I did the same thing.. If you're familiar with Pecos Hank; he was recently talking about a new Tornado related movie coming out, that he had shot footage for. I can't remember the name of it. But, you can see a teaser on his channel..🍻🍻

@@raysplace6548supercell

​@@raysplace6548Cool. Hank's stuff is really good.

​@@harryparsons2750did you see it ???...if so...is it any good ???

4real this is a great 1

wow, how sad, especially on a day that should have been joyous

I remember that too 😭 i cant drive past those ponds without thinking about that story.

Sorry for your loss

That sounds specifically like Will Norton

@@trollerjakthetrollinggod-e7761 That was him.

That language seems pretty 'morbid', doesn't it? As you say, it's "necessary"...

@stretch-on1wyfr

I've always wondered how emergency room staff don't lose it when someone dies. But it's part of the job.

​@@user-df8zq5nx8l nurse 29 years. You're going to die, so make sure you know Jesus. He IS real. I'm not afraid.

​@@user-df8zq5nx8lWe're trained. Our job is to try. God knows when you're going and how.

I read that as SCP and was like "wait hol up"

@@echonoxica4357 lol apparently according to google there is a tornado SCP Description: SCP-5636 is a tornado that is 7.8 ft. and has no known weight, but is compared to a piece of paper. SCP-5636 is extremely dangerous, once SCP-5636 has a grasp on anything, whether it be a car, human, animal, it will increase the pressure inside of its body to crush the entity inside of the SCP.

If ever you're looking out of a window trying to spot a tornado somewhere and you know it's close but you don't know where it isl, always follow where the debris is flying towards. a tornado is like a vacuum cleaner so as it gets close it's sucking debris into it and throwing it up into the air

well said!

You should check out Pecos Hank. He has some of the best tornado footage out there and he's a really laid back storm chaser

I live in the Piedmont of NC and always take warnings seriously because in the last five years or so, there have been three tornadoes in our area that did relatively serious damage. Your area of our state tends to get hit even more than we usually do, so I think you are smart to take it seriously.

The Alabama mamajama, I heard about that one.

@@exos2327 the tornadoes hit Alabama, headed north and destroyed Xenia, Ohio. We could hear one tornado right after the other coming through, nearly a hundred tornadoes hit Alabama that night. My husband was military and TDY at the time, so it was just my kids and I. In all, there were over 100 tornadoes.

I was in Lousiville KY and my brother was in Xenia Ohio. I saw the one that hit Lousivill form. got home from work and the whole side of the building I lived in was sucked off

@@barbtroje3441 holy fck.

@♡𝕍𝕚𝕖𝕥𝕟𝕒𝕞ℂ𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕪𝕓𝕒𝕝𝕝♡ I was a kid then. I decided to stay there until the semester ended then took off on a hippy dippy tour of the US

Half an hour warning? Who's kidding who?

Damn right I absolutely love his vids

Many (most) of the adult children that call themselves storm chasers would do well to watch Pecos Hanks coverage of tornados and see how it's done!!

God bless you and keep you 🙏

Exactly. And it doesn't make sense for future development of tornado damage protection. So, like the guy said in this video, they're aware that it's silly, but they still do it, so that if a 400-mph wind tornado hit an open field, it's still an EF0. But the problem with that is in the future as they're looking at the data, they're looking at a sheet of paper with numbers. So all they see is that it's EF0. And then they develop systems and buildings that they say would withstand EF0 conditions, but they're basing those conditions on the wrong info. They're going to build something to withstand 400-mph winds? No, they won't, because all they think is that EF0 creates minimal damage. They really should be basing the Fujita Scale on windspeeds, not damage done. The windspeeds show damage potential.

An EF5 is gonna level even the best of built structures regardless lmao

They do take that into account. If homes were swept away to the slab from a tornado, but the investigators see that the homes weren't anchored to the foundation, that is considered EF-4 damage instead of EF-5. It would be nice to see a ratings system that takes other factors into account in addition to damage though.

Huh I didn’t know that was how it worked - that’s really interesting. I was horrified recently when I learned EF4’d had been seen in my state of Connecticut…I’m picturing those enormous tornados in the Midwest..but this makes it make so much more sense.

@@BookishDark Well, they do tend to be bigger tornadoes the higher the rating. It's how they're able to do more damage.

I dated someone in Tuscaloosa before the storm hit and ended up moving there in 2014 for grad school at Alabama. The town looked so different before and after. We lived in Concord when I was in high school and it was devastated in that same storm. In April 2011 I was attending the university of Montevallo and lived in Hoover. My apartment lost power in the morning Cahaba Heights storm so I was mostly unaware of what was going on during the main events. I still can’t believe what our state went through that day. I live in central Florida now and I’d much rather deal with hurricanes than endure another April 27th. Irma was bad in my area but nothing like that EF 4 damage. Until you’ve seen that aftermath you can’t really comprehend it.

People who have a sense of Gallows Humor tend to joke that the reason why Henryville, Indiana was struck by a tornado is because a crew from The Weather Channel lead by Jim Cantore was in the area. Legend has it that if you see Jim Cantore in your area; bad weather is bound to happen, so either take shelter or get out of town.

Dixie Alley is the new tornado alley. I live in Oklahoma and I've noticed that over the last 15 years the big naders happening has moved east of us.

@@RickAngell you’re correct. I’d say the Tennessee/Ohio Valley and Dixie Alley are both more active than Tornado Alley.

I'm from southeast Louisiana. My first experience with a tornado was in Walker, Louisiana in 2017, a few weeks later I had another experience with an even bigger tornado as I was crossing the Amite River bridge between Baton Rouge and Denham Springs. I went 27 years without seeing a tornado, and I ended up seeing 2 in the same month.

@@mark4m557 damn

There’s also Hoosier Alley and Carolina Alley. Granted, they get hit to a lesser extent than Tornado Alley and Dixie Alley, but they definitely get their fair share of tornadoes.

I believe you!

The best storm chasers are the ones who track the 🌪 and warn people in their path. Their work is necessary to saving lives in these situations. And they take their occupation very seriously.

Yes I've been. Seeing many studies and reports more so over the last 3-5 years suggesting that Dixie alley has really become the new Tornado alley. Even states north like Indiana,Iowa,Illinois,Ohio, western Kentucky and western Tennessee are seeing way more 🌪 then The original states like Kansas, Oklahoma,Nebraska,South Dakota.

​@@joshuamiller916southeast Missouri is also bad part of tornado Alley always has benn

Dixie alley tornados are harder to chase and take videos of... many tornados are rain wrapped or hidden by trees EVERYWHERE, unlike Kansas or Oklahoma, where you can see miles across the landscape... I think this is why Dixie alley isn't as well known to the public

I think it’s sad how often people forget about Dixie Alley… and how hardly anyone is even aware of Hoosier Alley and Carolina Alley. It’s fascinating how things have shifted and it makes me wonder what it’ll be like in the coming decades…🤔

I more than understand that. I have a particularly healthy respect for severe weather. When I hear our 🌪 sirens, I make sure that our pet Netherland Dwarf rabbit is safe inside his carrier, and that all 4 of us (which includes my mom, sister, and myself) are sheltered in a safe spot in our home.

Closest I ever got a tornado was when I was in basic training in Fort Knox, waiting to be sent home (home holding). It didn't hit the military side of the base, but did damage the civilian side. What was both amazing and horrific was the lightning, it was a constant flash every few seconds and given it was at night, no body in the barracks could sleep.

Back in my hometown a tornado hit and one house had its roof ripped off.. sucked the guy out blew the windows and the front door out but the house across the street I think only had shingle missing.. I don't think they had 1 broken window

They didn't warn them as early as they could have. It wasn't confirmed when it was on the ground. Anyone who blames residents is a moron.

thanks genius

It would be the stuff of nightmares when a tornado strikes the Dallas metro area. When the Oklahoma City metro area was hit by the infamous F5 tornado that tore through Bridge Creek and Moore, Oklahoma on May 3rd, 1999 the city council made a promise to install public shelters in Oklahoma City; but ultimately they did not do so because during their coverage of the EF5 tornado that struck Moore on May 20th, 2013 Linda Cavanaugh (a news anchor at Oklahoma City's NBC affiliate KFOR Channel 4) said that there were no public tornado shelters anywhere in Oklahoma City and police were urging residents to either shelter in place or leave the area.

Let's hope that Dallas doesn't get hit by any super tornado. I certainly wouldn’t like to see anything like that happen. Luckily here in England, we don't really get tornadoes. Maybe the odd one, once in a blue moon. Even then, they're very weak and only get reported due to how rare they are. Some of the weather in America is crazy!!

Yeah, I’m a little worried for Dallas too. My son lives there with his wife and 3 daughters.

The dead man walking isn’t associated with EF5’s at all. That can happen with any strength tornado, especially those that are multi vortex.

@@jockojockoson9995 Firstly, I erred on my statement. The most destructive EF-5s are known to have the dead man walking associated with them. I have watched many, many storm chasing videos. The consensus is that the most powerful/destructive EF-5s more than likely show a dead man walking. I have not heard any of them ever remark that the dead man walking occurred anything less than an EF-5. Moreover, the dead man walking and multivortices, in my estimation, are two similar yet distinct features of a tornado.

A lot of people have wondered why the Joplin, Missouri tornado on May 22, 2011 killed or injured more people than the Moore, Oklahoma tornado on May 20, 2013 even though they were both rated as an EF-5 by the National Weather Service. It comes down to the following six key factors: 1.) The Joplin tornado formed too quickly for the National Weather Service office in Springfield, Missouri to issue a Tornado Emergency for the city of Joplin even though they had issued a Tornado Warning for both Jasper and Newton counties in Missouri and Cherokee and Labette counties in Kansas. 2.) The tornado formed right outside of Joplin, cut through the southern part of the city and dissipated upon leaving it. 3.) Prior to May 22nd; Joplin hadn't experienced a significant tornado since May 5, 1971, so the residents of Joplin had assumed that the mountainous and hilly terrain of southwestern Missouri would function as a natural shield from tornadoes. 4.) Many people in Joplin had dismissed the tornado warnings when they were first issued due to having been desensitized from too many false alarms being issued. 5.) When the tornado sirens in Joplin were first sounded at 5:17 PM Central Time it gave the residents of Joplin a woefully insufficient amount of seventeen minutes to take shelter. By the time the tornado sirens were sounded a second time at 5:34 PM Central Time it was too late to do anything because the tornado was on the ground and moving through the city. 6.) By far the biggest contributing factor is that the Joplin tornado was hidden by heavy rain and difficult to see. By comparison the residents of Moore, Oklahoma are extremely weather-wise and aware of the potential severity of a tornado as their city is practically synonymous with large, long-track, violent and destructive tornadoes. A prime example of this is the F-5 tornado which devastated Moore on May 3, 1999. When the National Weather Service office in Norman, OK issued a Tornado Watch for much of the central and eastern parts of the state at 1:10 PM Central Time on May 20, 2013 three of the TV stations in Oklahoma City (NBC affiliate KFOR channel 4, ABC affiliate KOCO channel 5 and CBS affiliate KWTV Channel 9) immediately suspended regular programming and went into wall-to-wall coverage of the weather; with the city's Fox affiliate KOKH Channel 25 and Telemundo affiliate KTUZ Channel 30 doing so when the first thunderstorms erupted southwest of Oklahoma City.

@@MichaelLovely-mr6oh Joplin wasn't prepared for a F-5 to go through the city. The sirens go off on many occasions and nothing happens, so people become complacent after a while. People wait until they can hear a siren, which they can't inside a lot of times, before taking any action and then don't feel a sense of urgency. I also believe that people shopping or eating in a business believe that the business will take care of them, give them warning, a place to shelter and that's not true The tornado went through a older part of town, places, even apartments with no shelter or basements to go. Going in a closet, hallway isn't going to help when the house is torn off the foundation. Joplin is a fairly flat town compared to the more southern towns like Neosho. The storm moved very slowly and like you said was very rained wrapped. People think tornadoes are like on the plains or Wizard of Oz..

@@dawnbonner6497 This is entirely true. Though I must add that during the April 9, 2015 tornado that struck Rochelle and Fairdale, Illinois; all the customers and employees of the Grub Steakers restaurant survived because the restaurant had a cellar and the manager successfully got all the customers and employees to the cellar. They survived but first responders had a very difficult time removing some of the heavier debris from the cellar door as the restaurant had taken a direct strike from the tornado.

The warnings sucked. They said it wasn't confirmed yet as it was on the ground and the rain wrap didn't help.

Right. If it’s an EF-5 and you don’t have an storm shelter, all you can do is pray at that point. Your odds are not good.

"The National Weather Service determined the path length of this violent tornado to be 80.68 miles (129.84 km) with a maximum damage path width of 1.5 miles (2.4 km), or 2,600 yards (2,400 m). "

maybe they refer to Soccer Football field 😬

I bet your one of them dudes that have to be right about everything.

​@@bulletjones119you might be right about that lmao

@@bulletjones119you're*

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They are too busy teaching how evil America is and grooming first graders

Mandatory shelters should be required. Every state should be responsible. Every public institution should be required to provide shelters.

​@@Joe-sw9nkIt's tragedies like the tornadoes in Joplin, MO and Moore, OK that make me a firm believer in and strong advocate for tougher building codes for all public buildings in order to better ensure safety and prevent unnecessary loss of life. Following the EF-5 tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri on May 22nd, 2011 firefighters and paramedics had to conduct rescue efforts at the Greenbriar Nursing Home. When the tornado warning was issued at 5:17 PM Central Time on May 22nd; the staff at the nursing home immediately began conducting emergency protocol by moving the residents from their rooms into areas such as hallways and the dining room. Unfortunately the walls and roof collapsed on the ninety residents and staff members; leaving twenty-one people dead.

I remember that! I live in Ohio & I remember when the city of Xenia was hit by a F5 tornado on April (3) 74 .@ 4:40 pm . I don’t live very far from Xenia.

Yeah, that threw me off as well. That guy does not know his geography.

Yeah we've been getting too many of those before I go to work. Had me shaken

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It can be summed up in three simple words: Hell on Earth.

I left Alabama in 2017 for Florida. I now deal with hurricanes but compared to what I saw from tornadoes…. I’ll take the hurricanes any day!

what facts can you give to prove your point the EF scale isnt the best way?

The fact that its really the area the tornado forms in is the true key for the Ef ratings, instead of wind speeds, ground scouring or size. For example say you have a tornado that has low wind speeds but it hits a residential area now it’ll receive a higher ef rating vs a high wind rural area one.

Comedian Ron White said, “It’s not THAT the wind is blowing, it’s WHAT the wind is blowing!

@@chrissystepford2263dang you beat me to it 😂 Ron is 100% correct. I am a native Alabamian and will never forget April 27th and the things I saw 😔

Two of the most underrated tornadoes of 2013 in my opinion were the EF-4 tornadoes that struck Hattiesburg, Mississippi on February 10th and Washington, Illinois on November 17th. The tornado that struck Hattiesburg was a wedge tornado just like the ones in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Joplin, Missouri two years earlier; but surprisingly there were no fatalities and only eighty-two people were injured. This tornado badly damaged or destroyed numerous businesses and vehicles on Hardy Street and Oak Grove Road in downtown Hattiesburg along with damaging or destroying many houses in residential areas of the city and damaging residence halls on the University of Southern Mississippi campus. Fortunately there weren't many students or faculty members of USM on campus that Sunday as they had gone to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. The tornado that struck Washington, Illinois is particularly bewildering because of the time of year it occurred. You really don't expect a tornado to strike in late November and as a result the residents of Washington had gone from being excited for Thanksgiving and Christmas to a sense of heartbreak, helplessness and confusion. To add to their misery it snowed a week after the tornado; which hindered cleanup efforts. By an absolute miracle none of the churches in Washington were hit; which was fortunate because it was a Sunday and many residents of Washington were attending church services. One of those people was the city's mayor Gary Manier.