4:30 would NOT be a good time to realise that you were low on fuel! 😯💩

@Stop Deleting My Comments. it would have been equal to a nuke going off….madness

@Joe Schoe: Very well stated!!

Jake, it was a ground level mesocyclone with several tornadoes and countless sub-vortices. Had it been circulating at a few thousand feet it would have been a spectacular, unprecedented storm . There are one or two videos of chasers who entered the wall cloud, and you can see a few of the individual funnels as they go by.

@@joeschoe4477 can you tell us which videos those are? I'd love to see them.

i thought they were going to hit each other. because no was slowing down. that means BALLS TO THE WALL.

Could been a chaser now these chasers have strobe lights so ppl can see them I don't even think cops were getting this close . They said was so much traffic of chasers all over

@@patricklaurojr7427 It was probably a cop. I don't think strobe lights have come into play until maybe 2020. This was almost 9 years ago now, people other than cops and ems didn't start using those lights like I said until recently, like in the past two years.

So basically that cop was like, 'get the hell outta the way'.

sssssshhhhhhhIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTtttttttttt

Me too! I can’t get any of my work done

Me too🤣🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻

Has it.... sucked you in?

Same. Been that was since I was really young.

Me too,I live in Alabama so we get alot of them

I was thinking the same thing.....

Totally agree

simmilar to deadly blue ligting from radiation called chernykov lighting

To me it's just scary

That's some real cosmic horror type shit...

The colors Are so vibrant as well

Fucking swearing always ruins it 😂

But complaining about the screaming/whining and cursing damn sure is okay, right?

@@cannonball9478 right, I hate that shit, fucking damnit!

I’m sure all those things are acceptable when they’re literally in a life or death situation

Mary Poe no beta girly men daying "OMG OMG!!".

Mary Poe That's so true...I was just commenting on this, LoL.

Only because the camera is mounted outside the car.

They cannot talk, it's mounted on the hood.

Seen same video from inside and they was freaking out.they got a lot closer than that lol

Mr.Diesel best comment ever 👍 gtfo!!!

Thats a song

It's crazy, the outer part to the left was kinda orange and grey, then over to the middle turned green. Bad news written all over it.

I’ve seen four tornadoes form. It was difficult to see the tornado itself, but the sky was always green and that was my cue to scram!

Pop-Bottle Green.

😁😄😅😂😭😫

Caden Campbell in the old days folks would die by the hundreds thinking they were looking at a fog bank or just an odd low cloud formation not knowing the calamity.

markmnorcal lol

It wasn't just one big tornado. There were multiple smaller vortices spinning around the main body. Some of them were spinning in excess of 200 mph. It was one of those that took out the two chaser teams. Starting at around the 3:40 mark, you can actually see two of them spinning separately on the right side of the camera view. (and they are both quite large own their own)

+Broseph "rolling fog" tristate tornado 780 dead

That's where about 6 tornados turned into one. This system was just a crazy. You really can't explain it, it was just a big random nightmare

That’s when it exploded into it’s 2+ mile width.

J W it looked like it accelerate towards him and grew simultaneously. Either way, the huge ones seem unsafe to chase

Did it really grow right there and get absolutely close to him or was that just fog or something like that lol.. like if he didn't move when it got close to him was he about to get picked up right there in like 10 seconds or someshit?

@@lolhahah21 yes he would have gotten picked up, he said the wind was already so intense, he was technically already in the tornado at that point, he’s very lucky

Thanks for that. I have been wondering for a while about that house and water tower.

@@inquisitivesoutherntara6997 same. Thanks.

That was such a pretty house. Hope no-one was injured. ☹️😢

@@voiceofreason7567 bet 100 bucks you're jewish

@@skinnyWHITEgoyim no, I’m actually southeast Persian. I would like my $100 sent to my cashapp

Someone said it was actually a mesocyclone that just extended down to earth, inside of it were the actual tornados in the form of multiple smaller vortexes. It looks like that. Technically that huge thing wasnt a tornado, even though it had EF 3 wind speeds.

@@MasterBlaster220 it had ef5 wind speeds. It was only labeled a ef3 because of the damage it caused. Max wind speeds were over 295mph

The main circulation is monstrously massive. And here's the real peculiarity: the top of the tornado reveals a huge hole in the sky. Look closely and it looks like the edge of the eye of a hurricane. This is the only tornado ever filmed that did something like this. Well, basically the hole in the sky was the tornado. The hole dropped the wall cloud with multiple vortices, dancing and mixing erratically. And the hole itself also dropped rain. This can be noticed in the videos that filmed the tornado from afar.

@@jamelgallagher6602 Yeah, but from what i read it were the subvortexes which had those speeds, of which there were alledgedly up to 8 at a time. The mesocyclone didnt had EF5 speeds, you see that with your eyes i guess, its also proven by the fact that there is tons of vids of people from inside the mesocyclone which fortunately were missed by the subvortexes, differenty to T. Samaras. It was one of kind, thats certain.

@@chaos_doom1321 Insane. But from what i know, normal tornados also do that one a smaller scale? Just like a hurricane. From a laymans perspective a mesocyclone that touches down is a hurricane in nutshell, sort of, isnt it?

I was thinking the same. Even the white minivan he passed., I wonder if they made it.😲

@@maryzylema9699 El Reno only had 8 casualties, so they probably made it. It was the grace of god or pure luck that that monster didn't hit a town or a major city. It could've been so much worse.

The cops don't give a shit either. They're just trying to keep track of the tornado.

maya nibbe No kidding! by the time the tornado hit that road Brendon was on, it had a forward speed of almost 60 MPH. Let alone, being more than 2.5 miles wide and having sub-vortices with winds of nearly 300 MPH.

Watch the video of Mike Gribble escaping the El Reno Tornado. There's a part where they're basically running for their lives from the tornado and blow a stop sign in front of a cop coming from their right. The cop stops in the intersection and realizes they had the right idea. You see him come flying up behind them trying to escape with them. All caught on their rear camera. Incredible video actually.

Especially when that tornado is 2.5+ miles wide!

There are a lot of really good videos of this tornado and I especially like this one simply because there are no hysterical distractions. The wind, hail and especially the sound of the engine being pushed to the limit really add to the sense of urgency to escape. Kind of amazing that people would pull over to stop and shoot while others are blowing by them at flank speed. If I saw a chaser fleeing down the road I'd be right behind 'em.

+finisher3x Wow thanks for taking the time and putting all the pieces together. I always wondered how on earth people outran it and who they were. Racing south on 81, the wind was jerking my car to the right, into the tornado I was having to crank hard lefts to counteract the the winds.

Many chasers were on route to highway 81. They wanted concrete roads over the dirt roads which were wet and muddy by then. Good footage too, with a full view to study this tornado.

At least Bettes lived.

finisher3x I thought only Tim and Paul Samaras and Carl Young lost their lives in this tornado?!

@@sweetspirit3887 no they mean Bettes didn't make it through the tornado like Brendon did, Bettes and his people were hit by it and blown off the road, with Bettes' car flipping several times. they were all fine aside from a few minor scrapes but obviously it could have been a hell of a lot worse and there's some speculation that one of the other people who died in the tornado (other than Tim/Paul/Carl) was seen in the Bettes footage in a red truck.

Thanks for viewing and sharing! Glad you liked the view

@WickedTornado I also give credit to this particular event for my increased interest in mesocyclones and supercells in general. Each time I see new footage of this it still blows my mind.

Exactly what my wife said last night

*That’s what my uncle said about my pork sword* 😩😏

The tornado can broken anything, it is very dangerous.

I wonder what the cone itself was.

@@Tc-rn8lh radar measured up to 302mph, might have been the main one

@@Quisspo some say it actually had 336 mph sustained winds

@@Quisspo Naw, the 302 was from a sub vortex. The main tornado wasn't that powerful actually, there's tons of footage from folks IN the tornado and didn't even know it (see Dan Robinson's video). Also there wasn't much ground scouring like the truly powerful tornadoes leave. It was the sub vortices that were deadly in this one.

On one of the reno tornado videos u see an 18 wheeler just driving rite into the tornado...truck dissapeared hope guy made it

That breakdown is a great video. Especially the updated one. Great information

Was the woman and baby in that white van that he passed on the road at 4:46?

@@christinaholland8191not to necro this a year later, but that might have been the semi following Daniel Shaw. If so then yes he was fine, the semi tipped over and probably saved Shaw's life. And if I remember right the trucker then hitched a ride with him to a gas station lol

Skip’s breakdown is an incredible video representing a ton of work. Great recommendation.

When it's in your personal bubble lol

Something like this… if it’s close enough to see, it’s too close.

Those are the vortices. This tornado had 2 satellite tornados and an anti-cyclonic tornado right next to it. Then you have the cone of the tornado. Too much things are going on with this one tornado. And this tornado almost hit OKC.

At 5:00 you see a car get enveloped in it. I wonder if that was Tim.... who ever was in that car didn't make it.

@@scottvarena9358 Team Twistex was killed on the other side of the highway, to the north. They aren't in this video at all.

You bout got got. Props for not losing your cool. Once in a lifetime opportunity.

@Joshua Simmons thats super funny. Thank you.

We thank you for your stupidity!

what car were you in?

@@ploxy2294 a silver trailblazee

Beau McElhattan that's hail

Beau McElhattan that’s a hail core

Ikr but if I seen dat tornado I would scream meh lungs out

That's a hell core.

Stop breaking the internets. BLAST OUTTA HERE! GO GO GO!

+Item69 The first person to knock out Reed Timmer's teeth..........I'm going to send 'em a hundred bucks. That brat trapped inside a young man's body WILL get some people killed sooner or later. Quite frankly, I'm surprised it hasn't happened YET.

+Howabouthetruth Reed is one of the best chasers out there, he knows what he's doing and he got well equipped chasing vehicles as well - thats why.

Pecos Hank makes Reed look like the crack-smoking sociopath he is.

Item69 GET THE PICTURES DAVE!!!!!

Your such a beauty

It still gives me goosebumps

There is a video of the Oklahoma outbreak on the 3rd of 1999 that has a pair of twin monsters just looking like something from a nightmare. Some really old tornado footage is beyond eerie.

it was truly a monster

and at 2.43 is that a massive vortex on the right underneath the blue green hail core.?

One of those sub-vortice actually sat on top of a chaser crew for (estimated by those who reviewed the storm) about 22 seconds. The chaser that was hit by the sub-vortice did not survive, it was a crew of 3.

+finisher3x Thanks for pointing that out.

Barely saw anything in all that dust and rain.  No wonder some people get caught up in these things.  There's almost no warning unless you look for signs like the base of the storm cloud descending rapidly as a mesocy- clone and dust and rain rotating below it.

finisher3x you nailed it lol

@@Gsmf652 You can see them sort of to the left of the brightest part of the lightning strike right after 3:54. The darker columns

Erin L the big green thing is the actual tornado there’s other tornadoes on the left of it

Allan, you and your partner's video is one of my favorites, since you captured it from a different angle than most. Watching that demon cross the road in front of you is just chilling, and your shots of it moving away are unique. Glad you survived.

+Eden McCoy It' killed and hurt a lot of people. Not really beautiful

+Billy Harris Just because it's dangerous doesn't stop it looking beautiful.

+Sharizzle Fob Humans killed billions if not trillions since the dawn of humans, what's your point?

scalar energy,tesla energetics weapon

+Sharizzle Fob yes.and because the native americans,stole the land and massacred the ancient caucasians and north africans,( snake people,mound builders,andara people,solutrians,olmecs,mandans,Florida bog people,9000 years ago) and because they massacred them,these tornados,with avenging deamons will pull them into its whirling winds.

This was documented as an EF3, because it inflicted only EF3 damage, since it touched down and traveled through a sparsely populated area.

@@theresedavis2526 The new EF scale is a joke. A tornado should be rated on size and wind speed, not damage.

@@dickburt69 I agree.

I agree.The one & only. F6 .

The Fujita scale is the main joke. This thing was deadly and what it did to the 3 Chasers and the 5 other people make me terrified. This tornado had so many stuff going on in it. Yea, people say Oklahomans are use to twisters but this thing was insane and it was like it was trying to cause as much tragedy as possible. 1) Winds 295 (2nd highest, making 1999 Bridge Creek OK 1st) 2) Size (2.6, widest tornado ever) 3) It produced vortices, 2 satellites tornados as an anti-cyclonic tornado was right beside it. And not to mention the cone itself. That proceeding day, it produced many smaller tornadoes. 4) That abrupt turn it made. No one expected that sudden turn it made. Which was what killed Sam Samaras, Paul Samaras, and Carl Young, vortices was what hit them. It’s almost impossible to outrun a tornado that wide that’s going about 50mph. This tornado almost hit OKC too. It would of wiped out OKC off the map. The Devon building would just be knocked over like the game Jenga. May those who died rest.

Contrast function on Sony Vegas helped for this specific video.

Yep, he roped it and rode it. :)

Lol I laughed my ass off when I read that :)

Success! :)

And then some.

dick johnson I read it out loud in my head (if that makes sense) in the southern accent and all... t'was a joyous chuckle.

Thank you for the recognition. Now if only I could be as popular as all the "good" storm chaser haha.

@@lightningfreek Got to get out there. Show your POV's for the same system's they showcase. I'm sure they would be ok with it so long as you don't hinder them or interfere with their angles. This video has no copyrighted music and no background commentary that would make someone panic when they see it from 10 miles away. Pecos Hank is one of the big channels. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m5inldFkztysp5c.html

When I thought I could make it faster South than I could East. I dont know a much better answer :/

@@lightningfreek I would've done the same thing, I think all the chasers thought the same thing that day. I watched it on a live feed and I was communicating with another chaser and he said he was running for his life as well and wasn't sure where to go. And I will reiterate; So glad you made it out alive.

@@cherokeestormchaser3259 God has something in store for me.

What is amazing is how few people were killed. Imagine if one of those fleeing cars had hit another one, and stalled everyone behind them. There was no more room for error.

I was just realizing all that as I watched the video, The fact that he passed the van shows how nasty close this demon of a storm was and how big of a mad dash some were making to get the hell out of the way.

They escaped it

Brendon, not Brandon

Luckily it wasn't at peak strength when they got hit, or they'd probably all be dead. That videos bugs me because they drove right into the vortexes trying to outrun them

Manda what is at 1:57

You mean there they are... two big funnels and a smaller one in-between them.

+Rob Riddell Me too!

Well there were never before seen parameters that day so I knew it would be volatile. Luckily that was just my style. I am a photographer, look up Storm Addiction on FB . I tend to like seeing the whole picture vs just the tornado.

To me it seems the 2,6 mile wide thing was the mesocyclone that just touched down and within it it had tornados. But i guess it something changed the way these things normally work, due to it touching down, ad maybe you are right, some kind of strange friction going on therefore.

Thanks for watching and the nice feedback.

I indeed seen the two vortices, between the break of the line of juniper cedars at 3:52 and floored it. I will never forget fighting the winds like 45 degree jerks on my steering wheel to the left when it , the nader, was pulling me to the right...

Do you know who was in the white van at 4:48 and if they survived? I apologize ahead of time if this was already discussed. I'm going to watch Skip Talbots video too.

@@Linda-zo8ds Mike Bettes with The Weather Channel. If I'm not mistaken, this is the tornado that flung him 30ft into the air. There's videos of the camera inside his car when it happened.