KAKE Greensburg Tornado - May 4, 2007 (Solo 1)

[NomTwitchProductions]

@Hartford1992 The atlanta tornado was freaky. I live in Forsyth county GA and there were warnings everywhere. I even saw the rotating funnel cloud

[MultiWarzone]

Dang, that was a realy scary signature!

[MIKON8ERISBACK]

Who names a town "Protection"? That name should be changed.

[TheBigmaxx]

thumbs up if you just searched may 4th 2007 for this video

[yodafanyodafan]

I remember watching this in Haviland the day the tornado hit. It was a sad day... I am glad that greensburg is still hopefull.

[MommaOkie]

@supersonic3224 Actually there were 10 deaths in Greensburg. 1 of them was a family member of mine, we are remembering her today, 4 years later

[CrownCollegeTN]

@MommaOkie

I am very sorry for your loss. Your family is in my prayers

[thexfunnyz]

What are the odds if a tornado forming inbetween two mesocyclones?

[AlienBeliever897]

Jeez I remember when this happened...I live in Wichita, KS and even though Greensburg was so far away, I was locked in my basement all night lol

[hawkfan2300]

Actually this storm i think started in Buffalo County Oklahoma and moved NNE I Think

[rjl1184]

When you hear the words "Tornado Emergency" then you know it's bad.

[hawkfan2300]

@rjl1184 when you hear tornado emergency you think its all over

[MIKON8ERISBACK]

@hawkfan2300 A tornado emergency is the National Weather Services official "upgrade" from a tornado warning. They are issued when a reasonable size tornado is expected to impact a high-population area. Some of them small towns, some of them are big cities.

[6891man]

Did he write "omg" on the radar screen at the very end?

[PraterWX]

@6891man No...that's "Lanny" indicating the chaser's position

[hawkfan2300]

I think this was the same storm that produced a tornado near Arnett Oklahoma

[PraterWX]

@hawkfan2300 No. This cell first developed south of Protection, KS.

[hawkfan2300]

@PraterWX i looked and it dissipated south of protection but the greensburg cell i think was a storm in Buffalo County OK and moved northward

[joeylawn36111]

If your town is named "Protection", it's time to change the name.

[SpinyMcSpleen3264]

5:12 "...from the Which-Way-The-Wind's-Blowing Mode to the How-Hard-It's-Raining Mode". It's not as simple to say as an acronym or tech term, but it does make more sense.

[yumissweet420]

Mmm... Kake...

[zeeb12345]

that exact thing happened 2 me. i was 8 in 2007. sunny like crazy, than ef3 tornado in chicago.

[MrRem300]

at 6:09 untill 6:12 i heard EAS tones in back

[PraterWX]

@MrRem300 No. There's no weather radio, or any other EAS equipment in the studio.

[firealarm211]

@PraterWX I think that's on Lanny Dean's feed.

[firealarmfreak5]

@MrRem300 That was from the storm chaser.

[iCPNetworks]

Sorry for making a joke, but it would be kinda funny if it hit Belvedere.

Just like the 1967 Belvedere-Oak Park tornado.

[ShortCardinalsFan262]

@Bullzeye95 Ive been lots of places in the US and ive always noticed meteorologists in wichita to be superior in both technology and knowelge.

[ShortCardinalsFan262]

Crazy, i live in wichita and i know everywhere heres talkin about

[CKFRailFan]

It's amazing that something as simple as layer of warm air aloft can mean the difference between a sunny day and deadly tornadoes.

[MommaOkie]

Lanny Dean did a heck of a job that night, all the KAKE crew did. I had family who lost their home their and one distant family who lost their life that night. I being out of state, counted on KAKE's online stream for info that night.

[Hartford1992]

It's so chilling to hear the reports... I remember when a Tornado Emergency was issued in Atlanta. It's damn scary.

[AirRaider56]

@Hartford1992 i remember the atlanta tornado.. there was no tornado emergency. only a warning.

[terrellstorms]

that is an impressive hook echo, great video

[firealarm211]

I was under a Tornado Emergency in Memphis for the Super Tuesday Outbreak.

[ferrarimike23]

If I heard him say we are issueing a tornado emergency for my town I'd crap and then

Throwup and then look out the window while pacing back and fourth

[prorollerskater]

im from Kansas. Right by Greensburg, too :o - Wichita-

[PraterWX]

@Bullzeye95 The implied context is, if it's still producing a tornado as the storm moves over "you".

[Johnatomic16]

I heard that thing print saying that issued a tornado emergency at 9:41 pm

[ImabigDawg32]

I love watching this coverage, the radar, everything and I dont mean I love what happened, just the coverage is very interesting. its very unfortunate what happened, I just love weather and following it and something like this is VERY CRAZY and rare and its very interesting to watch.

[chrisz71]

when he says its 10 miles and closing, not losing strength, and that he's not a chicken little kind of guy, I'd start freakin out!

[matt99nascar]

I live in ohio and we hardly get tornados! but about 5 times on average april to august we do have tornado warnings and I am glued to the local Tv channels! each time when my city is talked about with the circles it scares the Heck out of me because it is so scary! since its almost April hopefully God willing we get some tornado warnings so I can film it on my camcorder if its not really bad! I have watched the TV weather channel on storm stories a few times and from what I saw it was very bad!

[fgwilli76]

@matt99nascar May 31, 1985 brother.. google it. Xenia, OH.. google it. When they hit OH, they are usually monsters!

[hawkfan2300]

@fgwilli76 you want a monster check out the Hallam Nebraska Tornado

[1234noaa22]

oklahoma city type of tornado

[justintime2989]

@1234noaa22 yes it was just bigger okc most of the time was halfmile wide while in bridgecreek it was mile, while greensburg was 1.7 miles wide which is rediculous

[brian8556]

@justintime2989 And wasn't the OKC tornado about 1.75 to 1.9 miles? Now that's rediculous.

[TheBHProduction]

i live in wichita and i remember this

[cutlersbutler02]

@TheBHProduction i live in mulvane and i remember too

[jjedmunds7508]

why do they say tornado on the ground?Isnt it only a tornado when it touches the ground? not trying to be a smart ass just woundring.

[vader9596]

@jjedmunds7508

Actually the tornado touched down at that moment.

[fgossage]

@jjedmunds7508 Because the overwhelmingly vast majority of the people that they are trying to urge to shelter... don't understand that.

[DANDOG94]

that meterologist did a good job that day

[bigcat1124]

Wow, What a hook!!!

[factorone]

I remember watching the disparity grow on the radial velocity and storm relative velocity maps, as well as the elevation increases on the echo tops. Never seen anything like it before or since.

[autigerssuck]

and WOW what a classic hook that storm had

[autigerssuck]

man bright blue couplets next to bright pink couplets, that is never good

[yodafanyodafan]

i remember watching this on my tv in haviland, ( wich is 10 miles east of greensburg)

[justintime2989]

@yodafanyodafan then the tornado had be really close to you since it went through town then east/ northeast area, towards the cop that died in his cop car.

[roundhouser]

Modern meteorology has saved a bunch of lives.

[Hershey658]

@daughtryfan458 a tornado emergency is when the national weather service doppler radar is detecting a large,wide tornado that has been on the ground for some time

[TheWaynelds]

Or When a violent tornado is about to hit a populated area.

[austinsagangsta]

tornado of the decade, the classic F5

[daughtryfan458]

So, whats a tornado emergency?

[stoneaged92]

It basically means that a town will be hit by a tornado in a matter of minutes or seconds.

[free4zach]

A large damaging tornado is confirmed and will be hitting a town within minutes.-

[snakes3425]

It means a large-violent tornado is heading toward a densely populated area

[flskywarn]

Hi. I am a Skywarn Spotter and I will explain what a Tornado Emergency is.

A tornado emergency means that a heavly populated area is about to be hit with a CONFIRMED tornado that is on the ground.

[leandar]

A Tornado Emergency was first declared on May 3, 1999 during the nightmare tornado outbreak around Oklahoma City and the F5 that smacked the city.

[wyattcox]

Cool cookie, Jay. In the Jim O'Donnell mold. Great coverage.

[prcsouthwest]

You know whats missing... all of the hype! (except the poeple on the phone), we need this guy in Oklahoma, very good job dude! you rock.!!!

[joesgirlalexus]

heat takes part in producing tornados

[beaverboy129]

omg this is pretty awesome i love tornados but i hate being in umm lol well im sorry for everyone who went threw this =p

[michaelkks]

Everytime I see this clip looking back. I cry. It just tottaly hurt the town of Greensburg!! Jay Pratter is always there when it matters!! Just like Jim O'Donniel was back in the old days on KAKE!!

[weatherguy2013]

Pretty good coverage... Minnesota's Kare 11 is better though. (and ya, we do get tornadoes A LOT during the summer)

[highdeserthater]

in dunkerton iowa there was a tornado that destroyed my grandmas house and all 400 acres of their land.

[OneThousandOneHundre]

It destroyed 400 acres of land!?

[SoonerNation94]

its alright coverage

i think Oklahoma City's KOCO News 5 or KWTV News 9

are way better than any in the country

our radar is WAY better than this

[Tornado1994]

@SoonerNation94 You were hit by EF-5s in 1999 and 2003.

[hockeyplayerforlife3]

omfg thats so scary to watch this i live in toronto ontario we dont get tornados, but i love watching torandos from and studying them but when u see it it like this.......omg my heart goes out to all the people who had to go through this and to the people u died going through it

[DRIZZLYSNOUT]

Living in "tornado ally" this is what you don't want to see on a radar map. I live 15 miles from pierce city MO. It also was destoyed by a tornado and all you can do is hope people can get to a shelter. If you have never lived through a tornado let me tell you that it is 10 times worse at night. I think this global warming thing has alot to do with it,as a kid I remember tornados being a rare thing now we get like 60 in one day and there getting more intense. we even have them in dead of winter.

[rattmausch]

I don't think it has anything to do with global warming as it does with better weather coverage. Now days every tornado is reported and recorded, people are more aware and educated about tornadoes. Global warming has to do with climate change over hundreds of thousands of years.  There's a big difference between climate and weather.

Tornadoes in winter have happened for years. There was one in Wisconsin last January and there was one in Wisconsin in 1967, but do you hear about that one?

[SanFran90]

@rattmausch: There were also winter tornado outbreaks in 1975, 1999, 1982, 1971, 1969, 1959, 1956, 1955, 1949, 1947, 1944, 1917, 1898,

1890, and even as far back as 1884. {All sources: Wikipedia}

[csx2295]

Don't forget the February 5, 2008 super Tuesday tornado outbreak during that outbreak the tornado came really close to my hometown Brownsville, Tennessee only thing i remember that the tornado was on the ground and we went from a tornado warning to a tornado emergency Jackson, Tennessee 30 miles east of me they got hit the worse than we did a big half mile wide tornado went straight through North Jackson destroying everything in its path.

[csx2295]

Everyone blame it on global warming that is why Tennessee is having a lot of tornadoes not like Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas in Tennessee alone over the years there were 15 tornadoes in the state of Tennessee too many as far as i know Tennessee is my favorite state and will be my favorite state this is home state and still is.

[ColtonC85]

I live in Lubbock Texas and we see alot of storms as well but i've never seen one like that and the coverage this news cast did was excellent, i believe thats why a lot of people made it out alive they did a great job

[PraterWX]

aj400ox said, "Kansas is beautiful country", not "is A beautiful country". It's a comment on the scenery. It isn't saying that it's a nation. You need to understand the context.

[itsallinyourhead80]

KAKE does some of *THE* best coverage during severe weather across Kansas.

[crosscountrytc]

Eh. Maybe it's just me, but I think they're pretty much average. I've seen better, but I have seen much worse.

[santana22garcia]

Kansas isnt a country its a STATE

[aj400ox]

Plenty of good warning time, too bad it's winds were that of an atomic bomb. Kansas is beautiful country though.

[superjoe87]

I'm very sorry for the families of the victims of the Greensburg tornado. But honestly can you really take the station call sign seriously. I mean KAKE it looks like CAKE

[dragonridley]

That's quite a hook echo.

[superjoe87]

Yeah that hook echo killed 12. Geez that's gotta be scary.

[Richardk7207]

Hes not a pro

[iMovieFreak3891]

Gives me chills every time I hear "Tornado Emergency". Thankfully.. I have never been in one, but have chased several "Tornado Emergency Warned" tornadoes including the May 3, 1999 OKC tornado. Wishing all those in Greensburg the best.

[superjoe87]

YOU DID!!!??? You lucky son of a gun,

[jr98racer]

damn thats great weather coverage these people save more lives than there given credit for

[ai2114]

i know without meteorologists we would have no clue what to do during a tornado

[tomcat2285]

you can clearly see were the tornado is in the hook echo since it was so large

[BMPmama698]

By far the best Greensburg coverage I have seen. Thank you.