First 10 Minutes of its life as a multi-vortex structure, before it transforms into a massive rain wrapped ground circulation. My storm chase blog: westwind.ch/usa13/
This footage puts the el reno tornado in the dead man walking category of violent multi votex structures. Its known to have had multiple vortices that were pushing winds at 300+ mph, but the early shape(s) give off the dead man walking appearance. Beautiful
Wow! I thought I had seen all the film of this storm. This is the best vortex evolution footage I’ve ever seen. Other chasers had similar positions and vantage points, but the detail and backlit shots here are stunning!
This tornado will always remind me of just how dangerous and unpredictable tornadoes can be. A definite cautionary tale so to speak. Absolutely brilliant footage.
In the beginning, it reminds me of a macabre merry-go-round. The horizontal vortices going up and down and and the vertical vortices spinning around, is amazing, yet terrifying.
By far the most insane motion I've ever seen, incredible vertical and horizontal vortices indicating intense rising and sinking motion in and near the tornado, what a beast, wish I was there to see it.
Thank heavens you were far enough away to the Northeast when you headed South. When that became rain wrapped the tornadic wind field had expanded to over two and a half miles wide. Others who headed South, and East, got caught. Fantastic footage of the genesis - so mesmerizingly violent and beautiful at the same time. Well done!
I’ve been obsessed with this tornado for years, and I’m always frustrated by the lighting of the videos, until now. This is perfect. Not sure what you did here, but it’s the only video I’ve seen where the body of the main tornado is visible. Well done.
It has to do with where he’s positioned to film the tornado. He is filming it from the north looking south which is why it has such high contrast but this comes with risks. MOST tornadoes move north east which is why most of the RU-vid videos of this tornado are filmed from the south looking north. But on some rare occasions tornadoes can move south or even west. This particular tornado took every storm chaser by surprise and moved southeast while growing to a massive size then hooked left to a normal northeast trajectory
This is by far the best footage of El rino tornado i have come across on RU-vid. Kudos for capturing this masterpiece, it will definitely be of great help to the scientific and research community who study about tornadoes.
I agree with tyson golden AND have viewed myraids of footage of this event in the 7.5 years since it happened. This captures it thru so many stages of development to the point of "the bear becoming wrapped in its own cage" and despite that, it still kept going, gaining momentum and strength. There's way more going on in this footage than this novice severe weather enthusiast can comprehend,let alone describe. Dunno how these chasers stayed so cool and collected. Amazing work guys!
There’s that one saying when you see the “dead man walking” that death is coming. You can see at 2:14 & 6:20 the multiple vortices look like 2 legs walking.
Best video of the El Reno sub-vortices I've seen thus far. This got me to thinking about the "ratings debate" which has been around awhile, along with a research paper I recently read (Orf, L. et al. (2017). "Evolution of a long-track violent tornado within a simulated supercell. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society."). According to Dr. Orf, recent high resolution numerical simulations strongly suggest that the ground-level winds in some sub-vortices may be much higher than previously thought, possibly exceeding 500 mph. In turn, this reminded me of a recent video I saw in which a multi-ton freight car was send hurdling "hundreds of yards in the air", all courtesy of an alleged EF1 tornado. Somehow this is rather hard to believe. Some EF1 tornadoes do demonstrate sub-vortices, and I'm guessing that one of these at EF-4 or EF-5 level may have been the real real reason for the "flying train".
I think it only looked rain wrapped at the end. It was actually in the process of growing huge. I think all of that dark column was part of the tornado's circulation.
It was, thats what made this Tornado so dangerous to storm chasers. Many though that they were right next to a ran band and thought the Tornado was deep behind the bands. They didn't realize they were looking right at the Tornado wall, until it was too close.
This is the BEST El Reno footage there is, by far. None of the "look at me" yelling the same phrase 8 times by each person in the car, like they each have a check-off sheet. Man, these guys could give a lesson for sure!!!
This footage is amazing! And I’m not entirely sure why, but I’m enjoying it so much more in German. I think it’s because I can tune out the commentary and just enjoy the tornado. Awesome video, guys. One of the best videos on the internet. Glad you made the trip over here to get it.
For the past two years I have been mesmerized by this storm and it's mysterious haunting existence. So powerful and uncharacterized motion, movement, change of speed and exponential growth. I thought I had seen all the videos and I am stunned to stumble onto this one. Awesome job capturing not only a freak of nature, but a freak amongst freaks. Of course there are the same 5 idiots that bounce around giving every video they can watch a thumbs down. Just plain stupid people with nothing to do, probably pissed about the non- english speaking narration/ conversation.
The creepy multiple vortices and their incredible growth rate in such a short period of time had death written all over it. Being within 10 miles of such unstable conditions would be way too close for my comfort. The incredible footage taken of this tornado and knowing it killed people makes it one of the most haunting tornadoes to have ever been recorded in my opinion. If more people respected mother nature's power then it could have potentially saved some people's lives that day.
I think the sub vortexes dropped or hung under the main funnel before it expanded. That, or they merged into one singular vortex that was so strong it created another set of 4 subs that actually grew to f4-f5 size and wind speed.... Like a super f5 with 4 other f5s circulating it almost perfectly. Scariest tornado in history and i pray its the last one
Even more terrifying is just the week before this tornado hit, the Birdgecreek/Moore, OK area was hit with an EF5. The area where this one hit was VERY close to it. That area has been hit by so many severe tornadoes that if severe weather is forecasted for the day and it's a school day, school absences are excused and that's if officials don't cancel school preemptively.
We've all seen Reed's footage from much closer, and distant video too, but this is the best video I've seen from a medium vantage point. Not only are the earlier multiple vortices visible, it's easy to see the structure they emerge from, and the evolving wedge they become. From that vantage point, we can see it as it becomes rain-wrapped, which is missing from most video shot from the South and East.
That is one of the most photogenic tornadoes that I’ve ever seen! However, do you know what would scare more than watching a tornado form out on a flat and open plain like that? All the lightning where you’re probably the tallest thing nearby. That storm was popping out some serious lightning. The thought of being struck by lightning here scares me more than the tornado!
I was watching Dans video right before this when he was outrunning/escaping the tornado and it was so scary to watch.. now watching this video just shows how much of a monster this tornado truly was.
I’m learning German and was able to pick up a few words. Ich verstehe nur ein bisschen. Awesome video! I’ve been really fascinated in the El Reno tornado.
These folks sound like they’re from northern Germany; they sound like they’re speaking Dutch sometimes. They do not sound Bavarian, however, this is my extremely unqualified opinion. Ich spreche Deutsch wie ein dreijähriger Amerikaner.
There were times that thing looked like a crazy demon thing ominously walking across the landscape. I've never seen something like that before. That's terrifying and amazing.
@@thethundercat1863 Dead Man Walking is a rather rare type of multiple vortex tornado, in which the motions of the multiple vortices make the tornado look like it is "walking". Dead Man Walking tornadoes are usually extremely violent and deadly, and this monster, which eventually reached 2.6 miles wide and produced sustained winds higher than 295 miles per hour showed that off, my killing 8 people, including storm chasers, one of those being Tim Samaras.
@@thethundercat1863 there's a photo hear of the Jarrell tornado which has been dubbed Dead Mab Walking tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2013/05/tornados-producing-dead-man-walking.html
Can I give you a little more information to your question? - I'm Native American, and there is folklore behind the dead man walking. The term actually originated from the American Indians in the 19th century. The story goes that if you see the tornado walking, which is multi vortex as already stated, the person seeing it should die. If he survives, though he should've died, he is a dead man walking. It was known by my ancestors that this was a particularly dangerous type of tornado long ago. - Many people think the legend says the viewer will die, but that's not the case. It's that the viewer should've.
Interesting how almost unassuming it looks. It seems so wispy and disorganized, certainly not something to get close to but not the monster it became. Truly tragic how much different this event may have gone down in history had there not been the associated deaths.
it's like the entire mesocyclone just dropped several hundred feet and hugged the ground. even in the beginning, when it was multiple small-ish vortices, the mesocyclone looked dramatically lower than typical for these types of storms
You both must be Swedish? I am Swedish also, but was born here in MN. My Grandparents came over from Sweden shortly after they were born, Grandpa in 1915, Grandma in 1917 in retrospect. You guys come to America to chase, or do you live here?
sabishiihito It's hard to say exactly when however after watching many videos, looking at research papers, and information from radar I can say it was before the tornado crossed highway 81. When it impacted the weather channel crew it was already rain wrapped as you can see by various camera angles from the weather channel coverage. When looking at radar, the debris ball was initially moving southeast and clear from rain and then as it turned more easterly the rear flank caught up with the circulation.
@@SusanKay- I can tell you that even prior to tornadogenesis, the supercell was firing out powerful positive strikes all around it. I was a couple miles away and still retreated to the car when the positive strikes started!
Just think, like somebody else said...If this puppy hadve come through OKC Metro, just like Hurricane Katrina and Rita did New Orleans, they would STILL be tryna rebuild today...April 2021 ..
can someone tell me... the first two minutes you look at the vortexes and you can see how fast the wind speeds are moving. Being out in an open field with no flying debris (dust maybe).. doesn't anyone else think that you could walk through that tornado in that field and not get hurt?? At the beginning I'm saying..
Interesting question. I realized once in straight line winds ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CFpou4wSQy4.html that everything beyond EF2 strength (200 km/h or 120 mph) is not doable anymore, because even small soil particles become bullets that start to rip your skin and clothes apart.
Are you German? I read a while ago Germany is amongst the few European countries having a good percentage of tornadic storms. Is that true, or not? Vielen Dank fur das Video!
