Piping is actually the most stable part of houses. Wood and roofing is torn off houses because they are light weight and have a large surface area. Piping is heavy, goes underground, and has low surface area. Even if your house is hit, it's very unlikely that your piping will be "blown away". You are also much more likely to be flooded due to the rain rather than your pipes bursting. If you don't have a basement, you should wait out a tornado in your bathroom, on the ground floor, in the bathtube if you have one. In Texas tornadoes are still only detected a few hours in advance. In and around cities there are "new houses", not old country ones like in the film, so houses don't get peeled apart. In cities, the most dangerous part of tornadoes is the debris. Glass, street signs, telephone poles, trees, and yes even small vehicles can be picked up and thrown into houses. If you're lucky you'll just loose a window or two, maybe something will crash into the house and make a hole, but in worse cases the house can be completely destroyed by debris. Rivers and streets flood, and if the water gets high enough, it will get into cars and damaged houses. This will lead to thousands of dollars of damages. Sometimes the flood will pick up cars and drag them around cities. I was in high school when a really bad one tore up Dallas. We were dismissed from school in the middle of the day, and as I drove home I was caught under terrible black clouds, hail, wind and rain. I got home, got my dog, got our emergency kit, and waited in the bathroom. My parents had to stay at their jobs because they wouldn't make it home in time. It was really scary, it was the worst tornado I had experienced and the first I was alone for, and by the grace of God nothing happened to or house or car. My neighbor's a couple houses over had a tree crash into their roof. 2 streets over the entire block was decimated. We moved out of state 2 years later. Tornadoes are no joke.
This movie inspired a new generation of Storm chasers. When Bill Paxton died chasers spelled out a huge BP over Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas with their GPS coordinates as a tribute.
12:42 😂😂 storm chasers arent unemployed they're actually funded by research programs at colleges, the government. like the weather channel here in the states i believe fund a few storm chasers. Theyre usually phd scientists and their graduate team. My friend looked into it for a min and decided to do a different kind of environmental sciences 😂 25:43 the phrase is "if the tornado is standing still, its moving towards you"
Fun fact , the largest tornado ever recorded was over 2 1/2 MILES IN DIAMETER!!! And winds over 230 MPH! There are photos of McDonalds plastic straws stuck 2 INCHES into wooden telephone poles !
@gatchywatchyentertainmentb2090 If you need metric measurements: The tornado was like 4 kilometers in diameter, winds were over 370 kilometers per hour, plastic straws got imbedded over 5 centimeters into wooden poles.
24:13 she meant stopping the lack of warning before a tornado hits 32:02 I was born in Arkansas and it’s hard to believe but a tornado can tear through an area and leave structures standing less than 50 feet away. It’s crazy
My town experienced one and it was wild! The sirens were going off but they do that frequently in tornado season so we didn’t pay much attention until our dog ran into the bathroom and we heard this almost growling roar. We ran into the bathroom heard some of the windows blow out and hunkered down waiting for it to pass. Turned out our house and everything was fine except for some windows going in the front of the house and minor roof damage but the neighbors across the street lost their houses. Damn thing left our side of the street basically untouched because it disappeared right before hitting us. I’ll never forget the smell of freshly turned dirt and grass and the sounds of cries for help from our neighbors.
The tornado I was in was an EF5. Tornado warnings are so frequent that they were rarely taken seriously. It was a mile wide and rain wrapped so it wasn't really visible if you were in the path. The storm seemed to stop and it was eerily quiet. Then it sounded like a huge engine bearing down on us. My son and I were in a hallway and I had a view out of the glass storm door. I saw trees and a swing set fly by. It seemed to stop for a full 45 seconds then started again. It was very slow moving so it was on top of us for a good 2 minutes. Our area of town was fully unrecognizable afterward. The path of the tornado was a mile wide and 13 miles long. Trees were debarked and one of our hospitals, a concrete 12 story building, was moved off its foundation. It destroyed 4000 buildings and damages 8000 more. It was an insane experience.
Tornadoes rely on a delicate balance of inflow and outflow to stay going. If inflow is choked off by new storms or an occlusion northwards the tornado will weaken and disparate. Outflow boundaries can disrupt storm structure and blow a tornado apart.
“What are tornadoes like” well, these days, your phone screams at you and you’ve probably already seen warnings on Twitter or Facebook that the weather is going to be concerning. But back when this movie came out, it was just like the movie shows. Your dad is watching the weather reporting, the weatherman goes “alright folks looks like things are about to get real, get underground”, and you go run and hide underground and hope that things don’t actually get real. Just because a storm CAN produce a tornado doesn’t mean it WILL, they’ll warn you to take shelter as long as the storm CAN. And IF it can, it can produce a tornado suddenly, anywhere in its path. There are also storms that don’t appear capable of producing a tornado, and then suddenly there’s a massive chain reaction and boom, unwarned tornado out of nowhere. This movie is a time capsule that perfectly (although it embellished) captured that perpetual anxiety of storm season in the Midwest. The way the tornado at the drive-in seems to approach like a masked killer… the curtains blow, the tv goes out… in a horror movie you’d hear a door creak and footsteps.
I am a person that was a child in Texas and a teen in Oklahoma and my older brother was OBSESSED with this movie and had the tape on repeat. I was so scared of this movie but I couldn't stop watching it. But I also lived it sooooo 😂😂 one time lightening hit the tree in my front lawn just like the beginning of this movie, but my entire trunk fell right in front of the house. If the lightening had hit it another way it would have landed ON our house 😅
I live in Oklahoma and we had a tornado scare a little ways back. Tornado sirens started going off in the middle of the night. We had zero warning. Thankfully it missed us and only a few people died. There were all kinds of animals hanging from trees and stuff. Crazy to see massive trees ripped apart
This has been my favorite movie of all time since middle school, and I'm SO happy the new movie is bringing people to watch it now! I've loved watching everyone's reactions
Tornados as best as I can describe come from when hot air interacts with colder air from a severe enough thunderstorm, the two different energies make the swirl that is a tornado. Once enough of one of those factors, usually the hot air side, is lessened enough the tornado dies super quickly like in this film. Flat terrain helps lengthen the lifespan of a tornado since it doesn't cause the hot and cold air much disturbance as opposed to a forest or mountain which get in the way of the spin.
I am from Kansas I have been through a few tornados in my life. Luckily, it didn’t get super bad. Trees knocked down and local businesses damaged that’s about it when I was a child. This movie came out when I was 4 years old haha
I live in Alabama and my town had a tornado that destroyed half of the city. My son was at work "safe" in the cooler area. He was on the phone with me when the line went dead. I immediately ran to the garage and grabbed a flashlight, my muck boots, a machete, and the truck keys. My husband couldn't catch up. 😂😂 We had to stop and turn around multiple times because of downed trees and power lines. We eventually made it to his work and I saw my dad beat us there. He was fine and all I could do was cry. I shined the flashlight past the building and it looked like a bomb had gone off. We later found out my inlaws house had partially been blown away. Tornadoes are fickle and I have seen with my own eyes how it leveled one house and completely jumped over another without even cracking a window.
@danieldoesdumbstuff My inlaws were able to rebuild and a lot of the town has recovered. You could stand in front of their computer downstairs and take a picture that looked normal. There were still pictures and knick knacks on the shelves. The opposite wall was ripped away and you could see a hole in the ceiling. It was insane. They found one of their kayaks 2 blocks away🤣🤣
Good that the preview footage lives on lol. Nice, havent seen this in a long time, i was in 10th grade when this came out, yes I am a senior citizen lol. Yea that opening title card is cool
I lived in the middle of nowhere Texas for 15 years, in a trailer. We had lots of scares! The scariest was at night when you couldn’t see. You have to wait for flashes of lightning to see the horizon. And the sky really does turn a neon green with black clouds sometimes! I slept with an emergency tv nearby and we had a NOAA weather radio that would go off if there was a severe thunderstorm warning, flash flood, or tornado warning. I remember most nights when the weather was really bad, our whole trailer shaking from the wind. Hail and rain pounding the windows so bad I so was sure one of them would bust. Scariest and closest we ever got to something like this movie was when we opted to stay in a motel for the night in town bc the weather pattern was ripe for spawning tornadoes. Sure enough, that night we were woken up by the storm. The emergency door to the outside bust open, the tv we fell asleep to was static. Rain and wind came flying in and we heard this sound like a jet plane outside. Soon after that the power cut out and we were left in the dark as it really felt like forever just waiting for it to stop. I think my family all huddled together in a corner of the room furthest from the outside door. It happened so fast we barely had time to react. And then, it passed. When the wind died down we got up and closed the door. We got the towels from the bathroom to start drying everything. It really is so intense and fast.
Not really. I'm from Ontario Canada we have had I believe 14 so far and it's not even tornado season. We average 30 a year In Ontario but at the rate we are having them this year we are likely to get quite a bit more than 30
@kylew6635 You're bringing up Canada, for no reason, when I mentioned Australia (where the creator is from) and the frequency of tornadoes in that country. Good job.
@@Its_BekTBF, a lot of Australia is empty uninhabited land, and most tornadoes don't appear where anyone lives. So they usually don't bother reporting them.
The pipes for our well go down 200 feet. Most stable thing to tie yourself to. We experienced a typhoon in Japan. It picked up a huge hibachi grill and deposited ot down the street, flattened our 6 foot fence but left my plastic ball sitting right where I left it. Tornados and hurricanes are just weird.
I've never seen a funnel cloud, but we will get tornado warnings/watches when they're in suburban areas making their way towards us. They usually dissipate before they get to us, but one storm got really bad and I thought it would be an actual tornado. The sky was green!
Also where I live in Nebraska I don’t get a lot of Tornados, (Thank god) but I remember we had one when I was a wee lad. I remember my dad saying it was small and we just sort of hung out in our basement.
So if daddy would have just not held onto the door he would have been fine. I mean, the door was gone and the 2 pound dog two feet away didn’t get sucked out 😂😂😂
Are you familiar with Storm Cellars? they may be of varying length but the steps are always closer to the outside, Jo's Dad was on the steps, to hold it he had to be at the top, he would be easy to grab, I was in similar tornados in my youth (thankfully I never lost my father) If he didn't hold the door they all might have been pulled out.
@@garethmorgan8326oh I am familiar. But he didn’t hold the door, the door held him lol. I’m also familiar enough to know that smelling the dirt and “feeling” where the tornadoes are isn’t a real thing. 😂 Full disclosure this is actually one of my favorite movies ever, so all is said in fun. 🎉
I live in CO - seen a few myself, my mom's house was destroyed by one when she was 18 ... they all hid in the cellar like at the beginning of the of movie, a week later she graduated high school and two months after that she married my dad 🙂
God you have no idea how much I hope to see a milo completion he is such a cutiepie. Hi hello I'm a animal person so I love him 🙂 "Ive only had Milo for a day and a half but if anything happened to him I would kill everyone in this room and then myself." That one quote 😂
From KC, Missouri here, I grew up on this movie and loved it. Have seen a few tornados, and even one time we were going to a Royals baseball game and got stuck in the lobby because of one. They are insane, and the best way to tell if they are coming is the color and sound. When it's tornado weather everything gets still and turns green, and if there is a formed tornado close by you will hear the sound of a train. I remember driving through Joplin, MO after an F5 and the entire town was gone.
19:42 Night time tornadoes are scary. You can't really see them. The way we see them is by what we in Okie homa called power flashes. When you see power lines exploding it's like Godzilla making a path. You know the tornado is moving. Also lightening helps us see the night tornado. 👀
31:10 I can believe it. That is a water pipe from a pumphouse. The piping is as deep as it needs to be to reach the water table which can be as far down as 200 ft. Although I doubt that particular one would be 200 ft. Realistically it would be around 50-100 ft, but that would still be more than enough to keep it from being ripped out of the ground from a tornado.
Coming from experience, you always run away from a tornado, doesn't matter how strong it is. It can jump cources and turn directions on a dime. Just get a good bit away and just photo it and enjoy it from a safe space. You don't wanna be in a tornado
I grew up in the Wichita, Kansas area. I've only seen one in person, but it was a doozy: the Haysville-Wichita-Andover tornado, which reached F5 before it dissipated. It was actually the last F5 recorded before scientists switched from the Fujita scale (F) to the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale. I was 11 years old, and visiting my dad and stepmom at their trailer home, just north of Boeing/Spirit and the I-35 turnpike. Its path came within about a mile of us, reaching its closest just minutes before it hit McConnell Air Force Base. At McConnell it barely missed the line of billion-dollar-each B1 bombers parked on the airfield, at least some of which were loaded with nuclear bombs that day. At that point it was probably an F4, not yet at its strongest, and even then it was so wide across that it took me ten or twenty seconds to realize what I was looking at. It just looked like a cloud, except that the cloud had dark specks moving sideways in front of it, but my perspective was so screwy I couldn't tell if those specks were dust/sand or tree-size debris. And it was far enough away that I couldn't hear it over the usual thunderstorm / hailstorm sounds. I'm not sure how wide it actually was when I saw it, but the damage path was documented as 700 yards wide at the worst, and the funnel cloud was probably twice that in width, so call it 1.5 km. When it reached its worst and hit Andover about 10 minutes later, the aftermath there looked very much like Wakita did in this movie, complete with lack of warning because the sirens had some electrical or mechanical fault and didn't go off. One thing that Twister doesn't really convey is that a "tornado" isn't actually the funnel cloud, it's the wind that's whipping the cloud around. The cloud is 100% optional, so tornadoes can be invisible until they touch the ground and start picking up debris. RU-vidr Reed Timmer got some amazing drone footage in 2022 of yet another tornado cutting through Andover -- yes, the same Andover, and also the town where my sister lives with her family today -- that really vividly shows how a tornado can go from opaque to invisible and back in a matter of seconds, depending on how much cloud and debris it has wrapped around it at any moment. And while real tornadoes don't dissipate quite as suddenly as Twister portrays, they can only last as long as there is no significant wind shear (horizontal wind that's blowing in different directions at different altitudes). If the wind shifts, at the surface or higher up near the storm cloud, it can suddenly send the tornado on a new path or completely dissipate it from full strength in just a few minutes. Their moment-to-moment unpredictability is what makes them both dangerous and fascinating to watch. As for the pants-shitting fear... meh? It sounds wild to anyone who isn't from the area, but when you grow up with weather like that, it's easy to get used to it. Sitting outside on your covered porch watching lightning storms go by is an honored pastime in the Great Plains, and I wasn't the only kid I knew who wanted to grow up to be a storm chaser. Unfortunately, it doesn't exactly pay well: outside of the occasional government research grants, like the TOTO project that this movie dramatizes, it's mostly selling videos and photos to TV news stations and documentary makers. The actual useful part, spotting the storm's location and path to give better warnings, is 100% unpaid volunteer work. Twister doesn't get the details right all the time, and the science of the film was already 10-15 years out of date at the time it came out, but it very much captures the spirit of what storm chasing is like. I'm sure some other commenter has mentioned the storm chasers spelling out "BP" in tribute to Bill Paxton when he died in 2017.
I went to Cedar Point (huge amusement park) school trip after this movie came out. Had 2 waterspouts over Lake Erie that started to come on land trees started flying! So many people ran, people in ditches, kids, strollers,crazy ass shit I’ve ever been in or seen. Just the sense of Panic hundreds of 100,000 people all felt. Insane. What was crazy is that the amusement park started locking all the doors and wouldn’t let anyone in. Nuts
I think you mean "hundreds or thousands" (1,000)s not...one hundred thousand, which is correct as 100,000. Lol I can't imagine seeing 100,000 people even in a huge amusement park, much less seeing 100,000 people during pure chaos!!
Was involved in an F3 in Windsor in 2008. Scariest experience of my life. The sounds of metal ripping like paper, the sounds were unbelievably scary to put it lightly. And the sensation of being completely useless/helpless in that scenario was mind boggling. There is nothing you can do except seek shelter and hope you’ll make it to the next minute
@Puggapillar 2:42 the actor playing Jo’s dad is the same actor who played in speed with Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock and Jeff Daniels and Alan Ruck he played Norwood and of course we all know played the one scene while in the truck on the phone talking about the gap in the freeway and saying the famous line I guess they fell behind
32:32 This is my list of tornado symptoms. I've seen more than a few because I grew up in Oklahoma City. 1. The sky turns greenish, orange yellow, or purplish. 2. The wind might be blowing a little then the wind stops and it gets eeriely still. 3. The temperature is super hot then suddenly drops to icy temps that's when it gets really still. 4.The clouds are churning. I'd look up and would see the clouds rolling. 5. Then it starts to hail. 6. The wind picks up again and you get heavy sheets of rain mixed with hail. 7. If you can see the horizon you'll probably see something called a "wall cloud" It's a cloud that lowers and when it starts to develop a cloud that's called a tail you know a tornado is wanting to come down. 8. Oh and tornadoes make a sound that is compared to a train running on tracks. Also the air pressure changes and you can feel it in your ears. My grandma once had a tiny baby tornado dance on top of her roof. Everyone in the neighborhood saw it. 🤣 We had an F5 go through Oklahoma City. It was big news. I remember being maybe 7 when my dad carried me into a shelter like at the beginning of the movie. It was night time and the sky was purple I could tell because the lightening lit the sky. The clouds were bubbling and rolling. Very end of the world type feel.
I actually own one of the copies of that blue shirt that he wore in this movie, has his name on it and everything, just because my dad's friend worked on the set and stole it 😭
When this movie came out, I was living in Niagara Falls, ON and the drive in theatre was playing this movie. Ironically a tornado had hit and fucked up the whole drive in WHILE in was playing during the same drive-in theatre scene in the movie!!
Hey mate. So happy you enjoyed this. One of the few movies from the 90's that still holds really well today. Spielberg, shouldn't be a surprise. Anyway, may I suggest, Into the Storm. I think you'll like it just as much as this, maybe even more. Cheers mate.
I love this movie! I don't understand why the dad doesn't just go hover in the corner with his family. Cinematic storytelling reasons, I'm sure. It's still one of my favorites to this day!!
Growing up I’ve only seen this movie maybe once or twice in my life. It scared me. The only thing I’ll remember is the dad getting sucked out from the twister.
Live in Oklahoma, so they happen all the time. I remember a tornado a decade or so ago was pretty severe. In the aftermath, I saw a horse that landed in a pool. He was quite a seahorse 😅😂
What's a tornado actually like? Depends on how big, first of all. But mostly I'd say loud, windy, scary, rumbly, and for anyone like me who's extra sensitive to pressure changes, pretty painful. Also usually short-lived, although it might not feel like it at the time.
We don't really get tornadoes where I live now, but growing up we dealt with them more frequently than I would have liked. One time my family was driving late at night during a storm and the radio suddenly switched to an emergency broadcast. It gave details about two tornadoes that were in the area and where they were currently heading. My dad slammed on the brakes and started panicking because we were basically sandwiched between them. We couldn't see anything in the dark though and there were so many trees around. I was terrified as we just sat in the car and waited for updates. Finally we heard that the tornadoes had dissipated and we continued down the road. Not too far ahead we saw a HUGE path of destruction across the road. We had to turn back and just hope that way was clear to drive through (which it was). Scary stuff. I'm so glad we don't really have them here... although we do have to worry about wildfires and flash floods... Oh well. Every place has its downsides I guess. 😅
32:02 - Tornadoes can do strange things man. Many violent wedge tornadoes (like the F5 in the last scene) are multiple vortex tornadoes. Which is why in some damage photographs, one house will be completely gone while a house next to it is virtually untouched.
I’m in southwest Indiana and we get a ton each year and we’re not even technically in tornado alley 😩 had an EF3 5 minutes away last week after hurricane Beryl
21:34 "Oof. Yeah, that relationship really meant nothing." I think that's something they both became aware of. They decided that they didn't really know each other at all, and they should move on with their lives. It's tough to see, but it was handled in such a mature way.
I don't know what's worse, a tornado or a hurricane? I remember watching this movie years ago when I was younger and really enjoying it. Probably because I knew I lived on the west cost of the US and would never have to deal with them.
When i watched this movie as a kid, before i understood English that is. I thought i there was some evil subplot going on and that the weird wind chimes was summoning the tornado's and the small ball things they put into the tornado killed it
I saw this as a little kid at the drive in with my family and the drive in was at the mouth of a canyon so the wind was blowing against the big trees all night , so scary lol
about 2 weeks me and my parents were down the street when we had a big storm come through our area where we live and a huge striked behind our house. we had never something that powerful in a while and i live in tornado alley of nebraska.
Next time, rotate in the other direction! It can help! 🤣 I was about 5 & my sister & I were home w a babysitter during, I guess, what was a huge tornado outbreak at the time. A tornado touched down in our town & our babysitter took us down into the basement. While the babysitter was distracted w my sister who was crying, I apparently decided to go upstairs & find my parents. I opened up the front door & all I remember is darkness & this horrible crunching growl of a sound that was absurdly loud. I don't remember anything after that. My mom insisted that we move to the Pacific Northwest afterwards where "there were no tornados". 6 years later, Mt. St. Helens erupted. 😅 Yeah, we didn't let her live that down. They did a really good job w the sound though as I burst into tears watching "Twister' in the theaters.
We may not have tornadoes in Australia but I do live in cyclone state 😅😂 last year my friends and I had a cyclone party for Jasper, then nothing happened, then a few days later the flash flooding started and that wasn’t a good time 🥲
I have lived in Oklahoma all my life - that opening scene is as real as it comes - I experienced all of it repeatedly in the 70's - including Channel 9's Gary England being on the TV, running to the Cellar and hoping the pets who never had the common sense to run along with us would be O.K. The majority of the movie is fun, but the opening is hard to watch. BTW : Tornados DO act like they have a thought process - they act like they know what they are doing - that is why they are so scary.
I rented this for a sleepover with my friends back in the day--we were very excited to see a movie that appeared to be filmed where we grew up, that being Oklahoma. We were just a bunch of eleven-year-old girls, hoping to have a good movie before we went to bed. Well....we kinda did. Because we spent the whole time making fun of it. Yeah, we were Okies that grew up in the worst part of Tornado Alley, and knew all of the references. I get why this was popular, and won't ever knock it for being a perfectly fine disaster movie. However, it was so, SO dumb if you truly know tornadoes, and as a result, it rather becomes a comedy. That's just a side-effect of knowing a lot about a subject Hollywood talks about--the more you know, the less you can suspend your disbelief. But, like I said, I know why it was popular. It's a fine disaster movie. Extremely unrealistic, but makes sense for the characters it is trying to portray.
