Tornado Close Calls

[@SwegleStudios]

Sorry I had to reupload due to an issue haha. Thanks for watching!! What are some tornado close calls you remember? Thanks again to Morgan and Morgan for sponsoring this video! If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. Their fee is free unless they win. For more information go to ForThePeople.com/sweglestudios

[@neptuneWX]

3/31/21 and 4/9/15. Both tornadoes were pretty close, however, 3, two tornadoes hit very close.

[@FrostyIsCool16]

FR💀

[@spingleboygle]

bro got sponsored by a law firm 💀

[@rubbaducc7731]

Nah bruh it's fine. Don't worry.

[@Spongyboi897]

What was the issue?

[@nickdotjpg]

i still wonder why im so obsessed with the beauty of tornadoes and learning about them when im beyond terrified of them

[@Tembershorts]

I mean, tornados are terrifying, but they are also beautiful.

[@Sportsshorts95]

That is the beauty of tornadoes, even though you are terrified of them, you are obsessed with them

[@Don.underated]

Woman 💀

[@nickdotjpg]

@@Don.underated ?

[@Meatz32]

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[@Unb3arablePain]

So as an engineer in nuclear power I'll give some additional information, the Davis-Besse event was pretty bad but especially for that plant it's not the worst thing that has happened. The April 27, 2011 Super Outbreak nearly took out Brown's Ferry in Alabama. Multiple tornadoes hit high voltage 500kV lines feeding the plant just a few miles away causing a LOOP (Loss Of Offsite Power). Units scramed (emergency trip) automatically but the problem came down to the EDGs (Emergency Diesel Generators). BF has a total of 8 EDGs for their 3 reactors. Well on that fateful day one EDG was down for maintenance and once the reactors tripped necessitating cooling power they had an oil leak the next day on another and had to shut down that diesel too resulting in a loss of cooling power to 2 Units. So already the Diesels are struggling to provide adequate power for cooling and this is Day 1 of the event. Nuclear plant EDGs have enough fuel oil to run for 7 days and this event would end up going on for 6 days of continious operation until power was restored. On Day 5 an EDG breaker tripped due to a misalignment and now all of Unit 1's shutdown cooling was lost. If this wasn't already bad enough one of the Unit 3 EDGs had erratic output frequency and was only saved by adding loads to it which stablized it. The good news is a single high voltage power line remained allowing the operators to put some of the plant cooling loads on it but it was not qualified for emergency serivce. Had they lost this last diesel it would have likely gone into a major nuclear emergency of being unable to cool the cores like at Fukushima. As iciing on the cake, due to the mass loss of power 9/10 of the 100 emergency notification sirens were inoperable. To put it simply, this was a major screw up that nearly had the whole industry shut down and it happened cocurrently with the 2011 Fukushima meltdown, and the 2011 Fort Calhoun plant flooding that happened right after. We have since recovered as an industry and made serious safety improvements but it was pretty bad. Feel free to ask further questions in the comments, and I would suggest you cover the 2011 Super Outbreak event with Brown's Ferry in the future.

[@NelTopREE]

I'm from Pennsylvania and live 30 miles south of the now decomissioned Three Mile Island plant....blows my mind how close you guys were that fateful day

[@Vexas345]

I mean, that's a lot of things going wrong during a historic tornado outbreak and still nothing bad ended up happening. That's pretty dope. Like for real though, suck it Nature. Maybe start bringing your A game and you wouldn't be getting cooked all the time.

[@P_RO_]

I was more than a little disappointed to not see Brown's Ferry mentioned here as it far overshadowed anything else he covered. Not only the potential radiation incident but the fact that Brown's Ferry provided the only planned source of power for a large area so had it gone offline for an extended time there would have been large economic and public health repercussions. We learned more from this incident that from any other nuclear plant incident prior to this. What strikes me odd is that Brown's Ferry sits in "Dixie Alley" for tornadoes, and that part has more violent tornadoes then any other equally-sized place in the world- not where I'd put a nuclear plant!

[@BGTech1]

Fantastic information! I love comments like these

[@H.O.P.E.1122]

Was EVERY U.S. nuclear plant retrofitted after Browns Ferry?

[@coult6]

I was at the Georgia Dome that night the tornado hit. Seeing the roof of the dome flap in the winds of the tornado was something I’ll never forget even though I was 8 at the time. It was definitely one of the craziest situations I’ve ever been in.

[@Arkolun-zk7tm]

Wow these are quite the bragging rights lol

[@Bullwool]

😱 crazy

[@roygoodhand1301]

That Riley guy likely saved your life. That, in my opinion, is the greatest 3-pointer in the history of College Basketball outside of The Big Dance. That trey saved HUNDREDS, IF NOT A COUPLE THOUSAND LIVES.

[@coult6]

@@roygoodhand1301 I’m a Kentucky fan so I was definitely staying for the next game but I’m sure it saved many Alabama and Mississippi State fans lives for sure.

[@sammyq9842]

​@@Arkolun-zk7tmhuh?

[@Avgeekblueambush9700]

8:52 the tornado was like,”Are you hiring for a mascot?”

[@Ihavenocares450]

“get away from me”

[@killakays5302]

tornado: i just wanna talk​@@Ihavenocares450

[@Ihavenocares450]

@@killakays5302 “no”

[@danielhall2991]

I mean they wanted to be called the 🌀. Iowa Mother Nature said oh you want to be called this but do you really tho bet . Mother Nature - gives them an actual cyclone as a mascot.

[@Jesus_is_king1234]

@@danielhall2991 Jesus loves you

[@matthewd1918]

I’m glad that you mentioned the 1990 Plainfield tornado! I go to that school now, and there’s a memorial in one of the hallways (contains newspapers and other memorabilia) and there is a memorial to all of the victims just outside our school across the street.

[@winnienguyen4420]

One of the scariest tornadoes I've heard of and so mysterious considering there's absolutely no footage or even a picture of it. 1991 had 3 of the most powerful F5s I've heard about. Plainfield, Heston, and Goesel. Some say Heston and Goesel was one tornado, but that's not exactly the case. The Heston F5 which was losing strength merged with the newly formed Goessel tornado and proceeded to wedge out well over a mile wide.

[@calvinrivera5463]

😢

[@DANDYSCHANNEL]

The dead man walking

[@TheTimbo1983]

The tornado hit a day before school was suppose to start if I remember right?

[@Katmai_Bear_480]

@@TheTimbo1983 Exactly. School was set to begin for the year the next day. Had it been a regular school day, all of the schools would have been filled with students since the tornado went through Plainfield around 3:20 in the afternoon. Huge crisis averted, there.

[@Purple23Angling]

A couple months ago the strongest tornado in Delaware history (EF3) touched down half a mile away from my school’s prom. It’s what got me into tornados. Coolest + scariest moment of my life

[@Knee.Hockey.League-KHL]

Dang. An EF1 dropped down in my county and I was just eating my Cocoa Puffs. I did not care lol. (I should’ve cared) Edit: It was December/november 2023

[@Smokeyjoedamanedamythdalegend]

Can you do a video on people who have been picked up by a tornado and survived? I’ve heard many stories and it would be cool to see a video compiling them all or something. Love the content my man keep it up and I hope you have a good day.

[@Artfanbookfan25]

Many people who survived described being gently picked up and set down gently as well. Mind you, one story that creeped me out was about a moving truck getting picked up. It was eventually found, but the driver vanished without a trace. Another fascinating story was about a Kansas farmer who saw the interior of a tornado in 1928. He was about to close his cellar door, when the funnel lifted right above him. He described it as a spinning circle, with smaller funnels and lightning (like the F5 in "Twister").

[@overtherenowaitthere]

the one im thinking of happened to a woman who lived in wichita falls on terrible tuesday, she was a really close friend of my 4th grade teacher. she lost either or her arms or legs after getting picked up by the tornado and landing miles away.

[@NetherStray]

Seconded, this sounds great to me!

[@nick.heintz]

@@overtherenowaittherewas that the same story on tv from a while back where the woman got picked up hugging onto her toilet and was thrown then later discovered alive but badly beaten up? I can’t remember the full details I just remember she was clinging to her toilet at the time & was really torn up

[@deimondrawsproductions]

Theres the ones with Mike from the weather channel, he talked abt how it felt after it

[@B_B_]

ooooh i always love when anyone brings up that 2013 el reno tornado. i remember i was on the way home with a friend who worked at fort reno. the storms that day were unreal! couldn't see past the nose of the car through the rain at times! but we got through it!

[@callummclachlan4771]

Quite a terrifying tornado too. Was curious to see the size of it relative to my local area. Needless to say it's scared me. Luckily I likely will never have to deal with any major one where I live (highest the state has recorded is an F1). Tasmania isn't exactly a tornado hotspot. Maybe other winds, but not tornadoes.

[@davidci]

Your videos fill my tornado-shaped hole in my life, I love watching these tornado deep dives/analyses

[@briannec2016]

Dude, this comment 🤣🤣🤣

[@eggheadtwoSCM]

Cuh

[@berthold64]

🤨

[@zrkch]

The students’ close call with the Plainsville tornado was one of the first Storm Stories episodes I saw as a kid- cementing a fascination of tornados. Such an interesting story to hear from the survivors.

[@sunboy07]

By far one of my favorite youtubers. Not only do you make a usually confusing subject easy for outsiders to understand, you're engaging, your video editing is well-done, you do massive amounts of research and are dedicated to your craft, and you're funny! Can't wait to see more from you!

[@SwegleStudios]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@briannec2016]

And his voice is so calming! He reminds me of Eric Stoltz cerca Memphis Belle.

[@chickennoodles9933]

Great video! Surprised you didn’t mention the 2011 Hackleburg EF-5, widely considered one of the most powerful tornadoes ever recorded, passing within 2 miles of the 2nd largest nuclear power plant in the US

[@christophermusso]

Came to mention Browns Ferry, but you've got it covered. 👍

[@CarlosAM1]

admittedly even then an f5 won't do jack to the reactor itself of a nuclear power plant, as the containment building can literally shrug off a hit from an airliner, and if it does damage, say perhaps the diesel generators, perhaps external cooling or power could be applied as it will take a while for the reactor to melt down from residual heat even with the diesel generators dead.

[@flamingcheetopuff8434]

underrated tornado

[@P_RO_]

@@CarlosAM1 Not all reactors are built to those standards. We have some operating that are known to be disaster-vulnerable but they're left operational for various reasons. I might also point out that the World Trade Centers were deemed physically able to withstand a hit from a 707 which at the time was the largest airliner, but nobody had considered the collateral damages from such a hit. Even if the containment buildings can physically survive a disaster, they are only one part of a system which must have a lot of things functioning to be safe like control rooms, generators, cooling water piping and pumps, etc. You wouldn't be so sure of safety if you knew how close we came with Brown's Ferry, which didn't even take a direct hit from a tornado...

[@CarlosAM1]

@@P_RO_ that is a bit of a misleading statement. The world trade center could take a hit from an airliner due to a previous incident that happened in NY, HOWEVER assuming it was not going at full speed, as would happen during an accident, remember physics! Kinetic energy goes to the square of velocity, and the terrorists knew that damn well, hence they made sure it was going as fast as possible when they hit the towers, also hit them at an angle to hit as many columns as possible and compromise the structural integrity of the floor until it collapsed. As for nuclear reactors what you say is true and I already mentioned it in my comment, however at the same time external solutions can be applied in the worst case as the disaster area is not gonna be flooded like fukushima or anything, and the containment building of a reactor pretty much always has to be that strong. It must be able to contain the steam pressure of the pressure vessel rupturing and most if not all external damage, it has been tested before experimentally and those domes can literally take a hit just like the one that killed the WTC and be fine. Again physics, the shape is much like that of a pressure tank as a cylinder with a rounded edge, not just that, but reinforced by literal meters of concrete and steel. Even for an EF5, extremely tough nut to crack, you need the energy of a literal bomb to get through even the smallest area of reinforcement

[@TsunamiSephi]

The big thing you missed about the El Reno tornado is that channel 4 was telling people to drive south away from it causing a huge influx of traffic that wasn't supposed to be there on top of the already packed rush hour commuters. It was a huge blunder by Chief meteorologist Mike Morgan, and I'm pretty sure you covered it in a previous video.

[@lyanreehan]

to be fair that part of oklahoma city heavily lacks tornado shelters, that was probably their only chance to save people

[@moosefromsky3986]

The one that killed three stormchasers?

[@scarpfish]

@@lyanreehan What people who get in their cars to flee a tornado don't seem to understand is... 1. Your ability to get anywhere will be hampered if not crippled entirely by others trying to do the same thing at the same time. 2. Tornadoes can change paths and you could just as easily jump into danger rather than away from it, not to mention have to deal with the other hazards of the thunderstorm. 3. EF4 and EF5 tornadoes are about 1% of tornadoes, and even in those, the vast majority of the damage indicators are of a lesser rating. A site built frame home, even without a basement or shelter, coupled with adding personal protection measures like wearing helmets, laying as prone to the floor as possible and/or covering with a mattress, will absolutely protect people more often than not.

[@lyanreehan]

@@scarpfish Im not defending the decision Im just saying that SOME people who managed to get lucky and leave would survive because this tornado was a rare event and the area it was heading toward was an older part of the city that would've been absolutely leveled. They issued the first ever tornado emergency for one reason: "you are likely not going to survive above ground"

[@anemicroyaltywx]

@@moosefromsky3986 yep, the one that killed them

[@OnEst_Opinion]

The very first situation he brought up was two things I never remotely thought would see each other: a tornado and a nuclear plants. That is WICKED. Also, that basketball player hitting the three to send the game to OT was CLUTCH and not just for the team but thousands upon thousands of unsuspecting fans. That’s just crazy. Great video man!! Great video. What a channel!

[@myka2932]

11:25 is too funny i laughed an embarrassing amount at this 😂😂😂💀

[@shizzle840]

Always a good day when Swegle puts out a video! Thanks man!

[@Litch016]

6:04 An interesting one to talk about here would’ve been the Gloucester VA high end EF3 on April 16th, 2011. A tornado hit a school completely destroying some parts of it during what would’ve have been school hours. However, it was a Saturday, so no students or faculty were injured in the school.

[@SGTASTER]

Crazy to see how much this channel has grown over the last 3 years. I remember when you dropped your first 2 videos.

[@Maryaminx]

About the same time as the Georgia Dome game I was going to school at Georgia State. There was a long walk between buildings and I remember it being deserted and the air was really weird. I discovered after I made it to my next class that there was a tornado warning.

[@TKRVideoCentral]

Great job as always, Jake! We had a sort of close call when I was a kid - our neighbors saw a funnel, but it didn't ever touch completely down, it was close enough to the ground to rip our front porch awning off and take a few of the shingles off the roof and throw a few outside toys into the vacant lot between our house and the local park. Thankfully we were away from home at the time, at my Grandma's house 15 miles south -all of this in the upper part of Central Ohio before you actually become North Central Ohio (I know but that's how they look at it, LOL) but it convinced my mom we needed to move to a different part of the small town we lived in, as our house at the time - which was in the process of having a full basement built - was on the side of the highest hill in town. Scary stuff, but nothing like what you have here. Cheers!

[@spookyscaryskeletonsmith2840]

2:24 Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, June 13 1976, F4 tornado ripped the root off of the building holding a nuclear reactor

[@CaptnHampton22]

The searching for nuke plants in Oklahoma and Kansas was mad funny. Love this channel. It gets better and better with every video.

[@PizzaSteve3902]

Fun fact about nuclear power in Oklahoma, nearby where I grew up was a nuclear reactor fuel refining facility right outside Gore called Sequoyah Fuels. There was a radiation incident there once, and my grandma was one of the on-site nurses there. The facility has since shut down and they buried the whole thing under dirt and concrete. An EF2 tornado blew through that area a few years ago and I could see it from our front porch. Pretty cool.

[@JCBro-yg8vd]

The Planisfeld tornado hit a day before classes at the high school were scheduled to begin. And it infamously was never warned by the NES, so it could've easily been much deadlier if not for a fluke of the calendar. I also remember a book mentioning a tornado in I believe North Carolina, which just missed a dog racing track with hundreds of spectators. And don't forget the Nashville 1998 monster that hit the still under construction stadium for the Tennessee Titans. No injuries or deaths, but a crane collapsed due to the high winds.

[@christwarrior8501]

I love your fascination with tornadoes and storms in general. Growing up as a kid I loved tornadoes, reading about them, researching them, and studying them, it would always excite me. I enjoyed it so much to the point I wanted to become a storm chaser and in my little kid head, I would always imagine what it would be like to chase such a beautiful, yet, deadly storm. Even as an adult I still have a love for tornadoes. It’s a good thing KZbin recommended your channel to me because I love the content you create and the in depth research you do on tornado events.

[@Baldevi]

Great video, Loved the bit when you edited in the Dead Man Walking line, then the Jarrell TX Tornado walking into Double Creek to NOT be a close call. That one haunts me still. Also I got the video's notice 12 minutes after it was published and was like 157. That's a lot for less than 15 minutes! Great new, your Channel is definitely growing here! Congrats!

[@the_real_littlepinkhousefly]

I kind-of hate the dead man walking photos. They freak me out severely. Regular tornadoes look cool, even multi-vortex ones I can handle watching, but that one in Jarrell, particularly, is terrifying. Maybe a trigger warning could be put up before showing that picture?

[@fluffyyote]

God the face you make at 2:50 is absolutely hilarious LMAO

[@AverageWeatherFur]

i thought i was the only furry weather nerd

[@fluffyyote]

@@AverageWeatherFur oh naww not at all! I think this guy Ryan hall yall collaborated with sometimes is also a furry! He’s a pretty good scientist too! I forget his name tho but if I remember I’ll reply lol

[@EpicgamerGTG]

Bro really just said 😬

[@nikkidignan6648]

This channel is so cool. I can’t wait to see more. I think it would be really cool if you did a video on tornadoes in other countries. We are always talking about tornadoes in the USA which is understandable but hearing that Germany and China has had tornadoes as well is so fascinating. Keep up the amazing work.

[@TheChromePup]

One of my fav channels. Very informative for newbies and weather veterans alike, and with a great balance of humourous jokes and sobering asides. Mr. Swegle also has an oddly soothing voice, but that's neither here nor there. ;) Hope your channel keeps going strong, man! Always a joy to watch (even if it makes me a little nervous about my recent move to Iowa....) Go Cyclones I guess?

[@RoxNoAnne]

My personal tornado close call was when an EF4 tornado struck Dayton. The tornado started forming right above my dad's work place. The damage was done about 5 minutes away from where I lived, driving distance, and only one person died indirectly. It was during the tornado outbreak of May 2019 where 400 tornadoes formed in the span of 2 weeks

[@amandastumpff5252]

Memorial Day weekend

[@SoCal780]

That photo of the damage from the Xenia tornado from 1974 sure brought back memories. I was less than 10 miles away when that occurred. I live about 10 miles away from Plainfield, IN now. My cousin Mike was a 1975 All-American wide receiver for the Colorado Buffaloes. 3 personal connections from this video, awesome! Loved the sponsor ad too! 👍😂

[@leafiiloran]

The ad read definitely gave me a chuckle, lol. Your content has been getting more and more impressive and I can't wait for the next video 😁 one of my fav channels for sure ❤

[@giarc0]

2:13 funniest thing I’ve seen in a long while. Thank you for editing this clip into your video. The look on old man’s face….gold. Poor Stu.

[@TrialzGTAS]

Always a good time when the Sweg uploads

[@EKSBEntertainment]

El-reno i was there for both 1999 and 2013 Moore tornadoes and Joplin plus many during 2011 super outbreak. I live in Australia but got family in US and Iv always had a fascination of tornadoes and this el-reno tornado was less then a month after EF5 moore tornado 2013. It was heart breaking to hear 4 storm chasers and other died that day. Have not chased a tornado since. Plus the panic from el-reno was due to Moore tornado.

[@TheJacquesStrap]

Thanks for another interesting video Jake! The EF-5 that hit Parkersburg could have been on this list, too. The school took a direct hit just hours after graduation took place in the high school gym. Had that tornado developed earlier it might have struck a gym full of people.

[@andrewkirk3047]

Your ad was *amazing*. The arm movements while "walking" with the lawyers? Holy smokes. Effing brilliant. 😂😂😂😂

[@alexbowers2713]

3:16 did bro use his mugshot lmao

[@Taranofsky]

Brother, your comedy chops are better than you realize I think. I'm consistently cracking up. Great timing. Solid edits. Love it.

[@parkedcar3411]

I actually drive by that nuclear power plant in Toledo whenever I’m going into Ohio. Whether you fly out of Detroit metro or drive along the highway, it’s basically the halfway marker. Never knew it was almost hit. I was almost hit by a tornado also but it never dropped from the sky, there was a circulation over my house and when checking the tv while taking shelter, the weatherman’s map was right over my street, love your stuff man

[@junctiondraws7025]

YOOOOOOO SWEGLE STUDIOS UPLOAD LETS GOOOOOOOO!!!! Phenomenal video as always!!!!

[@brodytalkssports7259]

My dad was at the Iowa state tornado game and he said it was crazy to see weather like that during a football game.

[@richardpope6180]

I was keeping stats in the pressbox, and as we were going to the stairs (reinforced concrete around) you could see the tornado to the west. Weird typing in the play by play " Game delayed 40 minutes for a tornado warning" particularly in November in Iowa.

[@jannamckeen4414]

Your ad spots crack me up!!

[@mmatthew]

glad to see your channel doing so good

[@thornndog]

Did I just watch a Morgan and Morgan add in KZbin hahaha. Great content as always my man

[@ChubbyJontheBartender]

March 2020 F-3 tornado in Jonesboro Arkansas stuck at 5:00pm on a Saturday afternoon. It was a direct hit on the shopping mall, which would normally be host to hundreds of people at that time. It had recently just closed due to Covid restrictions. Under normal operations, it would have been a mass loss of life event. Great content as always, thanks!

[@KindaTech654]

I’ve been in a close call at my school. It was a EF3 half a mile wide. a devastating tornado. It ripped the roof off an animal shelter, destroyed the Beamer Place apartment complex, got close to a mobile home park, and destroyed deer park. Started in Pearland TX and went through Houston, and Pasadena TX. Luckily no one died but people have been left with ptsd like my poor mom

[@hotdog31227]

I think another close call would be associated with the 1975 Omaha F4, which would pass very close to a horse racetrack filled with 9,000 + people. One of the most famous pictures of that tornado, was taken from there.

[@H.O.P.E.1122]

Lots of really educated replies. Learned from reading. I came to comment on your lawyer ad. Looks like an audition. 😂 Hope you still do videos if Broadway or Hollywood grabs you up.

[@rossie714]

- Joplin, 2011: High school graduation with 5,000 in attendance ends moments before F5 obliterates the school. - St. Louis airport, 2011: Edge of F4 tornado strikes and blows out windows, but hundreds are spared because core barely misses. - Indianapolis 500 in 2004: Race shortened by 20 laps when tornado roars past nearby. Tens of thousands are spared.

[@OuterGalaxyLounge]

I clicked for the tornadoes. I stayed for the crazy ass Morgan & Morgan commercial, lol.

[@HistoryNerd808]

I thinking you can argue Jarrell 1997 was too, despite how horrific it was. While it would be way worse with its population growth since, Jarrell is only about 20 minutes from the Austin Metro, about 40 miles from downtown Austin, and about 25 miles from Temple-Ft. Hood-Kileen, another good sized metro area of 475k people(today. Obviously less in 1997)

[@TitaniumTurbine]

Another great video from Swaggin’ Swaggy Swegle!!! ❤️

[@yyy-67h]

4:39 the scary part is the ball almost bounced out the rim 💀

[@danielhall2991]

What’s funny is Alabama basketball is involved lol it’s always us being involved 20011 then that one come on man

[@ecardona53]

🤣🤣 I never would have expected a Morgan & Morgan plug on a Swegle Studios video. These guys are literally everywhere, they even sponsored the #02 NASCAR truck a few weeks ago. You gotta respect that.

[@laurierounds7102]

I was in Tuscaloosa in April 2011. I watched the monster come into town from my 4th floor hotel room. Fascinating but also heart pounding. I chickened out when I noticed it wasn’t moving left or right, just getting closer. I took the stairs to the middle of the hotel center interior hallway with several others. The tornado went 3/4 mile north of my hotel on I-20.

[@Artfanbookfan25]

What was the noise like? 😮

[@davidpawson7393]

​@@Artfanbookfan25 My guess is it was like a tornado.

[@Artfanbookfan25]

@@davidpawson7393 XD I'm just curious because everyone describes something else (jet plane, train, a million bees, a thousand waterfalls all at once, etc.).

[@andremus3]

I never expected to see a morgan and morgan ad on youtube

[@broadstreetbullies849]

Bro really pulled the Morgan and Morgan sponsorship

[@useazebra]

Nuclear reactors are inside containment housing (in the US) strong enough to withstand direct impact from a jumbo jet. A tornado could damage support buildings and get the reactor shut down, but wouldn't break containment.

[@thedouglaspodcast]

6:19 AHHHHH I was just about to comment, _”yeah well my hometown in Plainfield..”_ AND THATS THE ONE YOURE TALKING ABOUT 😭 when you talked about tornado drills.. I thought about doing them.. AT PLAINFIELD SCHOOLS when I was a kid through highschool 🥺 never forget the Plainfield F5 tornado and all the lives lost 😔💔

[@thedouglaspodcast]

Dude especially back in 1990 🥺 that could’ve been THE WORST tornado disaster ever recorded.. because sooooo many would’ve.. well.. you know 😔

lmao the ad was hilarious 😂 tornados are soooo pretty ✨ i need to travel to the US to see one because there's just a little chance that it's gonna happen in my country. yeah i'm kinda lucky, but i want to see one😂😂

[@MaxLovesNascarOfficial]

7:08 This tornado actually got me into learning about tornadoes. That started a lot for me.

[@athenaisfine]

Same here

[@I_Am_The_Bean]

Yea, but instead it was the Winterset Iowa ef4

[@brodytalkssports7259]

Growing up as a cyclones fan I’ve always loved the intro

[@loufancelli1330]

Back in the 1990s there was a tornado warning in downtown Columbus Ohio on the night of July 3. Anyone from here knows that date means Red White and Boom, where there are in excess of 700,000 people in the downtown area for the fireworks. It's fortunate that the tornado didn't hit and that people actually dealt with the warning alert calmly and it didn't result in injuries from panic.

[@Hongobogologomo]

Love it. Nobody covers these stories like you

[@waveydaveyav8r442]

Did anyone else notice that the Fireplace at 0:20 in still had pictures on the mantle?

[@footfungus6226]

I love your videos swegle!

[@winnienguyen4420]

The 1995 Pampa, Kellerville, and Allison Texas tornadoes, despite all being rated F4, would easily be EF5s today with the enhanced Fujita. In fact the F4 ratings they received are very controversial as most who witnessed them say they were definitely F5. The Allison tornado chase is one of the scariest I've ever seen.

[@silasdriver3437]

I wanted to be a storm chaser so bad when I was a kid. These videos help satisfy that love for these incredible storms. Great content!

[@GaryVirta]

Nuclear plants are generally hardened against tornadoes, but those pesky nyucular plants are basically made of cardboard! ;) I had family in Yukon and Bethany when the El Reno tornado went through, so it scared the crap outta me when I saw the path. Nice scope! Is that a C11?

[@winnienguyen4420]

I wouldn't bet on it especially with a high end 5 involved.

[@shadowfang13]

I was gonna skip your ad read but it was so great 😂❤ love it

[@8AverageAsian8]

13:00 just so you guys know the tornado was proven later to me 4.3 miles wide with 336mph. A meteorologist calculated that this tornado would the 12 times the destructive force at the Joplij tornado of 2011

[@jimbobshambles]

I agree that tornadoes are absolutely beautiful storms! I’ve been obsessed with em since I was a kid.

[@yazminlozano5840]

11:21 dead man walking 😂

[@sk.1069]

Very nice video, you did a great job on it. I have seen a few of your other videos & those are great work too! But, if I may I know this video is called tornado close calls, but on the May 20, 2013 the ef5 tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma there was 2 elementary schools that took direct hits. Thankful there was no deaths at Briarwood Elementary School. But sadly at Plaza Towers Elementary school there was 7 little 3rd graders that lost their lives! Also at the beginning of your video when you showed pictures from the 1974 Xenia Ohio tornado the high school in Xenia took a direct hit too. The tornado hit after school & on a Wednesday when most business' closed Wednesday afternoons in small towns like Xenia. But the drama club kids was rehearsing for their upcoming musical when another girl yelled in telling them to come look at the tornado. They all left the stage to see it including their teacher. As soon as the teacher saw that monster coming right for them he got all of those kids in a hallway & took shelter. Even though a school bus ended up being thrown through the air & landed right in the middle of the stage, right where all those kids was only a few moments before, no lives was lost in the high school! I live in Ohio & Xenia is about 30 minutes south of me! My husbands childhood best friend had 2 cousins die in the 1974 EF5 Xenia tornado!

[@Marsc9013]

5:55 Nice use of the clock tower ost

[@Heka41]

Your commentary is great, your footage is great, your channel is great, thank you for this Swegle Studios.

[@G-Lew]

Is that real footage at 9:29?

[@fgsaycheese8834]

My dad was at that basketball game. This I crazy I was at the dining table when he sees me watching this video and at the perfect time the clip plays and he says “I WAS AT THAT game

[@AtomicMilitary]

8:35 it is illegal to play EAS tones, the FCC had to fine groups for doing that

[@Megalaoofania]

*illegal to broadcast (like on TV stations)

[@meriadocbrandybuck9833]

I watched a rope tornado hit a field only. Ran parallel to us for about a mile. It was beautiful. Lifted just prior to a house and its farm buildings. Perfect.

[@AirShark95]

I think the 2018 Ottawa, ON EF2 Tornado also deserves a mention. While the Dunrobin, ON/Gatineau, QC EF3 tornado was the major one of the day, a smaller EF2 touched down in the community of Craig Henry in Ottawa's south end and went nearly parallel to a major southern avenue in the city's suburbs, heading East. It's path took it directly over the Merrivale electric transmission station, causing severe damage and knocking out power to over 100,000 homes in the city. The tornado continued east, and subsided less than one mile (0.75mi) from another major electric substation, the Hawthrone transmission station near the city's Industrial Park. Had the tornado hit this second major substation, the city of 1,000,000 inhabitants could have had its entire power infrastructure knocked out by a single tornado as the Merrivale and Hawthrorne stations are the only two major transmission stations in the city. Recovery could have taken months and cost tens of millions of dollars, resulting in a severe blackout, and significantly magnifying the amount of indirect damage cause by this rare event.

[@aust1nblack636]

The iowa state cyclones are 5-0 this year and are a good football team, by the way love your videos I’m a tornado fanatic myself and love meteorology thanks for the videos they keep me on the edge of my seat. Your the goat of weather videos brutha

[@mandoplayz]

3:00 literally turned into a basketball video 💀💀

[@jeremiahcole2542]

once again swegle knocked it out of the park! This is quickly becoming my favorite channel

[@someperson3883]

8:40 After this year Iowa State will never play Oklahoma in the regular season

[@MaxLovesNascarOfficial]

Lol

[@cheddar2648]

Mike Bettes and the other occupants of a Weather Channel SUV were incredibly lucky to have survived the El Reno EF-5 when their vehicle was rolled 200 yards.

[@dustinsterling3248]

7:56 hey, that's where i live 😀

[@SUBSPACE.THE.SCIENTIST]

I remember the ef5 Plainfield tornado ( i was not alive by then but my grandmother lived there during the tornado, if you didn't know there was no warning for that tornado )

[@lisamaloy3230]

4:21 omg there’s a cameraman skibidi camera head

[@KanyeSoutheast9347]

real

[@wrightbros5962]

Shut Up

[@andpeggyofficial]

Please shut up

[@maddievictoria4947]

Always excited when Swegle drops a video! Love this channel, thank you for your time!

[@Royaltic2025]

0:59 oh no wonder a tornado formed

[@amberhansen3806]

Another excellent video. Amazing how many subs you have now compared to last year. It's awesome to see you blow up with tons of fellow tornado junkies!

[@speakerpythia]

Watching the players and refs slowly come to a stop, then turn to face where they hear the rumbling, gave me goosebumps. Couldn't tell you why, just very spooky.

[@AmyraCarter]

April, 2022. #eeriereminiscence The Andover, KS tornado. The storm that produced it, developed right overhead where I was living in Haysville. It's eerie to think about just how if the storm had developed just a stone's throw away, south by southwest, it would of been a *_Haysville tornado_* instead, and where I used to reside, there was *_no viable shelter within a fifty yard sprint,_* save for chancing it once or twice with a random person's house nearby. The apartment structures were built in such a way that there were *_no interior walls at all._* Best option would be to get in the car and tear arse down the tarmac, perpendicular to the path of the storm if possible at that point. Keep the NOS ready too.

[@newmexicanpersonwhoexists]

WHY DID THE ONE THAT HIT THE TENNESSEE STATE PRISON HAVE LEGS 😭😭💀💀

[@Iron_chex274]

Dead man walking ☠️ one of the scariest most deadly tornados to exist

[@maplesarap]

LOL I loved the Kansas googling bit and the dead man walking scene

[@commandershepard9920]

Wait, did I mishear you at 0:15? That "99 %" of the time, it's a bad situation? Don't the majority of tornadoes occur in the middle of nowhere? Ie, most land isn't covered by people, so in terms of pure probability, wouldn't this be the case? Not ripping or being sarcastic.

[@tgj251]

Nothing like a weekend afternoon with Swegle and tornados.