Thanks to FoxInTale for helping with some resources on this one. Let me know how you guys like the long form event analysis videos, there's a couple more I've already started. Work got crazy after my vacation, and weekly videos are near impossible at the moment. But the month long breaks are over. Hope you have a great week!

Worst day of my life. 15:50 were my apartments. I had just completed a 12 hour shift in the ER. I was in bed passed out by 8pm. Missed all the weather updates, heard not one weather alarm. Sometime near or just after 11pm, my phone starts going crazy. "Seek shelter immediately." Once I read that, my apartment started shaking and it sounded like we were getting bombed. Only way I can describe it was ear shattering sound. I had absolutely no time to prepare, or move to a safer area. My bedroom was on the second floor, and the best I could do was pull a few blankets amd pillows off the bed, and hide on my bedroom floor. It was all over within a minute or so. I lost my car, and my apartments were condemned. My poor car had a tree, live wires, and a telephone pole ontop of it. I lost all my family photos, most of my furniture, washers and dryers, etc. And, I was stuck trying to find a new place to live. I don't care what anyone says about 2020... 2019 was the worst year of my life. I still can't sleep everytime there is a storm after dark. I used to love watching storms. But something about not being able to see your hand in front of your face is just not okay. I still get severe anxiety. I think it was something like 17 tornados in a 12 hour window that night/ morning

When it hit us directly on Riverside Dr in Dayton that night it was a F4. We were living in a townhome at River's edge apartments on the Stillwater River. I have never heard such a loud and intense noise. We will never forget the fear as we were in a small half bath under our stairs. We emerged bruised with barely anything left but My husband and I were so thankful to be alive with our 2 little dogs.

I live in Dayton. I will never forget this night. 21:57 the farm roughly in the center of the screen is my family’s farm and it got hit pretty hard and it lifted soon after hitting our farm as stated in this video.

Advanced spotter/chaser here. I was on the Beavercreek system that night, and I live in Wilmington. I had WHIO’s McCall Vrydaghs streaming on my phone and RadarScope on the iPad, with my HAM mic in hand. Us old heads have an affinity for WHIO’s weather coverage dating back to Gil Whitney covering Xenia’s 1973 F5. The lesson here is that local media saved COUNTLESS LIVES on this night. The folks from WHIO, WRGT, and WKEF worked nonstop for hours keeping the public safe. Dayton and Cincinnati folks have a love/hate relationship with the TV mets, but we’ll never forget what they did for us that night. Also, I have the TDAY radar data for those storms, if you want it.

I remember this like it was yesterday. I was watching a movie with my family when we got the news that we were under a tornado warning. We went to the closet under our stairs(we don’t have a basement). We were in there for 5 minuites before the house started shaking, and the power went out. I heard a crash, and I pretty much thought I was going to die. We were in the closet for 1 hour before we went out and saw that our entire roof was gone. A very scary experience for me and my family

16:23 i was parked directly across the street from the brown building with the green roof. I'll never forget this. Husband and I were sleeping in our rv outside of our tire shop on Dixie. I woke up to feeling a super strong wind shake the RV so I woke my husband up and the second I got him up, the window by his head busted out. I jumped on top of my dog, he jumped on top if us both and we held on while the RV was being rocked back and fourth. The loud, chaotic, freight train like sound was like nothing I've ever heard. The most eerie part was getting out of our RV to see all the damage in the dark. First Responders walking to see if anyone needed medical assistance. There were transformers,poles and wires EVERYWHERE. It was like something you'd see in a scary movie in a war zone. I used to LOVE storms...love them but I have such PTSD from the tornado. I really thought we were going to die and I'd never see my son again. He was at his Nana's house, safe and sound. Our tireshop is still not repaired. I pray I never see one again.

I was driving back home from the Cincinnati reds game that day. On the way home my fiance's mom called and asked where we were at and we told her that we were on the back roads on the way home and was about to get into Yellow Springs. She told us about the tornado on the ground and told us to stay away from beavercreek area and Dayton area. We continued driving and about 5 to 10 minutes later my fiance's father called - a retired police Sergeant who doesn't really panic over anything. He said there was one in Dayton another in Beaver Creek and the third near the Yellow Springs area. I will never forget feeling so trapped. As a storm spotter it was a nightmarish situation. There were trees all around us so I did not have a good view, it was night time, and cell service was in and out due to the storms/overloaded towers so I had no access to my radar scope app. The craziest part was the car that we were driving, which was maybe a year and a half old, and shortly after getting off the phone with her dad, decided it was going to have transmission problems. Anybody who knows cars knows Jeeps have CVT transmissions which absolutely blow and all the reason why I will never buy another one. We were just about into Yellow Springs / Xenia when her dad called again and told us there are multiple tornadoes on the ground. By this time the Jeep was going into safety mode where it starts slowing down on its own - despite me pushing the gas pedal and the RPMs resting where they normally would be at 60 MPH yet I watched my MPH go from 50, to 45, to 35, to about 25 mph in about 3 miles. Safety mode is designed to give you about 5 MI to get off the road to safety (why it's called safety mode). Once that 5 mi is up there is no more going forward for your Jeep or backwards. I watched the miles per hour drop with each passing mile and tornado sirens blaring everywhere around me. Thank God my fiance remembered a friend of hers lived not too far from where we were at, I think within 2 to 3 miles, and we were able to make it to her house safely and with no direct hit by the tornado. I spent 20 years as a firefighter professionally before switching careers and I can tell you this - I have been in numerous fires where I thought I had bought the farm and that was my last day on Earth. I would go through every one of those fires again and then some if it meant I would be able to avoid another situation like what I was in on the memorial Day tornado in Dayton. Hands down the scariest experience I've ever had.

I live in Clayton, close to Westbrook Road, and I was terrified. I had the house to myself and spent about 20 minutes in the basement. Had no damage to the property. Later in the week I was preparing to leave for Tennessee. The area of Dixie/Benchwood Ave/Miller Lane (our Restaurant Row, of sorts) shocked me, but it was nothing compared to the next morning driving down I-75 and seeing everything just gone between Needmore and Stanley.

I was the manager at the McDonald's near Northridge that night. We shut the store down after the warnings came in and gathered people in the back. We also had families coming off of 75 looking for shelter that we let in. I had no idea three of the tornadoes came within 1000 feet of my store. It destroyed the gas station behind us. And the EF4 flattened Northridge. Getting home took me 20 miles out of the way with how many roads were blocked by debris. Truly a crazy night. But thankfully we were spared.

I remember this night well. I was with my parents at the time, and I was watching the storm from the back porch with a transistor radio in hand. The lightning in the sky was endless, and--as we don't normally get such constant lightning with storms in the area--I found it both fascinating and frightening. I went back in when the storm was clearly getting closer though. I remember when my radio declared the tornado emergency and trying to convince my father to help me wake up my mom (who was sleeping heavily and soundly) and get to the basement. He insisted that we were fine, that we wouldn't get hit, and while he was ultimately right, it was all happening not 5 minutes from where the house stood. I remember just how many displaced and newly homeless people started wandering our neighborhood after the storm, and it still bothers me to this day that he ignored the warnings from myself and the weather reports. It could have ended up so much worse for my family, as it had for many others that night. 2019 was a rotten year for Dayton, to be sure.

I was visiting my family in Dayton this weekend. At the time, I lived 2 hours away headed towards Toledo, OH, so I visited regularly. This day, I decided to head back home early in the day vs. at night. My mom asked me why was I leaving so early, and I said “I just feel like heading home early today, so I can get back.” Luckily, I left early, or I would’ve drove right into the area the tornado was happening.

This storm is singlehandedly responsible for launching me into a career of Meteorology. Growing up until my 20's I had a severe anxiety revolving around storms. Rain, Thunder, Lightning, a breeze that was too stiff, all would send me in my room to anxiety sleep it off. I had finally gotten over that fear and learned to love storms, but that didn't last long at all. I remember that night so clearly, I was living in riverside at the time. I had been asleep now for several hours, worn out by my 1year old and helping my very pregnant wife. I remember waking up to the lightning, and sitting up and getting to my knees on my bed so I could look out the window, bright purple flashes, lighting up the night, not a single second did the lightning stop, (I didn't learn, until a year later that it wasn't lightning bur rather power flashes) I roused my partner from sleep she commented how pretty the "lightning" was and we both laid our heads back down for rest. "TORNADO EMERGENCY FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a Tornado Warning for..." I shot awake, grabbed my partner and my one-year-old, I drug them into the hallway of our home and snatched my son's mattress. I pulled it over our heads, and we squeezed down to the floor as tightly as we could, Me on top of them both. I called my dad, scared, looking for comfort, in a shear panic I cried and screamed for help, I called 911 begging them for help, they couldn't send anyone because obviously there's a damn tornado headed my way. I thought this was the end. The 23 years of storm anxiety had been forced into me yet again, and this time, as my house shook, my windows shattered, power went out and the howling wind rattled my mind, a new unlocked fear came flooding in, losing my family. That night still scars me, but since then I have dealt with my anxiety, and my fear, and directed that energy into learning, studying, and understanding weather, so next time, I'll be better prepared for it, and maybe even help others. June 8th, 2022, now a trained NWS Spotter, a first-time chaser, I was out chasing a tornado near Tipp City, Oh. It's power and beauty reassuring me almost like a comforting embrace within the tornadic wind field. I recognized my area and the path of the Tornado, I Immediately contacted emergency services, and informed them the Meijer Distribution Center was minutes away from taking a direct hit from that Tornado, I warned them that they may need to evacuate a large area around it if the Ammonia refrigerant lines are damaged, and hazmat might be necessary. Due to my call emergency personnel arrived on site, within minutes of the hit the site took. Luckily, the lines were undamaged, and no one was injured. I'm still terrified, and scared, every time a storm comes rolling in my way the fear comes back and radiates through my mind the whole day, however I direct that energy positively, I get out, and I observe, report, and if I'm feeling extra, chase that storm!

Living in dayton, the scariest part is that we all were told “we live in a bowl! A tornado will never hit us!” and everyone believed it, myself included. The fact that more people didnt die is a miracle, as even my grandparents lost there home entirely, having to be dug out of there basement after the house basically collapsed inward and there street was basically wiped clean with many houses reduced to foundation. Everyone is okay now but we still feel the pain from that day

Very well done! That's a night many of us will never forget. It was clear the weather pattern and potential for deadly storms was escalating through the day. The National Weather Service in Wilmington was amazing that night!

I’m from Dayton but I was living in Columbus at the time! For as many tornado watches and warnings growing up it just didn’t happen! It was ALWAYS Xenia, Ohio. So this particular night, the day before I was SUPPOSE to drive to Dayton to drop our children off to family but I JUST.DIDNT.FEEL LIKE IT!! I remember it so well! I was shopping for our daughter’s summer clothes and I was going to head to Dayton thereafter. Didn’t. I woke up in Columbus around 11p/12am it was storming bad and I literally said a prayer and went back to sleep. I woke up, looked at my phone and saw the horrific news and immediately thought about my family! Specifically my grandmother and my uncle who was 102 at the time living with her! Those tornados attacked so many houses so close to her home !!! I went there shortly after and it was “amazing” to see people’s houses inside out showing. Upstair bathrooms, closets, bed rooms! It was a sight to see!!!! These houses in particular I am thinking of it was a blessing in disguise because they now have these BEAUTIFUL newly built homes ! Their houses don’t even fit the neighborhood that’s how beautiful and nice they are!

I'll never forget this day, it was the most scariest day of my entire life. I drove truck at the time for Kohl's department store out of Findlay Ohio, I was headed back from Louisville Kentucky. It was about 10:00 p.m. when I noticed the weather starting to change I was due to go through Dayton, cuz I was heading up Interstate 75. Only one hour after I got through the city of Dayton did the tornado strike. I was about ready to stop at a please down there in Dayton that I know you can stop at. It was a little to the north and not in the direct path but I still am very grateful that I made the choice to drive all the way back that night.

My mom was in that marathon gas station in Dayton . She made it out with out a scratch and I am forever thankful

I really like this video format. I personally would love to see this style of coverage for other storm outbreaks or events, especially some lesser known ones! Very well done.

Being a first responder down toward kenan ave on Dixie it was amazing that there was no more fatalities or injuries. Such a terrible area for it to happen and narrowly missing many trailer parks where the death toll would’ve been much higher

One of the most crazy and insane days of my life. At the time we lived right off of i75 in Vandalia, we were having a party for memorial day. I had just gotten back from driving around my buddies new RS3 around the block, pulled in and tornado warnings started going crazy on all of our phones. We hadn't been paying attention to the news or weather bc for one it was such a nice day out the whole day, and two we were just drinking and having a great time. So the warnings start going off and at first it still seemed alright out. It was dark but that's bc it was night time lol, but within 5 mins the wind started picking up a crazy amount and the storms started blowing thru. There were at least 15 people still at my house. We all ran inside and turned on channel 7 and bam - there was McCall saying there was tornadoes all around us. Me and my buddy had to run outside and put my ( still fired up ) grill away and grab all our stuff bc tbh we really didn't think it was that serious. Here in Dayton, we live in a Valley so even when there are tornadoes they usually don't touch ground over Dayton. Well as we put the stuff back, I was walking back to the house and looked out south and thru the lighting I could see a HUGEEEE wedge tornado. That tornado ended up hitting only half a mile away from my house. We ran inside everyone got into the bath tub lmao and we just watched the news the rest of the night. We couldn't believe they just kept hitting over & over it was like it was never going to end. The next day we went to KingsIsland in Cincinnati and going down 75 was insane. So much damage. We lucked out and only had our roof slightly damaged and a few trees uprooted. My job in Beavercreek at the time was destroyed too, I couldn't believe it. Tornado hit all the way by my house in Vandalia AND all the way down in Beavercreek. It was wild to think about. That was nothing compared to what happened not even a mile down the road from us. That area of Dayton is still struggling to get itself back together. We've moved since then, back down into the city of Dayton and our current house was in the tornado path, right by Burkhardt road. Idk if this house forsure got hit or not, but we're in the tornado paths that have been written since then. Our weather here is getting worse every year too. They're saying we have shifted into tornado alley and it definitely feels that way. 2019 was a horrible year for Dayton in general. About 2 months after the tornadoes, we had a mass sh00ting that ended up taking the lives of many people in the Oregon district. It was one thing after another.

Thanks for making this video! I am from Butler county Ohio. One of my uncles almost got hit with the massive EF4 in Dayton. He was on a second floor bathroom in his apartment. He told me everyone in the Dayton area knew it was going to be bad from seeing the stuff the NWS in Wilmington sent out. He and I both alike were shocked the SPC didn’t raise too many alarm bells. Also having a tornado emergency being issued 20 miles from you is scary.

I lived in the Colonial Village Apartments in Riverside, Ohio. The scene were you show that the first tornado lifted up and then another one dropped, my apartment complex was right at the end of that first red area. The complex further down Burkhardt road completely lost its roof, and the brick wall of mine was removed. A tree fell on top of our apartment and took a power line with it, causing the tree to ignite. Luckily, the tree was so wet that the fire didn't spread before they were able to cut the power. Shortly before all this happened, I looked out my back window towards the intersection of Woodman Drive and Burkhardt, it was dark but I could see the rain was somehow going sideways and almost looked like it was going back up, lightning flashed and I saw a black mass of twirling debris, it was the scariest thing I have ever seen. A few moments later, after the thump of the tree on the roof, it became eerily quiet. Anyways, great video, I didn't know how close to extreme danger I was until now, glad I made it through.

I live in Dayton. I remember this night, missed my house by a quarter of a mile. We were without electricity and water for a week. The devastation and destruction was mind-blowing. Prayers go out to those who lost so much.

I could talk about this night for an hour but I will say this: I drive by the damage from this tornado every day and there is a lot that hasn’t been repaired. I got lucky and nothing I own was significantly damaged. A small tree branch dented my beater of a car slightly *oh no!* and I lost a few shingles off my roof that I had been planning to replace anyway. I just sprayed it with Flex Seal and it held up for a month till some relatives helped replace the whole thing. It did, however bring to light how unprepared I would have been in the case of my car being rendered undriveable in the aftermath. Some people’s homes/apartments AND vehicles were permanently destroyed within a couple hundred feet from me, while by the grace of Cthulu I was able to sleep in my house (albeit with no power) and leave town the next day. I crashed at my buddy’s place for a week until the water was safe and the power came back on. I now keep charged battery packs and emergency water and food because of this experience. This video made me realize how absolutely wild it is that an EF4 hit such a populated and developed area. It’s gotta be a pretty rare occurrence! I remember this storm every day because many buildings that were destroyed have been just left to rot -as is- in my area. I really wish they’d tear those buildings down so I can go a day without remembering this.

When Steve said, "Despite one EF4 barreling through a city of 800,000 people well after sundown." at 1:12 that legit gave me goosebumps. These things are terrifying in the daytime. I couldn't imagine having to wake up in the middle of the night and deal with one.

I have a lot of crazy memories of this tornado and the surreal sights of the aftermath. The tornado passed about a mile or so from my house and went through some streets that I used to drive on all the time to commute to college. After the storm, we had to buy a bunch of water since we were using Dayton water and under a boil advisory. It was really strange to see so much more sky since the top half of most of the trees were gone. I also helped out with the recovery efforts.

I was visiting Kings Island this day (south of dayton) but I could hear the tornado sirens in the distance. I live in Michigan so when I was going home I was on I75 the next day and the destruction on both sides of the freeway was quite remarkable. Great video breaking this down

I remember this like yesterday, we had our newborn son, 2 year old daughter and my husband shoved in a closet under our steps what felt like for a life time. Tornado sirens going off for a few hours . Scary night for sure !! McCall and Cheryl did great, but I must say seeing the McCall cry made me that much more scared because I knew it was super serious at that point. Driving through beavercreek a few days after was surreal. We also had another tornado in Jamestown although I think it was an f2

1:28 I won’t forget that day either. That year, Richmond (just over the border) had two tornados, one in January, the other either this day or close to it. One of those hit the mall, and my van which was in the shop across the street, before heading out to the trees. The other hit my house, with me standing underneath it looking up at a steadily rotating circle in a lowered cloud section. I realized, “I shouldn’t be out here,” less than 10 seconds to impact. I got inside, closed the door, and the fastest winds I’ve ever heard started pushing at the house. It was likely an EF0-EF1, as the only damage after I stood, looking out the window from far away, seeing our across the street neighbor’s short, freshly-mowed grass, rippling like waves, was a few shingles off the roof and our gate ripped off of our fence. One top hinge, one bottom hinge, on opposite sides, still attached to the posts, and the opposite pair still attached to our gate halves, still locked together, on the ground. That was the January storm, though, and the mall storm was a southwest to northeast track, for the dozen blocks of minor, but real, damage. One air conditioning unit from the mall, and sections of roof, a few signs and signals from the main road (US 40), my van’s rear windshield, along with the shop’s bay windows, and their large sign, and some trees and minor house damage behind the shop area, back towards New Paris Pike. That wouldn’t have tracked towards Dayton area, though. Also, while my house is less than 10 blocks from the mall, there was absolutely no wind in my backyard, as I stood outside (while the mall was getting hit), looking for signs of anything rotating. No rain, no hail, no wind, 10 blocks away. That’s creepy to think about, since we had (but needed) minimal warning time, and no specific location information for this small beast. Just a general tornado warning, with radar-indicated rotation, between mile markers on 70 that line up with our city’s exits. That was a heck of a year for tornados, without having to leave my yard.

Your videos are beyond amazing bro. Keep up the good work. Also you explain the science of tornadoes and weather in general so that pretty much anyone can understand them while also keeping them wildly informative and above all interesting. Like I said, keep up the good work bro!

I live in Clayton near Westbrook Rd, but I lived in Preble County in 2019. I was coming home from work just after 9pm and the lightning was so intense it the sky was just lighting up like day light. I’m a spotter/chaser myself, and was monitoring the radar that night. I will never forget watching the velocity couplet near Brookville gain intensity and become more defined as it neared Trotwood. I was frantically calling friends and family to warn them. I’ve spoken to our next door neighbor since moving to Clayton and he’s told me about how you could hear the tornado as it passed just a few hundred yards to the south.

This was one of the most terrifying nights of my life

Great commentary. I'll never forget that night. I live in Columbus and woke up to the news that Dayton had taken a devastating hit. We spent that entire summer helping with the recovery. It was my first time seeing this kind of damage and I pray it will be the last

I was out visiting family in Dayton Ohio when the tornadoes hit and that was very scary. We definitely will never forget this moment

I will never forget this day. We own an Air Compressor business in the middle of Clayton and Englewood on Cass Dr. The main road that connects to Cass Dr, was a lot of damage in the tree lines. It was less than 1/2 a mile away from destroying our business. I thank God that it missed our business. We are very blessed that everyone was ok.

On this night I was working late down in Cincinnati. I live a little too far south so the most we got was some rain, so I didn't pay too much attention to the coming storm. On my drive home ~10:45 pm, I recall seeing all the lightning to the north and being a little terrified, confused, and amazed at the sheer magnitude of the lightning. It wasn't until I got home that I was told just how bad things were further north. My mom is normally in bed by the time I get home on those late nights, but on this occasion she stayed up to make sure I got home.

Born and raised in Dayton, always wanted to chase a tornado. I move to Connecticut with my wife to have our son 5 years back and of coarse an EF-4 hits my hometown! 🤦‍♂️ That's life. I really hope everyone has recovered from this mess- I miss my hometown dearly. I would have volunteered to assist after this for sure, Lord knows many people needed as much help as they could get.

Thank you for this! This is such a good breakdown of what happened. I work for one of the non-profits in north Dayton that helped with some of the relief work. The morning after this happened, we were out passing out food and water to victims. It was a truly bewildering experience. I have hundreds, if not thousands of photos. One of the photos show the grass line of the ef-4 going directly towards a house, which it then lifted and put back down.

I live in Dayton. Me and my sister worked together at one our hospitals Grandview medical center at that time. We and our coworkers had just gotten off of work at 9:00 p.m. because it was a holiday, they let us go home early. By the time we got home, I turned on the news, took a quick shower and watched as all of this was unfolding. I talked to my cousin, who lived in Trotwood at the time and my nephew. I called my son and was on the phone with him and next thing I know the sirens were going off and the meteorologist were telling us to take cover. I ran to my basement and I could hear the sound like a freight train coming down my street and that's when the tornado hit. It was one of the most traumatizing and scary times of my entire life. 😳 😳😳😱😱🥺🥺

I lived in Ohio in the early nineties. I can say that they take their weather seriously - major props to them. Loved Ohio and it’s people!

Yo dude I only just found your channel I didn’t think I liked weather until I found this it’s actually a truly amazing thing that happens in this world I love your content man please keep making videos like this

The EF-3 Beavercreek tornado literally knocked down an entire woods full of trees, right across the street from our house... and then changed direction slightly and skipped past a bunch of houses. A very weird storm, but it benefitted our house, luckily!

A lady my dad used to work with lost her house because of a tornado during this outbreak. It hit after it got dark and she and her family was lucky enough to get to the basement and take cover before it actually hit. It was the tornado outside of Potsdam & West Milton.

My husband works in Dayton and I distinctly remember him waking me up to tell me Dayton had been hit by a tornado. Thankfully his work was spared, but even today you can still see damage from the tornado.

My husband and I were out of town when this hit, but his house is off Stanley and Troy. It devastated his neighborhood on the other side of Stanley and his house was somehow untouched. We volunteered and made food and passed out necessities and toiletries to families in need in the Northridge neighborhood. Walking around there I broke down and cried. I had never seen devastation like that in my hometown. And only a few months later we had the shooting in the Oregon District. Our city really came together to support each other during that time and it made me really proud to be from Dayton. But even in 2022 there are still houses being repaired from these tornadoes.

16:34 that's not the great American Transport Center, it was a shopping strip center whose largest tenant was the Living Room Strip Club. I believe it had a Dollar Store, barber shop, nail salon as well. It's been entirely demolish. Restaurant Depot was repaired/rebuilt 17:04 The building referenced as "Independent Productions Building" was a hotel that had been long abandoned, but which was within mere days of reopening after a comprehensive renovation/rebuild. The tornado basically gutted all the work and the building was ultimately demolished. 17:20 is that same hotel via street view. I was driving back to Dayton from Cincinnati the night it happened, and saw a large volume of lightning to the north in the distance, but didn't know of the tornados until the next day after I awoke. I drove most of the paths of the two main tornados closest to and through the Dayton area that day and over the next few days and had never seen that type of destruction first hand.

I am a Dayton resident and recall this night like it was yesterday. The sound alone was something that still to this day I can not describe. The next morning as the sun was rising is when we were truly able to understand the gravity of the damages. There was debris everywhere. We still drive by parts of the neighborhood that have yet to be demolished. It was truly a terrifying and surreal experience.

I am glad you put this production together. The tornado that damaged the Donatos and the gas station, as well as Sinclair park, flew over a small residential area between the Donatos and Sinclair park. The other day I was looking at Google Earth to locate a house listed for sale, and noticed something eery. Upon further observing the area, it looked as though the tornado had multiple vortices! There were spots where a house was crushed and a street over another one - but the homes inbetween were not touched. There was no pattern to it but just a hop and skip through that small neighborhood. 1st time I had seen that sort of spotty to severe damage! I took screen shots and sent them to another weather enthusiast. Stunning.

I remember being in the basement with my family and some of my friends since we had a party earlier that day. (I also remember driving during the storm since some friends wanted to go home!) I remember my mom crying and me being panicked because this is the first real life tornado I was in. In school when we would learn about tornadoes teachers would say “Tornadoes will never happen here since we live in a valley.” Until it did happen.

Thank you for this video. I was literally at Cracker Barrel on Miller lane, in Dayton, sweeping my tables when the tornado came barreling through (hehe) and hit ruby tuesdays. Drove home to my house in Fairborn next to the base. Actually got missed by 3 tornados that night. God said it wasn’t my time. ❤ Ok I’m still watching this video, I commented in the beginning. Grafton Kennedy was the name of the northridge school that got hit. It was my kindergarten. 🥺 And the tornado crossed over benchwood, badly hit a church that had a church youth group in it. They all were ok. And the ruby tuesdays got hit as well. As I drove home on 75 South, the guard rails were in knots, cars were flipped over, there was 5 ft of water everywhere, and as I drove past Dayton children’s hospital, all of the power was out. The sky was green. The radio was static, we couldn’t call anyone, couldn’t get a signal. It was so eerie. I actually graduated high school the next day, at the high school on Dixie. We didn’t have phone service in Vandalia for weeks after.

My grandparents where BARELY missed that night in Auglaize county. I was in the basement of my house, and I had only JUST passed Basic Spotter Training 3 weeks prior. Our ears did pop while in the basement, and we did lose power while it lifted (I'm in Wapak for reference). Alot of the damage path is still visible, mainly on farm buildings, if you want to go to google maps on your next video on that subject.

Great video again! I definitely see the rise in quality between all of your videos. Keep it up man!

Just recently moved to Dayton, had been wondering why there were so many abandoned apartments and townhomes in the Shiloh Rd area, then you showed the exact photo of those places lol. All makes sense now...

We were at a large church conference at Cederville College when this happened, we headed home just before the siren came on in Springfield, so thankful to arrive home 45 mins. Later to find nothing had happened at our house., our many friends from CA., were quite frightened by storm, several doz. People had to go to storm shelter at the college. We were Thankful no one was hurt there, the next morning my husband traveled through Dayton to work, he just couldn't believe the devastation. High piles of debris that had been pushed to the sides of interstate 75 by county workers was crazy to see, the track of tornado was very easy to see.

I remember when this happened. Our house was between two tornados that moved parallel with each other. Like a mile gap between them. Even now you can still see where the damage was.

Im waiting for this channel to pop off

Once again, great work! I would love to see more coverage like this. I'm from the Toledo area so I find it cool that you dive into Ohio weather history.

Great video! I missed your uploads for the past month. Keep up the amazing work

Kudos to you for a very thorough and professional analysis. I lived in Dayton for many years and was one of the WHIO meteorologists from 1993-1996, so I'm very familiar with the area. It was fascinating to see the post-storm pictures, including the townhouse I lived in when I first moved to the area back in 1985 (just northeast of the Grange Hall / Kemp intersection in Beavercreak).

Thank for your account on the tornado outbreak,you really did your research on the damage and time and places

I was working for a restoration company in Dayton the time. We went to the Beaver Creek area to help people. Majority of roofs were gone and there was so many trees everywhere. Along every street there was a wall of trees which Paul Bunyan did a great job of removing all of the trees and contractors had the busy job of tarping roof tops. If you're basement floods you don't want to be a Horder because your have to remove all wet materials and belongings so they don't start to mold.

I will never forget this I was younger maybe ten or eleven my parents woke me up around 11Pm and they told me and my younger brother we had to go to the basement we stayed there until about 3am. when we were told we could go out we did and when we got upstairs we saw a huge hole in our roof and smashed windows everywhere and trashed backyard. I am very thankful that we were able to stay safe along with so many other people

THANK YOU. I've been almost begging some of the larger channels for years to even do a quick video on the Dayton tornado with no luck.

You are an amazing weatherman. I hope you end up professionally doing the weather here in Dayton.

This is an incredible channel btw, great content and your videography skills are improving as far as this layman can tell!

I grew up in Ohio, and no matter where you were people always talked about tornadoes. Clevelanders talked about the 1953 west side tornado, and those in the southern parts talked about the '74 Xenia tornado, both extremely violent storms. I watched WHIO online as the event happened and they had tremendous coverage of the tornadoes. It was very sad to see Dayton getting hit, as many folks thought it wouldn't hit the big city there. Thankfully due to technology and people paying more attention, it wasn't worse.

The building shown around 17:15 that says "Trackside" had been a hotel. Originally a Holiday Inn, slowly turned into lower and lower end brands before hot even being a brand in the end. It was functionally gone even before the tornado.

Thank you for the video … I still remember that day clearly… We were outside on our patio until 10 pm. As soon as we went inside the phones got crazy with the alerts. After watching tornado warning on TV we went to Basement. Around midnight, the wind was so strong, our whole house was shaking and trembling. I was so scared that I started crying. After crazy 5 minutes, the wind slowed down and we came out of the basement, thinking that there is nothing above us. Thankfully everything was fine. But our nearby neighborhood was completely destroyed.

Good clear, concise reporting. Keep up the quality work.

I remember the night as the next day I was (yes im not kidding) DJ for the school talent show when it suddenly hit. My house was right in front of a decent patch of woods and my stepdad was outside where we could all hear the tornado barreling toward us before it moved and hit the high school and the subdivision immediately behind it. The next day i had to ride my bike into town which was a good 4 to 5 mile ride on hills through Wolfcreek and all the damage looked straight out of the weather books i had when i was a kid wanting to be a storm chaser. We didn't have power or water for a week after. That shit... it still fucks me up to this day when storms roll through i start to panic and feel a sinking feeling every time. Also I do wanna fix the brookvile school thing since I went there. The layout is super weird as the side that had the roof removed was actually the high school portion and the school auditorium. Looking at it from the air the north wing of the school is the middle school and the south side is the high school. Englewood at union where CTC is, that golf course with the big 2 and 3 story homes are still (last time i looked a few months ago) are still ripped in half and standing abandoned, the houses on wolfcreek some still have boards covering their windows, a log cabin that was there is completely gone as if it never existed. Yeah never wanting to be a storm chaser now i'll stick with music and DJing lmao. Thanks for covering this as not only do you show radar and aftermath, you can explain it better than i can even if I was in it.

Amazing video! And I love reading all the stories shared from those affected in the comments just as much. Y'all are tough cookies.

My grandmother lives in Weld County Colorado and I remember making a point to call her every afternoon during these two weeks. I did hear the siren over the phone at least once but most of the activity was north of her house

Very interesting video. I live in Dayton and I learned some stuff I didn't know. I actually live in a large apartment building near Kettering and I remember sheltering in place in the basement. We were not impacted by the tornado, but I did hear some very strong winds and there were some downed trees nearby from straight-line wind damage. I later visited the Wergyzn Gardens where the forest area took a direct hit from the EF-4 and there was a lot of trees lost there. Very sad. Also, nearby, a traffic light that was still out at least a couple months later and roads blocked off.

I live a little bit East and slightly North of Dayton---sirens blasting in all communities, the rain was pretty terrifying too---it flooded so badly it blew one of the basement windows out of the wall and I had a waterfall down there. What a nightmare, although our village was spared a direct hit. You could FEEL the instability of that storm. What a night. The aftermath was shocking too, the unreality of what tornados can destroy.

I live in Dayton. I was about 1/2 mile to the north of the first tornado. Got in my car, dodged debris in the highway and got my ass south of town before the second one came. Will never forget

Great video! I love all your work! You, Carly Anna and Alferia are so awesome with your content! Thanks for the awesome video

They really did a fantastic job with the warnings and updates. I've watched a few of your videos now and really enjoy them, but it took a weird turn seeing McCall Vrydaghs show up all of a sudden. I lived in the corner of Dayton that juts up against Kettering and Oakwood, and we were glued to our iPads all night and checking on friends who live in North Dayton. Everyone I know was very lucky, just some tree damage farther up I75-N. We take tornado preparedness pretty seriously. Cell phones make it much easier to receive alerts and warnings. I keep a little go-bag with Rx meds and insulin in the fridge so I can snatch it up and jump into the shower in the basement. Thanks for creating such solid content that is both informative and interesting, and keep up the great work. 👍

Great video! I was born and raised in the community of Northridge so seeing my hometown take a direct hit from a huge tornado was hard to watch unfold. My mom still lives there and I actually had to go check on her house because she was with my grandma in Englewood that night. Luckily, both tornadoes, the Northridge and Vandalia one, missed her house.

The EF4 damaged area and lighter damaged neighborhood prior to that area is where I used to live. The Northridge school was right next to the cemetery where my grandfather is buried. The tornadoes that night hit closer to home than I would have liked. My current home was hit by an EF0 as well on the same night.

Was a junior at brookville high school at the time. This was the night before exam week and exams were cancelled as many people had no homes. Very difficult time for many. Will never forget.

Great vid Weatherbox! Thanks for all the quality uploads.

This was definitely worth the wait, very good video

I remember this. UPS had to reroute a ton of mail/packages because the routes got trashed, most of us ended up doing doubles for the next 1-2 weeks.

Your channel is awesome i love the content and i have no idea how you only have 8k subscribers. Your videos are very well put together with the combination of satellite imagery, news replays from the day and your take on meteorology. Great video and look forward to your next one.

Most of my family is from Dayton, they all remember this like it was yesterday. My grandma lives in Huber Heights so her house took a bit of damage. It's worth noting that she survived the Xenia F-5

Great video! I live in eastern Cincinnati. The storm was visible in the upper atmosphere from my vantage point, which is roughly 60-miles distance. Scary is the best description. I traveled to Dayton the following day and took several hundred photos via drone.

I had to drive through the rural parts of W Dayton the next day for a job. I didn’t know there had been a tornado (I live 40 mins south of the worst hit areas). As I neared the path the tornado had taken, I saw limbs down, then big ones, then whole trees. A home missing a roof, and a few more like scenes. I passed an area where a whole stand of old pines had been wrecked and strewn about, each one several feet thick and broken uniformly about 15 ft off the ground. Finally I passed a patch of ground, maybe 50-100 yards wide, where the earth had been scrubbed bare. Not even grass was left, just dirt. Everything had been removed, pretty neatly to my eye, and for as far as I could see. The tornado had punched a clean hole through the next stand of trees and continued on. It was surreal to say the least. The damage in downtown Dayton was of course more severe and disquieting for the human cost, but none of it struck me quite like seeing that bare stretch of land.

It's been awesome watching your channel grow!!

I went to a weather symposium where McCall was a speaker. She said that even though she got some negative responses to her getting emotional, people told her that’s what made them take it seriously. She does a great job.

I lived along Burkhardt when this happened. I was 8 months pregnant and slept through almost all of it. Woke up to see a friends Facebook live. He drove around Beavercreek and saw a crew of people stealing food from Aldi. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I moved out of state 2 months later but still visit. Sadly, only a very small portion of those houses and trees were demolished/cleared. There are still houses and even businesses that still have nothing more than tarps and caution tape. It could have been so much worse but I'm very glad it wasn't. Especially after just dealing with the KKK downtown, and the shooting in the Oregon District.

This was a very well-made documentary on a Tornado that I didn't even know existed. Well done!

Welcome back @weatherbox! I was sitting at the computer when the tornadoes showed up in the Miami Valley, just upstream from me. I was able to see Needmore & Wagner Ford Roads' damage and Beavercreek damage; in Beavercreek. ODOT and even Butler County, OH were still picking up trees 2 weeks after the event! I'm hoping, probably in 2025, you will commemorate May 31, 1985's twister outbreak for the 40th anniversary.

Definitely a night to remember. The big twister went about a mile south of my house I remember the thunder being something sounding so evil that I’ve never heard before

I'm in Eastern Ohio and I remember that night. I sat awake watching the radar all night as it crept towards us dropping tornados across the state. We were lucky enough for them to lose strength before they got to us.

We live in Beavercreek. I remember I was busy writing, and the amount of lightning that night was unreal. I turned on the TV just in time to see the tornado emergency west of Dayton and saw the trajectory of the storms. As soon as they said one was headed to Beavercreek, I had my husband wake up our 8 year old and I woke up our 5 year old and we grabbed our cat and went to the basement. I knew it was serious when my usually easygoing husband was rushing around to get us into the basement. Thankfully, we were just south of the Beavercreek one, about 2 miles away. But I'll never forget all the damage in the North Fairfield area and how scary that night was!

My neighborhood is the one mentioned around 17:05 in Northridge. The small gray building was a smoke shop which was thankfully empty and is now a vacant field. The marathon station was in use and a girl was trapped inside that rubble if you can imagine but she thankfully survived. Across the street is that large hotel, a former Holiday Inn, the "trackside grill" on the side is in reference to the casino and horse track down the road. Thankfully this hotel was empty. I believe there would have been many casualties had it been open. That space is also now an empty lot. The house next to the blue house with the "Dr Seuss tree" was actually the house I broke down crying in front of because this house was completely flattened. The only way to describe it was as if the creator took their massive hand and smashed it into the earth. With no basement I was sure whoever was inside was dead. Thankfully a man came to me and told me the house was up for rent but that no one was occupying it yet. My own house lost part of the roof, our front door and our windows and our poor pet rabbit passed away as a result of the tornado. We were without power for over 2 weeks and the looting and break-ins that followed the storm were scary when your home is so exposed. All 3 of our vehicles were totaled and we personally had about $30,000 in damage to our property. Despite the magnitude of the damage I believe Northridge was lucky to have no casualties. There is always mention of the elderly man in Celina that passed away in his bed but few people ever mention the elderly woman with dementia that went for her nightly walk and never came home. She was discovered days later.

Seriously one of my favorite channels on here! Keep it up man 😁

Weatherbox Wednesday returns! Hope you enjoyed your vacation, Steve.

I live in Beavercreek and will remember this night. I was home and was watching the weather because of the storms. 15 minutes prior to the tornado hitting our home, I was able to find a safe section of our townhome to put 5 adults and 2 dogs. This area was a 3x3 foot area. This move was a the best thing for us to do. We will never forget this night.