2011 Tuscaloosa and Birmingham EF4 Tornado - Path and Destruction from Google Earth
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- I go over the path and destruction caused by the EF 4 Tornado that struck Tuscaloosa and Birmingham on April 27, 2011 using NOAAs Survey data on Google Earth. Subscribe for more videos! Thanks for watching!
I’ve lived in Tuscaloosa all my life and it’s really surreal reliving all the rebuilding from this storm. I’m gonna go to that piece of asphalt tomorrow
Is the little strip of asphalt still there?
I was in Tarrent Cty. Walking distance from the airport When it hit. It felt like our house was being ran over by a train
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I was 18 when this happened, and when we were able to drive through town, I literally had no idea where I was and seriously felt lost. It was heartbreaking. I actually moved to ttown in august of 2011. I love seeing the comparisons of the town before, during, and after! Even though I work, drive to, and see these places everyday, I was intently watching every minute of this video. Thank you!
I was there too. Hate I missed you! Yeah to stand somewhere you knew so well and an hour later you had know clue where you were or which way to go.
Did you move from Mississippi? I know some Rainwaters. Rare name
While watching this video I wondered if people call Tuscaloosa “T-Town.” Thanks for stealing Tulsa’s nickname!
"The chipotle remains!" I laughed out loud 🤣🤣
When was it?
@@guywilliams5687 start at 12:30
The “hamburger place” was a Hardee’s.
The chipotle is an unstoppable force not even a F-5 tornado can't even destroy it
I heard something like that probably from Moore or something. The town was destroyed. But hey at least the chic fil a is fine. That might’ve happened again in Jonesboro.
14:23-14:50
I appreciate what you said about remembrance on this piece of asphalt.
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Thank you for taking the time to make this video. It’s one of the best I’ve seen that highlights the before, immediate aftermath and abandonment along the storm path.
Super weird to see the roadway just kinda rot all around it before they redeveloped the surrounding area. It must've intentionally been left there because they put sod down everywhere but that one little spot.
To this day there are vast areas of forest missing between Tuscaloosa and Birmingham - it looks like western Kansas instead of the south. I know a lot of the trees were harvested and cleared after being destroyed by the tornado (to prevent bug infestations likely) but a lot of it was just scrubbed away, and there is still red dirt where once was thick underbrush. The views from Hannah Creek Rd are surreal!
i make the drive from birmingham to tuscaloosa every other week for work and i know exactly what you mean. it’s a very clear reminder of what happened.
Great videos. I appreciate the work you put into these. You have a calming voice and you’re very detailed!
Thanks so much!
I agree completely.
This is kind of off-topic, but I was trying to figure out why his voiceover is so easy on the ear. In addition to the agreeable timbre, intonation, and pace, he uses no filler words. He’s talking off the cuff but no uhs or ums. He’s either trained, really bright and doesn’t need fillers, or a lucky bastard. :) either way, I’m going to watch more of his stuff.
@@SyntagmaStation I agree. It’s so soothing on the brain. Just a concise perspective.
@@SwegleStudios of course! You could put a video out every day & I’d watch every time. Have a great day!
20:22 throughly engrossing! The asphalt patch\alley, the back in the day abandoned fuel mart, all brought to life. I'm a resident of the great lakes but this draws me in so its like "my" home! OUTSTANDING ❤❤
This just a really good video. (Very pleasing narration style, for what it’s worth. Bit of natural talent there, IMO.) I haven’t seen anyone depict or explain it this way before, for any tornado, especially with timeline imaging. Really creative approach to describe the impact and recovery. Kudos.
I want to be a meteorologist when I get older and I am more than greatful to subscribe keep it up man. Never give up
Thanks for making this video. I was born and raised in Birmingham. I moved to Dallas Texas in 1980. I still have relatives in B'ham. I followed all the news coverage on this. I have always wanted to see the storm path from T town to B'ham. You nailed it. Awesome work.
This is truly a unique perspective of a tornado’s path and the massive damage that it had caused. You are a great narrator and I really appreciate your attention to detail. I subscribed. Great stuff! 👍👍
i was 10 years old on april 27th, 2011. this was one of the scariest days of my young life. i live in bham. we could see the top of the funnel cloud rotating from my house!! i remember james spann telling us to tell our principals to talk to him. all my time not spent cowering in our townhome’s tiny bathroom i was glued to the tv. my elderly great-gma lived out in pleasant grove alone a few blocks from where it hit, and i remember the anxiety i felt then. had recurring nightmares for a while after that, and tornado watches/warnings still make me incredibly antsy 12 years later
That little bit of slab you refer to is the remainder of a road that brought you to a place called hokkaido. It was a sushi/hibachi place that was beloved by all students when I was in Tuscaloosa from 09-12. Sad to see just that tiny little patch of asphalt remain.
This sure was a scary time for us Tuscaloosa residents. Thanks for showing the before, during, and after of this tornado!
I was in Tuscaloosa very shortly after this happened and the damage was just insane to see in person (I live too far north for this kind of tornadic activity, so it was really shocking, too). Great videos. Subbed.
@Swegle Studios, I really appreciate your unique approach to storm deconstruction
using Google Earth/Maps.
One year later you now hover over 1.8k subscribers! Good job my man! Great video.
I hope soon you will do a video on the March 2018 EF-3 tornado that hit Jacksonville, AL
I just saw you videos today. A lot of them are close to home. I won't forget this day. The way the day felt that morning i just knew something was different. I wasn't expecting what I watched that day.
I'm so glad you keep uploading don't stop!!
Thanks! More videos coming soon
@@SwegleStudios Maybe you could do the Greensburg EF-5 next if you're fine with that.
I really love your channel and content, and am happy to see your growth, you have 13.4k subs today!
You do have a great naration style, very authentic, and you're curious, showing that you are sharing your first view of these Tornado tracks live with us as it were. Keep going, I like your ideas a lot, and that you're offering something really different, and simple not flashy or sensationalist. Great work.
I grew up in Hueytown. A lot of my classmates lived in Concord and Pleasant Grove. Many stayed in those communities and lost their homes, a couple lost their lives. I’ve seen several videos that focus on the damage in Tuscaloosa but none, except this on that covered the rest of the damage
Great video. Thank you for making it! I was at my folks’ place in suburban Birmingham that day, covered the damage for my radio show from 15th Street in Tuscaloosa (talked to the manager at that Chipotle you pointed out and some other folks whose businesses were destroyed; it was awful to look at). I flew home to Los Angeles three days later and I saw this path from the plane as it flew over. My jaw just dropped looking at it.
So weird, I just watched the outbreak video a few hours ago and then looked and go "aw he didn't make the video on tuscaloosa tornado yet" I just started watching ur vids the other day, intrigued because never thought of looking at tornado destruction on google earth (I love google earth lol) Also . I love maps. And weather. anyways and now an hour later you post the video? Spooky lol
I love all those things too! Thanks for watching!
@@SwegleStudios Yo are you good? You built a fairly large following of people. We're all eager if you're still able/interested in making videos. I'm just a bit confused because you haven't posted in a while.
@@SwegleStudios ye you haven’t posted in awhile wazzup
I just binge watch all your videos :) thanks for the time you have put in those! I would love if you could do more some time :) like the Greensburg tornado. The Google map view of this one is crazy.. yeah, you hear the town was 95% destroyed, but seeing it on this perspective is shocking! Thanks for your work, new subscriber here! 👌🏻
just wanted to say a big thank you! to u for highlighting terrible natural disasters! i love the way you have reported & way u have brought to everyone's attention
This was a horrible event that effected many people across many municipalities. I hope that the communities effected by this horrific storm have bounced back to a once-felt sense of normality which was similar to what was felt before this disaster.
I love the mention of the remnants of a road at 13:37! Really gives a very "moment-by-moment" look into how much these powerful storms change what was once a common landmark into an insignificant-looking splotch of asphalt.
These are absolutely so interesting!!! I can't say enough how much I love them. You should do one on the El Reno Tornado, May 31st 2013.
Hey, I found your channel just by chance, and this is the second video of yours I've watched now. You do some excellent work!
I really got into all that you were describing, and what I found interesting, are the little stories you tell of certain places along the path of the tornado. It's like you make it a bit more personal and we're not just looking at someone's house, or a store or a building. I like how you keep things in perspective too. The path of the tornado, any tornado actually, is called a SCAR. On this video, the Tornado Scar was very evident. Anyway, great work, I've have now subscribed and look forward to watching more of your videos. Any chance you may a do a video on the April 2011 outbreak here in North Carolina? Thanks!
We were in an apartment right behind that chipotle. About 1/8 of a mile behind it. My wife (girlfriend at the time) is still terrified of weather now due to the tornado.
Fun fact, very close to that McDonalds (which was completely wiped off the map) was a pharmacy. It was mostly destroyed, but a lot of their stock somehow remained. Literally just hours after the storm passed, there were people rummaging through that pharmacy looking for pills.
I was in the area about a year or so after the tornado. When we were driving down one of the local highways, my sister told me to "look at this" We drive right through the forested area where it was still EF5. It looked like the land had been cleared for power lines. Just a couple of hundred yard wide path cut through the forest in both directions as far as you could see. I was completely shocked. The amount of focus to the destruction defies belief.
Fun fact about forest lake (I live in Tuscaloosa and have been for the past 23 years) they say there’s still unfortunate souls that have not been recovered in that lake. Probably why they never had those house rebuilt by it. Oh yeah and the owner of that abandoned quik mart refuses to sell it to state that’s why it’s still there and abandoned to this day
This is something that has fascinated me about tornadoes over the years, and I appreciate your efforts to go back and showcase some of these paths! Not sure how far back you can go back, but my mother was living in western PA during the 1985 outbreak and I was wondering if you could look back on some of those tracks. Wheatland was hit by an F5, Kane and Albion were each hit by an F4, and there was a very wide F4 that tracked through the central PA forests
I spent the 1st 12 years of my life in Kane. The one in the 80s killed a couple people. 2 people were found in a tree about a mile from where they lived. There was another one that ran through Kane in I think 2004 that ended up knocking down the giant train bridge just past Mt Jewett.
I really enjoyed watching this it was great how you go from this back to once it was. Great job.
The "Ghost Lots" are creepy. I drove through Wichita Falls, TX 35 years after the 79 F4 and evidence of damage was still there, including these ghost lots with bare foundations.
I noticed this was your last one in a while. Are you done with these? If not, I'd love to see one on the Quad-State Tornado from Friday, although it would probably take a while to cover all ~250 miles lol. Regardless, I love your videos!
Great video! I was in the Joplin Tornado. Congrats on 1K subscribers in three months!!!
Great Video :) I am definetly a fan. Have you seen the damange from the Greensburg, KA tornado in 2007? I use to look on google earth after tornadoes too. Have you considered looking into hurricane/typhoon aftermath too?
If you mean Kansas it’s KS bro 😂😂
I currently attend Mississippi State for broadcast meteorology. This tornado has always interested me. I recently got hired at Tuscaloosa's WVUA23 as a weekend meteorologist. When I'm in town tomorrow, I will make sure to go and look for that piece of asphalt that you honed in on just off of McFarland. Its insane how much a weather event can change the course of a town.
Here’s one for you: on April 3, 1974 (I was in 4th grade at the time), an EF-4 struck the town of Xenia, Ohio and did massive damage. I lived in the neighboring town of Beavercreek. It flew over us and touched down in Xenia.I believe it was the worst ever on record at that time. Too bad we didn’t have Google Earth back then, the images would have been comparable with Joplin. Xenia got hit again with another tornado in the late 1990’s although not as severe. Beavercreek got hit 2 years ago this coming Memorial Day, I would love to see you do a commentary on that one. Love your videos!
You are correct in that Xenia was part of the Super Outbreak of 1974, the worst in U.S. history, however, Xenia was a verified EF 5 tornado, one of several that day which is simply incredible considering how rare EF 5 tornados are.
@@Dallas1722 oh was it? My bad. I can totally believe it though after driving through Xenia with my parents and seeing the disaster area firsthand. It totally looked like a war zone.
I used to work with a guy who lived near Xenia in 1974. He’d actually stopped and gotten food at a McDonald’s there just before the tornado hit. He left Xenia just in time; the McDonald’s was destroyed.
When you showed concord at the 20 min & 26 seconds mark the house at the bottom right with the red roof is where me and my wife and my kids were who were in the bathroom. It is amazing how close we were always thought if only I would have just put my phone on record and put it in the window I would have had an insane video of it. When we walked out we thought we were hit by the tornado because trees were down everywhere and debris was like all stacked up in the road. You couldn't see anything so we thought we were hit but they ended up using our front yard as a place where they were bringing the wounded because the ambulance got stuck in our yard. That day I will never forget and I will never look at tornadoes the same. My kids are absolutely petrified of any storm still to this day. And yes James Spann is the man!!
I love the amount of depth you put into your videos. I know this is quite a recent tornado, and there might not be much on it compared to other tornadoes, but could you please cover the Newnan EF4 that hit in March?
You should first start a patreon, then incorporate some corresponding videos of the actual tornado as it effects specific areas you are digitally analyzing. That’s what I’d do if I want so lazy. Love watching your videos. Great job.
Great video my friend. the satellite imagery of the scar is absolutely amazing
After al this time you finally dropped this video damn
Give him time geez
I live 90 miles north of here. I found a check in my drive way from Tuscaloosa. The same tornado hit near me in Webster chapel.
I didn't realize this video was made in 2021 until 13:18 haha... It's really nice that someone picked on this, I was searching exactly for a video like this about the Tuscaloosa tornado...
So sad watching these images.... I couldn't imagine what I'd do if my house were to be completely destroyed by a tornado... I think many people moved somewhere else to have a "new start" in a new place, without having to deal with the constant reminder of that tragedy of a day back in 2011.
Thank you for making this video; it certainly left me with a sense of nostalgia and sadness I must say.
I will fortunately never (knock on wood) have to deal with something like that as I live in EU, although I am certainly fascinated by these incredible wonders of nature.
These are really interesting, glad to see a new video from you. You have a new subscriber in me, and I suspect you'll have many more :).
Thanks! Currently working on more!
Wow, this was so well done and very telling in the devastation. Thank you for the hard work.
I really liked your analysis. I’m from Melbourne Australia and have a bit of a fascination with Moore, Tuscaloosa and Joplin (tornadoes in general), but hadn’t seen anything like this. Another subscriber! Thanks.
I am from Aus NSW
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@@hypercane2023 Don’t forget to have a look at the amazing footage out of Andover. I know it probably won’t make for a great satellite tracking vid, but most amazing vid’s I’ve ever seen…and seen most! Be interest to see the urban track maybe.
@@chainman1 ok :)
Well...I just watched all your videos 😂😂 really is amazing seeing the before & after shots. The street view is unreal yet, a tad unnerving haha. Keep up the awesome work, really enjoyed it!
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Could you please do one of these for Phil Campbell - hackleburg tornado please? It was the worst tornado that happened that day. Also it seemed the birmingham tornado was like over a mile wide by time it reached birmingham! Do you know how wide it was?
Mile and a half. With the mesocyclone and wall cloud pulled down like it was the damage path was close to 3 miles wide according to WBRC6
@@chvfd687 oh wow that's crazy!! Thank you for telling me! I knew it would be big but wow!
That next to the Hackleburg tornado had to be about the scariest tornado I've ever seen.
Wow, I was a student at the University and although I always knew of the tornado and could seem remnants from its past driving through town in some spots- I never knew I actually lived along the path. I lived on 13th street off of McFarland next to those new apartments you see go up after the event. Really puts things into perspective and reminds you to take a deep breathe and remember those impacted
It's weird you can see other tornadoe paths while looking at that one. I grew up close to there and it gets hit all the time. Nice job.
now THIS is my kind of nerding out. geography+weather
When you were looking around on 15th Street, the large buildings in the background are Druid City Hospital. There is a glass waiting area down the center of the brick building facing 15th Street. Imagine the people in those waiting rooms! The Chipotle building is actually new. The abandoned gas station was empty because of structural concerns. It has recently been released to the owners. The step father of a former co-worker was killed in the Holt area. He was on the phone with him when the Tornado hit. My friend rushed over, having to go on foot for blocks. He found his step father, and they got him to the hospital, but he later passed from internal injuries. I was at work at WM in Brent AL that morning, when the EF3 went through Eoline. We experienced very strong winds, and had a cell tower right next door, broken in half. Our sliding doors in front were also blown in. I believe that there was one fatality in Eoline. I see that you are now up to over 200K subs! Great! Thank you for posting!
Can you do a video on the 2.25 mile wide EF4 that hit south MS on easter sunday 2020?
Caught this tornado storm chasing, it was so wide, caught up with it Fultondale, and it ended maybe 3 miles east of their. It was a bad one. The crazy thing about April 27, not one storm turned, they stayed on the same path
I moved away from the area three months prior to this tornado. My house was located about two miles south of where the tornado finally dissipated.
The area around Birmingham is very hilly.
Seeing all this damage, I'm actually surprised not a lot more people have died.
Also, it's sad too so much empty space left by the houses that were destroyed even after many years.
Glad im not the only one amazed by tornados...lol. very cool videos bro. Definitely subscribing
26:28 maybe in a couple of years we celebrate 1000 subscribers... I guess you passed that quite a lot^^ keep up your great work
I would LOVE it if you’d do this for the Hackleburg/Phil Campbell tornado!
I agreeeeeee
Totally agreeee! Tuscaloosa got alot of media coverage, dont get me wrong, it was horrible! but Hackelburg/Phil Campbell was an EF5 and complete devastation of small comunauties :( i feel like people tend to forget :(
Love the vids, please keep them coming!
Thanks!
Never EVER want to see that type of day again. My house was hit by the Hackleburg tornado as it passed through Limestone County. We had people in Limestone County that were running from one house to another to take shelter that were picked up and killed on Rosie Road. We had blue jeans falling from the sky in Tanner, which were picked up from the plant in Hackleburg, which I believe was 70 miles away. Many of us watched things like boards, windows and other things crash down from the sky as the tornado was at its closest point. The sirens were constantly going off that day, and then when the big power towers were hit by the tornado that went through, we had no sirens. So many stories that day. If I had more time and talent, I'd love to put together a book of survivor stories.
4:37 you get my subscription. This level of data presentation with no drama; (background staccato music) effects, is what makes my time on TH-cam worth it. Thanks and you sound fairly Young, you know our military could benefit from your abilities. But doing this is really cool. We all need more like you, and like 80% less "wanna'bes".
Can you do the June 1 2011 tornado in Springfield MA?
Would love to see you examine the point where the two tornadoes crossed paths in Moore, OK> There is a small plot of land that was hit by both.
One story from the Tuscaloosa tornado that can give you the creeps is the story of Sharon Allen. Sharon works as an Emergency Room nurse at DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa and described April 27th, 2011 as a typical Wednesday for her at work. A paramedic for the Tuscaloosa Fire Department informed Sharon that bad weather was coming. Sharon was understandably bewildered by what she was told as she and another nurse went outside and saw no signs of bad weather approaching as it was a beautiful day with sunny skies and warm temperatures; typical springtime weather conditions in Alabama. When the tornado was sighted along 15th Street and coming straight for the hospital; Sharon and another nurse laid themselves over an intubated infant. Soon after the tornado left Tuscaloosa at 5:37 PM Central time; the emergency room at DCH Regional Medical Center was swamped with badly injured people. Sharon and the rest of the nursing staff at DCH worked as hard as they could to save the lives of the injured and care for the dying. Sharon was intent on caring for a college aged boy who sadly died of significant head and chest trauma as he reminded her of her son.
Bro got sloppy toppy so good he died
Man! I can’t believe all those brick buildings are wiped away…I wouldve hid in them thinking I’d safe. Wow!
the scars are still very visible in pleasant grove when you drive through in 2023. it hit like 9 blocks from where my (then 88) year old great grandmother lived alone, and the damage several blocks over was gut wrenching and otherworldly. newly built neighborhoods and things only accentuate the scarring
NOAAs Survey data on Google Earth do you have a link? and how to use it
I remember watching this one live on the news. I was in New Orleans at my grandparents house eating Popeye’s for dinner, and I just remember it flinging tractor trailers around like playthings.
I drove back home in 2016. Was my first time back since before the 2011 tornado. As I got close to town (driving through Holt). I felt completely lost. I didn’t realize that Holt was completely destroyed.
That morning we had some major straight-line winds come through above Birmingham. They blew over a big oak tree in my front yard, so I stayed home to clear branches. My company had a crew that was working at the University of Alabama, and they left 20 minutes before it hit and the tornado basically chased them up the 159/20 all the way to Birmingham.
Now, if you follow that path past Fultondale to Centerpoint ... it was in a direct line for my house, where my wife and I were in our basement watching the storm approach on the TV. Knowing it was coming straight at us.
Wild day.
We did however got hit a few months later in the January 2012 tornado that came through Centerpoint. That one came with 500 feet of my house.
can you do the tornado path and destruction for the pilger nebraska EF4 Tornadoes on june 16 2014? and do the stanton tornado EF4 Near pilger and the wakefield EF4 Near pilger and wakefield u might have to do some research of the twin tornadoes thanks!
who liked my comment if its the uploader plz do the video thanks!
This is amazing work! More storm chasers and meteorologists should see your data. It could help add another data point in determining tornado intensity on the Enhanced Fujita Scale (EF).
What is that website that you used? Can you tell me what it is? or if somebody in the comments that knows what website it is that would be great.
Google Earth pro
At 9:13 you pass right over what was my house….the dead end street just south of the small lake. You just can’t imagine how many huge old growth trees there were in that area.
Absolutely insane to see that gas station at around 15:00. I'm not native to Alabama but I went to grad school in Tuscaloosa in 2020. I always wondered what had happened with that dinky old gas station that stayed like that. I always wondered why that stretch of road was so much worse than other parts of town. Looking now at the path of something I had never even considered to connect to my personal experiences is absolutely mind boggling. It's incredible to see those effects. Hell, there's a Whataburger just up the road now and I went there damn near every week I was in school. I always wondered why that area felt so haunted.
It went through my city Ringgold ga, completely destroyed my moms house and killed a bunch of people in the neighborhood (Cherokee valley) I’d love to see the path of that storm. same day as this one if possible. ❤️❤️
Why is this so interesting? The history, the fatalities? Morbid curiosity?
I was 5 when it happened. We lived with my grandma then, and we drove up there to see the damage. I don't remember much, just alot of "Oh my god's and "wow's".
Nature is a crazy force. Roll Tide yall!
How do you get the pictures from then? Also im honored to be your subscriber number 296.
Do you mean the google Earth images? If so you get it with google Earth pro. So you have to pay for it
La Plata Maryland EF4 had a pretty substantial damage path from google earth
Love the videos man thanks for sharing
Alberta City was and is an underserved area of Tuscaloosa. It’s sad but makes sense that there’s still not a lot of new building.
This is really interesting..I was in Chattanooga, TN on this date...an f4 tornado came through our area that evening, it started in Ringgold GA and then crossed into TN killing 20 people along the way, I will never forget the devastation it left behind..I found part of a phone book and part of a report card from Alabama in my yard along with lots of bits of building pieces..a pretty big tornado came through Chattanooga last spring..I think it was an F3, but I was living in Berlin Germany at the time, am back in Chattanooga now
Props for pressing on from 100 subs!!
Can you do the Iowa derecho from August 2020?
Probably my favorite tornado mainly because of its strength and structure. 82 mile path
I really, really, really REALLLLY want you to do the May 1999 Moore tornado track. Subscribed and waiting.
How do I get the timeline you use to see the before and after the tornado damage I have the app but I don’t have a timeline
I'll sub, takes a lot of time researching and staring at maps to put these together. Good job and I hope you rest your eyes often. Do the Albany, GA 2017 EF3 torando sometime if you get a chance.
Ny the way, more people actually died in the Albany tornado but they were undocumented immigrants. Two mobile home parks were obliterated but most stories do not talk about them, trailers twisted sometimes twice, no longer recognizable as mobile homes. Previous coworker lived in one and his was one of three to make it through. There was a small group of immigrants living in one of the homes that were not seen afterwards and this was true for the other trailer park as well in radium springs. A husband and wife tried to use the tornado to hide a missing child's case and the child was never found. When the stories and investigation got fishy and days of search attempts along the debris path failed to turn up the body, the news stopped covering it and it became a possible homicide. Parents claimed the child walked away during the tornado and was gone afterwards, then they couldn't provide any pictures of the child other than a couple years prior...in an age of smart phones and constant pictures. Very sad situations from that tornado and it moved FAST. Got to witness the giant wall of wet clay from about 1/4 mile away as it was destroying one of the churches wiki talks about. An abandoned home built in the 1910s-1920s was about 200 yards from that church and remains standing, while the church was leveled. Dont think it was as powerful on the northern side as it was its southern and eastern sides. On the Marine base, it put debris through bullet proof glass with ease and ruined many older soft skin military vehicles and equipment. It was hidden on its southern and Eastern flanks but distinguishable from the north where I saw it. Black rotating mass with a clay colored wedge and grey backdrop of rain. Intense embedded supercell in that squall line I guess and it went for over 70 miles.
You're the Bob Ross of Tornado Damage Assessment
I would love to see you do the 3/3/2020 "Easter Tornado" in Nashville, Tennessee. It destroyed the church I was raised up in, and got married in: Saint Johns Lutheran Church in Donelson, TN (East Nashville).
Thank the algorithm your video was on my recommended
12:20 that’s actually a hospital. DCH Regional Medical Center. The tornado was so close that windows were blown out and debris damaged the walls.
I’m a Tuscaloosa native, I was 16 when the tornado hit. I currently still live in the city. If anyone has any questions I can try to answer them.
Wow, I don't know. I lived through the Tuscaloosa experience. I knew several of the people who were killed and how they died. I remember the terror of the survivors. I was in the hospital and the nurse was working out at Gold's Gym when it hit. She was still shaking as she cared for me. Or my hairdresser who crouched in the oil change place on 15th. Or the fellow customer at my mom's old bank who told me she and her sister were running as hard as they could across the old baseball field I used to play on..."But my sister got hit in the head by a brick.." Or my old boss's brother who tried to hide under his home, but the tornado just lifted it up and sat it down on him. Or my grandson's Sunday School teacher, one of the very nicest people on the face of the Earth who survived the storm but took sick from the aftermath and died a few days later. The stories go on and on. Does this channel honor them.... and all the others in Greenburg, Joplin, Xenia, and Moore? I subbed because I thought you were a meteorologist. Now I find your a history major. This is history, that's for sure. I suggest you do less videos with more input than just the survey data. Your channel could be a true asset in accumulating the perspectives of as many poor souls who still remain. And search the internet for good feed. There's one or two videos of young people getting far, far too close to that tornado that are crazy scary. Why do I think you're a teacher? Your voice and control? Your desire to learn? If you're not a teacher you should be. But do more background work on your lesson plans... out of respect for what happened there. Blessings.