, and in places, there was three feet of dirt missing! Three days after the 1974 tornado, I found a piece of metal that looked like a giant loose-leaf binder or a spiral ringed notebook. It was a solid, steel door from our neighbor's 1972 Cadilac Sadan! Thank God my dad didn't tell me about it until we got inside the house, because he saw just how terrified I was.
Wow! Your video is fantastic, showing this monster in it's full terrifying form. While watching, I just knew it was gonna hit your house; but, thank goodness, it didn't. Thanks for sharing this! You and the people of Moore, that were affected by this monster are in my thoughts and prayers.
i am very thankful...that tornado was just a block away..137th.. sunset' if it didn't travel east at the last sec.. the 2nd one however messed up the roof water damage etc. and took the fence with it. and to think May is just around the corner again. hopefully irs not as bad this year, my 1st tornado encounter and don't want to re-live it.
Yep. We live on the street directly behind (to the north) this man filming. My husband was working from home this day and he had never experienced a tornado either. When he watched it from our backyard he was convinced it was in our neighborhood as well...like a couple of streets behind us. He thought the debris he was seeing were things like dipsy dumpsters. It wasn't until he learned it was over a mile away that he realized the debris were roofs. The mind doesn't really want to accept that something that takes up THAT MUCH of the sky could be very far away. If you rewatch this video and consider just how much of the sky it was, it's really hard to reconcile it was a mile and a half away.
I'm his son-in-law. He didn't stop them because most shelters are quite literally only big enough for one family and they already had another neighbor's family in there with them. Flagging them down would have wasted their time.
I keep hearing people from that part of the country talk about houses that don’t have a “Storm Shelter”. Do they not build homes with basements down that way?? I live in Northern Illinois, and every home is built with a basement, and we are not in Tornado Alley. Someone help me understand what’s up with that??
No i live in Oklahoma majority of people don’t have storm shelters nor basements so we mostly go into our bathtub when a tornado is nearby or stay outside and look at the tornado
Sadly, he was very incorrect about how 'close' it was. It wasn't in his neighborhood, but he was definitely in the clear slot, super lucky angle to view from. I chased this tornado, and from SW 127th place, when it was due south of them, it was still running along and south of SW 149th St between Penn and Western, over a full mile away. it was within the next few minutes Briarwood, and Plaza Towers and the surrounding neighborhood were hit.
I appreciate you goodwill toward these folks, but if God was protecting them, he must have been sending the tornado to kill others. Why is your God so cruel and violent, when he is protecting some lucky folks?
Selfishly I wish this video hadn't ended so abruptly. I know the guy had to go inside to safety but I wanted to see what happened and after the tornado.
He had to mean that it was traveling East . I'm guessing , but I think he is looking from the North towards the South . This thing looks as scary as they get .
That township, city, county, or village should be ashamed of themselves. That guy had an amazing point, "Where the hell were the warning sirens?" Thats unacceptable. Imagine the person in the shower, or in their home playin music, or with their kids, not knowing that theres a home & life sucking monster on its way.
Chadwick Borawski yes, sirens should be going off, but tornado sirens are designed to warn people who are outside. They are NOT intended to be a warning for people indoors. Because people taking a shower or listening to music would very possibly not hear the sirens anyway. Relying on sirens alone as a warning for an imminent tornado is foolish and deadly. People need to have multiple forms of warning. EVERY home should have at least one NOAA weather radio that sounds an alarm when warnings are issued. People, especially those who live in areas that are more prone to tornadoes should pay close attention to daily weather reports and should be on high alert when severe storms are possible.
@@Jimddddd1981 Ok so people outside, how were they warned again? Someone whom are working in a shed on their lawnmower, or in their garage working on their car? Every town should have a warning system, no matter what! Ever hear of Amish people who don't believe in any electrical devices??? Sorry it took this long to reply. Can't wait to hear your rebuttal.
@@vinny4411 Some may say good reply. But I don't buy it. When alarm company realized how easy it was to disable their systems, by simply cutting the phone line, they went a different route. On a regular basis, I watch tornado videos and always seem to see bright flashes in the distance. Any ideas? Well those are from power lines that are being plowed down by the tornado. Hmmmm..... I wonder if there's any other way??? Ohhh that's right bury the lines underground. To think I'm not even an electrician, or a genius, and I solved the problem.
Chadwick Borawski here is my rebuttal: I was not in Moore Oklahoma on May 20 2013 so I cannot speak as to if tornado sirens where activated in all parts of the city or if they where properly functioning. Why they are not blaring during this video, in this part of the town I cannot say. I can say, however, that tornado sirens are not meant as a warning for those indoors. This is not something I made up. According to the national weather service, when you hear an outdoor warning siren, “it means that something life-threatening is happening and you should go indoors and get more information.” As for Amish people? Although I’m sure they appreciate your concern, but if a town has a properly functioning outdoor warning system, I don’t know what else they can do for them. If they don’t want a small battery powered NOAA radio because they “don’t believe in it”, then I guess that’s on them. Please read: www.weather.gov/dvn/sirenFAQ
This comment is way late, but it needs a mention. Good job with the camera. Just a few hiccups at the beginning, but no big deal really. Steady and the zooming was kept to a bare minimum. Most people with a camera in hand think they MUST use the zoom function. After all, there is a zoom button right? So many tornado events are completely ruined with ignorant camera work. Too many of the so called professional chasers ruin their work with over the top zoom in and out. Unsteady jerky camera movements and panning back and forth so quick and often that it becomes almost impossible to view. Add to it, they have childish "narration" and in the end they end up with a worthless piece of work. I salute you and thanks for recording a piece of important history.
I also wanted to mention that it sounded like fighter jets when it reached our homes. We got some damage, but it completely destroyed a home across the street and one over to the left of ours. Also, we were situated at the bottom of a very steep driveway, but many of the homes on our street and on several other streets in the Les Chateau subdivision were completely wiped off their slabs. All that remained were the pipes or plumbing from the toilets. You couldn't recognize our neighborhood.
If I'm not mistaken your street (or at least part of that subdivision )got wiped out may 3rd I know 126/7th PL are weird and those streets randomly resume after an udeveloped area west of Eastlake estates in a small subdivision along Pennsylvania Ave where the famous "inside an f5 from the camera set up in a living room" video
Wow that is an awesome video i came there a few weeks after that and then the whole town of moore gone 😢 even if i had a shelter id still leave no reason to risk it
Blessing to ya'. if that tornado developed a touch more to the west you would of had a whole different story to tell. WOW Five Stars i mean tornado's lol for this well Performed understood Video. 🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪 . You stoped video . though it looked like it was Coming a lot closer . How did it Come out. Hope O.K ?
He sounded confident that the tornado was not headed towards him, so it appears that he felt that there was no reason to worry about the tornado. (however, he did risk being struck by debris, and perhaps that's why he eventually stopped recording video.)
For anyone in the comments... Remember to watch the "v". If it's not moving left or right, it'll get bigger. v V. That means you should get inside now. Last resort if you're ever caught trying to figure it out
@@lifeintornadoalley en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Atlanta_tornado_outbreak The last tornado we had was in 2008. Nothing has come remotely close since. And no, i wasn't there at the time.
At 3:16 it appears the tornado is right infront of you (miles away) however appears to be "standing still", which generally indicates you are in the direct path of the tornado. Being that this was your 1st tornado you should listen to your wife
