SCARED BRITISH GUY Reacts to "How ENORMOUS can Tornados really get?"

[@MoreAdamCouser]

Live now DRESSED AS BOB ROSS, would LOVE to meet a few of you! www.twitch.tv/adamcouser

[@JoeSchwartz-yx3jg]

Is that the back half of a truck??? No I believe its a train car

[@amandataylor1166]

Please check out my comment regarding the documentary that National Geographic just did on the El Reno tornado 🌪️ if you are interested in tornadoes than what better tornado to react to than the largest & strongest tornado to ever hit planet earth 🌎 You will be left speechless when you hear about the things that tornado destroyed. The behavior of the tornado was so different than 99.99% of the rest of tornadoes that it took the lives of storm chasers who had been chasing tornadoes for decades, basically all of their lives… if anyone knew tornadoes, it was them but that tornado was different. Weather is getting scary. Being that it was in 2013, there’s tons & tons of footage available but the National Geographic documentary is what you want to do a reaction to. I truly hope you do a reaction, I believe I left a comment on another video asking you to react to that specific tornado. I look forward to it. 💯🌪️ Also I wanted you to react to a short documentary on Hurricane Ian, which I actually lived through somehow. Scariest experience of my life. Hurricanes are basically enormous tornadoes, only they include water… Hurricane Ian produced a storm surge of 15 feet I believe not including rainfall & the terrifying waves from the wind. We broke through our roof because we thought we were gonna have to get up there. We were right in Fort Meyers, Florida & we got the worst of the entire hurricane. That experience truly traumatized my family & myself. That was just in 2022 & this hurricane season just started & has already broken many long held records. Weather is changing & getting terrifying.🌀🇺🇸

[@matthewschipper2023]

Yes it has to do with the time of year im from Oklahoma and we typically see tornados march threw August with the bulk of our tornados happen during the month's of April and may normally for Oklahoma we get around 85 tornados this year we have had 86 of them just in one day during a outbreak with the biggest was ef4 and most of the tornados hit at night hear

[@theshaydedlotus3128]

btw, If you liked this video about the scale of tornadoes, Mr. Couser, I recommend checking out RojoFern's video on them. It's funny and pretty well put together, and definitely 1-ups most other tornado scale videos.

[@garrisonrogers1663]

You should look up the Quad state tornado of 2021 . Its path was 120+ miles that started in Arkansas and went through Missouri, Tennessee, then grew to a 1.5 mile wide EF4 wedge in my home state of Kentucky on DECEMBER 10th-11th. The tornado happened in the middle of the night and hit the town of Mayfield Ky. With 194+ MPH winds. Completely wiped the town off the map and many lost their lives while at work in a candle factory. You can still see the devastation on google earth.

[@danbaker300]

Comedian Ron White once had a bit about storms where he said "it's not *that* the wind is blowing; it's *what* the wind is blowing". He's not wrong. A couple decades ago we had a line of storms come through with 100 mph wind gusts. Most places had only minor damage, except for a small area of town that was directly downwind of an old barn. The barn got shredded, and the pieces of it shredded everything in their path.

[@cln333]

I just came here to mention Ron White. I mean, the guy's hilarious partially because of his accuracy in describing situations. I think I only saw that bit in "They Call Me Tater Salad", but I'm sure he did it time and time again. Growing up dealing with tornadoes, I didn't really think much of it. Now I'm in Arizona and have nightmares about them from time to time. I don't know if I just have a better understanding of them now, or it was just self-preservation, to avoid becoming hysterical during tornadoes when dealing with them years ago. Either way... they sure scare me now.

[@ArleneAdkinsZell]

If you get hit by a Volvo...

[@cln333]

@@ArleneAdkinsZell ... It doesn't really matter how many sit-ups you did that morning. 😅

[@MephiticMiasma]

my favorite is Floridians referring to coconuts as "Nature's cannonballs"

[@kristinwojtowich8902]

One of my all time fave Ron White bits 😂 That and the one about him being drunk in public 😆😆

[@onepiece430]

I don’t think you realize how insane the El Reno 2013 tornado was. It literally broke every rule in the book. Changed direction Increased speed Increased size And caught every storm chaser off guard

[@VIKINGKING95]

2024 enters the Chat. We have had multiple Tornado's do this this year and Violent ones at that.

[@oldrusty20]

@@VIKINGKING95 This year did not break the record for the largest tornado ever recorded

[@oldrusty20]

Changed direction - Many tornadoes do that Increased speed - It changed its speed the entire time changing between fast and slow

[@DeusSalis]

​2024 may break the record for most climate change propaganda ​@@oldrusty20

[@sweetrocks610]

That’s why 5-20-13 is known in storm chasing as “The Day The Rules Changed”

[@willcool713]

After almost every hurricane, and sometimes after tornado strikes, the news will do a color piece near a fast food restaurant that was hit. To demonstrate wind force they'll show plastic drink straws swept away and embedded in a building or tree or fence, peppering it with straws that stick into wood as much as six inches deep. Even grass stems can be deadly in high winds.

[@susanhunter9196]

You should check out some videos from the El Reno tornado in 2013. It, sadly, took the lives of 4 stormchasers. Many stormchasers were in trouble that day. National Geographic did a great doc on it. Someone uploaded it to KZbin a few weeks ago. That tornado was insane!

[@amandataylor1166]

I believe I previously left a comment on one of his videos asking him to check out a short documentary on the El Reno tornado. That tornado did unimaginable damage to things you would never expect a tornado to damage to the extent that that one did. Weather is getting scarier. Storm chasers with decades of experience lost their life because the behavior of that tornado was so different than 99.9% of the rest of tornadoes. RiP to everyone who did lose their life to that tornado🙏🏽 Please react to the National Geographic documentary done on the tornado. I really hope that you do. If you’re interested in tornadoes than there’s no better tornado to react to than the biggest, strongest tornado to ever hit planet earth. I look forward to seeing that reaction video. 🌪️💯

[@VIKINGKING95]

​@@amandataylor1166While the Elreno Tornado was bad it was only rated a EF3. Also I don't think people know what unimaginable damage looks like anymore. We haven't seen a EF5 Tornado since 2013 and there's only been a few tornado's that probably should have gotten the rating however subpar building construction Is the reason they didn't its also the same reason the 2013 Elreno Tornado only got rate a EF3.

[@clumsydolphin]

@@VIKINGKING95 El Reno actually is registered as EF5 not EF3, it was a scary beast!

[@Dremag_Gaming]

@@clumsydolphin Theyre are right. Due to it moving more southwards and doing less damge, The 2013 tornado is a rank EF3.

[@Dremag_Gaming]

@@VIKINGKING95 It also got its rating since it didn't go its "planned" path of heading toward the town itself. (I know as I was there)

[@spaceshiplewis]

This is why we get frustrated when Germans ask why don't we just build houses (in the hot humid south no less) out of concrete (or brick from the Brits). It would cost 10x as much and our houses would still need to be repaired but at 10x the price of just rebuilding a wood house.

[@janfitzgerald3615]

Plus I’ve seen tornado damage, Jarrell, TX for instance where the concrete blocks used in foundations totally disappeared. Or one of the schools that was damaged in the Joplin, MO tornado.

[@carissadallke1345]

​@janfitzgerald3615 or the 4 story hospital they had to tear down from Joplin as well. I think it was reinforced concrete too.

[@janfitzgerald3615]

@@carissadallke1345 I remember seeing that on the Weather Channel video.

[@OctoDADDY.]

Just build houses underground

[@theghostofthomasjenkins9643]

"german engineering" doesn't mean good. it means overly complex and expensive, but only half as good as it should be.

[@tinanichols203]

I grew up in Texarkana in northeast Texas When I was 8 years old, a tornado destroyed the house across the street from our house, bounced over our house, and took out the house behind ours. No one was hurt because it was Sunday morning, and we were all in church. When I was 18, I was at my high school graduation party in the basement of a friend's house when a tornado wiped out 16 houses in a row a block from where we were. That's what it's like to live along tornado alley.

[@fridgeanon]

move out

[@clumsydolphin]

Yeah, they just become a part of your life when you live in tornado alley. The tornado I napped through, yes really, did that jumping thing. Took out the houses in front of us, skipped our apartment building and took the entire roof off of Burger King right behind us. You just never know, they are only predictable to a certain degree.

[@stephanginther9051]

The town where my grandmother lives just got a small tornado. Something kind of funny happened, a guy lost his garage, which is unfortunate of course, but the *brand new truck **_in_** the garage* was somehow completely fine.

[@pointlessmanatee]

the truck probably had some really heavy brass balls

[@abiean222]

there was a tornado a few months ago and after it hit this town the news was showing the damage and one house was fine but all the bricks were just taken off, the house next to it was obliterated, and the house next to that one was completely gone with no debris but the wooden poach was not only still standing but was undamaged. tornados are wild. they are literal chaos and randomness.

[@margaretbush]

I mean.. wood is slightly more lighter than metal, gasoline, water, glass etc etc.

[@IrishBrotato]

Something else that's cool about tornados is sometimes before and during a tornado the sky can turn a ghostly eerie green color

[@janfitzgerald3615]

That’s the hail core, the way the light reflects of the ice particles makes the sky appear green, definitely a weird appearance.

[@IrishBrotato]

@@janfitzgerald3615 never knew the science behind it but saw it a few times growing up

[@janfitzgerald3615]

@@IrishBrotato I’ve also seen it, probably the most memorable time was being outdoors in mid-March in Michigan when we had an unusual couple of days when the temperature suddenly shot up into the seventies. A super cell developed in late afternoon and it spawned an EF4 tornado. The sky was incredibly green not long before the funnel touched ground.

[@ConstantChaos1]

The slickly green of a 2 week old bruise

[@janfitzgerald3615]

@@ConstantChaos1 a very accurate description!

[@purpleoryx1774]

Originally from Oklahoma, survived Moore 1999 and did clean-up after 2013. Have personally experienced many smaller, non-famous tornadoes. Was just in Barnsdall actually and saw the aftermath of their EF4 and helped coordinate evacuation of horses after the racetrack in Claremore was hit. It's a weird dynamic, we joke about tornadoes and we do the stupid beer/lawn chair thing to watch them, but also when people and animals actually get hurt we step up, and the bad ones go down in history as local legends. I guess it's like living near tigers or something. You accept it as nature but still do your best to help people.

[@nathanmcarthur]

I remember seeing an aftermath picture of a tornado that showed a piece of straw that had been ‘missiled’ into the wooden siding of a house. A tornado will pick up just about anything - even soft and unassuming innocent items - and turn them into a lethal projectiles. While I’ve been close to a few tornados throughout my life, luckily they’ve never struck my community… when I was there.

[@sargentrowell81]

There's a comedian that had a small bit in one of his specials from a few decades ago now. He commented on a guy that said he would be staying in Florida during a hurricane to prove that he could withstand the winds inside it. Like this video said, of course humans are capable of withstanding those winds to a point, but it's more WHAT the wind is blowing than THAT the wind is blowing.

[@ArleneAdkinsZell]

Ron White is the comedian, the man is hilarious.

[@revgurley]

3:52 Now you get why when we hear a siren or get notified by phone/tv/radio, we go to the lowest level of the house, away from windows (so a hallway with the doors shut, or a recreation room in the basement.) We bring pillows, blankets, bike helmets, and the critters. I'm honestly more concerned about the 100 year old huge trees in the neighborhood. We're rather proud of all the trees, but any wind makes me anxious that one - maybe a tree in a backyard that I've never noticed - falls. Most are 70+ft (21meters) tall, so could easily smash any number of houses. But yes, if the trees stay upright, it's the debris that causes many issues. Luckily, in 50 years of life, I've only been "near" a tornado 4 times. And I'm in Dixie Alley.

[@crazyirish8358]

Funny fact. I still have a 90ft tall evergreen that is growing at a 45° angle from being blown over about 8 years ago in an F0. When we took the top branches off, while it was on the ground, the bloody thing popped back up to where it is now. It's just too difficult to get to and cut it down so we just left it. It is still growing! Nature is lit.

[@tinahairston6383]

You're wondering about tornado possibilities in November down south. That's because hurricane season is from June to November. A bad enough hurricane windspeed can easily trigger a tornado in the same region. Granted tornadoes can pop up at any time given the right conditions.

[@se777en73120]

6:38. That really dark red spot is right around Oklahoma City. Where I live.

[@tammiemcclure8987]

I'm in Arkansas and we've had tornado outbreaks on Christmas before, more than once in my memory. Our weather here in the spring and fall can be really weird. One day it might be what you'd expect for the season and the next it's radically different. As a child I recall going to school in a light hoodie and freezing my butt off when they let us out early at 2pm because sleet and ice was starting to fall. It had gone from upper 60s to upper 20s in just a few hours. Extremes like that so fast can sometimes spawn tornadoes.

[@SkipAllen]

Hey Adam, I live in Dixie Alley. The last visual in your video ended in Jackson, MS, where I grew up. Every month around the first, the sirens go off to test them. I have only seen one tornado, which was in the pasture across from my house. It was small and not very damaging. When one is in the area, it sounds like a train coming at you.

[@MiraChan]

The El Reno tornado of 2013 is absolutely mind-boggling. 2.6 miles is wider than the town I live in. 2.6 miles is roughly 46 American football fields. The fact that it stayed over mostly countryside and "only" killed 8 people is some kind of miracle. The Fujita Scale (and the newer Enhanced Fujita Scale) mainly take damage to structures into account instead of wind speeds alone. If it went purely by wind speed, it would have been an EF5. But it only damaged a few structures at EF3 strength. I hope its records are never broken.

[@Dremag_Gaming]

Agree. I seen the path some were guessing it would've taken (straight into town) and Im glad it also missed it

[@Casual_Silver]

The strongest record was held in 1999 on may 3rd, by the 1999 bridge creek Moore F5 that had winds beating the el-Reno tornado by 19mph! 321mph winds for br - moore

[@a.k.a.Kaitlyn]

This year, we broke the record for the highest wind speeds ever on earth in Greenfield, IA. It was an EF5 tornado that reached wind speeds of 309-318 miles per hour! There's probably a video about it somewhere

[@SaltyPug]

Reed Timmer I think covered it on his channel

[@janfitzgerald3615]

@@SaltyPugyes he did.

[@janfitzgerald3615]

Because of the amount of damage it was rated an EF4 instead of an EF5. Scanning 100-160 feet above the ground, radar measured wind speeds of 263-271 mph in the tornado. Those measurements were then used to calculate ground-level winds of 309-318 mph. Mobile radars have only found 300+ mph winds in two other tornadoes. In 1999, a Doppler On Wheels estimated 321 mph winds in the Bridge Creek-Moore, Oklahoma, F5 tornado. In 2013, another radar truck calculated 313 mph winds near the El Reno, Oklahoma, EF3.

[@crazyirish8358]

And this is why the rating system sucks. It was in the top three highest wind speeds but gets an EF4 because it didn't chew through a large town. Saying we haven't had an EF5 since 2013 because not enough damage was done, despite the tornado being one of the most powerful on record is like saying I don't have covid because I didn't test for it despite being sick as hell. Just stupid.

[@janfitzgerald3615]

@@crazyirish8358 I’ve always thought that was a weird way to rate a tornado, by the amount of destruction rather than wind speed, width, distance and speed it travels make more sense.

[@darrinlindsey]

When you saw that dark spot show up on that map, just North of Texas, that was the exact spot that huge tornado, that he talked about, hit.

[@angelafisher5726]

The El Rino tornado actually was only an EF3. Because tornadoes are scored based on damage and it hit a rather urban area. But there is a tribute to that disaster in the new twisters movie. Also I can't remember if it was el rino or Moore that took the lives of the discovery channels storm chasers.

[@crustymustydustybeardieheardie]

It was. It killed tim samaras (think that’s how you spell it) and it killed all of twistex

[@tenjed4224]

The El Reno tornado was known to become a big one, days before. Therefore many chasers were in the area getting footage and taking wind speed measurements. The thing is: tornadoes can be unpredictable in their travels. And that is what happened to this ef3. It tore apart many vehicles, including ones with tornado chasers in them. And it took the lives of 8 persons - 3 in one car of scientists and a photographer. The lead scientist, Tim Samaras was the best known tornado chaser, around the globe.

[@peanutmwo6001]

we had an EF4 on December 26th, 2015, that nearly hit my house in Texas and yes all those pictures were of real supercells

[@marcusallen9239]

Theres multiple reasons why the el reno tornado was so dangerous- Was Rain Wraped (u cant see it unless on radar) Biggest in history Fastest in history Was Multi vortex (loads of mult vortexes) And went in any direction it wanted Huge Hail And Due to large size people didnt know which direction it was going (unless on radar)

[@jujubee344]

Comedian Ron White has a bit about hurricanes but it applies to tornadoes as well. "It's not THAT the wind is blowin;, it's WHAT the wind is blowin'. If you get hit with a Volvo..."

[@Razgriz0111]

" It don't matter how many sit-ups you did that mornin." Classic.

[@PlyrMava.]

The scary thing about the El Reno tornado is that it was capable of destroying a large city. It could've been the first EF6 on record, and it should be EF5 today. But the scariest part is that we will see a 3 mile wide tornado soon. I just hope it's not over a major city.

[@Mtndude76]

April 27th, 2011, yep, that was a crazy day. My wife and I had just moved to alabama from Georgia, and we had only been here a couple of months. The reason for the move was a new job opportunity. A category 5 tornado hit less than a mile from my job in rainsville, alabama. Sad to say, several lives were lost in the area that day. Just about the whole state was without power for over a week. "Dixie Alley."

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

With regard to the 2011 tornado outbreak - my area here in NE TN was affected and although my house was not in the line-of-sight of a tornado, I recently learned that the one that skipped along the Nolichucky river actually went up into SW VA which is about 50 miles away from me. After it was over, I brought some items down to the Camp Creek area of Greene County and I was so shocked to see 100-yr-old trees that had to be at least 75-feet wide, totally trashed.

[@toferg.8264]

“Debris”! You know, cattle, entire uprooted trees, train carts: debris.

[@boroblueyes]

That was a railcar that you asked about, "was that a truck"?

[@Lmg1161]

Do you know what the original tornado was?

[@InfantryWife85]

April and November are the big tornado times for Dixie Alley. It's when those air masses he talked about at the beginning are pushing against each other and creating the most instability in the atmosphere, which in turn makes tornados much more likely. The cold air from the north sinks down below the warm air pushing in from the south and when it does so quickly, it creates a horizontal vortex. When that vortex spins fast enough, you get a thunderstorm and when that vortex within the storm pushes to vertical, then sinks down from the atmosphere to the ground, you get a tornado.

[@A70MS]

Tornado story here! I live in texas and this one was passed down from my great grandad. A tornado struck my great grandads house and ofc you know they got to cover. after all the damages happened he noticed a plastic drinking straw lodged inside of a electric telephone pole (wood) the plastic straw wasn't damaged at all and went straight thru the wood and stopped. He called some people from Texas Tech to come down to his place to assess what happened. A couple weeks later he gets mail. People from Texas Tech say that the wind from the tornado was so strong the fibres inside of the pole actually split in half for just a split second, letting debris run thru (straw) and as soon as the pole closed back up the straw got stuck inside!

[@artdollist]

There are several videos just on the El Reno tornado that I would be interested in seeing you react to. 3 storm chasers died in that one. It was brutal and the chasers underestimated it's size.

[@lzaiser]

I remember I was 11 in that 2011 outbreak. I was in elementary school and we all piled into a library closet at school as the storms passed by. Thankfully we didn’t suffer any damage to our school or home. My mom drove us out to see the damage around our area and especially nearby in Dunn, NC and a neighborhood outside of Fayetteville, NC. Our neighborhood was untouched. However, it really showed me how unpredictable tornados are and how lucky you can be to not be affected by them.

[@sivonni]

That spot you asked about is Oklahoma. My sister lives there. I'm moving this year. They have a storm shelter but have only needed to get into it twice and both times the tornado didn't touch down anywhere near them (mountains are good for breaking up the winds patterns).

[@tobylewis6442]

0:34 is the mesocyclone. It's definitely real. It's the rotating updraft of the massive 60,000ft tall storm that produces the tornado

[@ZombieSlayerTakashi]

6:49 Yep we Floridians get Tornados too. They're more rare but they do happen. More often occur during a Hurricane.

[@maryw354]

I was once driving home from college (North Carolina to Florida in the late 1980s) when I watched two tornadoes form in a field to my right and a third form in a field to my left. The two tornadoes on my right merged and moved from the field to the highway behind me. The combined tornado chased me down the highway for a short while before moving across to merge with the third tornado. The resulting storm then headed across the field toward a nearby small town. By then I was driving over 90 mph and a highway patrol car blasted past me, probably to be ready for search and rescue in the small town. Since then, I include fields and cloud formations among things to pay attention to while driving.

[@Ben_Kimber]

There are a few interesting videos about the El Reno tornado. A storm chaser who goes by "Pecos Hank" was in the area and captured footage of it, and has also discussed it in at least one other video. If you want something absolutely terrifying, check out the dashcam footage from storm chaser Dan Robinson as he narrowly escaped that monster of a tornado.

[@Wx_TornadoDude083]

6:43 , Oklahoma, my state

[@Dremag_Gaming]

Elreno, my town.

[@bruceh4180]

Name checks out

[@Sunshine-cm5lg]

Florida spikes in the summer because that’s our storm season. We do get a handful of them every year in my area, but they are typically small and do only mild damage. When we get them within hurricanes, that’s another story. Yikes!

[@Entrepid83]

The El Reno tornado was formed after 3 separate tornadoes collided into a supermassive tornado.

[@christypriest30]

I grew up partially in Nebraska and I’ve seen a pine needle blown THROUGH the tree trunk by a tornado! It was crazy

[@WhereMySmilingCrittersAt]

Once i went outside, we didnt have a bacement. So me went to our neighbors bacement. Tornado sirens blairing, they didnt awnser the doors. Super dark, night time, raining heavily, we went back to our house. The next day we found out a tornado toutched down and sucked up a whole block a few blocks south of us! It was crazy! You whouldnt beleve the crazy stuff we see out here in missouri and kansas. A while ago we went to st.luis, as soon as we drove off, our phones went off and then the sirens. We ended up haveing to drive back and stay another night, if we had continued driveing we whould of driven right through the supercell. Fun times.

[@janfitzgerald3615]

That second picture is a railroad car, which are generally larger than the trailer of a tractor/trailer truck. The debris field is often more damaging than the actual funnel cloud. And yes, El Reno was a monster. Other infamous tornadoes are Joplin MO, Moore/Bridgecreek and Jarrell, TX. The states with the highest likelihood are Oklahoma, which is just north of Texas, Texas, Kansas, Iowa, Arkansas, and Mississippi.

[@robinsontanner1234]

After living on the West side of OKC... We found blades of grass stuck into things after the El Reno tornado. Mangled trees to this day can be seen from it.

[@steffanheimdallson5807]

My best friend (and band mate) at the time, lost his brother, sister-in-law, and niece in the 1984 Barneveld, Wisconsin F5 tornado. I can still remember him telling me that people were finding his brother's mail up in the Green Bay, Wisconsin area, a distance of about 170 miles away from Barneveld.

[@Steve-hq4fm]

My apartment building almost had it's roof ripped off and houses 50 feet away were reduced to literal rubble piles on December 11, 2021!!! No part of the year is completely safe!!

[@bgb946]

Like Ron White says ( It isn't how hard the wind blows its what the wind blows ) You get hit by a Volvo. It doesn't matter how many crunches you did that morning. Probably not a exact quote but you get it. Havent seen him tell that joke in years.

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

lol

[@Gabriel_Rojas_Arena]

Even over a decade later the El Reno Tornado still is the biggest Tornado

[@___o1799]

There's a tornado phenomenon called the "Dead Man Walking". Multiple vortices (the cone shaped part) form and touch down in a manner that makes them look like the silhouette of a person. I'm pretty sure you did a video on the Jarrell tornado -- which is the most popular instance of this phenomenon -- but imagine going outside during a storm, only to see what looks like a giant person lumbering toward you.

[@lobster6944]

Upstate NY recently had a few small tornados, yes they were only F0 and F1 tornadoes (that I know of), but we don't get them often. genuinely for the first time in my life I have gotten 2 tornado warnings in the past week and let me tell you I was genuinely terrified since a few counties over, a county was hit with an F1 tornado and the footage I saw genuinely scared me because of how close by it was. Its horrific how much damage such "weak" tornado can do its also *so* fun seeing the clouds moving fast right *above* your house. I'm very grateful we did not get a tornado in my area yesterday. It reminded me when I was in the mountains when it rains heavily or when we get hit with the after math of a hurricane. Tornados are genuinely terrifying.

[@andyboog2010]

My old job had a semi truck with a 60,000 pound load on it when a tornado hit it on the interstate. With the driver in it, it simply picked the truck up and spun it 180° and didnt hurt the driver a bit. Tornados are wierd to be involved in.

[@clairesmiley_]

As someone who lives in that space at 6:41 thank you - it's so common to hear sirens in the spring I sleep through them sometimes.

[@SOU6900]

You've also got what some people call Carolina Alley that covers both North and South Carolina. Also if memory serves me correctly I believe there's been tornadoes powerful enough that have left a trail where the ground was a foot lower than what it originally was.

[@charlesbrown4483]

As for why they happen during the time frame that they do, it all comes back to warm air(both moist and dry) meeting cold, dry air. By the time July rolls around, there's just not enough of a supply of cold air left to reliably produce tornadoes. Toward the end of the year we get sort of a second, shorter tornado season. But it's really March through May when conditions are perfect for tornadoes. Basically tornadoes happen when the weather is transitioning from cold to hot, or from hot to cold. During mid to late May is PEAK tornado season, during which time tornadoes are pretty much an every day occurrence in the south east as well as the entire center of the country.

[@wayne2091]

the second largest was 2 1/2 miles across in Halem Nebraska a couple years earlier.

[@jacekatalakis8316]

Another example. When Greensburg, Kansas was hit in 2007, survivors said they thought the tornado had moved along due to the wind getting calm because of how wide (1.7 miles) the tornado was. So you had a calm period in between both sides of the wind field. Some sources I found said people thought it was maybe a second tornado and didn't think it was one massive tornado even though it showed as one giant tornado on radar

[@SassyIndian]

I live in North central Wisconsin. We just had an EF1 tornado 7 miles north of us 2 weeks ago. Wisconsin has had 38 confirmed tornadoes so far this year and our yearly average is 23.

[@payersystempro]

The changing seasons make both spring and fall prone for tornados. The dark spot above Texas is where Oklahoma City is located, which is the most common strike location in the US.

[@junemacdonald44]

There was an absolutely massive tornado in Minnesota just this past spring, it hit like a few days after I drove through hauling all my worldly possessions in a trailer. I had been watching the weather for like weeks ahead to catch a good 3 day window to drive cross country and absolutely nailed it save for a decent amount of wind, but I’d take it in a heartbeat over dodging tornadoes

[@carbonwolf3865]

So, the resurgence during November is due to the Jetstream lowering down to the southern US. When winter begins in the northern states the Jetstream drops more southward, and when air from the Gulf of Mexico and the Jetstream meet, you get storm development. It is way more complicated than this, but this should at least explain why the resurgence happens.

[@alopez45714]

I was nearby when the tornado hit Lancaster Tornado lifted those trailers. It was so freaky watching it hit while we were in shelter

[@Llabrickitw]

The United States/Canadian tornado outbreak happened on my prom night in 1985. Although we knew occasionally tornadoes may hit Pennsylvania, it wasn’t tornado alley. Luckily it was a rural area, a State Park, and a few buildings were destroyed in our area but during the outbreak unfortunately 90 people died and there were 800 to 1000 were injured. We were lucky. My high school was on the edge of it, most of us didn’t know how bad it was. I went home and found out a church that was less than a half a mile away was damaged, and my elementary school teacher lost her home. It was kind of skipping over us.

[@catty69420]

0:10 that is legit my PC background

[@Jamesyyyyyyy]

Cap

[@michaellarusch4317]

I was in the April 27th tornados in northern Alabama. They leveled several miles of houses and knocked out power here for a week. The day they started the sky was a sickly green color. We spent all day helping people clean up houses, trailers, and pick up what was left of their lives. My daughter watched one two miles away from her porch and said it was huge even at that distance...

[@wildguy4773]

4:44 it was large indeed, but remember tornado was inside the core. The core is that wall of hail and rain, core also does enormous damage with winds to, just like tornado, it was core that damaged most of the Jones and houses while tornado was on open farmland, another thing is that it had sub vortices or biting around giving it the terrifying speeds. With such a low damage that tornado is classified ef3, wich is mid in tornado classification in national weather service

[@greenjacques]

I worked in El Reno in 2013 and came crazy close to getting hit by the tornado.

[@joanieruetz8968]

I’ve lived my entire 55 yr. life in Central Tx. (Waco and outlying areas) this is the 2nd video I’ve watched of yours in 2 days regarding incidents I watched from the inside…. Jerrell is about 20 minutes away and the deep freeze

[@NerdyNanaSimulations]

I wish every one from Europe would watch this. This explains why brick and concrete houses makes no difference. Yes they are more likely to protect you in a smaller tornado but in a big tornado it makes very little difference what type of structure you are in because they will crumble too. I get so tired of europeans saying but if your houses were brick or concrete you'd be safe... no. This year was one of the worst years for tornadoes in the past decade, every other day from March through May we heard of yet another town hit by a tornado, some days several in one day. "Tornado season" is now past but it doesn't eliminate the odd tornado and they are still happening just not in mass, but welcome hurricane season and they can create tornadoes as well.

[@greyc8589]

I couldn't help but laugh. I feel the same way every spring and I live near enough to tornado alley that we get some bad weather and tornadoe, although a lot of what we get is really bad wind.

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

Most tornadoes happen from about March through June in the US because this is when the weather shifts from winter through Spring. By summer, tornado threats are pretty much gone except for outlyers.

[@robertcass7723]

Spring and fall usually have the most tornadoes because of the changing weather (hot air mixing with cold air). I used to live in the bullseye (Oklahoma is the state north of Texas). It was not unheard of to have “snownadoes”i.e. tornadoes while it’s snowing!

[@kellygears8514]

Those crazy tornadoes pop up sometimes without warnings in the craziest places! We never take anything for granted because we know that if we don't have it inside the house. It could become a weapon of mass destruction!

[@ninjatvlv6101]

This year sulphur oklahoma got hammered by 3 tornados forming from super cells going in the same direction. That was wild to watch. We moved here but as the chart shows. Tornados form but it just depends where and if it even lands. Some get nutty and some start and fizzle.

[@TechPro-24]

At 4:27 that is what we call a supercell formation. Its the storm that produces the tornado itself. That is a real pic of a supercell. Not all supercells produce tornados but can produce 80-100mph winds and softball size hail. Very common from South Dakota to Texas

[@JayEvans1911A1]

I'm from Oklahoma. Several years ago a tornado was on the ground heading straight for my town, but thankfully the tornado lifted a couple of miles before it reached town. However, the high winds still did a lot of damage all over town. Someone's metal shed wiped out a section of my wooden privacy fence. No idea who the shed had belonged to, but the wind picked it up and sent it tumbling down my street, where it wiped out my fence and also damaged my neighbor's fence. The shed ended up as a twisted pile of sheet metal in the middle of the street. Also during that storm, my plastic trash bin slammed into my garage door and dented the garage door all to hell. So yeah, some of the danger during tornados is all the debris and crap flying around because of the wind. edit: 6:38 That's Oklahoma. We're the state just north of Texas. The darkest red circle would be around Oklahoma City.

[@FAFO.K7NG]

Recommend watching vids on the El Reno Tornado. It went SE instead of NE, spawned 4 tornados that circled around it, one of which lunged out very suddenly and killed the most well-respected storm chaser in the world (plus his son and friend, part of the team), then SAT STILL as if to taunt them. It moved at US hwy speeds, also.

[@brandyforsythe1882]

Yes Adam they are scary! My dumb ass and my coworker stood on the roof of a parking garage and watched a tornado that ripped through downtown Fort Worth, TX. It was definitely a terrifying and awe inspiring thing to see.

[@BuckyBarnesNC]

6:40 That’s Oklahoma brother, above Texas. Love you doing these.

[@brittanylaster7255]

I lived in Florence Alabama, just a bit north of the 2011 Phil Campbell tornado. We were given a few days off of school to go and help clean up. It looked like a bomb had gone off, and people walking over the remains of their homes. Heartbreaking. A lot of people who lived there have PTSD

[@mycroft16]

The moving probability is due to that warm wet air from the gulf moving north. It shows over the summer that it mives further north. High probability is the line where the cold canadian air meets the warm wet gulf air. It causes the atmosphere in a line where they meet it have intense convection currents as hot rises and cold sinks. As warm wet air rises... the water vapor condensed and forms clouds. Condensing water releases a LOT of energy which drives those big storm cliuds to rapidly build up. You can sit and watch them bubble up in minutes. As that happens that rotating surface air is pulled upward and virtical. Now you have a vertical colum of air rotating. The entral vortex of a large storm. This pulls in air from ground level and sends it high up where it condenses and falls as rain. Or if it goes high enough freezes and falls as hail. If it is strong enough it gets blown up repeatedly picking up more and more until it is too big and falls. As it condenses and freezes all that energy released drives more powerful winds and lightning. If the vortex is strong enough it can drive rotating that drops to the ground. Like the mini whirlpool that forms when you drain a tub.

[@juice_man4439]

I heard a story of a tornado throwing a plastic straw so hard that it stuck into a tree trunk. Absolutely insane. As they say, it’s not the winds them selves, but what they’re blowing around

[@Nichols_Santa]

the October/November tornado probability increase in the Gulf of Mexico area is due to the propensity of hurricanes common to that area to spawn tornadoes in the outer rain bands.

[@gregnussbaum5299]

One of the absolute worst types of buildings that can be hit by a "twister" is a farmer"s barn where all the hay and straw is kept. Every blade of grass, every stalk of straw, is like an arrow shot from a bow. if telephone poles are around close by, the hay and straw will look like porcupine quills sticking out from it. I myself have even seen it happen to homes with wooden siding.

[@patrickgeorge9517]

We had 67 tornado warnings on Monday throughout Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas. There were 19 confirmed tornadoes during that time.

[@ChuckHuffmaster]

" it's not that the wind blows it's what the wind blows " Ron White I've lived in Oklahoma City for over 25 years I'm well aware of what an EF-5 is capable of doing

[@jesseknight2461]

I lived in Oklahoma City on May 3, 1999 when an F5 tornado rolled through Moore, Del City, and other parts of OKC. The winds were clocked at 301 mph and the tornado at times was over a mile wide on the ground. The tornado picked up concrete, asphalt, houses, and everything imaginable. It is the closest to a F6 tornado ever. If the winds hit 318 mph, it would have achieved that feat.

[@C4V7R00L]

Tornadoes are nature's SlapChop

[@jezaeiri]

That area you saluted at is central Oklahoma aka right where Oklahoma City area or exactly where the El Reno tornado hit. I'm in northern Texas and during storm season we have regular testing of our storm sirens. (That are so loud if you're close to them its almost like they're physically touching you.) But they're that loud for multiple reasons throughout Oklahoma and most of Texas. When a funnel cloud forms it can move incredibly fast and cover miles in minutes. I watched a tornado pick up one of my grandmother's neighbors houses and drop it on top of another neighbor's house when I was seven and that wasn't the most terrifying thing. Watching a 1980's Ford truck be picked up and literally be thrown into the elementry school not 200 feet from where we were taking shelter was. It exploded and took out nearly half the school. Tornados are not something to joke about. And yet as someone who has lived through several of them until those sirens go off I'm either checking on my livestock and horses or sitting on the porch having a glass of wine while my Irish/Australian husband panics and preps our pets for a run to the storm cellar. Never mind that a tornado hasn't hit my family's land since 1958 the year my uncle was born and took out the original barn and 14 cows. (Its a long standing story in my family. My grandfather was terrified my grandma was gonna go into labor. My uncle thanfully came 9 days later.)

[@Dremag_Gaming]

Yep. You know its a Saturday when the sirens goes off at around noon. (take it there's no rain clouds at the time)

[@hardtackbeans9790]

That can be real. The lower part of the Thunderstorm called a mesocyclone. It is the formation out of which the actual tornado drops. The debris inside a tornado is unlikely to reach the wind speed. It is likely to be less than 50%. But a piece of construction lumber traveling that speed and hitting an object face-on can go through an exterior masonry walls like a missile. Stories of what debris can do in a tornado is literally unbelievable.

[@marymcmahan5603]

Two weeks ago, in July, 24, 2024, 24 tornadoes went through in the early and late evening in Illinois, including the Chicago area, north and south of the city. Thankfully they were mostly F0-F1. One F2.

[@susanwahl6322]

Back when Barneveld, Wisconsin got hit with a EF-5 tornado, it shoved wood under the water tower. The water tower remained standing.

[@halo2player3]

An F4 that hit Iowa last month had a debris field of 3 miles.

[@sladecooper5801]

I've grown up here in Oklahoma City and still here west of the city. After being here for so long you don't think much of it but it is really a wild place to live. That monster would have been a nightmare if it got to OKC. But a lot of us go outside, open some beers and watch this stuff until it gets too close, then we run inside. You ought to come here for a couple weeks in May just to experience it. 🍻

[@arkansasstorm]

Dixie alley for the south. Dixie alley is super dangerous because of how the trees block the view of the tornado coming.

[@tlkothe3]

Late Spring/early Summer are the seasons we usually watch closely (Nebraska/Kansas).

[@clumsydolphin]

The reason you saw the rise again after tornado season in tornado alley, which is where I live by the way, down in the southern coastal states is because that time of year is hurrican season. Hurricanes can produce tornadoes which is why you saw the orange colors grow again at the end of the year. Typically August-November is when hurricanes blow in. Tornado season is spring-most of the summer. But tornadoes can happen year round even though it's rare to get one after season. Also, since I'm commenting I wanted to address another video you did for the Twisters preview. There are fire tornadoes that are a separate thing from tornadoes, they usually happen in wildfires once the air is hot enough at least that's how it's described to me. I don't live in a wildfire reagion, I will stick with tornadoes lol, I've actually slept through a tornado when I was a teenager.

[@Cory_Springer]

@4:08 I've seen the destruction of an ef4 tornado up close and let me tell you, winds at these speeds do many mysterious/terrifying things that don't make sense.

[@Bea-Nuh-Luh]

I’ve been in one and in the vicinity of several. I live in Texas , the Mayfest one was huge then in 2002 in downtown Fort Worth …ripped office buildings to shreds but we’d left about 10 mins before….we see many. I’m from Minnesota and I saw my first one there. I was alone after school…maybe 10. I grabbed mattress, flipped couch and put my little sister under it . Didn’t hit us thank goodness but so feckin scary!