10 of History's Most Insane Storms

[@Estolcles]

As a fan of "Top Tenz" and having noticed how many lists in the past Karl wrote that Simon ended up reading in the past........ I was waiting for when he was gonna end up doing a list he himself wrote in a sheer moment of internet fun-ness. Today I was not disappointed.

[@DFSJR1203]

We need you to stay on as a regular host.

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

According to TopTenz comment last video or two, he's supposed to stop saying "interim" and it may be out of habit by now.

[@dcabner1]

No we don’t, this has gone way down hill.

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

@@dcabner1 but you're still giving that sweet sweet watch time and algorithmically important interaction by commenting. If you really don't like it, don't watch and say nothing, it'll get the point across better when looking at analytics on the channel running side. Personally I don't understand how you can dislike Karl, but everyone is entitled to their own opinions. I find him entertaining and interesting. I already watched Karl on his own stuff as well as Simon everywhere he is, and continue to do so, I just get more Karl now! What about his presenting do you find off putting or not like?

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

@@dcabner1 also to be considered, these channels were never run by Simon, he was also merely a presenter. Any changes that came with the change of presenter may also have some fault by the people running the show after the passing of the original channel "owner" and a family member took over. So by and large all the changes you may not like, may not all be due to Karl but rather the change in leadership/command (edit: as well, i should have said "leadership/command as well" to say both may be at fault for whatever you're not liking)

[@benkeight4314]

@@dcabner1not your cup of tea, not down hill.

[@victoriaeads6126]

I believe "Sh1tstorm" is the technical definition for a double hurricane.

[@pottsniffgrond8488]

Can we all just agree that you are in fact, now the Host of TopTenz. The community has spoken and Jarl Karl of the Small Wood must stay 👌.

[@joeschmoe5009]

As a 40 year old native Kansan, i have stood outside and watched at least a dozen tornados, including the ef5 Andover tornado as it hit the air force base. Theyre quite intriquing to watch really.

[@BigMobe]

It's also fun to see cargo aircraft, tied down to the flightline pad eyes, lift off the ground every so often as high winds hit them.

[@PMickeyDee]

I remember after Hurricane Rita, we were evaluated to the Jackson Mississippi area, I was around 14 at the time. The storm had spawned a troupe of tornadoes off of its northeast wall. I was just mesmerized, standing in the parking lot, watching what seemed like a dozen spinning ballerinas dancing around me. My mom literally had to drag me inside - I was absolutely entranced by them. Thankfully, they weren't super destructive or anything (FEMA already had their hands full), but I don't think I'll ever forget how memorizing they were.

[@danidavis7912]

I was in my 20s and living in Missouri while in the US Army and witnessed two of them. I did not like it at all. The power and energy in a tornado frightens me to the core.

[@fabrisseterbrugghe8567]

I was in Boston when the no-name storm (aka the perfect storm) hit. It was terrifying.

[@adamwhite2364]

My wife was growing up in Marblehead at the time, and I was growing up in the Midwest. The No Name storm being parked on the coast for a while led to us getting nearly 4 feet of snow in a couple of days starting on Halloween. It took about a week to get everybody dug out!

[@joshuabowen6919]

It's called the Tri-State tornado outbreak because of the most well known tornado of the outbreak traveled through 3 states those being Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. It was on the ground for 3 and a half hours and traveled 220 miles

[@elfdream2007]

Interesting about the storm and the American Revolution. A powerful storm on August 24 1814 caused the British troops to leave Washington DC...and put out the fires. Some meteorologists theorize that the 'burning' may have contributed to that storm.

[@NiallSkye]

My mom survived the super outbreak of 1974 in Ohio. She missed getting caught in the Xenia f5 by about 30 minutes. When she drove by after, she said the town was destroyed and she saw a piece of paper embedded in a tree.

[@jewel65]

I grew up in Ohio & had nightmares for years after those storms!

[@NiallSkye]

@@jewel65 hearing those stories from her definitely embedded a deep fear of tornadoes in me. I live in Oregon now, where the worst they've ever gotten is an f3. It's nice to be able to enjoy a thunderstorm without being terrified now.

[@JPriz416]

I'd like to see you guys do a video about snowstorms and blizzards. In 1972 a village in Iran lost all their inhabitants (4000) due to a storm that dropped 26 feet of snow in 6 days.

[@route2070]

With the tri state tornado outbreak it is thought one tornado hit 3 states. More recently that has been questioned, but 1 tornado hitting 3 states has been the main story.

[@Rattrap007]

Yeah looked at it and that seems to be the case. I live in SW Indiana and it looks like it hit maybe less than an hour north of me. Started In Missouri then across Illinois into indiana. The 6 states was the coverage of the storm with hail and few smaller tornadoes across the area. But the one big tornado went across three states.

[@Hollylivengood]

That's what they thought at the time, because they didn't know multiple tornadoes could spawn from the same system. I read that recently they figured there were actually seven. Makes sense, since lately we see sometimes 300 tornadoes from one system. Pretty wild.

[@seanj3667]

In and around Boston, the name we used for "The Perfect Storm" was actually "The No Named Storm" because it was not a hurricane and didn't have a name. edit: ok. he acknowledged it RIGHT when I thought it was done and hit "enter."

[@Jobe00]

The Tri-State Tornado Outbreak is called such because of one tornado, the Tri-State Tornado of 1925 which set records for time on the ground, distance traveled, and death toll. All of those records except the death toll were broken by the Quad-State Tornado of 2021.

[@Mythilt]

I grew up in Beavercreek, Ohio, which is the next town to the west of Xenia Ohio, which was basically leveled during the 1974 tornado outbreak. I was too young to remember it, but I knew several people from Xenia who lived through it.

[@NiallSkye]

My mom was visiting her first husband in jail that day and decided to wait to leave because of how bad the weather looked. If she hadn't, she would have gotten caught in the Xenia tornado.

[@PeachM0de]

You’re a great host, Karl.

[@8bitpix]

still love the idea of xkcd's "dubstep storm"

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Always enjoy these facts 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

[@vincea1430]

Kahl Smulwud. Got it! 👍🏼

[@russelllomando8460]

fantastic info. great job KS. you gotta stay as our host!!! FYI...the highest point in Galveston waa 8 feet...the storm surge was 15 feet. inconceivable !!!

[@Whisper_292]

I was nine when the 1974 tornadoes hit. What is now known as an EF-5 swept across Louisville, Kentucky, and thankfully, my house was about a mile south of the path. My parents were at work, and my mom saw the tornado. She said the clouds looked like they were boiling.

[@BigMobe]

Double hurricane, twice the fun.

[@howardriley1686]

Wow! Nice ink!

[@mathieuleader8601]

the Tri-State tornado sounds like a plotline in a Phineas & Ferb movie that was in the disaster movie genre.

[@Rattrap007]

I know what we are going to do today.. Hey Where's Perry?

[@marktg98]

Watching this while there's a storm outside, although not a record breaking one.

[@MissMentats]

I don’t like the colour of the arm but I kinda want a sleeve now

[@AndresSebriant]

When the green screen gets used it has some pretty hilarious effects.

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

​@@AndresSebriant Im disappointed i never noticed this before but will be watching in the future and probably checking some old videos too 😂

[@MissMentats]

@@AndresSebriant ok now I like the colour and want a KZbin channel lol

[@thehomeschoolinglibrarian]

Great video as always Karl. I feel sorry for the people of Bangladesh as the reasons tornadoes are so deadly there is because the country is so poor and also very wet so it is harder for people to find shelter.

[@darkstorm08]

When i say i love me some simon, but you Mr.smallwood is a perfect equal to his way of hosting... I used to LIVEEEE on his main channel so it was such an easy idea seeing him elsewhere...love it love it

[@jwyllor]

Is it wrong that I laughed out loud and blurted, "I guess they prayed too hard."

[@GeorgieB1965]

#9: Love how the newspaper back thrn spelled Murfreesboro as "Murphysboro".

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@Iowa599]

Do they spin backwards on the other side of the equator? What happens when they cross the equator?

[@0037kevin]

Surprised to see no mention of hurricane Katrina

[@Hollylivengood]

I read the book, "The Perfect Storm," and there is nothing in the movie that is correct, except the storm. One of the characters who is portrayed as a jerk, who everyone hates, was actually the nicest guy known to every fishing boat captain as a reliable sea man. I could see why relatives would be pissed.

[@sweetdaddydee1314]

I'm 99% the national hurricane center in the us defines 65mph for a tropical storm to become a hurricane

[@theofficerfactory2625]

So you just glossed over the fact that there was the potential that there was a tornado on the ground so long that it hit 3 states; hence its name. I also personally would have added the Jarrell "Dead Man Walking" tornado to the list; at the least an honorable mention cause, wow; that thing was so weird! Or the 2013 El Reno "monster"; a tornado that was 2.6 miles wide.

[@purcascade]

Yeah, like how do you talk about the Tri-State Tornado without actually talking about the Tri-State Tornado? 😂

[@jasoncowgill752]

If they replace Karl we revolt.

[@dearthditch]

I guess you chose to focus on the storms themselves, but I’d have included the death count for each of them. Or an approximation

[@RadekSuski]

Love that accent 😂

[@ChristopherKushnir]

Frankenstorm? It was right there…

[@lusalma5404]

Karl, we can tell you are not from the US.... living here, especially in the Midwest or Tornado Alley, we grow up aware of what Tornados can do... :)

[@callabeth258]

What? No Aussie storms? I thought you’d at least give either cyclone Tracy or cyclone Yasi an honorary mention if it didn’t make the to 10! Not to mention the Black Saturday bush fires of 2009 or the 2011 SE Queensland floods!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Please stay as host karl

[@tyjet66]

Karl for permanent host please!

[@about10ninjas]

Hey Karl.. guys at Fact Fiend. You should really redesign that hoodie. It doesn't look like the word fact. It looks like a scribbled G at glance in distance, which.. I mean, do the math yourselves.

[@MagdaleneDivine]

Sir I'm gonna need you to write more of your own scripts.

[@devinholcomg4664]

What happened to that whiskey bottle? Keeping an eye on you.

[@danidavis7912]

It's funny, the things we notice. I wondered that too.

[@djdrack4681]

#1: My ex-wife, about the time of full-moon.

[@MagdaleneDivine]

Yeah and I'm going to agree with the you need to be permanent as well. I concur that nomination.

[@LillibitOfHere]

Mass-a-chew-sets :) or just Mass, home of the Massholes.

[@merleaddison8293]

union! Union are we!!!

[@MF_UNDERTOW]

Kyle Smoregood

[@rubenrosales725]

He😂y this guys name is Smallwood. 🤣😄😁

[@judithannem1340]

dialog is machine gun delivery. not conducive to understanding and almost impossible to follow. shame. the topic would have been a learning experience.

[@trapez77]

Small wood lol

[@Quarks_Bar]

Hurricanes--the Americas Cyclones--Africa, Australia, all of Southern Asia, through Indonesia and the Philippines Typhoons--China, Japan & Korea

[@hippiemama52]

Please learn how to pronounce hurricane.

[@raeraebadfingers]

I don't hear what's wrong with it?

[@wasp1827]

How do you pronounce it????

[@mike79patton]

Karl, I can't tell you how much I like your narration style more than Whistleboy. No one cares about his uber skeptical rants. It's like he thinks he's a higher life form than someone who believes in extraterrestrials or some govt conspiracy. He's kind of a cocky jerk. You're much more level headed and pleasant to listen to.