Get 20% OFF + Free International Shipping @Manscaped with promo code “SWEGLE” at www.manscaped.com/swegle #manscapedpartner What's up everyone?! I actually made this video for my own organizational purposes as Im trying to find topics for future disaster documentaries. Also this video is a lil more "off the cuff" since its longer than most.. so they production is not as crazy as previous videos and there are likely a few mistakes.. ANYWAY. Thanks so much for watching!
If I recall correctly, Plainfield had no warning. That, combined with the fact that there are no known photographs of it even though it happened in broad daylight, is scary.
There was no funnel visible at all! Extremely low clouds and being heavily rain wrapped made it invisible. I watched it happen and saw nothing except power flashes - which I thought was lightning at the time - and wind. Here's a great link from NOAA. www.weather.gov/lot/plainfield_tornado_anniversary
And I think they finally set sirens off like 20 minutes after it touched down so I'm thinking people were scrambling to find shelter and didn't have time to grab a pic. And someone else said it was rain wrapped too.
Exactly. I’m actually really surprised it not having a warning was not mentioned in this video. It adds so much context to the outcome, and also for people watching who may not be all that weather knowledgeable, it’s a reminder that these things can happen without warning even in broad daylight, and it’s important to be weather aware
This! Plainfield is probably the scariest one to me out of all of the EF5’s for this reason alone. The handful of videos we do have of the event are from people recording the rain wrapped shield it had and it was so dark out, it looked like night time.
Hey Jake, I have an idea for a video, celebrities who survived tornadoes: Melissa McCarthy (1990 Plainfield), Elvis Presley (1936 Tupelo), Glen Powell (1997 Jarrell), Dont'a Hightower (2011 Tuscaloosa), Boris Karloff (1912 Regina)...
Wasn't there a US president in one as a boy in the early 1800? Of course, Hamilton in the hurricaine. There was the 1814 tornado that saved DC in the War of 1812 and of course the first storm chaser... Benjamin Franklin.
13:39 I lived in Plainfield as a kid! When I did research on the tornado, I read that it was HEAVILY rain wrapped and there was barely a warning for it at all.
There was no warning because it was not visible at all. And weather radar was not anything near what it is today. And, yes. I was there and I was an adult at the time. Here's a great link with a lot of information from NOAA. www.weather.gov/lot/plainfield_tornado_anniversary
Some more interesting facts about the F5 in Woldegk, Germany: - Tree stumps of previously felled, massive trees were torn out of the ground and thrown - Tree branches covered in a thick layer of ice later fell from the sky - A skeleton was lifted from a grave as the tornado passed over a cemetery (the chapel in the cemetery was also destroyed) - Large stones were torn from the ground in fields and transported - Trees were debarked - It passed over a lake and caused the water level to change significantly - Two children were airborne and thrown into a lake - There was a massive area with debris fallout north west of the tornado path. Debris was carried for more than 50 kilometers - The width of the tornado varied from 45 meters to 900 meters, in some places pronounced sub vortices were observed - Entire trees airborne and carried away - The date the tornado occured is a a penance and prayer day ("Buß- und Bettag"), were people don't attend work on the fields. This fact probably prevented many deaths. - The supercell produced massive hail along the tornado's path, measuring up to 10 cm (4 inch) in diameter and weighing 500 grams - Eyewitnesses describe the tornado as follows: First a bowl-shaped lowering, then a wide cloud on the ground surrounded by hail, branches and debris. Reference: "A violent tornado in mid-18th century Germany: the Genzmer Report", Bernold Feuerstein and Thilo Kühne
I can add IF4 from Czech Republic from 2021. Not only was it the largest tornado in history of Europe, but it was also a potential IF5. It completely destroyed 3 houses in Mikulcice, researchers were thinking about IF5, but in the end they gave IF4 because houses were not of the best.
Fun fact for me about the tornado picture at 18:58 that i will never forget, but back when i was a shy elementary school kid this girl i talked to a good bit knew how much i was into weather, particularly tornadoes. Then one night on our brick phones, we were texting each other and out of the blue, she sent me a jpeg of that tornado but there was another half that was mirrored on the other side to shape it like a heart, and i was so struck by it but sadly it was at a time where i was a few months from moving towns so i could not do much about it since it was close to summer break. But that tornado was how i had my first childhood crush, and i will always thank it for that.
18:37 As a Jordan Iowa native, I had immense joy when I saw this on the iceberg. Not many people know about this tornado, so I appreciate that you covered it!
Super cool! I remember it well. I lived in north-central Iowa at the time. We thought it was going to hit Ames! Did that loop and headed due East for a while, before curving north and hitting Story City. We watched the radar on Channel 13 (remember Mike Lozano?). When i drove to Ames to go to ISU, I always looked forward to driving through the ghost town that was Jordan. I went on to be completely obsessed with that tornado, driving around Boone and Story Counties looking for evidence of that beast, with Ted Fujita's analysis in my hand! Tell us more!! I want to hear your experience!!!!
33:30 glad you mentioned the San Justo F5. I'm brazilian and I ALWAYS wrap my head around when I remember a such powerful tornado has already hit South America. Great video like always, thanks man 👋
I lived in his media area in Tuscaloosa so Birmingham and that area is well known for killer tornadoes. It's the first thing I saw, first picture chilling at an Alabama game, second is his official news station picture, third jacket is coming off, not good, fourth no jacket, sleeves rolled up, why aren't you in the basement and finally are we even broadcasting on tv anymore. The last one could be I've been up doing this for eighteen hours straight.
I just moved from Oklahoma to Australia. There actually is a fair ammount that hit more rural areas in AUS and some significant ones. What really surprised me about living here is that there are no sirens and no warning system for tornadoes here! I have personally seen rotating supercells here but all it will get slapped with is a “severe thunderstorm warning”. I’ve also noticed that weather radars seem much less detailed here. Maybe it’s a matter of finding the right app but it is nothing in comparison to what I was used to seeing in Oklahoma!
Australian tornadoes generally last less time than those in the US, and it's also much less common to get multiple tornadoes from a single system. I think part of the reason that there isn't a big distinction between tornadoes and other extreme weather events is that the areas they happen tend to be pretty unpopulated, so tornado-related injuries are extremely rare over here.
Paul Sirvatka - professor from College of Dupage has "footage" of Plainfield tornado, he was close and should have had a vantage point but it was also severely rain wrapped. Footage has violently rotating meso above but just nothing to be seen underneath.
If only more people still used camcorders. The long battery life, incredible zoom and video quality, and ergonomics are all amazing. Nearly everyone has a phone with a camera now, but we really don't get that many tornado videos- or we get really poor quality videos. I'd rather watch a 720p video taken on a camcorder, than a 4K video shot on a smartphone. The video is just miles better, and the zoom makes up for one without 4K.
Its amazing seeing the photos of Greensburg and then learning that only 11 people died. Of course, the fact that anyone did is a tragedy, but the fact that it's so few considering the strength and damage is a great sign of how tornado response and preparedness has helped save lives
Finally someone covered the Hudsonville-Standale, MI tornado. I’ve never seen anything about Michigans other F5s though. According to records, apparently we 5 tornadoes rated F5 but I have no idea about any of them except for a map that showed where they happened
I did a research project about this tornado and the outbreak it was associated with in college. The only other F5 I recall in Michigan was the Flint-Beecher one from 1953, though sources vary in that I guess. I agree that the Hudsonville-Standale F5 is far less known than many others in the Great Lakes area and I wish it had more coverage.
@@findinghome7320there was two in the thumb and another just north of the flint are but looking at them now I see that they were way before modern scales like 1905, 1920 and 1896 lmao. But yes the Standale tornado was so strong it ripped tile of the floors and moved foundations
Got one for you: the Irving, KS twin F5's of 1879. Like Tanner, AL, in the 1974 SuperOutbreak, Irving was hit by two F5 tornadoes within minutes. One of the stories was that of a young girl found buried in mud headfirst up to her shoulders; her name was Dorothy Gale. A newspaper publisher named Lyman Baum remembered her story when he published his children's book in 1900 under the name L. Frank Baum.
30:40 The Sunfield Tornado claimed one life a few miles from Sunfield. Sunfield rebuilt a couple miles south of the intersection. That same tornado outbreak dropped an F4 on Murphysboro...yes, the same Murphysboro hit by the Tri-State Tornado.
Always enjoy your content and we appreciate the time and research gone into these videos! You and Pecos Hank are our household's favorite tornado channels!
My family moved to Topeka KS within a year after the tornado in 1966. There were still plenty of aftereffects visible; one of our favorite hamburger places was newly rebuilt, and it was located right next to the track the tornado took through Topeka. There was a long string of trees that had been totally stripped of their leaves right across the street. There was a Native American legend that a tornado wouldn't be able to get past Burnett's Mound, which was a very high hill on the outskirts of Topeka that, back then, had some kind of round tank-looking thing on one side. This tornado did get past Burnett's Mound. One of my school friends brought in a bunch of newspaper accounts of the tornado, and reading these got me interested in meteorology.
Which “hamburger place” was that? The house that my husband & I own is 1-2 blocks west of the tornado path, near 29th & Gage; since it wasn't destroyed by the tornado, it’s one of the oldest in the neighborhood (it was built in 1959). In fact, only 2 weeks ago, the very large tree in our backyard (possibly the same age or older than the house, trunk diameter of 8 FEET!) COMPLETELY FELL DOWN, meaning the roots on the back side are pointed UP IN THE AIR! We got REALLY LUCKY, because the tree fell northeast, just barely catching the gutter on the northwest corner of the garage; it didn't even hit our north-side neighbors’ house, although about half the tree came down in their backyard. I was in the garage when it fell!
I remember the Lawrence County F5 in 1998. My dad came home early from work that day to be with us because the radar looked really bad. When things started to worsen, as we started to run outside as golf ball sized hail started to fall as we were getting under the house, (we had a cellar on the outside). I remember hearing the low rumble of the winds from the tornado in the west from where we were. Really haunting. Thankfully it let up before hitting us. The next day we drove out and looked at the damage. It was devastating. Mostly trees with their bark stripped laid flat. I also remember donating a lot of belongings to the victims. I was 10 years old at the time. I'll never forget that.
I grew up in Plainfield, born after the tornado of course, but the lore is still INSANELY strong. I was taught from a very early age to take tornado drills very seriously! I even went to the rebuilt high school where my teachers were all hyper aware of the weather all the time
No one ever talks about the New Richmond tornado (probably because it’s so old we don’t have footage), but as someone from there, it was so cool to see it included! There’s great lore associated with it (it happened the same day as a circus) and sometimes construction projects in the area dig up old debris to this day. All that being said, I would go crazy for a longer video about that tornado and/or Wisconsin tornadoes in general!
a video for each state and their notable and/or weird tornadoes would be a series I'd watch. Wisconsin video should include May 15th 1982 Brookfield, tallest tornado ever recorded.
The Ellie F5 was absolutely gorgeous. However, if we are talking solely about appearance, in this case, I would personally also nominate the Philadelphia MS EF5. Unfortunately, it was very destructive and took lives. However, in terms of structure and appearance, it was a gorgeous photogenic stovepipe while the sun was still very bright, which created such an awe-inspiring contrast between the surrounding hills and forests of MS. Smithville was photogenic as well, but that thing A. doesn't have a lot of footage recorded of it and B. was too gruesome
I'm widely inspired in your tornado stuff. Being a future storm chaser, I've decided to invest myself into skywarn AND First Aid/CPR licenses. You've been my sponsor for my future work, and I'm just here to say thank you for keeping me into these. Thank you SO much for keeping me entertained and invest me into my future. Love ya.
I can't get enough of swegle. I can't believe I've been a fellow subscriber for 2 years and have been watching for more. Tornado nerds are where its at. He's been able to meet my crave for tornadic stuff.
My aunt and uncle both lived in Plainfield during the 1990 tornado. From their account, my uncle was away at work at the time, and my aunt was working in downtown Plainfield as a beautician. My aunt remembers how dark it got before the tornado came through and how fast the winds picked up when it did. She took shelter with everyone else in the back of the salon as the tornado passed a few blocks away. There was no warning and no sirens. She said the front windows of the shop were blown out, but otherwise everyone was unharmed. My uncle was a volunteer firefighter for Plainfield and received a fire call while at work. He said the call was to respond to “wind damage”. No one knew a tornado had torn through until it was long gone. My uncle spent the next few days searching through rubble for survivors and fatalities. He said he has no words to accurately describe what he saw during those days.
Love your work mate. Australian here, Bulahdelah is pronounced "Buller Dealer". It's an Aboriginal name. Hope that helps champ. Glad we don't get tornadoes like you guys.
I was alive during 9 of these tornadoes, including the Super Outbreak of 2011, and I can only remember 3 of them clear as day. I live in Michigan and still do. But I can clearly remember Joplin, Moore (2011), and El Reno (2011 and 2013). I was terrified of tornadoes for several months after seeing footage of the damage inflicted by each respective twister. It got bad enough to a point where even during the first Saturday of every month when the tornado sirens are tested near my house, I kept wanting to go to my basement. I was only 4, 5, 8, and 10 years of age during the tornadoes that have taken place during my life time. Now I’ve binged watch nearly every video I could find on tornadoes.😅
From whatever eye witness reports of the plainfield tornado I gathered, almost all mentioned it being rain-wrapped and the sky turning green. It was literally creeping death if you were caught in its path.
My grandmother actually lived in Springfield Ohio. (A few miles away from Xenia.) She described the day being “unusually quiet.” She turned on her TV with her entire family and got the news of the super outbreak. Truly terrifying
I grew up in southern Ohio and my dad lived there in the 70's. When the 2000 EF4 and the 2023 EF4 hit I saw what can only be some kind of PTSD trigger. I also lived in Rio Grande where we got a fair number of tornadoes which did not help my dad or his family relax at all.
Growing up in Southern Illinois and living near Murphysboro and DeSoto, I was fortunate enough when I was young to talk to a couple of people who witnessed and survived the Tri-State Tornado. If you drive around Murphysboro today you can see a difference in the architecture. Many homes on the old south side are 19th Century vernacular homes that the tornado spared. The old north side of town is all bungalows built in the late 1920s.
As an observer from NJ, we only get photogenic tornadoes from hurricanes and I was suprised to see even we got hit in 2011. The EF3 Mullica Hill tornado is by far the most dangerous we've ever encountered in my lifetime and that event fascinates me to this day
Fellow New Jersey resident. Mullica Hill happened roughly 15-20 minutes away from me and even now I am deeply fascinated by it. I’ve probably done as much research on it as I possibly can. I think it’s crazy to see such a strong, large, fully and fairly photogenic tornado in my state. Also the fact it happened in such a good area for viewing.
May 31, 1985 will live in infamy for eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, southern New York, and southern Ontario! There was a major tornado outbreak in the area, including the Niles-Wheatland F5.
You should totally come to Iowa and survey tornado paths. They're all over! The Greenfield path should still be very fresh, plus you could probably hop from town to town and look at damage old and new. If you ever do an Iowa trip, I'm sure your Iowan fans (myself included) would love it!
To this day I remember the Plainfield tornado just because how startled I was to find out that it happened since I didn't realize how localized weather could be. I lived fairly near Plainfield, In Darien, but I was at Brookfield Zoo when it happened, where it was a bright, beautiful day. The reason it was so mysterious is that the local weather bureau. messed up horribly and that tornado was never warned. No one had the chance to photograph or film it before it was too late.
42:11 Having recently read Genzmer, a lot of statements about Woldegk are heavily overblown. It was a midrange F5 which demonstrated its strength almost entirely through high-end forestry damage (which was insane, ngl.). The mansion you mentioned wasn't even slabbed. The ground-floor was still intact and all 16 inhabitants survived. In fact the other german F5 (Hainichen 1800) might have been stronger, as the vegetation-damage was insane in its path, and it actually produced slabs
You must have spent a ton of time on this! Excellent video! 🌪️ I was 6 during the Andover tornado and I remember every detail of the day. It was dark, it was loud, it was spooky. We were in its zone. I’ll never forget.
So funny how you do this video and mention Jordan, another TH-camr a few days ago made a video on the Jordan F5. Still waiting on Michigan’s F5’s to be mentioned in full depth.
The amazing thing in Elie was it lifted a house whole off its foundation like Dorothy's home in the Wizard of Oz. Just plucked it right up into the air. There's video of that, and it's why the tornado earned F5 rating.
The 1970 Lubbock Tornado is a lot more fascinating than it gets credit. Not only did it get the preliminary rating of F6 (One of only 2 to get that) It helped create the Fujita Scale. It's also said to be the first documented multi-vortex tornado on record. On top of that, it led to the creation of the IDR (Institute of Disaster Research) which is now the NWI (National Wind Institute), and VorTech, a full sized Tornado Generator/Simulator, that can simulate up F3 Damage. There's also the fact that it could have been much worse. It went right through downtown Lubbock, but for some unknown reason, the width of the twister shrank considerably. It started out as one of the largest Tornadoes in the state's history at 1.5 miles wide, but shrank as it progressed, eventually shrinking to a quarter of mile wide, which is about 400 yards, by the time it got to the airport.
Honestly the two I'm most fascinated with are two with limited info... The Grand Harbor Tornado that struck Valleta well before the first steam engine was invented and was theorized to be of F3 strength. The other is the Dalutpur-Saituria tornado, this was either an F4 or F5 that tore through a dense, poor part of Bangladesh in the late 80's and is the deadliest in world history, no firsthand accounts from survivors I can find, only photos of the aftermath and a few news stories. The lack of info is why I'm fascinated with these ones. The Maltese one's year is even lost to time.
Asking again for a video on “the second disaster:” what happens when disaster-struck communities are overwhelmed with donations that they can’t use, process, or store. Joplin is a perfect example.
Yep i remember looking at that interactive map of every tornado path since 1950 and scrolled to where i live near Spiro, OK. I was surprised to see an F5 path right through it. I actually drive on the road it crossed every day. Also the locals pronounce the town name same as "Cairo". Also the El Reno-Piedmont EF5 is known for blowing over a huge oil rig that weighed 862 metric tons, almost 2 million lbs, as well as having the drill deployed causing an extra 200k lbs of downforce, it was still rolled a few times despite this, there's pics on reddit, pretty crazy.
Grew up in Tulsa. Can confirm we’re excellent at shaking our fists at supercells to scare off any tornadoes thinking about having the audacity to form.
my best friend survived the moore 2013 tornado; it completely destroyed his home. he managed to make it out unscathed luckily. it's so cool to know someone who experienced it firsthand. great vid btw !!!! this is a great thing to watch after a long day of work
My grandfather/ my dad's hero was unfortunately killed in the 1974 tornados that hit between Haleyville and Russellville, Alabama. He believed living basically under a bluff they were safe from the storms. Before they had a chance to get through the chicken house to the storm shelter he was hit by a cinder block. I've gotten better with not being terrified of storms in general. But, 2011 definitely didn't help my phobia of storms.
@SwegleStudios Thank You for mentioning the June 1953 Adair Iowa F-5! I literally drove across it's path today on my way home from Greenfield... if you ever want to do further research the library in Adair should have photos of the Tornado & damage... also, there was Super 8 footage of the damage that exists!
Bro you gotta do a video on the 1965 Palm Sunday Great Lakes super-outbreak. I know there weren't any F5's but there were a TON of F4's and over 200 deaths and haven't heard you talk much about it. This is truly the forgotten outbreak. Keep up the great work chief!
My Grandma grew up in Tracy Minnesota, Her mom was babysitting my aunt when the tornado hit, she told me she tried driving to Tracy afterward and there were cops blocking access to the town and only let her in when she said that her mom and daughter were in the town, she never saw the tornado but she saw the damage.
You are the first one that I’m aware of that even mentions the Vicksburg and Tupelo tornadoes. My mother lost several of her childhood friends and missed going to the movie theater with her friends where they were killed!
Interesting to hear about Lincolnshires here in the UK. It makes sense considering how flat the area is. We get a surprising amount of tornados but they're all pathetically small. Not even news worthy small. Only notable one I can think of was Coalville, Leicestershire near me. Shopping centre roof was blown off in parts and people's homes lost parts of the roofs/ tiles. About it though
Whatever meditation sound or whatever it is in the background is like the perfect volume and accompaniment to the video 🌪️ went through my first tornado last year in my bathroom with my dogs, the wind sounded like a train whistling by going over us. Everything and everyone was ok thankfully, very scary, detroit, mi. We don’t usually get anything that bad! Awesome content my dude🌪️❤️
The candle stick park tornado should be studied more since accross the US there was a setup for an outbreak but a capping inversion was preventing it except the candle stick storm.
That Oakwood-Ortonville, MI tornado was particularly violent in damage descriptions. As in shoving sticks and objects into what little remained of the trees.
I find the tornado history this channel does is so good! Just a question, have their been any snow based tornadoes? Like omes that happened during snowstorms or blizzards?
As someone who has lived on the border of Istria (Croatia) and Slovenia, yep.. I was almost literally blown off my bicycle once when returning home from Buzet.. by the "Bura" winds. Only later did I find out that this was kind of a tornado alley. Wow. So this means I watched this entire video.. and enjoyed every minute. I grew up in Chicago, lived briefly on the Central Coast of CA, then Denver, then in the Balkans, and I'm kind of a meteorology nerd. Thank you!
Australia mention! Bulahdelah is a gorgeous area, I've taken a few holidays there and had no idea we'd had a tornado there. Not surprised about the lack of photography though, it's a pretty small place.
The Jackson Ms tornado of 1966 is a very interesting story because if I remember correctly it was the only tornado to occur that day and it just so happened to be an f5 and it hit the capital city of mississippi
Loved the video calling out so many events that should be easily their own feature. Potentially could have been a two parter to ingraciate respect to events that need more coverage! If you dish it, we will devour it 🤑
Should definitely do some research into the 1993 Mulhall F4 that happened after the Bridge Creek F5 . Some of the most absurd stats on paper and relatively unknown.
It was also the last F5 tornado in the state of Michigan (there have been no EF5's). This is something that causes the National Weather Service office in Grand Rapids great concern. They feel that since it has been nearly seven decades since we've had a violent tornado of that scale, people have become complacent. I myself have heard people say that we can't get those kind of tornadoes here because Lake Michigan protects us. The problem is most Michigan tornadoes are what Michigan Storm Chasers call "bird fart" tornadoes, little EF0 and EF1 spinups that sometimes go under the radar--literally. Every now and then we will get an EF3 or a strong EF2 which wakes people up for a while but the last F4 was in 1977 and there has been nothing stronger ever since. I'm part of the weather community up here on an informal basis and we talk about these things. One day our luck is going to run out and it will be bad.
@@theresemalmberg955 I'm also in Michigan and really into weather. Love watching storms cross over Lake Michigan and I would love to see a little rope tornado in the fields I live near by.
@@TornadoOnion Yes, if you could be sure that it would stay just a little rope tornado. But I've learned from watching channels like these that a "little rope tornado" can go from 0 to 60 in no time flat; it can morph into a quarter-mile wedge before you even know it. I live in a mobile home park with no shelter, so when severe weather threatens I have a plan to go elsewhere; and believe me I am watching the storms from the time they hit the Lake Michigan shoreline; when they hit a certain point and Michigan Storm Chasers says this cell looks to be intensifying, I'm out of my house and on my way to my safe spot even though no warning has been issued for my area. There was one time this year when they said that, and I dropped everything and was out the door. I had just enough time to get to my safe spot when they issued the warning and blew the siren. By that time I was already there. This was the day of the Dowagiac and Portage tornadoes. They said Dowagiac, I was gone. I'm in Mattawan and Texas Corners/Portage was a little too close for comfort. I was sure glad I was in my safe spot that day!
@@theresemalmberg955Even for F-4 it's been nearly 50 years since Michigan has seen one at all. Although the Dexter tornado in 2011 came within 5 mph of such.
My house is in the old path, and the amount of tornado myths that persist over here is scary. People seriously believe that we can't get anything stronger than like an EF3 over here.
Never gonna happen. Insurance companies have bribed NWS into lowering damage stats to avoid complete insurance payouts. Anyone championing the EF Scale is a stooge for these corrupt insurance companies.
Well we have gotten plenty of EF5 caliber tornadoes since 2013 Moore (such as the recent Greenfield tornado briefly mentioned in the video, 2014 Vilinoa, 2021 Mayfield, 2023 Rolling Fork, etc.), just the flaws of the EF scale (particularly ignoring measured wind speeds and any contextual damage indicators not directly covered under the scale's parameters), and surveyors getting weirdly strict with giving out EF4 and especially EF5 ratings after 2013, has led to none getting officially rated EF5 and thus the "EF5 drought" is artificial. NOAA even recently put out a study admitting that they have been significantly underrating tornadoes this past decade.
@@OmegaTyrant BECAUSE OF INSURANCE COMPANIES. Seriously anyone sucking off the EF scale is complicit in these bastards ripping off the victims of tornado damage. "Sowwy, the twister was rated an EF3, so even through your home was leveled you only get 75% of your payout! TRUST THE SOYANCE!"
I'm quite familiar with the Tracy and Chandler MN storms. A neighbor whose kids I babysat for in junior high lost a grandmother or aunt in the Tracy storm. I was in junior high when the Chandler storm happened. Don't live there, but was close enough that the entire area was just FULL of bad storms that night. We locally called it the "Night Of Storms". A town closer to where I live, Clarkfield, also took major damage. The main street was tore up all to hell and back, buildings destroyed, trees gone. An aunt called that night from Lynd, telling us that a tornado was coming down Hwy 59 from Marshall towards us, but we thankfully didn't get hit by it. Just terrible storms all night.
Thanks for including the Plainfield and the Andover events. I credit those two tornadoes with triggering my own fascination with weather in general and tornadoes in particular. I'm surprised that the Inverness tornado wasn't deeper, because I've run into exactly one other person who knew about it. He only knew because he lived in that area at the time of the storm. Knew where Pugh City was and everything. Fantastic video, as always.
36:00 Having once been a Tulsa resident, the popular opinion that got shared in my youth (90s-00s) for Tulsa's ability to dodge major tornadoes is that Tulsa is a shallow bowl compared to the surrounding landscape, and that bit of a dip is enough to change how the weather behaves, which keeps out the super bad stuff. Dunno if that's true, but yes, Tulsa doesn't get battered like the surrounding areas.
There’s about 1/4 mile strip of land between the paths of the 1991 F5 and the April 2022 F3 here in Andover, KS. And somehow smack-dab in between them, my house is still standing
Such a great countdown. I remember watching an HBO doc about the 97 Jarrell tornado, I was in junior high and that was when my fascination for them started.
Appreciation for the honorable mention of the El Reno 2013 tornado. That’s a hill I will always stand strong on; everything about that tornado’s stats and the nature of it for me outweighs the rating given to it simply because it was over rural areas. Y’all know full well what that monster would have done in a populated area. It was a tornado that literally hunted storm chasers. It gets that F5 rating from me.
the hackleburg/phil campbell one started (had not touched down yet) right by my house. very tragic event that i remember clearly even though i was nine.
I very clearly remember hearing the news about Joplin because it happened while I was in North Carolina for an award ceremony (Duke TIP). I stayed in a hotel with my mother and grandmother, and the news was one while we were at breakfast talking about it (I want to say it was that Monday? But I was barely 13 so I'm not 100% sure on that). Chilling stuff.
I grew up in Cushing, Oklahoma and lived there for thirty-seven years. I don't remember the 99' tornado, but I for sure remember the 2013 one. We were getting things ready for a service that night when I heard on News9 a tornado watch down by Moore. My husband was at work in Tulsa and I was home with our three year old. I called my mother telling her about the weather and headed out there. We had some friends drivin up from Texas and had no idea where they were but wanted to make sure they didn't get on I40. That's when it was on the ground in Moore at an EF3 and went to an EF5 very quickly. We had News9 goin while cleaning out the shelter and getting everything ready. We could see the storm lookin southwest and it was huge. That's when we had to head to safety and it hit the ground after it passed us close to Drummright. Yeah, another crazy night. My dad was born and raised in Cushing and still lives there. We moved to Bixby in 2015 and haven't had one hit our area since. I started a weather group after the 2013 storm and try to help my Okies =) Oklahoma Weather Watch
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What's up everyone?! I actually made this video for my own organizational purposes as Im trying to find topics for future disaster documentaries. Also this video is a lil more "off the cuff" since its longer than most.. so they production is not as crazy as previous videos and there are likely a few mistakes.. ANYWAY. Thanks so much for watching!
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Question: Have you ever heard of the Utrecht, Netherlands tornado of 1674? It took down half of a cathedral. Maybe an interesting video idea.
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No kidding, i feel we all are a bit lucky today 😁
@@jaiannawright7820well, he is loved by many so he had to do *something*
@@jaiannawright7820isn't that the main point?
If I recall correctly, Plainfield had no warning. That, combined with the fact that there are no known photographs of it even though it happened in broad daylight, is scary.
There was no funnel visible at all! Extremely low clouds and being heavily rain wrapped made it invisible. I watched it happen and saw nothing except power flashes - which I thought was lightning at the time - and wind. Here's a great link from NOAA. www.weather.gov/lot/plainfield_tornado_anniversary
You are correct. Plainfield didn't get a tornado warning right after tornado hit area.
And I think they finally set sirens off like 20 minutes after it touched down so I'm thinking people were scrambling to find shelter and didn't have time to grab a pic. And someone else said it was rain wrapped too.
Exactly. I’m actually really surprised it not having a warning was not mentioned in this video. It adds so much context to the outcome, and also for people watching who may not be all that weather knowledgeable, it’s a reminder that these things can happen without warning even in broad daylight, and it’s important to be weather aware
This! Plainfield is probably the scariest one to me out of all of the EF5’s for this reason alone. The handful of videos we do have of the event are from people recording the rain wrapped shield it had and it was so dark out, it looked like night time.
Hey Jake, I have an idea for a video, celebrities who survived tornadoes: Melissa McCarthy (1990 Plainfield), Elvis Presley (1936 Tupelo), Glen Powell (1997 Jarrell), Dont'a Hightower (2011 Tuscaloosa), Boris Karloff (1912 Regina)...
I'd watch this!!!
Yes
Wasn't there a US president in one as a boy in the early 1800? Of course, Hamilton in the hurricaine. There was the 1814 tornado that saved DC in the War of 1812 and of course the first storm chaser... Benjamin Franklin.
yes!!
@@user-wi9hv2pb2qyou’re bringing back my Hamilton phase😭😭😭
In the eye of a hurricane there is quiet…
For just a moment..
13:39 I lived in Plainfield as a kid! When I did research on the tornado, I read that it was HEAVILY rain wrapped and there was barely a warning for it at all.
There wasn't "barely" a warning, there was just straight up no warning except for maybe thr last 3 ish minutes of its life, if even that
There was no warning because it was not visible at all. And weather radar was not anything near what it is today. And, yes. I was there and I was an adult at the time. Here's a great link with a lot of information from NOAA. www.weather.gov/lot/plainfield_tornado_anniversary
I live in Plainfield
@@chrismedina3429 Congratulations. I bailed long ago.
Some more interesting facts about the F5 in Woldegk, Germany:
- Tree stumps of previously felled, massive trees were torn out of the ground and thrown
- Tree branches covered in a thick layer of ice later fell from the sky
- A skeleton was lifted from a grave as the tornado passed over a cemetery (the chapel in the cemetery was also destroyed)
- Large stones were torn from the ground in fields and transported
- Trees were debarked
- It passed over a lake and caused the water level to change significantly
- Two children were airborne and thrown into a lake
- There was a massive area with debris fallout north west of the tornado path. Debris was carried for more than 50 kilometers
- The width of the tornado varied from 45 meters to 900 meters, in some places pronounced sub vortices were observed
- Entire trees airborne and carried away
- The date the tornado occured is a a penance and prayer day ("Buß- und Bettag"), were people don't attend work on the fields. This fact probably prevented many deaths.
- The supercell produced massive hail along the tornado's path, measuring up to 10 cm (4 inch) in diameter and weighing 500 grams
- Eyewitnesses describe the tornado as follows: First a bowl-shaped lowering, then a wide cloud on the ground surrounded by hail, branches and debris.
Reference: "A violent tornado in mid-18th century Germany: the Genzmer Report", Bernold Feuerstein and Thilo Kühne
F in the chat for that one guy who died in his cabin, though
Rainsville will forever feel unknown to me, that thing is so mysterious lol!
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I can add IF4 from Czech Republic from 2021. Not only was it the largest tornado in history of Europe, but it was also a potential IF5. It completely destroyed 3 houses in Mikulcice, researchers were thinking about IF5, but in the end they gave IF4 because houses were not of the best.
definitely not the largest in european history. maybe most costliest in modern european history ?
Despite the appearence of the tornado it was apparently like 2.6 km wide (~1.6 mile) so it's definently up there in terms of widest in Europe
Unlike most of the older European tornadoes on this list, that tornado is very well documented.
@@notmeowth A new study on this topic was published this year. It actually was the largest - 2.2 miles (3.5 km).
@@chrisuuu393 my bad, i didnt know about the new study. thank you
Swegle dropping a video longer than 20 minutes? Christmas must’ve come early.
Yeah true.
my first thought and now im seeing a sleigh and reindeers spinning round and round... 😮
Fun fact for me about the tornado picture at 18:58 that i will never forget, but back when i was a shy elementary school kid this girl i talked to a good bit knew how much i was into weather, particularly tornadoes.
Then one night on our brick phones, we were texting each other and out of the blue, she sent me a jpeg of that tornado but there was another half that was mirrored on the other side to shape it like a heart, and i was so struck by it but sadly it was at a time where i was a few months from moving towns so i could not do much about it since it was close to summer break.
But that tornado was how i had my first childhood crush, and i will always thank it for that.
18:37 As a Jordan Iowa native, I had immense joy when I saw this on the iceberg. Not many people know about this tornado, so I appreciate that you covered it!
Super cool! I remember it well. I lived in north-central Iowa at the time. We thought it was going to hit Ames! Did that loop and headed due East for a while, before curving north and hitting Story City. We watched the radar on Channel 13 (remember Mike Lozano?). When i drove to Ames to go to ISU, I always looked forward to driving through the ghost town that was Jordan. I went on to be completely obsessed with that tornado, driving around Boone and Story Counties looking for evidence of that beast, with Ted Fujita's analysis in my hand! Tell us more!! I want to hear your experience!!!!
33:30 glad you mentioned the San Justo F5. I'm brazilian and I ALWAYS wrap my head around when I remember a such powerful tornado has already hit South America.
Great video like always, thanks man 👋
I love that each thumbnail on the right side of each tier of the iceberg is of the legend James Spann.
I lived in his media area in Tuscaloosa so Birmingham and that area is well known for killer tornadoes. It's the first thing I saw, first picture chilling at an Alabama game, second is his official news station picture, third jacket is coming off, not good, fourth no jacket, sleeves rolled up, why aren't you in the basement and finally are we even broadcasting on tv anymore. The last one could be I've been up doing this for eighteen hours straight.
He is the og of tornado coverage. in 1998 he told no one to go to school the day after and said if your teacher says something have them call me.
yess another tornado video! will you do a christmas special? rare winter tornadoes maybe?
Maybe even do the Mayfield tornado!
I second this
Someone else must have known before me lol, Mayfield all day
let bro cook
Mayfield
I just moved from Oklahoma to Australia.
There actually is a fair ammount that hit more rural areas in AUS and some significant ones.
What really surprised me about living here is that there are no sirens and no warning system for tornadoes here!
I have personally seen rotating supercells here but all it will get slapped with is a “severe thunderstorm warning”.
I’ve also noticed that weather radars seem much less detailed here. Maybe it’s a matter of finding the right app but it is nothing in comparison to what I was used to seeing in Oklahoma!
Australian tornadoes generally last less time than those in the US, and it's also much less common to get multiple tornadoes from a single system. I think part of the reason that there isn't a big distinction between tornadoes and other extreme weather events is that the areas they happen tend to be pretty unpopulated, so tornado-related injuries are extremely rare over here.
Swegle got me interested in weather again two years ago and I'm forever thankful for him 🙏
Paul Sirvatka - professor from College of Dupage has "footage" of Plainfield tornado, he was close and should have had a vantage point but it was also severely rain wrapped. Footage has violently rotating meso above but just nothing to be seen underneath.
YEEES THE ICEBERGS ARE BACK
If only more people still used camcorders. The long battery life, incredible zoom and video quality, and ergonomics are all amazing. Nearly everyone has a phone with a camera now, but we really don't get that many tornado videos- or we get really poor quality videos. I'd rather watch a 720p video taken on a camcorder, than a 4K video shot on a smartphone. The video is just miles better, and the zoom makes up for one without 4K.
Its amazing seeing the photos of Greensburg and then learning that only 11 people died. Of course, the fact that anyone did is a tragedy, but the fact that it's so few considering the strength and damage is a great sign of how tornado response and preparedness has helped save lives
Finally someone covered the Hudsonville-Standale, MI tornado. I’ve never seen anything about Michigans other F5s though. According to records, apparently we 5 tornadoes rated F5 but I have no idea about any of them except for a map that showed where they happened
I did a research project about this tornado and the outbreak it was associated with in college. The only other F5 I recall in Michigan was the Flint-Beecher one from 1953, though sources vary in that I guess. I agree that the Hudsonville-Standale F5 is far less known than many others in the Great Lakes area and I wish it had more coverage.
@@findinghome7320there was two in the thumb and another just north of the flint are but looking at them now I see that they were way before modern scales like 1905, 1920 and 1896 lmao. But yes the Standale tornado was so strong it ripped tile of the floors and moved foundations
I know 1 in upper Michigan
@@aidenhanchettThe one in 1905 was particularly intense but ran throught the middle of agricultural areas in the Thumb.
I live near Hudsonville, my great grandma tells me about this tornado
Got one for you: the Irving, KS twin F5's of 1879. Like Tanner, AL, in the 1974 SuperOutbreak, Irving was hit by two F5 tornadoes within minutes.
One of the stories was that of a young girl found buried in mud headfirst up to her shoulders; her name was Dorothy Gale.
A newspaper publisher named Lyman Baum remembered her story when he published his children's book in 1900 under the name L. Frank Baum.
30:40 The Sunfield Tornado claimed one life a few miles from Sunfield. Sunfield rebuilt a couple miles south of the intersection.
That same tornado outbreak dropped an F4 on Murphysboro...yes, the same Murphysboro hit by the Tri-State Tornado.
The James Spann pictures were a great touch
Always enjoy your content and we appreciate the time and research gone into these videos! You and Pecos Hank are our household's favorite tornado channels!
My family moved to Topeka KS within a year after the tornado in 1966. There were still plenty of aftereffects visible; one of our favorite hamburger places was newly rebuilt, and it was located right next to the track the tornado took through Topeka. There was a long string of trees that had been totally stripped of their leaves right across the street. There was a Native American legend that a tornado wouldn't be able to get past Burnett's Mound, which was a very high hill on the outskirts of Topeka that, back then, had some kind of round tank-looking thing on one side. This tornado did get past Burnett's Mound. One of my school friends brought in a bunch of newspaper accounts of the tornado, and reading these got me interested in meteorology.
Which “hamburger place” was that? The house that my husband & I own is 1-2 blocks west of the tornado path, near 29th & Gage; since it wasn't destroyed by the tornado, it’s one of the oldest in the neighborhood (it was built in 1959). In fact, only 2 weeks ago, the very large tree in our backyard (possibly the same age or older than the house, trunk diameter of 8 FEET!) COMPLETELY FELL DOWN, meaning the roots on the back side are pointed UP IN THE AIR! We got REALLY LUCKY, because the tree fell northeast, just barely catching the gutter on the northwest corner of the garage; it didn't even hit our north-side neighbors’ house, although about half the tree came down in their backyard. I was in the garage when it fell!
I was always so interested in the mound lore! It's a beautiful park
I remember the Lawrence County F5 in 1998. My dad came home early from work that day to be with us because the radar looked really bad. When things started to worsen, as we started to run outside as golf ball sized hail started to fall as we were getting under the house, (we had a cellar on the outside). I remember hearing the low rumble of the winds from the tornado in the west from where we were. Really haunting. Thankfully it let up before hitting us. The next day we drove out and looked at the damage. It was devastating. Mostly trees with their bark stripped laid flat. I also remember donating a lot of belongings to the victims. I was 10 years old at the time. I'll never forget that.
I like hearing these personal accounts. 👍
I grew up in Plainfield, born after the tornado of course, but the lore is still INSANELY strong. I was taught from a very early age to take tornado drills very seriously! I even went to the rebuilt high school where my teachers were all hyper aware of the weather all the time
No one ever talks about the New Richmond tornado (probably because it’s so old we don’t have footage), but as someone from there, it was so cool to see it included! There’s great lore associated with it (it happened the same day as a circus) and sometimes construction projects in the area dig up old debris to this day. All that being said, I would go crazy for a longer video about that tornado and/or Wisconsin tornadoes in general!
a video for each state and their notable and/or weird tornadoes would be a series I'd watch. Wisconsin video should include May 15th 1982 Brookfield, tallest tornado ever recorded.
100% the BEST tornado channel on TH-cam hands down.
The Ellie F5 was absolutely gorgeous. However, if we are talking solely about appearance, in this case, I would personally also nominate the Philadelphia MS EF5. Unfortunately, it was very destructive and took lives. However, in terms of structure and appearance, it was a gorgeous photogenic stovepipe while the sun was still very bright, which created such an awe-inspiring contrast between the surrounding hills and forests of MS. Smithville was photogenic as well, but that thing A. doesn't have a lot of footage recorded of it and B. was too gruesome
I'm widely inspired in your tornado stuff.
Being a future storm chaser, I've decided to invest myself into skywarn AND First Aid/CPR licenses.
You've been my sponsor for my future work, and I'm just here to say thank you for keeping me into these.
Thank you SO much for keeping me entertained and invest me into my future.
Love ya.
I can't get enough of swegle. I can't believe I've been a fellow subscriber for 2 years and have been watching for more. Tornado nerds are where its at. He's been able to meet my crave for tornadic stuff.
My aunt and uncle both lived in Plainfield during the 1990 tornado. From their account, my uncle was away at work at the time, and my aunt was working in downtown Plainfield as a beautician. My aunt remembers how dark it got before the tornado came through and how fast the winds picked up when it did. She took shelter with everyone else in the back of the salon as the tornado passed a few blocks away. There was no warning and no sirens. She said the front windows of the shop were blown out, but otherwise everyone was unharmed. My uncle was a volunteer firefighter for Plainfield and received a fire call while at work. He said the call was to respond to “wind damage”. No one knew a tornado had torn through until it was long gone. My uncle spent the next few days searching through rubble for survivors and fatalities. He said he has no words to accurately describe what he saw during those days.
Love your work mate. Australian here, Bulahdelah is pronounced "Buller Dealer". It's an Aboriginal name. Hope that helps champ. Glad we don't get tornadoes like you guys.
I was alive during 9 of these tornadoes, including the Super Outbreak of 2011, and I can only remember 3 of them clear as day. I live in Michigan and still do. But I can clearly remember Joplin, Moore (2011), and El Reno (2011 and 2013). I was terrified of tornadoes for several months after seeing footage of the damage inflicted by each respective twister. It got bad enough to a point where even during the first Saturday of every month when the tornado sirens are tested near my house, I kept wanting to go to my basement. I was only 4, 5, 8, and 10 years of age during the tornadoes that have taken place during my life time. Now I’ve binged watch nearly every video I could find on tornadoes.😅
From whatever eye witness reports of the plainfield tornado I gathered, almost all mentioned it being rain-wrapped and the sky turning green. It was literally creeping death if you were caught in its path.
My grandmother actually lived in Springfield Ohio. (A few miles away from Xenia.) She described the day being “unusually quiet.” She turned on her TV with her entire family and got the news of the super outbreak. Truly terrifying
I grew up in southern Ohio and my dad lived there in the 70's. When the 2000 EF4 and the 2023 EF4 hit I saw what can only be some kind of PTSD trigger. I also lived in Rio Grande where we got a fair number of tornadoes which did not help my dad or his family relax at all.
Growing up in Southern Illinois and living near Murphysboro and DeSoto, I was fortunate enough when I was young to talk to a couple of people who witnessed and survived the Tri-State Tornado. If you drive around Murphysboro today you can see a difference in the architecture. Many homes on the old south side are 19th Century vernacular homes that the tornado spared. The old north side of town is all bungalows built in the late 1920s.
that is so fascinating. i would literally read a whole book of eyewitness accounts of the tristate tornado
@citronquartz2779 I highly recommend "Death Rides The Sky" by Angela Mason. Brace yourself. It is a brutal read.
As an observer from NJ, we only get photogenic tornadoes from hurricanes and I was suprised to see even we got hit in 2011. The EF3 Mullica Hill tornado is by far the most dangerous we've ever encountered in my lifetime and that event fascinates me to this day
Fellow New Jersey resident. Mullica Hill happened roughly 15-20 minutes away from me and even now I am deeply fascinated by it. I’ve probably done as much research on it as I possibly can. I think it’s crazy to see such a strong, large, fully and fairly photogenic tornado in my state. Also the fact it happened in such a good area for viewing.
May 31, 1985 will live in infamy for eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, southern New York, and southern Ontario! There was a major tornado outbreak in the area, including the Niles-Wheatland F5.
You should totally come to Iowa and survey tornado paths. They're all over! The Greenfield path should still be very fresh, plus you could probably hop from town to town and look at damage old and new. If you ever do an Iowa trip, I'm sure your Iowan fans (myself included) would love it!
I grew up in a rural part of the state, near Greenfield. My childhood home was within 30 miles of that tornado 😅
Jake lives in Iowa, he went to Parkersburg to interview survivors of the 2008 tornado, there's a video about it on his channel
To this day I remember the Plainfield tornado just because how startled I was to find out that it happened since I didn't realize how localized weather could be. I lived fairly near Plainfield, In Darien, but I was at Brookfield Zoo when it happened, where it was a bright, beautiful day. The reason it was so mysterious is that the local weather bureau. messed up horribly and that tornado was never warned. No one had the chance to photograph or film it before it was too late.
YASSSS long video!! I literally check every 3-4 weeks for a new one from you, it’s the highlight of the month! Thank you 😎
42:11 Having recently read Genzmer, a lot of statements about Woldegk are heavily overblown. It was a midrange F5 which demonstrated its strength almost entirely through high-end forestry damage (which was insane, ngl.). The mansion you mentioned wasn't even slabbed. The ground-floor was still intact and all 16 inhabitants survived.
In fact the other german F5 (Hainichen 1800) might have been stronger, as the vegetation-damage was insane in its path, and it actually produced slabs
You must have spent a ton of time on this! Excellent video! 🌪️ I was 6 during the Andover tornado and I remember every detail of the day. It was dark, it was loud, it was spooky. We were in its zone. I’ll never forget.
I’m a simple guy. Swegle posts a video, I watch it immediately and use it to fall asleep to for the next week
So funny how you do this video and mention Jordan, another TH-camr a few days ago made a video on the Jordan F5.
Still waiting on Michigan’s F5’s to be mentioned in full depth.
11:09 that tornado really said “fu¢k this neighborhood in particular”
The amazing thing in Elie was it lifted a house whole off its foundation like Dorothy's home in the Wizard of Oz. Just plucked it right up into the air. There's video of that, and it's why the tornado earned F5 rating.
The 1970 Lubbock Tornado is a lot more fascinating than it gets credit. Not only did it get the preliminary rating of F6 (One of only 2 to get that) It helped create the Fujita Scale. It's also said to be the first documented multi-vortex tornado on record. On top of that, it led to the creation of the IDR (Institute of Disaster Research) which is now the NWI (National Wind Institute), and VorTech, a full sized Tornado Generator/Simulator, that can simulate up F3 Damage. There's also the fact that it could have been much worse. It went right through downtown Lubbock, but for some unknown reason, the width of the twister shrank considerably. It started out as one of the largest Tornadoes in the state's history at 1.5 miles wide, but shrank as it progressed, eventually shrinking to a quarter of mile wide, which is about 400 yards, by the time it got to the airport.
Honestly the two I'm most fascinated with are two with limited info... The Grand Harbor Tornado that struck Valleta well before the first steam engine was invented and was theorized to be of F3 strength.
The other is the Dalutpur-Saituria tornado, this was either an F4 or F5 that tore through a dense, poor part of Bangladesh in the late 80's and is the deadliest in world history, no firsthand accounts from survivors I can find, only photos of the aftermath and a few news stories.
The lack of info is why I'm fascinated with these ones.
The Maltese one's year is even lost to time.
Nice to see you back with another video
I think that 'glowing orb' tornado was chlorine oxidizing. plenty of magnesium and some chlorine storage in the area.
Asking again for a video on “the second disaster:” what happens when disaster-struck communities are overwhelmed with donations that they can’t use, process, or store. Joplin is a perfect example.
Maybe because nobody cares to hear about that type of thing. I know I don't. 🤷
@ thanks for the engagement.
@@musicnerd72I must not exist then lol. This sounds interesting, ngl.
The best tornado youtuber
Ok I need a bf just to say “BABE WAKE UP SWEGLE UPLOADED!”
What about a temporary one? 😉🤣
@@AlwaysChasingStormsthey forgot to mention that they were born a male lmao
@@AlwaysChasingStormsI’m just joking before anyone freaks out
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just watched twisters, so this was perfect timing! the og twister is one of my favorite movies so i love tornado history!
Yep i remember looking at that interactive map of every tornado path since 1950 and scrolled to where i live near Spiro, OK. I was surprised to see an F5 path right through it. I actually drive on the road it crossed every day. Also the locals pronounce the town name same as "Cairo".
Also the El Reno-Piedmont EF5 is known for blowing over a huge oil rig that weighed 862 metric tons, almost 2 million lbs, as well as having the drill deployed causing an extra 200k lbs of downforce, it was still rolled a few times despite this, there's pics on reddit, pretty crazy.
Glad to see the Grand Rapids tornado getting a little love. A guy in my church has vivid memories of this tornado, as they lived in Standale.
Grew up in Tulsa. Can confirm we’re excellent at shaking our fists at supercells to scare off any tornadoes thinking about having the audacity to form.
my best friend survived the moore 2013 tornado; it completely destroyed his home. he managed to make it out unscathed luckily. it's so cool to know someone who experienced it firsthand. great vid btw !!!! this is a great thing to watch after a long day of work
My grandfather/ my dad's hero was unfortunately killed in the 1974 tornados that hit between Haleyville and Russellville, Alabama. He believed living basically under a bluff they were safe from the storms. Before they had a chance to get through the chicken house to the storm shelter he was hit by a cinder block. I've gotten better with not being terrified of storms in general. But, 2011 definitely didn't help my phobia of storms.
@SwegleStudios Thank You for mentioning the June 1953 Adair Iowa F-5!
I literally drove across it's path today on my way home from Greenfield... if you ever want to do further research the library in Adair should have photos of the Tornado & damage... also, there was Super 8 footage of the damage that exists!
I would argue Smithville was the most powerful tornado. The damage it did while moving as fast as it was, was insane.
Bro you gotta do a video on the 1965 Palm Sunday Great Lakes super-outbreak. I know there weren't any F5's but there were a TON of F4's and over 200 deaths and haven't heard you talk much about it. This is truly the forgotten outbreak. Keep up the great work chief!
My Grandma grew up in Tracy Minnesota, Her mom was babysitting my aunt when the tornado hit, she told me she tried driving to Tracy afterward and there were cops blocking access to the town and only let her in when she said that her mom and daughter were in the town, she never saw the tornado but she saw the damage.
You are the first one that I’m aware of that even mentions the Vicksburg and Tupelo tornadoes. My mother lost several of her childhood friends and missed going to the movie theater with her friends where they were killed!
Interesting to hear about Lincolnshires here in the UK. It makes sense considering how flat the area is.
We get a surprising amount of tornados but they're all pathetically small. Not even news worthy small.
Only notable one I can think of was Coalville, Leicestershire near me. Shopping centre roof was blown off in parts and people's homes lost parts of the roofs/ tiles. About it though
Whatever meditation sound or whatever it is in the background is like the perfect volume and accompaniment to the video 🌪️ went through my first tornado last year in my bathroom with my dogs, the wind sounded like a train whistling by going over us. Everything and everyone was ok thankfully, very scary, detroit, mi. We don’t usually get anything that bad! Awesome content my dude🌪️❤️
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The candle stick park tornado should be studied more since accross the US there was a setup for an outbreak but a capping inversion was preventing it except the candle stick storm.
The intensity rating scale of meteorologists and state of dress is peak.
32:41 Correction: The St. Louis tornado was rated an F4, not F5. The other F5 was the Oakwood, Michigan F5.
That Oakwood-Ortonville, MI tornado was particularly violent in damage descriptions. As in shoving sticks and objects into what little remained of the trees.
I find the tornado history this channel does is so good! Just a question, have their been any snow based tornadoes? Like omes that happened during snowstorms or blizzards?
I think so? There were atleast some waterspouts captured on lake Erie yesterday!
23:35 My mother-in-law survived this tornado. She said dozens of houses and even whole towns just went away that day…
As someone who has lived on the border of Istria (Croatia) and Slovenia, yep.. I was almost literally blown off my bicycle once when returning home from Buzet.. by the "Bura" winds. Only later did I find out that this was kind of a tornado alley. Wow.
So this means I watched this entire video.. and enjoyed every minute. I grew up in Chicago, lived briefly on the Central Coast of CA, then Denver, then in the Balkans, and I'm kind of a meteorology nerd. Thank you!
Australia mention! Bulahdelah is a gorgeous area, I've taken a few holidays there and had no idea we'd had a tornado there. Not surprised about the lack of photography though, it's a pretty small place.
I’m so surprised the Topeka tornado was forgotten, it deserved to be in a higher rank.
43 minute swegle studios video? in MY 2024? excited!!
The Jackson Ms tornado of 1966 is a very interesting story because if I remember correctly it was the only tornado to occur that day and it just so happened to be an f5 and it hit the capital city of mississippi
Loved the video calling out so many events that should be easily their own feature. Potentially could have been a two parter to ingraciate respect to events that need more coverage! If you dish it, we will devour it 🤑
Should definitely do some research into the 1993 Mulhall F4 that happened after the Bridge Creek F5 . Some of the most absurd stats on paper and relatively unknown.
I haven't even watched it yet and I already know this will be a banger of a video
Heres a fact, The Hudsonville-Standale F5 tornado is the first F5 tornado to be recorded on camera.
It was also the last F5 tornado in the state of Michigan (there have been no EF5's). This is something that causes the National Weather Service office in Grand Rapids great concern. They feel that since it has been nearly seven decades since we've had a violent tornado of that scale, people have become complacent. I myself have heard people say that we can't get those kind of tornadoes here because Lake Michigan protects us. The problem is most Michigan tornadoes are what Michigan Storm Chasers call "bird fart" tornadoes, little EF0 and EF1 spinups that sometimes go under the radar--literally. Every now and then we will get an EF3 or a strong EF2 which wakes people up for a while but the last F4 was in 1977 and there has been nothing stronger ever since. I'm part of the weather community up here on an informal basis and we talk about these things. One day our luck is going to run out and it will be bad.
@@theresemalmberg955 I'm also in Michigan and really into weather. Love watching storms cross over Lake Michigan and I would love to see a little rope tornado in the fields I live near by.
@@TornadoOnion Yes, if you could be sure that it would stay just a little rope tornado. But I've learned from watching channels like these that a "little rope tornado" can go from 0 to 60 in no time flat; it can morph into a quarter-mile wedge before you even know it. I live in a mobile home park with no shelter, so when severe weather threatens I have a plan to go elsewhere; and believe me I am watching the storms from the time they hit the Lake Michigan shoreline; when they hit a certain point and Michigan Storm Chasers says this cell looks to be intensifying, I'm out of my house and on my way to my safe spot even though no warning has been issued for my area. There was one time this year when they said that, and I dropped everything and was out the door. I had just enough time to get to my safe spot when they issued the warning and blew the siren. By that time I was already there. This was the day of the Dowagiac and Portage tornadoes. They said Dowagiac, I was gone. I'm in Mattawan and Texas Corners/Portage was a little too close for comfort. I was sure glad I was in my safe spot that day!
@@theresemalmberg955Even for F-4 it's been nearly 50 years since Michigan has seen one at all. Although the Dexter tornado in 2011 came within 5 mph of such.
My house is in the old path, and the amount of tornado myths that persist over here is scary. People seriously believe that we can't get anything stronger than like an EF3 over here.
So far, one of my favourite videos you have done.
We are overdue for EF5, it's nerve wrecking.
Don't jinx it. shhh 🤐
Never gonna happen. Insurance companies have bribed NWS into lowering damage stats to avoid complete insurance payouts.
Anyone championing the EF Scale is a stooge for these corrupt insurance companies.
Well we have gotten plenty of EF5 caliber tornadoes since 2013 Moore (such as the recent Greenfield tornado briefly mentioned in the video, 2014 Vilinoa, 2021 Mayfield, 2023 Rolling Fork, etc.), just the flaws of the EF scale (particularly ignoring measured wind speeds and any contextual damage indicators not directly covered under the scale's parameters), and surveyors getting weirdly strict with giving out EF4 and especially EF5 ratings after 2013, has led to none getting officially rated EF5 and thus the "EF5 drought" is artificial. NOAA even recently put out a study admitting that they have been significantly underrating tornadoes this past decade.
@@OmegaTyrant BECAUSE OF INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Seriously anyone sucking off the EF scale is complicit in these bastards ripping off the victims of tornado damage.
"Sowwy, the twister was rated an EF3, so even through your home was leveled you only get 75% of your payout! TRUST THE SOYANCE!"
Greenfield
I'm quite familiar with the Tracy and Chandler MN storms.
A neighbor whose kids I babysat for in junior high lost a grandmother or aunt in the Tracy storm.
I was in junior high when the Chandler storm happened. Don't live there, but was close enough that the entire area was just FULL of bad storms that night. We locally called it the "Night Of Storms". A town closer to where I live, Clarkfield, also took major damage. The main street was tore up all to hell and back, buildings destroyed, trees gone. An aunt called that night from Lynd, telling us that a tornado was coming down Hwy 59 from Marshall towards us, but we thankfully didn't get hit by it. Just terrible storms all night.
TBF tossing a nuclear bomb that's not armed is basically like dropping your laptop on the ground.
Thanks for including the Plainfield and the Andover events. I credit those two tornadoes with triggering my own fascination with weather in general and tornadoes in particular. I'm surprised that the Inverness tornado wasn't deeper, because I've run into exactly one other person who knew about it. He only knew because he lived in that area at the time of the storm. Knew where Pugh City was and everything. Fantastic video, as always.
36:00 Having once been a Tulsa resident, the popular opinion that got shared in my youth (90s-00s) for Tulsa's ability to dodge major tornadoes is that Tulsa is a shallow bowl compared to the surrounding landscape, and that bit of a dip is enough to change how the weather behaves, which keeps out the super bad stuff. Dunno if that's true, but yes, Tulsa doesn't get battered like the surrounding areas.
There’s about 1/4 mile strip of land between the paths of the 1991 F5 and the April 2022 F3 here in Andover, KS. And somehow smack-dab in between them, my house is still standing
Buy a lottery ticket my guy
Such a great countdown. I remember watching an HBO doc about the 97 Jarrell tornado, I was in junior high and that was when my fascination for them started.
It's very rare I watch an ad, but swegle talking about a manscaping kit.. it gets attention, dollars well spent by that company.
Appreciation for the honorable mention of the El Reno 2013 tornado. That’s a hill I will always stand strong on; everything about that tornado’s stats and the nature of it for me outweighs the rating given to it simply because it was over rural areas. Y’all know full well what that monster would have done in a populated area. It was a tornado that literally hunted storm chasers. It gets that F5 rating from me.
I missed this channel!!! I’m glad you’re back!
the hackleburg/phil campbell one started (had not touched down yet) right by my house. very tragic event that i remember clearly even though i was nine.
Swegle uploading at the perfect time once again. Quality work. Can’t wait for this one!
You should do EF 4 tornado iceberg love the content.
The various faces of Spann says it all. The intensity increases the moment the jacket comes off and the suspenders come out
i would argue that tri-state should be on the surface. personally, it was the first tornado i ever learned about, before i even got into tornadoes
I’ve Read About The 1925 Tri State Tornado A lot on Wikipedia
I very clearly remember hearing the news about Joplin because it happened while I was in North Carolina for an award ceremony (Duke TIP). I stayed in a hotel with my mother and grandmother, and the news was one while we were at breakfast talking about it (I want to say it was that Monday? But I was barely 13 so I'm not 100% sure on that). Chilling stuff.
I grew up in Cushing, Oklahoma and lived there for thirty-seven years. I don't remember the 99' tornado, but I for sure remember the 2013 one. We were getting things ready for a service that night when I heard on News9 a tornado watch down by Moore. My husband was at work in Tulsa and I was home with our three year old. I called my mother telling her about the weather and headed out there. We had some friends drivin up from Texas and had no idea where they were but wanted to make sure they didn't get on I40. That's when it was on the ground in Moore at an EF3 and went to an EF5 very quickly. We had News9 goin while cleaning out the shelter and getting everything ready. We could see the storm lookin southwest and it was huge. That's when we had to head to safety and it hit the ground after it passed us close to Drummright. Yeah, another crazy night. My dad was born and raised in Cushing and still lives there. We moved to Bixby in 2015 and haven't had one hit our area since. I started a weather group after the 2013 storm and try to help my Okies =) Oklahoma Weather Watch