18:18 its a different tornado near el reno. this one was an ef5 from 2011 thats overshadowed by both the joplin ef5 and the 2.6 miles wide el reno tornado from 2013
Tornados occur in the United States more than any other country in the world. Geography and the colliding air currents often create the perfect conditions for tornadic weather.
Part of the reason that tornadoes that happen outside of “Tornado Alley” tend to be so much more horrible is that 1) the areas are often more populated; the areas dubbed as tornado alley is generally speaking a relatively rural area, and 2) tornadoes are less expected in areas that don’t get them as often so the people don’t have as much experience with knowing how to stay safe in that kind of severe weather. Edited to add: Joplin had 161 fatalities, not 158.
It still shouldn't really excuse that, there's a reason why the saying "expect the unexpected" exists, just because you live in an area that's not common for tornados does not mean you're 100% free from them. Once you start to think you're safe from something specific especially if that something specific is something mother nature can throw at anyone, they see fit, they will send it your way to give you a reality check, heck there's even a video online of someone recording a tornado thinking it was heading AWAY from them... it wasn't, this individual was one of the lucky few to have been caught by a tornado and survived... their wife... not so much, that footage is now being used as a teaching lesson for what not to do in the event a tornado makes landfall and you're in its path. Pretty sure this is even that footage of the Fairdale IL tornado. "Fairdale, Illinois Tornado Of 2015"
Every state in the US has recorded at least one tornado. Tornado Alley (Midwest, Great Plains US) and Dixie Alley (Southeastern US) record a much higher volume than outside of it. Tornado Alley extends from states that border Mexico to states that border Canada. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, these all get tornadoes with some degree of regularity. They're also more heavily populated than the areas that get more frequent tornadoes so when it hits it does a lot more damage. Tornadoes can hit major cities, although it's rare. In 1974 we had tornadoes within the city limits. According to my parents, we had some very close to our house, in the center of the city limits. I was able to confirm one within a mile, which is entirely too close. I was 6 weeks from my fourth birthday in 1974. Xenia, about 50 or so miles north of here, was destroyed. The Sayler Park neighborhood on the western border of Cincinnati (my city) was also destroyed. Despite the fact that storm gave me nightmares for the next 30 decades, I was never actually afraid of tornadoes. Not sure how that happened.
I was in my mom's belly as she watched the F5 that got Xenia in your #1 example. I grew up with so many stories about the event and everyone from my neighborhood coming to our house when there were tornado warnings for years before people felt safe again.
It isn't uncommon at all to get tornadoes in the Dakotas, Minnesota, or even in the plains Provinces in Canada. Just because it's statistically more likely to form tornadoes in Tornado Alley or Dixie Alley doesn't mean they're uncommon outside of those states. If I hear of one in New York or Massachusetts, it's certainly surprising but in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio? Nah, not even a little bit surprised. Also, at the 17 minute mark where you commented about the lightning, it could be but I would guess it was an electrical transformer blowing up at a substation.
Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what it was. Chasers call them "power flashes," and they're one of the most reliable ways of confirming a tornado is on the ground in bad visibility (heavy rain) or at night.
Yep PA here. We’ve had multiple touch down just this last month in a half. One just last night one county over.. I’m in Pittsburgh. We’ve had at least 3/4 warnings this last month alone.
I know I’ve said this before but you cannot even imagine what Joplin looked like after that storm. We live an hours drive east of there and had paper from Joplin land in our yard. Our church took supplies and went to help with clean up. I went one day- it was inconceivable.
You should google two different alleys: Tornado alley & Dixie alley. Dixie alley is in the Deep South. We have more tornadoes than people realize & our’s are more deadly bc about half of tornadoes occur at night or we can’t see them come during the day bc of our tall trees. They also can be very fast moving when traveling. Some travel forward at highway speeds 👀
In 1953, my mother, who was 14 at the time, was visiting her uncle and his family in Worcester, Massachusetts. She became afraid of the weather and did NOT want to stay. So she called my grandfather and to his credit drove all the way out to get her and bring her back to Boston. Later they heard about the tornado that struck. My mother has always had an intuitive streak and it served her well that day. No one in the family was harmed.
4:10 tornadoes can (and do) occur in any US state. They are most common in the midwest and south of course but there is always the chance that you get tornadoes further north, especially during the summer months
Tornado Alley isn't necessarily in the North of the USA. Texas is part of Tornado Alley, and it's in the South. we usually get at least one storm once a week in Texas, sometimes more. and they're usually pretty bad. which means we get a lot of tornado watches and warnings. we get them so often that most people here don't do anything and continue what they're doing until we actually hear the sirens. some people even step outside to watch these storms.
My mother's childhood home was hit in the Palm Sunday Outbreak in South Bend, IN. She said it sounded like a freight train running through the living room.
During the War of 1812 when the British were attacking the Washington D.C. area Red Coats out in the open were hit by a tornado. Killing hundreds of troops.
0:01 My grandmother's home was destroyed by a tornado in 1947, northwest of Isabel, South Dakota. It left her, her mother, 3 brothers, and 3 sisters homeless until they were able to move in with relatives. She was 21 years old, and she was deathly afraid of storms for the rest of her life. I still remember her sitting in an interior room of her house, crying and praying during storms.
I am 60 years old and I remember the 1974 outbreak well. It was a month before my 11th birthday and it seemed like tornadoes were everywhere. Xenia OHio was hit really hard. I'll never forget that day.
2011 was insane here in Alabama. It was truly like living through the end of the world. Distant sirens, tornadoes raging to the north, south, and west of where I lived. Luckily, we were all fine.
My sister did live in Alabama during the outbreak and fortunately her and her kids survived since the tornado did went over house but her neighbors were not so lucky.
I remember the '74 outbreak quite well. We were just south of the one that destroyed Brandenburg, Kentucky and went on to hit Louisville. I remember our basketball goal post which was a telephone pole snapping like a twig and the neighbor's shed lifting off, flying over his house and landing on his car which was parked out on the street and we weren't even in the actual path of the tornado. My Pappy went to Brandenburg after the storm to help out as he had family there. There was a boy who was missing and Pappy found him, or rather, most of him, up in a tree a mile from the path of the tornado. Needless to say Pappy was a wreck when he got back home to us.
Being from Ohio, tornadoes are just another aspect of normal weather, and they can happen any time of year. As a kid in school we had regular tornado drills, where we would go to the hallway and sit on the ground with our hands over our heads. They are more common in the spring due to clash from hot air rapidly replacing cooler air, but we've had them in every month of the year. We also have a weekly siren test, so here in Central Ohio we always know when it's noon on Wednesday because we hear the sirens. Interestingly enough a few months ago we had "likely tornadic" weather predicted for a Wednesday so they suspended the test, but announced that if we did hear it, it would be real that day.
I’ve never had damage from a tornado at my house but the closest was a neighborhood in my town 1.2 miles from me. We waited it out in our basement. My ex brother in law, my great aunt, my cousin and my sister have each lost a house due to tornado damage in Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas.
We’re all getting smacked up and down the states with tornados this past month. Insanely warm weather (I’m in Pittsburgh. 85 degrees F/30C in April) is causing massive storm cells. Tornado alley has had at least 20 plus the last few weeks. We just got hit by one here last night one county over. It’s been a wild month or so here weather wise and I think more storm cells are moving through.
4:55 Actually, I know of two instances where a tornado occurred in the midst of a war. 1. During the War of 1812, a tornado that spawned from a hurricane hit Washington D.C. one day after it had been occupied by British forces. The Brits, who were in the process of burning D.C., were forced to evacuate the area. Ironically, the tornado had indirectly saved D.C. from certain destruction. 2. There were actually a fair number of tornadoes that impacted troops during the U.S. Civil War. Most notable would be a group of at least three tornadoes that stuck both Union and Confederate encampments in the area where the Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky borders meet on April 2nd, 1862. Additionally, during the latter half of the U.S. Civil War, an encampment of over 100,000 Union soldiers in the Army of the Potomac were hit by what was either a tornado or a derecho. Most historians lean toward it being a derecho, but it still bears mentioning.
I live in SW Ohio and on memorial Day 2019, we had 15 tornadoes here including an EF4 that went thru the outskirts of downtown Dayton. Tornadoes can happen anywhere. The reason tornado alley gets as many tornadoes as it does is because cold air from the western mountains collides with the warm air coming from the Gulf of Mexico.
In 1980 I watched an F2 pass two blocks south of me in Kalamazoo Michigan. It would kill 4 people and do significant damage. I was walking down North Street when the tornado sirens sounded and storm hit. I stepped into a covered store front and was shocked to see a tornado passing two blocks south of me.
The cold air coming from Canada and across the Rockies collides with warm air coming up from the Gulf of Mexico. It causes the perfect conditions for tornadoes I lived through an F4 in Atkins, Arkansas in 2008. Took our home but we made it. Will never forget being in a root cellar and feeling it come over us.
After GB sacked Washington DC in 1812, as the British left to reboard their ships to the East, the column was hit by hurricane. More Redcoats died from the storm than were killed by the Americans in their failed attempt to defend their capital.
If you look at a topographical map of the US you can see the entire central portion is fairly flat and allows huge weather systems to gain size and momentum and just tromp right through there from Texas all the way up to the great lakes. i lived near St. Louis from 1956 to 1975 and recall so many spring/summer storms that would sweep in from the west...just a huge veil of purplish-black that would turn the day into night. Technically, they were clouds, but they looked more like a wall. And with that kind of storm system we would invariably spawn several tornados. Nearly every house had a basement or storm cellar and everyone was taught from an early age how to find cover in the event of a tornado.
One interesting thing he doesn't mention about 1965 is that the Minneapolis-St. Paul area was hit by 4 F4 tornadoes ON THE SAME DAY (May 6). Two of those tornadoes hit the same area about an hour apart just about a mile from where I currently live.
That tornado took the roof and two upstairs bedrooms off my parents home when I was six years old. We lived in Fridley near highway 694 and Central Avenue. I remember a home in my neighborhood that half the house was gone yet every single dish in the kitchen cabinets was untouched😮
Tornados are just rarer outside tornado alley but they do indeed occur You can now follow several really good storm chasers live on youtube..my favorites are Brandon Copic and Vince Wastil...some people like reed timmer but you should check them out for live tornados, hail and education on supercell storms Having a sturdy basement is a must in the US
Grew up in Michigan. Remember sitting in the basement as a kid, watching one go through our back yard. The sound of wind still keeps me from sleeping. They almost seem like a living thing, trying to kill you.
I live in the Pacific NW and while tornadoes are rare, we do see them at least once per year but they are usually EF0-EF1. The strongest tornado we've ever had was the Portland-Vancouver EF3 tornado that happened on April 5, 1972. There were only 6 fatalities and 301 injuries.
I'm from beecher in flint I've heard stories bout that tornado from my family apparently it hit the houses on either side of my grandparents but left their house intact
As I understand it, the UK has a TORRO scale from T0-T11 whereas the US has the Fujita scale (now the Enhanced Fujita scale) from F1-F5/EF1-EF5 (it's common to just refer to F3 or F5). Southern Minnesota is part of Tornado Alley. Tornado Alley isn't really a north/south thing. It's the interior of the country where cold, dry air from Canada/the northern plains collides with warm/moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. There's also a separate zone in the south that the original video called 'Dixie Alley'. And as for tornadoes being terrifying, they are. I'm in Texas and we have a lot of 'transplants' at work who don't take them seriously. I swear, if I find one more person continuing on a frigging conference call while the tornado sirens are blaring in the background I'm going to brave the weather, drive to their house, and staple them into a safe place. Such a pet peeve. People who have ever walked out into the destruction of a tornado will go get in their safe place for 99 false alarms for the 1 time it touches down. The worst tornado I've ever been directly in was an F3 and seriously, it was scary in the moment and horrifying the next day to see metal light poles bent in half, the roof ripped off the building next to mine, a tree down on the spot where I normally parked, and restaurants I used to go to missing half the windows, with the roof caved in and the sign shattered all over the parking lot. That was the lighter end of the damage.
That's not lightning you're seeing, it's the tornado hitting transformers, causing electrical arcs. Something in the storm chasing world we refer to as "power flashes".
I had friends that live about 1/2 a mile away from the plainfield HS where that tornado came through. they also remember it vividly. Side note.. they just rebuild the school in the same place cause why not lol..
You might not see this comment but I do recommend watching The 2007 Greensburg Tornado A Meteorological Breakdown by *Gabe Pena* It is without a doubt in my opinion the scariest nocturnal tornado ever documented.
Can confirm that was a spooky night. I was about 100 miles north at a Celtic festival at Cedar Bluff lake, and got hit by the same line of storms. I grew up in Kansas, and I was a boy scout, I rode out a lot of nasty storms in a tent when I was a kid. That was the only time in my life I opted to lay down the tent and head to the shelter only to get clocked in the side of the head by a golf ball sized hailstone while doing so lol. Made the drive to the shelter with a fucking strobe light show for lightning rather interesting with our own tornado less than a couple miles away. As this was 2007, access to information wasn't what it is today, so we didn't learn about Greensburg until the next day.
The true “tornado alley” is between the Rocky Mountain range and the Appalachian range. This is due to hot air blowing in from the Gulf of Mexico up towards the Rockies and cold air (generally between March and August) colliding over the Great Plains. This causes flash thunderstorms. Storms that develop over minutes rather than days. And generally last a few hours before dissapaiting when cooler air over takes the hot air as it approaches the appalachians. However occasionally the thunder storms cross the Appalachians causing extreme unstable weather and create additional tornadoes on the east coast. Tornado alley is from the Gulf of Mexico to the icebergs of Canada, from the Rockies to the Appalachians. With the highest averages of tornadoes being anywhere in the US Midwest
The creator shows a chart that makes it look like most tornadoes occurred since the 1950s. People forget how sparsely the center part of the USA was populated until very recently. Plus now we have radar, storm chasers, and everyone has a camera.
So, like 20 minutes before i drove home that day, a tornado jumped the chickamauga, along my driving route. Well technically it was about the time I started driving that it jumped the river, but 20 minutes till I got there. I was litterly driving down the middle of the highway, just to see where i was, but not to bad wind
You ought to watch the "Real time" video of the Joplin, Mo tornado. It's about 50 minutes long but, you'll see all the footage as it was happening and the aftermath..
If you're interested in tornados, I'd recommend the channel Alferia. He makes really good in depth analysis' of bug weather events and makes it easy to understand. It could be worth a reaction video if youre interested in something longer
I don't know. People don't take them seriously enough and get complacent because the early warnings that allow people time to get to safety but then don't turn into actual tornadoes leaves people with the impression it won't really happen. I remember when I was little that we didn't have more than a few minutes warning issued when a tornado was on the ground. Now people hear the warning, go outside to look, say 'oh, it isn't even raining' and act like nothing will happen. Or see a tornado and stand outside recording it when it's headed straight for them.
@@jennifercarter1265 There's that too. "Mock execution syndrome." Those warnings are very stressful even in places where real danger is rare, so for folks who basically live in a wind tunnel, I sympathize with some people choosing to shrug for their own sanity.
I remember seeing the 2011 tornado outbreaks on the news. I was only 7-8 but I was big into tornadoes, and what a time to be. I can't remember a lot but I do remember watching stuff about Joplin, it's just amazing that it was 12 years ago.
Thurston, some things to think about. Tornado's literally happen almost all year long in much of the U.S. and it is only going to get worse with climate change. These outbreaks that were blowing your mind are almost everyday occurrences at times in the U.S. Just not everywhere at once. Having grown up in Skokie, IL, I can assure you that we regularly had the tornado siren's going off from March through September, usually not producing a major tornado, mostly sever damage from rain, wind, lightning and hail. They all come as part of a tornado producing storm. Also, when thinking about the effect on North America: In what is today the United States the European population in 1610 was only about 360, but as early as 1492 there were potentially as many as 18,000,000 Native People's living in this land. Not the same in terms of population density with today, but they were dealing with this without any warning. Tornado's are bad news. And, we just live with them. You hear the siren, you take cover. You see one, you figure out the direction and you find the closest shelter in the opposite direction if not at home, and prayer for the best. But, hey, this does make us a resilient people. I hope you have a really great day. I though this was a very interesting video. Please do more about weather. I think it fascinating. Peace
If you really wanna see something crazy about tornadoes in the U.S. you should totally watch this video called "2011 Super Outbreak Montage". You shouldn't get striked for watching it, I've seen a a creator watch it and his video was fine. And I'd love to see your reaction to it.
Ohio is part of tornado alley, we have weekly siren tests and I remember the Xenia tornado. Ever since, then I have a deep respect for mother nature and tornado sirens.
The narrator of the video isn't very good at pronunciation which is weird, because if he had watched so many videos as he's claimed then he should know how to pronounce the names of places that had been hit. Like Xenia, Ohio...it's isn't pronounced as Zee-Nuh, it's pronounced as Zee-Nee-Uh. Or when he tries guessing at the pronunciation of words he isn't familiar with instead of just looking them up. For example, Scythe is pronounced both as Sigh and as Sithe, but not Skithe.
18:18 its a different tornado near el reno. this one was an ef5 from 2011 thats overshadowed by both the joplin ef5 and the 2.6 miles wide el reno tornado from 2013
Tornados occur in the United States more than any other country in the world. Geography and the colliding air currents often create the perfect conditions for tornadic weather.
Thanks captain obvious
Though, the most tornadoes in a 24h span was indeed in the UK!
@@MySimplexity maybe if you're still stuck in 1981.
@@jamiemoss3633 I mean it's a statistic lol
Very unknown fact isn’t it?
Part of the reason that tornadoes that happen outside of “Tornado Alley” tend to be so much more horrible is that 1) the areas are often more populated; the areas dubbed as tornado alley is generally speaking a relatively rural area, and 2) tornadoes are less expected in areas that don’t get them as often so the people don’t have as much experience with knowing how to stay safe in that kind of severe weather.
Edited to add: Joplin had 161 fatalities, not 158.
158 directly as a result of the tornado, three indirectly later on (like heart attacks during cleanup and such).
you should be a meteorolgist with witchcraft and astrology, would be funny to see you explain things
@@drachenslayerx what?
And Dixie alley is more deadly than main tornado alley
It still shouldn't really excuse that, there's a reason why the saying "expect the unexpected" exists, just because you live in an area that's not common for tornados does not mean you're 100% free from them. Once you start to think you're safe from something specific especially if that something specific is something mother nature can throw at anyone, they see fit, they will send it your way to give you a reality check, heck there's even a video online of someone recording a tornado thinking it was heading AWAY from them... it wasn't, this individual was one of the lucky few to have been caught by a tornado and survived... their wife... not so much, that footage is now being used as a teaching lesson for what not to do in the event a tornado makes landfall and you're in its path.
Pretty sure this is even that footage of the Fairdale IL tornado.
"Fairdale, Illinois Tornado Of 2015"
Every state in the US has recorded at least one tornado. Tornado Alley (Midwest, Great Plains US) and Dixie Alley (Southeastern US) record a much higher volume than outside of it. Tornado Alley extends from states that border Mexico to states that border Canada. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, these all get tornadoes with some degree of regularity. They're also more heavily populated than the areas that get more frequent tornadoes so when it hits it does a lot more damage.
Tornadoes can hit major cities, although it's rare. In 1974 we had tornadoes within the city limits. According to my parents, we had some very close to our house, in the center of the city limits. I was able to confirm one within a mile, which is entirely too close.
I was 6 weeks from my fourth birthday in 1974. Xenia, about 50 or so miles north of here, was destroyed. The Sayler Park neighborhood on the western border of Cincinnati (my city) was also destroyed.
Despite the fact that storm gave me nightmares for the next 30 decades, I was never actually afraid of tornadoes. Not sure how that happened.
I live in Nebraska and this last Friday May 12, there were 33 reported tornadoes just in the state in only a few hours.
Live outside Omaha, they went around us just barely. It's been one after another this year...
I live in Beatrice, kinda odd that the tornadoes have largely been avoiding the southeast portion of the state thus far.
Last year was pretty quiet. This year seems to be more normal as far as tornado activity
I was in my mom's belly as she watched the F5 that got Xenia in your #1 example. I grew up with so many stories about the event and everyone from my neighborhood coming to our house when there were tornado warnings for years before people felt safe again.
There is also Dixie Alley which is as active as Tornado Alley
It isn't uncommon at all to get tornadoes in the Dakotas, Minnesota, or even in the plains Provinces in Canada. Just because it's statistically more likely to form tornadoes in Tornado Alley or Dixie Alley doesn't mean they're uncommon outside of those states. If I hear of one in New York or Massachusetts, it's certainly surprising but in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio? Nah, not even a little bit surprised.
Also, at the 17 minute mark where you commented about the lightning, it could be but I would guess it was an electrical transformer blowing up at a substation.
Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what it was. Chasers call them "power flashes," and they're one of the most reliable ways of confirming a tornado is on the ground in bad visibility (heavy rain) or at night.
Yep PA here. We’ve had multiple touch down just this last month in a half. One just last night one county over.. I’m in Pittsburgh. We’ve had at least 3/4 warnings this last month alone.
I know I’ve said this before but you cannot even imagine what Joplin looked like after that storm. We live an hours drive east of there and had paper from Joplin land in our yard. Our church took supplies and went to help with clean up. I went one day- it was inconceivable.
You should google two different alleys: Tornado alley & Dixie alley. Dixie alley is in the Deep South. We have more tornadoes than people realize & our’s are more deadly bc about half of tornadoes occur at night or we can’t see them come during the day bc of our tall trees. They also can be very fast moving when traveling. Some travel forward at highway speeds 👀
In 1953, my mother, who was 14 at the time, was visiting her uncle and his family in Worcester, Massachusetts. She became afraid of the weather and did NOT want to stay. So she called my grandfather and to his credit drove all the way out to get her and bring her back to Boston.
Later they heard about the tornado that struck. My mother has always had an intuitive streak and it served her well that day. No one in the family was harmed.
4:10 tornadoes can (and do) occur in any US state. They are most common in the midwest and south of course but there is always the chance that you get tornadoes further north, especially during the summer months
17:00 tornadoes occur within thunderstorms so yes of course there will be lightning
Tornado Alley isn't necessarily in the North of the USA. Texas is part of Tornado Alley, and it's in the South. we usually get at least one storm once a week in Texas, sometimes more. and they're usually pretty bad. which means we get a lot of tornado watches and warnings. we get them so often that most people here don't do anything and continue what they're doing until we actually hear the sirens. some people even step outside to watch these storms.
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My mother's childhood home was hit in the Palm Sunday Outbreak in South Bend, IN. She said it sounded like a freight train running through the living room.
During the War of 1812 when the British were attacking the Washington D.C. area Red Coats out in the open were hit by a tornado. Killing hundreds of troops.
was going to comment this glad it wasn't forgotten
0:01 My grandmother's home was destroyed by a tornado in 1947, northwest of Isabel, South Dakota. It left her, her mother, 3 brothers, and 3 sisters homeless until they were able to move in with relatives. She was 21 years old, and she was deathly afraid of storms for the rest of her life. I still remember her sitting in an interior room of her house, crying and praying during storms.
Imma say it bro...no one deserves this...not even your grandmother...im sorry she went through that...
@@ĻówŤîerŔÍÇĶ thank you. She definitely didn't. Before that, she'd had 2 homes burn down, too.
Life isn't easy but thats just horrible...im sorry bro
@@ĻówŤîerŔÍÇĶ she came through it all just fine, lived a long and happy life!
We just had a tornado 2 weeks ago here in Virginia Beach 4 miles from my home EF3.
17:00 if you couldn’t tell that’s not lightning the tornado either took out power lines or an electric substation
The very first one mentioned is the town I grew up in, Plainfield, IL. I was only 12 years old and lived about 1/4 mile away from the high school.
In 1980, seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska, in the same night.
Wasn't there a movie made about it?
I am 60 years old and I remember the 1974 outbreak well. It was a month before my 11th birthday and it seemed like tornadoes were everywhere. Xenia OHio was hit really hard. I'll never forget that day.
I was in Xenia during that super outbreak 1974. Everything was gone or destroyed
We had one in N. Tx a few yrs ago and it happened at NIGHT so it was only visible when Lightning struck or power lines and Transformers blew up.
2011 was insane here in Alabama. It was truly like living through the end of the world. Distant sirens, tornadoes raging to the north, south, and west of where I lived. Luckily, we were all fine.
Here in East Tennessee also, except we don’t have tornado sirens. Here in Chattanooga we just have sirens for the nuclear plant
My sister did live in Alabama during the outbreak and fortunately her and her kids survived since the tornado did went over house but her neighbors were not so lucky.
I remember the '74 outbreak quite well. We were just south of the one that destroyed Brandenburg, Kentucky and went on to hit Louisville. I remember our basketball goal post which was a telephone pole snapping like a twig and the neighbor's shed lifting off, flying over his house and landing on his car which was parked out on the street and we weren't even in the actual path of the tornado. My Pappy went to Brandenburg after the storm to help out as he had family there. There was a boy who was missing and Pappy found him, or rather, most of him, up in a tree a mile from the path of the tornado. Needless to say Pappy was a wreck when he got back home to us.
Being from Ohio, tornadoes are just another aspect of normal weather, and they can happen any time of year. As a kid in school we had regular tornado drills, where we would go to the hallway and sit on the ground with our hands over our heads. They are more common in the spring due to clash from hot air rapidly replacing cooler air, but we've had them in every month of the year. We also have a weekly siren test, so here in Central Ohio we always know when it's noon on Wednesday because we hear the sirens. Interestingly enough a few months ago we had "likely tornadic" weather predicted for a Wednesday so they suspended the test, but announced that if we did hear it, it would be real that day.
I’ve never had damage from a tornado at my house but the closest was a neighborhood in my town 1.2 miles from me. We waited it out in our basement. My ex brother in law, my great aunt, my cousin and my sister have each lost a house due to tornado damage in Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas.
I lived in Cincinnati,Ohio during the out break in 1974 ,were I lived I could see the Sailor Park area were it was 90% destroyed
We’re all getting smacked up and down the states with tornados this past month. Insanely warm weather (I’m in Pittsburgh. 85 degrees F/30C in April) is causing massive storm cells. Tornado alley has had at least 20 plus the last few weeks. We just got hit by one here last night one county over. It’s been a wild month or so here weather wise and I think more storm cells are moving through.
4:55 Actually, I know of two instances where a tornado occurred in the midst of a war.
1. During the War of 1812, a tornado that spawned from a hurricane hit Washington D.C. one day after it had been occupied by British forces. The Brits, who were in the process of burning D.C., were forced to evacuate the area. Ironically, the tornado had indirectly saved D.C. from certain destruction.
2. There were actually a fair number of tornadoes that impacted troops during the U.S. Civil War. Most notable would be a group of at least three tornadoes that stuck both Union and Confederate encampments in the area where the Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky borders meet on April 2nd, 1862.
Additionally, during the latter half of the U.S. Civil War, an encampment of over 100,000 Union soldiers in the Army of the Potomac were hit by what was either a tornado or a derecho. Most historians lean toward it being a derecho, but it still bears mentioning.
I live in SW Ohio and on memorial Day 2019, we had 15 tornadoes here including an EF4 that went thru the outskirts of downtown Dayton. Tornadoes can happen anywhere. The reason tornado alley gets as many tornadoes as it does is because cold air from the western mountains collides with the warm air coming from the Gulf of Mexico.
In 1980 I watched an F2 pass two blocks south of me in Kalamazoo Michigan. It would kill 4 people and do significant damage. I was walking down North Street when the tornado sirens sounded and storm hit. I stepped into a covered store front and was shocked to see a tornado passing two blocks south of me.
I experienced the 1965 tornado in Macomb county Michigan. Leveled a trailer park in New Baltimore.
The cold air coming from Canada and across the Rockies collides with warm air coming up from the Gulf of Mexico. It causes the perfect conditions for tornadoes I lived through an F4 in Atkins, Arkansas in 2008. Took our home but we made it. Will never forget being in a root cellar and feeling it come over us.
After GB sacked Washington DC in 1812, as the British left to reboard their ships to the East, the column was hit by hurricane. More Redcoats died from the storm than were killed by the Americans in their failed attempt to defend their capital.
Why do I feel attacked? LOL. Also don't forget the French keeping the Brits busy for a few years while the States built up their forces.
If you look at a topographical map of the US you can see the entire central portion is fairly flat and allows huge weather systems to gain size and momentum and just tromp right through there from Texas all the way up to the great lakes. i lived near St. Louis from 1956 to 1975 and recall so many spring/summer storms that would sweep in from the west...just a huge veil of purplish-black that would turn the day into night. Technically, they were clouds, but they looked more like a wall. And with that kind of storm system we would invariably spawn several tornados. Nearly every house had a basement or storm cellar and everyone was taught from an early age how to find cover in the event of a tornado.
I have lived in northern IL most of my life. The most recent tornado was the 2015 Rochelle-Fairdale EF4.
One interesting thing he doesn't mention about 1965 is that the Minneapolis-St. Paul area was hit by 4 F4 tornadoes ON THE SAME DAY (May 6). Two of those tornadoes hit the same area about an hour apart just about a mile from where I currently live.
Also should mention that there were 6 tornadoes in the area overall that day, not just those 4 F4s. The other 2 were an F2 and an F3.
That tornado took the roof and two upstairs bedrooms off my parents home when I was six years old. We lived in Fridley near highway 694 and Central Avenue. I remember a home in my neighborhood that half the house was gone yet every single dish in the kitchen cabinets was untouched😮
in 2011, we had four tornadoes hit western massachusetts on june 1, with the strongest being an ef-3
Tornados are just rarer outside tornado alley but they do indeed occur
You can now follow several really good storm chasers live on youtube..my favorites are Brandon Copic and Vince Wastil...some people like reed timmer but you should check them out for live tornados, hail and education on supercell storms
Having a sturdy basement is a must in the US
Strong Tornadoes are uncommon in Massachusetts, we usually get mostly EF0, EF1, and some EF2. Rarely would see EF/F4, but we have never gotten an F5.
Meanwhile, Iowa is tied for second place in number of EF5 Tornadoes.
Grew up in Michigan. Remember sitting in the basement as a kid, watching one go through our back yard. The sound of wind still keeps me from sleeping. They almost seem like a living thing, trying to kill you.
I live in the Pacific NW and while tornadoes are rare, we do see them at least once per year but they are usually EF0-EF1. The strongest tornado we've ever had was the Portland-Vancouver EF3 tornado that happened on April 5, 1972. There were only 6 fatalities and 301 injuries.
I'm from beecher in flint I've heard stories bout that tornado from my family apparently it hit the houses on either side of my grandparents but left their house intact
As I understand it, the UK has a TORRO scale from T0-T11 whereas the US has the Fujita scale (now the Enhanced Fujita scale) from F1-F5/EF1-EF5 (it's common to just refer to F3 or F5).
Southern Minnesota is part of Tornado Alley. Tornado Alley isn't really a north/south thing. It's the interior of the country where cold, dry air from Canada/the northern plains collides with warm/moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. There's also a separate zone in the south that the original video called 'Dixie Alley'.
And as for tornadoes being terrifying, they are. I'm in Texas and we have a lot of 'transplants' at work who don't take them seriously. I swear, if I find one more person continuing on a frigging conference call while the tornado sirens are blaring in the background I'm going to brave the weather, drive to their house, and staple them into a safe place. Such a pet peeve. People who have ever walked out into the destruction of a tornado will go get in their safe place for 99 false alarms for the 1 time it touches down.
The worst tornado I've ever been directly in was an F3 and seriously, it was scary in the moment and horrifying the next day to see metal light poles bent in half, the roof ripped off the building next to mine, a tree down on the spot where I normally parked, and restaurants I used to go to missing half the windows, with the roof caved in and the sign shattered all over the parking lot. That was the lighter end of the damage.
That's not lightning you're seeing, it's the tornado hitting transformers, causing electrical arcs. Something in the storm chasing world we refer to as "power flashes".
I had friends that live about 1/2 a mile away from the plainfield HS where that tornado came through. they also remember it vividly. Side note.. they just rebuild the school in the same place cause why not lol..
You might not see this comment but I do recommend watching The 2007 Greensburg Tornado A Meteorological Breakdown by *Gabe Pena*
It is without a doubt in my opinion the scariest nocturnal tornado ever documented.
Can confirm that was a spooky night. I was about 100 miles north at a Celtic festival at Cedar Bluff lake, and got hit by the same line of storms. I grew up in Kansas, and I was a boy scout, I rode out a lot of nasty storms in a tent when I was a kid. That was the only time in my life I opted to lay down the tent and head to the shelter only to get clocked in the side of the head by a golf ball sized hailstone while doing so lol. Made the drive to the shelter with a fucking strobe light show for lightning rather interesting with our own tornado less than a couple miles away. As this was 2007, access to information wasn't what it is today, so we didn't learn about Greensburg until the next day.
The true “tornado alley” is between the Rocky Mountain range and the Appalachian range. This is due to hot air blowing in from the Gulf of Mexico up towards the Rockies and cold air (generally between March and August) colliding over the Great Plains. This causes flash thunderstorms. Storms that develop over minutes rather than days. And generally last a few hours before dissapaiting when cooler air over takes the hot air as it approaches the appalachians. However occasionally the thunder storms cross the Appalachians causing extreme unstable weather and create additional tornadoes on the east coast. Tornado alley is from the Gulf of Mexico to the icebergs of Canada, from the Rockies to the Appalachians. With the highest averages of tornadoes being anywhere in the US Midwest
The creator shows a chart that makes it look like most tornadoes occurred since the 1950s. People forget how sparsely the center part of the USA was populated until very recently. Plus now we have radar, storm chasers, and everyone has a camera.
Those flashes at the base of the tornado are not lightning, its power line flashes from the tornado hitting active powerlines
Fun fact, during the war of 1812 the british and the canadians were in Washington DC and got hit by a tornado while they were occupying the city
That day in 2011 was crazy here in southeast Tennessee
So, like 20 minutes before i drove home that day, a tornado jumped the chickamauga, along my driving route.
Well technically it was about the time I started driving that it jumped the river, but 20 minutes till I got there. I was litterly driving down the middle of the highway, just to see where i was, but not to bad wind
@@MinorLG you in chatt
@@HBC423technically, no, but nearby. Had to commute through the outskirts.
LOL, pretty much sll tornadoes have lightning as they soawn from super cells.
I remember 74. Waiting it out in a small grocery store freezer goddamn
You ought to watch the "Real time" video of the Joplin, Mo tornado. It's about 50 minutes long but, you'll see all the footage as it was happening and the aftermath..
It's completely normal to have tornadoes in that area. That's where probably more than half of them do happen.
1925 deserves an honorable mention.
If you're interested in tornados, I'd recommend the channel Alferia. He makes really good in depth analysis' of bug weather events and makes it easy to understand. It could be worth a reaction video if youre interested in something longer
7:25 That's the Kansas/Nebraska border, not the Kansas/Oklahoma border lol.
To avoid deadly tornadoes (and hurricanes), be west of the Rockies.
Thats not exactly true Oregon has been hit by tornados
@@legionx4046 - Not significant ones.
@Ahmad Bin Salman - The Rockies run from Idaho/Montana down to New Mexico. The Pacific Coast states (and Nevada and Arizona) are west of the Rockies.
This year is predicted to have more storms, rain...probably tornados. Hang on to your hats folks!
Tornado alley goes from the middle of Texas to Alberta Canada.
He literally pauses over and doesn't hear that the xenia tornado had a preliminary F6 rating.
In the war of 1812 a tornado struck Washington DC just after the British destroyed the White House.
Karma
Yet we still stand strong . Well until Biden is finishing destroying my country.
Over time, people will get better at hiding. But it will get scarier because they'll be more aware. It's a paradox.
I don't know. People don't take them seriously enough and get complacent because the early warnings that allow people time to get to safety but then don't turn into actual tornadoes leaves people with the impression it won't really happen. I remember when I was little that we didn't have more than a few minutes warning issued when a tornado was on the ground. Now people hear the warning, go outside to look, say 'oh, it isn't even raining' and act like nothing will happen. Or see a tornado and stand outside recording it when it's headed straight for them.
@@jennifercarter1265 There's that too. "Mock execution syndrome." Those warnings are very stressful even in places where real danger is rare, so for folks who basically live in a wind tunnel, I sympathize with some people choosing to shrug for their own sanity.
I live in Illinois. Yes, we get hit and hit hard.
We usually get hit with high scale tornadoes!
In the war of 1812, the Britsh army retreated cause a tornado.
I remember seeing the 2011 tornado outbreaks on the news. I was only 7-8 but I was big into tornadoes, and what a time to be. I can't remember a lot but I do remember watching stuff about Joplin, it's just amazing that it was 12 years ago.
Iowa is part of Tornado Alley.
Thurston, some things to think about. Tornado's literally happen almost all year long in much of the U.S. and it is only going to get worse with climate change. These outbreaks that were blowing your mind are almost everyday occurrences at times in the U.S. Just not everywhere at once. Having grown up in Skokie, IL, I can assure you that we regularly had the tornado siren's going off from March through September, usually not producing a major tornado, mostly sever damage from rain, wind, lightning and hail. They all come as part of a tornado producing storm. Also, when thinking about the effect on North America: In what is today the United States the European population in 1610 was only about 360, but as early as 1492 there were potentially as many as 18,000,000 Native People's living in this land. Not the same in terms of population density with today, but they were dealing with this without any warning. Tornado's are bad news. And, we just live with them. You hear the siren, you take cover. You see one, you figure out the direction and you find the closest shelter in the opposite direction if not at home, and prayer for the best. But, hey, this does make us a resilient people. I hope you have a really great day. I though this was a very interesting video. Please do more about weather. I think it fascinating. Peace
Stuff like this makes me happy to live in the NorthEast US 😵💫
Lab, do you do music reactions? You’ve got to do Dan Vasc singing Amazing Grace. He’s breaking the internet.
The War of 1812, the British got ripped up by a tornado 🌪
please up your volume
If you really wanna see something crazy about tornadoes in the U.S. you should totally watch this video called "2011 Super Outbreak Montage". You shouldn't get striked for watching it, I've seen a a creator watch it and his video was fine. And I'd love to see your reaction to it.
I love your videos, but your audio is always so low compared to others
React to a documentary of the 1974 super outbreak as I am tired of the xenia ohio tornado being ignored.
My last name is Munson that’s so crazy
tornadoes can form anywhere in america
Yea but it’s more than rare, when’s the last time you heard about a tornado in Delaware? Or California? Or Washington state.
at one time ilinois got more tornadoes than any other state .
And to think that not even to count for hurricanes
Ohio is part of tornado alley, we have weekly siren tests and I remember the Xenia tornado. Ever since, then I have a deep respect for mother nature and tornado sirens.
there is allot more channels with amazing tornado content that have like 1000 subs but are more in depth so they arnt that amazing for reactions.
Technically tornadoes are measured on the EF scale. EF standing for estimated Fugita. The F scale is off direct wind mesurment, EF is off Damage
Enhanced Fujita
The narrator of the video isn't very good at pronunciation which is weird, because if he had watched so many videos as he's claimed then he should know how to pronounce the names of places that had been hit. Like Xenia, Ohio...it's isn't pronounced as Zee-Nuh, it's pronounced as Zee-Nee-Uh. Or when he tries guessing at the pronunciation of words he isn't familiar with instead of just looking them up. For example, Scythe is pronounced both as Sigh and as Sithe, but not Skithe.
the Midwest do not get as many tornadoes as tornado ally. the people aren't as aware of the weather there. tornado alley is the plains states period.
🤦🏻♂️ The Midwest is most of Tornado Alley.
He’s butchering names of cities in Ohio.
tornado strength is determined by damage, so F5 damage on buildings in the early 1900s would not require as strong of a tornado