Heard them in Kentucky every year. They are terrifying!

Lauren Stephens I can only imagine. Just seeing them in the Midwestern states last month during our travels, was unsettling.

Very scary

I've been in 6 bourbonnis IL dwight IL streator IL diamond IL pontiac IL Kankakee IL all were f2 solid f3s an seeing something like this in a video ..SIMPLY WOW. I feel all those effected simply it's all up to mother nature an God.. clearly can't do anything more but pray as mass destruction unleashed fiery rolls throu

I'm fortunate here in Saint Louis, MO. We heard them about 3 times last year none the year before and twice or so the year prior, nothing ever happened. Thankfully. One happened on an evening I was supposed to go to a friend's grandmother's funeral as I was getting dressed to leave and I decided to stay home, thankfully no tornado occurred, better to be safe than sorry!

carp bear if you think about it it’s a fairly safe place. The way it’s built it will not fall to the ground and he likely had a interior stairwell to fall back to for cover.

That part of Tuscaloosa was not hit by the tornado. The area around the university of Alabama was probably the safest place you could be that day. The tornado just missed it. Although some off campus apartments did get destroyed, the campus itself was ok.

He is way safer there. Completely surrounded in concrete.

I sit on my porch during tornados. It's a tornado alley thing. It feels weird when you dont watch tornados.

Sirens are among the scariest sounds you'll ever hear.

u are right about that i think they should have them go off when they know there is a really go chance of tornados not just when they see one

Definitely best to supplement with extreme weather alerts to your phone and an emergency alert radio.

SkullCrusher Scootering No way. People already get pissed when the sirens go off because rotation was spotted but tornado never really forms. People are annoyingly selfish. Like it’s inconvenient to them. Same people who complain about amber alerts waking them up. Damned if you and damned if you don’t. Meteorologists will always be criticized for crying wolf too many times, and for not warning people enough.

The one time I've had a tornado pass by my current apartment in the 5 years I've been here, I looked outside when the sirens started and the sky was much darker to the east. I think the funnel cloud had already been past my place for a while, and then it touched down in a town east of us. Exactly why you can't 100% rely on sirens!

Keith Caulkins yeah they went off way before the tornado got there

Not that many heard them though,Did you see all the cars driving around like a bunch of idiots?..Don't feel bad though...there are more idiots out in the plains who love to drive around when there's a tornado..........and their not even chaser's!

Weird how they are in steady tone instead of wail like they usually are.

@@F5Storm1 these type are actually a regular type, had them in my hometown in northern Illinois. Not rare at all

Correct! Also, many down the line, already lost power from, the early morning events.. We were sitting ducks... I watched from the top of a hill, off 20/59.. Where I-459, 20/59 merges...

Made even worse by 2 other factors.... 1. The tornado was intensifying as it moved through the city 2. There were around 250,000 without power or any way to get a warning from the morning round of storms that day

@@BamaDega hey 👋 there how are you doing this morning I’m just woundering ok 👌 bud lol 😂.

I hope you weren't affected by the recent EF-3. Nighttime twisters are so dangerous

@@spcoll7587 Not to be rude or mean but he said he lost friends and family. Hopefully he is ok now. It's been almost 10 years since it happened but still. Bill if you are reading this I am super sorry to hear that and hope you are doing really well these days. and to respond, yes night twisters are twice as deadly. most people are asleep. the reason i love the weather though is because one went over my house back in 1998...higher end EF-2 in Georgia. I was just a young kid but I will never forget. It sparked everything..my love and obsession for the weather, my fascination etc. I remember waking up to the golf ball sized hail falling...then my dad arriving home early from work--- windshield completely cracked up and all as he pulled into the garage, and then us in the closet and the ear pressure. We then drove by to see the damage after but for some reason I only vaguely remember that part. It's like I was so fascinated that I blocked it out. Look up the *1998 Dunwoody Tornado* That's the 1 storm that did it for me. That same specific supercell had also produced an EF5 in Bham before it came over towards Metro Atlanta. I was raised in Dunwoody. Maybe we experienced the same supercell who knows.

@@Dana-ki6vs my comment was about the recent EF-3 that hit fultondale THIS yr.

Could you please say "rest in peace?" There are people who know what RIP means, but there are those who don't. It also takes away from the personal nature, as if it's more fashionable to say RIP, when it's really more convenient. For those who understand it in a more spiritual way, it just shows that it means something more respectfully. Thank you so much.

If you're at the UGA game today stop by booths 101, 102, 118, 123, or 125. Support the MCHS Marching band!

Heather stubbs most are being boiled in semen inside flaming giant demon skullcups in hell,rip!

@@heatherstub Bitch get a life

@@fabiana7157 Lmaooo

I lost family in the Joplin tornado sad day

it was

It was, thats how it works lol

Jake Goodnight she means the whole sky was rotating not just an area like how most tornadoes are lol this tornado had a huge meso that was spinning like how el reno was... both had a huge circulation that was like 2-4 miles wide unlike most tornadoes

Yeah I've seen them like that before. It was that way over my dads house in bethel acres Oklahoma several years ago and the tornado was a few miles away.

I lost my roof, window, and front door. All my giant trees.

I have a question for you have you ever seen a tornado in person I'm just wondering ok

I lived all my life in the northern states, no tornados. But when visiting my Aunt & Uncle in MO in summer of my 16th year,, there were wild thunderstorms at night a LOT. My Uncle would get up in the night and just sit up, reading. I realize now, 50 yrs later, that he was “ on watch” .I dont think he had the tv on, didnt hear a radio, They lived in rural area, and he had a way of feeling or knowing when it was time to get in the basement. He was protecting his family while we slept. This was way before storm chasers or computers . Those Old Timers survived by knowing the signs. One afternoon, it was hot but couded over, and it was so still..so quiet, and I went out onto porch and looked up at the sky, I saw papers just floating around way up in the clouds. I told my Aunt, she said to come inside, now. Then she opened 2 windows on opposite sides of the room. Whoosh! the wind came up and billowed the curtains on one window, then quiet, then the wind billowed the curtains on the other side of the room. ie changed direction. She shut the first window, stood there listening and yelled “ everybody get down the basement!.,” I started down the stairs and went back to catch their little dog who ran away from me…She screamed at me…forget the dog, he will follow” Oh boy, I was in trouble later, for not following directions. Nothing bad happened that day. Whatever was going on…a tornado forming or approaching, passed us by. Watching tornado videos on you tube has been an education! Even with radar and sirens and warning systems, those monsters can sneak up, change directions, lull you into a sense of false security. There are a lot of jokes sbout texans and Oklahomans who go barbeque outside and watch a tornado approach.

+Lolita Grant The Tuscaloosa tornado did not have maximum 190 mph winds. In fact, we don't know how fast the winds were since they were never recorded. The 190 mph figure is just an estimation based on damage, which is the real basis for tornado ratings. The Tuscaloosa tornado was very powerful, but it did not produce definitive EF5 damage, hence the high-end EF4 rating which is always given a 190-200 mph wind speed estimation after its assigned.

Ikr it kind of sounds like an angels warning

"Attack" (wail) sounds even more ominous.

I’m in the far north of the US and we hear this all the time. The difference is that we have basements so we are able to get somewhere safe.

Agree would love to see the video if still had it with full sound when lightning is happening. But great capture. Reminds me what I do to watch lightning from parking deck but live in north east so not many tornado's

Glad it didn't your lucky must been a terrible ordeal going through a ef5 tornado.

I'm glad he made it. I hope he's mentally ok now. That had to have been traumatizing, for you AND him. My kids are everything to me, and I worry about them so much.

@@cyndianderson7056 he had survivors guilt for a while because wben he made it out he came across some bodies.

It was not that close to campus as you may think. I lived on campus on this day. It’s just it was THAT HUGE. I can’t began to describe the size..... it was rumored to be a Mile wide.... which made it easy to see for every angle in the city.

Was it so quiet because the tornado was sucking up the sounds of its destruction? That video view from the roof is terrifying!!

They do stop them early. I read someplace that they can't run continuously because they'll be damaged and won't work but I never understood why they can't be sounded a second or third time. I think in this comment section it mentions that the sirens became disabled.

I live in Tulsa, OK. Tornado sirens are tested every Wednesday at noon during spring and summer, unless weather conditios are already threatening. It a reminder to be vigilant about preparation and knowing where to take shelter at home, work, or other places.

I agree. Especially in states that are in Tornado Alley. I’ve heard about several schools that built large shelters which are also used as community shelters. A few of them even double as classroom space.

+tomshiba51 I'm from Tuscaloosa and went to UA. He was approximately 1.5 miles away from the tornado around 7:03.

Yes. It was the wicked witch. Lol.

@@cyndianderson7056 😂

Oh thats so funny!! What a classic iconic scene from The Wizard of Oz. Wicked Witch of the East, riding her bicycle in the clouds having stolen Dorothy’s little dog Toto, and her evil laugh! . That scene gave me nightmares as a kid. Also I was afraid of tornadoes after that. In North Dakota, they call them cyclones.

The dead man walking in Jarell, TX and the Greensburg, KS tornado were terrible as well. Especially the Greensburg one, ot hit in the dead of night.

***** That only happens during the later half of the vid does the darker mesocyclone come into sight. The beginning is all stratus clouds, rain, and lightning with some relatively light wind.

I think the emergencies spelling should be used.

That's because they're meant to warn people who are outdoors to seek shelter and turn to the news/weather radio/phones etc for more info. They're called *outdoor* warning sirens for a reason & they're not meant to be the only form of warning.

Jeff Wallace Because the video was more than normal speed and so an accompanying sped up audio would be a distraction to the viewer. Should be obvious if you look at the video more closely.

Actually, I'm glad I read through these comments, because I'm totally blind and have been all my life. I've lived through two tornadoes, so I know that sound very well. So when the audio disappeared, I wondered about that myself.

I live in Ohio and we get them. Maybe it depends on where you're at. Dayton got nailed not long ago.

Sirens were never intended to warn people inside, they're to warn people outside if they hear a siren to go inside and get more information.

there was one in my area on April 15 2011, an ef2 i think and an ef4 on April 27 2011, 20 miles from my area