The Van Wert EF4 Tornado - Veterans Day Weekend, 2002
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Today we look at the unlikely Veteran's Day Weekend tornado outbreak of 2002, the Van Wert F4 tornado, and how the weather insanity unfolded over the course of 36 hours. Videos of the Van Wert tornado and subsequent damage were complied into a video produced by Kyle Heppeard and directed by Rick McCoy. Credit was given to the individuals who themselves filmed the tornado. High quality footage was made available to the public by Blake Naftel.
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The WILDEST November Tornado Outbreak - Veterans Day Weekend, 2002
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Bro I always get so excited when I get an alert that you posted a video. I've watched them all, many more than two or three times, and they are beyond amazing bro. I've commented on a few other of your videos and I'll repeat what I said in those. Your videos are amazing, you are amazing bro, keep up the good work!!
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I recently found a diary from my childhood where I greatly exaggerated my very first brush with a tornado. With that entry date fresh in mind, it wasn’t until just now that I realized my whole obsession with tornadoes was sparked by the GA end of this outbreak. I’ve seen the episode of Storm Stories so many times and never connected the dots!
Wow that's a cool discovery!
that sounds like something i would do as a kid lmao 💀 it was TEN MILES WIDE and A MILLION MILES AN HOUR
Man Ngl tho don’t be harsh on yourself… esp your kid self… that is a very traumatic experience and I’m glad you are alive🥺❤️
Just remember , aside from the damage , lives lost and terror left
It's a wonder of nature baby.
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Lots of tornado talk in my childhood journals, too. (I was a little obsessed, TBH.) Although I never have experienced or even seen one, I've been through some warned storms that were bad even without an actual tornado touching down.
Throughout my life, I lived in Ohio on April 3, 1974; I lived in Alabama in April 27, 2011, and in both instances, I lived in a different part of the states to where the tornadoes were wreaking havoc, but, that's "close enough for government work, drive in movies, and rock n roll." 😉
I'll have to look up some of my younger years journals, and share my overdramatic weather musings with the world. 😅
Another excellent video. I was working the late afternoon/evening shift at the Weather Channel that day. Right after I arrived I checked in with the producer to get a brief on the day's stories. "It's been a busy afternoon with some tornadoes," she said. "Worst place hit so far has been a town in northwest Ohio called Van Wert."
She later told me she could see the blood drain from my face. My wife's parents lived just east of the city. I rapidly excused myself and called her, telling her to check with her parents. Fortunately for them, the twister tracked on the west and north sides of town and they had escaped unscathed.
We went up to see them for Thanksgiving a couple of weeks later, and my wife and I drove around viewing the damage. I distinctly remember seeing high tension towers folded over like a child had stomped on an erector set. We drove by a large farm field, and noticed there was a white van in the middle of it, several hundred feet from the adjoining roads.
It hadn't been driven there.
Fall tornadoes are no stranger to western Ohio. In addition to the Van Wert storm, Arcanum in Darke County was hit by an EF3 on 22 November 1992. When you live in areas susceptible to severe weather, it's wise to keep the weather radio ready to go even outside of the "normal" times when it occurs.
Happy holidays to all!
Love hearing your firsthand stories Warren! Happy Holidays!
My brother was in the National Door and Trim factory when it collapsed on him. He had headphones on because he was working with a bandsaw and didn’t hear the tornado sirens. When the building started shaking he ran to try and get out of the building, but didn’t make it. He dived under a stairway, which saved his life, but he had to be extracted from the building using the “jaws” of life.
Wow! How terrifying. I'm glad he survived!
I was 18 at the time and working at the local Wendy's on the south side if town. My mother sent me to work early to avoid be caught in the storm. The sirens went off for I think 30 min before the storm hit. I remember watching the green swirling clouds when I looked out of the drive thru window. It was crazy, and I'll never forget it.
Cool demonstration of how "tornado alley" shifts with the seasons. Just underscores the complex nature of weather systems. Very cool.
Everyone in Van Wert remembers where we were that day….forever a tragic memory for our town
I was there when the tornado hit our neighborhood. My cousins were over and we were left alone for the first time. I was 10 at the time. I remember my parents called us and told us to hide in the basement but they wouldn't tell us why. I still have trauma from that day. When a bad storm comes or the sky turns green. Instant anxiety.
This is such an interesting case. Not only because it was on Veterans Day but it was also the day my younger brother was born. I can't say I remember much of it since I was so young at the time.
We lived in West TN on that day. It initially started on the evening of the 9th, tornado/straight-line wind damage occurred in Covington TN. As well as in Bells, TN hitting a Nursing home, WREG news has tons of news coverage from November 9th. Of course it became much worse the following day on the 10th
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I lived in delphos at the time. You could literally see the sky being “eaten” by the van wert tornado. Every single cloud was being absorbed by it and it was sunny in delphos once that tornado touched down. I specifically remember telling my mom there’s a tornado there and moments later our sirens went off, yet it was sunny in town. (The storm did come through but not nearly as bad as everywhere else).
Man dude is making some of the best tornado related content out there. Keep up the good work
I grew up in Leipsic, Ohio and was 11 years old at the time. Leipsic is about 14 miles away from Continental (where it lifted) and about 35ish miles from Van Wert. Growing up storms typically moved north east, so if Van Wert got it, we got it too as my home town is almost due north east of them. On this day, the storms decided to go more north than normal. I have a very vivid memory of this because I had never seen my parents freak out so badly. They were very worried about the damages we were hearing. It's really not all that uncommon in NW Ohio to get tornados, but normally they are F0 or F1, and we take them seriously as we don't have a basement and live in an older home. I remember my dad was home that weekend, which was rare because normally he would pick up extra shifts at work, and he was trying to stay calm. You could feel it in the air, something was different, he was on edge way more than normal and fidgeting a lot. It's not uncommon for Van Wert to get a tornado warning, so we thought it was just another storm that hit the boarder and blew up. No, it wasn't. We could hardly believe our ears when it said F4 and the damage reports started rolling in. Everyone knows everyone out in those small farm communities, and that day shook us all.
I grew up just a few miles north of Van Wert. I was 11 when this outbreak happened and remember it well. We spent the night at my grandparents’ house playing cards, because they had a cellar, and their windows rattled the whole night. I’ve associated Van Wert with tornadoes ever since that night and have always refused to live there as a result. That photo of the movie theater was on the front page of every area paper.
My dad and I drove through the tiny village of Roselms the next day. There was nothing left. Those images will stick with me forever.
We don’t get outbreaks often, but when we do they pack a punch. It’s so flat here that it feels like the tornadoes can go on forever.
Excellent video! It brought up a lot of memories.
Thanks for sharing your story!
You and sweggle studios are the best tornado/extreme storm TH-camrs ever. I love how you break down everything in simple terms. You two should get together and collaborate!
I was thinking the same thing and Carly Ann I believe her name is look it up
Thank you for the way you talk about those who passed because of the tornado. You don't say oh only so many were killed. The EF4 that hit my town when I was in middle school people talk saying oh only 11 people were killed and it's always bugged me because 11 people are gone never to go home. So thank you
You have to be one of my favorite new subscriptions. The quality on these videos is ever improving, and you provide the exact content in the exact format I was always looking for. Keep it up.
Thank you!
It's impressive you found all of these home videos, Steve Mr. @weatherbox.
Well done and thank you!
Thanks Adam! They were made public on TH-cam around the time I was writing the script. It was good timing
I was living in Doylestown, Ohio (NE Wayne County) at the time and I remember tornadoes hit all around us. One in West Salem (NW Wayne County), one in Macedonia in Summit County, one in Massillon in Stark County, one in Medina County... literally all around us. Once they issued the tornado watch for everyone, that was it, we were all glued to the TV in the basement the rest of the night.
We already had one go through our backyard in July of 96 and definitely did not want a repeat..
Excellent breakdown! Especially loved the synced videos of different prospectives!!!
Oh yeah I didn't even get into the evening NE ohio tornadoes, those must have kept a lot of folks up! Glad y'all were safe though
@weatherbox everyone we knew was up watching Dick Goddard all night 😆❤️ he certainly had a way of keeping people calm, but informed. I just remember being so excited when he actually mentioned Doylestown by name. Most of the other Cleveland meteorologists at the time tended to ignore Wayne County, but we could always count on Dick Goddard ❤️❤️
Bought my new suv from VWCSO, that town had the nicest folks I’ve met in the state of Ohio. Naturally had to ask about the storm. This channel is fantastic, intricate details well over that of storm stories, though different market. Thank you.
My family and I drove through van wert a couple days after this happened on our way to Cincinnati from Ft Wayne, Indiana to visit family. I was young at the time, but its stuck with me. We used to make the trip frequently and the difference after the tornado rolled through was wild.
Really surreal to see this video. My mom was in Putnam county and saw it as a “pitch black mass”
2 deaths were near Continental, those people we always bought chicken eggs from. After seeing these videos, it’s still hard to comprehend that I cross the path of this thing every single day
You should do a review on the Henryville IN f4 tornado and it's smaller twin. Haven't seen much coverage on that storm on TH-cam! Love your content!
Thanks Caleb! Will do that outbreak within a few weeks!
I've experienced 2 tornados very close by but nothing like this, EF1s as far as I can remember, Massachusetts tornado of 2011 and I can't remember the other one, happened when I was around 6 years old.
I very vaguey remember this because we lived in NE Indiana and my dad was a cop with a police radio that would go off for weather events like this, too. I was really little, but once the F1 in Bluffton touched down, we all went in the basement.
16:02 i drive by those condos every year going to jet express to go out to Put in Bay. I had no clue some of those got blown away 22 years ago! Crazy
Always looking forward to your videos! So well put together every time! Thank you!
Hey thank you!
My family survived the 1999 Jan 21-22 tornado outbreak in Arkansas. They were in White County - I was born there later that year.
That was the largest tornado outbreak in Arkansas history. My parents say my (7 at the time) brother was almost decapitated by the bathroom mirror, which broke off in shards and went right through the wall and into his room and out the other wall - my dad had just grabbed my panicking brother and pulled him out of the room the second before the mirror came through in pieces. Mom, Dad, and my brother took shelter under sofa cushions in an interior closet, and the eye of the tornado passed directly over them - Mom and Dad have described it that it sounded like a train driving through the house, then silence and no air to breathe, then the train and wind was back.
After it was gone, my dad, a first responder, went out looking for survivors. An elderly neighbor lost her grandbaby - sucked out of an open window.
As a local who visits van wert weekly, I found this very interesting
Another well done video, bro. I've been curious about a couple of things and there was an instance of it in here. 1) People died from an EF2. How many lives have been lost based on the EF rating, and which rating has taken the most lives? 2) How many instances are there where a location is hit by back-to-back tornadoes on the same day or night? I know it has happened before, like here, but I just wonder how many times it has happened. Can you imagine if that second tornado had hit Greensburg?
I can name multiple places which it's happened usually with 2 or more tornadoes hitting the same vicinity unless noted otherwise: Alma, MI with 4 tornadoes with 5 miles and 15 minutes (1965), Devil's Lake and Manitou Beach, MI (same outbreak as Alma), Etowah, TN (1974), Tanner, AL (1974), Madisonville, TN (2011), Tellico Plains (2011), Grand Island, NE with 7 tornadoes (1980), Canton, IL (1975) and there's been many more.
@@Eibarwoman oh wow. Thanks for the info. I will definitely be looking into those. I can only imagine having just experienced a devastating tornado and then, during the time when peoole are just starting to understand the scale of what happened and try to breathe for a sec, another tornado comes through the debris field of bewildered humans and rubble.
@@Eibarwoman Cordova, AL (4/27/2011)
@weatherbox You have to cover the Texan Winter Storm of 2021 In February.
I lived in Fremont Oh at that time and remember the Tornado going thru Port Clinton which is about 15-16 north on rt 53. I didn't see the funnel but did see swilling clouds from the north (could have been for Fremont since we were under a warning at that time). I can only imagine how the people that lived there and the folks from Van Wert saw and experienced it. I can only hope and pray I don't.
I live in Hattiesburg Mississippi and last November I remember just getting up looking at the weather and knowing I’m gonna have to get in my bathtub today
I've lived in Van Wert before and have family still living there. This tornado is still talked about quite often. It also destroyed a Cooper farms production facility. It's pretty miraculous more people weren't killed.
I remember this tornado I was 14 and only half a mile away from it. I was in a school building and it sounded like a train it was crazy and scary
I’ll never forget that day. My dad and o stood outside in New Bavaria and sheet metal was being throwing in our yard. My mom was driving my daughter home from having her pictures taken but wasn’t picking up her phone.
I had an irrational fear of tornadoes as a kid just outside of Chicago. To this day your intro freaked me the hell out. Even though I'm sitting in southern California. Alot of it is that poor quality sad music. It's especially scary bc we rarely get ones that bad that far north. And my parents live in fort Wayne which is close.
Think you can do Jarrell, or other tornadoes in Texas? It would be neat to also bring up the dry line that typically hovers over central texas
I was in this tornado. I live in port Clinton and I was 10. I believe this was November 1st 2002. The skies were green and my cousin told me “green skies with white clouds mean tornados” I get home and my dad was drunk sleeping on the couch. Next thing you know you hear a lot of thunder. A lot of lightning. Then tornado sirens. Then the front AND back door blew open, debris was flying all over the house. I was trying to wake up my dad but he was just gone. The house started shaking sounded like a train. 2 by 4’s stuck through the walls. Some came through the window: it was loud and scary. It lasted for a good 7-10 minutes. Our house was the only house left in the neighborhood still standing. The next day we wake up, there’s 2 by 4s in the ground EVERYWHERE, like toothpicks. The entire city of port Clinton was leveled. My buddy Derek had a car on his roof. Red Cross was in town giving people food and thousands of people were cleaning up, finding money, stealing; I’ll never forget that day. Thank the good lord nobody died ❤❤
Crazy to think this tornado went right behind my house with the house being without a scratch
@weatherbox .. I've been bingeing in them the last few nights.
Your editing work is also excellent.. 5/5
Thanks Adam!
Hey Steve, I've been following along with your videos and personal meteorology research (Love the content btw.)
Are you planning on storm chasing any time soon?
Hey I remember you! Hopefully next year but a lot of stuff has to line up in order for me to do it. We'll see
@@weatherboxstudios Right, for now bundle up for the cold blast lol.
The thing that really shocks me is the fact that the storms are really disconnected from the actual cold front and ice and chaos will unleash in the east.
Excellent video. Another interesting tornadic event would be the Evansville IN November 6th 2005 F3 tornado.
Thanks Matt, I've heard of this one and I will look into it!
As being from ohio, I love these videos and I'm absolutely obsessed with Ohio tornadoes. Have you done a video on the Niles Ohio f5?
I live in Southern OH, but go up to Northern OH 2-3 times per year. We were in Sandusky this past June and there was a tornado warning, and I think there was a confirmed tornado in Huron Co. somewhere. I was also in a very close call with an EF2 tornado that hit the extremely small village of South Salem (my hometown, near Chillicothe and about an hour south of Columbus). Obliterated multiple buildings and thankfully by some insane stroke of luck, nobody was injured. Ever since that day I’ve been interested in and terrified of tornadoes. I always keep an eye on the weather even if it’s a marginal risk 😂
Maybe someday you would do a video on the F5 that hit the Floyd County area of Iowa in the 60s? Moved out here and keep hearing stories and seeing old pictures
As someone who lives in Carbon Hill, I was waiting for this video. 😅 Also James Spann is the GOAT.
Nice job man, congrats on the sponsorship.
Thanks man I appreciate that!
HokkaidoMUTO nailed it.
As always steve from weatherbox your deep dives always deliver!
Thanks John!
Another great work done buddy! I'm wondering if you would cover the multi day May outbreak of '03.
I'll look into it!
I love the ‘80s look and feel of the videos. I grew up in that era, and it’s pretty accurate.
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Amazing video! I would want to see you do the Naperville/Darien EF3, Washington EF4, or the Roanoke F4.
Maybe even the Rochelle-Fairdale tornado
I've watched a few videos about the tornado hitting Van Wert, Ohio, but did not realize how much area this weather system covered.
Yeah the surface area alone is incredible
The tornado that destroyed Mayfield, KY was even later in the year - December 10.
Dude, how old are you??? You really do an exceptional job at this!
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it breaks my heart to see dairy farmers reactions to this because insurance only covers so much
small dairies were just starting to stop making enough to recover from tornados like this
those were all family farms
there are so few left now
Crazy question. Do you think you can cover the tornado that hit sullivan Indiana at March 31st?
That ground scouring looks pretty wild for EF-2/3 tornados. I wonder if the topsoil is softer that time is year.
A tornado can in rural areas often be of much higher intensity yet not hit enough of significance to warrant a higher rating.
Ground might’ve been saturated already from rain
6:48 Why does doppler pick up echoes around cities? Nashville, Indianapolic, Pittsburgh are all lit up. Also, sometimes I see doppler pick up a straight line that's parallel with the little reader line. (I dont know the terminology, but 15:49 you can see waht I'm talking about briefly in the bottom left).
Shouldn't it be F4? I don't think the EF-scale had been implemented yet in 2002.
I LOVE your hoodie... I'm not a huge fan of the Portland Maine part... But the colors and style is on point... lol.
Thanks for yet another awesome video, keep up the great work. Also, great hoodie.
Thanks Jay!
Would like to see a video on the 6/8/1953 Flint-Worcester tornados.
Also the West Side tornado which happened the day before in Cleveland.
Love your videos! Great job 👍
Thank you!
A Jarrel TX video would be interesting.
I will get around to Jarrell, I've seen a lot of other people do it recently so I've been pushing it back
Hopefully you will be covering the November 17, 2013 outbreak...
I actually chased this tornado after touch down in Hartford and caught it when it touched down outside of Berne. I hit the Ohio line when my fire pager went off for a structure fire from lighting and I turned around to go help with the fire or I would have chased this through Van Wert.
You should do a video on the 12/10/21 outbreak
15:10 NWS: you know screw it, get that tornado watch out now
1:14 Nice to see WWL morning meteorologist Peyton Malone in a video
13:07 I just want to timestamp one of the strangest things I've ever seen! :-O
Also, amazing work by the theater staff to get everyone to safety. Seriously, 40-50 lives *saved* by quick thinking and preparedness on their part!!
"... It's right over whatchamajiggy..." NO NOT WHATCHAMAJIGGY!
Please do a video on weather in Colorado. It’s so weird here because of the Rockies! Love your vids!
Perfect timing! Talking about Denver in the next video
@@weatherboxstudios heck yeah! Thank you for replying!!
I live near Van Wert 😢
I have lived in Blackford County, IN all of my life. I remember this tornado. My older brother was working at a KFC/Taco Bell that was across the street from the Marsh Supermarket in Hartford City that is shown in this video.
I actually have to mention the damage in Hartford City was actually on the northern side of town, not southwest side of town as you mentioned.
My father was in that tornado
If a tornado had touched down on Northeast Tennessee would the mountains there have slowed them down?
F4 not EF4 right since the EF scale wasn't put in place until 2007
The video is 20 minutes and 2 seconds long and its is written as 20:02 remove : from it and it becomes 2002 the same year this tornado in the video struck
Hey, great video! And great hoodie!
Very well done - nice job👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
I have a feeling last November was also historical
9:33 sounds like a kid saying come get us mom
I live not even a hour away from this area and I live like 35 minutes away from fostoria and tiffin along with port Clinton. In short I live in a weird spot
What a coincidence that I was actually born exactly when this happened. I was just 4 days old
Nov 29 2022 laughs
My mom lived in van wet she was about 8
Hi there if you are fine with it I would love for you to do one of two (or both) of these options for a video because there aren’t many on them.
1. Grand Island Nebraska 1980 night of the twisters
2. Pilger Nebraska Twins
As somebody from the is particular region I would love to learn more about them.
Omg I might know the Scott Shaffer mentioned at 12:50, brb
0:00 WHATS THE MUSIC
I recorded the intro music myself for most of these
Ah, ok.
Your videos of freaking amazing fantastic
I don't understand why people living in areas habitually developing tornadoes keep building, buildings out of what looks to be match wood. At least put underground shelters in public buildings (schools, post office) or even better build them out of reinforced concrete.
damn i was 5 days old
New hairdo looking great!
6:48 madison wisconsin mention raaaah!!!
My boy gettin that Nord money to upgrade his college ramen
I would hope that the guy who was inexperienced, learned a valuable lesson that day.