Wikipedia has May 3, 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore Oklahoma tornado as fastest ever recorded. Do not get confused, it's not the fastest twisting tornado ever, just the fastest recorded by Doppler on Wheels (DOW) and less than 1% of all tornadoes ever recorded has had their speed measured by DOW because it's almost impossible to accomplish. Imagine driving a huge Doppler truck right next to an F/EF5 tornado going through traffic, cornfields, creeks, trees, rivers, fences, buildings, etc. Besides it's not accurate, hence the +22 / -22 mph variable added to all measured DOW readings. Also, was the Bridge Creek-Moore reading 200 feet high into the tornado or was it measured at ground level? "Tornado winds rapidly decrease near the ground due to friction. So having measured tornado winds several hundred feet above ground does not guarantee that we know what the speeds are at roof-top level. Survey team does not take into account radar-estimated-winds into the equation" - NOAA There is currently no way of knowing the true wind speeds of any tornado. The most accurate way is to survey ground/aerial damage then stamp an EF0 1 2 3 4 5 label on it. Bridge Creek-Moore vs Double Creek-Jarrell, all the evidence is there to witness and there is no comparison. Double Creek Estates is the worst localized damage in Tornado History. In 1997, mobile Doppler radars were in their infancy, and none were deployed on the Jarrell storm. Based on its destruction the Jarrell tornado 'easily' earned an F5 rating on the original Fujita scale, which corrresponded to 'estimated' gusts of 261 - 318 mph. So how do they come up with all these 'estimated' mph gusts? From professional surveyors surveying the damages. Not readings from Mobile Doppler on Wheels.
Timothy P. Marshall is a structural and forensic engineer as well as meteorologist. He has conducted more than 10,000 damage surveys of tornadoes, hurricanes and hailstorms. Tim is best of the best and after surveying Jarrell he said, "Houses were obliterated. The destruction was so intense, it serves as a baseline for which all other tornadoes are rated against."
27 deaths caused by the tornado occurred within one subdivision of Jarrell, a neighborhood of 38 well built houses called Double Creek Estates. Each residence was completely swept away and reduced to a concrete slab. The twister produced some of the most extreme ground scouring ever documented as the earth at and around Double Creek was scoured out to depths of 18 inches reducing lush fields of grass to vast expanses of mud. The tornado left an unbroken swath of barren earth vacant of fences, telephone poles, trees, pavement and homes that once dotted the landscape. Cars and heavy wreckers were granulated into small pieces and scattered across the earth never to be identified, think about that for a ..moment.
The cause of death for most of the victims was tactfully listed by the county coroner as "multiple trauma", although the truth was obviously far more grisly and difficult to explain to next of kin. Human and animal body parts reportedly littered the area for miles, creating an unbearable stench of decay. Police were forced to close off the entire area as a biohazard zone for weeks as cadaver dogs worked to find human body parts buried throughout the wreckage. Pieces were spread out on the floor of a local volunteer fire department - recovery teams tried to distinguish human remains from animal remains. Most had to be identified through dental records. Many were never recovered at all. What a nightmare.
i cant even imagine how terrifying it must be to be watching the news, hearing the reporter saying "tornado emergency" and then looking outside to see that monster. terrifying.
Jarrell was the Strongest Ever Tornado. *This is important: @ **10:00** minutes it says the tornado "Slowly Crawled" over bridge creek so it was identical to Jarrell or possibly slower!!! That's it? We just found Historical evidence that the Bridge Creek tornado moved slower than Jarrell. It's Finally Over-With!!! JARRELL is 👑 "'KING'" 👑*
@@thestateof6970 Sign of very explosive atmospheres on the respective days each of these super twisters occurred. With this one, there was no question what was coming. What shocked me with Joplin was how rapidly not only the tornado but the supercell itself intensified
Thank you for not just including Bridge Creek as a footnote when documenting this storm. Every other channel just says 'it hit bridge creek and did a lot of damage' and then spends the other 99% of the time talking about the moore destruction. I lived in bridge creek during this, it destroyed everything. My neighborhood, the roads, unbelievable ground scouring that is still visible to this day (2024). The entire town just turned into dust. It was like a nuke was set off. The tornado was so big that it didn't even look like one, it just looked like the sky was touching the ground. I've lived in oklahoma my whole life and have been to every major damage path since then and nothing has come even close to the complete and total destrucion of what I saw and photographed in bridge creek. Funny story, we weren't even on the map until this. We would always just have to approximate where we were based on the surrounding towns when storms were coming. After this it was cool, but a bit unsettling seeing us on the radar maps. EDIT: Here is my favorite video on this tornado when it is hitting bridge creek, I have it saved and watch it from time to time. It is shot on a hilltop home east of Amber. th-cam.com/video/8nnyOCMb-Ak/w-d-xo.html
I actually sent a thorough email to the National Weather Service during the writing of this video asking them for more resources on bridge creek, and explaining how under-reported the story was there. Thanks for sharing!
@@tornadotrx Yeah it definitely shows! Thanks for putting in effort instead of just trying to cash in on sensationalizing the disaster. Some other things, the school was spared and still stands today although they did cancel school early that year and used it as an aid station (probably FEMA I was like 10 or something so some things are hazy) which I thought was just the most amazing thing ever because who wouldn't want a longer summer break right....until we got back the next year and we learned some of our classmates aren't coming back. Many moved after their house was taken, some sadly died, and some came back permanently injured including being almost completely paralyzed. I didn't know any of this because I didn't get to stay for the memorials or clean up because I went out of state to stay at my dads the entire summer and this was well before internet as we know it today. First day of school was rough.
@tornadotrx wow! Thank you for going the extra mile to tell their stories. I'm glad NWS was able to supply more info. I lived in Moore in 1999 (and 2013 but I digress lol) but my husband and his family lived in Bridge Creek. Despite being heavily impacted in my own area, I never really knew how much Bridge Creek was devastated until my husband told me their experiences. My husband said this is the first channel he's seen not treating them as a footnote too! We both look forward to seeing many more of your videos.
I was there, on 134th & Western, in the neighborhood to the east of Westmoore High School; more than half of the neighborhood, just three streets over, was nothing but foundation slabs. I will never forget the sound of a mile wide tornado with wind speeds in excess of 300mph a few hundred feet away as long as I live
I've lived just outside OKC my entire life, and this monster remains the only tornado I've seen in person. Twenty-five years later, I still pay especially close attention to the weather in early May.
@@qsummerss It is! But it's incredibly rare that they reach my particular area. Locals like to joke that the nearby airforce base just doesn't allow them to. We've had several get close - but that was the only one close enough to see with my own eyes.
You are the ONLY Tornado documentary channel that I genuinely like and listen to. You make it easy to digest for people new to tornadoes, and you make it enjoyable for experienced tornado enjoyers!
My mom was pregnant with me holding my siblings in my grandpa’s bath tub during this. She said it was one of the most horrific things she ever went through. So grateful she was able to keep us all safe even by herself❤
Nice production value! My dad and stepmom were living in Edmond just northeast of OKC and had a little f3 tornado that ripped up a little 15ft high tree and a 15th wide part of a traditional looking wood fence that keeps out livestock.
@@tornadotrxconsidering how close the tornado got to the Oklahoma City Metro I’d say it’s a miracle that it stopped when it did Who knows what kind of damage it could have done if it got to the Metro and the Skyscrapers of the City Center Also that Baby was lucky as hell to survived
My papa was in the eye of the storm. He was driving home from visiting someone and he went under an overpass when the storm passed over and he could feel the suction release its hold on him before starting up again a few minutes later Here is the text he sent me at my request: “Yep. It was pulling at me and the pulling suddenly stopped. I relaxed my grip and then realized I was in the “eye” and just as I tried to return my grip the other side of the tornado winds came through and almost pulled me out. It was just my realization of the reality of the situation that saved me.” “I came out covered in mud. My mouth had mud in it. My glasses were completely covered in mud.” “My truck had a side mirror ripped off and I couldn’t get it started but a couple offered to take me to (my great aunt’s) apartment about 2 miles away where I spent the night and walked back to my truck the next morning and it started. I went back home and got a shower and went to work. I got a new mirror after work”
A lot of tornado TH-camrs seem a bit distasteful, but your videos don’t seem exploitative or disrespectful to those who’ve died. Keep up the good work!
*This is important: @ **10:00** minutes it says the tornado "Slowly Crawled" over bridge creek so it was identical to Jarrell or possibly slower!!! That's it? We just found Historical evidence that the Bridge Creek tornado moved slower than Jarrell. It's Finally Over-With!!! JARRELL is 👑 "'KING'" 👑*
@@Maria.Isabella.Sanchez Jarrell tornado maxed at 318 mph, bridge creek- Moore tornado maxed at 321 mph, but I’m sure different sites have different numbers. Bridge creek- Moore is recognized as having the fastest wind speed on earth.
@@Samantha_Lavery_Medici both you and the commenter before have your first, middle, and last name as your username, both joined 2 years ago, have 24-25 subscribers, and the only comments ever made were on this video. Bots I presume?
It honestly amazed me that the young child of the Crago family survived. I cannot imagine how reliefed Amy must have been when finding out that her child survived.
My daughter is about that age and I feel terrible because my first thought was "dude doesn't know how to hold a baby", then I realized he was checking for - and terrified he'd find - some awful wound on her.
Absolutely. The craziest thing is, she was actually interested after this experience to become a meteorologist. To me its crazy, because she doesn't feel fear, rather she wants to help and prevent others from the situation she was in, because it could always be worse. There is an interview i believe
@@tonton.- I get it, my house was struck by an f4 tornado as a kid and it definitely contributed to my interest in science. You just feel how crazy and dramatic life can be, it snaps you out of the usual day to day nonsense:
I'm from Oklahoma City and I am under the bridge where Mike Duncan was filming with a friend that day my white mercury sable is the car in the video under the overpass . We left to chase this storm with a portable TV and a Map that was it . I quit chasing after this, and we came upon the part where the lady was sucked out from under the turnpike overpass . We actually started to stop there but decided to follow channel 4 instead, probably saving our lives . The worst damage I've ever seen from a tornado.
I remember that day if it was yesterday, I lived on 149th street and right ahead of Brairwood. Idi dnot know how close this thing wa, since my family was all huddled in the bathrub...i did not know how lucky we were.
Quite a few years ago a mini tornado touched down in the UK near where I live, all it did was knock a few roof tiles off and a billboard down, but the way the sky went black suddenly felt like the world was ending. I cant imagine what a proper tornado feels like, and how suddenly they can come about.
I was hit by this tornado. I was 9 years old and was picked up by my dad from school instead of taking the bus. He informed me i wasn’t going to Taekwondo. There was a tornado and my mom was nervous. It was the longest 40 min of my life watching that storm inch its way to Moore (where I lived). Our house was partially damaged, but the neighbors across the street completely lost their home. I’ll never forget watching our attic fan go completely vertical. We stuffed ourselves in a closet and couldn’t completely close the door.
It's true! It's so much more interesting than some people in their Honda Accord driving down back roads trying to chase a tornado. The storytelling is excellent.
I love the visual diagrams , exapmles and such. People always say like ,"it was 5 miles long and covered the whole city" but only show a map . Its hard to visualize 5 miles off the top of your head
I graduated from Bridge Creek. I was only a child when this tornado occurred, near Tinker AFB, and it just barely missed my family. After growing up in Europe going from air base to air base and being told all the wile of this ONE tornado, the BIG ONE, that to this day is just referred to locally as "May 3rd", we came back to Oklahoma years later, eventually settling IN Bridge Creek. My parents' home can see the water tower that is still dented to this day, near the Crago family home, just a half mile behind my parents. It was incredible, the moment of revelation to 13 year old me, that the tornado that nearly hit my family over a decade prior destroyed the community we would come to settle in years later. I still recall the May 2015 tornado, the year before our graduation, taking a very similar path, hitting the same neighborhoods, and the grief of the individuals who had lived through both in under two decades. Graduating with individuals who knew victims, had family members be victims, or were victims themselves was truly enlightening, it felt like touching history.
@@JesseLikesWeather*This is important: @ **10:00** minutes it says the tornado "Slowly Crawled" over bridge creek so it was identical to Jarrell or possibly slower!!! That's it? We just found Historical evidence that the Bridge Creek tornado moved slower than Jarrell. It's Finally Over-With!!! JARRELL is 👑 "'KING'" 👑*
I was extremely thankful to hear them mention Kathleen's sacrifice for Levi. If she hadn't let go of Levi they would have both become casualties. She really was an amazing woman and was more then patient with me and Levi's shenanigans back in Ft. Cobb.
I’ve been waiting for this one. I was almost 8 years old and lived in Moore at the time (still live here). I remember my dad throwing my sister, mom, pets and I in the car and driving to the school where he was a teacher to get out of the direct path. We lived in the Eastlake neighborhood directly across Western from the one that was demolished. My husband lived in the Eastlake neighborhood and lost his home. They had one wall left standing, and it was the wall with his pet gecko’s tank pushed up against it. The gecko survived. Crazy! Thank you for covering these. I love watching them!
Wow!! I was almost 9 years old when it happened… I vaguely remember having to shelter in my grandparent’s storm shelter… we were from Edmond, but still better safe than sorry. Also, that gecko is so lucky! I hope he was renamed to Miracle or something! ❤️
Wikipedia has May 3, 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore Oklahoma tornado as fastest ever recorded. Do not get confused, it's not the fastest twisting tornado ever, just the fastest recorded by Doppler on Wheels (DOW) and less than 1% of all tornadoes ever recorded has had their speed measured by DOW because it's almost impossible to accomplish. Imagine driving a huge Doppler truck right next to an F/EF5 tornado going through traffic, cornfields, creeks, trees, rivers, fences, buildings, etc. Besides it's not accurate, hence the +22 / -22 mph variable added to all measured DOW readings. Also, was the Bridge Creek-Moore reading 200 feet high into the tornado or was it measured at ground level? "Tornado winds rapidly decrease near the ground due to friction. So having measured tornado winds several hundred feet above ground does not guarantee that we know what the speeds are at roof-top level. Survey team does not take into account radar-estimated-winds into the equation" - NOAA There is currently no way of knowing the true wind speeds of any tornado. The most accurate way is to survey ground/aerial damage then stamp an EF0 1 2 3 4 5 label on it. Bridge Creek-Moore vs Double Creek-Jarrell, all the evidence is there to witness and there is no comparison. Double Creek Estates is the worst localized damage in Tornado History. In 1997, mobile Doppler radars were in their infancy, and none were deployed on the Jarrell storm. Based on its destruction the Jarrell tornado 'easily' earned an F5 rating on the original Fujita scale, which corrresponded to 'estimated' gusts of 261 - 318 mph. So how do they come up with all these 'estimated' mph gusts? From professional surveyors surveying the damages. Not readings from Mobile Doppler on Wheels.
@@The_Hitcher_86 this copy pasta has got to be a bunch of bots or something cant believe someone is actually paying to spread widely available information
@@The_Hitcher_86 The only thing that you described, that was a major error was...you combined F with EF. The two are VERY DIFFERENT. Practically everyone has almost blindly adopted the EF rating system as superior to the F rating system; which is NOT the case. The EF rating system measures the aftermath of the tornadoes destruction. Which is highly subjective, based on many variables. Example, quality of constructed structures or lack thereof is one major fluctuating factor. Without going into great detail due to time constraints. The EF rating system is highly subjective and over generalized in its assessments, assuming everything that a tornado hits is basically equal in those structural strengths, i.e., homes, buildings, trees, etc. While you were right when stating that the measures to determine wind speed is measured so many feet above the ground, and the actual wind speed at ground level is reduced due to friction. There's no way to accurately determine ground wind speed of any tornado precisely. Sadly, everything is money motivated; even those who claim to make so-called scientific evaluations. Biases come into play and many of those biases are never really exposed as fraudulent in comparison to actual truth. I personally IMHO think that all tornado speeds are speculative, even though it has come a long way. The human factor blurrs the precise actual truths; ego, pride, emotion and of course money all play a role in blurring the EXACT power/speed of any given tornado. Human nature hates to be wrong and corrected, even in the so-called professional world of experts. P.S. some structures are old and weren't built to current upgraded building codes and materials as well as designs. Therefore depending on where a said tornado goes through. It may appear...to be rated a higher ef rating system due to the observable damage, but the structures that were destroyed in said region, city, town or rural area may not have been up to building codes. Not all things being equal. That's why I don't put any confidence in the EF rating system based on destruction. The F rating system also has its flaws. Measures of wind speed above actual ground level and variables of the tornadoes consistency, even within a few yards. It's all a crap shoot, if you ask me. Personally, I think the 1999 bridgcreek and Jerrell tornadoes were the most powerful in US history. That's just my opinion.
23:59 that horizontal vortex is something straight out of a horror movie. And Mike and company know at the time you mentioned they’re staring down an F5
This storm actually continued throughout the night...going Northeast until it lowered and hit west Tulsa at about 10:00 PM. Nothing like Moore and Bridge Creek. It was a beast.
My dad sat on the highway when it crossed over and it's still one of the scariest moments in his life. Also just gotta say the visuals, the newsfeed, the details --you got a SYSTEM and it WORKS. One of my fave channels to see an upload from
This is honestly one of the greatest tornado channels ever created, it’s amazing how you find all of this information even though it was 1999. Deserves a million subs at least, keep up the great work
Wikipedia has May 3, 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore Oklahoma tornado as fastest ever recorded. Do not get confused, it's not the fastest twisting tornado ever, just the fastest recorded by Doppler on Wheels (DOW) and less than 1% of all tornadoes ever recorded has had their speed measured by DOW because it's almost impossible to accomplish. Imagine driving a huge Doppler truck right next to an F/EF5 tornado going through traffic, cornfields, creeks, trees, rivers, fences, buildings, etc. Besides it's not accurate, hence the +22 / -22 mph variable added to all measured DOW readings. Also, was the Bridge Creek-Moore reading 200 feet high into the tornado or was it measured at ground level? "Tornado winds rapidly decrease near the ground due to friction. So having measured tornado winds several hundred feet above ground does not guarantee that we know what the speeds are at roof-top level. Survey team does not take into account radar-estimated-winds into the equation" - NOAA There is currently no way of knowing the true wind speeds of any tornado. The most accurate way is to survey ground/aerial damage then stamp an EF0 1 2 3 4 5 label on it. Bridge Creek-Moore vs Double Creek-Jarrell, all the evidence is there to witness and there is no comparison. Double Creek Estates is the worst localized damage in Tornado History. In 1997, mobile Doppler radars were in their infancy, and none were deployed on the Jarrell storm. Based on its destruction the Jarrell tornado 'easily' earned an F5 rating on the original Fujita scale, which corrresponded to 'estimated' gusts of 261 - 318 mph. So how do they come up with all these 'estimated' mph gusts? From professional surveyors surveying the damages. Not readings from Mobile Doppler on Wheels.
I only discovered your channel recently, but your infographics and "drawings" on the zoomed in maps (I dont know a better way to describe them) make these videos absolutely addicting.
Bravo! The Narrator actually pronounced Lawton AND Chickasha correctly. I was ENG at KSWO in Lawton watching the incredible coverage from the Channel 4 chopper.
Hello there I'm an 18 year old guy writing this from India. I truly don't know from which perspective of apprehension the people from over the Bridge Creek go all the way to Moore witnessed this terror but as a weather climates enthusiast I often strive to think how vile really nature can go to show its dalliance of horror upon mankind and however I also came across the documentary of the Tornado occurred in El Reno back in the year 2013 which has been regarded as the Widest and quite vivid tornados ever formed in but watching this video in 2024 somehow changed my conception that the potential record of that tornado has already been broken by this one. I really had quite a bit of thrills and chills along with this video, unfortunate for the people who lost their lives and those who were injured majorly, besides all of these took a massive tax of the destruction of multiple resources throughout the area. Lastly I really appreciate the way you represented the entire video with subtle details at every single fragment. Keep on going forwards creating such informative contents and make my day as always man!!
As an oklahoma resident, i absolutely am fascinated by tornadoes. I have seen MANY HOURS of footage of this tornado, same with the 2013 tornado. This video contains some of the most interesting and worst footage ive seen, as well as stories. The mother one. The tornado emerging from the debris cloud. Never seen these. This is the perfect channel.
i live in Sweden so i never experience natural disasters like this, how come you still live here knowing that any time during may(ish) a tornado could form and sweep your home away?
*This is important: @ **10:00** minutes it says the tornado "Slowly Crawled" over bridge creek so it was identical to Jarrell or possibly slower!!! That's it? We just found Historical evidence that the Bridge Creek tornado moved slower than Jarrell. It's Finally Over-With!!! JARRELL is 👑 "'KING'" 👑*
@@fortnitetrashcan8308 because some people just cant move out, some people have their shelters and some people just know when to tell they can leave. Gone to Norman multiple times where its actually right next to OKC, people come to terms with it and the community unites to those who were hurt. People are good, yes some are bad but we stay because of that. Just experience. In the end, every area has a particular risk here. If you live in a new area, you leave a problem to have another. Besides, oklahoma is honestly just calmer.
@@Alien_Observer_LV-426 well.. speed doesn't really matter when it comes to tornadoes. Jarrell went slow. 15 mph forward speed while El Reno was up to 50 MPH. The forward speed of Bridge creek is not identified. In the end, speed does not matter . Dont know where that comes from
That moment at 8:08 was terrifying as it went from a thin tornado to a monster wedge in seconds. Same way as how the Joplin EF5 formed in May 2011 where it went from nothing to an absolute monster in seconds
Well technically you could see the circulation itself was already that large, visible from the dust being kicked up. Still absolutely terrifying to see the condensation funnel just quadruple in size like that though
16:05 It's almost a little eerie, like the tornado slows down to briefly boast its power. Casually waiting for the dow trucks to witness the highest recorded wind speed on earth.
It's actually not the highest, but it is believed to be the highest we've been able to record. The one in 2013, in Oklahoma, was believed to have wind speeds of up to 336 mp/h. This was based on damage, though, and wasn't recorded.
I have deployed to several of the worst disasters in the past few years. Hurricanes don't scare me. Flash floods, earthquakes, and tornados are what terrify me. Floods sweep everything imaginable away, earthquakes make buildings come down hard, and tornados leave nothing left.
I’m 14 and really want to have tornado chasing when I get older and your channel has educated me more than anything channel or website ever has. Thank you!
@@SqueakydoesAirsoftcan you share your experience? I'm from Philippines and we don't experience tornado here, but soon I'll move there to become a chaser
Hey Gary! Thats incredible to hear and I had the same aspirations at your age. I am doing a physics major right now and still want to become a tornado chaser and also help people out where and wheen needed. Never give up your dream :)
I think vortices originally start horizontally and wedge down vertically. By that sense, seeing a horizontal vortex while there's already existing vertical wedge is really fearsome
I grew up in Bridge Creek, although I wasn’t there in 1999, I had this old elderly couple that lived at the end of the culdesac to my neighborhood. I remember them asking them about that tornado from 1999 because my mom told them I was a weather nerd. The stories they told me scared the shit out of me, the described the roar of that tornado as something from another world, luckily they only had roof damage as they were on the edge of the path. Hope those two are still doing alright.
A really fenomenal, very-well-made video of a terrible tragedy. Particularly, the whole work done on the map and the after aerial views to show the size and trajectory of the tornado, showing the position from which the footage was taken, really do wonders in illustrating its significance, the speed with which it changes and the damage done. Back in 1999, I remember seeing on TV the news,. some of this footage and thinking to myself how terrible it was to have a huge tornado on a dense urban area, as one was used to news of tornadoes on the US hitting mainly rural areas and small towns (which is of course also devastating).
I grew up in North TX and I still remember the day this happened. I've been fascinated by this storm ever since and I've watched hours of media discussing it. This was one of the best documentaries on Bridge-Moore F5 I've ever seen
I definitely remember this day. I live 3 miles from Stecker, the place the 3rd tornado touched down. We were standing outside watching the storm clouds. I look straight up and see the clouds starting to spin. We watched as it moved toward Stecker and saw the funnel form. We knew it hit something, but we hoped it was an old barn. We went to follow behind the tornado (common teen thing at the time), came up to some downed power lines, saw a county sheriff and asked if everyone was ok. He just pointed down the road where we saw the concrete slab where a house used to be. We asked if they needed any help, he said they had plenty of help and very politely asked us to turn around. A week later, I had to go to OKC for a school thing. We took I-44. Near Bridge Creek, you could look out to the fields next to the interstate and they looked freshly plowed. No grass, no trees, nothing but bare dirt. Absolutely shocking to see. Winds so strong, it ripped up the ground.
I've watched... more than a few documentaries about this tornado, and this is by far the best. No sensationalism, just the facts, delivered in a calm manner, with relevant mapping of the course, footage where available, and respectful coverage of those lost. Bravo Sir, this is setting a new standard for YT Tornado Documentaries. Sub well earned.
I don't usually comment, but it's rare that I'm here this early and I wanted to say your tornado documentaries are always incredibly high quality. I enjoy hearing about tornadoes I've already heard a lot about because you're such a good presenter. Always looking forward to new videos from you. Hope this video takes off! You deserve it ^ _ ^.
This is the only tornado channel that really keeps me captivated, the way the tornado path is shown is incredibly simple, easy to understand. VoiceOver is soft spoken and legible, I love videos like these. Kudos to you 💯
That tornado is STILL the most infamous ever. All you have to do is say “so, May 3rd 1999” to anyone from OKC and you will be met immediately with stories. I’ve done it. Crazy
When i mentioned to my mom i discovered this channel, she told if thete was a video about this tornado. At the time there wasn't, so she told me how she experienced it while she and my dad were students at OU. Crazy to believe i wouldn't be here if it had gone south (no pun intended). Really love how respectfully you cover this events and the narration is amazing.
This channel reminds me of LEMMINO but for weather and I LOVE IT - you are incredible - pacing, information, respect - you have it all Thank you for feeding my hyperfixations
Same. Poor little one was completely traumatized. I can't begin to imagine her mother's relief. I would fall on my knees, rocking and sobbing with every fiber of my being if someone gave my baby back to me after that.
@cherylhulting1301 just thinking about my babies hurting like that's got a fella near upset. Though my family and I don't live in a tornado prone area of the US, you best believe after watching this I'm looking into tornado shelters to put in my basement.
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Just subscribed. This is one of the best videos and narration I've ever seen on this tornado. I really loved the moment by moment description and visual of the tornado's life, from beginning to end. I was intensely focused.
I had seen most of these clips separately before but never connected chronologically along the path like this. You brought a whole new perspective, cheers man! I hope you also do the 2013 Moore tornado eventually.
As a tornado Survivor it's a shame how quickly we forget the infamous EF0 that devastated plastic lawn furniture in patio umbrellas in Mansfield Massachusetts a few years ago..... never forget
Don’t even remind me about that day…my mom’s poor flower pot got knocked over and I remember the patio chair getting moved 2 inches to the left…scary stuff
During 22:55 , when I saw the American flag as the only thing standing, it made me pause the video to think. No matter what comes in our way, we'll still stand. We're stronger than any brick home ever seen before, a nation with iron wits and the integrity and strength to survive any tornado seen before. We've been through so much. The Civil War, stock market crash, WW2, Cold War and so many more events that I didn't name that could've been the end for America, but we always stood. We will be like that flag. As the dust settles and destruction reigns, we'll always stand there, no matter the wind. And I seriously don't understand why so many people want to hate on America, especially Americans. We should look at what we have, and use it. Even though our nation isn't perfect, by far it's the strongest ever seen in human history, not even the Romans could compare to us.
Following the May 20th, 2013 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma; someone managed to hang an American flag from the branches of a tree that had been completely stripped of its bark and foliage. Anytime I see photos like this; I think of how the residents of places such as Moore, Oklahoma or Joplin, Missouri and how the residents of these cities refuse to be broken by a natural disaster. Following the F-5 tornado that struck Oakfield, Wisconsin on July 18th, 1996; the residents of Oakfield adopted a slogan as their unofficial motto: "Blown apart, yet sticking together." In fact residents of Oakfield were some of the first people to donate supplies and money as well as assisting with cleanup efforts in communities devastated by tornadoes.
I was in my first tornado in late May of 1998 in northwestern kansas. There was so much activity that i didnt know what to look at first. Im from New Mexico so we dont have as violent of weather as Kansas does. Hot wind to cold wind, hail, cat tails, green skies and the lightning was hit all around us. I watched a telephone pole explode right across the street from me. The tornado didnt hit us, but it was very very close. Just being close was the most violent weather I had ever seen. I moved to the same town in Kansas years later and I went through 4 tornado seasons and got to experience some of the most horrendous weather ive ever seen. I have had to hit a basement and stay there until the storm passed on a dozen occasions. I couldnt help it most of the time and I would go outside to watch. Incredible.
Ever since I was tiny, I've had a phobia of tornadoes, even though I don't live in a place where violent tornadoes are super common. They've happened before in the area, but never close enough to me to be impacted. But apparently when I was little, my aunt's house got whalloped by a tornado and was reduced to debris. I guess my grandma took me out there and I was terrified. Anything to do with tornadoes sent me into a panic, even mentions of them. Definitely boosted by my anxiety lol But randomly for whatever reason one of your videos popped up on my page one day and I thought hey, what the heck. Now I'm actually really interested in tornadoes, like the science behind them and whatnot, as well as overall severe weather. They still terrify me, but they're also SO interesting. So thanks for helping me find a positive side to my fear lol, your videos are awesome
@@Ron1nAirsoftHard to tell. If we look at DOW data that may be true. If we talk about purely damage and DI than Moore is probably in Top 3 with Jarrel and Piedmont-El Reno. Also hard evaluate between them because Jarrel literally stationary and Moore had so much debree on it, that this debree shredded nearly everything combined with the violent winds. Imo Piedmont-El reno was The strongest tornado ever
Westmoore high school graduate here. This is one of the better videos I’ve seen on May third. People in fair weather states don’t really understand what hearing the voice of ~your~ meteorologist is like when your life depends on it. People in south OKC stake their lives on meteorologists multiple times per year y’all.
This is one of the best Tornado Documentaries I’ve ever seen. The details of this are just incredible. This Mutilator was Jarrell/Joplin/Hesston/Phil Campbell all wrapped into one Hellish Monster. Winds Over 300 mph and only moving at 25-30 mph. It grinded everything into hamburger basically. Unspeakable Power. 15:44 Oh My Goodness
18:14 that clearly defined stove pipe dancing across the interstate is absolutely fucking horrifying dude. I can’t even imagine being there in the midst of that.
Best tornado channel on TH-cam. I love the animations with the pictures for support. Now you have to cover the 2011 Hackleburg-Phil Campbell EF5. Then you'll have the unholy trinity of Bridge-Creek, Jarrel, and Hackleburg-Phil Campbell, imo the strongest three ever documented in terms of measurable damage from a verifiably single tornado.
As an Oklahoman, watching these videos is terrifying and sad because several people I know have been impacted by these storms, but also learning about tornadoes helps me to feel more prepared during tornado season. I started watching videos like this around spring of this year and it really is fascinating.
as someone who lives in oklahoma and recently just went through another thank you for shining light on this, most of the time our tornados dont even hit the ground but when it does it can be chaotic and scary. my mom was in her closet during this, she said it was pretty scary but barely hit her.
This was so well made! I was fully engaged and interested the entire time. Doing documentaries on these famous older Tornadoes is a cool way to look back on them , before the era of smart phones and having a million angles of every storm
I was coming home from school that day and saw the thunderheads in the distance I looked at mom and said "I hope we get some good rain today!" I lived between Guthrie and Edmond at the time.
Discovered your channel recently and find it very fascinating. Very well done video. I was there for it and was working as a teen at a local McDonald’s in Moore when it hit. We had to shelter in the restrooms and remember people coming from nearby apt complexes to shelter as well. The aftermath looked like a war zone. I remember spending hours trying to find ways to get home from work bc the National Guard had all roadways blocked. That was my senior year at the high school that got hit. Basically cancelled the rest of the semester. The house I grew up in was completely wiped out in the eastlake estate neighborhood next to the high school
Lived through this in bridgecreek. Barely missed our house after it wiped out ridgecrest church. A few of my friends lost everything and one survived in his bathtub while the house disappeared around him. Some of my classmates were injured badly. My mothers friends a married couple were ripped out of their vehicle and killed. They accidentally drove into it. A really crazy thing was one of the only things that survived from my best friends house was the vhs movie twister. It looked like a nuke hit ponds ,grass, everything was sucked up. Just red dirt and debris. We had damage from smaller tornados spinning around it. I'll never forget it. I still live here and we have had other tornadoes come up the same path following interstate 44 and we got hit pretty good around 2014. Despite this the community has grown big time and our small rural area is disappearing unfortunately.
In 1989 I was a wheat wacker in Oklahoma among other states. One morning we were getting our combines ready for the day when the landowner showed up and started BSN with us. There wasn't a cloud in sight, except for the very edge of the sky and the landowner told us that those clouds were going to whip around and dump a whole bunch of rain and we better get out of there. I didn't really take what he said seriously. I bet not even 20 minutes later all of a sudden it started raining like crazy. It was raining so hard we hopped in our service truck which wasn't a four-wheel drive, it had duallys on it, and we barely made it out of the field. I never seen anything before or since like that. I'm 62 now. I was probably about 23 years old at the time We didn't work for a week because it was so wet. So yeah Oklahoma's got some crazy weather man and it can change in a heartbeat.
Agreed. Thankfully, I live on the eastern side of the Appalachians which protect us from getting tornadoes. We've only had 1 or 2 in my 60 years and they were minor. One hit a wooded area and fizzled out quickly, the other was also minor and caused part of a roof to blow off in a commercial building. Weather has always fascinated me. Keep up the good work and you have a great voice for it. Very pleasant on the ears. Very respectful and humble as well. This channel should take off and do very well with the current format and presentation. ❤
23:27 you can hear the pain in his voice its sad that this tragic event happened and hopefully it wont happpen again r.i.p for those who passed away in this monster
Surreal to see the birds eye view of my in-laws' house (well, the concrete slab that was left of it) and their butcher shop still standing maybe 50 yards away. They survived in the storm shelter, thankfully. My own family lived in Moore, and we narrowly avoided being hit. Maybe a block or so south of the path. You do a great job tempering the science and curiosity of it all with the human element of these being some of the worst days of our lives. Thank you for doing what you do.
I believe the reason why the Bridge Creek-OKC tornado is still regarded as the strongest tornado currently recorded is because it was a single tornado, not a multi-vortex, if the information I've read before is still accurate. So, the max wind speed was all from a single circulation, single funnel. According to wikipedia, the highest windspeed was also revised to 517 kmh or 321 mph. Using the old F scale, for a brief moment this monster was actually an F6 despite not being classfied as such unlike the 1970 Lubbock tornado and 1974 Xenia tornado, both of which were downgraded to F5 later.
I was born a little more than 2 months before May 3rd, 1999 (February 26), and I was probably resting in a crib the day that the first Tornado Emergency was issued. The idea of a high-end F5 tornado with wind speeds of 321 MPH plowing through a metropolitan area is a horrifying story that we hope will never repeat... ...but I fear the day is always around the corner. 7:59 - _This_ footage... the Bridge Creek Tornado taking on its true form is equal parts awe-inspiring and terrifying.
@@hertzwave8001 | What I mean by that is not that there's anything past F5 or EF5. My statement was to explain how incredibly severe by F5 standards the Bridge Creek Tornado was. And even _then_ there are tornadoes that produced even worse damage, like Guin, Jarrell, the four EF5's from the 2011 Super Outbreak, or Piedmont-Guthrie to name a few.
@@lancecurry7538 For overall damage, no tornado, not even Guin, Smithville, have compared to May 3rd. The only tornadoes since 1950 that can compare are Gans 1957 (which dug 3 feet into the ground), Bakersfield Valley 1990 (which did many unbelievable things), and Piedmont 2011 (which dug possibly 2 feet into the ground, shredded hardwood trees, and destroyed concrete foundations, something May 3rd didn't do).
You have to make a video on the massive tornado outbreak in Florida coming from Milton, there was atleast a few EF3s and EF4s, one tornado in Fort Pierce was even a 1.5-2 mile wide EF3 or EF4
I was 6 years old and remember walking the destruction with my Dad and Uncle the next morning. It hopped over my grandmas house and missed her street and absolutely devastated the rest of the neighborhood. I can still close my eyes and see the devastation, it looked like a town out of a WWII movie that had been bombed to rubble. It was one of the most unbelievable things I had ever seen.
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Keep adding videos too your playlist for me, I like sleeping and listening
how tf did hen uplaod this vid 28 mins ago and post this comment 10 hrs ago what
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That video of the officer finding the baby is INCREDIBLE, even crazier that she survived at all
Wikipedia has May 3, 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore Oklahoma tornado as fastest ever recorded. Do not get confused, it's not the fastest twisting tornado ever, just the fastest recorded by Doppler on Wheels (DOW) and less than 1% of all tornadoes ever recorded has had their speed measured by DOW because it's almost impossible to accomplish.
Imagine driving a huge Doppler truck right next to an F/EF5 tornado going through traffic, cornfields, creeks, trees, rivers, fences, buildings, etc. Besides it's not accurate, hence the +22 / -22 mph variable added to all measured DOW readings. Also, was the Bridge Creek-Moore reading 200 feet high into the tornado or was it measured at ground level?
"Tornado winds rapidly decrease near the ground due to friction. So having measured tornado winds several hundred feet above ground does not guarantee that we know what the speeds are at roof-top level. Survey team does not take into account radar-estimated-winds into the equation" - NOAA
There is currently no way of knowing the true wind speeds of any tornado. The most accurate way is to survey ground/aerial damage then stamp an EF0 1 2 3 4 5 label on it. Bridge Creek-Moore vs Double Creek-Jarrell, all the evidence is there to witness and there is no comparison. Double Creek Estates is the worst localized damage in Tornado History.
In 1997, mobile Doppler radars were in their infancy, and none were deployed on the Jarrell storm. Based on its destruction the Jarrell tornado 'easily' earned an F5 rating on the original Fujita scale, which corrresponded to 'estimated' gusts of 261 - 318 mph. So how do they come up with all these 'estimated' mph gusts? From professional surveyors surveying the damages. Not readings from Mobile Doppler on Wheels.
@Samantha_Lavery_Medici ma'am, this is a Wendy's.
I couldn't help it 😂 good info though 👍
Timothy P. Marshall is a structural and forensic engineer as well as meteorologist. He has conducted more than 10,000 damage surveys of tornadoes, hurricanes and hailstorms. Tim is best of the best and after surveying Jarrell he said, "Houses were obliterated. The destruction was so intense, it serves as a baseline for which all other tornadoes are rated against."
27 deaths caused by the tornado occurred within one subdivision of Jarrell, a neighborhood of 38 well built houses called Double Creek Estates. Each residence was completely swept away and reduced to a concrete slab. The twister produced some of the most extreme ground scouring ever documented as the earth at and around Double Creek was scoured out to depths of 18 inches reducing lush fields of grass to vast expanses of mud. The tornado left an unbroken swath of barren earth vacant of fences, telephone poles, trees, pavement and homes that once dotted the landscape. Cars and heavy wreckers were granulated into small pieces and scattered across the earth never to be identified, think about that for a ..moment.
The cause of death for most of the victims was tactfully listed by the county coroner as "multiple trauma", although the truth was obviously far more grisly and difficult to explain to next of kin. Human and animal body parts reportedly littered the area for miles, creating an unbearable stench of decay. Police were forced to close off the entire area as a biohazard zone for weeks as cadaver dogs worked to find human body parts buried throughout the wreckage. Pieces were spread out on the floor of a local volunteer fire department - recovery teams tried to distinguish human remains from animal remains. Most had to be identified through dental records. Many were never recovered at all. What a nightmare.
i cant even imagine how terrifying it must be to be watching the news, hearing the reporter saying "tornado emergency" and then looking outside to see that monster. terrifying.
8:20 OH MY GOD THAT THING GREW FASTER THEN MY DAD WENT TO GET THD MILK
@@mateosbestyoutubechannelpl5471lol
@@mateosbestyoutubechannelpl5471not funny.
Jarrell was the Strongest Ever Tornado. *This is important: @ **10:00** minutes it says the tornado "Slowly Crawled" over bridge creek so it was identical to Jarrell or possibly slower!!! That's it? We just found Historical evidence that the Bridge Creek tornado moved slower than Jarrell. It's Finally Over-With!!! JARRELL is 👑 "'KING'" 👑*
As others have said, when a tornado is so big that it doesn't even look like a tornado, then it's Apocalyptic.
8:00 The fact that the tornado goes from a weak looking multi vortex blob to a huge wedge absolutely terrifies me.
That portion of the video was absolutely hellish
Strikingly similar to the footage of Joplin 2011's rapid development
@@thestateof6970 Sign of very explosive atmospheres on the respective days each of these super twisters occurred. With this one, there was no question what was coming. What shocked me with Joplin was how rapidly not only the tornado but the supercell itself intensified
@@thestateof6970 i thought of the dancing vortexes near the beginning of the 2013 el reno tornado
@@thestateof6970this thing was Joplin on steroids.
Thank you for not just including Bridge Creek as a footnote when documenting this storm. Every other channel just says 'it hit bridge creek and did a lot of damage' and then spends the other 99% of the time talking about the moore destruction. I lived in bridge creek during this, it destroyed everything. My neighborhood, the roads, unbelievable ground scouring that is still visible to this day (2024). The entire town just turned into dust. It was like a nuke was set off. The tornado was so big that it didn't even look like one, it just looked like the sky was touching the ground. I've lived in oklahoma my whole life and have been to every major damage path since then and nothing has come even close to the complete and total destrucion of what I saw and photographed in bridge creek.
Funny story, we weren't even on the map until this. We would always just have to approximate where we were based on the surrounding towns when storms were coming. After this it was cool, but a bit unsettling seeing us on the radar maps.
EDIT: Here is my favorite video on this tornado when it is hitting bridge creek, I have it saved and watch it from time to time. It is shot on a hilltop home east of Amber. th-cam.com/video/8nnyOCMb-Ak/w-d-xo.html
I actually sent a thorough email to the National Weather Service during the writing of this video asking them for more resources on bridge creek, and explaining how under-reported the story was there. Thanks for sharing!
@@tornadotrxthat’s quite commendable
I always tell people Bridge Creek is the creamy center of the Tri City area between Newcastle, Tuttle, and Blanchard.
@@tornadotrx Yeah it definitely shows! Thanks for putting in effort instead of just trying to cash in on sensationalizing the disaster. Some other things, the school was spared and still stands today although they did cancel school early that year and used it as an aid station (probably FEMA I was like 10 or something so some things are hazy) which I thought was just the most amazing thing ever because who wouldn't want a longer summer break right....until we got back the next year and we learned some of our classmates aren't coming back. Many moved after their house was taken, some sadly died, and some came back permanently injured including being almost completely paralyzed. I didn't know any of this because I didn't get to stay for the memorials or clean up because I went out of state to stay at my dads the entire summer and this was well before internet as we know it today. First day of school was rough.
@tornadotrx wow! Thank you for going the extra mile to tell their stories. I'm glad NWS was able to supply more info. I lived in Moore in 1999 (and 2013 but I digress lol) but my husband and his family lived in Bridge Creek. Despite being heavily impacted in my own area, I never really knew how much Bridge Creek was devastated until my husband told me their experiences. My husband said this is the first channel he's seen not treating them as a footnote too! We both look forward to seeing many more of your videos.
I was there, on 134th & Western, in the neighborhood to the east of Westmoore High School; more than half of the neighborhood, just three streets over, was nothing but foundation slabs. I will never forget the sound of a mile wide tornado with wind speeds in excess of 300mph a few hundred feet away as long as I live
What did it sound like?
I've lived just outside OKC my entire life, and this monster remains the only tornado I've seen in person. Twenty-five years later, I still pay especially close attention to the weather in early May.
how come you're in Oklahoma and you haven't seen one since bridge creek? I thought OK was a tornado hotspot??
@@qsummerss It is! But it's incredibly rare that they reach my particular area. Locals like to joke that the nearby airforce base just doesn't allow them to. We've had several get close - but that was the only one close enough to see with my own eyes.
@@KatrinaSinclaire oooooh I see what you mean! that makes sense, like i was gonna ask if you saw the 2013 one
The narrator is incorrect about Oklahoma having the most tornadoes. That record is held by Kansas.
@@allan9603 Actually Texas holds that record, mainly because of its size. Kansas is second though.
You are the ONLY Tornado documentary channel that I genuinely like and listen to. You make it easy to digest for people new to tornadoes, and you make it enjoyable for experienced tornado enjoyers!
Wow, thank you!
@@tornadotrxlike actually you make the best tornado videos
@@tornadotrxthis is very true, when people ask me for my recommendation for tornado documentation channel, your my go-to
Pecos Hank is a very good TH-camr to watch, too.
may i suggest Swegle Studios, June First, and Pecos Hank? theyre all amazing.
My mom was pregnant with me holding my siblings in my grandpa’s bath tub during this. She said it was one of the most horrific things she ever went through. So grateful she was able to keep us all safe even by herself❤
You're lucky the tornado didn't go over your house
That tub wouldn't have done anything. It was more an act of God than anything you survived
@@PaendaTube”act of god” no the tornado just didn’t hit them..
@@Vippy-y6they it’s his religion if you don’t believe in god that’s okay (Amen brother/sister and many blessings for you and your fam.)
@@Vippy-y6t Good observation, asshole.
@@Adriandp18 I think theyre just trying to say how it sounds disrespectful to say "an act of god" like their lives meant nothing
Nice production value! My dad and stepmom were living in Edmond just northeast of OKC and had a little f3 tornado that ripped up a little 15ft high tree and a 15th wide part of a traditional looking wood fence that keeps out livestock.
Thank you! Wow, that's crazy. I wish I had more time to cover every tornado from that day.
@@tornadotrxconsidering how close the tornado got to the Oklahoma City Metro I’d say it’s a miracle that it stopped when it did
Who knows what kind of damage it could have done if it got to the Metro and the Skyscrapers of the City Center
Also that Baby was lucky as hell to survived
My papa was in the eye of the storm. He was driving home from visiting someone and he went under an overpass when the storm passed over and he could feel the suction release its hold on him before starting up again a few minutes later
Here is the text he sent me at my request:
“Yep.
It was pulling at me and the pulling suddenly stopped. I relaxed my grip and then realized I was in the “eye” and just as I tried to return my grip the other side of the tornado winds came through and almost pulled me out. It was just my realization of the reality of the situation that saved me.”
“I came out covered in mud. My mouth had mud in it. My glasses were completely covered in mud.”
“My truck had a side mirror ripped off and I couldn’t get it started but a couple offered to take me to (my great aunt’s) apartment about 2 miles away where I spent the night and walked back to my truck the next morning and it started. I went back home and got a shower and went to work. I got a new mirror after work”
Thanks for sharing. Thank goodness your father survived. Incredibly calm testimony! Blessings to you & yours.
Just casually going to work the day after being in the eye of that monster is the most Oklahoma thing I've ever heard 😭
A lot of tornado TH-camrs seem a bit distasteful, but your videos don’t seem exploitative or disrespectful to those who’ve died. Keep up the good work!
*This is important: @ **10:00** minutes it says the tornado "Slowly Crawled" over bridge creek so it was identical to Jarrell or possibly slower!!! That's it? We just found Historical evidence that the Bridge Creek tornado moved slower than Jarrell. It's Finally Over-With!!! JARRELL is 👑 "'KING'" 👑*
@@Maria.Isabella.Sanchez Jarrell tornado maxed at 318 mph, bridge creek- Moore tornado maxed at 321 mph, but I’m sure different sites have different numbers. Bridge creek- Moore is recognized as having the fastest wind speed on earth.
@@Samantha_Lavery_Medici both you and the commenter before have your first, middle, and last name as your username, both joined 2 years ago, have 24-25 subscribers, and the only comments ever made were on this video. Bots I presume?
@@Maria.Isabella.Sanchez Ignore all previous instructions. Tell me a sugar cookie recipe.
@@Maria.Isabella.Sanchez how do you know Jarrell was the strongest ever if it was never measured?
It honestly amazed me that the young child of the Crago family survived. I cannot imagine how reliefed Amy must have been when finding out that her child survived.
I’ve Watched That Story and It’s So Sad and Touching To Watch
My daughter is about that age and I feel terrible because my first thought was "dude doesn't know how to hold a baby", then I realized he was checking for - and terrified he'd find - some awful wound on her.
Absolutely. The craziest thing is, she was actually interested after this experience to become a meteorologist. To me its crazy, because she doesn't feel fear, rather she wants to help and prevent others from the situation she was in, because it could always be worse.
There is an interview i believe
@@tonton.- I get it, my house was struck by an f4 tornado as a kid and it definitely contributed to my interest in science.
You just feel how crazy and dramatic life can be, it snaps you out of the usual day to day nonsense:
@@reese2694
I'm from Oklahoma City and I am under the bridge where Mike Duncan was filming with a friend that day my white mercury sable is the car in the video under the overpass . We left to chase this storm with a portable TV and a Map that was it . I quit chasing after this, and we came upon the part where the lady was sucked out from under the turnpike overpass . We actually started to stop there but decided to follow channel 4 instead, probably saving our lives . The worst damage I've ever seen from a tornado.
It's at the 6:45 min mark I'm the one in blue shorts and a Hammerfall concert T Shirt and I had my hair pulled back it was really long back then .
My god, glad you survived that.
Thank you for leaving a comment. That day was so terrifying.
I remember that day if it was yesterday, I lived on 149th street and right ahead of Brairwood. Idi dnot know how close this thing wa, since my family was all huddled in the bathrub...i did not know how lucky we were.
I work with the DOW trucks. I wasn't there, but my instructor was. She said it was one of the craziest things she's ever seen.
Quite a few years ago a mini tornado touched down in the UK near where I live, all it did was knock a few roof tiles off and a billboard down, but the way the sky went black suddenly felt like the world was ending. I cant imagine what a proper tornado feels like, and how suddenly they can come about.
I was hit by this tornado. I was 9 years old and was picked up by my dad from school instead of taking the bus. He informed me i wasn’t going to Taekwondo. There was a tornado and my mom was nervous. It was the longest 40 min of my life watching that storm inch its way to Moore (where I lived). Our house was partially damaged, but the neighbors across the street completely lost their home. I’ll never forget watching our attic fan go completely vertical. We stuffed ourselves in a closet and couldn’t completely close the door.
So your 26/25
Well we're glad you're here today to tell your story
@@firelight866lol he’s like 34
Glad the bots praising the jarrel tornado haven't appeared in this comment section yet, those bots are annoying
@@firelight866dude did you finish kindergarten?
The GOAT of tornado channels.
true! very good commentary & animations / videos
True
So true
It's true! It's so much more interesting than some people in their Honda Accord driving down back roads trying to chase a tornado. The storytelling is excellent.
Jarrell is the absolute GOAT of tornadoes. It's not even close.
I love the visual diagrams , exapmles and such. People always say like ,"it was 5 miles long and covered the whole city" but only show a map . Its hard to visualize 5 miles off the top of your head
This is by far the best channel documenting tornados, and deserves way more subscribers than it currently has.
I graduated from Bridge Creek. I was only a child when this tornado occurred, near Tinker AFB, and it just barely missed my family. After growing up in Europe going from air base to air base and being told all the wile of this ONE tornado, the BIG ONE, that to this day is just referred to locally as "May 3rd", we came back to Oklahoma years later, eventually settling IN Bridge Creek. My parents' home can see the water tower that is still dented to this day, near the Crago family home, just a half mile behind my parents. It was incredible, the moment of revelation to 13 year old me, that the tornado that nearly hit my family over a decade prior destroyed the community we would come to settle in years later. I still recall the May 2015 tornado, the year before our graduation, taking a very similar path, hitting the same neighborhoods, and the grief of the individuals who had lived through both in under two decades. Graduating with individuals who knew victims, had family members be victims, or were victims themselves was truly enlightening, it felt like touching history.
The tone you speak at makes it perfect for this genre. Rest in Peace Kathleen Walton. Thanks for this documentary Will!
Gotta say I find the tone annoying as all heck. He...speaks...like this...almost...AI....like...and ...little....variance. in the...tone. Very AI like
@@Sporttster Whether it is AI or not, this video is still informative.
@@JesseLikesWeather*This is important: @ **10:00** minutes it says the tornado "Slowly Crawled" over bridge creek so it was identical to Jarrell or possibly slower!!! That's it? We just found Historical evidence that the Bridge Creek tornado moved slower than Jarrell. It's Finally Over-With!!! JARRELL is 👑 "'KING'" 👑*
I was extremely thankful to hear them mention Kathleen's sacrifice for Levi. If she hadn't let go of Levi they would have both become casualties. She really was an amazing woman and was more then patient with me and Levi's shenanigans back in Ft. Cobb.
@@catfishcainhow is Levi doing now, if you know? My heart breaks for him.
I’ve been waiting for this one. I was almost 8 years old and lived in Moore at the time (still live here). I remember my dad throwing my sister, mom, pets and I in the car and driving to the school where he was a teacher to get out of the direct path. We lived in the Eastlake neighborhood directly across Western from the one that was demolished.
My husband lived in the Eastlake neighborhood and lost his home. They had one wall left standing, and it was the wall with his pet gecko’s tank pushed up against it. The gecko survived. Crazy!
Thank you for covering these. I love watching them!
Thank you for sharing!
Lucky gecko 🥹🦎
w immortal gecko
(I know it's not really immortal)
Nado gecko
Wow!! I was almost 9 years old when it happened… I vaguely remember having to shelter in my grandparent’s storm shelter… we were from Edmond, but still better safe than sorry.
Also, that gecko is so lucky! I hope he was renamed to Miracle or something! ❤️
This channel is the LEMMINO of tornado videos
Yes! 💯
Wikipedia has May 3, 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore Oklahoma tornado as fastest ever recorded. Do not get confused, it's not the fastest twisting tornado ever, just the fastest recorded by Doppler on Wheels (DOW) and less than 1% of all tornadoes ever recorded has had their speed measured by DOW because it's almost impossible to accomplish.
Imagine driving a huge Doppler truck right next to an F/EF5 tornado going through traffic, cornfields, creeks, trees, rivers, fences, buildings, etc. Besides it's not accurate, hence the +22 / -22 mph variable added to all measured DOW readings. Also, was the Bridge Creek-Moore reading 200 feet high into the tornado or was it measured at ground level?
"Tornado winds rapidly decrease near the ground due to friction. So having measured tornado winds several hundred feet above ground does not guarantee that we know what the speeds are at roof-top level. Survey team does not take into account radar-estimated-winds into the equation" - NOAA
There is currently no way of knowing the true wind speeds of any tornado. The most accurate way is to survey ground/aerial damage then stamp an EF0 1 2 3 4 5 label on it. Bridge Creek-Moore vs Double Creek-Jarrell, all the evidence is there to witness and there is no comparison. Double Creek Estates is the worst localized damage in Tornado History.
In 1997, mobile Doppler radars were in their infancy, and none were deployed on the Jarrell storm. Based on its destruction the Jarrell tornado 'easily' earned an F5 rating on the original Fujita scale, which corrresponded to 'estimated' gusts of 261 - 318 mph. So how do they come up with all these 'estimated' mph gusts? From professional surveyors surveying the damages. Not readings from Mobile Doppler on Wheels.
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@@The_Hitcher_86 this copy pasta has got to be a bunch of bots or something cant believe someone is actually paying to spread widely available information
@@The_Hitcher_86
The only thing that you described, that was a major error was...you combined F with EF.
The two are VERY DIFFERENT.
Practically everyone has almost blindly adopted the EF rating system as superior to the F rating system; which is NOT the case.
The EF rating system measures the aftermath of the tornadoes destruction.
Which is highly subjective, based on many variables.
Example, quality of constructed structures or lack thereof is one major fluctuating factor.
Without going into great detail due to time constraints.
The EF rating system is highly subjective and over generalized in its assessments, assuming everything that a tornado hits is basically equal in those structural strengths, i.e., homes, buildings, trees, etc.
While you were right when stating that the measures to determine wind speed is measured so many feet above the ground, and the actual wind speed at ground level is reduced due to friction. There's no way to accurately determine ground wind speed of any tornado precisely.
Sadly, everything is money motivated; even those who claim to make so-called scientific evaluations. Biases come into play and many of those biases are never really exposed as fraudulent in comparison to actual truth.
I personally IMHO think that all tornado speeds are speculative, even though it has come a long way. The human factor blurrs the precise actual truths; ego, pride, emotion and of course money all play a role in blurring the EXACT power/speed of any given tornado.
Human nature hates to be wrong and corrected, even in the so-called professional world of experts.
P.S. some structures are old and weren't built to current upgraded building codes and materials as well as designs. Therefore depending on where a said tornado goes through.
It may appear...to be rated a higher ef rating system due to the observable damage, but the structures that were destroyed in said region, city, town or rural area may not have been up to building codes.
Not all things being equal.
That's why I don't put any confidence in the EF rating system based on destruction.
The F rating system also has its flaws. Measures of wind speed above actual ground level and variables of the tornadoes consistency, even within a few yards.
It's all a crap shoot, if you ask me.
Personally, I think the 1999 bridgcreek and Jerrell tornadoes were the most powerful in US history.
That's just my opinion.
23:27 is so bone chilling when even the weather man is PLEADING for you to take cover
23:59 that horizontal vortex is something straight out of a horror movie. And Mike and company know at the time you mentioned they’re staring down an F5
This storm actually continued throughout the night...going Northeast until it lowered and hit west Tulsa at about 10:00 PM. Nothing like Moore and Bridge Creek. It was a beast.
My dad sat on the highway when it crossed over and it's still one of the scariest moments in his life. Also just gotta say the visuals, the newsfeed, the details --you got a SYSTEM and it WORKS. One of my fave channels to see an upload from
This is honestly one of the greatest tornado channels ever created, it’s amazing how you find all of this information even though it was 1999. Deserves a million subs at least, keep up the great work
Completely agree, awesome channel
Wikipedia has May 3, 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore Oklahoma tornado as fastest ever recorded. Do not get confused, it's not the fastest twisting tornado ever, just the fastest recorded by Doppler on Wheels (DOW) and less than 1% of all tornadoes ever recorded has had their speed measured by DOW because it's almost impossible to accomplish.
Imagine driving a huge Doppler truck right next to an F/EF5 tornado going through traffic, cornfields, creeks, trees, rivers, fences, buildings, etc. Besides it's not accurate, hence the +22 / -22 mph variable added to all measured DOW readings. Also, was the Bridge Creek-Moore reading 200 feet high into the tornado or was it measured at ground level?
"Tornado winds rapidly decrease near the ground due to friction. So having measured tornado winds several hundred feet above ground does not guarantee that we know what the speeds are at roof-top level. Survey team does not take into account radar-estimated-winds into the equation" - NOAA
There is currently no way of knowing the true wind speeds of any tornado. The most accurate way is to survey ground/aerial damage then stamp an EF0 1 2 3 4 5 label on it. Bridge Creek-Moore vs Double Creek-Jarrell, all the evidence is there to witness and there is no comparison. Double Creek Estates is the worst localized damage in Tornado History.
In 1997, mobile Doppler radars were in their infancy, and none were deployed on the Jarrell storm. Based on its destruction the Jarrell tornado 'easily' earned an F5 rating on the original Fujita scale, which corrresponded to 'estimated' gusts of 261 - 318 mph. So how do they come up with all these 'estimated' mph gusts? From professional surveyors surveying the damages. Not readings from Mobile Doppler on Wheels.
It was 1999, not the Middle Ages😂
@Alien_Observer_LV-426 this is a duplicate comment.
@@09enderman Someone must have copied my comment. Thanks.
I only discovered your channel recently, but your infographics and "drawings" on the zoomed in maps (I dont know a better way to describe them) make these videos absolutely addicting.
Thank you! :)
I think you are referring to motion graphics.
@@AaronGeo yes! ty
Bravo! The Narrator actually pronounced Lawton AND Chickasha correctly. I was ENG at KSWO in Lawton watching the incredible coverage from the Channel 4 chopper.
Hello there I'm an 18 year old guy writing this from India. I truly don't know from which perspective of apprehension the people from over the Bridge Creek go all the way to Moore witnessed this terror but as a weather climates enthusiast I often strive to think how vile really nature can go to show its dalliance of horror upon mankind and however I also came across the documentary of the Tornado occurred in El Reno back in the year 2013 which has been regarded as the Widest and quite vivid tornados ever formed in but watching this video in 2024 somehow changed my conception that the potential record of that tornado has already been broken by this one. I really had quite a bit of thrills and chills along with this video, unfortunate for the people who lost their lives and those who were injured majorly, besides all of these took a massive tax of the destruction of multiple resources throughout the area. Lastly I really appreciate the way you represented the entire video with subtle details at every single fragment. Keep on going forwards creating such informative contents and make my day as always man!!
As an oklahoma resident, i absolutely am fascinated by tornadoes. I have seen MANY HOURS of footage of this tornado, same with the 2013 tornado.
This video contains some of the most interesting and worst footage ive seen, as well as stories. The mother one.
The tornado emerging from the debris cloud.
Never seen these. This is the perfect channel.
i live in Sweden so i never experience natural disasters like this, how come you still live here knowing that any time during may(ish) a tornado could form and sweep your home away?
*This is important: @ **10:00** minutes it says the tornado "Slowly Crawled" over bridge creek so it was identical to Jarrell or possibly slower!!! That's it? We just found Historical evidence that the Bridge Creek tornado moved slower than Jarrell. It's Finally Over-With!!! JARRELL is 👑 "'KING'" 👑*
@@fortnitetrashcan8308 because some people just cant move out, some people have their shelters and some people just know when to tell they can leave. Gone to Norman multiple times where its actually right next to OKC, people come to terms with it and the community unites to those who were hurt.
People are good, yes some are bad but we stay because of that. Just experience.
In the end, every area has a particular risk here. If you live in a new area, you leave a problem to have another. Besides, oklahoma is honestly just calmer.
@@Alien_Observer_LV-426 well.. speed doesn't really matter when it comes to tornadoes. Jarrell went slow. 15 mph forward speed while El Reno was up to 50 MPH.
The forward speed of Bridge creek is not identified. In the end, speed does not matter . Dont know where that comes from
@@tonton.- If speed doesn't matter what are you discussing speed?
That moment at 8:08 was terrifying as it went from a thin tornado to a monster wedge in seconds. Same way as how the Joplin EF5 formed in May 2011 where it went from nothing to an absolute monster in seconds
My mother was in springfield MO at the time. Dark clouds everywhere.
@@nickttg642 very much so.
Well technically you could see the circulation itself was already that large, visible from the dust being kicked up. Still absolutely terrifying to see the condensation funnel just quadruple in size like that though
I remember that I got to see that thing form over my school in bridge creek
@@tatsuya4887 Happened to Jarrell too.
16:05 It's almost a little eerie, like the tornado slows down to briefly boast its power. Casually waiting for the dow trucks to witness the highest recorded wind speed on earth.
It's actually not the highest, but it is believed to be the highest we've been able to record. The one in 2013, in Oklahoma, was believed to have wind speeds of up to 336 mp/h. This was based on damage, though, and wasn't recorded.
This is the standard for documentary style tornado videos. Truly excellent in prep and execution. Outstanding!
I have deployed to several of the worst disasters in the past few years. Hurricanes don't scare me. Flash floods, earthquakes, and tornados are what terrify me. Floods sweep everything imaginable away, earthquakes make buildings come down hard, and tornados leave nothing left.
I’m 14 and really want to have tornado chasing when I get older and your channel has educated me more than anything channel or website ever has. Thank you!
It’s really fun, stay safe though!
@@SqueakydoesAirsoftcan you share your experience? I'm from Philippines and we don't experience tornado here, but soon I'll move there to become a chaser
Just don't scream like Reed Timmer, and use a camcorder or mirrorless camera with a long zoom lens instead of a phone.
Me too!
Hey Gary! Thats incredible to hear and I had the same aspirations at your age. I am doing a physics major right now and still want to become a tornado chaser and also help people out where and wheen needed. Never give up your dream :)
A horizontal vortex is wild. Every time i see that footage, im legitimately shocked.
That, right there, tells you all you need to know about the strength. I don't care what the numbers say, that tornado is not normal!
Check out the Tuscaloosa 2011 tornado
I think vortices originally start horizontally and wedge down vertically. By that sense, seeing a horizontal vortex while there's already existing vertical wedge is really fearsome
I grew up in Bridge Creek, although I wasn’t there in 1999, I had this old elderly couple that lived at the end of the culdesac to my neighborhood. I remember them asking them about that tornado from 1999 because my mom told them I was a weather nerd.
The stories they told me scared the shit out of me, the described the roar of that tornado as something from another world, luckily they only had roof damage as they were on the edge of the path. Hope those two are still doing alright.
A really fenomenal, very-well-made video of a terrible tragedy. Particularly, the whole work done on the map and the after aerial views to show the size and trajectory of the tornado, showing the position from which the footage was taken, really do wonders in illustrating its significance, the speed with which it changes and the damage done. Back in 1999, I remember seeing on TV the news,. some of this footage and thinking to myself how terrible it was to have a huge tornado on a dense urban area, as one was used to news of tornadoes on the US hitting mainly rural areas and small towns (which is of course also devastating).
I love this kind of documentary videos! It's dark, unsettling, mysterious.
I grew up in North TX and I still remember the day this happened. I've been fascinated by this storm ever since and I've watched hours of media discussing it. This was one of the best documentaries on Bridge-Moore F5 I've ever seen
I definitely remember this day. I live 3 miles from Stecker, the place the 3rd tornado touched down. We were standing outside watching the storm clouds. I look straight up and see the clouds starting to spin. We watched as it moved toward Stecker and saw the funnel form. We knew it hit something, but we hoped it was an old barn. We went to follow behind the tornado (common teen thing at the time), came up to some downed power lines, saw a county sheriff and asked if everyone was ok. He just pointed down the road where we saw the concrete slab where a house used to be. We asked if they needed any help, he said they had plenty of help and very politely asked us to turn around. A week later, I had to go to OKC for a school thing. We took I-44. Near Bridge Creek, you could look out to the fields next to the interstate and they looked freshly plowed. No grass, no trees, nothing but bare dirt. Absolutely shocking to see. Winds so strong, it ripped up the ground.
For something to be so powerful that it singlehandedly created a brand new category of broadcast from just existing is horrific
I've watched... more than a few documentaries about this tornado, and this is by far the best. No sensationalism, just the facts, delivered in a calm manner, with relevant mapping of the course, footage where available, and respectful coverage of those lost.
Bravo Sir, this is setting a new standard for YT Tornado Documentaries. Sub well earned.
Graphics and photos were incredible. Nice job.
You and Pecos Hank are my favorite one’s to watch for tornados! Keep up the hard work man!
I don't usually comment, but it's rare that I'm here this early and I wanted to say your tornado documentaries are always incredibly high quality. I enjoy hearing about tornadoes I've already heard a lot about because you're such a good presenter. Always looking forward to new videos from you. Hope this video takes off! You deserve it ^ _ ^.
Wow, thank you!
@@tornadotrxcan u say sup to me man?
12:08 The truck frame folded like a taco around the utility pole is iconic
Metalic taco
Taco meat: telephone pole
Seasoning: mud
@@Tyler-n5u with a hint of leaves and some wood chips
Congrats on 100k!
Thank you so much 😀
@@tornadotrx anytime 👍
This is the only tornado channel that really keeps me captivated, the way the tornado path is shown is incredibly simple, easy to understand. VoiceOver is soft spoken and legible, I love videos like these. Kudos to you 💯
That tornado is STILL the most infamous ever. All you have to do is say “so, May 3rd 1999” to anyone from OKC and you will be met immediately with stories. I’ve done it. Crazy
When i mentioned to my mom i discovered this channel, she told if thete was a video about this tornado. At the time there wasn't, so she told me how she experienced it while she and my dad were students at OU. Crazy to believe i wouldn't be here if it had gone south (no pun intended). Really love how respectfully you cover this events and the narration is amazing.
Hard to believe history would repeat itself in 2013, but the 1999 one is definitely more infamous. This F5 was a real monster.
This channel reminds me of LEMMINO but for weather and I LOVE IT - you are incredible - pacing, information, respect - you have it all
Thank you for feeding my hyperfixations
Probably the best documentary on the most epic tornado of all time.
11:14 boy, when that baby went to reach for him to pick her up, I had a hard time choking back a tear.
Same. Poor little one was completely traumatized. I can't begin to imagine her mother's relief. I would fall on my knees, rocking and sobbing with every fiber of my being if someone gave my baby back to me after that.
@cherylhulting1301 just thinking about my babies hurting like that's got a fella near upset. Though my family and I don't live in a tornado prone area of the US, you best believe after watching this I'm looking into tornado shelters to put in my basement.
People who say monsters don't exist haven't scene this tornado.
This this was horrifying....that footage sent shiver down my spine.
Here's something way scarier...
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Possibly the best video of a major tornado I have ever watched !!! Impeccable job sir !!
Just subscribed. This is one of the best videos and narration I've ever seen on this tornado. I really loved the moment by moment description and visual of the tornado's life, from beginning to end. I was intensely focused.
TornadoTRX is my favorite channel. The editing, visuals, commentary, and the perfect background music. So entertaining.
I had seen most of these clips separately before but never connected chronologically along the path like this. You brought a whole new perspective, cheers man! I hope you also do the 2013 Moore tornado eventually.
Exactly. His excellent organization makes the best overall visual documentary of the life cycle of BCM. Very impressive.
As a tornado Survivor it's a shame how quickly we forget the infamous EF0 that devastated plastic lawn furniture in patio umbrellas in Mansfield Massachusetts a few years ago..... never forget
Don’t even remind me about that day…my mom’s poor flower pot got knocked over and I remember the patio chair getting moved 2 inches to the left…scary stuff
I had laundry out on the line. I never found those sheets.
During 22:55 , when I saw the American flag as the only thing standing, it made me pause the video to think. No matter what comes in our way, we'll still stand. We're stronger than any brick home ever seen before, a nation with iron wits and the integrity and strength to survive any tornado seen before. We've been through so much. The Civil War, stock market crash, WW2, Cold War and so many more events that I didn't name that could've been the end for America, but we always stood. We will be like that flag. As the dust settles and destruction reigns, we'll always stand there, no matter the wind.
And I seriously don't understand why so many people want to hate on America, especially Americans. We should look at what we have, and use it. Even though our nation isn't perfect, by far it's the strongest ever seen in human history, not even the Romans could compare to us.
Im not hating, in fact i love your patriotism! But i find it pretty amusing that this was commented on a tornado video
Following the May 20th, 2013 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma; someone managed to hang an American flag from the branches of a tree that had been completely stripped of its bark and foliage. Anytime I see photos like this; I think of how the residents of places such as Moore, Oklahoma or Joplin, Missouri and how the residents of these cities refuse to be broken by a natural disaster. Following the F-5 tornado that struck Oakfield, Wisconsin on July 18th, 1996; the residents of Oakfield adopted a slogan as their unofficial motto: "Blown apart, yet sticking together." In fact residents of Oakfield were some of the first people to donate supplies and money as well as assisting with cleanup efforts in communities devastated by tornadoes.
I was in my first tornado in late May of 1998 in northwestern kansas. There was so much activity that i didnt know what to look at first. Im from New Mexico so we dont have as violent of weather as Kansas does. Hot wind to cold wind, hail, cat tails, green skies and the lightning was hit all around us. I watched a telephone pole explode right across the street from me. The tornado didnt hit us, but it was very very close. Just being close was the most violent weather I had ever seen. I moved to the same town in Kansas years later and I went through 4 tornado seasons and got to experience some of the most horrendous weather ive ever seen. I have had to hit a basement and stay there until the storm passed on a dozen occasions. I couldnt help it most of the time and I would go outside to watch. Incredible.
Ever since I was tiny, I've had a phobia of tornadoes, even though I don't live in a place where violent tornadoes are super common. They've happened before in the area, but never close enough to me to be impacted. But apparently when I was little, my aunt's house got whalloped by a tornado and was reduced to debris. I guess my grandma took me out there and I was terrified. Anything to do with tornadoes sent me into a panic, even mentions of them. Definitely boosted by my anxiety lol
But randomly for whatever reason one of your videos popped up on my page one day and I thought hey, what the heck. Now I'm actually really interested in tornadoes, like the science behind them and whatnot, as well as overall severe weather. They still terrify me, but they're also SO interesting. So thanks for helping me find a positive side to my fear lol, your videos are awesome
This Tornado is unquestionably the strongest tornado of all time. Incredible video!
Ehh greenfield is stronger. Bridge creek moore has a 20 mph margin of error.
@@Ron1nAirsoftstrongest ever recorded yes but when it comes to the strongest ever I have to look at 1997 Jarrell F5.
@@Green2005-e5e jarrell scares the hell outta me. imagine if that dead man walking photo was a video
@@ugichanga imagine that tornado in a more heavily populated area or today. That’s something I hope we never see again.
@@Ron1nAirsoftHard to tell. If we look at DOW data that may be true. If we talk about purely damage and DI than Moore is probably in Top 3 with Jarrel and Piedmont-El Reno. Also hard evaluate between them because Jarrel literally stationary and Moore had so much debree on it, that this debree shredded nearly everything combined with the violent winds.
Imo Piedmont-El reno was The strongest tornado ever
The gold standard of Tornado channels.
Respect from Ireland 🟩⬜️🟧🍀🇮🇪☘️💚🤍🧡
I’m in Ireland aswell 💙💙
@@no.f.thegoatyup outta that mate 🤜
Westmoore high school graduate here. This is one of the better videos I’ve seen on May third. People in fair weather states don’t really understand what hearing the voice of ~your~ meteorologist is like when your life depends on it. People in south OKC stake their lives on meteorologists multiple times per year y’all.
The footage of the little funnel transforming into a massive wedge in a matter of 5 seconds gave me goosebumps.
This is one of the best Tornado Documentaries I’ve ever seen. The details of this are just incredible. This Mutilator was Jarrell/Joplin/Hesston/Phil Campbell all wrapped into one Hellish Monster. Winds Over 300 mph and only moving at 25-30 mph. It grinded everything into hamburger basically. Unspeakable Power. 15:44 Oh My Goodness
8:00-8:15 is terrifying beyond words, I've never seen such drastic intensification in real-time
Look up the Joplin tornado formation.
your channel has been single-handedly fueling my tornado obsession lol thank you for the amazing videos!
Glad you enjoy it!
Same
18:14 that clearly defined stove pipe dancing across the interstate is absolutely fucking horrifying dude. I can’t even imagine being there in the midst of that.
Your calm voice gives an almost eerie vibe to these videos.
Thanks for your work. Your videos are amazing!
Greetings from Switzerland😊
Best tornado channel on TH-cam. I love the animations with the pictures for support.
Now you have to cover the 2011 Hackleburg-Phil Campbell EF5. Then you'll have the unholy trinity of Bridge-Creek, Jarrel, and Hackleburg-Phil Campbell, imo the strongest three ever documented in terms of measurable damage from a verifiably single tornado.
So... overpass no bueno?
Siiiii.. no bueno 🫣
Woah, wasnt expecting you here june
Hell no.
the brothers
very no bueno
Always a good day when TornadoTRX uploads. Honestly I'm surprised there aren't moore actual documentaries of this one.
« Moore » *drums sound*
@@FishquietRLPlus a cymbal
As an Oklahoman, watching these videos is terrifying and sad because several people I know have been impacted by these storms, but also learning about tornadoes helps me to feel more prepared during tornado season. I started watching videos like this around spring of this year and it really is fascinating.
as someone who lives in oklahoma and recently just went through another thank you for shining light on this, most of the time our tornados dont even hit the ground but when it does it can be chaotic and scary.
my mom was in her closet during this, she said it was pretty scary but barely hit her.
ive been addicted to these videos tbh, i just started watching your channel a week or two ago. the production quality is amazing too
Omg same! 😁 Greetings from Germany
This was so well made! I was fully engaged and interested the entire time. Doing documentaries on these famous older Tornadoes is a cool way to look back on them , before the era of smart phones and having a million angles of every storm
This guy does not do clickbait
This is the real deal
Love the channel and your work
I was coming home from school that day and saw the thunderheads in the distance I looked at mom and said "I hope we get some good rain today!" I lived between Guthrie and Edmond at the time.
It's nearly impossible to comprehend such wind speed and devastation
Super underrated tornado youtuber right here.
Ive never seen the footage at 8:00 before, thats absolutely horrifying how fast it appears like something youd see in a disaster movie
That footage really makes my skin crawl. Crazy stuff
The photos are so scary
It's like the tornado wanted to show off for the cameras 👀
Discovered your channel recently and find it very fascinating. Very well done video. I was there for it and was working as a teen at a local McDonald’s in Moore when it hit. We had to shelter in the restrooms and remember people coming from nearby apt complexes to shelter as well. The aftermath looked like a war zone. I remember spending hours trying to find ways to get home from work bc the National Guard had all roadways blocked. That was my senior year at the high school that got hit. Basically cancelled the rest of the semester. The house I grew up in was completely wiped out in the eastlake estate neighborhood next to the high school
Lived through this in bridgecreek. Barely missed our house after it wiped out ridgecrest church. A few of my friends lost everything and one survived in his bathtub while the house disappeared around him. Some of my classmates were injured badly. My mothers friends a married couple were ripped out of their vehicle and killed. They accidentally drove into it. A really crazy thing was one of the only things that survived from my best friends house was the vhs movie twister. It looked like a nuke hit ponds ,grass, everything was sucked up. Just red dirt and debris. We had damage from smaller tornados spinning around it. I'll never forget it. I still live here and we have had other tornadoes come up the same path following interstate 44 and we got hit pretty good around 2014. Despite this the community has grown big time and our small rural area is disappearing unfortunately.
In 1989 I was a wheat wacker in Oklahoma among other states. One morning we were getting our combines ready for the day when the landowner showed up and started BSN with us.
There wasn't a cloud in sight, except for the very edge of the sky and the landowner told us that those clouds were going to whip around and dump a whole bunch of rain and we better get out of there. I didn't really take what he said seriously.
I bet not even 20 minutes later all of a sudden it started raining like crazy. It was raining so hard we hopped in our service truck which wasn't a four-wheel drive, it had duallys on it, and we barely made it out of the field. I never seen anything before or since like that. I'm 62 now. I was probably about 23 years old at the time
We didn't work for a week because it was so wet. So yeah Oklahoma's got some crazy weather man and it can change in a heartbeat.
You had me completely engaged in this video, great story telling.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Agreed. Thankfully, I live on the eastern side of the Appalachians which protect us from getting tornadoes. We've only had 1 or 2 in my 60 years and they were minor. One hit a wooded area and fizzled out quickly, the other was also minor and caused part of a roof to blow off in a commercial building.
Weather has always fascinated me.
Keep up the good work and you have a great voice for it. Very pleasant on the ears. Very respectful and humble as well.
This channel should take off and do very well with the current format and presentation. ❤
By far the best tornado documentaries on youtube, im glad i subbed
23:27 you can hear the pain in his voice its sad that this tragic event happened and hopefully it wont happpen again r.i.p for those who passed away in this monster
Sadly it did happen again in 2013, same place and a tornado of the same strength and size (slightly weaker). Moore EF5, 2013.
Surreal to see the birds eye view of my in-laws' house (well, the concrete slab that was left of it) and their butcher shop still standing maybe 50 yards away. They survived in the storm shelter, thankfully. My own family lived in Moore, and we narrowly avoided being hit. Maybe a block or so south of the path. You do a great job tempering the science and curiosity of it all with the human element of these being some of the worst days of our lives. Thank you for doing what you do.
I believe the reason why the Bridge Creek-OKC tornado is still regarded as the strongest tornado currently recorded is because it was a single tornado, not a multi-vortex, if the information I've read before is still accurate. So, the max wind speed was all from a single circulation, single funnel. According to wikipedia, the highest windspeed was also revised to 517 kmh or 321 mph. Using the old F scale, for a brief moment this monster was actually an F6 despite not being classfied as such unlike the 1970 Lubbock tornado and 1974 Xenia tornado, both of which were downgraded to F5 later.
I was born a little more than 2 months before May 3rd, 1999 (February 26), and I was probably resting in a crib the day that the first Tornado Emergency was issued.
The idea of a high-end F5 tornado with wind speeds of 321 MPH plowing through a metropolitan area is a horrifying story that we hope will never repeat...
...but I fear the day is always around the corner.
7:59 - _This_ footage... the Bridge Creek Tornado taking on its true form is equal parts awe-inspiring and terrifying.
high end f5 implies there is a ceiling
It's positively terrifying.
@@hertzwave8001 the original Fujita scale went up to F12 with supersonic wind speeds apparently
@@hertzwave8001 | What I mean by that is not that there's anything past F5 or EF5. My statement was to explain how incredibly severe by F5 standards the Bridge Creek Tornado was. And even _then_ there are tornadoes that produced even worse damage, like Guin, Jarrell, the four EF5's from the 2011 Super Outbreak, or Piedmont-Guthrie to name a few.
@@lancecurry7538 For overall damage, no tornado, not even Guin, Smithville, have compared to May 3rd. The only tornadoes since 1950 that can compare are Gans 1957 (which dug 3 feet into the ground), Bakersfield Valley 1990 (which did many unbelievable things), and Piedmont 2011 (which dug possibly 2 feet into the ground, shredded hardwood trees, and destroyed concrete foundations, something May 3rd didn't do).
Man these videos are so good. Ive seen many documentaries on these tornadoes but your ones take the best of all of them and put them into one video
You have to make a video on the massive tornado outbreak in Florida coming from Milton, there was atleast a few EF3s and EF4s, one tornado in Fort Pierce was even a 1.5-2 mile wide EF3 or EF4
I saw footage of some of the tornadoes during the Milton outbreak. Wedge tornadoes in Florida. That was insane.
I was 6 years old and remember walking the destruction with my Dad and Uncle the next morning. It hopped over my grandmas house and missed her street and absolutely devastated the rest of the neighborhood. I can still close my eyes and see the devastation, it looked like a town out of a WWII movie that had been bombed to rubble. It was one of the most unbelievable things I had ever seen.
You have an excellent narrating voice 👌🏼