Tornadoes Around The World : Europe
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First I have to say once again, thank you SO MUCH for 10k subscribers! I genuinely enjoy talking with all of you and having a place where we can share our experiences. Unfortunately with this video (like most), I just had so much more to say than I could fit into a reasonably sized video. So because of that, I am linking all of the research I think you all will find interesting, should you have a hunger for more information on the topic.
Differences in European and American Rating Systems:
TORRO Scale (www.torro.org....)
International Fujita Scale (www.essl.org/m...)
RESEARCH
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Tornado Archive for any European or American tornadoes : tornadoarchive...
European Severe Weather Database : [eswd.eu/](eswd.eu/)
European Severe Forecasts : [www.estofex.org/](www.estofex.org/)
French Tornadoes [www.keraunos.o...](www.keraunos.o...) french tornadoes
European Database for Tornadoes : [eswd.eu/](eswd.eu/)
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Hey Carly, I live in south of Brazil and we have a lof of tornadoes here because of the "Pasillo de los Tornados", our own tornado alley. If you have plans to make a video about the tornadoes in South America, I will be happy to help with translations in portuguese and spanish :)
Do torandoes in Brazil and for that matter in the Southern Hemispheres spin clockwise instead of counterclockwise as the northern hemispheres do?
También, Argentina y Uruguay tienen muchos tornados. En la región de las Pampas, hay muchos tornados y tormentas del granizo.
@@evankalbach9985 yes, tornadoes in the southern hemisphere spin clockwise. Carly just posted a summary of Pasillo de los Tornados that shows videos of the 2005 Indaiatuba, São Paulo, Brazil tornado and 2016 Dolores, Uruguay tornado rotating clockwise.
@@evankalbach9985 Yes!
@@evankalbach9985 Yes, they actually do. Also, it can occur what is known as Anticyclonic tornado.
the way those twin german tornadoes danced together before merging was incredibly cool. what a beautiful spectacle.
european tornadoes are not generally talked about; this is true, likely because we get so many severe ones here in the states and we’re the most known for them, but i never thought about how interesting and strange this must be for europeans. the lack of an audible siren for while tornadoes sweep through an area in a lot of the footage shown speaks volumes as to how foreign this phenomenon must be, despite that northwestern region of europe being quite prone to tornadoes.
thank you for making this! as an amateur meteorologist, this was incredibly enlightening for me.
There are traditional German words like Windhose (wind trousers), Wasserhose (water trousers), Wirbelwind (whirlwind) which describe a tornado, but until recently those terms weren't associated with "tornado" by most Germans (as media seemed to suggest that tornadoes only happen in the US). Destructive wind trowsers happened, but were considered as something very sudden and unusual, which nobody could foresee. The notion that they can be predicted, even on a short notice, isn't widely understood yet.
Nowadays, weather services might make a comment in a 24h-forecast that some thunderstorms could produce tornadoes. An official tornado warning would only be issued after a tornado has been confirmed, which might take some time after touchdown. And there is no regulation about using sirens. There is also no education on how to act in case of an imminent tornado. Many officials and journalists will still use the term "wind trousers" in case of an event, as they aren't knowledgeable, or aren't sure whether this is the same as a tornado.
@@skayt35our weather forecast might be improving, but similar to many people from the US who still think hiding under an overpass is safe, many europeans are just oblivious to the idea that a tornado could occur here and media doesn't help.
like I'm from the north-east. Bützow's not too far from where I grew up, but yet news about that F3 never went as far as Greifswald. I only found out about it from another american youtuber covering european tornados. it's basically just your average german critically underestimating the potential danger of severe thunderstorms. like seen in these videos of people gawking near the window, instead of taking shelter or the idiots in may who got struck by lightning, because I guess the obvious and fast approaching wall cloud wasn't ominous enough to leave the open and flat area.
The case of NLM CityHopper flight 431 might interest you. Now you might ask yourself what a commercial flight has to do with tornadoes. The short answer is, that they accidentally flew into a tornado after getting caught in the clouds while trying to evade thunderstorms. The strong up- and downdrafts of the tornado ripped their right wing of. This is despite the tornado being a weak EF-1 that was at that point dissipating. All 17 people on the plane died and a firefighter that saw the plane crashing died of a heart attack. This was probably one of the deadliest EF-0 to EF-1 tornadoes in recent history.
I got most of this info from an article by AdmiralCloudberg.
That is insanely interesting, I’ve never heard this story, hope she covers it
@@BIGBURT th-cam.com/video/SdTQFkZdYr4/w-d-xo.html
This is a link to a video about that flight.
that poor firefighter :(
Wow, thank you for this information, this sounds like a terrible tragedy, and that firefighter, what a horrible thing to see as their last moments alive. Such a shock killing that person, so sad, that is overwhelming sympathy indeed.
I am going to look this up now, actually.
I think Carly should indeed whip out a short video about this, if there is enough material to include. Just reciting about it might be uninetresting for some people, and difficult for her to stare into the camera to do.
What country is NLM?
Hi Carly, thanks for covering those EF3s in Poland! Our little "Tornado Valley" is probably located somewhere between cities of Łódź and Częstochowa, where the initial nader was spotted. Many of funnel clouds are spotted each summer, sometimes briefly touching the ground with some EF0 damage. There are also a few in the north and of course there is an abundance of watersprouts in July and August on the Baltic Sea!
Also, as you mentioned, there is no standardized way of warnings. The only sirens are usually the firefighters one's and they are usually in the rural areas. However, the awareness is definetly rising, especially after the South Moravian disaster people take it much more seriously.
Living in a rural area in the US away from tornado alley, we also have sirens to call in the firefighters - and people visiting from tornado areas are sometimes… unnerved… that “there’s a tornado siren going off and everyone’s ignoring it!” before someone explains.
But we have had a few small tornadoes in recent years. And when they went through we just got strident phone alerts; I don’t believe the fire sirens went off at all. 🤷🏼♀️
Calling it a Nader is funny
Carly, this video is absolutely amazing! As a resident of the UK and storm chaser, I've been looking for some more detailed content on European severe weather and this is exactly the sort of thing I wanted. We have chased in the US many times and are now trying to put together a plan to chase Europe more often. Unfortunately, predictability seems to be more of an issue here and our national Meteorological services don't seem to want to share as much data about tornadoes as the US does. In the UK, the public don't even have access to the doppler radar velocity output which the Met Office have had for years! Anyway thanks for the video, it's definitely spurred us on to go find some Euro Nados!
Dziękuję Ci bardzo za ten film! Cieszę się, że w końcu ktoś z zagranicy mówi o tego typu zjawiskach w Polsce! In other words, I feel validated.
Yeah, at least in Poland the knowledge about tornadoes is extremely low. Many people have the misconception that there are no tornadoes in Poland / they started happening just recentely. One of the reasons for that is that most people just don’t care. Usually after about a month since a tornado has occured almost noone outside the affected area remembers it.
Yes, there is also that toxic mentality that „trąby powietrzne” aren’t tornadoes.
There is NO early tornado warning system. Other warning systems include are the RCB alert and the IMGW maps. The „alert RCB” is just a text message in the general tone of „warning, there might be a severe storm in your area. Secure your stuff you keep on the outside from flying away. Don’t leave your house from XX:XX to YY:YY until the warning expires”. IMGW maps show the alert level for diffirent types of weather from 1 to 3 on powiat/county basis, and many people don’t even know that they exist. General person wouldn’t know when to expect a tornado and what to do in case that one happens.
Once again, Thank You!
In the storm season I follow our non-governmental organisation "Skywarn Polska" - they're a group of storm chasers, they do storm forecasts and issue alerts like ESTOFEX, but more detailed for Poland region. It's a really professionally functioning organisation and as the one interested in storms I follow them, not IMGW or RCB.
Whenever they issue lvl 2 alert for my area, I'm... alerted, I know what it means and that a strong storm can happen. But ofc there are lvl 3 sometimes, and it means that big tornadoes can occur, etc.
When the 3 is issued for my family home region I'm always calling my Dad, and he's always like "yeah, yeah, sure, I wish it'll come here so maybe it'll rain A BIT, because there is a drought" and he generally doesn't care or understand it at all.
Your comment angered me so much because it's true 😅 We should have better warnings and sirens and not rely on groups like Skywarn. Wręcz nie mogę patrzeć na te filmy gdy ludzie stoją i patrzą na te tornada przy oknie/na dworze zamiast podejmować jakieś kroki żeby chronić siebie i swoją rodzinę.
Yay Carly! Great job, as a tornado and weather gal myself I really enjoy how much time and effort you put in.
same :D especially as someone from europe this video is amazing to watch B)
Thank you so much!!
28:30 A clear example of how a tornado throws pieces of wood at high speed into a building. In Jarrell, TX, there were pieces of “cardboard” stuck inside the side of a cement house. Luv ya Carly, great video again.
Thank you Carly! Great work, keep it up!
Greetings from Germany :)
In May this year was an textbook setup here over north rhine-westphalia and lower saxony (Germany). Three tornadoes from one supercell
Such an interesting video! As a German girl the only tornado (kind of) I witnessed was when I was staying at the coast of denmark in a small house upon the dunes right next to the north sea beaches. I saw clouds in strange forms above the sea finally building up to becoming a tornado. It was kinda heading closer but seemed small and dissolved after a minute or three. Still the sight of it was incredibly fascinating BUT immensely scary at the same time. I'm not used to tornados, when I saw it forming up I was just shocked. I don't wanna know what it must be like to face a real deadly tornado.
As someone who had a tornado a few blocks away from their home. It’s the most beautifully terrifying experience I’ve ever felt in my life. But I’m also an absolute weather nerd 😂
Thanks Carly for covering the topic. I witnessed the Moravian tornado from my parents house. I was there for a visit that day and I remember, that there was tornado warning issued that day for Moravia and Slovakia - and no one took care. Obviously, as strong tornadoes are rare in our countries. What was really special that day was a very high lightning activity over the (eponymous) Morava river - which next to my town. I told this to my parents, return back to work and then - noticed the funnel. I thought, its really near our house and notified my parents "Take a look, you will see something you will never see again" and we went to observe it from balcony. Stupide idea, but it was like 3-4km far away from the house. I believe, that the tornado in this specif area is maybe not that surprising - as I would call the whole area between northern austrian Alps and Poland if not tornado alley, at least a storm alley. Its related to the fact, that there are no mountains between northern Alps and Baltic sea so for some reason, this very specific area si prone to violent winds and storms, usually starting in "Alpenvorland" and heading northeast. And usually, these Moravian towns affected in the tornado outbreak are in the way...
Nevertheles... I really hope, that the awareness about the possibility of severe storms, winds and tornadoes is risen, so - at least we know, that observing tornado from behind the window or car is really a stupid idea. You cannot save your house or car, if something like this is happening, but you can save your life or prevent some major injuries. Luckily, houses in our area are well build, so they can withstand strong winds, eventhough they will suffer from strong structural damages...
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29:52 Hi! So I am from Zierikzee and was on the town square (which you can see at 31:34) when the tornado hit. One of the reasons people on the square were so non chalant about it is because we didn't see it coming in time, at least where i was. Most people were sitting under these big sun umbrellas. It all happened really fast. It came on land in the harbor which is like 0.2 miles from the main square. Once it popped up from behind (above?) the buildings it was already on top of us. It took me a few seconds to understand what I was seeing. Also the people from Zeeland are a very resiliant people and are used to storms. So most people probably thought it wouldn't be that bad.
The person that died was walking her dog in the harbor. She got a roof tile on her head.
It's sad that one person died, but I think we got lucky that it was only one person. A lot of stuff was flying around and it is very touristy this time of year so its very busy. In one neighborhood a section of roofs were blown off. Those houses couldn't be salvaged and are now demolished.
could you make a video on the uruguay dolores tornadoes? they were insane and (in my opinion) one of them is an underrated EF5 monster, thank you! love your channel
Yes absolutely! I will be doing a video on tornadoes in South America at some point and can absolutely add those in
@@carlyannawx tysm!
The 2016 tornado has provided some of the most incredible tornado footage outside the US. I have read American storm chasers describe that storm as something straight out of the April 27th event. But it happened in the southern hemisphere.
Also, the 2012 tornado was no slouch. It definitely was a powerful wedge, and the city only experienced the earliest stages of that storm.
@@galdutro yeah, the 2012 tornado was a large multi vortex, very violent.
but thankfully it didnt do many damages so it was rated EF2, i have footage of the supercell in satellite and I ALSO found a forum recently with all the footage, soundings, readings, HELL even doppler and pressure of the 2016 tornado.
I do european Tornado research by myself and Europe has an average of 500 to 700 confirmed Tornadoes a year. A lot of them are waterspouts but they can do damage aswell. But there is still a significant amount of strong tornadoes on the mainland and the real number of tornadoes is likely way higher. There are hotspots or tornado alley's how you would call them stretching from nort eastern France into Germany and Poland and another Hotspot seems to be the north italian plain where in the past multiple F4/F5 with the strongest being an F5 in Montello in 1930 with expected winds of up to 310mph. Also another fact to consider is the size of the areas which is not much compared to the US and so in some parts of europe its more likely to see a tornado than in like 95% of the US
To answer your question about people (in Germany) knowing about the weather situation - they don't. They listen to the forecast on radio or tv and mostly they say it's either going to be rainy, sunny or some thunderstorms could take place or, the most common one, "wechselhaft", which means the weather changes over the day which is basically not even an information...
Even I, as someone who is interested in weather, didn't know about ESTOFEX for a few months. So the general public has no idea things like this even exist.
About the siren you heard in the video about the Lippstadt/Paderborn tornado - it's edited afterwards. Here in Germany there are no tornado sirens or other warning methods for severe weather other than radio/tv every 30-60 minutes.
However there are, in almost every village, general sirens for emergencies that should be used to warn. When you take a look at the flooding in the "Ahrtal" where authorities had almost a whole week of forecast time, they still did not warn the public neither used the sirens! That happening during a tornadic event is just delusional. And even if those sirens would go off, most of the people had no clue why and what the emergency would be.
There are different sequences of tones for specific events like a war attack, severe weather, fire or a chemical disaster. Again, most people would not know what that sound is indicating. I'd even say most would think it's another testing session. Never in my life have I ever heard those sirens other than during a test even tho we have fires in a company on a regular basis. Neither have I heard them during severe weather, which in my case would be thunderstorms, nor during one flooding that was caused by thunderstorms.
Also during another event with hours of forecast time which happened in western Germany in 2014, no sirens went off during the Derecho.
Flooding in the Ahrtal: th-cam.com/video/4dX4psiT_e4/w-d-xo.html
Derecho in western Germany: th-cam.com/video/0cHc3MgV1Mw/w-d-xo.html
"Knackered" is surely a British colloquialism! Great output again and some real surprises for me! Cheers!👍
Man that second tornado in Poland look like it planted right out behind that tree and by the time they realized it was picking up debris, it was already upon them. That's terrifying.
I once read about a violent tornado striking London in the year 1091. If it had happened today, I can't even picture the death and destruction it would cause.
Excellent job as always, Carly! It's fascinating to learn how tornadoes affect other parts of the world. We definitely take our warning system for granted!
Hello Carly love your channel !! Back in December my daughter and I survived the tornado that hit Trumann AR on the 10th. Destroyed our house with us in it but we survived. Ever since then I've been fascinated with tornado related channels. Keep up the good work 👏 👍👍
*Czech viewer's perspective and story:*
Hi from a new subscriber here! I've only recently discovered your channel, but I've always been fascinated by tornadoes. I had never considered them a real danger in my country (in the middle of Europe), tornadoes were "the big ones happen only in America" kind of a thing, but I always took interest in videos explaining how they form, the structure of storms, accompanying weather phenomena etc. I live and work in Prague, but my family lives in the region of South Moravia, Hodonin district. In the summer of 2021 we had had some severe thunderstorms. On the 24th ofJune I was looking at an online rain forecast, planning my evening activities. The radar showed a huge incoming complex of strong storms spanning across our whole country. I told to myself "damn, this looks nasty", because they looked like real supercells and a thought "if I'd live in the US, I would be afraid that there could be a tornado" actually did cross my mind. That evening I called my mum, to chat about how my family was doing. My mum told me that a huge storm was coming. That the air "felt weird", that she had never experienced anything like that before a storm. They have also seen some "strange clouds" and she described mammatus clouds to me. I could hear thunder rumbling over the phone. Then I heard my father come over to my mum and tell her with a grave voice that a strong tornado had just completely levelled a nearby village of Hrušky to the ground. My father is a retired firefighter, so he got the news immediately, probably when the tornado was still on the ground. As you've said in this video, it reached the strength of EF4. It destroyed 5 villages and killed 6 people, its path was 26 kilometres long and at some stages it reached a width of 500 metres. It stopped 15 km from the village where my family lives. If you'd climb the hill behind our house, you could actually see it. Some of my father's former coworkers lost their homes or were injured. Most of the people had no clue what was coming, because no one thought such a strong tornado could happen in our country. We don't have any tornado warning system, no tornado shelters. So you can find some crazy footage on youtube from people who shot "a strong storm" on their phones from their balconies, not knowing they are staring at an EF4 tornado coming right at them, not realizing that they should hide... There's a great 2-years-old video that doesn't have enough views, made by Jakub Třešňák named "Tornádo na Břeclavsku a Hodonínsku/South Moravia F4 Tornado 2021 (Synced)" that compiles basically all of those videos, chronologically as the tornado happened, with English subtitles. On the other hand, the most viewed video is called "Inside of an F4 tornado (full version)" on channel "mmhardky". It has 7,4 mil. views and you could rename that one "what NOT to do when there's a tornado close by"... The cameraman even stuck out his phone close to a broken window and shot the insane tornadic winds shredding everything in their path!
Expecting a storm here nowadays is totally different! Just 10 days before the one year anniversary of the Hodonin district EF4 tornado, we've got a small EF1 tornado in a village just 7 kms from one of those villages that were destroyed last year. Since then, my parents have actually felt the weird air once more before a strong storm and thought they'd seen a rotating wall cloud forming.... well, we hope South Moravia won't become another European tornado alley, but one can never know.
The Czech Republic tornado last year in June was the most recent violent tornado I can remember in Europe.
whenever theres a towering supercell i always check the Noaa Severe Weather Outlooks
The twins video was some of the most mesmerizing I've seen. Also I know, it was an 'only' an EF4, but do you have any interest in covering the April 2014 Mayflower Arkansas tornado ? It crossed I-40 around rush hour and took out parts of Mayflower and Vilonia.
What I read into the mayflower/vilonia EF4 tornado there were 2 things that prevented it from being a EF5, a home was poorly anchor and some homes were nailed not bolted to the foundation. It would of been a F5 if the F scale was still being used.
Also your videos are excellent. Truly the best on youtube
This is a great video, but I especially appreciate the final clip of you listening to the town’s name and giggling
I live in central Texas and my first tornado experience was when I was in the first grade. I’ve been in a lot of them and every time it is horrifying regardless of the severity. I do feel for people that are not use to being in that situation then all of the sudden it’s on top of them. It’s very scary and dangerous.
Carly, you are a breath of fresh air to this topic. Beautiful, fantastic speaking voice, beyond well informed and researched and a joy to listen to. Well done on the 10K!!! You earned it with solid information and beyond charming presentation. Thank you!
Dear Carly, thank you so so much for all, but especially for this video. And thanks to Henny as well! When I went to school in the nineties, I was already fascinated by tornadoes and knew that they could occur in Germany (my home country). My classmates only laughed at me and accused me of lying. On the other hand, I read again and again comments of german or european guys under tornado videos saying things like “those damages only occur due to those cheap and weak houses in the US, we build good and strong houses here, nothing can happen”, “why are people so stupid to live in those areas?” or “haha people in the US are so stupid, they film those storms and don't realize how dangerous it is.” Well, this video proofs that our houses do not withstand a strong tornado. People here are not more intelligent, I bet most people never really care about the weather forecast and can't imagine to ever face a tornado in their live. Honestly, even I who watched hundreds of tornado videos am not sure if I would act completely irrational if a tornado ever crossed my path, by awe, shock or whatever…
I really relate! I grew up in the midwest and while we were taught what you're supposed to do in an earthquake, we don't have them here. When I was visiting my husband's family in California one year, an earthquake happened and I completely froze. I didn't even understand that's what was going on at first. It wasn't even a big earthquake by any stretch, it was still terrifying. I imagine it's quite similar for Germans who might have heard what you're supposed to do in passing, but it "doesn't happen here" so when it _does_ happen, people are caught off guard.
From the older videos i kinda miss the people getting interviewed people that was in the tornados , but always love your videos
once again, great video Carly!! so thankful for your channel
Brilliant. Thanks for featuring some tornadoes from this side of the water 😀
I've never seen one here in England, but I was watching the news when Paderborn got hit. I didn't even realise that we had damaging tornadoes over here, until I did some research into F5's and found out that Russia and France have been hit.
The one in Moravia was frightening! If I saw a forest suddenly lying flat, I'd get underground instead of continuing to record it.
I have read that China, South Africa, and of course, Bangladesh get a fair number of tornadoes. This was a great review of tornados in other countries, Carly!
"The UK has little need of tornado warnings, however the Met Office actively works with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the USA to improve the science of tornado forecasts and to improve warnings."
Met Office. UK national weather service.
Thank you so much for this video. I'm from Chicago, and I've been living in NL, Italy, and the Balkan region for the past 7 years. Two things came to mind:
1. NE Italy (Trieste) and Istria, HR (Croatia) are also hot spots for violent storms. They are both situated between the alps and the influence of the Adriatic, Mediterranean, and North African air masses and weather patterns.
I've been caught in what is called a "BURA" storm in Istria. I was almost blown off my bicycle and actively seeking shelter. I somehow made it home. I did not see any rotational activity (Of course when I got home I was glued to the window) but the wind was intense and there was quite a bit of hail. I was lucky.
2. The construction of buildings here. Most are made out of brick. Currently I"m in Bosnia and although it sounds like brick provides better shelter than wood structures during a storm, I would have to say that I am not sure. Meaning that I'm no expert. ANYONE here can built a house here from bricks and concrete. I'm not sure even how foundations here are built, but it doesn't look like anything here would stand up to an F4 or F5.
In the Balkans, people seem to prefer LOTS of windows to let in light. There are few or no interior rooms or basements. I can see how many would not have a clue what to do in the event of a rotational event (tornado) should it occur, or that an F5 would completely pulverize what would be considered a well built structure here. Fortunately, they are very, very rare to almost non-existent here, but last July there was an intense storm with hail and 60 mph gusts. (I purposely used mph in this case)
If I even see anything above 30 km/hr in the forecast I'm preparing by bringing in all my plants and yard furniture, and making sure the dogs are safe inside with me.
I'm still from the midwest. It's in our blood. Europeans will likely never understand our desire to have a "cave place" to retreat to and our obsession with weather.
Yay!! I’ve been waiting for a new video:)) your work is amazing I can’t wait to see your channel grow more!!
I always found tornadoes super interesting until we had one in our hometown (Bützow Germany) in 2015. I didn't see it directly but the destruction was just scary, we also had something similar this year in Paderborn. It doesn't happen often but when it does there are virtually no warnings or forebodings. It is always just "there could be thunderstorms today".
This should be as educational and edifying as usual.
I agree
I always find it fascinating how little damage (comparatively) tornadoes in Europe cause. EF3s will damage roofs and destroy outbuildings, yet homes sustain very little damage compared to timber construction in the US. I saw the Paderborn damage back in June- lots of downed trees, damaged roofs and road signs, yet absolutely no structural damage to buildings.
European homes are simply superior to America’s in every metric. It’s not an exaggeration that, with exception to much older homes, American homes are basically just very nice looking sheds. It’s even worse with modern house designs. If you look at new neighborhoods the homes look like they’ll come apart if you lean on them at just the right spot.
@@thelouster5815 That is the biggest load of crap I’ve ever heard. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but buildings made entirely of masonry have completely been annihilated by EF5 and EF4.
Look up Joplin, Missouri 2011. It moved an entire hospital off of its foundations, and the only reason it didn’t totally collapse was the duration: any longer, and it would’ve been obliterated. That, and the danger is not over once the storm has cleared: you are forgetting live electrical wires and gas mains going off. Fiery explosions can happen and have, and in that situation; your “better built” home will matter for shit if you cannot get out before the gas leak finds a source of ignition.
Not done. There is more.
Moore Oklahoma, 2013. Plaza Towers Elementary School. THE ONLY THING THAT WAS MADE OF WOOD IN THAT WHOLE DAMN SCHOOL WAS THE GYMNASIUM FLOOR.
Most of it was made of cinder block, steel, and rebar. That did not save it from an EF5 tornado. In fact, one reinforced wall collapsed on top of children, and crushed them to death. Seven babies, dead. When the storm ended, all that was left was the foundation of the building. Mind you, the walls were welded to the floor.
Southern USA: many of these places have a downtown district where most of the buildings date back to the 1800s. Very few have timber in them and most are about five stories high or shorter. You either get complete and utter annihilation or at best what I call the jelly donut effect. This is where a tornado leaves nothing but an empty shell and sucks the rest out like a fat man sucks the jam out of the donut. It is pointless to quibble about how well-built something is when what went up with the tornado was not just furniture. Human beings have died in the same way. And no, not all four walls remain standing in the jelly donut scenario even if they are reinforced: ask the many towns that have lost even old prison walls made of stone well over 61 cm thick. We are talking slabs of granite that weigh as much as a Buick.
Did I mention for a totally tornado proof home you would need reinforced concrete that is over a meter thick and in a warmer climate you may as well build a giant oven?!!! Way to go!! Death from heatstroke instead of a tornado!! /s. Oh, and I probably should mention that models of what an EF5 will do to a skyscraper do not look good.
Nobody in Europe covers Dixie Alley as much as Tornado Alley. Why would they? Shit, most don’t even do the devil's arithmetic that if you build with material that is too hard and heavy, you may yet trap yourself inside your shelter if you have built one. The oxygen eventually runs out and what should have been your salvation becomes your tomb. It takes time for help to arrive in full force and if the dogs can’t smell you underneath all that hardened matter, it is your own damn fault.
You really are that confident that you will be okay in Europe? -Think again. The infrastructure you have will be pointless in a big tornado because you have nowhere to run or hide when the most tried and true method is an underground cellar. You have no sirens and the old ones from WWII have rotted away. The EU clings to the TORRO system like Linus to his blanket and they cannot hear that civilians need something much simpler to remember in a crisis. Using a scale with more than ten categories works better for a scientist, not the guy whose ASS IS ACTUALLY ON THE LINE.
Worrying about America's modern architecture should be a low priority when Europe's wattle and daub houses from 1600 and before since those would have no chance of surviving. Cathedrals?!-Bye bye!! Apartment complexes?! -Pfffft! The most powerful tornadoes would suck up even the cobblestones in the square as if they were jellybeans. Castles made of stone would have whatever is left of them destroyed and narrow streets in older towns would just make it easier for the tornado to eat two homes at once. The Eiffel Tower would be a crumpled wreck.
@@marykatherinegoode2773 So your evidence is cherry picking damage from the two of the most powerful tornadoes ever recorded? Of course no human infrastructure will survive a gargantuan 300+ mph death spiral throwing debris at those speeds. If the wind doesn’t take down the structures, the constant barrage of projectiles will.
EF ratings are based not on tornado strength though. It’s based on damage. America has way more high EF rated tornadoes than Europe not because they’re stronger, but because most infrastructure is built cheaply and poorly. Most homes and buildings that get annihilated and give a tornado an EF3 or higher are just not well built. If you take an American EF3 or low end EF4 and plop it into Europe it’d very likely get a half or full rating lower because there objectively wouldn’t be as much damage.
@@thelouster5815 Keep telling yourself that. Maybe if you repeat it enough times, it will come true. Your arrogance will be your downfall and the bottom line is that Mother Nature is a psychopathic bitch when she is angry and she most definitely is capable of fury as awesome as Moore 2013. You build to the absolute WORST that can happen, not the most likely. My cousin is a civil engineer. She has “checked my math.” I know I am right about this. You gonna go tell her her house is shittily built, too, or are you going to cling to the Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm version of tornado safety where a tornado is just like the Big Bad Wolf and the clever 3rd Little Pig just needs masonry as the panacea to “huffing and puffing and blowing her house in?!!”
And besides, you have it wrong: it was Moore 1999 that had the highest recorded speed on earth for a storm of any kind, not 2013. At least get your facts right.
322 km/hr and up ≈ EF5, end of file. Emphasis on the *and up* You have been spoiled by the most nasty storms in Europe rarely exceeding EF3 and truly you will never know what it is like for a husband to be stuffed inside an interior closet, telling his pregnant wife how much he loves her because it could be his last chance. The superior building argument falls apart when even what is standard in Europe has failed *repeatedly in the field* He could be stuffed inside an Aldi made of cement and steel, identical to the ones in a typical German village, and it could still become his tomb: one of the reasons why homes look like they’ve exploded after a tornado is the imbalance in pressure inside the building and outside in the tornado. Barometric pressure often drops rapidly in tornadoes, and even the most tightly welded building in Europe would be done for if the storm was strong enough and the building had even one tiny crack in it. (People with scientific degrees, back me up here. My keyboard is a pain in the ass showing the math equations, and I have already tried five times!!)
Whole families have died in tornadoes that exceed 260 km/hr and Moore was not even close to the first time. You want more examples? - Fine.
Tupelo, Mississippi, 1936. Tupelo killed over 200 people that we know about. Most experts believe it was closer to four or 500 dead as some bodies were never found. Whereas it is true most of the dead lived in shotgun shacks, the Jelly Donut Effect that I mentioned earlier did happen and many of the dead drowned as the twister caused their homes to slide off the foundations and get swept away. The Fujita scale didn’t even exist yet, but it’s still possible to estimate how fast the wind was going: the survivors left behind testimonies, photographs, and newsreels. It would have given Moore and El Reno and Jarrell each a run for their money. That, and there are 100 year old trees in the area that haven’t grown quite right: they still lean in the direction of the storm.
Lubbock, Texas, 1970. Grand Island, Nebraska, 1980: only one of those exceeded EF3 but the point is, the damn town kept getting hit over and over and over again, pummeled all night. Wichita Falls, Texas, 1979. St. Louis, Missouri, 1896. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2011. The Super Outbreak of 1974. Regina, Saskatchewan, 1912. Worcester, MA, 1953. Natchez, MS, 1840. *Exactly, why is the phrase ‘The Finger of God” so difficult to understand? The fucking scale you so treasure is absolutely useless to a civilian who is about to die!!! You can fantasize all you want about how superior your building skills are, but there will come a breaking point where everything will fall apart. In nearly every instance I have listed, it did. Not all of the fucking homes are made of timber and like I said before you don’t want to build too heavy as the storm can weaken the walls of an edifice, and those walls can collapse in word, trapping anyone who has a basement in their own home with no way out. It would take a crane to remove a heavy wall reinforced with steel from on top of you.*
We can be fairly confident that twisters like Moore have happened before and will again. Native Americans have legends up the yingyang about twisters. They have been in the US and Canada for thousands of years and their folkways have proven invaluable, oh yes, terrifying, but invaluable. The Cheyenne have their storm horse legends. The Iroquois thought it was the spirit of an evil witch who would throw you far away if you upset her. And then there is my favorite, The Dead Man Walking: Seeing this bogeyman descend from the heavens was a harbinger of death. Too bad that multi vortex tornadoes only happen at the EF4 to EF5 level. You saw one, you died. It was that simple.
In modern times we know a multi vortex tornado is not survivable if you are outside and not in a shelter of some kind. One killed Tim Samaras, an expert in his field. It was not even the main vortex. Because of the experience of Tim Samaras, and the peculiarities of the El Reno, Oklahoma storm, there are serious discussions about revising again, and by the way, the TORRO scale will be used when it is useful for more than just toilet paper.
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@@marykatherinegoode2773 Ah yes, since there are rare monster tornadoes that possess the capacity to level literally any building and create EF5 damage (which again is a rating based on damage, not the tornado’s strength itself), then we should not bother to create better built homes because that possibility they’ll maybe get hit by said monster tornado can happen. Your argument is EF6 levels of retardation. By your logic coastal cities shouldn’t be built to withstand hurricanes because Category 5 hurricanes can happen. Cities under the threat of earthquakes shouldn’t bother building structures capable of withstanding earthquakes since magnitude 9 earthquakes have happened. Your entire argument is literally picking the worst case scenario and acting like it’s the norm.
If you had taken that EF3 you mentioned in Europe and threw it into an American town I guarantee you it would’ve gotten a higher rating. Your fallacious appeal to emotion by talking about how someone died in that tornado unfortunately means nothing. It completely sidesteps the topic of discussion. Yes, people do die in tornadoes. So to mitigate the deaths from tornadoes, buildings should be better built so they can withstand them better. I’m not saying we should be creating bunker suburbs with ten foot thick steel walls that can withstand the force of a tornado like from Jarrell, TX. I know you’re purposefully misconstruing my words to make it sound like that. I’m saying we should have buildings and houses that can not only be sturdy enough to make EF ratings lower (because again, the EF scale is based on damage), but can last longer than the pathetic ten to twenty years they usually do.
In the UK, our TORRO (Tornado and Storm Research Organisation) issues Convective discussions, severe thunderstorm watches, and tornado watches, most people don't pay attention to them/don't know about them but sometimes the local newspapers will pick it up and put something that overexaggerates the situation.
Congratulations on hitting 10k subscribers!
Great job Carly,I have been interested in tornadoes all my life especially waterspouts,I was just wondering if you have ever done any research into areas in the United States outside ''Tornado Alley''.Like the states west of the Rocky Mountains. There was a tornado here in Utah at Indian Canyon just this past June 2022 in Duchesne County,Formed right on top of the mountain and traveled down. There was also one that formed on the Timpanogos Divide in December 1970 churned up snow and downed large trees and of course the infamous 1999 tornado in Salt Lake City. Waterspouts have been seen over the Great Salt Lake,The 1980's and 1990's had the most waterspouts.
so awesome! im so glad I found your channel. i have always been a weather nerd, tornadoes my favorite weather phenomenon. you deliver fantastic, quality content. thank you!!!!
ps. the complete lack of fear from the people is amazing😂
That video of the twin tornados in germany, from the glider/ultralight was AWESOME
Pretty obvious the lack of weather safety prep given how close some of these people are to these tornadoes while filming. So not only a lack of warning but also a lack of what to do. This was well put together and really eye opening with the differences, thank you for another great doc!
19:49 I used to live exactly on the path of the tornado in 2008. Terrible storm, many people lost their homes. Thank you for bringing this topic up.
Regards
Excellent video, Carly! Thank you for that. As has been mentioned in some previous comments already, we still do have an issue with a lack of awareness and some deficiencies in overall severe weather risk perception. And this is despite some really intense and deadly tornadoes in the recent and more distant past.
Several of the more intense cases in recent years (many of which you have shown in your video) have gained some wider media attention and projects like Estofex or ESSL, among others, have helped to improve our understanding of European tornado activity in recent years, but there remains much work to be done outside the research and general meteorology/storm chaser communities over here to improve the public risk perception. Videos like yours are an important tool to achieve just that!
First, thanks once again for a very intelligent read on tornadoes worldwide. I like the fact your videos are an effort to not only focus on the North American continent, though it's evident that's where most of your work would clearly be the easiest to carry out.
On a side note, please don't worry on how you sound, because very honestly, your diction is very clear and the emotions carried out by your voice always appropriate.
Love from France.
Ok the bloopers are sending me XD
Great video! Greetings from ye olde Germany :D
Thank you for putting out quality content consistently and for being a fellow woman in Science. This is what i watch when i am not making content.
Great video, Carly! I love the enthusiasm you have in your videos. Also, those tornado videos in Europe are crazy, the motion of the tornadoes look so violent. Congrats on 10k+ subscribers btw, you deserve all the support!
was so excited to see a new video from you
Hi Carly! Can you please cover the 2008 Picher Oklahoma tornado? It hit a superfund site and is a large reason why our town was unincorporated so quickly. No one lives there today. It doesn’t get much coverage but it drastically changed my life as well as others.
Our last Tornado sighting, the first one in over 50 years, was in 2019 (Bad Waltersdorf) - EF0 but still a touchdown. We had one in the 70s iirc.
Hope it stays that way, they are scary.
You deserve all the subs you have. And I think you’ll get so many more.
Agreed. I could listen to her talk about anything!
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Yes! Very good and informative videos.
Hello Carly, I found your channel today and I am obsessed! I love the way you describe even the events that I already know very well. I am an Italian tornado enthusiast now living in France and a climatologist (I also studied to be a meteorologist but I don't really apply that). As someone mentioned already, ESTOFEX is not an official source. Some European countries (such as Germany and Romania, and I believe the Netherlands) issue tornado warnings, but most others may just mention the possibility in weather forecasts, but we don't have an alert system.
Also, as you noticed, we don't really get any education about tornadoes in general. Most people don't know how to be safe and what not to do, so in case of events hitting inhabited areas you will have many videos of people standing behind a window or in a car and filming without really knowing what is going on. For parts of Italy near the coasts, I think this is also influenced by the fact that in some seasons we get a huge amount of non-mesocyclonic waterspouts, which can make landfall and they usually dissipated after causing really minor damage. People living there consider these pretty harmless, and they probably often think that your occasional mesocyclonic tornado is kinda the same thing, just happening over land for some bizarre case, and don't realize how greater a threat they are.
I still have to finish the video, but I am sure I will enjoy the rest very much. If you need some ideas about Italy, I do remember a decent amount of events. 😄
Really loving your content! Keep up the good work.
You have the type of voice that people could listen to for hours. I would not only encourage you to keep doing tornado videos, but also anything else that might interest you.
As a bulgarian, i think tornado warnings are not needed, although there is needed a big upgrade in the way our national weather service issues forecasts. Atleast we have a radar system that covers almost all of the country and the government has access to the velocity product
Ehhh I’ll say you’ll still need it because you never know
I've been in several British tornadoes that were never reported. One was only about a week ago, but the most interesting was a few+ years ago. It came from the sea. The thunderstorm dropped massive haill on a pub garden sending all of us inside. Then the wind picked up, taking all the wooden seating outside into the air, before overturning caravans in the nearby holiday park. This was in Dawlish Warren. I photographed the sky and an anticyclonic tornado was clearly visible.
Hello, Carly.
Superb content you've been putting out. 👌
My only experience related to tornadoes was in 2016, an EF2/EF3 touched down a little under 80 kms north of Savannah, Georgia (outside tornadoes season). The town's warning system triggered the alarm system in the house i lived in at 4 am in the morning. Most people in the little town (a few miles south of savannah) were really apprehensive. We lost sleep but we were safe.
People in Europe do not take Severe Weather warnings unless it pertains to an high risk of flooding. In several countries, North or South, floods can be severe or catastrophic.
I know of several serious EF2s and EF3s in different countries in the past 12 years, and everyone is oblivious to them or they shrug them off. There's a notion in Europe that euro buildings are heavier and more resistant than in US and Canads - I think that's a big mistake.
Should an EF5 strike a major European city casualties would be horrific. The population density is very high and Europeans are not properly educated about severe atmospheric phenomena, no ingrained mechanisms exist to protect against it.
I lived in the centre of Germany in 2015, I remember those tornadoes near Hamburg. My friends in Bremen said they feared something could also happen near Bremen.
8:24 This are F2 to F3 Tornados, in USA are often F4 or F5. I would be interested to see what a massive built house in Europe looks like after an F5 tornado. You often hear these arrogant sayings in Europe: "The houses in the USA collapse at the slightest wind."
Can't wait to see other videos about severe weather around the world !
It'd be great to see you do an episode on Australia, a lot of people - myself included for a while - are certain we don't get them at all here. And they're generally treated as freak events or 'mini tornadoes' when they do happen. It was big news when one hit Bris airport during the floods. I imagine weak ones happen out bush during our storm season with no one the wiser, since we dont have much radar away from the coast.
I think an interest topic would be the may 30-31 1998 tornado outbreak/derecho, being that the spencer tornado from the 30th, the formation of the derecho, then the weakening of the derecho over the NE to reform back into a tornado setup over NY/PA on the 31st. It's an interesting setup that I was too young to understand back when it happened.
I am from Greece, I saw a waterspout off the coast in Patra during my visit in late spring.
Those 2 tornadoes looked like they were huging and cuddling aww ♥️
Tornado's are weak in the Netherlands but in the past there has been a report of an EF 4 but thats almost 100 years ago this video was so interesting i love ur channel!
I would totally freak out if i saw one irl
Awesome opening tornado scenes. Love the ones with the power flashes-scary but cool. Oh, that footage of the tornado near the bus is so scary. I can't comprehend a place where people are not warned about tornadoes heading toward them. Very shocking to hear some places don't warn about them. Thanks for the great footage of tornadoes.
Great video Carly!
Do other countries utilize tornado sirens like we do?
Speaking from a Brit here, none of the UK even operate tornado warnings- most we get are non-official risks and sometimes an “Alert” from the met office saying they could happen in the coming days
I watched a Reed Timmer video of one that hit Andover Kansas. It was picking up whole houses or nearly so. They looked like newer construction and I thought that those were all built with strong roof tie downs for added protection against tornadic winds - but it just ripped the whole house off its foundation with the roof still attached. The thinking is that if you can keep the roof on then the walls don't collapse.
This is why Europe needs a weather channel.
Not really. These events are still very rare.
Better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it
I'm so happy I found your channel! You have a great way of presenting information in an enjoyable and compelling way, and you have a great voice for narration. Do you do the narration for the Psych2go channel as well? Similar voice. Thanks for the great content!
I will once again throw in the anomaly of the F4 in Southern Maryland back in like 2002. While not nearly as big or devastating as the F4s we see in tornado alley, it was quite a surprise to get one in Maryland of all places.
I enjoy your videos thank you for the upload!
Thanks for the awesome vid Carly! ❤ Also that intro was fire!
Coming from Moore, Ok. Good job on this one!!
I'm near Pittsburgh, PA and my grandfather lived in Derry, PA which was near the Laurel Highlands. During the May 31st through June 2nd, 1998 severe weather outbreak, my grandfather saw 3 tornados on the Chestnut Ridge area of the Highlands that were formed at the same time.
I absolutely LOVE all of your content so far! These are some of the best, well-put-together, detailed documentaries of well-known disasters on TH-cam! I hope I can make a request if at all possible? Would you please do a piece on the Xenia, Ohio tornado from '74? Xenia is about a 90 minute drive from where I live and it's "the big one" that's known all across Ohio, and an event we hope to NEVER see again. I think it may be the only F4 or F5 Ohio has ever seen. Please work your magic for Xenia!
You're the best! Thanks for another excellent video Carly
We here in Ireland gets tornadoes too but they are no way as bad as they are in your country.I have subbed and liked the video 😊 greetings from Ireland
Thank you for making this.Thunderstorms and tornadoes are so facinating yet horrifying at the same time, but most Germans believe that to be a mostly American weather phenomenom. BUT there's a webside for Germany, which documents all confirmed and suspected tornadoes. They come up with numbers between 150 and 200 tornadoes each year. 2014 there was even a small one in my village, but aside from a couple of uprooted trees, broken windows and broken roofs there was not a lot of damage done. . True, our tornadoes are rather weak most of the time, but from time to time you get the occational F4 one, like Pforzheim 1968
What's the website called?
Thank you so much! It's very helpful! I still wonder if I experienced a tornado in I believe it was May or June 2007 (in NRW). Hail like I've never seen before, each piece a good few cm big. And a cloud approached with speed that left me gobsmacked. I remember thinking "I quickly go down to park the car inside" but I realized immediately I had no chance and stayed inside. The black cloud and hail came around the hill down to our house in literally seconds. My car had hail damage after. This cloud was insane.
@@LETMino85 could have been a downburst as well. 2014 there was a little tornado in my village in Baden-Württemberg and it left a narrow trail of destruction behind. Like flattened garden sheds ripped up trees broken windows and such
@@MairiVoorhees Now I needed to Google about that! 😅 Totally could have been that as well! Remarkable either way.
@@LETMino85 weather can be so fascinating yet scary at times 😊
I am a European storm chaser and chased the May 20th, 2022 setup. People don't look at the estofex maps or anything of that nature. And most people even deny that supercelluar tornadoes occur on this continent. Weather services generally don't post tornado outlooks at all and just warn for thunderstirms if even that.. The weather services in Europe have A LOT of catching up to do. Estofex is non-official, but they are really accurate
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Thank you Henny for your assistnace in helping Carly make this video!
I am so excited that this video has been made, I am so curious about tornadoes areound the world, and about how warnings are issued for these other countries. It is so shocking that so many EU countries are so lax in their warning systems, reminds me of how the US handled tornado warnings in the 1900-1930's, even banning the use of the word tornado in newspapers, fearing widespead panic or some such nonsense.
Now, maybe it is just me, but Inorice a slight different in apeparance with these tornadoes in Europe. They look a hint differnt to my sight. Yes, many are 'shorter' their mezzocyclones or parent cells seem to me lower to the ground in many cases, but there is something else I cannot quite pinpoint. Maybe that shorter height is the only difference?
Also how quite a few of these tornadoes were multiple-vortex, some of these were stunning examples of that 'breed' of tornado. Multi-vortex tornadoes are certainly some of the most beautiful kinds to witness on film... however, not if it is in eyeshot, nooooo.
So thankyou very much to Carly and Henny for this great and informative video. So many people in the US seem to assume that tornadoes simply do not happen anywhere else, as if we have cornered the market, or have some special claim on tornadoes! I can't wait for a video on Australian Tornadoes, and eventually, Banglasheshi and Indian tornadoes, which as Carly has stated before, are some of the worst tornadoes on Earth!
Hey Carly, just started to watch your videos. Great job! Awesome viewing for a tornado nerd like myself 😊
Thank you Carly for these video's. You obviously do a lot of research for your video's and we appreciate it. God bless you. :)
You should do Canada's tornado. Famous ones would be the outbreak in 1985 that had F4 in Barrie, and that city got hit last year by EF2 too. The 1985 outbreak made the same F5s in Ohio/ Pennsylvania too. I am from Midland we had an F2 in 2010 the same day we had an earthquake. Ottawa area gets tornadoes, and so does southern Quebec. I remember the Vaughan tornado, north of Toronto. Eli Manitoba tornado that is the only F5 in Canada, Windsor F4. Edmonton F4.
One could just make a tornadoes of the Great Lakes due to how many cross-border outbreaks and even violent tornadoes involving the US and Canada particularly involving areas between Port Huron to Gibraltar, MI crossing into Canada.
Edit: The 1953 Sarnia F-4 and Windsor F-4 tornadoes would be prime example of border crossing tornadoes.
I live only about 65 km (40 miles) of Paderborn, one of the cities which was severely hit in the Outbreak of May 2022. It was eeire to know, that a reletively violent tornado has started, especially because the day before, weather outlets (notable the "Deutscher Wetterdienst") issued some kind of "tornado watch" where it was stated, that severe thunderstorms with chance of producing tornadoes can occure. It's also very unsettling, that we are going through another heatwave through the last week. I can only imagine, that severe weather outbreaks can happen in the next days. But your videos are very informative, because here in Germany, we don't read much or hear much about tornadoes. The coverage of many outbreaks (especially the 27th April 2011 Outbreak Coverage in Alabama with James Spann) helped me to develop a good base about tornadoes and how you can protect yourself.
Thank you for another awesome and interesting video!
Hey Carly, just commenting to help you with the algorithm. Love you. You are so fine 🙂
Ah, this was great! This is fascinating stuff, and seeing it like this just blows my mind. The way that people just stand still and watch it as it comes toward them... Crazy! You think that in this day and age of technology, there might be a bigger awareness of this weather event and what it is and what it can do. Maybe its just me though, because weather is one of my main hobbies. I've said it before, but I'll say it again. I LOVE these other world views on weather and to see this kind of thing.
Also real quick, I've been trying to find you on Twitter, but haven't been able to.
Thanks for the epic content and the work you do! :D
Hope you see this Carly, but if you're still looking for ideas for different types of videos, but doing something with the worst tornado in each of the 50 states, or maybe even certain regions that don't usually get bad tornadoes. Think that would be a cool idea
Loved that you used "knackered", how very British.
Talking of British, if you want to see a nonchalant reaction to a tornado with dire results have a look at the Birmingham Tornado. It's nuts lol. Trust us Brits to not have a clue.
Smashing show lov!! But 2 isn't that much, because I remember a home film, made by some people, it had 7 or 8 tornadoes on the field near them. It might have been nova or another documentary show.
Gotta do one on the henryville tornado here in Indiana. I was on the hiking trail when it ripped through the knobstone. It was so crazy!!
Carly, you do an outstanding job on all of your videos. I love studying the weather, specifically tornadoes. Please consider doing a show about "The Super Outbreak of 1974." I was in the 9th Grade when it happened.
Germany: We has a tornado outbreak today…EF-1!
Moore: That’s cute.
Sorry for all this...lol
I served on the Cherry Valley Fire Rescue Station 1 during the Plainfield Tornado. During that event I learned that Cherry Valley Fire/Rescue lost its first firefighter in the Belvidere tornado. He was working in Belvidere at the shopping center where fatalities occurred, and left work to respond to the damage the wall cloud caused in Cherry Valley.
He was caught by the tornado near the Chrysler Plant on HWY 20 and his remains were found a half mile off the highway inside his unidentifiable car.
His name was Jack Stoll. His son Randy served with me on the rescue squad.
From report found at the Belvidere Tornado Museum
Belvidere, IL
SPC Stats
Path length: 25.5 miles
Width: 800 yards
Fatalities: 24
Injuries: 450
Rating: F4
County: Boone, McHenry
This tornado began 2 mile SE of Cherry Valley. It moved generally to the ENE passing across the south and SE side of Belvidere, south of Harvard and ending 2 mile N of Woodstock. Per Storm Data, “numerous reports of multiple funnel sightings were largely substantiated by damage. Path separation at times as much as 400 yards.” Thomas Grazulis lists this event as a tornado family in his book Significant Tornadoes.
Here are the damage details per Grazulis:
Farms were leveled along the entire path.
All deaths occurred in Belvidere.
7 were killed at a shopping center.
13 were killed at Belvidere High School. The tornado moved into the bus loading areas as the students were being dismissed. 12 buses were overturned or thrown. A bus driver was killed. Most of the dead were students who were “tossed like leaves” into adjacent fields.
Students and teachers used school doors and plywood from nearby homes as stretchers for the injured, carrying them into the school.
According to Grazulis, this was the nation’s sixth worst school death toll from a tornado. (Numbers one and two were also in Illinois - from the great Tri-State Tornado of 1925.)
There was near-F4 damage to homes adjacent to the school.
~300 new cars and 100 employee cars at the Chrysler Plant were destroyed.
130 homes were destroyed, 370 damaged.
A marriage certificate from Belvidere was found south of Milwaukee, WI.
South of Harvard, a school bus was ripped in half and thrown into power lines as the driver and 20 students hid in a ditch.
To the best of my ability, I try to find the names of those who are killed during a tornado event. I do it to honor their memory. I found an special section from the Boone County Journal on the 50th anniversary of the event that lists the names of all 24 victims of the Belvidere Tornado. I will list the names and ages here. The Boone County Journal provides more details including information on the Belvidere Tornado Memorial.
Michael Bates, 6
Cindy Day, 9
Lawrence Decker, 17
Cecelia Eakin, 83
Kent Ferguson, 12
Harold Gustafson, 72
Pamela Haines, 14
Mary Jean Hamre, 65
Craig Hyser, 8
Barbara Johnson, 10
Gilbert Julin, 63
Bruce Lindley, 13
Cristine Lutzow, 9
Sandra McLain, 21
Theodore Nelson, 15
David Wayne Poe, 13
Dwight David Shaw, 11
Timothy Smith, 17
Vicky Jo Smith, 9
Jack Stoll, 23
Johnnie Tate, 6
Phyllis Van Brocklin, 13
Rebecca Vogelslang, 8
Norine Wych, 81