The Most Active Tornado Season In History

[@tornadotrx]

Hallam being 2.5 miles wide is NOT talked about enough! For reference El Reno was 2.6 miles wide. Crazy tornado and year.

[@tkdmanbb185]

Hallam also had a bigger condensation funnel and took up more volume because the cloud base was higher than the El Reno supercell. The youtuber RojoFern has a great video on tornado sizes if you wanna check out more.

[@bigdoinks196]

​@tkdmanbb185 I agree that video is great 👍

[@benjamingoodnight1025]

Love both your channels. See the passion yall both have for tornados and super storms alike.

[@StormChaserSquadron]

Yes, absolutely insane.

[@khaosking2937]

I've been saying this tornado seems forgotten.

[@Salvador_but_he_plays_gd]

12:10 I actually want to mention that the person who surveyed this tornado actually regretted not giving this tornado an F5 rating, they said that had they had the tools of the EF scale, the tornado would have gotten the F5 rating So calling the Marion tornado an F5, isn't wrong In fact I would actually like to see the tornado get the rerate

[@WattsJon12]

After looking at the damage, that’s F5 all day long. Holy cow 😅

[@Thicc_Cheese_Dip]

Same thing happened with the Harper, Kansas tornado actually. The guy who rated it said he regretted the conservative rating on that one too.

[@tyalber2766]

The crazy thing is that. The tractor with the beam around it never had the actual cab bent. And the other picture is actually what was left of a semi in the tree.

[@highriskchris]

Unreal how everybody at the Parsons manufacturing plant survived completely uninjured, yet we still have deaths occur nowadays like at the candle factory and the Amazon warehouse in Dec 2021

[@b1smuth69]

12 minutes ago?!

[@kaiyote7924]

Sadly it came down to luck. I don't know if the building had designated shelter in place areas. But there were people sheltering on two sides of the building. Sadly, only one side survived. If they had been allowed to go home (I believe the hour of impact was around midnight) no one would have died. I don't know if it was legally resolved yet but workers claimed they asked to go home and were denied. One claimed the managers allegedly locked them in "Oh no you lost productivity on the night shift for one night, boo hoo... Meanwhile mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandparents got to still be in their family's lives!" Sadly, we live in a reality of a so called "1st world nation" that employs 12 year olds in heavy industrial jobs and (allegedly) locks people in buildings or threatens to fire them (and their ability to pay rent) when they refuse unnecessary risk unrelated to the job. We really went back to the 1910s huh.

[@NicholasSWR]

It’s because the sad reality of CEO’s and bosses not caring for their workers’ health, the owner of the plant said in this video like you said that survived actually cared for his or her employees

[@MekaylaTheChimera]

Hello!

[@williamdick8736]

🎉l

[@UpperlevelJeffstream]

I was raised in Harper county. My Dad was a deputy and mom a dispatcher. I was only 3 at the time so I don’t remember much other than taking a ride in dads patrol car over to a friends house. I remember when it got dark we had to go to the basement. Looking into it later on I realized what was coming for us in that darkness. Glad it never came to be. We knew the people who got hit south of town. Forgot their names but they were okay. Fyi that house was a brand new, sturdy brick farm home and well, you saw the pictures. Of course, those were the days before the EF scale. I agree there shoulda been a maximum rating. On some of the Attica footage you can spot my old man (silver crown Vic with the window lights if you’re down for a scavenger hunt). All in all, while sitting in that candlelit basement, playing with my tonka trucks and listening to the scanner. I never thought that night and more to come (Greensburg). Would be the spark that lit my insatiable hunger for meteorological knowledge.

[@CeltonHenderson]

Had to get this up before hurricane Milton knocks my power out for the next week lol

[@aRand0mPerson-xc7ou]

stay safe

[@kakumee]

Stay safe man!! Keep us informed!! It's crazy watching what I left happening again in FL!! Used to live in the Tampa, st Pete, pellines, Clearwater area..... stay safe!! It was crazy watching Ian take the water out from Tampa Bay.....I hope everyone got out before that water came back in!!! Don't forget your backup batteries and hopefully you got a few charging banks for your cell!!! Stay safe!!

[@nursestoyland]

Stay safe man

[@The_scanner_tripod]

But I don't know

[@SolLovesTeamGrimoire]

Hey man, stay safe, sending prayers from the Buckeye state.

[@aslightlysanescientist3874]

The NWS has gone on record regretting having not rated the Harper tornado as an F5.

[@Thicc_Cheese_Dip]

Same thing with the Marion tornado.

[@CeltonHenderson]

Yeah both Harper and Marion were both probably F5s.

[@amberdesjarlais1823]

The 2004 tornado in Green Lake County really cemented my fears for tornadoes. I was 9. I was scared of them before, but I became terrified after that day. The tornado that killed the gentleman funneled right over our house and we lived on AW, maybe 5 miles from Gallenbeck's farm (the couple's last name). I remember screaming and crying for my mom to come downstairs because she was watching it in the living room. I have never seen green, rolling clouds like that since then. After it was over, we drove to Waupun (Wah-Pahn) to make sure some family friends who owned a restaurant on Main Street were okay. I was extreemly grateful we didn't lose our house or anything around it, but I was really sad for the people who did.

[@MesoscaleMikeyChasing]

Epic video man! 2:20 - I must say, Harper CO/Anthony, KS is a EXTREMELY underrated tornado magnet in my opinion. With 2004 featuring 3 major outbreaks/events of violent and/or photogenic tornadoes, a big outbreak of boundary tornadoes in 2012, and the supercell this year with multiple spinups including the boundary interaction EF2. Actually where I saw and filmed my 2nd and 3rd tornadoes this year.

[@tornadostories]

Great research, graphics and interesting sidenotes throughout the video. What a year 🌪️

[@Dakotert]

9:07 There's something so unsettling about there being a rainbow next to a tornado while it's relentlessly tearing apart the victim's houses.

[@CeltonHenderson]

beautiful but terrifying

[@TJB270]

As a kid i can’t tell you how many times the sirens went off in 2004 in my town. At least 5-6 tornado warnings that year along with countless severe T-storm warning. As much as I loved that spring/summer, I never wanted fall to get there so fast lol. Awesome video man!

[@MesoBreakfast]

Roanoke Tornado is what got me interested in extreme weather. I grew up just 10 miles away from the Parson’s plant

[@charlesshaw2045]

Grew up in Anthony south of Harper, the 12th was my first chase day ever as a 15 weather nerd. sat in the parking lot of the high school that sits between the 2 towns and watched the entire thing

[@JBullock54]

Great video man! 2024 looked like it had a chance to top the record, but due to the lack of activity in late summer, it’s likely gonna fall short, barring any November/December outbreaks

[@CentralILWx]

Well done Celton! This is awesome

[@CeltonHenderson]

@@CentralILWx thanks man!

[@eiya2003]

I love how you opened this video by stating a gigantic tornado happened the exact day i was born

[@joshc-ti6rs]

Yoo same I heard the date and was like “ oh great two tragedies happened that day “

[@CeltonHenderson]

@@joshc-ti6rs lol

[@calci2679]

Oh no I feel old now

[@Joker938]

That's 13 days before I was born.

[@_rat..guts_4074]

I AM ONE DAY OLDER THAN YOU >:D

[@viridescentfen]

funny to me that the year i was born in was the year with the most tornadoes on record, since im currently in college to try to get a degree in meteorology and am super hyperfixated on tornadoes lol love your work celton!

[@thedyingmeme6]

Im also an '04 kid lmao

[@davis83]

Awesome short doco bro, can’t wait for the next one 💯🙌🏾

[@NoneWX]

I researched the widest tornadoes and I generally thought Hallam and 11' Reno were tied. This is what I found that surprised me: 13' Reno (2.6 miles) 04' Hallam (2.5 miles) 11' Reno (1.0 miles) *(EXCLUDING THE 4 MILE WIDE 4/21/1946 TORNADO PROPOSITION)*

[@Thicc_Cheese_Dip]

Also excluding Mulhall 1999, which was estimated to be between 2.8 miles wide and 4.3 miles wide.

[@lawngnome2415]

Look up the Mulhall tornado. It happened during the 1999 outbreak right after the BidgeCreek-Moore tornado. The storm spotters during the weather Forcast said it was at least 3 miles wide. You can hear it during the weather coverage . It didn't even directly hit the town and still destroyed around 75% of the town.

[@TylerWilliams-y7b]

Love falling asleep watching this tonight I appreciate the new post of history.

[@anonymus6045]

when the music begins in your videos we know shit is about to get real lol. BTW i've been using your 1965 Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak video as a research material for my schools tornado documentary competition.

[@CeltonHenderson]

If you look in the description of that video you can find a KMZ link to the paths I made for that outbreak that you can import into the desktop version of Google Earth.

[@anonymus6045]

@@CeltonHenderson thank you man, much appreciate it.

[@iLikePlanez]

Truly an underrated creator.

[@NaumsterioxlyBecofzille]

Congratulations for 50k subscribers, man!

[@CeltonHenderson]

Thanks!

[@NaumsterioxlyBecofzille]

Of course and thanks for the heart!

[@pjesf]

This video was so well put-together - images, graphics, dialogue, and narration 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@HallowedDemiseGuitarist]

8:17 thats Peru Indiana i believe! I got damage photos from that day

[@PixelPenguinShorts]

What was the rating?

[@adoreportals]

these videos are fun to watch when i’m in california like 1000 miles away from a tornado

[@noravinson3851]

Hey, i'm having trouble hearing you over the music. Next time, i's love to hear you more. Love the video ❤

[@MontoyaGamer1_Entertainment]

Will you do a video on the 2007 Greensburg, Kansas EF5 Tornado?

[@CeltonHenderson]

@@MontoyaGamer1_Entertainment maybe at some point

[@ajdomer92]

I’d be interested in a Greensburg video. I’m writing a book about that tornado and the town’s recovery.

[@wxchris2666]

Many things here i find a bit overblown, like Hallam being "high F4" and such, but this is an amazing video.

[@Purinmeido]

This is the year that my mom and I were transporting a horse in downstate Illinois and we drove into a tornado. The winds completely turned our truck and trailer around on the road. That experience was what got my obsessed with tornadoes

[@notsouleclipse]

Extremely photogenic 🙌

[@a.randomjack6661]

👍 Research 👍Editing 👍Presentation

[@ATTCAT1]

Yooo we go three of the biggest tornado channels on KZbin here

[@rainamosFN]

The fact that May 22nd is my birthday…

[@MeetPG3D]

7:55 the winds was so strong the tree started lagging 😭🖐️

[@Storm_editz354]

I didn't know that 2004 was such a active year and after watching this video, I now know that 2004 was the most active years for tornado activity. The Hallam Nebraska Tornado reminds me of the Tornado that hit Grand Island on June 17th 2009, except that tornado was much weaker than the Hallam tornado and was rated an F2 at its peak. Very similar structure to the tornado in Hallam Nebraska as it goes from a Dusty tornado to a Big tornado with all that dirt being spun around the circulation.

[@scale_model_apprentice]

Could you think about doing a video about the 2012 Leap Day tornado outbreak? I live in Harrisburg Illinois where we had an EF4 tear through. IIRC there were over 40 confirmed tornados.

[@Mega-rw8mt]

Only complaint i have is that you seem to use the windspeed estimates on the F scale as if they were facts. Only tornado we might have proof of 250+ MPH winds (what you said for Hallam) at ground level for would probably be 2011 El Reno - Piedmont because it rolled a massive oil drilling site. There just aren't many structures that can survive winds above even just 200 MPH. Other than that small nitpick it's a great video

[@Warf-rem]

I live in Nebraska, and finally someone wants attention to the Hallam tornado

[@schmitty8453]

This year feels like the same thing This year has been The most active year I've seen since 2011

[@claydragon6055]

Dude, I think you may have misspoke at min.2:24 when you said, " a photogenic F2 tornado lifted a home into the air." Surely you meant to say F4 because if not, they messed up rating it because that would be the largest F2 in frigging history. That sucker is way closer to an F5 than F2. Hell, probably was an F5. Think about the power it takes to rip a big home out of the ground, throwing it hundreds of feet in the air. Yeah I'm sure you just didn't notice it. Thank you for all your uploads their very informative.

[@ej_makesvideos]

9:09 A RAINBOW

[@karlagurrola1841]

That's wild that the west side of the US is destroyed so badly poor people I'm so sad

[@thelifeofjp1996]

Omg I final found a video talking about the tornado in Green Lake County, Wi. I grew up in waupun most my childhood and I remember this day pretty well ,I remember we were running down to the basement and looking out the ground level door halfway down the stairwell,we could see trees almost bent in half. After it was over , the entire city was put of power and it seemed like everyone in town was out walking around , power lines and large tree branches where everywhere. The remember the red cross showing up the next day and we had to have the 2 trees cut down in our front yard. The craziest part was the couple that got hit by the tornado owned a thrift store that I went to alot as a really young kid growing up. They say they were both thrown a few hundred feet, the husband hit a tree and died on impact , the woman survived somehow. I don't ever remember going back to that thrift store again after that. Also, its pronounced (Wa- pon) like turning "on" a light switch. This was 1 of 2 experiences i had growing up that made me fearful of tornadoes as well as fascinated by them. Now I watch Max Velocity & Ryan Hall Yall all the time recreationally. I never thought today I'd ever find a video talking about that tornado cause I had no idea when it took place cuz I was so young still

[@Oliepolie]

35 people dead across 1800 tornados is a pretty good track record.

[@CeltonHenderson]

@@Oliepolie yeah surprisingly little fatalities for such an active tornado season

[@brownmate3922]

Imagine your company getting hit by 2 F/EF4 tornadoes

[@Windsor_Colorado_EF3]

Trousdale KS EF3 being the 4th widest tornado recorded at 2.2 Miles Wide Hallam NE F4 being the 3rd widest tornado recorded at 2.5 miles wide El Reno OK EF3 being the 2nd widest tornado recorded at 2.6 miles wide And an F4 from the 1965 super outbreak being the widest tornado recorded at 3 - 4+ miles wide

[@TornadoAlertWX]

El Reno is officially the widest, those tornadoes are thought to be wider but we will never know

[@Roblocksgaming]

2004: The most active tornado season ever 2024: The most active hurricane season ever

[@F40PH-2CAT]

2024 is not the most active hurricane season ever.

[@Roblocksgaming]

@ In terms of these past 10 years, this hurricane season was probably the most active.

[@thecat6898]

What I find crazy is 2024 is just as active as 2004

[@a.randomjack6661]

1817 🌪 VS 1497 in 2024 (so far) According to the search results, as of September 18, 2024, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has confirmed 1,437 tornadoes in the United States for the year 2024.

[@KaileyB616]

@@a.randomjack6661 I wonder what the count is after the hurricane Milton outbreak in Florida

[@a.randomjack6661]

@@KaileyB616 It was pretty intense, I also wondered, but I can check... "22 tornadoes in October 2024 (as of October 9, 2024)"

[@kakumee]

My "unchi" lived over near the springs at the time. I told me about the tornadoes over by Ramah, Simla and Limon. I think part of the town Ramah got hit, we'd stop in during the summer or whatever I wasn't in school as we'd drive between KS and the springs. Unfortunately that year I think I was in FL, I don't remember if we went up or not, or if we went a bit later....Maby I only went up that year....hell I might of been stay with some friends in the springs, I think they lived closer to Cheyenne Mt. Side then the north part of the springs where he lived, hell we was closer to falcon then the springs.....I vegly remember the old town of simlia (I mean before the tornado). 04 was instrimg since I mostly lived in FL. I'll never forget our consent hurricanes for the bay area (Tampa Bay), and when I was in Alaska Frances came through and I couldn't get ahold of my family (at that time) living north of Clearwater. I'll never forget our parade of hurricanes in 04, nor katrea coming for us then going north to Mississippi. I'll never forget going up to Colorado and going through a little bit after katrea.....now I'm in eastern Colorado western KS area and watching both our tornado season and hurricane season be like 20 years ago when I left Florida is pretty crazy!! Stay safe everyone!! If you can ecvaluate! Don't mess around!! Only by a merical did I survive Andrew.... unfortunately no one else did in my family.....that's how i got my 1st family (the one l lived with till 04)

[@Browhoa]

Could you cover this years hurricane season and hurricane Milton and hurricane Helene? Please?

[@CeltonHenderson]

I actually chased both Milton and Helene, I may post some of the footage from those storms on my second channel "Celton Henderson Chasing"

[@Browhoa]

@@CeltonHenderson oh nice!

[@SeatLeonMK2]

2:46 finally someone noticed this tornado

[@lonestar_935]

Hey man I got a good tornado that’s heavily slept on and a very controversial one at that. The castel loyal valley tornado 5-11-1999 this one in my opinion should have been an F5

[@Hannah7Banana]

Guys... we have had approximately 1,400 tornadoes this year in 2024... 20 years later from this historical year 💀

[@DawnJiang-kd6me]

We are in 2024 and it is expected to be the fifth or fourth most active tornado season.

[@F40PH-2CAT]

Won't even be in top 10.

[@enchantedsaiyanv3]

And to think the great tribulation will be worse than this. Wild

[@woobs-fd9ws]

How did you get the paths/ satellite imagery for the Harper and Marion tornadoes

[@CeltonHenderson]

@@woobs-fd9ws the satellite imagery is from sentinel hub, the paths were hand drawn in google earth based on the damage visible in the satellite imagery.

[@kuro3552]

Wow, a corporation who carries enough to install storm shelters? Isnt it sad that I'm shocked? So glad they took their employees safely seriously

[@veljjagi]

Harper, Marion, Chickasha, Goldsby, and Vilonia are the only EF4's that deserve EF5 imo

[@BlazinGrape]

I would personally add mayfield and kellerville to that list

[@luckynascarcat24]

Rolling Fork too. El Reno and Greenfield Iowa based on Radar wind speed

[@Codnostalgia5]

Can you talk about the Lubbock tornado of 1970

[@verzinny]

I'm surprised how celton never mentioned that Harper (the F4.) and Marion were the only F4s the NWS regretted rating F5. Both were apart of this year.

[@CeltonHenderson]

@@verzinny I tried to heavily imply that they were probably F5s

[@TheSkyGuy77]

It always seems like May is the most destructive month for tornadoes...

[@CeltonHenderson]

Its the statistical peak of tornado season

[@TheSkyGuy77]

@@CeltonHenderson yeah

[@nintendelle]

I have a feeling that the tornados were extremely photogenic

[@christophernabors6631]

Can you do the 1992 Chandler- Lake Wilson tornado? It happened on the day I was born.

[@JosiahSobaram]

The one guy:oh look at those clouds A few muinits later The guy:oh wow my house is gone Looks down The guy: and im dead

[@JosiahSobaram]

This is not to be offensive

[@apocalypsenow6015]

cool beans

[@drakesummers886]

When he said main show I knew it was finna be bad

[@HopeBanner-n7q]

6:34 THATS MY BIRTHDAY! Only 10 yrs later tho 😅

[@timyisrowe4011]

It just kept getting worse

[@Airplaneshorts546]

THAT WAS THE DAY AFTER MY DADS B DAY!!!!!! AND 2MONTHS AFTER MINE!!!!

[@Jamesthegroth]

The amount of tornados is the same as the first year gaslighting was used

[@Kierohn]

EUGHHUEGHHAHAAAAAAHAHAh (2011 laughs in tornadoes and deaths)

[@Overcoast72]

BROS COOKING AGAIN!!

[@_jaegerboy_]

Sorry guy's, my birth must've caused quite the stir for Earth.

[@bethpearson3070]

As a Kansasan AAAAGGGHHHHH

[@Crimznshadow]

Post more man cmon

[@calebostrowski-braman]

Has anyone seen a tornado hit a most populated city before?

[@evanhartman8602]

Unfortunately this has happened many times, Joplin tornado is one of the most famous

[@FanMan19000]

Most active of worst tornado season I thought was in 2011? With the 2011 super out break having many F4s, 5 F5s, and countless others, along with, they are close to each other in count, 2011 having 1711 and 2004 having 1817. If anyone has more information of specific ratings let me know!

[@CeltonHenderson]

This one spawned more tornadoes overall than 2011 but 2011 had stronger and deadlier tornadoes.

[@FanMan19000]

@@CeltonHenderson ok thanks! That’s what I thought, but needed conformation

[@BrookeStanford-k5p]

Mertz Pass

[@thekarenfromhell4110]

I know what year is the worst tornado season and it's not 2004.

[@robertl779]

It's not the worst but the year that had the most tornadoes

[@Fakedeejus]

House go bye bye D:

[@jdgreer01]

Celton come to the woodlands to see my dancing lights there will be food threr

[@jdgreer01]

There

[@MarkWilliar]

Why don’t they rebuild under ground?

[@herniebadlautner.7340]

Abrupt ending

[@CroninLaura-v7l]

Kessler Fort

[@HopeBanner-n7q]

3:34 *people arguimg*

[@PitmanBelle-l8i]

Elise Way

[@Just_lucid_edits]

Florida is cooked.

[@MeraMousa-t3f]

Real

[@TSG-The-swedish-guy]

Hi

[@CeltonHenderson]

Whats up!

[@FaradayStanford-y4m]

Medhurst Place

[@RoshanMuhseni]

Is 20000000000000,00kx mile is tornado 🌪 😳 👀

[@gusgus9918]

OMG

[@ceronefamily5077]

What about 2011

[@CeltonHenderson]

less tornadoes overall than 2004 but many of them were considerably stronger than the tornadoes from 2004.

[@DominusATRA]

early!!

[@ericascali5427]

😢😢😢😢😢😢😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@nohandle-f8o]

btw hallam had an averag forward speed that BROKE the tri state 1920s tornado.

[@Warf-rem]

I live in Nebraska, and finally someone wants attention to the Hallam tornado

[@CeltonHenderson]

One of the most impressive tornadoes to ever strike the Great Plains

[@Warf-rem]

Indeed