Tornado in Raleigh, NC 4/16/2011

Video of Tornado coming thru Raleigh, NC

[@lindyc.2552]

I remember that day very well too! It was the only day since I had moved down here in 1992 that they were flashing "TORNADO EMERGENCY" across the t.v. screen. I had my two dogs in their harnesses and I was already to grab them and get into a closet. I can't believe it was that long ago! How time flies!

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

Makes me feel grateful to be living in the mountains! Excellent capture!!!

[@gregwheless5171]

Was in a 3rd floor apartment off Avent Ferry Rd watching this monster. Ended up in my closet

[@garycousino4016]

I remember that day. Was driving down the belt line with a canoe on my truck and got off as soon as I could thought the wind was going to snap the racks off. Friend of mine lived close to the intersection of Holly Springs and Kildare Farm road it just missed his place

[@FiyahAndIce]

I was out on 440 somewhere between the Capital Blvd and North Hills exit, I think, pulled over on the side of the road. I had only been in Raleigh for 3 months so I really didn't know where I was at that time. But it was raining so hard I couldn't see in front of me, and it was horizontal. I was terrified, lol. I always wondered where that tornado actually was...thanks for this interesting footage!

[@Anna_Stetik]

I just moved to Raleigh right before lock downs. I was doing food/grocery deliveries for people while they were locked down. One day, it was very stormy, very windy, and the rain was, as you said, horizontal...it was really bad, and very hard to see the road. When I finally got to the customer's house, I mentioned the weather and how I was wondering if I was in a tornado. They didn't seem to understand. Never saw anything about it or heard anyone talk about it, so it must not have been one, but I do wonder what it was, because aside from hurricanes that I experienced when I lived in FL, I've never seen the rain go almost completely sideways.

[@spcraleigheas]

ah, memorable tornado outbreak. good thing all the tornadoes that touched down were only below ef4.

[@shelly2788]

Me and my daughter were own Glenwood uptown Eating We noticed the napkins were blowing off the table What you are seeing came about 10 minutes later it came right down Greenwood

[@Ocinneade345]

Crazy to see where the guy in the rbc tower was filming. And yes, the recent tornado outbreak made me think of ours ten years ago

[@Ocinneade345]

Lives in oberlin village at the time

[@StephanHerzog]

I was in a parking garage on the 5 level. No warning sirens at all in Raleigh

[@lawnchaser]

I live in matthews, nc. Thats about 3 hours away from raleigh. And man that was a crazy day

[@poss4757]

Remember that day there were tornadoes all over the state of North Carolina one took out a Lowe's in Sanford one did a lot of damage in Fayetteville live 12 miles from the Fayetteville tornado didn't have power for a day and a half but had no damage around my neighborhood so we were lucky

[@JeffDeWitt]

A few days later I was in Umstead Park near Raleigh and there was debris from Sanford in the woods.

[@evan22303]

That tornado missed my neighborhood in Holly Springs, but it sure did some damage to the houses & powerlines near me.

[@skywarnjlw3]

Great footage, good job hanging in there as long as you could.

[@Meowmeowkittyyy]

U alive still?

[@StephanHerzog]

Yes still Kicking and chasing storms

[@dragongrrl3]

Damn it went really close to where I catch my connections for CAT...

[@andreaberryman5354]

Not a tornado-a microburst. A massive column of saturated sinking air that explodes down from a cloud with super high velocity wind sheer at the surface.

[@StephanHerzog]

Considering all news channels were covering this as a tornado, I think I’ll believe them. Evidently you didn’t see the damage from South Carolina to Virginia.

[@westleyburgess3622]

This was the tornado family that started in Sanford NC and tracked all the way through Raleigh. I lived on Ten Ten Rd close to Lake wheeler Rd. It got within a mile of my house as it came down Holly Springs Rd and crossed Ten Ten to hit the NC State cattle farm just before entering downtown.

[@streetlimitz89]

at that point it appears to be a rain wrapped tornado

[@latoshaadams3828]

It blew out food lion windows all trees down on glascock down pass the skating rink trees just laying in the road bad day in raleigh

[@Th3BlaCkNaZi666]

Is that north hills mall???

[@latoshaadams3828]

Downtown raleigh

[@grunt9131]

Anyone know what the tornado was rated?

[@StephanHerzog]

Ef3 in some parts of the state

[@antwonchristmas8161]

I remember that day, I was to afraid to record. Luckily it didnt touch down. It would have destroyed downtown. It was literally right above

[@vicpsyops4095]

Oklahoma calls this rain.

[@xmrrushx]

OMG look at the Tree!

[@devinsatur]

i live in garner a few miles away from raleigh.

[@tinaberstler2188]

Trojan town yeah me to

[@jerome2smokey]

@@tinaberstler2188 same

[@PhuongPhan-ue1qw]

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[@LUDAing]

5 thumbs up!

[@rudiechinchilla6746]

In gact :man os nothong!

[@Th3BlaCkNaZi666]

nm lol

[@music-channel69]

Clickbait. There's no visible tornado.