5 Biggest Tornadoes in All History

[@jigwignibs]

God speed Tim. You died at El Reno but your contribution to meteorological studies will never be forgotten...

[@YourFellowRNRSisterFan98]

I was in that tornado, I was visiting my aunt the wrong day, the wrong time. My mother wanted to go to Walmart my aunts car would not start so her and my stepdad and my aunt got in my RV I had asked my aunt if I could stay at her house to watch TV and she said sure, I’m from South Carolina originally right? So we get this kind of thing a lot I ignored the first EAS because I thought OK it’s just a thunderstorm. I went to the bathroom and then my mother starts calling me from the Walmart that is just out of the tornadoes path. (She’s a Beautiful biracial immigrant from Scotland not that race or nationality has anything to do with it) anyway I didn’t know that the tornado had already touched down, and it was on the way. So my aunt told me to go grab the keys to her storm cellar in case it was locked grab A kitty carrier for two kittens that she had at the point and a queen size blanket just a regular blanket not a comforter, and go get a cover. So I grabbed everything and as soon as I walked outside it was literally right there. Like it was literally about two or three maybe even four streets over? But it was so close looking that it looks like it was about to hit at any second. I was lucky that I was spared 20 seconds to get in the storm cellar. I was just 15. By some miracle I survived. El Reno 2013. We were on the way to California to visit my sister and we stopped to see my aunt. If I would have been in the shower like I would have if I hadn’t forgotten my shower caddy in the rv I would be dead right about now. So I guess it was God protecting me from the tornado. And it wasn’t until after that I had heard about some very heartbreaking things.

[@evamaria7298]

@@YourFellowRNRSisterFan98 Oh wow! What about the kitties? Did they make it?

[@staringhamster]

Tri state means triple state

[@kingwilld4482]

Nice

[@evamaria7298]

@@staringhamster of course what else would it mean?

[@dccaleb5529]

The 2013 El Reno tornado sped up, increased in size and changed direction all at once. It formed from 3 supercells that combined into one and had many sub-vortices with 300+mph winds swirling around inside a relatively calm primary funnel. In fact there were multiple chasers caught in the tornado that left unscathed only because they weren’t hit by one of the sub-vortices. A true weather anomaly.

[@zssky]

300+ mph? What's that in kmh I think atleast 4kmh

[@ellisjackson3355]

"Relatively calm primary funnel" interesting

[@dccaleb5529]

@@ellisjackson3355 Yeah it was still powerful and dangerous but with wind speeds well below that of the sub vortices. The footage and other data from that day shows that multiple chasers were actually inside the tornado. Most escaped without a scratch but one group was hit by a sub vortex and their van was flipped and rolled down the highway (there’s footage of it). Tim Samaras’ crew was also hit by a sub vortex more directly and unfortunately their car was likely launched in the air and they were all killed.

[@zssky]

@@ellisjackson3355 you thinking what I'm thinking.? 😏

[@thebottlerocket4100]

The twistX storm team ended up being 3 of the causuttilty when one of the sub vortices hit there car

[@vissitorsteve]

When I was a kid, living in Kansas, tornadoes were what seemed like a regular occurrence. My family was poor, but just about a month beforehand, my folks rented a small farm house just outside of Dodge City. The following storm season we were surrounded one day, but 3 tornadoes at once. By the grace of God, the owners had built a fruit cellar not far from our house...just like the one in Wizard of Oz. Not to sound too cliched, but being down was literally like lying under the tracks of a locomotive passing overhead. When we finally climbed out everything was gone. No houses. No nothing...

[@sunshineloveyasharal4768]

Wow 😮

[@rachelmorrison1855]

And that’s why I’m never living in tornado alley lol

[@RED-bz9hn]

I live in Oklahoma. A lot my families houses has been hit. Been several times I had to hide in closets. Number of times where we just had to leave and go somewhere safer. The el Reno tornado was about 15 miles away from us. I was in a underground shop that used to be a light bulb factory. But yeah. Funny how living in place just seems so normal to people like us. But to others they’re like 😱😱😱.

[@RED-bz9hn]

But also sometimes you just gotta sit back and relax and have a beer them nadors will fly over sooner or later.

[@cablenowadays6586]

@@rachelmorrison1855 I dont live in tornado alley but in december my sister who lives in kentucky had a tornado come through at night time and wipe out half of their neighborhood. In the morning when they could see everything all the houses around them were gone but a few and there were half of bodies hanging in near by trees and grouped up in a low lying ditch. Even now whenever i go to visit i’m still seeing spots where no houses are just foundations and flipped cars on the side of the street still.

[@beckiekins07]

The El Reno tornado was in May, not March. There were several satellite tornadoes around it as well. The NWS only rated it as an EF3 because the structural damage was equivalent to that. However, in rural areas it was absolutely an EF5. The Greensburg Kansas tornado is historic as well as it essentially wiped out the entire town.

[@cameronmoore9501]

They actually redid the rating as an f5

[@DTS1wastaken]

@@cameronmoore9501 when

[@KairiPrime]

@@cameronmoore9501 As far as I know it's not official though there has been talk of updating the methods by which the ratings are given for a while now. Because while the EF scale itself has been updated, the official methods by which each tornado is classified has not been, ignoring such things as mobile radar wind speed indicators. The EF scale is supposed to be about the intensity of the tornado, but since the official methods still focus almost exclusively on the damage path, a lot of more rural tornadoes get a much lower rating than they really should. I mean when the top most experienced tornado scientists say things like "I don't care what the National Weather Service says, it was an EF-5." Yeah, it's time to update your methods.

[@beckiekins07]

@KairiPrime Exactly. That tornado took the lives of four storm chasers. Three were very experienced, one was amateur, and one of the three had made scientific breakthroughs on tornadoes. There were also chasers out from The Weather Channel who were caught in it and their vehicle was tossed into a field. They made it out with minor injuries. All of this happened because the tornado was so large, changed directions so quickly, and that made it damn near impossible to evade. Mobile radar measured wind speeds of over 300 mph at ground level. It was absolutely an EF5. When it was at that intensity it was over rural land, so there was no damage to access per se. It had weakened when it did begin its damage path, which is why it got an EF3 rating. A tornado of that magnitude should have an EF5 rating. Tim Samaras and his team (one being his son) deserve their recognition and tribute not them downplaying a historic tornado that took their lives. There's still so much to learn about them, but I absolutely agree that things should change with the survey damage system.

[@jimbrown571]

Yeah, I thought it was odd that they downgraded it to an EF3. Though many people survived its many vortexes, there were atleast one subverted, that threw a car 1/2 a mile away , killing the TwistX team.

[@steakiscool]

"I'm sure we've all seen tornadoes online...but never in person" Me, an Oklahoman:

[@zombifiedbailey15]

I live in Oklahoma and ive got to agree. Also, is it normal for me to not really be phased by tornadoes anymore? 😂

[@hearmeout9138]

Me: a former Oklahoman, now an Alabamian

[@kittenkat3910]

I remember as a child my father brought me to the highest hill outside of our town as we watched a tornado barrel towards it. I was in terrified awe at the scene before my eyes.

[@Blaze-em2win]

Honestly tho.

[@StarkAngel]

I moved to Oklahoma for my high school years with my family and within 2 weeks a tornado came through nearby. Ironically, I did see it in person that day, and about one street over from the high school basement they were having us evacuate to. My dad and step mom went back out to help people in wheel chairs at the time bc they were medic/EMT/firefighter and it's what they do. So yes. I've seen it in person. I've seen one some miles away too. The day I was supposed to graduate high school, the ceremony, the 2013 F5 tornado (the one that reflected the 1999 one) came through and postponed graduation. I lived in Choctaw at the time, notorious for the "Choctaw bubble" and it actually took on some serious flooding and hail for a while, bit thank God it retracted on one side of Choctaw, and touched back down on the other side.

[@theclandestinewitness]

I live close to Joplin, MO. That town is still trying to recover. It was a major blow to the whole area. Tornadoes are terrifying but also oddly beautiful. Like some elegant waltz you’re not able to look away from.

[@sarahs.9292]

Now we have a Quad State Tornado. I watched with horror as the tornado was down for over 4 hours. 12/10/2021 Prayers for all affected.

[@crazypoopvideos6115]

Ok..

[@tarareno1560]

I was in a tornado 12/10/2021 in Illinois. I never wanna go through that again ...ever!! But, most of all,the one that hit Kentucky. My prayers are out to each and every one that went through it and their families!!!

[@crazypoopvideos6115]

@@tarareno1560 🧢🧢🧢

[@kawaiiblu3517]

@@crazypoopvideos6115 bro not the time 🎅

[@nicholasflick8997]

@Raymondo 246 I'm i. Mayfield kentucky they handed out everything we need even generators, gas, electric cords, and all food in the town is free. Money is being donated left and right including gifts for kids. Are town of mayfield is having a free Christmas event all from donated money. America helps more then they think also are governor is housing victims in sate lodges.

[@halfdollar86]

Here after the December 10-11 Tornados in Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois and my state of Kentucky. This Tornado event will be one that will make future list because of its size, duration, distance traveled and states affected and the number of tornadoes in one weather event. The destruction in the area is unreal, as is many communities in the path of these storms.

[@mstrauss4382]

God bless I hate to see your suffering

[@davidwindham5804]

All confirmed as EF1 - EF3 in size

[@sleepy.joe.]

@@davidwindham5804 EF-3-5 actually. i live in Kentucky and I was just a few miles north of one

[@shane41225]

The tornado we had a few days ago was bigger then the tri state tornado, it traveled further and was 2 miles wide at one point, it started near me and travelled just south past my house in Arkansas and didn’t stop til in kentucky

[@babydeerfawn6648]

Yea I was in the storm it was the worst I was super scared. And also it was coming to my home town but luckily it shifted another way so I was lucky also I almost got pushed to the ground but my brother helped me with it.

[@sinnertrain7405]

The El Reno tornado occurred just about a week after the 2nd Moore EF5 in 2013. My wife and I discussed the 1999 Moore tornado when deciding whether I should take a job in OKC in 2008. We thought something like the 1999 Moore tornado couldn't possibly happen again. We were so wrong.

[@kale_xo]

All those babies in that school. I will never forget that day. That entire month in 2013 was horrible 💔 I was only 9 in 1999 but that day still sticks with me too. We had just left Moore because we heard it was going to get bad and I’m so glad we did.

[@13_cmi]

It will happen. They’ve happened a lot. They’ve happened just about every year. One hit Jonesboro in 2020 and in 2021 mayfield was hit. This year there’s been multiple and 2019 had some real real big ones. They happen all the time. My city might be the next. Probably not cause there’s only been one bit of rain this summer and it’s always hot right now but who knows

[@laurensmith43017]

I live in Alabama. Everyone remembers seeing the tornadoes in Cullman and Tuscaloosa and so big that you couldn’t see it all on the screen in Birmingham.. and now add another 60 tornadoes. That’s what we get known for in the super outbreak.. but nobody remembers we had an a outbreak of 40ish tornadoes around 12 days before. A lot of the same areas got hit twice. Also in the 1973 outbreak the town of Tanner was nearly removed from the map when after an F5 destroyed the town, another F5 came right behind it less than an hour later.. after dark. Actually a lot of tornadoes take the same paths over and over. I can name a list of cities that get hit here frequently

[@Ena48145]

​@@kale_xo Hi Kaleigh! We are the same age! I'm so sorry for the lifelong trauma you will endure from witnessing that at such a young age

[@justanotherperson563]

Yes, I live by El Reno, but worked in Moore/Midwest City area, so was in both of those tornadoes. The Moore one sticks out in my mind as so much worse because it hit that elementary school directly and stayed on the ground far longer as an F5. And the May 5th Moore tornado hit in almost the same place as the Moore/Bridgecreek of 1999 because they say, all the heat that comes from downtown Oklahoma City and all the heat that comes from Tinker Air Force Base causes a sort of mini tornado alley between those 2 places. Maybe that makes sense, since there have been more than those 2 F5s that hit that exact same area.

[@AOD-tr7nd]

The Jerrell tornado in south Texas was one of the most dangerous tornadoes ever to spawn but it just didn’t hit a major populated area. But it destroyed everything in its path. It ripped asphalt off the roads and pulled storm shelters out of the ground.

[@lne9070]

*Central Texas

[@DM-wp9vq]

Exactly! It erased whole neighborhoods. I was waiting for it to be mentioned, but apparently the video of it wasn't sensational enough to garner the likes and views ($ from tragedy) that this "Channel" is after.

[@standepain]

​@@DM-wp9vq It was listed as the Jarrell tornado wasn't a large as these. Tornadoes are measure by their wind barrier not funnel size.

[@MrMah-zf6jk]

@@standepain so where's the Greensburg, KS tornado from 2007? It was 1.7 miles wide.

[@standepain]

@@MrMah-zf6jk Plenty of large tornadoes that aren't here which is why this is a bad list. Mulhall in 1999 to name one that never gets mentioned. It is still the largest tornado ever measure quantitatively yet it's not on here.

[@leonardsusskindswar7258]

I want to give a little credit to Jeff Piotrowski for helping getting the sirens going in Joplin. He knew the tornado was rain wrapped and that not many people would be able to see it, so he stopped a cop and had them start the sirens. He and his wife actually almost got sucked up into it because it was so well hidden by the rain and clouds surrounding it.

[@foolcooker6529]

I live just north of Joplin by a few miles and I remember where I was when it hit… tragic day, and yes thanks to Jeff for stopping a cop and getting the word out.

[@aly5891]

Remember seeing that video of him warning the cops and the sirens start immediately

[@aly5891]

@@foolcooker6529 same. Bout 40 miles north tho and it is very close to home for me just due to the fact that it was my hs graduation day prior and my best friends graduation the day of the tornado, she moved to Joplin before we started junior year. I’m so so so thankful she was able to just miss it. She was one of the lucky graduates to make it home minutes before the tornado picked up even further and tore thru a huge chunk of the city.

[@foolcooker6529]

@@aly5891 that was a tough day ! … tough few weeks really ,, I’m a roofing contractor and man there was a lot of work to do ,, I live about 15 miles north of Joplin on 43 highway

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[@kickinghorse2405]

My grandmother used to tell stories of the "tri-state" tornado. It had lifted a nearby barn of it's foundation and turned it around and set it back down near its original location. I think she claimed it was still on its foundation, pointing in the opposite direction. Apparently, the farmer just fixed it up and kept using it where it sat.

[@wadewilson8011]

I call BS on that one. That sounds like an old wives tale. 👎🏼🙄

[@johnbeard5952]

The most terrifying tornado I've researched was definitely the "Jarrell Tornado." No, it wasn't the biggest, but it was the most violent from what I saw.

[@VictorBlack1995]

“Dead man walking” it was nicknamed

[@carlosg3799]

My dad was under it when it dropped. I think he lived in the Houston area, i don't remember.

[@aircraftandmore9775]

It had a photo that what made it its infamous shape of something walking.

[@yoojames]

i live 10 min from jarrell

[@ruthhatfield8869]

The Jarrell tornado literally tilled up the Earth. I’ve never seen such destruction.

[@DD5V1]

Very surprised the Greensburg, KS EF5 from May 4, 2007 wasn’t mentioned. It was the first tornado to receive an EF5 rating on the Enhanced Fujita scale and reached a width of 1.7 miles. It was literally wider than the city itself and destroyed 97% of the town, killing 11 people and injuring 70 others.

[@carasmussen27]

I was thinking that but this guy doesn't really know what he is talking about wrong date on El Reno

[@aly5891]

We used to go to greensburg for the science field trip each year until 2007 of course.

[@ipdn6033]

Agreed pretty much the whole town was whipped out and didn’t even mention it!!

[@theflyingchipmunk9123]

This guy wasn't really talking about the so called "biggest tornadoes" they put in the title, other wise they would not have mentioned tri-state and the oklahoma tornadoes as there have been multiple larger tornadoes than those ones.

[@rindangrahmadia9504]

And the worst it was happened atau night We only can see the shadow of wide wall tornado in a second when the ligthning comes I cant imagine Ef5 tornado with 1.7miles wide at night

[@christianclark2656]

I grew up in Memphis and remember hearing about the impact of the Joplin tornado the next day. The wildest thing I remember about it was that there was a girl in a car without a seatbelt on and she got sucked out of the window.

[@evilgramcrackr2910]

What people seem to forget about El Rino is the tornado was so fast. I believe the fastest it ever went was about 311 mph.

[@rfergusiii7207]

The subvortices within the tornado had forward speeds of over 180 mph. The whole tornado did not move forward at these speeds.

[@sigsin1]

Recorded winds close to the surface of up to 295 mph in satellite suction vorticies that orbited the main vortex. I believe it got up to 50mph traveling across the state.

[@ItsSauIGoodman]

Reno*

[@narayanmurali3430]

The fastest tornado was on the day of the twins, watch Pecos hank's vid on it

[@madd4455]

I read that the wind speed was 302mph. I also read that all four subvortices were around three quarters of a mile wide.

[@schuy77]

Him: “The United States especially is prone to more tornadoes than anywhere else in the world” Me: “USA! USA! USA!”

[@jonathanwilliam980]

must be the part of the world we live in lots of wide open space and winds idk weird

[@scarlettesgrave]

Lol

[@atri-us]

It's because of gay marriage. Everybody knows that.

[@jonathanwilliam980]

@@atri-us 😂

[@bodaciousskies]

We had to be the best at something besides military spending 😂😂

[@adamjohnson6742]

I remember the Joplin tornado. One of the most devastating ones to hit Missouri. Thousands of people afterwards volunteered to help clean up and rebuild Joplin

[@AshGD_GD]

i almost died in the joplin. that day was soo bad that they marked it as the costliest tornado

[@buttabean5468]

I was searching the comments looking to see if Joplin would be mentioned thanks

[@raymondrickerson5796]

As someone who lives in Missouri, it’s crazy how the deadlines tornados form here.

[@onemanrushh7725]

I’m from the town over from Joplin and it will forever be a day burned into our memories!

[@jamesmeyers6019]

Um the tri state was the worst

[@heavymetalredneck7973]

The tri state tornado killed over 700 people and traveled through 3 states, it may not have been the most expensive tornado in history but it was the deadliest.

[@JMad99]

It's crazy that first Tornado is similar and took almost the exact same path as the one that hit Kentucky a couple days ago 😳

[@CONJUREDDEATH]

Yeah. Thank god my family was ok, I was terrified since I couldn’t get a hold of anyone but thankfully theyre all ok. I pray for those who lost loved ones and their homes.

[@sleepy.joe.]

@@CONJUREDDEATH i lived just a few miles north of that one

[@MetalFan10101]

@@sleepy.joe. cool story

[@nicholasflick8997]

My poor town of mayfield is gone.

[@HandlessuckL]

I was at Tennessee in a cabin on a trip. On our last day there, that tornado hit my bedroom window and I was like “must be just rain” because stuff was hitting my window but I didn’t hear no winds. In the morning, my parents told me that mayfield tornado was here on Smokey mountains. I was confused how we didn’t get killed by it but hey, I’m glad I’m still alive. This was the 3rd time I experienced a tornado. Although never saw one in person. Actually I saw a tornado but only the top of it never a full one (trees was blocking it) that was the first time I experienced

[@77wolf89]

From some of the sources of info on Tornados, its stated the F6 tornado can not exist on earth because it would have to have wind speeds in excess of 318mph. The one in OK in 1999 has speed exceeding that, so it could be classified as the first F6. Granted it may have only been one for only a brief minute, however it does show it IS possible

[@TruthWillFreeYou]

That Fujita scale has nothing to do with wind speed, but rather the damage done. Unless the tornado does F6 damage it's not an F6. I think you mean an EF6 on the enhanced Fujita scale which takes wind speeds into account? I am not an expert, but I was under this impression.

[@77wolf89]

@@TruthWillFreeYou Then i say this could have been the first recorded EF 6 then, if only but for a minute or two

[@JB-qy1gx]

@@TruthWillFreeYou fujita definitely did take wind speeds into account, even before EF. I've grown up in the heart of tornado alley im Oklahoma and have had many scary moments over the last 30 years. My family and I actually had to run from the tornado on may 3, 1999 and it ended up dissipating less than a mile away from us.

[@TruthWillFreeYou]

@@JB-qy1gx Here, this is from the national weather service: "Fujita Scale (or F Scale) of tornado damage intensity. The F Scale was developed based on damage intensity and not wind speed; wind speed ranges given are estimated, based on the extent of observed damage." "The Enhanced Fujita Scale or EF Scale, which became operational on February 1, 2007, is used to assign a tornado a 'rating' based on estimated wind speeds and related damage. When tornado-related damage is surveyed, it is compared to a list of Damage Indicators (DIs) and Degrees of Damage (DoD) which help estimate better the range of wind speeds the tornado likely produced. From that, a rating (from EF0 to EF5) is assigned."

[@galenstone9097]

There is no F6 or EF6 because the scale only goes to 5 on both scales and catastrophic is catastrophic. You should stop telling lies.

[@williamcote4208]

4:33 oh we know… last night there is one that lasted for 4 to 5 hours and went through 4 states. And let me tell you this, last night tornado outbreak made me feel like we were back in tornado season again… while we are in December. While I live in Canada, I know that people in Tornado alley must expect tornadoes 24/7, 365 days a year, but still… yesterday’s storms were something else.

[@sleepy.joe.]

i lived very close to one of the tornadoes, the one that absolutely destroyed the city of Mayfield in Kentucky, it went just a few miles south of my house. within miles...

[@basicmcfries8538]

Probably caused by global warming

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[@AustinIsMuted]

I live in Joplin and the tornado that came through was insane I saw it personally and dealt with the consequences afterwards. A lot of friends and family were torn after this monster stuck. I still have nightmares to this day and I'm 20 now. it's been 10 years and people are still going through the pain it caused.

[@brothercuh882]

Same brother

[@aly5891]

I’m 28. So I Graduated that year. My bestie lived in jomo I lived in bourbon co (45 miles nort) and I still can’t believe it happened. Several ppl from my area died. Since it was a Sunday, many teens go to Joplin to have fun bc nothing to do where I lived or so I’m sure the ones I knew who’d passed were there to go golfing I believe. Not 100% sure but They both died. (My best friend thankfully got home in time). You are young enough I’m sure you went to the new high school which is an incredibly nice school. Back after the tornado happened , that august high school students had a makeshift school over by the mall for awhile. Til the new one was built.

[@rainbowlee11]

Joplin still is recovering from that last time I went. I no longer live in kansas so idk how it is now but that storm was def insane. I remember standing outside with my family watching that very tornado forming above our house, luckily it didnt touch down and it went back into the clouds but 30mins later we heard about the tornado that struck joplin and we knew it was the one we seen. In that very storm we seen several tornadoes form it was insane

[@brothercuh882]

@@rainbowlee11 wow! I love hearing other sides of the story. I still live very close to Joplin and yes it probably won’t fully feel like Joplin has recovered for quite some time. I’ve noticed more of a fear for tornadoes from closer residents.

[@rainbowlee11]

@@brothercuh882 yeah. Its weird I moved to cali and everyone here are terrified of tornadoes and not the big earthquake thats going to happen whenever. I think id rather take tornadoes than an earthquake cause here if they are super strong you cant walk so all you can do is hide under a table and wait for it to be over then you got all the after shocks.

[@seniordavidmanderson9232]

Hello, I am retired senior citizen and my nephew is a new meteorologist (congrats). We had family gathering last month and of course my first question to him, "which tornado was most powerful," without hesitation he said, "Jarrell." Then he pulled out his laptop and proceeded to show me some Jarrell ground/aerial photos, and those vacant concrete slabs were visually shocking. He also said, "twisting speed was 300 mph but what made this tornado so extraordinary was it's slow movement intensifying it's destruction substantially." So here i am and what i researched myself in 30 days was mesmerizing yet eerie. First and foremost R.I.P. to those that perished and my condolences to all family members/friends. 27 deaths caused by the tornado occurred within one subdivision of Jarrell, a neighborhood of 38 well built houses called Double Creek Estates. Each residence was completely swept away and reduced to a concrete slab. The tornado produced some of the most extreme ground scouring ever documented as the earth at and around Double Creek was scoured out to depths of 18 inches reducing lush fields of grass to vast expanses of mud. The Jarrell tornado left an unbroken swath of barren earth vacant of fences, grass, trees, telephone poles, roads and homes that once dotted the landscape. Cars and heavy wreckers were granulated into small pieces and scattered across the earth never to be identified, think about that for a ..moment. Regardless if tornado is moving at 80 mph or 8 mph, fact remains that so many meteorologist consider Double Creek storm to be the most catastrophic tornado in terms of intensity still today 2021. Suction vortices revolving around inside parent votrex probably peaked around 450 mph. I've seen photographs of Bridge Creek, Hackleburg-Phil Cambell, Bakersfield Valley, Smithville, Pomeroy, Udall, Brandenburg, Pampa, Parkersburg, Loyal Valley, Philadelphia-MS, Plainfield, Greensburg, Xenia, El Reno, Joplin and they don't compare to Jarrell's duration intensity, Nothing Does. Timothy P. Marshall is a structural and forensic engineer as well as meteorologist. He has conducted more than 10,000 damage surveys of tornadoes, hurricanes and hailstorms. He is best of the best and after surveying Jarrell he said, "Houses were obliterated. The destruction was so intense, it serves as a baseline for which other tornadoes are rated against." I've learned and seen enough What did i learn ? That "Dead Man Walking" is an understatement And my advice ? If you see one, RUN !!!!

[@T0rnadoesThroughoutHistory]

bros def had AI write this

[@RebeccaStout]

Was one of these named The Dead Man Walking Tornado? Was that the El Reno one?

[@borderline_sunshine]

I looked it up and the dead man walking tornado was in Jarrell, Texas

[@Kamidake83]

I am not aware of any name given to the El Reno tornado.

[@vcqmbo4559]

Shut up verified spammer

[@Kamidake83]

@@vcqmbo4559 huh? Who spit in your wheaties this morning.

[@ashleywootton9556]

@@vcqmbo4559 if you don’t have anything positive to say then don’t talk

[@JamesCovington-WX5JJC]

Correction. The El Reno tornado was MAY 31, not March 31. Otherwise great video :)

[@williamhutchings3176]

I lost a vehicle in El Reno.. I was just passing through and I remember ditching my car and getting inside a shelter.. My car was thrown probably a minute after I left it.. I watched my car go in the blink of an eye

[@Litch016]

@UCTaOTqakbUJ4g3REWTF2cLQ never mind I thought the bridge creek one was el Reno

[@Wolverine2sweet]

R.I.P Team Twistex Tim(father) and Paul Samaras(son) and Carl Young

[@chrisduitsman2918]

And to think, El Reno was an EF3, even though the wind speed was over 300 mph.

[@Litch016]

@@chrisduitsman2918 yeah since the ef scale is based off damage and not wind speed

[@justanotherperson563]

You left off the F5 Moore tornado of May 5, 2013 that hit just 11 days before the F5 El Reno tornado that you mentioned and hit the same place as the F5 Bridgecreek/Moore tornado of 1999 that you mentioned. I think the F5 Moore tornado which stayed on the ground for over 40 minutes as an F5 and cost over 2 billion in damage, lives in the minds of most in Oklahoma as the worst because it hit an elementary school directly and killed 7 children, 24 total deaths in all. I was in both the El Reno and the May 5th Moore tornado, both horrible, but the May 5th was beyond heartbreaking. (I live by El Reno, but worked in Moore/Midwest City and why I was in both, incase that sounded confusing).

[@denisewolfskill714]

We lived in Bethany when the El Reno tornado hit. We got caught on the highway by Will Rogers. I now live between Moore and Del City. So far we have been safe..

[@foxygrandpa1899]

I live in southern Illinois, in the heart of "tornado alley". I've seen 4 tornadoes personally throughout my life so far (I'm 28) and seen the aftermath of 3 towns destroyed by tornadoes on 2 occasions (2 during one instance and 1 on the other). I was 9 years old when I saw my first as it went through the cornfield behind my home , i remember my dad putting me and my sister in the bathtub while he and my mom held onto it while we waited for the house to take damage but it narrowly missed us and only took shingles and knocked a few trees down while being INCREDIBLY LOUD. You dont know real power and pure fear until mother nature shows you what those are.

[@radish1972]

hate to burst your bubble but southern illinois isnt near tornado alley

[@naughtmeenaym869]

No part of Oprah-land is even close to tornado alley.

[@ItalianChicken72]

Illinois gets lots of tornadoes

[@foxygrandpa1899]

@@radish1972 oh pardon me, you better tell that to all the news casters and meteorologists

[@Mrsjam96]

@@radish1972I was going to say that too. I live in Missouri next to the Mississippi River. We are not in Tornado Alley. They have however come up with another name like it because it seems that the “alley” is getting wider!

[@yuck4u]

I am surprised that Jarrell, Texas 1997 Tornado did not make it on this list. It was said to be so violent that asphalt was ripped from the roads, grass/crops were uprooted & soil was scoured up to a depth of 1 foot, hides of cattle were stripped from their bodies. So much violence that victims of this tornado had to be identified from their dental records.

[@mercedessmith2646]

That was the worst tornado dead man walking . this documentary is not correct

[@thetimekeeper955]

Actually, it is. It's specifically titled "biggest tornadoes," not "worst tornadoes." The Jarrell tornado was 3,960 feet wide-less than a mile. That's about half the size of the tri-state tornado and about three times smaller than the El Reno tornado. Besides that, trying to define what makes a tornado "the worst" is virtually impossible because of the subjectivity of the measurement. What should be considered to constitute "worst" and why? Financial loss? Body count? Scale/rating? Duration? Path? Wind speed? All of the above? Something else? Other tornadoes are equal to or "worse" than the Jarrell tornado in each category.

[@christopherdavis4136]

@@thetimekeeper955 Great points and agreed it is subjective. Also, I feel like the EF guage is insufficient to really judge a tornado. It judges damage? But a tornado hitting in 1950 would cause more destruction than the same tornado today. Not to mention variable things like did it hit a more rural area or city central etc. I keep thinking a point system that accounts for all the things you listed would be best. Basically it would be judged by all factors by a group of well educated meteorologists.

[@stevo3883]

@@thetimekeeper955 whole lot of rambling when the answer is self-evident. Worst tornado = most powerful That is common sense

[@thetimekeeper955]

​@@stevo3883 Defining subjectivity with more subjectivity isn't common sense. Look up "most powerful animal," and you won't get one answer: insects are the most powerful relative to their body size; whales are the most powerful in the absolute force they generate to move; elephants are the most powerful (non-insect) land animal. Look up "most powerful tornado," and you'll have a similar problem. "Power" and "worst" are abstract concepts subject to an observer's experience and opinion, and not everyone will have the same viewpoint.

[@meozy6607]

On April 12, 2020, a tornado struck my small town of Seminary, MS. Peak intensity was EF4 on the verge of EF5 with peak width at 2.25 miles wide. Me and my family took a direct hit and it leveled our community. Ours was the third largest on record.

[@leftlanetankeryanker8596]

Bassfield next door we unfortunately had two that was a sad day

[@ronswanson398]

Honorable Mention: F5 Jarrell, Texas May 27, 1997 It wasn't one of the largest, but it was one of the strongest. It coined the expression, "Wiped the map clean."

[@53cyclone]

It was not the strongest mainly due to the fact it stalled for 2 minutes over the homes, causing extreme damage. It was likely a high end F4.

[@Ridge82848]

I remember driving through Joplin a few days after the tornado hit. I’ve truly never seen such utter destruction

[@richrawness1388]

Joplin was definitely the worst to hit a populated area

[@sirfer6969]

The old-school footage in the beginning is awesome...puts tornadoes into a solid historical perspective.

[@InfinityGaming420]

I always liked tornadoes when I was a kid I even drew them on paper before

[@tstingrayfan5293]

Wow I love tornado I can draw a EF5 tornado destroying houses

[@Sharkyxzz]

I drew a tornado and houses getting destroyed and then made up a story in my head

[@randomguy-hc7pv]

You probably never saw one you would be terrified

[@nicholasciviero7289]

I like them too until they come too close to where I live. 2 tornadoes touched down in Milton, 20 minutes north of Oakville, Ontario Canada. Happened this past summer. I called this past Sumner as...Funnelly.

[@shylahutchins6985]

I’m really TERRIBLE scared of them, I’m really scared of death. I love my family.

[@Inurfacewithbass12]

I just moved 6 miles from Moore, Oklahoma. Been fascinated with tornadoes my whole life. Seeing Oklahoma has the number 4 and 1 spot here is crazy.

[@mattashworth9744]

I moved to OKC a bit over two years ago. If I just wanted to see tornadoes, I'd honestly have had better luck in Colorado where I had moved from. Of course, any one of these storm seasons could prove me otherwise...

[@oldschooljack3479]

I live in Oklahoma but less than an hour from Joplin, MO. The Joplin tornado wreaked total havoc. It hit one of the main hospitals which IIRC was a 9 story building. The building didn't collapse but it did have to be demolished because it was moved several inches off of its foundation. When you actually see a tornado with your own eyes, the first emotion to register is disbelief. Your brain knows what it is seeing but it doesn't register as real. It's hard to fathom that something that God awful can exist. But you can't look away.

[@ChosenPlaysYT]

Hats off to the brave storm chasers, I don’t know how they do it.

[@sheri8078]

Tornadoes are devastating. My husband survived the OKC one and our current house is in the path of the Hallam tornado. I’ll never forget watching the weatherman the night of the Hallam tornado and discovering a town was completely destroyed.

[@joekaz5198]

Move?

[@fatcat5817]

Tornadoes have always been my favorite weather ever since I was a kid. ❤️ 🌪️

[@wavygravy6969]

I like how you left the biggest one for last. That el reno tornado was insane!

[@YourFellowRNRSisterFan98]

Try living through it. I did I was 15. I had video footage of it but my old KZbin account some asshole took it down for some reason. I don’t know why. I can’t believe it’s been 8 years already.

[@wavygravy6969]

@@YourFellowRNRSisterFan98 cant imagine being in that situation

[@StarkAngel]

It postponed my graduation ceremony that day! It was pretty nuts

[@MrMah-zf6jk]

@@YourFellowRNRSisterFan98 why don't you repost the footage on your current account?

[@GodzillaKaijuGK]

@@YourFellowRNRSisterFan98 Probably because they were scared of the tornado so they reported it to KZbin to get it taken down.

[@Kamidake83]

The Moore tornado required them to rewrite the EF scale.

[@standepain]

Moore and Jarrell both did. Moore for it's top wind speed for hitting the max the estimated F5 wind speed and Jarrell since it pulverized everything and left no debris to measure its true windspeed.

[@MrMah-zf6jk]

That's completely false. There was nothing that made them "rewrite" the scales. EF wind speed measures have always been the same.

[@WinterSpiritLove]

Yes, I remember Gary England saying it was bigger than an F5 and was considered an F6 although F6 was not on the fujita scale.

[@shchorss]

No, the 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore tornado was properly rated. What cracked the Fujita Scale was the 2002 La Plata, Maryland F4. While I wouldn't say it's the sole reason as to why the original F scale was scrapped, it definitely was a major reason.

[@SD-ck3ev]

As an Alabamian, I was waiting for the one from April 27, 2011. It spanned 4 days and impacted 26 states, with Alabama being hit the hardest. 62 tornadoes touched down that day and it lasted around 18 hours in Alabama alone.

[@bretthenson4135]

It was terrible when that happened in Joplin. Much love for our city. I wouldn’t have the mother of my child if she would have stayed home that day. Tornadoes are so fascinating nonetheless

[@energeticunderr4684]

I relate to this in a type of way.

[@JordanSVT]

I was there during the Joplin tornado too. I got lucky that my house had been missed by a few miles. I remember going out the next day and seeing all the destruction caused by that tornado. It was a crazy day.

[@aly5891]

I have been posting my story everywhere but basically my best friend graduated and just made it home in time. It was unreal. I lived about 45 miles north and we are in a valley area so nobody took it seriously. I was 17 having just graduated the day prior and was not prepared for this text from my bestie saying the hospital is gone. I took it very serious once she told me that and was panicked asking if she’d made it home. The 40 seconds she took to respond almost sent me into an anxiety attack. She was ok. Just made it back home from graduation and the path of the tornado wasn’t expected to get near her area where she lived. It brushed by her neighborhood tho.

[@aly5891]

@@JordanSVT I remember coming down to visit my friend (see post above this one for context) that next weekend. She was driving me close to the Devastation and asked if I wanted to see, I replied yes and then saw the beginnings of it and couldn’t go further. It was too much for me. I kept crying and crying wishing I could do more for the city we all loved. I left her house in the middle of the night just due to being in so much pain, as I got near the airport it started to lightning. I was terrified. I still get ptsd from the events of the 2011 Joplin tornado. I’m sure you guys feel like I do when I say we’ve been forever changed.

[@brizzle3903]

@@aly5891 around the same time the Joplin tornado happened I was down in Smithville, Mississippi that took a direct hit from a massive EF5 tornado so I know firsthand what that kind of tornado could do to a town/city. What I saw was beyond horrific; homes wiped clean off their foundations cars that were mangled so bad that you could tell it was even a car, trees that had been debarked and also been pulled entirely out of the ground, a Piggly Wiggly store that was blown out you could literally see from the front all the way to the back, this thing also dug a literal scar into ground as it went through the town A survivor with her two kids said they ran to the bathroom with seconds to spare before their mobile home exploded around them she said they were tossed about 75ft into the woods when I saw where her bathtub landed I was completely shocked because on either side there massive trees had their tub went off slightly more to the right or left they would’ve been killed instantly but they landed in a clearing big enough for a tub to fit and they walked away with minor cuts and bruises

[@constantine7382]

I knew a woman who remembered the Tri State Twister. She lived around Lesterville, Missouri. I recently watched something about it and many scientist are saying that it may not have even been a tornado. It may have been a once in a thousand year event. Hard to believe it's not number one on EVERY list.

[@danevertt3210]

If it wasn’t a tornado…..what was it?

[@yogabbagabba01]

@@danevertt3210 who knows?

[@thunderstorm838]

@@yogabbagabba01 Storm of it's century just leave it at that

[@lighterfluid3550]

Crazy how we just had one that crossed 3 states recently

[@MikeMayneOfficial]

@@lighterfluid3550 50 tornadoes in an 8 hour time span

[@rileyjothecorso9732]

I was born and raised in Tennessee an my great grandmother told me about the tornado that hit in 1925 . She told me that there was straw and hay sticking in trees an at that age i couldn't wrap my mind around how in the world something so fragile could possibly stick in trees like a knife or some kind of dart 🎯. It's freakishly amazing how much power tornadoes have. God rest all the souls that was lost in all these tornadoes...

[@DrRhyperior]

I’m surprised Greensburg wasn’t on here as well as some others. May have only taken 11 lives compared to others but it took out 96% of the town.

[@Sidneycrosbey87]

Greensburg pa? I live in greensburg pa/hempfield

[@Kierohn]

OFF

[@Kierohn]

OOF*

[@DrRhyperior]

@@Sidneycrosbey87 Greensburg, Kansas. Back in 2007.

[@tiemanschnitzel7940]

That Greensburg twister was 2 miles wide. Saw the destruction myself

[@harrykeel8557]

I have lived in the southeast all of my life, and haven't had any, that I am aware of, encounters of the personal kind. However, one passed about a hundred yards of the house. It vibrated my trailer, needless to say I left and went to my parents house. I responded to the tornado that occurred in Beauregard, Al. In 2019, and as a stark reminder for several months afterwards I would pass the prayer closet that saved a woman's life that day. I can still see it in my minds eye. Sitting on its slab, where the rest of the house was.

[@YourFellowRNRSisterFan98]

I’m from South Carolina, So I get it. Not as bad as you guys do but I get it.

[@skyraided6872]

@@YourFellowRNRSisterFan98 I thought you went through el Reno which was in Oklahoma. ‘ ,:|

[@swelch2661]

This was really well made, great video!

[@Look_its_ahen]

All I have to say is, how lucky we got here in Dayton, Oh during the 2019 tornadoes. We had 21 total hit the state around midnight-4am of the Tuesday following Memorial Day weekend. 4 of those hit Dayton alone. 1 EF-4 and 3 EF-3’s. We don’t get tornadoes… sirens were only placed in bigger suburbs of the area and even then, those didn’t even go off. We’re still rebuilding. 2 of those were inches from completely taking out our children’s hospital and Trauma Level 1 hospital.

[@RebeccaStout]

You guys also had the famous Zenith one back in the day

[@Look_its_ahen]

@@RebeccaStout true true!!

[@deransadventures]

These are specifically the biggest recorded. They weren't noting every dangerous tornado.

[@catchthewind8563]

That was all God. All those strong and violent tornadoes at night, in extremely populated areas, and less than five people died. That is a miraclr, because that does not just happen and it sure was not luck

[@Look_its_ahen]

@@deransadventures they’re a record for the area, so let’s not invalidate my comment. Again, we don’t get tornadoes and one night we got 4. So yeah, I do think the mention of mine is justified. Considering the destruction it left. They weren’t small. An EF-4 for an area that isn’t prepared along with 3 EF-3’s is a massive hit to a Midwestern city-far from tornado valley.

[@haydenpalmer2981]

A tornado that was more recent would actually take #3 on your list as the third largest tornado in history. Just a tad bit smaller than the Hallam. This tornado was on Easter Sunday of 2020 in rural Seminary Mississippi. Only killed 8 people but it’s size was massive and it was extremely destructive. I drive past the damage all the time as it isn’t too far from where I live.

[@iceresistance]

The Soso, Mississippi Tornado in 2020 was 2.25 Miles wide, it was rated high-end EF4, the NWS survey also said that this was 'Close to EF5 Intensity'

[@DM-wp9vq]

That's so insane. 2.25 miles wide, and nearly 300mph Sustained winds. Just thinking about that size and intensity is mind blowing. I think I would build an underground house with a storm shutter that closes over the whole structure. If I lived in that area ("Tornado Ally") that is.

[@iceresistance]

@@DM-wp9vq *Alley And I've had a very close call this morning

[@Wolf-lv8xt]

I was like 100ft away from the path of that one and it was 2021 when it hit

[@jimmbobqbob]

that particular tornado went right over my cousins house. he and his family are fine thank fully

[@richarpadilla1891]

Great video ! I survived a tornado 🌪, the 12-10-2021 Mayfield KY, Quad State Tornado Outbreak working at the candle factory ! A high end EF4 190 mph tornado smashed the factory killing 9 workers, i got stuck under the rubble for more than 3 hours ,i'm lucky to be here today !

[@MIZZtyler1991]

In Oklahoma, the town first hit on 05/03/99 is Bridge Creek, not creed. Further, footage used for the '99 entry was from the 05/20/13 EF5 that went through roughly the same area in the OKC metro. As an Oklahoman that experienced these, I enjoyed the video! Just pointing some things out 👍

[@keganatsmc4732]

If there was a number six the 5 20 2013 tornado would likely get that spot

[@keganatsmc4732]

Also about some of the footage you mentioned it did look a little off for the May 3rd tornado

[@YourFellowRNRSisterFan98]

Yeah, I noticed that too. I have watched countless tornado documentaries in my life. Really sad.

[@iceresistance]

I live in Oklahoma too, I've experienced the crazy Weather, I've never seen a tornado AGAINST ALL ODDS! I do want to mention that the 5/3/1999 KFOR Coverage is PERFECT to see the Monster Tornado And also the Gary England News 9 Coverage

[@dwightanderson8331]

The '99 Oklahoma city tornado started around the Lawton area around 3pm and ended in the Choctaw/eastern Oklahoma county area it was it's strongest between Bridgecreek and Moore. It was maybe the 3rd largest that day with one between El Reno and Yukon that was brief larger but the biggest was in northern Logan county that destroyed the town of Mulhall except for a couple of buildings and moved the south end of an old metal WPA era bridge about one or two feet which had to be replaced. All were part of an outbreak of over 60 tornadoes of all sizes that day.

[@zorakj]

My “favorite” tornado system was the Barneveld, WI tornado system of 1984. It was unusually bad for how far north it was. 46 confirmed tornadoes, including the F5 that destroyed Barneveld, killing 9 and giving the storm system its name. 4 others were killed elsewhere. I lived in a town (Black Earth) hit a few minutes later-it passed a block from my house. When we later moved to Iowa, the town we lived in had been hit by the same storm system earlier that day.

[@afimhasanaj]

Hope ur family’s better

[@ezrav.5163]

I actually believe that tornado was an anti-cyclonic tornado. Look up Pecos Hank's newest video, and he'll explain about them.

[@bmich281]

I remember that storm too

[@zorakj]

@@afimhasanaj Thank you!

[@zorakj]

@@ezrav.5163 I saw that video; I’d never known they could rotate either way! Thank you for suggesting the vid. I’m not finding anything on google that says the Barneveld tornado was anti-cyclonic, but my iPad browser doesn’t offer a search function to help with skimming articles.

[@itzonlyjuliana]

“I’m sure many of us have seen videos of tornados online, but never in person” **nervously laughs**

[@strattendejournett46]

as an okie (Oklahoman) i love watching these storms, the power of mother nature amazes me, and we're so used to these things we just get outside and watch, take shelter if you've got it but most of us just get out and watch, theres little you can do

[@timothyball7502]

They say OK is old history. But I say OK is the same age as OKlahoma. I may have the wrong information, but to me OK should be attached to OKlahoma. 11-22-2021

[@thelord3561]

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[@thelord3561]

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[@thelord3561]

#JESUS FIRST These Resources Are To Be Viewed Through A Gentle Context Amen Jesus Is Love And The Only Way To Be Saved Is Through The Jesus Of The Bible The Creator And It's The Free Gift Of God But May We Honor The Lord Jesus And No Longer Live For Ourselves But To The Lord

[@thelord3561]

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[@lilriceking1416]

I was actually in the Joplin tornado, in fact it was 5 days after my birthday, thanks for the late b day present Mother Nature 👍

[@kaelyn7456]

Love your videos it also kind of helps me with school a bit❤

[@wickedsickfunkyfreshroller2037]

I went to Oklahoma for army training, I think there were 3 tornado warnings while I was there. It’s absolutely terrifying just how quickly it can go from 110 degrees with no clouds in the sky, to pitch black sky 70 degrees and 50 mph winds.

[@kafazyshorthop9909]

Warnings do happen often here, not to mention tested every Saterday at noon, but it's not often that a tornado actually touches down. If I had to guess, it would be 12 warnings to every actual tornado, but that's a large guess based off of my limited knowledge pool on the subject. Warnings go off when the radar detects that a cell is capable of creating a tornado, but that radar can't actually tell if one has touched down or has even formed, so they blast the sirens to warn anybody that there is a potential tornado. Also I agree, the weather changes very rapidly here. You do get used to it though, and it becomes completely normal. I have lived here my entire life, so it's hard for me to imagine something different haha.

[@jackyhallmark3094]

It happens in Oklahoma in cold weather too.

[@kennashey]

I'm surprised that the Moore, May 20, 2013 tornado is not on here....Especially as it followed almost the same path as the May 3, 1999 tornado.

[@YourFellowRNRSisterFan98]

@@keatonterry I was about to say that. I remember hearing about it right before we passed through. And then visiting my aunt changed my life. On May 31.

[@azzzzz7963]

@@keatonterry yes but there’s a difference, 1999 was among some of the strongest tornadoes observed by mobile Doppler radar with 301MPH being the official estimate, while Moore 2013 only reaching 210 MPH. Also, Moore 99’ had a wider swath of F5 damage.

[@sabishiihito]

@@azzzzz7963 there weren't any DOW measurements taken of the May 20th tornado. 210mph is just an estimate based on the damage surveys. We'll never know exactly how fast the winds were inside.

[@azzzzz7963]

@@sabishiihito have you not watched the documentary?

[@darealkiel]

I lived in a small town called Holland during the time of the Hallam tornado. It just missed our small community by not even a mile. Houses outside the town had extreme damage. Our home had no basement, only we could seek shelter in the bathroom. I was 5 at the time and remember this day vividly, and I’ll always be grateful for it missing our town. I’m not sure I’d be here today if it hit us, considering our shelter wasn’t great.

[@Garapetsa]

May 3 1999 Oklahoma We were driving home to ok from Chicago. As we headed west, there was massive wall cloud which stretched for miles. We arrive in Tulsa...then saw mega debris. Homes were pelted by mud. Some were literally 3" thick. Unreal. That was the worst. It's literally gouged the earth where you can still see its mark today in stroud.

[@origin3271]

Didn't mention that Joplin's tornado went from a skinny rope to a mile wide in 10 seconds.

[@catbutt9187]

Yes it hit more warm air and spun quicker I was in Joplin the day it happened

[@origin3271]

@@catbutt9187 Yeah no one remembers to add that fact of just how HORRIFICALLY QUICKLY it grew. Noodle to Finger of God in 10 seconds.

[@alisapritchett7624]

@@catbutt9187 Are you ok?!

[@catbutt9187]

@@alisapritchett7624 what do u mean

[@alisapritchett7624]

@@catbutt9187 You were in Joplin that day so I was wondering if you're ok

[@arnepianocanada]

[Superb voice & clear speech!] I viewed this in Dec '21 just after freak winter tornadoes ravaged 6 US states. Here in Canadian Rockies we seemed tornado-free, but a freak microburst shocked us.

[@lone_sharkyt6113]

I loved this video. it reminded me of when I was younger and studied them while all the other kids were playing outside. I love tornadoes and hopefully one day meet a storm chaser that has survived a storm like these.

[@GLING17]

Take it from someone who has lived their entire life in Tornado Alley and has been through multiple tornadoes, these are things you do not want to mess with or experience! They are deadly and can kill you in a split second. Very powerful and terrifying. Stay far away! Good advice for the curious and the tough guys who think they’re indestructible and seek these things out!

[@rossedmondson8531]

Great video 👌🏻

[@ravenlord4]

Would love to see a list of tornado super-outbreaks. The is an amazing short documentary on KZbin called "Day of the Killer Tornadoes" dealing with the 1974 super outbreak if people are interested.

[@bowlerjz5030]

Grew up in Xenia Ohio and know all about the 1974 super outbreak. Probably why I love tornadoes 🌪 so much. I wasn’t alive in 1974 but in my lifetime Xenia has had 3 or 4 other tornados.

[@Eva-zh4ss]

Thank you

[@giovannisakai4456]

at raven lord that took place in my home state 2 plus years before I was born

[@wolfgamingnetwork3542]

My Grandpa saw the rotation that created it from the small town just south of xenia while his uncle saw the one that hit the outskirts of Cincinnati

[@giovannisakai4456]

I was about nine during the May 31st tornado that hit northeast Ohio

[@jdoggg1119]

El Reno was in May of 2013. Just over a week after another tornado that struck Moore.

[@moviemaker2011z]

I lived in Springfield during the 2011 Joplin tornado. I even remember the alert that went out warning of the danger. I had only a few friends at the time and I vaugly remember them talking about messaging their friends and family who lived in Joplin trying to warn them to get to cover. I can't remember much after that but I do recall the storm we got following the Joplin tornado being quite bad and it braking several of the tree limbs and dropping them in the front yard. A terrible storm that was and I still feel bad for the people of Joplin, I even got to go to the Walmart there for some training I had to do and I saw the old star that they kept as a momento from the event. Seeing it was a sobering moment to me that I should be thankful for what I have and for my family as well.

[@HeatherNHobbs]

Also watched that Joplin tornado on the news and i can remember the news station trying to rotate their weather cam back around but the tornado kept turning it the wrong way. One of the scariest days of my life to date.

[@justinsmith4778]

Ya forgot 1 thing about El Reno tornado, it was the only tornado to date on record that claimed storm chaser lives due to its irregular path and behavior which caused confusion among chasers

[@leoncarlton]

The video did state that....

[@Mrsjam96]

He DID say that!

[@vuanh3227]

really enjoyed this video, it was super informative and the visuals were stunning! however, i think there’s so much more to tornadoes than just their size. like, the impact on communities and the advancements in prediction technology could’ve been highlighted more. those aspects are just as crucial, don’t you think?

[@PhuckedUpPhilosophy]

“wedge” tornados, or in other words, “chode” tornados.

[@garden0fstone736]

Women love girth

[@nikeathlete8]

i remember the joplin tornado. i was in kindergarden on a field trip in kansas. we had to travel to a school right next to the place and hundreds of people gathered in a small computer lab. we had to sit there for 5 hours jam packed. after a couple hours, the roof flew off and we all thought we were screwed but luckily the tornado flew away without touching our building.

[@MWHAAHHAHA]

Fake

[@trylius]

@@MWHAAHHAHA Evidence?

[@crystalvincent8315]

On a field trip on a Sunday evening at 530pm? I highly doubt that.

[@mikesterling688]

I have never described a tornado as beautiful.

[@RebeccaStout]

I noticed Jarrel, Hackleburg (sp?) and Moore weren't on there?

[@gfear24]

Moore was actually #4. May 3, 1999 was Moore. This genius said it was Oklahoma City.

[@jaylambert599]

What made Jarrel so devastating wasn't it's width or overall wind speed, but its extremely slow forward speed, at some points estimated as low as 8mph.

[@raymondstemmer6562]

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[@SymphonyZach]

Hackleburg is an hour away from me. I was a kid but I remember going through it a week or two later. It was like a nuclear bomb went off. Everything just gone, the wrangler factory annihilated. Supposedly wrangler jeans were found still folded up all the way in decatur, which is 45 minutes away from there. Even a pickup truck in a tree. There’s no way that tornado wasn’t top 5

[@RebeccaStout]

@@SymphonyZach yeah no shit right?

[@DeltaMS]

The only tornado I’ve ever seen was back in 2005. After hurricane Katrina hurricane Rita hit. I was 16 driving home when it crossed the road right in front of me! I was a good safe distance away. It was low to the ground but a pretty good size tornado. It was such an experience to see! Luckily it didn’t do much damage since it happened in the country side outside of Greenwood Mississippi.

[@nhatanhnguyen3387]

great video! really enjoyed the visuals and the detailed explanations. but i can’t help but wonder if focusing so much on the biggest tornadoes kind of downplays the impact of smaller ones that can cause just as much damage on a local scale. what do you think?

[@nathanielmaynard636]

I have been through the EF5 tornado in Joplin Missouri in 2011and it was 15 blocks away from my house it was the scariest day of my life

[@balsormahba9563]

0:13 whoa! what was that?!

[@Brantley.vr1]

What was what

[@BrodieB762]

Seen quite a few living in Tornado Alley but the scariest was being in a car with my 2 year old daughter under an over pass right next to the tornado. I’m 35 year old man and I had tears and did alot of praying. If my daughter wasn’t with me then I honestly believe it wouldn’t have been that scary. As a parent and as a dad your there to protect your children and keep them safe. The feeling of not having much of any power over the situation is a horrible feeling. Tornadic winds are also very horrible. For tornados it’s scary due to the complete darkness and sheer noise of the winds and of the objects flying is what frightens people to the core.

[@talmadgeskillman7678]

April 27, 2011. A storm cut through the southeast spinning off over 150 tornadoes in a single day. One tornado ripped into Tuscaloosa, Alabama so large that the EF scale did not have a rating for it. Hundreds died during the storm. My family was fortunate as my uncle and cousins lived just 10 miles from the funnels path. Many others were not so lucky

[@uziy]

i’m only 19 but i remember that day more clear than anything else. luckily my family had a shelter and we were all safe but our neighbors weren’t and one died. our house was completely gone from that thing

[@JB-qy1gx]

Wasn't too large for the scale, it was an EF4 almost EF5. Oklahoma has seen worse.

[@2determined4]

Dude it was barley a e4 and it was 14 tornadoes but a 100

[@TravisKlanecky]

I chased the Hallam, Nebraska tornado and witnessed it from a couple of miles away. Due to the timing near sunset and the width of the tornado, it was hard to tell there was a tornado, other than the power flashes. It was literally a huge wall of blackness moving along to my north.

[@Someone-lf7iz]

It was sooooo dark! I was young, and my friends and I wanted to go that night to see a tornado, but my mom thankfully put a stop to that. That was the loudest I ever heard her yell over the cell phone lol, but she probably saved our lives because we had no idea what we were doing. It's sad about the chasers in El Reno, but it's a grim reminder to everyone else that these are incredibly dangerous to chase

[@AtarahDerek]

Okay, I'm gonna stop you at 1:52. The Tri-State Twister was retroactively rated on the original Fujita scale. The Enhanced Fujita scale is NOT retroactive. Ergo, the Tri-State Twister is NOT an EF5, it is an F5. Likewise, the Bridgecreek-Moore tornado was rated F5, as it happened before 2007, when the Enhanced Fujita scale was implemented.

[@chrisduitsman2918]

And to think, on May 20th, 2013 Moore, OK got hit by an EF5 that killed over 100 people, and nearly wiped out the city. Eleven days later, the largest tornado on record almost hit the same area.

[@mrp8231]

Yup im still in okc. I have been in all of them smh

[@Acuda721]

24 died from the May 20th tornado.....

[@toocooldarr_17]

Yeah I love learning about tornado,Hurricanes and Earthquakes

[@studdruppo]

You should pick up a book called the "Worst Hard Time". It's about the American dust bowl. Good read and interesting time.

[@AB-zi5eh]

I once saw in 2019 a small tornado in Amsterdam over 'het IJ' (the lake it got over)

[@muddyanteater]

I am a survivor of the may 22 2011 joplin tornado. It happened on my graduation day from high school still the craziest day of my life! I was in my little truck and drove right into it thought I was a goner for sure but luckily it just moved my truck around never went airborne. Now I have ptsd when there is bad weather

[@victor440]

The actual top 4 largest tornadoes at the time of this video: 1. El Reno, OK EF3 (2013), 2.6mi 2. Jiangsu, China EF4 (2016), 2.5mi 3. Hallam, NE F4 (2004), 2.4mi 4. Bassfield, MS EF4 (2020), 2.25mi and the video only has 2 of the top 4

[@craighenry2351]

I need to correct something. On April 3-4 in 1974, there were 143 informed touchdowns of tornadoes. That would be your largest ever recorded outbreak. A book called F5 chronicles that outbreak. At least 7 states were affected.

[@goldenhydreigon4727]

*[Kentucky has entered the chat]*

[@stanleyelkins8510]

My Grandma, Aunts and Uncles survived the tri-state tornando. I never understood why Grandma would get very nervous anytime a thunderstorm came up. The farmhouse she was in was spun around on the foundation blocks and aunts, Betty and Myrtle, were in the Murphysboro IL. school house.

[@sheritabanks452]

I love your videos 😄😄😄😄😄

[@Dazzlelite22]

It's so ominous watching this after the latest outbreak that produced the Quad State Tornado

[@Dr_CJ_]

1:11 WTF is the Titanic doing there?

[@DrakeBonnette]

Fr

[@landonfolken03]

Just chillin...

[@MylesHoward]

The 2004 Hallam tornado destroyed my school and passed through the woods next to my house. The woods have been reduced to a cornfield but thankfully the school was able to be rebuilt. Crazy what tornadoes can do!

[@rocktown5014]

Just experienced one of the worst tornados to hit Little Rock (AR) a few weeks ago, and have never seen anything like the level of damage that it caused here. It was a lower-end F3 with wind speeds of around 165mph, but it absolutely leveled the areas where it touched down. Despite being in tornado alley and having been thru several previous tornado warnings before, Little Rock typically doesn't see anything like this because of the geography and all of the hills. The flatter, more rural areas usually tend to get hit worse. However, this particular storm ended up devastating parts of the city. There's plenty of videos out there of the event, along with the aftermath. It's truly a miracle that nobody lost their life in LR, although there were deaths reported in North Little Rock and Wynn, as well as injuries numbering 300+.

[@derrickjackson1885]

I lived in Henryetta O.k. when I was younger, and in 2009 I watched 4 tornadoes sore through the skies at once. It was pretty damn impressive but scary at the same time.

[@n1troni]

i love that i can always speed up your videos and still sound like normal normal videos.

[@bforman1300]

Had to run away from the May 3,1999 tornado. Took shingles off my roof and left debris all over the yard. One of the weirdest experiences of my life was driving through Arcadia while shingles showered down around me like a massive flock of dying birds.