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Super tornados are born when a father tornado and a mother tornado love each other very much.
what about sharknados?
@@hansenhards2296when a mummy shark and a daddy shark love each other very much...
@@hansenhards2296 I blame Tara Reid for those.
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No you're thinking of hurricanes
As some one who was born and raised in Kansas I can attest when there's a tornado on the horizon we just watch it from the porch until it's too close.
that's the most thug way to sit on a porch.... like... who can casually watch this happen, blessings to yall, be safe out there
Still on my Bucket list!!
@@williambrandon9660 Well, you can't stop it.... so.....
I don't blame you, I live in Michigan and literally just 2 days ago we had our once-a-decade tornado outbreak, and I sat on the deck and made a TikTok cuz I KNEW it was about to be a 'Nader, there's no mistaking that green-to-black sky and continuous lightning!
A key point for your area tho, is that there's a good combo of lots of tornadoes to view, AND flat land allowing for a HUGE sky...In general y'all can see a lot more sky than people in hilly places with thick forest. I wouldn't be able to see a tornado till it was a football field away 😅
Storm Chasers are some of the absolute craziest yet most bad-ass people in the world. You can not help but respect their dedication and passion for science.
And gas expenditures, hope it's a write off at the end of the year or it's just an expensive hobbie not a career in the profit making sense.
Accidentally storm-chased one with my wife and daughter in the car... Rear-flank downdraft caught us on I-70 and hail was moving sideways. So much fun, but no one else in the car seemed to think so 😅 I will never forget that sound. Like a jet plane, but more stationary
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@@peppergrand1072sorry to burst your bubble but there a lots of people who make a living off storm chasing.
@@themonster9oh not sure if I had a bubble to burst, on the Idea of storm chasing employment. So no harm no bubble burst . People have also said my daily or nightly street performing(playing guitar),is not a job or worthy of making a living. True True, although I have to chime in and interject ,I'm doing what I do best, some say doing what a love, but I love not being told what to do, so there's that.
There were four storm chasers who died in El Reno 2013, not three. Samaras and team TWISTEX were 3, but the 4th was a gentleman named Richard Henderson. He may have been an amateur chaser, but he mattered.
Rip tim and his son they only died bc they got stuck in the mud they was driving a white Chevy cobalt and was putting things out to collect data on tornadoes tim worked on those a good part of his career rip
Thanks very much for this comment and the added information
@@AdrnclipzSatellite vortex got them.
@@Adrnclipzthey never got stuck in the mud
@@Adrnclipz. What’s your source on that? From my understanding, the tornado rapidly expanded, there are a couple videos of it expanding from a half mile to 2 miles in less than 20 seconds, and they were already in a bad spot, driving a car with no power or weight. And got overtaken.
Hi, Storm Chaser here! Love the video and that you’re trying to educate people on everything tornadoes, but as someone who studies them and chases dozens of tornadoes a year, I have a few things to say about this video. The United States see’s on a couple to a few violent tornadoes every year, with typically 2-4 tornadoes a year being violent. Violent tornadoes are usually classified as any tornado that is EF-4 to EF-5 strength, and in 2023 we have only had (so far) 2 violent tornadoes. Forecasting for tornadoes can sometimes be as accurate as 8 days in advance, not an 8.4 minute lead-time. That is tornado warnings you are referring to. Just to add context onto the mesocyclone part, a mesocyclone is not a tornado, but is apart of the rotating part of the thunderstorm. Typically you see a mesocyclone in the lower to middle/upper levels of a thunderstorm, which will then sometimes form a wall-cloud which then develop a tornado. The EF (Enhanced Fujita) scale is based on damage a tornado does, however, you can have a completely slabbed house and it only be rated EF-3. Why? Because it was poorly built. Structures swept clear off their foundation isn’t necessarily indicative of an EF-5 tornado. The Bridge Creek-Moore Oklahoma tornado was classified as an F-5, not an EF-5 as the EF scale wasn't released until 2007. I have never heard of any documentation stating that scientists at the time saying the Bridge Creek-Moore Oklahoma tornado should’ve been classified as an F-6, I would love to see any documentation you have for that. Tim Samaras, Paul Samaras and Carl Young (may they rest in Peace) were certainly not the first storm chasers to be killed by a tornado. Tornado warnings issued by NWS WFOs (Weather Forecast Offices) that don’t develop an actual tornado are not false alarms. They issued that tornado warning because rapid rotation was either radar indicated, a rapidly rotating wall-cloud was spotted, or a funnel cloud was spotted.
There's a lot more that can be said about tornadoes, I can probably write a script that turns into a 6 hour long video just talking about tornadoes, forecasting them, issuing warnings for them and how to stay safe during a tornado. What are the more notable ones I've seen in 2023? - Keota EF-4 - Spalding EF-1 - Yuma EF-3
Yeah in their quest to simplify the science they used a few technical definitions more loosely than they should've. I was going to make a comment but yours is better and you are actually qualified. I'm just a science nerd who's watched dozens of Convective Chronicles videos and other tornado videos. I will add that Samaras' team was the first Professional storm chaser deaths in a tornado. So that's where that fact comes from.
Thank you very much for your service. Storm chasers are big contributors to science.
Can you say more on "the first storm chasers to be killed by a tornado"? To my knowledge, and my immediate searching, they *are* the first known expert/professional chasers.
2023 (so far)? Are we not past Tornado season yet?
Perfect!!! Time to restart my tornado obsession and find a bunch of storm hunting videos and terrify myself with them
Lol have fun!
If you want to watch really detailed breakdowns of iconic tornadoes you should take a look at Carly Anna WX's channel
Look up the Dead Man Walking Tornado that hit Jarrell Texas in 1997. Nightmare fuel for SURE.
Dont be scared be prepared! Weather is so fascinating.
@@lunalgaleo1991The name alone sends shivers down my spine. And the famous photo is eerie as hell.
I used to wanna become a storm chaser as a kid lol
Because of the movie Twister? Also, what happened to that dream?
1. Nah because of the discovery channel docs 2. Realising that living here in Europe is generally better but here aren't enough high intensity storms for it to be worthwhile
@@alexsch2514fair enough.. I don't wanna live anywhere near Tornado Alley tho
...but then you took an arrow to the knee
So did I. It was partly fuelled by Twister. 😂 Growing up with tornado warnings every year that never turned into anything made me want to see one, so when twister came out, I was like, yep. That's in my future! Now I live in England, so no chance of that happening. A fart is stronger than any so-called tornadoes ever seen here. 😂
El Reno was absolutely wild because of the paths and directions it would take being so unusual when compared to others.
Which is ultimately downplayed in the video which strictly refers to the EF scale of which is irrelevant when it comes to the actual rated power of a tornado. It was a true F5 and quite possibly exceeded that scale.
@bbllaakkeeee I agree, even though a lot of folks in the weather community don't like to talk bad on the EF scale (we don't rate any other storm type based on the damage it causes) A clear ef4-5 downgraded simply because it didn't hit a heavily populated area. El Reno is probably the first time that I got actually heated about the EF/F scales. Hard to expect a general sciences channel to be able to extrapolate well on the nuances and what not though I suppose
Weird thing is I don’t remember this tornado at all and I was there I was a child 10 years old
DO NOT stop your vehicle under or near a bridge to use it for shelter from a tornado; the bridge funnels the air through, making things WORSE , and wind speed is faster with height so sheltering up under the bridge beams is doubly worse. Crowding at bridges also blocks traffic. Caught on the road you should pull the vehicle over, get far away from it, and lie flat in a ditch. Also, not all tornadoes form visible funnels. Sometimes the only clue there's a tornado touching the ground is the dust cloud it kicks up. Just sharing this info for any who might not know. Cars clogging bridge underpasses near tornados is a big problem, and it's a worse place to be anyway.
I've been in 3 tornados driving a semi. First was near Ft Worth on 35W southbound just before the I-20 East exit. The ramp was a high bridge. I was not going near the bridge while I was seeing PODS containers flying 100 feet in the air. I set the brakes on the shoulder under an overpass and waited for it to pass. The next tornado I was on a 2 lane road following a load of dynamite. The 3rd one I spent 6 hours in the basement of a McDonald's. Fun times.
A good rule of thumb would be to avoid getting into situations where your two options for shelter are an overpass or a ditch by staying off of freeways completely if possible.
sometimes there isnt even dust
Thanks for this. I would've headed straight to the nearest underpass! 😅
@@serversurfer6169 Oh my god... do you get all your advice from the comment section of KZhead? FFS people are stupid. If there is nothing vs an overpass, for the love of god, go under the damn overpass!!!!!!!! You will get sucked right the fk up out of a ditch. Stupid people on the internet.
I live just Southwest of Birmingham, AL., nearly halfway between Tuscaloosa and Birmingham. We call this our Tornado Alley. During the 2011 outbreak, I stood on my porch and watched massive funnel clouds pass narrowly to the north and south of us - some less than a mile away. It was both a scary and wondrous sight. I have also had the experience of being in my house and watching my roof and ceiling disappear into the dark sky as what sounded like several locomotives going overhead. It was the most terrifying night of my life. I am 63 and a lifetime resident of Alabama. In those years, I have seen uncountable destruction cause by tornadoes - both large and small. Unlike the plains of the Midwest, we have hilly, forested terrain that doesn't allow us to see tornadoes approaching from miles away. In the past, we had to rely on sirens that usually gave us but moments of warning. Now we rely on much more sophisticated Doppler radar that has been strategically placed along the usual tornado paths. Knowledgeable, well-trained Meteorologist now can give us street-by-street information and minute-by-minute warnings. However, when an F4-5 tornado comes your way there is very little you can do. A "Finger of God" EF5 tornado leaves nothing in its direct path but barren ground that looks as if it has been churned by a large plow. I would not wish the experience on anyone. In our state, nearly everyone has been touched by tornadoes in some way.
From what I heard that’s called Dixie ally could be wrong tho
Former Alabamian here. I was born and raised in Birmingham, but moved away over 20 years ago. While Alabama and the other southern states don't get to know tornado notoriety that the Midwest does, I can attest that I have experienced several tornadoes when I was a little. The biggest one was an EF-4 that witnessed when I was only 8 years old! That terrifying experience lead me to a strong desire to follow the weather. As an adult now, I work in Disaster Response. I have never experienced any weather phenomena more terrifying than a tornado! 🌪 🤯
Born & raised in Birmingham as well. I moved out of state in 2017. I will also never forget that day. I was living in Hoover at the time and very near Cahaba Heights which had a EF-2 come through the morning of the 27th. We lost our power with that one. I ended up moving to Tuscaloosa in 2014 for grad school and you could still see the effects of the storm. I worked with 2 volunteer firefighters when it happened and they helped that night in Pleasant Grove. One was dating my mom at the time and I remember him crying on the phone with her talking about the horrors he saw. The house I lived in during high school was destroyed during the tornado that hit Concord. If my family hadn’t moved they’d have lost everything…. Maybe even their lives.
Tornados are so normal to those of us in the Midwest, but by just description, they sound eldritch. The storms that spawn them often the kind that turn the sky green, they strike almost arbitrarily, with detection difficult considering they appear during massive storms that tend to include heavy rain. Like the finger of some angry god coming from the skies to destroy.
As someone who lives in Oklahoma, I can confirm the green sky usually means strong storms (though not necessarily a tornado). Pretty cool to think about! Also, there's a distinct feel to the temperature change that's indicative towards storms. Same thing with smell.
I saw that green sky once from within a school. There was little damage, so I think it was just a crazy strong storm. It was quite the scare if I say so myself!
Green sky is usually indicative of heavy rain/hail, as well as the angle the sun is at on the horizon
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Eh, minor issue: the 1999 Bridge Creek tornado was rated F5 as it was before the Enhanced Fujita Scale was designed and implemented. I believe it was the 1999 Bridge Creek tornado that helped push the need for improvement to the Fujita scale, although I think the efforts to make improvements to it began with a previous tornado that I can't remember the name of at the moment (it leveled a poorly-built suburb in Texas, I think). I think it was the measured wind speeds in combination with the damage that really pushed the need for a better and more inclusive scale. As it is, there's arguments over whether or not we need to refine the Enhanced Fujita Scale further. IDK, I think ppl tend to put too much emphasis on what rating the tornado got. An EF2 can be deadly if it hits a mobile home park. How deadly the tornado was often has more to do with its path (and specifically what and who is in that path) than the actual rating/wind speeds. I know, ppl like "big numbers" and that's why they like to make a big deal out of the ratings. And when they see a tornado that was very deadly or caused a ton of damage, naturally ppl want it to be seen as a major tornado and hence want it to be rated very high.
Jarrell, TX.
Perhaps the enhanced Fujita scale can account for the wind strength and damage caused separately like IP ratings for electronics. You just have two numbers next to one another like with IP65 or IP57.
Bridge Creek-Moore was one of the tornadoes that led to the revamp, but it was also the 2002 La Plata, MD tornado. An inexperienced survey team way overrated it on the first pass and the NWS got egg on its face, so they updated the scale for everything post-2007. Between 2002 and 2006 survey teams were scared to assign high ratings so there are several storms that are underrated. Today's problem with the EF scale is that some teams are too focused on nitpicking every detail and trying to create exceptions for a lower rating, which also isn't helpful.
If you're not from a tornado-prone area and visit us in tornado alley in the spring, beware you'll often hear an air raid siren around noon: this is a test, don't worry 😅
In 2008 as a middle schooler my church did a spring break trip to Greensburg KS. I was not aware of this practice and freaked out the first time it happened.
@@Virtuous_Rogue Zoltan Kaszas has a funny standup comedy story about a similar experience you can find on KZhead.
Idk if this will post, but: kzhead.info/sun/qq-tptxsemKYdqs/bejne.html
North East Ohio just got hit with 5 tornadoes over a single night. I consult for the power company in the area and it is a hell of a mess to clean up. Meanwhile I live an hour area and didn't get much more than some rain. These storms are crazy. I also forget the rest of the world really doesn't deal with these storms.
My brother works for the energy company in Cleveland and is an emergency semi driver. He's been working 13+ hours recently
@@musstakrakish We just went to the mindset that nothing we had planned is getting done this week since they are pulling crews from Ohio Edison and Toledo Edison to support CEI. Gonna be a quiet week for us but the crews are gonna be slammed.
That same weather system spawned 7 tornadoes in Michigan as well a couple nights ago.
I lived less than a quarter mile from the path of the 1999 Bridge Creek/Moore tornado. I will never forget the sound of that vortex as long as I live. Two streets over there was nothing but foundation slabs as far as you could see.
The sight of angry black clouds rotating overhead is terrifying.
you kind of get use to them after being around them most of your life most people forget Mississippi is prone to tornadoes
I firmly believe in areas where tornadoes are severe and often show up that buildings should be rebuilt using the dome design. By adding a couple of layers of sprayed on truck bed liner, the end results is an extremely strong building. The dome shape would make the tornado rise up and over like it does with hills. If a pressure release system is installed to equalize the air pressure the amount of damage from most tornadoes would be reduced to such things as awnings, as an example. Why should insurance companies allow the rebuilding of structures in high tornado areas that are actually designed to be destroyed by high winds and flying debris?
If I was an insurance company that seems like it's make more sense but you'd have to get the city on board this a dome over the city at the cost of taxes+investments
@@jryde421I believe they were talking about dome-shaped buildings, not a dome over the city lol (cue Simpsons Movie intro)
Monolithic Dome structures are some of the most resilient architecture on earth. Humanity should be moving to this type of home style for a variety of reasons. The domes are fire resistant, flood resistant, hurricane and tornado resistant and they can take one hell of a beating. If I had the money to build my own house I wouldnt even hesitate to make a monolithic dome home
True a dome designed structure-especially with spray-on truck liner-would have excellent protection and chances of survival from tornadic winds & debris etc (assuming the building is well-anchored as they all should be). That said, a pressure release system would do *nothing* to prevent any damage and would be not only useless against tornado wind flow but also exceedingly cost-prohibitive. I agree that insurance companies are in the wrong to allow the same-old run-of-the-mill construction until a tragedy hits that gains national/global media attention.
@@jryde421not what he meant lmao
I survived the 12-10-2021 Mayfield KY tornado, The Quad State Tornado Outbreak working at the candle factory , we went to the bathrooms area, the strongest part of the building ! 9 people die. A high end EF4 in the darkness of night was a nightmare !
Wow you were at the candle factory? Glad you're still with us, what a tragedy.
Tornadoes aside, I can't fathom a profession, where you have to run around a field during a thunderstrom, holding some big ass metal equipment
Highly recommend the book “The Man Who Caught the Storm” by Brantley Hargrove. Tells the story of Tim and gives an excellent look into the history and development of storm chasing.
That was absolutely a fantastic read, and I highly recommend it as well.
Ginger Zee is one of my favorite Scientists. She lost a band of Tornado Hunter friends to one of these monsters. 💔 The videos in this are fearful and disturbing, but also deceivingly beautiful. ❤ Thank you, to all of you for your really great work on this!
The Tri-State Tornado is arguably the most terrifying. The Bangladesh one was so devastating because it hit a heavily populated area, but it only lasted for an hour and a half, compared to the Tri-State's three and a half hours. That one would have killed a lot more people if it hadn't been crossing relatively small farming communities and it devastated a much larger area.
The worst part of the Tri-State tornado was lack of warning. The most scary to me? The Mayfield, KY tornado that dropped from the "Quad-State Supercell". It dropped two weeks before Christmas, during an unseasonably warm spell in southwestern Kentucky. The Skew-T revealed what meteorologists and chasers know as a 'loaded gun' atmosphere over the area where Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky meet. There was little doubt that it was going to be an active weather event. The worst part was... it was going to be at NIGHT... which is about the WORST time for a tornado outbreak to happen. The Quad-State Supercell itself dropped multiple violent tornadoes, but it certainly wasn't the only supercell storm in the sky that night. I live well northeast of Mayfield... but I was watching the storm's progression on radar, and it had my undivided attention. I didn't think it had the legs to make it to our area with any kind of problematic strength left... BUT... until it started to peter out demonstrably, I kept an eye on it, just to be on the safe side. That the tornado killed people, didn't surprise me. It was a big ass EF-4 chewing up the ground in the middle of the night. You really couldn't see it well. There are videos of it, and you can see that the camera is just filming a dark night... with flashes of lightning and the tornado only visible when the lightning flashes. What DID surprise me... was that it didn't kill 3 or 4 times as many people. NWS Paducah says this about it... "In all, the tornado covered over 165 miles in about three hours, claiming 57 lives and injuring over 500 people. The tornado was the deadliest in U.S. history to occur in the month of December. Its path length of 165 miles was the ninth longest tornado path ever recorded in the U.S. "
@@gwencrawford737It was definitely the lack of warning. A lot of witnesses have stated that the Tri-State Tornado didn't actually look like a tornado, at least not from the ground. It looked like a big dust storm, so people were often caught totally off-guard. I agree that it's surprising the Quad-State Supercell didn't kill more people, but we did have nearly a century's worth of warning tech between the two. And the Tri-State Tornado may just really have been that big and powerful.
@@paulastiles5507, that's possible. Speaking speculatively here... I think really, the Tri-State Tornado was probably on the same order as the Quad-State Supercell. A working theory that may never be proven one way or the other... is that the Tri-State Tornado was actually a "family" of successive, violent tornadoes, all emanating from the same super-cell thunderstorm as it tracked across the landscape. Given what we know now, from a tornado science perspective... I think that the tornado family theory is highly plausible. I also think it plausible that the Tri State Tornado was a rain-wrapped monster, or a series of rain-wrapped monsters. (Interesting tidbit... BOTH the Tri-State and Quad-State events, happened in the modern day NWS Paducah, KY area of responsibility.)
@@gwencrawford737Yes, I've heard of the cluster theory, though if it was a cluster, it was a pretty tightly packed one, considering the coherence of the path. And there were other tornadoes that day. It's hard to tell from this distance, but you never know what technology in the future might give us more clues.
Tim Samaras is not the only meteorologist killed in the el Reno tornado. Carl Young was a metrologies. Also, Tim Samaras always pronounced his own name Sa-mare-us. Mare as in female horse. Tim’s son was also killed. He was a chaser and photographer. A fourth amateur storm chaser was also killed.
The el reno tornado of 2013/05/31 was 2.6 miles (4.2 kilometers) wide. To give a understanding of how big that is. If the tornado was in a fixed position, it would take a person an average of 45 minutes to 50 minutes to walk through it. (That is of course hypothetical of course since tornadoes are never stationary and are dangerous even on the outside of it.
Tornadoes can be stationary where did you get that info at
U.K. has the most tornadoes per km/ per mile. But most are tiny
Huh, yeah, you're right. Though it's actually a pretty close race still, if you don't include Alaska. I wonder how much higher the number of known tornadoes in the U.S. would be if it had the same sort of population density/spread as the U.K.
@@IstasPumaNevada weird isn’t it? Nowhere near as devastating as the ones US gets though, those things are horrendously impressive. We had a small one in my town once. Worst it did was do some damage to some roofing, pull down a tree and break a bus stop 😀 Might something to do with us (U.K.) being an island and perhaps where we are positioned.
🇬🇧 - I think the video was being stereotypical and didn’t mention the United Kingdom, Briton. We mostly have small-dinky tornados that go unreported in the countryside but we have had US sized ones that have occurred in the past and were reported
@@samuelfellows6923US-sized tornados are a different beast altogether. The big ones in the US are over 1.5km wide and the biggest ever was over 4km wide. The UK has had a rare EF4 before, but EF5s are significantly larger and more powerful. Being anywhere above ground in an EF5 is pretty much guaranteed deletion. The normal backup plans like lying prone in a ditch will not work. Every building will be totally wiped off the foundation even if it's made of stone. The one exception being a tornado safe room. Those are essentially a hardened concrete military bunker disguised as a walk in closet.
We get monsters that do what we call sandblasting if you're looking for a interesting tornados look up Jarrell f5 or xenia f5 you will see the true destructive power
The United States seems to have such a vast diversity of weather occurrences.. & regular natural disasters. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, drought, wildfires, snow storms, lightning, earthquakes, etc. All in this country and on a regular common occurrence basis.
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It was built on Indian burial ground… 😜
It's mostly due to the the fact that the US resides on a skinny stretch of land, when compared to Eurasia, with many different bodies of water surrounding it leading to several differing air masses meeting in the middle of the country. If Asia disappeared today and an ocean took its place, Europe would have similar weather patterns.
@@talon24 I see what you're saying, but I think another factor of the situation here in the US compared to Europe/Asia is that we have such a large landmass that all speaks the same language, that falls under the same government, and which is also somewhat evenly populated, that we are more aware of these events happening as they are visible to more people who have better ways of getting the word out than you all do in Europe where there are dozens of language barriers, political differences, areas of poverty that can't get the word out/record data, as well as having large areas with very sparse populations in Asia, like Mongolia and parts of Russia.
That’s cause the government does this to the weather 😂
350km in 3.5hrs... 100km/hr! ..Can you imagine a twister traveling as fast as cars go on the motorway?! 😳... jeeeesus.. try out running that! I've always been fascinated by tornadoes and have said before.. if money was no object, chasing them is what I'd be doing! Good video from a good channel! New sub!
We've had ones hit 90 mph
There were 4 storm chasers killed from the el reno oklahoma tornado on 2013/05/31. Tim Samaras, Paul Sanaras, Carl Young, and Richard Henderson. Also the tri state tornado of 1925 was 2.4 kilometers (1.5 miles) wide at it's peak width.
There is a serious misconception of what a tornado is, even in this video apparently. You can have a tornado, violent too, without any funnel cloud visible. A fairly recent tornado in Arkansas started like that, and became visible only after pulling debris in the air. A tornado is not the condensation funnel. Also, not the rope, stovepipe nor wedge. And the "death zone" is wider than the funnel itself. Sometimes the RFD and/or the inflow jet are strong enough to do serious damage, without suffering a direct hit. And this comes from someone who is not working at NOAA, does not chase storms and does not have a weather physics background of any sort. Hell, I don't even live in the US
I knew the answer to the largest tornado, and I hate that I was there. I still remember walking out of the basement of the university and seeing that so much rain had fallen the streets were flooded up to the curbside. Only lived in Oklahoma for a few years but apparently those were the worst years in recent history.
Amazing channel and video. Informative, easy to understand, and professionally done as usual. Thank you for letting us know about Ground News. Real Science is one of my favourite KZhead channels!
I lived in Iowa, and Missouri for several years, tornadoes are common in this area, however tornadoes are not a threat to most people. You can be a mile from a tornado and be relatively safe, even half a mile with no issue. Tornados can do a lot of damage but you must be close to them. As a kid I had a strong fear of them, however as an adult, and moving to the coast I've learned hurricanes are a whole other animal. Imagine a tornado the size of a state, which lasts for days at a time, knocks out power, causes flooding, yet also has high winds. There really isn't a lot of safe places from a hurricane as most homes in the south experience flooding, so storm shelters/basements are not common. I remember Katrina, we where left without power for 6 months, killed 1,200 people, billions in damage, and spawned nearly 200 tornados. I don't think its bad to fear a tornado, however their damage is very controlled in a small location.
I think you’re right. I feel the same way about the insane wildfires out here in the west. We always had them, but more start now than ever (most likely humans) and more grow to be larger now. Resources are stretched thin, no forest management for years, dryer climate etc. It used to be a fire was 20-40 miles away and you mostly felt fine; after Dixie fire and then Caldor went like 22 miles in one day… yeah no thank you! Things have changed. My childhood self said I would never live where tornadoes are common. Now I would gladly move to E. TN or central-east KY (little less common in the hills but they happen for sure). Oh, how things change lol. I understand there can be multi-week tornado outbreaks and stuff, but these fires burn for months oftentimes. And the air quality, don’t even get me started. I personally measured over 1200 AQI on my Purple Air, at 700 AQI I took one breath outside and charred my throat 😅
No need to compare, both deadly and take lives, and people should be educated about both.
@@sometimesposting6779 What's wrong with comparing? Pointing out how tornadoes are usually less deadly than hurricanes can be a source of relief for some people.
The tri state tornado the deadliest tornado in the United States killed 695 people. While the galveston hurricane of 1900 the deadliest natural disaster in American history killed 8,000 to 9,000 people. Hurricanes don't kill as much people each year due to their long forecasting time alerting people a significant amount of time before it occurs. While tornado forecast times are an average of 8 minutes.
YES, TORNADO VIDEO! I love tornadoes (because I rarely encounter them irl but they’re super neat in theory and on video)
If you had ever been through one, or had seen the death and destruction they leave, you would not think they are "super neat". You would realize that the videos are showing the loss of life and property on an unimaginable scale. I would die perfectly happy never seeing another tornado or video of the sorrow they leave in their wake.
@@bruces1gthat's crazy, who asked?
@@bruces1gI did NOT ask
In honour of Tim samaras ❤
Good job on including the references and citation!
Thank you for all these wonderful videos. I really enjoy watching them ☺️
I find tornadoes genuinely terrifying. I live in a place where they are uncommon but has a lot of tree cover, so you can't see anything coming. To top it off it is up to individual cities to use their storm sirens. Frightening
On the 11th of May 1970 Lubbock, Texas was hit by a massive tornado. It was an F-5 tornado that cut a swath of destruction a MILE WIDE and 4 miles long. I was less than 2 miles from that tornado. A classmate of mine in the men's dorm at Lubbock Christian College was an amateur meteorologist. His cup anemometer on the roof of the dorm only read to 120mph and the needle was BOUNCING ON THE PEG for several minutes. The storm did $135 million in damage in a scant 4 square miles! The commanding officer of nearby Reese AFB said, after flying over downtown Lubbock in a helicopter, that an entire WING of B-52 bombers fully loaded with conventional bombs would have to fly two trips EACH PLANE to cause such devastation. It also KILLED 26 PEOPLE! The twister hit the 20 story Great Plains Life building (tallest building for hundreds of miles at the time) square and induced a twist that was visible from the ground. You could literally stand at one corner, sight up the corner and see the twist! The effects of that storm were visible for years afterward.
Mother’s Day. And there was a big car show in town
@@vinny4411 Were you there? I was.
This is a fantastic video. A huge amount of data explaining in detail very complex concepts in a form that a layperson like myself can understand. This goes in my Best of the Best category in my downloaded videos where hopefully others will see it.
I'm near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and there were 2 night time, rain wrapped tornados a week ago. It seems like the main severe weather corridor is moving east south east.
I always found tornados fascinating. I lived in NYC my entire life, so I never saw or experienced one live thankfully. Hopefully the detection tech can evolve to give people a few hours' notice. 8 minutes you can be in the shower, come out and then you are surfing the sky. That's practically no time to react.
considering NYC could be hit by a Tornado at any random point in time with no sign or warning - I doubt prediction technology can stop the most wild and random Tornadoes. They can literally come out of nowhere and strike anywhere on the planet without needing a supercell. They are just common from them and they commonly occur within Tornado Valley. This year - I believe it was either Washington State or DC that got hit - one of the two washingtons - got hit by a fairly bad tornado. On the coastal states, you typically will not have a super cell and it would just be a random funnel that comes down for no real reason to wreck havoc. No hail - no thunder - it could just be a heavy rain storm and then devastation. These wild and random rogue tornadoes are bound to NEVER be able to be predicted due to this.
Actually, we know if storms have the potential to drop tornadoes as far as 8 days out. Unfortunately, it's impossible to have hours of notice, because tornadoes are unpredictable. They can touch down, destroy everything, and lift/dissipate, all in the span of a few minutes. It's why Joplin was so bad: the tornado touched down less than a mile outside of town and went from little rope to mile-wide wedge in about 30 seconds. It took four minutes to cause EF4 damage, and this is probably near the time the first fatality happened. The average 8-10 minutes is really good, and it's not going to do much improvement.
The music in your videos always goes so hard.
facts, I thought she was freestyling in free time over the beats for the longest time.
Live in Indy and in my area the way you know we've hit tornado season is when you have the tornado siren starts going off at 11am on Friday. They run a weekly test to make sure it's working. I've never seen one myself but I I have been woken up at 3am by the siren, not a fun thing to wake up to. I can also attest to the fact that the general response to that if its not raining or hailing is having about every dad or husband in the neighborhood standing out in their driveways looking at the sky. Occasionally being joined by someone else. OF course people inside are getting ready if it does really look like something will happen but most of the time people are just staring at the sky and radar till things calm down.
Being a structural engineer in a seismic country, we have a saying "it's not the earthquake that kills, it's the building". You can decide to build in a way that withstands any kind of tornadoes, reinforced concrete houses will not shatter and kill people like the plywood toyhouses you seem to prefer in some places in the US. California is subject to seismic risks so they decided to implement serious anti-sesmic construction regulations. Why don't Oklahoma implement serious anti-tornado construction regulation ? Oh, I know... land of the free...
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I dream about tornados at least once a week and always have since i saw the wizard of oz as a kid. I've always been fascinated and also terrified.
Same here, but not quite as frequent, it's actually quite common, also have dreams about tsunamis, huge great walls of water.
@@gavinbuck8130 I have tsunami dreams also!
80% false alarms is a major problem.
Predicting the nearly unpredictable means we have to allow a wide margin of error in hopes of narrowing down successful tracking. I’d prefer to be prepared for a false alarm 8 times out of 10 as opposed to being caught off guard completely just once.
@@trenae77 AMEN! Always better to be safe than sorry!
@@trenae77 One problem with false alarms is that it does desensitize the population to *actual* alarms!
These "false alarms" are storms that begin rotating and may or may not plop down a tornado. Every tornado begins with rotation, but not every rotation will spawn a tornado. It's difficult to tell on radar if a tornado has actually touched down, and that's where weather spotters on the ground help immensely. If the radar shows rotation, you better hope damn well they are issuing a tornado warning for your area rather than just saying "eh, lets wait until we see a photo to activate the sirens"
If you don’t like ‘em, don’t live in central Oklahoma. I’ve lived here forty-three years and never will forget the 2013 EF5 that hit Moore and came straight towards us in Cushing. So many lives were taken but I’m just so grateful for those who have a heart to help others. My husband and I moved over here to Bixby in 2015 and haven’t had to jump in the shelter as much. Thanks for sharing this y’all 👍🏻
A well produced and high quality video. Thanks for posting.
I love it when she post a video😊
Can we get american measurement translation version I barely understand what a kilometer is give me football fields and mph
seeing these happen overnight is always a good fright fest, but man, when all the lights in the city turn on aroun 11 AM…. oh it’s unlike any other. i live in wisconsin and in 2011 our trampoline started at one end of our house and was flipped over, nearly almost all the way across the yard to our neighbors house. I also remember seeing trees down on every single street. sometimes i wonder if there were touchdowns in the farm fields just behind our houses. although i’d be lying if i said i have never stood on my porch and looked for the storm.
Looking at the map at 0:36, and realizing out of the only 6 countries painted blue for lowest risk, 3 are constantly in a draught or flood, 1 is a desert wasteland, 1 a warzone, and I live in the last, safest place out of all the portrayed, makes me really thankfull that I'm watching this purely as educational material, never expecting to see anything like it in my life. To all the folks who are not so lucky, stay safe out there!
I'm starting to think a bunch of ultra promising scientific and military projects from the usa were abandoned... because they couldn't find an acronym as cool as V.O.R.T.E.X, D.A.R.P.A or H.A.R.M. That last one is really a killer in every sense lol, to call a missile harm is so fking cool
This went over everyone's head I see 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
My cousin is in the national guard and found a baby in a field while helping clean up after the 2011 outbreak. Messed with him bad and i understand why
I don't know how anyone in the medical field is sane after dealing with so many deaths. I've only seen about 50, and it takes its toll.
@@12345.......Lol, trying to throw a big number out there and downplaying it. You're not gaining any clout here.
@@jarlwhiterun7478 I had to look up clout. I'm sympathetic to your cousins issues. Peace to you
@@12345....... that wasn't me, I have no reason to doubt you as I know the horrors the people in the medical field have to deal with, especially during covid. That was some a$$hole sitting in their momma's basement who has never did anything with their lives except jerk it to hentai and make their momma's life a living hell. Peace to you as well and thank you for being a productive, helpful member to society, unlike the other guy.
@@jarlwhiterun7478 you're driving your parents into an early grave, do something before it's too late
Isn't the highest tornado rate in the UK? Albeit tiny.
Most of the occurrences that happen in the UK don't end up being classified as tornadoes, but as funnel clouds. The MET says that the UK experiences an average of less than 50 EF-1 or stronger tornadoes each year. That is significantly less than what many areas of America's tornado alley can see in a single month during storm season.
It's time to start building the "Weather Modification Net" to screen out tornados (and other deadly weather phenomenon) before they even hit the ground.
ANyone else read the title as *"Super Tomatoes???"* Am I the only one 🤣🤣😂
Tornados often make ground contact before the actual visible condensation funnel cloud reaches the ground.
Few deaths happen because of being "sucked up", this happens to small children and infants mostly, most deaths occur due to side-sweeping debris and structures collapsing on people.
4 mins of ads? What in the world?
great video!! but im not a scientist... if possible, could you also use US units? it would make things a little more understandable.
Kilometer is about 60% of a mile. It's not that complicated.
@@12345....... It is when your not a calculator lol
Just look it up. Every American should know global Units.
@@vincentoconnor5640 most of us do. These imperial elitists are as insufferable as the metric elitists. A rational person can figure it out. I must say 48c feels hotter than 118f.
Just so y’all know Tim Samaras and his son both died together in the El Reno tornado. Rest in peace brothers.
The best part of this video is when they explain when Super Tornadoes Are Born
I hate it when videos have a question in the titles but proceed to never answer it.
It's good to realize how much science doesn't know which is a lot. Even something as simple as a tornado.
@@chiquita683 still doesn't answer the question
@@luongmaihunggiaMany questions in life shall never be answered.
@@suspicionofdeceit still doesn't answer the question
The title doesn't have a question in it so there is nothing to answer. What are you on about?
Describing a largely American phenomenon with American examples in metric terms seems a bit off
Dang. Really cool and simple explanation.
Its kind of scary to look at the map at 0:48 and see that there was a few violent tornadoes right where you live.
A little heavy handed with the sponsor. "You might die if you don't download this app". 🙄 Ironically leaning into the inflammatory clickbait you were calling out. You just gotta think a little to avoid stuff like that. No good excuses really.
Please stop with the kilometers per hour so most of we Americans can know how many MPH that is.
You are literally commenting on a science channel, of course it’s gonna be metric.
Yea I agree
The world does not revolve around America the rest of the world uses the metric system so they are trying to appeal to a bigger audience
Well explained 👍 Anyone remember the movie: Twister 🌀
TLDR: I was in the Bridge Creek Tornado, was wild 5/10 recommendation with huge caveats... I was fresh young and at my new job, green AF. Friends dad got me a job, worked in an industrial area on a swing shift. As I listened to the radio on my walkman and did my thing at work, the tornado started on the SW corner of the state, OKC is in the center. I figured it wouldn't get there but we might have some bad weather by the time the storm got to our side of the state. As the sun was setting it arrived. And what I eventually witnessed was completely etched into my memory. Its amazing just under 60 people had their lives taken that day. Okie's owe a huge debt to the meteorologists, they can tell you which streets it's likely to be knocking down. And I had followed their reports on maps and eventually had a phone book's map section opened up it was so close... It wasn't the howl you might be familiar with if you've ever been close to one. And being an older teen around the release of the movie Twister, you know I've seen a few, on purpose. I didn't have to chase a damn thing that day. It sounded insane, and it was so fast for how big it was. Though it was hard to make out as the rain was so heavy around us as it passed to our south with tiny tornados (F0orF1) touching down just a few blocks north of us. We saw the flashes of exploding transformers marking their paths. I figured we dead, with nowhere to run to and up to softball sized hail falling all around, working next to a place that makes giant metal pipes that would harpoon us all if it came through... I remember the huge aerial photo they snapped and stuck in the Newspaper, calling it the Finger of god. ..Cute and no, but wow, it deserves it's legendary status 100%.
A uniquely American problem and you use metric throughout. Wtf man?
So Bangladesh is in what part of the United States? 🙄
@@Jay-ho9io >someplace else in the world gets a tornado America- First time?
@@rexmann1984 You're the product of a household and an education system that completely missed out on what the word "uniquely" means. Which goes along with that Dunning Kruger level of proud that comes with bragging about not being able to understand the metric system.
I'm going to stop watching as long as she only uses metric units. It gets so frustrating.
All nonamericans are pretty ok with the metrics. All scientists too.
@dasstigma fun fact. American schools spend next to no time teaching the metric system or even the conversion. 90% sure it was maybe one lesson and that's it? Never to be mentioned again unless you go into a field that needs itn
Aw poor you, numbers are too hard to learn 😂
Boo hoo hoo
Then stop watching anything science related, or learn to convert into imperial. It's third grade math.
Your voice is the most attractive voice of all voices I ever heard.
Something not mentioned in the video, but that a lot of people that lived in Tornado prone areas are mentioning in the comments is that the sky becomes dark, but also specifically *_green_* when there is going to be a tornado. Do researchers know about this visual phenomenon that seems to reliably predict a tornado, even if only a short while before it forms? Scientists can often get tunnel vision when really focused on something for a long time, and tend to rely too heavily on data to solve problems, so this might be a significant clue to them as to how tornados are formed that might be getting overlooked since it's just based on testimony from victims/witnesses. I've never really seen a "green" cloudy sky here in Maryland, so that's got to be something important happening to create such a rare "illusion"/tint to the lighting.
the green sky is caused by the sun setting in the afternoon. the reason people associate it with tornadoes is cause strong storms that can produce tornadoes form most of the time in the afternoon. so the sky just happens to be green allot of the time.
@@iwanttodemonetizedmyself7464 but then wouldn't that cause a lot of false flag reports of tornadoes without one appearing if it were from such a common daily event? I'm 32 years old, and I've seen many a sunset in my life, but never with a strong green hue in the sky before. I know there are some places that the setting sun, under certain visibility conditions, can create a remarkable green/emerald flash as it sets for a moment, but that's a very localized phenomenon, and I don't think it exists at the latitudes/longitudes along tornado alley, where most of these strong tornadoes form, and where most of the people that make the green sky warning sign indicator are from.
The sky is green due to the angle the sun reflecting off of hail in the storm. Hail of that density in a storm is a good indicator that it's severe and therefore MIGHT drop a tornado. However, there is no direct correlation between the sky looking green and confirmed tornado.
OMG please stop with this lame tactic of trying to seamlessly segue content into a sponsor. It just makes both you and the sponsor look bad.
I was thinking why don’t research Jupiter’s red eye for more tornado data. And this tornados had been there for hundreds years, probably best way to know why tornados just stay there
Tornado is different kind of storm Rotational wind hits worst damage The strongest wind damages are structure of homes etc
I wonder if in a couple of years will see 3 mile wide tornado many believe the 1999 Mulhall, Oklahoma tornado may have reach that width. But later damage survey revealed the main funnel to be just 1.2 miles wide, with the tornado windfield being wider. The El Reno. 2013 tornado shows unpredictable they are and can change direction with little warning while able to rapidly gain ground speed which is the reason why people lost their lives including 4 storm chaser.
Earlier today, i was at a storage unit putting some stuff in it because im moving soon and me and my dad were unloading and we noticed the clouds got dark and then we paused our work to watch the incoming storm, this was an outdooor storage unit also, so we went to a big field so we could get a good views and the clouds. Were lime green, i pointed out tne cloud repeatedly dipping and fading, and said it could be a tornado, so we watched and then tne wing started blowing as the funnel grew and got closed to the ground, it was crazy, it started to get closer and closer to the ground almost touching the ground, then rain just slammed us, and the wing intensified, the wind sounded like a train, i was running because i knew the tornado touched ground, even though i couldnt sed it i just KNEW..so i ran to the storage unot as rain pelted me..i survived it as it passed after like 30 minutes, but it was INSANE!
watched the el reno one travel down i40 and helped with the cleanup. luckily it didnt hit more populated areas or it would have been devastating
Over here in Florida waitin on Idalia to hit just thinkin " least we ain't gotta worry bout those tornadoes amirite guys??? 😁"
I'm assuming most of your viewers are American, so I wish you'd use American measurements. For those who don't feel like converting KM to Miles, the El Reno tornado was 2.6 miles wide. Sadly, among the people killed was the Twistex team, when a satellite tornado caught them off-guard.
Check out some of the chaser clips of the El Reno tornado. Just insane how huge this thing was. It's like the sky wasn't satisfied with a funnel and just decided to sit its whole ass on the ground.
Tornado prediction is hard because the conditions are a large scale weather occurrence but the actual tornado is a very small scale local outcome. But you can predict risk days ahead of time so that if the tornado siren goes off it isn't a huge surprise.
Doesn’t need to be a large chunk of debris as wind speed dependent, any object can have lethal effects when striking someone!
4 of the 8 killed in the El Reno tornado were storm chasers. Richard Henderson was an amateur storm chaser that is often forgotten.
I really enjoyed this. Nuice!!!
We just had our first Tornado in Australia Christmas night 2023 in our state of Queensland. It was a shock, wiped out houses, trucks, trees you name it. Sadly 😥 multiple deaths, one little girl 9yrs old. I hope we never have to experience that again . over 2000 lighting strikes in an hour or so in the storm that turned into a one off official Tornado. Now come the rain floods. 😮
I thought that a tornado was formed from a horizontal column of air rolled across the ground and it was" stood up" I learn something new every day. I live in Tornado alley and we have many of them every week during the spring but none come anywhere close to the size of tornadoes in NW Texas or Oklahoma.
You're not far off, for two reasons. The first is that the horizontal thing does happen, but it's in the parent cell, not on the ground. The second is that what you learned was the best understanding scientists had at the time of tornado formation. We still don't completely understand how it works, or why some tornadoes are more violent than others. We also don't understand how you can have two meteorological identical storms and only have one drip a tornado, while the other doesn't.
we are already able to somewhat predict when a tornado event is going to take place, a day or 3 in advance ... and we can even get pretty close to predicting where it is going to take place. and so people should be able to heed these warnings. and almost noone should be dying to tornados anymore. but people still die from them and it is by no means the fault of meteorologists. it is the fault of the people themselves
Oh and here i thought this channel covers the life science side good to see expansion
0:35 I know that Czech Republic mostly doesn't have actual dangerous tornado's, and they are pretty rare, but for example 3 years back there was onem which destroyed several villages and killed numerous people and injured were in hundereds
Was in Tuscaloosa for the ef4 in 2011, an amateur got a pretty wild video of the approach from the university mall parking lot
2 nights ago we had a tornado, an alert came over our phone and since we live in a trailer we had to go to Meijer, since it was 11 pm. First time living in a trailer and its terrifying during a tornado.
obviously a tornado that gains superpowers
I remember when I was eight years old a lightning strike struck a tree stump twelve feet in front of me the impact was so loud and bright it blow me back words I will never forget that day.
This puts me in the mood to watch twister movies. I love watching twister movies during tornado season 🌪
Did this lady just say we don’t know how tornados form?? Then proceeds to explain how they form? Amazing.