Pampa, Texas Tornado 6-8-1995

[@Nannyhoneyof5]

My cousin, Randy Stubblefield, was the officer that filmed this awesome footage!

[@chuckdoswell9336]

You can see Al and me on the right as the sheriff drives by on his way north on Price Road - at 7:50 into the video

[@510Anonymous]

It was officially rated F4. With the advanced system of damage assessment we have now with the EF scale (and the new wind speeds), this tornado would almost certainly be classified as an EF5 today, according to the head meteorologist of the Amarillo NWS. Wind speeds at 100ft AGL were 250-300+ mph, IIRC.

[@polygon-viewer]

Reminds me of a drillbit. What is really impressive is the vertical motion on the backside of the tornado. The debris was going almost straight up.

[@powershift1365]

I remember watching a tornado documentary that my mom had recorded for me when I was younger, and it had clips of this twister. This was, and probably still is, one of most debris filled twisters I've seen. They showed in a slowed down portion of it when it hit that oil plant (from what I believe it is) that it chucked a tractor trailer like it was a toy. Sure is amazing what nature can do.

[@nathank556]

I was two when this tornado hit. My dad was away on business and my mom and I hid in a hallway closet. One of my very first memories.

[@Renfurrer]

This is some of the best tornado video I've ever seen. Wow!

[@zackwayman1984]

This was crazy. I was at the Mack's house on the north side of town watching this tornado rip the town apart . I was 11 years old at the time.

[@mikeycapp1]

Amazing Footage, The power of these Tornado's is absolutely breath taking!

[@cassiestubblefield8777]

my grandpa filmed this

[@Tren-uh8bx]

Total buzz saw...Even with todays tech I still dont think I've seen better footage

[@MrStonemike]

I had been in Amarillo for three weeks with my wife in the hospital . My house on Rider Street blew away and took $6000 I had hid in a crawl space! Not a good day !

[@builderman912]

Mike Stone i wonder if its still lost or if someone found it....maybe multiple people found it.....

[@MrStonemike]

Oh, I know much, if not all of it was found because the police reported some folks in an apartment complex picking up hundred dollar bills, but , of course there was no way to reclaim it! It would have come in handy for Dr. bills tho! hah

[@Nigga-ManPrime]

Jody Wilson

[@mikeycapp1]

Thanks for the share Mike Stone I could only imagine seeing the face on those people in the Apartment Complex when 100 dollar bills starting raining from the sky.

[@MrStonemike]

Yeah. that day cost me a lot !

[@alotess8285]

I live an hour away from here, It was terrifying, you could see the clouds coming from the distance.

[@5avt0]

9:25 That tornado is strong..

[@motheroftears25]

It was ranked as an F4. I lived blocks away from where this hit. ' All I can say we were damn lucky we did not lose our house. It was that close.

[@mistylang3326]

My Aunt and Uncle lived on N. Sumner St. at the time and my cousin had his scrap yard there. I lived in Amarillo when this hit. I was going to visit and they wouldn't let me in to check on my family. This was a scary day.

[@beantangg]

like Tuscaloosa,AL the tornado is F4,but is doing F5 damage

[@510Anonymous]

It was officially rated F4, although it was probably capable of doing F5 damage.

[@ScottWildTornadoSponge]

At 6:42, I could see those cars flying in the air. They must have be a quarter mile up in the air and thrown over a quarter mile. All I have to say is, DANG NATURE YOU'RE SCARY!

[@ignatiusjk]

That tornado was moving so fast at times I thought they were showing it in fast motion.WOW what a mean sob that one was.Looked like a F3

[@Ch1naDoll]

i was three when this happened. living on schnieder st with my mom in pampa at the time! we didnt have our own cellar so we ran to a womans down the street. vaguely remember being down in the cellar.

[@evilkit7498]

I was 7 when this hit. My mom was at work at the ford car dealership. It turned away from our daycare that we were huddled in the bathrooms. And took out the Laundromat close by. It was scary and sounded like a fright train.

[@510Anonymous]

Something else - the machinery appears to double back on its path. The english audio for that damage video told me the machinery was found only 60 feet away from its original position or so; this probably explains it.

[@UsedLeatherSatchel]

This ones a classic

[@flashy5150]

What was the ground wind speed in this one? That debris and rotation was "powerful" !!!

[@poetcomic1]

flashy5150 6 cars in the air at one time reported - not a breeze fer sure

[@flashy5150]

poetcomic1 Yeah, it's amazing how under-rated both this tornado and the Jerrell, TX tornadoes are. They had ferocious power. Jerrell dug a 2 foot trench in the ground -- some say it was more powerful than the Bridge Creek,OK of May 3,1999 or equal to it. Nothern Texas and Oklahoma are just in that perfect spot for that perfect mix if heat, humidity and a cold front from the Rockies.

[@Those2menoverthere]

flashy5150 This tornado received a F4 rating at its peak, so the wind speeds were around 200 or more mph. I would say on average it had wind speeds of 160 to 190mph though.

[@flashy5150]

Those2menoverthere . Yes, the Jerrell tornado would most likely kill all tornado stats. That tornado was absolutely the most powerful -- an F-4 is nothing to shoot down.

[@iacentralfishing5610]

the NWS estimated that the winds were around 250 MPH, that makes the Pampa tornado a high-end F4

[@apismellifera1000]

Amazing how one can see the two pick up trucks flying out of the funnel then later on a cargo van

[@Msmamiringa1]

back in the old days

[@510Anonymous]

Was Columbus the multi-vortex wedge shown in that tornado compilation along with the destroyed cars?

[@510Anonymous]

You can find the audio files in a download. Just try searching pampa texas tornado and the link should be somewhere in there.

[@510Anonymous]

Hey yeah I can see them! I've spotted the machinery before but never the warehouse in Chuck Doswell's video, probably because I wasn't looking for it.

[@edgardosolis843]

nunca habia visto un tornado de esa magnitud

[@510Anonymous]

Awesome force. You have to download all of them, or it won't show.

[@beantangg]

Thumbs up if you see the oil tank is ripped off

[@510Anonymous]

Yup.

[@nightwingnachos9348]

that is to close im sorry

[@beantangg]

It's looks like F3

[@510Anonymous]

I'll send you the link.

[@510Anonymous]

I didn't know about it then. :P

[@510Anonymous]

I suppose.

[@doriachris]

omg dude