STONGEST TORNADO IN HISTORY? 300+ mph winds measured inside the Greenfield, IA tornado! 

we fear him as we do Jim Cantore

@@AndrewBlechinger or Jim Kramer, for that matter!

😂😂😂

Where was this and when ??

I actually ran into Reed some 20 years ago, when I was chasing by myself. I pulled off the main road to look at a forming tornado, and there are some other people in the turnoff I chose. I noticed they had laptops and radar and measurement gear on their vehicle, so I knew they were researchers. They also had really nice cameras compared to most of us amateur chasers. Reed would have been a graduate student at the time. I had no idea who he was until a few years later, when he became famous.

That drone footage is surreal 🌪️👀

That is probably the most appropriate use of the term "gnarly" I've ever seen. Well done!

​@@-108-Right? It was the same word I used to describe it an earlier post of this tornado. This is one I'll never forget.

An obvious EF5 just by looking at it

@@fredharvey2720idk about all that

its because its not real...its called CGI... Computer Generated Image

@@SB-ic2kl it isnt cgi... what makes you think that weather is cgi, this tornado has been recorded by the national weather service

@@SB-ic2kl say that to the people that were affected by the tornado and saw it first hand.

Looks like that tornado game on the Iphone. Only with better details.

@@SB-ic2kl it's not CGI anymore, it's AI

It makes all those pretty photos of 'solid' funnels look unreal!

I agree if I didn’t know better, I would have thought it was a Hollywood studio’s special effects for a movie.

I think at least in part, that is because of there being no sound. I think hearing it while seeing it would make a huge difference in how we perceive it. Edit: for the first 2 1/2 min.

Never seen any special effect like that.

I sometimes think people use the word awesome too much but here, "terrifyingly awesome" seems like the right words.

DJI just got banned by Uncle Sam.

@@zeitgeistx5239 Bill still needs the senate to sign it. Which will most likely happen.

Forget a drone company. How about a chain of auto body shops?

@@AndrewBlechinger don’t need an auto body shop when you use rentals lol

​@@zeitgeistx5239 it's a Chinese (CCP) owned company 🤷‍♂️ Would be better if it was reverse engineered and built in America.

I'll be that guy: it's called a turbine my guy not a windmill.

@@vulpinemachine Ah I see, English is not my first language

@@MartHommes fair enough! There's lots of native English speakers who call them windmills (as evidenced by people talking in this very video!).

@@vulpinemachine I'll be the other guy 🤗. Specifically the structure is called a "wind turbine" 🤓... of the many types and forms of turbines in use. 🧐 However... I will still call them windmills even though there is no mill attached, descriptive nickname just like a "car" even though it's not a carriage. 😁

@@DFWCASSANOVA as a linguistic descriptivist myself, I find your logic unassailable.

The footage only seems to get better every tornado season. Of course it all started with the Andover, Ks F5 in 1991.

Not to mention historic!

Leaving my mark on a historical video. June 23, 2024 at 3:33:00 PM EST. Virginia, USA.

Also leaving my mark. June 23, 2024 at 3:49PM EST, New Jersey, USA.

@@itzjusttanxd_5684 Nice 👍

@@CamcorderHomeVideos same to you👌

I found it kind of ironic that they weren't really spinning in a tornado. Id have thought they'd be going off like a box fan

I was surprised only one windmill blew over...

Several was destroyed. They were flying around in the nader

@@zenunderground They are a giant turbine generator, which means they have brakes. The reason why in high winds you see them catch fire before they tear themselves apart is because the turbine inside is literally glowing hot from the uncontrolled rotation. The brakes have apparently gotten better over the years to prevent that.

@@zenunderground I believe they regulate the speed of the turbine so it doesn't turn too fast.

And what if ... this were just a (small) foretaste of things to come?

That same day I went on the record stating that you were out of your mind because everybody knew that it would be referenced by the meteorological community for no less than 150 yearsssssssssssssss baby! Hell Yeahhhhhhhhhh!!!! (lol). I am going to go the record further and clarify that those are not windmills but wind turbines, just saying.

​@@sandia2beaumont Unfortunately, you are 100% correct. Until the climate stabilizes at a new, hotter level, it's going to be a wild ride. The evidence is still coming in, but it looks like we've just entered into an Ice Age Termination Event. Google that term & then just sit back & try to enjoy the ride we're in for.

When was this? April?

@@shawnchristianson324 May 21

He had the once in a lifetime tornado on his first official Chase

I expect many more insane weather events

I mean.... I HOPE it's a once in a lifetime with the way things are going

That’s an understatement - this might be my favorite tornado footage EVER

You can definitely tell there's something special about it. It certainly looks like one of the strongest tornadoes, if not the strongest, ever recorded.

Which ones are these?

@@angrydragon4574 the 3 strongest tornadoes: this greenfield, iowa tornado 2024, 2013 el reno, oklahoma tornado and the 1999 bridge creek-moore, oklahoma tornado. Largest tornadoes: 2013 el reno, oklahoma tornado and the 2004 Hallam, Nebraska Tornado. Notable tornado intercepts are the 2023 spalding, nebraska tornado, the 2024 nebraska tornado outbreak and the 2024 oklahoma tornado

@@stormchasernichtpit1493 The strongest tornado Reed ever saw was the 2011 Philadelphia, MS tornado. That thing dug a trench slightly over 3 feet in length.

Reed Timmer sucks. He's always screaming like a little girl, annoying AF.

@@angrydragon4574he was there for the 1999 bridge creek Moore tornado

Dead men dancing

@@GalacticNovaOverlord why. just why.

@@oldrusty20 Dead men getting funky!!

@@Mig_V True

​@@oldrusty20The Jarrell Tornado back in the 90s looked like a dead man walking. Multiple vortices in an F5.

It's a wind turbine, not windmill, those are two very different things, but yes, I'm with you. This is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen.

How some of those sheep didn’t get sucked in is beyond me, too. Most were moving around after it had passed, but I obviously don’t know the original flock size. I’m assuming these are sheep.

Sounds like a cutaway in Family Guy lol.

Wind turbine, two very different things, but this is hilarious. I love it. 🤌

This day broke me. My brain shut down watching this. There was a tornado that almost hit my place a couple hours later. I think I'm still frozen tbh. It's just utterly incomprehensible..

@@Lucky9_9 then why do you live in tornado alley

@@IntrovertedLoLo None of your business 👌😃

@@Lucky9_9 don’t complain then.

@@IntrovertedLoLo Mind your own business 😃👌

It slabbed houses and I’m pretty sure it had 318mph winds recorded from ground level

No it didn’t

It did slab houses

​@@RockyTop85yes it did...

​@@DimensionaIGdyeah, easily 250+

Or fake.

@@mikepalmer2219 as in cgi?

I really don’t believe anything I see anymore, real or fake. It’s too easy to mimic and copy things these days. What is so sad about it, is when it’s a real, and you don’t believe it. All because of evilness that goes on in the world today.

@@ready4jesus534a lot of people watched this live… I did and it looked exactly like this

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There really needs to be two ratings. One for windspeeds and one for damage done El Reno was a perfect example of the EF scale's flaws. Measured winds of at least 302 mph but it only caused EF3 damage (thankfully not worse). They even changed the data for Moore '99, for years records showed DOW-measured winds of 318 mph, then someone changed it to 301+.

This one literally hit a fairly big town with many homes slabbed.

Erm the nws doesn’t survey slabbed houses 🤓

Ground speed wind and wind at 50m are substantially different on a normal day. As are they during meteorological events. A ground speed measurement is necessary to understand the true scale of the wind damage.

The EF Scale really needs to account for windspeeds aswell rather then just damage, if we actually accounted the windspeeds, this would probably be the first ef 5 in a long time, or others.

I think they rated it EF4 in the end. It should've been a 5 since it clean-slated houses and bent foundation bolts almost 90 degrees at ground level. I don't think they like to give EF5 ratings to anything short of catastrophic situations like Joplin.

​@@zebrion5793 either that or I feel they are trying to retire ef5.

​@@zebrion5793 construction quality.

@@zebrion5793 I'm really wondering if they've been intentionally downgrading EF5s... or America stopped building well constructed buildings altogether. I'm a fan of updating the Enhanced Fujita scale to incorporate windspeed measurements and metrics that weren't available when it was put together, to bring a more realistic image of the tornado potential.

​@@DorotaGabalIt's intentional. That nonsense began back in 2011 when the April EF-5s struck the Southeast. The Tuscaloosa tornado was rated EF-5 by most meteorologists (and even an amateur like me examined the footage and noticed that two story buildings were swept away clean from their slabs) but the NWS decided to go with EF-4 just because.

That were subvorticies of the Actual Tornados The Strongest ones are having multiple vortex inside the Tornado if this one would hit Towns it would be an instant EF 5

I was wondering what that was. I thought it was on fire

I think that was blown in (now blown out) insulation.

@@Franklin-jj4jz oh yea that could be.

@@dalebechtel8904 Inflow jet feeding into the tornado being of an extremely low pressure + condensation coming from how fast the air is feeding into the tornado rapidly cooling the air around

@@hennytopherthanks for explaining. I thought it was

It is not so much that they are getting stronger, but the ones that we would have no footage of previous now have footage and measurements of.

How long ago was this? He wasn't even streaming today.

@@jaymarshall5425 I think it was like 3-4 weeks ago

HONOR or HORROR? ? ?

Cookie?

Was chasing in Iowa that day. Did not see much. We needed to have been closer to Reed, I guess. 😉 😜

Lol great description. This whole thing was amazing footage. And a very unique tornado.

🤣🤣❤

Best description of windmill destruction ever!! Specially since those flailing arm balloons themselves crack me up! 😂😂😂

"Wind Turbine"

@@VexNovaYT I think it's more a comment on how it seems they're reluctant to rate tornadoes EF5 even though they almost certainly are

@@stewpidasso8810agreed

This is an IF5, not an EF5. You can have an EF0 that would've been an IF5.

@@SpeedBird6780 the heck is an IF5? and why haven't i heard of it? (If it does exist... it ain't showing it for me on google)

An EF5 is more than just strong winds. Bridgecreek-Moore 1999 holds the record as of currently for strongest winds measured on Earth but it got it's rating from the sheer devestation of infrastructure & entire neighborhoods, as well as casualties. Joplin's EF5 also did a gnarly degree of devastation to populated areas (such as demolishing entire schools) and lest we not forget the tragedy of Jarell, TX 1997 and how it leveled an entire subdivision down to the plumbing (an entire bathroom was nearly teleported out of it's structure and hurled into a tree.) It also ripped up paved roads and dug inches out of the soil... as well as the horrific deaths that came from it. There are tornadoes that do far less widespread damage despite their sheer size or max windspeeds such as the fateful El Reno which took very significant lives of storm chasers but ultimately wind speed + damage assessed would render it below an EF5. As surreal & fascinating as an EF5 is to study, observe from the safety of our homes and research.. they are rare for a reason. A true EF5 will bring around 250mph+, 300mph+ winds, typically multiple vortices at some point of it's lifespan but most importantly: these rare storms will bring such irrivocable damage to populated areas & small towns and often either wipe them off of the map or set them back for years to generations rebuilding infrastructure. They also bring along dismal death tolls & injury, and PTSD (and even su*cide) have been shown to be long term effects from the devastation. There are survivors of these storms who will explain the debilitating trauma & ptsd they still endure anytime the weather gets bad years after. It's a rare rating for a rare weather event and we do not need a storm to have a higher rating if it does not merit one because it is not a competition. It is science working to maintain lives that could one day be lost to a storm like Jarrell or Joplin.

it actually wasn't rated as an EF 5 surprisingly!

It was actually given an initial rating of EF-3, later upgraded to an EF-4.

Yeah, although, many very strong tornadoes are small, like canadas EF 5, which was very thin, and the oakfield Wisconsin f 5, which were both thin, but incredible destructive.

The tornado is listed as nearing one mile in width at one point in its life, not quite sure when that happened. It was clearly not that large in this video.

Yeah it grew as the video went on. Wow.

The tornadic wind field was certainly a mile wide or larger

You did notice that the wind turbine was at least as far away from the rotation center as the visible condensation funnel was wide, right? Those towers fail between 163-183 mph. And it was on the edge of the rotation there. What was happening to the house/shed at the beginning of the video? It looked like it was on fire. It couldn't have been turbulence condensation (at ground level) from the inflow, right? Just insane how powerful this thing was.

That's because it's not real! It's CGI

@@elessartelcontar9415it ain’t fake he live streamed it . Nature skme times is so nice people think it’s fake bc dang social media 🪦

​@@elessartelcontar9415 cgi.. wow

Reed is #1 there's NO doubt about it

Just wish he would stop SCREAMING all the time.

Best chaser for sure but needs a better editor for his videos.

As long as you turn down the volume because of the little girl like screaming ...

@@Mr.Tica. No one asked, no one cares. That's what your volume is for in the bottom right hun

And that one struck late at night.

I remember it well. Lived about 26 miles away. That was the hottest, most humid day I have ever experienced.

@@dianemelnyk62 I live in Milwaukee and I heard about it at work, because I was on third shift. Scary stuff. We had storms and tornadoes move through Wisconsin last nite. They're accessing the damages today. It looks like it going to be one of those Summers.

Yeah, there's been many more 300+ mph tornadoes than people realize.

@@Trahzy I was the driver on a tornado chase in August of 2005. We were sent northwest first and then the front got strong south of Madison, Wisconsin. So we were sent southwest by channel 12. It was getting dark and we heard about the F3 that hit Stoughton. So we were heading back to Milwaukee trying to stay ahead of the fast moving front. It caught up to us on highway 36 by Waterford. We stopped for gas and the straight line winds were easily 100 mph. So it blew past us and we watched as the storm collapsed to the east and a down burst or heat burst came rushing across the road. It was pretty intense. A few other storm chases that year and the next and that was enough for me. I'll leave it up to the younger guys and gals.

That must be why he yells all the time! But the others don't yell like that.

The yelling is annoyed ng AF

​@@brent829Mute it then.

It's acting. 😂

IMO, Reed is one of THE most passionate chasers on the planet.... and definitely, THE most "audibly passionate" 😅 ❣ He has successfully made "weather/tornado chasing" into a gloriously terrifying form of art.

🏆❗

Are you referring to the 300 mph data? Because that wasn’t them but a DOW-radar that measured it

Measured by radar.

They were not the ones who measured the winds

They have an anemometer on top of the vehicle for the clueless replies.

@@King_George_W_Kush they obviously didn’t measure the 300 mph winds

Yeah, Bridge creek was far stronger than this tornado, but this one was still incredibly strong.

Iowa tornado 309 mph Oklahoma tornado 318 mph. Per the law of the land NWS

@@YourBoi-Ty9mph slower than 99

@@MrAaaaaaaaa9 it was officiall that the wind speed for 99 tornado was 302 right? 😐

@@YourBoi-Tyyes but on wilipedia 10 hrs ago they changed 1999 to 322 mph due to a “2021 reanalysis” somethings up

​@MrAaaaaaaaa9 how do u know this tornado 🌪 in the video 📹 was 309 mph? Like no way

Why are they so stingey with the ratings? Or even calling it a tornado at all in many cases?

This was EF4 I thought?

It’s an EF4, should be an EF5 though

This was a strong F5 that caused EF4 damage.

​@@twobitsandpepper8235Because the EF scale is based on damage, not recorded winds. If there ia crazy winds but it doesn't hit anything that meets EF-5 standards, than it won't be ranked an EF-5. I do think it's current rating is still preliminary though. They may eventually update it.

Technically it’s Talc powder, but I always called it chalk dust growing up 😜

Thank you for the explanation of the ‘white stuff’ coming from the shed. I was very curious . 🙂

But massive powerful tornadoes sometimes wouldn’t form for months.

@@Nomation10 huh.

​@@Nomation10🤔🧐

Omg half the time I watch on mute 😅 it’s a huge pet peeve but it’s still great footage

A wind turbine that could survive this 300 mph storm could power the whole county til the winds passed.

I have to give credit to #91! Legendary Cow! Lol Great Video Reed and Company! 😂😮❤

It's in his DNA! His passion shows he was put on this earth for this reason and this reason only

Nah, it's twister tourette's syndrome. 😂🤣

@@lonewolf9390 😂 Too funny ... I agree 😁

Terrifyingly beautiful

Well said. I was watching live, glued to RU-vid for an entire day as we waited to run to the shelter.

@@alivewithhemp4989 it was terrifying for sure! I’m glad you’re safe. I can’t imagine experiencing that……