LARGEST TORNADO EVER!!! From Birth to Death (w/ Radar & Commentary) 5-31-13

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

The tornado freaks you out, but his voice calms you down. It's a perfect balance.

[@Zyn_Shi]

You watch this channel too?! Dude you’re literally everywhere it’s amazing I hope you’re stayin safe tho

[@meooowww3672]

OH. Y GOSH HERE UA RE AGAIN

[@Rose-zz1ig]

Unless your special like meh cus then this shiz still panics you despite the calming voice T-T

[@izzybeach3570]

Truee, but the first part where he picked the snake up gave me anxiety. 😂😭

[@kuhna6922]

Here too bruh

[@LeiaLHill]

My storm chaser friend, Tim Samaras, died in this tornado. Tornadoes are awesome, but they can destroy any life in its way. RIP Tim Samaras. What a great video showing the HD quality of this monstrous beast. Sorry to all the victims for this tragic happening. :(

[@drakonkl]

Leia L. Hill I was hit by this tornado my shelter was half way ripped out of the ground

[@robe9603]

Leia L. Hill Sorry for your loss :(

[@HirophantGirl]

Tim was an amazing man from what my report say

[@maritimebard]

Your friend had balls of steel, Leia, to be a chaser. I wish you the best.

[@joehodgson834]

Leia L. Hill sorry to hear that life is very dangerous

[@supahmariostyle]

Just realizing it's not necessarily the tornado that scares me it's the clouds around it. It's unnatural to see something so vast be this close to earth. It really makes you understand how small you are in the scheme of things

[@peelomilo]

bruh id be pretty scared of a fucking tornado

[@IzzyKawaiichi]

@@peelomilo Well, yes, but some look more frightening than others. This one? Absolutely terrifying. The tiny little rope tornado I once saw touch down in a field that just as quickly disappeared? Interesting, but not scary.

[@IzzyKawaiichi]

@Dutch Van Der Linde If there's a tornado, there's probably lightning too, so you can see it, but only in flashes. However, that may be even more terrifying.

[@orangejuicedeer6577]

Not to mention it blacks out the horizon…..just literally darkness, death and destruction

[@jjungoniee484]

@@IzzyKawaiichi imagine it's night time and there's a tornado and lightning, it will be like the jumpscares in the movies

[@gabrielgamer4458]

This guy chased one of the biggest monsters ever but was able to stop and relieve the townsfolk. Pecos Hank is a legend

[@reyj2532]

He also helps animals get to safety, in one his videos before the storm even started he helped a snake get a drink

[@Supercell725]

PH is a man of character

[@Idkwhatimdoingwiththisname]

He really is

[@brizzle3903]

By far one of the best chasers in our lifetimes! I will always prefer his calm collected demeanor over others who scream every 5 seconds

[@johnconnor8937]

More like random tweaker

[@stxrsillhxuette7393]

Guys, If a tornado isn't moving and looks like it's stationary, its either moving away from you, or *towards you* Edit: Yes, it can be stationary.

[@boneslx3983]

PheonixOfPillowzYT great observation

[@mitt...]

Better yeet on out of there either way o-o

[@entitledkidyourtoysaremine930]

10,000 subs with no videos challenge. Or it pulled a u turn

[@cutiepie1511]

You’re right on that one I would stay in there for a sec to see if it will get bigger or smaller so I know if it was coming towards me or not

[@stxrsillhxuette7393]

yus, yeetus jeezus outta their way-

[@Sparky3200]

While too many chasers won't even stop to lend aid at a destroyed home, Hank stops his chase to help animals cross the road. This is just one reason I follow Hank.

[@horanghaeforever]

most chasers are watching the storm while also staying safe they don’t really have time to stop if they’re chasing something this big they move way to fast. you could stop for four seconds and it’d be right behind you. it sucks but that’s why most people head away from the storm not towards it i could see stoping for a person but an animal is gonna be so scared and confused they probably won’t end up listening and continue running. i am shocked he stopped tho

[@ethanthatgangster5653]

I’m very tender hearted I’m with you man

[@alipetuniashow]

The only issue is that the person grabbed the turtle by the tail

[@kirara2516]

Same. He's always awesome, even to 'creepy' creatures like Spiders and snakes.

[@cad6n]

@@alipetuniashow if he didn't he would've gotten bit

[@gregoryloach7403]

R.I.P Tim Samaras: Severe Weather Engineer and his crew lost their lives to this tornado 💔

[@pidgeydoodles7549]

rest easy, men

[@TheLocalLt]

Gregory Loach I was so sad I used to watch him on Discovery channel he was the only one on that show that was actually serious about tornadoes

[@marcotron7720]

F

[@dadscavaliers642]

A wife lost her husband and son that day😔😔

[@hospsa6933]

RIP he died doing what he loved his last words where “Where going to die” 😔

[@Kbefore-lk5cf]

Dear Pecos Hank, I know you arent reading this, but I still want to say this. Just yesterday, this video turned 10 years old, this video is a freaking decade old. Anyways, at the time you uploaded this 10 years ago, I was just a 6 year old watching youtube on our tv. My mom was busy working on supper and I was just bored waiting. I saw the thumbnail and I was like "Wtf is that spinny cloud doing?", So I clicked on it. The video was only about 10 hours old, so the El Reno tornado had only happened just a few days prior. This video lit something inside me, I still to this day don't know what, but this single video that I am commenting on changed my entire life. I learned that same day what a tornado was, what they did, what they looked like, what they caused people to do, etc. For the past 10 years I have been very close to everything having to do with weather. When I was like 7-10 I was recording storms with my 3DS constantly lol. Sadly I live in northwestern Ohio, so I havent seen a single tornado my entire life. Even then, this video changed the course of my entire life. I will be graduating this year and will be going into Meteorology in college. Thank you for creating this timeless masterpiece, I am happy, sad, and amazed with the fact that this video turned 10 years old jusy a few hours ago. Thank you for changing my life Hank. I hope god can just put the thankfulness that I have in your heart. I am surprised it has already been ten years. I also want to remind you of the loss of the Twisted team that day, we thank you for your service in the community. But even then, have a good 10 year video anniversary. Thank you, for everything. Sincerely Carter.

[@Coopdeville9]

Wow dude

[@memebrewery]

wow

[@heathergarson6793]

He didnt read it :(

[@CommanderToast7221]

He didn't read it sadly, but wow, A DECADE! You put a lot of effort into this comment... so you deserve the like.

[@notactuallybendy]

Bro this comment hit HARD

[@was1max]

I have no idea why I watch these videos when I can't go sleep

[@iluvhorsez1700]

Same 😂

[@documentingAustin]

OMG I watch them when I can't sleep as well!

[@dangerousdazza]

Same here strange that

[@dangerousdazza]

Maybe I'm morbid 😂

[@NeckBallum]

It's exactly the same for me

[@Jhop273]

Moral of the story: don't live in Oklahoma

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

Or texas, or Kansas, or Arkansas, or Alabama, or Nebraska, or Ohio, or Indiana, or Mississipii or Missouri or Georgia or etc.. Tornadoes aren't an Oklahoma exclusive, and that includes EF 3-5 class tornadoes.

[@toxicgamingzrk]

@@KaiserMattTygore927 tornado is everywhere in america??? Srry for bad english

[@neno_e2332]

@@toxicgamingzrk mostly in the center not by the oceans.

[@sweetpeakansas]

Don’t live in tornado alley that’s for sure. Coming from someone who grew up 30 min from Moore lol

[@supbois7739]

@@KaiserMattTygore927 can agree with the kansas part lol

[@absoluteacehole4188]

"People are gonna die today. Maybe me." His balls alone keep him on the ground.

[@aarondowning6623]

DB!

[@christopher7559]

AbsoluteAcehole I think Corna saw this video

[@Zaebead]

Bruh i would be shitting rn if i was in his position

[@CreativeStudios97]

The sad thing is he didn't even know how right he was...a great storm chaser was lost that day. Rest in peace Tim Samaras...

[@Zaebead]

@@CreativeStudios97 fax

[@waynebeckham3807]

You rarely see someone chasing a storm that cares for wildlife. I am a conservationist who researches wildlife and their reactions to dangerous weather. Good to see people caring about more than just the info they are going for

[@phatcat-st4gb]

To be fair, the info those people are gathering will go on to save lives by improving prediction technology for tornadoes.

[@no_wing_no_prayer]

I couldn't imagine what our wildlife has to deal with.

[@mattb6646]

I imagine most of them care for wildlife, they have an appreciation for weather I don't see why they wouldn't care about animals too. They just don't film it in their tornado videos like hank.

[@noahj.1232]

That sounds like fascinating work! We need more conservationists, thank you for serving the planet.

[@StoniTheOni]

I find that those in the pursuit of knowledge are also more typically than not also in the pursuit of kindness. Since the critters can't, thank you for what you do

[@ryanspencerlauderdale687]

“People are gonna die today, and it might be me.” 😥😭😭RIP Twistex team.

[@kaseythornton8155]

@weronika Several chasers died. The tornado was very unpredictable and lashed out with smaller, violent vortexes that whipped out and killed them when they had no way of escaping and didn't realize it until too late.

[@sansyourman4729]

@Weronika a lot of chasers died

[@FlamingSanity4923]

even Tim Samaras 😭

[@samueluribe4929]

@Pablo Sosa You try walking into one of those "idiot spin weather clouds" we'll see how long you last

[@lin31932]

@Pablo Sosa r/wooooooosh

[@sollo8407]

Not gonna lie i'm honestly afraid of how dark the sky is from the tornado

[@masoneldridge7235]

The trees scare me

[@sebastianbruel373]

Sameeeeeee

[@SergeyKasimov]

@@sebastianbruel373 That tree more scary then the tornado that thing is long gone the tree is still here!

[@imgay930]

True

[@bebopity8262]

Anime lover try living in oklahoma like me my dude, shit gets real fucking scary sometimes.

[@erikakvera]

My kinda guy, saving animals while chasing a tornado

[@demetriusdemarcusbartholomew]

Hes a good Guy thats why

[@GabsyUnderscore]

Ah yes i think i met him before 🤔

[@wxaiden5248]

Lol

[@SharkNado26]

He is a good man

[@nileharding3137]

I was gonna say something similar lol

[@colesonveigar]

Ten years later and I'm 20 years old coming back to this video and still finding it incredible. Thank you for teaching younger me the strength and beauty of tornadoes!!

[@nannerz1994]

When I was 10 I had the hardly any access to tornado videos only storm stories on the weather channel really I'm glad you got to see some cool stuff starting as a baby

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

The blackness of that sky makes the Tornado more ominous and scary.

[@BismillahirRahmanirRaheemB]

Hello Abe Lincoln lol

[@woodrowwilson2430]

Thx Abe very cool

[@be3469]

The images don't do this ominousness justice strangely. The most frightened I've ever been was looking up at a tornado sky as I drove toward it. To be fair, I had no clue that I was, there was heavy rain that came suddenly and it was hard to see on the roads let alone any sky formations (also we have a lot of trees). I was driving home from my partner's house and considering we get bad thunderstorms all the time and rare tornados I thought it would pass soon. Suddenly, the dark clouds roiling above me went a strange gray greenish-purple color... I have no other way to describe it other than the sky appeared like it wanted to vomit. For some reason I don't feel like cameras capture the color well, I wonder why that is, but the other people I know who have seen a tornado sky usually know what I'm talking about. Luckily, I listened to instinct (vomit colored sky is pretty bone-chilling), I took an exit and pulled away just as the emergency alert went on. My car was bombarded by bits of hail and rain and wind, which was deafening. The alert told me I had been driving toward a tornado, although I could barely hear it (my phone was also blowing up by concerned relatives, also inaudible under the deafening sounds). Later, I found out that had I continued I would have been picked up by the tornado which had traveled along then crossed the highway I was moving across. Fortunately, the roads had been clear that day and not many people were out and about, so no one had been injured. Had I not chosen to turn around that might have been a different headline. Still freaks me out to this day.

[@Cat-fp7jw]

Rip

[@ghostmo2130]

Yea

[@jaxonsmith-xf6ce]

tornado chasers conversation: man 1: wowwww that’s a beauty man 2: hahaa, for real man 1: ... man 2: ... man 1: yo that shits getting pretty close isnt it

[@chocopuffz2562]

😂

[@NoaSmithh]

😂😂

[@thefallenfighters]

😂😂😂😂

[@rainnyyx9955]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@wereto1234]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@squalorvictoria6305]

This was one of the worst days of my life. My mom was trying to navigate me to safety from Ohio while I was stuck on city streets in OKC. I saw a tornado go by my car window while navigating through traffic speeding the wrong direction in my lane. Oh, and who could forget the two scared cats frantically looking for a hiding place under my brake pedal.

[@gageh3091]

Holy shit 😭😭😭

[@kamar12872]

Glad your okay!

[@weizhou3642]

POV: This is ugleeee

[@ethanrhh]

Are the cats good tho?

[@shatteredscry]

I would’ve cussed about 1000 times, punched the dashboard and cried 😂

[@Iliveinabox666]

The snapper freaking out more than usual when you picked it up really sold it for me. Animals know when it's about to be bad

[@Mahoot]

Not to spoil the mood but the snapping turtle was freaking out because of the way he was being held. You’re not supposed to hold snapping turtles like that cause their tail is directly linked to their spine so Hank was causing permanent spinal damage to the poor thing 😢

[@kennypowers1945]

@@Mahootwell no not permanent spine damage. It’s just uncomfortable

[@thespankmyfrank]

​@@Mahoot I was thinking the same thing, that's not how you lift a turtle. 😅 It was probably angry because he was hurting it. Not permanent damage necessarily, but the way it was wriggling it could def have been hurt long term.

[@A_Rando_Vlogger]

...? Snappers do that quite often when threatened in general.

[@rosielovesyouu]

I'm scared that 2020 is gonna find this video and get ideas.

[@azazel8070]

SHUT UPPP

[@alyssagoff1998]

Dude..SAME.

[@mirrrstery]

hahahaha

[@jedimindtricks7589]

@NohaxJustStqvez No? Tornado season goes well into fall. There have been outbreaks in oktober/november/december. Tornado season 'pauses' for the souther plains most of july, august, september but thats when Canadian prairies and high plains get the action, something to do with the jetstream, if jet stream moves back lower again its OK/TX/Dixie turn again

[@irlAlejandro]

I’m ready to like die

[@Rick-iu6ly]

The interesting thing is... I was actually in this tornado and we definitely learned our lesson and moved to Georgia. It was very scary for 8 year old me but now im a 14 year old eighth grader. I remember all the destroyed houses and crying people trying to find their kids and loved ones. Very bad time indeed

[@Zvalgryn]

Georgia still has plenty of tornados though so be careful!

[@barbk2321]

I live inside tornado alley and never seen one in person ever Normally it was nighttime and it was very scary and once I was going to my dad’s house and then a tornado warned storm hit our town and we turned around and went home not even 8 minutes later we got back in are car and then drove to my dad’s house and took covers..... I was scared half to death

[@hospsa6933]

That must have been terrifying a 2.6 mile wide monster ripping apart everything in its path.

[@alexwilson2268]

Samwise Fernandez I’ve lived in Georgia whole life never seen one or heard one

[@mitskiheartt3860]

Dios Esbeun yep Georgia does not have a lot of tornados like there 🙃

[@greendalequeens2657]

I feel so bad for that woman. She sounded so worried about her husband and grandkids. Prayers to them

[@AmyMatte]

these are the type of comments that yt needs. If they did die then rest in peace and may God watch over them

[@davidchurchich9634]

F for a prayer

[@davidchurchich9634]

F

[@remyrem174]

Your missing the dog lmao

[@coastalcapybara]

@@AmyMatte Luckily they did not die. 8 people in total passed away, all of whom were killed while driving, and 4 of whom were storm chasers.

[@Doll_ie]

10 year anniversary of El Reno passed us all a while ago. I just can’t believe storms have energy to produce killer clouds like this. Goes to show you why you can never count out tornadoes…

[@CodeNameZ_935]

I was there that day I can remember it very well I was in my neighbor's storm cellar with my grandma grandpa mom and dad with the neighbor's as well my little brother was barely even half a year old and my little sister was on the way it was the worst nightmare I've ever been a part of and I hope no tornado as strong as El Reno hits a populated area. I am glad to have been in Oklahoma to see the horrors that the 2013 Moore and El Reno tornados did and I'm glad that even though my uncle took a direct hit from the Moore tornado that he's still here today

[@bigtuss7482]

I made a song dedicated to this tragedy on my channel

[@ShiggyMomo]

It's crazy how something as simple as the color of the clouds/sky make the scene look that much more scary

[@masonmatt2145]

Shigeru Miyamoto!? What are you doing here!?

[@notagarbage6728]

yeah you got likes now get lost

[@ShiggyMomo]

@@notagarbage6728 Ok boomer

[@delliriant]

Weird Pulok yeah boomer, this is the future old man

[@dig3990]

@@notagarbage6728 bro, why are you mad you got anger issues?

[@TeKnoVKNG23]

The size and rotation even at the start was so intense, just seeing the motion in the clouds above the storm, just unreal how much power this thing had.

[@SHTEFUN09]

It was sped up. Watch afterwards.

[@Loserbuttcrack]

I apologize for the dumb question (I live in an area that gets no tornadoes) but is there anywhere to learn how to look out for signs a tornado will be severe? If it ever happens i'd rather not be caught offguard

[@awomanshootingsomething5811]

怪夢獏 there really isn’t an exact way to see how intense a tornado will be because tornados can increase in intensity and decrease at any time but, if you want tips on seeing if a tornado is there, then here: if you look at a reflectivity radar usually on apps (the ones with colors like green, yellow, red) and see a hook shape on the end of the storm then that is strong rotation or a tornado but, hooks don’t always appear. There’s another radar, the velocity radar. It detects winds (red meaning away from the radar, green meaning into the radar) and what to look for are the blue spots which indicate strong rotation or tornados. But the best thing to do is look at the weather channels or listen to radios, if there’s a warning please seek shelter, please DO NOT wait to hear or see a tornado, when there’s a warning it usually means a funnel cloud or a tornado has been spotted. TL;DR: Tornado intensity can’t really be predicted. look at app radars for hook shapes or velocity radars for blues spots for tornados. To be safe look at weather networks and get to shelter every time there’s a tornado warning. Hope this helps :)

[@yaboidilan218]

Just imagine what would have happened if it actually hit Oklahoma city

[@cheeseman1772]

@@joeytheecho9123 it sure looks like it lol

[@cortbailiff]

I love how you are so calm in situations like these! Other people would be freaking out and not know what to do, but you know exactly what to do!

[@ShredderX]

For real. I would probally die of heart attack. I can't do that stuff.

[@rainbowreacts7079]

good idea

[@southrules]

xXRowdy18Xx ie being stupid

[@zeltzintlachinolli2806]

They should know what to do unless they chose to ignore the safety protocols then that's their fault

[@jaggass]

Once you've seen so many tornadoes you probably get used to it.

[@Jimmyjamsays....]

2:08 has got to be the most some of the most ominous clouds I've ever seen. Beautiful and terrifying all at once

[@23Dreams-z8z]

"HEY , lets go hunt Tornados!" "OKAY but lets play with the snake first"

[@doodle_bugs7906]

Me tho😂

[@FunkyChickenProductions]

\o/

[@woomy1907]

Reeeee

[@SlowlyMovingOn]

Most common thing to do, right?😂

[@iGoku1]

մղʂէօրրმჩlε u mean snek?

[@yamiymikxxo2794]

Me: I love rain and dark clouds even more than the sun Also me: Ok this type of weather is not what I meant

[@Anxmaly666]

*Hurricane Katrina wants to know your location*

[@yocelee6049]

I mean I kinda like that too but as long as there isn’t thunder or lightning.

[@chiknscratch]

this is the weather i love and when i lived in Borneo and Singapore id wait all year long for monsoon or storms

[@shama_llama]

I was in a rain storm once with my family and I didn't know it was a tornado until it hit my cousins neighbors house.... they are scary af

[@santosh18901]

Sameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@yeetus_mcfeetus7111]

“people are gonna die today, could possibly be me” this guy is a badass

[@sevyntee1024]

@@boreal8631 you just answered it lol

[@danteb925]

If you read the description, 3 of his friends actually did die here. Really fucking dangerous to be playing with a force of nature like this.

[@night_wool9975]

@@boreal8631 Ik your brain cells can put together why that's badass

[@LolLol-fu8zy]

@@boreal8631 bro

[@chrisg733]

@@boreal8631 I bet your fun to hang out with

[@OhYahDude]

Your compassion for all the creatures you encounter is truly heartwarming

[@WQQKIE]

I drove in that area exactly 5 years after this happened, you can still see the damages to some trees in the area. RIP for those who perished.

[@ReformedSooner24]

WQQKIE I drove the through about a month after. Dear god the destruction.

[@taruluver29303]

How many people passed away?

[@ReformedSooner24]

Baby Mewmew Dunno. I think it might have been like 20-30? I don’t really remember that part.

[@Bouyasdraco]

Not really

[@Jr-sw8wj]

Baby Mewmew 9. 4-5 were storm chasers. It mostly went through rural areas, thank Christ.

[@ryanmcgarry-winne5015]

As this is unfolding, Tim Samaras, his son and their friend, are experiencing their last moments, on this plane of existence. Haunting and surreal.

[@Leomoon101]

Especially when Hank said that people were gonna die that day, it made it even more surreal.

[@SHurd-rc2go]

And also very real.

[@beccaboard]

Those three have a good vantage point now to watch tornados. One was crushed in the vehicle and two flew out of the vehicle and found between a mile and almost two miles away, if memory serves.

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

Who is Tim Samaras?

[@biglwutang84]

That's heart wrenching to think about.

[@fluffypastelwolf6560]

The turtle was like "I gotta cross I gotta cross" *person grabs him* "HEY HEY HEY!!! IM TRYING TO CROSS LEAVE MEH ALONE"

[@coherant6939]

Why did the turtle cross the road ? To get a way from a tornado

[@EthanBWeather]

Haha. If unable to cross the road in time, maybe it can just fold up into its shell like the TIV.

[@jameskeeter6237]

No the turtle was more like this IM GONNA CROSS THE ROAD SO I DON'T DIE *Person grabs turtle* YOU SOME OF A BUTT LET ME GO I DON'T WANT TO DIE I WANT MY MOMMY! BOI IM GOING TO PINCH YOU!!

[@fluffypastelwolf6560]

James Keeter most likely XD

[@ivyrodriguez2239]

or maybe the turtle said "HEY, I'M WALKIN' HERE!"

[@devielake663]

Despite it being an EF5 tornado, it was classified as an EF3 due to the fact it didn't do much damage. A similar situation was with Typhoon Tip, the largest Hurricane/Typhoon/Cyclone.

[@davidhamilton6883]

I thought hurricanes were given categories based of they're wind speed,tornadoes are given an EF rating based on the damage it does. El Reno had wind speeds over 200 miles an hour however since it didnt have the opportunity to do much damage it was given an EF 3 rating,in my opinion it definitely should have been 5

[@monsterboi2911]

@@davidhamilton6883 100% wind speeds should also be a factor and the sizelet’s say the estimated winds were over 200 miles per hour and it caused ef3 damage at 1 mile wide it should be classified as an ef4 or 5 el Reno being the largest tornado ever recorded it should be an automatic ef5

[@kermit9866]

That's something I find annoying, it shouldn't be based off of damage but rather the speed, size, etc.

[@TeenWithACarrotIDK]

@@kermit9866 that’s the odd part of this tornado. It varied so much in its damage depending on the vortices’ locations and where you were in the tornado. In some parts of it, it was only f1 damage, while in other it probably could have broken records if it had gotten the chance. It was completely random in size, speed, direction, and power, and your life was determined by a flip of the coin.

[@blueberrywxx]

​@@kermit9866 no it shouldnt lol

[@xNightHawk32]

2 miles wide?!! That’s insane. That could literally wipe my city off the map easily

[@worldofdoom995]

Two and a half actually. The size of central park in Manhattan.

[@bobbob5007]

Two miles is wide but if you think about it if it goes 20 miles it wiped forty miles of property out

[@xNightHawk32]

Bob Bob I know, it’s crazy to think about

[@progenitor_amborella]

@@worldofdoom995 2.6*

[@janetsnakehole6225]

i just sat here for five minutes trying to comprehend how big that is. i’d say i have good spatial awareness but trying to see a tornado that big in my mind is like trying to understand how much a billion is

[@picoserg1363]

It has officially been 8 years since this disaster has occurred. May all the people who died from this tornado rest in peace.

[@v0lny886]

4 people

[@v0lny886]

Actually 8 my bad

[@jillstephens7764]

🙏🏻

[@okeydokey2337]

Thank God it didn't hit a populated area. That would have been very bad.

[@williamcote4208]

@@okeydokey2337 if it went for downtown El Rino… I’m pretty sure it would have gotten the EF5 it deserved… and wiped El Rino off the map… pretty much another Greenburg event

[@kobelivingston4886]

"People are going to die today" 😐 but still tracks the tornado. You're a wild son of gun

[@moved4028]

Kobe Livingston he’s a professional. he knows what he’s doing.

[@FacaltyRevolutionStudios]

@@moved4028 so were others, but that tornado was too wild. and still killed even the most seasoned pros.

[@Haybaleants]

well that's not very nice

[@astrowind2873]

Tornadoes like all storms are super unpredictable and if your a storm chaser one wrong turn and you’re in its path

[@jasonstarrising]

Kai’s Garden & Things What Dumbass

[@dillsthrills96]

4:46 breaks my heart ❤ 😢 Whoever she is I hope she and her family got out of this colossal storm safe.

[@gggamingcat3102]

let’s hope not

[@6vv6mugen]

@@gggamingcat3102 no one asked + no father.

[@yeah7478]

@@gggamingcat3102wtf is wrong with you

[@jackweems2708]

@@gggamingcat3102 bro got ratiod on youtube

[@whitesox2]

@@gggamingcat3102 bros done he ain't coming back, you've peaked.

[@IUseRandomPfps]

The scariest part about this storm was that it was headed directly toward a highway during rush hour traffic, and didn’t maintain itself and went a different direction. If it had passed over the highway, it could’ve been almost, if not, even more deadly as the Tri-State Tornado.

[@mddmont]

Very true. Especially considering the weather news anchors told everyone to "GO SOUTH" Which would have put them on a collision course with this monster. Unfortunately, and I hate to say this but, it could have been much, much worse.

[@idiotinabandanna8701]

Now imagine if this monster decided to go straight through oklahoma city

[@aprilsimmons5583]

Hi or hello or Konnichiwa

[@headshotfaze9371]

Wasn't el Reno the worst recorded tornado in history?

[@theminebloxcraft5779]

@@headshotfaze9371 it was the widest, but it was no where near the worst with only 9 kills I believe? The deadliest was the Tri state tornado, which killed over 600 people

[@bentack33]

As someone who’s never seen a tornado, away from a video of course, I cannot even imagine the scale of a two mile wide tornado

[@Ertto54]

I remember my big tornado experience. I don't remember much of it considering I was a little kid when it happened. But it was huge! The sky was black cars were lying everywhere destroyed. My older sister wouldn't stop screaming. My baby sister slept through the whole thing and we had our cat in the back of the car in a cat carrier for whatever reason. She wouldn't stop meowing. It was crazy I hope you never do see one.

[@helpmeget1ksubs.please284]

@@Ertto54 last 2 sentences made me laugh 😂

[@Ertto54]

@@helpmeget1ksubs.please284 yeah I couldn't think of a way to put it without it sounding funny XD

[@river9866]

@@Ertto54 cat was meowing probably trying to warn u guys. Animals can sense tornados and hurricanes and things like that

[@Ertto54]

@@river9866 interesting

[@nogunk147]

That bit with the womans dog displaying that struggle between remaining by her masters side and survival instinct was very compelling. Almost broke seeing the poor girl walk away and look back every time 😭

[@connorlee3943]

Can’t believe it’s been 6 years. R.I.P. to all the lost souls 💔 Edit: Thank you all for the likes. Much love to my fellow Okies from SW Oklahoma ❤️.

[@pytbissy]

Cookie_blaster 173 it’s really hasn’t tho we have like 2 more days til it’s been 6 years

[@notion2187]

I still remember getting in my shelter and seeing the circulation 😢 it was scary. I knew it was going to cause the death of some people and it destroyed a friend of mine’s house. Luckily they took shelter and we’re safe thank the lord for that.

[@basstion4146]

Stox z🙏

[@randomtuna5520]

How many people died in the El Rino tornado

[@deonharris1154]

Stfu you dmn werido

[@coolone3575]

I am so, so relieved I have never experienced a tornado. My heart goes out to everyone who has.

[@laurabu6459]

Ive only ever been in two. One, My moms car broke down a few feet away from our house and the tornado was behind us, and we were being pulled by it. Luckily, she got help from someone in their storm shelter and took us in. Another time was when i was a really little kid, we took shelter in a bathtub on the second floor because our neighbors below refused to let us in to take better shelter. I still remember the loud roar of the tornado as it picked up the houses across the street. But like a miracle, it jumped over our house and reaccumulated further away. Just a few apartments including ours were left without a scratch.

[@missywalker864]

Safe and sound in Sunny San Diego Ca.🌞🌊🏄🏼‍♀

[@epepepe7178]

too bad i literally live in a pot made of mountains so no tornado disasters for me

[@kylem1112]

@@missywalker864 ya'll got earthquakes though don't you?

[@rafter9765]

Its not fun let me tell you that I live in Alabama and yesterday (Wednesday) we had a severe storm with many tornadoes on the ground

[@crxssv2316]

"People are gunna die, it might be me." talking to panicked lady: "Everything's fineeee"

[@badlydrawnturtle8484]

Well, the first comment was made while he was trying to get out of the path, while the second was made after he'd managed to get around behind the storm.

[@xeniful.l.z.x1309]

:v

[@Willybean08]

That panicked lady was actually my aunt

[@meade918r]

what happened ?

[@hello-jv6mk]

@@Willybean08 is her husband alright

[@SirFloofy001]

Drove past a storm my first year of trucking. Got through it and out the other side just as the tornado warnings started being broadcast. I pulled over, it was beautiful the entire side of the storm was lit up. The sky was calm and deep red from the sunset and then just above this town in the distance sat the blackest cloud i have ever seen, the entire town was rain wrapped it looked like a black smudge had descended on the town. It was one of the most beautiful and awe inspiring moments in my life. Never saw the tornado but after seeing a light shower turn into this beast of a black storm and basically wipe every trace of the town from view (small tornado, didn't kill anyone or do much damage just had high winds and a LOT of rain.)

[@jannat4585]

2:17 this is where courage the dog and his family live

[@Abdulrahman-ez7zl]

God damn you’re right 😂😂😂

[@sciddles7473]

Maybe that’s why the show ended

[@jannat4585]

@@sciddles7473 omg yess 😂

[@TheAZT3150]

I was just going to say the same thing 😂 looks like it’d really be the same home.

[@XHandsomeJackX]

Too nice lol. These are normal around here. Basically farmers have their houses surrounded by their farmland

[@oliviacooper2810]

God bless this man helping animals and people 🙌🙌🙏🙏

[@PecosHank]

God bless you too Olivia :)

[@JS369JS]

God Bless You Too Pecos!?

[@xianos707]

Dan the Camper I already said that you're meant to bless me now >:/

[@JS369JS]

Bless You To Ash.

[@JS369JS]

I'm also blessing "Darude-Sandstorm"

[@fredg3712]

He seemed so calm when he said “I might die today”

[@awesometrainsandbuses]

He felt calm when the biggest tornado ever touched the ground

[@TheFirstGamingYT]

Fred G THIG LIFE

[@abigail5728]

He reminds me of an ISTP

[@xxkillerkane420xx8]

Gotta be calm, when you panic you make mistakes.. in a situation such as that you just gotta push through it and you can panic when you’re safe. Idk, it’s hard to explain the feeling of calmness in a situation such as that, you just kinda forget to panic I guess is the way to describe it.. you can feel the fear in your chest, but it’s like it hasn’t reached your mind yet

[@horohorosrin]

Calm when he helped that woman, too. It was entirely clear in her voice after he calmly told her everything was fine that his calm really helped her take it down a few levels from nearly hyperventilating to, still panicked, but a bit less so.

[@gunsgalore7571]

3:00 The bird getting sucked into the tornado while flying is just crazy.

[@Kahsjss]

Jeez just noticed that’s crazy

[@LoveHyoBaby]

:(

[@JoshuaMurphy-ip9mx]

Poor bird

[@gabecollins5585]

🪦

[@marcy9125]

That's so sad wtf 😭

[@eight10aaronn]

This tornado.. Once everybody realized how big it was, there was no longer chases.. Reed Timmer, Pecos Hank, Dave Demko & Heidi Farrar.. They weren’t chasing it, they were running from it, but Tim, Paul, And Carl. Didn’t make it out.

[@inksansespinoza8834]

Yup...was this in moree Oklahoma?

[@supercunthunt7756]

@@inksansespinoza8834 they died in el reno tornado

[@jmtardogno]

Many chasers, including those you listed, were well within the tornado wind field, which is typically larger than the visible condensation cloud. In the case of this tornado it was many times larger, and had multiple sub-vortices circling the main tornado. Many lessons were learned on that day. The El Reno tornado reminded chasers exactly why tornadoes are so dangerous. Violent tornadoes are extremely unpredictable, and unfortunately Tim, Paul, and Carl, through no fault of their own, were trapped with no way out. Tim was an extremely experienced chaser and would have never deliberately put himself of his team in harms way. Breaks my heart to this day.

[@ItsSpeltChayce]

jmtardogno same here. I remember when my mom told me. Was bawling. He was an idol of mine

[@bobbob5007]

Four cells fuck a thunder storm covers a few miles

[@williamdavidcraigjr7841]

That dog was like LET'S GET GOING HUMAN!!!

[@zoethelynx_625]

Hooman**

[@lili8686z]

wonder if she survived

[@OrangeOnesGaming]

Lmfao

[@basstion4146]

LeeLee8686 most definitely the tornado didn’t come back that way

[@lili8686z]

@@basstion4146 That's not necessarily true, some are unpredictable and can turn back in your direction

[@NotEnenra]

Tornadoes: **exist** Traffic: *Are you challenging me?*

[@okhwjiwboboyo1587]

1 wu11jj1jwj2 wj2nwn2jeb3bwj3n 1 wj2nwu2nej2 eu2nsu3nej3neje

[@NotEnenra]

@@okhwjiwboboyo1587 yes I see this as a reasonable opinion H

[@koarnbein5579]

Trafic: Nope, im done

[@spade3779]

okhwjiw Boboyo Very insightful, you truly are a man of great knowledge.

[@keroozz6770]

Two Letters lol

[@ImNotALivingHuman]

anyone here in 2024? edit: im not a fucking bot

[@ryanmalayil1891]

Mer

[@elexlopez8462]

Yes

[@mattburrows2615]

Si

[@dylanlefevers3635]

Yep. Joplin, Missouri resident here

[@Elliot180]

Yea

[@overwhelminglyaverage]

Hank is such a good guy. Helping the woman and various nature. The world needs more Hank's.

[@BESTMOAD]

I need more Popeyes chicken sandwiches

[@Melody-qz2gl]

@@BESTMOAD 🤣😭💀

[@FlamingSanity4923]

Tricky: "HAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNK" (Madness Combat)

[@mbesh6377]

@@BESTMOAD 😌😂

[@cheese7071]

@@BESTMOAD id like to join you

[@dadedaggs3431]

I remember being in school when this tornado was hitting, it was one of the scariest experiences of my life

[@jeremiahd2417]

I remember hearing about the 2011 outbreak the day I got out of school. Several EF5s and a multitude of EF4s including known ones like Tuscaloosa and Smithfield. it was unlike anything Ive ever heard or seen happen.

[@redacted8418]

Yikes, I can only imagine the fear that would bring me. Glad that you’re safe!

[@TITANxCONAN]

Omg

[@mkstudios3428]

God bless that u are alive

[@prostar_2668]

Aww, poor tiny you What grade were you in?

[@zomvii4729]

"That's an ugly,ugly tornado" Tornado: *Im gonna make you eat those words*

[@katylepetsos7512]

Mother Nature is a bitch

[@puretrash12]

Lol

[@kawaiistrawberry4761]

@@katylepetsos7512 no

[@HighVoltageHD_]

Tornado: suck it up, buttercup

[@miitopianlife6180]

As it sucks up the words

[@eggy7346]

You and Swegle Studios enable my Tornado obsession, so thanks for that. They're just the most fascinating and terrifying natural disasters and move in such an uncanny life-life manner

[@07jmclark]

Snapping turtle: “not that side you fool! To the other!”

[@bellapittman7987]

Lol

[@RW-td2hz]

lmao

[@dmh5800]

07jmclark Bih

[@alexanderdavis7103]

Fly you fools..!

[@wastelandoof3426]

when was there a snapping turtle?

[@norahgilbert1679]

Tornados are like my biggest fear, this is terrifying to me.

[@edgarcantu4097]

Norah Gilbert In 2nd and 3rd grade, I was obsessed with natural disasters, especially tornadoes and hurricanes. I would get scared when it got dark outside.

[@isabellaperez9054]

Norah Gilbert my biggest fer is huncan

[@bellamak9565]

Norah Gilbert same

[@nicksvlogs6100]

Isabella Perez man I lived thew the cat 4 hurricane Matthew and a cat 4 there are scary but you have a better chance to survive a hurricane because of the warning tornados you have 0 warning

[@meobeo173]

ofcourse natural disasters are our primal fear because its our instinct, this is terrifying x10 than watching horror movies

[@beanzeus8379]

RIP Tim Samaras, Paul Samaras, and Carl Young 🙏🙏🙏

[@theghostlt7238]

They died?

[@MetroidEnjoyer4714]

Yeah, from what I heard they were killed by one of the tornado's sub vortices.

[@elbbepp]

@@just_another_editor2956 that is the highfive emoji

[@manlikeilyas]

@@elbbepp that's the pray emoji

[@natruelretardsguccigang5695]

THE ghostLT yes they died by their car being picked up by swirly sally and vertically slammed there rear end of there car into the ground smushing it crushing them

[@soffwhere]

I Never understood Storm chasing until pecos Hank popped up on my feed. It’s more than an adrenaline high, it’s a chase for the feeling of total awe in the face of nature. It’s balancing on the tightrope between life threatening danger and child like wonder

[@charlie-bc9fb]

Many storm chaser are also first responders or researchers

[@justawitness4963]

I'm fascinated by severe weather, & I love to watch it...but I absolutely HATE when people get hurt because of it.

[@Ayveh]

Me too!!

[@shizzle4344]

Justa Witness same

[@eliad6543]

Exactly.

[@snowleopard2295]

Justa Witness samee i love seeing weather like this, but when ppl get hurt or killed then shit isn't funny no more xd

[@eliad6543]

I don't even live in North America and we get zero supercells here. Any precipitation stops by late April. So I can only do so much :B That's part of the reason severe weather is so special to me, it isn't a very common thing here.

[@krameleon7345]

The real question is what happened to the snapping turtle?

[@thelenny2772]

McKreamer he became renekton

[@kingwithk9156]

McKreamer he found a ninja mouse and 3 other turtles and grew uo to be a storm chaser

[@jason66801]

lol thats funny

[@lydiacheek9053]

McKreamer yes!

[@hyprqwyk490]

...the turtle is fine ..as it maintained a constant speed of 3.75 mph across he field and actually got to ok city b4 the storm.......

[@Megadextrious]

I swear to god, when this happened I was sleeping before going to work at my night shift job, and I was dreaming I was In Oklahoma watching a tornado and then I said “wait this is really happening”. I woke up and turned on the news and I’ll be damned. It’s still one of the craziest coincidences that’s ever happened to me.

[@Yumemi_Riamu]

idk what it is, but your pfp activates my fight or flight response.

[@missywalker864]

WOW!!!😲😲😲

[@littlemissemila1818]

God damn that’s scary

[@Ordoabchao-x9k]

I had something similar but when the pope died

[@littlemissemila1818]

@@juanquan2667 rude much

[@solomonm1227]

Can’t believe this video is already 10 years old! Time flies😢

[@Kahn45]

At 3:10 he knows its time to go. That what makes Pecos Hanks videos so great. No screaming or dramatics. He films 90% of the time from the safest distance possible for the best footage.

[@Randy-gy6uw]

Playing with snakes and chasing tornados you live dangerously

[@Cecilia-wg4xf]

@Ron Happold who's dead?

[@redwingsfan3621]

Bull snakes are cool.

[@simondesanta5774]

Ron Happold he is?

[@redwingsfan3621]

Caturn en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Samaras

[@sergystraystar9135]

Redwingsfan I don’t think that’s the same guy. Guy you linked was apart of the famous storm chaser teams.

[@Shrewdscissors]

Being in a supercell is one of the most biblical things you can ever experience, day turns to night, all color dissapears, and the rain feels like being hit by rocks

[@retard3448]

Seeing a supercell in person gives you a different perspective on the power of nature. It's like staring at a nuclear bomb.

[@VlogStix]

Ikr

[@Stevepoku]

I play Clash Royale

[@fatguy6153]

Retard In Oklahoma seeing a supercell is almost an everyday occurrence in spring and summer, good thing tornadoes only pop out around May.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

@Christopher Bateman Well for the last few years we haven't had too many threatening ones until this years storm season which was a pretty good indicator of the RETURN of violent storm cells.

[@drelezar7745]

A “Multiple Vortex Tornado” is characterized by violent rotating columns of air (subvortecies) revolving around, inside of, or even as *part* of a “main” vortex (aka the tornado itself). These subvortecies can be thought of as mini tornadoes rotating around the main tornado and can even be more intense than the tornado itself. They are wild and unpredictable- not to mention more difficult to spot than the main vortex (or “main” tornado). The El Reno Tornado is an extreme example of a multiple vortex tornado Many of the storm chaser deaths (including the severe injuries inflicted on Mike Bettes and his crew when their car was thrown 200 yards) were caused when their vehicles were suddenly struck by these subvortecies

[@emilyaneily9858]

7 years later and I’m watching this at 3:23 AM during quarantine

[@gauravnath8926]

wow thats a really long time i must say ...

[@gauravnath8926]

@@JulieC.870 4:00 ?? didn't get you

[@Junior-xi9yb]

4:07 for me

[@wholegrainbread3904]

Mood

[@Edward-ho2bm]

thats me

[@dazzle-o1086]

Imagine how horrifying it was for Tim Samaras and his crew, to be thrown around and killed by the largest tornado ever. It's a very fearful way to go.

[@ClotildaBeatissima]

I have to think they'd appreciate that the one that took them out was the largest ever.

[@locki_dos]

I'm suprised the video hasn't leaked. Let's hope it stays that way.

[@dazzle-o1086]

@@locki_dos Yes. I can't believe some people would actually want to see that.

[@kainhall]

@@dazzle-o1086 i kinda do.... not to see (or even hear them die)..... but to see HOW it happened what did they see.... what did they do..... how did they make decisions its like hearing the cockpit voice and data recorder (block box) from an airline crash..... however, one guy got to study the video already.... and made a report so.... ya, it can stay "in the vault"

[@LuisGomez-vi7jn]

@@dazzle-o1086 it's not wrong to want to see shit like that, the majority aren't looking at it for humor. I'm sure that Tim himself would want it to get out, it's more information. Tragic as hell forsure

[@quentk8886]

Your voice is calming to listen to, even though you talk about very intense things

[@chillosnapper]

Hi Craig

[@tamaracolbert1435]

Yep.cool cat he is.dad always said still water runs deep

[@tonypasma1707]

hmm

[@wingsoffirenightwing4914]

it's a priority to stay calm as a storm chaser

[@corywiedenbeck1562]

Do you need a dad?

[@TD-bu9wv]

I came here to see storm chasing but the way you saved the animals was a pleasant bonus. Thank you for being such a kind human. You're bravery with this enormous tornado is amazing

[@SnackOps69]

man was straight going on side quest during all this

[@jakirmalik9399]

Lmao..🤣🤣🤣

[@kozmokramer7398]

Hahaaha

[@Hollarite]

Tell me about the side quest

[@sideways_chip_eater6420]

I mean...you got a point

[@redrage369]

When you have to complete the side quest because the humble lady will give you the strongest weapon in the game for some reason so you can defeat the god tornado boss

[@jackmeeks2294]

Everyone: Driving around like maniacs, looking for shelter in fear of their lives! Hank: "God thats ugly... I gotta stop and take some pictures."

[@PInk77W1]

Hank God

[@mikuyour_friend1298]

Right he is like: well this is gonna get ugly really fast I should take some pictures of this horror twisters

[@helpmeget1ksubs.please284]

@@PInk77W1 no. Allah is god

[@vendial3]

@@helpmeget1ksubs.please284 and here is a start of a religious conversation, just waiting for someone to respond

[@shayaropinthechat5513]

@@helpmeget1ksubs.please284 idiot Allah in Arabic means god don't u havee info about your religion

[@jeffpatton6358]

Like how he stops to help animals !! Nice guy

[@jbreezy101]

Agreed and the snake and turtle knew before us humans

[@benjaminmarkabsmeier5488]

Wow

[@RealComixx]

Dude 10 years ago and the quality of this video still shows it’s timeless. You are far too underrated, should be a crime

[@wilhemtehlynx]

This guy witnessed the biggest tornado ever recorded on earth holy crap

[@NOVARailandWeatherEnthusiast]

Wilhem Young I witnessed it too! (On tv that is!) Lol

[@NOVARailandWeatherEnthusiast]

Christopher Bateman wow

[@cambrycook2927]

Oh is this the one at Moore?

[@Joyeuse_]

Jackson Satisfaction no, this is the one at El Reno. Moore was on May 20, 2013z

[@cambrycook2927]

Harrows Dawn oh ok! Makes more sense!

[@JCoffTopic]

This dudes nuts are made of the strongest carbon steel forged by vikings

[@ninetailslover948]

I’m a girl. WEE OFFCCcsnwnjene

[@carlg4544]

JCoffTopic more like Damascus Steel forged byChuck Norris

[@woomy1907]

XD

[@HeadsetHatGuy]

@Hello There ok boomer

[@ararrraraarrar]

HAHAHA THIS JUST MADE MY DAY

[@nomadman123]

Pretty freaky to have that thing rotating right over top of your house!

[@unreal513]

Unworldly

[@salsaghoul688]

that must've been a near jeopardizing experience. I agree with you though.

[@baddragonite]

It's one of the most foreboding experiences you can have honestly.

[@-amoureuse-9489]

it was stormy out we were driving to my grandpas and the clouds staring swirling, i thought the clouds were just being cool, but later on i found out that meant there could've been a whole tornado. thinking about it now is scary..

[@kawaiistrawberry4761]

No its spawning in large places

[@inbetweenmeetings]

I came here from another El Reno video where a commenter left a statement about the most terrifying footage she’s seen was shot by Pecos Hank and it did not disappoint. Absolutely terrifying

[@MisplacedTexan]

I tried to help a panicked snapping turtle once. IT PEED ON ME. *RUDE*

[@chewedupgum7024]

how did you pick it up

[@MisplacedTexan]

mayo EEE - By the rear of its shell. It was in the middle of the road, and I was afraid it would get run over. I was new to the area. I’d never seen a snapping turtle before in my life, just box turtles and such. So, I go to “rescue” it, and it whips its head around and tries to bite my face off while it simultaneously pees on me. I learned very quickly about snapping turtles. Now I drive around them, tell them that I wish the odds will be ever in their favor, but I don’t try to rescue them. They’re on their own.

[@entitledkidyourtoysaremine930]

J McIntosh it was scared

[@MisplacedTexan]

ENTITLED KID YOUR TOYS ARE MINE NOW - Oh, I know! I was just pretty surprised. I don’t actually blame him!

[@c28baby]

Ditto!

[@MoneyTrees2012]

He mentions 4 storm chasers that lost their lives in this and there's a video of 3 of them actually dying. They were right behind the guy recording and then they were gone. So haunting

[@Tempest_Tracker]

There is no footage of their POV in the tornado 😐 you can see them driving into rain curtains but there is nothing

[@asolomon7402]

Got a timestamp? Very haunting

[@CinderXiaoLong]

@@Tempest_Tracker They got footage, but it's never going to be released

[@CinderXiaoLong]

@@odyssey1282 I don't know. Probably because it was their last moments

[@erko78]

Any links to that?

[@Nvcturnal]

I wonder how many birds that get sucked into tornadoes actually break the flight speed record but don't get credit LOL Peregrine Falcon: 240 mph record 3:02 random bird: hold my nest, im about to end this man's whole caree- FDKLGNDFKJLGN

[@boiihiu7111]

oh my god 😂 i feel so bad that i laughed

[@aeroplaneoversea]

XD

[@ozzyb1995]

NRRRROOOMMMMMMM (I’m a horrible person for making that joke)

[@mmmmmmok5292]

Dude, birds are smarter, I think they fly minutes before the tornado (no hate)

[@negativeonexiii]

@Alexis Gonzalez She has a peg leg, carries two of her three teeth in her pocket, and wears a leather wig with a suede bald spot

[@ego_lore]

i love how he always treats the little ones all cute and excited but then these big ones are like the devil and it's very entertaining and quite fitting

[@hansmueller3029]

April 3rd, 1974 I was a little kid, frozen in awe and fear as my eyes tracked a deadly tornado from our kitchen door. My older brother carried me to the basement. Half a minute later the lights went out and the sound of a jet powered train made our collective screams impossible to hear. I couldn't hear the back of our house being pulled out into the yard, or the sounds of our neighbors houses imploding. We remained huddled together until we saw a color in the sky that wasn't black or dark green and emerged into a warzone. Really scary

[@djamo1969]

Xenia, OH?

[@MostlyVintageVoices]

That was the Super Outbreak...an exceedingly rare, extreme and violent generational tornado outbreak. I can't even imagine.

[@canadianphotography6972]

For REAL?!

[@dingle37]

Where?

[@tired247]

this was written like a book, in a good way

[@smokinjopoliticallyincorre1313]

I've only seen one tornado in my life and I am man enough to say I almost shat meself

[@chloegood5275]

Lmao

[@Muz1ccc]

R/ihadastrock

[@subpar4790]

Same an ef3 tornado was headed straight for my house but luckily it died out about half a mile away

[@MrKrypt]

@@Muz1ccc i think you re the one that had a stroke

[@Muz1ccc]

Mr Krypt 83 years ago strok bo

[@stephm411]

"People are going to die today, might be me." Very prophetic. Well thank goodness it wasn't you, but the other 4 (?) chasers weren't so lucky. R.I.P.

[@the_mooch6131]

Tripleblade 82 The twistex team was in a light chevy cobalt and they got too close to the tornado and it easily picked them up and launched the car away killing them

[@thomas1093]

He's just being a realist ..

[@ReformedSooner24]

They died making a mistake, but they died trying to keep others informed and therefore, safe.

[@Darkmattersfrank]

he did die during the El Reno tornado

[@twweety9]

Manuel Perez who?

[@doc_1116]

We all going to simply ignore, that Hank played with a freaking snake...

[@notoriousblt1038]

Probably safer than the tornado lol

[@ishitamathur1614]

He plays with them all the time! Once he brought one back to his car too.

[@Swizzenator]

I play with a snake every mornin. Uh . .wait . . . that sounds gay.

[@chimken1456]

They are cute and nice so,

[@ringofasho7721]

It's a bull snake. They arent venomous, anf the worst they can do is draw a little blood. They look like rattlesnakes to scare predators

[@Anna-sj4ut]

I respect you stopping to help animals and people in such a scary situation!

[@torimig2151]

I'm trying nervous just looking at it

[@Ryne918]

@Kilo Mintoni Storm chasing is 80% driving, 19% waiting on the side of unpaved rural roads watching radar, and 1% filming tornados. Snake or not, stretching your legs in knee-high grass, in the middle of nowhere, is an appreciable part of the experience and that clip captured it well.

[@djamo1969]

@@Ryne918 Plus, Pecos Hank knows a lot about snakes, so it’s cool seeing him interact with them. Didn’t seem like he was showboating, either.

[@phillip9798]

mmm the snapping turtle could have been handled much better. never pick up a creature by the tail. might mess up its spine and kill it. the thought was there, tho.

[@GtheCatLady]

I love how he’s got the complete “you’re an idiot” thing going on when he’s talking about the line of cars. “We are going 3 miles per hour. Escaping the tornado. It’s moving at 35 miles per hour. We’re going at 3 and a half miles per hour. Escaping the tornado.”

[@badlydrawnturtle8484]

Panic nearly killed a whole lot of people that day. Jeff Masters on the Weather Channel later observed that if the tornado had turned just a little and gone over one of the highways, the death toll could have been in the hundreds. Panic + cars = parking lot, and that's not good.

[@mikerzisu9508]

Well he isn't wrong... just take shelter immediately like every school on the planet teaches you to do... but no, let's get in our car and try to outrun it. The worst decision you can make

[@bethm5791]

Even in tornadoes people don’t get it.

[@ghalibsohail9781]

It has been 10 years since the El Reno tornado touched down and destroyed the rural areas. However, many people yet have little knowledge about the tornado so I've written the whole context below. Context: During the early evening of Friday, May 31, 2013, a very large and powerful tornado occurred over rural areas of Central Oklahoma, near a city called El Reno (Hence the tornado named after the city). This rain-wrapped, multiple-vortex tornado was the widest tornado ever recorded and was part of a larger weather system that produced dozens of tornadoes over the preceding days. It was at least 2.6 miles wide (4.2 km), much bigger than St. Louis, Tupeol, and the Tri-State (IN/MO/IL). A few storm chasers were in the tornado's path and got stuck in it. Most of them made it alive but were injured, however with Samaras and his son, they were barely driving away from the tornado. Despite the tornado being an EF3, there was one of the 4 sub-vortexes that caught the car and killed Tim Samaras, his son, and another person. There was a total of 9 deaths but hundreds were injured.

[@Mays_McMuffin]

Man I always tear up when peoples animals are there for comfort and aid, in the most messed up of times

[@notagenin6843]

What happen to you hagrid

[@wannabe4668]

I know what you mean. Screw people, who cares how they feel

[@sevyntee1024]

@@wannabe4668 ...

[@vapour2090]

@@wannabe4668 yea. Only the dog matters

[@PenleyIsLost]

@Wannabe ummm aren’t you a human????

[@IratePuffin]

Anyone else here during quarantine? That tornado was so big it didn’t even look like a tornado.

[@josephlee8997]

Irate Puffin Im so tiered of quarentine i kinda wish that it would hit P.A

[@randomqjhejddv]

Yeah its like a cyclone

[@Harley08]

Yes.

[@blacknight803]

Dang coronavirus

[@SlasherHorrorMovies1]

I remember this day

[@taetannim3581]

Omg, when you stopped to help that woman who was scared out of her mind! Thank you for your humanity! God bless!

[@isosoupy]

i love how he treats animals, he’s not shy but he’s gentle

[@vimal174]

Okay then marry him

[@islamisthetruth5582]

@@vimal174 What’s your problem pal?

[@vimal174]

@@islamisthetruth5582 what's your problem dude?

[@islamisthetruth5582]

@@vimal174 You being a jerk.

[@sleutelpunt3940]

@@islamisthetruth5582 stop it jerks

[@TheDiamondFish]

Pecos Hank: *calls the tornado ugly* Tornado: *grows to EF5*

[@kenyettaready]

So in other words the tornado was insulted

[@amandaruzzano3929]

The Tornado apparently heard him?!

[@sheesjamalansari2300]

It was an EF3 though

[@kirbyslayer20]

@@sheesjamalansari2300 it was downgraded to an ef3 since it didn't cause much damage. If it went over El Reno u bet ur ass it would stay an ef5

[@masoneldridge7235]

@Scrap Baby Pesos Hank: Calls it ugly again Tornado: grows to EF1000

[@ScaredyGinge]

I'm just imagining being in that house around 2:30, watching all of this go down. It's so beautiful, yet so frightening. Rest in peace, Tim, Paul, and Carl.

[@someguy5035]

I was wondering what was going to come of that scene. You have to be pretty resilient to love in that area considering the sky does that fairly often.

[@d3ezz]

That was my house

[@someguy5035]

@@d3ezz no, it was mine.

[@d3ezz]

No it was mine

[@someguy5035]

@@d3ezz It was mine. You can't have it.