The El Reno tornado that killed 4 storm chasers (RIP) was 2.6 miles wide (wider than Manhattan!),with multiple vortices around the main funnel,packing the strongest winds. The entire thing was rain wrapped (concealed),making it incredibly difficult to identify with the naked eye.

I was in El Reno during the 2013 tornado my uncle lived there and we were helping him with clean up of a few of his rent properties in Moore from that tornado. We were outside watching it, thinking it was just a wall cloud because it was so big (when you live in Oklahoma you get pretty used to tornadoes) but a storm chaser drove by and told us that it was already on the ground and that it was the biggest and fastest tornado he’d ever seen and he thought there was a chance in could turn towards us. So at that point we decided it was probably time to go into the shelter. I’m still in awe of the size and power of that tornado

A Rain wrapped wedge nocturnal tornado are stuff of nightmares

I was in the 1979 Wichita Falls, Tx tornado. It was a wedge, and that’s my exact reaction. The sirens were going off and I saw people in the street pointing at something. When I stepped outside I saw it. I thought, “Oh God. Please tell me that’s rain.” Because it looked like an intense, localized downpour. When I saw the debris spinning around in it I went in, grabbed my little brother, and threw my mom’s mattress over us.

My hometown was nearly hit by a mile-wide rain-wrapped EF4 wedge tornado in 2019. The town just north of us was gone. Not damaged-gone.

What’s crazy about Tornados is that after-flow. The tornado moves on, but the winds behind it are more violent, faster, and do terrible damage.

The debris field from the wedge is unbelievable. I know that from personal experience trying to find survivors

I live in an active area. You get to a point where you know whats coming - the color of the sky, the shape of the clouds, the "green lightning" effect, the blast of the approaching outflow boundary, the hail, the sideways stinging rain. And then there comes those terrible few moments when you realize that seconds are precious commodities and your next decisions will define your life expectancy. Serious stuff.

The tornado that hit Leitrim village, Ireland (yes Ireland!) last week was a wedge tornado, did a lot of damage.

I'm glad I live in northern Brazil, we don't have these scary things over here, we have, crime, corruption and lots of tropical diseases, but thank God not tornadoes

I had no idea that there was a variety of tornadoes! Thank you for expanding my understanding

Believe it or not, you can have wedge EF1 tornadoes and rope EF5 tornadoes. So all should be treated as if they are high end. You never really know until it's all over with.

My dad survived the 1974 Omaha, NE EF4 wedge tornado (& a plane crash, gas explosion, shooting, stabbing, woke up & started walking & talking after a 3-month coma). Thought he'd be here forever with that record, but it was a heart attack in 2019. His description of being in a massive tornado was truly nightmare fuel.

I live in a place where there's no tornadoes thankfully.

Yesterday I survive a direct hit on my house in Clarksville TN.. IT WAS ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING!!! I'm utterly traumatized. If I hear anything that sound like it I jump.. I'm never ever ever looking at stormes them same. They are deadly dangerous. Stay safe & prepared ❤

As a Kansan, people shouldn’t have been caught unaware. They sound like a freight train overhead and can be heard miles away.

The scariest tornadoes are the ones that hit at night when it is dark outside.😢. People can't see the cloud formation, and they depend solely on radar and on warning systems.🙏

That stovepipe twister was a real looker, wow So far no twisters have touched down in my area, but we've had some very ominous funnel clouds that didn't touch down and we've seen more waterspouts

"Dead Man Walking Tornado" has entered the chat

I think the shape of the tornado is not the most important. There are also pretty recognizable wedge shaped ones. What actually matters the most is whether it is rain wrapped or not. A rain wrapped tornado causes most of the problems that the videomaker is talking about.

I believe that all tornadoes are scary and dangerous, but that's my opinion.

Cows. We got cows

That's not a tornado. That's a goddamn land hurricane.

If it's to quiet be on the lookout you can feel it in the air The leafs on the tree point in a direction you know where it's coming from if the birds get the hell out of there you need to do the same

The worst part is…. How I can’t see half of what I’m being shown thanks to the words on the screen blocking my view.

Didn't know there were that many tornados. I was in a truck stop, very cloudy, people on the CB were saying there was a tornado close to the truck stop, I kept looking and didn't see anything. They said they could see it, but it mustve been a wedge tornado hidden in the clouds.

The final boss of tornadoes ☠️

Oklahoman here 😂 thanks for sharing tornado info! I forget some people don’t have to live in fear. 🤣🤣🤣

I remember one time I was returning back to Arizona from Colorado and we almost went through the mountains but decided the storm overhanging them was too narly for our taste. It was only later we learned there was a tornado in that very same region. So man talk about dodging a bullet. Or rather a plank of wood through the chest.

Oklahoma has seen its fair share of devastating wedge tornados. A lot of comments point this out but another factor is whether the tornado is rain wrapped. If it's rain wrapped you can't see it cause it just looks like clouds. If you live in a place where tornados are common know what a wall cloud looks like and what other signs come with tornados because those may be the only warning you get.

Also any tornado can be "rain-wrapped" which means that it is entirely masked by heavy rain and you can't see it. Keep a battery powered radio and take cover as soon as you hear a warning. My friend who was killed by an EF4 had only 2 minutes warning before she was hit. This kind of late warning is rare, but it still happens.

Seeing a lot more of these in Tennessee and Alabama

One time I was in West Texas and they had huge dirt devils everywhere. One was coming across the road and I thought nothing of it but when I drove past it rocked the heck out of my car.

Also called neak attack tornadoes... they do not immediately trigger storm warning horns In small towns.

One of my tornados is 4 now, and it feels like dealing with three tornados

If I had seen this, I would have assumed it was a failed tornado. Thanks for the public service announcement!

Any shape, coming over your roof, around 2 a.m. is Scary.

I have been terrified by tornadoes since I first saw "The Wizard Of Oz" at about age 5.I had and still have nightmares of being chased by tornadoes. Every time the sirens go off, it freaks me out. Last year we had about half a dozen in the area and some damage was done to homes just a couple miles away. So they scare me. But I'm also awestruck and fascinated by them. The violent and capricious nature of nature itself is incredible. I've never seen a tornado or funnel cloud. But if I did I would be terrified and transfixed by the raw power of the earth and sky. Lots of adrenaline. It'd be really cool. At least until it clobbered me. Just the same, I'd rather not come face to face with a tornado, thank you very much! 😳🙏🏻☮️✌️😁

You forgot to mention the multiple vortices wedge tornadoes

It's a strange concept that something can be too big to see, but this proves it.

I didn't even know there's so many different types of tornadoes

I can barely see any of the video because there is so much junk covering it. Search suggestion, channel name, link to another video, long video title with hashtags, "original sound", not to mention all the usual interaction buttons on the side. And apparently there are captions, but I can't read them because they are also hidden behind the junk. Please keep this in mind when making shorts. The actual visible part of the screen is tiny.

Hearing these brave men’s terrified screams made me cry, pray for them as my heart breaks. I remember there were 4 storm chasers lost due to that storm. May God be with these brave weather people putting their lives at risk to protect and save us. 🙏🏻

Technically, it’s not the shape of the tornado that makes wedges hard to see. It’s being rain wrapped. Any rain wrapped tornado is especially dangerous, since you don’t know what’s hiding behind the rain curtains. The El Reno was a notorious rain wrapped killer, taking three experienced storm chasers. They knew there was a tornado in there, somewhere, but they had no idea it had grown to an unprecedented 2.6 mile wide monster and changed direction.

Umm wedge tornados are not as wide as they are tall. Wedge tornados are wider than their base height. Base height refers to the lower part of storm where the clouds end. The average thunder storm is about 7.5 miles high. The widest ever about 3.2 miles in width

Nature always got some tricks up its sleeves

Tell me about it. 2 years all lost exactly from having my town cut in half by a ef 3/4 then going to parallel twin tornados today on my bday again had another huge wedge come thru Dec 11th 21 and Dec 9th 23 tornado outbreaks and this one today decided to attack north Nashville and Bowling Green again. Welcome to global warming up is down fall is spring and Kentucky is tornado ally at night.

About two weeks ago, we had a devastating EF4 tornado in Kentucky fortunately we were not in the path of the tornado but I’m just praying for all the people that died that day❤❤❤

There was literally one of those in TN the other day

Never knew there were variants of tornadoes

All tornadoes are scary , but those wedge ones are terrifying 😱 especially as you can't always recognise them .

We had one touch down in a small town in SC. It was kind of up and not 100% on the ground.

Wow, this blew me away !

Great content

PSA WARNING --if you see a (ANY) tornado and it looks like it’s in one spot RUN RUN RUN it’s coming toward you!!

You forgot about the ultra rare inside-out looping tornado.

Only legends know this is a reupload 😏

Wedges: Great in tater form, terrible in 'nader form.

That old movie Twister was the main reason I recognized in terror when one touched down outside my home in upstate NY, many years ago. I started rushing my sisters into our home's hallway, while our elders stoof in shock as they stared out the windows. We were lucky the worst that happened was the willow tree at the edge of the yard being yanked out, falling across the road. While the willow was an heirloom tree from my dad's grandmother, our family counted our blessings when we checked up on the rest of the county. So many other people's homes weren't so lucky.

My family survived a F4 Wedge tornado. 2.5 miles wide. 3 vortexes in Henryville Indiana.

I experienced a wedge tornado going through west Kansas driving on Hwy 50 towards Colorado. It was over a mile wide! Horrible distruction my family and I witnessed!

I live in Alabama & have since 1985. I've seen all of those types of tornadoes. And lived thankfully! None of them turn out pretty! Two towns I've lived in have been leveled (think bomb) by EF-5's. In both we were spared by mere yards! Edit: When I was just 6 there were 5 tornadoes touching down at once & we were on the interstate. A wind gust spun us around like in the wizard of oz! My mother regained control & pulled over under an over pass with many other cars. I don't remember anything else. But it was wild seeing 4 tornadoes in front of us & one behind! They came out of nowhere!

When I was a kid, there was an F-5 tornado that looked like that. It was two miles wide, not kidding. May 3rd, 1999, Oklahoma City. Absolutely massive damage. It was coming in the direction of our house, but we lived near a lake, so it kind of "jumped" over our house. Very scary experience. We didn't have a shelter. Just sat with pillows over our heads in the closet. A day I won't forget.

I lived in Wichita Falls Texas in 1979 when 3 tornados came together and formed a tornado a mile wild at the base and went across the ground for 9 miles. Sometimes the middle one would pick up and the 2houses on the sides would be destroyed and the one in the middle would be practically untouched.

I remember living in Kansas when I was younger and going through tornado season. I remember once seeing a semi trailer fly by like a sheet of paper, and another time finding a 2 x 4 board through a pine tree… thank goodness we didn’t live there long 😅 We moved to earthquake, forest fires and landslides instead. 🙆🏻‍♀️

I've lived in Tornado country most my life, all of them are deadly, unpredictable monsters sowing destruction. I've seen a few form... but, the one I saw in Millington TN in 85? Was the scariest. We watched an Anvil Head move in, and the whole face started to look like a tidal wave, then it formed a Wedge. It was huge, and it looked like it was on Navy Road.... it was MILES away in Arkansas. We only saw the edge of the storm, and it flooded parts of the base.

I live in Colorado. When tornadoes sweep along here they span a mile wide and move just like a plow generally in one direction north to south for miles. In the plains area near DIA you'll see sporadic sections of slanted fences along the fields to break up the wind so it's harder for them to accumulate into their hugeness 😮

I’ve been in a wedge tornado! The camper in front of us flipped over but luckily nobody got hurt 😊

I have experienced 2 in my lifetime. Both 2-3 mile wide. Both sucked up the roads

The dangerous thing about tornadoes is they are so unpredictable. They can show up with little to no warning depending on the velocity. They sling debris at an extremely high rate of speed. They hop around! One home can be completely 🌪️destroyed while the house next to it is hardly touched. Best thing to have is a storm shelter!

If they're rain wrapped, you may not even realize there's a tornado on the ground.

I’ve seen one outside my bedroom window when I was 15. We lived out in the country so thankfully everyone was ok

Yikes! I was in Kentucky once and there was a tornado in the distance. There was an announcement to go to the basement. When I saw the Texans hot foot it to safety, I moved quickly because they weren't messing around.

I live in Florida and people always question how i can do that considering hurricanes. The average hurricane, when it hits my property, flies at about 60-100mph. We also have days to prepare and know exactly where it is at all times. The average tornado, a fickle and indecisive bastard, is much more concentrated and much harder to track.

I hate tornadoes, but I still find them freaking fascinating

There's a rare subtype of the wedge tornado, which has been nicknamed The Walking Deadman, a multivortex tornado... a rather famous (or infamous) one was the May 27, 1997 Jarrell TX ef5 tornado

Finally, some real knowledge online.

Joplin, MO I lived 100ish miles east of it. Havent slept the same since

There's always lots of twists when you're studying tornado behavior

April 1993. Aden bottoms to Browns, IL oninto Indiana. Including side winders. Picked up back waters. Looked like dirty cotton batting with tree branches in it when I saw it. They weren't branches. They were trees. Couldn't see the bottom behind the house we were in front of. It was silent. No sound but the windshield wipers and rain. Got away. Watched as one of the side winders turned black as it had come out of the backwater. Made it to a friend's house to call it in. Watched it through the picture window. It was massive. It started as a hole in the clouds. Picked up and touched back down more than once. Took years before I could stand on the porch and watch storms again. Lady in Browns lost her life. 😢

Ooh, I get goosebumps in pure awe when I look at tornados. (On screen; I'm Swedish, and we thankfully don't really have tornados here) When there's thunder storms I sometimes can't help myself from looking out the window. The power of nature is so mezmerizing!

From the age of like four or five (starting, in large part, thanks to The Wizard of Oz), I developed a *SEVERE* phobia of tornadoes and would be terrified that one was imminent ANY TIME the mildest thunderstorm passed through, even though the area (Pennsylvania, in the Appalachian region) has, historically, almost NEVER gotten any. I also learned about wedge tornadoes at a VERY young age because one of my early grade school teachers grew up in an area that had a wide variety, and high frequency, of tornadoes, and would tell our class stories about her memories of those storms, the warning signs of them, and the measures her family and school took to protect themselves from them (which also caused me to develop a weird fixation over the fact that we didn't have a storm cellar)... and learning about HALF A MILE TO TWO AND A HALF MILE WIDE tornadoes that could move in fast, totally unpredictable paths scared the living shit out of me even more. My family members, and even my teachers, would CONSTANTLY tell us that it was "impossible" for tornadoes to hit anywhere NEAR our town because the mountains "blocked" them and "protected us" and whatnot.. but, I never trusted that logic (which either made me better at seeing through lies than everyone else my age, or just smarter than the adults if they actually believed the nonsense they were spewing, because none of that is based in reality, at all, and didn't make sense to me, even as a young child, because I figured that, if that WERE the case, then the mountains would ALSO block things like blizzards and even REGULAR thunderstorms). Anyway, after YEARS of anxiety and legit panic attacks every time it rained even moderately hard, as well as vivid nightmares about my house getting destroyed and causing my family to be graphically torn apart, etcetera, a tornado actually DID end up hitting my area overnight when I was in late grade school (maybe fifth or sixth grade), and I SLEPT THROUGH IT-even though it broke a tree in half RIGHT in my NEXT door NEIGHBOR'S yard and sent half of it through the back of his house (RIGHT outside my bedroom window), and tore up a TON of shit across basically the entire town as it skipped around the whole area, lol.

We had 70 Tornadoes at the same in Minnesota 🦋

That was the Joplin Mo tornado. It was 1.8 mile wide and it's widest and a EF5. People that we over 70 miles away could see it and some people that far away had debris from it.

The super wide tornado is also called the bowel movement twister……because when you see it coming at you……..yup.

The scariest part is that the tornados weren't moving! When it looks like a tornado isn't moving, it's actually coming towards you!

Wow, makes me grateful to be in the U.K. We had a mini tornado once which ripped some tiles off a roof and that was the talk of the town 😳 Can’t imagine the horror and devastation some of these massive tornadoes must bring. God protect us all.

I was in a F5 tornado in the town of Jarrell tx on May 27, 1997 27 lives were taken that day three lives were lost in Austin Texas that day too. I was on I 35 just south of Gerald watching that tornado on the east side of I 35 underneath an overpass I want you guys to stay safe out there and God bless you, give me a thumbs up if you like my comment

Very informative and interesting! Thanks for sharing. Be careful out there and God bless.

In May of 1975, there was a very damaging tornado. I believe it was a wedge, because it was wide and low. You could tell its exact route through Omaha by following its definate wide 1/2 to 1 mile wide. Thankfully it wasn't near my home, but it went through my cousins' neighborhood. Though their house was fine, the school up their street was destroyed.

This is really good information, thank you.

I remember watching (from a 12 mile distance) a massive wedge tornado strike Willard Ohio in 1974. Very scary.

One of these hit Litrim village in Ireland there at the weekend. Weird 👍🇮🇪🙏

My older brother lived through the Moore tornado 🌪️ Thank God he's continuing to survive many struggles in life 💪

Tornadoes are one thing that make me grateful to live in California. Instead of tornadoes, we get terrifying earthquakes and half the state catches on fire when it gets hot.

This makes me wanna watch Twister, that crazy wedge tornado at the end was terrifying

If you haven't seen the movie "Twister" .. I definitely recommend watching it. 9/10.

I remember parked at Kansas truck stops an saw 2 tornadoes an it was just normal day

I always imagine tornados as wedge tornados.

Thank you for sharing this! Quite an eye opening education bless you and y’all stay safe ❤❤