SCARED BRITISH GUY Reacts to Americas 10 Most Infamous F5 or EF5 Tornadoes *INSANE* 

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I grew up in the US Midwest and tornados are no joke. As a kid we weren't scared of monsters in the dark, we were terrified of being awoken by that errie tornado siren.

I saw a picture of someone's home that was destroyed by weather like this. He still had a sense of humor. He wrote on the sign, "Home For Sale. Some Assembly Required." LOL!

I have a friend whose 8 year old son's life was taken in the 2013 Moore, Oklahoma, tornado. He's still obviously very devastated. Victim's name is Christopher Legg

American in the Midwest here. A tornado never really sneaks up on you these days. You typically know there's a storm coming and they ring to tornado siren when they want you to start paying attention. If you're in the path of a likely tornado, you get alerts on your phone, and at that point you're probably watching storm coverage. You hunker down in your basement and hope you're not hit. Not fun, but there's no surprise about it.

“It’s not THAT the wind is blowing, it’s WHAT the wind is blowing” - Ron White

The worst part about a Tornado is the absolute quiet right before it hits. I'll never forget my first Tornado. The sky completely black and not a sound to be heard, no dogs, no birds, no bugs, nothing.

I was in the Tuscaloosa EF4 in 2011. I was a week from graduating college. It came about 500 yards from my apartment. The ceiling and the walls were shaking, my ears were popping from the pressure. While it only blew some windows out in my complex, all of the homes and trees around it were gone. The most eerie part of it - the silence, both before and after. Still have a little bit of PTSD even now when a tornado watch is announced.

I lost two friends to the Joplin tornado. Last we heard, they were taking their dogs to a back hallway (there was no basement, if I remember correctly) and were going to try to ride out the storm there, the way they always did when there were tornado warnings, but no one had any idea how big this storm was. We thought they’d just lost power as the storm passed through. It took several days to get confirmation that they were gone and not just stranded in a neighborhood without power. Even the hospital was torn just about in half in Joplin. I think, afterward, it was the only building still recognizable in the whole neighborhood because it was big enough that it didn’t get leveled. Where do you go for help when your local hospital’s been hollowed out by the same storm, you know? To this day, I can’t think about Joplin without getting really angry. It just wasn’t survivable once you were in its path. In the video footage of Joplin, you can see the path it tore through town as it picked up strength and debris and speed, and grew wider as it moved. I’ll never look at tornadoes the same way again since Joplin.

For the Joplin tornado: There was a reporter who was on site immediately after the tornado hit. She said she got PTSD from being there and for weeks after she would try to sleep but could still hear the search dogs barking in her head every time they found a body.

My wife and I got to the basement about 25 seconds before the Joplin tornado hit our house dead-center. To this day, we get emotional if we speak about it and weather events cause us a great deal of stress and anxiety. We climbed out and started helping look for others. It was like being in a war zone.

I'm part of a disaster relief team here in Oklahoma City and was just in Sulphur for clean up. It's a wild place to live but we're used to it. Come out for spring sometime, it's truly something to feel the day it's supposed to get bad.

I live in TN, and back in 2018 one of my good friends' mom passed away in a tornado. It wasn't a particularly strong or long drawn out storm, but it was just strong enough to come down on their home and sweep it off its foundation. She was going down the stairs to get into the basement as the tornado ripped apart the house. Everyone else in the house was downstair's already and survived with minimal injuries. Almost the entire high school went to her funeral. It was an extremely sad day and I still keep in contact with him.

The best scene in Twister, (Hands down for me.) is near the end of the movie, Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt's characters try to find any shelter from the F5 chasing them. They open the door of a tool shack, only to find out it contains a crapload of sharp, rusted blades, which causes Paxton's character to say "WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?"

The 1999 Moore tornado almost killed me when I was 7 years old. My mother, my 2 younger siblings, and I were all at home while my dad was deployed overseas for military work. It was a small 3 bedroom home with no basement or shelter. We huddled in a broom closet for hours listening to the tornado sirens and the local weather radio. As a kid I had no concept of the danger we were actually in. The tornado ripped through town just half a mile away from us, but we were ok where we were. I remember the next day when we saw the damaged houses I asked my mom why none of the flattened houses had closets where people could hide, and she explained that the tornado was just too strong for the closets and destroyed them too. That's when it sunk in for me how close we came to dying that night, and it was the first time I ever felt that recognition of my mortality as a kid. Things were probably even worse for my dad. The only information he had overseas was the news reports because the phone lines in my town were all damaged and not working. He spent multiple days thinking his entire family was killed. I don't remember exactly how we got the news to him that we were ok, but as a father and husband myself now I can't even imagine how stressful that would have been.

I'm a trained spotter here in the Kansas City area. We moved out East to Syracuse, NY for a bit. They hadn't experienced them before, so there were no alerts, just the TV. Hubby & I jumped in our old truck and started chasing. I finally got thru to the local TV stations (thank goodness for conference calls!), explained who I was, where I came from, etc. and was immediately patched to the weather depts. It's a very hilly area, but we knew what to look for. We successfully (? is there success ?) "caught" 3 heading towards the area. We got lucky that they just passed thru farmland! The news channels mentioned us, and gave us so much praise, but hey... at least we knew enough to chase those things and report everything to them!

Grew up on Oklahoma, and saw multiple tornadoes myself and have been through countless tornado warnings, the most recent being 2 days ago. While there are plenty of people who unwisely go outside to watch in the middle of the storm, you’re never going to have one just casually go by as you drink your coffee without warning. First of all, they’re surrounded by heavy rain, lightning, hail, sirens and high winds so you have a hint when they’re coming ahead of time. The worst is when they happen at night because that’s when more people will be unprepared and more likely to die or be injured.

One thing that people don't usually mention is all the animals/birds, etc. killed in these tornadoes; pets, wildlife, and farm animals are so vulnerable. They often have nowhere to hide, and I find that heartbreaking.

As a American who lives in tornado and alley and who slightly obsessed with them it so funny seeing how someone from a foreign country react to something that is just a fact of life here makes me realize how easy it is to view something has normal your just used it.

Texan here. We don’t have basements usually as our water table is too high. Some older homes may have outside storm shelters, although they tend to harbor flooding or snakes. We usually hide in the bathroom closest to the center of the house. No sirens near us because we live in the country. We’ve had tornadoes hit as close as mile from our home. This weekend we literally out ran a tornado. A friend of ours wasn’t so lucky but he survived and has video of his truck being spun around and an RV being flung into him. So glad he had a newer truck with side airbags. In America every state has a form of severe weather. West coast has earthquakes. The north (from east to west) get severe snowstorms and cold. Midwest is known as tornado alley for a reason. We’ve had three tornadoes this week in north Texas! East coast and south also get hurricanes. The best you can get is picking the desert of New Mexico or Arizona, although when I lived in those states as a kid my mom would hide our shoes to keep us in our own yard because temps would get over 110 F in the summer and the sidewalks were too hot for bare feet. So we all pick the weather we are most comfortable to handle and shake our heads at everyone else saying, “I could never live there!”

You know when someone hasn't been in something bad when they use the phrase "I haven't experienced". You don't experience a tornado. You try to survive them.

"If you see the dead man walking, you will soon be dead" A native American myth referring to the look of the formation of multi vortex tornadoes, that tend to form EF 4's and EF 5's, as such, seeing it in person likely means you don't have long to live.

I've lived in Tornado Alley most of my life. We just had a "tornado emergency" here in Nebraska a couple weeks ago. Tornadoes that occur at night are by far the scariest.

My Lil bro was born during the 2011 outbreak. The hospital he was born at was in the tornados path, but the storm turned last second. I can recognize one of the buildings in the moore footage

I'm a trained storm spotter in Alabama. So yeah, a bit of a tornado geek. Tornadoes start as a direct result of various, specific conditions coming together. There are a lot of things going on there; it's a very dynamic process. You have hot moist air butting heads with cold dry air, wind shear and several other factors. The reason we get so many tornadoes here in the deep south and in the plains is because of the warm, moist air (that rises) coming up from the Gulf of Mexico colliding with cold, dry air (that falls) coming down from Canada. This causes instability. Throw in some wind shear and rotation develops. That's a very basic description of the process, but you get the idea. Here's some fun trivia for ya! Here in Alabama (and probably much of the deep south, in general), it's very humid and green and lush with much vegetation. But that's only because of the Gulf of Mexico. If it weren't for the Gulf, we would be desert.

When I was 5, my family got stopped in the middle of a highway because of a tornado. My mom was an EMT at the time and told us to get to the ditch and hold on. She had my little sister with her and told my oldest brother to help get me and my other brother. On my way to the ditch the storm actually lifted me 3-4 feet off the ground and my brother grabbed my arm and pulled me to the ditch. We then watched the car rise and fall on the road. I was young enough to barely remember/believe it, but my mom and brothers always bring it up during bad storms.

I was in the Joplin Missouri tornado in this video. I lost everything it took hours to get me out from under my house. The scariest thing I've ever been through. But the thing I remember the most about that day was the way the people came together to help each other. I'm a 58 year old woman from Chattanooga Tennessee and I'm one of your new subscribers. I hope you know how great you are. Your so funny. Please keep doing what your doing. Prayers and love from Tennessee

As someone who experienced the Moore tornado firsthand, it really fucked me up. I've had really severe storm anxiety since. No joke, the second I see any sort of indication of bad weather, I have to sit in the safe room until I'm normal again 😭

When I lived in the Midwest tornadoes were just a part of life- they happened so frequently. The one that stands out to me the most was one that came up on us rapidly and tore through our backyard. I was young, but I remember my mom ushering us to the center most bathroom, and covering my sister and I with pillows. It moved fast but, at the time, felt like forever. It never touched the house; a few trees were uprooted and the play set in the back was destroyed. But we were otherwise unscathed. I’ve been at school when some have hit, and a mall where they led us to the back halls to wait it out. I developed severe anxiety against storms which took years to recover from after moving away. It always breaks my heart to see the destruction that they can cause. It’s terrifying and incredibly humbling when you are faced with such power.

Canadian here, did trucking across the US last year in the mid west. One night round 11pm i was driving down some back road in my Rig and unbeknownst to me cause the darkness, i was driving a few miles ahead of one. I only learned of it the next morning driving back the other way and seeing the destruction. Locals were talking about what time it went through and it was only minutes after i drove past.

Being from Oklahoma Twister is half comedy, half public service announcement, half "yeah, I know them".

Experienced one in Texas. It was an EF3, and passed by our house and made it's way to the highschool (15mins away) The image I have of it is terrifying. The background is red with a black tornado off into the distance. We're in a lucky spot. It's the closest tornado we've had in 50 years. Over 10 pass us each year ..

I’m in Minnesota, in September of 1997 my coworker’s house was hit and destroyed and his uncle who lived close by was killed by the same tornado. I’ve never been directly hit but I have been very close, the scary thing was that the tornado was rain-wrapped so I couldn’t actually see it, all I could see was trees blowing over and an extreme downpour. I took shelter in a logging skidder but I still shutter when thinking about it, even though it was probably over in less than a minute.

I lived in Moore, Oklahoma and have first had experience of tornados. The EF4-EF5 in 2013 destroyed my childhood home while I was visiting with my husband and son. We were lucky to have had a neighbor with a storm shelter. Hearing it go overhead while holding my son then seeing my (former) bedroom completely gone afterward is something I still have nightmares about. I can confirm these storms are as terrifying as they look here.

People don’t realize the weather America be goin through 💀 shit sucks at times. Earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes. We got it all! Even volcanos!! And it’s not like tornados are infrequent. It’s an entire season of like April to June Julyish

I have lived in Joplin, MO my entire life. I was at work when the May 22nd, 2011 tornado hit. Thankfully I was safe where I was, but trying to get home was a nightmare. What would have normally been a 10 minute drive turned into a 2 1/2 hour ordeal and a 2 mile walk through downed powerlines in the dark to get home. I was lucky, again, to have no home damage, but I had many friends who lost everything. It is still impossible for me to watch any footage or see pictures from the tornado and not cry. It was a truly devastating day for Joplin, MO.

Grew up in the Midwest and am on the edge of Tornado Valley. Just last year had a F2 go down my road and completely destroyed houses and a dairy farm. Very thankful I've never personally experienced an F5 and I hope I never have to. When that tornado went through, I was a few.miles away in town attempting to do laundry at the laundromat and was getting frustrated the power kept going out

Canadian here, my house got hit by a tornado in barrie 2021 . It was terrifing as we had no warning one minute calm eating lunch , next minute chairs flying and windows breaking . We were blessed no one died especially because three kids got sucked out of their house and flung across to a feild

The eerie calm before they hit gets me everytime. The rain just stops... lighting starts strobing like a wack rave... wind picks up, then the sound of a train barreling across the land can be heard even over the rain, if it starts back.

"Remember when i said i wanted to move there?.... yeah ill stay here" 😂😂😂

I currently live in Harvest AL, and was a senior in high school during the April 27 2011 tornado outbreak. Truly heartbreaking. At the time as an 18 y/o it was no big deal, to think of all of the loss and tragedy that I saw FIRST HAND after those tornadoes seems unreal. Even more unreal to see so many videos documenting our experiences from this, seems unreal to have lived through something I am now seeing so often documented on tv and social media. It truly was an unreal thing to live through.

You should check out the real time Joplin Missouri tornado. It’s shows the tornado from a variety of videos in real time as it happened.

Really surprised that he didn’t mention the El Reno Oklahoma Tornado in May 31st of 2013, even though the damage scale from that EF5 was basically what you saw out of an EF3. But that one was significant since it was one of the deadliest/costliest storm chasing wise. The erratic movements caught even professional storm chasers from Discovery and The Weather Channel off, and they either died or got severely injured, plus it was rain wrapped meaning usually storm chasers had a corridor between the rain wall and the vortex to escape, but the rain wall was actually the edge of the tornado. It was the widest tornado ever recorded too.

I live in Wichita KS, which was featured in your video. I watched the 1991 tornado from my work van a few miles away, as I had just been in the area working. After it passed through the area my coworkers and I rushed back into the area to start helping survivors. Then in April 2022 my family was inside a family activity center (YMCA) in Andover when it took a direct hit from an EF-3. The car that was in the parking lot was found later inside the building. For all the hubris of man, all our power is meaningless in the face of nature's awesome force.

My mother's house was severely damaged in the 2013 Moore EF5 tornado. Her street had a median going down the center of it and the house that was directly across and one house south was destroyed, but the house directly across survived. Four houses north of my mom's were heavily damaged to the point they were torn down and rebuilt, but all the houses north of that and just NW of her were completely destroyed. Her house, which was not directly hit, took 60K US in damages (both from the winds and then water damage afterwards). The house we lived in when I graduated HS was completely picked up along with half the solid slab foundation in the 99 EF5 Moore tornado. It missed the house I was living in at the time by half a block. As to what causes them, its two fronts colliding. You get a east flowing front from the Rocky Mountains which is usually cold, then you get northern flowing front from the golf of mexico that is warm and humid. When they collide it causes a rotation.

I live on the border of North Texas and Southern Oklahoma. We are currently watching tornadoes on TV in Oklahoma RIGHT NOW!! You learn to be very weather aware living in "Tornado Alley", but we don't fear tornadoes in general. A lot of people have tornado shelters now, and if you don't, most people have a plan to stay safe in such instances. But since tornadoes hit very targeted, relatively small areas, most people have never even seen one in person. We prepare, shelter and pray when necessary, and help our neighbors when tragedy strikes. It's just part of life, here.

Native Oklahoman here, and I gotta say the Oklahoma footage I all watched in person on TV, some of it close to me, but I did not receive any damage thankfully. The second tornado shown, the Moore tornado, the 20+ lives that were taken. were actually children that were trapped in a school. That is why that is one of the most well-known tornadoes of Oklahoma because it took such precious lives from us. I don’t know when this video was made that you were watching, but we recently had two EF five tornadoes. 11 years after that one even though it said there hasn’t been one since, there has now been two this year.

I am born and raised from Kansas, lived here for my whole life. Everyone here in Kansas knows once the sky turn bright green, you get your ass inside, that’s when it’s about to get real and devastating.

Grew up in west Alabama about 30 minutes from tuscaloosa. Watched an EF4 come by our house about an hour before the tuscaloosa one hit on April 27. Completely changed Tuscaloosa forever.

From around May-June (right now) in the states you can search for live storm chasers around 10pm you're time, almost any day and ride along with your choice of tornado chases. Today, May 6 is going to be huge around 5-9pm CST. If you're interested. Be careful doing any reactions though. I hear they are pretty strict with their copyrights.

Tornadoes are terrifying but fascinating at the same time. I lived in Oklahoma for four years on an air base in my early 20's and saw a fair share of storms. One of the locals told me that "if it looks like it ain't movin', then it's coming straight towards you. Get out of it's way." I truly miss living in that state.

I've lived in the northeast of the US my entire life. I've always had family in the midwest where tornadoes are common, so I always check in with them when something inevitably happens out there. We get tornado watches all the time in CT but nothing ever touches down near me, so I generally ignore them because nothing ever happens - my mom and I would even sit out on the porch during watches just to enjoy the thunderstorm that never progressed further than thunder and rain. Until the time in (I believe) 2018 when a number of tornadoes actually touched down in multiple places in CT, one of which happened to go right through the parking lot that my boyfriend, his 4yo son and myself were parked in. We watched the funnel form in our rear view mirror, take down a whole line of trees, and come directly on top of us. We were all safe, save from a few scratches from flying hail and debris when I got out of the car to get my boyfriend's son unhooked from his carseat to get him inside a building, but I'll never ignore another tornado warning or watch again for as long as I live. It was without question the most terrifying moment of my entire 32 years of life. And even that was I believe only an EF1.

I’ve been through many tornado warnings growing up near Wichita, but I’ve been very fortunate to not experience the real devastation they can bring to your home. My parents tell me about the tornado they were in sometime before I was born, though. They were in a smaller house without a basement at the time, so they had to shut themselves in the main bathroom with their 2 cats and just pray for the best. My mom always remembers the door to the bathroom rattling and the howling of the wind as the tornado went by just a few streets over. She said when they left the bathroom, the windows were blown in with mud and branches everywhere, and part of the roof had even been ripped away iirc. My dad says that if you had a bird’s eye view of the neighborhood afterward, you could see the exact path of devastation it went on, as it’d completely torn apart the houses it went over just a couple streets away from my parents’ house. It’s terrifying to imagine

So, as an "Army brat" growing up on military base in the Marshall Islands, Typhoon Zelda hit Thanksgiving of 9th grade. It spawned tornados that destroyed several buildings. We watched as people's patios were just blowing through the streets. Thankfully, no homes were destroyed. Army base housing was made of giant bricks and were very strong. A few residents lost their roofing, but that's it, no fatalities. Only cheap business buildings were destroyed and being Thanksgiving, they were all closed. Name of the place was Kwajalein and it was Thanksgiving of 1991 I think.

The Weather Channel did a series, Tornado Alley Real Time, featuring four tornados. The Joplin, Moore, Tuscaloosa, and Hattiesburg. They contain amatuer, storm chaser and news coverage in real time as it occurred during the tornados. While they can be hard to watch, the heroism and community you learn about during the interviews is truly inspiring. I'm one of your recent subscribers and just wanted to say hi. Your reactions are hysterical, great job.

“Is that a focking tornado 😭” I can’t but I love your videos and the reactions to these tornadoes

I was watching you watch the May 30, 2013 Newcastle-Moore tornado and you asked for comments from people with real experience. A week earlier on May 20, 2013 a catastrophic E5 tornado hit Moore, my husband and I were at home sheltering in a bedroom closet as the tornado destroyed our home. This was louder than multiple jet engines with winds that buried fiberglass in our skin and put our neighbor’s minivan on top of our house. This was the single most terrifying experience I have ever had and I still have severe PTSD to this day because of the extreme sensory overload. Tornados begin in the sky rotating horizontally, as the warm air circulates from the ground into the sky and the cold air in the sky circulates downward the tornado begins to take a vertical position. The cone you see on the ground is initially, largely made of condensate and debris.

Adam, my mother was born and raised in Moore. When the sky turned green, the family hit the rootceller. The only safe place is underground. It took strong men to hold the door closed. I wouldn't live in Tornado Alley for anything. The Midwest is getting smashed right now. There's so much rain, because of the tornados, that parts of Texas are underwater. If you feel like praying, do it....they need it badly. Google. Glad you're back. I've missed you.

Midwest lady here, and Tornadoes are the worst. I will never forget where a school in Iowa was wiped out, during a school day. It still makes me cry, and breaks my heart over and over for those babies. RIP angels.

we had one a few years back, before that we never thought we'd get this type of weather and now every year we are under tornado watches i was delivering mail when it hit and saw a school roof blow away, very scary when you've never experience it

I saw twister in the theater with surround sound. Take it from someone that was triggered when tornado weather comes around. My heart was in my throat in the opening of that movie when the sound of that tornado surrounding me. Later, I was in Birmingham when the F5 came through Oak Grove. I was loosing my mind, terrified. It passed within 5 miles of my house. My husband worked security with Fema. He took me with him to the location office in Oak Grove and I just sat in the car and cried. Everything was leveled to the ground, nothing left. They lost a lot of lives that day because the siren went off as it crested the hill of that community. It just broke my heart to see it.

Native Oklahoman here - The same day as the Wichita F5 (April 26,1991), an F5 outbreak hit the Tulsa area. I lived a mile south of where one of the F5 tornadoes hit. Fortunately, we only lost a couple of dead trees, and our home and barns were not damaged. Then during the May 3,1999 F5 tornado that hit Moore, I was finishing my sophomore year at the University of Oklahoma. I stood with several of my friends on the balcony of our house and watched as the storm passed through Moore. We couldn't see the tornado, but we could see the storm clouds. That was a very sobering moment for us. I lived my entire life in tornado alley, and have had several close calls with smaller storms. Springtime is interesting in these parts.

Tornadoes are often formed from the cold air coming off the Rocky Mountains that hits the moist warm air from the Gulf Ocean that comes up through the south and hits in Tornado Alley in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and the south. Lots of storms with hail hit that area every spring/summer. I’ve been through bad winds and large hail but never a tornado, thank goodness. I had a friend who saw damage from a smaller tornado that went from Ohio through northern Pennsylvania and saw houses gone but the wood pile stacked next to the house untouched. So weird. The debris flying around kills. That’s why a lot of US homes have basements.

Fun fact about twister: it was filmed in Iowa (which you can spot a sign that says I-80 and that runs through all of Iowa) but I think it takes place in either Oklahoma or Kansas.

as someone who grew up in tornado alley (oklahoma) seeing something so normal be terrifying to a person who has never experienced a tornado is honestly so amazing. 2 years ago the little town i live in got hit by a EF2 (ik its not big but it did some good damage for such a little town) thankfully no one was injured. tornados are really no joke, praying for every state that has got hit by tornados.

I’ve lived in Kansas USA my whole life and been through a couple bad tornadoes in my area. Although they’re super terrifying and can cause awful damage, tornadoes are one of the natural disasters that can be really well predicted. Obviously it’s not easy to predict exactly where they will form, but the weather conditions have to be very particular in order to birth a tornado. Us locals can typically tell day to day if it feels like “tornado weather,” and radar/ weather warnings tend to be very reliable for big storms like these. The time of year is also a good predictor for tornadoes, as most fall within the April-June tornado season. I couldn’t imagine living in an area where earthquakes are common because there’s not really a way to know when one will happen or how strong it will be.

I was in high school when the 1999 Moore tornado struck and leveled my aunt & uncle’s house. My cousin was an infant at the time and was nearly ripped out of my aunt’s arms. My mom frantically drove there that night where 108 tornadoes were touching down. Moore would be hit again in 2009 and 2013 by EF-4 and 5 tornadoes. I’ve rode out an EF-2 hitting my neighborhood when I was in college and just last night, an EF-3 passed within 10 miles of where I currently live. At some point, you get pretty good about gauging the weather and you pay attention to radar images of all storms passing around you. You also start getting weird when a storm is too dark or has an odd color to it. Like greenish tints, which usually accompanies hail.

I’m actually from the Wichita/Andover, Kansas area. I was only a few months old when that tornado hit and funny enough, I went on to work on B-1s when I joined the military. We actually had a small tornado and straight line winds rip up our small town a few weeks ago. The town suffered some major tree damage. We had uprooted trees that were over 100 years old and nearly 100 feet tall. Some smashed cars and damaged roofs from falling trees, but luckily, no fatalities or even any injuries. We were without power for three days. I’ve seen plenty of tornados off in the distance but this is the first time I’ve had one go over my house. The sound was WILD. It’s pretty shocking to go into the basement and come back up to snapped trees and debris everywhere. I can’t even imagine coming up and seeing you no longer have a house.

yeah they come through almost every year.. been fortunate, either just south or north to us. I've seen them so close I could hear them coming through just south of me. sound like a train coming through. My hometown lost over 250 homes in a tornado storm few years ago. damage was unreal.

I live in Moore, OK and have been through both the May 3rd 1999 F5 (320 mph winds) and the 2013 F5. Still alive and kicking. As I'm typing this, we are under a grave tornado threat once again today, and I'm watching the weather.

My childhood home was destroyed in the Joplin Missouri 2011 tornado. My family had moved away just months earlier.

I lived 18 miles north of Jarrell in 1997. I'll never forget standing outside watching the clouds heading south over us and thinking how strange they looked and how strange the air felt. The tornado hit Jarrell not long after that. Hearing about it in the news later was chilling.

Last year, here in arkansas, we had an EF3 travel 34 miles through heavily dense/populated areas. You could follow the trial from little rock, to north little rock, and ending in lonoke. It was crazy

Getting underground is by far your best bet for a tornado

As a young boy in 1974, my dad drove us about 100 miles to Zenia Ohio about a week after the F5 hit that town, buildings swept clean like they were sucked up by a giant vacuum and dumped back in pieces. A gas station had nothing left but the pumps and a hole in the ground where a building had stood.

I just recently experienced my first tornado. We don’t usually get tornados where I live, but one day a couple months ago we got 17 in our area (so within couple hundred miles). We had one pass over our house. It was so eerie because right before, it got super quiet, and then I couldn’t see outside the windows at all. My parents are elderly and I was with them, and my dad is immobile, so I stayed with him while I told my mom, who has dementia, to go into the downstairs bathroom. While it was happening, sirens went off on our phones with messages about a “tornado emergency.” But it passed after a couple minutes and we didn’t have damage, other than some minor damage to the cars outside. It was only an EF1. Then my dad dropped a bomb that while on a family trip, they outdrove a tornado back in 1960. So it wasn’t even his first one! Lol

We live 30 miles from Moore oklahoma. Didn't get hit by that tornado personally But a lot of our friends lost their homes and we spent weeks helping with the clean up in that city. There was a car on the roof of one of their homes

I grew up about an hour and a half from joplin in 2011 (currently live in joplin). It was so sad and devastating, but im proud of the community and the people who came to help.

I live less than a mile from where that EF5 tornado ripped through Alabama in Harvest. It took Years for the lots to regrow. My sister was down in Tuscaloosa, where one of the tornadoes ripped through and killed a bunch of people. She was less than half a mile away from it, hiding in a store. We didn't have power for weeks, so my friends parents who had a condo down in south Alabama invited me down, and we spent time on the beach, and slept in a Yacht. Good times

I'm a native of Wichita, Kansas. I've lived here for 35 years now. You learn very quickly how to identify when a storm has potential for tornadoes. Prior to the technology catching up there were many times you had a weather radio(NOAA), a news station's radar on your TV and your instincts while you stood on a porch and watched a storm develop. I lived way away from any town as a kid. I didn't have the luxury of a tornado siren. We had a tornado shelter that was made out of a concrete culvert dug deep into the ground with a steel lid secured by a logging chain anchor and a covered oxygen spout. I hated it down there. Humid, hot, full of friggin spiders, but if a tornado was rolling over it was our best shot at living through it. I was a baby when the 1991 Wichita/Andover tornado ripped through. We've had more tornadoes since. Most recent one I had a close encounter with was the 2022 Andover tornado. Not nearly the size and scope of these F5's you're looking at, but a threatening bit of weather no less. I watched it track east as I lived in the very southeast portion of Wichita at the time. They are scary. Hurricanes terrify me because of their sheer power, but you have a heads-up that they're coming. Tornadoes will jump on you very quickly. Our technology continues to get better and better as they can identify rotation and wind speeds/directions very quickly giving us clues that there may be a tornado happening. We're not gun shy about hitting that alarm. If they see rotation, meaning it's just circulating clouds/winds they will issue a tornado warning to give people the most heads-up they can. Cell phones have also been a huge help. I get an alert on my phone that will quickly grab your attention whenever there's a severe storm or tornado coming towards. Also the same sounds as amber alerts, so you get some very mixed emotions when you hear the noise. Regardless, it's a way of life here. Technology has most definitely given us a much better advantage now. I'm pretty thankful for that.

I was in a tornado when I was a kid, and later when I was in my early 20's. The second one was on my birthday - my coworkers took me out for lunch in a nearby town. The tornado hit that town, then moved on to the town where we worked, then on to the town where I lived. Luckily it didn't kill anyone, but there were some serious injuries and lots of damage and flooding. A big thunderstorm can be cool, but being in a tornado is just scary. You definitely realize that you're mortal.

Washington, Illinois November 17, 2013... Tornado reached its apex over my house, felt the suction as it went over, almost burst my eardrums from the pressure, and live with PTSD from it... Still here, and it has gotten easier over time, but something I will NEVER forget...

Having been in a few tornadoes, feeling a deep dread of them, and living around people who are all kind of numb to the terror - it's cathartic to see your reaction

I’ve never personally been in a tornado, but live in the Midwest. In 2012, an EF2 or 3 hit my town and destroyed an entire trailer park. One of our family friends was literally ripped from her house by it and was thrown something close to a hundred or better yards away into a barbed wire fence. Two people died in it and a dozen or so had to be airlifted to the hospital due to injuries.

I live in Nebraska, and recently there was a couple of EF-3 tornadoes that were very close to home. I went to help in Elkhorn Nebraska the next day and the destruction was insane. I thought I was standing in the rubble of a house only to later find out that the tornado ripped the house off its foundation and about 20 yards away. This in April and we are still doing the clean up process. The literal next day after that tornado there was more tornadoes. You could see the path the tornado took from the destruction it left. Iowa got it so much worse though. My heart goes out to anyone who’s been effected by the storms recently ❤

I grew up in the Midwest. I used to sleep straight through any storm until I was 6-7. That one night I woke up to hearing the tornado sirens going off. I opened my door and my dad was immediately waking everyone else up, as I never woke up to it before and he was unsure if it was real until he saw my bedroom door open,we went downstairs to the basement and we were put in the shower just in case. Thankfully it didn't hit our house, but it was 10ft from our house. We went outside in the morning and saw trees down in the woods behind us. Haven't slept through a storm since. Still absolutely love thunderstorms and tornadoes, but definitely effects my sleep

Growing up in the Midwest I don’t really fear tornados anymore, but the sirens and atmosphere before one still fill me with dread. I still cry when watching footage of Joplin

I experienced my first tornado when I was in Bowling Green, KY in Winter 2021. I’m originally from Michigan so this experience was lowkey ptsd for me. Woke up at 1:45am with alarms going off and it just missed me because I was on the WKU campus (it’s a hill). I’m pretty sure this tornado broke the record of longest mileage though (not an F5 tho). I’m fascinated by tornados but they still terrify me even it’s a watch. Side note: LOVE the movie Twister. I can rewatch it all the time. SO GOOD

We had a small tornado hit our town when I was around 7 or 8 and I remember hiding in the bathtub under a mattress with my younger brother. It was so quiet outside you could hear a pin drop and then all of a sudden it was like a freight train was headed right toward us and I couldn't even hear myself think. I will never forget that sound. I could only imagine what a bigger-sized tornado sounds like.

I am a storm chaser in Kansas, I've been chasing for 11 years, and I chased some of the tornadoes in this video. The first time I remember hearing the sirens was during the Wichita/Andover EF5 tornado. I've also had houses damaged by tornadoes that have come through my town. My Dad survived the 1966 Topeka, Kansas tornado, but his house was torn off of its foundation and they never saw that house again. (My Dad got sent to Vietnam like 2 years later,poor guy. Also random fact, Dad was originally from Connemara, Co Galway!)

My paternal grandfather and his parents (my great-grandparents) survived the F5 Tri-State tornado in 1925. They lived in Murphysboro, Illinois. My grandfather was 5 years old at the time.

I lived and worked in Moore at that time, it was absolute madness. And yes to this day we still go out and look when the sirens go off

I live in rural eastern Colorado. On my daughter's birthday in 2015 we were in Simla, CO for her baseball game. We ended up spending a couple of hours in the shelter under their school due to tornados and baseball size hail. Many of the cars had broken windows and huge dents. The store in Simla opened so we could get tape for some of the vehicles and we slowly made our way back home.

1:00 that is what is known as a “wedge” tornado. Those are when the tornado is wider than it is tall, and they can get pretty big. The largest tornado ever documented hit just to the south of El Reno, Oklahoma in 2013. It was 2.6 miles (about 4.2 km) wide. Also 14:00 typically a tornado starts with rotation in the supercell that reaches down to the ground, however, water/groundspouts exist, as well as gustnadoes. Swegle Studios has a good video going over tornado terminology where he explains what different types of whirlwinds and how they form.

I was on the outskirts of both of the F5 tornadoes that hit Moore Oklahoma, on this list. While I and my home suffered no damage, houses just 300 feet away were totally destroyed. In total I have been in or very near to five tornadoes since I moved to the Oklahoma City area. In fact this afternoon we are in a "High probability" warning. It's just a fact of life here and after one hits, the outpouring of support and assistance from the people in this area is amazing. Despite the dangers of tornadoes, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else, because of the people here.

I was born in 1978 but that 1974 Xenia tornado was what legacies are made of. Growing up whenever we talked about tornado safety in my small town you couldn’t get through that week without it being talked about.

I have two friends who were in Joplin when it happened, both in high school. One was terrified of tornadoes because of it, and the other recounted how she'd survived. Then there was a friend who was in Moore, OK when the 2013 tornado hit. We were all in a chatroom talking and she just up and stated she was hearing sirens and she had to go hide in the bathtub. She, her husband, and son survived, but it's insane that I actually know three people who were direct witnesses to the events. Add to that the fact that my husband and his uncle visited Xenia right after that tornado, and my mother had just left her hometown of Cardington, OH, before they had an F3 that tore apart their downtown, and it feels crazy to me that so many around me have personal tragedies surrounding tornadoes.

I live in oklahoma, i was visiting moore back in 2013, my family made it to an underground shelter, as the main portion of the E-F5 tornado approached our shelter, our ears started popping from the atmospheric pressure changes, and you could feel the entire ground rumble, could feel it in my bones, the aftermath was the worse part, the entire neighborhood was wiped from the face of the earth, trees uprooted and automobiles were crumpled up like crushed soda cans. I still have nightmares.

I am from Alabama and currently live in Tennessee. When I was a kid and lived in Arkansas, right in the middle of "tornado alley," we had a tornado go between our house and our neighbor's house. It removed our shed, but didn't do any significant damage to our house. I remember my dad running out right after it went by to get the horse saddles from the yard since they were leather and would ruin. I'm still pretty scared of tornadoes, but I've never seen one so I have a very morbid curiosity now I'm older.

I’ve been through an e5 and an ef4. The odd thing is that in 1998 my son lost a baseball teammate and a classmate and in 2011 my other son lost 2 friends. One of whom was a classmate. Both sons went to the same school. The same grade. It was heartbreaking to see my surrounding communities destroyed in 1998 and my own community destroyed in 2011. I had PTSD. When nature attacks it’s inevitable that you will get it. Being lost where you grew up is hard. Losing everything and seeing so many move away and not rebuild changes the community. The loss of life is devastating. For people who want to chase them: they are not a fun house, they are not a roller coaster; they are not a fun thing to do. While you are being amused and “terrified”, there are people truly terrified, feeling like they are dying, praying to God, and hugging their loved ones and pets. Remember that while you’re being entertained, I’m reliving some of the worst events of my life!