MASSIVE IOWA EF-4 TORNADO - Winterset to Norwalk, IA Deadly Wedge Tornado: March 5th 2022
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On the afternoon of Saturday March 5th 2022, We intercepted a large and destructive tornado that developed just southwest of Winterset, Iowa and tracked to the northwest, causing extensive damage to portions of Winterset, Norwalk, and the Des Moines, Iowa metro area.
Unfortunately, this tornado took the lives of 6 people. Our thoughts and condolences go out to the families of those affected by this tragic tornado outbreak
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BREAKING NEWS:
This tornado has been upgraded to an EF-4 rating per the Des Moines National Weather Service
Alec Scholten, Hi! You did an awesome job filming this monster! Do you remember/recall how fast were you driving while filming the first 2 minutes 20 seconds? You and that tornado were rolling very fast! I was just wondering how fast( mph) you guys were driving just to keep up with it....
We're so glad that you guys are safe. You're neighbor in Maryland
@@charlottewhite1277 We were going right around the posted speed limit of the highway, which I believe was 60mph.
There was no need to go super fast, as the tornado was solidly in view and we were just trying to judge exactly where it was going to cross the North/South highway we were on.
0:50 I am so glad that you are smart, when you said “that’s on the ground “, so many storm chasers from days gone by, would not say that it’s on the ground until they see it “visually “ on the ground, and this is not right. Most tornadoes are digging up ground when the condensation funnel isn’t visible completely to the ground. I hated when they would say this, because a tornado can be causing havoc on the ground below it, without a visible vortex on the ground. If you twirl your hand in a sink full of water, you will see a vortex appear, but it might not reach the bottom of your sink, but in fact, it is still picking up debris from the bottom of your sink, think about it everyone.
When a vortex hits the ground, you have a “faster spinning vortex”. The faster it spins, the farther and faster it goes to the ground. When a wedge happens, this means that it’s spinning very fast, and the wind in there is incredible. It doesn’t have any farther to move downward, so it starts to spread out wider. Spin your hand in a sink full of water and see how it works. First, spin it slow, the speed it up a little, then go the fastest, and you will see how a tornado works. It’s the same as a whirlpool, but with air. Both kinds are fed with humidity. If we could remove the ground under a tornado, the tornado will dies instantly, why ?, because it doesn’t have that ground to strengthen itself on. A tornado “needs the ground” to survive.
Great job guys.
This is the tornado that killed my mom, husband, and 2 babies. I wish help had come sooner. I'm beyond thankful for the people that did come help save my son, brother, step-dad, and myself. RIP to my family 💔
I am so sorry for your loss.
I just watched your story with inside edition and I want to say that I'm beyond sorry that you endured this horrific tragedy and you did everything you could and stayed calm and that's why y'all were rescued. I can't imagine the pain of losing your husband, two beautiful babies and mom and I'm sending prayers at this moment for peace and love coming you and Brysen's way 🙏🙏❤️
Its been a year, Im so so sorry you went through this. Hope youre doing okay! Lots of love and comfort!
I just saw the interview on Inside Edition. I hope this is really the real person. Otherwise this is a cruel and sick joke pretending to be her. But if it really is the same young lady, I'm sorry for the loss. I couldn't imagine losing my children, spouse, and parent on the same day. No one can say they know what that's like unless it's happened to them. Terrible circumstances. People take for granted how lucky and blessed they are. So many people have no room to complain about petty things.
May they continue to rest in peace.
The scary thing is, I’m from Pa where we don’t see these much and if you truly don’t know what you’re looking at, it may be too late. When it widened out there, it just looked like a line of bad thunderstorms coming across to me😳
These are the exact things we were saying when we filmed it! Like unbelievable!! It was right across hwy 92 from our property. Very intense. We uploaded too! Nice footage fellas!
We were looking south from the north!
So happy you and your family are safe!
Alec - you caught it at the right time and did a really good job of recording. Thanks
Thank you for the kind words!
I live in Norwalk. I work nights and had just woke up to go to work. My company texted and said stay home until the storm passes. A few minutes later I received a text that a tornado was on the ground in Norwalk. I wasn't hearing anything other than some rain and hail so I walked outside to look. It was totally calm. Little did I know that just a few miles away all of this was going on. I live on the opposite end of Norwalk from where the Tornado hit which is only a few miles. Very Scary!
Glad you are safe! I was informing others over twitter
Thank the Lord you are okay. Great boss! 😇
I'm happy you and your family are safe!
Same thing but in waukee
Never could figure out the people driving by paying the weather no mind, like it's a beautiful, sunny day out. You have to think they see something! If I saw the sky look like that, I'd be questioning my driving route :)
I’ve said the exact same thing many times!! Other than storm chasers, why is anyone so stupid so as to be out driving in this shit?? Like Grandma and Grandpa out for a Sunday drive!! And these people are in no hurry. Just cruising along totally oblivious to what’s going on! It’s a wonder that more people aren’t killed in cars by these things!!🤔
@@gregorycarlson6632 not all grandpas and grandma's go for a Sunday drive in a tornado!! Are you kidding me? That was a rude comment and you just offended the piss out of this grandma and grandma, you jerk-weed!😡🤬🤬
@@kyliesbubbie Lighten up Geri! Nobody’s trying to offend anybody. It’s an old phrase! If that’s all it takes to piss you off, God help how you react to a genuine insult!! Don’t take life so seriously! You might actually find out that life is enjoyable sometimes! By the way, for the record, I’m 70 years old myself!😆😆People our age don’t have a lot of time left. I’m making the most of my time. I strongly advise you to do the same!!
I guess I agree and disagree. Most of the time people just don't know there's a tornado cause of many things. There's no clear line of sight sometimes. Storm cells that could produce terrifying tornados like this one are usually miles wide, so you don't know where a tornado will touch down. And it only takes seconds for a tornado to get full force. It's not like these people are trying to be ignorant of the situation. Sometimes extreme weather develops too quickly to know it's even happening nearby. And tornados can move faster than a car cause they don't obey traffic laws. XD Also, the NWS aren't always super quick to throw the tornado emergency alert out there when extreme weather is happening either.
When I see these people, I never think, "These people are so stupid. Wtf?" My first thought is always, "I don't care how or why you got here, just keep driving you lucky son-of-a-bitch."
Absolutely agree 👍 They keep ignoring it untill it's too late 😳
awesome video guys... i love my tornado videos ...the guy at the end "are we done now?" more like "can we go home now" lol...good job, stay safe this summer
I am from the area and do storm spotting for the DSM NWS. I have a spot I sit right off of I-35 between Winterset and Norwalk and wait for storms from the SW. I was out of town for work then and just watched helplessly from Florida while texting family and friends in the paths of the multiple tornadoes from that storm system. The loss of life is devastating but Iowa is strong and resilient! ❤️
There have been a scary amount of intense tornadoes between December and now, I hope this year isnt too hectic!
Shoulda been around 50 - 60 years ago. This is nothing,
ok boomer
well it's lookin on track to be! if the last several months are any indication! and not even the last few months, but the last handful of years.
"Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. The anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly."
Jeremiah 23:19-20
I hope so I love tornadoes 🌪
prayers for the people who were affected by this
That'll help
AMAZING video!!!
My hands were gripping the sides of my chair, while watching!! What a BEAST!!! To watch that thing form & expand was like it was alive! Thank you for this awesome footage!! Please continue to stay safe! 🌪
Thank you for the kind words!
No matter how many times I watch a tornado video I still am blown away by mother natures fury,just incredible.
Thanks for not being super annoying even when talking during the video. I remember one video where this guy brought a lady that just kept screaming at the people in their team.
Pretty close to an EF5. I'm Mary from Texas. I have seen and have ran to the storm cellar on many occasions. I almost lost my aunt when one blew her near the top of a telephone pole back in 1968. So my heart ❤️ goes out to those who suffered a loss of a loved one. You can't rebuild those.
RIP to the poor peeps. Prayin for their loved ones for peace, comfort, serenity and healing.
Iowa has become my favorite state. The people that live there are such caring good people. Look at all the volunteers the next day. They didn't want thanks they said this is what we do. We take care of our neighbors. My lord we could all learn a lesson from this horrible tornado. In how to love one another. Like I said in the beginning Iowa is now my favorite state in the union because of the beautiful people that live there. I'll be praying for you for a long time to come.
Iowa sounds cool
I see on the news that NY and Cali are the best states with the friendliest people
@Drew Ryan NY and Cali have the best and worst people with no in-between.
@@ForzaMonkey debatable have you ever been there? There are both solid blue states and make the most money. I doubt they have the "worst" people. EVeryone dreams to live in New York. They are both well ran states and anything you see on the news about bad policies is a bunch or horse shit. You probably dream about residents and companies from NY moving to your shit hole state to help make it better.
@@drewryan6632 lol being a blue state is exactly what makes NY and California horrible states
My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected. We ourselves survived a mile wide F4 tornado. It's so much more than the immediate destruction you have to deal with, it's also losing everything around you that says "I'm home". The familiar landmarks, spots you made memories in, the places people lost their life at. It's been almost 3 years since our event happened and I still feel like I'm visiting another location. I wish I could tell these folks when they can expect to feel like things are back to normal, but I can't. We still aren't there yet.
Bizarrely 3 of the victims of this storm are from our metro area. What are the odds.
@Michael Williams It was the Lawrence-Linwood-Bonner Springs storm. Things more or less are good. I still miss the landscape that we picked our property for, but the new growth did amazingly well this year despite the drought, and is hiding the scars. Mostly I'm thrilled to be back under the canopy. I think all the fertilizer that came from the green house is what has the trees at 5 year growth instead of 2½. I'm glad your Dad made it home that night. God Bless.
This hit my daughters house. My granddaughter was home and road it out alone in the crawlspace. House had relatively small damage. Her brother was a couple miles north and filmed it.
We were super lucky. Norwalk is only 2 miles from us and it got hit pretty hard. Unfortunately 7 people have died 😓
Norwalk didnt get hit hard, I live in Norwalk
I was staying across the street from the IA state fairgrounds when my grandson and I got text message alerts about this. He had just finished completing in the state archery tournaments and we were like with? It's March 5th! The desk clerk informed the group of us guests we were essentially in the line of fire based on direction it was traveling. It was a tense wait. I'm actually glad he was done competing. That was a mess! Appreciate the video.
That is a monster wedge, very good chase and footage mr. scholten!
Thank you, sir!
800 meters wide!
Great footage, you guys are brave!
beautiful video I'm glad y'all were safe
I was so lucky to be in Waukee away from it at the time. Hoping families affected by it are all doing ok.
Tyvm for the sound
UNREAL!!! GREAT FOOTAGE!!
That last car just made it out dam
They were very fortunate! We tried our best to honk at people and roll down the windows to signal drivers behind us to pull over due to the impeding danger
@@alecscholten9464 looked liked it worked besides one care racing towards it but was prob another chaser
It was scary! Lucky I survived. Luckily it wasn’t an EF-5
Just a stones throw from where I grew up, and most of my family still lives. Iowa has had some insane weather the last couple years!
It had insane weather decades ago too. As far back as recorded history goes actually. Weather patterns are always changing. It's a part of nature itself.
iowa has always been under threat of tornadoes, part (or most) of it is in Tornado Alley. so really it's not a surprise.
@@EphemeralProductions the tornados I get. I remember growing up, hearing the sirens and heading to our “tornado shelter”. But I don’t ever remember even hearing the word “derecho”!
@@johnknouse8846 yeah that thing was something else. Lol. Might as well have been a tornado, it was as strong as one!
Good footage man
Thank you!
Love and hugs from Muscatine,Ia 🥰
This is some killer video right here. Awesome footage of an extremely scary nader.
What did it smell like?
The eerie part about it was the fact no sirens were going off.There should be an early reporting system directly connected to the air raid sirens
It all depends on what the tornado is impacting. I have noticed pungent smells of fresh cut pine trees when chasing tornadoes in the southeastern United States, or smells of natural gas/ propane filling the air, which was the case with this particular tornado.
I was on the road it hit about twenty minutes prior with my sister, im glad i made it home
I live in Norwalk. I was at work at the nursing home when that hit. It shook our building & we coukd hear it howling. We were without power for 4hrs.
I'm glad you are safe!
Thank you. It was a bit intense for a few thats for sure lol
@@yancymendenhall4695 ,hi there. What do you do for the patients when you have been notified of a tornado 🌪️ of this caliber? Does that building have a basement or a underground bunker?
@@charlottewhite1277 we had them go to their rooms and into the bathrooms. Safest place for them. We have a basement but we'd never get them all down there in time.
@@yancymendenhall4695 ,yes I would find it hard for you and the other folks that work there would find it difficult to move all the patients down stairs, especially if they can't walk,or are hooked up to fluids etc .. bathroom would be the safest place because of the plumbing.( I would think) take care.
That red car though when the tornado just crossed the road 😱
Never thought we would have Iowa wedges in March
Doesn't bode well for Dixie Alley in April
It has never happened before in recorded history?
amazing and it isn't officially tornado season. I hope the people got to shelter
Awesome video🙂🙂
Thank you!
Awesome job....Grace under pressure...
Thank you Gary!
Awesome!
i was tracking this on radar with people on discord, it was definitely crazy
This team took great risks to get useful video. However, I would not describe a tornado as beautiful or wish to enjoy one.
In hindsight "a beautiful tornado" was not truly accurate considering the loss of life and property. Still it was awesome footage!
Thx
My heart hurts for the survivors. It hurts.
Never ever want to see anything like that in person regardless of distance! Thankfully, very slim chance here on the west coast.
Never say never. My state of Iowa has experienced both the tremors of an earthquake in 2016 and a C3-4 land hurricane in 2020🤷🏻♀️
Wow I’m speechless that looked scary
Nice catch guys! Where did you film the from the first time it crossed?
Thanks, Mike.
We were on Highway 169 looking NNW just south of Winterset
@@alecscholten9464 ah ok that's what I thought you guys were south of me
It started in macksburg and finished in newton. It had the longest tornado path of any tornado in the last 35 years. It was the ef4 rated tornado since 2014.
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i think you mean its the lonest tornado in iowa in the last 35 years, there have been several tornadoes with longer path lengths (mayfield ky ef4, december 10 2021 for example)
@@stfjinkiojd that’s what I meant.
What about the Parkersburg tornado in 2008 if I recall?
@@allenmarvetsthewildbuck3205 I am pretty sure Parkersburg was an ef-5. The winterset tornado the ground for 69 miles. The Parkersburg tornado was only on the ground for 43 miles. As for the ratings the Parkersburg tornado had 200 mph winds while the winterset tornado had wind speeds of 170 mph.
That is beautiful
So I live in Clinton. Our sirens went off twice. I'm actually from the state of Oregon so this whole tornado thing is new to us. When the sirens go off is it time to head to the basement? And how safe is being in the basement? My daughter gets so scared every time this happens so I have to try really hard being scared myself to help her feel like we're going to be ok.
I can get to Iowa in 8 hrs...we have snow drifts 9 ft tall and a half mile long... unbelievable winter...
What video camera did you use?
Wow amazing footage!
Thank you Leticia!
That was less than 10 minutes from my brothers place ugh. Cuz he lives in prole. (Near that part of Norwalk)
Have any footage of damaged wind towers?
There is a horizontal vortex at 3:10 the size of a couple of football fields. Jeebus. On the right edge of the condensation funnel.
Wild! Great catch
Yeah, it was wild
Just curious, when you stopped the car and were deciding which way it was moving, what did you mean by smell it?
The air was filled with a strong, rancid fragrance of an unfamiliar chemical smell. I'm guessing this was caused by propane or natural gas leaking into the air from impacted structures
@@alecscholten9464 Ozone.
@@alecscholten9464 You could have been smelling many different man made things impacted and or ozone and the rain in the system. Thank you for recording these storms. Do you submit these videos to the NWS for research?
Oh dang luckily that wasn’t near me
You guys are loving this tornado, it’s beautiful you say, but what it was your house being lifted and sent to the land of oz?
5:46 Noone gonna talk about the car that appears to be on fire ? Or am I seeing things? Lol Great video of the tornado and all that as well.
That was actually a storm chasing vehicle with flashing lights affixed to the back window, good catch though!
@@alecscholten9464 cool I was so confused. The quick second looked like flames haha
I'm in davenport iowa it got bad here but nothing touched down scary
I track storms for a living and all 3 storms (Hurricane Ida, Mayfield Tornado, Iowa Tornado) we're beasts in my opinion
Hurricane Ida? Never heard of it.
You never want to see anyone get hurt or worse, nor do you want property damage/homes destroyed. But man, these monsters are so fun to watch and witness.
Way to keep your cool. So many chasers lose their minds and ruin the footage.
Looks like to live out in the Midwest a storm shelter would be a necessity.
Where is that located
Let’s drive straight into a big ass tornado 😂
Listen to it !!!!
Welcome to iowa where we have a big ass tornado one day and the next day we have a blizzard.
It's crazy that 2022 was lining up to be one of the worst on record, but as of the time I write this June 9th, there hasn't been much activity at all in the most intense months of the year (April & May)
So…did it ever retrograde?
dude i live in Iowa i think at 6:37 who ever put that traffic sign in needs a raise power line snapped in two that sign tho not a problem.
Wow a storm chaser that actually said "vortex" and not "vorticee"
MY FRIEND WAS NEAR THERE.
"Smell it" - never heard that from chaser
What does a tornado smell like?
We haven’t seen what’s coming. They’ll need reinvent the tornado score!
Random dirt modifieds at 1:32 lmao. Anyone know who's shop and diver that is? lol.
Just because you have never been hit by one, don’t believe it can’t. They can hit ANYWHERE at ANY time. I live in Southern California, when I was in college we had an EF0 Form about 5 miles from us in an Orange Grove. It took the roof off of a Supermarket. That was at least 20 years ago, when we still had rainy winters. How can you tell if a tornado is going to retrograde by sniffing it?
I got some good pictures from Colfax Iowa.
Oh my god
Woowwww!
Does anyone chase solo anymore?
That’s a fast moving tornado
What does the term "retro-grade" mean?
Basically they were afraid the tornado would switch directions and barrel straight for them.
I get the tornadoe chasers because they're thrill seekers that like the chase, or they're contractor that stay in contact with weather alerting agency's of news outlet stations to help the public awareness. Yet, all these travelers are driving around like they don't care about the terrible weather!
Would you look at that?
Geez you EF 4
wow🙄😵💫😵💫
Geez
just for future reference probably shouldn't describe a tornado as beautiful js
also couldn't hear some of the convo
Y'all sound like a gaggle of excited schoolgirls lol " Careful it might retrograde" was hilarious.
We had a few tornadoes come extremely close to our house and it looked like the end of world was coming.
what's that app called
RadarScope!
would you look at that !!
Looks more like a EF5 to me but then again I'm no expert
The Enhanced Fujita scale is based solely on damage, meaning this tornado could have very well packed EF-5 capable wind-speeds at some point during its lifecycle, but unless EF-5 worthy damage indicators were found by the NWS Survey team, it would be assigned a lower rating.
Great video 👍🏼.. But There’s nothing beautiful about a tornado 😳😂😂😂
Literally heard 3% of what you were saying in the beginning 🤣
Good ole 30mph surface winds going right into the microphone 😂