that's what a mile and a half wide tornado looks like.

Mrs Libertas time to move.

I didn't see any tornado in this video, maybe it was rain wrapped.

Tuscaloosa tornado impact the habitated area. .

@@evanwatkins6902 it was partially rain wrapped, but more so it was just too massive to make out the shape. If you watch from about 5:40 to 6:00 you can see the back wall of the funnel on the left, but power flashes covering an area that takes up the majority of the screen. The circulation was that massive.

Thanks. The video is slow to build, and it is hard to understand what you are looking at. Not a typical twister.

You could at least see the back edge of the tornado as it moved by, but yes, it was a very large one judging by the look of it. The reason you can't see the whole thing, is because it's rain-wrapped.

Same just happened to me watching it. I’m wondering where in that video you can see it easily until I realized I’m already looking at it... what a monster that tornado was wow!

It was a rain shaft wrapped tornado and its common on huge tornadoes like the EF4 and EF5 ones.

Correct, I agree 100%. If this tornado followed the same track as the Tuscaloosa tornado that same day, we'd probably be talking about a death toll AT LEAST 10 times that of the one that actually hit Tuscaloosa. This Hackleburg/Phil Cambell cell/tornado was otherworldly. It was like something from a Sci-Fi movie...

Its actually rain wrapped so it's a bit smaller than its size

Yes that is what my dad said i was 4 years old in toney alabama my dad did not see this tornado but it was the same one the hackleburg tornado he thought it was a boom if thunder and it was 7 miles from my home

Holy crap, that thing was a mile away from you?! It looked like it was just across the street! Hard to put into perspective just how huge this beast was!

Wait a mile and a half away? Oh my god... that makes this tornado even scarier. It looked THAT huge from 1.5 miles away? What a monster!

There's just something very sinister about this storm. Like it was spawned out of hell

Easily some of the best Tornado video ever shot. Crazy you were almost 2 miles away from it and the Roar was still that loud. At 7:04 the horizontal Vorticies on the right side is a tell tale sign of a Major Violent Tornado. It’s passing you at F5 intensity with winds most likely of over 250 mph. What a Monster this was and for half or more of its life it was at F4/F5 strength.

definitely stronger and larger, but not longer track. Tuscaloosa tornado began in Mississippi and was still down when it crossed into Georgia, making it the second ever tried state tornado

I'm sorry but your statement is just completely incorrect.. This Tornado laid a path of almost continuous EF5 damage for 132 miles (212 km). The Tuscaloosa Birmingham Tornado traveled for a total of 80.7 miles (129 km). This Tornado had almost double the path of the Tusc/Birm. I mean these things are recorded and can easily be Googled, so there is no reason to make such inaccurate claims. This Tornado was like a once in a Century Tornado... It killed more people then the Tuscaloosa Tornado going through rural areas. Tuscaloosa is a city and didn't have as many fatalities as this storm..

IKR. It deserves a lot more attention!

AntiPopLTD Everything you stated is bang on. One note, both at their worst was about the same width, 1.5 mil

yeah but the Tuscaloosa/Birmingham tornado killed more

Couldn't agree more with Ms. Bigelow. Just the ambient sound was perfect.

Cough cough, Reed Timmer.

@Tavon Fenwick I suppose they're allowed to scream while sitting on a beach, watching a beautiful sunset too. And, that would be just as dumb as certain storm chaser's planned, 'trademark' screams during severe weather events.

@@Vector_Ze though just as dumb as someone complainig about the person screaming video taping anything, on youtube. turn down your damn volume

@@andrewtm85 It's not the volume I was complaining about, dork. For what it's worth, people pretty much stopped using analog videotape about 20-years ago. Even Reed Timmer records his screams digitally.

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Agreed. Besides a storm like this would be scaring the crap out of me.

@@dpflack1744 You've been everywhere wtf?

@@seaboardspastic that Flack guy's an @utistic troll. Just report his stuff as spam.

@@seaboardspastic Hello fellow railfan.

Max wind speeds around 210 mph.

This is exactly what the Tri State Tornado would have looked like. Plus it had winds in excess of 300 mph

YES. Awesome job

Agreed. 110%

Right!

I feel like freaked out, cursing, and/or excited is understandable...

@@Mogwai06 to a certain extent but when that’s all you hear in the video it makes watching with the sound on unbearable That’s why I can’t watch Reed Timmer videos at all he’s way too loud and obnoxious 😂

The suction vorticies did that damage I ll bet.

Monster😮

sabishiihito Actually, our house was 1/4 mile south of the path of this tornado, and we didn't get any rain until the tornado was on us. The rain/hail from the parent thunderstorm was displaced well north and east of the tornado. It started raining with hail as the tornado hit because the precipitation from the very next supercell thunderstorm was raining into the tornado. How strange is that?

You know i thought the same thing when I heard about this one.... Didn't see this one but I was in Alabama that day alright.

Try the El-Reno storm....now that was a good example of the tri-state....but wit this you still saw the outlines of the sides of the tornado...many witnesses say there was no outline of anything in the tri state at all.

Maxx Madd That's because the heavy rain shafts that concealed the Tri State Tornado were much wider than the tornado itself. One survivor's account was that "the heavens seemed to have opened, pouring down a flood. Then the day went black."

Perhaps a fair comparison in terms of what could be seen (or not!) is the 2011 Joplin tornado, where the entire supercell eventually looked like a huge green wall of rain with ridiculous amounts of c-g lightning. Apparently many people outside the path had no clue that there was a massive killer tornado in there, and some survivors mentioned that they couldn't see the tornado itself until it was almost upon them. I also wonder if the roar from hail & the incredible amount of rain also masked the sound of the tornado enough to confuse people.

Look up the 2013 El Reno tornado then. It was 2.6 miles wide and had winds close to 300mph. It literally was a giant cloud on the ground.

Looks like the 1925 Tri-State tornado

Another frightening scenario is when the tornado appears as a creepy fog coming towards you instead of a funnel. That was the case of the 1990 Plainfield Tornado.

@@F5Storm1 Everyone thought that it was a big dust storm. Even fooled the weather wise farmers.

@@1998232v6 El Reno Tornado had winds over 300mph.

Actually what I just recently learned is that tornadoes forming the opposite way, from the ground, upwards.

Thats what I saw as well.

@@arcadia4691 No. They're form at the top don't they? Then they connect with the ground. You can see the funnel coming out of the clouds.

It looks like the opposite, but it is from the ground upwards.

Those things love flat lands too.

No doubt. I would not ask for a repeat of what I just saw, even though I study supercells, which is what was above your head that day.

So this is where it formed at? That's some creepy crap. And you got it all on tape. That's storm history right there. I would've been peeing in my pants. Wow!

You recorded Alabama's deadliest ever tornado.

@@saiyongdawn7756 towards the end of the path length actually

@@thrshr2112 Oh. This is towards the end of the path. I thought it was when it was just forming.

El Reno was bigger.

There was lightning but a lot of those flashes were transformers blowing out

@@nachobuttmug8970 no This was 3-4 miles wide

@@nachobuttmug8970 el Reno was bigger. This was much more intense and long-lived.

@@jquest43, the description of this video says 3/4 mile wide, not 3-4 miles wide.

Yeah that’s so scary and it moving so fast and literally just looks like fog or clouds on the ground nothing like the generic funnel they’d be used to seeing, I hope one day up in some dusty attics someone stumbles upon a camera with photos of the tri state tornado

Spooky to think about.

The Smithville and Philadelphia MS EF5s of the same outbreak were "pretty" photogenic tornadoes appearance-wise (even though the damage they caused was absolutely diabolical and horrifying) and much resembled the tornadoes you normally see in the plains. However, erratic and terrifying are often the theme with Dixie Alley's twisters. This twister, the Joplin twister, and the Rainsville EF5 are the scariest-looking tornadoes from that year for me, and 2011 had NO shortage of scary tornadoes. Now scariest looking of all time? I would have to add the Mayfield EF4, the Rolling Fork EF4, and the Greensburg EF5 into the equation.

I would be willing to bet that you are correct about that

tyson golden "rolling fog,clouds"

jquest43 Still, the Tri State Tornado was indeed wrapped in heavy rain. The rolling fog appearance always happens with the heaviest rains. The same thing happened with the Plainfield Tornado, & even the El Reno Tornado.

Yeah this severe storms outbreak was intense and contained very intense lightning activity. I Saw all the Hackleburg and Phil campbell tornado videos and there's no video of the tornado without lightning !!

I can imagine. Kudos to you for filming this monster. 👍

Was your ears pooping I’m just woundering ok 👌.

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@@dpflack1744 One came through when I lived down south growing up. I think it was an f1 or f2. It went down the track behind our house into downtown and tore up few things, knocked over a few trees and tore off some roofs on houses. Fortunately no one was harmed. I didn't see it but I heard it. Sounded like a train so we couldn't tell if it was a train or the actual tornado itself but obviously it was. This happened before daybreak around 5 am or so. I lived through horrible electrical storms growing up down south . The clouds itself scared me to death the way they would twist and roll over one another during storms. I couldn't live there any more. The fear really did a number on me as a child and teenager. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Can you give a fairly close idea where you shot this from? At what moment in this vid did it hit the Wrangler factory?

Great comparison. I’d put this one as the Brandenburg of 2011.

The el reno tornado had a similar glow as well

Put up the video

Glad you are ok

Did u get video Karen??

Shelf Cloud

Moving On the ground at like 80mph. Went through most of North Alabama in less than 2 hours.

@@rjkee52403 That's impressive! As was the structure of this storm

Yes indeed. Both Super Outbreaks were mind-numbing in their violence & geographical coverage, plus the terrible toll of injured & dead. If I recall correctly, the Super Outbreak in 1974 had more F-4 & F-5 tornadoes, and the entire outbreak occurred on one day April 3rd & then overnight (into April 4th), so it lasted roughly 12 to 18 hours. In contrast, the April 2011 Super Outbreak had impressive counts (due to higher numbers of EF-1 & EF-2 tornadoes), but the 2011 outbreak occurred over a 3 day span. (no pun intended 😉). Also, if one looks at the tracks for all the violent tornadoes from 1974 & superimpose those tracks onto a 2011 map that shows larger cities & more urban sprawl of 2011, it becomes clear that the 1974 outbreak could have produced more casualties than the April 26-28, 2011 outbreak, but since cities had smaller populations back in 1974, many of the most violent tornadoes just missed large urban centres. So, IMHO, the April 3-4, 1974 Super Outbreak still is the nastiest tornado outbreak ever, with the 2011 being a close 2nd place.

+Derek Baker April 27th was likely more violent, and produced more tornadoes. Remember it's harder to rate a tornado EF5 than it is F5. The tuscaloosa tornado certainly would have got an F5 rating had it happened in 1974. The damage reports on the 27th EF5s are all more impressive than 1974s (with the exception of Brandenburg, the most powerful of the 74 outbreak.) There was up to 6 tornadoes that were rated EF4 or below that likely would have achieved F5 status in 74. April 27th was unbelievably violent. 2011 as a whole was something else. The el reno EF5 and Joplin tornado too. On the same day as El reno there was also loads of violent tornadoes. Crazy to think about.

@@yeetspageet5679 I thought the Guin tornado was the most violent of the '74 outbreak. I heard that that one is considered one of the more violent ones in recent history.

@@yeetspageet5679 The Xenia Ohio tornado was the most violent of the 74 outbreak.

@JalenStimes It held the record for fastest windspeed for a tornado until the Moore tornado of 99. Dr. Ted Fujita himself, determined the Xenia tornado to be the worst of all 148 tornadoes of that outbreak. He actually even considered giving it his 1st F-6 rating, but decided against it.

Must check that one out. Thanks.

Yeah that's creepy.

Not the entire wall, if you look closely when the middle of the storm passes the gap in the street you can see the tornadoes outline its not an entire wall like the El Reno tornado was

@@joeytheecho9123 gotcha, was trying to spot the left edge

Look up the el reno OK tornado. In 2013, it broke the record on the biggest ever recorded at over 2 miles wide with wind speeds of upto 200mph at its core. The whole mesocyclone dropped, taking many lives with it.

I’m from the Hackleburg area. It was an absolute monster. When I say it took out the town of Hackleburg, I mean it took out the town of Hackleburg.

I’m so sorry for your loss.

Note to self: Don’t live in Tornado Alley, especially if the town ends in “burg”

JollyMeanThinkies JohnsterTheMonster I would agree. From all accounts, the Tri - State sounds like it was either rain wrapped or the meso was all the way to the ground. This, or El reno '13, or possibly Joplin are probably the best comparisons.

JollyMeanThinkies JohnsterTheMonster I would agree. From all accounts, the Tri - State sounds like it was either rain wrapped or the meso was all the way to the ground. This, or El reno '13, or possibly Joplin are probably the best comparisons.

Plainfield, Illinois 1990 would be another good example

As I understand it, the Tri-State tornado had such an outflow in front of it that most saw only the dust-storm being kicked out in front of it, which covered the entire horizon and covered the hell-on-earth that was hiding behind it. The meso was definately on the ground and the tornado likely filled the wall cloud much like the El Reno tornado did. If you see an extreme weather effect like you've never seen before, chances are it's not going to be a good thing and you'd better seek shelter while you still can.

geez

+Heather stubbs Tornado history buff here. Not to be nit-picky, but I am trying to figure out just which tornadoes you are describing. Georgia had a few violent tornadoes during the 1974 Super Outbreak, but none of them were rated F5. In fact, no tornado has ever received an F5/EF5 rating in Georgia's history. Furthermore, none of the tornadoes were in the Atlanta area, therefore they could not have damaged the Governor's Mansion. You are likely thinking of a tornado that moved through northern Atlanta in 1975, which did cause damage to the Governor's Mansion and killed 3 people. It was rated F3. The second tornado is a mystery. No tornadoes were rated as F4 in the state either in 1984 or 1985. A weak F1 tornado did impact the Buckhead area in 1985, same as the 1975 storm. If you experienced the second tornado in the same place as the first, and it was indeed 10 years after the first, then this is probably your tornado.

+Samuel Stephens I didn't think that "F anythings" existed until Dr Fujita started to categorize them using the scale he created after the great outbreak in 1974. But that's none of my business.

Mrs Libertas While Fujita didn't establish and apply his scale until 1971, he had been surveying tornado damage before then and added ratings retroactively. Furthermore, both Fujita and Tom Grazulis, along with others, looked back into history and used available evidence to rate tornadoes. Official ratings date back to 1950 and unofficial but generally accepted ratings go back even further.

Thanks for setting that asshat straight. I hate snide comments, especially when they are opinions or in this case, not even accurate

It was April 4, 1974, and it hit us in Stone Mountain, Georgia. I was awakened at 5:35 A.M. by the sound of what I call thunder bombs, because it's a distinctive sound from regular thunder. These were short, intense bursts of thunder, and the roaring sound kept getting closer and closer. By 5:36, even though the French Doors to my balcony were closed and locked, my sister's and my bed topsheets were lifting and falling back down, and I could hear the sound building along with a hissing sound. Fifteen seconds later, my sister and I were in our parents' master bedroom awaking Mom and Christopher, our brother, and we were crying, because we all felt the house begin to shake. By 5: 38, Maggie, my sister and I were running down the stairs to the main floor but couldn't make it to the basement. Mom and Chris followed right behind us. (One more note: About halfway down the stairs was when we heard the loudest roaring, and it sounded like a fighterjet, and we heard the biggest boom. By then, trees were being pulled out of the ground, and the house across the street and one over from ours were also being destroyed.) I fell as I reached the bottom step, because I didn't expect to miss any steps, but I missed two. I somehow found myself trying to get up, then I felt and heard another boom as I catapolted my way into the den just to the left of the front door. I heard Rufus, our German Shepherd barking and leaning up against the sliding glass doors to our deck. The wind was whistling so hard and loud that I screamed at him to come over to me, as I somehow found myself getting under the huge coffee table between the two sofas. I was too scared to move, because there were sounds coming from every direction, and I didn't want to get hurt. Finally after about another 30 seconds, the sound just seemed to lift away, and I became dizzy. It took me about a minute to get up, but once I did, I also became ill. I smelled that intense pine smell from all the trees, and once I got my composure, I tried to open the front door, but I couldn't. A huge pinetree was leaning up against the front of our front door, and part of the railing was broken, and it and the tree were leaning up against that front door. We couldn't even use the side door to get out to our back patio. Later, I would find out that the house across the street and one over had been swept clean off its foundation. All that was left was the toilet plumbing and toilets from the two bathrooms. The family of four was injured, but thankfully, nobody was killed. Later that afternoon, I heard that the Governor's mansion had been damaged. It was April 4, 1974. I did hear that it was damaged, but I didn't know to what extent it was. damaged. I was 8 and a half years old, and we talked about it at school that morning. The Darrs,(the family who lived directly across from us), had spoken to the father who was one of the least injured, and he mentioned that his son was okay, but his wife and their baby were seriously injured and would need surgery and blood transfusions to get them through. Several days later, I found something outside in the woods behind our house. It happened to be the front door from their car, and it was just the metal piece. My father told me what it was after I got back inside, because he knew it would scare me if he told me what it was if I'd remained outside. Ten years later, April 4, 1984, at our house at 1157 Demere dr, Stone Mountain, Georgia, we got a double-vortex tornado that damaged the front of our house. It also took down some duplexes around the corner from us. The tornado's first part struck us at 4:35 P.M. on April 4, 1984. The second came at about 4:38, and there was a lot of hail that coated our driveway and the street. We had to wait about 4 hours for all of that to thaw before we could make our way by foot to J. J's Restaurant around the corner. We had to take the back way down a steep hill and walk through the Magic Market parking lot to the restaurant. Sadly, both are gone today, and I don't know what's there anymore, because I've been gone from there for over 18 years. The winds from the storm in 1974 were well over 200 MPH, and the winds in the double-vortex tornado were somewhere around 175 MpH at their strongest. Those were the winds that destroyed several duplexes, but at our house, they weren't over 125 MPH. There were many cars that were picked up and carried away, and thankfully, my Dad's truck was mostly okay. My mother's station wagon wasn't affected, because she was at work about 2 miles away. The front of our house was damaged with bricks missing in front, along with the wall of our dining room and part of the den which used to be the garage. We got lucky. Stone Mill Elementary School was badly damaged, and it was around the block down Shiela Lane. Much of it had to be rebuilt, and they estimated the winds there were over 160 MPH. Judging by all the electricity that was heard from the transformers, and the "blue lightning" my sister saw coming up to our driveway left burn marks all along the pavement from the cul-de-sac at the school to our street and up to Demere Court about 100 feet away. (Of course, the blue lightning was the electricity from the transformer exploding. It was terrifying.

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For a second I thought you were quoting twister, (greatest movie of all time) but then you said the rest of that.

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greysponge66 it was the squall line. I don’t believe a tornado as in this footage

Superslim 121 It was clearly a massive wedge tornado and you are the only one who believes in the nonsense that it is a squall line.

From what I can see, it looks like the leading edge of the wall cloud with rain wrapping in from the southwest, in a sense it *was* a shelf cloud surround8ng the massive mesocyclone. I think different view angles would have given a different appearance, like if one was right in the inflow notch looking south to southwest. In any case it was a monster and my heart goes out to all those affected, a comment I read earlier saying the residents of the town acknowledge each other as soldiers that endured a hellacious battle, and no more true words can be said.

Absolutely! Feel free!

+Napalm Death I fail to see your logic as to why they should feel shame for asking? If it were *your* video you would be more than entitle to sell it or simply say no. But this is not your video.. or my video. However, if it were mine, I would have responded "absolutely, feel free" I mean seriously..what harm is there in asking?? ...so if you happen to be someone who doesnt personally care about somethings monetary value, then why not share it anyway you can..right? I mean..you and I are watching basically for free anyway!

I think what he is referencing is the fact that - far too often - people want something for nothing. She isn't asking to buy reproduction rights to the video, in order to use it. She is asking for free use of it. There is value to this video, and there is nothing wrong with licensing it, for profit. Especially for professionals, they should never make the mistake of just giving away their work. A "credit line" does not the mortgage pay. That is why professional videographers and photographers are called "professional". The people who are asking for free stuff, will be making a profit from the work of somebody else - while offering them no monetary compensation - just a credit line.

+MALP1231 I get that. And I honestly feel that if someone feels they have something that has a monetary value and they want compensation for it because somebody else can make a profit...then that is certainly fine. I cant say that I wouldn't. I just dont see the harm in asking. What is the worst anyone could say.."its for sale" or "no" even. After all, asking would be the very first step in any contact. But who would we be to tell somebody when we think they should be making money? Why verbally attack someone who asks simply because they could use it? The other poster responded as if someone was inappropriately being exploited. I think he was rude and way outa line. jmho

I do concur with you that he should have tempered his words. Sadly, there is a lot of vitriol - via the internet. Have a nice evening and take care.