"Tornado Emergency: Moore Oklahoma." On May 20th, 2013, an EF5 tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma. Within minutes two elementary schools---filled with children---were destroyed. Of the 24 storm fatalities, seven were third graders.
May 20th 2013 was one of the worst days of my life. Gosh I can't even hear a tornado siren without having a anxiety attack. RIP to everyone who lost their lives ❤️
you know, for those of us who live in the rock mountains or on the coast, I don't think we realize the difference between those who do the weather. If the weatherman screws up a report in most places, maybe you get rained on or something.. You generally don't take what they say with too much weight. But a weatherman (or woman) in tornado alley literally saves lives and sometimes put their own at risk. It's humbling.
The good thing here in Oklahoma is that we have exceptional meteorologists when it comes to severe weather. I also think they do the best job of utilizing and communicating with storm spotters. They even send news helicopters out to get further visual identification of tornadoes. In many states, the meteorologists almost solely rely on Doppler radar to confirm whether or not a tornado is on the ground. Oklahoma may have many, MANY glaring weaknesses as a state, but our meteorologists are constantly innovating when it comes to severe-weather and tornadic research.
@@codyleslie478 If you hadn't heard of James Spann, he's not from Oklahoma. He is THE exceptional on-air local meteorologist. One thing going for you in Traditional Tornado Alley, is that you CAN see them, without any hills or trees to block the view, plus they rarely occur at night, and are not wrapped in rain. Doppler Radar is a very excellent tool, especially now with dual polarization (correllation coeffeciant), telling you when debris is being lofted into the air. Mike saying the EF-Scale/F-Scale rating when it's in progress, however, is ignorance, and undermines the work that Norman's NWS storm survey crews have because they determine the rating based on damage, because it's a damage scale, though DOW measurement should be considered in the future for the tornadoes where they are used by people like Wurman and Bluestein. Here where I live, (Dixie Alley) we have disadvantages. We get a lot of tornadoes at night, they are rain-wrapped, hills and trees block the view. You had 20 more deaths in Tuscaloosa 2 years earlier than in Moore here. Another great tool are warning polygons. You don't warn entire counties anymore. You warn the part of the county that the storm will affect. Example, there is no reason to warn Edmond if the tornado is going to affect the southern OKC area, just because it's in Oklahoma County.
As tragic as the Moore, Oklahoma tornado in 2013 was, three TV stations in Oklahoma City (KFOR, KOCO and KWTV) all did a fantastic job in covering the storm. While 24 people were killed, the TV stations' coverage may have saved many lives. Had it not been for the efforts of KFOR, KOCO and KWTV, the death toll could have been several thousand people!
I was on duty as a campus police officer near the Tulsa area and my heart sank when Plaza Towers and Briarwood got hit. Hearing that young kids lost their lives hit me to the core. It was this same day I went to each school site to find out where the office staff would shelter their kids in the event a tornado would hit our school sites. I wanted to ensure the kids who we took an oath to protect would survive a devastating natural disaster such as this.
It just so happened that under these particular circumstances, "getting out of the way" was the right thing to do, especially in hindsight. But this is an anomoly. There just happened to be enough lead time warning for people to leave their homes in the path, and get out of the tornado's path. If people had been killed in vehicles (and often are; a car is a death trap), Gary England very seldom says "get below ground, or just get in your car and leave". He did May 3, 1999, and I believe he did here. Mike Morgan actually in the 1990s advised seeking shelter under overpasses. Morgan also took a lot of heat less than two weeks after this with the El Reno event in telling people to "go south" with this event, still fresh in everyone's mind. They need to change building codes in Oklahoma to include basements or require an on-site storm shelter, mandate it. In a mobile home, you have no choice under any circumstances to "get of of the way" because it won't survive any tornado, regardless of stregnth.
One of my best friends lives in Moore at the time of this.. a few weeks after we went to Moore to help with relief.. I’m telling you it absolutely broke my heart. When I came across a memorial set up by the city softball fields for some of the children who were killed. I couldn’t hold it in and absolutely broke down. You know it’s so horrifying when people who cover this kind of event for a living are absolutely breaking down. Because of Plaza Towers and the other schools Moore has made it a requirement for all schools to have shelters built in. I can’t believe it’s been almost 8 years..
Bone chilling at 1:30 to see people running up to their kids/families/friends. I can’t even imagine what they went through, especially in those moments of realizing they were together again.
Every time I hear the two news anchor’s say Lance’s name when he starts to get emotional just makes me sick. Lance is wonderful and you cannot control somebody’s emotions by yelling their name. Let him catch his breath and give him a moment.
Nah, he was in shock and needed a quick snap out of it. If you’ve never tried to get important information quickly out of a panicking person you just wouldn’t understand
For those who don’t know, A Tornado Emergency, causes Castrophic widespread damage with a high likelihood of numerous fatalities. If your in one seek shelter immediately…IMMEDIATELY👍🏽
I find it crazy that Reed timmer, One of the greatest tornado hunters of all time, missed This tornado because he went chasing one elsewhere, and this was in his backyard. I would imagine that this one will always haunt him, he didn't have to go anywhere and he missed maybe the biggest tornado outside of El Reno of his life.
I was helping in Moore after this happened. Me and my tower crews working in Wetherford headed to Moore right away and restored communications for rescue crews and the community and helped rescue. I was torn apart.
I'm just now watching this video for the first time! In April of 1979 I went through a pretty horrific tornado in Wichita falls texas! I was in a storm shelter when this tornado hit I can only imagine what these kids went through it's very frightening and to this very day I was 11 at the time I'm 54 years old and I still have nightmares about that day! God bless all these people!!
i agree it should be a requirement and honestly i know it will cost good money but its money well spent to ensure the safety of all those ppl next time
Forgot to mention that was a 10% tornado threat, not even SIG and theres that many warnings! Imagine how many a 60% risk would have? Probably the entire state!
Well, the odds are EXTREMELEY rare that someone goes through that once. I bet there are only a handful of people in the world who have been in a building hit by an EF3+ tornado twice in their lives. She's playing the odds lol. It's a safe bet.
@@boyceway5947 it's Moore, OK. 90% of the tornadoes that form in Central Oklahoma start near Tuttle/Bridge Creek and go through Newcastle to Moore. Moore is the biggest tornado magnet in the entire world. The odds of getting a tornado in Moore are extremely high.
@@boyceway5947 They said that in 2010 too. Moore OK is kind of special in that it gets hit by an EF4+ every 5-10 years. It's less of an if and more of a when for the people who live there. .
@Patrick Schmalstig If we wanted to destroy the tornado sure. But we might figure out a way to destabilize them so they never can really get going. Just like you don't need a sledgehammer to stop a top from spinning, just a poke might make it topple. Maybe the application of heat in just the right spots in the wind currents might mean they can never form strong, stable vortices. Or maybe we could figure out a way to nudge the tornado so it misses heavily populated areas. People are insanely creative so I'm pretty optimistic about future tech.
70 حقيقة اعصار التورنادوا : هو في الاساس رباني ومن غضب الله الجبار ومن شدته انه اذا مر على نهر شقه نصفين ورفع قاعه الطيني وذر ترابه في الهواء وكذلك يقتلع البنايات والبيوت والاشجار ومن ثم رميها في مكان بعيد مهما كانت ثقيلة وعظيمة ويحمل الجسور والقناطر والخزانات الكبيرة ويدور بها وكانها عود ثقاب ويلفها كالمروحة من شدة قوته العنيفة ويحمل معه الحيوان والانسان الى عنان السماء ثم يلفظه خارج الغلاف الجوي او الكرة الارضية وكانها عملية تفريغ نحو الفضاء الخارجي مما يتسبب بخسائر مادية جسيمة وهائلة تقدر بتريليونات الدولارات وهذا غيظ من فيض وهذا بعض ما يجري في امريكا قال تعالى ( يَا مَعْشَرَ الْجِنِّ وَالْإِنسِ إِنِ اسْتَطَعْتُمْ أَن تَنفُذُوا مِنْ أَقْطَارِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ فَانفُذُوا ۚ لَا تَنفُذُونَ إِلَّا بِسُلْطَانٍ ) وقال تعالى ( ان الذين كذبوا باياتنا واستكبروا عنها لا تفتح لهم ابواب السماء ولا يدخلون الجنة حتى يلج الجمل في سم الخياط ... ) اوكل الله جل في علاه بكل شئ ملكا : فهناك ملك الجبال وملك البحار وملك السحاب وملك الرياح وباستطاعته ان يامرها بما يريد ان زلزلوا او احرقوا او دمروا او حطموا او اغرقوا فينتقم الله ممن يشاء ولا يستطيع اي مخلوق في هذا الكون منع قضاءه جل وعلا ويقال ان صوت الرعد حسبما ورد في الاثر انه صوت الملك الذي يزجر به السحاب ويسوقه حيث يشاء بامر الله عز وجل ... والله اعلم قال تعالى ( وما تاتيهم من آية من آيات ربهم الا كانوا عنها معرضين ) وقال تعالى ( فأرسلنا عليهم الطوفان والجراد والقمل والضفادع والدم ... ) وقال تعالى ( وان يروا كسفا من السماء ساقطا يقولوا سحاب مركوم ) وقال تعالى ( فلما راوه عارضا مستقبل اوديتهم قالوا هذا عارض ممطرنا بل هو مااستعجلتم به ريح فيها عذاب اليم ) وقال تعالى ( ولو شئنا لرفعناه بها ولكنه أخلد إلى الأرض واتبع هواه فمثله كمثل الكلب إن تحمل عليه يلهث أو تتركه يلهث ذلك مثل القوم الذين كذبوا بآياتنا فاقصص القصص لعلهم يتفكرون ) وقال تعالى ( مثل الذين حملوا التوراة ثم لم يحملوها كمثل الحمار يحمل اسفارا بئس مثل القوم الذين كذبوا بآيات الله والله لا يهدي القوم الظالمين ) وقال تعالى ( قل ياأهل الكتاب لستم على شيء حتى تقيموا التوراة والإنجيل وما أنزل إليكم من ربكم وليزيدن كثيرا منهم ما أنزل إليك من ربك طغيانا وكفرا فلا تأس على القوم الكافرين ) وقال تعالى ( ذلك بان الله هو الحق وان ما يدعون من دونه هو الباطل وان الله هو العلي الكبير ) وقال تعالى ( يَـأَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ قَدْ جَآءَكُمْ رَسُولُنَا يُبَيِّنُ لَكُمْ كَثِيراً مِّمَّا كُنتُمْ تُخْفُونَ مِنَ الْكِتَابِ وَيَعْفُواْ عَن كَثِيرٍ قَدْ جَآءَكُمْ مِّنَ اللَّهِ نُورٌ وَكِتَابٌ مُّبِينٌ يَهْدِي بِهِ اللَّهُ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ رِضْوَانَهُ سُبُلَ السَّلامِ وَيُخْرِجُهُمْ مِّنِ الظُّلُمَاتِ إِلَى النُّورِ بِإِذْنِهِ وَيَهْدِيهِمْ إِلَى صِراطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ ) وهذا ما سيحدث لامريكا كثيرا وستدفع الثمن باهضا امريكا انتهت وكل شئ انتهى ولا يستطيعون فعل اي شئ الا الصراخ منادين يامغيثنا اللهم عليك بهم فانهم لا يعجزونك
This one was worse than both in scope of damage and loss of life. The 1999 tornado was the worst until this one. The El Reno tornado was bad but still least damaging compared to all three.
@@marioncoleman3779 that is incorrect. May 3 killed 36 and this one killed 24. May 3 had the highest recorded wind speeds on Earth and was longer tracked than 2013. However, 2013 was definitely bigger in size and plowed through the center of town. In addition, El Reno was the 2nd highest wind speeds recorded I believe at 295MPH. Also, it was the largest tornado in history, a little over 2.5 miles wide. If that would've went through Moore, it may have been the most devastating. Thankfully, it didn't.
Was is it with Americans news channels and eye witness interviews? Why interview people in the midst of a crisis? It's so odd, no other country does it quite like America.
Broadcast news has its origin in the US, in the old radio days. Descriptions of what happened were vital to getting the word out when there were no visuals, and that technique has been a staple of broadcast to this day. Even when the Associated Press was a literal telegraph wire service, those eyewitness descriptions made up the bulk of wire and subsequently, newspaper stories. It's not that it's an American thing, but that the US is where the medium originated. Therefore, it only makes sense that it would be adapted for other cultures. This was the original standard, and all other methods are adaptations.
When thay reporter broke up... terrible. Unimaginable what that had to be like. Survivors of Hiroshima and WTC are probably some of the only who understand.
There is absolutely NO WAY to know exactly where a tornado will go so killing the electric would prevent people from getting updates to take shelter. Many more would be killed doing something that stupid
