STRANGEST Tornado Events 

its an F5 but yeah

According to everything I've found on the 1976 Lemont, Illinois F4 tornado, it did a U-shaped track and dissipated at practically the same latitude coordinate as it started, just a few hundred feet further to the west. I can't find an official track though, so I may be wrong.

@@KermitTheGamer21 Lemont was hit by another tornado in March 1991.

I know a few powerful tornadoes that did multiple

@@ILoveOldTWC Yep, my grandpa actually recorded the funnel cloud that became the 1991 tornado as it passed over his house.

My family went thru that tornado as well. A terrible night.

Condolence 🙏 to your grandfather" Through this video, I wouldn't have Heard about this Viscous tornado In 1955, which at time I was ten years old...

Same storm hit Udall KS 45 mins later and killed 88 more. They also have museum exhibits dedicated to the victims. It is still the deadliest tornado in Kansas history. A real long track F5 monster on a nearly due north track while moving very very slightly east

@Jesus_loves_you12 thank you 🙄😬. I mean who am I to judge how you try to reach the lost. It just sounds corny and cheesy without any context though. I'm found already. God bless you 😇

@Jesus_loves_you12 thank 😊you 🙏 ❤️ so much-needed "

Talk about god saving them.

@@foih_fg9damn who do you think sent the lightning bolt?

I think it was Thor. He was out of beer and came to Wisconsin for the best beer!

@@caturdaynite7217 based Thor

The Devil@@cbislands12

His footage for the dodge city tornadoes is also breathtaking

@@sabrinaleedance yes! The sirens harmonizing together like a foreboding angelic choir.

@@davidchambers44 My god that's a terrifying sentence

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@@davidchambers44that was an eerily beautiful moment I watch it from time to time because the harmony of the sirens is soothing

Interesting points. I think there is something going on with the dust allowing electric charges to build up.

Losing my house is one of my biggest fears, that’s why I don’t live in the Midwest. Too many tornadoes! 😖

@@highriskchris i did see something about the blackwell tornado hitting a glass factory so it would make sense

Fascinating. I had known that about the Labor Day Hurricane but never made the connection

It's definitely particle plasma charge related.

I was driving with my dad and saw a 747. I said "oh it's a chonker" and he asked what type of plane a chonker was.

Lol I thought that too

He should've called it a dark souls boss

😊😢😢😢😊😅😢😢​@@SR71_Blackbird

That caught me off guard, funny af lol

I agree. That one was trippin'!

Thanks Nathan. I'm a huge fan of Hanks and consider him a friend since we've met a few times. But I think the video you're referring to is the one where he reviews the damage paths on the NWS damage map, which only has data going back to the early 2000s. This video, and my other video "STRANGEST Tornado Paths" uses Tornadoarchive.com which has tornado data going back to the 1600s! When Hank made his video tornadoarchive was not live, so I don't blame him, it's an easy mistake and that area doesn't get the sort of recognition it deserves, unlike the OKC area.

@@highriskchris Awesome

I’d lived over on brownsferry rd until 2011, I couldn’t stand it and moved away. Soooooo many tornadoes hit that area and not just the big ones

​@@highriskchrisJesus loves you

​@@Soturi92Jesus loves you

Also the landscape in Windsor Locks is… not ideal for a tornado, very hilly terrain and a river right on the edge. Not to mention Windsor locks is in almost like a valley.

True and a another thing that was unusual about the Windsor Locks CT F4 was it's path most tornadoes in CT moved West to East some move West to Southeast.This tornado did the opposite it move South to North

I’m sorry but that’s kind of funny lol.

Sky said nah u ain’t shooting that shit at me I’m takin it

Tornado: "Fireworks! Don't mind if I do.."

Tornado hating our freedom …smh

How about the tornado that landed right on top a big house, spun the furniture around like a blender, then went right back up in the clouds! If anyone can find the video report on that again, please post !!!

Imagine if it were recorded on vhs like the jerrell tx

Another dead man walking

i live near west bend and sadley there is no memorials ive ever seen for the tornado. which is wierd cus its a really wierd tornado

@@brysonk8246 I grew up there (still live nearby), and heard stories of "the Barton tornado in the 80s." It was only relatively recently thst I found out how weird the tornado actually was. I could have sworn there was a memorial? I'm going to Google now about it!

There is one somewhere in town I think. I’ve seen a video on it (somewhere on yt)

There is! Nearby where it touched down, the Muenk Playlot. Fun fact: in my researching of this last night, I found that the tornado literally touched down in the back yard of my childhood home! It was before my time, but I like to see it nonetheless haha!

I had a nightmare about a mile wide wedge tornado forming over Clearlake in northern California and demolishing every small town along highway 20. I survived my house getting smashed but then got struck by lightning and woke up.

Not only that, but they can also happen out west without the influence of the Gulf of Mexico.

@@EmeraldBayMovies There was a tornado that destroyed a ranch near Sacramento in January during our bomb cyclone

@@EmeraldBayMovies Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1999.

@ILoveStorms That one was unusual for sure. However, there have been a few more violent tornados out west. Another high altitude tornado hit the Uinta (I probably spelled that wrong) mountains in Utah in 2010 or something. It was an F3, and the tree damage looked very similar to the Yellowstone F4. Idaho had a significant tornado near Mcall a decade or so ago. It was classified as an EF2, but the official report mentioned the damage was in line with a low end EF3. Arizona had a tornado in 2010 that could have very well been an EF4, except it hit nothing except a big metal radio tower, which it bent completely in half! Those are just a few examples. There was also an F3 in Portland that killed like 6 people and injured hundreds of others. There have been several tornados in western Montana that may have been fairly significant as well.

Wow, glad he was alright. Large tornadoes in environments with low clouds look like walls rather than the classic tornado we all picture in our heads, which is almost guaranteed what happened with the tri-state tornado.

@@highriskchris Some of the stories of friends in P'burg were nuts but THAT was the one that stuck with me. Luckily most of his cattle made it out because he opened the gate before taking off. Prob not very smart because of the time it took but at the same time, it's his livelihood.

@@highriskchrisone the survivors from the Tri-State tornado said at one point the clouds looked as if they were rolling horizontally on the ground I’ve watched plenty of documentaries on natural disasters but her description of what she saw that day stood out the most she also described it as a black fog What a remarkable experience something I hope I never encounter

Same here. I had no idea it was a record holder.

Then an F6 in 1920 😳

F7 in 1921 😮​@@natedawg906

@@natedawg906 F108 in 2024😱

F114 by the time 2030 rolls around.

Thanks!

Thank you Sarah!

​@highriskchris this feels like Pecos hank compilation

Pretty sure Carly Anna (Yt) has a great video on the Edmonton tornado Definitely a fascinating event

​@@highriskchriscan u storm chase a hurricane

@@cr7-goat-editzzc heck no! I'm in Denver, Florida is too far, and hurricanes are only pretty from space! Although getting into the I with a blue sky would be cool

Thanks dude

I will! Thanks

Yes. A Chicago tornadoes video is high up on my list

My great grandmother lived in Wilburton at the time (she died in 1989). Before that, many people believed that tornadoes wouldn't go over mountains and Wilburton is in a mountainous part of Oklahoma. This changed people's minds about that.

Thanks Mike

I've always thought that Plainfield would be an apt comparison also. Plainfield was so heavily rain-wrapped that one account stated they had no idea there was a tornado until the house across the street from them exploded. Another account stated that they noticed it was getting dark, and then suddenly they were thrown into a cornfield.

I was discharged from Great Lakes Boot Camp the day before the Plainfield tornado which is maybe a hour away , scary thought! 😨 😢

More than 10 yrs ago Dr. Charles Doswell and a team of retired meteorologists studied the track of the Tri-State Tornado. Doswell interviewed survivors and eyewitnesses who were still alive at that time. He showed them pictures of modern day tornadoes and asked them which one or ones looked like what they saw in 1925. Most of the elderly people pointed to the WICHITA FALLS, TX 1979 Tornado (F4) from the Terrible Tuesday Red River outbreak.

A good guess.

The most widely accepted explanation is St Elmo's fire, I believe

@@hjt091 while that makes more sense, it is always fun to theorize!

Yeah a deep dive video on tornado light phenomenon would be interesting for sure...

The tornado couldn't stop the wood so it went after the source

that’s heartbreaking 💔 at least they have a dedication ❤

I live in Walbridge so we got impacted by the storm but not the tornado. My parents were in Northwood at the time shopping and the sirens went off over there. Or maybe I’m thinking of another time because there really has a lot of crazy weather for our area this year

@@meloncholy413 There was actually an issue with specifically the sirens in Point Place as far as I'm aware; all the surrounding areas had their sirens going off-- it's just that that specific area got none for reasons that a lot of people speculate on