The Jarrel tornado imo is the most disturbing, that tornado stalled over that neighborhood and first responders recorded bodies that where "ground up like market beef" worst of all they where told by local weather to not run from the tornado but take cover in their homes which would ultimately kill them.

@brizzle3903

Жыл бұрын

The Jarrell tornado picked up so much dirt from the fields that by the time it stalled out over the Double Creek subdivision it basically sand blasted everything in its path A family who was in the subdivision hiding in a storm shelter below ground said it seemed to go on forever when it was on top of their home, couldn’t imagine what that must’ve sounded like

@laurawendt8471

Жыл бұрын

At the time. the residents of the subdivision that weren’t at home were very upset they were kept from returning to try to see the damage to their homes or salvage any items they could. Knowing what we do now, they were kept away so long because authorities were collecting all the remains scattered around the area and trying to locate more in order to have something to identify. When first responders wont let you see something it’s because it’s too gruesome for the families or public to view. And they themselves have to live with those images as part of the job, it’s horrible.

@jadefox5285

3 ай бұрын

Woooooooooow your guys comments are FRIGHTENING.. i need to learn more about this tornado...

@thylin806

2 ай бұрын

Wtf

@thylin806

2 ай бұрын

@@jadefox5285ok

The Jarrel F5 really said "F*ck this area in particular"

imagine hiding in your basement thinking it'll go over you in a matter of seconds and instead it just sits there for a full 2 minutes before moving on

@halee4787

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely terrifying

@TheStarlits

2 ай бұрын

Me in the basement: nah I'd win

The Mongolian tornado is just amazing to look at. It’s literally what I’ve been picturing in my mind of tornados before buildings and humans and just this eerie tornado roaming around in a vast plain of endless land.

@colatf2

Жыл бұрын

I never thought about it in that way. That sounds horrifyingly beautiful and I wish I could go back in time and see something like that person (from a safe distance).

@wadewilson8011

Жыл бұрын

Philadelphia MS takes the cake in that aspect.

@hollzie7348

Жыл бұрын

I think the "Dead Man Walking" tornado that hit Jarrell TX is probably the most creepiest and spookiest looking tornados ever. Native Indians used to call it that.

@RAAM855

Жыл бұрын

In a way it's a bit more comforting and safe to look at. I think it was a perfect time for storm chasers and meteorologists. No debris to worry about killing you except for trees and no buildings to obscure your view making them easy to get out of the way

@Lylaris_or_Garuk

Жыл бұрын

Looks like either Dryden TX 2023 or Rozel KS 2014/15?? (I forgot what year)

The Jarrell Tornado was so strong that it sucked the asphalt off the roads and scoured the ground up to 18 inches. It simply fascinated me hearing how strong the winds needed to be for this to occur.

@theflyingchipmunk9123

Жыл бұрын

Ever heard about the Philadelphia MS 2011 April 27th tornado? That tornado scoured the ground and also ripped asphalt of the roads. In some places it even dug trenches 2 feet deep... That is the deepest ground scouring of any tornado in documented history. That tornado always fascinates me.

@matthewoburke7202

Жыл бұрын

​@theflyingchipmunk9123 I'd probably argue that both the Philadelphia and Jarrell tornadoes had wind speeds approaching if not exceeding 300 mph. Same thing with the Smithville and Hackleburg ef5 tornadoes that also happened during the 2011 super outbreak. Smithville and Hackleburg produced damage very similar to Jarrell and scoured asphalt from the roads.

@theflyingchipmunk9123

Жыл бұрын

@@matthewoburke7202 Yeah it seems kinda strange to me that the EF5 tornadoes from the 2011 outbreak only had estimated windspeeds of around 200 - 210 mph since those tornadoes produced some of the most insane damage ever recorded.

@matthewoburke7202

Жыл бұрын

@@theflyingchipmunk9123 It's definitely very strange. I am convinced that many of the 2011 ef5s had winds far beyond 210 mph.

@ceeinfiniti1389

Жыл бұрын

@@theflyingchipmunk9123 You can thank the EF scale for that. Have to remember the F and EF scales are purely damaged based. Even if you were to physically measure 350mph winds in a tornado somehow, only the damage left behind is used to estimate windspeed. The EF scale was adopted because even in the 70s Fujita himself knew there were issued with the F scale. The EF scale was designed to take many more damage indicators into account as well as greatly reducing the estimated speed, as the thinking was the winds required to say sweep a house off it's foundation are not as high as initially guessed.

Balloon reconnaissance...China...I get it.

@MCGamer-tj9nr

Жыл бұрын

Lmaoo good one 😂

@Skylar_T

Жыл бұрын

LoL!

@loercayt6146

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@dark_disciple

Жыл бұрын

Was wondering if anyone was gonna comment on that lol

@louiewaddington

Жыл бұрын

Balloon reconnaissance, nice idea china for tracking and surveying tornado damage, and mapping it in great detail, but not so great when it comes to other countries and ruining your relationships with them. We get it China, you’re somehow obsessed with America much like Russia. But is it really worth starting another conflict and risking world war with other countries?

The 13 Moore tornado was also a slow mover when it entered Moore, apparently moving around 9 MPH at times. I did not know about the looping part, which is devastating when you consider how large that tornado was. The 13 Moore tornado, however, was eerily "hypnotizing" and photogenic. The 1999 Moore F5 was flat-out evil-looking, almost like a pissed-off Kraken straight out of the sky with all the suction vortices coming out of that thing.

@Lylaris_or_Garuk

Жыл бұрын

Couldn’t agree more on the last part I always find it kinda odd when EF/F5’s are photogenic, I’m just not used to it. Like they reveal themselves just so you can realize that they are going/will kill something or worse, someone

@dannyllerenatv8635

Жыл бұрын

@@Lylaris_or_Garuk It is eerie in it's own way. The 13 Moore EF5 was almost hypnotizing and photogenic in the eeriest way possible. While the 99 F5 was like an evil Kraken out of the sky, the 13 twister was like an extraterrestrial laser beam coming down from another world.

@Ally.Luscinia

Жыл бұрын

I remember sitting in a shelter during Moore '13 and thinking the sound of it passing 1/2 mile south took forever. I didn't realize it also took that loop, looks like Plaza Towers area. That's what's pretty crazy about the differing characteristics of tornadoes. Some have crazy-fast forward motion (Smithville, Mississippi 2011 I think?) that inflict the same amount of damage as the slow moving grinders. I don't think we'll ever fully understand the intricacies of these storms.

@dannyllerenatv8635

Жыл бұрын

@@Ally.Luscinia Yeah all the EF4 and EF5s from the 2011 outbreak had very fast-forward motions. Fast forward motion also means less friction which means the tornado has all the time in the world to charge up and recuperate after destroying objects. I can imagine it must have felt like an eternity with the 13 Moore twister passing.

@arlo6688

9 ай бұрын

im terrified that i live so close to moore now. but i also love tornadoes, so maybe it's for the better. i live close to the birthplace of our modern tornado warning technology, tinker afb. pretty cool.

No matter how many times I watch/read about the 1997 Jarrell F5, it always fascinates and terrifies me. It's sad that there is still much about this storm that will never be known. God rest the 27 souls lost that day. While I agree that the Dead Man Walking photo is creepy, IMO the most terrifying image is of one of the other tornadoes in that outbreak, taken from a slight distance, out in the fields. The funnel is a clear tube, with a huge dust cloud and a massive wall cloud that is almost oval-shaped. One can clearly see the rotation in the wall cloud. It has haunted me since I first learned about Jarrell in 2004.

@kainhall

Жыл бұрын

ive watched every video on jarrell 97..... and i never knew it came from the north west, headed south east . that is a VERY strange direction for a storm, tornadic or not, to move

@axltherottweiler6025

Жыл бұрын

My mother lives in Jarrell about 1 mile from Double Creek. When I was visiting, my sister and I went to the memorial and checked some of the surrounding roads where you can still see the patches where they rebuilt the roads. The strength of that storm is amazing. There was also another tornado (F2 I think) in Jarrell last year.

@dclinson_

Жыл бұрын

@@axltherottweiler6025 F3 in Florence, west of Jarrell, cleanup was a nightmare and many places still haven't rebuilt

@charlesandjulien

Жыл бұрын

Do you have a link to that picture?

@bigrooster6893

Жыл бұрын

Jarrell Texas tornado was truly only a F3 tornado it only had winds of 130-140 mph. The houses were poorly constructed and didn’t use lag bolts only basic nails. The tornado was destructive because it was barely moving.

I still believe Grand Island's outbreak is one of the most slept on tornadic events on weather youtube, probably due to not a lot of photos or videos existing of the tornado or the aftermath. I was born in '01 so a solid 21 years after and lived in Grand Island for the majority of my life, my mom and grandparents lived through the event and it lives in infamy in the town. Tornado Hill is a huge hill in Grand Island that was built entirely out of debris, covered in soil and planted with grass. One of the neatest characteristics of the town. You did it well needed justice, Chris. Thank you. As a lifelong resident and average historian

@tombolo4120

3 ай бұрын

Yet it had first of the kind satellite coverage from space! 🤔

I lived through the Plainfield F5. Scariest day of my childhood. Destroyed our house. I remember the apartment building that got hit. The top half of the building ripped off and some of the people got sucked out. Most of the bodies were found in a field nearby. The damage was undescribable.

@tupacalypse88

Жыл бұрын

oh wow I can't even imagine what that must have been like.

@sukhastings4200

Жыл бұрын

The NWS in Chicago really screwed up on that; Didn't issue a warning until 20 minutes after the storm hit

@davidbarabancea1537

Жыл бұрын

Woow

@LizzW90

Жыл бұрын

I was born in '90, but I'm pretty sure the Plainfield F5 was the reason my teachers would NOT let us mess around during tornado drills. The kids that were at the high school school only survived through the building being obliterated because they had gone through tornado drills so many times and knew exactly what to do. Plus the hallway they sheltered in was one of the only things left standing.

@menone8532

Жыл бұрын

Very sad.

[7:35] Imagine being in the middle of that double loop. As long as you survived, you'd probably be the only person in the history of the world to be able to say you got hit by the same tornado 3 times.

So many videos cover Jarrell now and many people comment on it. My father physically witnessed its birth when he was driving north on I-35, describing a movement catching the corner of his vision off to the west. The dusty disturbance gradually became a whirl and it connected upward in a thin, small tube. When he looked back at it moments later, more vortices had landed next to the original central circulation and were dancing around it. This was around the time the famous photo of its "dead man walking" phase was taken. He continued on north and the last sight he had of it was in his rear view mirror and it horrified him how big and black it got. It seemed so innocent and beautiful at first and then turned so terrifying after just a few minutes. He lost sight of it just before it made its fateful turn towards Double Creek. Some of my coworkers like the Lockhart family were fellow kids when it happened and went to the elementary school there. Some of their classmates were victims. The Williamson County first responders had to spend years in therapy after trying to identify the flayed remains. No one in the community that lived there before the population boom of the 2010s likes to talk about that day. Only that it made them frightened of every dark clouded day and every storm after that for a while. Nothing about the storm that May made sense logically, it didn't behave like tornadoes generally do in central Texas. That same storm system went onto produce the Cedar Park tornado and the Lake Travis/Briarcliff tornado. Both of which were very violent. The Cedar Park store I remember caused the roof at the Albertsons to collapse and the manager saved the lives of over a dozen people when he urged them to take shelter in the freezer. That was a dark day for Texas and my biggest memory from it was my dad's face when he got home and told us what he saw. He was dismayed and horrified that the tornado system he saw went on to be one of the worst in history...

The looping ones are crazy. Imagine getting hit my a tornado, and then getting hit AGAIN by the SAME TORNADO just minutes later

@Gamejake94

2 ай бұрын

It's like an ender dragon from minecraft.

@TheShagMan69420

2 ай бұрын

That happened to me in school. It was crazy.

One of the things that made the Grand Island cluster exceptional was the presence of the 3 anticyclonic ones. Only about 1 in 50 tornadoes are anticyclonic and they had 3 in one night, one of which was F3. Only one anticyclonic tornado has ever been rated higher than that.

@tombolo4120

3 ай бұрын

The storm came from out of no where and had no where to go. Also there was a false nuclear alert that day ...two FOIAs and it's not clear if there was any overlap.

Living just south of the Jarrell area, the two tornadoes that wiped out different sections of town (the first happening in 1989) are impossible to forget. Seeing an entire neighborhood wiped off the face of the Earth is truly horrifying. The Austin metro area is just south of "Tornado Alley," so we don’t see tornadoes as frequently as areas to the north of us do, but we’ve had some doozies here for sure.

@jordanledoux197

2 ай бұрын

Every time I see damage photos of the Jarrell F5, I have to remind myself that those were NOT taken after debris was cleared. The tornado just literally turned the houses themselves into dust.

there was also the 1955 Blackwell tornado, part of the tornado family of the Udall, Kansas tornado. It was also an F5 and it was infamous for the appearance of "orbs" which were rotating around the skinny funnel, theres a sketch of it on the web. The tornado went exactly north and then made a hard left turn to the west before dying out.

[5:14] Wow. That tornado completely embedded a car into a tree before completely skinning/degloving it, leaving nothing but the frame behind? That's gotta be one of the craziest photos I've ever seen.

The 2008 Atlanta tornado is one that always comes to mind. Moved from north to south, not only that but if i remember correctly it was the only tornado of that day and was in an area that wasn't forecasted for tornadoes that day.

@MrAtlfan21

Жыл бұрын

I remember having to take shelter. If I remember correctly, there was a basketball game in downtown that would have ended right as the tornado was passing through that part of the city, but the game went to overtime and luckily tens of thousands of people remained unknowingly sheltered.

@tomaterjuice5095

Жыл бұрын

@@MrAtlfan21 you're right!

@supimcarl6077

Жыл бұрын

I was a kid in the Georgia dome in 08. Scary af ngl. And I lived through an F5 in 99 and EF4 in 2011. Still never been more scared than that Georgia Dome 🤣

@MrAtlfan21

Жыл бұрын

@@supimcarl6077 were those stronger tornadoes also in Georgia? I remember my mom telling me about a monster one up in Gainesville

@akeishaharris

Жыл бұрын

I remember that one. I left my children in the car in Marietta while I went into Food Depot, it was raining very hard and windy. It was so bad no one left from the store and when I got in the car my children were crying. Later on we found out a tornado hit Atlanta.

This is one of the best tornado analysis videos I've ever seen on YT. Its not overly long (not dragged out), excellent music, three panels per tornado, clear high res maps. I'm well versed in tornado info and there were various things and even images I've never seen before.

I grew up in Grand Island, NE and was 10 when the “Night of the Twisters” happened. I know many people who were hit, including the house my sister was in. There was nothing left of the house except for the foundation. Her friend’s house was hit by a satellite from the worst of the seven tornadoes; the high-end F-4 “South Locust St. tornado” that killed four of the five people who died from the storm, and one that would easily be an EF-5 by today’s scale (estimated 250 MPH winds). Everything about that night was strange. We only had a 20% chance of thunderstorms that night, too, but about 7 PM, everything about the sky seemed weird. Tons of marshmallow-like cumulonimbus clouds started forming, almost like eggs stacked perfectly on top of one another. The sky was even more green than the hail core from the May 31st, 2013 El Reno tornado, too; the greenest I have ever seen. Too bad the event happened in 1980 and the few photos of the event’s genesis must not have been from cameras advanced enough to capture the actual color. The El Reno supercell is the closest comparison I have seen, only June 3rd was actually bigger. I believe that sometime in the future, unfortunately, a cell this size is going to be more organized and produce the worst tornado ever. Hopefully, it will hit in a rural area and there won’t be any fatalities. I’ll never forget driving around GI on June 4th, 1980, either. The Army hadn’t imposed any curfew or restrictions yet and it wasn’t declared a natural disaster until later in the day. Since things like that moved slower in 1980 and we didn’t know/believe the extent of the damage yet from the radio broadcasts, my mother took my sister, her friend whose house was destroyed, and me to get her friend’s car across the street from Pier Park, a park that is three blocks by five blocks and laden with so many trees you couldn’t see from one end of the park to the other, and it was devastated. I was on the west side of the park and was able to see the grade school (Dodge School) that sits across the street from the east side of the park. Before that night, that was impossible. Somehow, my sister’s friend’s car wasn’t damaged that badly and was still drivable because the tornado made a 90° turn right before that spot and went due south after tracking due west at its inception. We also drove a few blocks east toward Meves Bowl, a bowling alley that took a direct hit at F4 strength and that was the first time I’d ever seen cars in trees. I can’t remember the exact distance, but people were finding bowling balls miles away. I remember my mother saying we would stay on the street we took from Pier Park, E. Bismark Rd., so we could find our way home since there weren’t many landmarks left and nothing looked the same. Pier Park was also where our Little League diamonds were. I played catcher that year, and I would literally lose some balls out of my pitchers’ hands in the stacks of trees that laid behind the home run fence all summer. It was funny watching spectators look for home run balls that summer, though; one of the few funny takes from the storm- well, except for the fact that my pre-teen friends and I had many spots to throw snowballs at cars the next couple of winters since there were so many empty lots with foundations in which to hide. Don’t judge. Most of us didn’t get Ataris until 1982 and that’s what boys my age did in GI in the early 80s. Lol.

@TheBigDean18

Жыл бұрын

I’m from NE, worked in GI for a few years, I’ve wanted channels like this to do a deep dive into the event.

@djamo1969

Жыл бұрын

@@TheBigDean18 That would be nice if someone did. Since it was 1980 and happened at night (started around 8:45), though, there isn’t much footage of the aftermath, even, let alone none of the event itself. I know I was scared AF that night and I was in one of the few areas of town that didn’t get hit.

@snydedon9636

11 ай бұрын

@@djamo1969I was a deputy sheriff from a neighboring county and was dispatched there that night. A pamphlet was put out not long after the storms with pictures and descriptions of the damage. I still have it filed away somewhere. Glad you, your family and friends made it through ok. I interacted with quite a few residents over about 24 hours. Really good people.

@tombolo4120

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like a weather experiment gone sideways! Most night time tornados are nightmarish in and of them selves, but to have them reoccurring for hours on end would be really traumatic. Anyway, sorry for your losses.

2:28 rip tim and twistex team

If you witnessed the destruction of the Jarrell F5 you would truly understand how bad these things can get. Everlasting images you can’t forget.

You know whenever something bad happens, it feels like forever? The people in Double Creek Estates felt that forever.

@Cinerary

7 ай бұрын

Nah. They only felt it for a few seconds before they were turned into atoms and particles. They were cheese grated til nothing was left.

Very interesting! Have you done a video on the tragic Tri-State tornado(s) ??? Would LOVE to see the same detail and map approximation of that 1929 tornado . The hundreds of lives taken always shocks me and the distance but more shocked no one ever mentions it in the top worst tornados? Taking so many lives it should be mentioned more

@highriskchris

Жыл бұрын

.... Stay tuned!

@MyerShift7

7 ай бұрын

*1925

The Jarrell Tornado had MAJOR beef with that town. rip to all those who've died

I was pleased to see the 1980 Grand Island tornadoes included. I was 12 when that happened and living 45 miles away. You could see the intensely dark skies east of us from that far away. I’m always amazed that at no other time has another city has 7 tornadoes in and around it over a 3 hour period, some rotating clockwise and some counterclockwise and yet no one discussing tornado history ever mentions it🤷🏻‍♀️

The Grand Island is so crazy, it really looks like some random kid took a marker and scribbled with it and called it a tornado track.

@Gamejake94

2 ай бұрын

Imagine if a kid drew that line the year before, then the year later he didn't know that the tornado followed that same trajectory.

The details of the Jarrell TX tornado are horrifying. 😢

You mentioned the 1990 Plainfield tornado but one storm that does not get nearly as much attention is the 1976 Lemont, IL F4 tornado. It had a U-shaped path and hit the nuclear reactor facility at the Argonne National Laboratory. I was 4 months old and lived about 5 miles from the path but I never heard my parents talk about it. Lemont was hit again in 1991 and I remember that day extremely well because I videotaped a funnel cloud from the same storm approaching Burbank which can be found on my channel.

The tornado outbreak that occurred in Grand Island, Nebraska on June 3rd, 1980 has fascinated me more than any other tornado outbreak. The image you showed on screen at 7:08 is my favorite photograph of a tornado.

the Jarrel tornado not only represented a walking dead mans anguish, but stalls over 3 houses hold 3 families killing them all, not the mention the survival rate on ground was officially marked at 0%

Nothing compares to Jarrell's destruction

Exceptional video, well-made and extremely informative! When I lived in Manhattan Kansas during grade school, one of the few books on tornadoes available from the KSU library told the amazing story of the Udall tornado. Sealed my interest for life!

The Jordan, Iowa and Lemont, Illinois tornadoes also had trippy paths. Both occurred on June 13th, 1976, and like most of the tornadoes on this list, both were violent.

The dead man walking image of the jarrell tornado still gives me chills

My dad worked search and rescue after the Jarrell Tx tornado. At the time he was a cop in Lacy Lakeview. He said it was more of a "Piece the bodies together" style of rescue. He said what made it much more devestating is the fact Jarrell Tx was one of those towns that people would drive 20-30 miles out of town for work, and there were a bunch of school age kids home alone with no way to escape when it hit.

I know that Elie had to make it onto the list, but holy crap that Grand Island situation was a lot stranger than I remember!

1:16 What's crazy and sad here is that a nice family could be living here for years and years and then all those beautiful memories just get thrown out of their lives. All photos. All old family relics. Gone.

Love the video idea! Haven’t seen a video about pathways!

The April 12, 1927 Rocksprings Tx F5 tornado moved 60 miles to the SE, ending just west of Uvalde tx. It's formation was probably due to similar Jarrell atmospheric conditions, ie. gravity wave/ dry line/ outflow boundary.

Wow, those looping tornadoes are really bizarre, making them even more unpredictable. Scary stuff !

This was awesome!! Great video bud!

I love how he mentions some tornadoes "behaving" and some that "haven't behaved" lol. Best terminology used to describe them lol

Great video man!

3:17 That greensburg 07 picture gives me MAD chills

Wow, Eureka is about 20 miles away from me. My Dad was storm chasing that night and a massive limb bashed into the bed of his pickup. Thankfully he was OK and fortunately nobody died from the tornado. He also helped with the recovery effort of Greensburg, KS.

I suspect that the faster the supercell is moving, the less likely the tornado is to perform an unusual looping pattern. The Grand Island supercell was moving very slowly.

@highriskchris

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I agree. Slow movement of the parent supercell allows for more erratic movement.

Jarrell, the dead man walking photo is ingrained in my mind, the agonizingly slow speed over the town was horrific, one of the first on the scene said he was perplexed because the wreckage was gone, even large items weren't anywhere to be seen.

There is something very eldritch, very lovecraftian about tornados

Another thing about the Elie F5 is that it threw a whole house in the air before the house disintegrated.

@TaliyahP

Жыл бұрын

And I believe the footage of that house was the sole piece of evidence to get the tornado classified as an F5

@P_RO_

Жыл бұрын

It had been officially rated an F4 until someone sent them the video of the house being lifted intact- then they upgraded it to F5

You can often see damage paths with Google Satellite view using older image dates. Some of those clearly show minor variations of path from official versions or ones found on Tornado Talk. With some of the most violent tornadoes you can still clearly see the path 10+ years later.

The Dead Man Walking tornado (Jarrell F5 Tornado) Was one of the most disturbing tornado outbreaks in history. If people were to take shelter in they're homes, They would most likely die. Tho The Dead Man Walking Tornado were to be talked about in the docs, speaking of with this one word: "If you see the dead man walking tornado, You are about do die." Pretty scary if you ask me. Someone did make a book within this tornado, with the lives that were claimed by the tornado. I don't know what else to say. Overall, The Dead Man Walking Tornado, Would be the all time fear, of Jarrell, TX.

So glad to see the Grand Island tornado event finally recognized for its oddities. A single storm that produced 7 tornadoes in one area, in one night, that were both anticyclonic and cyclonic in nature-truly a bizarre phenomenon!

The scariest thing a Tornado Can Do Is Stall Over A Populated that is so creepy

@hauntedarchivess

10 ай бұрын

for real. the worst part about it is that since it had picked up a bunch of mud from fields and such, it essentially just sandblasted everything. including people.

Plainfield supercell went over us and I tell you it was pitch black at one point.

@Allenmarshall

Жыл бұрын

I remember.

@michaelruiz6530

2 ай бұрын

my mother was working at Mongomery awards at the time I was 2 months old. she remembered it being really muggy that morning and when she left it dropped to 60 degrees. the tornado was 30 to 40 miles south of us.

The Jarrell tornado actually started near Hewitt, next to Waco. It ran parallel to I 35 south all the way to Cedar Park just north of Austin. I started tracking it as I got off work at the same time it started.

The more I learn about the Jarrell, Tx, tornado, the more unsettling I find it. I had no idea it went east to west until this video.

There have been F5 and EF5s, but none of them will ever be as horrifying as the Jarrell tornado. There is nothing scarier than a tornado coming from a direction it isn't supposed to come from and stay over an area for as long as it did. The absolutely massacred livestock and the enormous amount of death and ground scouring haunts me to this day.

Another tornado with an odd damage path was the Jordan, Iowa F5 tornado of 1976. At one point, both it and the anticyclonic F3 satellite tornado it had spun up made an EXTREMELY sharp right turn, causing the path to have a unique V-shape. In addition, both tornadoes did this turn simultaneously. Seriously, google the damage path, it’s pretty wild. Also the footage (though silent) is awesome, especially of the anticyclonic tornado (not least because it may well be the strongest anticyclonic tornado ever caught on film).

You know the el Reno tornado was 2.6 miles wide and it was 4,000 meters

would love to see more of this

Amazing video, cant wait for more

Just found you on youtube. I like videos like this!!

0:58 Is what you call the "Dead Man Walking" tornado. As you can see there are two legs and long arms within the tornado. A long time ago this kind of tornado was considered deadly and so Natives used to call it "Dead man walking" because if an Indian was close enough to see a tornado that was shaped like a man walking then the Indian was sure to die. Back then there were no tornado warnings and so they could not outrun it, even on horseback.

@OfflineJoostKlein

6 ай бұрын

That’s very eerie 😢🫣

I saw a video the other day that showed a smaller tornado turn towards a house, get within like 50 yards of it and stop. Stayed stationary for a bit Ripping shingles and siding off, then started heading away from the house. Craziest thing I've seen.

It is truly disturbing to just think about it imagine sheltering in your basement awaiting the tornado to pass and right as its above when u think its nearly done but it STALLS over you for 2 entire minutes eventually taking your life. Its just truly unsettling

Great video as always, Chris! Given the cyclical nature of supercells, with occlusions and regenerating updrafts sling-shotting tornadoes in deviant directions, seems like we need to get a better understanding of that process in order to more accurately tailor tornado warnings. *Paging Cameron Nixon lol*

@highriskchris

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ethan! I was originally going to include a little segment about Cameron Nixon's research on deviant tornado motion, but it didn't make the final cut. But there absolutely is still stuff we don't know about tornadoes!

I wasn’t alive during the Plainfield tornado but my parents were, and they said it was horrible even though they didn’t live IN Plainfield, they lived in Crest Hill. My Grandparents apartment was destroyed, and my parents recall a school getting totally destroyed. The house my parents used to live in was kinda damaged, but Plainfield was destroyed. The House I’m currently living in was built recently after the tornado, and made were the path went through or atleast i think. It’s crazy knowing suck a bad tornado went through this nice town.

Number 15: Burger King tornado, the last thing you want in your whopper.. is a tornado..

Imagine how scary toneadoes on other planets could get...

@jays2551

2 ай бұрын

the extremely complex and meandering "air" currents (not air in the strictest sense but you get it) on jupiter would be crazy fun to study, if that was ever possible. jupiter has some of the strongest storms ever recorded, with upper atmo lightning bolts running into the range of hundreds of miles in length and of an almost unfathomable voltage. neptune also has some crazy storms, which generate enough pressure to compress certain carbon compounds into literal diamonds. god I wish there was available footage for some of these storms.

i live in jarrell and my biggest fear is another giant tornado we’ve had smaller ones

The Greensberg tornado is scary when you see the path jink sharply back towards the town and then see an even larger tornado form just east of the now destroyed town

Such an interesting video! Thank you

The movie night of the twisters was supposed to be taken from the 1980 outbreak

I noticed some of the weird tornado paths. I did not bother looking further into them, but now I want to.

I actually live in Grand Island, and I've always heard the horror stories from those tornados.

It's a trip how certain conditions can cause a storm to move against the mean airflow pattern and use that movement against the air as a form of shear to cause intensification.

Dead man walking has gotta be one of the most sinister tornadoes ever

One thing to mention is the Jerrel F5 is also known as the Dead Man Walking tornado because it terrifyingly and absolutely traumatizing transformed into a figure of human legs moving.

El Reno has also had an anti cyclonic tornado that hit the municipal airport in the mid 2000’s.

Nice video. I appreciated the animation with the tracks and the pictures and videos of the tornadoes. Was there anything bizarre with the jetstream in any of the other tornadoes? And what does it mean that a tornado is anticyclonic

@LisssardManN

Жыл бұрын

anticyclonic is when a tornado goes the opposite direction. think of it like this: cyclonic tornado: your usual tornado going counter clockwise anticyclonic: clockwise, spinning the opposite direction and making a freaky tornado. (i am using usa's tornado spinning movement btw)

Elie was truly the most chad tornado ever. It slowly meandered through the fields before completely slabbing a home, then left without killing a single thing

It's already rare for a tornado to loop but for it to do it 4x is just really weird, even alone I still think the 7th Grand Fork tornado was the weirdest that has happened yet

7:37 me as a 5 year old drawing a roller-coaster lol

You missed one of the wildest things about 1955 Udall, those zig zags absolutely spared my hometown. It curved perfectly around Oxford, jumping the river, then continuing north then beelining to Udall. Its wild how it just decided to spare my hometown.

@DJC0M3RAD3

Жыл бұрын

@@eternaldevoid No I know the zig zags were mentioned but I require a name drop on my 1000 people hometown dammit 😂😂 (not being serious but a tiny bit serious)

@DJC0M3RAD3

Жыл бұрын

@@eternaldevoid my bad lol

Tornadoes are so predictably unpredictable

because of these paths, I feel as if tornados are sentient.

2:10 today marks 10 years since that beast of a tornado

I absolutely love how detailed Chinas damage assessments are

AWESOME VIDEO!!

The dead man walking

In 1957, when I was a young kid of 10, we lived south of Kansas City. I was at Little League baseball practice under a rapidly changing sky when we got word to head for home. Because we had the only basement in the neighborhood we had several families down there with us. The Tornado started in Kansas and was on the ground for something like 75 miles. My father, who at the time was an Air Force weather officer, stayed in the open garage door 'til the last possible moment observing it. With it headed straight for us from south to north he pulled the door down and literally jumped the stairs to the basement. The electric lights turned a strange color as did the sky we could see thru a small upward window. My dog began to howl. We could hear the increasing rumble that suddenly went silent. The Tornado had made an abrupt right turn, crossed the four-lane highway, and slammed into another housing development. Around 50 people all total died. That included a kid about my age who played on our baseball team. One of the many buildings destroyed was the high school we practiced at. Tornados are not anything to fool around with.😮

It’s actually sort of scary to see tornadoes going south or west. Because whenever there is a tornado warning, I like to make sure I’m west of the tornado. Nice to know it doesn’t really matter.

You have to remember that your #1 pick and El Reno were multiple vortex tornadoes. They had satellite tornados that were swirling around the main vortex. They believe that's what killed Tim Samaras and his crew, one of the satellite vortexes.

@trickster6054

Жыл бұрын

It had 302-296 mph winds and 2.6 miles wide which makes it the 2nd strongest tornado and also the largest in history

@wadewilson8011

Жыл бұрын

@@trickster6054 2nd strongest R E C O R D E D. Largest R E C O R D E D. If we're being technical about it.

@KaileyB616

Жыл бұрын

Yes because the storm chaser that was in the car right in front of Tim Samaras was fine, while they unfortunately were not 😢

The map at the beginning of your video is crazy. Canada and America look crazy. It looks like they’re population density but it’s tornadoes. Crazy.

The looping your talking about Is called occluding and if a tornado occludes it dies if it doesn’t it’s strength for a little bit

Very cool video. Super interesting!

you forgot about the 2009 Rajkanika Kendrapara Tornado , this Tornado moved from North East to South West and Eventually true south. Tornadoes rarely occur in India , but when they do , they either move North West to South East or West to East , same case scenario in Bangladesh.

There seems to be a pattern: the more erratic and unpredictable the tornado path, the more dangerous and deadly they can be

The Jarrell Tornado was so strong that I’m pretty sure plumbing was ripped out of the ground up to 30in deep