The Most Destructive Tornadoes In History | Mega Disaster | Wonder

Tornadoes are unpredictable, volatile and horrifically lethal. Leaving behind a trail of carnage behind them, each tornado is unique and many have the power to be deadly. We take a look at some of the most devastating tornadoes that have ever been seen.
03:31 Attica, Kansas
12:07 Pampa, Texas
22:32 Jarrell, Texas
31:32 Tri-State, USA
44:10 Mega Tornado
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[@alexiecierra]

Poor Sugar. 😢

[@frankierodriguez4132]

Rip Sugar

[@tammywebb1289]

Rest In Peace, sweet Sugar 💖

[@alexanderdavidd]

Sugar is the saddest of losses💜

[@ItalianCountryball11]

@@alexanderdaviddFr ☹️

[@mattb6646]

Joplin was the closest thing to a mega tornado weve had, not because it was the biggest or strongest but because it went straight through a medium sized city causing the most monitary damage and loss of life since the 1950s.. and thats with improvements to contruction and weather warning technology

[@drewski1535]

Agreed that one the mega outbreak of April that year are definitely defined as destructive

[@paulespinoza1994]

Dogs can actually sense the barometric pressure change long before humans see it!

[@carlmay9532]

Oddly enough Joplin is considered a “near miss” event.

[@AcuraLvR82]

The amount of metal debris sucked into the sky when the Pampa tornado hit the industrial area was absolutely insane.

[@wewinusa]

An amazing compilation of footage

[@Maltae.856]

This documentary is 8 years old

[@briangreen256]

After living thru April 27th 2011,i have a new respect for tornado watch's👍

[@Newworld1492]

Why live in these areas??

[@briangreen256]

@@Newworld1492 Nearly my entire family lives in Alabama. But actually, virtually every state has the possibility of a tornado touching down. I would have to move to a Democrat ran state to lessin my chances of tornadoes. You have hurricanes at the coast,earthquakes out west and severe winters in Northern states.

[@Newworld1492]

@@briangreen256 yes . I understand u. But Tornados r unpredictable. I could not sleep in a thunderstorms thinking a tornado will hit. I wush u the best.. to u and family. God bless .

[@briangreen256]

@@Newworld1492 Staying informed during tornado season and being prepared is the key 👍

[@Newworld1492]

@@briangreen256 I agree

[@Just_andy588]

I swear I think tornadoes are on a mission to get that damage multiplier

[@flightlevel3608]

Lol

[@codymcclain9911]

I live 15 minutes south of Jarrell Texas on i35 I remember that storm and it could be see from my parents place

[@chad735]

Been in an F3 and it was intense to say the least.

[@Chris-ex5ed]

Must have been a small F3 if it was in a tent

[@billymurphy3]

@@Chris-ex5ed it was more than one

[@mom369222]

Have seen an Ef3 forming right in back of a store I, and my sob had just left. The day started out beautiful, sunny, and hot. I needed to run some errands, and when I came out there in the back of the store, was an EF3. It wasn't as big as the Ef4's,or EF5's,it was somewhere in the middle. I've seen my share of those monsters, and hope never to see another. I don;'t live where there are many, but one Sunday Morning,once again it started out sunny, and warm. I was dressed, and waiting for my son to finish dressing, and we were going to go to church. The T.V. was on and they broke in for a tornado warning. The sky turned black,and I said we aren't going to church, tornado warning for ALLof New England!

[@alexis_ian]

I remember watching this Documentary back in 2006 before the adaption of the EF scale the following year during the Greensbuerg, KS Tornado. Also the last F5 rated tornado in the US was the Bridge Creek-More Tornado of 1999 and so far its been 9 years since the last EF5 rated Tornado the closes I think is the Southern Kentucky Tornadao of December 2021, Rochelle Illonis 2015, Valoa-Mayflower Tornado 2014 and most infamous the 2013 El Reno Tornado.

[@alinac5512]

Honestly El Reno should be classified as EF5.

[@amyrussell860]

Parkersburg Iowa 2008 was an ef5. I'm pretty sure El Reno is too.

[@kelcritcarroll]

@@alinac5512 it would have been if it was in a place where there were buildings/homes.

[@kelcritcarroll]

In the Jarrell footage a lamb or goat is seen trying to run from that huge tornado but cant get away because it is fenced in….that is horrible…poor little thing,I know he didnt make it although it didnt show it.

[@phoenixmastm]

Joplin's was an EF5. I got to see a few months after the cleanup, there was no grass, no trees, just bare dirt and a few buildings they rush fixed to give the town some services. Mile wide freaking lane of nothingness all the way towards the old hospital.

[@LLandS18]

The part about this women in the brick house and the man going outside because his dog was barking who leaves their dog outside when there's hurricane warnings. I get it he's an outdoor dog but like come on.

[@BlackKiryuu]

Honestly, if it came down to save my dog or save myself. I would definitely save myself. No way, I am risking my life for a stupid dog. If the dog doesn´t come in after me trying desperately, sorry mate, your loss.

[@deadshot4245]

@@BlackKiryuu if it came down to me or my two dogs I’d try everything I could to save them most dogs are like little kids generally they are innocent unaware souls they deserve to be protected because we have the ability to

[@BlackKiryuu]

@@deadshot4245 Exactly that's the point. "I would try everything I could to save them". At what point do you consider the saving to be hopeless? If the dogs are not going to listen, even after you tried desperately, are you going to further put yourself in danger?

[@lyndiwilson2334]

Too bad this is older than the Joplin tornado. I'm sure that would have been in the list

[@agcons]

I was curious about this too so I checked: on a world-wide list ranking tornadoes by number of deaths, Joplin is 26th. The Tri-State is 2nd.

[@mattb6646]

It's the closest thing to the mega tornado we've had.. Moore was also horrible but joplin was a bigger city and caused more damage/loss of life

[@mattb6646]

​​​​@@agconsthat's because the tri state happened in 1920s in a time when weather warnings weren't nearly as good, people didn't have as much transportation ability and homes weren't as durable... all of these things have improved in the last 70 years and lower the death tolls from tornados significantly... Joplin death toll being as high as it was in this day and age is incredibly significant and I would argue very comparable to the tri state tornado, regardless of some ranking site. It's sort of like inflation, it's not really fair to directly compare cost from 1920 to 2020

[@BloodMageOptic]

We don't use the F scale anymore we use EF or Enchanced Fujita scale

[@alferrari3186]

Same thing

[@shiningarmor2838]

@@alferrari3186 Not really, the kinds of damage measured as well as the wind speeds needed to achieve them were revised

[@timerious]

@@shiningarmor2838 it’s more like a .5 like there’s f1 ef1 then f2 as the difference between them is just a half scale higher from f scale to enhanced I survived an ef3 inside a mobile home

[@Monica_toys]

even tho some of the people in the comments are being mean i enjoy the show either-way because we use kph in Canada. BTW keep the tornado videos up i will add any tornado video into my playlist.

[@TheShadow_2023]

The thing about when they are shooting 2x4’s at brick walls is not every twister is going to be an f5 tornado. Yes there will be debris in F3 and F4 tornados but it won’t always shoot 2x4s around

[@Cutie-loves-cupcake]

Scary

[@laurabunyard2432]

I know people don't like the comparison of a tornado and a vacuum cleaner. That is actually what it is. A gigantic vacuum cleaner with a busted bag.

[@Stitchwitchstitch]

It’s a perfect comparison! Absolutely right.

[@mattb6646]

Tornados winds push and pull, not just pull

[@mr.shardz7936]

im so glad when in these tornado videos they say in km/h. im not american idk how to measure in miles.

[@maxinerowe2925]

Amazing

[@wolfinred2893]

Its not of matter of could, it's a matter of when.

[@josephbyrnside7051]

Dan didn't wanna believe it but Sugar did...Sugar died so mama is stuck with Dan...Poor Dan.😊

[@BillMcHale-d4m]

Thatd pretty cool

[@master-of-mind5881]

That tornado that wrecked havoc across three states is called an F5. When I think F5 I think of brock Lesnar. The irony is aside from maybe the tombstone, the F5 is perhaps the most devastating move in all of professional wrestling.

[@deadshot4245]

I’d rumor that could’ve been a high cape super cell that could’ve dropped violent tornadoes then reformed another or it could’ve been one solid one but a 200 mile long track is wild literally insane

[@lauriediorio574]

Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

[@FrankHampton-t7m]

Mother Nature can be really cruel sometimes

[@curtispandachuk9323]

I can’t help but wonder what force between wind, water, fire, or whatever else actually does end up having the most destructive capability

[@kelcritcarroll]

At 6:30 minutes is that PECOS HANK taking a photo??

[@OLDCCHANNEL]

I don’t know

[@Vahlee-A]

We've been using the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale since 2007 come on guys

[@whatisthisnewfeaturehandle]

Yup.

[@Kev_Rema]

0:19 I never knew Randy Marsh was a storm chaser

[@Htchhgjhhchc45]

RIP Dog 🐶😔

[@briangreen256]

We use miles per hour in America. It would be nice for creators to use both mph and kph when describing data👍

[@cln333]

Exactly. I know the approximate conversions, so it normally doesn't bother me, but they're literally discussing tornadoes in the US. Why in the world would they be stating facts in kilometers??? Lol seems a bit shortsighted.

[@mandymoore5774]

I can’t even believe the storm chasers of these things make only approximately 50k a year! That’s NOTHING!!!! They should absolutely be getting hazard pay for what they do.

[@fructosecornsyrup5759]

Honestly storm chasing is a relatively safe job, all things considered. There have only been like, four recorded deaths for storm chases, and that was all during a single incident.

[@sweetwolfsteve5583]

​@@fructosecornsyrup5759 depending on the storm chaser to not alm storm chaser are good or smart a example of a bad storm chaser is reed timmer

[@alyssarodriguez4041]

@@sweetwolfsteve5583 curious what makes you say that?

[@quietguy1948]

SCARY . . .

[@susanjones8489]

SW of Chicago is another tornado alley, and if weather forecasters are right, we will likely be seeing a repeat of a few years ago this spring and into summer.

[@mommiellamie5322]

I'm shocked the quad state tornado that hit December of 2021 wasn't in here. But then again that was considered as a F4 so insurance wouldn't have to pay out easily.

[@nickjc1999]

pretty sure its because mega disaster is from the mid 2000s

[@stephenpowell8750]

This documentary was made a long time ago this is why the quad state tornado isn't on the list

[@saymynameice-zen-berg511]

Yeah that wasn’t kinda fascinating but It’s not called the quad state tornado anymore because it wasn’t a single tornado but 2 separate EF4’s. But That aside, the fact that they never refer to them as EF tornadoes shows this documentary is from before 2007.

[@deadshot4245]

An f4 and an f5 still wild decimate nearly all

[@nickbozonelos4446]

Insurance has nothing to do with the strength rating of tornadoes. That's a conspiracy theory. FEMA ans disaster funding also has nothing to do with the strength of a tornado. Especially in these upper echelon events, these tornadoes can take weeks to fully survey and rate. The time frames just don't line up for that to even be remotely true.

[@billwilliams9897]

318.14205 mph winds, Dangit.

[@Megs_needsrest]

bro i was watching this documentary and my town was issued a tornado warning LOL a tornado touched down a few minutes from me

[@curtispandachuk9323]

These storm chaser people are crazy like you might as well put yourself between a mother bear and her cubs like

[@tonyb33]

They are solid professionals who risk their lives to save many many more. Radar doesn't always catch tornadoes in time. Storm Spotters are very much needed. Much respect to them for what they do. The fake ones who have had no training and just recklessly go out chasing not only put their own lives in danger but can put the trained professionals in danger. Many instances of arm chair spotters clogging roads which are used as escape routes

[@blazeravenscar]

I remember watching a short of a tornado ripping apart a house and some idiots said "Why dont Americans use stone instead of wood?" like stone is strong enough to withstand a tornado that can rip a car to shreds or uproot steel and concrete buildings.

[@riddlemehuh]

Wtf are you talking about

[@riddlemehuh]

Congratulations. That is one stupid comment

[@blazeravenscar]

Therefore, if you need a more in depth explanation: I saw a KZbin short of a tornado destroying a mans house, and some europeans who havent dealt with a powerful tornado (Since European tornados are most frequently EF0-EF1's and very rarely anything above.) said that Americans should start making their houses out of stone because we make "Cardboard houses." However, in the U.S we frequently have EF3-EF5's due to tornado alley, in turn, having more frequent powerful tornados that a stone house would not even be able to withstand seeing as a high end tornado can demolish a building that is made with concrete walls and steel beams and can make a car a big ball of twisted metal. Realistically, I should have used "Twisted ball of metal." instead of "To shreds" and "Demolish and level." instead of "Uproot." but technicallities. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@master-of-mind5881]

@@blazeravenscar interesting

[@J_Myers837]

The create so much pressure stone would break apart 2 it throw a 1000lb piece of steel through it nothing but a shelter unground keeps you alive

[@skArpPT]

Underpasses should have tornado shelters built into them.

[@MrsJasmyn45]

Or you could use common sense and not take shelter in an open area like that

[@pedrocarbonell5893]

Gawa po iyan ng mapsamang Ispiritu, Ang masa samang Angel, Sa ulap po sila nakatira,,

[@alexandriab01]

Rip to sugar

[@stevensvtg]

😍😍😍😍

[@amydavis4945]

This was a very good documentary, except for one thing... They are talking about American tornadoes, striking American towns/cities, American damages, on an American documentary, on an American tv show.... ffs stop talking about wind speeds in "kilometers per hour". I know us Americans are behind the rest of the world in metric measurements, but that's just how we roll... we measure in MILES per hour, so if you want the majority of Americans that will watch these shows to understand, then use OUR measurements. Thanks!

[@chacaabbaylee768]

He said doctor Theodor fajita. I need someone to clear that up. I thought his name was tet fujita and people have been saying it wrong

[@MrsJasmyn45]

Its Ted Fujita

[@erikaswanson7072]

Ted is short for Theodore. And his last name is Fujita. He was born in Japan and his full name is Dr Tetsuya Theodore Fujita. They may have shortened his first name to Tet or Americanized his name to Ted. But either way, Dr Fujita is the person who created the F scale we use to define the strength of tornadoes.

[@palmeranud6014]

no trees no protection

[@OLDCCHANNEL]

Bruh trees do nothing

[@model-man7802]

There was a man in that house that was pulled up into the Tornado 🌪

[@brittaschlotfeld4942]

the timeing

[@cornondajakob]

Should have mentioned el rino

[@erikaswanson7072]

I think this documentary was made in 2006. The El Reno tornado was in 2013.

[@Arcueid_Brunestud]

Why is that big tornado Ian not on this list? It destroyed like all of southern Florida...

[@YummyF0OD]

its not a tornado hobo, its a hurricane

[@juneannbrusie2042]

@@YummyF0OD another great example of how bad public schools really are. It's the 21st century and there are still people who don't know the difference between a tornado and a hurricane

[@juneannbrusie2042]

@@Salix_nigra does that question sound like something a 6 year old would say?

[@austinmccoy9743]

@@juneannbrusie2042 Honestly, it sounds like either a six year old or someone living under a rock. At what time was it EVER referred to as Tornado Ian, instead of Hurricane Ian?

[@wadewilson8011]

​@@Salix_nigra Hell, even SIX YEAR OLDS know the difference between a hurricane and a tornado. 🙄🤦🏾‍♂️

[@JasonJason210]

This video? Again?!

[@OLDCCHANNEL]

I know 3 channels have uploaded the same video my dad hates it

[@ericascali5427]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🌪️

[@MubarakNour]

That is great سبحان الله

[@vn6191]

把那些风暴专家团队捉到现场真正体验....一天到晚对着模拟器电脑研究...😅还设定某种定律条件进行😅……

[@kelcritcarroll]

Every home should be required to have an underground tornado shelter if there isnt a basement…..and businesses need to be required to have tornado shelters underground in the building….I’ve worked in a huge bldg/warehouse type structure and u literally cant hear anything happening outside…no windows to see out ( probably they dont want u looking out) it isnt that big of a deal to dig down ten feet and make it six feet wide…or a home setting , like the size of a septic tank even…it would save many lives

[@forgenorman3025]

Who's going to pay for it? What about ground water and places like Louisiana where they can't even bury their dead under the ground? Is that going to weaken structures? How are they going to make sure there's enough room for everyone in the city? It's just not that simple.

[@cindycarr3460]

She lost her dog because she didn’t care. Your animals are family and should be treated as such. She didn’t and her dog was killed😡🤬😡

[@liltimmyvr]

WOMP WOMP

[@J_Myers837]

Tornado is scary but comparing tornadoes against hurricanes in my opinion I would say hurricanes because they're $150 160 mph sustained winds for up to 9 10 hours maybe even longer all night but tornadoes you can't really they just pop out of nowhere that's the scary part and F5 can reach a mile and a half wide up to 300 mph inside the winds

[@wadewilson8011]

Your entire comment was completely discombobulated.

[@corysexton3970]

Nice try ice pilots. I seen what you try to do

[@IBF_MC]

Okay so tornadoes are destructive....so why not stay out of tornado valley??? If we dont live there people wont die. I know thats not going to happen but Ive always had the thought why do we live in these places prone to disaters. The beach you have Tsunamis, Tornado Alley you have Tornadoes.

[@indigoreignx]

It's the American agricultural heartland you want half the world to starve or you want people to live with severe weather

[@alyssarodriguez4041]

It’s called *tornado alley* not valley, and not every state in tornado alley has it as severe as others. I live in Texas for example we get tons of tornados every year but rarely above EF3 which doesn’t have super severe damage so it’s doable. Oklahoma however is basically well known for EF5’s at this point so I really couldn’t tell you why the hell they live there besides it’s cheap. You also have to think there’s severe weather everywhere in the US just different kinds. On the west coast you have earthquakes, east coast and part of the south has hurricanes, central has tornadoes, up north has blizzards. You kinda just gotta pick what you’re least scared of. Although if you grow up in a certain area you become desensitized to it by the time you’re an adult so you really don’t think to move away from it until/unless something catastrophic happens like being hit by a EF5 or a Category 5 hurricane.

[@forgenorman3025]

Tornadoes can occur literally everywhere, they're just more concentrated in tornado alley. Besides, everywhere is prone to disasters. What you're talking about is unrealistic.

[@OLDCCHANNEL]

And it’s tornado alley not tornado valley

[@reyzuna]

you do not need those simulators to know how powerful tornado is, it's another total nonsense.

[@palmeranud6014]

plant a tree ur place look like mars

[@audrey4150]

Awe sweet sugar

[@heavymetalredneck7973]

Wtf is up with the constant ads!? Makes this channel completely unwatchable, do better!

[@Unapologeteq]

Anyone else annoyed by having to convert kph into mph on a documentary taking place in the United States

[@flightlevel3608]

Well, if you know that 40kph is 20mph, 80kph is 50mph, and 100kph is 60mph, that should be good enough 😂

[@Calliope0954]

I absolutely hate metric measures. Imperial measures made far more sense - however, I got an Aussie "rough n' round' measure for temps, and kilo's: our body temp is 98.6 F, or 37 C. other close-enough IE's: 25C - double, add twenty - twenty five is close enough. Weight: 1 kilo = 2.2 pounds. I still hate kph conversion.

[@flightlevel3608]

@@Calliope0954 Funny how you say that when Europeans think the same way about Imperial units

[@KadenLunt]

The USA isn’t the only country to exist. Basically the rest of the world uses the metric system.

[@OLDCCHANNEL]

I can use Mph and Kph go back to school

[@thunderp1719]

Sarkar odiya country traitor

[@ratulxy]

?

[@alferrari3186]

Why built houses with trees they can't see trees got no chance why why Americans

[@forgenorman3025]

Cheaper to build with. And no, stone is not an option. It's more expensive and would be just as dangerous.

[@anthonymorena6259]

So, oil is more important than your lives. Hardened?....No, just plain stupid. Its like trying to live your lives on top of an active volcano. Why would you?

[@stephenpowell8750]

64 prisoner's in the jail yet the tornado missed them darn it . it's a shame because it would be a great way to make sure they don't reaffend again 😂

[@unablesmilethegamer4323]

That is just dark mate😂

[@stephenpowell8750]

@@unablesmilethegamer4323 ha not quite as dark as a jail cell though 😂

[@TheKsourmoon]

Yikes. Technically that statement was a threat...implying you've done similar ones. Jailable offense in some states, yknow... Meaning you believe you deserve to be killed for having said these types of things.

[@catsaregreat6314]

So just because someone committed a crime they should die? Jails only hold criminals with sentences under a year, so literally really small crimes

[@sweetwolfsteve5583]

Thats really messed up dude not cool like catsaregreat said "bc they committed a crime they should die" no they shouldn't your a pyshcopath stephen plwells

[@tammysims8716]

I DESPISE THE HORRIFIC ICE PILOT COMMERCIAL AND ITS GHASTLY MUSIC. Okay, maybe it is just terribly annoying. But I will never watch it for its stupid, loud commercial alone!

[@sweetwolfsteve5583]

Don't be using kilometers no one uses that it makes more sense to use millimeters

[@Stitchwitchstitch]

😂

[@OLDCCHANNEL]

Bruh😂

[@bethjanousek9935]

we don't do kilometers in the US. get someone who knows this to do these shows please.

[@BlackKiryuu]

Stop being so imperial. No one uses yards or feets or inches or whatever you people use.

[@bethjanousek9935]

@@BlackKiryuu well we do in America and sense he was talking about our weather he should be doing it correctly.

[@catsaregreat6314]

Yeah but everyone else does? And there’s a reason why. And it’s such a weird thing to get hung up about in a video about disasters that killed dozens of people

[@Stitchwitchstitch]

You need to travel more, read more, listen more.

[@OLDCCHANNEL]

@@bethjanousek9935tornadoes happen everywhere on the bloody planet

[@billhester8821]

Rubbish program

[@GayDetectorDetector]

well if were talking about the moore ok 1999 tornado as the F scale. It is NOT F5. believe it or not, there is an F6. The F6 scale starts at 318mph.... and the moore tornado was 318.14205mph

[@OLDCCHANNEL]

Bruh there is no f6

[@OLDCCHANNEL]

F5 is 201+ mph

[@GayDetectorDetector]

@@OLDCCHANNEL thats EF5

[@OLDCCHANNEL]

I’m talking past tense before 2007

[@OLDCCHANNEL]

Now shut up