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The calm before the storm is on so very true. If you're outside during a tornado warning feel the wind stop, get inside. Having the sirens blasting with a beautiful and windless sky is such an oddity of a feeling that can't be simulated
I vividly remember an extremely strong storm happening in our province. We were listening to the radio and as a kid I snarkily told my parents "All these people on the radio are talking about a severe storm happening, but look the wind stopped and the sky looks so beautiful, it's not even raining." and as soon as I said that my mom grabbed me and took all of us to the small room in the middle of the house. Just a few mins after what I just said an extremely violent storm arrived. Hail the size of marbles, and strong winds that whistled throughout. I could hear the roof creaking as if it was about to be torn off. The aftermath was equally terrifying, our roof was partially lifted, a tree fell down and tore the electric wires going to our house and landed on our neighbor's car. I thought it was the beginning of the end of the world.
I was on a road trip with my grandma and brother when I was around 11 years old. We were driving to a camp ground high in the mountain on these long serpentine roads. The sky went from sunny to cloudy in less then 15 minutes. As we drove higher into the mountain everything slowly became more and more foggy and it had began to rain lightly. It was strange because it was still to hot to turn off the air conditioner. We could only see about a meter in front of the car so my grandma decided to pull over to the shoulder of the road.The wind began to pick up and some gusts were so strong it made the car skid sideways. Dust and small rocks were being kicked up with such force it sounded like bullets hitting the car. It was so loud we couldn't hear each other almost yelling at each other. Not even 5 minutes later a sudden and absolute silence fell around us. My ears popped and it felt like the whole car had become statically charges our hair stood up like we were underwater. You could see a massive almost black spiral forming above us. The cloud continued to reach twords the mountain next to us we watched on quietly. The moment the tip of clouds seemed to touch the side of the mountain the clouds violently ripped apart exposing chunks of the sky underneath. It continued to rain lightly as we waited for the fog to subside a bit then we turned around and headed back home. All this happens over the time of maybe 40 minutes. On the drive home my grandma told us about tornadoes and what had just happened. It was the most alien type of weather I had ever seen.
> banning people from acknowledging that tornadoes exist and talk about them and study them > being surprised they know nothing about tornadoes Government at its finest.
I vaguely remember as a kid being woken up in the middle of the night to run to the basement since a warning was issued. Now we live in Arizona. Can't get tornadoes when everything is just hot all the time.
I've not been in a tornado myself but my boyfriend and his family were in one in their van! They said it sounded like a freight train and that it picked up the van a few inches and dropped it! Luckily nobody was hurt!
I’m from California to preface this. When I was really young we did have a tornado warning in my area and I’ll always remember it. The sky was a grey-green and really cloudy and dark even though it was like 4 pm. My mom said that she saw the formation of a funnel cloud while she was driving home too. When we all got home we cleared the hallway and me and my sibling just sat there and played video games and ate tacos while waiting for something to happen. Thankfully there was no tornado but it was still really eerie
My mother was in school in murphysboro Ill. at the time she was buried under a brick staircase the only thing that saved her was a little boy landed on top of her, the boy died that day along with many other children her name was, Elnora. she was 6 years old at the time, and gave birth to 5 of us boys, she lived to be 88 years old, she died on 12/19/06. May her and my Father rest in peace.
Bit of advice my aunt gave me: put on shoes if you have a second before you take cover. That way your feet are protected when or if you have to climb out or through debris
In 2005 we had a really bad Tornado in Southern Indiana that destroyed a good chunk of Newburgh Indiana and some of Evansville Indiana. I was fortunate that it skipped over my house, but it shredded a good portion of my neighborhood. If the sky ever turns greenish at night, or it looks like nightime when the sun should be out, get to safety. Hasn't been as big of an issue recently, but still.
I had a tornado happen near my town in Manitoba Canada, Teulon MB. Happened about a month ago it was quite small an EF0. Cute little guy, but a bad boy
Ahhhh yes Ive seen this-I knew we were in trouble (im from rural Oklahoma)....it was so freaky, my brother and his wife survived a flattening back in the early 00's.
@@SelfProclaimedEmperor Siberia definitely gets them. Violent ones, too. And there have absolutely been thunderstorms in the Sahara, including documented hailstorms, so there have likely been small tornadoes too.
They are scary scary things to behold we had that happen one time when me and my grandma were driving home we saw one form over in the field through hail we parked in someone's driveway we got lucky because we had unbeknotes to ourselves parked between two pine trees huge tall pine trees it did not last long and it was not strong
When I was a little girl we had a small tornado come through Idaho. We were surrounded by mint fields and I was out playing in the fields. There was a crazy loud sound. I just heard my mom yelling at me to run for the ditch. I hunkered down in the irrigation ditch. It was probably only a minute but it seemed like forever. Afterwards there was a path through the mint field about 18 inches wide. It was crazy! The mint looked as if someone had cut it with scissors.
Growing up in the Midwest, you learn quickly to keep your eye on the sky. When the clouds look yellow-green, you get to safety and be cautious; when it's as dark as midnight in the middle of the day, it's dangerous.
Also from the Midwest and yeah, anytime i see it start getting dark in the middle of the day I go find someplace safe. Especially after the super outbreak in 2011(I’m from Missouri; what happened to Joplin especially started to make more people take the sirens seriously)
From Alabama and it’s the same. I know that I can tell when a bad storm is going to be in the area more often than the weather forecasters for my area just by looking up and watching the clouds and the feeling the air gets.
I live in eastern New England so tornadoes are rare but I remember looking out the window at work once to a very eery yellow-green sky and worrying about tornado warnings (confirmed by coworker from the midwest being put off by the clouds)
@@prestonestes1388 I have heard that your area usually gets them in the middle of the night. That sounds really scary, not only would they be hard to see but every one would be in bed.
I've seen green clouds many times and it is terrifying. I've survived a tornado and I remember the sky's distinct green color. To this day, I shutter when the sky looks even slightly green. The weather radio going of sends me into panic attacks. Tornadoes are never a joke. Please...always take those warnings seriously
As a avid tornado spotting fan (if you can't tell already by the name and pic), I have acquired alot of knowledge about tornadoes. A few things I have learned that you never said include the sound of a tornado can sound similar to a freight train, severe weather can happen anywhere, at any time, at any point in years year, and a tornado is not just the Funnel itself. Winds that surround the tornado can be just as dangerous as the tornado and debris surrounding it. There is a term called the "ghost train" which feeds into a tornado from the rear with winds comparable to the tornado.
The tornado that went through my hometown about 4 blocks from me sounded like a chainsaw. It was pouring rain, the wind was blowing hard, it was 9 pm, and I was wondering why someone would be out in that weather. The sheriff and his wife were returning home from the county fair and the car got picked up and dropped upside down in Little River. They got out okay.
Another funny thing is people think that the only thing a tornado looks like is the cloud of mist it forms so people will think that the tornado is over because the mist went away
as someone who has lived in tornado alley for vast majority of my life (and survived a double tornado event) I believe if you are outside, you aren't supposed to take shelter under an overpass? They specifically say to NOT take shelter under overpasses / similar structures; because they are more dangerous than being out in the open. that's what we were always taught. every year the schools would teach us weather safety once a year - we usually found it very boring because we already knew all the drills and such, but now that I'm older i know why it's important and mandatory to have those lessons.
That's because the overpass only protects from weak tornadoes. The strong ones can not only destroy overpasses, but can outright rip the air out of your lungs if the tornado has high enough wind speed, which, as you can guess, can prove fatal
I instantly burst into tears when he mentioned the little boy finding his sisters body at the school, on top of everything else it’s just so devastating for a little kid to pull a loved ones body out of rubble.
A tornado happened in florida quite recently. I recall the sky was redish-orange for hours before the sky turned black, which gave serveral people (including myself) a terrible feeling...
Tornadoes are absolutely terrifying to me. I've had several close calls while living in Kentucky. December 10th, 2021. I had been watching on the news for most of the day, and when the tornado actually formed I watched as it ripped through states in a straight line toward my town. I lived in Bullitt county, and if you look up maps of the path of the tornado, it actually broke up one county over. It destroyed everything in it's path for hours and through several states, and just a couple miles away, it simply....disappeared. I've never felt more relief in my life. Hiding in the basement of my house, late at night, watching the news on my phone because my power was out, wind screaming. And then the weather man said it was reforming over Mount Washington. Over my town. I could see the green sky in the lightning flashes. The tornado touched down again in the next county over and continued on for a short time longer, before breaking up for good.
I live in Lexington and have family in Paducah. I was thinking about this tornado the whole video! The cluster nearly set multiple tornado records. It was predominantly two tornados that traveled over 250 miles. It is the largest/longest tornado cluster in history for the month of December.
My whole extended family lives in Kentucky and I remember calling my cousin to make sure everyone was okay after. Thankfully they were, but that was a rough one.
@@MattThundercat I lived in Lexington in 99-01 and we had one little tornado there. I was actually swimming in my apartment's indoor pool, and the front desk lady came and told me to go home, there was a tornado warning. Ran back to my apartment as it was really picking up. Sky got that weird bright/dark green (I know that sounds weird, but if you've seen it, you know) but I made it inside. It was when the wind suddenly just stopped that I got really scared.
Back in the day, they used to tell people to open windows because they thought the low pressure caused houses to explode. Ted Fujita, after whom the F scale and later EF scale are named, had aerial observers get out immediately following a powerful, destructive tornado, before people could clean up all the rubble. He observed that houses that people thought had exploded had actually been flattened, as if by a powerful downdraft, a phenomenon that’s been observed around tornadoes. He also saw patterns in the rubble that confirmed the existence of sub-vortices in tornadoes, which can dance around each other and leave gaps where one house is spared while the neighbors’ are destroyed.
I worked at a TV station. I remember one day we activated a tornado watch and had the meteorologist come on through the duration and urge people to seek shelter, be prepared, etc. People actually called to complain about how it cut off the college football game we were showing! Thankfully nothing happened other than a bad thunderstorm, but it was shocking how callous and flippant about it.
Sounds like what happened with my local station, WNEP, just a few months back. We've been having some really nasty weather in Central PA the past few years (and more tornado watches, warnings, and touchdowns than I can really wrap my head around), and I think it was last year? we had a warning in place that cut into a broadcast, and over the next week or so all these people kept calling into the station complaining about the Weather Report cutting into their game. Meanwhile, my mum and I were watching as the projected tornado crept closer and closer to our little village.
Growing up in Missouri, you really get an instinct for tornado weather. As soon at it turns yellow or green outside and the weather gets still, you get a gut feeling to seek shelter (if you haven’t already). I remember seeing a tornado go through the hill in my backyard on my farm, and a second tornado formed right next to it. It was so loud and sounded like a train running over the house. Thankfully we were okay, but there were a few casualties (not including several of our cattle). It really is a life changing experience.
Also I can’t even count the amount of times we had to line up against the walls in the hallways at school on our hands and knees to wait for a tornado to pass😅
I lived in Pennsylvania and we’d see green clouds during thunderstorms or everything turned a pretty yellow color during storms. The yellow happened every spring, but the green clouds was rarer but it meant bad storm. Fortunately in Pennsylvania it didn’t mean tornado would happen. We got rare tornados, usually small. I miss that now that I live in California lol.
You can't always predict them sometimes, they can just appear out of no where, without rain or strong winds. I once was playing outside and then a fluke gust of wind came out, hitting my back. Within 2 minutes I saw a funnel cloud trying to touch down across a field in the distance behind my house. It was crazy one side of the sky was sunny and the other was dark and ominous. I think I saw a rainbow appear as it was happening on the sunny side. -Someone who used to live in Central Kansas
you are definitely right about that, there have been more than a few occasions when I would see random bouts of wind kicking up from the ground as it goes up it starts to spiral a bit before its disrupted by other winds since they are usually unstable and dissipate easily. I usually see these out near fields along dirt roads which make it easy to see since it picks up the dust from the road. (from Midwestern Kansas)
Yeah, I am out by the Pacific Ocean, in the Pacific Northwest, and every tornado I've seen so far (including two water spouts) had been in relatively calm weather. And we do get crazy high wind storms (over 60-70mph gusts), but it's always just too cold for them to form. Summer is when they usually occur around here. However with the climate changing and moving around it does seem like they're getting more & more common. Tsunami sirens are creepy enough already.
Tornadoes are and have always been my number one most feared weather condition. I grew up in coastal florida so I lived through plenty of hurricanes, but those are much less scary to me because they are more predictable. It’s the way you don’t know what a tornado is going to to that scares me the most.
Greetings, fellow lilapsophobe. I took up storm chasing to treat my phobia. I don't recommend it for everyone, especially if you've survived a particularly violent tornado. For me, it was a matter of deciding that I owe it to my neighbor to protect them from that which I fear the most, and that gives me the courage to face the storm.
here in the Midwest tornadoes can be predicted fairly easily since tornado producing supercells are commonly lp or classic where you could see the funnels, scary thing about tornadoes in Florida is that many supercells are rain wrapped, and sometimes you can’t really be sure if there is a tornado in it
Which is funny to me because I'm from the Midwest and the opposite. A tornado? Get low to the ground or better, underground. A hurricane? Go high to avoid the flooding or go low to avoid the wind? There is no happy medium to those options.
@@users4007 Florida doesn't really get supercells. More like squall lines, but yes, the tornadoes would be rain wrapped. I think I saw one once, but I couldn't tell because it was just grey on grey on grey. Tornadoes are also common during hurricanes.
@@YourAverageSpeedrunnerdon't run the other way, you cannot outrun a tornado even in a car. What you need to do is go sideways, perpendicular from the tornado to get out of its path
@@SelfProclaimedEmperor that really depends what category of tornado it is though, if its EF 0, then you should be able to run away if its far enough, if its EF 6, then that's different
I have never seen a tornado in person but experienced it's effects. I was about 10 when a tornado blew through town. We were shopping at a shoe store and I was looking out the window. I saw what seemed to be a scary rotating cloud, and I turned to my mom and said there was a scary cloud outside. She brushed it off until the power suddenly went out and things started going crazy outside. I remember seeing the front of cars jumping up and down about a foot of the ground. My mom ran outside to grab my siblings that were still in the car and ran back inside. We took shelter in the back of the store and waited for the storm to pass. I was so scared, I remember a woman who gave us some mnms to help calm us. When the storm passed I remember seeing so much debris and tree branches and split trees. It wasnt a super violent tornado and it didn't completely destroy buildings, but I can imagine being in a violent one has to be extremely terrifying.
“Mother, I believe that an altered form of the Spanish word tronada, which means "thunderstorm", known as a tornado, is currently looming over, as a funnel cloud is developing.” “Aw sweetie, I do not believe you.”
My cousin had his home destroyed by the Norm, Oklahoma tornado. His home and all of his property was destroyed. But his family, including his 2 dogs were unhurt. One dog ran off but he survived the tornado and was later found on the internet. Some kind family took the dog in until my cousin could retrieve him. His 2 week old baby was the youngest survivor in that storm.
During hurricane Laura, a tornado came close to hitting my house. It knocked a tree onto my uncles house next door. No one was hurt but it was scary because we had no warning. The radars had been knocked out by the hurricane so everyone was in the dark.
Living in the middle-ish of Colorado, I've seen a number of potential and actual tornadoes. The closest I've been was on passing a little less than a mile from the ice arena my mom worked at. Something I never expected at the time was that the rapid changes in atmospheric pressure can actually cause things like headaches and nosebleeds as, while watching it pass from _outside_ (which is a terrible idea and I'm still kinda shocked the adults there at the time suggested it once they knew it would miss) I got a nosebleed. The other thing about them that's really hard to put into words is the _feeling_ in the air. I assume it's partly or mostly due to everything involved in making a tornado but it feels... off. Almost like the earth is bracing itself for what's about to happen. It's really strange but it's always there as far as I can tell.
I’ve experienced the same feeling, it was sunset and we noticed the sky was a really weird color, there wasn’t even a breath of wind outside. Everything was dead quiet and felt very eerie. It was just a huge sense of dread, even though nothing had happened yet.
This sounds like you felt the Barometric pressure drop. Some people are more sensitive to this than others. Almost like before a storm you can sense the world around you bracing for something to come as you said.
@@katiekyle7545 Seconded. I get migraines when the pressure change is as little as 0.02inHg and can tell when even just a mild temperature front is moving through. It seems like most people aren't that sensitive so I can't even imagine how unsettling it is to suddenly feel the barometric pressure shift when you likely haven't had a reason to notice it before. And the fear from knowing what that feeling means- if the only time I'd felt it was right before a tornado, I know it'd fill me with dread anytime it happened
My dad was in a glass building during a tornado so he drove home straight into the path of tornado. We were yelling at him because it’s dangerous but he made it home safely, thankfully.
@@mattsodano6264 we don't live in a glass building. He was meeting someone at a restaurant that was had like 3 walls of glass (I am assuming) and he drove back home to not be in that situation.
Luckily, as someone living in Nebraska, we're taught most these things in school. Also, at least my parents always made sure we all got downstairs with a blanket covering all of us, even the pets, if the sirens ever go off.
I'm Springfield MA, we had an EF3 tornado. Long story short, I recognized the funnel cloud and knew it was a tornado as it picked up debris. I yelled for everyone around me to run inside the office building. They didn't believe me until they saw the towering tornado coming directly where we were all standing.
@@davidnievesjr.9478 I live in MA too and remember that storm. We had tornado warnings at work, rushed to protect the patients as best we could, and watched that supercell go right over us on the radar on the weather
Excellent video, love the visual style of it! There's two small things I wanted to point out: - The rotation of storms got switched up! Most of the supercell storms and tornadoes rotates counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. However, in some rare circumstances, tornadoes can rotate in the opposite way and these are called anti-cyclonic tornadoes. - Just a funny nitpick, but the car at 14:26 looks a bit recent for the 1920's... :P But again, thats a very well made video, worth a subscribe for sure!
No Tornados here in the Netherlands for as far as I know. Though on January 25th 1990 we had a big storm. The highest wind speed measured that day was 163km/h. It reached 11 on the Beaufort scale.
My town recently has 2 tornadoes these past few months, and in one case, half of us didn't even get a notification, much less hear a siren. Luckily, the tornado wasn't strong at all, and nobody was hurt, but it still scares me that these things can happen without any time to react.
The fact that the teacher asked the boys to shut the windows and the girls to stay seated sounds sexist and old fashioned. Well this was a long time ago so makes sence.
My dad tells a wild story about living through the recent suspected F5 that wiped out Joplin, MO. His advice- NOAA weather radio is a must and, if you get the watch, then be prepared to have shoes on. If you get the warning- put on your shoes to shelter. He said walking around shoeless post tornado was horrible.
I live in Tornado Alley and while one has never come close to the house, I have always felt uneasy when the sky turns yellow, even as a child. Glad to know my fears aren't entirely unfounded. I'm also surprised I didn't know a lot of the information in this video as tornados are something I'm interested in.
20:10 This is wrong. A culvert or freeway overpass is worse than being in the open. The wind can increase greatly in places where it is restricted, like under bridges.
Not only are we better informed with advanced warning systems today, but we also have more reliable buildings and architecture to protect us. And more than anything, I’m fairly certain that, in part, due to events such as this one, the average person is so much more informed on what steps to take in order to reach safety during serious storms and wind events.
Reliable buildings aren’t required to be built. They’re grandfathered in. Hurricane straps would prevent it, and Canada requires three toe-nails to be used in houses, but they’re not required in America.
I survived the big one in Birmingham, Alabama in...2012, I think it was. My immediate family (myself, husband, brother, and his wife) took shelter in their basement. As my brother was a firefighter/paramedic at the time, he was, of course, called in to work. We didn't see too much destruction, as those of us remaining stayed in the basement. I heard the "train" noise that tornadoes can cause, and I've never forgotten it. I'm just glad all of my family made it out of that storm unharmed.
The footage at 16:10 was from a well documented and deadly tornado in 1991. If you would like to see more, search Savage Skies: Riders on the Storm. The parent storm even dropped another funnel that chased drivers down a major turnpike at around 70 mph, with stunning footage shot by someone hiding with a group of others under an overpass as the tornado swept by (something that experts actually do not recommend.)
From what I can gather, experts don't recommend overpasses because if they have a flat bottom, there's nothing stopping you from being ripped out. However, if you have one of those underpasses with the I-beam like undersides, you might have better luck if you can get between them.
seen the green, was actually caught outside in a car during a tornado... that was pretty freaky. About a month ago (as of 9/16/22) one passed within a half mile of my home.
I know we discussed the midwest. Just remember that tornadoes can happen anywhere in the USA. I've survived a few close calls on the Atlantic coast in varying lattitudes.
I've experienced tornadoes, but never touchdowns. They were either at school or at home. I live near Dixie Alley I believe. I live in Tennessee: The state not only known for the singers but also known for tornadoes through the night. 😲🙀😣😥
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In kindergarten, this took place in Colorado, there was mutiple tornadoes and it was hailing, we were on a bus home from school and I remember there was a tornado heading to our direction and everyone was laughing because it sounded like a screaming goat
in my country the closest thing i experienced to a tornado was a strong wind storm a couple of times but they were way more harmless and only really bent over trees
I am in MN, I grew up knowing that when the sky turns green- the big one is close. My ex was from LA & didn’t believe it was real- until he came up to MN & saw it for himself. He was very scared, but we didn’t get a touch down. I love to be the storm lookout. I want to watch the storm for as long as I can. I have only seen 2 tornados that went over our house. I grew up with a great respect for storms, but I will be the storm watcher forever.
18:39 I’ve heard the whistling sound it’s pretty scary. I woke up in the middle of the night I think at 2am. I was in my college dormitory room. Not long after I got a phone tornado warning. A few minutes later I heard Whistling it didn’t affect my college campus in South East Louisiana luckily but it was scary hearing it I have a hard time when any loud or unexpected noises.
Here in Louisiana we have gotten a lot of crazy hurricanes. Another thing I do remember well is when I was traveling with with my family. We went hiking in the Grand Canyon we stayed overnight in a cabin. On our way back up a monsoon formed suddenly. My mom and I couldn’t reach shelter in time so we stopped under a small wall ledge. Crazy thunderstorms, and strong wind. I was so cold afterwards due to not wearing proper clothes.
I have family that lived in Joplin Missouri during the 2011 tornado. I went down later and helped pass out relief essentials and help people by giving them someone to talk to about what had happened. Lots of tragic stories lots of "no f way" stories. One person got their foot stuck on the staircase going to the basement and described the whole house lifting around them.
I grew up in a part of Ohio that seemed to get more tornadoes than any other part of the state, it wasn't uncommon to hear the sirens go off and immediately seek shelter, even if it was bright and sunny out with no previous warnings from the weather forecast. Didn't matter if you were in a store, a library, an office building, gas station, whatever - you heard the sirens, you took cover, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. I also remember seeing those yellow clouds (the green was rarer) as a kid and thinking, "That means trouble," before learning years later that it's a classic sign of possible tornadoes. Even now, living elsewhere and never experiencing a tornado that touched down, I still have fear of having to deal with one some day.
I grew up in Florida. There were constantly severe weather warnings and we were constantly on tornado watch in the summer. Only thing that was ever an issue were the hurricanes
In south carolina you get at least one severe thunderstorm each in the summer but most of the time one or two a month and at least one tornado watch per year
Reminds me of the time the sky was green and yellow around 6 o'clock PM a huge storm came that night, kind of like a tiny hurricane! I was pretty scared.
Having grown up in Alabama, we all learned pretty quickly that an unusually warm day in Spring = tornadoes. A lot of times the weather preceding a tornado is absolutely beautiful before it devolves into storms. It's hard for me to enjoy nice weather even in places where tornadoes are relatively rare, because it's so ingrained in me to fear the calm before a storm.
Had one come within a mile of our old house in 2018. That area of Georgia is known to be tornado alley, as they come straight down the interstate from Alabama. We had multiple warnings the year we lived there, and I'm glad to be in an area that's much less affected now. It was terrifying. All my wife and I could do was huddle up in the bathtub and watch the shadows of debris from all the lightning coming through the window. The lights went out about halfway through. It took about 10-15 minutes for it to pass, but it seemed like we laid there for an hour. The next town over (literally right up the road) had a clear path where it came through, and there were trees and powerlines down all over the place, as well as a gas station that was pretty much completely demolished. There was a giant tree right outside the window of the bathroom, but fortunately the only limb that fell off of it missed the house by a couple feet. It was the worst storm I've ever weathered. There was a big oak tree we passed every day on our way to town that was struck by lighting and had exploded. Luckily, we could get to somewhere in town and wait for the power to come back on. Since then, I've never been the same when there's a big storm passing through.
Actually, the southeastern states are known as Dixie Alley; separate from Tornado Alley due to differing conditions favoring storm formation, but still active enough to warrant a nickname by meteorologists. The Carolinas and tidewater Virginia aren't considered part of this region, but I refer to them as Tornado Beach due to the high tornado activity in the region relative to the rest of the eastern seaboard--especially during landfalling hurricanes.
in the american midwest, i think pretty much everybody gets it drilled into their heads as young kids that if you see green skies, you get to the basement NOW. but even knowing that, it's not uncommon for adults to watch the storms get worse and worse from the porch before something finally spooks them into finding shelter. you get so used to severe weather that most of the time, you're more worried about having to clear downed trees and replace food that spoiled in the inevitable power outages than you are about your own physical safety. but everybody knows the best place to seek shelter in the event of severe weather, and public buildings have signs posted that denote official shelter areas. individual people might be blase about storms, but society in general takes them seriously here.
I have learnt how to detect storms (I feel bad when weather changes also I learnt how to spot early signs of a storm) and can detect a storm even up to an hour before it starts. It helped me a couple of times especially on holiday. But when I tell people that the storm is comming they never believe me.
Not related to storms or anything but every once in a while when i sleep I dream that something will happen And then that thing happens in real life. And when it does I feel weird like I've already seen this happen before so in a way it's kinda like I can see into the future or something. It happens to plenty of other people as well but it's still really cool
Indeed. I get extremely itchy a couple hours before a storm, when the sky is still grey or partially clouded. I guess this happens due to electromagnetic changes in the air, and my electrophobia goes through the roof. My self control goes bonkers but can't help myself, neither the lightning rod behind my house makes me feel safe (actually saved our home appliances many times). Unless someone has a direct experience, they will ll never understand. I got an electric shock as a child and I'm absolutely terrified by electricity in all its forms.
What I think is horrible is that it takes a military base to getting torn up for the powers that be to decide that it might be important to find a way to predict tornadoes.
When I was a kid my dad, younger brother, and I were going to a small fair in Indiana. When we were pulling in I saw the clouds swirling above the field directly next to the fair. There were no other obvious warning signs. My dad disregarded me saying that the clouds do look like they are swirling. We went into the fair and waited in line at a lemonade stand. I remember the wait was long and right when it was our turn or order, the guy running the stand slammed the shutter door right in front of us. Next thing I knew everyone was running. My brother was sitting on my dad's shoulders and he was gripping me by the hand. I remember a tree fell over RIGHT in front of us as we were running to our truck and we jumped over it. this was only like 10~ years ago and nobody seemed to see it coming except for me. But I didn't warn anyone else because my dad made me believe it was fine. My brother who was a year and a half younger than me did not fully understand what a tornado was. and was really upset that he could not get lemonade.
I just saw a documentary on this . It was mind blowing! Really awful ! I lived in that area only a few years ago, and they still talk about it . People who weren't even born then talked of it . It was truly devastating.
Man, imagine seeing green clouds form above and a giant tornado appearing above your school... Then dying to become part of the 69 deaths that died that day...
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The calm before the storm is on so very true. If you're outside during a tornado warning feel the wind stop, get inside. Having the sirens blasting with a beautiful and windless sky is such an oddity of a feeling that can't be simulated
I vividly remember an extremely strong storm happening in our province. We were listening to the radio and as a kid I snarkily told my parents "All these people on the radio are talking about a severe storm happening, but look the wind stopped and the sky looks so beautiful, it's not even raining." and as soon as I said that my mom grabbed me and took all of us to the small room in the middle of the house. Just a few mins after what I just said an extremely violent storm arrived. Hail the size of marbles, and strong winds that whistled throughout. I could hear the roof creaking as if it was about to be torn off.
The aftermath was equally terrifying, our roof was partially lifted, a tree fell down and tore the electric wires going to our house and landed on our neighbor's car. I thought it was the beginning of the end of the world.
I mean, you could blast the sirens on a beautiful windless day and simulate the exact feeling
@@MrMitchbow yeah but there's no tornado warning and the likelyness of that to happen is slim unless it's a Wednesday
@@mentalchild360 it is Wednesday my dudes. *SIRENS*
@@MrMitchbow a true man of culture for that reference
I was on a road trip with my grandma and brother when I was around 11 years old. We were driving to a camp ground high in the mountain on these long serpentine roads. The sky went from sunny to cloudy in less then 15 minutes. As we drove higher into the mountain everything slowly became more and more foggy and it had began to rain lightly. It was strange because it was still to hot to turn off the air conditioner. We could only see about a meter in front of the car so my grandma decided to pull over to the shoulder of the road.The wind began to pick up and some gusts were so strong it made the car skid sideways. Dust and small rocks were being kicked up with such force it sounded like bullets hitting the car. It was so loud we couldn't hear each other almost yelling at each other. Not even 5 minutes later a sudden and absolute silence fell around us. My ears popped and it felt like the whole car had become statically charges our hair stood up like we were underwater. You could see a massive almost black spiral forming above us. The cloud continued to reach twords the mountain next to us we watched on quietly. The moment the tip of clouds seemed to touch the side of the mountain the clouds violently ripped apart exposing chunks of the sky underneath. It continued to rain lightly as we waited for the fog to subside a bit then we turned around and headed back home. All this happens over the time of maybe 40 minutes. On the drive home my grandma told us about tornadoes and what had just happened. It was the most alien type of weather I had ever seen.
TLDR
@@__________________________.... not too long for me, you should finish school before reading short sentences.
Wait, did the tornado form around your car? That sounds so scary 😭
God!
What an excellently told story! I felt like I was reading a bestt-selling novel. 😊 Glad you were okay.
> banning people from acknowledging that tornadoes exist and talk about them and study them
> being surprised they know nothing about tornadoes
Government at its finest.
Sounds a bit like the Ministry of Magic :)
@@alb9022 Tbh the people back then might as well believe it was magic since they couldn't figure how they worked 😂
@@bare_bear_hands haha that's kind of a good point lol
What government banned tornado education?
@@tomatosoupwoo the US one, it was in the video
I vaguely remember as a kid being woken up in the middle of the night to run to the basement since a warning was issued. Now we live in Arizona. Can't get tornadoes when everything is just hot all the time.
I've not been in a tornado myself but my boyfriend and his family were in one in their van! They said it sounded like a freight train and that it picked up the van a few inches and dropped it! Luckily nobody was hurt!
I’m from California to preface this. When I was really young we did have a tornado warning in my area and I’ll always remember it. The sky was a grey-green and really cloudy and dark even though it was like 4 pm. My mom said that she saw the formation of a funnel cloud while she was driving home too. When we all got home we cleared the hallway and me and my sibling just sat there and played video games and ate tacos while waiting for something to happen. Thankfully there was no tornado but it was still really eerie
My mother was in school in murphysboro Ill. at the time she was buried under a brick staircase the only thing that saved her was a little boy landed on top of her, the boy died that day along with many other children her name was, Elnora. she was 6 years old at the time, and gave birth to 5 of us boys, she lived to be 88 years old, she died on 12/19/06. May her and my Father rest in peace.
Bit of advice my aunt gave me: put on shoes if you have a second before you take cover. That way your feet are protected when or if you have to climb out or through debris
In 2005 we had a really bad Tornado in Southern Indiana that destroyed a good chunk of Newburgh Indiana and some of Evansville Indiana. I was fortunate that it skipped over my house, but it shredded a good portion of my neighborhood. If the sky ever turns greenish at night, or it looks like nightime when the sun should be out, get to safety.
Hasn't been as big of an issue recently, but still.
I had a tornado happen near my town in Manitoba Canada, Teulon MB. Happened about a month ago it was quite small an EF0. Cute little guy, but a bad boy
Just a minor error, most tornadoes in the northern hemisphere rotate counter clockwise, and vice versa for the southern hemisphere
Green clouds. Means. Hail. ☠️ we had a Hail storm 1995. Fort Worth. Texas. Where I lived.😱
So 17 million then is 2 billion today...
That just shows how much an impact inflation did.
Ahhhh yes Ive seen this-I knew we were in trouble (im from rural Oklahoma)....it was so freaky, my brother and his wife survived a flattening back in the early 00's.
I’m lucky I live in an area without tornadoes lol
And how are you finding spring in Antarctica this year? Particularly after Hunga Tonga.
@@AtarahDerekplaces like the Sahara and Japan almost never get them, siberia too
@@SelfProclaimedEmperor "almost never" and "never" are very different.
@@AtarahDerek im pretty sure siberia never gets them at all, same with Sahara
@@SelfProclaimedEmperor Siberia definitely gets them. Violent ones, too. And there have absolutely been thunderstorms in the Sahara, including documented hailstorms, so there have likely been small tornadoes too.
They are scary scary things to behold we had that happen one time when me and my grandma were driving home we saw one form over in the field through hail we parked in someone's driveway we got lucky because we had unbeknotes to ourselves parked between two pine trees huge tall pine trees it did not last long and it was not strong
Never seen a tornado in my life even though I live in Kansas
Seen green skies a bunch of times here in Iowa 🙃
This happened to me in my parents when we were kids Is the whole sky went green It was the biggest storm ever But probably was about ten years ago
Happened in thunder day ontario keka becka area
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Thanks government, very cool 👍
I saw green sky at night. It was a Trident missle test.
wow! 3040 kW per hour??? You could run half of San Francisco on that thing!
I try to avoid radstorms all the time
Oh just take some Rad-X before going in and make sure to use Radaway.
morioh cho radio~
When I was a little girl we had a small tornado come through Idaho. We were surrounded by mint fields and I was out playing in the fields. There was a crazy loud sound. I just heard my mom yelling at me to run for the ditch. I hunkered down in the irrigation ditch. It was probably only a minute but it seemed like forever. Afterwards there was a path through the mint field about 18 inches wide. It was crazy! The mint looked as if someone had cut it with scissors.
What part of Idaho? I'm from Pocatello and absolutely love hearing Idaho tornado stories
Rope tornado? Drill bit? EF0 tornado?
Out between Nampa and Caldwell. Was probably 81 or 82.
@@zLankboxdu4 I’ve only heard of the EF rating. I don’t know what those others are. I didn’t see it, I just heard the noise…
Thats' a cute little tornado. I'm glad I wasn't there or I would have been tempted to pet it.
Growing up in the Midwest, you learn quickly to keep your eye on the sky. When the clouds look yellow-green, you get to safety and be cautious; when it's as dark as midnight in the middle of the day, it's dangerous.
Also from the Midwest and yeah, anytime i see it start getting dark in the middle of the day I go find someplace safe. Especially after the super outbreak in 2011(I’m from Missouri; what happened to Joplin especially started to make more people take the sirens seriously)
From Alabama and it’s the same. I know that I can tell when a bad storm is going to be in the area more often than the weather forecasters for my area just by looking up and watching the clouds and the feeling the air gets.
I live in eastern New England so tornadoes are rare but I remember looking out the window at work once to a very eery yellow-green sky and worrying about tornado warnings (confirmed by coworker from the midwest being put off by the clouds)
Makes sense to me
@@prestonestes1388 I have heard that your area usually gets them in the middle of the night. That sounds really scary, not only would they be hard to see but every one would be in bed.
I've seen green clouds many times and it is terrifying. I've survived a tornado and I remember the sky's distinct green color. To this day, I shutter when the sky looks even slightly green. The weather radio going of sends me into panic attacks. Tornadoes are never a joke. Please...always take those warnings seriously
As a avid tornado spotting fan (if you can't tell already by the name and pic), I have acquired alot of knowledge about tornadoes. A few things I have learned that you never said include the sound of a tornado can sound similar to a freight train, severe weather can happen anywhere, at any time, at any point in years year, and a tornado is not just the Funnel itself. Winds that surround the tornado can be just as dangerous as the tornado and debris surrounding it. There is a term called the "ghost train" which feeds into a tornado from the rear with winds comparable to the tornado.
The tornado that went through my hometown about 4 blocks from me sounded like a chainsaw. It was pouring rain, the wind was blowing hard, it was 9 pm, and I was wondering why someone would be out in that weather. The sheriff and his wife were returning home from the county fair and the car got picked up and dropped upside down in Little River. They got out okay.
dang
You did something interesting thanks
Another funny thing is people think that the only thing a tornado looks like is the cloud of mist it forms so people will think that the tornado is over because the mist went away
Feeling the ground vibrating from about 2 mi away always fun
as someone who has lived in tornado alley for vast majority of my life (and survived a double tornado event) I believe if you are outside, you aren't supposed to take shelter under an overpass? They specifically say to NOT take shelter under overpasses / similar structures; because they are more dangerous than being out in the open. that's what we were always taught. every year the schools would teach us weather safety once a year - we usually found it very boring because we already knew all the drills and such, but now that I'm older i know why it's important and mandatory to have those lessons.
Agreed. I believe we were taught to take cover in a ditch rather than under an overpass
That's because the overpass only protects from weak tornadoes. The strong ones can not only destroy overpasses, but can outright rip the air out of your lungs if the tornado has high enough wind speed, which, as you can guess, can prove fatal
Have seen the green clouds a couple of times. It's incredibly eerie
Cap
@@ButtSauce666 no cap. I grew up in MI, I saw it once there & once in NC. Both times a tornado touched down within 3 miles. And it is eerie af
holy
@@ButtSauce666 yep, actually a very common phenomenon, look it up.
same here, it feels like a nightmare in real life
I instantly burst into tears when he mentioned the little boy finding his sisters body at the school, on top of everything else it’s just so devastating for a little kid to pull a loved ones body out of rubble.
Crybaby it’s hilarious LOL I wish I could have seen the look on that little brat’s face and I wish I could have licked his tears.
How? It’s not even sad lol
@@LuffyWantsMeat01 I am glad somebody gets it
It's so upsetting
@@LuffyWantsMeat01 tf is wrong with you
I remember seeing the green clouds as a kid growing up in the midwest. I survived a few tornados that came from clouds like that.
Cool
Yes I'm from there as well it's so scary
Mad props. I've never seen this phenomenon, yet.
same
is that really greenish color or slighty?
A tornado happened in florida quite recently. I recall the sky was redish-orange for hours before the sky turned black, which gave serveral people (including myself) a terrible feeling...
Me, too. That would remind me of painful kidney stones. That sky would make me feel queasy.
Tornadoes are absolutely terrifying to me. I've had several close calls while living in Kentucky. December 10th, 2021. I had been watching on the news for most of the day, and when the tornado actually formed I watched as it ripped through states in a straight line toward my town. I lived in Bullitt county, and if you look up maps of the path of the tornado, it actually broke up one county over. It destroyed everything in it's path for hours and through several states, and just a couple miles away, it simply....disappeared. I've never felt more relief in my life. Hiding in the basement of my house, late at night, watching the news on my phone because my power was out, wind screaming. And then the weather man said it was reforming over Mount Washington. Over my town. I could see the green sky in the lightning flashes. The tornado touched down again in the next county over and continued on for a short time longer, before breaking up for good.
I live in Lexington and have family in Paducah. I was thinking about this tornado the whole video! The cluster nearly set multiple tornado records. It was predominantly two tornados that traveled over 250 miles. It is the largest/longest tornado cluster in history for the month of December.
My whole extended family lives in Kentucky and I remember calling my cousin to make sure everyone was okay after. Thankfully they were, but that was a rough one.
@@MattThundercat i live 10 mins from there
@@MattThundercat I lived in Lexington in 99-01 and we had one little tornado there. I was actually swimming in my apartment's indoor pool, and the front desk lady came and told me to go home, there was a tornado warning. Ran back to my apartment as it was really picking up. Sky got that weird bright/dark green (I know that sounds weird, but if you've seen it, you know) but I made it inside. It was when the wind suddenly just stopped that I got really scared.
@@piperbird7193 I have friends who live in Mt. Washington. I didn’t realize it nearly traveled that far! Crazy
Back in the day, they used to tell people to open windows because they thought the low pressure caused houses to explode. Ted Fujita, after whom the F scale and later EF scale are named, had aerial observers get out immediately following a powerful, destructive tornado, before people could clean up all the rubble. He observed that houses that people thought had exploded had actually been flattened, as if by a powerful downdraft, a phenomenon that’s been observed around tornadoes. He also saw patterns in the rubble that confirmed the existence of sub-vortices in tornadoes, which can dance around each other and leave gaps where one house is spared while the neighbors’ are destroyed.
Bro imagine if a tornado also caused houses to explode, that would look like the end of the world
@@nicolasgimenezo.0503 Look up pictures from the Moore Oklahoma EF-5 tornado. They don’t need to explode to look like the end of the world.
@@nicolasgimenezo.0503 FireNado !
Who else started screaming "NO!!" when the boys were sent to close the windows? 😢
I honestly didn't know it could be dangerous.
@@lucyk.5163 huh?
@@lucyk.5163 How?
a sad world it was then, where males were expected to do dangerous things
@@MichelleW870 Then? 😂😂😂
You naive fool....
I worked at a TV station. I remember one day we activated a tornado watch and had the meteorologist come on through the duration and urge people to seek shelter, be prepared, etc. People actually called to complain about how it cut off the college football game we were showing! Thankfully nothing happened other than a bad thunderstorm, but it was shocking how callous and flippant about it.
Sounds like what happened with my local station, WNEP, just a few months back. We've been having some really nasty weather in Central PA the past few years (and more tornado watches, warnings, and touchdowns than I can really wrap my head around), and I think it was last year? we had a warning in place that cut into a broadcast, and over the next week or so all these people kept calling into the station complaining about the Weather Report cutting into their game. Meanwhile, my mum and I were watching as the projected tornado crept closer and closer to our little village.
Growing up in Missouri, you really get an instinct for tornado weather. As soon at it turns yellow or green outside and the weather gets still, you get a gut feeling to seek shelter (if you haven’t already). I remember seeing a tornado go through the hill in my backyard on my farm, and a second tornado formed right next to it. It was so loud and sounded like a train running over the house. Thankfully we were okay, but there were a few casualties (not including several of our cattle). It really is a life changing experience.
Also I can’t even count the amount of times we had to line up against the walls in the hallways at school on our hands and knees to wait for a tornado to pass😅
@@Gabsolutelygab Oh I remember those. We went into the interior bathrooms, which weren't all that big.
I lived in Pennsylvania and we’d see green clouds during thunderstorms or everything turned a pretty yellow color during storms. The yellow happened every spring, but the green clouds was rarer but it meant bad storm. Fortunately in Pennsylvania it didn’t mean tornado would happen. We got rare tornados, usually small. I miss that now that I live in California lol.
You can't always predict them sometimes, they can just appear out of no where, without rain or strong winds. I once was playing outside and then a fluke gust of wind came out, hitting my back. Within 2 minutes I saw a funnel cloud trying to touch down across a field in the distance behind my house. It was crazy one side of the sky was sunny and the other was dark and ominous. I think I saw a rainbow appear as it was happening on the sunny side.
-Someone who used to live in Central Kansas
you are definitely right about that, there have been more than a few occasions when I would see random bouts of wind kicking up from the ground as it goes up it starts to spiral a bit before its disrupted by other winds since they are usually unstable and dissipate easily. I usually see these out near fields along dirt roads which make it easy to see since it picks up the dust from the road. (from Midwestern Kansas)
Yeah, I am out by the Pacific Ocean, in the Pacific Northwest, and every tornado I've seen so far (including two water spouts) had been in relatively calm weather.
And we do get crazy high wind storms (over 60-70mph gusts), but it's always just too cold for them to form.
Summer is when they usually occur around here.
However with the climate changing and moving around it does seem like they're getting more & more common.
Tsunami sirens are creepy enough already.
Tornadoes are and have always been my number one most feared weather condition. I grew up in coastal florida so I lived through plenty of hurricanes, but those are much less scary to me because they are more predictable. It’s the way you don’t know what a tornado is going to to that scares me the most.
Greetings, fellow lilapsophobe. I took up storm chasing to treat my phobia. I don't recommend it for everyone, especially if you've survived a particularly violent tornado. For me, it was a matter of deciding that I owe it to my neighbor to protect them from that which I fear the most, and that gives me the courage to face the storm.
From a New Yorker it's the exact same except we have snow.
here in the Midwest tornadoes can be predicted fairly easily since tornado producing supercells are commonly lp or classic where you could see the funnels, scary thing about tornadoes in Florida is that many supercells are rain wrapped, and sometimes you can’t really be sure if there is a tornado in it
Which is funny to me because I'm from the Midwest and the opposite. A tornado? Get low to the ground or better, underground. A hurricane? Go high to avoid the flooding or go low to avoid the wind? There is no happy medium to those options.
@@users4007 Florida doesn't really get supercells. More like squall lines, but yes, the tornadoes would be rain wrapped. I think I saw one once, but I couldn't tell because it was just grey on grey on grey. Tornadoes are also common during hurricanes.
Not sure if this was mentioned but if you see a tornado and it doesn’t appear to be moving then it may be headed for you.
thank you for saying this since most don't know this about tornados
it could be headed for you or the opposite direction, i wouldn’t risk it though and if i was out on the street i’m running the other way
It's not a factor of may it is heading towards you if it appears to not be moving.
@@YourAverageSpeedrunnerdon't run the other way, you cannot outrun a tornado even in a car. What you need to do is go sideways, perpendicular from the tornado to get out of its path
@@SelfProclaimedEmperor that really depends what category of tornado it is though, if its EF 0, then you should be able to run away if its far enough, if its EF 6, then that's different
I have never seen a tornado in person but experienced it's effects. I was about 10 when a tornado blew through town. We were shopping at a shoe store and I was looking out the window. I saw what seemed to be a scary rotating cloud, and I turned to my mom and said there was a scary cloud outside. She brushed it off until the power suddenly went out and things started going crazy outside. I remember seeing the front of cars jumping up and down about a foot of the ground. My mom ran outside to grab my siblings that were still in the car and ran back inside. We took shelter in the back of the store and waited for the storm to pass. I was so scared, I remember a woman who gave us some mnms to help calm us. When the storm passed I remember seeing so much debris and tree branches and split trees. It wasnt a super violent tornado and it didn't completely destroy buildings, but I can imagine being in a violent one has to be extremely terrifying.
“Mom there’s an eldritch horror forming outside!!!”
“That’s nice sweetie,”
@@wieldylattice3015
"Mom! El reno 2 : Electric Boogaloo is going to occur in 2 seconds! We gotta go!"
"Oh sweetie, cant we try on this sweater first?"
“Mother, I believe that an altered form of the Spanish word tronada, which means "thunderstorm", known as a tornado, is currently looming over, as a funnel cloud is developing.”
“Aw sweetie, I do not believe you.”
My cousin had his home destroyed by the Norm, Oklahoma tornado. His home and all of his property was destroyed. But his family, including his 2 dogs were unhurt.
One dog ran off but he survived the tornado and was later found on the internet. Some kind family took the dog in until my cousin could retrieve him.
His 2 week old baby was the youngest survivor in that storm.
During hurricane Laura, a tornado came close to hitting my house. It knocked a tree onto my uncles house next door. No one was hurt but it was scary because we had no warning. The radars had been knocked out by the hurricane so everyone was in the dark.
I was in Iowa for Laura. We must have had 165 mph gusts. Where were you?
Hopefully not in Louisiana, especially St. Charles or near the Gulf Coast..
Living in the middle-ish of Colorado, I've seen a number of potential and actual tornadoes. The closest I've been was on passing a little less than a mile from the ice arena my mom worked at. Something I never expected at the time was that the rapid changes in atmospheric pressure can actually cause things like headaches and nosebleeds as, while watching it pass from _outside_ (which is a terrible idea and I'm still kinda shocked the adults there at the time suggested it once they knew it would miss) I got a nosebleed.
The other thing about them that's really hard to put into words is the _feeling_ in the air. I assume it's partly or mostly due to everything involved in making a tornado but it feels... off. Almost like the earth is bracing itself for what's about to happen. It's really strange but it's always there as far as I can tell.
Weird! 👍
I’ve experienced the same feeling, it was sunset and we noticed the sky was a really weird color, there wasn’t even a breath of wind outside. Everything was dead quiet and felt very eerie. It was just a huge sense of dread, even though nothing had happened yet.
This sounds like you felt the Barometric pressure drop. Some people are more sensitive to this than others. Almost like before a storm you can sense the world around you bracing for something to come as you said.
@@katiekyle7545 Seconded. I get migraines when the pressure change is as little as 0.02inHg and can tell when even just a mild temperature front is moving through. It seems like most people aren't that sensitive so I can't even imagine how unsettling it is to suddenly feel the barometric pressure shift when you likely haven't had a reason to notice it before. And the fear from knowing what that feeling means- if the only time I'd felt it was right before a tornado, I know it'd fill me with dread anytime it happened
its always that feeling, that weird humid feeling where the air feels weird
Man farts, this is how the entire earth almost exploded
*my dog
man farts, lives to regret it
Yoooo SO TRUE
Get off the Internet and go do your homework, kid.
@@opo3628 I did my homework though what do you mean what huh what HOOHIUGNYONTNT8EONTFR
2022:”Back then they only had minutes to react”
2100: “back then they only had 8 hours to react”
3000: “back then they only had 4 years to react”
My dad was in a glass building during a tornado so he drove home straight into the path of tornado. We were yelling at him because it’s dangerous but he made it home safely, thankfully.
Makes sense. I wouldn't want to take my chances in a glass building either.
He who lives in a glass house shouldn't drive in tornadoes.
@@mattsodano6264 we don't live in a glass building. He was meeting someone at a restaurant that was had like 3 walls of glass (I am assuming) and he drove back home to not be in that situation.
Luckily, as someone living in Nebraska, we're taught most these things in school. Also, at least my parents always made sure we all got downstairs with a blanket covering all of us, even the pets, if the sirens ever go off.
I'm Springfield MA, we had an EF3 tornado. Long story short, I recognized the funnel cloud and knew it was a tornado as it picked up debris. I yelled for everyone around me to run inside the office building. They didn't believe me until they saw the towering tornado coming directly where we were all standing.
I hope you all were safe in the end!
@@thatfuzzypotato1877 We all were. Thank you.
@@davidnievesjr.9478 I live in MA too and remember that storm. We had tornado warnings at work, rushed to protect the patients as best we could, and watched that supercell go right over us on the radar on the weather
I remember that tornado :( i was luckily about 15 minute north
Was that the Worcester tornado in 1954?
Excellent video, love the visual style of it! There's two small things I wanted to point out:
- The rotation of storms got switched up! Most of the supercell storms and tornadoes rotates counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. However, in some rare circumstances, tornadoes can rotate in the opposite way and these are called anti-cyclonic tornadoes.
- Just a funny nitpick, but the car at 14:26 looks a bit recent for the 1920's... :P
But again, thats a very well made video, worth a subscribe for sure!
No Tornados here in the Netherlands for as far as I know. Though on January 25th 1990 we had a big storm. The highest wind speed measured that day was 163km/h. It reached 11 on the Beaufort scale.
Of course no one was allowed to issue a tornado warning until the MILITARY was in trouble. Big USA moment right there.
this was 97 years ago
well the military thing was like 80 years ago but still
@@ps92809 So ? Why dont they warn them .
@@KurianKeralafromIndia No idea
My town recently has 2 tornadoes these past few months, and in one case, half of us didn't even get a notification, much less hear a siren. Luckily, the tornado wasn't strong at all, and nobody was hurt, but it still scares me that these things can happen without any time to react.
Always expect the unexpected. The world does not follow our rules.
0:25 oh no. the teacher. the boys got destroyed as they used there bodies as shielding as objects ripped through the window covers.
The fact that the teacher asked the boys to shut the windows and the girls to stay seated sounds sexist and old fashioned. Well this was a long time ago so makes sence.
Well boys are stronger makes sense
My dad tells a wild story about living through the recent suspected F5 that wiped out Joplin, MO.
His advice-
NOAA weather radio is a must and, if you get the watch, then be prepared to have shoes on. If you get the warning- put on your shoes to shelter.
He said walking around shoeless post tornado was horrible.
This is also why the advice is to wear flat shoes on a plane. If there’s an accident having shoes on means you can run over debris to get away
I love green clouds
Yass me too I love murderus things
I LOVE LEAN!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm blowing a green cloud in my garage right now
Lean?
Yes they look so peaceful reminds me of grass
I live in Tornado Alley and while one has never come close to the house, I have always felt uneasy when the sky turns yellow, even as a child. Glad to know my fears aren't entirely unfounded. I'm also surprised I didn't know a lot of the information in this video as tornados are something I'm interested in.
Pretty sure that is pronounced teena-mae not tyna-mae.. since that's not a name
20:10 This is wrong. A culvert or freeway overpass is worse than being in the open. The wind can increase greatly in places where it is restricted, like under bridges.
This. Grew up in SC and this was one of the first things they drilled into our heads other than cars and trailer homes being unsafe during a tornado.
Not only are we better informed with advanced warning systems today, but we also have more reliable buildings and architecture to protect us. And more than anything, I’m fairly certain that, in part, due to events such as this one, the average person is so much more informed on what steps to take in order to reach safety during serious storms and wind events.
Considering the average American house seems to be made of paper and plywood, I would not trust in any of them.
It's a good thing to have a positive point of view, but the key is to be not caught off guard. Stay alert!
Reliable buildings aren’t required to be built. They’re grandfathered in. Hurricane straps would prevent it, and Canada requires three toe-nails to be used in houses, but they’re not required in America.
Reliable buildings? In America? It takes a fist to destroy a wall, and you call that safety?
"The teacher told the boys to close the windows, and the girls to stay at their desk"
Just wow
That's "patriarchy" and "male privilege" for you. Don't forget we have to fight all the wars too.
I survived the big one in Birmingham, Alabama in...2012, I think it was. My immediate family (myself, husband, brother, and his wife) took shelter in their basement. As my brother was a firefighter/paramedic at the time, he was, of course, called in to work. We didn't see too much destruction, as those of us remaining stayed in the basement. I heard the "train" noise that tornadoes can cause, and I've never forgotten it. I'm just glad all of my family made it out of that storm unharmed.
I'm glad you guys made it out okay, tornados were bad for us in Alabama that year
The footage at 16:10 was from a well documented and deadly tornado in 1991. If you would like to see more, search Savage Skies: Riders on the Storm. The parent storm even dropped another funnel that chased drivers down a major turnpike at around 70 mph, with stunning footage shot by someone hiding with a group of others under an overpass as the tornado swept by (something that experts actually do not recommend.)
From what I can gather, experts don't recommend overpasses because if they have a flat bottom, there's nothing stopping you from being ripped out. However, if you have one of those underpasses with the I-beam like undersides, you might have better luck if you can get between them.
seen the green, was actually caught outside in a car during a tornado... that was pretty freaky. About a month ago (as of 9/16/22) one passed within a half mile of my home.
“The tornado claimed 69 lives”
*im a adult, I can contain myself*
Don't let the intrusive thoughts win
The least nice 69 :(
…the fact that people *still* chortle over hearing the number “69” is beyond sad.
@@opo3628 bro if you are using the word chortle unironically then maybe the internet just isn’t for you
Just imagine experiencing that it’s just too much to even think about
I know we discussed the midwest. Just remember that tornadoes can happen anywhere in the USA. I've survived a few close calls on the Atlantic coast in varying lattitudes.
If I see green clouds I'm running inside regardless I know why they green or not
69 is a funny number, but sadly, its the number of deaths 💀😭
I've experienced tornadoes, but never touchdowns. They were either at school or at home. I live near Dixie Alley I believe. I live in Tennessee: The state not only known for the singers but also known for tornadoes through the night. 😲🙀😣😥
I have an ecoflow river with solar panel. Saved me and my kids lives when we had that winter power outage in Texas last year. Saving up for the delta 2 because ish is about go crazy in the world soon lol.
We had one in Feb here and went 11 days no power. 2 kids. Had to even have to ex wife come over just to help keep the kids warm over night. Was wild.
People laugh at peppers as if disasters don't happen...
In kindergarten, this took place in Colorado, there was mutiple tornadoes and it was hailing, we were on a bus home from school and I remember there was a tornado heading to our direction and everyone was laughing because it sounded like a screaming goat
in my country the closest thing i experienced to a tornado was a strong wind storm a couple of times but they were way more harmless and only really bent over trees
Only is a weird choice of words, especially when you are hiking in a wooded area while this is happening...
I am in MN, I grew up knowing that when the sky turns green- the big one is close.
My ex was from LA & didn’t believe it was real- until he came up to MN & saw it for himself. He was very scared, but we didn’t get a touch down.
I love to be the storm lookout. I want to watch the storm for as long as I can. I have only seen 2 tornados that went over our house.
I grew up with a great respect for storms, but I will be the storm watcher forever.
18:39 I’ve heard the whistling sound it’s pretty scary. I woke up in the middle of the night I think at 2am. I was in my college dormitory room. Not long after I got a phone tornado warning. A few minutes later I heard Whistling it didn’t affect my college campus in South East Louisiana luckily but it was scary hearing it I have a hard time when any loud or unexpected noises.
Here in Louisiana we have gotten a lot of crazy hurricanes. Another thing I do remember well is when I was traveling with with my family. We went hiking in the Grand Canyon we stayed overnight in a cabin. On our way back up a monsoon formed suddenly. My mom and I couldn’t reach shelter in time so we stopped under a small wall ledge. Crazy thunderstorms, and strong wind. I was so cold afterwards due to not wearing proper clothes.
@@cat_friend888 Oh my lord I would be so scared if I heard wind sounds like that at 2 am
Man, “did the world just end” from a child… that’s rough
I have family that lived in Joplin Missouri during the 2011 tornado. I went down later and helped pass out relief essentials and help people by giving them someone to talk to about what had happened. Lots of tragic stories lots of "no f way" stories. One person got their foot stuck on the staircase going to the basement and described the whole house lifting around them.
the way he pronounces tina makes me absolutely feral
I grew up in a part of Ohio that seemed to get more tornadoes than any other part of the state, it wasn't uncommon to hear the sirens go off and immediately seek shelter, even if it was bright and sunny out with no previous warnings from the weather forecast. Didn't matter if you were in a store, a library, an office building, gas station, whatever - you heard the sirens, you took cover, no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
I also remember seeing those yellow clouds (the green was rarer) as a kid and thinking, "That means trouble," before learning years later that it's a classic sign of possible tornadoes.
Even now, living elsewhere and never experiencing a tornado that touched down, I still have fear of having to deal with one some day.
I have seen green sky several times, and one of those times was the storm that flattened Kalamazoo. See a green sky, get underground _right away_.
Ive seen a green sky before and it ended up being fine. but thats cause my city just is weird
Tornados fascinate and terrify me at the same time
I grew up in Florida. There were constantly severe weather warnings and we were constantly on tornado watch in the summer. Only thing that was ever an issue were the hurricanes
In south carolina you get at least one severe thunderstorm each in the summer but most of the time one or two a month and at least one tornado watch per year
Reminds me of the time the sky was green and yellow around 6 o'clock PM a huge storm came that night, kind of like a tiny hurricane! I was pretty scared.
Having grown up in Alabama, we all learned pretty quickly that an unusually warm day in Spring = tornadoes. A lot of times the weather preceding a tornado is absolutely beautiful before it devolves into storms. It's hard for me to enjoy nice weather even in places where tornadoes are relatively rare, because it's so ingrained in me to fear the calm before a storm.
Had one come within a mile of our old house in 2018. That area of Georgia is known to be tornado alley, as they come straight down the interstate from Alabama. We had multiple warnings the year we lived there, and I'm glad to be in an area that's much less affected now. It was terrifying. All my wife and I could do was huddle up in the bathtub and watch the shadows of debris from all the lightning coming through the window. The lights went out about halfway through. It took about 10-15 minutes for it to pass, but it seemed like we laid there for an hour. The next town over (literally right up the road) had a clear path where it came through, and there were trees and powerlines down all over the place, as well as a gas station that was pretty much completely demolished. There was a giant tree right outside the window of the bathroom, but fortunately the only limb that fell off of it missed the house by a couple feet. It was the worst storm I've ever weathered. There was a big oak tree we passed every day on our way to town that was struck by lighting and had exploded. Luckily, we could get to somewhere in town and wait for the power to come back on. Since then, I've never been the same when there's a big storm passing through.
Actually, the southeastern states are known as Dixie Alley; separate from Tornado Alley due to differing conditions favoring storm formation, but still active enough to warrant a nickname by meteorologists. The Carolinas and tidewater Virginia aren't considered part of this region, but I refer to them as Tornado Beach due to the high tornado activity in the region relative to the rest of the eastern seaboard--especially during landfalling hurricanes.
To think, that the tornado that cut through Mayfield KY was only one EF point below the Tri-State tornado.
in the american midwest, i think pretty much everybody gets it drilled into their heads as young kids that if you see green skies, you get to the basement NOW. but even knowing that, it's not uncommon for adults to watch the storms get worse and worse from the porch before something finally spooks them into finding shelter. you get so used to severe weather that most of the time, you're more worried about having to clear downed trees and replace food that spoiled in the inevitable power outages than you are about your own physical safety.
but everybody knows the best place to seek shelter in the event of severe weather, and public buildings have signs posted that denote official shelter areas. individual people might be blase about storms, but society in general takes them seriously here.
i've surprisingly never experienced a tornado in my 12 years of life
I’m almost 15 and haven’t seen a tornado (irl), though there was a funnel cloud near my town a year ago, could’ve been a very weak lanspout.
I have learnt how to detect storms (I feel bad when weather changes also I learnt how to spot early signs of a storm) and can detect a storm even up to an hour before it starts. It helped me a couple of times especially on holiday. But when I tell people that the storm is comming they never believe me.
Not related to storms or anything but every once in a while when i sleep I dream that something will happen
And then that thing happens in real life. And when it does I feel weird like I've already seen this happen before
so in a way it's kinda like I can see into the future or something. It happens to plenty of other people as well but it's still really cool
Indeed. I get extremely itchy a couple hours before a storm, when the sky is still grey or partially clouded. I guess this happens due to electromagnetic changes in the air, and my electrophobia goes through the roof. My self control goes bonkers but can't help myself, neither the lightning rod behind my house makes me feel safe (actually saved our home appliances many times).
Unless someone has a direct experience, they will ll never understand. I got an electric shock as a child and I'm absolutely terrified by electricity in all its forms.
@@reignellwalker9755
You mean a déjà-vu. Happens a lot to ne as well!
I started tearing up at the Mr Tippy part of walking and hold both childrens hands
😮 who has ever wanted to see a tornado?
It’s a good day when it starts with my morning brew
Puns 😅 anyway, great video. Always happy to see a post
I survived the 1990 Plainfield (IL) tornado, lol... there is even a wiki for it. It was another F5. There is a reason my family now lives in AZ.
"Blew me away" nothing like a well placed pun, to put some light in a bleak story.
What I think is horrible is that it takes a military base to getting torn up for the powers that be to decide that it might be important to find a way to predict tornadoes.
When I was a kid my dad, younger brother, and I were going to a small fair in Indiana. When we were pulling in I saw the clouds swirling above the field directly next to the fair. There were no other obvious warning signs. My dad disregarded me saying that the clouds do look like they are swirling. We went into the fair and waited in line at a lemonade stand. I remember the wait was long and right when it was our turn or order, the guy running the stand slammed the shutter door right in front of us. Next thing I knew everyone was running. My brother was sitting on my dad's shoulders and he was gripping me by the hand. I remember a tree fell over RIGHT in front of us as we were running to our truck and we jumped over it.
this was only like 10~ years ago and nobody seemed to see it coming except for me. But I didn't warn anyone else because my dad made me believe it was fine.
My brother who was a year and a half younger than me did not fully understand what a tornado was. and was really upset that he could not get lemonade.
I just saw a documentary on this . It was mind blowing! Really awful ! I lived in that area only a few years ago, and they still talk about it . People who weren't even born then talked of it .
It was truly devastating.
Man, imagine seeing green clouds form above and a giant tornado appearing above your school...
Then dying to become part of the 69 deaths that died that day...