yes like me..lived here for almost 4 years now..and hope i never do..since they showed the aftermath on 134 street, which is only 3 streets down from where i live now..maybe ill think of investing in a storm shelter..since their too greedy to install those with every home.
This hit the city north of mine. Has anybody seen the footage of Bridge Creek? The tornado hit that little community and afterwards there was literally not a single structure left in the area.
It's that time of year again, are you ready? I am hoping we'll get some good storms with the early spring we had this year. I live in Tulsa, which is so compact that the heat of the city forms a kind of protective bubble causing all the tornados to fizzle out as they reach the 'burbs. It'd be worth the 2+ hour drive to catch even a little one on tape.
I remember that day, all over Oklahoma they skies was eerie. Even in Marietta people was going outside and looking at the sky. We knew it was probably going to happen, just didnt know what town......
I lived in Del City at the time of this tornado. My street and 3 other streets were spared, but my ENITRE neighborhood was taken out. This was the scariest night of my entire life. Thanks for posting this, its great footage! I will always remember Mike Morgan and the entire KFOR storm team , thanks for keeping me and my family safe.
Does Oklahoma City have tornados like this all the time? I am supposed to go there in may for my cousins wedding and I dont know if I want to go now. plus they have no basement....
@EleanorWhoLaughsAlot OKC gets tornadoes fairly often yet many people living here have never seen one. The OKC city limits are huge and encompass a lot of rural area so sometimes these tornadoes touch down and do little damage. We get them about as often as California gets newsworthy earthquakes so don't let that stop you from coming. We have the best severe weather warning systems in the world so it's almost impossible to get surprised by one, unlike an earthquake which gives no warning.
@EleanorWhoLaughsAlot OKC almost never gets a tornado like the on on tape here. F5 tornadoes are relatively rare occurences anywhere. That said, OKC does get a lot of tornadoes. This tornado holds the record as being possibly the strongest ever recorded and the most expensive in terms of damage. I also happen to be interested in this because I live in St. Louis, which was just struck by an F3 or F4 tornado at the airport.
iagree with Eleanor, we oklahomans have a great warning system that gives us time to get to safety. all tho, OKC did just get hit the 24th by a pretty bad tornado... but dont let that stop you from going!
@5510blue A woman had a stick in her neck? I saw on tv a long time ago about this tornado a woman who had a piece of wood in the side of her head...she survived it miracuously...
@GOODY61 Yes, I cut some of that video out because it was so shaky. The main tornado anchored itself, then the satellite dropped and circled the main tornado, then it dissipated and the main tornado grew in size back to an F5 and began moving northeast again.
@Soonerbrookie I live in North Carolina...i would ♥ 2 see a tornado of any rating. But 2 have 2 go thru one like U did now thats a totally different story 4 me lol
I was on a field trip in OKC that day and I remember our chaperones were screaming at the bus drivers to floor it and they all acted like they were going to crap their pants lol. There was a beautiful lightning storm the night before.
this is amazing footage, well done. it's so facinating to watch a tornado form, i am only 12 and would love to be a photographer and take pics of storms :) again, amazing footage.
Go Oklahoma Go Oklahoma!!!!! :) Im from Oklahoma. I love Oklahoma! Oklahoma made history on May, 3, 1999!!!! This was a month and six days before I was born! :D
Yes, shortly after it crossed I-44 near Newcastle as an F3 it anchored itself and dropped a satellite tornado that orbited almost completely around the main tornado, then the two merged and increased in size back to an F5 as it again began moving northeast toward SW 149th Street.
I was 8 years old at the time. I never really knew just how close it was to my house until now. 89th street? Man, that was literally right down the street from me. Oh, I hope this season is kind to us.
@19aaron81 there was 2 ef5 tornadoes that night one that went through greensburg was about 1.8miles wide the other that was north of the city was 2miles wide
I just turned 10 and I was living in the path of the tornado. My mom shrieked when se saw the monstrosity in front of our house and I recommended, "Everybody in the basement, now! If not, good luck in heaven." It was the scariest moment in my life. When it was over, we looked around, and aw not much of our house left.
Tornados are horrible no matter what. I lived in Catoosa when the F4 ripped through there. While ours was not an F5, it did basically wipe out the whole town. It was a joke for a while that the town got wiped off the map to be put on the map. I am beginning to think the smaller towns are the one's that have to look out for the bigger tornadoes, silly sounding I know, but look at the patterns!!!
i lived through this the site was just heartbreakin i was vistin my sister at the time on moore olklhoma never seen nothing in my life like this day and i lived all my live i columbus never been back
For all u people that say an f-6 isn't possible. U should watch the discovery channel! They actually think that a tornado up to 2 miles wide is going to happen with winds up to 350 miles an hour in Dallas Texas. It will start with a serious of tornadoe outbreaks. When everyone thinks the storms over! The Monster of all Tornadoes will unleash and rip apart Dallas! Think of that! Pretty scary! If u don't believe me checkout "Super tornado".
They have changed the Fujita scale into the enhanced Fujita scale which has a top rating of EF5 which is given to a tornado that exceeds 300 miles per hour. There's no limit to the rating, but I do agree that another "Super Twister" is indeed possible and, in fact, bound to happen.
@pickles7640 They don't "think that a tornado up to 2 miles wide is going ot happen...in Dallas." It's a theory that it "could" happen. Not a prediction. I know you're 12, but don't confuse people with your misinformation.
The Hallum NE tornado was officially listed as 2.5 miles wide. I think anywhere in tornado alley is possible for a 2 mile wide tornado. The conditions in Dallas could be favorable one day just like OK or NE.
@airplaneseatkatie no, it was almost 2 miles wide. haha no tornado err hopefully no tornado will ever be 5 miles wide. but i was 4 years old when it happened. it was 2 miles from my house haha i had to go underground. scary as shitt!
@99FAILURES Yeah i'm in del city and this is the only tornado i have ever gone into a storm shelter for.. When Gary England said if you are not underground you will not survive i was like oh shit
I saw that documentary. They didn't say it will, happen. It could happen. I myself watched that. One of the characters mentioned "F6" but it only came up once. Most documentaries contain a few small errors like that. Information I've found, Including that posted by NOAA consistently shows the scale maxing out at F5.
@pickles7640 I saw that to dude. I bet if storm chasers see that super tornado they'll be like "Holy s*** that's a beast." I sure do feel bad for who ever dfied in this tornado that's in the video
i was 3 when that happended. I remember having to get in the bathroom because we don't have a shelter...it was scary...10 years later, I'd love to be a storm chaser...
man i lived in norman when that happened. i was 6 i remember seein it from my house.. crazy.. i aint hit my house.. tornadoes never hit norman for some reason.. i lived on flood st. and as soon as it was about to touch norman it disapeared.. lmao thank god.. probably would of died
I was 6 months when that thing was just 12 blocks away from my house!!! my papaw and pepaw came in our front yard 2 get us. I am 10 now and am a big fan of that twiser.
i was 10 and i was at my friends grandmothers house an underground home we walked outside to get our dads and the f 5 was in the distance the sky was yellow and green, it blew down our friends home flat, it didnt just hit the metro, small towns as well. i remember like yesterday
I was 11 and living in Midwest City off of 15th and Post. Our power was out at the time and we had no idea that this tornado was bearing down on top of us. Luckily at the last minute it took a more northerly path and missed us.
Oh my god, I was four when this happened and I still remember it. It was the most wicked thing I've ever felt or heard (I was locked in the closet, I never saw it D:) in my life. But, thanks to this sucker I've got a great interest in meteorology now.
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.
I was 9 when it hit and it definitely changed me. I get way nervous whenever i hear that there is a tornado watch for okc/moore. It took us 3 hours to get home when it should have taken 15 minutes because we had to take so many detours due to down power lines and we ended up lost because we couldnt recognise where we were at because everything was so torn up and we were only 3 blocks from our home. It was by far the scariest thing I have ever gone through.
the most impressive tornado in modern history. i dont care if it was 318 mph or 302 mph. that is absurd. Either way highest winds ever recorded on Earth.
That was sick, in more ways than one. High velocity winds, tons of debris, and near a densely populated area- hands down the worst tornado in history.
I come from Canada... Saskatchewan, Canada. I have seen lots of tornadic thunderstorms... Tornado alley moves north in June and July to the Northern Great plains (Dakotas, Minnesota, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta... )
Google "Canadian tornadoes' and you will see how many deadly ones there have been over the years.
After America, Canada records the largest number of twisters in the world...
I'm surprised serpentisma's wife has never experienced a bad storm up there.
@3wiggles I remember when this happened. I was in Junior High. Where I live in Texas we had to under go preparedness for this incase we got any of it. But I think the only parts of Texas that got anything was up North of Dallas.
i had just gotten married a year earlier, and my wife was from canada, so she's never experienced a tornado storm before. when this one hit, she was with my mom in stroud while i was in norman working in a recording studio. when we met up the next day, she told me she wanted to move back to canada lol.
I was only 4 when this happened! Holy Crap muffins!!!
I dodged a bullet last year. A tornado touched down about two or three houses down from ours...wait, no. About half a block, and our house had no damage. It was a weak tornado though, but it scared the living crap outta me!!!
I was in more around 12th st and ended up in the bath tube with my husband and a bunch of cushions on top of me. I completly freaked and started reciting the lords prayer! It sounded like a formation of jets flying several feet above the house!
Chills....I can't imagine it...I chased last spring during the May 22/23 Kansas Outbreak...and saw two tornadoes...I hope that I can (as a meteorology major) help in situations like this...
The original DOW turned out to be one of the most impressive pieces of tornado data coletion equipment in history, being that it was the one that clocked the record breaking wind speeds here...
I remember this one as well. Living in Tulsa...we were kind of worried yet it never affected us. I remember how it destroyed the mall between Tulsa and OKC.
I was within a mile of this tornado and it was really scary. The house was in direct path, but thankfully it shifted. Lucky, it did not hit us, because we choose a closet, which we never thought of it being totally unsafe (wide and narrow). Mom sat on the bed and said for my brother and I, along with bunnies and a hamster to be in the closet. This was the day after Mom and I shopped at Lowes for flowers. We even stopped to get something to eat to bring home before realizing the true danger.
I was driving for swift at the time of this and was at out trem when it hit ,,its something I WILL never forget
misfitt58 1 week ago
yes like me..lived here for almost 4 years now..and hope i never do..since they showed the aftermath on 134 street, which is only 3 streets down from where i live now..maybe ill think of investing in a storm shelter..since their too greedy to install those with every home.
eXeCrash 1 month ago
Omg
ferrarimike23 1 month ago
omg
methemaster56 4 months ago
Wow, totally unrelated, but I don't think I've ever seen a Speed Limit 60 MPH sign ever in my life. I've seen 55, 65, 75, but never 60.
reymatt76 5 months ago
@reymatt76 60 mph speed limits are pretty common in this part of the country. This particular spot is now 70 mph.
randy946 5 months ago
@reymatt76 Texas got 85 lol
DaRottweiler84 4 months ago
do u have more video of the tornado?
AJTwister97 7 months ago
@AJTwister97 Yes, but it's somewhat shaky so it was cut out of this version.
randy946 7 months ago
This happened when I was only 5 years old, but I don't remember it , especially since I live in PA, and there arnt many tornadoes here.
mh19448 8 months ago
This happend 5 months before i was born!
melindan1 8 months ago
I remember that! Dude I cried :)
Branden12344321 9 months ago
dang! that twister is huge and wide!
speedyg2582 9 months ago
This hit the city north of mine. Has anybody seen the footage of Bridge Creek? The tornado hit that little community and afterwards there was literally not a single structure left in the area.
TheOtherSuperSooner 9 months ago
This is the only tornado that I would never chase after.I can't believe those guys had the guts to chase this monster.
jetfreak4 9 months ago
It's that time of year again, are you ready? I am hoping we'll get some good storms with the early spring we had this year. I live in Tulsa, which is so compact that the heat of the city forms a kind of protective bubble causing all the tornados to fizzle out as they reach the 'burbs. It'd be worth the 2+ hour drive to catch even a little one on tape.
tearpixy 9 months ago
I remember that day, all over Oklahoma they skies was eerie. Even in Marietta people was going outside and looking at the sky. We knew it was probably going to happen, just didnt know what town......
sandyhembree 9 months ago
i remember this day it was really bad and scary =(
angelz481 9 months ago
I lived in Del City at the time of this tornado. My street and 3 other streets were spared, but my ENITRE neighborhood was taken out. This was the scariest night of my entire life. Thanks for posting this, its great footage! I will always remember Mike Morgan and the entire KFOR storm team , thanks for keeping me and my family safe.
mandalynne1990 9 months ago
I think the link is broken in the description, just to let you know.
squid0862 9 months ago
@squid0862 Thanks, it's been removed.
randy946 9 months ago
@randy946 You're welcome!
squid0862 9 months ago
Does Oklahoma City have tornados like this all the time? I am supposed to go there in may for my cousins wedding and I dont know if I want to go now. plus they have no basement....
EleanorWhoLaughsAlot 10 months ago
@EleanorWhoLaughsAlot OKC gets tornadoes fairly often yet many people living here have never seen one. The OKC city limits are huge and encompass a lot of rural area so sometimes these tornadoes touch down and do little damage. We get them about as often as California gets newsworthy earthquakes so don't let that stop you from coming. We have the best severe weather warning systems in the world so it's almost impossible to get surprised by one, unlike an earthquake which gives no warning.
randy946 10 months ago 7
@randy946 I was in Choctaw During this lol went right over storm cellar was VERY loud may not be this one but yea.... fun fun lol
SuperDoNotforget 8 months ago
@randy946 were u using a imax camera, if not what were you using, and the cost
i187urmom 6 months ago
@i187urmom This footage was shot on an inexpensive standard 8mm Canon camcorder owned by the City of OKC. I don't know it's original cost.
randy946 6 months ago
@EleanorWhoLaughsAlot alots of people in oklahoma have basment, oklahoma is tornado alley but i live in oklahoma.
MonsterRob90 9 months ago
@EleanorWhoLaughsAlot well is not like this every day but it can get very bad if theres a storm
angelz481 9 months ago
@EleanorWhoLaughsAlot OKC almost never gets a tornado like the on on tape here. F5 tornadoes are relatively rare occurences anywhere. That said, OKC does get a lot of tornadoes. This tornado holds the record as being possibly the strongest ever recorded and the most expensive in terms of damage. I also happen to be interested in this because I live in St. Louis, which was just struck by an F3 or F4 tornado at the airport.
jetfreak4 9 months ago
@EleanorWhoLaughsAlot, not like this. This was huge. Oklahoma city gets small ones that do very little damage, but no, not like this.
pandorasmk 9 months ago
@EleanorWhoLaughsAlot lol this was the fastest wind speeds ever recorded so uhh no.
thesportsdude90 9 months ago
@EleanorWhoLaughsAlot
iagree with Eleanor, we oklahomans have a great warning system that gives us time to get to safety. all tho, OKC did just get hit the 24th by a pretty bad tornado... but dont let that stop you from going!
CootieBug8908 8 months ago
Wasn't there like several mini tornadoes that formed and then joined to amke a massive tornado
Kaynas1988 10 months ago
This was the day i came home from the hospital when i was a baby, i was living in Norman Oklahoma, It was crazy@!
meef101 11 months ago
@5510blue A woman had a stick in her neck? I saw on tv a long time ago about this tornado a woman who had a piece of wood in the side of her head...she survived it miracuously...
MrGSWAGG92 11 months ago
large satelitte tornado also can be seen to the right of the wedge @ : 55 to 1:10. It moves behind the wedge at 1:10.
GOODY61 1 year ago
@GOODY61 Yes, I cut some of that video out because it was so shaky. The main tornado anchored itself, then the satellite dropped and circled the main tornado, then it dissipated and the main tornado grew in size back to an F5 and began moving northeast again.
randy946 1 year ago
nice job.
Yankeeboy7504 1 year ago
a guy in my class said that it would be funny if a fork pinned someone's shirt to a wall during a tornado.
Sushi10011 1 year ago
Thanks much for the clip and FOR NOT adding music &/or sound FX.
gundhild 1 year ago 8
Um. Gary England saved my life.
Soonerbrookie 1 year ago
@Soonerbrookie glad u are ok... it was getting started when it passed my house in Anadarko
cryhwks 1 year ago
@cryhwks I was coming home from school when it all started
pabowie 11 months ago
I was injured in this tornado...
Such a terrifying day.
Soonerbrookie 1 year ago
@Soonerbrookie I live in North Carolina...i would ♥ 2 see a tornado of any rating. But 2 have 2 go thru one like U did now thats a totally different story 4 me lol
MrGSWAGG92 11 months ago
I was on a field trip in OKC that day and I remember our chaperones were screaming at the bus drivers to floor it and they all acted like they were going to crap their pants lol. There was a beautiful lightning storm the night before.
SprecheDeutsch 1 year ago
so is it true that you can still see the outline of people underneath the overpasses?
chrisz71 1 year ago
@chrisz71 No, those outlines were created by mud and are long gone.
randy946 1 year ago
i was only 3 years old when it happened. this storm is a reason i want to be a storm chaser.
MegaDylan34 1 year ago
i lived in moore at the time and i can tell you it was sime freaky and scary shit
robthemick1 1 year ago
this is amazing footage, well done. it's so facinating to watch a tornado form, i am only 12 and would love to be a photographer and take pics of storms :) again, amazing footage.
Moochiekoo 1 year ago
Holy god that storm is booking. I remember this well. The doors to Hell opened up and that came out.
jillgivler 1 year ago
I was two days old when this happened..
ShurShure 1 year ago
Go Oklahoma Go Oklahoma!!!!! :) Im from Oklahoma. I love Oklahoma! Oklahoma made history on May, 3, 1999!!!! This was a month and six days before I was born! :D
TheRealJaci29 1 year ago
I feel like being in this Tornado would be WAY worse then the San Fran. earthquake, or Katrina.
IndependentBias 1 year ago
thats one big motha
TheArbiter138 1 year ago
i remember this!!!!
cheleesaluvskevin 1 year ago
in my opionion, tornadoes and tsunamis are the scariest natural disasters
doofisondeeds 1 year ago 2
@doofisondeeds I agree. With a tsunami leading the pack. Nothing is more powerful than water. 275,000 people killed in latest is just unthinkable.
TheMightykaz 1 year ago
that would be scary
brent3360 1 year ago
i wasnt even 1 years old yet i was in tulsa though so thaaaaank god
ImRandomSara 1 year ago
Soooooo cool!! I heard it's the most destructive tornado ever so far! 318 miles an hour!!!!!
sonicmaster110022 1 year ago
It lasted for three hours..
16chelcee 1 year ago
i was born in this very moment
monkeybobo16 1 year ago
Im just glad we lived in Noble OK at the time!
PromiserOfDeath 1 year ago
Remembering the May3 ,1999 tornado. I remember
1redblaze83 1 year ago
if there was one tornado you didnt want to mess with it was this one 300+ mph winds.
willruss22 1 year ago
Is it true that tornadoes had 'orbited' around the big one somewhere in this?
SalienMovies 1 year ago
Yes, shortly after it crossed I-44 near Newcastle as an F3 it anchored itself and dropped a satellite tornado that orbited almost completely around the main tornado, then the two merged and increased in size back to an F5 as it again began moving northeast toward SW 149th Street.
randy946 1 year ago
@randy946 Whoa, that's kinda weird and kinda like "DANG IT, IT CAN MERGE!"
SalienMovies 1 year ago
I was 8 years old at the time. I never really knew just how close it was to my house until now. 89th street? Man, that was literally right down the street from me. Oh, I hope this season is kind to us.
Prologue2113 1 year ago
Is Dorothy ok ?
nerblebun 1 year ago
@nerblebun lol
SalienMovies 1 year ago
The only tornado that I can think of that may have been more powerful than the Oklahoma City tornado is the infamous Tri-State Tornado.
Andover, KS was also another horrible twister.
moonflow23 1 year ago
@moonflow23 how about Greensburg KS
19aaron81 1 year ago
@19aaron81 there was 2 ef5 tornadoes that night one that went through greensburg was about 1.8miles wide the other that was north of the city was 2miles wide
Sooner121 1 year ago
Oklahoma is the worst place for a tornado man especially at night u can hardly see anything and it too dangerous man. F5 ARE HUGE!!
kidefro 1 year ago 2
I just turned 10 and I was living in the path of the tornado. My mom shrieked when se saw the monstrosity in front of our house and I recommended, "Everybody in the basement, now! If not, good luck in heaven." It was the scariest moment in my life. When it was over, we looked around, and aw not much of our house left.
DudeDie222 1 year ago
What a horrifying day this was! I ordered the Channel 4 video release chronicling this day called "May's Fury". Incredible video..
tornadovideostock 1 year ago
my house got hit by this tornado i lived in OKC at the time but we moved to Tulsa after this
musikalgeniuz 1 year ago
Tornados are horrible no matter what. I lived in Catoosa when the F4 ripped through there. While ours was not an F5, it did basically wipe out the whole town. It was a joke for a while that the town got wiped off the map to be put on the map. I am beginning to think the smaller towns are the one's that have to look out for the bigger tornadoes, silly sounding I know, but look at the patterns!!!
blackcat521 2 years ago
i lived through this the site was just heartbreakin i was vistin my sister at the time on moore olklhoma never seen nothing in my life like this day and i lived all my live i columbus never been back
halchrallen 2 years ago
as creepy as it is, theres something i love about the sound of falling hail.
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roguegrizzly1 2 years ago
i saw that episode on discover channel.
4plytoiletguy 2 years ago 5
For all u people that say an f-6 isn't possible. U should watch the discovery channel! They actually think that a tornado up to 2 miles wide is going to happen with winds up to 350 miles an hour in Dallas Texas. It will start with a serious of tornadoe outbreaks. When everyone thinks the storms over! The Monster of all Tornadoes will unleash and rip apart Dallas! Think of that! Pretty scary! If u don't believe me checkout "Super tornado".
pickles7640 2 years ago 2
They have changed the Fujita scale into the enhanced Fujita scale which has a top rating of EF5 which is given to a tornado that exceeds 300 miles per hour. There's no limit to the rating, but I do agree that another "Super Twister" is indeed possible and, in fact, bound to happen.
halodudette 2 years ago 5
EF-5 is given to tornadoes with 200+ mph winds, actually.
DudeDie222 1 year ago
@halodudette With Oklahoma, anything is possible.
airplaneseatkatie 1 year ago
@airplaneseatkatie oh man you know it. oklahoma gets every type of weather. except typhoons. but yeah.
haha garry england was flippin a shit with that EF5
99FAILURES 1 year ago
@halodudette I thought the EF5 rating starts at 200 mph.
GOODY61 1 year ago
@halodudette An EF6!
urdead107 9 months ago
Well, my bad I totally forgot about the new system! So, F-6 isn't possible.
pickles7640 2 years ago
if that tornado happens, I can GUARANTEE you that it's going to be rated an EF-5. It's the highest rating possible.
ProfessorIgor 2 years ago
@pickles7640 They don't "think that a tornado up to 2 miles wide is going ot happen...in Dallas." It's a theory that it "could" happen. Not a prediction. I know you're 12, but don't confuse people with your misinformation.
AssRapistOfMen 2 years ago
@AssRapistOfMen
Actually it is not a matter "IF" it is a matter of "WHEN"..I am a meteorologist NOAA in Texas, so I would know.
Caseya1979 2 years ago
The Hallum NE tornado was officially listed as 2.5 miles wide. I think anywhere in tornado alley is possible for a 2 mile wide tornado. The conditions in Dallas could be favorable one day just like OK or NE.
GOODY61 1 year ago
I recently saw an episode of Storm Stories that featured the Hallum tornado. Simply incredible.
ncatina 1 year ago
Wichita Falls had a mile more than 2 miles wide back in the 70s.
reformcongress 1 year ago
A tornado more than two miles wide<<Correction
reformcongress 1 year ago
@reformcongress It was 5 miles wide.
airplaneseatkatie 1 year ago
@airplaneseatkatie no, it was almost 2 miles wide. haha no tornado err hopefully no tornado will ever be 5 miles wide. but i was 4 years old when it happened. it was 2 miles from my house haha i had to go underground. scary as shitt!
99FAILURES 1 year ago
@99FAILURES Yeah i'm in del city and this is the only tornado i have ever gone into a storm shelter for.. When Gary England said if you are not underground you will not survive i was like oh shit
usedgoldfish 1 year ago
I saw that documentary. They didn't say it will, happen. It could happen. I myself watched that. One of the characters mentioned "F6" but it only came up once. Most documentaries contain a few small errors like that. Information I've found, Including that posted by NOAA consistently shows the scale maxing out at F5.
dragonridley 2 years ago 2
@pickles7640 I saw that to dude. I bet if storm chasers see that super tornado they'll be like "Holy s*** that's a beast." I sure do feel bad for who ever dfied in this tornado that's in the video
TheHidingSoul 2 years ago
OMG BARELY NO ONE WILL SURVIVE! i hope PA doesnt have that tornado and my BEST friend lives in Dallas :(
imvugeek 2 years ago
that is amazing!!!!! 5 stars!
jpisani20 2 years ago
i lived on tinker air force base when this happened..one of the scariest things of my life..i was 7 years old.
dayumgirlitsemily 2 years ago
i was 3 when that happended. I remember having to get in the bathroom because we don't have a shelter...it was scary...10 years later, I'd love to be a storm chaser...
AMShowOfficial 2 years ago
the next day i was born...
metalgearsolidpros22 2 years ago
that tornado hit my house!!
slickmofo89 2 years ago
lol i live near there
gangstajacy 2 years ago
i heard that there was over 23 tornadoes besides that one at the same time as this one happened.. idk tell me if im wrong
disyaboij123 2 years ago
I don't know how many were on the ground at any given time but there were more than 70 tornadoes that day.
dragonridley 2 years ago
man i lived in norman when that happened. i was 6 i remember seein it from my house.. crazy.. i aint hit my house.. tornadoes never hit norman for some reason.. i lived on flood st. and as soon as it was about to touch norman it disapeared.. lmao thank god.. probably would of died
disyaboij123 2 years ago
I was 6 months when that thing was just 12 blocks away from my house!!! my papaw and pepaw came in our front yard 2 get us. I am 10 now and am a big fan of that twiser.
tornado3lover33girl 2 years ago
LOOKS SCARY*******
AnthonyNews 2 years ago
I lived at 89th and May btw it went through at 104th
dnelson197 2 years ago
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I was too there were smaller tornados around the main one
dnelson197 2 years ago
The worst tornado in the history!
TheHokage123 2 years ago
i was in that tornado
Kianataghizadeh 2 years ago
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my home was destoreyed in that area
theone859 2 years ago
I lived in Bridgecreek. It demolished it :( I was 3 tho, im 13 now.
I have a homemade tape of them bringing bodies into Bridgecreeks School. :(
filliesfosho 2 years ago
scary
mtabby3 2 years ago
yah my home was destoryed in that tornado
theone859 2 years ago
that sucks
gangstajacy 2 years ago
You Americans are very lucky. In my contry (Romania) thouse twisters aren't a lot.
But i want to be a tornado in my town and I'd like to film it.
America best wishes on chasing tornado!
soldatul45 2 years ago
If you had an F5/EF5 go through your town, you'd think differently.
dragonridley 2 years ago 3
scary
olleoll68 2 years ago
I remember that day well...
Thunderr10 2 years ago
me too! i was only five when this tornadoe hit, but i remember it very well. we were out of school for a week due to the power being knocked out.
bloodtiefangirl 2 years ago
i was 5 when this happened and we all got on helments got matresses and got in the bathtub...it was possible the scariest moment in my life
star1o2 2 years ago
yeah i was 3 around the time it was really scary
SVUrules54 2 years ago
i was 10 and i was at my friends grandmothers house an underground home we walked outside to get our dads and the f 5 was in the distance the sky was yellow and green, it blew down our friends home flat, it didnt just hit the metro, small towns as well. i remember like yesterday
hippiehalo3 2 years ago
i was living in moore too!! that was the scariest thing in my life!!!
Wolf999900 2 years ago
i was 10 and i was in moore when it hit. i cant even tell you how scared i was.
SMSimon09 2 years ago
I was 11 and living in Midwest City off of 15th and Post. Our power was out at the time and we had no idea that this tornado was bearing down on top of us. Luckily at the last minute it took a more northerly path and missed us.
wheresmyhouse1 2 years ago
I lovestudying torandos since then
ropeskipper97 2 years ago
OMG i was 3 to when this happened in Oklahoma i hadto go to a school shelter and iwas with mymom and brother my dad was out of town it was scary:((
ropeskipper97 2 years ago
i was 3 and crying i remember it....i moved after the tornado happened
BoomBoom5991 2 years ago
Oh my god, I was four when this happened and I still remember it. It was the most wicked thing I've ever felt or heard (I was locked in the closet, I never saw it D:) in my life. But, thanks to this sucker I've got a great interest in meteorology now.
IcyWeirdPeople 2 years ago
wow 10 years ago!!
fldoughboy72 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
today (May 3rd 2009) is the 10TH ANNIVERSSARY OF THIS TORNADO OUTBREAK and yet no tornadoes yet today
MarioAndLuigiBros302 2 years ago
DAGNABIT!Don't jinx us.
Salien1999 2 years ago
Hard to believe that it happened 10 years ago.
Afacelessdeath 2 years ago 2
I was 9 when it hit and it definitely changed me. I get way nervous whenever i hear that there is a tornado watch for okc/moore. It took us 3 hours to get home when it should have taken 15 minutes because we had to take so many detours due to down power lines and we ended up lost because we couldnt recognise where we were at because everything was so torn up and we were only 3 blocks from our home. It was by far the scariest thing I have ever gone through.
kaeladawn 2 years ago
the most impressive tornado in modern history. i dont care if it was 318 mph or 302 mph. that is absurd. Either way highest winds ever recorded on Earth.
Sticksboi35 2 years ago
That was sick, in more ways than one. High velocity winds, tons of debris, and near a densely populated area- hands down the worst tornado in history.
GonzoJam 2 years ago
hands down..... i was in it
rambaseball45 2 years ago
LOL in all seriousness though this is great footage i just wish it was longer. i hope we don't get any twisters as bad as the may 3rd one this year.
lowsten 2 years ago
i wonder if the tornado got a speeding ticket at the end there.
lowsten 2 years ago
No, the trooper and I tried to pull it over but it refused so we had no choice but to let it go and deal with the aftermath.
randy946 2 years ago
I come from Canada... Saskatchewan, Canada. I have seen lots of tornadic thunderstorms... Tornado alley moves north in June and July to the Northern Great plains (Dakotas, Minnesota, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta... )
Google "Canadian tornadoes' and you will see how many deadly ones there have been over the years.
After America, Canada records the largest number of twisters in the world...
I'm surprised serpentisma's wife has never experienced a bad storm up there.
islandboi321 2 years ago
Most Okies get a 12 pack and climb on the roof when a Tornado drops by. Not on this day though. I will never forget this day.
3wiggles 2 years ago 5
lol yes we do!!!
rambaseball45 2 years ago
@3wiggles I remember when this happened. I was in Junior High. Where I live in Texas we had to under go preparedness for this incase we got any of it. But I think the only parts of Texas that got anything was up North of Dallas.
nwbritt 1 year ago
@3wiggles Ha Ha i just moved to oklahoma and there was a tornado .ALL of our neighbors did just that while me and my family where in our basement XD
MsLeoplurodon 1 year ago
Hey i live there :D hello beautiful moore
0000kaykay0000 2 years ago
i had just gotten married a year earlier, and my wife was from canada, so she's never experienced a tornado storm before. when this one hit, she was with my mom in stroud while i was in norman working in a recording studio. when we met up the next day, she told me she wanted to move back to canada lol.
serpentisma 2 years ago
thats sky is mad
deviceds 2 years ago
I was only 4 when this happened! Holy Crap muffins!!!
I dodged a bullet last year. A tornado touched down about two or three houses down from ours...wait, no. About half a block, and our house had no damage. It was a weak tornado though, but it scared the living crap outta me!!!
PrincessElyonBrown 2 years ago
i was 9 and my mom died in that my dad was at work and i was in a field about 30 feet away from our house very sad day :(
deathpony01 2 years ago 2
I was only 10 but we could see it from far away but alot of damage was done in town
Saturn25k 2 years ago
i was only liike 8 and i was scared to deathh!!
gangstagirly6 2 years ago
I was in more around 12th st and ended up in the bath tube with my husband and a bunch of cushions on top of me. I completly freaked and started reciting the lords prayer! It sounded like a formation of jets flying several feet above the house!
bumbleberry22 2 years ago
Chills....I can't imagine it...I chased last spring during the May 22/23 Kansas Outbreak...and saw two tornadoes...I hope that I can (as a meteorology major) help in situations like this...
hurricanegeek 2 years ago
This was nasty. At one time, it got up over 3/4 to a full mile wide. By far one of the sickest tornadoes I've ever seen.
yusukimawini 2 years ago
be care ful out there dont i am scared of torando
wilsonv89 3 years ago
i remeber this i was born a few days after and they where fixing the city up.And this story went on and on.
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pinkcoco71 3 years ago
wow i remember i was 5 when that happend.
hmsbasketball 3 years ago
I was in Lexington Oklahoma when this happened I was probably 30 miles from this monster tornado.
Sooner2438 3 years ago
yeah i remember that tornado i had to evacuate
soonersfan4eva 3 years ago 2
The original DOW turned out to be one of the most impressive pieces of tornado data coletion equipment in history, being that it was the one that clocked the record breaking wind speeds here...
DarkIndustry502 3 years ago
I remember this one as well. Living in Tulsa...we were kind of worried yet it never affected us. I remember how it destroyed the mall between Tulsa and OKC.
Quantanthead 3 years ago
The Tanger Outlet Mall in Stroud. It hasn't been rebulit since.
ThunderSooner2835 2 years ago
Yes, I drive by there on the turnpike often. Just the water tower and a large concrete slab.
randy946 2 years ago
Damn I remember when this came through... One of the scariest nights I've ever experienced with our Tornadoes.
QbanLo405 3 years ago
I was within a mile of this tornado and it was really scary. The house was in direct path, but thankfully it shifted. Lucky, it did not hit us, because we choose a closet, which we never thought of it being totally unsafe (wide and narrow). Mom sat on the bed and said for my brother and I, along with bunnies and a hamster to be in the closet. This was the day after Mom and I shopped at Lowes for flowers. We even stopped to get something to eat to bring home before realizing the true danger.
SilentThunderOKC 3 years ago