Brits React to Americas 10 Most Infamous F5 or EF5 Tornadoes

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[@dibutler9151]

A lot of Europeans will say that if we built our homes from brick instead of wood that we would have less damage, which goes to show they have NO IDEA what living in Tornado Alley is like. Bricks can become missiles at 300 mph. If it can throw a car into the side of a building, it can decimate a brick building.

[@MikeyA5693]

You can put rebar in brick walls and install iron girders in the roof. Make the whole house like a tornado celler.

[@emfyve]

@@MikeyA5693 Tornado cellars are built underground, hence the name CELLAR. Dumbass. Don't listen to people on the internet, folks.

[@loosilu]

@@MikeyA5693 That can't survive an EF5. THe JOplin tornado wrecked a hospital made of reinforced concrete.

[@MikeyA5693]

@@loosilu still standing tho.

[@loosilu]

@@MikeyA5693 Nope, it had to be bulldozed.

[@Minotaur92]

Joplin was so strong that it twisted the hospital off it's foundation, it had to be bulldozed and rebuilt.

[@iiDOCKERY]

Joplin was a absolute beast and to me I think one of the strongest tornadoes to ever touch earth

[@agirlnamedbrett.]

i still think about the fact that you can see the scar in the Earth from the path of that tornado from space still.

[@Minotaur92]

@@agirlnamedbrett. It picked up and moved those concrete blocks on parking spots that are heavy and have two rebar bars that go into the ground a few inches. Insane low level speeds.

[@sirwalterii_2nd]

The crazy thing is the Joplin tornado was not even the strongest tornado of the outbreak. The strongest tornado (not on this list) is the 2011 El Reno (not 2013) tornado which is cobsidered the 2nd most powerful tornado documented. This tornado has 296mph winds measured by a mobile dopplar radar truck and it pushed over a 2 million pound oil Derrick and rolled it 3 times.

[@jefftodd6384]

The Dead Man walking Tornado scoured the Earth up to 18 inches deep and ripped the Asphalt off the Roads.

[@cehson]

That is crazzy strentght of an tornado...i cannot imagine that wind power.

[@CrazyWeatherDude]

Smithville did the same depths but with 6x the forward speed!

[@jayhosh8126]

​@@CrazyWeatherDudeRainville was absolutely horrid too, it ripped shelters out of the ground.

[@jessicamagri8211]

I heard it also basically skinned cows and did some…insanely horrifying things to victims because the winds were so strong 😶

[@usmc24thmeu36]

Warm air comes north out of the Gulf of Mexico. Cool air comes over the Rocky mountains into the lower plains. When winds converge at high altitude winds start spinning. So warm and cold air meet in an area that is flat .

[@thejerg]

THat's a lot of it but there's a little more to it as well that factors in if you want to get the super technical explanation. But this is basically how it works

[@JabrenHarris98]

The cold air comes from Canada

[@thejerg]

@@JabrenHarris98 It really depends on the system... Sometimes it comes over the rockies, and sometimes it sweeps down(but those arctic surges are usually more significant in the winter)

[@usmc24thmeu36]

Nuclear weapons have to be armed if they are not armed they are just oversized paper weights, they have five failsafes in them

[@wavelengthrenegadereef9143]

This, very much this. People who design nuclear weapons are fully aware of just how destructive a malfunction could be, so they have so many layers of failsafes that it's not even funny. That said... if they were picked up by this thing, they would've been thrown around, likely heavily damaged, and flung off who-knows-how-far, leaving two (or more) lumps of radioactive material just lying around in random locations, to either cause harm, or be stolen. Wouldn't have nuked anyone, but... still wouldn't have been great.

[@ElyonDominus]

​@@wavelengthrenegadereef9143 People say this, and it's true, but we dropped the bomb on the east coast a good while back and it/they almost activated. The failsafes worked but only just. The device had not been armed.

[@wavelengthrenegadereef9143]

Yes... but they worked. All but one of them failed... which is why we had that last one. That is the point of a multiple-redundancy system. The multiple failures is a scary situation, but those multiple failsafe failures are why there are so many failsafes.

[@ElyonDominus]

@@wavelengthrenegadereef9143 It was great that they worked because the bomb was one failsafe away from detonation despite it not having been intentionally armed. Just wanted to get that info into this chain. It's not necessarily to refute what was stated so much to provide additional information for a similar case.

[@wavelengthrenegadereef9143]

Yes. And to be fair, it's not like the idea of the bombs being thrown in the tornado scenario and then all of the failsafes screwing up is impossible, especially given that the weapon would've been heavily damaged by its time in the vortex. It's just unlikely that it would've been damaged in such a way as to specifically bypass the failsafes, rather than such a way as to break so much of the structure that it became impossible for it to activate at all.

[@AbA_DBAA23]

FYI - The movie "Twister" came out in 1996, not 1966. I think he didn't catch himself making the mistake.

[@andi5262]

I was thinking that maybe the 1996 movie was a remake.🤦🏾‍♀️😂

[@axlFoleyBeverlyHillsPo]

Im Glad you looked this up lol. Was getting ready to search for an original 30years Earlier than the one i remember 😂😂🎉

[@axlFoleyBeverlyHillsPo]

@@andi5262same 😂

[@stevend474]

Fyi fun fact. Im from Xenia and the local legend says that in the old days when native Americans lost the land to the European settlers they told them that the area was called "the land of the devil winds. Xenia has been hit 4 tornadoes in modern times alone.

[@hitman142002]

I used to race at Kil-Kare in Xenia alot. When a storm was approaching, the whole horizon seemed like it "funnelled down" and took aim at Xenia. It was super creepy!!

[@lalitabyrd4182]

Your Native info is seriously lacking.

[@beacar9977]

I actually volunteered as a nurse in Joplin after their 2011 tornado. These pics don't do justice to the emotional and physical detriment of those in the disaster. It's something I will never forget and never regret volunteering to help.

[@ginnylerette8312]

Thank you so much. I am from the KCMO area, but I have been to Joplin many, many times. It still brings me to tears.

[@martinconnors6200]

The deadman walking is so eerie

[@MsAppeljack]

In the Jarrell tornado, after they could not find any bodies, they could not figure it out, until they started finding pieces of people ... they had been shredded by the winds.

[@TheRivrPrncess]

When bodies have been dismembered or severely mangled, that is nothing less than 5

[@jessicamagri8211]

Yeah, that blew my mind and was absolutely horrifying to me when I heard about that. Truly a horror movie!

[@Dread_Pirate62]

There’s not a more helpless feeling than being in your house with a tornado heading your way. It happened to me years ago, I saw the tornado coming and grabbed my dog and got into a small bathroom in the middle of the house. We didn’t have a basement. All you can do is wait for your house to fall on you. Luckily the tornado heading my way turned at the last minute, it destroyed the houses across the street but only knocked down some tress in my yard. I was lucky, my neighbors not so much.

[@yugioht42]

The reason tornadoes happen is four factors hot air from the gulf and Atlantic, cold air from the arctic, the lower ground level, and the right spots away from atmospheric disturbances. It all collides right in the area we call tornado alley. You literally don’t know when it will strike or the conditions are right but when it happens it’s dangerous and you hear the sirens blaring for people to immediately get underground or find shelter. Europe has too many mountain ranges for tornadoes to form properly.

[@christoffesedao3579]

There are tornados all over the world including Europe. Yes, you accurately explained how tornados form in the plains of USA, but you make it sound like tornados can only form from Gulf of Mexico air mixing with arctic air. That’s not accurate because tornados can form in places that are nowhere near the air from Gulf of Mexico.

[@WakeAtDawn]

@@christoffesedao3579I believe they were just stating the extremity compared to others places.

[@Mellow_Owl]

I also heard that the way the Appalachian and rocky mountains are positioned, they play a role in the formation of tornadoes in the middle of the country. Weather is fascinating.

[@hordeofswords]

I lived in the US my whole life and experienced my first tornado a little over a year ago. EF3 (although almost an EF4). Its an experience that is truly ingrained in my memory. Forever. The most grateful thing to me after the fact are the advances we have come in tornado tracking. Between the air sirens and your phones going off, you are alerted with enough time to shelter in place. I was able to grab my shoes, keys and ID and my cat and hide in my bedroom closet. When a tornado happens, its ideal to be as close to the ground as you can. If that's not possible (I was in a third floor apartment), you find a place like a bathroom or closet away from windows and debris. The thing that is scariest about a tornado is the silence. Right before it hit, there was this eerie silence. Then the lights flickered off like in a horror movie and then the sound of a moving train. It lasted in the span it would take to snap my fingers at the most and then it was over. We stayed in the closet until the sirens stopped. When I finally felt safe enough to wander outside I saw trees uprooted from the ground, power lines lying in the middle of the street and property damage to the buildings. But I also came to realize that tornados are unpredictable. They don't run through like a straight line, they bounce like a ball, almost. Our building mostly had tree and mild property damage, however the apartment complex across from us was completely flattened. Surveying the damage afterwards there were areas that were completely spared but others absolutely destroyed. There really is no such thing as a tornado safe build. Its all down to luck to be honest. Its also a reason why in areas where tornados frequent you will see more wood buildings than brick. A torando will destroy either. However, flying wood causes less damage than flying brick would and its much easier to rebuild. The whole tornado lasted about 30 minutes but traveled over 150 miles and over four towns. One person died, 50 or so injured and almost half a billion dollars in insurance claims. We live in a highly populated area and there hadn't been a tornado in over 20 years here. Downed power poles, lines, damage to the grid left some people without power for a week. However, the human response was amazing to behold and not just with emergency responders. While the national guard and police were dispatched to help with rescue efforts and clean up, they also patrolled the streets at night since many homes were without power. What really helped me was how the community came together. The day after it happened there were food trucks from local restaurants giving out free plates of food, dry cleaners offered to wash people's clothes for free, the local LA fitness offered people a place to shower, Verizon gave all its customers free ulimited data and calls for a month, and after power was restored local businesses like Target and Loews came together to drop off care packages of food and cleaning supplies to local apartment complexes. It really helped as we lost all the food we had and we had just went grocery shopping before it happend. The entire experience was traumatic and I still get a trauma response anytime the sirens go off (even though they go off for a tornado that is miles from where I live). However, it has made more prepared. I have an container in my closet filled with everything I could need if I have to spend a few days without power and things I own that are irreplaceable or have some sense of meaning to me. I hope to never have to use any of it, but whatever happens, I know going forward I am ready and that gives some type of peace of mind.

[@usmc24thmeu36]

Just be happy there's a Gulf Stream. The gulf stream that goes from the gulf of Mexico around Florida and up the coast and over to the UK and down. This is what gives the UK temperate weather. If the gulf stream stopped the UK would have artic weather and feet of snow.

[@hartsickdisciple]

I live in Jarrell, TX. That tornado left a permanent imprint on the town. There are memorials to the families lost, including an elementary school named after one of them.

[@Ameslan1]

F-5 tornados can be as big as one mile or two miles wide! Columbus Ohio where I live is not as State in "Tornado Alley" but we get our share of tornado warnings when hot and cold weather occurs at the same time. Every single wednesday at 12 noon sharp, tornado alert sirens all over the city are tested for about one minute for maintenance and checking.

[@americansmark]

Hello from Zanesville! Stop sending us your leftover tornado warnings. 😛

[@Ameslan1]

@@americansmark haha.. Same feeling for people in Dallas Texas after tornados or hail storms hit Fort Worth! :)

[@LauraSti]

Every single Wednesday? That sounds incredibly frustrating! I'm about two hours southwest of you (ie closer to the plains overall) and it's just every first Monday of the month here.

[@Ameslan1]

@@LauraSti Nothing frustrating about it when it is EVERY single Wednesday at 12 noon sharp. More routine actually.. When you hear the siren, you know it is Wednesday 12 noon sharp LOL! It is only activated for about one minute.

[@yourboieb4477]

I used to live in an apartment building where a tornado siren was like 100 yards away. When they tested it first wednesday of every month, it literally felt like it was shaking our apartment building it was so loud

[@user-nr5ux7gr2g]

I've lived in Oklahoma City for 26 years I remember the Moore tornadoes and one that didn't make this list is the EL Reno tornado just west of OKC that was over a mile wide and took the lives of some storm chasers

[@Big_Tex]

El Reno was insane.

[@realixx9375]

El Reno was not a mile wide. It was 2.6 miles wide, the largest tornado ever recorded. It had potentially dozens of subvorticies and windspeeds of at least 295mph. But because it didn't hit anything, it was rated EF3. Had it's official rating been EF5, It absolutely would have been on this list.

[@amandataylor1166]

El Reno was actually 2.6 miles wide & a lot of EF3 & EF4 tornadoes are just as destructive & terrifying as the EF5’s but every video I see is only about the EF5’s. Same as hurricanes, anything category 3+ is considered major, it’s the same with tornadoes. 🌪️🌀

[@user-nr5ux7gr2g]

@@amandataylor1166 usually the biggest difference between a 4 and a 5 is location and 5s happen in heavily populated areas causing more damage

[@bexzilla6388]

Hi! Just to give you a bit of a detailed answer to the question of why in America we receive a lot more tornado activity then other countries. First, and foremost, a very significant amount of tornadic activity is centralized in a few different zones referred to as tornado alleys. The big one, with the name "Tornado Alley" specifically, is over Kansas, Oklahoma, North Texas, and adjacent states. This region is south of the rocky Mountains and north of the gulf of Mexico. The massive mountain range creates a large mass of cool, dry air, which clashes with the hot moist air from the gulf. This causes the hot air to rise and cool air to fall in a rotating fashion, creating tornadic supercells that hit the plains. Geography-wise, this region is the perfect birthplace for tornados.

[@jeffreywhite3139]

The UK reported around 80 tornadoes per year

[@noahniskala]

for usa thats rookie numbers.

[@waynepurcell6058]

Nothing will beat the Jarrell tornado as far as damage. First responders to that scene initially couldn't recognize human remains because the victims were so "chewed up". The after assessment was that those that were in the "F5" level wind zone died if not underground. 100% fatality rate for anything sheltering above ground in that wind zone. That's insane.

[@JennyLaBouff]

Living in Oklahoma City, we're well-prepared for tornadoes. Most of us have weather radios to alert us and storm shelters for safety. We usually know days in advance when a tornado might hit, giving us time to either evacuate or find a safe spot. For those without storm shelters, the safest place is the innermost part of the house, away from windows-often a bathroom. Cover yourself with a mattress to protect against falling debris. It’s dangerous to be out driving or seeking shelter under an overpass during a tornado.

[@user-kq5ke5yb6k]

There is a YT channel called Geography King. He has an excellent video explaining why the US weather/climate is the way it is in various parts of the country (excl. Alaska and Hawaii).

[@codythomas1450]

The Joplin ef5 tornado was so powerful it literally sandblasted the skin off of cows and a few unfortunate people

[@jameshunt9208]

Indeed

[@Big_Tex]

You mentioned insurance payouts - my hometown and mother’s house were hit by a tornado in 1996. The next day the insurance companies set up tents on the street corners and just started doling out money so people could get started buying supplies to clean up and to pay for food and motels. Though a surprising number of people who owned their homes outright didn’t have insurance b/c they didn’t want to spend the money on premiums. Quite a gamble.

[@theoddegg8462]

I have an extreme fear of tornadoes. Always have lol.

[@NissieShay]

Same.

[@flordemaria942]

I don't know how old this video is but we just had a f4/f5 here in Nebraska. The Midwest has been getting slammed the last week. 4/26/2024 we had a series of tornados that day. There has been an outbreak this year

[@jameshunt9208]

I live in Iowa, and those storms have caused several Tornadoes here as well. Greenfield Iowa was wiped out.

[@FamousNya]

Those were all EF 4’s, they were close but not EF 5’s. We still haven’t had one since 2013

[@amandataylor1166]

Any tornado EF3+ is considered major just as any category 3+ hurricane is considered major but everyone focuses on the 5’s, I don’t get it… hurricane Katrina made landfall as a category 3 but is in the top 5 most catastrophic hurricanes in US history. The El Reno should have been a EF5 but was later downgraded but was one of the worst in history & holds the spot as the largest in US history at 2.6 miles wide. The UK reports anywhere between 80-90 tornadoes a year, every year. My point is that EF3+ tornadoes & category 3+ hurricanes can be just as catastrophic. A lot of tornadoes aren’t even recorded if they don’t hit towns or structures, if they only hit forests or farmland, they’re mostly completely missed so we’ve most likely had so many more EF5 tornadoes.

[@amandataylor1166]

Also EF5 tornadoes do tear into the ground & leave scars on earth that are still visible YEARS sometimes over a decade later on google earth.

[@88wildcat]

@@FamousNya Well, we have they just don't call them EF5s anymore. They call them "high end" or "high level" EF4 tornadoes. Sometime around 2014 someone in the federal government sent out a memo or some kind of verbal order that no tornado would be rated EF5 no matter what kind of damage it did. There have probably been somewhere between five and ten EF5 tornadoes that were not rated that way for one reason/excuse or another. Sometimes they will claim that anchor bolts were not installed properly on homes that were swept completely away, sometimes they will say the damage was caused by something the tornado threw into the building instead of the tornado itself, sometimes they will claim that because one tree did not get destroyed the damage could not be EF5 level even if the entire house and every other tree was gone, sometimes they will just flat out not survey locations with the heaviest damage. I don't know exactly who is making the call or what their angle is but the NWS has absolutely refused to give out an EF5 rating for over a decade now and some tornadoes in that time have been pretty obvous EF5s. (Vilonia, Arkansas in 2014, Chapman, Kansas in 2016, Bremen, Kentucky in 2021are three that immediately pop into my head and there have been others in Texas and Mississippi where the exact location and year I can not recall off the top of my head.)

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

Joplin is special for another specific reason - its hospital was destroyed, it had one or more fire stations destroyed, a popular gas station that had a alcohol fridge was mostly destroyed, but patrons were allowed to go into the fridge because it was strong. Tornadoes can destroy most above ground structures, but there are in building structures that can be mounted to the foundation that are welded steel tornado safety "buildings". If a house doesn't have a basement, they should get one of these to protect their lives.

[@vincecramer7950]

😮 tornado winds are so strong they can put a piece of hay with a straw through a solid board they can pick up a semi truck and toss it like it's a toy

[@kevinmarshall854]

In a tornado I have seen a plastic straw get embedded into a concrete wall over 6 inches deep. It was in the wall straight. Not bent or curved. STRAIGHT!! !! HOW THAT IS POWERFUL!!!

[@Montweezy]

Yes! I have seen straw in the side of telephone poles after tornadoes. I was contracted under FEMA working for the NC Office of Emergency Management until my retirement last year. The power of tornadoes are unreal.

[@markmartineau1015]

Even a well built home wouldn’t stand unfazed against an F5 if hit directly, not just the wind but the debris that is flung around will damage it enough for the wind to do more damage.

[@Montweezy]

That as well as the pressure drop blowing all the windows out.

[@georgegarvey7338]

We just had a strong tornado in Barnsdal, Oklahoma

[@dawgeral333]

It's topography, basically. When cold, dry air (from the Rocky Mountains meets warm, moist air from The Gulf Of Mexico. The set-up is perfect for a tornado. Other countries don't have the same components arranged the same way.

[@coolmantoole]

the weather service has developed a theoretical F6 definition, but one has never happened in recorded history. An E.F. 6 tornado is one that sucks up concrete foundations and road pavement.

[@pacmon5285]

9:00 No. Nukes aren't that sensitive. They won't go off unless activated. At least that's what I understand from information I've heard. 14:40 He makes a mistake right here saying "1966". He means Twister was released in 1996.

[@operator0]

There have been three instances where nuclear bombs were accidentally dropped from American bombers, or the bombers crashed with the bomb on board. None of them ever exploded. In fact, one of those bombs is still sitting on the ocean floor off the coast of Spain. They have never been able to find it. It is unclear if the Soviets have ever accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb, but the odds are high that they have had similar events, again, with no detonations.

[@user-po3ev7is5w]

the reason the US gets so many tornadoes is that there is a wide stretch of flat land from near tropical waters of the Gulf of Mexico in the South to the Arctic in the north. Flat as a pancake. No other place on Earth has that set up. So the wet, warm tropical air goes north while the cold arctic goes south. Where it meets you have enormous storms.

[@88wildcat]

The flatness has nothing to do with it. Tennessee, Arkansas, northern Alabama, and eastern Oklahoma are not close to flat and they all get plenty of tornadoes every year.

[@user-po3ev7is5w]

@@88wildcat you don't understand what I mean. The REASON that the warm and cold air can MEET is BECAUSE there is FLAT terrain all the way to the North pole from the USA and FLAT to the Gulf of Mexico.. That ALLOWS the cold aid to move SOUTH into the USA UNIMPEDED and run into warm moist air coming UP from the Gulf. Always fcking amazed how people

[@ScrappyForever]

That EF5 tornado lifted off the ground right before it got to my house in Oklahoma. I thought I was screwed, but then got extremely lucky.

[@realixx9375]

EF5 tornados actually have scoured the ground on numerous occasions

[@patkaiser7177]

I live in Illinois and we get lots of tornados. My son's friend lost his house to a tornado several years ago. It took out their entire subdivision. If you live in a tornado area, you know what to do depending on your circumstances. Basements, rooms without windows, etc. If on the road you lay down in a ditch. You know they are coming and there are sirens to give you time to get somewhere.

[@George-ux6zz]

This is how the scientists explain our tornado situation. Our mountain ranges run north and south, where most mountain ranges run east to west. So when spring comes around we have 2 different weather patterns we deal with, the arctic and Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean which is tropical. The arctic comes down from the north and the tropical comes up from the Gulf, where they meet is the tornado zone. They can smash into each other from Wisconsin to Georgia and anywhere in between. That's a large crap shoot. If our mountains ran east to west those 2 weather systems would rarely meet, which means very few tornadoes. I hope I made that seem easy to understand.

[@duanejones4404]

I live in Kansas. I have a basement. Newer homes may have a concrete reinforced room instead of a basement. If you don't have either, go to the lowest level in your home and put as many walls between yourself and the outside. If you live in a mobile home, leave! If you live in a mobile home park, go to its shelter. If you are in a car, leave, get to a ditch or culvert and cover your head.

[@sianne79]

And stay away from bridges

[@sammurphy3343]

Many communities in tornado ridden areas have neighborhood tornado shelters. You can find one easier than you think.

[@lilmelodie]

We saw one in Kansas the other day as we were driving home from vacation.

[@user-fy4uv9wb7o]

5:35 One terrifying fact about Texas homes is that even though we are in Tornado Alley, the bedrock and water table are so close to the surface of the ground that most homes DON'T have basements or storm cellars. So if a tornado is coming at us, we really do just have to get into an interior room or closet and hope for the best.

[@reanimated]

And in Central Texas, the limestone ground is too resistant, and/or covers massive caves. They had to pause working on one of my company's new offices a couple of years ago because they dug right into (and discovered) a whole new cave underneath. In SE Texas you'd really just end up digging below sea level.

[@DaWaffleman]

That is horrible! The death count from an EF5 will be tremendous. EF5 tornadoes wipe well built homes off their foundation. Luckily, as said in the video, it had been years since the last EF5.

[@ghstdnsr]

My house is built into a hill so only the front is open faced, we were hit in 2009 by a F3 and all I lost was one window and the top of wood stove and vent caps that stick out of the ground, Quite lucky compared to others.

[@jemsopp7125]

What they don’t mention about the Moore, Oklahoma Tornado is that is hit 2 Elementary Schools where several children died. This storm hit the community especially hard. I highly recommend a show called Tornado Alley (can be found here on KZbin). They give a real time account of a tornado as told by eyewitnesses that lived through it. Each Tornado Alley episode features a different Tornado, usually EF4 or EF5.

[@jameshunt9208]

Indeed

[@dogbarbill]

Need to remember that the one mentioned was the May 3, 1999 tornado which happened during the evening hours. The one which hit the schools was several years later and took place in the mid-afternoon during school hours.

[@athenaaxrs]

wasnt it at ef5 rating when it started to hit one of the schools?

[@jemsopp7125]

@@athenaaxrs I believe so & it was 2 miles wide. Just a monster of a storm.

[@GoUtes92]

Tornadoes are an interesting phenomenon. In simple terms, a tornado is an abnormal thunderstorm. In a regular thunderstorm, there is a circulation of air that operates as a horizontal system. But in a tornado storm, the normally horizontal system becomes vertical, allowing the heart of the storm to reach the ground rather than just stay in the sky. As a consequence, all of that released energy from hot air and cold air causes destruction on the Earth's surface.

[@pddaawwgg]

I can't imagine living through a tornado... I had a leak in my roof and since then I have major anxiety even when it rains.

[@sianne79]

Wish I could say something more cheerful but I really can't. They will wipe out your sense of security and the ptsd they leave behind will last sometimes for decades. It does get better though. Unless, god forbid, you get hit with a second one. In which case all the progress you've made with self therapy goes right out the window the tornado just smashed How bad was the leak?

[@curtisw502]

You gotta remember too that on these days where you get huge tornados that just straight line winds will do massive damage as well. I've seen strong gusts of wind blow around anything that isn't tied down like leaves and can easily take off parts of your roof.

[@dewaynehutchinson9495]

I just subscribed I survived a tornado when I was 15 I was walking home from my grandmother's when i saw a huge wall of black coming towards me luckily I was near a ditch and took shelter there until it passed but as long as I live I will never forget that sight and sound of the tornado while it passed me in the ditch it was deafening.

[@sianne79]

Just don't go sheltering under any bridges

[@bradkirchhoff5703]

Rocky Mountains, Canadas cold air and the warm air pushing up from the gulf all play significant roles in forming tornadic weather. It causes rotation.

[@rubroken]

From what I understand(because its happened before)nukes have to be armed to detonate. It happened in Spain when the US lost 2 nukes in a midair collision. They were recovered. The danger of even a non detonation is that radioactive material could leak or spill out which is hazardous too but not at the level of a detonation

[@Big_Tex]

Yes, the people who build nukes aren’t stupid, they’re not going to go critical just by getting knocked around.

[@jameshunt9208]

Indeed

[@jaredkresse3998]

Ive had the displeasure of driving through and around tornadoes in my travels. The rain shrouded and night ones are def most terrifying. You cant see em till they are right there. Always check your radar folks

[@sventharfatman]

I grew up just outside Wichita, KS and went through tons of tornadoes. The closest one I remember was an F5 that came about 1/3rd mile south of our house that went on to hit Andover, KS really hard. I was living in Pittsburg, KS when the F5 tornado hit Joplin, MO which is plenty close enough to be a "puckering event".

[@sianne79]

Eyyyyy I was at Andover road and Harry for that one. Were you south of there? Were you here for 2022? I got a tree through the door!

[@georgegarvey7338]

I remember the Moore, Oklahoma tornado. It was devastating.

[@TamiRuiz-vs2qk]

The cold winds from Canada hit hot winds from the south on open plains it's a perfect storm for this

[@Jesusisking2785]

I've been in 3 tornados in my life and 15 hurricanes I never want another one

[@sianne79]

Don't go jinxing yourself

[@SirMisterBarrett]

I have lived in Oklahoma City Oklahoma U.S. for over twenty years. The weather here is bloody amazing. I was dead center in a tornado just a couple of weeks ago. May 6th, to be precise. I was unable to run away from the security post I was at it happened so quickly. Literally 30 seconds after the Tornado Warning on my phone. This sh*t is real ya'll.

[@NOTHINGWORTHANYTHING]

Grew up in Alabama. Watched one pass our house during the April 27, 2011 outbreak. Will never forget that day.

[@alphadragongamingFTW]

A lot of homes in Oklahoma have basements with some kind of shelter in the basement or an external Storm cellar. After the Moore Tornados in Oklahoma There was a program put in to place to provide and document locations of storm cellars so 1st responders know where to go. Also 7 children were killed in the elementary school in Moore Oklahoma because of inadequate shelter if I remember correctly and after that they made sure to put shelters at the schools. Also just an FYI Moore Oklahoma has been pretty much destroyed twice by F5 tornados in a matter of a little over decade between the Tornados. That is extremely rare in it self.

[@Joker938]

The UK actually had the largest tornado outbreak in European history in 1981 with 104 tornadoes in 5 hours & 26 minutes. But it was very intense with 2 F2's being the strongest of the outbreak.

[@jeffisaliar]

That bloody storm blew me crumpets over into the next village, govnuh.

[@vincecramer7950]

So far this year we've had 578 tornadoes between January and May we haven't even hit the bad time yet which is only start getting hurricanes it intensifies it even more 🤯

[@rosscorlett4592]

5:28 lot of houses in Oklahoma have basements or separate storm shelters that are underground, if you don’t have a basement or storm shelter, the best way to survive a tornado is getting in the most interior room in your house, like a closet or bathroom.

[@Mellow_Owl]

I was in Oklahoma City (moved there from New Jersey about a year before) when the 2013 tornado hit Moore. It was terrifying. All my friends and their families made it out OK (Thank goodness), but it changes you. They don't lie when they say the people from the midwest are made of strong stuff. The aftermath, though heartbreaking, had its silver lining. Seeing everyone come together to help rebuild and provide aid was something I wont forget. Once you deal with a tornado like that, any other storm is just a nice day with a bit of rain.

[@LeonidasRex1]

I was about 50 miles away form Xenia when it got hit. I live in Wichita now. What was said about being screwed if you can't get underground is spot on, if you can't get underground you're proper stuffed. Incidentally, I designed a house that several architects have told me would take a direct F5... 3.5 foot thick poured concrete walls sloped in at 30 degrees, with heavy steel window shutters and doors based on naval designs. I'd have to win the lottery to ever build it.

[@chrisosborne3679]

I was paralyzed and lost both my legs in a F5 tornado in Tuscaloosa Alabama on April 27th 2011. The very first outbreak they showed.

[@terrysledge]

God bless

[@Ben182010]

Triggering a nuke takes extreme precision and timing and on top of that they have multiple fail safe redundancies. That said the chance isn't zero, plus you wouldn't want lost nuclear warheads just lying around in the general public for obvious reasons.

[@armadillotoe]

The Jarrel Tornado ripped asphalt from the roads, sucked the hides from cattle, and sucked their lungs out before shredding them into hamburger. The rescuers could not distinguish between animal and human flesh. 18 inches of soil was sucked from a cotton farm. There have been many horrible tornados, but that is the one that gives me chills.

[@b.t.40yrs_ago]

tuh-MAY-toe, tuh-MAH-toe, tor-NAY- doe, tor-NAH-doe

[@bee6122]

I'm in TX and I just got a Tornado Watch alert as I'm watching this 😶‍🌫️

[@anonnnymousthegreat]

American here: Where i live, we just had like 2 tornados pass through last week. I got lucky where one of them that passed by was only around 15mins away from where my house is. We had many injured and one fatality. It’s sad.

[@CursedLemon]

Tornadoes form in America's Tornado Alley most often because one of the key ingredients to producing supercell thunderstorms is a cold, dry air mass colliding with a warm, moist one. Think of it this way, although oceans regularly spawn hurricanes/typhoons, ocean conditions very rarely produce individual supercell thunderstorms (a supercell being a storm with a mesocyclone) as the conditions for rotating mesoscale storms just really don't exist out over the water. This is why waterspouts almost never hit even EF3 ratings, the conditions just aren't there. It's also theorized that the jet stream plays a large role in supercell storm formation.

[@smeltikozuyesmelti]

Peak tornado season is during the spring. Winter is coming to an end but there is still some activity with cool air from the arctic as it passes over the Rocky Mountains and moves southeast into the central plains. As temperatures continually rise in the south from warmer months, warm tropical air from the Gulf of Mexico is introduced as it moves north. As the cold and warm air combine, it creates a dangerous mix. All it really needs is a good jet stream to essentially stir it up and make it spin. The area where most activity exists is known as "Tornado Ally".

[@actualkarenokboomer3158]

I was in Oklahoma for #9 and #2. I was in a closet for #9, it hit a little south of our house. I was not a work that day at a huge theater in Moore. The theater was built by a guy from Kansas so it was built with tornados in mind. We had mild damage, but it destroyed the hospital next door.

[@groovelife415]

I've lived in tornado alley my entire life. It becomes a normal part of life. My wife was in a trailer that was flipped upside down by a tornado when she was 8 years old. They all survived, but were injured. You are safe in a basement up to about an F4. There's a good chance an F5 will suck you right out of your basement.

[@bradkirchhoff5703]

An EF 3 completely destroyed a very strong brick and concrete factory in my town in 2018. It looks like it was hit by bombs…

[@anneboban2002]

This is why the majority of homes in tornado prone areas have basements.

[@user-tl6vs3so4p]

A lot of the homes don't have cellars because of the soil.

[@3D-Ducks]

Incorrect, many homes in the prone areas of the Midwest lack it

[@axlFoleyBeverlyHillsPo]

If you don’t have a basement , Move to the most interior Bathroom (plumbing and Interior spaces) . If you are driving…seek shelter under a bridge/overpass or in a roadside ditch. It’s not recommended to attempt outrunning a Tornado.

[@gavynchapman1808]

I live in the Midwest and have thought about nuclear weapons being triggered by wind or a tornado. Always wondered about this.

[@jameshunt9208]

Not how nukes work. Even without all the failsafes, they aren't really something that just "goes off."

[@Nefertiti0403]

2:09 She’s right. It has to do with where we are situated. The warm air from the Gulf of Mexico mixes with the cool dry air from the West.

[@bigdanrog]

I grew up near Wichita. Oh man what a thing to behold.

[@pnutbutterwalrus3626]

The Moore Oklahoma tornado you can still see the scars left in the land. EF-5 can rips apart the ground and pull pavement for the roads.

[@MrTech226]

Most homes in Tornado Alley have underground shelters or basements for protection.

[@MrTech226]

Answering your question about the nukes? Military have to authorize the arming of them from their command sent by President. Failsafe procedures to avoid accidental nuclear mishaps.

[@Crazson34]

A 6 inch thick concrete safe room built inside your home will withstand an F5 tornado. FEBR (Forced Entry Blast Resistant) doors and windows would have to be built with it. Not cheap at all. Better to go with a single door that opens inwards. A great place to keep your valuables and supplies as well.

[@kennethv5250]

i remember the 1974 outbreak. 12 tornadoes came thru our county and killed numerous people and destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses.

[@willcool713]

North America doesn't have lateral mountains that separate the polar air masses from the tropical ones. Those differing temperature masses mix over N America and you get holes in the troposphere opened up by polar air, causing massive siphons to drain the warmer, dense air up into the super cold, thin, low pressure stratosphere. That draining causes a whirlpool, just like in a sink. If you don't get those steep temperature clashes, you don't get tornadoes. All other continents have mountains that run East-West, but the big mountain ranges in N America mostly run North-South, nearly funneling the polar vortexes from the Canadian Shield into the tropical cyclones from the Gulf of Mexico. Tornado Alley is right between the Rockies and the Appalachian Mountains across the Mid-West and the Coriolis Effect hooks the problem into the South.

[@brianjackson529]

If you don't have a basement or tornado shelter, you head to the centremost room of your house, as far away from windows as possible, and preferable inside a closet, doorway, or bath tub.

[@jakenation6573]

I know this isn't tornado related, but I literally had a heart attack when I saw the thumbnail thinking that Cardi B and Eminem were covering tornadoes now

[@jameshunt9208]

🤢

[@inkedNinking]

.. they make the best background for good sleep! I've watched a few go by. The trick is to live where they hop over.

[@ameliafireheart3963]

I am glad you reacted to this. It's genuinely one of my favorite tornado videos. And I gotta recommend the videos. "April 27th 2011 Tornadoes: The Super Outbreak" by Disaster Documentaries and "April 27, 2011 Tornado Outbreak Montage" by RollTide1987. Both videos are so good at showing just how crazy April 27, 2011 was. I recommend the second one more, but it would be so awesome to see you react to both.

[@Jim-ub9ky]

The UK does get tornados the last one was in the greater Manchester area on December 28th, 2023. it damaged 100 homes

[@dsboli]

It's the great plains, that's tornado alley. It's a massively flat land mass. Nothing to stop the massive storms.

[@mscharlie]

I was in grade school when the Xenia tornado happened.. we were at school on a beautiful sunny day that turned to midnight in minutes at 2 o clock in the afternoon. Xenia was about 20 min from my school.. it was scary as a child

[@jamiechrisman7673]

I live in Missouri and we are in tornado alley and if you're lucky you have a storm cellar. Or as you heard bathtub with mattress over you or stand in heavy doorway and pray like you never have and hope you come out the other side

[@joehamilton1009]

I have a neighbor who actually lived tho the moore f5 tornado she is a wonderful person but is so scared when we have storms with tornado warnings, hear in northeast texas

[@88wildcat]

Actually the Flint, Michigan tornado a month after the Waco tornado was the last tornado to kill over a hundred people in the U.S. before the 2011 Joplin, Missouri tornado.

[@VirgilEdwards]

So I wanted to help bring more factual context to the information presented. 1) The F scale was introduced after the 1974 Outbreak going from F0-F5. This scale was mainly about wind speed either observed by doppler radar, or damage observed using known values such as how much can a tree take before being snapped or being debarked. This scale would be changed in 2007 to the Enhanced Fujita Scale or EF Scale. Still 0-5 scale. However wind speeds alone would no longer dictate rating. It would be about how much damage was done and they use around 28 parameters to use when determining rating. In the instance of the 2013 El Rino Oklahoma tornado which reached a record width of 2.6 miles and had doppler radar wind speeds estimating over 200MPH, the damage it actually caused to buildings was considered EF3 damage due to the poor construction of buildings it did hit. You would not believe the amount of people that spend their time online complaining that a Tornado wasn't rated high enough... 2) You talked about what EF6 damage would look like to include the ground being taken. In the 2011 Super Outbreak in Philadelphia, Mississippi there were trenches in the Earth up to 2 feet deep due to the Tornado. Also damage signs that would be indicative of an EF5 tornado would be damage to roads. Entire segments of asphalt were removed from the Earth on roads in the EF5 Tornado that hit the Phil Campbell area of Alabama. In the 1997 Jarrell, Texas tornado featured, a 2 feet deep Concrete Storm Cellar door was removed and never found. Likely it was obliterated inside the tornado. For a Tornado in my view to ever be considered for anything higher than an EF5, it would have to cause damage that has never been seen or even considered. Considering it has now been 11 years since our last EF5 Tornado, I do not believe we humans have no expectations of ever seeing a tornado capable of being worse than an EF5. 3) The United States sees more Tornadoes than any other country on the Earth. Contrast that with Canada who has only ever seen one single EF5 tornado. 4) Most people will say things like warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico meeting Cool Dry air from the Rocky Mountains when talking about Tornado formations. However, fact is that even in 2024, Meteorologists still do not have a great handle on why Tornadoes form, why some are stronger than others, or all the appropriate atmospheric conditions necessary for a tornado to occur. Most other people will say that the NWS and TV Meteorologists tend to send out too many Tornado Warnings and most often there isn't any tornado seen or the Tornado has already come and gone while they are still on live TV talking about it. Why can't they see these things on Radar better? With traditional convective and doppler radar, the radar beams are sent in a straight line and the Earth Curves, yes flat earthers this alone debunks your idea that the Earth is flat. This means that a Radar Beam sent horizontally to a storm 20-30 miles away will mean that the Radar beam will not be able to receive conditions close to the ground. Rather it will be several hundred to several thousand feet off the ground. However, thanks to technologies like dual polarity radar where beams are sent vertically and horizontally toward storms, they can get a much better picture of what is happening in the storm including being able to receive data determining whether non hydrometeors are being sucked up in a storm which would tell the Meteorologists that there is a rotating updraft in the storm reaching the ground and sucking up debris.

[@jayhosh8126]

I still think Rainsville was the absolute scariest most underrated tornado in US history, think of all the conditions being near perfect to feed the tornado to go as powerful as one can go, it would not stop, it was tearing shelters out of the ground and there was nothing anybody could do. Cows insides were sucked out of their mouths. Heavy vehicles got launched into the air never to be found again, foundations to homes? There were none left.

[@88wildcat]

Oversimplified reason America gets so many tornadoes--a large amount of the country is halfway between Canada (where cold, dry air tends to travel southward out of) and the Gulf of Mexico (where warm, moist air tends to travel northward out of). Those two conflicting air masses tend to collide in the Great Plains, southeast, and Ohio Valley regions of America in particular. Add in the Rocky Mountains which forces the cold air to lift upwards instead of it's natural design of lowering and you get a catalyst for wind shear, different winds blowing out of different directions at different heights in the atmosphere and you have the perfect recipe for tornadoes. No other region in the world has as ideal of a geographic set up like this for the formation of tornadoes.

[@cmoshpit9171]

On average, around 30 tornadoes are reported in the UK every year according to the Met Office. On 23 November 1981, a total of 104 tornado reports - at least 90 of which are believed to have been accurate - were made between Anglesey and Norwich, the largest tornado outbreak to ever happen in the UK

[@TangentOmega]

The part of America that gets tornadoes is the mid west, a huge section of flat land, in between mountain ranges. Not every state gets tornadoes. The UK is lucky enough to be situated in an area where tornado formation is difficult.