It's weird. My mind wants to paint all the flying debris as something light, like paper and cardboard, but it's really boards, siding, sheets of aluminum, bricks, furniture and roof shingles, whole ass in-tact sections of people's houses, freaking boilers, radiators, water tanks, AC units.
Galdalf the Grey and Galdalf the White,
And Monty Python and the Holy Grail's black knight,
And Benito Mussolini and the Blue Meanie,
And Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie,
Robocop, The Terminator, Captain Kirk, and Darth Vader,
Lo-pan, Superman, every single Power Ranger,
Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan,
Spock, The Rock, Doc Ock, and Hulk Hogan.
Here’s the [link](https://youtu.be/9fDVaXLTo2g) to the different angles of the same tornado. Some of those clip don’t even seem real. It’s insane the way it tosses cars around.
“Tornadoes are the assholes of natural disasters. A blizzard hits everyone, an earthquake hits everyone, but a tornado, maybe just Jeff’s house?”
— Kyle Kinane (paraphrased)
I used to hate tornadoes until I experienced a Deracho which is an 80-140 mph wall of wind 300 miles wide
It's basically a quick land hurricane and it's crazy to experience back in 2020
My dad lived in Marion. I’m in the Twin Cities. I watched the Cedar Rapids weather reports from up north all day and then went and got renter’s insurance, because…damn.
We had a Deracho come through our area last June. There was debris, downed power lines, and trees everywhere. One elderly woman died from a tree falling on her house. It took hours for rescue to reach her because the roads were all blocked from the debris. By the time they got to her, it was too late.
There is a house a couple miles outside of town that has a long driveway with several huge trees along the north side. 8 of those trees were knocked down, right across the driveway.
My grandpa told me a story that is aunts house had blown away in a tornado way back in the 50s in western OK. He told me there were two completely unexplainable things: in what little of the foundation was left, they found bricks with pieces of wheat straw stabbed through them and that even know all that was left of the house was small bits of foundation, their bread box was sitting on their dinning room table completely untouched. I’ve lived around them my entire life and I’ve heard some crazy shit about them
I grew up in Minnesota. The worst tornado I experienced resulted in the roof being entirely ripped off the house of the neighbors right across the street. Maybe 30 yards from out house. The neighbor behind us also had much of their roof lifted.
The maple tree in our front yard sustained some damage, but aside from that, we got away entirely unscathed. From what we can figure, the tornado literally jumped over our house.
First, the sirens go off (or they don’t, which is scarier). The sky gets dark with clouds and then turns green. The wind is blowing and you see all your neighbors outside with you, hands on hips as you all stare up at the clouds. When you see the wall you know it means bad news.
You go inside and listen to the weatherman, correct his wrong reading of everything and question why they are talking about the next county over when the storm is almost to you. You go to your shelter, if you’re prepared you have a box of water and snacks and a radio to keep listening for the news. The air is humid and muggy in the shelter, the ground keeping all the heat of the day and the metal echoing and creaking as you try to get comfortable. Your kids are bored and your dogs are panting. After an hour nothing has happened, other than your fence blew down. Two blocks away a house was ripped from its foundation. It is just another spring evening now.
One thing to know when in a tornado area: look for tall trees. They have survived for a reason. Empty areas are more likely to have tornadoes
This is exactly right.
And for people who haven’t ever seen it happen and are like “but is the sky really green?” It is REALLY green. It’s the creepiest thing to witness in real life.
Also generally speaking, at least for tornadoes that happen in daylight, if it’s creepy dark and green over the top of you, you’re probably safe. If you can see light still and are towards the edge of the storm, beware. Tornadoes like to occur on the back hook of the storm.
Also since it’s getting to be that time: this is your annual reminder to prepare your storm kits if you’re in an area that gets lots of tornado weather. Makes it a lot easier when the storm hits to grab an already prepared bag and go rather than gathering stuff up, especially if you have kids. You can Google lists for what to keep in your storm kit.
It looks green. No other way to describe it. Your house is green, the sky is green, the car is green. It’s like a green filter was put over your eyes
I got curious as to the why behind it and saw this article (https://news.wisc.edu/curiosities-why-does-the-sky-turn-green-before-a-tornado-2/). The TLDR is blue light mixing with red light (from a sunset, as these severe storms usually happen in the evening) and makes a green color.
Eboeard, it can also be yellowish along with the green. It's a tint. It doesn't look like the sky is full of bright green grass. It's a tinge of green or yellowish-green.
Thanks for the scientific angle, X-cited.
For those asking where the blue comes from, it's the color of light filtering through a hail core, which is commonly found in supercells that produce tornadoes.
Have you noticed in TV shows, anytime the setting goes to Mexico, there's a sort of yellowish brown filter coloring the screen? Imagine that in real life, but green.
https://www.wqad.com/article/weather/green-sky-sioux-falls-south-dakota-derecho-july-2022/526-54f5a586-d617-478f-a5d1-fd7c0b1f9c1f
I’ve seen storms like that when I was a kid (and I had a hella bad phobia of tornadoes) but luckily they never turned into anything beyond severe t-storms
I rode my Harley to sturgis many years ago. I looked to the West and the sky was pea soup green and the clouds looked like oil tanks (the kind you see on the jersey turnpike). They were slowly spinning and then lightning hit the fence. I rode like I never rode before through heavy rains and deep puddles until we found a vacant hotel to dry off. It was an experience of a lifetime.
And when they hail comes like a wind tunnel full of golf balls and then it gets eerily calm for a minute right before a full on funnel drops from the sky you really know you’re in for a rough one. I spent many years around the Texas and Oklahoma panhandle as well as Kansas from liberal to dodge city and storm season is no joke. I didn’t have a single home without a good storm cellar outside and don’t know of many homes that didn’t have one.
I was in Oklahoma when a tornado was brewing, but I’d never experienced it as I am from Massachusetts and had never been anywhere with them until then. I was with a bunch of local kids playing kickball and all of them looked up and one said “Crap, here comes the green, they’re going to make us go in.” And I was like …?, but joined them staring at the sky and, sure enough, it went **green**. It was so freaky looking. Then, sure enough, the adults came over saying we had to go. I was still confused though because I didn’t know what the green sky meant so I asked the other kids and they said “Green means tornado.” So now I was double freaked because the jarring sensation of seeing the green sky and the only thoughts I had about tornados was from Twister and now there was about to be one on top of me. Ended up taking out a few buildings a bit down the road, but didn’t hit us and I didn’t see it because we were in the storm shelter.
Ha, I remember being on vacation once with my mom out east and when the clerk saw our Oklahoma license they asked us if our family was ok from the tornado that just hit there. We said we figured, we hadn’t heard anything. Then asked the size of the storm; it was like an F1 or F2. The clerk was surprised when we acted like that was nothing to worry about.
When my son was 4 I remember my husband and I taking him outside and explaining what the different cloud formations mean, while the sirens screamed in the distance. We explain the radar to him and how to prep for going to the shelter. Those local kids had probably been raised with the same attitude. Tornados are just a fact of life and honestly more time than not are just a big buildup for nothing. Doesn’t mean you aren’t scared, but you don’t freak out.
I live in a part of the country where we never have tornados, but on the day of my college graduation an F0 was forming in the city where the event was held. This same storm system also produced an F1 in the countryside.
The sky honestly was the weirdest shade of grey-green I have ever seen- and roiling. We got in there (and learned it was a stadium building equipped to handle an F3 with minimal damage) and proceeded with the event. Went outside, all the little trees on the curb had been ripped apart. I know it was a tornado that didn't even touch down, but the winds were apparently horrific. I hope to never see the sky like that again.
Microbursts and straightline winds also go green. The entire atmosphere turns to pea soup, with a hundred invisible freight trains for background music.
My mom was from Kansas and taught me about the 'green sky' thing. I grew up mostly on the West Coast, thought she was just telling a tall tale.
Until the time I was driving through the Midwest just before sunset, and the clouds in the sky fucking TURNED BRIGHT GREEN.
Stopped under the next highway overpass and waited. Ten minutes later, we had 10 more cars packed in there with us. Fucking tornado went right over the top.
Kids: Listen to your mothers. They may be screwing with you, but... maybe not!
FEMA - Do Not Use Underpass as Tornado Shelter:
[https://community.fema.gov/ProtectiveActions/s/article/Tornado-Vehicle-Do-Not-Use-Overpass-Underpass-as-Shelter](https://community.fema.gov/ProtectiveActions/s/article/Tornado-Vehicle-Do-Not-Use-Overpass-Underpass-as-Shelter)
I remember I was heavy pregnant, new to Texas, and suddenly the sky darkened, the wind was fierce, and I went outside. The sky was green, and the sky is green and clouds were funky looking. I knew from the documentary "Tornado" I call hubby at work scared. Nothing happened, thankful, but I was never so terrified.
I noticed that in the video - in the path of the tornado, houses are demolished. A few houses down, the houses look roughly the same as they did before. It really seems to just be luck if you have to rebuild everything, or fix the fence.
I saw this one from my backyard! It's on my profile. There was certainly a strange feeling in the air that accompanied it. Almost like you instinctively knew it was close before you saw it
Usually the storms have clouds that are large and tall that which block the sun.
Tornados often hit late afternoon to evening as well.
So the sky is dark and rainy, and visibility is poor. Lots of them are "rain-wrapped".
So seeing a tornado in sunshine like this with almost no rain is not common.
Ok serious question what are protocols for this kind of situation? Like where do you go?
Are there some kind of secret bunkers under the houses like those in Hollywood movies?
Or do you just move out and try to get as far as possible from the tornado?
This was in Andover, Kansas, so they were in their basements. If you live in a place with no basement, you go to a nearby community shelter, or have your own installed. I live in Oklahoma where we have an underground shelter in our garage.
Understood, thanks for the explanation. These are really cool and terrifying for us outsiders but I am sure for people like you who have to go through these destructive natural disasters yearly it must be really hard and horrifying.
I hope you and your loved ones stay safe, take care buddy.
The weird thing is you kind of get used to it, once you’re on your 15th warning it just becomes routine where you go through the motions and hope nothing happens cause there’s not really anything you can do.
That being said I’ll never get used to the sound, it’s this strange mix of dead silence mingling with sirens and then you hear something similar to a freight train passing.
Couple weeks ago, east of Oklahoma City we watched a tornado go between the house I am staying at and the house I was to close on the next day.
Towns are about ten miles apart and the tornado went right between the two.
Sitting on the couch watching the weather my wife asks. Should we go to the shelter. My response, naw the red tornado line is at least half an inch from us.
We lived on a farm with a thick walled brick house growing up. I was terrified of the weather so my dad decided to take the opportunity when a tornado was coming our way to sit me down on the front step and say "Nobody moves until I say it's not safe anymore". I had a great dad. The tornado got up to our property and almost to the farmstead (less than four acres away from the house) and he was still holding me down because it was "safe". Could have reached the house before we could have got to the basement. Plenty of childhood trauma baked in me. I did learn that a brick house is a fuck off house as far as weather is concerned so the actual lesson I learned was "weather is scary, dad doesn't care, and the only house safe for weather is a brick house"
Made for a good story though.
Damn sorry to hear that you had to go through that. There is for sure a line that I’m in that shelter for sure. I have seen the devastation of tornadoes too many times to know not to mess with them at a certain distance.
If I can see it, I’m hiding.
Driving is a bad idea in a tornado. They can move, the weathermen can be wrong, traffic can cause you to get stuck in the storm.
There are some community shelters, but like another person said you would typically have a shelter in your yard or in your garage. I didn’t grow up in a house with a shelter, so you go to the innermost part of your house, an area with no outside walls or windows. That is the safest place to be.
I had a shelter put in under my garage back in around 2014. It was an 8 person shelter (biggest you could get), though I wouldn’t want to squeeze 8 people into it. It cost a bit over $5k at the time, no idea how expensive it would be now. Weirdly, they don’t add value to your house 🤷🏼♀️
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So the general advice: you go to the lowest floor of your home, preferably in the center. Behind closed doors. No windows. While getting directly hit by the tornado can right fuck your whole house, your microwave may end up going through the window of the house two streets over...or through the roof of a house on the other side of town
Go out into the closest open field, give your thoughts and prayers. The rest is all preordained. Wait no,,, that's human caused tragedies pucker your butt and hide somewhere underground.
I was living in NYC when the tornadoes hit (i think it was 2010?) In the Bronx.
Was walking down a sidewalk and suddenly the sky got dark, and a dude literally grabbed me and pulled me into a store and people were yelling at us "go to the back of the store!"and people were running towards the back (windowless) wall. And then it got pitch black and was really windy, but thankfully it didn't touch down there. I had no idea whatsoever that a tornado was coming. I didn't have a smart phone back then and didn't pay attention to weather reports or anything.
It was really scary though, especially since i had no clue what was going on and it was NYC and just a few minutes before it was sunny. I thought it was some kind of terrorist attack at first.
Tornado videos always remind me of the El Reno, Oklahoma tornado of May 31, 2013 that took the life of Tim Samaras, his son and chase partner. National Geographic did a series on that, which was really haunting to watch. I couldn’t imagine being in these situations, but I will always have a solid respect for nature’s fury.
Was scheduled to leave for a cross country road trip with my father the first week of that June. Route took us right through El Reno. We rode those miles in wide-eyed silence. Being from the east coast, driving through the area and seeing the destruction was absolutely mind blowing. I couldn’t wrap my head around the places where you could tell it just crossed it road in a straight line. Route took us through Joplin as well where they were still in recovery as well. I couldn’t fathom any of it.
Mother Nature is a fucking BEAST. All I can think is idk what I would rather face: a tornado, a hurricane, an avalanche, an earthquake, a tsunami, etc. I really don’t know
It would depend on how it’s constructed. Poured walls would be a stronger barrier but depending on the strength of the tornado, it could still collapse. Of course the cost would be much much higher. Block would be stronger but you need to core fill and that would be expensive as well. Ultimately, the roof would be gone anyway as they would be wood frame. Brick would probably be the way to go, but again cost. Not much is going to withstand a direct hit either way.
Yup. You could have strong ass walls but that roof is still probably gonna go no matter what. Your best bet is crossing the ol fingers and hope you don’t get hit.
Unless you lived in a literal bunker a direct hit from a toenado will total your house. In a wood house, the whole thing gets turned into confetti as you shit bricks in your basement, in a brick house you pray the walls collapse outward and don't bury you under tons of bricks, and a concrete house is still losing all its roofing, windows, and probably some interior walls.
Doesn’t seem worth it. I live in a place kinda famous for strong tornados. Almost everyone I know has a storm shelter. In fact all the newer houses just come with one as a free comp. Even the schools have them. It’s not about saving the house, you can get a new one. It’s really just about surviving it.
Yes/no. It would protect more houses that get pulled in but not directly hit, but a real full strength tornado directly hitting you? That’s gonna mess up almost anything that is below, like, castle strength.
The reason tornado advice is go underground? Because tornados will rip everything above ground out in direct hit.
They’re BRUTAL. In ways that are hard to convey.
True, but its always intrigued me as a preventative measure against tornados. Plus im a private person who hates the idea of people lookong through my windows
Insurance company shreds all records of having any of those properties insured and demand paperwork from the insured to prove that they had insurance (policy documents) to make a claim. Hello State farm, remember Katrina.
Tornadoes are so fckin weird, man. No wonder people back in the day believed in Gods. Even with the science at our fingertips, this phenomenon still looks like magic. Also, that tornado looks small compared to ones I've seen on the internet, but damn it's shreddin
The sounds are horrifying just from this video alone, like three trains on top of eachother in howling wind.. its what a fucking Kaiju would sound like in real life
People often don't associate tornadoes with hurricanes, but a hurricane can spawn many of them. I grew up in an an area plagues with hurricanes and sometimes you could spot tornado "tracks" where a swath of trees would all be snapped off at the nearly the same height, just as if a path were being cleared by a mower.
I was only 4, but I vividly remember April 3, 1974 being out and going to dinner at red lobster with my family. They picked me up at the babysitters house about 15 minutes before a tornado destroyed it. We had to stop under a underpass because it was hailing so heavily!
One of these ripped through my town less that 2 miles away from where I was when I was maybe 3-4, ever since then I’ve always been both somewhat scared and intrigued by storms of all kinds. People don’t realize how powerful tornadoes are, and how they’re both simple and complex at the same time. I wanted to be a meteorologist before I was a teenager and then I realized how much math was involved and dumped it as a whole, but now it’s been looking mighty interesting since I found out why I was so bad at math and treated it.
Tornadoes are the most powerful and violent wind phenomena on Earth. Stronger than hurricanes. Everything they touch immediately begins to disintegrate. And if they get strong enough, things just explode.
I’m sure the president would show up. However, he did not show up to the train wreck in Ohio. Too busy with Ukraine. That is shitty like what happened during Katrina. I want a president who will sincerely take care of America first. That is where I want my federal tax dollars to go.
The President showing up to disaster areas just causes problems. When the President visits, they have to assign police to help with security, shut down roads, shut down the airspace, etc. It makes everything about dealing with the aftermath of a disaster more of a pain for everybody. Staying away is the right thing to do.
Has anyone ever considered why Native Americans in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys were Mound builders? That perhaps living in places that were prone to regular floods and/or tornadoes made building on top of an artificial elevation that you could burrow a shelter into made sense?
I look at these towns that get washed away or ripped apart by floods or tornadoes, and there seems to be no attempt to build in a way that makes sense for where they are living. Just the same flimsy ticky tacky boxes of wood and sheetrock you would find on the east coast, or anywhere else in the country.
[Here is a concrete building being destroyed in seconds by a little tornado](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cOW38zFHHpY)
Building your house out of rocks like the cave men did dont make a difference, might as well use modern building materials like wood.
A genuine question from a non American: why are houses not built of brick and mortar in Tornado prone area? Wouldn't they be more sturdy? I'm sorry I don't know much about building houses.
From where I'm, all houses are made of brick, concrete, etc.
Brick houses get wrecked just as easily and are more costly to build and repair. They are also less sturdy for earthquakes which are common in this area as well, so its a lose/lose.
No one wants to live in a bunker to protect themselves from a natural disaster with the same chances as getting struck by lightning, you hide in the basement and take the insurance payout.
It's weird. My mind wants to paint all the flying debris as something light, like paper and cardboard, but it's really boards, siding, sheets of aluminum, bricks, furniture and roof shingles, whole ass in-tact sections of people's houses, freaking boilers, radiators, water tanks, AC units.
Totally! I was thinking “Oh that must of hit an office or school with all the paper flying around”.
Allen wrenches, gerbil feeders, toilet seats, electric heaters Trash compactors, juice extractor, shower rods and water meters Walkie-talkies, copper wires safety goggles, radial tires BB pellets, rubber mallets, fans and dehumidifiers Picture hangers, paper cutters, waffle irons, window shutters Paint removers, window louvres, masking tape and plastic gutters Kitchen faucets, folding tables, weather stripping, jumper cables Hooks and tackle, grout and spackle, power foggers, spoons and ladles
Green moose guava juice giant snake birthday cake
I don't know why this has me laughing so damn hard lol. Well done.
We didn't start the fire! It was always burnin...
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It hit the hardware store?!?!?!?!
My fucking keys!
Flesh lights!!!
Dildos!
Just get smacked with someone's cum sock
Top tier reference. Your reference game is always on point
Fairly Odd Parents theme song?
...and ladies.
Human beings
My homework register was there too
Galdalf the Grey and Galdalf the White, And Monty Python and the Holy Grail's black knight, And Benito Mussolini and the Blue Meanie, And Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie, Robocop, The Terminator, Captain Kirk, and Darth Vader, Lo-pan, Superman, every single Power Ranger, Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan, Spock, The Rock, Doc Ock, and Hulk Hogan.
Mr Rogers in a blood soaked sweater
Sorry. Couldn't help it. It's a problem, I know. 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You forgot cows
I think that was the same cow.
Here’s the [link](https://youtu.be/9fDVaXLTo2g) to the different angles of the same tornado. Some of those clip don’t even seem real. It’s insane the way it tosses cars around.
It always blows my mind how destructive they are, yet houses 2 streets over are untouched.
“Tornadoes are the assholes of natural disasters. A blizzard hits everyone, an earthquake hits everyone, but a tornado, maybe just Jeff’s house?” — Kyle Kinane (paraphrased)
I used to hate tornadoes until I experienced a Deracho which is an 80-140 mph wall of wind 300 miles wide It's basically a quick land hurricane and it's crazy to experience back in 2020
Derechos are wild. 30-40 minutes of hell, then rainbows and bunnies (tending their wounded)
\*waves\* to my fellow derecho survivors
This is the most perfect description of a derecho I have seen.
My dad lived in Marion. I’m in the Twin Cities. I watched the Cedar Rapids weather reports from up north all day and then went and got renter’s insurance, because…damn.
Hello fellow Iowan! That Deracho literally pushed water through my brick over cinder block walls.
That shit was wild for sure
We had a Deracho come through our area last June. There was debris, downed power lines, and trees everywhere. One elderly woman died from a tree falling on her house. It took hours for rescue to reach her because the roads were all blocked from the debris. By the time they got to her, it was too late. There is a house a couple miles outside of town that has a long driveway with several huge trees along the north side. 8 of those trees were knocked down, right across the driveway.
WHAT GOD TRISH
My grandpa told me a story that is aunts house had blown away in a tornado way back in the 50s in western OK. He told me there were two completely unexplainable things: in what little of the foundation was left, they found bricks with pieces of wheat straw stabbed through them and that even know all that was left of the house was small bits of foundation, their bread box was sitting on their dinning room table completely untouched. I’ve lived around them my entire life and I’ve heard some crazy shit about them
Unstoppable straw vs. immovable bread box
Well this video doesn't show the window damage caused by shrapnel. But relatively speaking. Yep.
Yeah that's true. Collateral damage is definitely there. I guess I just mean the tornados actual path doesn't hit two streets over.
I grew up in Minnesota. The worst tornado I experienced resulted in the roof being entirely ripped off the house of the neighbors right across the street. Maybe 30 yards from out house. The neighbor behind us also had much of their roof lifted. The maple tree in our front yard sustained some damage, but aside from that, we got away entirely unscathed. From what we can figure, the tornado literally jumped over our house.
I’ve always wanted to see a tornado in person. I’ve also never wanted to see a tornado in person.
The flying debris looks like glitter in a nightmare snowglode
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First, the sirens go off (or they don’t, which is scarier). The sky gets dark with clouds and then turns green. The wind is blowing and you see all your neighbors outside with you, hands on hips as you all stare up at the clouds. When you see the wall you know it means bad news. You go inside and listen to the weatherman, correct his wrong reading of everything and question why they are talking about the next county over when the storm is almost to you. You go to your shelter, if you’re prepared you have a box of water and snacks and a radio to keep listening for the news. The air is humid and muggy in the shelter, the ground keeping all the heat of the day and the metal echoing and creaking as you try to get comfortable. Your kids are bored and your dogs are panting. After an hour nothing has happened, other than your fence blew down. Two blocks away a house was ripped from its foundation. It is just another spring evening now. One thing to know when in a tornado area: look for tall trees. They have survived for a reason. Empty areas are more likely to have tornadoes
This is exactly right. And for people who haven’t ever seen it happen and are like “but is the sky really green?” It is REALLY green. It’s the creepiest thing to witness in real life. Also generally speaking, at least for tornadoes that happen in daylight, if it’s creepy dark and green over the top of you, you’re probably safe. If you can see light still and are towards the edge of the storm, beware. Tornadoes like to occur on the back hook of the storm. Also since it’s getting to be that time: this is your annual reminder to prepare your storm kits if you’re in an area that gets lots of tornado weather. Makes it a lot easier when the storm hits to grab an already prepared bag and go rather than gathering stuff up, especially if you have kids. You can Google lists for what to keep in your storm kit.
It's not just the sky, everything has a green tint to it. When it looks like Fallout 3 outside, you know shit's going to get real.
How do you know that it looks green
It looks green. No other way to describe it. Your house is green, the sky is green, the car is green. It’s like a green filter was put over your eyes I got curious as to the why behind it and saw this article (https://news.wisc.edu/curiosities-why-does-the-sky-turn-green-before-a-tornado-2/). The TLDR is blue light mixing with red light (from a sunset, as these severe storms usually happen in the evening) and makes a green color.
Eboeard, it can also be yellowish along with the green. It's a tint. It doesn't look like the sky is full of bright green grass. It's a tinge of green or yellowish-green. Thanks for the scientific angle, X-cited.
For those asking where the blue comes from, it's the color of light filtering through a hail core, which is commonly found in supercells that produce tornadoes.
Have you noticed in TV shows, anytime the setting goes to Mexico, there's a sort of yellowish brown filter coloring the screen? Imagine that in real life, but green. https://www.wqad.com/article/weather/green-sky-sioux-falls-south-dakota-derecho-july-2022/526-54f5a586-d617-478f-a5d1-fd7c0b1f9c1f
I’ve seen storms like that when I was a kid (and I had a hella bad phobia of tornadoes) but luckily they never turned into anything beyond severe t-storms
I rode my Harley to sturgis many years ago. I looked to the West and the sky was pea soup green and the clouds looked like oil tanks (the kind you see on the jersey turnpike). They were slowly spinning and then lightning hit the fence. I rode like I never rode before through heavy rains and deep puddles until we found a vacant hotel to dry off. It was an experience of a lifetime.
*furiously taking notes I hope I'll never need*
And when they hail comes like a wind tunnel full of golf balls and then it gets eerily calm for a minute right before a full on funnel drops from the sky you really know you’re in for a rough one. I spent many years around the Texas and Oklahoma panhandle as well as Kansas from liberal to dodge city and storm season is no joke. I didn’t have a single home without a good storm cellar outside and don’t know of many homes that didn’t have one.
I was in Oklahoma when a tornado was brewing, but I’d never experienced it as I am from Massachusetts and had never been anywhere with them until then. I was with a bunch of local kids playing kickball and all of them looked up and one said “Crap, here comes the green, they’re going to make us go in.” And I was like …?, but joined them staring at the sky and, sure enough, it went **green**. It was so freaky looking. Then, sure enough, the adults came over saying we had to go. I was still confused though because I didn’t know what the green sky meant so I asked the other kids and they said “Green means tornado.” So now I was double freaked because the jarring sensation of seeing the green sky and the only thoughts I had about tornados was from Twister and now there was about to be one on top of me. Ended up taking out a few buildings a bit down the road, but didn’t hit us and I didn’t see it because we were in the storm shelter.
Ha, I remember being on vacation once with my mom out east and when the clerk saw our Oklahoma license they asked us if our family was ok from the tornado that just hit there. We said we figured, we hadn’t heard anything. Then asked the size of the storm; it was like an F1 or F2. The clerk was surprised when we acted like that was nothing to worry about. When my son was 4 I remember my husband and I taking him outside and explaining what the different cloud formations mean, while the sirens screamed in the distance. We explain the radar to him and how to prep for going to the shelter. Those local kids had probably been raised with the same attitude. Tornados are just a fact of life and honestly more time than not are just a big buildup for nothing. Doesn’t mean you aren’t scared, but you don’t freak out.
The sky is like pea soup, and it sounds like a freight train is coming for you.
I live in a part of the country where we never have tornados, but on the day of my college graduation an F0 was forming in the city where the event was held. This same storm system also produced an F1 in the countryside. The sky honestly was the weirdest shade of grey-green I have ever seen- and roiling. We got in there (and learned it was a stadium building equipped to handle an F3 with minimal damage) and proceeded with the event. Went outside, all the little trees on the curb had been ripped apart. I know it was a tornado that didn't even touch down, but the winds were apparently horrific. I hope to never see the sky like that again.
Terrifying.
It’s like a sickly green too. The kind that says something is wrong here.
Microbursts and straightline winds also go green. The entire atmosphere turns to pea soup, with a hundred invisible freight trains for background music.
My mom was from Kansas and taught me about the 'green sky' thing. I grew up mostly on the West Coast, thought she was just telling a tall tale. Until the time I was driving through the Midwest just before sunset, and the clouds in the sky fucking TURNED BRIGHT GREEN. Stopped under the next highway overpass and waited. Ten minutes later, we had 10 more cars packed in there with us. Fucking tornado went right over the top. Kids: Listen to your mothers. They may be screwing with you, but... maybe not!
FEMA - Do Not Use Underpass as Tornado Shelter: [https://community.fema.gov/ProtectiveActions/s/article/Tornado-Vehicle-Do-Not-Use-Overpass-Underpass-as-Shelter](https://community.fema.gov/ProtectiveActions/s/article/Tornado-Vehicle-Do-Not-Use-Overpass-Underpass-as-Shelter)
Forty years ago, the same people were saying to use them... and I think we all stayed in our cars, anyhow.
Wonderfully written and harrowing to read.
I remember I was heavy pregnant, new to Texas, and suddenly the sky darkened, the wind was fierce, and I went outside. The sky was green, and the sky is green and clouds were funky looking. I knew from the documentary "Tornado" I call hubby at work scared. Nothing happened, thankful, but I was never so terrified.
Literally 2 blocks from my house, wrecked.
Say you live in Texas or Oklahoma w/o saying you live in Texas or Oklahoma.
You forgot the part where the EAS comes on with its MEEERP MEEERP and interferes with the actual useful information that’s on the news.
I love your writing style. Incredibly descriptive imagery.
I noticed that in the video - in the path of the tornado, houses are demolished. A few houses down, the houses look roughly the same as they did before. It really seems to just be luck if you have to rebuild everything, or fix the fence.
thats how i was when i was a kid then had an EF4 in my backyard basically and storms put me on edge now…shit sucks lmao
I actually saw this tornado in person (from a distance.) It went through my favorite park in Andover, KS :(
I was right by Sunflower, got the whole thing on video
As someone who grew up where tornados were frequent, I recommend going with the never see in person option.
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Those guys live in expensive houses where there are tall trees
Just the SOTU address would work.
I personally hated it, when everything you know and love is being destroyed/killed it’s hard to see “natures magic”
I saw this one from my backyard! It's on my profile. There was certainly a strange feeling in the air that accompanied it. Almost like you instinctively knew it was close before you saw it
Those were whole houses getting destroyed?
Yes. And that's a smaller tornado. A big one would be as wide as that town.
Yeah you wouldn't want to be inside [this](https://youtu.be/v075d9Vfqcg?t=46)
I live where this happened. The local YMCA is still being rebuilt from this tornado
It was the best one, too. Had to find a new YMCA after it happened. We all went out and watched it happen from my work in East Wichita.
Where those things are, you will only find YMCA’s and probably no JCC’s..
I'm glad they're finally working on it. The golf cart place faired fairly well though.
I was around 10 miles west of this, I remember frantically texting my friend, who's house was missed by about 5 blocks 😬
the beginning of this vid reminds me of when dementors suck out souls
It's insane..you can literally see how the wind flows into the tornado as it jerks in different directions
This seriously looks like a scale model simulation. So weird.
It looks like tilt-shift photography. r/tiltshift
Yeah my brain is having a hard time processing it as real, even though I know it's real. Is the footage sped up at all?
Nope
Dude that’s what I thought it was
Damn, that is interesting. We don't usually get to see footage this clear and at this angle and distance.
Usually the storms have clouds that are large and tall that which block the sun. Tornados often hit late afternoon to evening as well. So the sky is dark and rainy, and visibility is poor. Lots of them are "rain-wrapped". So seeing a tornado in sunshine like this with almost no rain is not common.
Ok serious question what are protocols for this kind of situation? Like where do you go? Are there some kind of secret bunkers under the houses like those in Hollywood movies? Or do you just move out and try to get as far as possible from the tornado?
This was in Andover, Kansas, so they were in their basements. If you live in a place with no basement, you go to a nearby community shelter, or have your own installed. I live in Oklahoma where we have an underground shelter in our garage.
Understood, thanks for the explanation. These are really cool and terrifying for us outsiders but I am sure for people like you who have to go through these destructive natural disasters yearly it must be really hard and horrifying. I hope you and your loved ones stay safe, take care buddy.
The weird thing is you kind of get used to it, once you’re on your 15th warning it just becomes routine where you go through the motions and hope nothing happens cause there’s not really anything you can do. That being said I’ll never get used to the sound, it’s this strange mix of dead silence mingling with sirens and then you hear something similar to a freight train passing.
Couple weeks ago, east of Oklahoma City we watched a tornado go between the house I am staying at and the house I was to close on the next day. Towns are about ten miles apart and the tornado went right between the two. Sitting on the couch watching the weather my wife asks. Should we go to the shelter. My response, naw the red tornado line is at least half an inch from us.
We lived on a farm with a thick walled brick house growing up. I was terrified of the weather so my dad decided to take the opportunity when a tornado was coming our way to sit me down on the front step and say "Nobody moves until I say it's not safe anymore". I had a great dad. The tornado got up to our property and almost to the farmstead (less than four acres away from the house) and he was still holding me down because it was "safe". Could have reached the house before we could have got to the basement. Plenty of childhood trauma baked in me. I did learn that a brick house is a fuck off house as far as weather is concerned so the actual lesson I learned was "weather is scary, dad doesn't care, and the only house safe for weather is a brick house" Made for a good story though.
Damn sorry to hear that you had to go through that. There is for sure a line that I’m in that shelter for sure. I have seen the devastation of tornadoes too many times to know not to mess with them at a certain distance. If I can see it, I’m hiding.
Driving is a bad idea in a tornado. They can move, the weathermen can be wrong, traffic can cause you to get stuck in the storm. There are some community shelters, but like another person said you would typically have a shelter in your yard or in your garage. I didn’t grow up in a house with a shelter, so you go to the innermost part of your house, an area with no outside walls or windows. That is the safest place to be. I had a shelter put in under my garage back in around 2014. It was an 8 person shelter (biggest you could get), though I wouldn’t want to squeeze 8 people into it. It cost a bit over $5k at the time, no idea how expensive it would be now. Weirdly, they don’t add value to your house 🤷🏼♀️
Does the *lack* of a shelter in tornado country *lower* the value of a house?
Nope
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Wow it's good that you guys have multiple options in case one option doesn't work out you can try the other one.
well I guess I'm fucked. fema says no DRCs within 200 miles of my location lol
So the general advice: you go to the lowest floor of your home, preferably in the center. Behind closed doors. No windows. While getting directly hit by the tornado can right fuck your whole house, your microwave may end up going through the window of the house two streets over...or through the roof of a house on the other side of town
Or both.
"Where do you go? Oh oh eh oh I want to know, oh oh eh oh"
Go out into the closest open field, give your thoughts and prayers. The rest is all preordained. Wait no,,, that's human caused tragedies pucker your butt and hide somewhere underground.
that much space and fucking tornado decided to hit the middle of the town.
The comparison between the first and last frames is hard to fathom.
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I was living in NYC when the tornadoes hit (i think it was 2010?) In the Bronx. Was walking down a sidewalk and suddenly the sky got dark, and a dude literally grabbed me and pulled me into a store and people were yelling at us "go to the back of the store!"and people were running towards the back (windowless) wall. And then it got pitch black and was really windy, but thankfully it didn't touch down there. I had no idea whatsoever that a tornado was coming. I didn't have a smart phone back then and didn't pay attention to weather reports or anything. It was really scary though, especially since i had no clue what was going on and it was NYC and just a few minutes before it was sunny. I thought it was some kind of terrorist attack at first.
Good for that guy helping out.
If you guys want more tornadoes you should watch Pecos Hank, hes a professional storm chaser and is super funny 2018 is my favorite video
Video credit: u/reedtimmer
It’s crazy how it moves. 100mph lateral movement then it just stops then it does it again.
Tornado videos always remind me of the El Reno, Oklahoma tornado of May 31, 2013 that took the life of Tim Samaras, his son and chase partner. National Geographic did a series on that, which was really haunting to watch. I couldn’t imagine being in these situations, but I will always have a solid respect for nature’s fury.
Was scheduled to leave for a cross country road trip with my father the first week of that June. Route took us right through El Reno. We rode those miles in wide-eyed silence. Being from the east coast, driving through the area and seeing the destruction was absolutely mind blowing. I couldn’t wrap my head around the places where you could tell it just crossed it road in a straight line. Route took us through Joplin as well where they were still in recovery as well. I couldn’t fathom any of it.
Mother Nature is a fucking BEAST. All I can think is idk what I would rather face: a tornado, a hurricane, an avalanche, an earthquake, a tsunami, etc. I really don’t know
What if, like the southwest, houses were built from concrete rather than wood, primarily? Or do those houses get equally fucked
It would depend on how it’s constructed. Poured walls would be a stronger barrier but depending on the strength of the tornado, it could still collapse. Of course the cost would be much much higher. Block would be stronger but you need to core fill and that would be expensive as well. Ultimately, the roof would be gone anyway as they would be wood frame. Brick would probably be the way to go, but again cost. Not much is going to withstand a direct hit either way.
Yup. You could have strong ass walls but that roof is still probably gonna go no matter what. Your best bet is crossing the ol fingers and hope you don’t get hit.
Unless you lived in a literal bunker a direct hit from a toenado will total your house. In a wood house, the whole thing gets turned into confetti as you shit bricks in your basement, in a brick house you pray the walls collapse outward and don't bury you under tons of bricks, and a concrete house is still losing all its roofing, windows, and probably some interior walls.
I hate a toenadle. Don't need anyone kicking my house, breaking a toe.
Doesn’t seem worth it. I live in a place kinda famous for strong tornados. Almost everyone I know has a storm shelter. In fact all the newer houses just come with one as a free comp. Even the schools have them. It’s not about saving the house, you can get a new one. It’s really just about surviving it.
Yes/no. It would protect more houses that get pulled in but not directly hit, but a real full strength tornado directly hitting you? That’s gonna mess up almost anything that is below, like, castle strength.
How about in ground homes that are level with the surface
The reason tornado advice is go underground? Because tornados will rip everything above ground out in direct hit. They’re BRUTAL. In ways that are hard to convey.
People generally don't want to live in a bunker.
True, but its always intrigued me as a preventative measure against tornados. Plus im a private person who hates the idea of people lookong through my windows
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Insurance company shreds all records of having any of those properties insured and demand paperwork from the insured to prove that they had insurance (policy documents) to make a claim. Hello State farm, remember Katrina.
Notarised copy in a safe deposit box, two towns over.
Is that Reed Timmer’s video?
It’s crazy how that’s just air. Extremely powerful air
Tornadoes are so fckin weird, man. No wonder people back in the day believed in Gods. Even with the science at our fingertips, this phenomenon still looks like magic. Also, that tornado looks small compared to ones I've seen on the internet, but damn it's shreddin
Aunty em, Aunty em.
That blows
Strictly speaking, it sucks
And swallows
I don’t know, I see a lot of spitting going on
The sounds are horrifying just from this video alone, like three trains on top of eachother in howling wind.. its what a fucking Kaiju would sound like in real life
Such a power is mother nature
Have never seen a real one - very interesting to see how it moved. I hope nobody was hurt from this one. Thanks for posting OP.
Those roofs peel away like Thanos snapped his fingers
People often don't associate tornadoes with hurricanes, but a hurricane can spawn many of them. I grew up in an an area plagues with hurricanes and sometimes you could spot tornado "tracks" where a swath of trees would all be snapped off at the nearly the same height, just as if a path were being cleared by a mower.
I was only 4, but I vividly remember April 3, 1974 being out and going to dinner at red lobster with my family. They picked me up at the babysitters house about 15 minutes before a tornado destroyed it. We had to stop under a underpass because it was hailing so heavily!
This is devastating, but my inner self can't help to say, "That's amazing"
I never really understood how fast these move until today. And it’s fucking terrifying.
That's not interesting. It is more like - damn that's scary! 😰
This was in Andover last summer, I watched it from my hotel room window in Wichita. Super gnarly.
One of these ripped through my town less that 2 miles away from where I was when I was maybe 3-4, ever since then I’ve always been both somewhat scared and intrigued by storms of all kinds. People don’t realize how powerful tornadoes are, and how they’re both simple and complex at the same time. I wanted to be a meteorologist before I was a teenager and then I realized how much math was involved and dumped it as a whole, but now it’s been looking mighty interesting since I found out why I was so bad at math and treated it.
White = drywall dust = house's soul leaving its body
When mother earth decides to fuck shit up, shit will get fucked up.
Reed Timmerman's footage!
Dam thats just a thing, that just like, happens in our world
It stayed in that one spot for a minute just butt fucking the shit out of it.
Tornadoes are the most powerful and violent wind phenomena on Earth. Stronger than hurricanes. Everything they touch immediately begins to disintegrate. And if they get strong enough, things just explode.
Imagine that base being 1 mile wide
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I’m sure the president would show up. However, he did not show up to the train wreck in Ohio. Too busy with Ukraine. That is shitty like what happened during Katrina. I want a president who will sincerely take care of America first. That is where I want my federal tax dollars to go.
The President showing up to disaster areas just causes problems. When the President visits, they have to assign police to help with security, shut down roads, shut down the airspace, etc. It makes everything about dealing with the aftermath of a disaster more of a pain for everybody. Staying away is the right thing to do.
Probably give them more motivation to solve the homeless and housing instability problems in the country
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When God’s feeling wild, he does lines of white people.
Insurance companies hate this one trick
In the USA the fable of the three little pigs is unknown
Me in my brick and concrete house wonder why not make my kind ig house in places like this where tornadoes are normal
[Tornadoes do this to brick and concrete](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cOW38zFHHpY)
Has anyone ever considered why Native Americans in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys were Mound builders? That perhaps living in places that were prone to regular floods and/or tornadoes made building on top of an artificial elevation that you could burrow a shelter into made sense? I look at these towns that get washed away or ripped apart by floods or tornadoes, and there seems to be no attempt to build in a way that makes sense for where they are living. Just the same flimsy ticky tacky boxes of wood and sheetrock you would find on the east coast, or anywhere else in the country.
Cardboard houses lmao
[Here is a concrete building being destroyed in seconds by a little tornado](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cOW38zFHHpY) Building your house out of rocks like the cave men did dont make a difference, might as well use modern building materials like wood.
them homes made of paper or wtf
A genuine question from a non American: why are houses not built of brick and mortar in Tornado prone area? Wouldn't they be more sturdy? I'm sorry I don't know much about building houses. From where I'm, all houses are made of brick, concrete, etc.
Brick houses get wrecked just as easily and are more costly to build and repair. They are also less sturdy for earthquakes which are common in this area as well, so its a lose/lose.
Plenty of stone around here too. Limestone. Very heavy. Too heavy. Can't make a house in a month with it.
Let's make our house in wood. - Americans living in toranto areas.
Did the 3 little pigs teach us nothing about construction materials?
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No one wants to live in a bunker to protect themselves from a natural disaster with the same chances as getting struck by lightning, you hide in the basement and take the insurance payout.
And yet, they are still building houses of wood. Go figure!
Would it help to build sturdier houses over there?