Tornado Size Comparison

[@REDSIDEofficial]

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[@oofman9009]

Hi

[@max.h3227]

Wow, hi

[@bryson-shirleybesley9249]

Thanks man!

[@lucasalmeida212]

You could have put the biggest buildings in the world, like the Burj Khalifa, by way of comparison.

[@jartisannCheese]

Siren head

[@skiptalbot]

Protips: Compare tornadoes using circles (or cylinders on an oblique angle) that show their areal coverage over the ground, instead of using similarly shaped funnel clouds that keep growing in height. The biggest tornadoes are much wider than they are tall, and most EF0 tornadoes are at least hundreds of feet tall (not slightly taller than a truck). Also your tornadoes are spinning the wrong direction.

[@chasefoster9651]

people need to like this more, Some legit PROTIPS lmao

[@LocketShoru]

@@chasefoster9651 From an actual storm chaser who lived through most of the named tornadoes here! :p (I mean that: he has footage of most of the American ones, including El Reno, up right now. Go check him out.)

[@Noone4207I0]

Oh god it was a comparison not a scientific study stop being a snob cause that's what's fascinating you

[@sauerkrautjr]

My man.

[@sampb0906]

@@Noone4207I0 tornadoes are a part of science lol. Not to mention if you’re going to quote events it’s important to have the facts straight.

[@R41D3RNAT10N]

People don't realize that the EF system is based on damage. Since the El Reno tornado was over flat farmland it was labeled and EF-3. If that tornado went over a city the damage and death toll would have been the worst in years. Wind speeds were measured at over 300mph in cyclones *orbiting* the main tornado. EDIT* Wow this comment started a war lol

[@midwestsirens]

exactly.

[@jakez7x766]

I believe the scale is based on wind speeds, or is that a different scale?

[@midwestsirens]

@@jakez7x766 It's based on damage. The Enhanced Fujita Scale is the only one (US) and they rate tornadoes on damage and use that rating to estimate the tornado's wind speed, if they don't already know it from radar data.

[@jakez7x766]

RCDude ohhh I see, thank you!

[@orionstar3310]

That's why a lot of people get confused with the percentage of annual tornadoes relating to the EF scale...

[@treytonpoling1356]

Is nobody gonna talk about how that fire whirl killed 38,000 people in 15 minutes?

[@The_Man_In_Red]

Apparently due to wind speeds the temperature inside those suckers can soar to over 2700F - but they are extremely rare so at least there's that. Hot enough to melt metal & concrete. But ya I saw that and thought damn. That's insanely significant. I think less people passed in 2011's tsunami.

[@BlueRice]

@@The_Man_In_Red i didnt see it that way. if it can reach temp over 27k... holy moly. there isnt nothing you can hide from. its like a torch just cut the building in half and with the hole it created the heat wave would just vaporized everyone inside.

[@DarthJermz]

September 1, 1923. Started as an earthquake, then a 40 foot high tsunami. The death toll would be about 140,000, including 44,000 who had sought refuge near Tokyo’s Sumida River in the first few hours, only to be immolated by a freak pillar of fire known as a “dragon twist.”. September 1, 1923.

[@BlueRice]

@@DarthJermz is there any video footage of that era? i cant imagine where to hide, only down the sewer.

[@akoyceyel8745]

@@The_Man_In_Red when i saw the first tornado i was shocked🤧💸✌

[@deadlybladesmith3093]

This is sort of a deceiving video because of the shape of the tornadoes. The larger ones are called wedge tornadoes, and are wider than they are tall. One specific one is the El Reno tornado that wasn't anything special in terms of height, but was the widest in history.

[@Contraption_Productions]

yea

[@LocketShoru]

If anyone wants to see coverage and actual footage of the El Reno tornado, Pecos Hank is the channel to go for, followed by Skip Talbot. Both were there, both covered it well. Hank's got an amazing graphic in his 'Tornadoes of 2013' video that actually shows the subvortices versus the tornado itself. Subvortices inside El Reno, though, clocked over 400km/h, and also have the second fastest wind speeds recorded ever on earth, just shy of Moore 1999, also in this video. Both are estimates of +- 30mph, but Moore currently holds the record.

[@deadlybladesmith3093]

@@LocketShoru I think I have watched every single one of Pecos Hank's video 😂

[@LocketShoru]

@@deadlybladesmith3093 For everyone else though who isn't us. xD Not everyone watches tornado videos like we do!

[@Mrbendy-yq4nn]

actualy El Reno was a supercell tornado with 4 sattelite(recorrect me if i spelled it wrong) around the main tornado and apart form that had literaly every signs of it bieng a supercell and nota wedge also can i just mention it was the first tornado that killed storm chasers and can we just add that it was from the same storm that later on spawned the twins...

[@jada._marie]

I always thought the El Reno tornado was an EF-5. It's also crazy how Oklahoma had two historical tornado events within 11 days, especially how the tornadoes were basically in the same area. That tornado outbreak was CRAZY.

[@memesarekeem]

EF is based upon damage. El Reno was an F-5, and is to date the biggest tornado ever recorded.

[@jada._marie]

@@memesarekeem Oh! I always thought it was based off wind speeds.

[@SvendleBerries]

Yeah, the way they designed the EF scale is stupid. Takes things into account that have nothing to do with the tornado itself. Wind speed is still a part of it, so as far as Im concerned, its an EF-5. I dont care about how many barns or tractors it destroyed. They have nothing to do with the storm other than being in the way. The wind speed and size of the tornado should be all that matters. Bloody scientists always trying to over complicate things for no reason other than to justify their continuing to get government grants.

[@krs4395]

I assume the conditions that caused the first tornado were similar to the conditions that cause the second, when you think about it like that then it's not so outlandish for two monster tornados to appear in a similar place at a similar time.

[@chucks233]

@@SvendleBerries THE EF System was invented when we had no 100% way to determine windspeed and such of a tornado so the damage was the only thing to go by.

[@_Just_Another_Guy]

Putting a well-known building or structures beside the tornadoes would've been helpful in visualizing the size. Like the Statue of Liberty or Eiffel Tower.

[@SilentTJ]

except tornadoes don't get taller with strength, they get wider. this comparison video is completely useless

[@JDGage]

They had it in the thumbnail but not the video lol.

[@profd65]

Make your own video instead of whining.

[@_playa_]

@@profd65 🤡

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

@@profd65 shut

[@hurricanemitch591]

*size don't matter. streght matter!*

[@xskad]

i get why you spelled strength wrong because the tornado jumbled up the letters

[@gdyt2288]

lkr

[@ayemrocafort]

🔝

[@hooliganfanatic7241]

I guess El-Reno lost then.

[@offcomets2727]

well tornados are stronger

[@ramsesjsv]

How I learned about tornadoes 1% school 1% images 98% in the description of this video

[@ramsesjsv]

WAIT WHAT THE- how did this get so many likes?

[@imabotong6739]

Omg now it has 4.8k

[@ramsesjsv]

oh WAIT WHA-

[@rollgaming2605]

@@imabotong6739 for some reason it says 128 now

[@CentralOklahomaWX]

I live in Moore, just like 30 or so minutes away from el reno

[@mackgiver875]

For those who didn't notice the diameters of each tornado is in the little info bar below them. It was probably just easier to make them visually different vertically rather than having a tornado take up the entire screen because it was 4km wide.

[@Jnsweetie]

What is your name

[@Gumisamavt]

I see dust devils all the time since I live in the desert. They’re actually pretty fun to walk into be you have to close your eyes.

[@saikavinesh4747]

Wow

[@juliancwc1218]

yea they are fun once in like third grade there was a big dust devil at recess and every kid outside wanted to go near it but none of us were allowed

[@marcuspoosz2190]

there once was a strong mini dust devil when i was in 4th grade and the winds were so strong roof bricks actually fell off the buildings. and i live in Norway.

[@Jesus4life_39]

Ouch

[@dom3750]

Bro wtf

[@kingdominicdc1525]

“Is there an F5 what would that be like?” “The finger of God” 🌪⛈

[@RandomPerson-bv6nc]

F5 tornados are HUGE

[@erwinortega6989]

Everything can fit at gods finger

[@jrod4126]

Twister?

[@vanessabaum8888]

I just watched the Movie

[@aspol12]

Mr. Agony what about eeeeeeeeeeeeef5

[@Tehom1]

Hadn't heard the term "steam twister" before. Apparently it's a type of tornado that forms when lava enters a body of water.

[@benjamator6700]

The El Reno tornado was immensely downsized in this video... It looks so small when it was actually gigantic being the the same size in diameter as Central park in New York! But good video and cool looking animation

[@squeebosh8525]

That's scary to imagine and it had satellite tornadoes. It was like a monster from a movie or something!

[@q12aw50]

It doesn’t look small at all

[@transsnack]

@@q12aw50 The El Reno tornado was a lot wider than it was tall. Actually, most large tornadoes are wider than they are tall.

[@ignisgecko4565]

I did some measurements, Central Park is roughly 2 miles long, the town of El Reno is also roughly 2 miles long, aka the tornado spanned the width of that entire town, so pretty big

[@_playa_]

Nah this video should be less than “good video”

[@THEGREATMEMEWIZARD]

With the amount of tornadoes Moore gets they should change the name of the town to Nomoore. Maybe the tornadoes will stop hitting there then?

[@leoncergaming7745]

Or maybe the town will no longer be there after one last tornado.

[@THEGREATMEMEWIZARD]

@@leoncergaming7745 Wouldn't that also fix the issue? No town means no more tornadoes can hit it.

[@leoncergaming7745]

@@THEGREATMEMEWIZARD Not necessarily.

[@mopade]

Good idea! Just let me go and contact the mayor of Moore.... *ring ring ring*

[@Creepvines]

r/wooooooosh

[@GodOfNoice]

Aaah another video I didn't know I needed. Thanks!

[@PaulWitzelNarratives]

2:52 "I will not put a human for comparison because it will be impossible to see" Me: NOPE NOPE NOPE

[@XXRedHeadedLassXX]

Description at 2:53 "I will not put a human for comparison because it' ll be impossible to see." ......-cold chill runs up my spine slowly- 😨😨😨😨😨😨😧😧😧😧😧

[@alexandravargas9010]

Tornado

[@alayna5696]

THE MASTER Jello it means that a human would not be seen because the tornado is so huge

[@fivnaightsatfeddysfen2222]

@@alexandravargas9010 Is

[@leoncergaming7745]

[faints from fear]

[@leoncergaming7745]

Humans are tiny!

[@coltenguinn7657]

I lived through the Moore tornado in 2013. It was so close about 6 houses down from mine was destroyed. Honestly one of the most terrifying moments in my life. And then about a week and a half later El Reno was hit and caused significant damage. 2013 was one of the worst years for them. There was a tornado practically almost every week of May. Please do not think tornados are something to play around with. Don't go recording and make a safe space to hunker down in. Leave the photography and "Tornado Chasing" to the professionals. They have heavy armored vehicles that still get damaged and flipped. Imagine what can happen to a regular vehicle.

[@editiongamingyt5761]

just take a look at the pro tornado chaser Pecos Hank, he is a scientist and storm chaser in his "Tornado intercepter Toyota" or he calls it TIT for short!

[@herusaleron6793]

That Moore tornado took two experienced storm chasers lives if that speaks to how serious and dangerous that one was. Their storm vehicle was a pancake after.

[@greenktoo]

I worked the aftermath of the April 2011 Smithville Ms EF5. I saw mangled vehicles ( unidentifiable mind you ) wrapped around trees. Some were originally parked over a Mile away. Wide spread tree debarking. A semi upside down in a farmers field. The truck was originally parked a quarter of a mile away. A 80 foot tall water tower with a red dent in the top side, caused by a red jeep. ( a witness reported seeing a red jeep carried along by the tornado and strike the top of the water tower ) He knew the owner and the vehicle. What was left of the red jeep was later found over a Mile away. Concrete signage pulled from the ground that had been there for 40 years. I saw pavement scouring also, something that only happens in the most strongest of EF5's. We'll never know the actual windspeed ( it was "officially" given a 205 mph wind speed by the nws ) but some experts believe it was closer to 275, maybe even higher.

[@coolcat6303]

I grew up in Moore and lived there from 1975-1986. I never saw any but we had plenty of close calls with intense Thunderstorms, large hail and sirens blaring. I returned to Moore in 1999 to visit some family and couldn’t believe the amount of destruction I saw from the first F-5 that tore through there. My old elementary school was completely wiped out and so was half of my subdivision. My old neighbors (who were in their 70’s) actually had to lie together in their bathtub because they had no basement. Pretty scary stuff. Having said that, I still find 🌪 fascinating and would to see one in real life. From a distance that is. Haha.

[@ilikecookies1787]

Firenado looked like a carrot

[@Zazkon08]

Strikethe Light ikr

[@roygarcia6638]

The deadliest carrot

[@Zazkon08]

Roy Garcia ye

[@roygarcia6638]

Tornado: "Hmm, what will make me even deadlier?" *sees something catch on fire* "That's it!"

[@Zazkon08]

Roy Garcia lol

[@GJSTK50]

That disturbing and dreaded "Solar Tornado that exists in the Sun" - reached up from the sun's surface to a height of 125,000 miles, or roughly half the distance between the Earth and the moon. The hot gases were whipped up to nearly 186,000 miles per hour. That is scary!

[@astandupguy6579]

You're right it is dreaded, I fear everyday of my life that the earth may turn into the sun and then this would happen in my neighborhood

[@thecensoredmuscle563]

@@astandupguy6579 why are you fearing that? You have a higher chance of being struck by lightning multiple times than that happening. Earth will be fine until Christ Jesus comes and therefore the end of the world. But you only have something to fear if not saved in Christ Jesus. If you're saved, you'll be fine.

[@capitalistball2924]

@@thecensoredmuscle563 Dude, it's so obvious he's being sarcastic and joking. He fucking talked about the Earth turning into the sun. People these days seem to be a lot dumber, and you're one of those dumb people.

[@imbatmam4760]

@@astandupguy6579 bro if the earth turned into a sun somehow which will never happen because it's impossible for a planet to turn into a star lets just say you don't need to fear something that won't happen ever

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

@@astandupguy6579 wtf

[@brettalexander220]

The largest (tallest) waterspout ever was over 5 thousand feet tall and spotted off Western Australia a few decades ago.

[@harrisonkarn2078]

Are there any pictures of it?

[@brettalexander220]

@@harrisonkarn2078 Not that I'm aware of. It was in a Ripleys believe it or not book.

[@ihatebts6787]

My friend survived a ef 4 tornado (the Washington Illinois tornado) and she was in walmart, but her sister was in one of the houses that got destroyed. (She lived)

[@vernerjalava8304]

I survived from large dustdevil

[@iicandy_pop4338]

I hate BTS I don't like your username...

[@arsalanasif9182]

I survived getting out of bed. Get ON MY LEVEL

[@rickastleyscat9583]

I hate your nickname

[@Рубрико-делы]

@RATHALOS I survived two earthquakes, one was weak second one moderate

[@tremedar]

Damn nature, you scary!

[@nataliarocks2425]

Mother nature will haunt you later

[@anxioushorror6444]

Family guy 😂

[@b4rra]

Yes😭😭😭

[@b4rra]

El Nino comes to Germany 😭😭😭😭

[@Salah.network]

No need to sAy Damn

[@ericalbers4867]

The high school I went to was leveled by an F5 (old scale) back in the 50's. They had photos of it and of the damage in some cases in one hallway. The only thing that survived were the arched beams used as the main structural support for the primary gym. I lived in Springfield, MO and was in Joplin fairly regularly (that's actually were I was born.. unfortunately lol. It's a shit town). That place regularly gets really bad storms with winds from hell. I went out there 2 days after that tornado hit. The Midwest is a crazy place to live. I've been around a hurricane and drove through Biloxi after Katrina. It was really bad but comparatively I'd rather be in a hurricane any day than a tornado beyond EF0, or a microburst. Waterspouts look cool, they're nowhere near a tornado though lol. Anyway, awesome video!

[@ascott215]

Joplin is not a S#!T Town, I have traveled through the area a few times and always thought it was rather nice, especially at the foot hills of the Ozarks. I was there the day before the tornado having dinner at olive garden just off Range Road. Sad day for Joplin.

[@Vitx0o]

Quarantine Day XX: It's 3 am and I woke up to find myself craving to learn about tornadoes.

[@firespider20]

While watching this video I heard squidward screaming in the background but his voice is like faint

[@wiwinwidyawati9325]

Where did you hear this scream?

[@edcm926]

I heard it i think it was like wind or something

[@olivermulligan407]

I only heard dramatic music, wind and lightning.

[@Hanifhi_yahayo]

69 likes, thank you.

[@anacristinalinder8371]

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[@Xinderace]

0:07 ef0 0:27 ef1 0:33 largest dust devil 0:43 largest water spout 0:54 ef2 1:03 largest steam twister 1:13 ef3 1:23 largest fire whirl 1:34 ef4 1:43 ef5 1:55 Oklahoma tornado 2:04 joplin tornado 2:13 tri state tornado 2:23 moore tornado 2:34 daulapur saturia tornado 2:44 el Reno tornado

[@intenselytired9966]

The El Reno tornado was a wedge multi-vortex tornado, not an upscale size of the Moore tornado. But I have to admit, the video is great.

[@toradora1439]

The music in this video is as eerie as a Tornado itself, really captures that sensation, well done. Also, the jump in scale from an F1 to an F2 and then from an F4 to an F5 really showed the scale to be quiet spectacular.

[@jasmineryce217]

It’s from the Lord of the Rings soundtrack lol. (I agree, it was a great choice for this video.)

[@1ALRasin]

2:34 It was happened in Saturia upazila, Manikgonj district & Daulatpur upazila. And yes this is the deadliest tornado ever happened in Bangladesh🇧🇩. Actually big tornado's are rare to see in Bangladesh. But still world's 2nd largest tornado was held in Bangladesh. By the way, My home town is in Singair upazila of Manikgonj district. That's why I feeled goosebumps when I see 2nd largest tornado happened in Bangladesh.

[@Jaymindrew1990]

I loved the music and the sound effects. Very informative yet creatively unsettling if you consider the subject matter.

[@eadecamp]

Great video. The lightning and the music made it super creepy. I live in Tornado Alley right now (definitely not by choice), and I'm ready to go back to Hurricane Alley when my husband retires. I grew up in Coastal North Carolina and can handle hurricanes. I used to work for a lady from Oklahoma. She gave us strict instructions--if we ever saw her going into the basement, go right behind her.

[@TheDionBlasterMethod]

This music makes me feel like I'm on the character creation screen for a tornado RPG

[@niofo7713]

you can unlock the bigger ones as you level up with your smaller ones. i'd play that

[@mfduffjr]

I Lived in Moore,Oklahoma in 2013. Insane amount of damage done by tornadoes that month. Multiple EF5’s, literally like every week all around the city. And to have two of the largest ever recorded happen 2 weeks apart.

[@saikenshin45]

I wish I lived there for that sole reason. This sounds crazy, but that would add some excitement in my life, and I love tornadoes, obsessed with them actually! Oklahoma seems to be a hotspot for them, and where I live, I haven't seen a single one, it's on my bucket list to see one in person!

[@deadshot4245]

@@saikenshin45 Oklahoma Kansas and Nebraska from march to nearly June hot spot then it shifts further north as summer heats up

[@coolcat6303]

I grew up in Moore and lived there from 1975-1986. I never saw any but we had plenty of close calls with intense Thunderstorms, large hail and sirens blaring. I returned to Moore in 1999 to visit some family and couldn’t believe the amount of destruction I saw from the first F-5 that tore through there. My old elementary school was completely wiped out and so was half of my subdivision. My old neighbors (who were in their 70’s) actually had to lie together in their bathtub because they had no basement. Pretty scary stuff. Having said that, I still find 🌪 fascinating and would to see one in real life. From a distance that is. Haha.

[@mfduffjr]

@@saikenshin45 no trust me I totally get it. My dad was military so we moved all over, and although it’s scary, it adds some excitement being there. My parents refused to get a house without a storm shelter though so we had less to worry about.

[@mfduffjr]

@@coolcat6303 they are beautiful to see, but definitely from far.

[@LorenzoArredondo]

I wish the info stayed on the screen a bit longer because it was tiny and hard to read and then disappeared before i finished, so I had to rewind just to read it.

[@RajTamil]

Wait...so the size of the dump truck is 8.16 m, but the picture takes up about an 1/8th of the diameter of the 4300m tornado? So "to scale", either the tornados diameter is actually 65m or the dump truck is 537m? Also, why is the height of the sky increasing as each tornado is being shown? The images in this might as well not even be there because they don't actually reflect the proper measurements to scale.

[@rawhidelamp]

What you dont take into account here is the shape of the tornadoes, El Reno was a massive wedge, almost like a cylinder, but your average EF-1 will likely be a thin tube

[@planetrob555]

"...thrown off 'ourse'... You left the C out of the word course in #13. Just letting you know. I really like your videos and I think the professionalism that goes into them deserves pointing out a misspelling.

[@danwhitehurst9592]

“Yeah, trust me. Rabbit is good Rabbit is wise”

[@MusicLife-yg7nx]

Awesome movie

[@danwhitehurst9592]

@@MusicLife-yg7nx totally. I was hoping some would get it.

[@trishmckinney1192]

The music gets us into mood!

[@cursed_tragic8216]

A tornado is a rapidly rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. The windstorm is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone,although the word cyclone is used in meteorology to name a weather system with a low-pressure area in the center around which winds blow counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern. Tornadoes come in many shapes and sizes, and they are often visible in the form of a condensation funnel originating from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud, with a cloud of rotating debris and dust beneath it. Most tornadoes have wind speeds less than 110 miles per hour (180 km/h), are about 250 feet (80 m) across, and travel a few miles (several kilometers) before dissipating. The most extreme tornadoes can attain wind speeds of more than 300 miles per hour (480 km/h), are more than two miles (3 km) in diameter, and stay on the ground for dozens of miles (more than 100 km). Various types of tornadoes include the multiple vortex tornado, landspout and waterspout. Waterspouts are characterized by a spiraling funnel-shaped wind current, connecting to a large cumulus or cumulonimbus cloud. They are generally classified as non-supercellular tornadoes that develop over bodies of water, but there is disagreement over whether to classify them as true tornadoes. These spiraling columns of air frequently develop in tropical areas close to the equator, and are less common at high latitudes. Other tornado-like phenomena that exist in nature include the gustnado, dust devil, fire whirls, and steam devil. Tornadoes occur in North America, particularly in the area of the United States known as tornado alley,as well as in northern and east-central South America, Southern Africa, northwestern and southeast Europe, western and southeastern Australia, and New Zealand.Tornadoes can be detected before or as they occur through the use of Pulse-Doppler radar by recognizing patterns in velocity and reflectivity data, such as hook echoes or debris balls, as well as through the efforts of storm spotters. There are several scales for rating the strength of tornadoes. The Fujita scale rates tornadoes by damage caused and has been replaced in some countries by the updated Enhanced Fujita Scale. An F0 or EF0 tornado, the weakest category, damages trees, but not substantial structures. An F5 or EF5 tornado, the strongest category, rips buildings off their foundations and can deform large skyscrapers. The similar TORRO scale ranges from a T0 for extremely weak tornadoes to T11 for the most powerful known tornadoes.Doppler radar data, photogrammetry, and ground swirl patterns (cycloidal marks) may also be analyzed to determine intensity and assign a rating.

[@kriegsmarinebismarck7122]

Remember the scale of a tornado is based on the amount of dame it does so if a big BIG Tornado only damages crops it's only gonna be counted as a EF-1

[@VinOnline]

I hate that.

[@run742]

​@VinOnline why? if your ideal tornado scale has size as a component that would be worse than ant scale ever concted by s human. look at elie manitoba.

[@kaalen24]

I’m here to tell you, the visualizations are really incorrect. The El Reno tornado was 2.5 miles wide at its peak strength which is far wider than the size comparisons to trucks. The scale isn’t even close. I live in Oklahoma 30 minutes outside of OKC and I’ve seen a couple with my own eyes. The scale is selling these storms short

[@DiamondBull66]

Another one of the greatest KZbin videos ever

[@KindlTAS]

Go watch RojoFern's "The Scale of Tornadoes." It is way more accurate and informative than these size comparison videos.

[@sebastianaz2881]

Please make hurricane and storm size comparison

[@DragonQueen999]

Sebastian AZ I agree with you that is what I said

[@SDseb]

How tf would that be copying? It's like making a gameplay video on a game. "OH THAT'S COPYING!" Even though so many people do it. It's not copying if you're putting your own twist to it.

[@lyssicorn_unicornrobloxand5791]

He did

[@amediumlysaltedpearl4325]

SDseb heh, _twist_

[@flyingdeathsheep7194]

Also please add size comparisons with things we all know. It’s hard to really see the size when you’re just comparing tornadoes to tornadoes

[@rosedog1235]

Lived in Oklahoma my whole life, the most interesting thing to happen around here is when insanely huge tornadoes try to kill you.. not much else though.

[@MiniNudl]

Thats why I want to move to Oklahoma. Ever since I heard of the El-Reno Tornado in 2013 I wanted to move there. It's absolutely fascinating. Rip to Tim Samaras, his Son and colleque tho.

[@bulletproofvic]

I have only lived here since 2010 and I agree lol stay safe Sarah Jones and everyone else..

[@traj_mahal300]

The Tulsa Massacre & Oklahoma City Bombings were strictly caused by yt folks, entirely non-catastrophic.....

[@rosedog1235]

@@traj_mahal300 you right, I was more so talking about natural disasters but those things also unfortunately happened. not during my lifetime but it’s just another sad part of OK’s history.. the relocation and genocide of the native americans also comes to mind. Man is evil, nature is indifferent.

[@RenBobbins]

This gives someone a reasonable understanding of scale, but the EF scale is based on storm damage, not size. Also, an EF0 is not necessarily shorter than an EF5. Example: The Mayfield, KY EF-3 (2022) was actually a pretty small funnel, but it's velocity destroyed everything it touched. The largest tornado ever recorded (El Reno, 2013) likely had wind velocity of well over 300mph, but since it hit a competely rural area, the damage it caused only earned it an EF3 rating. Hope this confuses everyone!

[@argongas3536]

Aren't all tornadoes the same height? As far as I know, this tornado extends to the top of the cloud base, and here the differences would be quite small (several kilometers high).

[@Kemanh200]

This is what I thought. I can imagine there is some variation based on the height of the clouds, but I think it was used to ridiculous levels here.

[@argongas3536]

@@Kemanh200 I agree with you, a slight variation between altitude could exist (though storm systems quite easily reach the tropospheric-stratospheric boundary, above which water clouds cannot form). There is also the existence of air currents in the lower regions of the stratosphere (something that causes tornadoes to form), the vortex forming would simply be blown there, a bit like vortices in a rushing river, when they enter the main stream, they disappear.

[@thisistheonlynameavailable2742]

I think I’m traumatized now from the fact that I imagined kawaii tornadoes

[@jackstorm777]

*My monkey brain when seeing an even BIGGER tornado than the one I just saw:* 💡🐵🙊🙊💡

[@eunaekim9216]

My fascination with vortices in general, and tornadoes in particular, is what brought me to this video.

[@one.justice]

Video would have been much better had you made their size to scale in relation to their width. That would have really showed the difference in size.

[@profd65]

I'd ask for your money back.

[@dutchvanderlinde841]

As a survivor of the Joplin tornado, it’s crazy to see it so high on the ranking

[@snody]

I had to look up the 2004 Hallam, Nebraska tornado. At the time it was the widest in history at an amazing width of 2.5 miles. It was eclipsed in size by the El Reno in 2013.

[@ViridianYT]

I remember everything that went on during both tornadoes in 2013 here in oklahoma it was insane

[@jackfryar]

lived in el reno man, my first tornado ever, scary stuff

[@meowzerz_meo]

Credits to the people who went around and captured whirlwinds for us to see. Great job.

[@nilssonorta]

Bro😮😮😮😮😮 owowowowowoo

[@Paul-cr9qt]

What About Tornadoes on Other planets?

[@xisabellex4729]

Paul well there’s one in Jupiter

[@playlistcreator]

Also one from the sun.

[@playlistcreator]

Kevin Vo Huh?

[@midwestsirens]

those technically aren't real tornadoes by definition.

[@ChokeAndPokeGaming]

An average day on Neptune would be Armageddon here in terms of wind

[@S0U1K33P3R]

Biggest one: y’all hold my beer I’ll show you destruction

[@MomentsNature-w8o]

Very detailed video.THANKS

[@Heinskitz]

Just read up some info on Japan's fire whirl in 1923 (1923 Great Kantō earthquake) that claimed approx. 38,000. What an absolute hellish situation.

[@TheSonicboy12]

I remember the Moore Tornado, sitting in class looking out the window at it while people were freaking out around me. It cut the power to the school, so we got out 5 days early. Also, luckily, I wasn't really affected by the El Reno tornado. It mainly just flooded the streets in Moore and caused a little bit of damage in my area.

[@yeetspageet5679]

Which el reno tornado affected moore more? The 2011 or 2013 one?

[@varietycontent3390]

I remember seeing the aftermath of the Moore tornado a few days after it had occurred while passing through on a highway. All that was left was rubble, roads, and one singular movie theater which was miraculously left standing. I even saw street signs with holes in straight through them as well as an overhead bridge's concrete foundation which had various things sticking out of it, the most memorable thing being a literal plastic straw. Absolutely insane how anything caught by it is turned into a deadly projectile. Oklahoma is truly a scary place to live sometimes.

[@coolcat6303]

I grew up in Moore and lived there from 1975-1986. I never saw any but we had plenty of close calls with intense Thunderstorms, large hail and sirens blaring. I returned to Moore in 1999 to visit some family and couldn’t believe the amount of destruction I saw from the first F-5 that tore through there. My old elementary school was completely wiped out and so was half of my subdivision. My old neighbors (who were in their 70’s) actually had to lie together in their bathtub because they had no basement. Pretty scary stuff. Having said that, I still find 🌪 fascinating and would to see one in real life. From a distance that is. Haha.

[@shekriptic2851]

Really liked that nice work 🤙

[@thedoc6413]

Something that more people should know is the *sound* of a monster tornado, the audible noises one of these things make right before it hits you. Then you truly realize how the gates of hell open.

[@Earth-xd4qe]

Bangladesh: *had the deadliest/biggest Tornado in history* Jupiter's great red spot: Am i a joke to you?

[@Neoln]

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot isn’t a tornado, it’s a storm that pretty much acts like a hurricane

[@Earth-xd4qe]

@@Neoln i know but the Bangladesh tornado probably had storms too

[@619xnomo]

@@Earth-xd4qe a tornado can’t have storms, tornadoes are produced by storms.

[@austinstorie1558]

I lived in Joplin when the tornado hit. Completely leveled anything in its path.

[@aubreeru1z]

Moore, Oklahoma had 2 big and horrible tornadoes. I think it’s the first one that’s mentioned here, but a second one hit I believe the following year. One of the biggest reasons why there were so many fatalities from the first is because it hit an elementary school. Very very sad. When they rebuilt the school they made a memorial to the children that lost their lives during that tornado, but it was damaged again when the second one came through. Oklahoma City area and suburbs are some of the worst areas when it comes to tornados. I’ve lived in Tulsa and surrounding area all my life and while we get our fair share, they’re never as devastating as Oklahoma City’s. Definitely the prime mark of tornado alley.

[@coolcat6303]

If you’re referring to the two F-5’s that hit Moore, they were actually 14 years apart. The first was in 1999 and the next was in 2013. And you’re absolutely right about Oklahoma City being a magnet for tornadoes 🌪 I spent a little time in Tulsa but then moved to Moore & grew up there from 1975-1986. I never saw any but we had plenty of close calls with intense Thunderstorms, large hail and sirens blaring. I returned to Moore in 1999 to visit some family and couldn’t believe the amount of destruction I saw from the first F-5 that tore through there. My old elementary school was completely wiped out (maybe that’s the one you’re referring to) and so was half of my subdivision. My old neighbors (who were in their 70’s) actually had to lie together in their bathtub because they had no basement. Pretty scary stuff. Having said that, I still find 🌪 fascinating and would to see one in real life. From a distance any way. Haha.

[@lukekuykendall6366]

The measured internal wind speeds of the Moore, Oklahoma tornado on May 3rd, 1999 was 318mph. For comparison, that is as fast as a top fuel dragster, and nearly half the speed of sound!

[@arkvoodleofthesacredcrotch6060]

Internal? The eye of the tornado is usually the most calm part

[@MrMah-zf6jk]

@@arkvoodleofthesacredcrotch6060 there's no proof of that. You're probably thinking of hurricanes.

[@brettalexander220]

@@MrMah-zf6jk no hes not wrong, look up will kellers account of looking up the funnel

[@Tc-rn8lh]

@@arkvoodleofthesacredcrotch6060 there is no such thing as an eye of a tornado. You’re going to get flung a mile away before it even makes a direct hit on you. You can’t be inside of a tornado, you will be dead before hand.

[@Trahzy]

@@arkvoodleofthesacredcrotch6060 Lmao you're thinking of hurricanes. Tornados are extremely unpredictable and don't always even have an "eye".

[@Mr_Tophatt]

The Joplin tornado formed in just over 30 seconds, there was no time to prepare, and citizens didn't even care. A wrong turn of events for that city.

[@newtiesims6172]

1:20 when suddenly a carrot appeared

[@oguzhanbayazit1575]

Amazing job 👍

[@JCBro-yg8vd]

When it comes to tornadoes, size matters not. Size doesn't indicate intensity. Jarrell's F5 is living proof, even as a pencil thin funnel it was displaying incredible intensity.

[@chaos_doom1321]

Jarell started out as a very fast thin rope but then exploded into a wedge. Its destructive capability was mainly due to the slow forward motion, it was like having a drill on the ground for minutes. Someone on Reddit even commented that Jarell was actually a hybrid tornado or landspout. It did not show a visible wall cloud and was not discernible on radar, that day the weather had historic instability. Could it be that the funnel formed on its own without a supercell? If true it makes it even more terrifying, an F5 landspout. Yes, size doesn't matter, but coincidentally most wedge tornadoes also have extreme winds. It's not a rule, but perhaps it means that the same factors that give the tornado strength can also allow it to grow. The 2013 El Reno was a huge multivortex wedge and had such strong winds that it was second only to the 1999 Moore tornado.

[@JCBro-yg8vd]

@@chaos_doom1321 Maybe, but it's the speed of the winds inside the funnel that matter most. The size just affects how much of an area the winds will impact.

[@chaos_doom1321]

@@JCBro-yg8vd indeed but we agree that an F5 wedge is worse than a small F5 tornado. It's more difficult to escape from a giant monster, just as you say because of the area it covers. Also when wedges are very wide they can hide in the rain or be mistaken for low clouds.

[@soundbeverage3964]

"The 1999 Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak was a significant tornado" LOL ok so a tornado outbreak and a tornado are two different things. A tornado outbreak occurs when a system of storms produces many tornadoes within a certain geographical area. A tornado is a single tornado. Second of all, you gotta specify what tornado, cuz there were a lot of tornadoes in the outbreak. I'm going to assume you meant the Moore one, the strongest tornado ever recorded, wind speeds reaching confirmed 301 mph.

[@PilotTed]

The EL Rino tornado is very infamous due to the storm chasers it killed when it suddenly and swiftly changed direction. Being around 2 miles wide, it has got to be one of the craziest things to ever see up close.

[@envar1]

Just so everyone knows, this is not a comparison of height, it is a comparison of diameter. The tornados' width comparison is accurate, but the height is just for aesthetic.

[@topty9583]

i live in oklahoma and was waiting for el reno to come :)

[@Bees_Animations]

Tornados : “Hahaahaha! We are so scary fear us!” Hurricanes that can summon tornadoes: “hold my house.”

[@nathanapplegate5374]

One note about El Reno, that tornado also killed Tim Samaris and the Twistex team

[@hurricanemitch591]

next hurricanes pls

[@howdidyoufindmyaccount1012]

Me, an intellectual watching this during a tornado like: 👁👄👁

[@varietycontent3390]

Oklahoma, while not known for its landscapes and cities, cannot be forgotten for its weather.

[@John_The_Eeveechu]

wow did you see el reno start heading for the size comparisons at the ending

[@zain4019]

Nature is terrifying and beautiful at the same time. Wow :o

[@CordrateVX]

Nobody’s gonna talk about the Outlast soundtrack?

[@KF-bj4ds]

Daulatpur Tornado: y’all tiny El Reno tornado : hi

[@sherryking1]

Daulatpur Tornado occurred in extremely populated sub urban area, Imagine the destruction it has caused

[@bradsanchez6589]

Solar tornado:exists

[@velocaat]

2:44 Omg

[@royl395]

Awesome video. It would be nice if at the last scene it would pan out to show all the tornadoes and their scale.

[@josephinecalabrese2799]

VERY EDUCATIONAL! My Song MY LONGING(The sea is representative of any catastrophe.) is available for licensing. Contact ASCAP OR CD Baby.

[@kawachiis]

Looks like I got myself a new fear 😃👍✨

[@israelgalindo8798]

Me too!

[@sswitchhzz7774]

Such a interesting video man thank you!

[@DragonQueen999]

Hurricane comparison please

[@PieCreeper12]

The Largest Fire Whirl looks like a big cheeto.

[@r603burakkusuta2]

I too wish to experience the spicy cheeto.

[@Dremag_Gaming]

Always like watching videos when they talk/show about tornados and elreno.

[@liampanther6078]

You did such an amazing job with the graphics in this video and making the tornadoes look so realistically good and real. I love learning about tornadoes and this video was amazing! You did such a great job with the tornadoes, special effects thunder and lightning and size comparison. You should totally do one of tornadoes on other planets that would be amazing to as well. Honestly this video should be in a tornado documentary video because you did such an outstanding job with the graphics, effects sounds and appearances of the tornadoes. I would give you a gold medal in my opinion in this video you made because you did Such an outstanding job making it to be like that

[@jesseramirez9062]

Cringe

[@LaurensPP]

Bot

[@car.stasia4503]

Yeah 3 of like 6 or 7 of the big known tornado were in Oklahoma... I live there. Wish me luck

[@i_am_very_very_confused]

I wish you good luck

[@vexaroth47]

As someone who lives in South OKC on the Moore border, I feel ya bro.

[@laba1085]

Insane! Great vid

[@michaelscott-joynt3215]

Sorry, but this is misleading. The scale (EF0-EF5) is about wind speed, recorded by the damage path a tornado leaves. Not only does it have nothing to do with size, tornadoes are not even officially recorded based on wind speed, but on observed damage. As silly as it sounds, if a tornado with EF5 winds causes only measurable EF3 damage, it's rated EF3.

[@pantheraatrox4653]

That's why the the last tornado is rated ef3. People act like they're the only smart ones

[@bellathebestautisticgirl247]

Love 🌪🌪🌪🌪

[@emadkermani3880]

Are you crazy

[@619xnomo]

@@emadkermani3880 yes, as a tornado expert and someone who has studied weather, they are fucking insane

[@TwistOT]

Props to the camera man for filming this informative video, really talented. IT'S A JOKE!

[@Feder147]

Damn now I know why my ex gf called me Ef-0 :(.

[@619xnomo]

LOL