Deadly Tornado Strikes Arkansas Town
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- On Friday, March 31st, 2023, Frankie and I travelled across Arkansas documenting several tornadoes. One of the stronger tornadoes we observed struck the town of Wynne, Arkansas.
This EF3 was on the ground for 70 miles and inflicted severe damage in the town of Wynne.
My heart goes out to those impacted, those who lost friends and family and more in this tragic storm.
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This tornado scared the sh*t out of me my sister lives in Wynne she was in the hospital taking cover I was on your live watching this had me in tears and after it left town my husband got in the truck and got to wynne as fast as possible thank God her and the family are ok 😢❤
Insane moment really.
My friend grew up there and is going with a car filled with donations tomorrow.
@Zachary Hall - Arkansas Storm Tracker yes it was I live in Hickory Ridge so I'm at the least a 20min. Drive from wynne but I am so thankful there ok and thank you so much for being there because of your stream up until it hit I was able to have her on the phone and keep her updated and because of that there safe God bless you Zachary Hall 💛🙏 thank you so so much
I have family that lives there. Was just a couple of miles southeast of them.
I take it your sister is ok😊
I'm from wynne ark..its hard to even watch these videos now. My heart gets to racing just watching. You guys are very brave,and much appreciated for what you do❤️
Love y’all. I’m sorry this happened.
I was in Amory with a disaster clean-up when the news came in about Wynne. Many of the volunteers were watching the chasers that sure and unfortunately some were from Wynne or had family there. They were kept safe by being out of town but leaving to an area of uncertainty back home. God bless you for all you do. We all depend on you. Will keep you in my prayers.
Rain shrouded tornados at night must be terrifying to chase.
That is a scary as you can get
If I knew the general area of rain shrouded tornado at night, I would head off away from it as best as I could. Either northwest or southeast.
That "purple haze" off Zach's camera is soo creepy...last time I saw that was 3 yrs ago in Jonesboro before we got hit. Thank you for doing what you do, and keep up the good work!
Kodak made a whole bunch of detectors with that defect. My camera had it so bad they replaced it.
Wow! I was watching this and didn't realize it was my hometown until the end.
What an adrenaline rush! It has to be traumatic to see something like that and the damage left behind.
And knowing there's literally nothing you can do to stop it. 😢
Wow!!! 😮Watching from South Africa..
I lived in imboden arkansas for 10 years, tons of family and friends scatterd throughout the state. I'm so appreciative of all the storm chasers and meteorologists that I use to stay informed. Living in Arkansas during the spring is intense, I will never forget those eerie green clouds and the destruction that usually follows l.
My ancestors’ last name was Imboden and they lived in Arkansas!!! Wonder if we are related!!!
So sad how destructive the tornadoes have been in 2023. We live in TN now and fortunately it missed Columbia/Spring Hill on Friday! Lots of prayers were being said because it was an F3.
@@mickisteele-blair6301 it's very sad how destructive the tornadoes are this year. I hope the worst is over for everyone effected by this weather. Prayers from Utah! ❤😢
I'm watching from South Carolina, and you are doing a GREAT job. Please be careful out there.
Incredible! That’s some amazing footage!!! Stay safe out there!
Thank you! Will do!
I didnt realize how sad it would be to drive through the devastation every day going to work...how much worse to look out of your windows every day and be faced with it (if you still have a house and windows). It sure is different than seeing it on TV. Thankful that good reporting saves so many lives. Watching from NLR area
You are so right. I drove to LR yesterday from Benton to see what I could without getting in the way, and as I crossed 430 on Rodney Parham Rd, looking down on the sight of the MASSIVE destruction along Shackleford Rd took my breath away and brought instant tears. It's all I can think about.
@@xmvirus202 I cry or nearly do each day. Somehow my route to work crosses the destruction in about 6 places and I haven't ventured back through my normal route - the Breckenridge / Shackleford neighborhood because it's been closed. I so loved that area with the beautiful redbud trees blooming the past few weeks
Prayers 🙏♥️for all affected including animals 🙏♥️
Watching from Dallas. Arkansas has been getting hammered; feel bad for people.
Amazing! Glad you're safe
Thank you for all of your exciting work. Be safe out there.
Thank you for all the footage! Godspeed and safe journeys to you and yours!
I'm watching from lethbridge, Alberta Canada's, still snow on the ground here!! Wow that was a huge tornado
Excellent footage. It's always alarming to see so many cars on the roads during tornadic storms. Thankfully these people were all driving away from the rotation this time. I'm glad that they had good advanced warning.
Wow! That looks bigger and meaner than the one that hit Little Rock!😮
This thing was a monster.
I live in Arkansas and it's a good thing that I've never encountered a tornado so far I'm only 20 though
you will , one day.
Guam 🇬🇺. We're having a mild tropical depression right now. Safe travels
Native Arkansan, watching from Florida. Family in NLR.
I've lived in Little Rock for the majority of my life, aside from the 2-3 years I spent in VA in my 20's, and have never seen anything cause so much damage here. The only deaths occurred in NLR and Wynn, which was very miraculous if you've seen how extensive the damage actually was in LR.
I hope there’s a part two!!
I can’t imagine cutting off the video at this point!
That's what's stupid about their videos. No good action
Åkersberga, little town north Stockholm, Sweden🤗
HI Zach , I watch from spain , my friends call me the weather weirdo as I live in South Eastern Spain and we can have some beautiful storms here but nowhere near as deadly as the states
It’s frightening, thrilling and heartbreaking but also addictive to observe.
Are u gonna come to USA 🇺🇲 to chase tornado 🌪️?
@CS77 Smith I would love to come to the states to witness a season
Saw the tornado that tore into Little Rock right across the street from me. Those things are insane
Man you guys have all my respect , for doing what you all do. I got my family caught up in one of what we we're pretty sure was a tornado. We were just waiting for the cow to fly across the country road 😮. It's was a very scary situation.
I'm in awe, mister. Incredible content; wish I was there. Rooting for you & your team.
Watching from NJ. Thank you!
I watch this same supercell cross the Mississippi River once It was leaving wynne Arkansas and heading towards covington Tennessee
This gave me chills!
It was an experience I’ll never forget
I have no doubts about that! I will never forget my close encounter with a tornado!
Nature is very very powerful and it does its thing its good people like yourself let people know when they are in harms way and that's as good as we can do in such circumstances. Tornadoes are a both mind blowing spectacular view of something we have no control over and devastatingly tragic when they destroy lives and homes . Awe inspiring film and heart goes out to those affected so sadly.
Hey Zach!!! From Cabot, Arkansas ❤
Hey there!
Anybody who lives here or any town that has tornadoes like this PLEASE BE SAFE💖💖
We sure will but have u experience tornado 🌪️?
@@cs77smith67 Some bad Thunderstorms that became Tornadoes but never an actual Twister here in Ohio.
@@alexandrianicolemoses7869 I feel u on that and we don't get tornadoes 🌪️ here in the hood for some weird reason
how about now
Baltimore. Amazing filming. Be safe.
Driver so calm matter a fact, passenger bouncing off the walls. Super nice video.
😂😂
That would be me, very typical too. I’m usually the dramatic one while Frankie is calm and collective. 💀
Why is it we can't ever hear tornado sirens during storm chase videos when they clearly need to be sounding still
We should be communicating. I have more experience than any spotters in Arkansas. I'm a retired science teacher and coach. I've been a spotter before the Skywarn program was created, have been through Advanced Spotter Classes, and attended half a dozen Tornado Summits at the NWS in Norman, OK offered by the NWS and OU professors and researchers located there. I live in Romance, AR and usually work alone.
Oh my God that's so scary please be careful I'm praying for everyone 😮😢❤
We live in Greenbrier Ar. Our sirens were going crazy for a while. Thank God nothing happened here. We went several years without our sirens working till we got a new Mayor and that was the first thing he fixed when he got elected.
A lot of people where I live in Kansas are bracing for a outbreak this year they say we're past due for major storms nobody wants massive tornadoes or storms but it's part of nature and she does what she wants I'm still trying to contact my family in Arkansas Hot springs be more precise cuz they get nasty weather down there too and I have family and friends that live in Ozark which is not too far from Little Rock
Very evident green sky!
Word that I heard was that the school administrators in Wynne decided to dismiss school early at 1:30pm on account of the weather situation. Probably turned out to be a wise decision considering what happened three hours later.
I have a cousin who attends Wynne HS. Kids were complaining because they saw on social media that other towns were letting their students out early. IDK if that had anything to do with it, but I'm grateful she wasn't in the building.
You documented this event very well! What a lousy thing to happen to people. Thank you...🇺🇸 😎👍☕
Gloversville NY Upstate of New york this is a wow Video!
An enormous muddy-green rain-wrapped MONSTER!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Omg! Those poor people! So scary.
Great video coverage.......wish I was with ya.
hi from California hope people are being safe
The POV cam seemed brighter and more clear...
It did in moments (included too) but in other instances the lighting contrast wasn’t right.
I was watching live stream.... This is insane...I was wearing Ryan's so I didn't see this live view... I'm subbing
That's a very eerie green sky
Not sure if it's the windshield, the camera or just the sky but its green. They say a green sky and tornado's go together. I've been under those type skies and not good weather came with them! Sad to see so many lives devasted by tornado's this early in the season.
I've been in a couple of tornadoes. The sky definitely goes anywhere from a sick, yellowish hue to green during a tornado. I noticed the green during their filming, too.
Ontario Canada here. What nasty weather.
Thanks for the video of rain.
Peoples in the Midwest say that they couldn’t live in CA cause of earthquakes but there has only been 2 in my life, I’m 63 and the 2 we had didn’t cause damage where I live. There wasn’t the kind of damage that these tornadoes do either.
Knock on wood, I've lived in Missouri my entire life (37 years) and I've only been directly in a tornado once. It was scary, but somehow the earth opening up or shaking scares me more.
@@paulpienkowski498 no kidding! Or having a freeway collapse right on top of you! At least with tornadoes, there are alerts and warnings before they strike...at least in the places that frequently get them.
I guess you are just used to what you grow up with.
I believe this was the same super cell that hit Little Rock with a tornado earlier in the day....
Different storm…
Wow!!
It's like watching Godzilla wreck Tokyo...A lot of us in Alabama are really on edge for mid-to-late April.....
Perfect analogy!
This kinda gave me joplin Missouri vibes tornado
Same tornado that went into TN and hit Covington
What a beast! And that green sky so creepy!
Green sky u mean like a green reptillian?
Tornadoes in the south are more scarier than those in Oklahoma as it is harder to see and can strike at night.
Be sure to follow the Vortex Chasing TH-cam too…
That’s where most, if not all of my tornado and severe weather footage goes.
Just search Vortex Chasing, you will find it.
It’s so green!
Yes. A green sky is a big sign of trouble here in the plains. Get thee to a basement stat.
My husband calls them bruised skies. It's even more ominous irl.
A few years ago, we became friends with someone who moved to Ark from NY. Us native southerners were all looking outside one afternoon commenting on the eerie green skies. He was so confused and got a good southern sky watching education that day! Thankfully, not anything first hand 🌪️
What windshield phone mount are you using in the beginning of the video?
Ct and glad I'm in Ct
Just out of curiosity, does Arkansas normally get tornados? I'm surprised that was only an EF3 tornado. I know they don't necessarily go by funnel cloud size now, but wow! That thing was huge!! 😮
But EF3s are still powerful!! 😬
@@netweed09 I didn't think so. I've seen an EF2 (I was actually almost in the middle of the actual funnel!), and while terrifying, it still formed a distinct funnel shape and wasn't even close to the strength of the "bigger" ones ... like the EF4s and 5s. I thought an EF3 would be somewhere in between a 2 and 4..but still a very distinct, fat funnel shape. In this video, the tornado doesn't appear to be funnel-shaped but more of a wedge.
Anyway, I'm going off what I visually thought an EF3 tornado would look like...not the actual strength of it or the damage it would do.
I live in wynne
Was this separate from 3/31?
The shot that begins around :24 is so green, it almost looks like it was shot through a filter or something
Prescott, Arkansas
That's very 😨 scary 😢
I'm just wondering if New Hope Missionary Baptist Church was hit in Wynne. My dad used to be the pastor there several years ago.
Jesus what a monster. I live in ne Arkansas I knew it was big but not that damn big.
Why is it that most people don't have basements ? In Canada 99% of houses have basements . Makes no sense !
The soil content and structure in the south is a little different. I believe that makes a difference.
Luckily storm shelters are readily available, which can help off some protection.
I'm watching from nj
Old Town Spring Texas
Crossett, southeast corner.
Why is everything so green in the one camera and then looks normal color on the other. Did you have some kind of green filter on on the one camera?
Haha. That's not a green filter. That's what the sky looks like during a tornado. Green and terrifying. The purple was the other camera removing the green sky.
@@paulpienkowski498 I've seen probably thousands of tornado videos, plus I saw a significant funnel in MN my ownself. Only one other video can I recall seeing that kind of a green sky. It was the Limestone AL tornado. But all of the big tornadoes, Joplin, Moore, Tuscaloosa--the sky is mostly shades of gray. Well truthfully, Joplin was just straight dark blue gray to pitch black. The lighting was that of midnight. Terrifying. I mean I'm not accusing, but anyone who is familiar with broadcast journalism knows of color gradient technologies. Yes, I know that green skies, I've seen many, represent the way that the sun reflects off of the icy hail shafts. The same phenomenon is seen in glaciers. Further the green sky imaged through the one cam in this video was very dark, it looked almost like night. The other cam (non-green) showed a far lighter sky. And far more brightly illuminated ground lighting as well. The other cam (non-green) looked more like ground truth.
Southwest Arkansas
That's a monster
Mass.
This was today???
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Valley springs ,Ar
My dad is from that town
I don’t know how you do it, scares me watching it
Watching from Ohio
A number of tornadoes are pretty photogenic but this one was a big ugly blob.
Could you not stay further away and get better photo equipment and just zoom or is this what is already happening? Your lives are more valuable alive, especially after the storm subsides. Stay safe.
There are absolutely situations where it is not needed to get close.
In this situation, the rain bands wrapping around the tornado made it very difficult to see.
However, upon getting close it’s much easier to see and track.
This was also a situation where storm motion was clearly left to right, allowing us to approach safely from the south.
They seemed to know what they were doing. You can see traffic coming from the direction of the tornado so that’s good enough for me!
@@wxzachary Ha!! What U said!
@@wxzachary ok Zachary. Good to know. Maybe you have to give your coordinates and you have experience, but what about huge hailstones and slippery highways at that speed? I even consider motor trouble. We were always glad to be in the basement. Once I watched the storm all night for tornadoes, each time lightning lit the sky. Some roofing flew away that night. That was before the time of tornado sirens and weather radar. I can't trust such a force, to follow a direction and not change it's path. Cars coming out of it were just lucky, but Storm Chasers enjoy it somewhat. That's another thing. It is always fascinating to observe hot and cold air clouds meeting each other. I've seen damage first hand and warned people about what I saw, out of my kitchen window and to get their kids inside. Good luck in all your ventures.
I heard you say secondary vortex I need you to be more specific because I see two paths thinking there was 2 tornados
I saw this Tornado from my house
Oddly, no power flashes or images of destruction . . .
Cause it already cut out the power and then it was wrapped in rain. There is destructive damage where the tornado made it's path, it's just Zach cut out the video right before it.
The power was cut pretty quick on this one.… Have you seen the images from town? The damage was pretty destructive.
There must be some purpose to chasing these storms around but I’ve yet to understand what that purpose is. Anyone care to help me out and explain?
Fun. Interest in weather. Hobby. People chase for the same reason people hike and ski. Some are scientists studying storms for better warning systems. Different reasons for chasing from everyone, I assume.
@@paulpienkowski498 Thanks for the reply. I still don’t get it but to each his/her own I suppose. What do you tell the boss, “sorry, I’ve got to go, there’s big tornado up in Kansas and I need to chase it”? To me it seems like chasing ambulances or fire trucks around to see how much death and destruction you can observe.
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