Currently sitting in the basement waiting out a Tornado Warning.. Funny getting this recommended to me. 🤣🤣

One scary thing that people who are not familiar with tornados don't recognize is what exactly is the debris being blown about in videos of a tornado. In the videos of the Moore tornado what looks like paper or individual shingles being blown around are actually entire walls and roofs.

He forgot to mention another "worst case scenario" factor in Joplin was that the tornado hit the hospital. Wrecked it beyond repair. Took out their back-up generators too, so 6 people on ventilators died. This obviously crippled life-saving efforts. The tornado also directly hit a nursing home of all places, and killed 21 people there.

It was not a late night tornado. The storm was so massive, tall and thick it completely blocked out the sun.

The Moore tornado hit at 3 in the afternoon. It only looked that dark because of the storm itself blocking the sky.

Currently watching while under a tornado watch! Tornadoes are such weirdly fascinating thing. Something you can’t pry your eyes away from despite wanting to.

If you're scared of tornadoes Moore, Oklahoma is the LAST place you want to live lol

What hits even harder about the Moore, Oklahoma tornado is that it hit a school during a school day and, unfortunately, took the lives of 7 children. I will never forget hearing about that, absolutely devastating loss.

Oklahoma resident that deals with this every year. We get taught about the May 3rd tornado and from around here it is said that it sucked the patches of grass up. Houses that had tornado-safe rooms above ground were leveled with the safe rooms. Nothing was spared.

I've had a lot of relatives killed by tornados over the past 100 years. One of my cousins was sleeping in bed when a tornado hit at night. The tornado picked his wife up and didn't even disturb him on his side of the bed. They found his wife's body the next morning in a tree. I am glad you have recovered from your drunken revelry. You don't look green today LOL.

21:55 The picture of the twin tornadoes is the 1965 Palm Sunday Tornado in Elkhart IN.

I live in Xenia,OH and every time it come close to the anniversary of that tornado and we have tornados around that time the whole town gets worried

Anyone living in the Ohio valley, be safe tomorrow (Tuesday). Ohio is the bullseye of a severe weather threat with possibly a tornado outbreak. The SPC put out some strong words about the threat. Stay weather aware and make sure you have a way to get alerts.

As someone who chases these monsters, they are extremely scary when you see theme coming towards you.

The thing about Jarrell's tornado is that it went backwards

16:06 Most houses in tornado heavy areas have baements, so a lot of these people would've been directly underneath when their house was swept away.

Love Swegle Studios. Makes such amazing weather content

Hackleberg storm is severely underrated. One part being there’s not a lot of good video of it and another being that it was overshadowed by the camera friendly storm that hit Tuscaloosa. Parts omitted from this is that it is believed the wind estimates are too low because it was figured based on the rowing of debris but didn’t take into consideration the land speed of the storm which was flying at 73mph. 2nd part is it was an outbreak and an earlier round of storms took out the warning systems so Hackleberg had no chance and Phil Campbell got little warning. That’s why casualties are so high. 3rd and scariest part was the end of it. Thing tracked right at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant aiming for a direct hit before it shifted and dissipated. Bad as this was, it could’ve been a lot worse.

What's crazy is that my grandpa outran and got away from the Xenia Ohio tornado on a motorcycle. I don't remember specifically why he was there but he said he walked out of a building and looked down the street and seen a bunch of shit flying around and then he got the hell out of there and said the storm followed him for quite a distance before it broke apart......also about 2 and a half weeks ago there was a bit of a tornado outbreak here in Northwest Ohio and tornadoes were basically all around us and 1 to the northwest of me was a "dead man walking" toenado for a bit. and a town about 35 minutes south of me got completely wiped out. I believe that one was rated an EF3 Edit: looks like we could have another outbreak here in Ohio again tmrw

You should check out his video on the emergency alert system, it is a great video.

Great reaction! If you can get it, there is a book called The Forgotten Storm by Wallace E Akin. It’s about the Tri State tornado and it is a GREAT book!

I live around the Tanner area, so I remember the first entry here very well. Let me tell you, it was one of the only times I've actually feared for my life and can remember that day very well. We luckily didn't get hit where I live, but it was still genuinely one of the most terrifying days of my life.

A couple of years before I was born (early 1990s) back when my family still lived in Texas my father witnessed an F5 tornado touched down outside of Temple Texas, it didn't go very far and it didn't kill anyone... BUT it landed in the middle of a massive construction site for a new suburb... By the time it was done it had torn the asphalt off the ground it had removed the pipes from under the ground and had removed the concrete foundations for the homes there wasn't even grass left in the field. Do this day they have never attempted to build anything else there since... now it's just a giant empty field.

Theres an idea that there hasnt been an EF5 tornado since 2011 because of insurance reasons and there are some powerful tornadoes not hitting anything. We all know that the 2013 El Reno tornado was an EF5, not an EF3.

Nick mispronounced Wilkes-Barre in 12:07...... the Wilkes is what you expect. The "Barre" is more tricky because even the locals here don't have a unified pronunciation. But the common pronunciations are "Bare/bear" & "berry".

Have you ever seen/heard the Isaac Duncan footage of the Joplin tornado? It is absolutely terrifying (and wholesome). He and like 10 other people took shelter in a gas station and the tornado hit them directly. Its on KZfaq, title is something like First Person Video of Joplin MO tornado by izelsg. I would LOVE to see you react to that

i grew up almost smack dab in the middle between the towns of Jarrell and Waco… needless to say, our area always took school tornado drills very seriously. (unfortunately, our bedrock makes it almost impossible to drill affordable basements, so we never had the luxury of saying just “get underground”) i can’t speak for the rest of Tornado Alley, but our tornado alarms are still tested the first saturday of every month; 5-minute long alarms at 11am sharp. i haven’t visited my old neighborhood in a while, but the last i recall there was still a twisted piece of metal 20 feet up in a local tree from the Jarrell outbreak, and it’s been there for almost 30 years🤷🏼‍♀️ (edit: spelling)

Whenever there is no debris around a slab of concrete after a tornado, its usually due to a process called granulation. Granulation is what happens when wind speeds are high enough to granulate solid objects into dust. Its pretty incredible

Respect for keeping the end of the ad in so swegle can get his sponsorship money lol

And then there's Greensburg Kansas. The first EF5 tornado ever (right after they changed the scale) was 3 kilometers wide and made a direct hit on a town 2 kilometers wide. There was almost nothing left. People remember the ones that hit bigger towns more, but little towns get *completely* destroyed

Def Bro hope u come visit us in the USA soon man🤙

I have a tornado siren less than 75 yards from my front door and when the storm are raging and the wind is around 80mph, you can not even hear the sirens.

Love your vids man

It doesn’t matter if ur in an interior room if an EF4 or EF5 is about to hit ur home. Surviving is unlikely. U must be underground. Idk if those newer steel shelters bolted into the foundation would be enough. Even a basement isn’t enough for a direct hit from an EF5. So having an underground shelter, especially in high prone areas, is a must. Dig the hole. Throw a shipping container in it. Create a doorway to enter and shelter during these things. It’s April 12,2024 as I write this and the same areas in Oklahoma and Texas, OKC and Wichita Falls, Tx are going to experience possible tornadoes on April 15. Let’s hope they’re all prepared.

Pete you made me happy i love your reactions to these

I feel one of the honorable mentions would be the 1970 Lubbock, Texas tornado, which was another monster previously rated as an F6.

Living in the OKC Metro, I've been through the May 3rd 1999 and May 20th, 2013 Moore EF5's. The latter of those missed where I was at work on 19th st in Moore by about a block, and flattened the entire neighborhood behind us. Ironically, the May 20th tornado dissipated right after it destroyed the house next door to where we've lived since 2019. Where the house was is an empty field now, with nothing but the brick mailbox still there. Even the foundation and 3/4 of the driveway was taken. I'd still rather deal with tornadoes anyday than something like volcanos, earthquakes etc. You can see a tornado coming and get underground or out of the way. Can't do that with an abrupt volcanic eruption, and there's literally NO warning for earthquakes.

For me, Jarrell and 1999 Moore have to be the scariest. Not by much, though...all tornadoes are terrifying. x__x

Watching this while currently under a tornado watch and waiting for the storms to get here later in the evening.

Moore! Yup! I was there for that one- still remember that one and being evacuated from my Edmond OK Middle School and sent home immediately. We were told to be ready to run to our bloody shelter…

I was in the 2011 tornado outbreak in north Alabama. I was 13 and I remember crying while seeing streets completely unrecognizable that I’d been passing through most of my life. That was an EF4. Fun fact: that morning, they were still calling for school. 😂

I was living in Bessemer, AL at the time that first tornado on the list went through. It demolished the neighborhood right next to mine. Thing is, we get really severe tornadoes all the time around here (look up Dixie Alley rather than Tornado Alley).

I was in Columbus the day of the Xenia tornado. I remember that day well.

Swegle is a great channel. Weatherbox is another who does a great job explaining what happened.

The Xenia tornado threw school buses over 100 yards. Fortunately, they were empty at the time and not carrying kids. The kind of advanced warning given by the TV and radio broadcast was different than what had been given before so that there were a lot fewer people killed than otherwise, but I'm not sure what was different about it.

3:02 From the northern tip of Scotland to the southern coast of England, it is about 600 miles

21:40 I live in princeton. There's a lot of old pictures of the town being leveled in the library I think our courthouse survived. aaannnndddd we're under a tornado watch right now.

Everyone seems to forget the Hudsonville, MI F5, it’s said that it was strong enough it damaged foundations of the homes it destroyed. Flint-Beecher, MI F5 is also one of the deadliest of all time. I’m not to sure about the other two F5s we’ve had in Michigan but those two were some of the worst ones that don’t get talked about ever

That phil campbell tornado went over my house. Luckily it was near the start before it got up to EF5

If you're interested, and see this by then, Ryan Hall Y'all is covering the possible outbreak happening today on a livestream. If you want to watch it happen live, i recommend him.

He's sort of in error about the tri-state tornado. The storm lasted seven hours, but the tornado itself lasted three and a half hours (which is still just... insane).

almost 11 years on, no EF5 ratings, but i do believe we have had multiple tornadoes which at some point in their life did hit EF5 intensity

I don't know if I could ever muster the courage to even visit Moore, OK, without worrying about an F5 tornado coming through while there. It's bad enough to get hit by one EF5 tornado, but absolutely terrible to get hit by another. He meant to say that "Twister" was released in 1996, not '66.

The day the slab itself is removed, is when they will bring forth the EF6

Bro forgot about El Reno. The widest and one of the most powerful tornadoes to have taken place. It also took the life of a storm chaser that was known for his safety after the tornado took an unexpected southern turn off its original path.

Me watching this type of video living in Moore Oklahoma always had me chuckle a bit

I still remember the first tornado video you did on this channel. I've seen millions of videos probably and that one still stands out as a favorite. It was the first time I heard ''OH MY DAYS!''

I've had the misfortune to go through 3 different tornados, but I have never before or since seen the damage like that from the Moore/OKC tornado that was still there when I drove through literally MONTHS afterward. It leaves a pit in my stomach every time I think about the sheer terror those people went through.

I missed the tornado that ripped through OKC by about 18 hours after flying back to Montana, still feel lucky to not have been around

I love your videos

That 2011 super outbreak gave me storm PTSD. I wasn't anywhere close to the worst storms (though the county I lived in was on the map shown) but the entire season was brutal. It took a few years for me to not have terrible anxiety every time we got a line of storms.

Ironic given that we're likely to see an EF5 tomorrow in the Ohio Valley. Nasty outbreak expected tomorrow. Notice he said Xenia happened April 3rd, 1974? Thats 50 years ago this Wednesday. And were likely gonna see another major outbreak tomorrow. So ominous.

Oh man, it started with the 2011 ones....I live in Alabama and you really lucky/blessed on that day. Also when I found out some people really do just stand outside and watch. I saw a live feed of one of them and hoped to the basement. That day was terrifying. Also shout out to James spann our weather man

Watching this when a tornado warning went off. No cap. Had to crate the dogs and take cover in interior hall. Not sure if it touched down or just had some rotation on radar. Also, we don’t have basements in our area due to high clay content of soil.

After Mike Morgan's speechless segment I believe they told that crew to unplug and get the fuck out of there, only for it to cross away from them and they were able to stay there. It's an incredible piece of television.

The e4 that touched in bham al i watched it on the news it wasnt far from me it was like 40 mins away

Me in the middle of Illinois watching this as my tornado siren goes off while sitting in my bed. "haha yeah that crazy glad that doesn't happen here" sips chocolate milk.

Always enjoy your selections Thurston. I have always been fascinated by tornadoes, although I have no desire to live through one. We do know a bit about the Tri-State Tornado. There were plenty of eyewitnesses, we know that there was a massive damage field that was continuous for its track. Brick structures and many wooden structures built before 1980 and yes, in the early 1900s were definitely better constructed than buildings built in the 90s through today. I have known a few contractors who would 100% agree with me. I have seen new vs old/refurbished construction, I prefer pre-1980. Modern buildings, unless specifically reinforced, are made with lighter materials like sheet rock (drywall) and particle board. Do some demo in an old building made with plaster and lathe to learn about durability. There are stories of the Tri-State Tornado of miners underground who made their way to the surface after losing power to find surface structures completely gone. The day was a total crazy day for weather. In the regions of the tri-state tornado, the day began with very warm temperatures and ended with snow in many areas as the temperature dropped around 40 degrees Fahrenheit from morning to evening.

~Good vid ty...appreciate u 😊~

I guess EF6 could mean concrete ripped up off the roads and foundations not just swept clean but ripped up as well.

lol this got recommended to me within minutes of my area getting a tornado watch 😭😭

Fun fact. The Jarrell tornado ripped the skin off of victims.

It's simple and relatively inexpensive to build tornado proof homes. If I lived in those areas I would build one for sure. The Fed gov't pays for public buildings to be built like that.

My friend lives in Moore, she has rebuilt her house twice bc of tornados

The movie Twister was released in 1996, not 1966, as he states in the video.

Can you do these in January when I’m not looking over my shoulder?

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Do more tornado videos!!!

#10 had 5 E-F tornadoes in ONE day, and that’s #10

4:05 it wasn't night time the clouds blocked the sun so bad it looked like night.

132 miles is the distance from Leeds to Cambridge.

I live half a mile away from where the 1990 plainfield tornado touched down. I have no idea why humans decided to live here tbh.

React to Death Valley National Park Road Trip - How You DON'T Want It To End by Road Trip Randy and Retracing the Final Steps of the Death Valley Germans by Wonderhussy Adventures.

No, the El Reno F5 was 2.6 miles wide!!! If it's an F5, you have to go to a basement!! If you don't have a basement, you're probably gonna die!!

I'd like to see the building up videos. Aftermath. I've not seen it. Haha

Thought I could get some thought in the reaction. Just got a guy with a receding hairline that looks at his phone while he’s ‘reacting’. Where do I sign of for this gig? Is twitch or kick better for retention/views?

We're expecting a tornado in about 2 hours.

The Xenia tornado always reminds me of Gummo

Nah, the el Reno tornado was 2.6 miles wide. Almost 3 miles wide. Only rated a ef3 because it avoided densely populated areas and was at peak size in open fields

How did he skip the El Reno tornado?

I was there for Moore..

The Joplin tornado killed 161 people.

The Moor Tornado....That's not Late Night. That's 14:58-15:36 local time. Mid Afternoon.

Every once in a while, windspeeds occur that simply don't belong on this planet. Some of the behavior is a little similar to black holes. A reminder of the vast chaos humans exist in.

no it wasnt at night, thats how dark it was

back in 2012 even i was south of the area 3 ef5s cut thru indiana.

Watch the joplin Missouri tornado documentary

Yet most Americans have no access to a cellar. 🤦‍♀️

You should react to "The Strangest Tornado Damage" by High Risk Chris~! It's an incredibly fascinating video~!

Why does anyone with the option want to live in a state where you fear for your life and livelihood all spring? I'm in Florida and hurricanes are easier to ride out because you're prepared and twisters are unpredictable.