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The tornado in this video (shoutout Reed Timmer) was rated an EF4. You can’t correlate size with intensity, unfortunately.
For example the Moore Oklahoma EF5 in 2013 only did EF5 level damage to a few homes, but the tornado itself was well over a half mile wide. This isn’t to downplay the impact of a tornado of that magnitude, but perspective is important.
Another example is the record breaking 2.7 mile wide El Reno tornado. The parent circulation didn’t break EF3 wind speeds, but there were subvortices that were spinning in excess of 300mph. The subvortex that killed Tim Samaras was not only spinning at EF5 speeds, but had a **forward** speed of 170+ mph.
Take a moment to absorb that. A funnel the size of a football field coming towards you at a speed that would qualify for most NASCAR races.
It’s as unbelievable as it is unpredictable. If you ever find yourself inside a tornado warning polygon, don’t attempt to understand the behavior of the storm. The polygon is there to protect you from these extreme uncertainties.
The tornado in the OP looks pretty violent. Also, you cannot always tell the size of a tornado from visuals alone. This tornado looks like it just dropped and was picking up debris.
I'm unfortunately old enough to remember Jarrell Texas and its surrounding areas.
The base of the tornado was over a mile wide and a 5 mile path through the area with winds reaching 260mph. The only thing left in the areas it hit were house foundations. The buildings were just gone, it ripped up the asphalt on the roads, and had hail of almost 5" diameter.
The insane bit was that normally there are large debris piles, chunks of buildings etc. In Jarrell the tornado was so powerful it turned everything into splintered rubble and just scattered it about.
Oklahoman here.
I was a teenager when Moore got hit in 1999. A mile wide, on the ground for 85 minutes. Highest wind speed ever recorded (302 mph). Everything was just gone afterwards. Just incredible.
My friends and I chased that tornado (freshman in college and reckless) and ended up pulling people out of the rubble in Bridgecreek. Seeing that just huge path of destruction, like a giant bulldozer had just leveled a whole sub division was crazy.
I'm not too far from either of you. So you're not alone. This has been the worst tornado season for us since the 90s, I'm not excited.
But you guys have more to fear from the hail. Our band of Texas gets 2+in diameter pretty regularly, and once we hit the baseball sized on the rare occasion you stop worrying about your totaled car and more about if the hail is gonna punch all the way through the roof.
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I was around 9ish years old, the skies went dark brown and when that tornado passed between our city. I remember it touched downed, jumped over couple cities and touched on Jarrell with it massive destruction. When I think of tornadoes, I always think of this one. We drove to see the damage a couple days later and remembered seeing complete roads gone too.
Yeah, they omitted that it basically vaporized people. It parked over Double Creek Estates for a couple minutes, which was enough for the several-hundred-mile-an-hour winds to throw all the debris into all the other debris enough for most of it to be unidentifiable. Some of that included people.
Almost a 100% fatality rate. Most tornadoes kill a few people but cause a bunch of injuries as well. Jarrell essentially either killed you or it didn't hit you at all, there was no in between.
Yup, deep diving information about the Jarrell F5 when my fascination with severe weather kindled recently introduced me to the term "human granulation". I was displeased to learn that term exists.
I’ve lived in the mountains my whole life and we don’t get tornados here. I couldn’t wrap my head around a tornado over a mile wide, that is fucking insane
My grandparents were in the Greensburg, KS tornado. The total path length was 22 miles (35 km), and the width of the funnel reached 1.7 miles (2.7 km). Overall, 95% of Greensburg was destroyed. They were on the edge of town and besides their home being destroyed (except the tv sat in the living room undisturbed) they survived. An absolutely insane tornado.
This comment should be much higher.
Storm chasers do this stuff for a living, stealing their footage is not cool. Credit should at least be given, and then if they decide they want it removed, you should respectfully remove their content.
Yup. As someone who has grown up in tornado alley, this is the point I try to make to newcomers who are obsessively concerned about tornadoes and can't figure out why everyone who lives here is so nonchalant about them.
Not every tornado watch produces a tornado warning and not every tornado warning produces a funnel cloud and not every funnel cloud actually touches down.
In the event that a funnel cloud does touch down, in your area, the chance that it's gonna get you are about the same as you being able to throw a dart at a wall size map of your area and hit your exact location with it after being blindfolded and spun around 10 times. At that point, with those odds, if it's my time to go, it's my time to go.
Also a good point to bring up when non-mid westerners ask why people in Kansas and Oklahoma don't live in windowless bunkers rather than wooden houses.
Earthquakes are similar in California. While there are daily tiny earthquakes you can't even feel pretty much daily, you only experience scary once once or twice in your lifetime.
What is different is that earthquakes happen in moment, because when they will hit is unknown. There is no earthquake watch or warning. It just happens, and you react and find safety. You do not live in fear in the same way.
I can't imagine having to hide in a bathtub a hole or in a bunker in a garage, waiting for the warning to pass. Even big quakes don't last longer than 5 minutes. No waiting, no wondering if it will miss you. You ride it out, hope for the best (it mostly is) and find you go bag if you need to bug out.
It’s not uncommon for that to even happen to a house right next to destroyed. The first can be reduced to toothpicks and the second can be totally unharmed minus flying dirt and such
I had a friend who lived next to the path of a tornado that threw his shed that was touching his house a quarter mile, jammed his front door shut, took all the bark off a tree a few feet from the front door, but otherwise did no damage to his home. I wouldn't have believed it had I not seen it myself. We went to check on him because we saw the tornado go through his neighborhood on the news.
Some of his neighbors weren't so lucky.
https://preview.redd.it/eqc8er3h2f3d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce8d020769aaa9a8fefd1f71fa639ddf92bd1d2c
My father was in that pickup truck when a tornado came through Oak Lawn IL in 1967. The pile of debris was a farmhouse next to the local high school. Luckily he escaped with only a few broken ribs. 4 people died at this location. This photo was on the front page of the “Chicago American “ newspaper. Which went out of business decades ago.
I'm from Belvidere, IL and that's when we had our tornado too. Hit Belvidere High School as it was getting out and the busses were sitting there waiting to take the kids home, many of which ended up being tossed and flipped over. 24 people died including 17 children. 13 of the deaths were at the high school with over 300 injured there.
https://preview.redd.it/8jch3i1u3h3d1.jpeg?width=779&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8981fd89d072c0d306578e4035b016c122365120
It’s interesting, if you look at a map of frequency of tornadoes in the entire world, they’re almost exclusively in the American mid-west and only rarely ever anywhere else.
Lightning highest frequency? Florida and Romania (Transylvania)
El reno was 2.6 at its widest and reached wind speeds of 302mph. The [scar](https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2013/06/130514-0602_modis_truecolor_el_reno_tornado_path_before_after_anim.gif) was visible from satellite. For reference, that's Oklahoma City, a population center of <700k people
It was a concentrated but violent one. This tornado passed about 800 feet from my house and I didn't have so much as a branch down, but I had 2*4's and other people's tree branches dropped in my yard.
But, the houses that took direct hits were hoovered up sometimes all the way down to the ground level subfloor. Luckily basements are really common here so there were no fatalities.
Plus we've learned lessons like "don't open all the windows to 'equalize pressure' as it just lets the roof lift off easier." Old timey folks didn't always do the most evidence-based things.
A tornado went by/partially over my house a couple of weeks ago and it was crazy when the access hatch to the attic popped upwards from the air pressure difference.
Most people passing through just remember central and western KS, where very few people actually live. There are some quite nice towns in eastern KS. They're not mountainous but there are the flint hills and the beginning of the Ozarks.
Konza, Tallgrass prairie, and Mined Lands WMA. In Western Kansas there's a ton of stuff too, it's just all kinda far from each other. The best imo is the Scott City area, Lake Scott and Battle of Punished Woman's Fork are my favorite areas in Kansas. Cimarron National Grassland is not far. Monument Rocks isn't far.
I actually have a whole list of stuff in Kansas if anyone wants it, tons of cool hidden gems. I worked in Kansas as an ecologist and have been to every single county. DM for a list of places.
I know a woman in Kansas that can suck the chrome off of a bumper hitch.
And that isnt fellatio innuendo - she can remove electroplating with her mouth.
People are always asking me why in the world would I miss Kansas of all places and I always end up explaining I don't miss all of Kansas, Just one little town. They never get it
>only cool thing I saw was windmills
So you drove through rural areas and didn't visit any of the actual cities and assumed you saw all there was to see.... Goofy
It's crazier when you realize that the vast majority of the stuff flying around in the air is chunks of roof sheathing.. which is made of 5/8" thick 4 x 8 wooden sheets.. and it looks like confetti..
Plywood sheets and siding blowing around like sheets of paper.
Tornado could miss your home and you'd still get an expensive bill when a sheet of plywood got driven through your roof or car
I had a work colleague who lived in Joplin when the 2011 tornado hit. He slept through it, went outside later and two blocks over from his apartment was...nothing.
Tornado: Selective destruction of "smaller" areas
Volcano: Complete annihilation of "smaller" areas
Earthquake: Broad destruction of a wide area in seconds
Tsunami: Broad destruction of a wide area over a long period of time
Hurricane: you get the point
Thanks, Nature!
Eh, lived smack dab in the middle of tornado alley most of my life and I have never seen a tornado on the ground. It’s not that dangerous. Hurricanes look way worse to me.
As a Floridian, the largest threat posed by a hurricane isn’t death (though some people do die by fallen tree), it’s the effort to relocate and\or rebuild. Insurance companies do not want to pay, but you owe on your mortgage anyway. So the threat is more about personal financial destruction than physical danger. As you say, it’s easy enough to drive down the road for a few hours. But if you come back to a mess, well… good luck to you.
Hurricanes also spawn tornadoes. Though, given that you have so much forewarning, you generally have the option to gtfo and not be there when the hurricane arrives. As for ‘only the oldest of towns get serious damage’… idk about that. Hurricanes bring storm surge and I don’t really care how well built your town is, if it has 20 feet of water pushing into it you’re gonna have a bad time.
Yeah, lived in tornado alley for 11 years and never saw one. Saw some funnel clouds but never a touchdown. You get over most of it after a while but I personally never quite got used to the really violent storms. I was always more afraid the wind would knock over one of the huge old trees in the yard and split our house in half than I was of a tornado though.
I hope this person and whoever upvoted \*never\* drives, as dying in a car accident is a thousand times more likely even if you lived in tornado alley.
KS resident here, and have lived in this region off and on for quite a very long while. In my area, we had a tornado that stopped a few blocks away just two weeks ago, and that was the first time in 30 years one had come anywhere near this area.
Yeah, everyone was ok for the most part. Minor injuries but no fatalities. Most people have basements and the tornado sirens went off a couple of mins before it hit. People take tornadoes pretty serious here (we had a really bad one in 1991).
Most people have rebuilt but some are still fighting insurance. The local YMCA, which was a staple in the community, took a direct hit and has only now just reopened, so that took longer than initially expected (it has been just over 2 years).
If you want to avoid tornados, your best options are to live west of the Rockies, in Maine, or in West Virginia
[https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/storms/tornadoes/where-tornadoes-happen](https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/storms/tornadoes/where-tornadoes-happen)
Someone help me out here please. What is the dust/smoke you see being siphoned from the homes as the funnel passes near them? I always see that in intense footage but have never heard an explanation for what it is. Thanks!
It's absolutely insane that the tornado causes so much negative pressure on the back side of the rooftops that a cloud of vapor forms. So crazy! This video really demonstrates the raw power of destruction a tornado has.
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Amazing footage.
This isn’t even a big tornado. Now imagine one of these a half-mile wide
The tornado in this video (shoutout Reed Timmer) was rated an EF4. You can’t correlate size with intensity, unfortunately. For example the Moore Oklahoma EF5 in 2013 only did EF5 level damage to a few homes, but the tornado itself was well over a half mile wide. This isn’t to downplay the impact of a tornado of that magnitude, but perspective is important. Another example is the record breaking 2.7 mile wide El Reno tornado. The parent circulation didn’t break EF3 wind speeds, but there were subvortices that were spinning in excess of 300mph. The subvortex that killed Tim Samaras was not only spinning at EF5 speeds, but had a **forward** speed of 170+ mph. Take a moment to absorb that. A funnel the size of a football field coming towards you at a speed that would qualify for most NASCAR races. It’s as unbelievable as it is unpredictable. If you ever find yourself inside a tornado warning polygon, don’t attempt to understand the behavior of the storm. The polygon is there to protect you from these extreme uncertainties.
\^---- This guy tornadoes. . .
I have spent an amount of time studying tornadoes.
My home town got ran through by the “Terrible Tuesday” tornados. They both fascinate and terrify me.
I’m right there with you. I saw the damage a tornado could do to a neighborhood near me when I was a child and a lifelong fascination was born.
Is it at least 2? I bet it's at least 2
It’s at least 2.
I fuckin knew it.
"An amount of time"
Nature is so fucked up
The tornado in the OP looks pretty violent. Also, you cannot always tell the size of a tornado from visuals alone. This tornado looks like it just dropped and was picking up debris.
Having lived in Moore, OK for a while and now in Xenia, OH I appreciate tornado facts more and moore.
Having lived near Xenia and now near Moore, I feel you.
A tornado coming at you at 170mph is fucking insane.
It also grew to its full size as it was accelerating towards them. Truly terrifying.
I'm unfortunately old enough to remember Jarrell Texas and its surrounding areas. The base of the tornado was over a mile wide and a 5 mile path through the area with winds reaching 260mph. The only thing left in the areas it hit were house foundations. The buildings were just gone, it ripped up the asphalt on the roads, and had hail of almost 5" diameter. The insane bit was that normally there are large debris piles, chunks of buildings etc. In Jarrell the tornado was so powerful it turned everything into splintered rubble and just scattered it about.
Oklahoman here. I was a teenager when Moore got hit in 1999. A mile wide, on the ground for 85 minutes. Highest wind speed ever recorded (302 mph). Everything was just gone afterwards. Just incredible.
Was in middle school, they cancelled our field trip we were supposed to go to that day, glad they did that was a monster
And then there was was the smaller, yet still large, one in 2013. I remember people joking that God must hate Moore.
My last name is Moore, can confirm God does hate us
Hal Moore went to hell and back.
It sure seems like it.
You can still see the earth scar on google maps from the Joplin MO tornado.
I did search and recovery on that one and the 2013 tornado.
Tuttle/Bridgecreek border reporting. That was quite the day I will never, ever forget. What a wild ride.
My friends and I chased that tornado (freshman in college and reckless) and ended up pulling people out of the rubble in Bridgecreek. Seeing that just huge path of destruction, like a giant bulldozer had just leveled a whole sub division was crazy.
Hit my city block and my school. Absolutely devastating. It took nearly a decade to build everything back.
Thanks, new fear unlocked as we are near Jarrell
I live in Killeen now and also have the fear
I'm not too far from either of you. So you're not alone. This has been the worst tornado season for us since the 90s, I'm not excited. But you guys have more to fear from the hail. Our band of Texas gets 2+in diameter pretty regularly, and once we hit the baseball sized on the rare occasion you stop worrying about your totaled car and more about if the hail is gonna punch all the way through the roof. ' ,,
I love living here, but the living part is kinda questionable lately.
And just wait till the weather gets really fucky after a few more years
I was around 9ish years old, the skies went dark brown and when that tornado passed between our city. I remember it touched downed, jumped over couple cities and touched on Jarrell with it massive destruction. When I think of tornadoes, I always think of this one. We drove to see the damage a couple days later and remembered seeing complete roads gone too.
What the fuck
yeah, that's what happens with EF5s. they're not common, but there's no mistaking the aftermath when one comes through
Yeah, they omitted that it basically vaporized people. It parked over Double Creek Estates for a couple minutes, which was enough for the several-hundred-mile-an-hour winds to throw all the debris into all the other debris enough for most of it to be unidentifiable. Some of that included people. Almost a 100% fatality rate. Most tornadoes kill a few people but cause a bunch of injuries as well. Jarrell essentially either killed you or it didn't hit you at all, there was no in between.
Yup, deep diving information about the Jarrell F5 when my fascination with severe weather kindled recently introduced me to the term "human granulation". I was displeased to learn that term exists.
I’ve lived in the mountains my whole life and we don’t get tornados here. I couldn’t wrap my head around a tornado over a mile wide, that is fucking insane
The "Dead Man walking" video is genuinely one of the most unsettling things I've ever seen
There was a tornado in Arkansas on the 26th that was determined to be 1.8 miles wide with 145-155 mph winds. Which is just mind blowing.
I was like "oh look a little wispy guy.....oh no."
Survived Tuscaloosa in 2011. No thanks
I thought the same thing. How does it look so small yet do so much damage
My grandparents were in the Greensburg, KS tornado. The total path length was 22 miles (35 km), and the width of the funnel reached 1.7 miles (2.7 km). Overall, 95% of Greensburg was destroyed. They were on the edge of town and besides their home being destroyed (except the tv sat in the living room undisturbed) they survived. An absolutely insane tornado.
My area just endured a tornado 1.8 miles wide
Credit goes to Reed Timmer
This comment should be much higher. Storm chasers do this stuff for a living, stealing their footage is not cool. Credit should at least be given, and then if they decide they want it removed, you should respectfully remove their content.
Seriously? I remember him from stormchasers on the Discovery Channel years back! Cool to know he's still in the business!
Still in business, and with some of the best drones out there.
It's amazing how localized these events are, a few hundred feet in either direction and it's either total devastation or a chair knocked over.
Bigger buildings, like a strip mall, it'll just take out the middle. Like a truck drove thru a model railway.
Yup. As someone who has grown up in tornado alley, this is the point I try to make to newcomers who are obsessively concerned about tornadoes and can't figure out why everyone who lives here is so nonchalant about them. Not every tornado watch produces a tornado warning and not every tornado warning produces a funnel cloud and not every funnel cloud actually touches down. In the event that a funnel cloud does touch down, in your area, the chance that it's gonna get you are about the same as you being able to throw a dart at a wall size map of your area and hit your exact location with it after being blindfolded and spun around 10 times. At that point, with those odds, if it's my time to go, it's my time to go.
Also a good point to bring up when non-mid westerners ask why people in Kansas and Oklahoma don't live in windowless bunkers rather than wooden houses.
That actually helps quell a lot of irrational fears about Tornadoes for me!
Great, so you have to live in a state like Kansas AND god is throwing darts at you? Sounds great!
Earthquakes are similar in California. While there are daily tiny earthquakes you can't even feel pretty much daily, you only experience scary once once or twice in your lifetime. What is different is that earthquakes happen in moment, because when they will hit is unknown. There is no earthquake watch or warning. It just happens, and you react and find safety. You do not live in fear in the same way. I can't imagine having to hide in a bathtub a hole or in a bunker in a garage, waiting for the warning to pass. Even big quakes don't last longer than 5 minutes. No waiting, no wondering if it will miss you. You ride it out, hope for the best (it mostly is) and find you go bag if you need to bug out.
Yea, you can see tornado paths afterwards, where they just left a trail of destruction.
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Well that's going to give me nightmares.
After the Tuscaloosa tornado in 2011, there would be houses wiped from their foundation, save a completely untouched bookshelf. It was terrifying
It is just amazing how it can rip the rafters off of a whole street's worth of houses and two streets over, no damage.
It’s not uncommon for that to even happen to a house right next to destroyed. The first can be reduced to toothpicks and the second can be totally unharmed minus flying dirt and such
I had a friend who lived next to the path of a tornado that threw his shed that was touching his house a quarter mile, jammed his front door shut, took all the bark off a tree a few feet from the front door, but otherwise did no damage to his home. I wouldn't have believed it had I not seen it myself. We went to check on him because we saw the tornado go through his neighborhood on the news. Some of his neighbors weren't so lucky.
Looks totally different in Oklahoma
In Oklahoma, they just look OK.
Bravo 👏
You guys have more vertical/skinny tornados. Ours are thicker. Must be something in the air.
Girth matters
Determines how much land gets fucked.
Well, you're not in Kansas anymore there.
https://preview.redd.it/eqc8er3h2f3d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce8d020769aaa9a8fefd1f71fa639ddf92bd1d2c My father was in that pickup truck when a tornado came through Oak Lawn IL in 1967. The pile of debris was a farmhouse next to the local high school. Luckily he escaped with only a few broken ribs. 4 people died at this location. This photo was on the front page of the “Chicago American “ newspaper. Which went out of business decades ago.
I'm from Belvidere, IL and that's when we had our tornado too. Hit Belvidere High School as it was getting out and the busses were sitting there waiting to take the kids home, many of which ended up being tossed and flipped over. 24 people died including 17 children. 13 of the deaths were at the high school with over 300 injured there. https://preview.redd.it/8jch3i1u3h3d1.jpeg?width=779&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8981fd89d072c0d306578e4035b016c122365120
jesus
As a person from the other side of the world, this gives me a better perspective on The Wizard of Oz..
It’s interesting, if you look at a map of frequency of tornadoes in the entire world, they’re almost exclusively in the American mid-west and only rarely ever anywhere else. Lightning highest frequency? Florida and Romania (Transylvania)
Are you in a boat?
Luckily that was a small one. Its good to see residential design has improved though. Several houses only lost roof shingles versus total destruction.
THAT WAS A SMALL ONE??!¿?!!?
Quite small tbh, tornados can be up to a mile wide.
El reno was 2.6 at its widest and reached wind speeds of 302mph. The [scar](https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2013/06/130514-0602_modis_truecolor_el_reno_tornado_path_before_after_anim.gif) was visible from satellite. For reference, that's Oklahoma City, a population center of <700k people
That blows my mind they get that big.
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First time watching Hank, so obligatory comment much appreciated. I'll be watching more of his videos.
Holy shit
The tornado that went thru Barnsdall at beginning of the month was an EF3, 1.5 miles wide.
Just a few days ago, a tornado that passed through Arkansas was confirmed to be 1.8 miles wide.
Decatur? Didn't that same area get slammed twice in the same night as well?
They upped it to ef4
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quite an average tornado, looks like EF2 damage the gap between the power of EF2 and EF4 is levels of magnitude
This one was EF3. Andover, KS 2022.
Just watched again and noticed the roof get lifted off. Yeah that’s 3 Just noted the roofs that got stripped at first
This was an EF4 actually.
That's a baby nader lol.
Yeah that was a tiny one - powerful, but luckily not wide at all.
It was a concentrated but violent one. This tornado passed about 800 feet from my house and I didn't have so much as a branch down, but I had 2*4's and other people's tree branches dropped in my yard. But, the houses that took direct hits were hoovered up sometimes all the way down to the ground level subfloor. Luckily basements are really common here so there were no fatalities.
Still looks fairly strong though, the F scale is based on damage done not size
They revised it to the EF scale which takes into account both damage and power
Plus we've learned lessons like "don't open all the windows to 'equalize pressure' as it just lets the roof lift off easier." Old timey folks didn't always do the most evidence-based things.
A tornado went by/partially over my house a couple of weeks ago and it was crazy when the access hatch to the attic popped upwards from the air pressure difference.
And here’s my most Redditory comment of the day…I hope….most modern people don’t do evidence based things….
Adding to my ‘reasons not to live in Kansas’ list.
I’ve driven through Kansas, it’s flat and featureless, only cool thing I saw was windmills, 1/10 wouldn’t recommend
Most people passing through just remember central and western KS, where very few people actually live. There are some quite nice towns in eastern KS. They're not mountainous but there are the flint hills and the beginning of the Ozarks.
Grew up there🤘🏻
Konza, Tallgrass prairie, and Mined Lands WMA. In Western Kansas there's a ton of stuff too, it's just all kinda far from each other. The best imo is the Scott City area, Lake Scott and Battle of Punished Woman's Fork are my favorite areas in Kansas. Cimarron National Grassland is not far. Monument Rocks isn't far. I actually have a whole list of stuff in Kansas if anyone wants it, tons of cool hidden gems. I worked in Kansas as an ecologist and have been to every single county. DM for a list of places.
That’s fine we will keep our secrets treasures to ourselves.
I know a woman in Kansas that can suck the chrome off of a bumper hitch. And that isnt fellatio innuendo - she can remove electroplating with her mouth.
The true meaning of Rock Chalk shall remain secret!
People are always asking me why in the world would I miss Kansas of all places and I always end up explaining I don't miss all of Kansas, Just one little town. They never get it
>only cool thing I saw was windmills So you drove through rural areas and didn't visit any of the actual cities and assumed you saw all there was to see.... Goofy
Windmills are pretty cool, they go around and around and around and around and...
Is that sped up... destruction is so fast Hoping all were ok
No that is real-time and as stated above, quite a small little guy.
Tornadoes can be up to over 2 miles wide in some cases. That was a baby. 😳
Tornadoes can have a ground speed of up to 60 mph with wind speeds in the hundreds of mph
Very important that people realize: the real danger isn't that the wind is blowing but WHAT the wind is blowing
r/UnexpectedRonWhite
It's crazier when you realize that the vast majority of the stuff flying around in the air is chunks of roof sheathing.. which is made of 5/8" thick 4 x 8 wooden sheets.. and it looks like confetti..
Plywood sheets and siding blowing around like sheets of paper. Tornado could miss your home and you'd still get an expensive bill when a sheet of plywood got driven through your roof or car
"It's not THAT it's blowing 130 miles per hour, it's WHAT it's blowing 130 miles per hour." -Ron White
That’s uplifting
Haha. Very conical.
Drones have done an amazing job in tornado spotting. Interesting to see such a smooth look at a chaotic phenomenon.
Devastating. Imagine all the animals and bugs having no clue wtf is going on
Many people as well.
I had a work colleague who lived in Joplin when the 2011 tornado hit. He slept through it, went outside later and two blocks over from his apartment was...nothing.
There were a handful of mosquitoes that thought "...well damn!"
Dude just filmed it and didn't even try to stop it
Shot by Reed Timmer
For Kansas this is so small you'd have to throw it back.
That reference was perfect!! 😂 
Tornado: Selective destruction of "smaller" areas Volcano: Complete annihilation of "smaller" areas Earthquake: Broad destruction of a wide area in seconds Tsunami: Broad destruction of a wide area over a long period of time Hurricane: you get the point Thanks, Nature!
Fuck me, thats horrific.
Man, that really blows
Sucks too
What a lovely place to gamble your life yearly.
Yeah man, 80 US deaths a year is a huge gamble... You put your velcro shoes on all by yourself?
Eh, lived smack dab in the middle of tornado alley most of my life and I have never seen a tornado on the ground. It’s not that dangerous. Hurricanes look way worse to me.
Hurricanes give you ample warning time. And the construction requirements have made it so only the oldest of towns get serious damage.
As a Floridian, the largest threat posed by a hurricane isn’t death (though some people do die by fallen tree), it’s the effort to relocate and\or rebuild. Insurance companies do not want to pay, but you owe on your mortgage anyway. So the threat is more about personal financial destruction than physical danger. As you say, it’s easy enough to drive down the road for a few hours. But if you come back to a mess, well… good luck to you.
Hurricanes also spawn tornadoes. Though, given that you have so much forewarning, you generally have the option to gtfo and not be there when the hurricane arrives. As for ‘only the oldest of towns get serious damage’… idk about that. Hurricanes bring storm surge and I don’t really care how well built your town is, if it has 20 feet of water pushing into it you’re gonna have a bad time.
yea storm surge is far and away the most destructive part of a hurricane. nothing you can do if the first floor of your house is underwater.
Yeah, lived in tornado alley for 11 years and never saw one. Saw some funnel clouds but never a touchdown. You get over most of it after a while but I personally never quite got used to the really violent storms. I was always more afraid the wind would knock over one of the huge old trees in the yard and split our house in half than I was of a tornado though.
I hope this person and whoever upvoted \*never\* drives, as dying in a car accident is a thousand times more likely even if you lived in tornado alley.
KS resident here, and have lived in this region off and on for quite a very long while. In my area, we had a tornado that stopped a few blocks away just two weeks ago, and that was the first time in 30 years one had come anywhere near this area.
You're less likely to lose your life than just your house. And even then the odds are low.
How it just sped up moving speed was insane
Man that's scary...
There goes Dorothy https://i.redd.it/dcf7stmo2g3d1.gif
 Just for this to happen
Fake. I’ve seen Wizard of Oz, and Kansas is obviously black and white
Being in a tornado and hurricane in my life will say the tornado is by far scarier the two
"Just build stronger houses"
We are not in Kansas anymore.
That did more damage in one minute than a year's worth of California earthquakes.
Lmao still waiting for the big one.
Man what a shame. Hope those people get back on their feet and everyone’s okay.
Yeah, everyone was ok for the most part. Minor injuries but no fatalities. Most people have basements and the tornado sirens went off a couple of mins before it hit. People take tornadoes pretty serious here (we had a really bad one in 1991). Most people have rebuilt but some are still fighting insurance. The local YMCA, which was a staple in the community, took a direct hit and has only now just reopened, so that took longer than initially expected (it has been just over 2 years).
Tornadoes do not look different in different states. A tornado can look like this in any state, not just Kansas. Source: I am a trained storm spotter
To any Europeans that think a brick house could withstand this apposed to a wooden house, I hate you, and hope you get hit by a stone going mach 8.
Carnage
Really shows how pinpoint the damage is in a small storm like that. The houses one row away weren’t touched.
Damn, no wonder Dorothy flew off!
The sheer power of the vortex !!
Thanks... I know what will be my nightmare this night.
Ahghahhhhhh we’re not in Kansas anymooooooreeeee!!!
THAT is terrifying
Yummy roofs
Something something Wizard of Oz joke.
That shit just shreads
That’s fucking crazy
And if there's enough damage, the debris cloud will be picked up by weather radar.
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If you want to avoid tornados, your best options are to live west of the Rockies, in Maine, or in West Virginia [https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/storms/tornadoes/where-tornadoes-happen](https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/storms/tornadoes/where-tornadoes-happen)
Someone help me out here please. What is the dust/smoke you see being siphoned from the homes as the funnel passes near them? I always see that in intense footage but have never heard an explanation for what it is. Thanks!
Not trying to be rude, but id love to see a tornado rip apart a town but shot with a tilt-shift camera.
2x4 right through the ribcage
WOW is all I can say! We dont get tornadoes here. This is so scary.
It's gorgeous and awesome from here, but we are smaller than the homes it is destroying.
Finger of god
Tornado? It‘s a twister!
Dumb title. Dope footage.
They look like that in other states too.
Terrifying footage
Real estate must be cheap there!!
It's absolutely insane that the tornado causes so much negative pressure on the back side of the rooftops that a cloud of vapor forms. So crazy! This video really demonstrates the raw power of destruction a tornado has.