This was such a good documentary keep it up

Great documentary... Also nice to see so many of Pecos Hank´s footage.

@brad270472

2 жыл бұрын

I said the same thing about the Pecos Hank footage (especially his 'conception of the gods' tornado)

@jesperlehmann4336

2 жыл бұрын

Pecos Hank have some of the best and most clear footage ever 👍

@Brock_Landers

Жыл бұрын

@@jesperlehmann4336 Yes sir he does! Hank has some of the best footage I've ever seen. Usually I'm watching some grainy shaky footage from an extremely amateur storm chaser and you can't see hardly anything besides their windshield wipers.

@sbdeluxe2088

Жыл бұрын

Came here to say this

@26michaeluk

Жыл бұрын

I knew I recognized some of this footage.

Always good to find new documentaries about this sort of thing, had a lot of Pecos Hank footage in this.... he's well worth a follow. Brilliant camera work, well explained, funny and a love for animals.

@deerteeth7144

2 жыл бұрын

Pecos Hank is literally a god

@alexofspades22

2 жыл бұрын

This. Pecos Hank is my favorite storm chaser lol

@jaxsonmerchant7684

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexofspades22 same him and reed

@itsthespiceoflife

2 жыл бұрын

Love hank

@systlin2596

2 жыл бұрын

Love that guy!

This is a nice documentary! And adding hanks footage is a nice touch. He’s a great storm chaser.

it's weird to have a show made about something you experienced personally. I was a kid when the tornadoes hit Alabama. it was horrible.

@amyyoungblood2256

Ай бұрын

I gotta say, its just as weird not seeing many documentaries about something so significant you went through. I posted a comment i hope theyll cover. Deadliest tornado outbreak Florida has ever had. Kissimmee tornado outbreak. I lived through it living/growing up in sanford by the airport. My street was the second street hit by the outbreak that came through sanford. I know i have God on my side from that tornado that was a night and i was unharmed despite the rest of my street 🙏🙏

As a life long Okie, I understand being desensitized to the tornado sirens. Literally, when most Okies hear a siren, we go outside to look before deciding if it's time to get in our 'fraidy hole. That's just how it is during the spring, living in tornado alley.

@Adrian-zd4cs

Жыл бұрын

Same here in Alabama (but people tend to leave us out, but those cold front's are now pushing further south and increasing the intensity of our storms) it's wild because I'll be 40 in October and people tend to forget that we've had killer tornadoes my entire life lol

@whitetipvelociraptor5759

Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile since I don’t live in tornado alley I’d be living down in that ‘fraidy hole all spring and summer long!😂🤣

@lattacamp8719

29 күн бұрын

Iowans do that too

The comment around 20:25 mark is incorrect. The whole purpose of the Enhanced Fujita scale was to include superficial damage like ground and pavement scouring, tree damage and such so a proper rating could be applied. 1 EF5 in 2011 was rated as EF5 from ground scouring alone.

@j.m.salazar9964

2 жыл бұрын

Good point. Also this video completely omits the 1953 tornado outbreak. I have doubts that they researched this heavily.

@SkilledLegend

Жыл бұрын

@@j.m.salazar9964 they also skipped the Halem, Nebraska tornado that was quite literally was the largest tornado before the El Reno one

@d1llp1ckle1

10 ай бұрын

They also omitted the 1997 Jarrell, TX tornado that was the whole reason for the EF scale being introduced as a replacement for the Fujita Scale.

@SirRobbins

10 ай бұрын

@@d1llp1ckle1 Yup. There were a handful of articles citing that tornado and the Bridge Creek one in 1999 as the basis... Tim Marshall remembered the Allison texas 1995 tornado that should have been an F5 as it removed the entire freeway, pavement and all along with the grass. Never hit a structure at that intensity so it had a F4 rating

@d1llp1ckle1

10 ай бұрын

@@SirRobbins That is also correct. The Jarrell tornado brought the report in May of 1998 by Dr. Phan in which he believed the Fujita scale should be changed to better understand the intensity based on damage and several other factors, and the 1999 Moore tornado helped solidify that idea.

Great doc to where many people can see how dangerous tornadoes can be. And also thank for you for using Pecos Hanks Footage. He does his best to get us the footage and data we need to learn everyday.

They kinda glossed over that a bit. When the Super Outbreak of 1974 hit, most weather stations were still using repurposed radars from WWII. They also didn't have radio systems in place to communicate with other stations - no way to warn another station what was heading towards them. It also resulted in a massive increase in funding for radar research and by the late 1980s, nearly every news stations had a Doppler radar. There's still radar holes tho. Lots of them - esp out here in the Midwest.

I'll never forget watching the episode of Storm Chasers where they showed the 2013 El Reno tornado which killed the TWISTEX team :(

"...They're so fat and wide..." That line cracks me up 😆

@ragestorms1942

Жыл бұрын

Would you rather have fat and wide or danger Noodle

@lizcoz4714

Жыл бұрын

@@ragestorms1942 as hank would say, tiny saggy whispy thing

The death toll in Joplin was so high not because they didn't heed the warning. It was because the tornado was already going through Joplin before the sirens went off

Excellent documentary…the science and research into understanding tornados is as fascinating today as was by the very first tv documentary I watched as a kid, put out by Nova a few decades ago…to this day, my fascination and respect remains. Thank you! ❤️

Pecos Hank’s footage is outstanding. The clear footage creates an epic viewing experience. It’s mesmerizing to see all the movement in the storm structure. Hank has blessed us with his top quality footage.

This was really good, and covered so much! Definitely going to do a review of this on the old weather blog.

This video was really awesome and educational. Really good video!!

*Great dramatic story, great layout and convincing experts in the frame.* 🌪🙋‍♂

What a wonderful documentary!

Superbly done documentary.

Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man.

Their coverage has just gotten better.

I was serving in the AmeriCorps NCCC program back in 2011 and we were sent to Smithsville, Mississippi that got hit by an EF5 tornado it was absolutely horrific to see what an EF5 can do to a town, it’s one thing to see it on tv but when you see it in person it effects far more than you can possibly imagine

5:55 Jarrell before it became an F5 tornado.

@GevoGenesis92

2 жыл бұрын

23:49 When it became an F5.

@Built2spill505

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate. Terrifying stuff.

This is great.

😢 the lady in Joplin crying " things are never gonna be the same again" I felt that 💔

Should have better building codes. Hurricane code in Florida could be the baseline. But structures should be more resilient to a variety of storm types.

I’m surprised you guys didn’t talk about the Mayfield Tornado, but it was a very well done documentary.

@ragestorms1942

Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure this was made before that tornado made for tv

This guys talking about how people died because they were waiting for confirmation, with a big smile on his face, what's up with that, no matter how much confirmation you get, if that thing hits dead on you, you don't have much of a chance, unless your in a underground shelter, RIP🙏 to the souls lost.

@97I30T

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think many of the deaths from the Joplin tornado occurred because basements are pretty rare in that part of the country. The overwhelming majority of homes in Joplin do not have basements and underground shelters really weren't common before the tornado in 2011. Most people who were in the path of the tornado simply had no opportunity to get underground.

For me these incredible natural disasters almost seem fairytale like. They don’t look that scary on film but I can’t imagine what it’s like in real life. They don’t seem capable of picking things and people up. I’m grateful for the boring weather we get in the UK even though it makes me naive about more intense weather.

@ragestorms1942

Жыл бұрын

The UK gets tornadoes there's a good documentary on the Birmingham tornado

This is so interesting. Great job! I live in Eastern Pennsylvania and I can remember, a few years ago, a weird weather event took place. We are not known for tornadoes. However, I was just getting off work and looking to the west over Allentown. The sky was inky black. I hurried up and got on the highway going east at about 60 mph. That storm was riding up my rear the whole time. I don’t get that. I am still wondering if that was a tornado. Any opinions?

@Elizabeth42069

2 жыл бұрын

doubt it..i live in oklahoma, and when we get tornadoes, the sky sort of turns like this weird green color, and it hails..then there is like a big low hanging cloud, etc. there are storms with really strong winds and black clouds, but tornadoes can be dropping with the sun shining behind it O.o not a fan!! what i like is how no houses here have basements!!

@ragestorms1942

Жыл бұрын

Storms can move fast it's nothing for a storm to do 70 mph even up this way I live in Ohio darkness of the clouds have nothing to do with the intensity if you had a more specific date I could look it up in the NWS archives

I remember the tornado that happened in St.Louis, luckily it wasn’t super late at night and people were still awake

So I'm from close to Pittsburgh and I was visiting a friend in Springfield, MO on May 22nd, 2011 when the EF-5 tornado struck Joplin. I remember that we were also under a tornado warning and I was due to head back home that day. We were all scared because we were in a single story home and our only shelter would've been the bathtub. The sky was a light green and dark in some places. We were watching the news and it was showing all of the aerial footage from the aftermath in Joplin and they kept reporting tornados all around us. I decided that I needed to leave...then. That day was absolutely crazy because almost every town that I drove through I was getting tornado warnings on my phone. I drove through Indianapolis to get some Rallye's (Rallye's and Checkers is my FAVORITE restaurant after growing up in Florida) and the lady at the restaurant told me to get to shelter because a tornado had ripped through there earlier and we were ALL being warned about another one that was on the ground. 2011 is the craziest year for tornados and severe thunderstorms that I had ever lived through. I thought the blizzards of 1993 and 2014 were crazy when we got 28" overnight and another 9" the next day along with -15 degree Ferenheit temperatures. I even went through hurricanes and tropical storms when I lived in Florida. I'm 39 and I've seen and experienced some crazy weather phenomenon.

Most fatal outbreak isnt correct unless you're just speaking on that area. The Kissimmee tornado outbreak in 1998 that hit multiple towns killed 46 and injured 250+.

I live in Oklahoma and tornadoes are just a part of life here we deal with it and we move on

It is amazing to actually see this exposé, when it is something that I grew up hearing about. My mother’s family, lived out on Allen rd; between Smith’s Creek and Ravenswood rd. My mother use to talk about, standing at the door of their root cellar, watching the tornado coming right up behind their house. I spent my time growing up, using the tornadoes pathway to walk out through the woods. It’s awe inspiring to see just what that day was like, for my mother, my uncle ( who was five years old at the time ) and her family went. I brought up this video to my uncle tonight, on the phone. I would love to send this to him. It’s a part of his history. But, I’m on a cell phone and he doesn’t have text. Does anyone one know how to get this information out to him? Thank you

How do you have a plane full of people when I'm sure a tornado warning had been issued?

@annewallace4687

Жыл бұрын

I was wondering that too. But since airplanes fly at 500mph, a tornado is nothing? I don't know.

My mom was in the hospital during this outbreak in North Carolina, I was not even born yet. And 3 tornadoes touched down near here

This dude sounds like he's doing a bad Donald Trump impression and I can't hear it any other way. XD

@bakingbulldogs3262

Жыл бұрын

Now that's all I can hear 😂

@kermitfrog1650

Жыл бұрын

How and the EFF do u 👂Donald Trump ? I Hear some English Dude ❗❗❗❗

Kinda weird to blame the Joplin victims not heading the sirens. Theres not much you can do when a Mile wide EF5 is going through the middle of town, completely shrouded in rain, except get out of its way, or get in the basement.

@sweetwolfsteve5583

16 күн бұрын

It is not weird their right it's the residents of joplins fault you ignore the siren you win stupid prices people paid the price for ignoring the sirens

I have seen up to 30 tornados in one day in Oklahoma one time six were on the ground at one time

What is this tornado at 0:24?

34:13 so tell me how that is ef5 damage walls are still standing ef3 damage leaves walls standing like that a ef5 would have completely slabbed that home

39:47....wow.

The first global warming scare was taking place during a time of cooling. Are we in another warming cycle perhaps? Also, one can engineer climate change but it takes a ton of thermal energy to do that.

Yes we need EF6

I'm feeling like we should have state or federally funded storm shelters. Just a really strong concrete bunker that is well marked and visible

@ragestorms1942

Жыл бұрын

Many states have these along the side of major highways they're usually home to rattlesnakes so nobody wants to use them many schools now have them too

Of all natural disasters I'd rather deal with tornados than earthquakes...

@kizy55

2 жыл бұрын

Me too at least you can get a warning, you with earthquakes

@TheNelly77

2 жыл бұрын

Lol y'all are nuts. An earthquake will only endanger you if you're inside a house, even if it's an 8 on the Richter scale. Surviving an F5 tornado is between you and God. There's no safe place to be unless you're at least ten feet underground lol

@ellenbryn

2 жыл бұрын

Nope. I'm from California and I've been through several magnitude 7 earthquakes. My mom's from Texas and had an F3 tornado just miss her house. And an F3 tornado destroyed my school when I lived back east. I'll take earrthquakes, thanks. They may be a surprise, but they start slow and build up, and you have time to dive under something and protect yourself! Assuming you live in an area where buildings are built to code, it's *extremely* rare for buildings to come down. They may crack, all your dishes and books will fly off the shelves, and if you run outside you might get hit by glass from a breaking window or a bit of awning cracking off the front of a building facade. But at least you won't have to worry about 200-300 mph winds churning over where you are with the blades of a blender made out of pieces of broken houses, pipes, vehicles, shattered wooden beams, aluminum sheeting, and everything the tornado's picked up chewing the house around you apart and then impaling or sandblasting or crushing you with all that stuff or burying and smothering you in it. Buildings can be strengthened enough to withstand the strongest earthquakes. But our engineering has not yet come up with a way to withstand the forces of an F4-F5 tornado well enough to protect people aboveground.

@releasethebeast2893

2 жыл бұрын

Not really, you can get used to earthquakes (in Chile, for example) but a tornado is always going to scare the shit out of me

@Lelexlexie

2 жыл бұрын

Do some research on the Jarrell tornado then tell me how you feel...

imagine the next 100 year storm

We’ll never be able to understand nature. It’s wild.

I would devour Dr. Kosiba... Her voice is magical!

@MikeHunt-fo3ow

2 жыл бұрын

pervert alert lol

@jaredpatterson1701

2 жыл бұрын

🤣

If you aren't underground for some.of these. They aren't survivable. That's the thing that makes its a phobic level.fear if mine

34:03 i dont get how there is controversy over the el rino tornado its a ef3 the nws who rated it knows what they were doing the damage it left behind was not ef5 damage a ef5 tornado completely slabs a home the el rino tornado didnt do that so there should be no controversy also people seem to forgot it mainly went over farmland the nws rates tornados on what they destroy

FUN FACT: England actually has more tornadoes per square mile than anywhere else on Earth!

@brad270472

2 жыл бұрын

I know, I got caught up in the Bognor Regis tornado in 2000.

@KennyMcCormick99

2 жыл бұрын

@@brad270472 Really?? Like you actually got to see it on the ground & everything?? If so, how far away were you?? And what's crazy for me is that I have lived in tornado alley for almost 20 years and have NEVER seen a tornado!!

@brad270472

2 жыл бұрын

@@KennyMcCormick99 I suppose most people would think that living in tornado alley, you'd regularly get them going past your front door every week....the whole of the UK could probably fit in Texas though. I was in Bognor for the weekend as an ex's parents had a holiday home there. We decided to go down to the beach even though the weather was a bit crap and as we was walking through town, it got a bit windy but as we turned a corner, we both got sent flat on our arses by this freak gust of wind. We laughed it off, went back to the site where the holiday home was and there was a caravan upside down on top of another one with the emergency services there but it wasn't until we see the news that they said a tornado went through Bognor. To be honest, I wouldn't of known it was a tornado if I didn't hear it on the news, it wasn't like an EF4 or 5....think it was struggling to reach an EF1. So, I was close enough for it to put me on my arse but didn't see any funnel cloud. I would love to go over there and spend a couple of weeks storm chasing so I can see a proper one but sadly (or stupidly), I used to be a bit of a naughty boy and wouldn't even make it past border control.

@jaredpatterson1701

2 жыл бұрын

But not as intense

@KanyeTheGayFish69

Жыл бұрын

@@brad270472 I’ve lived in tornado alley my entire life and never seen a tornado

the video of the dog dying got to me 😭

@chdreturns

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the trigger warning... Not gonna watch this

@jaredpatterson1701

2 жыл бұрын

27:00

@bakingbulldogs3262

Жыл бұрын

Dog was injured, not dead.

I don't understand why so many people live in such flimsy dwellings in the US. Mobile homes in tornado areas? Wood buildings? I live in Jamaica in a house that has reinforced block walls (rebar and concrete in every other void) and a 15cm concrete roof. I don't worry about hurricanes and would probably go through a tornado ok.

@MissRadi0active

Жыл бұрын

I would say a lot of it would have to do with the cost. It's expensive just to add on a basement/shelter. I remember a documentary about one tornados and the family dug their own shelter with shovels because it was too expensive. It also saved their lives and their neighbors. Not to mention, if I was living in an high risk area where I might lose my house or even parts of it every 1-5 years, I wouldnt put a lot of money into it either. Uprooting everything and moving is also expensive and a lot of people tend to stay where they know and are comfortable. From first hand experience there is a lot of things that I would be a temporarily fix and I would make it more permanent if finances allowed, only for it to stay fixed with the temperary solution. I think a lot of factors come into play in these situations, but I do feel some standards need to be changed like finding a way to have shelters for majority of houses without it breaking them. Sure you can have insurance on your house/property, but thats more money they dont have, not mandatory, and you still will lose sentimental and necessities and rebuilding not only your home, but your life takes time.

@JCO2002

Жыл бұрын

@@MissRadi0active " if I was living in an high risk area where I might lose my house or even parts of it every 1-5 years". But if you put more money into it, you won't lose it. And I'm not talking about adding on, but building a tornado/hurricane proof building in the first place. Concrete and rebar top to bottom, tied into concrete piles that are sunk a few metres into the earth.

@KanyeTheGayFish69

Жыл бұрын

@@JCO2002 the chance of ever being hit by a tornado is so small that it wouldn’t be worth it to make a more tornado resistant house, which wouldn’t survive an ef5 anyway, and neither will any structures not made from reinforced concrete and anchored to the ground. Unless you want to live in a tiny bank vault for a home it’s almost impossible to build a structure to survive an ef5.

@KanyeTheGayFish69

Жыл бұрын

@@JCO2002 you do realize just how rare tornadoes are in tornado alley right? I’ve lived my entire life here and I’ve never seen one once.

@Lalasa2

Жыл бұрын

I think there are a couple big reasons that factor into why buildings aren't tornado-proof built. First of all, it's pretty difficult to build something out of any material that can withstand the strongest tornadoes. Then, the next reason is the scope of damage. Unlike hurricanes and earthquakes that hit regularly over a large area, most tornadoes only last a few minutes and are pretty narrow, cutting a small "path" of destruction. You can have a tornado run through a town and only see a few streets affected! Couple that with the spaced out nature of people living in the Midwest, where most of this happens, and you'll find a lot of these storms simply rage, relatively harmlessly, over some empty plains or farmlands since the population density is so low, especially compared to cities on the coasts or in California. The result is that you'd be paying a lot of money to tornado-proof an area that may not see a single tornado for over a decade or more. That's why most residents in permanent homes in the Midwest stick to constructing storm shelters or deep basements instead, since these spaces are relatively safe from tornado damage. Weather stations are also investing so much into increasing warning time instead so that people can simply "get out of a tornado's way" and seek shelters built for this purpose. As awful as tornadoes are here, they are pretty uncommon occurrences during people's lifetimes, and plenty of people in tornado-affected states haven't even encountered them more than once, if at all.

I hope they replace the enhanced Fujita scale. It’s a poor scale.

@ragestorms1942

Жыл бұрын

Just needs fixed that's what they're doing

Me watching this in poplar bluff: 😟

Actually only 8 people were killed in El Reno in 2013, not 20

@lizcoz4714

Жыл бұрын

A lot of after storm death related to the storm.

When a 🌪tornado stands still while you're watching it, it's time to $hit & git !! IT'S HEADING DEAD AT YOU !

Aren’t all tornados violent?

@ragestorms1942

Жыл бұрын

There are three tornado categories weak strong and violent I don't think that weather enthusiast realize that not everyone knows that

29:21 That's the Alabama College University Mall it's ripping through. ❤️‍🩹 Also there's tornado alley, and then there's Dixie alley where the most tornados hit. Most only think/ are aware of tornado alley when we mention the word "tornado".

So a quarter of all of History's worst tornadoes happened in 2011? I guess this channel completely forgot about the tornado outbreak of 1953 culminating in the loss of over 140 lives. I'd recommend changing the title of this video to worst tornadoes caught/filmed on camera.

@kristinafulton5334

2 жыл бұрын

Also they should mention "history" is since the 1950s.

Non

Even though it was the seventh deadliest since they start tracking them in 1950 but they forgot to put that the Joplin tornado was the 2nd costliest in United States history if you don't believe me it says that the Joplin tornado was over 2 million dollars (I don't remember how much it was) but it took out half of the business that were in Joplin like Walmart and the Home Depot building and a sport's store to I actually lived through the tornado I actually lived about 4 blocks(half a mile) from the only high school in Joplin was I heard that destroyed two of the many elementary schools and one of the middle out the two middle school and the high school they had to rebuild or moved it to the other side of city like Mercy /St. John's hospital they moved it from where it was(when got out of the back of St. John's hospital you can see Freeman hospital across the street from it to the outskirts of the city etc

@jimmyjon9970

2 жыл бұрын

I don't believe a single thing you said simply because you can't use punctuation to save your life

@apple_dragon226

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimmyjon9970 and....? What else is fucking new I heard that one to many freaking time to give a damn. "Play's world's smallest violin" 🎻

like I said i saw six supercells in one state and all six were tornado warned so they are not rare at all that a myth

@ragestorms1942

Жыл бұрын

In all of the worlds weather the least common type of storm is a supercell a small percentage of supercells produce tornadoes less than 1 percent of tornadoes are high end so kinda rare but when conditions are right it's usually over a big area so it tends to happen all at once

I do not like this i am so scared

It was april 27, 2011 not April 25, 2011. How could you get that wrong? I mean great research guys.

anyone else get Trump vibes from the way this narrator speaks? like posh Trump lol just me? ok xD

What does any of this have to do with climate change. We have no control over nature's array of catastrophic forces. All we can do is be aware of the dangers common to our choice of living locations. When or if it happens you must deal with it, no ones fault but your own, accept it. Think of the catastrophic destruction we cause to countless other living feeling indigenous animals as we bulldoze over their habit, annilate living forests while never giving any of it a second thought. We must face and endure nature's destruction as do all living creatures, sadly they then are in addition forced to endure humanities selflessly cruel and ignorant activities.

This is what I wanted to do for a career. I didn’t have a family supportive of my ambitions.

@Kari79311

2 жыл бұрын

Same here!

@brad270472

2 жыл бұрын

Its never too late to start chasing your dreams.

@jaredpatterson1701

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah make your own family and dew it

@ragestorms1942

Жыл бұрын

I didn't start chasing storms until I was in my twenties it's just a hobby for me all you need is a cell phone and a car and a little bit of knowledge

Insanely good documentary. I enjoyed everything up until the point where you tried making it political by talking about gun control. I think one thing about weather reporting that everyone enoys, is that it stays out of polotics and only delivers facts. That being said, 98% of this was outstanding and i can't wait to see more of your guys videos. Thank you again, this made me cry a few times, seeing the devastation tornados have caused us americans.

@jaredpatterson1701

2 жыл бұрын

49:10

@johnchedsey1306

Жыл бұрын

How is that "political"? It is actual fact that guns kill more people each year than tornados. They also point out cars are more deadly as well. Yet you're not screeching about "car control". Nor did they state any political position regarding guns. Basically you're easily triggered over reality.

this guy sounds like donald trump if he was british

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