Discover the history and science behind Tornado Alley, the region where warm and cool air collide to create ideal conditions for severe weather, leading to devastating tornadoes in the US.
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Growing up in Oklahoma and watching OKC area get leveled so many times was always crazy.
Actually, there can be counter-rotating tornadoes. They always arise in conjunction with a normally rotating tornado. Check out Pecos Hank’s channel for an explanation of this phenomena.
I live here, and luckly they dont hit the major cities. But they are scary I have experienced 2.
What's a non fetal fatality? @9:45
Not all tornadoes in the northern hemisphere spin counter clockwise. It's rare but less then 1% spin clockwise.
The funny part of the first tornado warning. After the original storm that gave them the idea, an official from the base asked the meteorologists if they knew it was coming, and they said yes. He asked why they didn't and they said the FCC. The federal agency didn't want the panic that would be associated byvthe words tornado warning. The military officer said I don't care, next time you see this issue a warning, if the FCC says anything, have them called the Pentagon.
The weirdest part about videos talking about how much extreme weather and how many lethal animals exist here is that the average American still thinks Australia is somehow so much worse. I'm gonna put it as a tie lol
Can you imagine avoiding busses on the road for your entire life, only for a flying bus to be the thing that finishes you off?
I was in the tornado here in the FT. Worth-Dallas area in December. I don't recommend it.
Simon: "People can move but buildings can't"
Tornado: Hold my beer.
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What is a "non-fatal fatality"?
Living in Massachusetts i never use to worry about tornadoes the las big tornado to hit our area was back i think late 40s early 50s that was until a couple of years ago when one hit i think Springfield Massachusetts ever since then every time hail start to fall down when sunny outside i get worry even though 99% of the time is nothing you still never know
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My dad grew up in northeast Oklahoma and relocated to northwest Louisiana when he married my mom. We were always fascinated by his stories of tornadoes. In the 90s, we'd have a tornado every other year in our area. Nothing too damaging or deadly but starting about 2005, the number of tornadoes in nw la had doubled. By 2015, they had quadrupled in number. Now each year starting in late March, we get dozens. I live directly on the board with Texas and just about every storm comes with a tornado watch. I can't emphasize enough how many tornadoes there are now compared to the 90s.
Arkansas, East Texas, and Louisiana (ArkLaTex) are now part of Dixie Alley and now Tornado Alley. I think we're screwed.
I'm a lifelong Kansas resident. Tornado "safety" was drilled into us from as early as I can remember. At school we had tornado drills where everyone would cram into the first floor hallways and bathrooms, and we would curl into a ball on our knees, with our hands clasped behind our necks. At home, ideally you'd do the same but in the basement, under the staircase. The thought of living in a home without a basement just terrifies me.
What was with the speed reading of the script this time. Not watchable in parts.
3 members of my family passed away in a tornado in May 2011, in Alabama. It was devastating. Thank you for covering this.
As a lifetime Wichitan aged 67, strangely enough I have yet to lay my own eyes on a tornado. I’ve seen plenty of the destruction left behind though.
I strongly agree that tornado alley has indeed move east since the 90’s.
Hey, little Owensboro KY is on there! And yeah we're in the eastern edge of the Alley. Tornados are pretty common, thunderstorms extremely so.
At 9:47 did I mishear Simon say "3,100 non-fatal fatalities"?
What do you mean by non-fatal fatalities? Do you mean to say non-fatal casualties? 9:45
The traditional tornado alley gets more attention because it is in general the birthplace of where the study of tornadoes started. Tornado in this region are a lot easier to spot and visualize due to the nature of wide open plains. Plus tornado in tornado alley usually occur during the afternoon. Night time tornados happen but are extremely uncommon. Tornado in the southeastern US are extremely hard to follow and visualize due to forested hilly areas and happening later in the evening. It’s common for all midwesterner and southern states to have tornados, but we associate it more with the traditional tornado alley because most visual media comes from these areas.
Antidotally I have lived in Oklahoma all my life and I feel the rate of tornados in this region has definitely decreased. They still happen a lot but I definitely remember times where there would be tornado warned storms constantly.
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I've lived in northern Indiana my whole life, if you want to see something utterly terrifying google the Palm Sunday Twin Tornadoes. They're twin F4 tornadoes that flattened my hometown in 1969.
I personally saw the tornado that went thru Mason Ohio in April 1974. I was 8 years old in my backyard picking up baseball sized hail stones when my mom shouted tornado out the back door while pointing up to the sky in the direction of Kings Island. The second thing I heard was the word run. It was a massive grey cone shaped funnel that took up the whole sky. I was only about 1 mile away at that point. It wiped out the homes of people I went to school with.
Dixie Alley here (Alabama)
2011 outbreak was terrifying.
As of today 3/19/23 we have already had 29 tornados with one outbreak in January.
We've always consider ourselves at just as high risk as "tornado alley" so it's always interesting to see a great video. Kudos.
Excuse my ignorance but what is a "non-fatal fatality"? I think Simon meant either non-fatal injuries or non-fatal causalities. (9:48 mark)
A sense of fait accompli is the only way to sleep during an outbreak. There's nowhere to go that's safe, you can't see anything and you're exhausted. It doesn't help that the weather service warnings are not based on your location so you have to turn your phone off or you can't sleep due to the constant alarms.
I believe it is moving east I live southern Indiana and was a firefighter on March 2 2012 and went to henryville due to tornadoes
My brother… you read too fast! These stats you give are breezing by too quickly. Your videos are much more enjoyable when you don't speak so fast.
Living in North Texas is like rolling the dice to see if you get hit by a tornado that year.
Our average tornado per 10,000 miles is lower than everyother state because 90% of the state doesnt see tornadoes on a yearly scale. North of DFW, we see atleast 1 tornado a month and as many as 3 a day. Just last week we had 2 tornados pass within 10 miles of our house.
I wonder how much of that early work influenced my Dad to become a USAF meteorologist. By the mid-1950s he knew that's what he wanted to do when he grew up and joined in '64.
What data says EF5's have increased in the last few decades? There hasn't been one in ten years lol
I'm from Arkansas and have been dealing with tornadoes as long as I can remember. Worked clean up after what was classified at that time as an F5 (later reclassified as EF4). Among the mind blowing things I saw was a ceramic coffee cup with about the bottom inch embedded into a pine tree without breaking the cup and I saw a few big chicken tail feathers stuck in a car door like arrows. Crazy things can happen in storms that big
Alabamer.
Anyone else catch the “non-fatal fatalities” line around 9:45? 😂
I grew up, and every time we had a tornado warning, we went out on the porch looking for it.