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  • too bad the tornado actually missed joplin, it just hit the outskirts. Id love to see that town disappear.

  • HAHAHHHA!!! this is funny!! XD i love it

  • Morrison

    You don't have to be a jackass he obviously wasn't being disrespectful

  • y'all are all selfish as fuck. nobody gives a shit about your birthday or whatever. this ruined our town, and that is all that is important. you'll never understand how serious this is until you live through it. we struggle everyday because of the tornado; i go to school in a department store. please be more sensitive to the 160 people who lost their lives, and all the people, like me, that were effected by this tornado.

  • The way this tornado formed is really scary and interresting. We can even feel its power. waw.

  • If You Agree With Me Thumbs Up About: I Wouldn't Be Driving Through A Big Tornado!

  • @kypeakaboo go fuck yrself damn thumbs whore

  • @hellgodpk Shut Up nobody said anything to u

  • @kypeakaboo They track tornadoes to give out warnings and which way its going.

  • THIS IZ SO SAD.

  • lord cam back to claim his land

  • this is kind of upsetting cuz first people were makin the stupid excuse of the world ending on may 21, and may 21 is my birthday so then on the next day may 22 this giant tornado happens and I heard that after one day after my birthday. Its not that wonderful hearing a tornado raging and killing people on the day after your birthday! So be happy that you werent in this and shut up haters cuz this is a REAL LIFE situation people lost family and everything. god bless anybody in this tornado ): :)

  • YES I GOT IT ON VIDEO, but i nearly died in the proccess.

  • Our official death toll is 160. I cannot believe the nerve of those who think this is a laughing matter. When it is your home town and friends and family members who experience something devastating you will not find it amusing. I am proud to be from Joplin and I will never live anywhere but here. This is my home and it is beautiful.

  • I prey for all who died that day ;( may god bless the ones who made it .....;)

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  • I saved myself

  • There is a video showing a double rainbow after this very incident ended. is it a blessing in disguise? we might not know........yet....

  • God saved my life that day... R.I.P. to all the others who died because of thuis terrible storm... My father died in/ The tornado is NOT funny- God bless

  • Thank you for keeping this real by not trying to make this a music video by adding music like some STUPID ASSHOLES have done to tarnish the horror of this event

  • Watching this monster evolve from a relatively wispy form to a killer wedge :27-28 is incredible!

  • WOW! i live in California so ive never seen anything lik this! I would be SO scared!!!

  • WHY THE FOOK WOULD YOU DRIVE TOWARD THE TORNADOE!!!!!??????

  • @MyMegagame i wold drive to one =D

  • ive been chaseing storms for the past 7 years and this tornado with many others i chased,filmed and photographed this year alone thinking the 1 that hit tuscaloosa was bad i knew something much bigger would form sometime then when i was out near springfeild missouri visiting family got a call that something big might form shure enough it did god bless the ppl of joplin god bless the fellow chasers following that day

  • I live in Joplin. Seeing it from this perspective is less disturbing, than having lived through this first hand. Our town is demolished but rebuilding more every day. It is something I never want to experience ever again.

  • @mommycakes83 Awwww God Bless :(

  • Was this the chase team's first tornado ever? They sound like a group of freshman pledges during rush week.

  • lol, someone's like get in the fucking car!

  • Nature is awesome but fuck me its scary

  • Poor :( best wishes let god pray for you :(

  • my boyfriend saw that!!!!!!!!!!!! he was there!!!!!!!!!!!!! i dont know if he is alive i havent heard from him since!

  • WHY DISLIKE

  • Shame on lucifer for creating such ignorance named jackstraw. All of us in Joplin will pray for u. have a blessed day :)

  • Try and have some respect u monsters .Yes I call u monsters, no human being, at least with a soul, could see what happened and make fun of it.

  • AND TO ALL OF U MAKING FUN OF THE TORNADO OR PEOPLE. GET A FREAKIN LIFE. PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES, HOMES, JOBS, EVERYTHING THEY HAD. U TRY GOING THROUGH THAT AND HAVING PEOPLE MAKE FUN OF U.

  • @babe20033002 hey everyone i agree with this person if all of u not like the people of joplin mo who lost love ones and who also lost there homes on may 22nd when the tornado happened in joplin mo then get a life people and leave the people alone in joplin mo

  • @babe20033002 I so totally agree with u. I was in this tornado and was missed by a block and a half. Way to close. I was scared for my life. I had no basement and was scrambling for a place to take cover.

  • My sisters church was destroyed (not a trace of it left) and she lost 5 friends in the tornado...

  • @babe20033002 I guess old boy Jesus wasn't lookin' out for her that day. Shame. Should have built her church to the One True Master, oh great, all mighty, the one, the only....LUCIFER!!!!!! Your true master! Bow down before your Dark Lord!!! You better get on your knees and Pray, to Satan himself! Or he will reign Hell Fire, AND TORNADOES AND LIGHTNING upon your shit village of Joplin! Do you hear me? You have one chance. Let the blood of a goat, on the next full moon, and you might be spared.

  • @jackstrawfrmwchta what the heck is wrong with you man?

  • @jackstrawfrmwchta no words for you. Just go a lookin' for your favourite guy Satan in hell. Byes!!! ;)

  • @jackstrawfrmwchta You're rackin' up some pretty bad Karma for yourself, boy. Just keep at it. Truly, you are only hurting yourself...with each evil word you write. Oh, it may not get you today.....but it will. Guaranteed. Your only way out is to re-vamp your way of thinking from negativity to positive.

    You poor guy. How empty you are inside. And you know it, don't ya? Sure you do. Like my late father told me "son, the older you get, the more you're gonna realize how stupid you just sounded"

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  • @WickedTornado Thank you for insight

  • i'm living in Hungary, no tornadoes, no tsunamis, no strong earthquakes. u jelly?

  • @SuperPatsu thank you, as much as i love tornadoes i also hate them

  • its just scary because no matter how safe we are, nature takes us when its our time.

  • Can we all agree that the weather patterns of the whole world are changing. I have never seen a tornado like this in my life, there will have to be new scales invented to classify it. Droughts where there shouldn't be, extreme heatwaves this summer accross the whole country and these tornados seem more powerful every year. So nice to see all of the heroism in the community pulling together to help others. So sorry for your losses.

  • i still can not believe this is the tornado that tore up our hometown and took the life of my sons friend. no 3 year old or child or even adult should have to go through something like this again...R.I.P Skyuler. We miss you.

  • This is a reality im not sure I am ready to face.... I just moved to MO

  • People in Missouri are not dumb, nor are they stupid. How can you say somethig like that when you don't know the people? There might be people who are less smarter than others, but likewise in any other state. Everyone is different. You just can't judge people like that. Pathetic. Just a sidenote, I'm from Missouri, and I live in Joplin. If that wasn't obvious.

  • it looks like the entire sky comes down... i hate watching this because i get all emotional everytime because i remember everything about that day.

  • my kids and i were hit by this tornado, the only place left standing in our house was where we were hiding. if we had gone in the basement we wouldnt have made it out. the house collapsed into the basement. my wife was at work thankfully, and we didnt find each other until around midnight. she didnt know if we were alive or not. the feelings we experienced and still feel are overwhelming and i pray it never happens here again but if it does we will be prepared with a storm shelter.

  • @kustomtrucks74 Glad you all made it through. Quite the footage circulating of this beast. Very intense

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  • wow.......that twister was gigantic!!!

  • omfg, look how fast it former o.o

    i cant even make a sanwhich that fast O__O

  • Why does there have to be Tornados, Hurricanes, and earthquakes I mean really come on! Why does there have to be bad things. Who Agrees?

  • I drove through there yesterday I'm from south Dakota :( it really is bad I'm praying for everyone from there ..just remember this kind of stuff happens and you can't change the past this incident will make everyone stronger :)

  • I was a firefighter for 25 years and dealt with out of control situations for a little while, eventually we sorted it, mother nature , takes no prisoners, she decides and was so devastated for the people of Joplin that day.

  • my house and car are gone, but not me, the stupid son of bithch didn't get  me,,almost tho

  • great video.. it turned into a MONSTER.. might be the nastiest tornado i've ever seen

    

  • why would you like something like this.. im sure you wouldnt like it if it was your house it was going over, it your father it took away.

  • and all this is, is stupid, stupid , stupid wind with debris it picks up, i have lost everything, and i can't go kick its ass for it!!

  • why would jesus do thizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ????

  • @jackstrawfrmwchta first of all your not cool by putting zzzzz's on everything second everything happens for a reason joplin has to be the strongest town i know now

  • @DJPoeschl strongest town you know? Not too damn strong I'd say, or it wouldn't have been so easily blown away. Like the two little pigs that built their houses out of straw and sticks. Should have used bricks. Doesn't surprise me though. People from Missouri are on average some of the dumbest people in the country. Architecture and engineering are hard for stupid hillbillies to understand. You see the result.

  • @jackstrawfrmwchta You must be the stupidest fucking person I've ever known, First didn't mean it in the literal sense dumb ass i meant morally and spiritually. Second i'm pretty sure that your dumber than Missourians for thinking their houses weren't made out of bricks. Third i'm guessing your from Wichita which Kansas is much fucking stupider than Missouri so how bout you go fuck your cousin alright? great.

  • @jackstrawfrmwchta oh and no house could stand 300 mph winds yea nbd

  • @DJPoeschl Oh yeah you fucking idiot? You don't think a properly engineered house can withstand 300 mph winds? You must be from Missouri. Go back to watching Nascar and fucking your sister.

  • @jackstrawfrmwchta oh. my. god. did you pass the 6th grade? jesus christ no building (with the exceptions of steel framed skyscrapers and buildings) could withstand 300 mph winds. your calling me a dumbass? look in the mirror buddy

  • @jackstrawfrmwchta Do you have any common sense?

  • @jackstrawfrmwchta garry2301= jackstrawfrmwchta=TheUnforgive­n2012=WBC SPOKEN BY A WESTBORO BABTIST CHURCH MEMBER FROM TOPEKA, KS. A BONIFIDE GOOBER WITH CROSSED EYES TYPED THIS TRASH! LOLOLOLOLOLOL!

  • that is huge!!!!

  • i was in ft.lenerdwood when that happend

  • the birth of a monster tornado

  • the birth of a moster tornado 

  • my cousins work got demolished im glad shes fine she was working at the moment just minor cuts and bruises the f5 was like 2 block from my place about 150 people died though

  • this makes me so sick. I can not believe this is the tornado that destroyed my town and took my friend to heaven :(

  • atleast 89? unfortunately it killed way more than that :( i still am in shock this happened

  • That last bit of cruelty doesn't need to be up there. Think how you would feel if you lost a loved one to a storm Luke this

  • my bff's mom's friend died trying to save people she saved 7 of them... but the tornado took down a huge pole and it landed on her, and when my friend went to joplin to go see her (before she died) my friend started crying because the damage was so terrible it was that sad

    THUMBS UP IF U PRAY FOR ALL IN JOPLIN

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  • @emmie4242 would you call her a pole dancer?

  • @jackstrawfrmwchta JACK YOU DO NOT MAKE FUN OF HER SHE RISKED HER LIFE FOR PEOPLE AND YOU NEED TO RESPECT THAT

  • @emmie4242 Seriously though, was the pole that killed her a strippers pole?

  • @emmie4242

    Tell your friend it's sad what happened to her mom, but she died a hero. <3

  • @emmie4242 Was it a strippers pole?

  • @jackstrawfrmwchta Your heartless.

  • @emmie4242 I'm sorry for your friends loss, but she was a hero and that is a good way to remember her.

  • I've seen hundreds of tornado videos but I still say to myself, damn nature you scary!! (yes I did take that from Family Guy. This tornado is freakier than the F5 tornado from "Twister".

  • @HiVultage01 You know, this "damn nature you scary" was worn out the first time you began writing it after a youtube video. All it does is make you look and sound like an ignorant, no-can-talk asshole. Give it up, boy. It isn't funny....it never was to begin with....grow up.

  • @WickedTornado Whatever you say troll. I can type whatever I want. Also, I wasn't the first to start typing that phrase. Besides, don't you have anything better to do than to worry about what other people say? For the record I'm 20, that doesn't make a boy.

  • being a storm chaser myself i can say that i have experienced one myself. but nothing will compare to what joplin has been through. all you people who have lost your homes and family members my prayers are with you. there is nothing anybody can do to replace what you have lost in a family member. you can replace a home but not a son or a daughter or a mother or a father. god bless all of you who survived. and those who have lost.

  • That thing got BIG fast

  • as soon as i seen that tornado comeing down i could tell that it would be a huge tornado

  • When he says "It's getting big, big, big."Is when it hit Joplin High School.

  • MOTHER NATURE's ANIMAL F-5 at it's best... wow is right.. good sh!!+

  • I was in the Missouri Southern State University basement when that hit. When we left I learned that the high school I had just graduated from was gone. I was lucky enough to have my house, but many of those close to me were not.

  • We Wish You All The Best Joplin

    - Here From Illinois ♥ (:

  • My house.. Is gone because of that thing! </3

  • @babygurl9185 same here bro, same here.

    

  • @babygurl9185 I'm very sorry to hear that... this disaster was so massive I'm still watching video of it over a month later. I hope you are able to rebuild both your home and your life. :)

  • @babygurl9185 i got a place of stay, (be warned the room is decked out in u of k stuff)

  • @babygurl9185 really

    

  • @babygurl9185

    God bless you, hope all is well <3

  • @babygurl9185 looks like you were able to sace your computer :L

  • @MrChubbymeat Haaah, no actually we had to go get a new one.

  • @babygurl9185 o tht sucks!!! is ur family ok??

  • This was on my birthday and i got laid for the first time that day :D

  • this is soooo heart-breaking :/

  • nvm 'it was 'get in the car'. ahem.

  • i think heard HAARP in the backround thank god ur all safe

  • I can't recall a time where a nado went from wispy to a wedge in such a short period of time.

  • there's another video of the big twister with a man and wife chasing it and getting WAAAAAAY too fuckign close. You guys were smart and and did not drive into that thing. Coodoos for knowing when to go in and when to say a little back.

  • @Rabbits2Fertilizer Try kudos next time. it will serve you better

  • 0:17 You start to see many mini tornados, then they form into one LARGE one...

  • @michaelbob80 yeah, thats call a multivortex tornado.

  • Wow that thing formed FAST!

  • 00:27-00:28 did you see how fast that little twister formed into a huge funnel?!

  • ok i was in this tornado and ive done search and rescue and we found 115 under a wall in east side of walmart on 15th, the death toll is 284 people dead and 580 still missing.

  • Im uhh pretty proud to say I was in that tornado and lived even though our house was swept clean off the foundation. I speak for joplin when I say MOTHER NATURES A B****!!!!!

  • Got to hand it to the TornadoVideos people, they always seem to catch the big ones.

  • 1:28 is that tornado trying to do a split or is it just me?

  • @ucwicket420 True. I figured that being user-driven media, YouTube might be more humane than Cretin News Network or Farce News but evidently my expectations were much too high

  • the final death toll was 153 sad but look to the future

  • its like 152

  • The death tole is a little over 150 now

  • i want to press like but i feel it would be disrespectful to the dead, like im liking the very thing that took their lives....

  • That is so devastating! The sound of it is creepy too! My heart goes out to the families of the ones we lost that day! God bless!

  • he fumbled the cam while it was little tiny twisters.. n a second later when he picks the cam back up its a massive F5

  • Just realized the dude recording this was less than a mile from my house D:

  • Killed nearly 150 people* I realize this is old, but I just wanted to make sure everyone knew.

  • Wow

  • one of the scariest things is how fast it went froma funnel cloud to a massive tornado.

  • WOW...IT....LOOKS SO PRETTY!!!!!!

  • The moment that thing turned into an F5...that was the craziest thing I've seen in a long time. Unbelievable.

  • About 132 people killed. I have been there and it isn't pretty. Helping people try to sort through what is left of their life is really heartbreaking. I saw two older men loading some stuff in a truck and offered to help. One man told me that they had already been there seven times, that was their last trip and they had all they were going to get. When I asked them what about the other stuff that looked salvageable one man just shook his head and said, "At my age, that stuff doesn't matter."

  • F-1? Looks kind of small, not very impressive did anyone get hurt? Don't you mean 30ft wide not 3/4 of a mile wide? Wow they get that big huh? Really? In the USA? Wow!! Looks more like a dust devil!! Why is everyone yelling are they watching a basketball game or somethin?

  • @yetibiker08 Suck balls you retard. I live close by and I know over 100 people died. So F-U

  • @MrChrispchris

    NOW THAT IS NOT VERY NICE YOUNG MAN!!

  • @yetibiker08 No it wasnt nice. Maybe look stuff up before making uninformed comments. That tornado destroyed over 2000 homes and buildings. Im guessing you dont watch the news.

  • @yetibiker08 look, i dont usually insult people, i find the act deplorable, but WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!!??!?! this tornado took the lives of 134 people!!!! if youre a fucking troll, this is not the fucking time for it!! and if youre not, youre either evil or a fucking retard with no grasp on the pain and suffering this thing caused. yes, it was beautiful to watch, but the whole time i watched i cried cus i knew that WHILE i was watching people were dying! go fucking die, asshole!!!

  • @perfectionisntreal

    Hey, don't get upset people die all the time and although 134 people died it is a part of nature. You cried while people died well then you are "human" and this indicates that you still have humanity left in you!! What you can offer to those who lost loved ones is an alternative to buying cheap homes that end up with crushed little bodies inside. If "life is valued highly" then change your way of thinking and move outside the box of limited thinking. Change your ways!!

  • @perfectionisntreal the death toll has risen to 151 now

  • Wind speeds were 200+ mph. Fatalies 141 and climbing as people are dying from their injuries. 8000 structures gone or damaged, and 4500 now homeless citizens.

    I live here and I still haven't seen all the damage 2 weeks later. Everyday is something you haven't seen before. The people and volunteers here are AMAZING.

  • @scarletbutterfli add 10 more people from fungal outbreak

  • Wow this is incredible!! This is Like when the tornado was first forming and you people actually got the film...wow!! 

  • @chelst525

    It looks so pretty dancing on the ground!!

  • @chelst525 I think they are storm chasers so they were probably in the area anyway and just happen to get lucky to see it form and film it. I'm shocked at how fast it formed.

  • @chelst525 With my last comment being said. I HIGHLY recommend that NO ONE try during this who isn't properly trained. I'm a trained spotter and most storm chasers are trained as well so we know how to position ourselves so we'll be safe and if we do get into trouble, we always have at least one escape route. If you notice, they are a ways back (they tell us to keep a two mile buffer in our training) And the tornado doesn't appear to be going towards them. Actually, I think its moving to the

  • @chelst525 left of your screen

  • wow this is incredible!!

  • what was the wind speed on it looks like a f5

  • @willthecreator My guess is the inner wind speeds were between 250, and 300 MPH just looking at the damage, plus taking into consideration other factors...how viscously it was rotating, plus how fast it was moving (about 70 MPH) and being 3/4 a mile wide.

  • that big son of a bitch

  • Our government is to blame it is all project HAARP and this guy predicted it before it even happened

    wwwyoutube{dot}com/watch?v=n-E­zOS49XtM

  • omg... i just feel so bad for the people that died in this natural disaster... it's sad just thinking about it. and when the tornado got that big, i was like: WOW THAT'S BIG O_O

    for me, being in a tornado would be my worst life experience.

  • Being here in Joplin I was totally amazed by the destructive path nature can take

  • @gutterboi(nigger) suck big white cock u nigger . U are just mad that u aren't white,that's all. Ha ha ha he he he. Nigger!

  • WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?

  • @Tiffany79123 may 22,2011