@vanni9283 Greetings, that was in Moore Oklahoma.Definate wind gusts in that thing.I would have gone out and stood beside the bird feeder. Yes they were using the old fujita scale at the time.I was 19 when this happen and this is still my favorite tornado.
@vanni9283 The 318 mph measurement was taken 150-300 ft up in this thing. Wind speeds slow at ground level due 2 friction. Dr wurman said he estimated 301mph at fround during that time,but i'll say it was 260-280 to play it safe.Nevertheless a monster.
This tornado was clocked by nearby doppler radar to have 190 mph winds at this time. From the sounds u can hear that there are gusts,so i'm sure it was 200 mph a few seconds at a time. This means that F-5 damage occured in F-3 winds. The main reason we used Enhanced fujita scale now.
Ok, thanks for your response. I think your estimate is pretty respectable. I wanna make sure...you're referring to the winds where this video was taken (i.e. the edge of the circulation), is that correct? Because several blocks away, where the core of the tornado passed, the winds could have easily been, say, 250+, and this video may not have existed in winds of that strength.
@vanni9283 Well i say in this vid neer birfeeder roud 100. Doppler radar there didn't measure f-5 winds during this time,but there was f-5 damage. When this thing crossed i-35 it looked intense,but looking at the motion,and debris,this was a hugelow f-4 at the time,thogh with f-5 gusts
@vanni9283 No,u could stand up and film urself,its the debris thats the enemy here. 110 mph at best. U can still stand,but movement of course will be limited.
Well the video camera was set up in the living room, as the report says. Thus, the video was taken from inside the house and not outside. So I doubt that the winds would have the same effect.
@vanni9283 Judging by the way that little tree is swaying in the lower left of the screen,its fair 2 say winds at this particular location was 100 mph or less.
@kdolo100 I wanted 2 see the other monster that happened that night. It struck Mulhall,and was 1.5 miles wide.This was 1 mile wide earlier in it's path,or pretty close 2 a mile in width.
@vanni9283 Well it's moving,but u could stand out there.This tornado is putting out 190-200 mph winds right now.Since this was recorded a few blocks away from the real action,u could very easily stand and film.The debris falling would have u dodging though.
This is my dad's video shot out the window in our backyard. That is actually a birdhouse and in it were 3 baby birds that actually lived through it. This is very hard for me to watch, especially after the tornadoes we had today but it was something that made me a stronger person. I pray that no one will ever have to see what I saw that day.
@vanni9283 Look up the May 3rd 1999 F5. It set the world record tornado speed. It was going to be an F6 cause it surpassed the F5 speed limit. Instead they upped the F5 speed limit to 318.
I know, I've read all about that. I was just referring to the location in this video, which, as the reporter says, wasn't even in the strongest part of the tornado.
If the winds in this video were 318 MPH, then the house, and much less the camera (and this video), would not have existed. Although I don't doubt that the winds in this storm may have reached 318 MPH, those winds are found in the core of the tornado, not at the edge of the circulation, which is where this video was taken from.
Been there. I was only a few blocks away when it passed SE 89th & South Sooner Road. The destruction was as if the area was struck with 1,000 pound bombs on every block. Bark was stripped from what few trees (or stumps) that remained.
this one time my friend had a tornado at his best friends apartment and he said he saw a tornado when it was over and he knew he saw a tornado and it sucked the poop out of his toilet cuz the tornado was in the bathroom when he was pooping when the tornado came and then he went to his moms house where the tornado was and it didnt do it ever again. my friend was mad at first but happy later cuz his mom made pizza for dinner.
Absolutely stunning video!! It's so rare to see tornadoes at this vantage point!! Definately one of my top 5 of all time. Props to the homeowner for having the foresight to set up that camera. I would've been dead on the floor from a heart attack just knowing this thing was headed my way!!!!
It's funny, Christians (and other religious folks) are afraid of Satan. I'd gladly take the Prince Of Darkness on for 20 rounds in the ring then look out my window and see this pants-crapping nightmare.
It's scary watching this now, cause I remember when it happened.
I was about 9 or 10, and I lived about 30 minutes southeast of OKC. My dad worked at the old General Motors plant that got hit by it and was there when it went over. I've never had the shit scared out of me like I did that day
@pirateninja4 I remember this too. I was like 6 & my brother was 10 & we were home alone. Both parents were at work. I was in Moore, & all I could remember was hiding in my mom's closet. My dad was working at Tinker & my mom was at the Access Medical Center that got destroyed. But she was alright.
this one time my friend had a tornado at his best friends apartment and he said he saw a tornado when it was over and he knew he saw a tornado and it sucked the poop out of his toilet cuz the tornado was in the bathroom when he was pooping when the tornado came and then he went to his moms house where the tornado was and it didnt do it ever again. my friend was mad at first but happy later cuz his mom made pizza for dinner.
i have been WAAAYYYYY too lucky with tornadoes,when i lived in Maryland about 9 years back 3 tornadoes were coming towards my neighborhood and 2 of them died off and the other went off and obliterated la plata.Then about 3 years back we got a really bad t-storm and i was saying that tornadoes were coming and was treated like a nut when later in the forwst behind my house 2 tornadoes partially spawned,touched down and then died so needless to say i've been quite lucky indeeed.
lol at 100mph winds in this video. those winds were all of 250 plus my friend. that house was a few blocks away from 318 mph winds!!!! the highest rated wind speed ever recorded by a tornado!!! that footage is the best footage i have ever seen from inside the storm. i don't care if it was a direct hit or not, all that debris in the video meant that was one massive rotating cloud.
you know man your a idiot the winds werent f1 windspeed damage that was f5 winds you are right about the tornado it wasnt a f6 I learned from my mistake but the damage was high end f5 think before you say stuff storm chaser max I thought you were a storm chaser know your facts like a f1 c mon people died from this imagine what it was like
I know this is an F5 tornado, I'm saying this house (as the video says) was only brushed by the tornado and hence did not experience F5 winds. There may have been F4/F5 winds only a few blocks away, but the winds in this video are not F5 strength or else this footage wouldn't exist.
The sheer power of it is astounding! It is amazing that the pole in front of the camera was still there. Also the fact it was taken a few blocks down from the actual tornado is breathtaking.
Also I have heard that this tornado sucked storm cellars ou of the ground. Just utterly amazing. I don't know what to say. Just wow!
that was an f6 no doubt about it it was worse than a f5 look at the video the winds are even frightening imagine having only minutes to prepare for it seconds I'm suprised only 48 died from it that was sad enough but it could have been worse if there wasnt warning sirens
F6's may exist, and this tornado perhaps had windspeeds in that range, but the winds shown in this video are probably only in the minimal F1 range - maybe 100mph.
@StormChaserMax Fujita claims that he made F5 the highest rating possible and said if a tornado magnificent enough happenned, that would cause him to rate it an F6 and create the new rating int he first place, it would approach mach 1 in wind speeds. that is impossible. doesnt evenhappen on jupiters large storms.
This is scary, and I'm not even in the tornado. x.x;
If I was in this tornado I'd be spazzing, going crazy, pushing all my cats into the storm cellar, praying to God it won't take the storm cellar out (this tornado actually sucked a few (or one?) storm cellars out of the ground.... oh my god. D:)
If they'd gotten hit by the 318 mph winds full on, the car remains would be found in Texas...
My god. Where exactly this tornado passed? on front, on side or on rear of the camera? The sound is frightening!!! And was rated like an F5? Thanks! I live in Brazil!
It is behind you (or the house) the whole time moving from right to left. At the 0:50 mark, it seems to be directly behind the house (relatively speaking). Yes, it was rated an F-5
yep the strongest winds that were about 300 mph's. and about 1 mile whide, if it was 10 miles whide good luck trying to film that on a camera. 10 miles whide would be like... what half of the entire state?
After watching the video again, it appears to have passed on the right side of the camera. At first the debris is coming from the left, and at the end it is coming from the right. It also becomes dark as night in the video, which means the tornado is blocking the light of the sun which is usually seen to the south and west of a tornado. If the tornado went on the left side, it would not get as dark, because the funnel cloud wouldn't block the light by the edge of the thunderstorm. Not 100% sure.
Oh WOW! That is awesome footage, I dont remember that one being on the Channel 8, 2, 6 or 23 news in Tulsa :O But I remember hearing the sound of a tornado a few times in my life, its terrifying, sounds like a bunch of trains and demons screaming or roaring or somethin. But I still want to chase them! ^^
it wasnt a direct hit from the twister. it was a few blocks down. u can hear him say it at the end of the vid. if it woulda hit dead on. that vid would not exist. thats a F5. aint nothin surviving that but dirt
i live in east ok and i remember this day...skies were good and i come home to my mom cryin sayin a tornado was comin toward moore and my gma and family lived in norman just beside moore. Then we watch the news all nite till it finally hit our side, it was severe but it calmed down since then
What a terrible sound to hear. I'd be scared out of my mind! One of my best friends lived a few blocks from where tornado devastated Oklahoma City and she and her family survived. They were scared to death.
man theres just so so much that these videos cant tell.....i mean i lived throught that thing.....it destroyed my house and most of the neighborhood i lived in.....that was and still is the worst tornado ever recorded in world history.....the sound and noise during it are just not describable
Death wise the worst tornado in world history was around 1300 people killed in China or some country near China. Also the tri state tornado that killed 695 people back in 1925 for the USA. This Bridgecreek Moore tornado had the strongest winds ever recorded in the world, but no one really knows if it was actually the strongest ever. The Jarrell tornado actually pulled up pavement, which would suggest it was as strong as the May 3 1999 tornado. But these winds are the strongest recorded. 318mph
Quite a few tornadoes, as weak as (E)F 3s have pulled up pavement.
The deadliest tornado in the world was in Bangladesh.
This video was obviously not in the direct path of the tornado, as the reporter at the end of the video was saying. This video was actually a few blocks from the strongest part of the tornado.
The one at Tulsa was a different tornado, and spawned by a different thunderstorm. Watch the radar loop and you'll see that it was a different storm. Somebody has the radar loop on youtube.
i remember this day well. i live between chickasha and okc on the west side of I-44 and the tornado devasted our lives. changed us forever. god bless all of you who share this memory. i lived in ok all my life and never was so scared. it felt like the world was coming to an end. their was a feeling of evil in the air.
It looks like they were on the northern side of the tornado, still destructive, but not as bad as the southern end where the winds are usually stronger due to the foward speed. Nonetheless, this is the first time I've seen the whole video, and man, that is seriously pants-peeing and shitting time. Excellent post.
One of the best and craziest videos I've seen! Truely awesome. Initially I thought it was a tornado at night....but it was just the darkness within the tornado......CRAZY!
FUUUK! its fukin snowing down debris man....it looks like the end of the world sum it up. dunno kno what that guy sed rite in the middle of the tornado. if the 318 mph winds recorded in this thing would hav hit it dead on..there would be no camera recording this
May 3, 2009---10 year Anniversary of this tornado. Weird to think that the baby who was torn from her mother's arms is 10 years old. It'll probably be a sad day in Moore and other parts of the Oklahoma City metro area.
I'm surprised that the camera didn't go bye-bye. Considering how most of the houses in the tornado's path were reduced to rubble, it's odd that this one was not.
p.s. I like the old Fujita scale better. The new one is confusing. (I just don't like change).
The 10 year anniversary of this historic and deadly tornado is coming up in a few months. I'm sure the weather channel will be going bananas covering it (they mentioned the 10th anniversary of the Jarell tornado so I'm sure they'll mention this one)
Not true. Since there was no such thing as an F6 on the Fujita Scale, this tornado wasn't close to being an F6 (top end on the F-Scale was 318 mph. Since that scale has been decommissioned and the Enhanced Fujita Scale developed, the the top end is actually open-ended, with an EF5 tornado having winds of greater than 200 mph. This means that the low end of an EF5 tornado is now at what an F3 tornado used to be.
Technically, you're both wrong. Meteorologists rate tornadoes by the damage they cause, not their windspeeds. For example: If a tornado has winds of 200 mph but only rips roofs off houses, it will be rated an EF2.
They do rate tornadoes by the damage they cause, but we determine their windspeed based on the damage they cause. Trust me, I've done tornado surveys for years.
But ive read that there is, The Fujita Scale actually goes up to F12, F6 or greater was never expected to be reached, so it isn't commonly shown on most scales. Since the "F" scale is purely a damage scale, and F5 is the worst damage you can have (everything swept away), it would be near impossible to reach F6 damage...
You've read something that is incorrect. Again, it would have been impossible for a tornado to be rated an F6, since that designation never existed. It's like saying a school age child did so bad on a test, that instead of getting an F, they got a G. I understand that some places may have incorrectly listed F6 on the F6, but Dr. Fujita's scale only went as high as F5.
No, fillie, you're correct. Google F6 tornado. Dr. Fujita's scale is only listed to F5 because an F6 is so incredibly rare, and hard to document solely on secondary damage (one object being thrown into another). It would have to be measured more on swirl patterns and wind speed rather than just damage like the other tornadoes are rated on. In essence, they cause more damage than an F5, but the war path looks the same, making them more complicated to study.
Didn't the same area get hit by another large tornado that was said to have been 2 miles in diameter? I remember hearing bout that tornado on a discovery channel.
The whole premise was based on the speed of sound (mach scale). The former F classifications was rather linear and if somehow a tornado became stronger, it could be classified as something greater than 5.
There were two men one back in the late 1920's and another in the 1940's who were actually inside a tornado, they literally saw what was going on. Both of them recall seeing multiple vorticies and lightning flashing near or inside the tornado. I'm not sure but most of the flashes in this twister seem to be electrical appliance or wires, perhaps that's what they saw.
I remember it like it was yesterday,, I drove a truck OTR and was at my trem when the big one hit around 630p all hell broke lose
misfitt58 1 week ago
hey the tornado as it had happen in okc and the tornado felt i was in the tornado
meadowflower10 2 weeks ago
Sorry,i mean at ground
kdolo100 1 month ago
The strongest winds produced by this tornado occured at/near Bridgecreek. The tornado is not as strong here as it was earlier on in its track.
kdolo100 1 month ago
@kdolo100
Do you happen to know what town this video was taken from?
vanni9283 1 month ago
@vanni9283 Greetings, that was in Moore Oklahoma.Definate wind gusts in that thing.I would have gone out and stood beside the bird feeder. Yes they were using the old fujita scale at the time.I was 19 when this happen and this is still my favorite tornado.
kdolo100 1 month ago
@kdolo100
Indeed...especially when it breaks every record known to man!!!
vanni9283 1 month ago
@vanni9283 The 318 mph measurement was taken 150-300 ft up in this thing. Wind speeds slow at ground level due 2 friction. Dr wurman said he estimated 301mph at fround during that time,but i'll say it was 260-280 to play it safe.Nevertheless a monster.
kdolo100 1 month ago
This tornado was clocked by nearby doppler radar to have 190 mph winds at this time. From the sounds u can hear that there are gusts,so i'm sure it was 200 mph a few seconds at a time. This means that F-5 damage occured in F-3 winds. The main reason we used Enhanced fujita scale now.
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Ok, thanks for your response. I think your estimate is pretty respectable. I wanna make sure...you're referring to the winds where this video was taken (i.e. the edge of the circulation), is that correct? Because several blocks away, where the core of the tornado passed, the winds could have easily been, say, 250+, and this video may not have existed in winds of that strength.
vanni9283 1 month ago
@vanni9283 Well i say in this vid neer birfeeder roud 100. Doppler radar there didn't measure f-5 winds during this time,but there was f-5 damage. When this thing crossed i-35 it looked intense,but looking at the motion,and debris,this was a hugelow f-4 at the time,thogh with f-5 gusts
kdolo100 1 month ago
@kdolo100
I should let you know they were still using the old Fujita scale at the time of this tornado.
vanni9283 1 month ago
@kdolo100
100??? Gotta be more than that!!!
vanni9283 1 month ago
@vanni9283 No,u could stand up and film urself,its the debris thats the enemy here. 110 mph at best. U can still stand,but movement of course will be limited.
kdolo100 1 month ago
@kdolo100
Well the video camera was set up in the living room, as the report says. Thus, the video was taken from inside the house and not outside. So I doubt that the winds would have the same effect.
vanni9283 1 month ago
@vanni9283 Judging by the way that little tree is swaying in the lower left of the screen,its fair 2 say winds at this particular location was 100 mph or less.
kdolo100 1 month ago
@kdolo100 I wanted 2 see the other monster that happened that night. It struck Mulhall,and was 1.5 miles wide.This was 1 mile wide earlier in it's path,or pretty close 2 a mile in width.
kdolo100 1 month ago
@kdolo100
How strong was the 1.5 mile one?
vanni9283 1 month ago
@vanni9283 F-4
kdolo100 1 month ago
@kdolo100
Thought so. This one was ultimately stronger but the other one was larger.
vanni9283 1 month ago
@vanni9283 I wish i could have filmed the Hallam Nebraska one.In 04 that thing was 2-2 1/2 mi wide. The biggest yet.
kdolo100 1 month ago
@kdolo100
Also an F4.
vanni9283 1 month ago
@vanni9283 Yeppers. Try parkersburg IA. Mile wide monster.
kdolo100 1 month ago
@kdolo100
And an EF5 as well.
vanni9283 1 month ago
@kdolo100
That tree is doing a little more than swaying, IMO.
vanni9283 1 month ago
@vanni9283 Well it's moving,but u could stand out there.This tornado is putting out 190-200 mph winds right now.Since this was recorded a few blocks away from the real action,u could very easily stand and film.The debris falling would have u dodging though.
kdolo100 1 month ago
Stop with the finger of god analogy,its pretty lame.
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Wow!
TheCraftsWorld 1 month ago
Toto, I think we're fucked!
ilovetogofast88 6 months ago
Tri-state Missouri.......also Jopolin Mo, and many more in mo, and you'll like every bit of it. Yeeeeeeeeeeeeee hawwwwwwwwwwwwww
3737373738 6 months ago
This is my dad's video shot out the window in our backyard. That is actually a birdhouse and in it were 3 baby birds that actually lived through it. This is very hard for me to watch, especially after the tornadoes we had today but it was something that made me a stronger person. I pray that no one will ever have to see what I saw that day.
peachesndaisy 8 months ago
If I had to take a wild guess at the wind speed in this video, I'd say at LEAST in the range of 150-200 MPH!!
vanni9283 8 months ago
@vanni9283 this video actually helped measure the wind speeds at 318mph. Still the strongest winds ever recorded in a tornado.
peachesndaisy 8 months ago
@peachesndaisy
How did it help?
vanni9283 8 months ago
@vanni9283 Look up the May 3rd 1999 F5. It set the world record tornado speed. It was going to be an F6 cause it surpassed the F5 speed limit. Instead they upped the F5 speed limit to 318.
Pfannenstiel1987 7 months ago
@Pfannenstiel1987
I know, I've read all about that. I was just referring to the location in this video, which, as the reporter says, wasn't even in the strongest part of the tornado.
vanni9283 7 months ago
@vanni9283 nope this tornado recorded windspeeds of 318mph and set a world record for the fastest wind on earth!!
AzzarClarKyy95 6 months ago
@AzzarClarKyy95
If the winds in this video were 318 MPH, then the house, and much less the camera (and this video), would not have existed. Although I don't doubt that the winds in this storm may have reached 318 MPH, those winds are found in the core of the tornado, not at the edge of the circulation, which is where this video was taken from.
vanni9283 6 months ago
@vanni9283 It was 190 mph at this time.
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Right around my estimate. Thanks for responding.
vanni9283 1 month ago
1:00 that was me
shthd84 9 months ago
i like the part when you couldnt make out much of any interesting action.
severrnijKGU 9 months ago
Been there. I was only a few blocks away when it passed SE 89th & South Sooner Road. The destruction was as if the area was struck with 1,000 pound bombs on every block. Bark was stripped from what few trees (or stumps) that remained.
legman53 10 months ago
it not night time thats debris for real
plus that was just outside the rotation the tornado pass behind the house
f5Tornados1 11 months ago
this one time my friend had a tornado at his best friends apartment and he said he saw a tornado when it was over and he knew he saw a tornado and it sucked the poop out of his toilet cuz the tornado was in the bathroom when he was pooping when the tornado came and then he went to his moms house where the tornado was and it didnt do it ever again. my friend was mad at first but happy later cuz his mom made pizza for dinner.
TheWaynelds 11 months ago
@TheWaynelds Wha???..........
tomshiba51 10 months ago
@tomshiba51 yeah. i didnt believe it too but I read it in the paper 4 days before it all happend, so it's gotta be true.
TheWaynelds 10 months ago
Well It does sound like a train!!!
23fagg 1 year ago
Oh Dear God!! That is some scary stuff!
churchillstevester1 1 year ago
wish i was there !
jakson4ever 1 year ago
Absolutely stunning video!! It's so rare to see tornadoes at this vantage point!! Definately one of my top 5 of all time. Props to the homeowner for having the foresight to set up that camera. I would've been dead on the floor from a heart attack just knowing this thing was headed my way!!!!
HRod76 1 year ago
tudssquadbuisness F5
BonJoviFan96 1 year ago
wow
BonJoviFan96 1 year ago
Holy Shit!!!!!!!
MageofDarkness1984 1 year ago
What is that pole thing in the video?
jeshpeter146 1 year ago
@jeshpeter146
Probably a REALLY strong birdhouse
ilovetogofast88 1 year ago
What category was it?
tudssquadbuisness 1 year ago
terrible..
Dvoracekmara 1 year ago
I was caught in the middle of this , I was riding my bike when the tornado came through I climbed a tree to hide and I lived
mryjn420090 1 year ago
It's funny, Christians (and other religious folks) are afraid of Satan. I'd gladly take the Prince Of Darkness on for 20 rounds in the ring then look out my window and see this pants-crapping nightmare.
zyphoid666 1 year ago 3
@zyphoid666 i have to be honest you get used to them after the 30th time of beng scared to death by them.
436543 3 weeks ago
Finger of God.
PancakesoftheLove 1 year ago 4
@PancakesoftheLove heaven's hammer
RoSs3897 1 year ago
Elitesack
You have no idea what your talking about
ferrarimike23 1 year ago
I remmember walking home from my friends house when I herd the sirens and then I remmember running home from my friends house
ferrarimike23 1 year ago 2
@ferrarimike23 Great story.
xLazyb0nex 1 year ago
look at 1:02 the piece stuck to the wires. look how fast it was thrown after.
ladiestreat27 1 year ago
It's scary watching this now, cause I remember when it happened.
I was about 9 or 10, and I lived about 30 minutes southeast of OKC. My dad worked at the old General Motors plant that got hit by it and was there when it went over. I've never had the shit scared out of me like I did that day
pirateninja4 1 year ago
@pirateninja4 I remember this too. I was like 6 & my brother was 10 & we were home alone. Both parents were at work. I was in Moore, & all I could remember was hiding in my mom's closet. My dad was working at Tinker & my mom was at the Access Medical Center that got destroyed. But she was alright.
airplaneseatkatie 1 year ago
this one time my friend had a tornado at his best friends apartment and he said he saw a tornado when it was over and he knew he saw a tornado and it sucked the poop out of his toilet cuz the tornado was in the bathroom when he was pooping when the tornado came and then he went to his moms house where the tornado was and it didnt do it ever again. my friend was mad at first but happy later cuz his mom made pizza for dinner.
TheWaynelds 1 year ago
@TheWaynelds WTF? lol
guitpik 1 year ago
i have been WAAAYYYYY too lucky with tornadoes,when i lived in Maryland about 9 years back 3 tornadoes were coming towards my neighborhood and 2 of them died off and the other went off and obliterated la plata.Then about 3 years back we got a really bad t-storm and i was saying that tornadoes were coming and was treated like a nut when later in the forwst behind my house 2 tornadoes partially spawned,touched down and then died so needless to say i've been quite lucky indeeed.
jrgamemaster1 1 year ago
lol at 100mph winds in this video. those winds were all of 250 plus my friend. that house was a few blocks away from 318 mph winds!!!! the highest rated wind speed ever recorded by a tornado!!! that footage is the best footage i have ever seen from inside the storm. i don't care if it was a direct hit or not, all that debris in the video meant that was one massive rotating cloud.
tony4007 1 year ago
my son was born 1999 may 3
misskleemissy 1 year ago
Fucking awesome!!!
zyphoid666 1 year ago
THATS A STOUT BIRDFEEDER.
Broadcastbuddy2 1 year ago 11
you know man your a idiot the winds werent f1 windspeed damage that was f5 winds you are right about the tornado it wasnt a f6 I learned from my mistake but the damage was high end f5 think before you say stuff storm chaser max I thought you were a storm chaser know your facts like a f1 c mon people died from this imagine what it was like
CROUELLETTE 1 year ago
I know this is an F5 tornado, I'm saying this house (as the video says) was only brushed by the tornado and hence did not experience F5 winds. There may have been F4/F5 winds only a few blocks away, but the winds in this video are not F5 strength or else this footage wouldn't exist.
StormChaserMax 1 year ago
The sheer power of it is astounding! It is amazing that the pole in front of the camera was still there. Also the fact it was taken a few blocks down from the actual tornado is breathtaking.
Also I have heard that this tornado sucked storm cellars ou of the ground. Just utterly amazing. I don't know what to say. Just wow!
Jon13bur 1 year ago
that was an f6 no doubt about it it was worse than a f5 look at the video the winds are even frightening imagine having only minutes to prepare for it seconds I'm suprised only 48 died from it that was sad enough but it could have been worse if there wasnt warning sirens
CROUELLETTE 2 years ago
Tornadoes are rated by the damage they cause, not by the wind speeds. Also, 318 mph are in the F5 range.
fordforme 2 years ago 2
F6's may exist, and this tornado perhaps had windspeeds in that range, but the winds shown in this video are probably only in the minimal F1 range - maybe 100mph.
StormChaserMax 1 year ago
@StormChaserMax You're kidding right??
81pluto 1 year ago
@StormChaserMax Fujita claims that he made F5 the highest rating possible and said if a tornado magnificent enough happenned, that would cause him to rate it an F6 and create the new rating int he first place, it would approach mach 1 in wind speeds. that is impossible. doesnt evenhappen on jupiters large storms.
elitesack 1 year ago
@elitesack This storm was 1mph from being F6.
Pokemon978IsBackOn 1 year ago
This is scary, and I'm not even in the tornado. x.x;
If I was in this tornado I'd be spazzing, going crazy, pushing all my cats into the storm cellar, praying to God it won't take the storm cellar out (this tornado actually sucked a few (or one?) storm cellars out of the ground.... oh my god. D:)
If they'd gotten hit by the 318 mph winds full on, the car remains would be found in Texas...
SpottedleafCCRVMK 2 years ago
I meant to say house. D:
at some points, I thought it was snowing.
Then I found out it was debris...D:
This is truly a scary video. They should put this in a 3D movie or something.... It'd scare the pants off everybody. D:
This actually happened at noon, but it looked like it was...10:00 tops.
RIP anyone who died in this video.... :c
SpottedleafCCRVMK 2 years ago
I remember that I was outside, shit was crazy
shthd84 2 years ago
My god. Where exactly this tornado passed? on front, on side or on rear of the camera? The sound is frightening!!! And was rated like an F5? Thanks! I live in Brazil!
kilzwes 2 years ago
Yes, it was an F5 with the strongest wind speed ever recored on earth.
Teigokane 2 years ago
It is behind you (or the house) the whole time moving from right to left. At the 0:50 mark, it seems to be directly behind the house (relatively speaking). Yes, it was rated an F-5
unnamedDbacksfan 2 years ago
yep the strongest winds that were about 300 mph's. and about 1 mile whide, if it was 10 miles whide good luck trying to film that on a camera. 10 miles whide would be like... what half of the entire state?
TehVidsmaker 2 years ago
After watching the video again, it appears to have passed on the right side of the camera. At first the debris is coming from the left, and at the end it is coming from the right. It also becomes dark as night in the video, which means the tornado is blocking the light of the sun which is usually seen to the south and west of a tornado. If the tornado went on the left side, it would not get as dark, because the funnel cloud wouldn't block the light by the edge of the thunderstorm. Not 100% sure.
Torn80cj 2 years ago
Thank you!!!
kilzwes 2 years ago
Cant believe how dark it was at the beginning then it got light, thought it was taken at night like the announcer said at first. Wow!
Landaux 2 years ago
Oh WOW! That is awesome footage, I dont remember that one being on the Channel 8, 2, 6 or 23 news in Tulsa :O But I remember hearing the sound of a tornado a few times in my life, its terrifying, sounds like a bunch of trains and demons screaming or roaring or somethin. But I still want to chase them! ^^
KittyMel05 2 years ago
wow how was that camera not picked up or knocked over?
paragon119 2 years ago 3
it wasnt a direct hit from the twister. it was a few blocks down. u can hear him say it at the end of the vid. if it woulda hit dead on. that vid would not exist. thats a F5. aint nothin surviving that but dirt
steven85buster 2 years ago 16
@steven85buster Would Superman survive?
xLazyb0nex 1 year ago
@xLazyb0nex
lol probably but he'd definitely drop an adamantium deuce seeing that thing coming his way.
zyphoid666 1 year ago
@zyphoid666 LoL@adamantium deuce.
xLazyb0nex 1 year ago
@xLazyb0nex I dont even think Clark is making it through that one LOL
steven85buster 1 year ago
@steven85buster LoL
xLazyb0nex 1 year ago
Mayby It Was Nailed Or Glued To The Ground
carcrashes79 2 years ago
i live in east ok and i remember this day...skies were good and i come home to my mom cryin sayin a tornado was comin toward moore and my gma and family lived in norman just beside moore. Then we watch the news all nite till it finally hit our side, it was severe but it calmed down since then
numununahvokne 2 years ago
whoa i thought it was nite in the beginning but it was daylight...all that debris was soooo thick!
numununahvokne 2 years ago
coool..
NecKClippA 2 years ago
What a terrible sound to hear. I'd be scared out of my mind! One of my best friends lived a few blocks from where tornado devastated Oklahoma City and she and her family survived. They were scared to death.
MelodiousGarden 2 years ago
i once was in a t-storm in oklahoma it had spawned a tornado. we saw it and lived. it happend in 2000
1cheesefart 2 years ago
it was 1999
rocketTENDON 2 years ago
@rocketTENDON Well we did get tornadoes the following year too, just not half as bad as this
jokerof405 1 year ago
You say it was from the May 3, 1999 tornado but there were more than 70 that day.
dragonridley 2 years ago
Yes, but there was one monster---this one.
ShaiHuludisCool 2 years ago 2
the cameraman where was?
Smacco90 2 years ago
man theres just so so much that these videos cant tell.....i mean i lived throught that thing.....it destroyed my house and most of the neighborhood i lived in.....that was and still is the worst tornado ever recorded in world history.....the sound and noise during it are just not describable
padamc1992 2 years ago
Amen to that padamc1992
steven85buster 2 years ago
Death wise the worst tornado in world history was around 1300 people killed in China or some country near China. Also the tri state tornado that killed 695 people back in 1925 for the USA. This Bridgecreek Moore tornado had the strongest winds ever recorded in the world, but no one really knows if it was actually the strongest ever. The Jarrell tornado actually pulled up pavement, which would suggest it was as strong as the May 3 1999 tornado. But these winds are the strongest recorded. 318mph
Torn80cj 2 years ago
Quite a few tornadoes, as weak as (E)F 3s have pulled up pavement.
The deadliest tornado in the world was in Bangladesh.
This video was obviously not in the direct path of the tornado, as the reporter at the end of the video was saying. This video was actually a few blocks from the strongest part of the tornado.
fordforme 2 years ago
WOW..the train..the steaming kettle..even the doppler effect are heard here. A vital piece of documentation! You have steel cojones, my friend.
chimayai 2 years ago
that day and tornado was litlery hell on earth.
davidallenroth 2 years ago
that was amazing
castillo911 2 years ago
Man I remember this... I live in Tulsa luckily but man did it get bad once it reached my town that night though....
BbDle88 2 years ago
The one at Tulsa was a different tornado, and spawned by a different thunderstorm. Watch the radar loop and you'll see that it was a different storm. Somebody has the radar loop on youtube.
Torn80cj 2 years ago
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patmix 2 years ago
I am so glad I don't live in the Plains.
Goofballhero 2 years ago 3
I was only 2!! omg!
Twilightlover657 2 years ago
i was eight when this happened i stood on back patio and watched it. shingles was flying off my house from it from a couple miles away,
gitter217 2 years ago
i remember this day well. i live between chickasha and okc on the west side of I-44 and the tornado devasted our lives. changed us forever. god bless all of you who share this memory. i lived in ok all my life and never was so scared. it felt like the world was coming to an end. their was a feeling of evil in the air.
deb20020 2 years ago
What time did the tornado take place?????
queenN1992 2 years ago
If I recall, between late afternoon till about 7pm.
timjobes 2 years ago
so you mean 3 houres of non-stop tornado soundzzzz like this ? Geeeezzz!!!!
i imagine peoples how they fears at new orleans superdome when katrina hit them now .......
hats off to all energency team in ock
patmix 2 years ago
Do You Hear The Wind is Blowing
wilsonv89 2 years ago
yeah like it's singing a melody. <3
Accavarium 2 years ago
Maybe the scale will be upgraded to go to F6 when steel framed very large buildings get hit often
NielsShoe 2 years ago
no, it will NEVER get upgraded to recognize F6... there is no such thing.
ProfessorIgor 2 years ago
man professor, you are all over the may3rd tornado videos
rambaseball45 2 years ago
No such thing YET. You can't predict nature. It could spawn an incredible super cell with winds over 400 mph. You'll never know.
Ironman374 2 years ago
if it did, the resulting tornado would still be an EF-5.
ProfessorIgor 2 years ago 2
The professor is right- the scale goes from 0 to 5. A monster tornado with 400+ mph winds would just be a monster EF-5 with 400+mph winds.
Josh3B 2 years ago
It looks like they were on the northern side of the tornado, still destructive, but not as bad as the southern end where the winds are usually stronger due to the foward speed. Nonetheless, this is the first time I've seen the whole video, and man, that is seriously pants-peeing and shitting time. Excellent post.
punishedexistence 2 years ago
Damn that is a great video. Weird that all thsese folks are on here shilling for the weatherman though.
jumboclown666 2 years ago
those winds were clocked at 318 mph
gaylanbryant 2 years ago
Woah! Look at all that debris blowing everywhere!
ShellHound73 2 years ago
i kno rite..its jus raining down so constantly. like the world is comin to an end
steven85buster 2 years ago
HOLY CRAP!!!!!!! and I was...four when this happened!!!
PrincessElyonBrown 2 years ago
im pretty sure everybody on here has seen some pretty good tornado vid..but this is definately up there on my top five.
steven85buster 2 years ago
that was hell on earth man what a vid. at :58 full force.that was an e5
davidallenroth 2 years ago
One of the best and craziest videos I've seen! Truely awesome. Initially I thought it was a tornado at night....but it was just the darkness within the tornado......CRAZY!
Assassin977 2 years ago
FUUUK! its fukin snowing down debris man....it looks like the end of the world sum it up. dunno kno what that guy sed rite in the middle of the tornado. if the 318 mph winds recorded in this thing would hav hit it dead on..there would be no camera recording this
steven85buster 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
FAKE
mryjn420090 2 years ago
Thank you so much for posting this video. I was at Westmoore HS in Moore, OK when this sucker hit.
ov3rlydramatic 2 years ago
May 3, 2009---10 year Anniversary of this tornado. Weird to think that the baby who was torn from her mother's arms is 10 years old. It'll probably be a sad day in Moore and other parts of the Oklahoma City metro area.
ShaiHuludisCool 2 years ago
I'm surprised that the camera didn't go bye-bye. Considering how most of the houses in the tornado's path were reduced to rubble, it's odd that this one was not.
p.s. I like the old Fujita scale better. The new one is confusing. (I just don't like change).
ShaiHuludisCool 2 years ago
Same here. Why couldn't they just keep the old Fujita scale?
StlyeFree 2 years ago
It was on the relative edge of the condensation funnel. This tornado appeared much larger as it was filled with tons of debris.
Bororeed 2 years ago
wow that is amazing!
mh19448 2 years ago
One of the most amazing videos of tornadoes on the internet!
djmweatherman 3 years ago
notice how the wind is changing directions throughout the whole video (once you can see).
amazing power
unnamedDbacksfan 2 years ago
@unnamedDbacksfan
Yeah, you see the trees blowing toward the right at the beginning of the video and, then, toward the end, they're blowing toward the left.
vanni9283 1 year ago
The 10 year anniversary of this historic and deadly tornado is coming up in a few months. I'm sure the weather channel will be going bananas covering it (they mentioned the 10th anniversary of the Jarell tornado so I'm sure they'll mention this one)
ShaiHuludisCool 3 years ago
this is one of the things that makes me grateful I live in Idaho.
Brivixxycej8 3 years ago
It was actually 1mph from being rated F6,a friend of mine lived through it, he said he was scared shitless!
brycecamh 3 years ago
Not true. Since there was no such thing as an F6 on the Fujita Scale, this tornado wasn't close to being an F6 (top end on the F-Scale was 318 mph. Since that scale has been decommissioned and the Enhanced Fujita Scale developed, the the top end is actually open-ended, with an EF5 tornado having winds of greater than 200 mph. This means that the low end of an EF5 tornado is now at what an F3 tornado used to be.
wxtulsa 2 years ago
Technically, you're both wrong. Meteorologists rate tornadoes by the damage they cause, not their windspeeds. For example: If a tornado has winds of 200 mph but only rips roofs off houses, it will be rated an EF2.
fordforme 2 years ago
They do rate tornadoes by the damage they cause, but we determine their windspeed based on the damage they cause. Trust me, I've done tornado surveys for years.
wxtulsa 2 years ago
But ive read that there is, The Fujita Scale actually goes up to F12, F6 or greater was never expected to be reached, so it isn't commonly shown on most scales. Since the "F" scale is purely a damage scale, and F5 is the worst damage you can have (everything swept away), it would be near impossible to reach F6 damage...
filliesfosho 2 years ago
You've read something that is incorrect. Again, it would have been impossible for a tornado to be rated an F6, since that designation never existed. It's like saying a school age child did so bad on a test, that instead of getting an F, they got a G. I understand that some places may have incorrectly listed F6 on the F6, but Dr. Fujita's scale only went as high as F5.
wxtulsa 2 years ago
Mhmm. Just listing what someone said. It could be correct or incorrect, I don;t know.
filliesfosho 2 years ago
No, fillie, you're correct. Google F6 tornado. Dr. Fujita's scale is only listed to F5 because an F6 is so incredibly rare, and hard to document solely on secondary damage (one object being thrown into another). It would have to be measured more on swirl patterns and wind speed rather than just damage like the other tornadoes are rated on. In essence, they cause more damage than an F5, but the war path looks the same, making them more complicated to study.
irishcajun85 2 years ago
Didn't the same area get hit by another large tornado that was said to have been 2 miles in diameter? I remember hearing bout that tornado on a discovery channel.
jdprice455 2 years ago
The whole premise was based on the speed of sound (mach scale). The former F classifications was rather linear and if somehow a tornado became stronger, it could be classified as something greater than 5.
jjboggs43204 2 years ago
There were two men one back in the late 1920's and another in the 1940's who were actually inside a tornado, they literally saw what was going on. Both of them recall seeing multiple vorticies and lightning flashing near or inside the tornado. I'm not sure but most of the flashes in this twister seem to be electrical appliance or wires, perhaps that's what they saw.
Scjrd91 3 years ago
this wind have no limit
alsuwaidi87 3 years ago
WOW,that was freakin unbelieveable and scary! very cool video.
emulatorking1192 3 years ago
dude...when i saw that tornado gettin closer i was gettin scared...if i get nightmares i know who to blame
Ansem715 3 years ago
One view that I have never seen....cool video.
djmweatherman 3 years ago
Derek799 only 1 word,"MORON"
jjedmunds7508 3 years ago
If someone can calculate the wind speed by calculating how fast the debries are moving it will be amazing.
carmelo1966 3 years ago
that tornado had the fastest wind speed to date
(318 MPH i think)
il4ack 3 years ago 2