Tuscaloosa Super-Tornado - 2 Views Side-by-Side - April 27, 2011

[GummyBall097]

everybody get inside? you really think getting inside of your car will help?

[BigTom696]

This is what my girlfriend says to me at night..

[soccerdude7330]

"Ho-ly crap" is a major understatement.

[Goldenfury12]

HOLY CRAP

[SpartanOFzeal]

At 26-28: that's what she said.

[LedaLoo]

@kateclay100 You are an idiot. Racism is everywhere, not just in Alabama. Are you for real?

[BarbeeSpeaks]

@kateclay100 Excuse me sweetie but you are VERY misinformed about apparently EVERYTHING. I am black and I was in Alabama when these monsters hit. There are white prejudice people EVERYWHERE not just in AL. Everyone was affected equally during this tragedy. So instead of looking from afar and telling everyone what God did, how about you just pray/ be silent and help. I am a Christian too and I know that God allows things to happen. But you're making Christians look terrible. Please get informed!

[mrsjakeabel10210]

Imagine how many people died trying to get pictures or videos it's been about a month but I'm still praying for them

[diesesmadchen]

so beautiful but so damn scary all at the same time....

[twood4438]

haha its amazing to see the whole world talking about this tornado considering it went over my house taking out half my neighborhood along with everything else but i never saw it, only felt it when my house was shaking

[Sheilaaliens]

@twood4438 eh? you never saw it? did you look outside?

[twood4438]

@Sheilaaliens if i would of went outside id prolly be dead, my house shaking for 20 seconds was plently proof enough that a tornado just went over me

[sbgaddy]

i didnt know tornados carry debri???? lol jk

[Maxix2011]

الله يزيدكم ان شاء الله وتتضاعف مصايبكم اكثر واكثر

[otirudam]

Do brick houses resist more than wood houses? Or do brick houses are also ripped apart by tornados? It seems to me brick and concrete constructions would suffer much less from twisters, and probably save more lives. I dont live near a tornado zone, so i always have wondered about this matters. If somebody can give me answer, (specially from someone that has survived these monsters) i would appreciate it very much. Thank you.

[cprawls21]

@otirudam My daughter and her roommates lived on 15th in Tuscaloosa in a brick house...THANK GOD they survived but they're house didn't...so in answer to your question, brick can as easily be destroyed as wood..

[otirudam]

@cprawls21 thank u very much for ur kind answer. So would i assume correctly that your daughter and her roomates survived the twister bcos they had a basement underneath that brick house u mention? (i am glad they made it!) Do american construction laws enforce in any way obligatory basements in zones where tornados hit regularly?

[ElijahsLittleGirl]

@otirudam No, they don't. They don't even have to have mandatory public safety zones. It's just up to the people. And I guess that's how it should be. But it would be NICE if there was a greater push for storm cellars. My parents live in NE OK, and they have one with at THICK door. That's the wise thing to do.

[3kevin88]

I had a tornado hit about 2 hours west of me and if it had just been 2 mountains over i probably wouldnt be here. Now i am a religous person but i know as i say this pepele will get mad but I thank God every day i am breathing. I am very blessed and I thank him every day.

[Terreebad]

Is the camera on the right the stadium kinda seems like it :I

[SoutherHottie81]

So destructive but so beutiful! GOD BLESS ALL who have lost thier lives and homes! Iam one of the very lucky that it hit around me

[TheRapture303]

2012...only a year away

[mikane24]

that's fun more please!

[N0SEZ]

why do people talk about god on a tornado video rofl?

[Duder1969]

There's no atheist in a tornado................

[jordankirk13]

It doesn't matter that you've seen bigger…. the fact that it killed several people is what you should be worried about. Lives and homes were taken. It was devastating to Tuscaloosa, Pleasant Grove, Cullman, and the several other cites that were hit. Alabama needs prayer, and more help than you could ever imagine.

[kylem1112]

No wonder there were so many death's.... there were too many idiots watching the tornado like "hurp derp, that's awesome" instead of getting the fuck out of there in the vehicle your sitting in.

[iEviLxHD]

i cant tell whats worse. people dying from a hurricane/typhoon/earthquake or people dying from a tornado

[smashbrosfan25]

@iEviLxHD even

[Countryb0y333]

Ehhh I live in Kansas thats a big one but we've seen bigger.

[kylem1112]

@Countryb0y333 yeah, except most of the tornado's that hit in kansas are in the middle of fucking nowhere or in some small town. tuscaloosa alone has 99,000 people, and that's not including the cities that surround it....

[Countryb0y333]

@kylem1112 Oh really? Ever hear of the Greensburg or Andover tornadoes? Google it...

[kylem1112]

@Countryb0y333 like i said... those are small towns.... those towns arn't even close to the population of metro birmingham.

[Countryb0y333]

@kylem1112 Yes and they completly destroyed whole towns. I live in Wichita Kansas, with a population over 600,000 and tornadoes arnt an alien thing to us. Andover is a suburb of Wichita which came mighty close to our city. The funny thing is that we get them all the time and these people get a warning and dont do anything, then they die, and the rest loot there stuff.

[kylem1112]

@Countryb0y333 I know right... i live in colorado, and we get tornados sometimes... mostely on the eastern plains closer to kansas, but even we arn't stupid enough to stare and the damn thing, and think "woah... purdy tornado herp derp.."

[koolmk607]

the strongest force on earth is right there in front of us. In the last 2 years we have seen a huge jump in earthquakes/hurricanes/floodin­gs/ and now tornados something big is bound to happen

[bressan1998]

Qui sème le vent récolte la tempête!

Respectez un peu plus l'environnement abruti d'américains!

[KIllTheCampers49]

Can someone tell me what this is all about i was gone for a short vacation and have no clue help please

[ComposerJMA]

@KIllTheCampers49 Same thing happened to me during the California floods over winter

[gammadaddy]

Mother nature... you scare me sometimes.

[quake4ever2007]

watching this video gave me a splitting headache

[Maryangel24]

holy cabanossi... i think i'd seriously crap myself if i saw that thing heading towards my house :S

[josictrl]

they still build houses with wood... is that stupid or what?

[DFxWoLvEz]

hmmm japan earthquakes, tuscaloosa tornadoes, so close to may 21's hmmm, apocalypse? >.>

[segerfan]

@DFxWoLvEz No we are not getting cloes to the apocalypse.......that's fake about the apocalypse.

[AventSense]

@kateclay100 Grammar please.

[tweakfreak87]

@chris98741 wow. way to be a racist douchebag.

[tweakfreak87]

i watched footage of this over and over yesterday... at first, it was hard to see the cloud spinning and then all of a sudden, it was like someone flipped a switch and BAM! it was in motion. it's terrifying.

[Spartan56431]

There was a mile and 1/2 long tornado in Birmingham, AL on this very tragic day.

My prayers are to the people affected by this. <3

[iwhitakerman]

arnt they supos to be big



[ZacEffron]

@iwhitakerman they are... theyre filming very far away. If they got close, it would be big to you but you would probably be dead by then already.

[djmitch1]

@kateclay100 ARE YOU SERIOUSLY SAYING THAT.....? NAH YOUR JK

[JayRealLovesDancing]

GOD DAMN that is close! O.o

[Darkhorses56]

get out of the stupid car and into a ditch!!!

[RaunaRock]

the end is near

[Darkhorses56]

@RaunaRock no it is not

[Allibob2012]

I'm actually really fascinated with tornado's and I guess you could call me a bit of a storm chaser but it's awful with the lives that these things take away. And the damage is just....wow. I'm sorry to all those who lost everything in this tragic event. May god bless you.

[Sheilaaliens]

@Allibob2012 ups to that. <3 to all.

[JamesRideout123]

@Sheilaaliens Where was this.

[Sheilaaliens]

@JamesRideout123 rly? Tuscaloosa, AL

[JamesRideout123]

@Sheilaaliens Cool. You Southerners are pretty tough and Religious too I might add :).

[fathead969]

@JamesRideout123 yes we are indeed :)

[JamesRideout123]

@fathead969 Yeah its funny cause anytime I talk to other Canadians if they are going to badmouth people from the US they usually badmouth Southerners but I found the Southerners to be far better then the people from North Us like Washington.

[fathead969]

@JamesRideout123 yeah the south is famous for the hospitality. people here are as nice as can be (most) and i have lived in most parts of the US and other areas are full of either people who ignore you or mean ppl. i love it here

[JamesRideout123]

@fathead969 Yep.

[ihaveaverybadcold]

@Sheilaaliens LOL

[mrsjakeabel10210]

what size tornado is this f4 f5 anyone know?

[Allibob2012]

@mrsjakeabel10210 Um, they said it was an F4 but to me it looks like an F5

[ghampton106]

@Allibob2012 Physical size alone does not determine the catagory on the scale, it is all about wind speed, and like most storms I'm betting the wind speed of this rose and fell a little bit...but given the amount of damage this storm caused, It probably was vacillating back and forth between F4 and F5. Hopefully with all the excellent video of this tornado there will be something scientists can pick out that will help to improve warning times to get people to safety.

[rediryou]

I wonder how many videos will come up in the next week that show that a huge F4 tornado was the last thing the camera man had ever scene. Seriously people! Don't film damn tornadoes and good god a car is the worst place to be.

Oh but nice footage :)

[SoutherHottie81]

@rediryou well concidering its been 4 decades since a Tornadoe hit like this we are very amazed about it so probably 1,420.069 footages will probably be put up :)

[Gryphonalia]

The on-video comments aren't as bad as "double rainbow".

[pilotwes]

As a flight instructor, I've often described a phenomenon called "wingtip vortices" to student pilots as "small, horizontal tornadoes".

In this video, if you listen closely from 00:59 to about 1:06 elapsed time, you can actually hear the "whispy" sounds made by the small, finger-like vortices that you can see in the corresponding frames.

Not only do you get the "vacuum-like" sound of the tornado as a whole, but the subtle sounds of the small vortices surrounding it. Amazing.

[pilotwes]

What's remarkable to me about this footage (aside from the two vantage points) is the SOUND! The vast majority of (tornado) footage doesn't capture what it sounds like, which isn't always like a "freight train".

[PytoX]

is this an F5 or not?

[AlSwearengen15]

amazing footage. it really shows the rotation. the mini-vortexes on the left video are unbelievable. My heart goes out to all affected by this terrible tragedy

[slewofdamascus]

That is amazing footage. Thanks for the dual look, although I had a hard time taking my eyes off the one on the left, probably because it seemed closer.

[jeremyelliott1]

it looks like the tornado grabbed some of the chemtrails @0:33. or the chemtrails grabbed it.

[moobie1010]

@jeremyelliott1 LOL I think you have some chemtrails going up your nose.

[Sheilaaliens]

@moobie1010 yeah it was snortin' c-trails 4 sure

[TerriInBC]

Wow!

[clnmyjts]

A lot of intown Tornadoes nowadays..HUH

[seeingUFOsPA]

That is one BIG-ass, mean mofo.... Bad way to help save the struggling construction businesses...

[Sheilaaliens]

@seeingUFOsPA no kidding, m'lady... but... they.. will be needed for a long time to come, it seems... And I'm crossing my whiskers that this evil path of destruction unnatural does not hit PA o.<

[seeingUFOsPA]

@Sheilaaliens Doing my amateur weather predictions (which is way better than the people get paid to GUESS on TV usually), I predict the McNasty stuff in red with hook formations will hit well EAST of my position... Most likely the mountainous regions there will diffuse most rotations with it's updrafts. So sayeth me, the dirt-digging prophetess of the weather gods....

[sl0w93]

@Sheilaaliens we had several small tornados last night, and at most 2 or 3 small ones this morning in Central PA.

[tweakfreak87]

@Sheilaaliens we're getting lucky. i know there were tornadoes in york and then one in palmyra the other day... and palmyra is damn close to where i live, so it's kinda set me on edge...

[98saturnsc2]

Thanks Sheila don't have fancy channels on tv!

[Sheilaaliens]

@98saturnsc2 ya! check the description i just added the link for the live coverage of this stuff on ustream, its semi-depressing, tho..

[METALLICA6547]

@Sheilaaliens these tornado's seem to be getting bigger than the one's you usually see,makes one wander if it's from weather modification,or even the after effects of it from them using it at other times,beside's the present, just a thought!

[TNMamaBear]

@METALLICA6547 agreed for many reasons.