I found information on the May 1974 Murrell's Inlet, SC F1 tornado in Grazulis' book "Significant Tornadoes: A chronology of events (1880-1991)". Looks like a boat off of Murrell's Inlet was struck and all 6 fatalities came from that. Also, the book says the tornado took place on May 19 rather than May 26/27.
@@SwegleStudios I was going to post about the tornado before noticing the comment. I found it listed on the government's weather website. (I'd post the page but TH-cam already ate one of my comments for doing so. The page is literally weather gov, input the dot where you need to.) They have a page titled "Today in Weather History." I believe the book got the day wrong by exactly a week, as I found it mentioned on several pages as May 26th. And if you click on May 26th on that US government site, it states: An F1 tornado killed 6 people and injured one person when it struck a boat on the Waccamaw river near Murrells Inlet, SC. It also damaged trees over a 3 mile path, as well as a cabin and mobile home.
@@westernsavage2313 well there hasn't been a (Recorded) EF5 for 10 years now. What's scary about thinking of this is the fact that a EF5 is possibly going to happen again today, tomorrow, near, or far. Tornadoes can be no joke
Reminder that the deadliest thing about a tornado is debris. Seventy mile per hour winds doesn't sound that scary until it picks up a bunch of sheet metal and starts throwing it at you.
Ratings are based on damage. You could have an EF5 obliterate a trailer park per say and kill a lot of people but it would receive probably an EF2 rating at max due the low quality of construction standards.
So sad to hear about those kids. I've seen firsthand the damage a comparatively "weak" tornado can do. A strong EF1 (wind speeds were approximately 105mph) knocked over a brick wall in a manufacturing facility in my hometown and there were many people inside, luckily they were unharmed. I almost drove into that storm but had decided to stay past the end of my shift to help out at work in another town and that saved me from harm.
Just goes to show, respect ALL tornadoes, including the F-0’s. Driving an 18 wheeler primarily in the Midwest, I’m always especially hyper vigilant for tornadoes during the springtime months. I have an app on my phone called “My Radar” which warns me about any kind of inclement weather in my area. My worst fear is to come upon a tornado in the dark, when you can’t see them. This app helps to prevent that and allows me to form a “ Plan B” should this ever happen. Great video as always! 👍
Yep, I did trucking in the Southeast/East and was always very very wary of really any storm. If I saw a severe thunderstorm warning, I'd pull over to a truck stop and wait it out. Sure I wasn't technically making money during that rest but I also wasn't being injured or killed. Also the amount of people that want to park right next to the trailer in a thunderstorm is bewildering. As a normal driver now, I pass trucks as quickly as I can to not be near them for long. I live in Tehachapi CA and it's super windy sometimes and I don't want to be crushed haha
@@TheLycanStrain oh yes, been to Tehachapi many times. I even delivered to the prison there one time, that was fun! 😂 Yes, I too am astounded at people who hang out ( in the NO ZONE!) right next to me during high winds when it’s all that I can do to keep my rig “between the lines.” If they only knew the danger that they are putting themselves in by doing that, yet they are oblivious. Worse than that, I often see people tailgating flatbed trucks at 70+ mph with their noses buried in their phones instead of looking up ahead and keeping a safe distance from a potential rolling guillotine!
Love the video format every time! I was in the 2012 Dexter, MI tornado that was an EF3 and it's an absolute miracle nobody was hurt. Homes completely destroyed. I was teaching a martial arts class downtown and had my little ninjas in the basement of the school as I watched it peel through. Only a few spots were rated EF3, but even the EF0 and EF1 damage was significant. It uprooted the back 9 of our local golf course almost entirely. Interesting stuff man - thanks for the great content.
I was living in an apartment with my family at the time of that Tornado and was cleaning an office suite in Saline to the south that day and returned as the storm began. The conditions really played into the power of that storm. I remember the white out of rain as the Tornado came through and I bunkered down in my bathroom with the dog.
@@AstroTheNeonAstronaut Much appreciated! Still teaching martial arts. Little Ninjas are our 3-5 year old kids. They were pretty freaked out when the tornado came through... glad everyone was safe!
There is also a deadly weak tornado that occured in Moerdijk, Netherlands on October 6, 1981. The tornado struck NLM Cityhopper Flight 431 at its dissipation stage where it sent the plane crashes to the ground and killed all of its 17 (or 16 according to ESWD) occupants
There was one near Sterling City, Texas that was kinda like that. That particular tornado never really WAS a tornado (never touched down), but a B-36 flew into it and crashed, killing all fifteen men. This occurred on the same day as the Blackwell, Oklahoma and Udall, Kansas tornadoes.
A long-time family friend was among the dead in the Whippoorwill incident. He, his wife and another couple, family friends, were members of the same Topeka, KS church and attended the outing together. Our friend's body was found entanglement in an awning. He never had a chance. His wife and our other friends survived, thankfully. I do not know for certain that I may have know other attendees but it's very possible since the members of that church were all well-known to me. It always struck me that the chances of experiencing a tornado in the middle of a very small lake in a paddle-wheel boat have to be quite low. These are the very first picture and video that I have ever seen of this. I was almost holding my breath at the possibility of actually seeing any of them in the footage.
As someone who was in their home while it was destroyed during the recent hurricane Ian, weather awareness is such a crucial thing. Thanks for always including solutions and helpful tips in your videos. I can safely say that if I didn't prepare my home beforehand, the damage from winds could have been so much worse and I'm lucky to have escaped with what I did compared to a lot of other people in the area. Nature is scary stuff
I'd love to see a story on the 1990 Plainfield IL tornado. I lived at Gaylord and Ardaugh Aves in Crest Hill, and we had no sirens or warning of the mile wide EF5 just blocks away. My mom said she saw it out the back window, looking towards Theodore Rd, as it was hitting the apt complex where the most deaths occurred. It was so close and so wide, she had no idea what she was looking at. And since there were no sirens, we didn't know to go to the basement. It missed up by literally two blocks. Our house and neighborhood sustained damage, and my dad helped recover bodies from the cornfield across the street. It is shocking that more people didn't die. But there were 29 deaths and it will never leave the locals memories.
The Plainfield tornado wasn't a mile wide, it was actually only about a third of a mile wide at its largest point. The problem was the storm produced so much rain that the tornado was completely invisible. I've read one account from a survivor that said they had no idea there was a tornado until their neighbor's house exploded. It passed a few hundred feet from the Joliet Mall and nobody there ever saw the tornado. I read another account from those apartments that a kid from a family of 4 was only able to exclaim that it was getting dark and in a flash he was thrown into the corn field and the rest of his family was killed. I live in the area as well (though I was not born until 8 years after the tornado) and made a video on it a few years ago if you want to take a look.
You can find videos of the Plainfield tornado on You Tube. Plainfield Tornado Disaster of 1990 Carly Anna WX ( She has posted videos of many tornadoes and does a great job covering them.) Eight mins in August The F5 Plainfield tornado. Joliet Area Historic Museum
@@sammylacks4937 I actually just watched Carly Anna’s video earlier today (I love her videos) and I watched the documentary in elementary school (our district’s curriculum)
Im 25 and lived in Huntsville my entire life and so glad to see this on here. My father has home recordings of the tornado and rescues on old VHS tapes.
Great video, and a great PSA aboutbeing weather aware, especially about tornadoes of any possible rating. Thanks for your dedication to the topic of Torandoes!
You mentioned the Stretch Duck 7 disaster and I thought you might be interested in the recent video on the channel Brick Immortar that covered it in some detail - it's a really interesting channel for all sorts of (non-weather related) accidents and disasters, some of them not very well-known at all. Great video as always!!
I freaking loved the Google Earth tornado remnant hunting video you did some time back, could we see more videos where you try to find some old and forgotten tornadoes? Amazing content as always.
I know the feeling. We lost everything in the Moore tornado in '99. After that we moved to another part of the city on 12th St. behind Plaza Towers Elem and then lost it all again 14 years later after another direct hit. We finally took the hint and moved well away from tornado alley, but still, hearing a tornado siren or tornado warning EAS message gives me a panic attack.
I used to live in a trailer park, back in Dixmoor Illinois 2008 I saw the beginning of a swirling cloud taking form. It eventually formed into a funnel cloud in Lansing Illinois. It was an f-0 .
When I lived in one, I went to work when one was spotted. They got mad that I came in early (didn't clock in, just needed a safe place and the factory was literally a minute walk. I could see and hear it from inside the trailer). I told them I had no safe place to go. They were still mad. There wasn't houses nearby and it was in a not-so-good area of town, so nobody would have never let me in anyways, thinking I was trying to do something.
I live in Mobile Ala, where we've more than had our fair share of tornados, and the strange thing is, most homes haven't got basements because of hurricanes! Thankfully though, I am fortunate enough to live in a very solid house, but I never would have guessed AL was a hotspot for tornados when I moved here.
your content is extremely entertaining, im completely focused on the video even when youre bringing up a tornado that has 0 story information on it! i have never been interested in tornados until i randomly found your content yesterday, great work
in 1970 an EF4 tornado hit the Venice lagoon (North-East Italy), lifting and overturning a 22-ton vaporetto, causing 21 deaths (out of a total of 36 caused by the entire 70 km path of the tornado) similar to the Duck Boat Disaster
It's crazy how random tornadoes can be. One of my rugby teammates grew up 1/2 a mile from me, and his house was direct hit by an EF0 in 2018. However, that tornado then swung southwest, increased in strength to an EF2, and destroyed a mobile home park. It's crazy to think I was fine, his family sustained minor roof damage, and some people lost their homes all within the 3 miles
It'd be interesting to see a video on the largest "weak" tornadoes as well. A lot of people assume that the bigger the tornadoes, the more damaging and deadly they are. I'm curious what mile-wide-plus tornadoes didn't actually do all that much damage.
In NC , most tornadoes are produced from QLCS events and tend to spawn quickly touching down with no warning . Although they tend to be EF 0 - 1- 2 and short lived because they spin up quickly and these systems often pass in the night if one or several drop over a populated area they can be deadly and cause much damage. Years ago NC lead the nation in nighttime tornado deaths because of these weak tornadoes and an outbreak in the Red Springs area.
Little story about the F4 the hit Huntsville. My aunt was driving home from school and decided she was too tired to drive so she pulled into a parking lot just to the right of the picture to nap. When she woke up the whole block was leveled, but her car was fine. My grandfather (her dad) was a general at Redstone Arsenal and was called in to protect the contents of a jewelry store (the pile of rubble closest to the intersection on the left). He loaded it into the trunk of his Volvo and stood there with a rifle until a truck could come to get it.
The fact that I grew up in a trailer home is very haunting bc f1 tornadoes are actually fairly common in Pennsylvania where I live. Heck we've had a few f2 tornadoes , one that went right past me when I was at work. My parents however said that our was rated for hurricane winds, not sure how high like category wise. But when hurricane Sandy hit in 2012 we had some fairly strong winds and everything was fine, though it was a little bit nerving
Yup, I remember it wasn't till I was a little older did my parents find out the best bet is actually leaving the trailer and finding the lowest lieing place, so my mom designated a nice ditch where we were to go 😅 before that tho, ofc the advice was to go into a bathroom like a small room centered in the house w no windows, the bathroom bc you can get down in the tub. Once there was a strong derecho type storm that my mom thought was a tornado, and she put me in the bathtub with her and took my crib mattress on top of us lol
Although I live in NJ & am out of the tornado alley loop, we have still experienced some tornadoes over the years. My home is a raised rancher style & half of the basement is underground. I have prepared our pantry closet down there just in case (water, flashlights, extra batteries, blankets, pet food, basic toiletries & some pet food, portable phone chargers, etc). Even if you're in an area not prone to major tornadoes, it's always better to be prepared.
@@Zylaku yes it was. A cousin of mine lives just outside Mullica Hill. Right before the tornado hit, she felt all the hairs on her arms stand up out of nowhere. Before she could wonder why, her ears popped & large trees outside started snapping in half. Thankfully she & her family are alright & only minimal property damage.
@Stacy Russell wow that's very interesting.. very happy your cousin is safe!!! I'm from a neighboring area of Mullica Hill and I was watching the storm that spawned the tornado with a friend on my back porch. The atmosphere of that day was unlike anything I've ever experienced
In 2012 there was a tornado at Diehlstadt, a small community in the Missouri Bootheel about fifty miles from where I live. It was rated EF-2 and thus would not have qualified for this video, but it still managed to kill three people in one mobile home. It was after dark, and I don't remember bad weather even being in the forecast, and thus I presume that the deceased were caught by surprise. It was sad, and for us it drove home the point that mobile homes are NOT the place to be in bad weather! I love your videos!
The recent old Kingston Alabama tormado killed 7 people all of them in single wide or double wide mobile homes…however that was a mid range EF3 rating with potential EF4 level contextual damage…
I lived in mobile homes for most of my life, including three years in Topeka, Kansas. We lived across the street from the local tornado shelter in Topeka, and my mother always had a bag packed with essentials since my sister was a toddler at the time. When we heard the sirens we'd move fast, especially since we'd moved to Topeka in 1967, the year after the June 8, 1966 tornado that caused over $100 million in damage, and when we moved there many of the traces of the tornado were still there. After that I lived in a mobile home in northern California; my experiences in Topeka had taught me to keep a close eye on the weather. I remember one time looking out the front window at a stormy sky that was practically green, and things were too quiet. So, I kept a close eye on things, and if I'd seen a wall cloud I would have headed for the downtown area of the small town where I lived, since there was nothing in the way of shelter in the trailer park. Nothing happened, but at least I knew enough to keep an eye on the sky.
My family has a permanent RV (a park model) in a private membership campground in MI. In 2021, a powerful EF 2 hit less than a quarter mile away. I was supposed to be there with my kids that day. But the non-stop rain and an upgrade to the severe outlook including a tornado risk had me pack up and head home that morning. Not long after we got home, my mom called me up and told me that the south side of the town took a direct hit. And because that area is a radar hole, it was unwarned until it was pretty much on top of town. It chills me to think how many unsuspecting people could have died that day if that tornado took a slightly different path. And if not for my intuition and weather awarness, my kids and I might not be here today.
I live in a mobile home park that has a lot of very large old oak trees. No tornado shelter, but we "are" supposed to be getting an outdoor swimming pool in the next year or so. No low-lying ground that is free of trees. No sturdy buildings nearby that are open 24/7. The Van Buren County Michigan Emergency Preparedness Office told me that there are no tornado or severe weather shelters anywhere in my county but they will open shelters after the fact. The police chief in my town says he does not want people out driving around during a tornado event. The last F5 in the entire state of Michigan was between 65-70 years ago, the last really bad F3 in my part of the state was the 1980 Kalamazoo tornado. I think it is because EF3's and above are so infrequent in Michigan that people are not as tornado conscious as they should be. When the northern Michigan town of Gaylord was struck by an EF3 last year, they didn't even have warning sirens in place! Well, those are the ones which get all the headlines, but what a lot of people don't realize is that Michigan is far more likely to experience quick spin-up EF0's and EF1's which may not even register on radar before they are over (that happened near Grand Rapids a few years back) and which may be rain-wrapped making them hard to see. Yes, there is definitely a "it can't happen here" mentality in this state.
When I was standing in the parking lot of my place of employment in Gaylord, looking at the tornado, my thought process was exactly that- we don't have tornadoes here.
This is pedantic as all hell, but I feel like "motorhome" refers to those specifically with an engine. Mobile home/trailer are those that require a truck for transportation.
It would be interesting to discuss the weak tornadoes that caused the greatest amount of damage. I thought of this because of the EF1 tornado that struck north Minneapolis and nearby suburbs on May 22, 2011 (the same day as the infamous Joplin tornado). It also killed one person who was in a car when a tree fell on him.
You didn’t speak about it, but showed photos from the Rye Cove tornado. I did some work in the area in the 90s when I was in college. Had no idea there had been a deadly tornado there. The things you learn on TH-cam…
So interesting archive website. I noticed that my town got hit by an EF-1 tornado back in 2002, when I was 2 years old. What's crazy about that, is that it looks like my home was only about half of a mile away from the path of the tornado. Did not know that. Crazy!
For that statement at 8:43, also keep in mind that tornadoes have updrafts which allow them to do significant damage quickly. If a tornado crosses over a ditch directly above you, the suction could rip you out of the ditch. This almost happened with two survivors of the 2.5 mile wide Hallam F-4. In their account, they said they almost were sucked out of the ditch. This tornado didn't directly hit them, either.
A lot of tornadoes "jump" or bob. This is why they seem to leave one house untouched, and destroy another. When a tornado lifts, there is no suction(unless a vortis reaches down. Happens with larger tornados. Think Smaller suction arms/tentacles reach out from the side) Now, besides lifting, tornados can dig. There is no rule saying that a tornado can only go as low as the top of the ground. Tornados can trench into the ground.
A deep ditch can be the difference between life and death. If the tornado completes suction with ground, then it's going to create a vacuum, which can lift you out of the ditch. However, the biggest threat is debris. Multiple reports of people sadly being killed by electric poles, & cars being slammed into them. A good place to get to, if possible, would be a man hole. Smelly, but alive.
Yeah, I know that. Debris is the biggest threat, sure, but I was saying that it's not ideal nevertheless. It's just as he said in the video there, too. One, you are openly vulnerable to debris falling from above. If it strikes you directly, the updraft will, like you said, create suction much like a vacuum. And yes, I know that sub-vortices can be present with tornadoes, rendering them as multi-vortexes no matter the shape. I also do know some tornadoes can lift and descend again multiple times, creating strips of damage which can be very sporadic and imperfect.
I drove through an F-0 tornado in Michigan on the turnpike about 3 years ago. Absolutely terrifying!! I never saw it until it started coming onto the road. All the trees were whipping around. I don’t know if any fell. But I can say that as I went through the beginning of it. It was just brutal. All the debris swirling above me as I just hoped it didn’t fall on me. As I got about halfway through I felt the SUV start to twist on the road. Honestly. I just gunned it to try to make it through. As I got through the other side I heard a loud BOOM! I thought something hit me. Afterwards. I discovered the loud boom I heard was it actually ripping my weatherstripping off of the vehicle. I saw the clouds. Just wish I would’ve pulled off a bit earlier.
Spent the first few years of my life growing up in a mobile home before my dad went back into the Air Force and we have a saying in our family: God hates mobile homes. We always had a plan to get out if a bad storm was coming and head down the road to my then grandmothers house and her basement, so many of our neighbors would just stay and gawk at the storm and never realized what danger they were in.
VERY very good advice about leaving mobile homes in tornadoes. The last local tornado fatality here occurred when a mobile home overturned and crushed the man who was in it. It was barely an EF-2 at that point. Trees falling on mobile homes are just as dangerous; there isn't any structural strength in mobile homes, campers, or RV's but there is a lot of surface area for wind to act against. A lot of the 'weak' tornado deaths and injuries come from falling trees even in well-built homes' so keep that in consideration when you're choosing a safe spot to ride out a storm in your home. Even EF-0 winds are enough to launch deadly debris so take every tornado seriously.
I literally had one like 2 weeks ago, I was in my basement watching a tornado slowly approach me through one of those small upper basement windows... I woke up right before it hit.
@@SwegleStudios Good to know I’m not alone then, haha! I guess the fear, however small and subconscious, is part of what makes tornadoes so fascinating. For me personally, I usually see pitch-black clouds and many tornadoes on the horizon approaching my house. Ever since I saw that super up-close video by BasehuntersChasing of the Dalton MN EF4 where it just sits in a field and has that unbelievably fast-moving vortex of maybe 50cm in diameter, I’ve had a few absurd nightmares where a tornado will just rip me apart. Wild stuff, but funnily enough those dreams are never very scary to me unlike the ones with the dark clouds approaching. Looking at that (Dalton EF4) video, there is no doubt in my mind that such power could destroy almost anything… Scary, but absolutely fascinating!
Unfortunately Im not super qualified for weather forecasting :/ (more of a history guy) However Im sure Ryan Hall Y'all will have some videos on that topic!
I live in Murray County, Ga, and in 2020, not long after the Covee started, an F2 tornado that was briefly an F3 hit during the night. It missed my house by 1/2 a mile. Most of Murray County is either farmland or sparsely populated woodlands. Unfortunately, this tornado hit a mobile home park head on and killed 8 people. We live in a house with a basement, and our neighbors are family that lives in mobile home. We leave our basement unlocked during bad storms, and I will text my neighbors if possible tornadoes are close by.
The picture at 4:15 of Rye Cove School (not Roy Cove) is actually my old highschool's rival. I remember hearing about this storm a few years ago. This area is mostly thought of being safe from Tornados due to our location in the Appalachian Mountains. It's crazy to see pictures from my area online and come to find out this Tornado was the deadliest in Virginia history.
So can category 2 or 3 hurricanes toss cars around as well? They have roughly the same wind speeds as a F1 tornado. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a video of a Hurricane tossing a car around like that clip you showed of a tornado. Most videos or hurricanes just show vehicles pushed around. Maybe the wind profile makes a significant difference rather than just the speed?
This is probably really stupid but it never dawned on me an EF1 could be deadlier than an EF2. I just assumed the bigger the deadlier. Sheesh lol 🤦🏻♀️
I had like an F1 or Two tornado and. It was on February 27th this year. Uhh I still remember what it looks like. It was a surprising wider than a F1 but I was at jazz and this alert came on on a Tuesday ! Plano, Illinois 🎉
Be careful when taking shelter in outdoor ditches and low spots. Most tornadoes take place during severe thunderstorms which are typically high precipitation events. Low areas can flood nearly instantly. It’s better, if at all possible, to find a nearby permanent structure and get to the lowest interior room (no windows). Cover your head with something thick and soft, such as a pillow or mattress. Even a football, hockey or bike helmet might help you survive.
Also the fact that it occurred in NY State; tornadoes are, in general, very rare in the North-Eastern part of the USA. Still very sad (all of the deaths in these stories).
@ns 3421 Really? I don't live in America, but I've always been interested in tornadoes. I was aware that the traditional Tornado Alley was in the central part of the US. The sources I read that stated that the North-Eastern US don't get a lot of tornadoes could be a bit outdated. In the end I guess each state/country is at risk.
This is just so crazy. I lived 20 miles away from joplin when the tornado came through, and i was at home playing video games just 5 miles away when the duck boat accident happened. Hearing about stuff is so numb its crazy bit then you hear about something that you lived near or through and it just hits so much harder.
Love your tornado content. Could you do a video of tornadoes just in the state of Wisconsin. I'd find it really interesting as I live there. Keep up the great work 👍
Near my town, an F1 bordering on an F2 hit a small town and swept through the middle of it. High school completely destroyed, one of my friend’s friends’ house’s ground floor became their basement. It was brutal, but to my knowledge, no one died.
Have just stumbled across your channel and am finding it fascinating! I wound-up living in a tornado alley for several years that I didn't know was that way when I moved there - Lexington, KY. Have you ever done a video on Lexington? Hiding in an interior closet with my two dogs, cell phone, supplies - thanks but no thanks! for those memories, Lexington!
New subscriber! All your videos are amazing! Great work! I live in MS, tornado alley, and in my 30 years I’ve yet to see a tornado in person! We get tornado warnings constantly though! I’m about 20 minutes from hazelhurst, so I was so intrigued when I watched your video about the bottle top kid! I never knew hazelhurst had a large tornado like that.
Wow so cool finding a video on this. I had this same thought like wondering what the worst weakest tornado was and good was confused and I couldn't find much info on it.
I remember seeing the aftermath of the May 25, 2011 Sedalia, MO tornado. It occurred three days after Joplin, and nobody died, so it got mostly forgotten. However, seeing all those familiar sights I'd see on my usual road trip to my grandpa's get mangled was something that stuck with me. I remember seeing a gas station with the canopy caved in, as well as the trailer park nearby completely leveled. It makes me glad my hometown hasn't had a tornado since '98.
3:04 holy shit, that sort of emotional rollercoaster is insane. Could you imagine your child narrowly surviving a devastating tornado, feeling the relief yet sorrow that your child is okay but others passed, then your child is taken from you anyway only two days later? Sickeningly sad.
I'm from Utah and even the wild tornado of 1999 still killed someone even with a tiny scale compared to other tornados of the Midwest so I say all tornados are dangerous. Thank you for making this video it really does show us that no matter the size or scale, all tornados are dangerous
A motorhome is an RV that is driven. At mobile home is a trailer/manufactured home with axles underneath that can have wheels and tires added to it, in order to be relocated by semi truck
Fun fact i actually live in Fort Wayne Indiana august 2020 was insane the derecho was crazy I can’t believe it actually killed someone me and my mom went outside and we saw tree damage and everything else
I just found your channel and this was really interesting! We have multiple tornadoes a year (but I live in Minnesota and we’re just outside of tornado alley… well, I guess southern Minnesota is sometimes considered part of it) and most of them are these weaker ones.
A lot of weak deadly Tornadoes occured in Germany in the past too. The Outbreak of 15th June 1980 was featuring 8 Tornadoes. One F1 moved through a Camping site killing 6 People. Possibly a second F1 killed 2. In 1901 a Tornado of unknown strength (possibly >F1 though) spun around a boat killing 7 near Berlin. In 1913 an Airship crashed in a waterspout near Heligoland killing 13.
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I found information on the May 1974 Murrell's Inlet, SC F1 tornado in Grazulis' book "Significant Tornadoes: A chronology of events (1880-1991)". Looks like a boat off of Murrell's Inlet was struck and all 6 fatalities came from that. Also, the book says the tornado took place on May 19 rather than May 26/27.
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Wow! Thanks so much for finding this out David. Unfortunately, Im not surprised that it was boat related.
@@SwegleStudios there is also a deadly EF2 tornado on May 24 (if i remember correctly), 2017 and the tornado killed 3 in a capsized boat
@@SwegleStudios I was going to post about the tornado before noticing the comment. I found it listed on the government's weather website. (I'd post the page but TH-cam already ate one of my comments for doing so. The page is literally weather gov, input the dot where you need to.) They have a page titled "Today in Weather History." I believe the book got the day wrong by exactly a week, as I found it mentioned on several pages as May 26th. And if you click on May 26th on that US government site, it states: An F1 tornado killed 6 people and injured one person when it struck a boat on the Waccamaw river near Murrells Inlet, SC. It also damaged trees over a 3 mile path, as well as a cabin and mobile home.
@David Foster, is your profile pic the Edmonton Tornado?
No matter what anyone says, all tornadoes are dangerous
What about water sprouts oh yeah I’m dum
It might only be one property or structure but something is going to get messed up.
@NFL productions Yes true!! Can confirm from personal experience!!
I know tornadoes have been known to puncture trees with plastic straws. Imagine getting hit with a plastic straw and dying.
What about the fun ones?
The fact that people underestimate tornados is insane I mean it’s a tornado
same goes for floodwater. Wind and water are far more powerful than our little bodies.
@@kimm6589 I almost got hit by a chair from a windstorm.
Exactly. It’s a tornado. What else is there to say?
There's a video on YT of someone driving their boat through a waterspout. Not smart, but people still do it.
@@jonathansefcik473 that’s madlad
Remember: Size doesn't show what the Tornadoes Scale is. There could be a Wedge that is an EF0 or a Rope that's an EF5
*F0 *F5
@@Firemarioflowerthe scale was changed to EF in 2007
have you seen a rope EF5 because i sure as hell haven’t
@@westernsavage2313 well there hasn't been a (Recorded) EF5 for 10 years now. What's scary about thinking of this is the fact that a EF5 is possibly going to happen again today, tomorrow, near, or far. Tornadoes can be no joke
@@John_The_EeveechuThe world got close with Mayfield, but not quite
I guess it never occurred to me that tornadoes don't have to be higher on the EF scale to kill...
Oh, hey fusion!
Reminder that the deadliest thing about a tornado is debris. Seventy mile per hour winds doesn't sound that scary until it picks up a bunch of sheet metal and starts throwing it at you.
If you die by one of these nowadays you messed up. I live in kansas btw
I remember being curious if there was any F0 tornadoes that have killed any people looking it up it shocked me there was a few that have.
Ratings are based on damage. You could have an EF5 obliterate a trailer park per say and kill a lot of people but it would receive probably an EF2 rating at max due the low quality of construction standards.
So sad to hear about those kids. I've seen firsthand the damage a comparatively "weak" tornado can do. A strong EF1 (wind speeds were approximately 105mph) knocked over a brick wall in a manufacturing facility in my hometown and there were many people inside, luckily they were unharmed. I almost drove into that storm but had decided to stay past the end of my shift to help out at work in another town and that saved me from harm.
Oh man, that's like 9/11 all over again. Thank the Lord you're safe and made it through OK.
Yeah 105 is quite bad good thing you stayed back
Just goes to show, respect ALL tornadoes, including the F-0’s. Driving an 18 wheeler primarily in the Midwest, I’m always especially hyper vigilant for tornadoes during the springtime months. I have an app on my phone called “My Radar” which warns me about any kind of inclement weather in my area. My worst fear is to come upon a tornado in the dark, when you can’t see them. This app helps to prevent that and allows me to form a “ Plan B” should this ever happen. Great video as always! 👍
Yep, I did trucking in the Southeast/East and was always very very wary of really any storm.
If I saw a severe thunderstorm warning, I'd pull over to a truck stop and wait it out. Sure I wasn't technically making money during that rest but I also wasn't being injured or killed.
Also the amount of people that want to park right next to the trailer in a thunderstorm is bewildering. As a normal driver now, I pass trucks as quickly as I can to not be near them for long. I live in Tehachapi CA and it's super windy sometimes and I don't want to be crushed haha
@@TheLycanStrain oh yes, been to Tehachapi many times. I even delivered to the prison there one time, that was fun! 😂 Yes, I too am astounded at people who hang out ( in the NO ZONE!) right next to me during high winds when it’s all that I can do to keep my rig “between the lines.” If they only knew the danger that they are putting themselves in by doing that, yet they are oblivious. Worse than that, I often see people tailgating flatbed trucks at 70+ mph with their noses buried in their phones instead of looking up ahead and keeping a safe distance from a potential rolling guillotine!
Don't go to the twin cities at spring if you can decide not to
any phone radar that includes velocity scans ... that'll help you target the tornado couplet location and direction
Why should we respect a tornado?
Love the video format every time! I was in the 2012 Dexter, MI tornado that was an EF3 and it's an absolute miracle nobody was hurt. Homes completely destroyed. I was teaching a martial arts class downtown and had my little ninjas in the basement of the school as I watched it peel through. Only a few spots were rated EF3, but even the EF0 and EF1 damage was significant. It uprooted the back 9 of our local golf course almost entirely. Interesting stuff man - thanks for the great content.
yo i was really close to that when it happened i was like 5 but I still remember hiding in my grandmas basement
I live in Michigan kind of far away from Dexter but I was born in 2012
I was living in an apartment with my family at the time of that Tornado and was cleaning an office suite in Saline to the south that day and returned as the storm began. The conditions really played into the power of that storm. I remember the white out of rain as the Tornado came through and I bunkered down in my bathroom with the dog.
Bro you saved people’s lives + you teach martial arts and call your students “little ninjas” you need a cool nickname
@@AstroTheNeonAstronaut Much appreciated! Still teaching martial arts. Little Ninjas are our 3-5 year old kids. They were pretty freaked out when the tornado came through... glad everyone was safe!
There is also a deadly weak tornado that occured in Moerdijk, Netherlands on October 6, 1981. The tornado struck NLM Cityhopper Flight 431 at its dissipation stage where it sent the plane crashes to the ground and killed all of its 17 (or 16 according to ESWD) occupants
There was one near Sterling City, Texas that was kinda like that. That particular tornado never really WAS a tornado (never touched down), but a B-36 flew into it and crashed, killing all fifteen men. This occurred on the same day as the Blackwell, Oklahoma and Udall, Kansas tornadoes.
We had an F0 come down right on top of our house in New River, AZ in 2019. Though our home suffered only minor damage, it was DEEPLY MEMORABLE.
kind of thing that will absolutely only ever happen once, haha
same lol
I mean at least ur house isn’t made of cardboard
A long-time family friend was among the dead in the Whippoorwill incident. He, his wife and another couple, family friends, were members of the same Topeka, KS church and attended the outing together. Our friend's body was found entanglement in an awning. He never had a chance. His wife and our other friends survived, thankfully. I do not know for certain that I may have know other attendees but it's very possible since the members of that church were all well-known to me. It always struck me that the chances of experiencing a tornado in the middle of a very small lake in a paddle-wheel boat have to be quite low. These are the very first picture and video that I have ever seen of this. I was almost holding my breath at the possibility of actually seeing any of them in the footage.
As someone who was in their home while it was destroyed during the recent hurricane Ian, weather awareness is such a crucial thing. Thanks for always including solutions and helpful tips in your videos. I can safely say that if I didn't prepare my home beforehand, the damage from winds could have been so much worse and I'm lucky to have escaped with what I did compared to a lot of other people in the area. Nature is scary stuff
When you look up a tornado wind chart, it’s disturbing how strong even the “weak” ones are. Which is why I truly cannot fathom going through an EF5…
They can strip THE BARK OFF TREES, DRIVE STRAW INTO SOLID WOOD, AND CAN REDUCE HOUSES TO UNRECOGNIZABLE PILES OF GRAVEL AND SPLINTERS. It's scary.
I'd love to see a story on the 1990 Plainfield IL tornado. I lived at Gaylord and Ardaugh Aves in Crest Hill, and we had no sirens or warning of the mile wide EF5 just blocks away. My mom said she saw it out the back window, looking towards Theodore Rd, as it was hitting the apt complex where the most deaths occurred. It was so close and so wide, she had no idea what she was looking at. And since there were no sirens, we didn't know to go to the basement. It missed up by literally two blocks. Our house and neighborhood sustained damage, and my dad helped recover bodies from the cornfield across the street. It is shocking that more people didn't die. But there were 29 deaths and it will never leave the locals memories.
The Plainfield tornado wasn't a mile wide, it was actually only about a third of a mile wide at its largest point. The problem was the storm produced so much rain that the tornado was completely invisible. I've read one account from a survivor that said they had no idea there was a tornado until their neighbor's house exploded. It passed a few hundred feet from the Joliet Mall and nobody there ever saw the tornado. I read another account from those apartments that a kid from a family of 4 was only able to exclaim that it was getting dark and in a flash he was thrown into the corn field and the rest of his family was killed.
I live in the area as well (though I was not born until 8 years after the tornado) and made a video on it a few years ago if you want to take a look.
Yeah!! I actually go to the high school that was directly hit and currently live a mile from the path so I’d like to see a video about it!
You can find videos of the Plainfield tornado on You Tube.
Plainfield Tornado Disaster of 1990 Carly Anna WX
( She has posted videos of many tornadoes and does a great job covering them.)
Eight mins in August The F5 Plainfield tornado.
Joliet Area Historic Museum
@@sammylacks4937 I actually just watched Carly Anna’s video earlier today (I love her videos) and I watched the documentary in elementary school (our district’s curriculum)
@@sammylacks4937 thank you for the recommendations, I'll check them out!
Im 25 and lived in Huntsville my entire life and so glad to see this on here. My father has home recordings of the tornado and rescues on old VHS tapes.
Damn nice lol I'm 22 and been chillin here whole time too, shit be Huntsville af round here
Great video, and a great PSA aboutbeing weather aware, especially about tornadoes of any possible rating. Thanks for your dedication to the topic of Torandoes!
You mentioned the Stretch Duck 7 disaster and I thought you might be interested in the recent video on the channel Brick Immortar that covered it in some detail - it's a really interesting channel for all sorts of (non-weather related) accidents and disasters, some of them not very well-known at all.
Great video as always!!
Love his content. Unbiased, unopinionated, and just straight facts
That's an excellent channel! I also quite like Building Integrity
Absolutely great video. Watched it recently.
Tornadoes are made out of air, breathe it in
Way too underrated
Omg Guinness 😂
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@@NovaShrugs bites the dust killer queen
I freaking loved the Google Earth tornado remnant hunting video you did some time back, could we see more videos where you try to find some old and forgotten tornadoes? Amazing content as always.
My mom’s first husband died in the 1989 tornado in Huntsville. She’s been terrified of tornados ever since
I know the feeling. We lost everything in the Moore tornado in '99. After that we moved to another part of the city on 12th St. behind Plaza Towers Elem and then lost it all again 14 years later after another direct hit. We finally took the hint and moved well away from tornado alley, but still, hearing a tornado siren or tornado warning EAS message gives me a panic attack.
First husband..
@@Micfri300 yeah, first husband... she remarried, duh.
@@ohno7153 and that's respectful and normal?
@@Micfri300 ..yes? tf? shes just supposed to stay single after he died? lmao what r u trying to say
Tornadoes take "size doesn't matter" to a whole new level.
I used to live in a trailer park, back in Dixmoor Illinois 2008 I saw the beginning of a swirling cloud taking form. It eventually formed into a funnel cloud in Lansing Illinois. It was an f-0 .
It's freaky when you can see the rotation even if it doesn't touch down where you are. You instinctually know "oh this is bad."
When I lived in one, I went to work when one was spotted. They got mad that I came in early (didn't clock in, just needed a safe place and the factory was literally a minute walk. I could see and hear it from inside the trailer). I told them I had no safe place to go. They were still mad.
There wasn't houses nearby and it was in a not-so-good area of town, so nobody would have never let me in anyways, thinking I was trying to do something.
Lansing Illinois mentioned lets gooo!!
Dude, your content is amazing!
Thanks so much! Glad you think so!
I live in Mobile Ala, where we've more than had our fair share of tornados, and the strange thing is, most homes haven't got basements because of hurricanes! Thankfully though, I am fortunate enough to live in a very solid house, but I never would have guessed AL was a hotspot for tornados when I moved here.
your content is extremely entertaining, im completely focused on the video even when youre bringing up a tornado that has 0 story information on it! i have never been interested in tornados until i randomly found your content yesterday, great work
It’s so crazy how it lead up to the whippoorwill disaster. I live just south of Pomona! Many people still remember this event
in 1970 an EF4 tornado hit the Venice lagoon (North-East Italy), lifting and overturning a 22-ton vaporetto, causing 21 deaths (out of a total of 36 caused by the entire 70 km path of the tornado) similar to the Duck Boat Disaster
the video quality just keeps getting better! good work man!
It's crazy how random tornadoes can be. One of my rugby teammates grew up 1/2 a mile from me, and his house was direct hit by an EF0 in 2018. However, that tornado then swung southwest, increased in strength to an EF2, and destroyed a mobile home park. It's crazy to think I was fine, his family sustained minor roof damage, and some people lost their homes all within the 3 miles
It'd be interesting to see a video on the largest "weak" tornadoes as well. A lot of people assume that the bigger the tornadoes, the more damaging and deadly they are. I'm curious what mile-wide-plus tornadoes didn't actually do all that much damage.
I think there was a tornado in Denton,Texas that was nearly a kilometer wide,however not only did it not do that much damage,it has ef1 windspeeds.
Mile wide is more like a hurricane lol
@@ViceKnIghtTA And yet multiple tornadoes have been measured to be more than a mile wide lol
Hurricanes are multiple miles wide most of the time
For example El reno in 2013 that was over 2.6 miles wide but didn't kill that many people
In NC , most tornadoes are produced from QLCS events and tend to spawn quickly touching down with no warning . Although they tend to be EF 0 - 1- 2 and short lived because they spin up quickly and these systems often pass in the night if one or several drop over a populated area they can be deadly and cause much damage. Years ago NC lead the nation in nighttime tornado deaths because of these weak tornadoes and an outbreak in the Red Springs area.
Another great video, bro. This is kind of what I was mentioning earlier. I'm looking forward to seeing what you find on back-to-back impacts.
Little story about the F4 the hit Huntsville. My aunt was driving home from school and decided she was too tired to drive so she pulled into a parking lot just to the right of the picture to nap. When she woke up the whole block was leveled, but her car was fine.
My grandfather (her dad) was a general at Redstone Arsenal and was called in to protect the contents of a jewelry store (the pile of rubble closest to the intersection on the left). He loaded it into the trunk of his Volvo and stood there with a rifle until a truck could come to get it.
The fact that I grew up in a trailer home is very haunting bc f1 tornadoes are actually fairly common in Pennsylvania where I live. Heck we've had a few f2 tornadoes , one that went right past me when I was at work. My parents however said that our was rated for hurricane winds, not sure how high like category wise. But when hurricane Sandy hit in 2012 we had some fairly strong winds and everything was fine, though it was a little bit nerving
Yup, I remember it wasn't till I was a little older did my parents find out the best bet is actually leaving the trailer and finding the lowest lieing place, so my mom designated a nice ditch where we were to go 😅 before that tho, ofc the advice was to go into a bathroom like a small room centered in the house w no windows, the bathroom bc you can get down in the tub. Once there was a strong derecho type storm that my mom thought was a tornado, and she put me in the bathtub with her and took my crib mattress on top of us lol
Although I live in NJ & am out of the tornado alley loop, we have still experienced some tornadoes over the years. My home is a raised rancher style & half of the basement is underground. I have prepared our pantry closet down there just in case (water, flashlights, extra batteries, blankets, pet food, basic toiletries & some pet food, portable phone chargers, etc). Even if you're in an area not prone to major tornadoes, it's always better to be prepared.
That Mullica Hill tornado was crazy..
@@Zylaku yes it was. A cousin of mine lives just outside Mullica Hill. Right before the tornado hit, she felt all the hairs on her arms stand up out of nowhere. Before she could wonder why, her ears popped & large trees outside started snapping in half. Thankfully she & her family are alright & only minimal property damage.
@Stacy Russell wow that's very interesting.. very happy your cousin is safe!!!
I'm from a neighboring area of Mullica Hill and I was watching the storm that spawned the tornado with a friend on my back porch.
The atmosphere of that day was unlike anything I've ever experienced
In 2012 there was a tornado at Diehlstadt, a small community in the Missouri Bootheel about fifty miles from where I live. It was rated EF-2 and thus would not have qualified for this video, but it still managed to kill three people in one mobile home. It was after dark, and I don't remember bad weather even being in the forecast, and thus I presume that the deceased were caught by surprise. It was sad, and for us it drove home the point that mobile homes are NOT the place to be in bad weather! I love your videos!
The recent old Kingston Alabama tormado killed 7 people all of them in single wide or double wide mobile homes…however that was a mid range EF3 rating with potential EF4 level contextual damage…
I lived in mobile homes for most of my life, including three years in Topeka, Kansas. We lived across the street from the local tornado shelter in Topeka, and my mother always had a bag packed with essentials since my sister was a toddler at the time. When we heard the sirens we'd move fast, especially since we'd moved to Topeka in 1967, the year after the June 8, 1966 tornado that caused over $100 million in damage, and when we moved there many of the traces of the tornado were still there. After that I lived in a mobile home in northern California; my experiences in Topeka had taught me to keep a close eye on the weather. I remember one time looking out the front window at a stormy sky that was practically green, and things were too quiet. So, I kept a close eye on things, and if I'd seen a wall cloud I would have headed for the downtown area of the small town where I lived, since there was nothing in the way of shelter in the trailer park. Nothing happened, but at least I knew enough to keep an eye on the sky.
Wake up babe, Swegle Studios uploaded again
My family has a permanent RV (a park model) in a private membership campground in MI. In 2021, a powerful EF 2 hit less than a quarter mile away. I was supposed to be there with my kids that day. But the non-stop rain and an upgrade to the severe outlook including a tornado risk had me pack up and head home that morning. Not long after we got home, my mom called me up and told me that the south side of the town took a direct hit. And because that area is a radar hole, it was unwarned until it was pretty much on top of town. It chills me to think how many unsuspecting people could have died that day if that tornado took a slightly different path. And if not for my intuition and weather awarness, my kids and I might not be here today.
Love your content man 🌪️ keep going bro ❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thank you 🙌 Will do!
I live in a mobile home park that has a lot of very large old oak trees. No tornado shelter, but we "are" supposed to be getting an outdoor swimming pool in the next year or so. No low-lying ground that is free of trees. No sturdy buildings nearby that are open 24/7. The Van Buren County Michigan Emergency Preparedness Office told me that there are no tornado or severe weather shelters anywhere in my county but they will open shelters after the fact. The police chief in my town says he does not want people out driving around during a tornado event. The last F5 in the entire state of Michigan was between 65-70 years ago, the last really bad F3 in my part of the state was the 1980 Kalamazoo tornado. I think it is because EF3's and above are so infrequent in Michigan that people are not as tornado conscious as they should be. When the northern Michigan town of Gaylord was struck by an EF3 last year, they didn't even have warning sirens in place! Well, those are the ones which get all the headlines, but what a lot of people don't realize is that Michigan is far more likely to experience quick spin-up EF0's and EF1's which may not even register on radar before they are over (that happened near Grand Rapids a few years back) and which may be rain-wrapped making them hard to see. Yes, there is definitely a "it can't happen here" mentality in this state.
When I was standing in the parking lot of my place of employment in Gaylord, looking at the tornado, my thought process was exactly that- we don't have tornadoes here.
Gosh today's a good day...I got a job offer, weather was nice and cool when I went to exercise..and Swegle studios uploads
Glad you had a great day! Weather in my area was terrible (frigid temps)
@@SwegleStudios Oh goodness...I hope it passes by quickly for you man
Interesting topic and I love the smooth jazz outro
I’m loving the tornado content
More to come!
It’s fuckn wild to hear someone talk about your hometowns natural disasters
This is pedantic as all hell, but I feel like "motorhome" refers to those specifically with an engine. Mobile home/trailer are those that require a truck for transportation.
I've always understood the difference as being exactly that. Still wouldn't want to be in either during a tornado.
I used to be so obsessed tornadoes! I used to spend all of my free time when i was like in the single digits of age, i was obsessed
It would be interesting to discuss the weak tornadoes that caused the greatest amount of damage. I thought of this because of the EF1 tornado that struck north Minneapolis and nearby suburbs on May 22, 2011 (the same day as the infamous Joplin tornado). It also killed one person who was in a car when a tree fell on him.
I've really been enjoying the content you've been putting out! I'll be looking forward to new uploads.
As I always say, there's no such thing as a harmless tornado. If it's strong enough to touch down, it's strong enough to take shelter and prepare for.
You didn’t speak about it, but showed photos from the Rye Cove tornado. I did some work in the area in the 90s when I was in college. Had no idea there had been a deadly tornado there. The things you learn on TH-cam…
So interesting archive website. I noticed that my town got hit by an EF-1 tornado back in 2002, when I was 2 years old. What's crazy about that, is that it looks like my home was only about half of a mile away from the path of the tornado. Did not know that. Crazy!
For that statement at 8:43, also keep in mind that tornadoes have updrafts which allow them to do significant damage quickly. If a tornado crosses over a ditch directly above you, the suction could rip you out of the ditch. This almost happened with two survivors of the 2.5 mile wide Hallam F-4. In their account, they said they almost were sucked out of the ditch. This tornado didn't directly hit them, either.
A lot of tornadoes "jump" or bob. This is why they seem to leave one house untouched, and destroy another. When a tornado lifts, there is no suction(unless a vortis reaches down. Happens with larger tornados. Think Smaller suction arms/tentacles reach out from the side) Now, besides lifting, tornados can dig. There is no rule saying that a tornado can only go as low as the top of the ground. Tornados can trench into the ground.
A deep ditch can be the difference between life and death. If the tornado completes suction with ground, then it's going to create a vacuum, which can lift you out of the ditch. However, the biggest threat is debris. Multiple reports of people sadly being killed by electric poles, & cars being slammed into them. A good place to get to, if possible, would be a man hole. Smelly, but alive.
Yeah, I know that. Debris is the biggest threat, sure, but I was saying that it's not ideal nevertheless. It's just as he said in the video there, too. One, you are openly vulnerable to debris falling from above. If it strikes you directly, the updraft will, like you said, create suction much like a vacuum. And yes, I know that sub-vortices can be present with tornadoes, rendering them as multi-vortexes no matter the shape. I also do know some tornadoes can lift and descend again multiple times, creating strips of damage which can be very sporadic and imperfect.
I drove through an F-0 tornado in Michigan on the turnpike about 3 years ago. Absolutely terrifying!! I never saw it until it started coming onto the road. All the trees were whipping around. I don’t know if any fell. But I can say that as I went through the beginning of it. It was just brutal. All the debris swirling above me as I just hoped it didn’t fall on me. As I got about halfway through I felt the SUV start to twist on the road. Honestly. I just gunned it to try to make it through. As I got through the other side I heard a loud BOOM! I thought something hit me. Afterwards. I discovered the loud boom I heard was it actually ripping my weatherstripping off of the vehicle. I saw the clouds. Just wish I would’ve pulled off a bit earlier.
Great work. Instant like.
New Swegle, Alferia, Weatherbox, and Carly Anna videos all in one week. Nice.
Spent the first few years of my life growing up in a mobile home before my dad went back into the Air Force and we have a saying in our family: God hates mobile homes. We always had a plan to get out if a bad storm was coming and head down the road to my then grandmothers house and her basement, so many of our neighbors would just stay and gawk at the storm and never realized what danger they were in.
VERY very good advice about leaving mobile homes in tornadoes. The last local tornado fatality here occurred when a mobile home overturned and crushed the man who was in it. It was barely an EF-2 at that point. Trees falling on mobile homes are just as dangerous; there isn't any structural strength in mobile homes, campers, or RV's but there is a lot of surface area for wind to act against. A lot of the 'weak' tornado deaths and injuries come from falling trees even in well-built homes' so keep that in consideration when you're choosing a safe spot to ride out a storm in your home. Even EF-0 winds are enough to launch deadly debris so take every tornado seriously.
I'd love to see you talk more about tornados outside the Midwest sometime.
For some reason i thought ur videos would be boring but u ended up being my fav youtuber account
I have so many nightmares about tornadoes, and I’m an adult… I think my brain is telling me I should stop watching these videos…
I used to have them as a child, I believe it's what attracted me to storm observing.
I literally had one like 2 weeks ago, I was in my basement watching a tornado slowly approach me through one of those small upper basement windows... I woke up right before it hit.
@@SwegleStudios Good to know I’m not alone then, haha! I guess the fear, however small and subconscious, is part of what makes tornadoes so fascinating. For me personally, I usually see pitch-black clouds and many tornadoes on the horizon approaching my house. Ever since I saw that super up-close video by BasehuntersChasing of the Dalton MN EF4 where it just sits in a field and has that unbelievably fast-moving vortex of maybe 50cm in diameter, I’ve had a few absurd nightmares where a tornado will just rip me apart. Wild stuff, but funnily enough those dreams are never very scary to me unlike the ones with the dark clouds approaching. Looking at that (Dalton EF4) video, there is no doubt in my mind that such power could destroy almost anything… Scary, but absolutely fascinating!
Very solid vid bro. I’m liking this recent content! The transitions are beautiful too 😍
lol ok koner. When are you hopping back on the realm?
@@SwegleStudios all day, everyday
Will you be doing severe weather predictions and your thoughts on the outlook for the 2023 season?
Unfortunately Im not super qualified for weather forecasting :/ (more of a history guy) However Im sure Ryan Hall Y'all will have some videos on that topic!
@@SwegleStudios it’s okay! I was just curious what your thoughts were. I love yours and Ryan’s videos too!
love the weatherscan music as a outro it works so well
I live in Murray County, Ga, and in 2020, not long after the Covee started, an F2 tornado that was briefly an F3 hit during the night. It missed my house by 1/2 a mile. Most of Murray County is either farmland or sparsely populated woodlands. Unfortunately, this tornado hit a mobile home park head on and killed 8 people. We live in a house with a basement, and our neighbors are family that lives in mobile home. We leave our basement unlocked during bad storms, and I will text my neighbors if possible tornadoes are close by.
The picture at 4:15 of Rye Cove School (not Roy Cove) is actually my old highschool's rival. I remember hearing about this storm a few years ago. This area is mostly thought of being safe from Tornados due to our location in the Appalachian Mountains. It's crazy to see pictures from my area online and come to find out this Tornado was the deadliest in Virginia history.
While I was watching this, they tested the tornado sirens
Great stuff! Thank you and good work 👍
So can category 2 or 3 hurricanes toss cars around as well? They have roughly the same wind speeds as a F1 tornado. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a video of a Hurricane tossing a car around like that clip you showed of a tornado. Most videos or hurricanes just show vehicles pushed around. Maybe the wind profile makes a significant difference rather than just the speed?
sorry for being late, but tornadoes push air under the vehicle and suck it up into the sky, thats why tornado interceptors have skirts
I appreciate you videos. I'm keeping an eye on the weather tonight (Near Birmingham AL 2/16//23)
This is probably really stupid but it never dawned on me an EF1 could be deadlier than an EF2. I just assumed the bigger the deadlier. Sheesh lol 🤦🏻♀️
That's usually the case. Just depends on the situation!
I had like an F1 or Two tornado and. It was on February 27th this year. Uhh I still remember what it looks like. It was a surprising wider than a F1 but I was at jazz and this alert came on on a Tuesday !
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Be careful when taking shelter in outdoor ditches and low spots. Most tornadoes take place during severe thunderstorms which are typically high precipitation events. Low areas can flood nearly instantly. It’s better, if at all possible, to find a nearby permanent structure and get to the lowest interior room (no windows). Cover your head with something thick and soft, such as a pillow or mattress. Even a football, hockey or bike helmet might help you survive.
U right but for some reason I'll take my chances in low land area because I never heard of a flood occurring doing a tornado
9 children is crazy, the engineers that made that wall didn’t account for strong winds apparently
Also the fact that it occurred in NY State; tornadoes are, in general, very rare in the North-Eastern part of the USA. Still very sad (all of the deaths in these stories).
@ns 3421 Really? I don't live in America, but I've always been interested in tornadoes. I was aware that the traditional Tornado Alley was in the central part of the US. The sources I read that stated that the North-Eastern US don't get a lot of tornadoes could be a bit outdated. In the end I guess each state/country is at risk.
Its very tragic.. What's crazy is that it seems everyone (except for the surrounding communities) have seem to have forgotten about it
This is just so crazy. I lived 20 miles away from joplin when the tornado came through, and i was at home playing video games just 5 miles away when the duck boat accident happened. Hearing about stuff is so numb its crazy bit then you hear about something that you lived near or through and it just hits so much harder.
Love your tornado content. Could you do a video of tornadoes just in the state of Wisconsin. I'd find it really interesting as I live there. Keep up the great work 👍
Near my town, an F1 bordering on an F2 hit a small town and swept through the middle of it. High school completely destroyed, one of my friend’s friends’ house’s ground floor became their basement. It was brutal, but to my knowledge, no one died.
Have just stumbled across your channel and am finding it fascinating! I wound-up living in a tornado alley for several years that I didn't know was that way when I moved there - Lexington, KY. Have you ever done a video on Lexington? Hiding in an interior closet with my two dogs, cell phone, supplies - thanks but no thanks! for those memories, Lexington!
This is a super cool video, because you never hear about how damaging these so called weak tornadoes are!
Cleaned out my subscriptions I kept this one for the great content loved the Video!!!
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New subscriber! All your videos are amazing! Great work! I live in MS, tornado alley, and in my 30 years I’ve yet to see a tornado in person! We get tornado warnings constantly though! I’m about 20 minutes from hazelhurst, so I was so intrigued when I watched your video about the bottle top kid! I never knew hazelhurst had a large tornado like that.
Wow so cool finding a video on this. I had this same thought like wondering what the worst weakest tornado was and good was confused and I couldn't find much info on it.
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Finally able to watch this!! Thank goodness for a quick dinner & kids had easy homework tonight.
I remember seeing the aftermath of the May 25, 2011 Sedalia, MO tornado. It occurred three days after Joplin, and nobody died, so it got mostly forgotten. However, seeing all those familiar sights I'd see on my usual road trip to my grandpa's get mangled was something that stuck with me. I remember seeing a gas station with the canopy caved in, as well as the trailer park nearby completely leveled. It makes me glad my hometown hasn't had a tornado since '98.
Great job. Keep doing what you're doing.
3:04 holy shit, that sort of emotional rollercoaster is insane. Could you imagine your child narrowly surviving a devastating tornado, feeling the relief yet sorrow that your child is okay but others passed, then your child is taken from you anyway only two days later? Sickeningly sad.
I'm from Utah and even the wild tornado of 1999 still killed someone even with a tiny scale compared to other tornados of the Midwest so I say all tornados are dangerous. Thank you for making this video it really does show us that no matter the size or scale, all tornados are dangerous
you make some of the BEST content on youtube i can't believe you only have 40k subs
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Very interesting video. Keep it up Swegle
Fun fact i actually live in Fort Wayne Indiana august 2020 was insane the derecho was crazy I can’t believe it actually killed someone me and my mom went outside and we saw tree damage and everything else
Good job as always!! Very interesting !!❤❤❤
There was an ef0 here not too long ago, and they refused to acknowledge the deaths.
I just found your channel and this was really interesting! We have multiple tornadoes a year (but I live in Minnesota and we’re just outside of tornado alley… well, I guess southern Minnesota is sometimes considered part of it) and most of them are these weaker ones.
I never knew that “the tornado on airport road” was a F4. You learn something new everyday 😯-A Huntsville Native
1:09 that tornado was so small I had to rewind like 5 times before I finally saw it before it threw the car
absolutely great video idea
I am dying for an in-depth video on microbursts, and also what causes and the significance of monsoon rain around the world. Please, pick me! Pick me!
A lot of weak deadly Tornadoes occured in Germany in the past too.
The Outbreak of 15th June 1980 was featuring 8 Tornadoes. One F1 moved through a Camping site killing 6 People. Possibly a second F1 killed 2. In 1901 a Tornado of unknown strength (possibly >F1 though) spun around a boat killing 7 near Berlin. In 1913 an Airship crashed in a waterspout near Heligoland killing 13.