7:35 And that's why the weather service advice for dealing with tornadoes says to "stay away from windows and take shelter in an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building".
23:50 some inaccuracies in the story. I am a Nashville, TN local. While there was a notable tornado that went through Clarksville in the same system (so these happened minutes apart), the tornado depicted is a DIFFERENT one that hit the north side of Nashville proper. That massive explosion was due to some barrels of oil that were at the power substation. The tornado had punctured and blown them over, so the oil was ultimately ignited by the power flash.
I was also confused at that point of the video because I live in Montgomery Clarksville TN, and I was a neighborhood away from the tornado that teared away the roofs from houses and a church. It wasn’t night time when the tornado came, and it didn’t blow up anything, we barely have any footage because the tornado came unwarned. I wasn’t there though thankfully, I was visiting family in Oklahoma, but my other family witnessed it though.
I live in Alabama, where we get a lot of tornadoes. One good thing is that when violent weather is forecast the local tv programming takes a backseat to continual weather information. Every tv station puts their best weather people on the air along with weather radar, showing where the tornadoes are, what direction they’re going and their approximate speed, so you can see in real time if one is heading for your home, and when to take shelter.
That’s true! I live just across the state line from Huntsville, and we’re in their broadcasting market, so we rely heavily on the local meteorologists there, as well. 💁🏻♀️
I concur, I live an hour’s drive north of Birmingham and get tornadoes up here too. Though none have ever pass through my neighborhood nor the town nearest to my home, but have come pretty close.
The sound of a tornado coming is something you won't forget, but for me, the feel of a tornado is what still gets me. Been through a few in my lifetime and it's hard to accurately explain the feel of a tornado coming through. Kinda like standing at the start line of the NHRAA Top Fuel Championships. Every part of your body shaking
The barometric pressure just hits your body in a way that triggers every single lizard hindbrain sense. That feeling of dread is crazy, and it’s not “just in your head” literally everything from hairs on your arms to inner ear are telling you something is coming. Staying calm and getting to shelter should be your response to that warning 😱
True story: I survived a tornado in 2021 with my then boyfriend (now husband). It destroyed most of my house and when I managed to get my phone and call 911 one of the first things I told the operator was that I couldn't find my pants 💀
7:25 "doesn't the door have a lock on it?" yes it does. but that's not gonna stop it when the door is GLASS. number one rule is to stay away from windows and glass doors, but yknow. people just NEED to film everything to get updoots and stuff. edit: oh lol the narrator took the words outta my mouth. at least the girl filming knew she was putting herself in harms way and was being a bit dumb too lol
Meteorologists go to schools every season, and they told us stay away from any windows or doors even locked ones because winds and pressure will not have any problem getting them open. You either can be cut with glass & splinters or you can be sucked out. So I always tell people don’t waste your energy holding doors closed, you will lose every time & go with them if you’re unlucky.
not to stop it jus to lock it and move away, holding it definitely wont stop 140mph winds either, if it had a lock it should be locked in the first 3 seconds of the video so you can then move away from glass, that's what id be doing anyway.
As it turned out, the fireball from the last clip was from it hitting an electrical substation and causing the entire transformer battery to explode. There was security camera footage showing it from close up. Interestingly, the explosion disrupted the tornado's condensation funnel, making it appear to briefly dissipate--however, it wasn't strong enough to actually break up the circulation, just the cloud that makes up the *visible* funnel, as evidenced by the winds continuing and the funnel promptly recondensing.
I live in tornado alley. We are moving to a new property down the road and finally put in our first tornado shelter! Thank God! We are in NorthEast Texas close to the Oklahoma border. A tornado is such a scary thing to go through. Thank goodness we have tornado sirens and advance warning. Once the tornado is hitting, it is the most scariest and out of control feeling you can have. There’s literally nothing you can do but wait and see what is going to happen to your home, your friends and families homes and your neighborhood. Tornadoes are extremely extremely loud! My daughter lives in the middle of Oklahoma, so that really scares me because it’s such an active tornado place.
Thank you for reacting as you did to this one Kabir. I sometimes get angry at people that make comments when reacting to these kinds of events saying stuff that is utterly ridiculous to anyone that has actually been near and/or in tornadoes. I have experienced both at different levels of intensity. Asking questions and trying to understand what it is really like is much more appropriate than giving false recommendations about what to do in these situations. As you can see, tornadoes are extremely unpredictable. The outcome is always uncertain. There is no single correct answer. All any of us can ever do is make do the best we can in the circumstances at the time. 😉
Truth. There's NO place that is absolutely safe. We lived in a double wide mobile home for 40 years in East Texas. And sat there on TV and wants to tornado go through several towns nearby that blew brick houses off their foundation.
If you want to know what it’s like, there is a movie: “NIGHT OF THE TWISTERS”, [ 1995 ]. Gives a very accurate account of what it is like to go through an actual Tornado. It is loosely based on an actual tornado event that took place in 1980. 📻🙂
I have been through a tornado and a few hurricanes. Everyone says it sounds like a freight train, and it does, but in my experiences there's a certain level to the wind (it's around 55 mph in my experiences) that you feel more than you hear...like you can feel a train as well as hear. It's hard to explain, but it's how I felt the force of the wind outside of hearing. The tornado I experienced happened was in the middle of the night and it woke me up as it was happening, so I couldn't really react. Tornados are usually over in less than a minute, but it feels like forever since you record it second by second in your head.
@Kabir, my realist memory is from when I was 2 yrs old, visiting my grandparents in Oklahoma and we had to go down into the "fraidy hole". It sounded like a freight train going overhead! I just don't understand how every household in these tornado prone areas, do not have a "fraidy hole"!
My first memory is actually m asking my mother if I’m going to die while a tornado was outside the house. You never forget that sound and it took us 15 minutes to find the car that was parked out front.
The problem with insurance is the TYPE of insurance you bought. e.g. if you buy "Flood Insurance" in Florida, but your property is damaged by a tornado, then there's no payout. The same applies to "Life Insurance". A policy that only covers "Accidental death" won't pay if you succumb to cancer.
The explosion caused by the last tornado was actually from it hitting a transformer substation. The substations use mineral oil as a coolant and insulator and when the tornado hit the substation it ignited the mineral oil. Craziest part is the for a brief second the heat from the explosion evaporated the moisture in the tornado's condensation funnel disrupting it
I had a tornado pass about a quarter mile away from my house but I was in the basement. I could hear the wood in my old house creaking and groaning. Some branches and tree damage. Amazing videos.
I was in a tornado in Indiana while in a vehicle. A Dodge Ram truck. It lifted the front end of the truck up and spun us around before all hell broke loose. That was rated an F2 I believe. My wife was injured in a tornado in Ohio when she was a little girl. Her family lived in a mobile home park. Apparently their mobile home wasn't tethered down, and when the tornado hit it rolled their mobile home over and into their neighbor's. She still has a scar on her forehead and arm from her injuries. She still has the photos that were taken after the storm as well. It looked terrifying.
Arkansan here who used to live about five miles from the location where thar woman was sucked out of the building. I'm glad Kim said she was dumb so that I don't have to. If you've lived in the state for more than one tornado season, you should know what to do and among the first things you're told is: stay away from windows. Edit: you just asked what it's like to be in a tornado. I don't have experience with being in one directly, but I just wanted to share some historical tornado experience compared to today. The greatest concentration of weather radar in the world is in "tornado alley" in the US, followed by "Dixie alley" also in the US. These are the regions of the country in which the most tornado occur due to the convergence of multiple climates that make the air moist, warm, and favorable. Today's tornado predictions and warnings are really quite good. The science around tornadoes and the technology used to track them, particularly in the "alleys" is top notch. It's by no means exact but I grew up in the 80s and the difference is night and day. Today tornadoes can be tracked by radar down to the street level. In the 80s it was far, far less precise. They used to issue warnings for entire counties and most of the time, you only knew one was occurring if police or fire brigades spotted one. Today, "signatures" can indicate that a tornado is forming. That imprecise-quality of predictions and tracking truly traumatised me as a child. I ended up having to go to psychotherapy for a time after a few outbreaks where damage occurred all around us. Interestingly, I think people took warnings more seriously back then exactly because you didn't necessarily know where the tornado was, so you just took shelter when one was issued. I think people today think they're going to know where it's going or when it will arrive and it emboldens them to the point they've become careless. One of my worst childhood memories was having to take shelter late into the night in the crawlspace of my neighbors house on Christmas Eve because of tornadoes spotted in the area.
Man I’ve been through several tornadoes as an Alabama native but NOTHING beats the “Great Blackout of 2011” that destroyed Tuscaloosa & knocked out the main power station in my hometown of Huntsville causing us to be without power for 4 days. If I’m not mistaken it was an EF4-5 that did hella damage & was literally the scariest one I’ve been through. The sound alone was eerie af….. so calm (as usual) then hell unleashed sounding like a massive freight train just running right over u. Killed my coworker, his wife & son in Cullman by picking up their house & dropping it almost a block away 😢 sounds crazy but u get so used to them u forget how devastating they can be 🤷🏼♀️ most are no big deal but Mother Nature has a way of reminding u never get too comfortable with the extent of her wrath💯
Though the midwest is known being tornado prone, however there is nowhere in the U .S. that is immune from tornados. What wrong with those women? That beast could have sucked her up and spit her out miles away!
I’ve been through two tornados here in Texas. They were small, but were strong enough to blow out the windows in the building I was in, and destroying a tennis court across the street. 😬 They really do sound like a train coming through, and they are very scary.
it happens regularly in the UK, last year there was A strong EF£ tornado in jersey, Boxing Day there was a f2 tornado in Stalybridge Manchester, the storm went over my house in Blackpool with lightning and crazy winds, then you have the famous 2005 Birmingham tornado, 2006 In London, this year in Nottingham and Derbyshire, so they happen each year but are not heavily reported and most are weak doing minor fence or roof damage travelling a mile or so, but about once A decade we get stronger events, the one in jersey last year was the strongest in the UK since 1954
The number 1 spot didn't happen in Clarksville tn it was in Hendersonville tn but on the same day Clarksville did have a tornado as well but the explosion was from an electrical station between Madison and Hendersonville tn
To actually be in one yes it's just as intense as it looks and if it directly hits you if feels like your flying for a brief minute i was hit by a EF 3 in my home town of sulphur Oklahoma this year its winds where at a peak of 165 mph
I lived in El Reno, OK and experienced the El Reno/Piedmont tornado. The tornado brushed the western side of El Reno before traveling onto Piedmont. I lived in central El Reno so what we experienced were high winds and blowing debris. Yes, it is intense....yes, it sounds just like a train is rolling over you. When the tornado sirens went off, I went outside on our porch to look at the sky. I grew up in NY and I wanted to see what the sky looked like. We had gone from daylight to blackness in a minute. I have never seen a sky so black, so angry, so violent and so menacing in my life. The lightning was bright, sharp and constant and the thunder was so strong. You could feel the thunder in your feet because it was causing the ground to vibrate. I got a sneak peak and went back inside. It's something beyond belief, Kabir. After the tornado passed, the sky turned blue again and the sun came out. It really messes with your head. Soon after, I moved out of OK and moved back to NY. I know how to deal with blizzards because I grew up with them. I had no immunity to the sounds and destruction of tornadoes. Take care and be well. Peace.
It all depends. I've been in tornadoes from EF1 to EF4...EF1's aren't much of a big deal, but EF4's scare the crap out of me. I hope to never be near or in an EF5...
7:35
And that's why the weather service advice for dealing with tornadoes says to "stay away from windows and take shelter in an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building".
This video would trend in May or June
A lot of people say it sounds like a freight train when a tornado hits. I've always wondered what people thought tornadoes sounded like before trains?
The devil silly 😂
23:50 some inaccuracies in the story. I am a Nashville, TN local.
While there was a notable tornado that went through Clarksville in the same system (so these happened minutes apart), the tornado depicted is a DIFFERENT one that hit the north side of Nashville proper. That massive explosion was due to some barrels of oil that were at the power substation. The tornado had punctured and blown them over, so the oil was ultimately ignited by the power flash.
I was also confused at that point of the video because I live in Montgomery Clarksville TN, and I was a neighborhood away from the tornado that teared away the roofs from houses and a church. It wasn’t night time when the tornado came, and it didn’t blow up anything, we barely have any footage because the tornado came unwarned. I wasn’t there though thankfully, I was visiting family in Oklahoma, but my other family witnessed it though.
I live in Alabama, where we get a lot of tornadoes. One good thing is that when violent weather is forecast the local tv programming takes a backseat to continual weather information. Every tv station puts their best weather people on the air along with weather radar, showing where the tornadoes are, what direction they’re going and their approximate speed, so you can see in real time if one is heading for your home, and when to take shelter.
That’s true! I live just across the state line from Huntsville, and we’re in their broadcasting market, so we rely heavily on the local meteorologists there, as well. 💁🏻♀️
I concur, I live an hour’s drive north of Birmingham and get tornadoes up here too. Though none have ever pass through my neighborhood nor the town nearest to my home, but have come pretty close.
Tornadoes are so common over here in the US, but they can happen almost anywhere.
There's even waterspouts and small tornadoes over in the UK too.
The sound of a tornado coming is something you won't forget, but for me, the feel of a tornado is what still gets me. Been through a few in my lifetime and it's hard to accurately explain the feel of a tornado coming through. Kinda like standing at the start line of the NHRAA Top Fuel Championships. Every part of your body shaking
The barometric pressure just hits your body in a way that triggers every single lizard hindbrain sense. That feeling of dread is crazy, and it’s not “just in your head” literally everything from hairs on your arms to inner ear are telling you something is coming. Staying calm and getting to shelter should be your response to that warning 😱
In a good size tornado all you do is pray that your dresser with your underwear in it doesn't blow away, because you're gonna need a pair afterwards.
Because first you say it, then you do it! LOL.
So funny... And true
True story: I survived a tornado in 2021 with my then boyfriend (now husband). It destroyed most of my house and when I managed to get my phone and call 911 one of the first things I told the operator was that I couldn't find my pants 💀
@@asingleverse😂
7:25 "doesn't the door have a lock on it?" yes it does. but that's not gonna stop it when the door is GLASS. number one rule is to stay away from windows and glass doors, but yknow. people just NEED to film everything to get updoots and stuff. edit: oh lol the narrator took the words outta my mouth. at least the girl filming knew she was putting herself in harms way and was being a bit dumb too lol
Meteorologists go to schools every season, and they told us stay away from any windows or doors even locked ones because winds and pressure will not have any problem getting them open. You either can be cut with glass & splinters or you can be sucked out. So I always tell people don’t waste your energy holding doors closed, you will lose every time & go with them if you’re unlucky.
not to stop it jus to lock it and move away, holding it definitely wont stop 140mph winds either, if it had a lock it should be locked in the first 3 seconds of the video so you can then move away from glass, that's what id be doing anyway.
I love reactions to weather events!
As it turned out, the fireball from the last clip was from it hitting an electrical substation and causing the entire transformer battery to explode. There was security camera footage showing it from close up. Interestingly, the explosion disrupted the tornado's condensation funnel, making it appear to briefly dissipate--however, it wasn't strong enough to actually break up the circulation, just the cloud that makes up the *visible* funnel, as evidenced by the winds continuing and the funnel promptly recondensing.
I live in tornado alley. We are moving to a new property down the road and finally put in our first tornado shelter! Thank God! We are in NorthEast Texas close to the Oklahoma border. A tornado is such a scary thing to go through. Thank goodness we have tornado sirens and advance warning. Once the tornado is hitting, it is the most scariest and out of control feeling you can have. There’s literally nothing you can do but wait and see what is going to happen to your home, your friends and families homes and your neighborhood. Tornadoes are extremely extremely loud! My daughter lives in the middle of Oklahoma, so that really scares me because it’s such an active tornado place.
Thank you for reacting as you did to this one Kabir. I sometimes get angry at people that make comments when reacting to these kinds of events saying stuff that is utterly ridiculous to anyone that has actually been near and/or in tornadoes. I have experienced both at different levels of intensity.
Asking questions and trying to understand what it is really like is much more appropriate than giving false recommendations about what to do in these situations. As you can see, tornadoes are extremely unpredictable. The outcome is always uncertain. There is no single correct answer. All any of us can ever do is make do the best we can in the circumstances at the time. 😉
Truth. There's NO place that is absolutely safe. We lived in a double wide mobile home for 40 years in East Texas. And sat there on TV and wants to tornado go through several towns nearby that blew brick houses off their foundation.
Helena had lots and lots of twisters in it this is what caused so much damage in small towns in ga that is no where near water
That fireball was probably someone's household propane tank.
It was actually a transformer substation
If you want to know what it’s like, there is a movie: “NIGHT OF THE TWISTERS”, [ 1995 ].
Gives a very accurate account of what it is like to go through an actual Tornado.
It is loosely based on an actual tornado event that took place in 1980.
📻🙂
I have been through a tornado and a few hurricanes. Everyone says it sounds like a freight train, and it does, but in my experiences there's a certain level to the wind (it's around 55 mph in my experiences) that you feel more than you hear...like you can feel a train as well as hear. It's hard to explain, but it's how I felt the force of the wind outside of hearing. The tornado I experienced happened was in the middle of the night and it woke me up as it was happening, so I couldn't really react. Tornados are usually over in less than a minute, but it feels like forever since you record it second by second in your head.
@Kabir, my realist memory is from when I was 2 yrs old, visiting my grandparents in Oklahoma and we had to go down into the "fraidy hole". It sounded like a freight train going overhead!
I just don't understand how every household in these tornado prone areas, do not have a "fraidy hole"!
I LOVE THESE!!
btw kabir yall do get tornados. 30-40 per year if im not mistaken!
My first memory is actually m asking my mother if I’m going to die while a tornado was outside the house. You never forget that sound and it took us 15 minutes to find the car that was parked out front.
That last tornado in this video looked very spooky, especially when it hit the transformer and gas tank.
The problem with insurance is the TYPE of insurance you bought. e.g. if you buy "Flood Insurance" in Florida, but your property is damaged by a tornado, then there's no payout. The same applies to "Life Insurance". A policy that only covers "Accidental death" won't pay if you succumb to cancer.
The explosion caused by the last tornado was actually from it hitting a transformer substation. The substations use mineral oil as a coolant and insulator and when the tornado hit the substation it ignited the mineral oil. Craziest part is the for a brief second the heat from the explosion evaporated the moisture in the tornado's condensation funnel disrupting it
I had a tornado pass about a quarter mile away from my house but I was in the basement. I could hear the wood in my old house creaking and groaning. Some branches and tree damage. Amazing videos.
The UK hasn't had a serious tornado in centuries.
I was in a tornado in Indiana while in a vehicle. A Dodge Ram truck. It lifted the front end of the truck up and spun us around before all hell broke loose. That was rated an F2 I believe. My wife was injured in a tornado in Ohio when she was a little girl. Her family lived in a mobile home park. Apparently their mobile home wasn't tethered down, and when the tornado hit it rolled their mobile home over and into their neighbor's. She still has a scar on her forehead and arm from her injuries. She still has the photos that were taken after the storm as well. It looked terrifying.
Arkansan here who used to live about five miles from the location where thar woman was sucked out of the building. I'm glad Kim said she was dumb so that I don't have to. If you've lived in the state for more than one tornado season, you should know what to do and among the first things you're told is: stay away from windows.
Edit: you just asked what it's like to be in a tornado. I don't have experience with being in one directly, but I just wanted to share some historical tornado experience compared to today. The greatest concentration of weather radar in the world is in "tornado alley" in the US, followed by "Dixie alley" also in the US. These are the regions of the country in which the most tornado occur due to the convergence of multiple climates that make the air moist, warm, and favorable. Today's tornado predictions and warnings are really quite good. The science around tornadoes and the technology used to track them, particularly in the "alleys" is top notch. It's by no means exact but I grew up in the 80s and the difference is night and day. Today tornadoes can be tracked by radar down to the street level. In the 80s it was far, far less precise. They used to issue warnings for entire counties and most of the time, you only knew one was occurring if police or fire brigades spotted one. Today, "signatures" can indicate that a tornado is forming. That imprecise-quality of predictions and tracking truly traumatised me as a child. I ended up having to go to psychotherapy for a time after a few outbreaks where damage occurred all around us. Interestingly, I think people took warnings more seriously back then exactly because you didn't necessarily know where the tornado was, so you just took shelter when one was issued. I think people today think they're going to know where it's going or when it will arrive and it emboldens them to the point they've become careless. One of my worst childhood memories was having to take shelter late into the night in the crawlspace of my neighbors house on Christmas Eve because of tornadoes spotted in the area.
23:52, he answered your question.
Man I’ve been through several tornadoes as an Alabama native but NOTHING beats the “Great Blackout of 2011” that destroyed Tuscaloosa & knocked out the main power station in my hometown of Huntsville causing us to be without power for 4 days. If I’m not mistaken it was an EF4-5 that did hella damage & was literally the scariest one I’ve been through. The sound alone was eerie af….. so calm (as usual) then hell unleashed sounding like a massive freight train just running right over u. Killed my coworker, his wife & son in Cullman by picking up their house & dropping it almost a block away 😢 sounds crazy but u get so used to them u forget how devastating they can be 🤷🏼♀️ most are no big deal but Mother Nature has a way of reminding u never get too comfortable with the extent of her wrath💯
Though the midwest is known being tornado prone, however there is nowhere in the U .S. that is immune from tornados. What wrong with those women? That beast could have sucked her up and spit her out miles away!
I’ve been through two tornados here in Texas. They were small, but were strong enough to blow out the windows in the building I was in, and destroying a tennis court across the street. 😬 They really do sound like a train coming through, and they are very scary.
I was chasing storms when Perryton was hit. I got caught out of position and was about 8 miles north of it while the tornado was on the ground.
it happens regularly in the UK, last year there was A strong EF£ tornado in jersey, Boxing Day there was a f2 tornado in Stalybridge Manchester, the storm went over my house in Blackpool with lightning and crazy winds, then you have the famous 2005 Birmingham tornado, 2006 In London, this year in Nottingham and Derbyshire, so they happen each year but are not heavily reported and most are weak doing minor fence or roof damage travelling a mile or so, but about once A decade we get stronger events, the one in jersey last year was the strongest in the UK since 1954
1:27 JEFF was HERE 💪
I was born and raised in Oklahoma and lived there for the first thirty eight years of my life and never saw a tornado.
In June, my town was hit by an F2 tornado, and somebody on my block had a very big tree uproot and nearly hit their house.
I should note that this tornado never touched the ground; it stayed in the air.
The number 1 spot didn't happen in Clarksville tn it was in Hendersonville tn but on the same day Clarksville did have a tornado as well but the explosion was from an electrical station between Madison and Hendersonville tn
More than the actual wind , it's the vacuum created by the spinning wind which sucks the roofs off of buildings and destroys them .
To actually be in one yes it's just as intense as it looks and if it directly hits you if feels like your flying for a brief minute i was hit by a EF 3 in my home town of sulphur Oklahoma this year its winds where at a peak of 165 mph
It was a power substation that was hit that caused the fireball.
He says, "You ought not be by that winder", she says " Oh, I'm gettin dis" 😂 famous last werds.
London, England was hit by a strong tornado in 1066, if I remember the year of the tornado correctly
You should’ve looked at the 2015 Rochelle fairdale House video where he recorded the moment it hit his house
I lived in El Reno, OK and experienced the El Reno/Piedmont tornado. The tornado brushed the western side of El Reno before traveling onto Piedmont. I lived in central El Reno so what we experienced were high winds and blowing debris. Yes, it is intense....yes, it sounds just like a train is rolling over you. When the tornado sirens went off, I went outside on our porch to look at the sky. I grew up in NY and I wanted to see what the sky looked like. We had gone from daylight to blackness in a minute. I have never seen a sky so black, so angry, so violent and so menacing in my life. The lightning was bright, sharp and constant and the thunder was so strong. You could feel the thunder in your feet because it was causing the ground to vibrate. I got a sneak peak and went back inside. It's something beyond belief, Kabir. After the tornado passed, the sky turned blue again and the sun came out. It really messes with your head. Soon after, I moved out of OK and moved back to NY. I know how to deal with blizzards because I grew up with them. I had no immunity to the sounds and destruction of tornadoes. Take care and be well. Peace.
That's why a storm cellar is a must have item in tornado alley
I was in Moore during the f5 and thankfully we were about a block away, and all we saw was a wall of side ways rain and debris
Tornado s are scary and exciting.
It all depends. I've been in tornadoes from EF1 to EF4...EF1's aren't much of a big deal, but EF4's scare the crap out of me. I hope to never be near or in an EF5...
Kabir, roof shingles aren't wood.