LaPlata… a buddy and I left his dad’s weekend place near Front Royal, VA and got stopped by hail on route 17. There was a huge cumulonimbus to the east, lots of mammatus clouds visible. I’m a skywarn spotter and I told him something bad had to be happening. An hour later back at his house in Fredericksburg we saw breaking news of the tornado that had just struck LaPlata MD. Terribly tragic.
I went out to visit a friend in North Nashville the night the tornado hit. I had to take shelter in a gas station. Thankfully it moved about a mile north of where I was. That was a terrifying night. Quarter sized hail, the largest I've seen in my life.
Decided to post part 3 this week! We got a hail video next week, then two historic May tornado outbreak videos. I'll be gone for a week this month, might only have 3 videos instead of 4 but we'll see
I think it would be interesting to see some traces of brazilian tornadoes, the one in Guariaçaba on 09/07/2009 was very severe, and before reaching the Brazilian side, it crossed an area of forests in Argentina. Another very strong, but strangely given a maximum rating of F2, was the Muitos Capões tornado on 08/29/2005, he was able to demolish concrete structures. An there are also other more famous (in Brazil) ones, such as an F4 tornado that hit Indaiatuba on 05/24/2005, and the F3 Xanxerê tornado in 04/20/2015.
This series is how I found your channel. Thank god I did because there are so many awesome videos that you have made. I've spent a lot of time binging your videos now in preparation for whatever Wyoming's storm season is
Nashville resident here. I witnessed the Nashville tornado facing westward from my apartment and watched it pass over the John C. Tune airport before I had to shelter with my roommate. It missed our location by less than a quarter mile. And yes we are still bummed about Soda Parlor not reopening. We still dearly miss it!
I remember taking cover from that Springfield tornado. I lived a town over and remember watching that tornado cross the river on the news going generally westward then thinking "Oh wait, I'M generally westward" and going to the basement. Happy to see it on this list. You can still clearly see the damage in a lost of places in person too.
I live in Arkansas and went to Cabot High School about 15 minutes from the tornado. Our cross country coach took us out to run on a back road one day and we saw the scar. It was surreal.
I live in Albuquerque, we don't get tornados at all. One day in 1985 however we got what I would consider is the strangest tornado ever. A large tornado estimated to be a Ef 1 or 2 touched down near the fairgrounds and made its way north, tearing apart businesses and homes before finally stopping near a mall. Dissipating just after shattering a glass skylight at the mall. It's considered the first and only Tornado in the local Albuquerque area to date.
I have two further suggestions for this. 1: Wadena, Minnesota tornado on June 2010 (4/2011 on Google Earth history), this tornado was "featured" in the season 4 'finale' of Stormchasers. 2: Memorial day 2019 EF4 tornado in Dayton, Ohio. Now, this one is a bit tricky to see and follow due to what appears to be cloud cover. Go back to 5/2019, and look at "Dayton Phoenix Group", around Old North Dayton.
That Nashville tornado was just north of me by a few hundred feet, and I didn't even know what happened until the power went off, I jolted awake, and started hearing the wind. Amazingly all that happened was shingles torn off the roof at my place.
There’s an outbreak going on now potentially near OKC Moore area. Then this weekend we may have some historic mini outbreak for you to come back and analyze. Great video as always.
I vaguely remember taking cover in the bathroom for the la plata tornado living in Waldorf at the time i was around 4 at the time
I was in 3rd grade when the tornado hit Louisville, the whole county was in shambles for the next two years. The hospital got it pretty bad and had to be knocked down. A new hospital was built, Georgia Pacific/Winston Plywood and Veneer was rebuilt, and we now have a storm shelter in town. We are still rebuilding from it to this day.
I'm glad you made this series, the first one was how I found your channel. I like the way your videos are structured and the one about identifying clouds was very nice.
The May 8th 2003 Moore tornado was an F4.
Love this series. Really teaches you how catastrophic weather can be
Was not expecting the Massachusetts one to pop up. I live in Connecticut, and just below the town of Sturbridge where the Tornado had ended, I was maybe about 25 minutes from it. I was only about 14 at the time, and even 25 minutes away we were dealing with some freaky weather. I travel through one of the area where the tornado had crossed and you can still see where it had gone through. About 3 years ago we had an EF-1 and an EF-0 roll through my town of Woodstock. It crossed the border and ended in Webster. Also we had another small one that went through Sutton last year. I believe that was an EF-0 as well. Summer is right around the corner so it will be interesting to see what happens this year.
I went chasing the Springfield tornado, it was crazy. You can still see the trees scarred. Our yard in Worcester had debris in it too. I've lived in Webster the past few years n we've had a few close calls and one that went right thru downtown. A few of the buildings had to be torn down.
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