Twin EF4 Tornadoes: Pilger 

The town has grown much since the tornado, with many new businesses built, however, many old foundations lay as a grim reminder of what happened nearly a decade ago.

I found Pecos Hank thanks to these two Tornadoes. His 2014 summary video features these two Nado's and its pairing music gives me goosebumps every time. One of these set the record for fastest moving tornado at 94mph. That lightning strike (you know which one) had to have such a massive charge given its relative location.

If you go to Pilger on Google Maps, the overhead satellite view shows the current empty town with barren lots. The Streetview hasn’t been updated in a decade though, it shows the town before it was destroyed. You can tour around the Pilger that used to be. It’s incredibly eerie.

the small tornado rotating the main one hit a speed record..... The pecos hank video of this thing is insane, great job gud video...

I usually watch these on my TV when they come out. I checked out the view and subscriber count and was baffled to realize you only have about 7K subscribers. Keep it up man, you make good work, your videos are very entertaining.

So beautiful but so devastating at the same time. Amazing video.

Wow! You have gained a new subscriber! I just watched three of your videos and they were all great! The way you explained the setup behind the event would make one who don't understand the meteorology behind it gain some knowledge! Can't wait to see what you produce next and watch your channel grow! Keep up the great work!

Love the channel dude, the production value has definitely increased recently. Keep the videos coming.

Love the content! If you decide to do a video about the EF-4 Dayton, Ohio tornado of 2019. I have about 20 -25 minutes of video of it going through town from a distance that has not been seen by anyone. The video definitely needs edited and slowed down in places because of it being a nocturnal storm. We had 15 tornadoes within the area that night. Also extensive damage video, I spent the next 6 months afterwards helping people.

Dude, you're getting great at this stuff!! Your hard work is invaluable.

Your editing is just top tier! thank you for working so hard on this!

this dude is such a good editor, this skill has gained you an subscriber!

I’ve seen some of your other videos and have decided to sub! 7k subs is criminal when you put out content like this! Very good editing and commentary! Subbed!

Another great video, Ethan! This day always sort of haunts me. I was really fed up with how quiet 2014 had been, and basically went into "prove it" mode. I wasn't chasing anything until some trough actually panned out. Welp... I didn't even believe my eyes when I came inside from mowing the lawn and saw the two side by side intense couplets on radar. Then I saw Dick McGowan's upload of the twin wedges. Brutal day to sit out ultimately.

Let's go, I was waiting for this ever since the stream, Keep it up!

buy yourself some lunch love your videos man, the details you go into with not only the meteorological setups but also the damage these tornadoes do is super respectable - just curious, do you plan on doing one on the alonsa MB EF4? likely EF5 winds at one point or another within that tornado.. anyway keep it up, etc, yadda yadda 🙂

I am an instant subscriber! You are amazing at this line of work brotha, and I wish you the best of your channel blowing up soon im sure! Great video. Keep it up!

fantastic work as always

As always, some of the best weather content out there, and completely unique to you. Awesome video Ethan

it is interesting to research these storms and seeing how they developed! Thank you for this video and thank you for the awesome work!! From one weather enthusiast to another Thank you!

The 'graphic' at 1:15-1:32 was my absolute favorite haha. Great video guys!

I live in a different time zone and it was night when this was happening. I dreamed about 2 tornados, one big and one smaller, going over grassy lands together with some small hills, a rural area with homes far apart, and one home in particular on the side of the road with a sloping driveway that sticks out in my mind. It was so vivid and the next day I can’t remember where I was but I randomly caught a news blurb about this incident that had just happened. Exactly like my dream. Even the house was shown. Occasionally I get these kinds of premonitions.

Always fantastic work!

Man that EF4 that hit Ellabell GA was devastating. I saw it touch down outside our neighborhood. Ive never seen a tornado before so I just assumed it was a cloud. Never in my life have I seen rain clouds that dark and moving at that speed. My friend's family lives about 5 minutes away from us, and in that 5 minutes it went from nothing, to a destructive EF4. I think it hit full intensity when it reached their neighborhood. They said they heard the sirens and then something that sounded like a freight train. Theyve also never seen a tornado before but they immediately knew what was about to happen. They all ran to the bathroom and by the time their father close the door, boom, the entire house gone up around them. What once was their home of 15 years completely flattened in seconds. The father was the first to wake up in the front yard and he immediately jumped up to check on everyone (Retired veteran). He thought his wife was dead because of her injuries. He was devastated but immediately shifted focus to check on the kids. One of them had a broken pelvis and a broken arm, the other with a couple puncture wounds and bruises. Fortunately, his wife was not dead just some serious injuries. After he checked on everyone he glanced down for a second and realized there was a bone sticking out of his leg. That just goes to show how amazing our bodies are. Their house wasnt the only one to suffer that fate. That neighborhood had maybe 150 houses and out of all of those, only 2 managed to survive by a hair. 2 houses, out of 150. Those 148 houses were completed flattened, just debris scattered across the yard. It then went on to destroy everything in the recreational park, traveled into black creek and destroyed a golf course, then moved into pembroke and destroyed a lumber yard, an entire town house subdivision, a jail, and trees and power lines. I remember after it cooled down we went to check on them because we could get in touch with them and we were horrified at the sight before us. The only explanation for how they survived what happened is a miracle. I refuse to believe that it was just chance. That was divine intervention. All of them are okay now and our little town has recovered but man I will never forget what I witnessed and I will always take tornado warnings seriously. Just to think how close we were to suffering that same fate. If youre interested In covering the events, I have some first hand photos and some videos of the damage I took. It was eerie. There was this feeling in the air that you cant describe in words. Absolutely terrible.

To me the worst double tornado photo ever was 1965 Palm Sunday Dunlap Indiana.

Amazingly done, love these lesser known clips used as well

Nicely done and congrats on pronouncing Pulgrer correctly. Thanks for the hodograph info, I learned something new!

Fantastic presentation!

Nice job dude

Cool video man it was fun to learn about

Love the video! Remember talking about it quite a bit during the stream. Wonder if you should do a video going through the day of a storm chaser. Including preparation, choosing a location, and getting into the right position to get a once-in-a-lifetime shot.

love your channel!

Well done! Narration, graphics, images all 👍🏻👍🏻 and thanks so much for not using a computer voice (you narrate well, so no need) 👏🏻

Well done video.

New words to research: helicity, cold pool, streamwise roticity, vorticity. I just found this channel: great information and videos.

Great video, thank you

If I've seen correctly, the video footage shows both tornadoes turning in cyclonic manner. I've seen a video about cyclonic and anticyclonic mesocyclones inside one supercell so I'm asking myself how it's possible that twin tornadoes can turn in the same direction. Is there someone who can explain to me how this can work, please?

Great video/seminar! Side note: you deserve a bigger office/workspace.

Thank you so much for these videos I'm putting together a playlist of tornado documentaries categorized by the date they happen and now I have 2014.

How is CAPE measured? What’s the lowest that can produce a tornado? Excellent video as always.

underrated

One of my freinds actually witnessed this tornado when they did home health, they were going to see a patient in Norfolk when the tornado struck

The Pilger/Wakefield tornadoes is one of my favorite subjects when it comes to tornadoes, I've seen footage before and after Pilger/Wakefield of all kinds: Mile Wide wedges El Reno's 2.6 mile wide multi-vortex wedge Dead Men Walking tornadoes Photogenic stovepipes like Laramie, WY, or Dodge City, KS. Xenia, OH from the 70's on old video tapes, as well as Terrible Tuesday in Wichita Falls, TX. 2 or more Tornadoes at the same time, usually weak EF1's or 0's or even satellites. But I have never ever seen 2 EF4's at the same time, and I've tried to ask some meteorologists online on how this could happen? It just stuns me, it's one thing to see multiple tornadoes on the ground, it's another that they're both EF4's, how does that happen!?

2:00 As a storm chaser, it is weird to me when we witness a EF4+ tornado. On one hand, it is absolutely memorizing to witness such a violent force on earth. But on the other hand, when you see how much debris a violent tornado picks up, its very raw. I witnessed both the high end EF3 Ottumwa, Iowa tornado and the Keota EF4 tornado. To see a violent tornado is so raw I can't even describe it. I saw pieces of people's houses get lofted into the air. That messed with me for a bit.

No one has done the Little Rock 23 EF3 tornado yet. It was spawned in the middle of rush hour and wasn’t rain wrapped for a little. Plenty of home videos on it but no documentaries it

Just another Monday in tornado Alley!

1 more sub bud. Great content with great knowlegde ☺️

Scary it is

This is one of the craziest images ive ever seen 😮😮😮😮😮

A cool seen of twin tornadoes and I like the edit of the beginning and my town used to be hit by a lot and I realized I was in tornado alley 😂

I found this thanks to the Swindled Podcast

I remember this tornado, it took my neighbors house, and took one of our grain bins

June 16th 2014 was a Monday... I was at work & we were under a Tornado Watch. Went home and watched the coverage on WOWT 6...

The Fujiwhara effect reminds me a lot of Black Holes. I think it's theorized that they do the same thing.

Wow your channel is so good congrats on 7k!!! I'm trying to make a channel like yours 😉😉😉 cheers 🥂

How many of the Pilger tornadoes were anti-cyclonic, if any. I may have missed the part in the video when you spoke on that. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that one of the EF4 twins was cyclonic & coming down from the wall cloud, while the other was anti-cyclonic (Edit: After watching the entire video I am disappointed to learn they were all cyclonic. What was that one event, I want to say it was in Minnesota or Illinois, Fujita went there himself and recorded like 7+ tornadoes from a single storm, and a few were anti-cyclonic)

imagine if these two tornadoes combines together… We all have seen a tornado or footage of a tornado that started from multiple tiny EF0’s and then they combine causing a deadly tornado or rarely a bigger but not deadly tornado think about Rainsville. Imagine if these two EF4’s combined together. THIS WOULD PROBABLY BE AN EF5 RATED TORNADO IN THE NEW FUJITA SCALE AND EVEN WORSE, IN THE OLD FUJITA SCALE IT WOULD PROBABLY BE AN EF6! Two tornadoes above 100mph in wind speed MIXING TOGETHER would be absurd for the citizens of Pilger which only has about 350 people. Two tornadoes is already absurd but if they combines imagine how much more would be killed during this.

So, the Fujiwhara Effect is when you see a second tornado and get deja vu? Got it.

Stay safe out there. Don't go gettin got by them tornadus

Weren’t they from separate mesocyclones though? Or am I just stupid?

Do you think we will see two large twin tornadoes again? As you say it's the perfect storm with crazy odds

Has anyone ever noticed that these are literally the gemini tornadoes. Twin tornadoes in june of the same strength at the exact numerical half way point in the year. (Also on my birthday which is how i noticed this)

7:02 just like a white dwarf absorbing its companion then going Supernova

What about keota Iowa? twins.

Ethan do you never cut your hair? Just kidding. But I find your videos very interesting. This way I can learn English even better. You have a great website. Greetings from a Dutchman.

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Almost got sucked dry by a tornado once.

I always thought a hodograph was a picture of my high school girlfriend.

I always wanted to go storm chasing

seent it

Ah, my favorite adorkable weather man ⛈⛈⛈ (I 100% am not trying to be mean or sarcastic, and I mean adorkable as a compliment, just clarifying lol)

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4+4=8 so it was basically a EF8

Wrong subject matter for wiggle text, my man.

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