To answer your question... The winds aren't what directly kills you in a tornado. It's the debris caught up in those winds, turning glass, wood and metal into a 260-mph meat grinder. So how you die depends on what hits you.
And this isn't just large debris, even dirt and sand can cause a sand blasting effect, literally sanding anything including skin and flesh down to the bone.
What happens to the body in very strong tornadoes probably depends on.. what the tornado is destroying around you. You could be crushed or impaled by debris. I do know though, if it's strong enough and moving slow enough like the 1997 Jarrell Texas "Dead Man Walking" tornado, some poor souls were basically in a blender with wood and metal. I read they had trouble identifying bodies because a lot of people were just destroyed. And the same thing happened with the cattle in the area, where sometimes they had trouble distinguishing between human remains and cattle remains. :( It's so horrifying to think about.
This isn't just large debris, even dirt and sand can cause a sand blasting effect, literally sanding anything including skin and flesh down to the bone, this happened to cows in the Jarrel EF5 tornado.
I was born and raised in Illinois, so I know exactly how common they are. My hometown experienced at least two of them, though there could have been more of them in the past 20 or so years after I left. I believe one happened in the 80s which hit the northern edge of town and destroyed a facility where they were storing corn, it tore a huge silo apart throwing half of it across the main road leading out of town causing it to rain down corn for close to ten minutes in some areas and the second one happened in the early 2000s on the west side of town which only destroyed a barn.
@@dlinkster When Belvidere got nailed in the mid 60s (I know they got hit more than once then but I don't remember this particular year), my Dad drove us down there to take a look at the damage. That and The Wizard of Oz is probably what scarred me with a fear of tornadoes that I still have to this day..
@@dlinkster Yeah they seem to be happening up north more often than they used to. I was born and raised and still living in Bloomington/Normal Illinois and we get tornadoes a lot in this area. Luckily not within city limits tho. 🤞 Knock on wood. But I personally live on the outskirts in wide open Space so this is more so the area they go.
Sadly, tornadoes can still go unwarned today. It happened last year August 7, 2023 in Upstate New York. An EF-3 touched down in Lewis county in Northern New York state. Highest wind speed was 140 mph and it traveled 16 miles, width of 700 yards. It was on the ground for 32 minutes and for almost 30 minutes of that time, it was unwarned. They issued the tornado warning a few minutes before it disapated. Luckily, it is rural countryside there but it did do damage to several houses, barns and a ski resort. A tornado of that magnitude is very rare for New York state.
I’ll never forget that day. The tornado died about 5 blocks to the north of us. We could see it coming. When it was over we drove to the Crest Hill apartments, just 3 minutes north of our house. You could literally see thru the apartments. They were ripped in half.
Hi Lav! I really love your weather/tornado reactions. One thing he didn't mention. At 9:10, when the tornado hit the high school. The next day was the first day of school. If the tornado had hit the next day, school would just have been ending with over 1,500 students in that building. Some of the clips shown here are from the storm that later caused the tornado. And somewhere, there is a video taken from a parking ramp in Chicago of the same storm at about the same time it was striking Plainfield. It used to be on TH-cam, but I haven't seen it in years. Keep up the great reactions! We've got some "interesting" weather moments here in the States for sure.
I’m from a city not far from Plainfield. It happened a few months before I was born. It’s a local legend. Everyone I talk to who was old enough to remember it remembers exactly what they were doing at the time. My parents both worked in neighboring Oswego. My Dad was at his office there when it happened, my Mom (pregnant with me) was at my grandparents house also in Oswego at the time. Both were located only about a mile away from where it touched down.
The best analogy to being directly in a powerful tornado would be falling into an industrial meat grinder. Think about the wind speeds churning random debris around, and realize that a high-speed car crash is only a fraction of that. So, yeah. Shredded. If they find you, they'll find you several times.
One of my favorite tornado productions from recently is June First's documentary "Cookeville: The Impossible EF-4 Tornado", with an insanely realistic depiction of residents' perspective of the events of that night.
An American stand-up comedian once reacted to a guy who said he was tough and strong enough to withstand hurricane-force winds. In his words: "It's not THAT the wind is blowing. It's WHAT the wind is blowing. If you get hit by a truck that's going 100 miles per hour, I don't care how much you can bench press." At high enough speeds, of course, the wind will just *pick up* an exposed person and hurl them into the air at 100+ miles per hour, which is not the sort of experience you're likely to land from alive.
Add foot long wood splinters, pieces of glass, gravel and metal all moving at 400 fps. That's not even accounting for entire vehicles, buildings and trees being thrown at you. It's like standing in front of a Claymore antipersonel mine. One of our friends died when the top 2/3 of her head was removed by most likely flying sheetmetal. The little girl she was holding died from blunt force trauma and was found several miles away. Her husband was critically injured while sheltering their two boys with his body. He spent months in the hospital and years in rehab. The two boys only had superficial physical injuries. That was considered an EF-4 at the time, but some recent studies say it was only an EF-3. It left a path of snapped and uprooted trees from a half mile to over mile wide through the forest. That's mature hardwood not just small pine. It's been a half century and I can still visually tell where it went through the forest. An EF-5 is beyond my ability to contemplate.
I used to work storm recovery for ComEd in this area, you can still see exactly where the tornado hit because of the date between structures and trees. Really sad cause Plainfield is a beautiful city with great people
a good thing is that ever since the tornado they have completely rebuilt and expanded the town and it is one of the largest growing suburbs in the country.
That system went through our town in Wisconsin, but all we got was a severe thunderstorm. I don't remember if we had a Tornado Warning, but we probably had a Watch.
I remember that day, Thurston. I lived 47 miles from Plainfield. But the skies were nasty and the threat of strong thunderstorms were everywhere. When ever you heard of strong thunderstorms, you knew that there could be a tornado at any time, really. We were keeping the TV on to keep on top of the weather and listen for any warnings. In Skokie, we were afraid that the strong storm that began at the Wisconsin-Illinois border would come our way. When we started to hear about the possibility of a tornado on the ground in that area, as someone from that part of the state, and familiar with the different communities, and having family members in Naperville, IL right near Plainfield, it was terrifying not knowing what was actually going on. The news coverage that evening was grim indeed. Thankfully, our family members were fine. That first scene that you thought was bad photography, is what it looks like in the Midwest when a really bad storm comes through. That fuzzy appearance was rain and wind. Your question about what would happen to a human in those strong winds... Peace
I will never forget this day or this storm. We learned that severe storms always include a possible tornado, I was so thankful we weren’t in school yet… it was scheduled to start the next day.
I know you did this video 8 months ago, but I must tell you this tornado completely changed the National Weather Service and how they study and warn tornados. Luckily, we lived in the far southest side of Joliet and only experienced the wicked, green sky turning black, slashing rain from the heavy winds, and golfball-sized hail. There are a few decent documentaries on here that tell the broader picture, which resulted in that NWS change. While tornados are common here, we also have blizzards, ice storms, deep freezes well below 0°F and negative double digits with windchill, record-breaking heat indexes, microbursts, record rainfall causing massive flooding, derechos (inland hurricanes) which in turn also produce tornados, and sometimes we get draughts.
First they forgot to mention the corn alone at that time of year gives off immense moisture...second, its not the wind, its what's in it that shreds you In an odd note my grandmother as a child in Washington state was picked up, carried 4 mi and was dropped scraped and bruised but basically physically unharmed except for the deep scratches from the barbed wire fence she was dropped on, had those scars on her until her death and had a lifetime fear of storms
There was warning. I remember doing the tornado fetal position in the hallways in Rockford, well before it hit Plainfield. I, and every other student in my high school donated to Plainfield High, because we knew we got lucky.
I grew up in Plainfield. I was 12 years old when it hit. I only lived maybe a quarter mile (.402 km) from the high school that was destroyed. I remember the pea soup green sky and the hail. There was no warning. I have so many more memories of that day.
8:25 Tornadoes are too large, relative to the size of a human body, for the winds in and of themselves, to rip a body. They're powerful but the force of the winds is spread over too large of an area to have that kind of effect on something as small as a human body. They would have that ripping effect on larger objects like buildings. It is far more likely to blow a person away or lift them up into the funnel than rip their body. However, the chunks of debris tumbling in the powerful winds of a tornado can rip you up badly. This is where the real danger lies., also from large structures collapsing onto you.
I’m sure it will be a future video because it just happened but there was a huge outbreak in Oklahoma on April 26th. Sulphur, OK specifically was hit a couple times within a short amount of time by different tornadoes
I was about 8 miles away from that tornado. Even at that distance the ceiling tiles in my office were lifting out of the grid. It was horrific. As soon as it was over it was dead silent outside. It was unnatural. Then came the constant sirens from fire and ambulance for days on end.
I remember this day well. At the very beginning of the video, the storm is actually being filmed at Northern IL University, in DeKalb, not Plainfield, at the top of one of the hi-rise dorms (I actually lived in that dorm in 1974-75) & the video is looking NW towards Rockford. There's another video out on TH-cam posted by the guy who filmed this storm. The NWS got a beating on this & rightly so. But, we didn't have the dopplar radar set up to cover that area then. Nor did they have storm spotters like they do now. This storm got the dopplar radars into Chicagoland a whole lot faster than they would have otherwise. My friend's dad was in a car on the interstate as the tornado crossed it at US Hwy 30 & Interstate 55 & the Joliet Mall. He was returning from a fishing trip with 3 of his friends. The car was flipped end over end. One of his friends died. He nearly did, too. I lived about 30 miles away at the time. There's a nice memorial in downtown Plainfield for the victims. Over the years, I've met many people who lived through it but they weren't in the direct path. They said it didn't look like a tornado at all. More like a DARK wall of rain. Fun fact: In 2023 Illinois had the most verified tornadoes of all the states (111). I had to take shelter about 5 times (the 1st time was on 27 Feb! Then, in July 2x in one day & 2 days later, one (EF0) went over my condo. I had no idea it happened. My phone alerted me but it was already passed. I hope not to repeat this this coming year!
the craziest thing, that highschool still stands in the same location - and was hit another time not too long after it was built back up. a lot of times it takes a tragedy to make real impact.
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I was in this tornado driving through town on the way to Romeo ville and came back through after the storm
There isn't an "eye" of a tornado. It's quite impossible to get into the core of a tornado. The strongest winds are spinning around the core. So, anything movable in its way is thrown out of the way. You can see this in the trees. A tree trunk can be strong enough to withstand the winds. When a tree gets hit by a tornado, it get encompassed by the twister. When this happens, often the tree trunk will be left, but all the branches will be picked clean. Watch the EF-5 Parkersburg tornado from 2008.
The atmosphere changes and the clouds move fast miles away. Tornadoes manifest here many times and places you wouldn't think about. A plenty stories of experiences, especially near misses.
Yes, a tornado heavly damage a human or animal body, this happened to cows in the Jarrel EF5 tornado. But this is because debris, and this isn't just large debris, even dirt and sand can cause a sand blasting effect, literally sanding anything including skin and flesh down to the bone, this is what happened to the cows in the Jarrel EF5 Tornado
With wind speeds of 260mph or so, it's less about the raw wind speeds and more of what else is being thrown by that 260mph wind. Odds are is if you were out in the open fields and caught by it, you'd be picked up and thrown a bit. You wouldn't be "abducted" like video games and media would make you believe, but you'd get blown off your feet and thrown in some direction as you're not an aerodynamic object. You don't create enough lift to utilize the wind speed, but you have enough drag for the wind to successfully pull you and throw you wherever it can. But the problem again is what else is in there. The famous common physics equation of force equals mass times acceleration takes play here. A small mound of sand swirling around isn't going to kill you, however at the speed it's being propelled by the 260mph wind, odds are is that you're losing the battle between your skin and the 260mph accelerated sand. However, this went through corn fields, so you have ears and stalks of corn, hefty water filled plant matter, hurling around in this tornado. You're getting a bludgeoning and exactly how long and how much damage to you is at the whim of chance. The final thing to note is at some point you will be flung by the tornado and the average human does not intuitively have perfected air control. So you're going to land somewhere, at some where between 0 and 260 mph (most likely closer to the higher 100's,) and you're landing at whatever angle you're thrown at and onto whatever it is you land on. You really don't have much of a say on that. AFTER all of that, there's always the chance that something else unfortunate enough to be picked up by the tornado also ends up being thrown in such a way that it end up landing on the same spot you're on, where you may or may not be conscious or alive depending on chance. The sheer force of the wind isn't going to carve you up because it's a cyclonic force. It's going around and around. So it'll want to send you like any other bit of debris caught up in that flow; around and around until you break centripetal force which flings you outwards from the tornado with more force than it can generate to keep you in the cycle. In which case, gravity and "object to be acted upon" will then be the things that hurt you the most. The thing you need to remember when it comes to wind based storms like sand storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes is that it's never the wind itself that's the threat. I think it was some kind of flavor text I read some where, but it said something along the lines of, "Even the most unassuming object can become a lethal missile in a tornado." You getting caught up in it, you're designation goes from unfortunate sap to missile and you'll probably share the same fate as a fired military missile; some form of insured destruction at the end of your ride.
I live in Illinois, i got caught in one driving home in August of 2009, it was on highway 267 just north of Greenfield Illinois, lucky it was either a f1 or f0 and didn't flip the car i forget which it was but they have a map of it, I made it to Greenfield they had sunny blue skies and they was all having a community bbq😂 All i could think is how lucky this little town was
When you're in the middle of the tornado with wind that fast it's not the actual wind that kills you. It's the debris that does the damage. A human body would more than likely be in pieces.
They then rebuilt the high school, and then after a couple years of rapid growth started the process of buikding 3 more. They don't need all of them so now students in from neighboring towns to help fill them.
I also have intrest in Tornados. 🌪️ Where I live in Indiana, we dont get many tornados. But pl like Oklahoma, Kansa, Get quiwt a few. Tornados are very destructive, scary,.
I was in 7th grade and just got home from school i was alone the sky was Dark black to green I took cover with my cats and Hurd the roaring sound then woke up under rubble my family made it including the cats. I had injuries but made it my Boyfriend didn’t 😢i was heart broken. It was then I decided to come out to family and at school
Keep in mind, all of the shredded debris is being whipped around at 260 miles per hour. You might as well be tossed into a giant food processor. You , yourself have become a piece of debris along with cars, homes, trees and bits of the landscape.
I don't fuck with Tornados, been through too many... Hell I thought I was going to die in one of them April 27th 2011 was a ugh not a day I like to remember. We had no power from storms the night before so we just didn't know what was coming....
If you weren't just sucked into the tornadonand flung miles away, the debris in the tornado would be battering you. From glass, sheet metal, barbed wire, concrete, lumber, livestock!!! There are tornado videos of entire houses being flung in all directions. There was a strong tornado that hit NORTH/NORTHWEST Houston when I was a teenager. I was working at a childcare center. We could only gather in the center of the building as 2 of the exterior walls were mostly GLASS!!! So we could literally watch the terrible sickeningly green sky get darker and the super strong winds. I was trying to be "Mama" to about 10 3 year old babies. I struggled to hold all of them and comfort them all. When it was all over and parents came to get their little ones, i tried to drive home. It normally would take about 20 minutes to drive home, that evening it took 1 ½ hours to drive home!!! My mother had been home alone. The 2 large picture windows in our house had blown into the house and shattered. My father came home and had to board up those large windows until insurance paid for new ones to installed.
Put into perspective for 200mph winds. If you want to move a human who weighs 175 pounds, it would take winds over 67 miles per hour. Finally, to move a car you would need wind speeds over 90 miles per hour.
An adult body is picked up off the ground at 80 mph. Never go outside in such weather. Tornadic winds aren't empty, they are filled with debris moving at different velocities, you are beaten to death.
You could possibly be impaled or cut in half. It has happened to victims in the past. A school girl was cut in half by a falling school bell and another cut in half by flying debris.
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Believe it or not it's not the eye that does any damage the eye is calm it's the outer walls that will get you
To answer your question... The winds aren't what directly kills you in a tornado. It's the debris caught up in those winds, turning glass, wood and metal into a 260-mph meat grinder.
So how you die depends on what hits you.
And this isn't just large debris, even dirt and sand can cause a sand blasting effect, literally sanding anything including skin and flesh down to the bone.
Green clouds never trust. This is why storm chasers are the first to alert what is on the ground, and call in what they see.
I can attest to that. Green clouds, take shelter.
What happens to the body in very strong tornadoes probably depends on.. what the tornado is destroying around you. You could be crushed or impaled by debris. I do know though, if it's strong enough and moving slow enough like the 1997 Jarrell Texas "Dead Man Walking" tornado, some poor souls were basically in a blender with wood and metal. I read they had trouble identifying bodies because a lot of people were just destroyed. And the same thing happened with the cattle in the area, where sometimes they had trouble distinguishing between human remains and cattle remains. :( It's so horrifying to think about.
This isn't just large debris, even dirt and sand can cause a sand blasting effect, literally sanding anything including skin and flesh down to the bone, this happened to cows in the Jarrel EF5 tornado.
People don’t realize just how many tornadoes we get here in Illinois. They’re extremely common.
I was born and raised in Illinois, so I know exactly how common they are. My hometown experienced at least two of them, though there could have been more of them in the past 20 or so years after I left. I believe one happened in the 80s which hit the northern edge of town and destroyed a facility where they were storing corn, it tore a huge silo apart throwing half of it across the main road leading out of town causing it to rain down corn for close to ten minutes in some areas and the second one happened in the early 2000s on the west side of town which only destroyed a barn.
When I lived in Illinois, the Rockford/Rochelle/Belvidere area was always getting them.
@@dlinkster When Belvidere got nailed in the mid 60s (I know they got hit more than once then but I don't remember this particular year), my Dad drove us down there to take a look at the damage. That and The Wizard of Oz is probably what scarred me with a fear of tornadoes that I still have to this day..
@@dlinkster Yeah they seem to be happening up north more often than they used to. I was born and raised and still living in Bloomington/Normal Illinois and we get tornadoes a lot in this area. Luckily not within city limits tho. 🤞 Knock on wood. But I personally live on the outskirts in wide open Space so this is more so the area they go.
Illinois has the perfect terrain for tornadoes, being flat as a pancake. I live in Missouri, near the Mississippi River, so I'm familiar with it.
Sadly, tornadoes can still go unwarned today. It happened last year August 7, 2023 in Upstate New York. An EF-3 touched down in Lewis county in Northern New York state. Highest wind speed was 140 mph and it traveled 16 miles, width of 700 yards. It was on the ground for 32 minutes and for almost 30 minutes of that time, it was unwarned. They issued the tornado warning a few minutes before it disapated. Luckily, it is rural countryside there but it did do damage to several houses, barns and a ski resort. A tornado of that magnitude is very rare for New York state.
I’ll never forget that day. The tornado died about 5 blocks to the north of us. We could see it coming. When it was over we drove to the Crest Hill apartments, just 3 minutes north of our house. You could literally see thru the apartments. They were ripped in half.
I live in plainfield, but was in Warrenville when it hit. I'll never forget the devastation.
Hi Lav! I really love your weather/tornado reactions. One thing he didn't mention. At 9:10, when the tornado hit the high school. The next day was the first day of school. If the tornado had hit the next day, school would just have been ending with over 1,500 students in that building.
Some of the clips shown here are from the storm that later caused the tornado. And somewhere, there is a video taken from a parking ramp in Chicago of the same storm at about the same time it was striking Plainfield. It used to be on TH-cam, but I haven't seen it in years. Keep up the great reactions! We've got some "interesting" weather moments here in the States for sure.
Yup, we were supposed to start school the next day. I would've been on the bus coming from the junior high going west, right into the path.
I’m from a city not far from Plainfield. It happened a few months before I was born. It’s a local legend.
Everyone I talk to who was old enough to remember it remembers exactly what they were doing at the time.
My parents both worked in neighboring Oswego. My Dad was at his office there when it happened, my Mom (pregnant with me) was at my grandparents house also in Oswego at the time. Both were located only about a mile away from where it touched down.
The best analogy to being directly in a powerful tornado would be falling into an industrial meat grinder. Think about the wind speeds churning random debris around, and realize that a high-speed car crash is only a fraction of that. So, yeah. Shredded. If they find you, they'll find you several times.
One of my favorite tornado productions from recently is June First's documentary "Cookeville: The Impossible EF-4 Tornado", with an insanely realistic depiction of residents' perspective of the events of that night.
An American stand-up comedian once reacted to a guy who said he was tough and strong enough to withstand hurricane-force winds. In his words: "It's not THAT the wind is blowing. It's WHAT the wind is blowing. If you get hit by a truck that's going 100 miles per hour, I don't care how much you can bench press." At high enough speeds, of course, the wind will just *pick up* an exposed person and hurl them into the air at 100+ miles per hour, which is not the sort of experience you're likely to land from alive.
Just by itself, wind of that speed is survivable. The bad part is all the stuff blowing into you at 260 mph.
Add foot long wood splinters, pieces of glass, gravel and metal all moving at 400 fps. That's not even accounting for entire vehicles, buildings and trees being thrown at you. It's like standing in front of a Claymore antipersonel mine.
One of our friends died when the top 2/3 of her head was removed by most likely flying sheetmetal. The little girl she was holding died from blunt force trauma and was found several miles away. Her husband was critically injured while sheltering their two boys with his body. He spent months in the hospital and years in rehab. The two boys only had superficial physical injuries.
That was considered an EF-4 at the time, but some recent studies say it was only an EF-3. It left a path of snapped and uprooted trees from a half mile to over mile wide through the forest. That's mature hardwood not just small pine. It's been a half century and I can still visually tell where it went through the forest.
An EF-5 is beyond my ability to contemplate.
I used to work storm recovery for ComEd in this area, you can still see exactly where the tornado hit because of the date between structures and trees. Really sad cause Plainfield is a beautiful city with great people
a good thing is that ever since the tornado they have completely rebuilt and expanded the town and it is one of the largest growing suburbs in the country.
A freaking supercell!! The NWS failed the people. Tragic.
Thanks, Lav Luka. Great Review. Hope you do get to React to more weather storms. 🙏✌️
That system went through our town in Wisconsin, but all we got was a severe thunderstorm. I don't remember if we had a Tornado Warning, but we probably had a Watch.
I remember that day, Thurston. I lived 47 miles from Plainfield. But the skies were nasty and the threat of strong thunderstorms were everywhere. When ever you heard of strong thunderstorms, you knew that there could be a tornado at any time, really. We were keeping the TV on to keep on top of the weather and listen for any warnings. In Skokie, we were afraid that the strong storm that began at the Wisconsin-Illinois border would come our way. When we started to hear about the possibility of a tornado on the ground in that area, as someone from that part of the state, and familiar with the different communities, and having family members in Naperville, IL right near Plainfield, it was terrifying not knowing what was actually going on. The news coverage that evening was grim indeed. Thankfully, our family members were fine. That first scene that you thought was bad photography, is what it looks like in the Midwest when a really bad storm comes through. That fuzzy appearance was rain and wind. Your question about what would happen to a human in those strong winds... Peace
(2011: The Year of The EF5) is another great video from the same guy. he goes over the 6 ef5's from that year and some of the damage they produced.
I will never forget this day or this storm. We learned that severe storms always include a possible tornado, I was so thankful we weren’t in school yet… it was scheduled to start the next day.
Family lived in the area after this storm. Community is still traumatized by this one
I know you did this video 8 months ago, but I must tell you this tornado completely changed the National Weather Service and how they study and warn tornados. Luckily, we lived in the far southest side of Joliet and only experienced the wicked, green sky turning black, slashing rain from the heavy winds, and golfball-sized hail. There are a few decent documentaries on here that tell the broader picture, which resulted in that NWS change. While tornados are common here, we also have blizzards, ice storms, deep freezes well below 0°F and negative double digits with windchill, record-breaking heat indexes, microbursts, record rainfall causing massive flooding, derechos (inland hurricanes) which in turn also produce tornados, and sometimes we get draughts.
First they forgot to mention the corn alone at that time of year gives off immense moisture...second, its not the wind, its what's in it that shreds you
In an odd note my grandmother as a child in Washington state was picked up, carried 4 mi and was dropped scraped and bruised but basically physically unharmed except for the deep scratches from the barbed wire fence she was dropped on, had those scars on her until her death and had a lifetime fear of storms
You’d be shocked how often this happens to children and drunk people. They’re usually relaxed enough (body wise not mentally) to land alive
That sigh at the beginning made me think this was going to be an apology video 😂
There was warning. I remember doing the tornado fetal position in the hallways in Rockford, well before it hit Plainfield. I, and every other student in my high school donated to Plainfield High, because we knew we got lucky.
Are we keeping you up? LOL
I grew up in Plainfield. I was 12 years old when it hit. I only lived maybe a quarter mile (.402 km) from the high school that was destroyed. I remember the pea soup green sky and the hail. There was no warning. I have so many more memories of that day.
8:25 Tornadoes are too large, relative to the size of a human body, for the winds in and of themselves, to rip a body. They're powerful but the force of the winds is spread over too large of an area to have that kind of effect on something as small as a human body. They would have that ripping effect on larger objects like buildings. It is far more likely to blow a person away or lift them up into the funnel than rip their body. However, the chunks of debris tumbling in the powerful winds of a tornado can rip you up badly. This is where the real danger lies., also from large structures collapsing onto you.
I’m sure it will be a future video because it just happened but there was a huge outbreak in Oklahoma on April 26th. Sulphur, OK specifically was hit a couple times within a short amount of time by different tornadoes
I was about 8 miles away from that tornado. Even at that distance the ceiling tiles in my office were lifting out of the grid. It was horrific. As soon as it was over it was dead silent outside. It was unnatural. Then came the constant sirens from fire and ambulance for days on end.
Omg I lived there as a kid in the 90`s....
I remember this day well. At the very beginning of the video, the storm is actually being filmed at Northern IL University, in DeKalb, not Plainfield, at the top of one of the hi-rise dorms (I actually lived in that dorm in 1974-75) & the video is looking NW towards Rockford. There's another video out on TH-cam posted by the guy who filmed this storm. The NWS got a beating on this & rightly so. But, we didn't have the dopplar radar set up to cover that area then. Nor did they have storm spotters like they do now. This storm got the dopplar radars into Chicagoland a whole lot faster than they would have otherwise. My friend's dad was in a car on the interstate as the tornado crossed it at US Hwy 30 & Interstate 55 & the Joliet Mall. He was returning from a fishing trip with 3 of his friends. The car was flipped end over end. One of his friends died. He nearly did, too. I lived about 30 miles away at the time. There's a nice memorial in downtown Plainfield for the victims. Over the years, I've met many people who lived through it but they weren't in the direct path. They said it didn't look like a tornado at all. More like a DARK wall of rain.
Fun fact: In 2023 Illinois had the most verified tornadoes of all the states (111). I had to take shelter about 5 times (the 1st time was on 27 Feb! Then, in July 2x in one day & 2 days later, one (EF0) went over my condo. I had no idea it happened. My phone alerted me but it was already passed. I hope not to repeat this this coming year!
the craziest thing, that highschool still stands in the same location - and was hit another time not too long after it was built back up. a lot of times it takes a tragedy to make real impact.
I was in this tornado driving through town on the way to Romeo ville and came back through after the storm
There isn't an "eye" of a tornado. It's quite impossible to get into the core of a tornado. The strongest winds are spinning around the core. So, anything movable in its way is thrown out of the way. You can see this in the trees. A tree trunk can be strong enough to withstand the winds. When a tree gets hit by a tornado, it get encompassed by the twister. When this happens, often the tree trunk will be left, but all the branches will be picked clean. Watch the EF-5 Parkersburg tornado from 2008.
Grew up 8 miles southwest of Plainfield, I was 1 at the time, so I don’t remember. But my older siblings do.
When that happened, a friend of mine who lives there got lucky as it jumped over her neighborhood but left someone else's house in her front yard.
When you hear and see the warning, take cover.
I like weather videos, it’s how I found your channel.
Wait why aren’t you gonna weather reactions anymore? Those are lowkey my favorite.
Agreed
The atmosphere changes and the clouds move fast miles away. Tornadoes manifest here many times and places you wouldn't think about. A plenty stories of experiences, especially near misses.
Yes, a tornado heavly damage a human or animal body, this happened to cows in the Jarrel EF5 tornado.
But this is because debris, and this isn't just large debris, even dirt and sand can cause a sand blasting effect, literally sanding anything including skin and flesh down to the bone, this is what happened to the cows in the Jarrel EF5 Tornado
It's not THAT the wind is blowing, it's WHAT the wind is blowing.
My hometown that day was crazy af 😅
Please continue with weather reactions! They were what led me to you in the first place.
lived thru this one, many coworkers and friends lost their homes
Love these videos you should definitely do more
With wind speeds of 260mph or so, it's less about the raw wind speeds and more of what else is being thrown by that 260mph wind. Odds are is if you were out in the open fields and caught by it, you'd be picked up and thrown a bit. You wouldn't be "abducted" like video games and media would make you believe, but you'd get blown off your feet and thrown in some direction as you're not an aerodynamic object. You don't create enough lift to utilize the wind speed, but you have enough drag for the wind to successfully pull you and throw you wherever it can. But the problem again is what else is in there.
The famous common physics equation of force equals mass times acceleration takes play here. A small mound of sand swirling around isn't going to kill you, however at the speed it's being propelled by the 260mph wind, odds are is that you're losing the battle between your skin and the 260mph accelerated sand. However, this went through corn fields, so you have ears and stalks of corn, hefty water filled plant matter, hurling around in this tornado. You're getting a bludgeoning and exactly how long and how much damage to you is at the whim of chance. The final thing to note is at some point you will be flung by the tornado and the average human does not intuitively have perfected air control. So you're going to land somewhere, at some where between 0 and 260 mph (most likely closer to the higher 100's,) and you're landing at whatever angle you're thrown at and onto whatever it is you land on. You really don't have much of a say on that. AFTER all of that, there's always the chance that something else unfortunate enough to be picked up by the tornado also ends up being thrown in such a way that it end up landing on the same spot you're on, where you may or may not be conscious or alive depending on chance. The sheer force of the wind isn't going to carve you up because it's a cyclonic force. It's going around and around. So it'll want to send you like any other bit of debris caught up in that flow; around and around until you break centripetal force which flings you outwards from the tornado with more force than it can generate to keep you in the cycle. In which case, gravity and "object to be acted upon" will then be the things that hurt you the most.
The thing you need to remember when it comes to wind based storms like sand storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes is that it's never the wind itself that's the threat. I think it was some kind of flavor text I read some where, but it said something along the lines of, "Even the most unassuming object can become a lethal missile in a tornado." You getting caught up in it, you're designation goes from unfortunate sap to missile and you'll probably share the same fate as a fired military missile; some form of insured destruction at the end of your ride.
I live in Illinois, i got caught in one driving home in August of 2009, it was on highway 267 just north of Greenfield Illinois, lucky it was either a f1 or f0 and didn't flip the car i forget which it was but they have a map of it, I made it to Greenfield they had sunny blue skies and they was all having a community bbq😂
All i could think is how lucky this little town was
When you're in the middle of the tornado with wind that fast it's not the actual wind that kills you. It's the debris that does the damage. A human body would more than likely be in pieces.
Yea to answer your question in the jarrel ef5 in the eye it ripped lungs and organs out of. Cattle
They then rebuilt the high school, and then after a couple years of rapid growth started the process of buikding 3 more. They don't need all of them so now students in from neighboring towns to help fill them.
They call an EF-5 tornado the finger of God. It *erases* everything it passes over.
I also have intrest in Tornados. 🌪️
Where I live in Indiana, we dont get many tornados. But pl like Oklahoma, Kansa,
Get quiwt a few. Tornados are very destructive, scary,.
Hey! Just wanted to let you know there’s a new Oversimplified video out! Two actually!
Man it's so weird to see areas I'm familiar with in these videos
The movie "Twisters" is coming to movie theatres on July 19, 2024
I do miss the weather reactions, but I can understand why you don't react to it! Hope you have a good day, Luka & everybody else reading this!
I was in 7th grade and just got home from school i was alone the sky was Dark black to green I took cover with my cats and Hurd the roaring sound then woke up under rubble my family made it including the cats. I had injuries but made it my Boyfriend didn’t 😢i was heart broken. It was then I decided to come out to family and at school
Normally winds just move the debris that kill you but there were reports from the jarrell f5 that people skin got burned by wind shear.
Keep in mind, all of the shredded debris is being whipped around at 260 miles per hour. You might as well be tossed into a giant food processor. You , yourself have become a piece of debris along with cars, homes, trees and bits of the landscape.
ayo i live here lmao i knew there was a big tornado here but i didnt realize it was so severe 😭
Why would you not do weather reactions? I love them!
Plainfield is about 70 miles south of me. I remember this well.
I do too, I was a truck driver back then. Watched it from the side of the road.
I don't fuck with Tornados, been through too many... Hell I thought I was going to die in one of them April 27th 2011 was a ugh not a day I like to remember. We had no power from storms the night before so we just didn't know what was coming....
If an F5 tornado hits your body it is torn to shreds. Usually never Id'ed as a body afterwards.
Why would you stop doing weather reactions? I love the weather reactions
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Tornadoes can tear bodies apart. They can remove your skin.
If you weren't just sucked into the tornadonand flung miles away, the debris in the tornado would be battering you. From glass, sheet metal, barbed wire, concrete, lumber, livestock!!! There are tornado videos of entire houses being flung in all directions.
There was a strong tornado that hit NORTH/NORTHWEST Houston when I was a teenager. I was working at a childcare center. We could only gather in the center of the building as 2 of the exterior walls were mostly GLASS!!! So we could literally watch the terrible sickeningly green sky get darker and the super strong winds. I was trying to be "Mama" to about 10 3 year old babies. I struggled to hold all of them and comfort them all. When it was all over and parents came to get their little ones, i tried to drive home. It normally would take about 20 minutes to drive home, that evening it took 1 ½ hours to drive home!!!
My mother had been home alone. The 2 large picture windows in our house had blown into the house and shattered. My father came home and had to board up those large windows until insurance paid for new ones to installed.
You would be picked up and then beaten with debris going 200mph. It would be like being in a blender.
I’m a certified skywarn spotter!
Ohio gets quite a few tornados. We hear the siren it’s an eye roll
Its so weird to me to see my city mentioned
Was that some extra behind the scenes realism at the start or just an edit faux pas?
It looked like he was struggling at the beginning there lol
Put into perspective for 200mph winds. If you want to move a human who weighs 175 pounds, it would take winds over 67 miles per hour. Finally, to move a car you would need wind speeds over 90 miles per hour.
An adult body is picked up off the ground at 80 mph. Never go outside in such weather. Tornadic winds aren't empty, they are filled with debris moving at different velocities, you are beaten to death.
You could possibly be impaled or cut in half. It has happened to victims in the past. A school girl was cut in half by a falling school bell and another cut in half by flying debris.
Believe it or not it's not the eye that does any damage the eye is calm it's the outer walls that will get you
you would become flying debris and the other debris would shred you.
There is a whole 50 minuet doc. about this storm. Please watch it.
ok buddy do not get reported for this reaction ,
Haha that's where I live that's cool
Stop blaspheming God’s name i would of stayed and watched your channel but had to leave because of that! 😡