Greensburg, Kansas: the first EF-5 | a town destroyed and rebuilt by wind |
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- 🌪️Hey guys! Sorry about the wait on this one. I started a new work schedule and have been a little busier than usual. 🌪️
This one took a while because I had so much to say! The Greensburg tornado will live in history as one of the most powerful storms on earth.
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Here are the resources I used if you want to do more reading on the event:
SPC Storm Report:
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National Weather Service Five Year Review:
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Memorial Article:
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Survivor Stories and Interviews:
When Weather Changed History: TWC Special
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STORM CHASER COVERAGE:
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Extreme Chase Tours on YT, footage by Lanny Dean: [ • Greensburg, Kansas Tor... ]( • Greensburg, Kansas Tor... )[ • Storm Chasers - Near M... ]( • Storm Chasers - Near M... ) Discovery Channel
[ • Greensburg Tornado Dam... ]( • Greensburg Tornado Dam... ) Mike Theiss Ultimate Chase
TORNADO SAFETY:
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A crazy thing to consider is... after having their entire town mangled by the first tornado, it's probably safe to assume that all of their services were cut off, combined with the fact that everybody was in panic, shock, or search & rescue mode -- meaning the vast majority, if not everybody in the town probably had no idea that they were under another secondary tornado warning and that another, even bigger tornado just barely missed them to the north. With the first one being as destructive as it was, I can't even begin to fathom how utterly devastating it would have been for them to get slammed by another massive tornado before they had even fully had time to process just how cataclysmic the first one was.
After I climbed from the rubble of my house on December 10th 2021 in Dawson Springs, Ky. my biggest fear was that it would turn around and come back
( like they did in my ever recurring nightmare prior to the Tornado that night) or that another would follow. I knew that would be Absolutely Terrible for 75% of our town was gone and the survivors would not be able to withstand another Direct Hit.
Iirc this isn’t the first time a massive tornado has hit a place and then the people had to take shelter in the rubble because of another warning. I want to say this happened with another EF5 at one point but I can’t recall which one or where or when.
@@razrv3lcTanner Alabama in the super outbreak. Carly has a video of it and talks about it too. Basically 2 f5s within 30 minutes of each other and half a mile apart in terms of ground tracks
Yeah all my friends were in shock. It looked like the walking dead with people crawling out of the rubble in the pitch black night.
Hi Carly, I've been a chaser/researcher for 27 years, with a focus on mesoscale severe storms, supercells, and tornadogenesis. I have also created a 35-foot-high fire tornado which has been featured on the BBC, Discovery Science, the Slo-Mo Guys, and Make Magazine in conjunction with my local maker space.
Thrilled to see new content on tornadoes, because I always learn something new from every analysis, photo/video set, and story.
My current area of focus is on the forward flank downdraft just before the area of interaction with the warm inflow. I'm looking for a wave that propagates a neutral to slightly stable region that exists at a point relative to updraft base where I can position a drone at a relative fixed point with the movement of the storm. (Think of the point that new space telescope is going to where all the gravity is balanced.)
David, this is awesome! I am so happy to see professionals still going strong after being in the field for a long time, it truly has to be a lifelong passion! I think the kind of work you are doing is so important, and it sounds like a dream! The fire tornado sounds like something I would love to see, leave me some of your socials if you want because I'd love to check them out!
Nerd watch, 🤣
I've always been a chaser for 27 years.. it's called living in the Midwest. haha.
..jk...
@@shanelewis5535 pay thanks to the nerds, they make your life leagues better than it could be without them. Nerds are the real heros.
@@mattb6646 i know your women like bad boys 😎😘😂
I camped in Greensburg last summer on a road trip. I had no idea this had happened there. I do remember thinking how it was odd this town didn't seem to have a "historic" downtown and everything seemed rather new. I am stunned, seeing this footage made me want to cry. I went to a local pizza joint while in town that was awesome and their new Well Museum is huge and very modern! Which was crazy to see in such a small town. I'm glad in the almost 16 years after this disaster the town seems to be back on it's feet! Wonderful film, Carly!
It's dirty federal money and the regular people seem to have been priced out of rebuilding their modest homes and returning there.
Just think if u was camping that day
Your tornado documentaries are absolutely phenomenal, Carly. I cannot thank you enough for putting the time and effort into creating these to share with us. This is only the second one I have had the pleasure to watch thus far, but I must admit -- your ability to put together a presentation that is both informative and educational, as well as enjoyable and entertaining (aside from the tragic subject matter, of course) really is top-notch. Very glad I managed to stumble upon your channel as I am a massive fan of this type of content. You got an almost instantaneous subscription out of me, and I'm really looking forward to delving into the rest of your content. Keep up the amazing work, dear!
I am a truck driver and go through Greensburg regularly. I am saddened by their losses 16 years ago (I remember that day) and disheartened by the number of empty lots I see along highway 54/400. I am glad that the city survived.
Me too. I didn’t know the magnitude of the tornado that hit there, but I recognized the signs of a town that had been hit by a tornado. Many rural towns struggle to survive without having been wiped out. It must be hard to stay after going through that.
@@timtravels116 The city hurt itself by requiring Green technology in all rebuilding. The residents simply did not have the money to do that. I was told by a resident there this requirement tripled the cost of rebuilding, something insurance could not cover. So the residents who could not afford it simply left
@@kenworcester4387 That’s an interesting narrative but largely false. There’s a 157 page report on the sustainability plan online if you want to read it. Of the 70% of homes that were owned by the occupants, almost 50% of those occupants were considered poor or very poor. Only 75% of the property in the city was insured, and the vast majority of residential dwellings that were insured had significant under insurance issues. Many people had no mortgages, which often means, especially when people are low income, that they opt to forgo insurance. I know this from working disaster relief in Union Beach, NJ after Sandy. My church group only worked on uninsured properties and there were many. Any requirements the city imposed were likely widely supported but also irrelevant to whether someone would or could rebuild.
When you couple inadequate insurance coverage with trauma and all the other baggage that comes with completely starting over, it’s not surprising that so many people left. 10 people died there, but those 10 people deaths impacted hundreds and sometimes folks want to escape the pain of a place they called home.
@@kenworcester4387 A small practice run for the globalist cabal. This even mentioned their catch phrases like "build back better" and "green." Turbines and electric vehicles are not safe and kind to the environment.
Topeka is the capitol of Kansas.
I live in Australia we get around 60 a year but rarely near populated areas. I find videos like this educational in understanding. Sadly if we got A major tornado near a highly populated area in Aus there will be alot of loss of life as we dont have sirens, no basements and we have very little understanding here on what to do.
Australians are amazing and tough people and I’m sure you’d be able to handle it. Australia doesn’t get EF5 tornadoes though, so it wouldn’t be too catastrophic. You guys deal with the most venomous animals on earth like the inland Taipan so I’m sure a tornado would be manageable. I admire Australians and the beautiful country you call home. Not too keen on all the great white attacks though lol.
I grew up in tornado alley, so I don't shake easily when it comes to weather. But the reports coming out of Greensburg the next day were absolutely horrific. My jaw just hung open. An entire town literally wiped off the map, forever redefining the term "direct hit." I've been very impressed with how they've chosen to rebuild. A bright and forward thinking people!
Yes, but it should have been voluntary, not forcing it on the people that didn't want it. They lost a lot of residents that didn't care for it, so they left. They have lost over 600 residents since the tornado! Sad!!!
Maybe we need to all build in ground tornado shelters in tornado alley.
@@scotabot7826 ok, donald
@@elaineteut9579 I don't know why it's not a law. At the very least storm shelters if not basements. It's not a law yet as of 2023 in the state of Kansas.
@@kilgoretrout3966TDS
Wind isn’t everything dude
In 2013 one of the last episodes of Extreme Makeover Home edition they went to Greensburg to rebuilt a house and also built a large storm shelter.
I’ll say the photos and videos of the aftermath never get old and never don’t take your breath away
Carly, if I may say, I think that the damage in Greensburg reminded me of the horrific damage in Xenia Ohio in 1974. And it was Doctor Theodore Fujita who wanted to give the Xenia wreckage an F-6 rating. BTW, Topeka, not Kansas City, is the capital of Kansas.
So PUMPED to clock out soon and watch thisssss. These videos are so addicting. Thanks for making them for us!
Having been visiting family in Joplin when they had their tornado and having to go through that ….. anytime I watch a video or documentary of tornadoes that have the most violent of tornadoes in them my heart breaks for them even more than it did prior to my dads aunt and uncle my dad and one of my sisters and I being in that absolute nightmare…. Thankfully we just lost our stuff that was in the house … we live on the east end of Long Island so it’s not as though we lost everything. One thing I will say though is that with every video I’ve seen, every documentary I’ve watched and then witnessing it first hand is that these people who get hit by these catastrophic tornadoes they all put their own losses aside their own shock and trauma to go and help the next person. And it doesn’t matter if it’s in a small town or a bigger city these people come together and it always reminds me of 9/12/01 and just how everyone came together to help each other … nothing else mattered but making sure you got through this together and it is something beautiful. Too bad it only seems to happen AFTER something horrendous happens but at least it happens
Kansas city isn't the capital of Kansas. Topeka is.
I would thought kansas city was the capital too 🤦♀️
@@jadefox5285 you're not the only one. Most people think a state's capital is _____ City
The capitol of Kansas is Kansas City?
April 2, 1957, Dallas, TX: probably no more than F2/F3 hit Dallas and killed 10. What makes it notable is it was, at the time, one of the most filmed tornadoes. WFAA, channel 8, got behind the tornado as it moved south to north and filmed it until it dissipated in Bachman Lake on the north end of Dallas Love Field airport. Typical of the capricious nature of tornadoes, a man and his wife were sitting at the kitchen table writing their rent check. The tornado blew out all the windows and tore the roof off. However, the kitchen table and the check were still there. I'm unaware if the couple were some of the fatalities or not.
I couldn't help but wonder what another tornado would do to those wind turbines!
And what the turbines do to the poor birds...
11 deaths is terrible, but after looking at the damage, I am shocked it wasn’t triple digits. Awful.
I'm so happy I found your channel! You do such a lovely job researching these events. One EF-5 worth considering, might be the Parkersburg 2008 tornado. It's actually quite famous as one of the earlier examples of a CCTV capturing the destruction of a home across the street. The family was home at the time and it adds to the horror as you watch it go. I was a couple miles south and was in town immediately following and we have hundreds of pictures from it. Something I never hear people talk about in regards to these tornados is the _smell_ After going through south P-burg, the entire town had this unidentifiable smell that my car smelled like for months afterward. The NWS has excellent records for this tornado and the last F5 that went through northern Iowa in the 60s. It hit Charles City and reading the old radio communications was _fascinating_ That might be another interesting event.
I am actually shocked only 11 people dies from this tornado.
These documentaries have been a highlight of my TH-cam experience of late.. feel fortunate to have discovered this channel. A recommendation gor a future video would be the Parkersburg, IA tornado which may have some similarities to Greensburg.
I honestly love to watch documentaries because they are both entertaining and informative.
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@@vinceherrera7060 troll
Some interesting facts to go over:
Fire hydrants were ripped out of cement.
The tornado reached 1.7 miles wide.
95% of the town was destroyed.
Many people who died were taking shelter in their basement.
Several well built houses that were bolted into the ground were lifted up and obliterated.
The National wearher service mentioned the amount of “unusual phenomena” with this tornado.
A larger tornado formed north of Greensburg which was 2.2 miles wide.
Their "Greenest Town" mantra has had very mixed results at best. People have not come back, as there are 600 less people now than before. The big "Green industral park" that was supposed to be packed full, still sits empty. This might have turned into a lesson of what not to try and force people to do!!!!
wdym by forcing people to do here...
12:23 This is so eerie!
So government jumped in to say we give you fema assistance if you build more expensive homes that adhere to new standards and half the town never came back.
Yup and I can't blame them for getting out of there.
I am a project manager for a large contracting company. LEED certified buildings sound good, but they are an EXTREME waste of government money. It’s just a money grab disguised as “green”
Yeah I enjoy her videos but she really doesn’t seem to get this at all. The government coming in and providing assistance for a fully green rebuild is the last thing midwestern people would want. All that green shit is useless, wasteful, and honestly the green buildings they showed look like shit - there’s no humanity in what they’ve rebuilt. Of course people fled, they didn’t want to be a part of some green testing site to “be an example for other cities” and to deal with the expensive nature of it all. How terrible to lose your quaint, historic town only to have it rebuilt by the government into a soulless dystopian experiment.
@@jessicadavis8865i can't really disagree with what you said but another thing worth pointing out was the the population was already lowering. They had to try something and they figured this would be something that grabs the attention of some companies and therefore jobs Making People less likely to leave. Did that happen? Idk but you can see the idea, I think the main thing that went wrong was People losing their land and not really being compensated (as far as im aware). Decent idea but terrible execution
Friendly info here the state capital of Kansas is Topeka
I don't want to be this guy but the Kansas capital is Topeka. I get people think it's Kansas City but 3 quarters of Kansas City is in Missouri
I didn't know this until a few years ago, so I think it's a common mistake. But I'm horrible at geography too.
I remember hearing about the Greensburg tornado, and then watching a multi-part docu-series of how they were building back "green". There was soooo much that went into making that happen, and a great deal of money and funding from different sources. After the series ended, I didn't really keep up with what happened after that, so I'm sad to hear that the town population never took back off. Thanks again, for another great video story! I really love what you are doing on your channel!
You and Weatherbox do such fantastic videos with such detail, nuance and context.
I love your long form approach to give as much information as possible. Subscribed, favorited and liked!!
As a life long Oklahoma who was 8 years old for may 3rd of 99 living in Shawnee Oklahoma at the time to seeing every major tornado and remembering them since 99 it is very scary to see a meteorologist get concerned. I’m sure a lot of Oklahomans can agree we had been blessed with having Gary England for so long and seeing him save so many lives. Our state news has historically been incredible.
I was 6 in the may 3rd ones. I was forever fascinated by weather.
Carly, I love your videos and I learn so much from them. Was born and raised in Kansas so tornados were a part of childhood for me. But with your clear explanations I feel I understand the dynamics of how they work. Thank you and keep up the great work. BTW it is a common misunderstanding, but the state capital of Kansas is Topeka, which had a large tornado devastate it in the mid 60's. Kansas City (KS and MO) is the largest metro area and so far has been free of direct tornado hit in city center. Close calls (Ruskin Heights, Lawrence/Linwood)
Thank you so much! I let Kansans down by getting the capital wrong 😂😂 I will absolutely correct it next time
Oh I definitely remember this and the Lawrence/ Linwood of 2019….yikes yes close call for sure!
i lived in Bonner Springs at the time, I thought that sucker was going to come into town. You could hear the roar of that thing. I'd never been that close to a tornado and I'm originally from NE Texas.
And Wichita KS is actually the highest populated city in ks. The larger portion of Kansas City is in Missouri. It is confusing if you don't live here. Thanks for reporting and teaching about tornados.
I remember the Ruskin Heights tornado in the 1950s. A funnel cloud had separated from the main storm that hit Ruskin Heights. It came directly over my house near Highway 50. No funnel - just brown cloud dropping leaves limbs and photographs on our lawn. From basement as watched it go over house, it was so low really thought it was going to hit roof. Tornado damage - no words.
But did Chris get his drink?
Oh Lord help us in our time of distress
as an aspiring meteorologist and a huge weather geek I really enjoy getting to sit down and listen to someone deep dive on specific outbreaks/events!! you def caught me on the jarell tornado video.
I dunno if you’ve been asked or I hope this isn’t rude, but have you looked into the Phil Campbell ef-5? Im always a little boggled whenever I decide to look into that tornado, a lot of the clips on youtube are super powerful.
either way, Im excited to see whatever other tornadoes you cover!!
That’s awesome! I know you will do great in meteorology! I am actually going to be doing Phil Campbell next! Someone just suggested it to me, it’s going to be a really intense one I think. Of course that whole outbreak was mind boggling as well!
What is a Phil Campbell EF-5?
I appreciated the meterologist's demeanor and behavior while the storm was forming/incoming. I mean it was a serious storm, and he did his job conveying that.
@@vorticityf5 The EF5 tornado that tore through Phil Campbell, Alabama on April 27, 2011. It isn't as well-known as the tornado that tore through Tuscaloosa, Alabama the same day.
@@vorticityf5 a Phil Campbell EF-5 is a man that plays guitar so loud through his amps that the sound waves creates its own weather system, then a supercell, finally it spawns an EF-5 tornado. Rumor has it that when both him and Lemmy would play together the sound waves were so powerful that both earthquakes and tornadoes would happen simultaneously.
Could you do the tornado that hit mayflower and violonia Arkansas in 2014?
It’s disgusting to me that the leaders of this town screw the residents over by making it harder to build back! I don’t blame any of them for moving!
..had to sort by 'Newest First' to find your kind of honesty! Hope the event wasn't planned...
The people of the town voted for the green agenda and that’s their right. It’s called democracy. Get over it.
Topeka Kansas is capital.
The Dayton ohio tornadoes was no joke... Memorial Day 2019...I'll never forget....EF-4
My aunt went through this!!!! She was spared just blocks away.
The capital is Topeka, not Kansas City.
No Ma'am if u haven't been through that there's no way to fathom it, you either underground and live or else die.truly HORRIFYING GODBLESS them
The statistic that got me with this particular storm was the fact Greensburg overall only covered 1.74 miles. The city... 1.4 of those miles. The tornado clocked in at a staggering 1.7 miles wide.
It swallowed the whole city with an extra .3 miles behind it. Ninety-five percent of the city was confirmed to be nearly if not completely destroyed, with the other five percent being severely damaged. That tornado had an estimated wind speed of 205MPH within the tornado. Even after that tornado concluded several more even larger tornadoes dropped from the same storm one being 2.2 miles wide. Which recorded, would have been the largest tornado up until the 2.5 mile wide El Reno. It is definitely not often storms like this happen. 1 super cell producing several mile to 2 mile wide tornadoes over several hours. But something tells me with tornado alley moving, and climate change being as catastrophic as it has been. We'll be seeing more Greensburg's, more Moore's, more Joplin's. It's a terrible thought. But people need to be aware.
Yes aware, and have a good plan in place if they live near one of these areas
El Reno of 2013 was 2.6 miles wide. That 1/10th of a mile makes a difference.
Haven't seen an ef5 in coming up on 10 years, but alright. Make sure you go buy a tesla and charge it with coal energy.
@@jonhiggins2012Toxic and for what. I’m also a Tesla hater but no need to be rude
i’m pretty sure the biggest tornado until el reno was in 2004 in nebraska being 2.5 miles wide
I almost wanna bet that’s what the Woodward, Oklahoma tornado of 1947 looked like.
Kansas's capital is Topeka not kansas city
I enjoyed the video. I can’t help but wonder if the ‘Green Idea’ was really the right thing to do for a place like Greenburg. Maybe it would have been better to spend more helping residents rebuild rather than making it more expensive for them to return. My understanding is that the town is currently in danger of becoming a ghost town.
I actually hope that is does. They forced those people out because of their “green” BS and it hurt people that grew up there and had GENERATIONS OF FAMILY LIVE THERE!! It’s honestly disgusting!
I'm glad you brought up looting. An EF1 tornado went through my grandma's small town and specifically her backyard. Her house took some damage, mostly windows getting blown out and roof damage, but when the windows went, things got sucked out including jewelry that was never fully recovered. Family fully believes it was the people who were "helping" that found it in the yard and pocketed it
Oh my god that is horrific. How can people live with themselves? I have a ring I found on the street 5 years ago that I am STILL trying to locate the owner.... And that wasn't someone who has suffered a natural disaster. My god.
I saw a looooooot of videos about tornadoes but i do really think this is the first time ever that i feel bad like this after watching a video. I even cry at same point. Thinking about the 11 angels and all the other that went through such a traumatic event. Very good video by the way, very interesting so glad i found your channel
You are so amazing, Carly. I love how calm and steady your voice stays even through the very emotional parts of the video. It keeps me calm and immersed. Hope that tells you how much I love your talent for telling the story and how knowledgeable you are with the facts. Great job, as always. I will definitely check out the links you have provided. Stay blessed, my dear 🙏🥰
Topeka!! Is the state capital.
Carly, I'm curious, are you a chaser? You seem like a weather enthusiast at least. Your videos are incredible but I find myself wondering what your involvement is with weather?
Wx is in her name, so I have a feeling she works with the weather channel, but could be wrong.
Hey Carly, I just want to say that your channel is awesome and you provide great info on the history of tornadoes and the magnitude of the destruction that they leave in their wake. Keep up the great work.
Thank you for covering this event. This tornado was a devastating day for me as it impacted friends and family of mine so it hit close to home. To this day, I am still so very proud of Greensburg to overcome and rebuild the town green. I love visiting to this day and see the ruins in the middle of the town as reminders of that fateful day. God bless Greensburg, KS.
The Capitol of Kansas is Topeka. Kansas City is mainly in Missouri.
The ending of this story is so sad. That those who rebuilt the town did not take into consideration the residence of the city.
In 2007 area masckville Kansas police chief died in 2007 he was warned ⚠️ people to take shelter in 2007 and that morning he died in the hospital.
I was sent there early morning by kansas national guard to assist in security. Unbelievable.
This was the first time I had ever seen debarked trees looked like skeleton hands reaching out of the ground
The energy efficiency bullshit needs to be blamed as much as the tornado
What was there to loot if everything was destroyed? I mean it is not like they are breaking into a damaged building that is still standing. Also with such a small population and everyone there being friends, why are they looting?
I enjoy your videos. I've always had a fascination and fear of tornadoes. I live in Niles Ohio. We had an F5 twister plow through our town on May 31st 1985. The US Canada tornado outbreak of 85. Maybe do a video on that. I'll never forget it. It was three blocks from our house. I was 9 at the time. Til this day, I go into a panic when severe weather strikes
Kansas City is apparently the capital?? I thought it was Topeka
Capitol is in Topeka. 95% of Kansas City is in Missouri.
Not to mention the Kansas City Chiefs play in Missouri.
One thing I was quite surprised to learn is that in some of the most tornado prone places in this country, most people don't have basements.
I'm from Michigan - we don't get many tornadoes here, but almost everybody has a basement. Even if its just a space under your house with a dirt floor (which we call a "Michigan basement" for some reason). I stayed in Texas for 6 months once, and almost nobody had a basement. I was told that the ground had so much red clay that it made having one quite expensive. And then you see all these videos of places like Moore, and it's all slabs - no basements. You'd think they'd find a way to even make a small room in the foundation without having a huge impact on cost. It's strange to me.
I agree... Its basically build your life, and take a gamble smh..
me three. Also a lot of schools in these tornado prone areas do not seem to have any hardened areas for people to shelter in. Yes, it adds to the expense but children’s lives are at stake!
A lot of these slabs in OK have shelters. The slab houses have a sliding door in the floor of their garages.. they slide it open, go down inside and slide it shut.
I thought about having one like that done here but instead we had the room style installed in the basement.. because I do have a basement now that is mostly underground.
Well I can’t speak for other states, but in states like Texas there tends to be loads of limestone, which is too soft and unstable to allow people to build into the ground for shelters. Many foundations would be cracking and shifting too often if we had basements here
You don't have any in South Louisiana because of the water table and low elevation.
8:06 “you could hear the drains gurgling “. SOMEONE PLEASE explain this, I’ve never heard of this!!
Where did all these people go in the middle of the night for shelter? There is nothing there….
Topeka is the capital
Greensburg was already a shrinking city before the tornado. The rebuilding wasn't going to change that, unfortunately. A story of many small towns these days, especially in the midwest and great plains.
Makes you wonder where all the money too "go green" came from.
@@docleadpill5556the cartels
@@docleadpill5556it’s perfect, really. They rebuilt things based on a green agenda that is outright anti-human in nature, and as a result humanity is fleeing the area.
They probably got the money from j3ws
FYI….Topeka is the capitol of Kansas….not KC.
Carly, I just began binging your tornado documentaries and I must say, I am very impressed. It only took part of the first one that I watched to make me subscribe and I just want to say, you have a wonderful format going on for these. You are thorough, respectful and compassionate for the tragic aspects of these extreme events, include excellent footage and stats from the events, and offer a meteorological synopsis of them which is both professional and informative. Your voice and style of narration are both very calm and relaxing, and honestly I very much enjoy some of the music you include throughout them as well as how you go about dividing each video into distinct parts. Very good work and a wonderful educational resource for learning about these awesome and devastating storms.
Also thanks for what you do in collaboration with Ryan Hall! I discovered your channel purely incidentally long after I had been subscribed to him and it was like meeting a family member once I realized who you were. Keep up the excellent work. 👍🏼
You should cover the 1974 Xenia, OH tornado and the 1965 Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak. Xenia, OH is notorious for its multiple tornadoes (even hinted in local Native American folklore) and Ted Fujita upon surveying the damage in 1974 said he personally would've given that tornado a F6 rating. One of the twisters spawned by the 1965 outbreak was a F4 which cut a 20 mile path of destruction passing through my hometown of Columbia Station, OH. Had that tornado passed a quarter mile to the north, it would've leveled the farm I grew up on.
Just an FYI...Topeka is the capitol of Kansas, not Kansas City.
I worked for an O&G company who collected data in the Mississipi Lime area, which included the Greensburg area. I drove threw for years before and after the tornado. That town literally built back at such a fast rate. I flew my drone and you could Stull see the scar of the tornado and a town that looked like nothing ever happened. It was amazing. Small town Kansas are all full of some of the most community driven people on the planet. The documentary of Greensburg is heroing. I love Greensburg. The people are amazing. It's too bad that happened but without tragedy we would never know just how resilient we are as a people
She is so beautiful
Outbreak in North Carolina in the 1970s
I just realized that the music sounds like remixed Stranger Things music.
When my family immigrated to America from Poland, they landed in Greensberg. Although I didn’t grow up in Greensberg myself, I spent quite a lot of time there. I had family still there when the tornado hit. The old family farm survived, but other family members lost everything. Not only their homes were destroyed but also their jobs, their churches, the schools. One family member was a senior and wasn’t able to graduate in the high school that she attended. She was devastated. You cannot state enough how life changing it is when a whole town is wiped off the map.
This tornado was my best friend's first storm chase, and I was on the phone with him off and on watching the radar for him from 800 miles away. What a memorable event, and well-captured by this video.
Quinter Kansas tornado of 2008
Those huge wind turbines are all fine until the next EF5 destroys them.
Ummm, is everyone just gonna ignore that she said Kansas City was the state capital of Kansas?
I caught that, I posted comment , many ppl probably don’t have clue capitals of states these days
What does the dryline actually DO to help set up a tornado out break? TY
The trees are a good sign of the force, every tree is left with only the trunk and short broken branches.
Hello, Kansas resident here, Topeka is our state capital not Kansas city
Kansas City is not the capital of Kansas..that is Topeka, which had a bad tornado in 1965 you should cover..also Greensburg is west of Wichita
These videos are so well done! Can’t wait to see what you have coming up. Keep up the amazing work! These videos are awesome
The capital of Kansas is Topeka
wait so the elie manitoba tornado was in 2007 and f5 not ef5. so then why do people call may 3rd the last f5? or the elie manitoba tornado the first ef5?
Elie is a rated as a F5 since Canada didn’t implement the EF scale till 2013. However; it did happen around the time after the creation of the EF scale was implemented in the U.S.
Now as far as a the first EF5 tornado goes the greensburg tornado since it happened aim the May 4th - 6th Tornado outbreak of 2007 while the Elie Manitoba F5 tornado happened in June 22th of 2007.
Carly, I just wanted to mention that I think you do a terrific job with your videos. thank you for making them
2:25 Kansas City isn’t our capital, Topeka is. Common mistake.
Dude that meteorologist said get in the center of your house lol yeah right a 2 mile tornado wtf you want me to get right n it and say take me I’m out!
I absolutely love your channel, its one of my favorites for weather related stuff. But I have the tiniest of suggestions. Turn your mic up? Please? Your channel is the only one I have trouble hearing, even with headphones. Theyre always all the way up with your channel and I still have trouble hearing, and theyre never all the way up. I don't want to come off sounding rude though because I really like your videos, I just cant hear it. I use the captions but they cover stuff on the screen so im always rewinding and going back and then turning them off and on and it kind of takes away from the whole video. I really like tornado content and enjoy commentary about it, but its just really hard to hear 😭 its not my headphones and its not other channels. Just a suggestion, im probably not the only one who has this problem? Im not sure, it only happens with your videos. But like I said, not trying to be rude! Its not just this video, but all of them. I watch them anyway. Youre calming and informative and I like the structure. It just takes me like three tries each, and I keep up pretty easily usually lol
“You have to go back to may 3rd of 1999” you know its BAD when a meteorologist mentions moore OK
Carly I realize this is an older video but the Capitol of Kansas is not Kansas City, it is Topeka. Greensburg is really better defined not in relation to either of those though, but rather to historic Dodge City. Or even to the most populous city in the state, Wichita. Wichita being where a lot of the relevant meteorologists were based out of for this event.
Hey, love your videos. When this happened, it completely shook the entire state. It was the first EF-5 and first 5 rated tornado since Moore 1999. The entire town being leveled is something you don't forget and has shaped my very healthy fear and totally normal fascination with tornados.
I always thought tornados were fascinating but I didn’t REALLY get into them until a few years ago. I had no knowledge of this event but the original KSN broadcast popped up on my TH-cam feed one night, since then, Dave Freeman has been my favorite meteorologist. Dude was absolutely phenomenal in his news coverage of this event. Gary England gets a lot of credit for being the best in the business and rightfully so but Dave Freeman covered this monster in such a cool and collect way, but also managed to convey the urgency and seriousness of this situation so well. Any loss of life is tragic but to have only lost 11 with a monster tornado like this is a testament to how many lives he probably saved. First time I watched it, I sat there and listened to him and could feel my heart racing the closer he described the tornado getting to the town.
RIP to all those lost in this tragedy ❤
I grew up watching him live on KSN, met him once when the station still had their weather lab in the town's science center, he was very happy to meet his community members
Topeka, not Kansas City, is the capital of Kansas. Also, it would have been much better had you referenced Greensburg's distance to Wichita, the state's largest city.
I caught this error too and it put me on guard to question other aspects of this presentation as a whole and figured I would have to fact check everything talked about...
I live in California and even I have a tornado plan because you never know...
I was hit by a massive wedge ef3 tornado in sulphur Oklahoma. From what I've heard, it was packing winds over 200mph. i was horrified after i heard that.
Dude… I adore your videos so much. You are so powerful and a work of art. It reminds of the first time I heard Pecos Hank playing haunting melodies while describing a demon of a storm. 10/10 your channel is going to get so huge!
carly! i’m a new subscriber and i love your videos. i was just wanting to suggest covering the St. peter/comfrey MN tornado outbreak of 1998! super significant for us minnesotans!
Now think about this...
That tornado hit at 9:50pm. It exited the city at 10:05pm. That's 15 mins over the town itself. It sat on top of the ENTIRE town for that time. Windspeeds at approximately 205mph. Think about that the next time you hear someone say the only reason Jarrell was only destructive because it lingered over the Double Creek subdivision for 5 mins straight and wasn't a powerful tornado. Compare the damages loss of life and destruction between the two tornads. A person would be a fool to think Jarrell wasn't a top 3 destructive tornado.