Unbelievable Tornado Footage (May 3rd, 1999)

Seriously, I want to see a tornado in person so badly, but I sure as hell don't want to live out in tornado alley!

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Travel & Events

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• tornado
• may
• 3rd
• 1999
• twister
• wind

[kong450]

I lived in Moore, OK, when this tornado came through. It passed near the okc airport and came within about 1/2 mile of my house. And to think, only minutes before, I was outside doing yard work..

I had never seen clouds like the ones I saw that day. I looked up in the sky and it looked like the bottom of an egg crate.

My house had damage to the roof from a piece of ice 11 inches in diameter.

I now own a tornado shelter, so I never have to feel as helpless as I did that day in the tub.

[TommyJoebowers1tycoo]

Breath-taking and brutal. So much for hiding in bath tubs and closets when faced with an F-5. I remember watching live coverage that evening, and the television meteorologist, aghast at the "from another world" radar echos, stated that people in the path of the giant tornado must be underground on order to survive the approaching monsterous f-5. Imagine hearing that THEN seeing the tornado right at your back door! Terribly horrifying and sad.

[ferrarimike23]

Footballs

[ferrarimike23]

Basketballs

[kdolo100]

@beatleman69 Baseballs.

[beatleman69]

@kong450 Seeing the monster tornado on tv, it looked like a hudge black wall of cloud. Did you hear the tornado from a 1/2 mile away? What size hail stones (if any) fell prior to the tornado?

[pjkaek]

Wolfman, do you have the rest of this documentary? I remember seeing it on TV several times a few years ago and would love it if you could post the other segments. What was the name of the show? Thanks for this. I lived in the OKC area for about 10 years and was always scared during tornado season. Only saw one funnel during the time I lived there, a small one over Lake Hefner that never actually touched down.

[alejandra40100]

i was born after that

[HowTheF1]

Tornado Alley till death

[papabugs71]

You geeks need to quit bickering about the F & EF scale.

This storm produced the highest windspeed ever recorded on the face of the Earth (318mph) & killed alot of innocent people in the process.

For those who might not know, this tornado pulled PAVED sections of road up & out of the ground. Im not talking about asphalt, im talking about paved, curbed street sections made of concrete. Can you imagine what kind of force that would take? I guess 318 mph wind will do the trick.