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Imo, I think this storm is partially why el Reno ended up the way it did. Like obviously it was an insane storm, pretty unpredictable. But I really think chasers had it in the back of their minds "oh this is gonna hit Moore too" , so they might have had an unconscious bias towards it moving east. Like they weren't fully paying attention to what the storm was actually doing, because half of their minds were focused on Moore. That storm was huge and widened out unexpectedly, it had weird motion, but idk. Watching the storm spotter network of that day, it looks like so many of them were priming to go towards Moore. I wonder how that played into the ways chasers reacted in the moment. Seeing so many seasoned chasers get hit that day, I really think they half expected it to keep moving east.
After watching it the first time, I tried following along using current satellite imagery from maps just to see how much was rebuilt. Crazy to see a row of houses and one or two in the middle are just empty plots of land because nobody rebuilt those homes
Born and riased in Moore. Still live here and I'm 55. Went thru all those tornadoes. Took shelter with my mom at Moore high school while i was trying to pick up my daughter before it hit... we didn't get out in time. I'll never forget walking out to the devastation and total fear. Hearing it had hit several elementary schools and being terrified for my nephew in one near by. The tornado missed my house by 3 blocks.... still so sad about those little babies in plaza towers
Learning that seven innocent children lost their lives at Plaza Towers Elementary School was the second time in my life where I have cried over the loss of young children; the first time was when I heard that twenty children had been murdered in cold blood by a deranged madman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut just five months earlier.
I stayed there at a friend’s house about a year before the tornado hit that neighborhood, I only remember the donut shop over there, but it was a nice little town
@@Revolupine I watched a special on this once, the teacher was screaming at first but then she realised she needed to be brave for the kids. In one of the bathrooms there was a man who had tried to get to his kid but only just barely got there before the tornado did. He was standing over several boys, including his own I believe, and part of the cement wall fell on top of him! But he knew he had to keep standing and protecting those boys. It really is because of amazing people like that that no one died in that school. Like, that wall likely would have crushed some boys if he wasn't there, so it'd be similar to the other school ):
One aspect of tornado discussion this channel does very well is the "line and ring" on map overlay. I don't think enough people understand they can be looking at the condensation funnel and actually be in the tornado damage path.....even though it isn't a direct hit.
You forgot to mention Xavier J. Delgado. After surviving the 2013 Moore Tornado although his abdomen was impaled and he spent 40 minutes under the debris, he lost 7 (all of the deaths at Plaza Towers) friends in the tornado as they were killed when the wall collapsed. It affected his mental health so significantly that on May 6th, 2018, Xavier took himself out. *Rest in Peace.*
Shoutout to whoever does the animations as the circle moves revealing the damage a bit at a time rather than showing it all at once. It truly does enhance the suspense for the viewer like me that isn’t familiar with the incident
Not gonna lie, the script kinda makes me cringe, but not because it's poorly written, it's just that it makes me think of my writing when my teacher said to use more descriptive words. I used a good handful of the ones used in the video. I also wrote a paper on tornadoes. 😅
This tornado destroyed my house, surreal to see all the footage again. The smell after the tornado passed was wild, like a mix of natural gas and freshly snapped wood. My home was destroyed at 13:24 in the video, we lived on Country Edge Dr. Great video!
@@emmyhynes5827 All that dirt and debris flying around, much of it pulverized into a fine powder. Think of the dust that ends up in your vacuum's HEPA filter. That kind of stuff can linger for hours in humid air.
@@emmyhynes5827 When a strong downburst followed by a week tornado went through my town last year, the thing that stuck out the most was the scent of fresh wood. The whole town smelled like it for a week
I was in sixth grade in Plaza Towers that day. My parents tried to check me out before that cyclone but we're refused because "its safer here" they were very wrong. A car was where the principals office once was after so big yikes.
@@southern_railman It is Incredibly horrifying. The fact this tornado produced that type of damage is grotesque, especially since this was over structures throughout most of its lifecycle.
Another incredible thing about this tornado is that I live 100 miles to the NE of Moore(near Tulsa), & we were finding debris in our town. Even family photos. I couldn’t figure out what the stuff was I was finding in my backyard until it dawned on me that it was blown debris from Moore. Also, my mom, sister-in-law & I went down there to help with cleanup of the cemetery near Plaza Towers elementary to prepare for burials of those lost. We just couldn’t believe what we saw. There was no grass at all in the cemetery. Looking over at the school, knowing those babies lost their lives in there was just heart wrenching. I cried so much while trying to help that community. No words can describe any of it.
Sitting through a stationary EF5 tornado has to be horrifying to sit through. And yet the sharp difference in the winds is crazy, seeing your home just fine while seeing the home across the street is just plain crazy. Thanks again Will! Edit: this is the most amount of attraction a comment of mine has ever gotten. Thanks guys :)
@@LVM5584 Essentially an obese Jarrell. This s.o.b. looped too, cause of a failed occlusion, meaning that certain areas got hammered by this thing TWICE. That's just grotesque and terrifying to think about.
It's absolutely crazy how the destruction works. My dad owned an insurance adjusting agency during the 1999 Moore tornado and I remember going to inspect one of our insured houses that was relatively unscathed while the house next door was completely demolished. I had no idea of how powerful tornados were until I saw sticks penetrating brick and straw penetrating trees while sections of streets were completely swept away.
A tornado looping back has got to be the absolute worst nightmare. Especially one that size. In most cases when it's over it's over, and you can relax a bit, get your bearings, take a breath... but if it loops back...
There's a video here on TH-cam titled "Code Black: the Stories of May 20th" where staff members of Moore Medical Center told their stories of survival. Though one person who was a patient at Moore Medical Center on May 20th told her story in the video: a woman by the name of Lacy Jacobs. Lacy had arrived at six that morning to be induced for labor with her husband. As a result the weather was the last thing Lacy had on her mind. Early that afternoon; Lacy had delivered her second child, a boy whom she and her husband named Kellan. Though when the tornado warning was issued Lacy was evacuated downstairs to the cafeteria from the maternity ward. Lacy was understandably frightened by what was occurring while she was checking her phone to stay informed on the situation at hand. After the tornado had moved past the hospital following its loop; the patients were evacuated to the Warren Theatre. Lacy was absolutely bewildered by the destruction she was seeing after getting out of the hospital.
Well I'm late to comment but I'm glad to see I'm not alone in that. It's definitely one of the most interesting tornadoes partly from lack of footage compared to most others. The imagination craves what it can't have 😅
A sad, lesser-known fact about this tornado that wasn't mentioned in the video; another death contributed to the tornado came around 5 years after May 20th 2013, when a survivor from Plaza Towers named Xavier Delgado took his life after losing 7 of his friends in the tornado. He was only in 3rd grade when the storm happened. He was there at the school where he lost his friends and classmates.
i live in colorado so i can't say that i don't but i've only seen a tornado once in my life and it was really far off in the distance and was sort of small. i've experienced tornado warnings tho and heard sirens before. honestly tornado weather makes me nostalgic for my childhood (this sounds weird)
Same here, I'm on the eastern side of the Appalachians, they block a lot of the bad weather. And it's very hilly here so we rarely ever have tornadoes.
I've heard of the 2013 Moore Tornado and it's strength but I've never watched a video on it's path before. The immense dread I felt when the camera panned over from the farm to nothing but lines and lines of houses was palpable. So much devastation.
@@Artfanbookfan25Two of them actually: Mike Morgan (the chief meteorologist at Oklahoma City's NBC affiliate KFOR channel 4) and Val Castor (a field meteorologist at the city's CBS affiliate KWTV Channel 9.) However the May 20th tornado badly affected Damon Lane; the chief meteorologist at Oklahoma City's ABC affiliate KOCO Channel 5. Damon lives in Moore, Oklahoma and on May 20th he was juggling two roles that afternoon: chief meteorologist and husband. Damon was frantically texting his wife and urging her to get herself and their dogs into the storm shelter.
EF5s are just that insane, there are several higher-end EF5s if it struck Moore they would have erased the city clean. Like the 2011 Hackleburg EF5 or the Rainsville EF5.
This is definitely no where near the weakest Ef5, most ef5s are rated at 201mph or 205mph like Joplin Tornado. Moore is one of few rated at 210mph or higher.
I'm genuinely glad that the El Reno 2.6 Mile wide Tornado stayed in open fields and not shift towards Moore Oklahoma mere 11 Days later.. This was already absolutely terrible.. But a 313 MPH, 2.6 Mile Wide monster with EF4 - 5 Sub-vortices inside of it's main column would absolutely obliterated the City.. I still feel the pain you guys down there went through.. Shivers, even to this day the scars remain.
I’ve been waiting for this video! Not gonna get into details but my step dad lead the crew and was the first to find the body’s of the drowned class. He had to carry them out. It doesn’t affect him as much as it did but he still struggles with it sometimes. Thank you for being so respectful and professional when it comes to these tragic tornadoes.
I lived directly south of Briarwood and got checked out by my mom before the tornado hit it. When I tell you it was terrifying to come out on the front lawn of my perfectly intact house to see the devastation the tornado caused I'm not over exaggerating. My mom, family, and I all helped with the clean up and building of new houses as civilians for months afterward. I still remember finding animals in the wreckage and returning them to their owners even though I was so young.
Tornado TRX drops a banger and it totally made my day. “ Weak” EF5 my rear end. Ripping pavement off roads and literally drilling into the ground. Nothing “ weak” about this 250+ mph Monster.
@@pawn6 That's the case with most EF5 tornadoes, even the strongest ones like Smithville. That has more to do with the rigid nature of the EF5 than anything else. The only ones I can think of off the top of my head that produced a crap ton of EF5 dIs are Phil-Campbell Hackleburg and Joplin, but one managed to stay on the ground for well over 100 miles at peak intensity, and the other plowed directly through a city.
I grew up in the Moore/Norman area. I was 12 when it happened and can vividly recall the entire day from how dark the clouds were almost completely black in some parts to the sound of sirens to just silence. To afterwords the sirens of all first responders going by my area and greenish hue that the sky still had
Same. I was 13, and one of the few things I remember clearly was leaving my middle school to go home because my mom was there and the sky was literally black when I got outside. Had never seen anything like it, and haven't since.
@@MegidolErin My Mom pulled me out of school as well. It escalated very quickly after that, I remember it being Sunny with some clouds around Noon and then within a few hours our town was being deleted.
This was the 1st and only time my 78 year old father ever got in a storm shelter, despite living in tornado alley his entire life. It's the only time I'd ever heard him scared of the weather and the reason my family has a shelter in our garage (Yukon, OK).
Man oh man. May 3rd, I was in 5th grade and lived 2 blocks east of Plaza. The damage from that tornado hit the more northern sides of Moore. By 2013, I was living in northeast parts of town. Seeing the absolute destruction of the town you have lived and grown up in is quite mind boggling. But seeing it twice, I'm not sure my brain really believes what it saw. I dont recall what the May 8th, 2003 tornado was rated but I remember looking out a window and seeing it headed right for us. That sight alone would be something 99% of the population would always rememeber and instill fear. For some reason, its hard to imagine wanting to move away from here. Mondays in Moore in May. There was a mobile home park that was MAYBE 1/3 of mile east of Plaza Towers that somehow wasnt absolutely demolished. I'm quite sure Michael Lynn made it to his daughter, he calls the football games for MHS on radio. But unfortunately, if im not mistaken, two of the people who lost their lives at 711 by hospital were a young mother and her infant son.😢
I was so young when this happened, but I remember my mom crying, only a few years later I knew why. The damage in Moore was terrible, and I only lived less than a mile where it struck
The damage it did at the Orr Family Farm was absolutely nuts. It honestly was on par with Bridge-Creek and Jarrell in terms of severity of damage. Great video btw. 👍
This is the best video on Moore 2013 since Tornado Forensics' Magnum Opus multi cam video. There is truly an aura of Evil around this particular tornado. I think its a combination of the abundance of apocalyptic footage of the monster, and its horrifically tragic path seemingly chosen to maximize human suffering. May the victims rest in peace.❤
I was chatting with friends in an online gaming forum when the 2013 tornado struck. A live feed from a local news station's helicopter was shared. I sat there with my mouth open, and with a cold feeling running throughout my body. I'll never forget watching it, along with the feelings I had.
I swear this guy is on the same level as Pecos Hank with his tornado videos. I've always said that Hank's channel is the absolute best, but I think that TRX is just as good.
Your videos are literally the best. You make each tornado essentially a horror movie type feel at the same time showing so much respect to each lost soul.
I remember watching this tornado from start to finish on TV in Texas. I saw it live on the Weather Channel, and by the time it became wedge and started heading towards Moore, that's when CNN started covering the KFOR stream. When it was over, my jaw dropped the devastation in real time, but what broke my heart was hearing about what happened to those elementary school kids because they went through my worst nightmare as a kid and 7 of them didn't make it. 10 years later, I'm a truck driver now, and I take loads to OKC all the time, and every time I pass the Warren Theater or 27th street(May 3rd path), I always get a chill down my spine just thinking about those tragic days.
When you consider how Moore, Oklahoma is practically synonymous with violent and destructive tornadoes you can bet your money that they don't play around with issuing bulletins like this. Even more so when you consider the lessons many residents of Moore learned from the May 3rd, 1999 disaster.
Best series on TH-cam hands down. The visuals and video clips that are provided in the videos really give you a prospective on how deviating these tornados truly are. Prayers up to everyone who has lost their life on this grim day.
Something I wish you wouldve discussed is home shelters post-1999 in Moore. IIRC, after the 1999 Moore tornado, a lot of people opted to try ground level "tornado-safe" concrete rooms instead of basements. I wonder if a lot of people survived this tornado utilizing those or if they were even effective.
We watched this live on TV while visiting my sister north of Joplin. We were moving to the area and decided we needed to have a plan. We went out the next day and purchased an above ground storm shelter. A year later, we moved farther north of Joplin and had that shelter moved with us. There was already an in-ground shelter, but we needed something in the garage so that my elderly parents would have a chance. Both shelters are stocked with water and MREs as well as basic tools. Our biggest hole in this is the lack of warning sirens anywhere close to us. All we have is the Weather Radio.
As a Moore native and not even a full block from highland East till this day, I still suffer from PTSD. Even though I was suspended from school for the last 2 weeks, this day was the last day of school and I was getting ready to turn in the last of my homework. So much detail of the seemingly normal day turned into a life long struggle 11 1/2 years later and I still don't know how to release it all as I'm turning 27 next month. Stay safe out there
I hope you can find someone who specializes in the kind of PTSD you have and can help you. It's not living when you carry such a heavy burden. 🙏🏼❤ Good luck and be good to yourself.
As someone who lived through it too (I was taking shelter in the backend of the Neighborhood Walmart on S.W. 4th St.), my ptsd flared up when we had that bad weather streak last month. I was taking shelter again one night and the sound that the wind made triggered my ptsd and all I could see was back then. It took a Charley horse in both of my legs to snap me out of it.
Lets go! I love your documentaries, and you have the best tornado documentaries I’ve ever seen. The trio is complete, moore 1999, moore 2013, el reno 2013.
I remember going to the Warren movie theater a few weeks after the fact (IIRC it was Iron Man 3) and just seeing the absolute devastation all through the city. Now, seven year old me didn't quite understand it at the time. But looking back... I now understand how lucky I got just 11 days later as a resident of Yukon.
Omg he posted!!! I got so sad because I watched all your videos and didn't know when you'd post a new one! You're my favorite tornado channel! Keep it up!
every time i hear "well constructed homes were obliterated" i think back to an argument i had with a friend about her saying that tornadoes here (i live in austria) wouldn't do any damage at all bcs we have brick/concrete homes. but honestly if i had to choose i'd rather have drywall flying around not... y'know. bricks.
Kind of depends, admittedly. Stuff like brick and concrete can get ground down into dust from the force of the winds alone if the tornado is strong enough. It makes it into the world's biggest sandblaster, sort of. Wood, grass, and other stuff one would usually consider less dangerous can still kill pretty easily at tornado strengths like the one talked about in the video; the two examples that come to my mind are the Jarrell and Joplin tornadoes; Jarrell was so slow and powerful that straw was found almost thatched into the cadavers of...whatever remained. Joplin also as there are several well known images to come out of it, one being a large splinter of wood that was going so fast it *impaled a concrete curb.* Basically: Concrete bad because you'll get sandblasted, Wood bad because you'll get impaled. Debris are a risk regardless of tornado intensity, because best case it's hurling debris at around highway/interstate speed, and at worst it's hurling the exact same debris but now at the speed of a Tokyo bullet train! Woohoo!
I watch your videos from Italy, when tornadoes fortunately are a very, very rare natural occurrence. This tornado, with the El Reno one, impress me for one thing. While El Reno, with his erratic motion, seemed to be born to chase and get storm chasers on his path, this tornado seemed to chase every school it could smash in his track. Striking all those schools in a bunch of minutes is mind-blowing and absolutely terrifying. Anyway, great content of yours. Keep it up!
My only complaint about this channel is there just isn't enough videos lol wish I wouldn't have found this for a few more years. Love the content bro, keep it up.
0:24 I'm glad you also included the Shawnee, Oklahoma EF4 tornado 05/19/13 that happened the previous day! The closest precursor to the 05/20/13 EF5 tornado was the 05/24/13 Chickasha EF4 tornado, with many suspecting it being EF5 tornado.
It was forming over my house in East Norman. Had I known that I would be almost killed the next day in Moore I would have taken the 19th one more seriously.
This probably one of the most engrossing tornado video's I've ever watched. The way the maps changed to damage as the circle passed was amazing. Outstanding video.
I watch a lot of similar style tornado videos here on TH-cam, but your story telling method and narration are just next level. Don't ever stop doing what you do, you're very good at it.
have you ever thought about making a video about the Bangladesh 1989 tornado? There aren't many great videos on it, and it seems really interesting as it was outside the US and apparently it was the most lethal ever simply because of population density. Great video!
I’ve seen a video about it but nowhere near as detailed as this particular video. It would be an interesting one to do because the casualty rate was enormous unfortunately. It was a very severe tornado too.
Awesome job with the research and video optimization, man. I always find your vids fascinating; It's also fun randomly stumbling onto one of your comments/posts on the subreddit lol
What a fantastic presentation of the Moore tornado of 2013. The track and sheer devastation of this thing is unbelievable, but the way you've put this video together really gives as close to an understanding (as much as one can have for not being there) how truly apocalyptic this beast of a tornado was. Great job on that. I hope those involved have recovered and am sorry for the ones who lost their lives, their families and those who are still struggling or suffer from PTSD to this day.
i love these kinds of videos Edit: I finished watching the video and wow, the way that you showed how the path sent and also went into detail on how it all happened, it was great to watch and I hope for more videos like this! ❤️
Hey TRX, I watched Moore Tornado from start to finish, remember being not even 6 miles from where it started and watched it die and I was 6 almost 17 and remember helping people through the rubel, truma still sticks but Im glad I was there to help even though I was so young.
Stopped in the middle of shopping online when I saw this upload, even my wife stopped to watch most of this with me. The damage at the Orr family farm is as intense as anything ever documented.
Another incredible video. Really is inconceivable. It pretty much took the worst path it possibly could've, hitting multiple schools and a hospital, as well as making a full loop. We've been pretty lucky since Moore. Although we have had some VERY nasty tornadoes since, we haven't seen anything to that degree. The Western Kentucky/Mayfield is arguably the closest we've gotten. But we *will* see destruction the likes of Moore or Joplin again at some point. And I am really dreading that.
Added to my "Moore 2013" playlist in position #1 of 52 videos. You took the same spot in the "El Reno 2013" playlist too. You just keep knocking them out of the park. Congratulations on your sponsorship 😀
Man i love your channel. PLEASE do joplin. As someone who once lived there. And now lives 45 minutes away. The joplin tornado always fascinated me. Moore is a great one as well.
The most depressing part of this tornado is, the schools it hit were also hit in the Bridge Creek tornado, but between then and this one none of the schools had set up any sort of storm shelters.
I really like the way this channel puts everything together for a video. It’s always done very well. I personally haven’t ever even seen a tornado but it’s one of the things I’m most afraid of. I live in SE Louisiana, right on the Mississippi line in a very rural area and the amount of tornado warnings we are getting has increased dramatically in the last year or so. Nobody around here has any kind of shelter or even a basement. We would have zero chance if we were to ever have something like this coming at us. I can deal with hurricane season more easily because you have a lot more time to prepare in whatever way you need to
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what is the song at 7:20
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Please do joplin next
could you do the Newman Georgia tornado a EF4
Were cooked
I dropped everything and came here. Saw “Moore” and “TRX” and went, “yup. This’ll be worth it.
@@svience8072 Me exactly
Same here
My thoughts exactly
Yep
Yep he's the goat tornado channel
The fact that the El Reno tornado happened 11 days later and only about 38 miles away is mind boggling.
Imo, I think this storm is partially why el Reno ended up the way it did. Like obviously it was an insane storm, pretty unpredictable. But I really think chasers had it in the back of their minds "oh this is gonna hit Moore too" , so they might have had an unconscious bias towards it moving east. Like they weren't fully paying attention to what the storm was actually doing, because half of their minds were focused on Moore.
That storm was huge and widened out unexpectedly, it had weird motion, but idk. Watching the storm spotter network of that day, it looks like so many of them were priming to go towards Moore. I wonder how that played into the ways chasers reacted in the moment. Seeing so many seasoned chasers get hit that day, I really think they half expected it to keep moving east.
As an Oklahoman not really when it’s tornado season you gotta be ready for anything
I've never considered that, but I'm sure you are on to something there
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Yup. Very wild.
I really love how your satellite imagery changes as the tornado path goes over it. This is such a quality channel. Definitely worth the subscription
I agree!
After watching it the first time, I tried following along using current satellite imagery from maps just to see how much was rebuilt. Crazy to see a row of houses and one or two in the middle are just empty plots of land because nobody rebuilt those homes
So true. Just subscribed.
Born and riased in Moore. Still live here and I'm 55. Went thru all those tornadoes. Took shelter with my mom at Moore high school while i was trying to pick up my daughter before it hit... we didn't get out in time. I'll never forget walking out to the devastation and total fear. Hearing it had hit several elementary schools and being terrified for my nephew in one near by. The tornado missed my house by 3 blocks.... still so sad about those little babies in plaza towers
Learning that seven innocent children lost their lives at Plaza Towers Elementary School was the second time in my life where I have cried over the loss of young children; the first time was when I heard that twenty children had been murdered in cold blood by a deranged madman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut just five months earlier.
I hope you have a real shelter to hide in now only a matter of time before the next one.
Serious question, why would you continue to live there after something like this?
I stayed there at a friend’s house about a year before the tornado hit that neighborhood, I only remember the donut shop over there, but it was a nice little town
One would hope that all schools in those areas have shelters.
The sheer bravery and compassion you must have to sit with screaming children sheltering through a violent tornado and try to reassure them... woah.
She was my first grade teacher back in 2001
She was my first grade teacher back in 2001
no literally that video sent shivers down my spine and hearing the "they all survived" just absolutely blew my mind
@@Revolupine I watched a special on this once, the teacher was screaming at first but then she realised she needed to be brave for the kids. In one of the bathrooms there was a man who had tried to get to his kid but only just barely got there before the tornado did. He was standing over several boys, including his own I believe, and part of the cement wall fell on top of him! But he knew he had to keep standing and protecting those boys. It really is because of amazing people like that that no one died in that school. Like, that wall likely would have crushed some boys if he wasn't there, so it'd be similar to the other school ):
What other choices do you have? You're not going to run away.
One aspect of tornado discussion this channel does very well is the "line and ring" on map overlay. I don't think enough people understand they can be looking at the condensation funnel and actually be in the tornado damage path.....even though it isn't a direct hit.
Now we need a set of line for a tornado inside the tornado to show with a visible triple tornado
trx dropping this in the middle of my crippling tornado hyperfixation phase. i owe you my life
this is actually so real
Glad I’m not the only one 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Same here lol
Im on a trx and swegle studios video marathon rn I have my fav snacks too I’m so happy
realest
You forgot to mention Xavier J. Delgado. After surviving the 2013 Moore Tornado although his abdomen was impaled and he spent 40 minutes under the debris, he lost 7 (all of the deaths at Plaza Towers) friends in the tornado as they were killed when the wall collapsed. It affected his mental health so significantly that on May 6th, 2018, Xavier took himself out.
*Rest in Peace.*
Shoutout to whoever does the animations as the circle moves revealing the damage a bit at a time rather than showing it all at once. It truly does enhance the suspense for the viewer like me that isn’t familiar with the incident
Thank you!
@ your work has not gone unappreciated or unnoticed. 😊 thanks for your content!
Not gonna lie, the script kinda makes me cringe, but not because it's poorly written, it's just that it makes me think of my writing when my teacher said to use more descriptive words. I used a good handful of the ones used in the video. I also wrote a paper on tornadoes. 😅
This tornado destroyed my house, surreal to see all the footage again. The smell after the tornado passed was wild, like a mix of natural gas and freshly snapped wood. My home was destroyed at 13:24 in the video, we lived on Country Edge Dr. Great video!
that's so interesting tornados have smells. never thought about it
I guess because of all the junk it's picking up. Apparently even oil tanks @emmyhynes5827
@@emmyhynes5827 All that dirt and debris flying around, much of it pulverized into a fine powder. Think of the dust that ends up in your vacuum's HEPA filter. That kind of stuff can linger for hours in humid air.
@@emmyhynes5827 When a strong downburst followed by a week tornado went through my town last year, the thing that stuck out the most was the scent of fresh wood. The whole town smelled like it for a week
I was in sixth grade in Plaza Towers that day. My parents tried to check me out before that cyclone but we're refused because "its safer here" they were very wrong. A car was where the principals office once was after so big yikes.
What really scares me is that it literally tore roads off of the ground.
Smithville, Philadelphia, Hackleburg-Phil Campbell did the same thing.
Horrifying.
Jarrell too!
@@southern_railman Bakersfield also did that and the Niles tornado shoved sheet metal under roads
300+ mph winds can destroy ANYTHING
@@southern_railman It is Incredibly horrifying. The fact this tornado produced that type of damage is grotesque, especially since this was over structures throughout most of its lifecycle.
Another incredible thing about this tornado is that I live 100 miles to the NE of Moore(near Tulsa), & we were finding debris in our town. Even family photos. I couldn’t figure out what the stuff was I was finding in my backyard until it dawned on me that it was blown debris from Moore.
Also, my mom, sister-in-law & I went down there to help with cleanup of the cemetery near Plaza Towers elementary to prepare for burials of those lost. We just couldn’t believe what we saw. There was no grass at all in the cemetery. Looking over at the school, knowing those babies lost their lives in there was just heart wrenching. I cried so much while trying to help that community. No words can describe any of it.
That’s a powerful story, thank you for sharing it.
Sitting through a stationary EF5 tornado has to be horrifying to sit through. And yet the sharp difference in the winds is crazy, seeing your home just fine while seeing the home across the street is just plain crazy. Thanks again Will!
Edit: this is the most amount of attraction a comment of mine has ever gotten. Thanks guys :)
This thing was HUGE too, well over a mile wide
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Sounds just like Jarrell
@@LVM5584 Essentially an obese Jarrell. This s.o.b. looped too, cause of a failed occlusion, meaning that certain areas got hammered by this thing TWICE. That's just grotesque and terrifying to think about.
It's absolutely crazy how the destruction works. My dad owned an insurance adjusting agency during the 1999 Moore tornado and I remember going to inspect one of our insured houses that was relatively unscathed while the house next door was completely demolished. I had no idea of how powerful tornados were until I saw sticks penetrating brick and straw penetrating trees while sections of streets were completely swept away.
A tornado looping back has got to be the absolute worst nightmare. Especially one that size. In most cases when it's over it's over, and you can relax a bit, get your bearings, take a breath... but if it loops back...
There's a video here on TH-cam titled "Code Black: the Stories of May 20th" where staff members of Moore Medical Center told their stories of survival. Though one person who was a patient at Moore Medical Center on May 20th told her story in the video: a woman by the name of Lacy Jacobs. Lacy had arrived at six that morning to be induced for labor with her husband. As a result the weather was the last thing Lacy had on her mind. Early that afternoon; Lacy had delivered her second child, a boy whom she and her husband named Kellan. Though when the tornado warning was issued Lacy was evacuated downstairs to the cafeteria from the maternity ward. Lacy was understandably frightened by what was occurring while she was checking her phone to stay informed on the situation at hand. After the tornado had moved past the hospital following its loop; the patients were evacuated to the Warren Theatre. Lacy was absolutely bewildered by the destruction she was seeing after getting out of the hospital.
When the world needs tornado trx the most he RETUNED and btw do Joplin next
Well I'm late to comment but I'm glad to see I'm not alone in that. It's definitely one of the most interesting tornadoes partly from lack of footage compared to most others. The imagination craves what it can't have 😅
Tuscaloosa after
High risk Chris already made a documentary about it
Incredible how you edited footage to provide the wide shot of the rain-wrapped tornado. Also great editing throughout. This is incredible work
It amazes me that those elementary schools didn't have storm shelters. You'd think they'd be standard. Those poor kids
A sad, lesser-known fact about this tornado that wasn't mentioned in the video; another death contributed to the tornado came around 5 years after May 20th 2013, when a survivor from Plaza Towers named Xavier Delgado took his life after losing 7 of his friends in the tornado. He was only in 3rd grade when the storm happened. He was there at the school where he lost his friends and classmates.
I am so glad I live in an area where there are barely ever tornadoes.
Rest in piece to everyone who died.
Same! There have been killer tornadoes here in Michigan, but no where near as often as OK... I'd be scared outa my mind! How do they do it????
i live in colorado so i can't say that i don't but i've only seen a tornado once in my life and it was really far off in the distance and was sort of small. i've experienced tornado warnings tho and heard sirens before. honestly tornado weather makes me nostalgic for my childhood (this sounds weird)
Same here, I'm on the eastern side of the Appalachians, they block a lot of the bad weather. And it's very hilly here so we rarely ever have tornadoes.
I've heard of the 2013 Moore Tornado and it's strength but I've never watched a video on it's path before. The immense dread I felt when the camera panned over from the farm to nothing but lines and lines of houses was palpable. So much devastation.
I feel so bad for the OK residents cause imagine if you survived the 1999 tornado just to get hit again 14 years later with a similar path.
@@malachigeorge959 One newscaster omniously said: "It's May 3rd all over again."
@@Artfanbookfan25Two of them actually: Mike Morgan (the chief meteorologist at Oklahoma City's NBC affiliate KFOR channel 4) and Val Castor (a field meteorologist at the city's CBS affiliate KWTV Channel 9.) However the May 20th tornado badly affected Damon Lane; the chief meteorologist at Oklahoma City's ABC affiliate KOCO Channel 5. Damon lives in Moore, Oklahoma and on May 20th he was juggling two roles that afternoon: chief meteorologist and husband. Damon was frantically texting his wife and urging her to get herself and their dogs into the storm shelter.
My mom and I got hit by both and let me tell ya she's still in Moore and wisely invested in a storm shelter now.
The fact that people say this is the weakest EF5 is just insane to me. It was so violent and so lifechanging for people in moore
Yeah, but the Moore tornado from 1999 had much more wind speed than this one
EF5s are just that insane, there are several higher-end EF5s if it struck Moore they would have erased the city clean. Like the 2011 Hackleburg EF5 or the Rainsville EF5.
@@tammywebb1289 but for sure as hell not the weakest.
This one moved slower too. Maybe not 300 mph but definitely in the 2’s
This is definitely no where near the weakest Ef5, most ef5s are rated at 201mph or 205mph like Joplin Tornado. Moore is one of few rated at 210mph or higher.
I'm genuinely glad that the El Reno 2.6 Mile wide Tornado stayed in open fields and not shift towards Moore Oklahoma mere 11 Days later..
This was already absolutely terrible.. But a 313 MPH, 2.6 Mile Wide monster with EF4 - 5 Sub-vortices inside of it's main column would absolutely obliterated the City..
I still feel the pain you guys down there went through.. Shivers, even to this day the scars remain.
I’ve been waiting for this video! Not gonna get into details but my step dad lead the crew and was the first to find the body’s of the drowned class. He had to carry them out. It doesn’t affect him as much as it did but he still struggles with it sometimes. Thank you for being so respectful and professional when it comes to these tragic tornadoes.
what do you mean drowned class
@@Mister_breakfast there was a class of 1st graders that drowned in a bathroom because the were barricade in and a pipe burst making the room flood.
@@Gary____ Wow. Thats so sad.
I love how you transition from pre-tornado satellite pictures to post-tornado satellite pictures. Very dramatic. Very entertaining
I lived directly south of Briarwood and got checked out by my mom before the tornado hit it. When I tell you it was terrifying to come out on the front lawn of my perfectly intact house to see the devastation the tornado caused I'm not over exaggerating. My mom, family, and I all helped with the clean up and building of new houses as civilians for months afterward. I still remember finding animals in the wreckage and returning them to their owners even though I was so young.
Tornado TRX drops a banger and it totally made my day. “ Weak” EF5 my rear end. Ripping pavement off roads and literally drilling into the ground. Nothing “ weak” about this 250+ mph Monster.
If it reached 250mph there would probably be a lot more ef5 damage indicators
It’s near impossible to cause 250mph damage given most buildings are completely destroyed above 190mph.
@@pawn6 That's the case with most EF5 tornadoes, even the strongest ones like Smithville. That has more to do with the rigid nature of the EF5 than anything else. The only ones I can think of off the top of my head that produced a crap ton of EF5 dIs are Phil-Campbell Hackleburg and Joplin, but one managed to stay on the ground for well over 100 miles at peak intensity, and the other plowed directly through a city.
@@pawn6 It did reach 250+ at Orr Family Farm. Orr and several areas had EF5 contextuals.
@ EF5 is 201+ mph, not 250 mph
(or 322km/h instead of 402km/h)
I grew up in the Moore/Norman area. I was 12 when it happened and can vividly recall the entire day from how dark the clouds were almost completely black in some parts to the sound of sirens to just silence. To afterwords the sirens of all first responders going by my area and greenish hue that the sky still had
I was there as well. I was 11 when that tornado blew through. I remember it like it was yesterday, it was hell on earth for a little while wasn’t it?
Same. I was 13, and one of the few things I remember clearly was leaving my middle school to go home because my mom was there and the sky was literally black when I got outside. Had never seen anything like it, and haven't since.
@@MegidolErin My Mom pulled me out of school as well. It escalated very quickly after that, I remember it being Sunny with some clouds around Noon and then within a few hours our town was being deleted.
Jeffrey's video is legitimately terrifying. You see a part of it, and the rest just appears out of thin air. Dude is LUCKY
This was the 1st and only time my 78 year old father ever got in a storm shelter, despite living in tornado alley his entire life. It's the only time I'd ever heard him scared of the weather and the reason my family has a shelter in our garage (Yukon, OK).
Man oh man. May 3rd, I was in 5th grade and lived 2 blocks east of Plaza. The damage from that tornado hit the more northern sides of Moore. By 2013, I was living in northeast parts of town. Seeing the absolute destruction of the town you have lived and grown up in is quite mind boggling. But seeing it twice, I'm not sure my brain really believes what it saw. I dont recall what the May 8th, 2003 tornado was rated but I remember looking out a window and seeing it headed right for us. That sight alone would be something 99% of the population would always rememeber and instill fear. For some reason, its hard to imagine wanting to move away from here. Mondays in Moore in May.
There was a mobile home park that was MAYBE 1/3 of mile east of Plaza Towers that somehow wasnt absolutely demolished. I'm quite sure Michael Lynn made it to his daughter, he calls the football games for MHS on radio. But unfortunately, if im not mistaken, two of the people who lost their lives at 711 by hospital were a young mother and her infant son.😢
I was so young when this happened, but I remember my mom crying, only a few years later I knew why.
The damage in Moore was terrible, and I only lived less than a mile where it struck
Was just watching your 2013 El Reno Tornado video. I'm surprised I'm early. I love your content man, keep up the good work!!!
@@Super_Nova06 same I was watching the video of the bridge creek when this video was uploaded!
Already watched the full vid 82 times, such a TornadoTRX classic
LOL
Doubt it, video came out 30 mins ago, and it's 26 mins long
@@Tyler-n5u It was a joke you pickled onion
@@Tyler-n5u r/whoosh
@@Revhie I didn't get the joke, that's all
(And I still don't get the joke)
The damage it did at the Orr Family Farm was absolutely nuts.
It honestly was on par with Bridge-Creek and Jarrell in terms of severity of damage.
Great video btw. 👍
This is the best video on Moore 2013 since Tornado Forensics' Magnum Opus multi cam video. There is truly an aura of Evil around this particular tornado. I think its a combination of the abundance of apocalyptic footage of the monster, and its horrifically tragic path seemingly chosen to maximize human suffering. May the victims rest in peace.❤
1999: It's not possible that in the same place our homes will be destroyed again.
2013: Are you sure?
You people & these corny meme comments
Yea its like people claim lightning doesn’t hit the same place twice but it does and it will.
I was chatting with friends in an online gaming forum when the 2013 tornado struck. A live feed from a local news station's helicopter was shared. I sat there with my mouth open, and with a cold feeling running throughout my body. I'll never forget watching it, along with the feelings I had.
I swear this guy is on the same level as Pecos Hank with his tornado videos. I've always said that Hank's channel is the absolute best, but I think that TRX is just as good.
Wow this is terrifying. My heart goes out to everyone in the area.
Yeah
This is the absolute best voice for this event. Not high pitched or screaming.
Just a very appropriate level. I could listen to him for hours !!
And he’s always respectful and professional when describing the worst day of many people’s lives, and those who perished.
Your videos are literally the best. You make each tornado essentially a horror movie type feel at the same time showing so much respect to each lost soul.
I remember watching this tornado from start to finish on TV in Texas. I saw it live on the Weather Channel, and by the time it became wedge and started heading towards Moore, that's when CNN started covering the KFOR stream. When it was over, my jaw dropped the devastation in real time, but what broke my heart was hearing about what happened to those elementary school kids because they went through my worst nightmare as a kid and 7 of them didn't make it. 10 years later, I'm a truck driver now, and I take loads to OKC all the time, and every time I pass the Warren Theater or 27th street(May 3rd path), I always get a chill down my spine just thinking about those tragic days.
The fact that the police department called in the rotation so quickly and had them run the sirens probably saved SO many lives ❤
Also, the local NWS office didn't waste any time in declaring a TOR-E as well.
When you consider how Moore, Oklahoma is practically synonymous with violent and destructive tornadoes you can bet your money that they don't play around with issuing bulletins like this. Even more so when you consider the lessons many residents of Moore learned from the May 3rd, 1999 disaster.
The only thing missing is the Joplin tornado in 2011, incredible work my friend, keep it up!
Yeah, we need Joplin tornado soon
Agreed
Best series on TH-cam hands down. The visuals and video clips that are provided in the videos really give you a prospective on how deviating these tornados truly are. Prayers up to everyone who has lost their life on this grim day.
Something I wish you wouldve discussed is home shelters post-1999 in Moore. IIRC, after the 1999 Moore tornado, a lot of people opted to try ground level "tornado-safe" concrete rooms instead of basements. I wonder if a lot of people survived this tornado utilizing those or if they were even effective.
We watched this live on TV while visiting my sister north of Joplin. We were moving to the area and decided we needed to have a plan. We went out the next day and purchased an above ground storm shelter. A year later, we moved farther north of Joplin and had that shelter moved with us. There was already an in-ground shelter, but we needed something in the garage so that my elderly parents would have a chance. Both shelters are stocked with water and MREs as well as basic tools. Our biggest hole in this is the lack of warning sirens anywhere close to us. All we have is the Weather Radio.
As a Moore native and not even a full block from highland East till this day, I still suffer from PTSD. Even though I was suspended from school for the last 2 weeks, this day was the last day of school and I was getting ready to turn in the last of my homework. So much detail of the seemingly normal day turned into a life long struggle 11 1/2 years later and I still don't know how to release it all as I'm turning 27 next month. Stay safe out there
I hope you can find someone who specializes in the kind of PTSD you have and can help you. It's not living when you carry such a heavy burden. 🙏🏼❤ Good luck and be good to yourself.
As someone who lived through it too (I was taking shelter in the backend of the Neighborhood Walmart on S.W. 4th St.), my ptsd flared up when we had that bad weather streak last month. I was taking shelter again one night and the sound that the wind made triggered my ptsd and all I could see was back then. It took a Charley horse in both of my legs to snap me out of it.
That debris shower at 20:19 is apocalyptic
I swear your videos are the only tornado videos that can keep my attention, their just so high quality and I can actually understand what’s going on!
the GOAT tornado youtuber is back. great video man
Thank you!
Lets go! I love your documentaries, and you have the best tornado documentaries I’ve ever seen. The trio is complete, moore 1999, moore 2013, el reno 2013.
the Oklahoma tornado trio
This is the best retelling of this story I've seen. Love this channel.
Thank you, I appreciate it!
I remember going to the Warren movie theater a few weeks after the fact (IIRC it was Iron Man 3) and just seeing the absolute devastation all through the city. Now, seven year old me didn't quite understand it at the time. But looking back... I now understand how lucky I got just 11 days later as a resident of Yukon.
Omg he posted!!! I got so sad because I watched all your videos and didn't know when you'd post a new one! You're my favorite tornado channel! Keep it up!
every time i hear "well constructed homes were obliterated" i think back to an argument i had with a friend about her saying that tornadoes here (i live in austria) wouldn't do any damage at all bcs we have brick/concrete homes. but honestly if i had to choose i'd rather have drywall flying around not... y'know. bricks.
Kind of depends, admittedly. Stuff like brick and concrete can get ground down into dust from the force of the winds alone if the tornado is strong enough. It makes it into the world's biggest sandblaster, sort of. Wood, grass, and other stuff one would usually consider less dangerous can still kill pretty easily at tornado strengths like the one talked about in the video; the two examples that come to my mind are the Jarrell and Joplin tornadoes; Jarrell was so slow and powerful that straw was found almost thatched into the cadavers of...whatever remained. Joplin also as there are several well known images to come out of it, one being a large splinter of wood that was going so fast it *impaled a concrete curb.*
Basically: Concrete bad because you'll get sandblasted, Wood bad because you'll get impaled. Debris are a risk regardless of tornado intensity, because best case it's hurling debris at around highway/interstate speed, and at worst it's hurling the exact same debris but now at the speed of a Tokyo bullet train! Woohoo!
I watch your videos from Italy, when tornadoes fortunately are a very, very rare natural occurrence. This tornado, with the El Reno one, impress me for one thing. While El Reno, with his erratic motion, seemed to be born to chase and get storm chasers on his path, this tornado seemed to chase every school it could smash in his track. Striking all those schools in a bunch of minutes is mind-blowing and absolutely terrifying. Anyway, great content of yours. Keep it up!
It feels amazing watching another video of TornadoTRX.
Excellent video. I've watched a number of accounts but this is the most helpful for understanding the destruction path. Many thanks
Thanks for the kind words!
the production quality of this channel is incredible! always look forward to your videos
this dudes voice is amzing ngl i want him to read a book to me before i go to sleep
....Watch a playlist of his videos before going to sleep.
That’s what I sometimes do
He has a great voice for telling these tragic stories. Very soothing in spite of the serious subject matter.
Real
Real 😂
I wait for your videos so much! You're one of if not the best tornado channel on youtube! Thank you so much for this and all other videos!
Thank you, that means a lot!
We're so back TRX bros
This is one of the best, most entertaining, suspenseful videos I’ve seen in a while.
My only complaint about this channel is there just isn't enough videos lol wish I wouldn't have found this for a few more years. Love the content bro, keep it up.
Best tornado content ever. Thanks for putting these videos together TRX
0:24 I'm glad you also included the Shawnee, Oklahoma EF4 tornado 05/19/13 that happened the previous day! The closest precursor to the 05/20/13 EF5 tornado was the 05/24/13 Chickasha EF4 tornado, with many suspecting it being EF5 tornado.
I believe I was somewhere else that lol. I lived in shawnee
It was forming over my house in East Norman. Had I known that I would be almost killed the next day in Moore I would have taken the 19th one more seriously.
Ahh high quality documentaries as always ❤ Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much for the support!
dude, you consistently make the highest quality tornado documentaries I've ever seen on youtube. keep it up
Thank you very much for making a video on Moore. I requested and you did it! Let me dive into the absolute terror now!
This probably one of the most engrossing tornado video's I've ever watched. The way the maps changed to damage as the circle passed was amazing. Outstanding video.
Babe wake up another TornadoTRX masterpiece dropped
I watch a lot of similar style tornado videos here on TH-cam, but your story telling method and narration are just next level. Don't ever stop doing what you do, you're very good at it.
have you ever thought about making a video about the Bangladesh 1989 tornado? There aren't many great videos on it, and it seems really interesting as it was outside the US and apparently it was the most lethal ever simply because of population density. Great video!
I’ve seen a video about it but nowhere near as detailed as this particular video. It would be an interesting one to do because the casualty rate was enormous unfortunately. It was a very severe tornado too.
Awesome job with the research and video optimization, man. I always find your vids fascinating; It's also fun randomly stumbling onto one of your comments/posts on the subreddit lol
Moore in general is just a bad place to live literally a tornado hot spot 😭😭🙏🏻
Not really
@ it is
What a fantastic presentation of the Moore tornado of 2013. The track and sheer devastation of this thing is unbelievable, but the way you've put this video together really gives as close to an understanding (as much as one can have for not being there) how truly apocalyptic this beast of a tornado was. Great job on that. I hope those involved have recovered and am sorry for the ones who lost their lives, their families and those who are still struggling or suffer from PTSD to this day.
One of the scariest days in my childhood.
it's so nice to have compiled and narrated tornado footage without hysterical screaming or sensationalism.
keep it up!
i love these kinds of videos
Edit: I finished watching the video and wow, the way that you showed how the path sent and also went into detail on how it all happened, it was great to watch and I hope for more videos like this! ❤️
Last night, I was watching a couple of your videos and wondered why you hadn't done one on the Moore 2013 tornado.
And now here it is. Kudos.
BEST TORNADO YTER BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH ANOTHER BANGER!!!!!!
facts
Hey TRX, I watched Moore Tornado from start to finish, remember being not even 6 miles from where it started and watched it die and I was 6 almost 17 and remember helping people through the rubel, truma still sticks but Im glad I was there to help even though I was so young.
21:19 the way the tornado shifted there feels straight up malevolent.
Stopped in the middle of shopping online when I saw this upload, even my wife stopped to watch most of this with me. The damage at the Orr family farm is as intense as anything ever documented.
Another incredible video.
Really is inconceivable. It pretty much took the worst path it possibly could've, hitting multiple schools and a hospital, as well as making a full loop. We've been pretty lucky since Moore. Although we have had some VERY nasty tornadoes since, we haven't seen anything to that degree. The Western Kentucky/Mayfield is arguably the closest we've gotten. But we *will* see destruction the likes of Moore or Joplin again at some point. And I am really dreading that.
pretty much followed nearly the same path as it's deadlier predecessor from 1999
@@superpenguinzzz Yep. Wild shit
20:00 this was really nice touch, helping us see the scale through the edit
It’s just crazy how fast it went from a classic funnel to a full fledged barrel of doom
A good description of what happened.
Added to my "Moore 2013" playlist in position #1 of 52 videos. You took the same spot in the "El Reno 2013" playlist too. You just keep knocking them out of the park. Congratulations on your sponsorship 😀
Keep pumping the content out bro
Man i love your channel. PLEASE do joplin. As someone who once lived there. And now lives 45 minutes away. The joplin tornado always fascinated me. Moore is a great one as well.
Moore Tornado - Destructive Tornado
El Reno Tornado - The Largest Storm Chaser Nightmare
The most depressing part of this tornado is, the schools it hit were also hit in the Bridge Creek tornado, but between then and this one none of the schools had set up any sort of storm shelters.
Moore 2013 was an absolute beast. Very high-end echelon tornado.
I really like the way this channel puts everything together for a video. It’s always done very well. I personally haven’t ever even seen a tornado but it’s one of the things I’m most afraid of. I live in SE Louisiana, right on the Mississippi line in a very rural area and the amount of tornado warnings we are getting has increased dramatically in the last year or so. Nobody around here has any kind of shelter or even a basement. We would have zero chance if we were to ever have something like this coming at us. I can deal with hurricane season more easily because you have a lot more time to prepare in whatever way you need to
I feel so bad for everyone effected ❤
Person who was in plaza towers that day here. Thank you for the respect you gave in this video.
Look who it is the goat of tornado videos
Yessir
Tf are doing here jerrel