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The Edmonton, Alberta tornado is definitely one of the scariest. The multiple vortex tornado tearing through a massive city that’s far west is terrifying, and the sky was apparently near pitch black. That’s why it’s the ‘Black Friday’ tornado
Are you going to make a video about stormchaser vehicles? I love armored military vehicles and stormchaser vehicles are basically that without the guns.
As a person from the Midwest, going through a tornado is a seriously scary event, but after a few years it becomes routine to just go to the basement and hope.
When I was a kid living NW Arkansas tornadoes were quite frequent it was interesting & fun to sit outside watch to see if they touch down of not. The Eerie Darkness The Befell on the town from the wall cloud with Warm Rain And Sticky Skin.
The weirdest parts is that if you ask someone from the Midwest what disasters they're most scared of, usually they reply earthquakes or tsunamis, maybe even fires, but if you ask, say, a Californian (who experiences all 3 often), they'll usually answer that tornadoes are the scariest. And I agree. Edit: tsunamis aren't common but we know they can happen.
As somebody from upstate NY, I don't know why you guys in the Midwest put up with the trauma of being desensitized from tornadoes, Every year. Especially if you are able to live elsewhere without the potential to have your life destroyed by them. I understand staying close to family that night need your care, that's alright. I really wish there were subterranean housing programs just so people would be prepared at any time. Instead of having to run underground, you would already be there. It wouldn't be a lifestyle for everyone obviously
@@Dobyifyable Enough that they're tested weekly here instead of monthly. I moved to Oklahoma a couple years ago and have heard them go off in earnest probably four or five times now.
@@EpicRails Yeah. The tone always makes me think the worst case scenario is about to happen. I do kind of want to see a tornado in person. I saw a mesocyclone once and that was neat. It never touched down, though.
@@TheAbyssalEnderling I grew up in romeoville, about (according to google earth) 200 yards from a tornado siren. Not particularly close, but it's a device designed to be heard by the whole town. That was way too close. Scared the crap out of me, every singe time it went off. Whether it was for a tornado, or if it was just the first wednesday of the month. I probably saw only a dozen or so tornado watches in the 7 years I was there (that i can remember), but a couple of them did result in a tornado warning. I never got hit, neither did anyone I knew. The most memorable was looking maybe about 2 miles away, My parents and I felt safe enough so we stepped outside to watch, and I saw the funnel cloud form, and start to drop towards the ground... it got about halfway, stopped for a few seconds, then went back up and the storm cleared. I'll never forget that. it was super strange.
As a Kansan, there are two things we watch for. No wind. No birds. Those two things combined = go inside. Otherwise you're outside with a drink watching the sky be angry. Every single thing about the life cycle of a severe storm is animalistic and alive. They are fascinating, terrifying and mesmerizing.
5:41 Terrifying moments of my life. I was sick and was at home, watching over my animals and watching the news when they issued the warning. I was terrified. My mom and dad were on a date, it was their anniversary, I couldn't contact them..absolutely terrifying when you were just 9/10 years old, your sister out somewhere, your parents gone, and living in a mobile home with no shelter. The sound of it still haunts me to this day.
where did you go for shelter if you were in a mobile home? my family back in tennessee all live in a trailer park together and even though they’re in the eastern mountains, it still worries me :(
@@indigo.horror I ran into a closet, which isn't the safest place as it is a mobile home, but i just didn't know where else to go as it was the only room without windows!
My grandfather survived the Gainesville Georgia tornado of 1936. He would go on to serve in a field artillery regiment in Italy during World War II but he told my mom that he never saw destruction in World War II like he saw in Gainesville Georgia when that monstrous tornado went through there.
I live 10 miles from Gainesville. That's still one of the top 10(inside the top 5 I believe) deadliest of all time and it's amazing how many people don't know that Gainesville has been hit big before, not by just that one, but another much earlier time, with both being in the top 15 deadliest tornadoes ever.
Your grandpapa was tough! Did he have to help look for bodies at Gainesville, or was he too young? I heard stories of boys as young as fourteen having to search. Talk about hellish.
As a truck driver who drives primarily at night, it has always been my worst nightmare to drive unknowingly into a nocturnal tornado. This is why I have the MyRadar app on my phone. It alerts me of just about any type of weather event like thunderstorms, snow storms, and yes, tornado warnings. I’ve also been to Joplin, Grand Island, and Greensburg many times during my travels. I never even knew that Grand Island had ever been hit by a tornado before. You sure can’t tell now. Happy Halloween!
I'm friends with a few truckers down where I live in Florida, and we get a lot of rain-wrapped tornados down here! They all have the same fear, of driving right into them. Terrifying to think someone could drive right into one without warning!
On the Eastern edge of Grand Island there is a big hill called 'Tornado Hill'. It is a place where kids like to go sledding in the winter. Underneath this man-made hill is all of the storm debris that couldn't be salvaged or reused - many tons. There is a video on You Tube about it - I'll post the site name if I can find it.
You should know that there may be no place to park at night when a tornado warning is issued. Truck stops are full and many business buildings that are not truck stops are closed. I drove at night as well. However, if severe weather is in the forecast, I will not drive at night. I have always planned my timing on severe weather forecasts. So an app with a warning may go off, but you could be in an area with no place to go. Then what do you do?
I'm a huge tornado fanatic but I can't deny that tornadoes do pop up in my nightmares. They're terrifying forces of nature, but that's part of what makes them so intriguing. I've never seen one in person, but the rotation that'd become an EF4 in 2019 had gone right over our house, and we felt/heard it. I can't describe it, but there was definitely a pressure change and wind shift that caught our attention. My family can never agree on anything, especially dinner, but we all collectively looked at each other and bolted for the hallway without a word. Had it been a proper tornado at that stage, it'd of been too late for us to take shelter, and I think I'm the only one who really realized that, my parents don't take warnings seriously to this day.
@@fantasyfinale6976 Interesting, my house got hit by the tornado after it recycled by I-675. It was EF3 strength at the time and my house lost a decent portion of its roof, but my best friend's house was completely destroyed. I got very lucky though.
@@RiverSummer6613 So sorry to hear, hope you guys are doing alright since, such a good thing there were no fatalities. It was a real crazy year for Dayton altogether though, nothing usually happens around here.
@@fantasyfinale6976 Yeah 2019 was crazy for Dayton between the tornado and that shooting. My family is doing fine now but it was super stressful at the time dealing with insurance for the damage
The video of the people riding out the Joplin tornado in the cooler will forever be the scariest tornado video. It absolutely captures everyone's feelings of impending doom and the sound of the wind is so intense. I hope all survivors are doing okay today 🙏
Another thing about a tornado hitting you is the massive pressure change. Your ears will pop A LOT. So if you have tinnitus or any kind of issue with your ears you're in for a rough time.
Which means it's also good to lie down, put hands over your head and block the ears. There were instances of people going deaf because of tornado passing by.
I remember I was in a cellar in 2016 and you can hear the wind and everything it sounded like a train, it was so loud and my ears popped, I was abt 7 maybe younger or older
Something about imagining tornadoes before human civilization creeps me out. An empty field with nothing but mountains and woods in the distance, absolutely nothing to be heard besides the pouring rain and wind with this huge twister slowly cruising across the land. Unnerving..
Imagine all the tornado catastrophes ancient people endured that we'll never know about. Wouldn't surprise me if there have been several native American tribes that were wiped out by a single large tornado over the last 10,000 years.
I more imagine how must the soldiers feel, or especially how they felt back in the day. Imagine you're taking a centry duty for the night, and you see a massive column of water and wind coming into you. You shout to your mates: ,,tornado, take cover! No, not artillery - tornado!" - and then not only do you fear if your trench will protect you, but also that this freak of nature will destroy your defences so badly, that the enemy will strike at you afterwards. Especially in earlier times, when people didn't know what tornadoes are and what caused them. You'd see that big column suck your mates in, and you'd only imagine it as divine force targeted against your Army, your nation and your cause.
@@Admiral45-10 No incidents come to mind, but yes, major weather events have determined the outcomes of major military campaigns--like one side seems to have everything going for it, and then the storm comes and says, "Oh no you don't. Your enemy shall be the victor today!"
I am from Nebraska and in 3rd grade Night of the Twisters was a book our teacher read to us. Needless to say it was like a horror novel to us, considering how much we prepare for tornadoes in school drills, being woken up every first Saturday of the month in tornado season by the testing of the sirens, and just experiencing them. Luckily I have never lost anyone or anything to them but as a child the fear like a horror movie really was there, and to an extent still is, even if it becomes just routine for the season as an adult.
That's almost child-emotional-abuse level, for a teacher to read that book to a bunch of kids. I'm sure some kids were traumatized by it for life. (I mean, I was traumatized by Where the Red Fern Grows, so something like Night of the Twisters would have landed me in a mental institution.)
I read the book, Night of the Twisters when I was a kid back in 1985. It was one of the things that began my total fascination with tornados, along with my aunt’s own personal story. She was carried up in a tornado that destroyed her family farm just outside of Austin, Texas when she was a girl. A terrifying experience for her that she miraculously survived, after being lofted and dropped more than 2 miles away....all while only sustaining a scratch and a bruise. It’s crazy how such things occur with tornados. They’ll sweep homes off their foundations, wrap cars around trees, drive straw through light posts; but leave a table neatly set with chinaware completely intact. Truly astonishing, and often as unexplainable as the supernatural.
The El Reno Tornado of May 2013 will forever give me chills. Just seeing the footage of storm chasers and listening to recollections from their experiences made it seem as if a living breathing entity of terror descended upon the earth.
Hey Swegle! I agree with you - tornadoes are simultaneously the creepiest and prettiest phenomena, and that’s part of why I’m kinda obsessed with them. I’m writing a book about the Greensburg tornado of May 4, 2007. That’s one of the scariest events, and it happened 2 hours away from me when I was in high school. Something super creepy about the day of the tornado: people I’ve interviewed said their drains were “gurgling” all day before the storm, from pressure and temperature changes. Love your channel!
I've driven through Greensburg many times while visiting relatives in Kansas. What happened there was unreal. It's great the way they've rebuilt with an emphasis on living 'green'.
As someone who has experienced a 8.8 earthquake, tornadoes seem like the god tier disaster in terms of scaryness (up there with some selected earthquakes). Phenomenal video.
I had a legitimate phobia of storms and tornadoes when I was a kid. Caught major crap at school for it too. Every time there was a thunderstorm, I would take my prized posessions and move them down to the basement and just be sick with anxiety. Now as an adult I adore thunderstorms and find them atmospheric and soothing. I havent experienced a tornado yet, and I'm not so sure I'd want to though. As a horror fanatic I appreciate your reference to Michael Myers. Never thought of that before. Good work.
My son and I slept through a tornado once. Here in east Texas they happen a lot. After sitting up for watch conditions until about 1 am we finally went to bed. I had a vivid dream we were in the yard and saw a freight train going through the sky. The next morning we found out a tornado touched down on state highway 154 moving west and went about a half mile from the house. Now, when watches come later, I drink coffee and stay up.
I live in Arkansas. I'm originally from New Jersey. I've been down here going on 8 years now. I've been terrified of tornadoes my entire life. I'm guessing that it came from watching the Wizard of Oz as a little kid since the flying monkeys didn't scare me, and neither did the Wicked Witch. Every time we're under a tornado watch, I go on red alert, and I will stay awake until either the watch ends or there's nothing showing up on my weather radar apps and I can grab a quick nap. My fiance, who is the reason I moved here, is a native Arkansan, and if a warning goes off, he jokes about grabbing a 6-pack of beer and a lawn chair to go out to sit in the yard to look for it. He's told me that he's only had to go to ground twice in his life. Last year, on November 4th, we had a relatively weak EF1 come down our valley and miss us by about a quarter mile, too. We could hear it, and I thought I was going to lose my mind. We don't have a basement or a shelter, so the only place we can go is the center hallway. I pray that we'll never have to find out if that's good enough or not. 😬 The original part of our house is 112 years old, so I like to think that if it's been here that long, that's got to mean something. 😊
@@terrisomers7843lol I’m from Arkansas and I can definitely tell your husband is from here! Lol idk why Arkansans do it, but yep! Grab a beer, a lawn chair & hit the front porch. Then run like hell back inside when things start getting bad. 😂
I'd set up an air mattress jn my basement lol But I know someone who lives in Oklahoma and something similar happened just this last year except the tornado actually hit their neighborhood but it was a weak one. They said they heard something and just thought "wow that's some crazy wind " but woke up in the morning to no power lol
Love this account. I used to love learning anything about weather until I transitioned in astronomy/astrophysics stuff for the past 15 years. I still love learning anything about meteorology and your account is by far my favorite! Never stop
As someone who experienced the Night of the Twisters in my hometown of Grand Island, I can tell you it was very scary and I have tons of stories about that night. One mistake, though: tornado number five was responsible for four of the five deaths, not all five. Denise Behring, a teenager going to a relative’s house, was killed on the outskirts of town by the first of the seven tornadoes. But, thanks for mentioning the outbreak. I watch and really like all of your videos! I would love to see someone do a synopsis of it, but since it was 1980 and it started at 8:45 PM, there were only one or two photos and hardly any filming of the aftermath, so there isn’t enough video to make an interesting TH-cam video. First time 10 year-old me ever saw a car in a tree, too. LOL.
My sister was in Grand Island that night and almost became fatality #6. She was at a friend's house and when they lost power, she went out to her car to get a battery powered radio. While she was in the car, the wind got under the vehicle enough to push it up on one side against a tree. A few seconds later it came back down. A few other weird things about the GI tornado family... 1. Two of the seven tornadoes were _anticyclonic_ , meaning they rotated clockwise instead of the normal counter-clockwise. 2. The parent storm moved southeast, but the individual storms would often deviate from such. The large F4 South Locust tornado, responsible for 4 of the 5 deaths actually stated _east_ of town and moved west, back into town before making a left turn down Locust Street wiping out the business district there. 3. Not only did the tornado paths deviate from the parent circulation, but they would often cross over their own footprint. The final tornado of the night crossed over it's own path...SIX times.
@@scarpfishThat'd be pretty scary to have car lift up on the side then back down. Glad she survived that event, something she will never forget im sure
I do have aftermath footage on an early 'home movies' camera that was taken as my family saw the destruction days later. Other family members have copies of this as well. This was in the clean-up phase, and there are blocks and blocks of sidewalks and front stoops leading to nowhere, or homes with nothing but a closet standing, or a toilet still in place.
I have never been hit by a tornado, but I definitely have Lilapsophobia. Recently, a big thunderstorm with a tornado warning that was like 20+ miles away, struck me to my core. I could barely breathe, talk, or move. I was almost paralyzed, even though nothing bad really happened.
When I was sick years old and have learned about the existence of tornadoes, they became my worst fear despite them not occurring in my country or anywhere nearby. But just seeing the images of a large dark cloud with a vortex tower linking it to the ground tearing apart huts… I legit had nightmares of this, and also meteors and earthquakes
Twister came out when I was six and I had nightmares for years afterwards even though my state gets like three small tornadoes on busy years. Tornadoes are still the only recurring element in my dreams, but they're just fascinating to me now, not scary.
@@BeckerAviation I am, and they scare me almost to the point of phobia lol. I'm not _quite_ there, but I do know exactly what I'll do if one hits at any given moment. I choose where I sit at restaurants based on it lol
Technically every country can have tornadoes, as they are known to form on every continent except Antartica. In fact, the single deadliest tornado in the world struck in Bangladesh, not the United States. That said, it's rare for other countries to have tornadoes as powerful as the ones that form in the U.S., so while they should be a worry, there are other things you should probably worry about more.
I think what's really scary about them, which no one really notices to bring up...is that our current era of recording equipment doesn't record what the tornadoes really sound like. I've never seen a video that honestly captured the true sounds of them. I've personally heard train tracks, train whistles, a group of tigers roars, explosion-like drilling, air cracks, a giant jet vacuum, amongst other hard to describe sounds with them. There's only one way to know what they sound like...Only if it decides to visit you in person.
Look up the Clem Shultz F4 footage. It's brutal sounding. My favorite death metal band is Portal, they sound almost exactly like the tornado audio in that footage.
I suspect that the best way to describe the sound of a tornado is jet noise... sort of. If you could get the rushing air from the fan section of a modern jetliner's high-bypass turbofan, separated from the roar of the turbine section (and its supersonic exhaust) and the noise of the fan blades themselves, that'd be a very close approximation of the sound, since it would be a large volume of air moving at the same speed as tornadic winds... just many, many times quieter, since it's nowhere near as large a volume as even a tiny tornado.
@@seanrosenau2088 Yes this famous one. I know. It does have a lot of close sound, I agree. However, if you read the testimony of him based on his own report, it sounds much more horrific (I'm assuming not just from being in it).
Tornadoes have been horrifying to me since I was a kid. I lived in fear of a tornado happening when I was a kid. Luckily, I've never seen one in real life. But the warnings terrified me as a kid. That's one of the things that got me obsessed with the Weather Channel starting when I was 6 or 7. The fact that they feel alive, the way they maneuver and can change direction at any time, form and dissipate whenever, it all just creeped me out, and is one of the few things I am genuinely frightened as of the approach of my 27th birthday.
10:59 As someone who doesn’t see tornadic activity too often, nothing is more exciting than when a Tornado Watch is issued! I pull up the news and radar while sending photos and videos of the situation to my friends. I personally love the excitement!
I've only been through 1 tornado, and it was only an EF-2. The freakiest part was, while in the bathtub, hearing hail and rain start bouncing off the roof and metal chimney from all sides. Then, one of my patio chairs slammed into a window which was scary. We were on the ouskirts of it so the only real damage was some roofing and i never saw one of my patio chairs again, but it was still a frightening experience.
@@Purpzie EF-2's are definitely powerful, but compared to the people in the video who had to deal with EF-5's ruing their entire neighborhood's, the worst damage my area suffered were a couple strip malls being deroofed and demolished, I consider myself lucky.
Coming from someone who lives in Cookeville, it was absolutely terrifying. I remember that outbreak and my apartment along with several others had damage done as a result of tail end of the remaining tornado. Luckily it was fizzling out by the time it reached us. Debris was everywhere, power was out, luckily nobody around us was hurt. Unfortunately though, we lost some people as you stated, and my thoughts and prayers still go out to their families. I remember going out through town the following morning and just seeing the damage done not too far from where i live and i still count my blessings that i didnt live any closer to where it hit.
Possibly the most thoughtful and succinct commentary ever assembled and released for public review, that breaks down and encapsulates the mesmerizing horror that tornadoes embody, perhaps more so than any meteorological phenomena on Earth. Well done!
I still remember being a preschooler in northeastern Wyoming during the 2005 Wright Wyoming tornado. I was scared another one would come for many months after that. However, that experience is what got me so interested in them and why I have spent so much time learning about and understanding the pure untamable power of nature that they are since then.
That lightning "strobe effect" he mentions is something I'll never forget from the night of April 27th-28th 2011 when the Super Outbreak occurred in the Southern US. It was one of the eeriest things I've ever seen in my life.
The family and I survived the EF4 Linwood tornado back in 2019. I believe that’s the closest I’ve ever come to dying (that I know of). The tornado got within 400 feet of our house. It was crazy. We could tell where it was even though we couldn’t see it because we were in our basement. We were just able to follow the sound and what parts of our house made the most sound above us. Edit: it really does sound like a train coming for you. My basement is made of concrete walls and floor. You’d think that would be stable but as the tornado approached the walls and floor started vibrating. Even the metal chairs we were on were shaking. We had to put a comforter over our heads and go into a brace position like on a plane because we were afraid that the house would come down on top of us. I had both my dogs in my lap at the time too.
theres not really a way for me to explain this but that siren example at 13:03 actually gave me a bit of a frighten. theres something about it to me that makes it feel like streetlights during a tornado?? idk but it kind of sounds like the hum of a fluorescent light
I like what you said about fearing tornadoes--that some amount of fear is healthy. Where I live in the upper Midwest, I think we need more of that. We have WAY too many people who ignore tornado warnings, and who are probably unaware that we get at least one tornado in our county almost every year. I'm afraid it will take a nearby destructive tornado to get people paying attention.
Getting a notification you've uploaded has quickly garnered the same excitement I get if Pecos Hank does. On topic of this video, my sister lived in the area of south western Kentucky that was devasted, and not being able to get in contact with her for three anxiety attack inducing days to see if she was okay proved to me that despite seen my own share of tornadoes from storm spotting, a tornado doesn't have to be seen to instill paralyzing fear.
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To add to tornado readiness: have conversations with neighbors about emergency situations. I lived on the second story of an apartment building once, and I had arrangements with two first story neighbors that in case of a tornado anything, I could come over asap without having to call. Same with another neighbor who had a basement. Locate storm shelters in your area before any tornado too, so you know where to go, if you’ve got the time! I know some malls have dedicated storm shelters too, but start getting these plans in place BEFORE the weather gets bad. I’ve been around and have seen tornadoes my entire and they are terrifying but having good plans ready will make them more survivable.
@@timnewman1172It’s preferable, but plenty of people have survived tornadoes in storm shelters, bathrooms, walk in freezers, hallways, sun rooms, etc. There’s even a few people who have been sucked into tornadoes and survived. According to Google above and below ground storm shelters have pretty much the same level of protection 😊
@@timnewman1172 True for EF4's and EF5s, but a central room on the bottom floor of a building (not touching outside walls, and obvs no windows) can be a good shelter in less-severe tornadoes, especially if you have a bathtub there, and if you cover yourself and others with cushions. No guarantees in any tornado, but it's those nasty highest-winds ones that will scour houses right off their foundations.
My adult son moved to an apartment building about 35 miles away from our home in Central Texas, and lives on the 4th floor. The first thing I had him do was figure out where his safe space would be in a tornado. Thankfully there's an interior stairwell, so he goes to the bottom level of that when scary weather hits.
I lived in Yukon Oklahoma in 2013, and due to our house not having a storm shelter, and what happened in Moore not long before, we decided to leave town when the tornado in El Reno on the 31st was starting to develop. Still one of the most impactful days of my life, not just because of the fear factor, but the fascination I gained for weather. Truly a spectacle not to be messed with.
As a couple of storm chasers, yeah, they are very scary, especially nocturnal tornadoes. Which we also don't like to chase, but it is essential to have chasers, unfortunately. I can't even count the amount of towns that we've been through with a tornado on the ground, or even areas that have already been damaged, that weren't warned and had no sirens, before, during, or after the tornado. To add to that, one thing that makes the predictability so hard, is the fact that there are sooo many radar gaps where there is not a single possibility of a weather observation, which can't be helped unless people contact their state rep or whoever to build more radars, so they, and every area around them, can become more safe. Also, you're right, most tornado sirens are false alarms, because they sound the alarms on a county based alert system. So, people now hear tornado sirens, and think nothing of it, because they hear it so often, when in the time of need, they will think the same thing. We actually were planning on chasing storms east of our home, but by the time we got home to gather our things after work, there was a tornado heading right to us, fortunately for us, it hit about 4 blocks away from our house, and man, the sound of it was scary, and you will know when it's there. Unfortunately, our neighbors weren't so lucky. We went to check on people that got hit, their houses were, and still are, destroyed. BUT, everybody we found had taken the right precautions, and were safe, despite being used to hearing sirens all the time for no reason. We've witnessed a lot of destruction and some scary situations along the way, but hey, if we could perfect the science behind predicting tornadoes and learn how they actually behave every single time, we wouldn't need storm chasers, and there wouldn't be numbers behind how many injuries or fatalities there were for every tornado. It would be like hurricanes where we could warn people days or hours in advance, but then again, if they chose to stay, we still have chasers on the ground responding before the first responders to help people in need. I just commented to shed a little light from behind the scenes as storm chasers. They are very scary, and everybody needs to take them seriously. Any time I see someone make a video on them, I like to give them props for making this a more known thing and let people know that it's a serious problem that should be addressed. So here's to you Swegle Studios for 150k subscribers 🎉
I think it's because of its resemblance to real boogeyman sightings - we uninstincitvely feel, that high camera quality is an indicator, that it's all being filmed and it's not real, but poor quality, with camera shaking randomly, makes it clear this thing is real, it's not staged and whoever is filming is in hot water right now.
I never knew what a tornado phobia was specifically called and I’m so glad I can now put a name to my worst nightmare. I live on the edge of Carolina Alley and have had more tornado warnings than I can count on my hands in my lifetime. Thankfully, I’ve never personally experienced a tornado, but I have had to take shelter because one was close enough to my house that it could have come our way. The fear you described in this video put me back to when I was deathly afraid of any thunderstorm because of the potential for a tornado. Over the years, I’ve been working on exposing myself to tornado content like your videos and it’s certainly helped calm my phobia. I can’t imagine actually living through a disaster such as this, and I hope I never do. God bless anyone who has ❤️
I used to live in Texas so I went through this a lot. But I’ve moved out to a place where tornadoes are a very rare occurrence. However, I’ve always had reoccurring dreams about a sentient tornado following me through empty liminal, backroom-esque type neighborhoods and cities. The freaky thing about it is just how quiet the tornadoes are in my dreams, there’s no wind, no howling, no rumbling, just a huge silent funnel of twisting clouds following me everywhere I go.
Grand Island resident here, I hadn't been born yet but my entire family lived through June 3rd, 1980. They all have terrifying stories! My great great grandmother refused to go to the basement, just sat in her chair and one of the tornados missed her house by FEET!
Most people are stubborn when it comes to severe weather. Most people are more scared of a plandemic while driving a hundred miles an hour on the road by themselves with a mask on.
I'm not one who usually cares much for the "X is scary" videos but I won't lie the intro gave me goosebumps. Great video. I've noticed that hurricanes have a similar vibe before they arrive. Dark, threatening clouds far in the distance. Gusty and windy but there's no birds. Maybe there's pools of waters around from previous storms. A strange looming silence that seems to be as thick as the humidity. Hard to describe, you can just FEEL that something big is on its way.
I was born in & grew up in Omaha in the 70s, and that Tornado Warning alert at the beginning was very familiar! I recall the Grand Island tornado vividly…and was 5 for the 1975 Omaha tornado.
I was 8 in 1975 and remember when the Omaha tornado hit. I grew up in Fremont and was afraid it was coming our way! No one hardly mentions that one, and it was very destructive.
I remember my mom would tell me about how her grandma slept through a tornado once. Her grandma was watching jeopardy I think and fell asleep, while she was asleep a tornado passed through her neighborhood and destroyed all the houses on the other side of the street. Miraculously, her house survived untouched. Everyday is a blessing, that’s why it’s called the present.
The 2015 Fairdale, Illinois tornado has that horror film, monster-type effect to me. That footage has all of the ingredients for a nightmare scenario. Thank you for these videos!
i used to live in sherwood, AR circa 2020. tornado sirens started blaring around 2am, so we went outside. it was my second time hearing that freight train sound, but nothing tops the fear i felt hearing it in the middle of the night. luckily the tornado didnt hit us, but god its a terrifying noise.
The way my anxiety spiked when I heard the beginnings of the CT chase music at 11:33 😳 never thought 2 of my favorite interests would collide like this lol. As someone who has been scared yet fascinated by tornadoes for all of my life, I think this is a great video!
6:47 I’m so glad you covered this a little bit. I remember that night VIVIDLY! The EF3 actually spawned directly south of my house I was living in at the time. I’ll never forget it. The rain was horizontal and we were in our shelter for a while! Shockingly, our home was never damaged but we found shingles from an apartment complex down the road that was hit in our yard!! It was crazy! I’ve never seen damage like that with my own eyes in a long time. I’d love to see you cover the 2019 Dallas Tornados in more detail. There were 11 tornados that night if I remember correctly, but most of them were 0’s, 1’s and 2’s, the strongest being an EF3. I love tornados and respect them and don’t mess around when there’s one.
I've been a tornado fanatic for years and love follwoing all the chasers and meteorologists, but I never knew how bad I needed a tornado historian in my life until I found your channel. Thank you for such excellent, well-researched content!
A wonderful video which illustrates well why I find tornadoes so scary and fascinating at the same time. Ever since I saw The wizzard of Oz on German television as a child, I have been fascinated by this eerie phenomenon. I still find the Jarrell tornado of 1997 to be the most terrifying and creepy. Thank you for your great videos, even those that cover other topics.
I’m from New England so I never get tornadoes but I find them so interesting and your channel makes it so easy to learn about tornadoes. I love these videos!
I was born early in the morning on June 5, 1980 in Omaha. My mom always told me about the Grand Island tornadoes because she had just gone into labor when the storms started two hours to the West. She said that for a while they moved her hospital bed into the hallway. I was born at Bergan Mercy hospital that had taken a direct hit from the 1975 Omaha tornado, so I imagine hospital staff were on edge that night.
one of the scariest videos of that final stage of a tornado is a video of a dad and his daughter (and i think dog) in Washington IL in 2013…they hid in the basement under stairs…came back up after the tornado passed a minute later (where prior you can HEAR the tornado ripping up parts of houses) and you can see the absolute decimation of rows of houses…houses you had seen 2 minutes prior in the video as completely intact
I used to live in northern Illinois. Tornadoes weren’t super common but they did happen and when they did, holy shit. Seeing someone finally talk about how genuinely horrific and awful living through a tornado is, is almost relieving. It’s a low rumbling and it can be minutes from clear skies to absolute nightmare.
11:08 twister was a goated movie, still can't believe there's a sequel in the making all these years later but it won't be the same without paxton, r.i.p 🙏
Recently, a bad storm that hit during the night spawned a tornado that unfortunately took the life of someone . Tornadoes are a rarity around here (except for the occasional waterspout, I don't think any have hit so close in my lifetime), and to find out after waking up that one was so close by was terrifying.
Awesome piece as always, Jake! The low res thing is so true - I will never forget getting our local newspaper the day following the 1979 Wichita Falls TX tornado, and the photo on the front page - it was huge, and that sucker scared the bejesus out of me, even though we lived in one of the safer usually tornado free areas of the country at the time. But I'd grown up in Ohio, so I knew what it was like to live through tornado watches and warnings all the time. As far as the EAS signal - yes, it shouldn't be used, FCC doesn't take kindly to it...heh heh...grab a snippet of the alert from a weather radio instead- same idea, but not the potentially illegal one, and you can convey the same thing....keep up the great work, dude - always love your stuff!
The FCC doesn't have authority over streaming videos; their penalties for improper use of the EAS signals are for people who have *broadcast* them on TV or radio. That said, if I was going to make a video using one, I'd make sure to record a clip of a Routine Weekly Test signal, so that on the off chance that it *did* get broadcast, any SAME decoder that picks it up would recognize it as a test, not a warning, and would, at most, just send out the test signal instead of interrupting broadcasts to transmit the decoded warning message.
Hi Swegle! I've watched you for over a year now, you really made me like tornadoes a lot better! Thing is, in my area there's barely ever a tornado warning let alone a Tornado Watch. You deserve all the popularity you've been getting! Hope you get 200K soon!
one of the best in-video ads ever LOL. Nicely done. I've survived a tornado ripping the roof off my daycare, but I was very little and have no memory of this event (but I do around the same time period). It's what my parents told me afterward. I have also recorded a tornado that I would have been involved in had I not been filming o.O it was a 115mph EF2 that destroyed a warehouse I drove by every day on the way home from work, at about the time I drove through the area.
The vibe in the atmosphere is real and I’ve always been fascinated by it. Id love a video diving into the different aspects of that feeling. If you live in Dixie alley long enough you’ll get a tense feeling long before the warnings & James Spann pop up. It’s hard to describe, but the pressure, temp, wind, all feel slightly different long before a system rolls in. It’s like everything knows what’s coming. Sometimes even the smells & color around you will change as the day progresses. Not to mention the textbook stillness & silence right before it hits. Very cool yet unnerving to experience. I get chills just thinking about the feeling and green tint everything had during the 2011 outbreak in AL. Hands down scarier than any horror movie. P.S. Love everything you’re doing with the channel, my inner weather nerd thanks you for the work you put into it.
I'm not sure, but tornados must produce massive amounts of infrasound, deep bass sound below the range of human hearing, but strong enough to be felt through the air. Humans have evolved to associate infrasound with terror, as animal roars produce infrasound while they hunted early humans. The inaudibly low component of the famous train rumble as the funnel approaches contributes to the atmosphere of fear, along with the other factors you mentioned
I think it's the more subtle environmental ques. In dixie ally on tornado days you'll see fast moving low laying clouds, not typical. It will be cloudy but feel fairly warm and humid, a bit unusual. And usually it's a bit breezy, again slightly unusual. While none of these are unusual by themselves, combined in this way is a bit unusual and I think some part of the brain picks up on that.
I know it may not seem cool or "spooky". But seeing classic tornado footage and images brings me back to my better younger years and fills me up with nostalgia of watching classic storm stories. Thanks for posting this video and filling me up with good old nostalgia with the "classics" part of this video.
I currently live a little south of Oklahoma City, and it's definitely on my mind that this area got slammed by not just one but TWO EF5 tornadoes within my lifetime. Here's hoping that lightning doesn't strike thrice...
Tornadoes scare the shit out of me! Once I was in the US (there are no tornados in my country) when there was a tornado warning at school, I thought I was gonna die that day but everyone else was sooo calm heading to the basement wth! Worst day ever. Never gonna live in a tornado hotspot or near it. Ever. Ps: loved you ad, very nostalgic! Haha
I lived through an EF-3 tornado on December 1st, 2018. Never will forget the sound of the tornado roaring in the distance as it passed a half mile to my west.
They really are Lovecraftian. I can't imagine what it must have been like for early humans to experience them for the first time. In the 15 years I spent in Nebraska, I was fortunate to never have encountered one, but I still quickly developed an increasingly severe phobia of them that only became manageable again after I moved out of their normal range. The nightmares were awful, because my mind fused my fear of tornados with my fears of helplessness and loss, so the dreams were usually just about feeling trapped while a tornado made its way towards my home, like a monster stalking its prey. Except for the times one would suddenly drop out the sky to grab me 💀 So glad to not have those anymore. Now I can go back to finding them fascinating from a safe distance 😅
I was in Ennis, TX when the 2019 dallas one happened. Me and my family were so worried because a lot of our relatives live in the Dallas/Garland area and we were currently living in that Area and we could sometimes see it with the flashing lights and It was really windy that night, we were at the texas motorplex because of the NHRA. It was a wild time. Edit : I made this comment while watching the video, and I have been hit by a tornado or have had them pass by us multiple times, but I still love tornadoes and I am facinated.
My fear keeps getting worse as we seem to rarely get warnings. I was only a couple miles from the one that hit Knoxville recently and I didn't get any kind of warning. Apparently the people in it's path got seconds to minutes.
@@tiryaclearsong421 you mean the August supercell, I wasn’t in that warning but I was hit hard by the RFD winds, my window is still broken cause I’m broke🗿🗿🗿
At 12:35, that screengrab is from my local area and hometown. Im not sure what year this is from, but it is highly likely I was taking shelter at the time that this aired. Its a little cool and a lot scary seeing that here.
Earlier this year a tornado passed through the field behind my house, probably about 100 yards away or so, maybe less. It was a pretty strong one as it had destroyed a building not even 30 seconds prior. The building was ripped apart and collapsed and huge chunks of scrap metal from it were scattered across the field afterwards, marking the tornado's path. One of the pieces landed in my neighbor's driveway. I don't have a basement or anything, so I can only imagine what would've happened if it's path had been slightly different and hit my house directly. That's the closest i've ever been to a tornado and it was insane. The debris was there for months after.
Finally a new tornado video! What are some of the scariest tornado events you can think of??
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There's plenty of them. But I think Blackwell (1955) was the scariest one..
The Edmonton, Alberta tornado is definitely one of the scariest. The multiple vortex tornado tearing through a massive city that’s far west is terrifying, and the sky was apparently near pitch black. That’s why it’s the ‘Black Friday’ tornado
Are you going to make a video about stormchaser vehicles? I love armored military vehicles and stormchaser vehicles are basically that without the guns.
As a person from the Midwest, going through a tornado is a seriously scary event, but after a few years it becomes routine to just go to the basement and hope.
When I was a kid living NW Arkansas tornadoes were quite frequent it was interesting & fun to sit outside watch to see if they touch down of not. The Eerie Darkness The Befell on the town from the wall cloud with Warm Rain And Sticky Skin.
im 13 and just went through my first in sw illinois the pickup and togetherness after was lowkey fun
The weirdest parts is that if you ask someone from the Midwest what disasters they're most scared of, usually they reply earthquakes or tsunamis, maybe even fires, but if you ask, say, a Californian (who experiences all 3 often), they'll usually answer that tornadoes are the scariest. And I agree.
Edit: tsunamis aren't common but we know they can happen.
I never witnessed a tornado, but I really want to see one.
As somebody from upstate NY, I don't know why you guys in the Midwest put up with the trauma of being desensitized from tornadoes, Every year. Especially if you are able to live elsewhere without the potential to have your life destroyed by them. I understand staying close to family that night need your care, that's alright. I really wish there were subterranean housing programs just so people would be prepared at any time. Instead of having to run underground, you would already be there. It wouldn't be a lifestyle for everyone obviously
As someone from Oklahoma, we call this situation "Tuesday"
How often do the sirens actually sound?
As someone from Arkansas, it’s called fall and spring. The sirens are just a Wednesday thing though
Same here but for Texas
@@Dobyifyable Enough that they're tested weekly here instead of monthly. I moved to Oklahoma a couple years ago and have heard them go off in earnest probably four or five times now.
If that's your Tuesday what's Monday like? I don't know if I want to go to Oklahoma on a Monday or Tuesday maybe even Wednesday.
Honestly, the weather alert tone scares me more than actual tornadoes. Watching the radar as the storm progresses is interesting to me.
Tornados? Not that scary. (To me at least)
The warning tone?!? Aw hell naw!
@@EpicRails Yeah. The tone always makes me think the worst case scenario is about to happen. I do kind of want to see a tornado in person. I saw a mesocyclone once and that was neat. It never touched down, though.
@@TheAbyssalEnderling I grew up in romeoville, about (according to google earth) 200 yards from a tornado siren. Not particularly close, but it's a device designed to be heard by the whole town. That was way too close. Scared the crap out of me, every singe time it went off. Whether it was for a tornado, or if it was just the first wednesday of the month.
I probably saw only a dozen or so tornado watches in the 7 years I was there (that i can remember), but a couple of them did result in a tornado warning. I never got hit, neither did anyone I knew. The most memorable was looking maybe about 2 miles away, My parents and I felt safe enough so we stepped outside to watch, and I saw the funnel cloud form, and start to drop towards the ground... it got about halfway, stopped for a few seconds, then went back up and the storm cleared. I'll never forget that. it was super strange.
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makes all these fkn alien sounds 😅 i hear ya man, some eerie sht 😬
Those are the same sounds used during the bombings :) air raids. @@adamfrost3139
As a Kansan, there are two things we watch for. No wind. No birds. Those two things combined = go inside. Otherwise you're outside with a drink watching the sky be angry. Every single thing about the life cycle of a severe storm is animalistic and alive. They are fascinating, terrifying and mesmerizing.
El Dorado, KS-born! Debris from the 1991 Andover tornado fell in our front yard.
And a train sound
Tornado genesis is a fascinating topic.
Been lucky here in Indianapolis for 66 years now but there's no guarantee.
It's not always like that though. The one that hit our house was at night in the middle of a thunderstorm.
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Terrifying moments of my life. I was sick and was at home, watching over my animals and watching the news when they issued the warning. I was terrified. My mom and dad were on a date, it was their anniversary, I couldn't contact them..absolutely terrifying when you were just 9/10 years old, your sister out somewhere, your parents gone, and living in a mobile home with no shelter. The sound of it still haunts me to this day.
where did you go for shelter if you were in a mobile home? my family back in tennessee all live in a trailer park together and even though they’re in the eastern mountains, it still worries me :(
@@indigo.horror I ran into a closet, which isn't the safest place as it is a mobile home, but i just didn't know where else to go as it was the only room without windows!
@@carly881 Did you bring the animals with you? Were they okay?
I'm sorry if I'm being judgmental but it's very irresponsible to leave a kid at home alone. I'm glad you're okay.
Your parents left a 9 year old home by themselves?
My grandfather survived the Gainesville Georgia tornado of 1936. He would go on to serve in a field artillery regiment in Italy during World War II but he told my mom that he never saw destruction in World War II like he saw in Gainesville Georgia when that monstrous tornado went through there.
I live 10 miles from Gainesville. That's still one of the top 10(inside the top 5 I believe) deadliest of all time and it's amazing how many people don't know that Gainesville has been hit big before, not by just that one, but another much earlier time, with both being in the top 15 deadliest tornadoes ever.
@TeKnoVKNG23 Yeah, the earlier tornado believe took place . In 1902, it demolished the factory killing lots of people.
wow, that says a lot
Your grandpapa was tough! Did he have to help look for bodies at Gainesville, or was he too young? I heard stories of boys as young as fourteen having to search. Talk about hellish.
It was a crazy situation in general... two F4s merged over Green St and moved through the downtown. They say the debris was piled 10 feet high
As a truck driver who drives primarily at night, it has always been my worst nightmare to drive unknowingly into a nocturnal tornado. This is why I have the MyRadar app on my phone. It alerts me of just about any type of weather event like thunderstorms, snow storms, and yes, tornado warnings. I’ve also been to Joplin, Grand Island, and Greensburg many times during my travels. I never even knew that Grand Island had ever been hit by a tornado before. You sure can’t tell now. Happy Halloween!
I'm friends with a few truckers down where I live in Florida, and we get a lot of rain-wrapped tornados down here! They all have the same fear, of driving right into them. Terrifying to think someone could drive right into one without warning!
On the Eastern edge of Grand Island there is a big hill called 'Tornado Hill'. It is a place where kids like to go sledding in the winter. Underneath this man-made hill is all of the storm debris that couldn't be salvaged or reused - many tons. There is a video on You Tube about it - I'll post the site name if I can find it.
in fairness, people can do a lot of rebuilding in 43 years.
Yes they can!
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You should know that there may be no place to park at night when a tornado warning is issued. Truck stops are full and many business buildings that are not truck stops are closed. I drove at night as well. However, if severe weather is in the forecast, I will not drive at night. I have always planned my timing on severe weather forecasts. So an app with a warning may go off, but you could be in an area with no place to go. Then what do you do?
I'm a huge tornado fanatic but I can't deny that tornadoes do pop up in my nightmares. They're terrifying forces of nature, but that's part of what makes them so intriguing. I've never seen one in person, but the rotation that'd become an EF4 in 2019 had gone right over our house, and we felt/heard it. I can't describe it, but there was definitely a pressure change and wind shift that caught our attention. My family can never agree on anything, especially dinner, but we all collectively looked at each other and bolted for the hallway without a word. Had it been a proper tornado at that stage, it'd of been too late for us to take shelter, and I think I'm the only one who really realized that, my parents don't take warnings seriously to this day.
Oh the Dayton 2019 one?
@@RiverSummer6613 Yeah, I guess its easy to narrow down since not many EF4s happened that year lol.
@@fantasyfinale6976 Interesting, my house got hit by the tornado after it recycled by I-675. It was EF3 strength at the time and my house lost a decent portion of its roof, but my best friend's house was completely destroyed. I got very lucky though.
@@RiverSummer6613 So sorry to hear, hope you guys are doing alright since, such a good thing there were no fatalities. It was a real crazy year for Dayton altogether though, nothing usually happens around here.
@@fantasyfinale6976 Yeah 2019 was crazy for Dayton between the tornado and that shooting. My family is doing fine now but it was super stressful at the time dealing with insurance for the damage
The video of the people riding out the Joplin tornado in the cooler will forever be the scariest tornado video. It absolutely captures everyone's feelings of impending doom and the sound of the wind is so intense.
I hope all survivors are doing okay today 🙏
The Clem Schultz video did it for me. That sound as it hit his house....
i need the links to these videos!!
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Thanks so much!
lol wouldn't expect you to be💀
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I did NOT expect you to be here, Carter XD
Another thing about a tornado hitting you is the massive pressure change. Your ears will pop A LOT. So if you have tinnitus or any kind of issue with your ears you're in for a rough time.
Which means it's also good to lie down, put hands over your head and block the ears. There were instances of people going deaf because of tornado passing by.
Ok now I’m horrified because every time I am riding in a school bus, car, truck, etc my ear clogs(yes I can unclog it)
I remember I was in a cellar in 2016 and you can hear the wind and everything it sounded like a train, it was so loud and my ears popped, I was abt 7 maybe younger or older
Something about imagining tornadoes before human civilization creeps me out.
An empty field with nothing but mountains and woods in the distance, absolutely nothing to be heard besides the pouring rain and wind with this huge twister slowly cruising across the land.
Unnerving..
You're right that is pretty ominous. Weird how just a hypothetical like that can give the creeps
Imagine all the tornado catastrophes ancient people endured that we'll never know about. Wouldn't surprise me if there have been several native American tribes that were wiped out by a single large tornado over the last 10,000 years.
I more imagine how must the soldiers feel, or especially how they felt back in the day. Imagine you're taking a centry duty for the night, and you see a massive column of water and wind coming into you. You shout to your mates: ,,tornado, take cover! No, not artillery - tornado!" - and then not only do you fear if your trench will protect you, but also that this freak of nature will destroy your defences so badly, that the enemy will strike at you afterwards.
Especially in earlier times, when people didn't know what tornadoes are and what caused them. You'd see that big column suck your mates in, and you'd only imagine it as divine force targeted against your Army, your nation and your cause.
@@Admiral45-10 No incidents come to mind, but yes, major weather events have determined the outcomes of major military campaigns--like one side seems to have everything going for it, and then the storm comes and says, "Oh no you don't. Your enemy shall be the victor today!"
Ancient man was even scared shitless by eclipses.
I am from Nebraska and in 3rd grade Night of the Twisters was a book our teacher read to us. Needless to say it was like a horror novel to us, considering how much we prepare for tornadoes in school drills, being woken up every first Saturday of the month in tornado season by the testing of the sirens, and just experiencing them. Luckily I have never lost anyone or anything to them but as a child the fear like a horror movie really was there, and to an extent still is, even if it becomes just routine for the season as an adult.
No one ever talks about night of the twisters anymore
I just re-read the book last summer.
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I read the book too! Really scary stuff actually
That's almost child-emotional-abuse level, for a teacher to read that book to a bunch of kids. I'm sure some kids were traumatized by it for life. (I mean, I was traumatized by Where the Red Fern Grows, so something like Night of the Twisters would have landed me in a mental institution.)
@@the_real_littlepinkhousefly but its a book FOR kids... it won children's literary awards
I read the book, Night of the Twisters when I was a kid back in 1985. It was one of the things that began my total fascination with tornados, along with my aunt’s own personal story. She was carried up in a tornado that destroyed her family farm just outside of Austin, Texas when she was a girl. A terrifying experience for her that she miraculously survived, after being lofted and dropped more than 2 miles away....all while only sustaining a scratch and a bruise.
It’s crazy how such things occur with tornados. They’ll sweep homes off their foundations, wrap cars around trees, drive straw through light posts; but leave a table neatly set with chinaware completely intact. Truly astonishing, and often as unexplainable as the supernatural.
So did i!!!! My favorite book when I was younger
@@Ponderthis79my parents went through the 1980 Grand Island 9 tornadoes in one night
My grandpa had the same thing happen too
The El Reno Tornado of May 2013 will forever give me chills. Just seeing the footage of storm chasers and listening to recollections from their experiences made it seem as if a living breathing entity of terror descended upon the earth.
Hey Swegle! I agree with you - tornadoes are simultaneously the creepiest and prettiest phenomena, and that’s part of why I’m kinda obsessed with them. I’m writing a book about the Greensburg tornado of May 4, 2007. That’s one of the scariest events, and it happened 2 hours away from me when I was in high school. Something super creepy about the day of the tornado: people I’ve interviewed said their drains were “gurgling” all day before the storm, from pressure and temperature changes. Love your channel!
I've driven through Greensburg many times while visiting relatives in Kansas. What happened there was unreal. It's great the way they've rebuilt with an emphasis on living 'green'.
Love your work Jacob!! This one was super creepy :) Happy Halloween!
dang, $20? I'd say you should be pinned, but he's already pinned one made my himself. i think you deserve it though.
Wow thank you so much! That's very kind. I think this is the largest Super-thanks I've received. Thanks again :)
@@SwegleStudios You're very welcome Jake! Really enjoy your content! Appreciate you!
As someone who has experienced a 8.8 earthquake, tornadoes seem like the god tier disaster in terms of scaryness (up there with some selected earthquakes).
Phenomenal video.
Closely followed by cyclones, typhoons and hurricanes.
I've never experienced an earthquake before and my mind can really not comprehend the ground shaking like that.
This man single handedly revived my childhood obsession with tornadoes. I can’t stop watching! I love the mysticism of these wonders/freaks of nature
I had a legitimate phobia of storms and tornadoes when I was a kid. Caught major crap at school for it too. Every time there was a thunderstorm, I would take my prized posessions and move them down to the basement and just be sick with anxiety. Now as an adult I adore thunderstorms and find them atmospheric and soothing. I havent experienced a tornado yet, and I'm not so sure I'd want to though. As a horror fanatic I appreciate your reference to Michael Myers. Never thought of that before. Good work.
That’s how I am rn 😭 even rain scared me
My son and I slept through a tornado once. Here in east Texas they happen a lot. After sitting up for watch conditions until about 1 am we finally went to bed. I had a vivid dream we were in the yard and saw a freight train going through the sky. The next morning we found out a tornado touched down on state highway 154 moving west and went about a half mile from the house. Now, when watches come later, I drink coffee and stay up.
Maybe it's time to invest in a weather alert radio? Guaranteed to wake you up. Even my sleeps-like-the-dead husband wakes up when ours goes off.
I live in Arkansas. I'm originally from New Jersey. I've been down here going on 8 years now. I've been terrified of tornadoes my entire life. I'm guessing that it came from watching the Wizard of Oz as a little kid since the flying monkeys didn't scare me, and neither did the Wicked Witch. Every time we're under a tornado watch, I go on red alert, and I will stay awake until either the watch ends or there's nothing showing up on my weather radar apps and I can grab a quick nap. My fiance, who is the reason I moved here, is a native Arkansan, and if a warning goes off, he jokes about grabbing a 6-pack of beer and a lawn chair to go out to sit in the yard to look for it. He's told me that he's only had to go to ground twice in his life. Last year, on November 4th, we had a relatively weak EF1 come down our valley and miss us by about a quarter mile, too. We could hear it, and I thought I was going to lose my mind. We don't have a basement or a shelter, so the only place we can go is the center hallway. I pray that we'll never have to find out if that's good enough or not. 😬
The original part of our house is 112 years old, so I like to think that if it's been here that long, that's got to mean something. 😊
@@terrisomers7843lol I’m from Arkansas and I can definitely tell your husband is from here! Lol idk why Arkansans do it, but yep! Grab a beer, a lawn chair & hit the front porch. Then run like hell back inside when things start getting bad. 😂
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I'd set up an air mattress jn my basement lol
But I know someone who lives in Oklahoma and something similar happened just this last year except the tornado actually hit their neighborhood but it was a weak one. They said they heard something and just thought "wow that's some crazy wind " but woke up in the morning to no power lol
Love this account. I used to love learning anything about weather until I transitioned in astronomy/astrophysics stuff for the past 15 years. I still love learning anything about meteorology and your account is by far my favorite! Never stop
I love both. I just go into phases.
As someone who experienced the Night of the Twisters in my hometown of Grand Island, I can tell you it was very scary and I have tons of stories about that night. One mistake, though: tornado number five was responsible for four of the five deaths, not all five. Denise Behring, a teenager going to a relative’s house, was killed on the outskirts of town by the first of the seven tornadoes. But, thanks for mentioning the outbreak. I watch and really like all of your videos!
I would love to see someone do a synopsis of it, but since it was 1980 and it started at 8:45 PM, there were only one or two photos and hardly any filming of the aftermath, so there isn’t enough video to make an interesting TH-cam video. First time 10 year-old me ever saw a car in a tree, too. LOL.
They should make a proper re-make of the movie based on the actial events, "Night of the Tornadoes" was just too campy to be taken seriously!
My sister was in Grand Island that night and almost became fatality #6. She was at a friend's house and when they lost power, she went out to her car to get a battery powered radio. While she was in the car, the wind got under the vehicle enough to push it up on one side against a tree. A few seconds later it came back down.
A few other weird things about the GI tornado family...
1. Two of the seven tornadoes were _anticyclonic_ , meaning they rotated clockwise instead of the normal counter-clockwise.
2. The parent storm moved southeast, but the individual storms would often deviate from such. The large F4 South Locust tornado, responsible for 4 of the 5 deaths actually stated _east_ of town and moved west, back into town before making a left turn down Locust Street wiping out the business district there.
3. Not only did the tornado paths deviate from the parent circulation, but they would often cross over their own footprint. The final tornado of the night crossed over it's own path...SIX times.
@@scarpfishThat'd be pretty scary to have car lift up on the side then back down. Glad she survived that event, something she will never forget im sure
Glad your still hear today
I do have aftermath footage on an early 'home movies' camera that was taken as my family saw the destruction days later. Other family members have copies of this as well. This was in the clean-up phase, and there are blocks and blocks of sidewalks and front stoops leading to nowhere, or homes with nothing but a closet standing, or a toilet still in place.
bro stoping at a red light when there’s a tornado is like a teacher telling you “the bell doesn’t dismiss you i do”
I have never been hit by a tornado, but I definitely have Lilapsophobia. Recently, a big thunderstorm with a tornado warning that was like 20+ miles away, struck me to my core. I could barely breathe, talk, or move. I was almost paralyzed, even though nothing bad really happened.
When I was sick years old and have learned about the existence of tornadoes, they became my worst fear despite them not occurring in my country or anywhere nearby. But just seeing the images of a large dark cloud with a vortex tower linking it to the ground tearing apart huts… I legit had nightmares of this, and also meteors and earthquakes
Twister came out when I was six and I had nightmares for years afterwards even though my state gets like three small tornadoes on busy years. Tornadoes are still the only recurring element in my dreams, but they're just fascinating to me now, not scary.
Are you from an earthquake prone area then?
@@BeckerAviation I am, and they scare me almost to the point of phobia lol. I'm not _quite_ there, but I do know exactly what I'll do if one hits at any given moment. I choose where I sit at restaurants based on it lol
Technically every country can have tornadoes, as they are known to form on every continent except Antartica. In fact, the single deadliest tornado in the world struck in Bangladesh, not the United States. That said, it's rare for other countries to have tornadoes as powerful as the ones that form in the U.S., so while they should be a worry, there are other things you should probably worry about more.
I think what's really scary about them, which no one really notices to bring up...is that our current era of recording equipment doesn't record what the tornadoes really sound like. I've never seen a video that honestly captured the true sounds of them. I've personally heard train tracks, train whistles, a group of tigers roars, explosion-like drilling, air cracks, a giant jet vacuum, amongst other hard to describe sounds with them. There's only one way to know what they sound like...Only if it decides to visit you in person.
Look up the Clem Shultz F4 footage. It's brutal sounding. My favorite death metal band is Portal, they sound almost exactly like the tornado audio in that footage.
It doesnt help that half the time people are yelling, 'OH MY GOD!! or "WOW" every 2 seconds
Reed Timmer has some awesome tornado footage where you can hear them, they really do sound like freight trains.
I suspect that the best way to describe the sound of a tornado is jet noise... sort of. If you could get the rushing air from the fan section of a modern jetliner's high-bypass turbofan, separated from the roar of the turbine section (and its supersonic exhaust) and the noise of the fan blades themselves, that'd be a very close approximation of the sound, since it would be a large volume of air moving at the same speed as tornadic winds... just many, many times quieter, since it's nowhere near as large a volume as even a tiny tornado.
@@seanrosenau2088 Yes this famous one. I know. It does have a lot of close sound, I agree. However, if you read the testimony of him based on his own report, it sounds much more horrific (I'm assuming not just from being in it).
Tornadoes have been horrifying to me since I was a kid. I lived in fear of a tornado happening when I was a kid. Luckily, I've never seen one in real life. But the warnings terrified me as a kid. That's one of the things that got me obsessed with the Weather Channel starting when I was 6 or 7. The fact that they feel alive, the way they maneuver and can change direction at any time, form and dissipate whenever, it all just creeped me out, and is one of the few things I am genuinely frightened as of the approach of my 27th birthday.
10:59 As someone who doesn’t see tornadic activity too often, nothing is more exciting than when a Tornado Watch is issued! I pull up the news and radar while sending photos and videos of the situation to my friends. I personally love the excitement!
Living in Tornado Alley with an anxiety disorder sure makes Spring a fun season.
I've only been through 1 tornado, and it was only an EF-2. The freakiest part was, while in the bathtub, hearing hail and rain start bouncing off the roof and metal chimney from all sides. Then, one of my patio chairs slammed into a window which was scary. We were on the ouskirts of it so the only real damage was some roofing and i never saw one of my patio chairs again, but it was still a frightening experience.
"Only" an EF2? They can rip roofs off. I'm glad you were safe.
@@Purpzie EF-2's are definitely powerful, but compared to the people in the video who had to deal with EF-5's ruing their entire neighborhood's, the worst damage my area suffered were a couple strip malls being deroofed and demolished, I consider myself lucky.
@@FrankReynolds182there was a ef2 that was stronger than most ef5s
Coming from someone who lives in Cookeville, it was absolutely terrifying. I remember that outbreak and my apartment along with several others had damage done as a result of tail end of the remaining tornado. Luckily it was fizzling out by the time it reached us. Debris was everywhere, power was out, luckily nobody around us was hurt. Unfortunately though, we lost some people as you stated, and my thoughts and prayers still go out to their families. I remember going out through town the following morning and just seeing the damage done not too far from where i live and i still count my blessings that i didnt live any closer to where it hit.
Possibly the most thoughtful and succinct commentary ever assembled and released for public review, that breaks down and encapsulates the mesmerizing horror that tornadoes embody, perhaps more so than any meteorological phenomena on Earth. Well done!
I still remember being a preschooler in northeastern Wyoming during the 2005 Wright Wyoming tornado. I was scared another one would come for many months after that. However, that experience is what got me so interested in them and why I have spent so much time learning about and understanding the pure untamable power of nature that they are since then.
That lightning "strobe effect" he mentions is something I'll never forget from the night of April 27th-28th 2011 when the Super Outbreak occurred in the Southern US. It was one of the eeriest things I've ever seen in my life.
The family and I survived the EF4 Linwood tornado back in 2019. I believe that’s the closest I’ve ever come to dying (that I know of). The tornado got within 400 feet of our house. It was crazy. We could tell where it was even though we couldn’t see it because we were in our basement. We were just able to follow the sound and what parts of our house made the most sound above us.
Edit: it really does sound like a train coming for you.
My basement is made of concrete walls and floor. You’d think that would be stable but as the tornado approached the walls and floor started vibrating. Even the metal chairs we were on were shaking. We had to put a comforter over our heads and go into a brace position like on a plane because we were afraid that the house would come down on top of us. I had both my dogs in my lap at the time too.
theres not really a way for me to explain this but that siren example at 13:03 actually gave me a bit of a frighten. theres something about it to me that makes it feel like streetlights during a tornado?? idk but it kind of sounds like the hum of a fluorescent light
I like what you said about fearing tornadoes--that some amount of fear is healthy. Where I live in the upper Midwest, I think we need more of that. We have WAY too many people who ignore tornado warnings, and who are probably unaware that we get at least one tornado in our county almost every year. I'm afraid it will take a nearby destructive tornado to get people paying attention.
Getting a notification you've uploaded has quickly garnered the same excitement I get if Pecos Hank does.
On topic of this video, my sister lived in the area of south western Kentucky that was devasted, and not being able to get in contact with her for three anxiety attack inducing days to see if she was okay proved to me that despite seen my own share of tornadoes from storm spotting, a tornado doesn't have to be seen to instill paralyzing fear.
I love Jake’s advertisements because they are so unique compared to a lot of other content creators ad reads. His have a lot more creativity and has this nice retro vibe. Keep up the great work!
To add to tornado readiness: have conversations with neighbors about emergency situations.
I lived on the second story of an apartment building once, and I had arrangements with two first story neighbors that in case of a tornado anything, I could come over asap without having to call. Same with another neighbor who had a basement.
Locate storm shelters in your area before any tornado too, so you know where to go, if you’ve got the time! I know some malls have dedicated storm shelters too, but start getting these plans in place BEFORE the weather gets bad.
I’ve been around and have seen tornadoes my entire and they are terrifying but having good plans ready will make them more survivable.
Below ground in a reinforced enclosed shelter is really the only safe place during a tornado...
@@timnewman1172It’s preferable, but plenty of people have survived tornadoes in storm shelters, bathrooms, walk in freezers, hallways, sun rooms, etc.
There’s even a few people who have been sucked into tornadoes and survived. According to Google above and below ground storm shelters have pretty much the same level of protection 😊
@@timnewman1172 True for EF4's and EF5s, but a central room on the bottom floor of a building (not touching outside walls, and obvs no windows) can be a good shelter in less-severe tornadoes, especially if you have a bathtub there, and if you cover yourself and others with cushions. No guarantees in any tornado, but it's those nasty highest-winds ones that will scour houses right off their foundations.
My adult son moved to an apartment building about 35 miles away from our home in Central Texas, and lives on the 4th floor. The first thing I had him do was figure out where his safe space would be in a tornado. Thankfully there's an interior stairwell, so he goes to the bottom level of that when scary weather hits.
I lived in Yukon Oklahoma in 2013, and due to our house not having a storm shelter, and what happened in Moore not long before, we decided to leave town when the tornado in El Reno on the 31st was starting to develop. Still one of the most impactful days of my life, not just because of the fear factor, but the fascination I gained for weather. Truly a spectacle not to be messed with.
As a couple of storm chasers, yeah, they are very scary, especially nocturnal tornadoes. Which we also don't like to chase, but it is essential to have chasers, unfortunately. I can't even count the amount of towns that we've been through with a tornado on the ground, or even areas that have already been damaged, that weren't warned and had no sirens, before, during, or after the tornado. To add to that, one thing that makes the predictability so hard, is the fact that there are sooo many radar gaps where there is not a single possibility of a weather observation, which can't be helped unless people contact their state rep or whoever to build more radars, so they, and every area around them, can become more safe. Also, you're right, most tornado sirens are false alarms, because they sound the alarms on a county based alert system. So, people now hear tornado sirens, and think nothing of it, because they hear it so often, when in the time of need, they will think the same thing.
We actually were planning on chasing storms east of our home, but by the time we got home to gather our things after work, there was a tornado heading right to us, fortunately for us, it hit about 4 blocks away from our house, and man, the sound of it was scary, and you will know when it's there. Unfortunately, our neighbors weren't so lucky. We went to check on people that got hit, their houses were, and still are, destroyed. BUT, everybody we found had taken the right precautions, and were safe, despite being used to hearing sirens all the time for no reason.
We've witnessed a lot of destruction and some scary situations along the way, but hey, if we could perfect the science behind predicting tornadoes and learn how they actually behave every single time, we wouldn't need storm chasers, and there wouldn't be numbers behind how many injuries or fatalities there were for every tornado. It would be like hurricanes where we could warn people days or hours in advance, but then again, if they chose to stay, we still have chasers on the ground responding before the first responders to help people in need.
I just commented to shed a little light from behind the scenes as storm chasers. They are very scary, and everybody needs to take them seriously. Any time I see someone make a video on them, I like to give them props for making this a more known thing and let people know that it's a serious problem that should be addressed. So here's to you Swegle Studios for 150k subscribers 🎉
You’re definitely right about the lack of quality making it all creepier. The one photo from the 1984 Ivanovo tornado in Russia always makes me shiver
I think it's because of its resemblance to real boogeyman sightings - we uninstincitvely feel, that high camera quality is an indicator, that it's all being filmed and it's not real, but poor quality, with camera shaking randomly, makes it clear this thing is real, it's not staged and whoever is filming is in hot water right now.
I disagree. The higher and sharper the resolution of a tornado video, the scarier they look to me.
I never knew what a tornado phobia was specifically called and I’m so glad I can now put a name to my worst nightmare. I live on the edge of Carolina Alley and have had more tornado warnings than I can count on my hands in my lifetime. Thankfully, I’ve never personally experienced a tornado, but I have had to take shelter because one was close enough to my house that it could have come our way. The fear you described in this video put me back to when I was deathly afraid of any thunderstorm because of the potential for a tornado. Over the years, I’ve been working on exposing myself to tornado content like your videos and it’s certainly helped calm my phobia. I can’t imagine actually living through a disaster such as this, and I hope I never do. God bless anyone who has ❤️
I love your intro. Never loose the late 80s/early 90s intro and vibes.
I used to live in Texas so I went through this a lot. But I’ve moved out to a place where tornadoes are a very rare occurrence. However, I’ve always had reoccurring dreams about a sentient tornado following me through empty liminal, backroom-esque type neighborhoods and cities. The freaky thing about it is just how quiet the tornadoes are in my dreams, there’s no wind, no howling, no rumbling, just a huge silent funnel of twisting clouds following me everywhere I go.
Grand Island resident here, I hadn't been born yet but my entire family lived through June 3rd, 1980. They all have terrifying stories! My great great grandmother refused to go to the basement, just sat in her chair and one of the tornados missed her house by FEET!
Most people are stubborn when it comes to severe weather. Most people are more scared of a plandemic while driving a hundred miles an hour on the road by themselves with a mask on.
I'm not one who usually cares much for the "X is scary" videos but I won't lie the intro gave me goosebumps. Great video.
I've noticed that hurricanes have a similar vibe before they arrive. Dark, threatening clouds far in the distance. Gusty and windy but there's no birds. Maybe there's pools of waters around from previous storms. A strange looming silence that seems to be as thick as the humidity. Hard to describe, you can just FEEL that something big is on its way.
I was born in & grew up in Omaha in the 70s, and that Tornado Warning alert at the beginning was very familiar! I recall the Grand Island tornado vividly…and was 5 for the 1975 Omaha tornado.
I was 8 in 1975 and remember when the Omaha tornado hit. I grew up in Fremont and was afraid it was coming our way! No one hardly mentions that one, and it was very destructive.
I remember my mom would tell me about how her grandma slept through a tornado once.
Her grandma was watching jeopardy I think and fell asleep, while she was asleep a tornado passed through her neighborhood and destroyed all the houses on the other side of the street. Miraculously, her house survived untouched.
Everyday is a blessing, that’s why it’s called the present.
The 2015 Fairdale, Illinois tornado has that horror film, monster-type effect to me. That footage has all of the ingredients for a nightmare scenario. Thank you for these videos!
I just wanted to tell you, I love your channel. the athmosphere, the vibe, I love it. you make awesome videos. keep it going mate!!
TORNADOES PASSING THROUGH DALLAS
I agree. He makes it feel like you are actually experiencing the tornadoes. Something few can do, and makes the video more interesting
Thank you so much!
i used to live in sherwood, AR circa 2020. tornado sirens started blaring around 2am, so we went outside. it was my second time hearing that freight train sound, but nothing tops the fear i felt hearing it in the middle of the night. luckily the tornado didnt hit us, but god its a terrifying noise.
The way my anxiety spiked when I heard the beginnings of the CT chase music at 11:33 😳 never thought 2 of my favorite interests would collide like this lol. As someone who has been scared yet fascinated by tornadoes for all of my life, I think this is a great video!
6:47 I’m so glad you covered this a little bit.
I remember that night VIVIDLY! The EF3 actually spawned directly south of my house I was living in at the time. I’ll never forget it. The rain was horizontal and we were in our shelter for a while!
Shockingly, our home was never damaged but we found shingles from an apartment complex down the road that was hit in our yard!! It was crazy!
I’ve never seen damage like that with my own eyes in a long time. I’d love to see you cover the 2019 Dallas Tornados in more detail.
There were 11 tornados that night if I remember correctly, but most of them were 0’s, 1’s and 2’s, the strongest being an EF3.
I love tornados and respect them and don’t mess around when there’s one.
I've been a tornado fanatic for years and love follwoing all the chasers and meteorologists, but I never knew how bad I needed a tornado historian in my life until I found your channel. Thank you for such excellent, well-researched content!
A wonderful video which illustrates well why I find tornadoes so scary and fascinating at the same time. Ever since I saw The wizzard of Oz on German television as a child, I have been fascinated by this eerie phenomenon. I still find the Jarrell tornado of 1997 to be the most terrifying and creepy. Thank you for your great videos, even those that cover other topics.
I’m from New England so I never get tornadoes but I find them so interesting and your channel makes it so easy to learn about tornadoes. I love these videos!
I was born early in the morning on June 5, 1980 in Omaha. My mom always told me about the Grand Island tornadoes because she had just gone into labor when the storms started two hours to the West. She said that for a while they moved her hospital bed into the hallway. I was born at Bergan Mercy hospital that had taken a direct hit from the 1975 Omaha tornado, so I imagine hospital staff were on edge that night.
one of the scariest videos of that final stage of a tornado is a video of a dad and his daughter (and i think dog) in Washington IL in 2013…they hid in the basement under stairs…came back up after the tornado passed a minute later (where prior you can HEAR the tornado ripping up parts of houses) and you can see the absolute decimation of rows of houses…houses you had seen 2 minutes prior in the video as completely intact
I used to live in northern Illinois. Tornadoes weren’t super common but they did happen and when they did, holy shit. Seeing someone finally talk about how genuinely horrific and awful living through a tornado is, is almost relieving. It’s a low rumbling and it can be minutes from clear skies to absolute nightmare.
Your videos get better and better with every upload, so many interesting topics. Keep it up man you have some of the best weather content on TH-cam
As being a Nebraska native the grand island event is one the biggest events to ever occur in the state.
11:08 twister was a goated movie, still can't believe there's a sequel in the making all these years later
but it won't be the same without paxton, r.i.p 🙏
I was a kid when I first saw Twister. Couldn't sleep for a week after seeing it.
@@BarnieSnyman oh man same, but at the same time it grew to be one of my favorite movies. even to this day, it's a favorite haha
There should seriously be an analog horror series about tornadoes tbh. Like this stuff is so scary to me
Tornadoes are easily one of my biggest fears, but at the same time, they fascinate me.
Recently, a bad storm that hit during the night spawned a tornado that unfortunately took the life of someone . Tornadoes are a rarity around here (except for the occasional waterspout, I don't think any have hit so close in my lifetime), and to find out after waking up that one was so close by was terrifying.
Awesome piece as always, Jake! The low res thing is so true - I will never forget getting our local newspaper the day following the 1979 Wichita Falls TX tornado, and the photo on the front page - it was huge, and that sucker scared the bejesus out of me, even though we lived in one of the safer usually tornado free areas of the country at the time. But I'd grown up in Ohio, so I knew what it was like to live through tornado watches and warnings all the time. As far as the EAS signal - yes, it shouldn't be used, FCC doesn't take kindly to it...heh heh...grab a snippet of the alert from a weather radio instead- same idea, but not the potentially illegal one, and you can convey the same thing....keep up the great work, dude - always love your stuff!
The FCC doesn't have authority over streaming videos; their penalties for improper use of the EAS signals are for people who have *broadcast* them on TV or radio. That said, if I was going to make a video using one, I'd make sure to record a clip of a Routine Weekly Test signal, so that on the off chance that it *did* get broadcast, any SAME decoder that picks it up would recognize it as a test, not a warning, and would, at most, just send out the test signal instead of interrupting broadcasts to transmit the decoded warning message.
Hi Swegle! I've watched you for over a year now, you really made me like tornadoes a lot better! Thing is, in my area there's barely ever a tornado warning let alone a Tornado Watch. You deserve all the popularity you've been getting! Hope you get 200K soon!
I've been looking for content like this for awhile on TH-cam, this channel is awesome.
one of the best in-video ads ever LOL. Nicely done. I've survived a tornado ripping the roof off my daycare, but I was very little and have no memory of this event (but I do around the same time period). It's what my parents told me afterward.
I have also recorded a tornado that I would have been involved in had I not been filming o.O it was a 115mph EF2 that destroyed a warehouse I drove by every day on the way home from work, at about the time I drove through the area.
I've been in a tornado warning twice in the past decade or so, but they never fail to make me anxious as hell
I dream about them when I'm stressed
The vibe in the atmosphere is real and I’ve always been fascinated by it. Id love a video diving into the different aspects of that feeling.
If you live in Dixie alley long enough you’ll get a tense feeling long before the warnings & James Spann pop up. It’s hard to describe, but the pressure, temp, wind, all feel slightly different long before a system rolls in. It’s like everything knows what’s coming.
Sometimes even the smells & color around you will change as the day progresses. Not to mention the textbook stillness & silence right before it hits.
Very cool yet unnerving to experience. I get chills just thinking about the feeling and green tint everything had during the 2011 outbreak in AL. Hands down scarier than any horror movie.
P.S. Love everything you’re doing with the channel, my inner weather nerd thanks you for the work you put into it.
I'm not sure, but tornados must produce massive amounts of infrasound, deep bass sound below the range of human hearing, but strong enough to be felt through the air. Humans have evolved to associate infrasound with terror, as animal roars produce infrasound while they hunted early humans. The inaudibly low component of the famous train rumble as the funnel approaches contributes to the atmosphere of fear, along with the other factors you mentioned
I think it's the more subtle environmental ques. In dixie ally on tornado days you'll see fast moving low laying clouds, not typical. It will be cloudy but feel fairly warm and humid, a bit unusual. And usually it's a bit breezy, again slightly unusual. While none of these are unusual by themselves, combined in this way is a bit unusual and I think some part of the brain picks up on that.
I love tornados and weather and I loved this video! I love this type of content. This is why I subscribed!
Had a nocturnal rain wrapped tornado hit my neighborhood just a few weeks ago. One of the scariest experiences of my entire life
I know it may not seem cool or "spooky". But seeing classic tornado footage and images brings me back to my better younger years and fills me up with nostalgia of watching classic storm stories. Thanks for posting this video and filling me up with good old nostalgia with the "classics" part of this video.
I currently live a little south of Oklahoma City, and it's definitely on my mind that this area got slammed by not just one but TWO EF5 tornadoes within my lifetime. Here's hoping that lightning doesn't strike thrice...
You forgot about 2013 El Reno and El Reno Piedmont although only one was rated EF-5 both exhibited EF-5 level wind speeds
I would stay on high alert - that area seems to be a magnet for tornadic storms!
The Omaha, Nebraska tornado warning at the beginning hits deep.
I was in that one and the Night of the Twisters in Grand Island five years later. The GI one was WAY worse from where I was at in both occasions.
As long as they don’t show up at night, I love tornado weather! Thanks for the scary vid! You’re awesome 🤩
Tornadoes scare the shit out of me! Once I was in the US (there are no tornados in my country) when there was a tornado warning at school, I thought I was gonna die that day but everyone else was sooo calm heading to the basement wth! Worst day ever. Never gonna live in a tornado hotspot or near it. Ever.
Ps: loved you ad, very nostalgic! Haha
the little green screen ad you made for your sponsor was ✨SCRUMPTIOUS✨
I lived through an EF-3 tornado on December 1st, 2018. Never will forget the sound of the tornado roaring in the distance as it passed a half mile to my west.
The one in Taylorville?
@@auIette Yup. closest i've ever been to being hit by a tornado.
@@penguinbrony2415 Damn, good you survived though
0:21 I hate it when my Commodore 64 commercial gets interrupted by a tornado warning
They really are Lovecraftian. I can't imagine what it must have been like for early humans to experience them for the first time. In the 15 years I spent in Nebraska, I was fortunate to never have encountered one, but I still quickly developed an increasingly severe phobia of them that only became manageable again after I moved out of their normal range. The nightmares were awful, because my mind fused my fear of tornados with my fears of helplessness and loss, so the dreams were usually just about feeling trapped while a tornado made its way towards my home, like a monster stalking its prey. Except for the times one would suddenly drop out the sky to grab me 💀 So glad to not have those anymore. Now I can go back to finding them fascinating from a safe distance 😅
I liked what you made for your sponsor, you are really good at making someone want to buy something!
I love the nostalgic feel to your videos. I grew up in the 90s, and you definitely have that vhs, lost media footage feel to it.
I was in Ennis, TX when the 2019 dallas one happened. Me and my family were so worried because a lot of our relatives live in the Dallas/Garland area and we were currently living in that Area and we could sometimes see it with the flashing lights and It was really windy that night, we were at the texas motorplex because of the NHRA. It was a wild time.
Edit : I made this comment while watching the video, and I have been hit by a tornado or have had them pass by us multiple times, but I still love tornadoes and I am facinated.
As someone who lives in Tennessee, my fear of nocturnal tornadoes has increased dramatically
My fear keeps getting worse as we seem to rarely get warnings. I was only a couple miles from the one that hit Knoxville recently and I didn't get any kind of warning. Apparently the people in it's path got seconds to minutes.
@@tiryaclearsong421 you mean the August supercell, I wasn’t in that warning but I was hit hard by the RFD winds, my window is still broken cause I’m broke🗿🗿🗿
This tornado video really… “Blew” me away
For a person from Indiana this is perhaps the most relatable channel
At 12:35, that screengrab is from my local area and hometown. Im not sure what year this is from, but it is highly likely I was taking shelter at the time that this aired. Its a little cool and a lot scary seeing that here.
I just got hit by a tornado and huge thunderstorm last night, and the accuracy of that intro scene is crazy-
13:58 No because I would, assuming I knew approximately where the tornado was, very much be cautiously running any red lights I encountered.
You wouldn't know where it is if it was rain wrapped, jackass.
I'm going to make it my mission to get you more subscribers because you deserve them. Your videos are amazing. Since I'm a trained storm spotter
0:49 Your cat is so cute, I love how he/she follows after you. 😊
Just want to appreciate that Swegle’s ad reads are absolutely top notch.
Earlier this year a tornado passed through the field behind my house, probably about 100 yards away or so, maybe less. It was a pretty strong one as it had destroyed a building not even 30 seconds prior. The building was ripped apart and collapsed and huge chunks of scrap metal from it were scattered across the field afterwards, marking the tornado's path. One of the pieces landed in my neighbor's driveway. I don't have a basement or anything, so I can only imagine what would've happened if it's path had been slightly different and hit my house directly. That's the closest i've ever been to a tornado and it was insane. The debris was there for months after.
You should do a video on the history of the EBS/EAS and how they work and why they are scary.
Seconded!