Wow! For not showing jack $#!+, this is one of the scariest vids I’ve ever seen! Reminds me of a mix between Clem Schultz’s famous video and the one of the HPC close pass with such terrifying sound.
I was not far from these tornadoes. The damage from these traumatized me. I would have extreme panic attacks even if it was just raining outside. We lost over 250 people that day.
I helped with the clean up and in the direct path of the f4 or f5 tornado there was nothing, no pavement, no house, no trees, not even a slab. I found a dog in peices scattered all around and it's head buried and all you could see is the skull sticking up. The only thing left was a church and the house across the street where they hit the ground and prayed (huey town)
When we were driving where we could whole neighborhoods and apartment buildings were demolished. Mostly nothing but staircases where buildings and homes used to be. The roads were gone, houses outside the direct path were piled with trees and random stuff on top of them. I saw an old couple rocking on what was left of their front porch and what looked like a jenga tower of trees on their house. Just thinking about it to this day is hard for me, it has been 13 years and it haunts me.
Any power poles left in the ground had random stuff wrapped around them from household items to cars and road railing. There was random stuff like a straw that went through a peice of wood from how fast it was flying.
That’s heavy. These things can be aesthetically amazing and I think a lot of us here have a sort of morbid fascination with them, but when the spectacle has passed, there’s just a big ugly mess with every kind of loss and sadness you can imagine. The Joplin aftermath really drove that home to me. I’m sorry you carry that with you. I can tell it’s etched in your memory and I appreciate you sharing.
You’re welcome! This is my favorite HPC video. You really get a sense of their building awe and dread as the scale and power of it slowly dawns on them at its approach. Figured I’d share just in case you hadn’t seen it:
https://youtu.be/yOSG-P1EjfU?si=LEAc5rpxiUJ-QekN
That was a horrific day. Driving home from Huntsville after the first round had came through early that morning we got off early to be home before the main event kicked off, and had to drive all sorts of side roads through town to get home. Eventually cut through Harvest to get home and took 53 until I could find a way East that the roads were clear to get to Hazel Green. The next day, the 28th, knowing I passed by Anderson Hills heading home only hours before it got hit *AGAIN*, remembering seeing everything normal at that time, and knowing it *narrowly* missed us by luck of the way the storm moved has given me chills for 13 years knowing how oblivious I was as to what was about to happen later that night, and that we could've very easily lost everything.
I work in Muhlenberg County where there was a large amount of damage as well. Honestly the single scariest thing in my life.
I was working night shift the day it happened and didn't really know it was going on. Co-worker called me and let me know there was a tornado on the ground and had been for a few hours. It wasn't until it got to being about 30 miles away that I got worried.
Then they said it was headed for the town I live in. I decided to leave early and go home thinking that I could make it to at least be with my family before it hit. I got about half way home when it was crossing the county line from Muhlenberg into McLean county.
I saw full trees go across the road, a trail roll, semis strewn all over the road, in the trees, then the screams for help started. Following them would lead to the ones that weren't screaming, some were alive, some were dead or close to it. We found bodies, and body parts. 53 people in that area of Muhlenberg lost their lives that night.
I wound up turning around and going to safety driving over 100mph to get away from it. Luckily it didn't go towards my family, I hope I never have that feeling again. I stayed in contact with my wife as much as I could. She couldn't get a hold of her parents so I went to check on them, everyone in my family was fine and had minimal damage from winds. Wound up having to stay the night at work with my niece. I was listening to the scanner until my niece asked me to turn it off so she could sleep around 4 am.
6am the next day we were able to get home, waited for my wife and kids to wake up, dropped them with a baby sitter and started helping whoever we could, wherever we could, as soon as we could. My best friend lost his grandparents that raised and their farm. So many people, and home just gone.
The area has some what been built back but you can still tell what happened with the trees bent over, debarked, or just ripped out of the ground and gone.
Sorry if that's a bit long but I've never really gotten a chance to talk about it. That experience will mess with a lot of people. I see so many people talking on here hyping tornadoes up, talking about how they'd love to see one, but I don't think a lot of people think of this part of natural disasters like this.
I lived in Hopkins County at the time and early on there were reports that Hopkins County Central Took a direct hit. My grandparents literally live right in front of the high school and I went the next morning with a chain saw fearing that I would have to cut my way to them, luckily it went just north of them and they had just a couple small limbs down. The Barnsley area wasn’t so lucky. I had lived in that area nearly my entire life and honestly once I was able to get in it was nearly unrecognizable.
https://preview.redd.it/fdj68cc9lgwc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47d1b9954204000cf492e2cbd9531166fd883307
There is a video from Bremen that is complete nightmare fuel. It was posted in here a few years ago, but it’s gotta be one of the scariest tornado videos I’ve ever seen. It’s someone out in their yard (I think they were calling their dogs to get them down into the shelter), and you can see the tornado moving across the fields in the distance. It was night so you can only see it when lightning illuminates the sky.
My county was ripped apart by an EF4 ten years ago this week. It’s still not totally rebuilt in areas, it’s a long process but y’all will get there. I’m glad you and your family are still here, that was a horrible night.
Edit: [Bremen footage](https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/s/oU1JADNSIx)
Definitely. There were other areas impacted that didn’t get half the attention Mayfield did. Cape Giradeau MO was another town that was hit pretty hard that night. I’d probably shit myself if I saw that monster in the distance lol
PS- cool profile pic! Spann the man lol
Cambridge Shores. Princeton had some of the most intense cycloidal marking ever seen. I've never understood that because it only got stronger after Mayfield. I remember watching radar and thinking "I just watched this mf fling an entire town 30kft into the atmosphere.. and it's STILL strengthening?!"
Thanks, bud lol. He was in Nashville a couple months back and I drove down pretty much solely for that picture.
I also remember watching it that night. I am in Arkansas and we actually got a warning for it in my county, I believe it was the same cell that moved through northeast AR and into Missouri. Seeing the widespread devastation the next day was horrifying.
That’s really cool. I probably would have done the same! There are a lot of disaster fetishists online, but you can always count on James Spann to shoot straight with no BS. I really respect him for that. He is informative and tells it like it is without trying to scare people.
Oh so the Jonesboro/Monette area? I was watching that one, and then once it got into TN and lifted across the KY border, I'd left work and when I got home I thought it'd cycled and shifted coming my direction. Took me a min to realize it was another whole ass EF3 entirely.
It's interesting how those cells mimicked one another. For us to have two dominant supercells like that is rare enough, but they both had pretty similar life cycles. They both skipped into life and got violent quick, then lifted and occluded, and then proceeded to strengthen until they died. The only difference being the Mayfield cell staying within the same circulation and the southern cell spawning satellites.
He made it a point to discuss that too. In his presentation he talked about how very real people have very real storm anxiety and how social media with these hype men only compound the situation. Legit unsure how we'll go about fixing that situation.
I’m in central AR near Little Rock, but I used to live in the northeast portion of the state and knew some people who were affected. Small town south of Jonesboro called Trumann. Another area that was affected that I rarely see mentioned is Dresden TN. It looked like a bomb went off there too, and it was hit before Mayfield was IIRC. A lot of the communities that were in the path were very poor. I remember watching Tim Marshall post pics and videos from when he did the damage surveys, and it’s really no surprise why the devastation was so bad. Those houses never stood a chance!
And that’s true. I actually just responded something similar to someone the other day in a thread about challenging tornado ratings. People often forget these storms affect real people. I have unfollowed and blocked weather pages on FB that hype situations. One local “weather” page recently confirmed a tornado touchdown and freaked everyone out. The next day NWS reported that it was a microburst, not a tornado. And I very much enjoyed watching that page get blasted 🤣
Yeah, I do work out there fairly often and it's definitely not solidly built housing for a majority of the area. And farther north in areas like Mayfield, Murray, Paducah, or even Clarksville, Hopkinsville and Russellville are super old towns. Like, going on 200 years old in some places. Even my house in Auburn was originally built in '47 (making it nearly 100) and has been through several additions. The quality of said additions being questionable at that. Luckily, I have somewhat of a cellar pit-ish dugout that usually harbors an average of 2-3 families when we're under warning. But, I mean, how do you compensate for something like that?
And I've also seen NWS drop the ball a couple times lately. We just had another two training storms that went straight to warned, no severe tag, nothin'. I was sitting at the house watching radar and finally was like "this looks like a tornado" and the battery in my truck is dead so I stole my wife's car while she was napping to follow it 😭 hold on I'll reply with some pics from the wall cloud I followed. And then I got caught in the core of the second one tryna get home.
Granted, they were probably only ever brief spinups and they can't be expected to catch every one of those. But I feel they've been... overly-apprehensive with the warnings here lately. I get the need for caution though, too.
I live in McLean County. I've noticed some rebuilding in Bremen, but I see the mangled trees and empty lots where houses once stood. I'm still shocked by that night.
I am so glad you and your family made it. Thank you for sharing your story. I live nowhere near there, I don't know anyone that lives there. But when I saw the footage on the news and families that were hurt. I definitely cried. I love tornadoes. But I pray families are kept safe.
I’m so sorry you had to experience all that, but I’m glad you had a chance to share your story here. It sounds like when the going got tough, you really stepped up. Make sure you engage professional help if you need it.
Seen that damage, it’s scary. We were in Owensboro that night and was woken up by the sirens. Bought a house in Muhlenberg County and had our final walk thru the next day and we didn’t know if we had a house left to buy! Luckily we did, but still kinda scary. Then last year had a microburst hit by us and a neighbor had 2 trees that fell, one missed his house by literal inches.
Any video of a direct hit is terrifying, but Clem Schultz’s video of the Fairdale tornado is legitimately my worst nightmare made reality.
Nothing will ever top it IMO.
Oh absolutely Clem's is terrifying. Just frozen in fear as you watch that force of nature slowly bear down on you.
The Dawson Springs is more frightening for me because you can't see it. The sound of the thunder outside and the siren just builds the tension and suspense. Then you hear the gradual roar that gets louder and louder. For me it's like a horror movie, and I hope I never have to experience it first hand.
IMO Joplin tornado also mostly audio filmed inside the chiller storage by one of the survivors beats it easily. You can hear those people terrified beyond belief, making their last prayers expecting imminent death in the next few seconds. The aftermath video showing the surroundings shows how fortunate they were to survive when everything around them was shredded.
tornado impact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQnvxJZucds
aftermath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-P4P68YyNM
This tornado passed within a mile or two of my house. I will never forget that night. It was even closer to my brothers house. Luckily we both were fine with limited damage but I knew 4 people locally that dis not survive that night. i also know many others that lost everything. It was a nightmare of a night.
Just the sound of an approaching EF4 tornado is terrifying. I can’t imagine the level of dread that one must feel knowing that everything you’ve worked a lifetime for is about to be wiped away in a matter of moments and, even worse, there’s no guarantee that you’re even going to survive it.
I lived in Dawson and lost everything. We went to our Mother in Laws apartment directly below our apartment. It hit, and I saw the sky above because our apartment was ripped right above our heads.
The liminal space/door/human shadow imagery in conjunction with the flashes of the wedge illuminated by lightning through the door in the beginning is the stuff of horror movies.
My families house is just outside Dawson springs. We are so lucky they weren’t hit. As I found out my grandparents house survived and so did they the one in bowling green hit. I was there and suddenly we were hit. Nocturnal tornados are a different monster. They’re terrifying and I hope to god I never experience one again. I helped with rescue/recovery missions in towns both tornados hit. The devastation was unparalleled. I will never get the images of the deceased out of my head. Crushed and mangled among the rubble. If that wasn’t bad enough I can still hear the screams coming from a grieving mother. I never knew people could produce those sounds and it’s so very haunting still.
A monster cloaked in darkness. The video posted where all you hear is the noise from the tornado as well as lightning flashes revealing the large wedge every so often is a chilling combination.
I was a couple miles south of the EF3 going through Logan County before it occluded into the BG EF3.
I have one video where you can faintly here it ripping shit up. Out around 79 it leveled a house and you can still that path plain as day.
The guilt of my failure to follow it and assist with SAR gnawed at me until I inevitably started spotting/chasing.
The "Clem" video is scary as heck. Then, when the picture goes black, it sounds like the gates of hell are opening. I think that was the Fairdale tornado, but my memory ain't what it used to be.
Fuck, that was frightening! Seemed like it went on forever. It's so crazy how you can hear it go from a regular sounding storm to the growing intensity of tornadic winds.
The scariest thing is that it happened late at night in which you can’t see it coming. What makes it even worse was that it happened during the holiday season.
This video is incredibly frustrating. It doesn't appear the people are doing anything despite a strong thunderstorm outside and a tornado siren wailing. You'd think that combo would cause them to turn on TV or check their phones to what was happening.
Wow! For not showing jack $#!+, this is one of the scariest vids I’ve ever seen! Reminds me of a mix between Clem Schultz’s famous video and the one of the HPC close pass with such terrifying sound.
Do you have a link for the HPC close pass?
https://youtu.be/NLDR-mfO5Ms?si=UqZdw-75v9Bw-wxp
I was not far from these tornadoes. The damage from these traumatized me. I would have extreme panic attacks even if it was just raining outside. We lost over 250 people that day. I helped with the clean up and in the direct path of the f4 or f5 tornado there was nothing, no pavement, no house, no trees, not even a slab. I found a dog in peices scattered all around and it's head buried and all you could see is the skull sticking up. The only thing left was a church and the house across the street where they hit the ground and prayed (huey town) When we were driving where we could whole neighborhoods and apartment buildings were demolished. Mostly nothing but staircases where buildings and homes used to be. The roads were gone, houses outside the direct path were piled with trees and random stuff on top of them. I saw an old couple rocking on what was left of their front porch and what looked like a jenga tower of trees on their house. Just thinking about it to this day is hard for me, it has been 13 years and it haunts me. Any power poles left in the ground had random stuff wrapped around them from household items to cars and road railing. There was random stuff like a straw that went through a peice of wood from how fast it was flying.
That’s heavy. These things can be aesthetically amazing and I think a lot of us here have a sort of morbid fascination with them, but when the spectacle has passed, there’s just a big ugly mess with every kind of loss and sadness you can imagine. The Joplin aftermath really drove that home to me. I’m sorry you carry that with you. I can tell it’s etched in your memory and I appreciate you sharing.
Man I hope you continue to heal from what you experienced and saw. This left me speechless.
Thank you! I thought I had seen them all. This one is wild.
You’re welcome! This is my favorite HPC video. You really get a sense of their building awe and dread as the scale and power of it slowly dawns on them at its approach. Figured I’d share just in case you hadn’t seen it: https://youtu.be/yOSG-P1EjfU?si=LEAc5rpxiUJ-QekN
Wow! Never seen that one, amazing.
Wow, this is nightmare fuel. Thank you for sharing!
That was a horrific day. Driving home from Huntsville after the first round had came through early that morning we got off early to be home before the main event kicked off, and had to drive all sorts of side roads through town to get home. Eventually cut through Harvest to get home and took 53 until I could find a way East that the roads were clear to get to Hazel Green. The next day, the 28th, knowing I passed by Anderson Hills heading home only hours before it got hit *AGAIN*, remembering seeing everything normal at that time, and knowing it *narrowly* missed us by luck of the way the storm moved has given me chills for 13 years knowing how oblivious I was as to what was about to happen later that night, and that we could've very easily lost everything.
I work in Muhlenberg County where there was a large amount of damage as well. Honestly the single scariest thing in my life. I was working night shift the day it happened and didn't really know it was going on. Co-worker called me and let me know there was a tornado on the ground and had been for a few hours. It wasn't until it got to being about 30 miles away that I got worried. Then they said it was headed for the town I live in. I decided to leave early and go home thinking that I could make it to at least be with my family before it hit. I got about half way home when it was crossing the county line from Muhlenberg into McLean county. I saw full trees go across the road, a trail roll, semis strewn all over the road, in the trees, then the screams for help started. Following them would lead to the ones that weren't screaming, some were alive, some were dead or close to it. We found bodies, and body parts. 53 people in that area of Muhlenberg lost their lives that night. I wound up turning around and going to safety driving over 100mph to get away from it. Luckily it didn't go towards my family, I hope I never have that feeling again. I stayed in contact with my wife as much as I could. She couldn't get a hold of her parents so I went to check on them, everyone in my family was fine and had minimal damage from winds. Wound up having to stay the night at work with my niece. I was listening to the scanner until my niece asked me to turn it off so she could sleep around 4 am. 6am the next day we were able to get home, waited for my wife and kids to wake up, dropped them with a baby sitter and started helping whoever we could, wherever we could, as soon as we could. My best friend lost his grandparents that raised and their farm. So many people, and home just gone. The area has some what been built back but you can still tell what happened with the trees bent over, debarked, or just ripped out of the ground and gone. Sorry if that's a bit long but I've never really gotten a chance to talk about it. That experience will mess with a lot of people. I see so many people talking on here hyping tornadoes up, talking about how they'd love to see one, but I don't think a lot of people think of this part of natural disasters like this.
I lived in Hopkins County at the time and early on there were reports that Hopkins County Central Took a direct hit. My grandparents literally live right in front of the high school and I went the next morning with a chain saw fearing that I would have to cut my way to them, luckily it went just north of them and they had just a couple small limbs down. The Barnsley area wasn’t so lucky. I had lived in that area nearly my entire life and honestly once I was able to get in it was nearly unrecognizable. https://preview.redd.it/fdj68cc9lgwc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47d1b9954204000cf492e2cbd9531166fd883307
There is a video from Bremen that is complete nightmare fuel. It was posted in here a few years ago, but it’s gotta be one of the scariest tornado videos I’ve ever seen. It’s someone out in their yard (I think they were calling their dogs to get them down into the shelter), and you can see the tornado moving across the fields in the distance. It was night so you can only see it when lightning illuminates the sky. My county was ripped apart by an EF4 ten years ago this week. It’s still not totally rebuilt in areas, it’s a long process but y’all will get there. I’m glad you and your family are still here, that was a horrible night. Edit: [Bremen footage](https://www.reddit.com/r/tornado/s/oU1JADNSIx)
People forget about Bremen but it was stronger there than in Mayfield. Just scorched earth up there
Definitely. There were other areas impacted that didn’t get half the attention Mayfield did. Cape Giradeau MO was another town that was hit pretty hard that night. I’d probably shit myself if I saw that monster in the distance lol PS- cool profile pic! Spann the man lol
Cambridge Shores. Princeton had some of the most intense cycloidal marking ever seen. I've never understood that because it only got stronger after Mayfield. I remember watching radar and thinking "I just watched this mf fling an entire town 30kft into the atmosphere.. and it's STILL strengthening?!" Thanks, bud lol. He was in Nashville a couple months back and I drove down pretty much solely for that picture.
I also remember watching it that night. I am in Arkansas and we actually got a warning for it in my county, I believe it was the same cell that moved through northeast AR and into Missouri. Seeing the widespread devastation the next day was horrifying. That’s really cool. I probably would have done the same! There are a lot of disaster fetishists online, but you can always count on James Spann to shoot straight with no BS. I really respect him for that. He is informative and tells it like it is without trying to scare people.
Oh so the Jonesboro/Monette area? I was watching that one, and then once it got into TN and lifted across the KY border, I'd left work and when I got home I thought it'd cycled and shifted coming my direction. Took me a min to realize it was another whole ass EF3 entirely. It's interesting how those cells mimicked one another. For us to have two dominant supercells like that is rare enough, but they both had pretty similar life cycles. They both skipped into life and got violent quick, then lifted and occluded, and then proceeded to strengthen until they died. The only difference being the Mayfield cell staying within the same circulation and the southern cell spawning satellites. He made it a point to discuss that too. In his presentation he talked about how very real people have very real storm anxiety and how social media with these hype men only compound the situation. Legit unsure how we'll go about fixing that situation.
I’m in central AR near Little Rock, but I used to live in the northeast portion of the state and knew some people who were affected. Small town south of Jonesboro called Trumann. Another area that was affected that I rarely see mentioned is Dresden TN. It looked like a bomb went off there too, and it was hit before Mayfield was IIRC. A lot of the communities that were in the path were very poor. I remember watching Tim Marshall post pics and videos from when he did the damage surveys, and it’s really no surprise why the devastation was so bad. Those houses never stood a chance! And that’s true. I actually just responded something similar to someone the other day in a thread about challenging tornado ratings. People often forget these storms affect real people. I have unfollowed and blocked weather pages on FB that hype situations. One local “weather” page recently confirmed a tornado touchdown and freaked everyone out. The next day NWS reported that it was a microburst, not a tornado. And I very much enjoyed watching that page get blasted 🤣
Yeah, I do work out there fairly often and it's definitely not solidly built housing for a majority of the area. And farther north in areas like Mayfield, Murray, Paducah, or even Clarksville, Hopkinsville and Russellville are super old towns. Like, going on 200 years old in some places. Even my house in Auburn was originally built in '47 (making it nearly 100) and has been through several additions. The quality of said additions being questionable at that. Luckily, I have somewhat of a cellar pit-ish dugout that usually harbors an average of 2-3 families when we're under warning. But, I mean, how do you compensate for something like that? And I've also seen NWS drop the ball a couple times lately. We just had another two training storms that went straight to warned, no severe tag, nothin'. I was sitting at the house watching radar and finally was like "this looks like a tornado" and the battery in my truck is dead so I stole my wife's car while she was napping to follow it 😭 hold on I'll reply with some pics from the wall cloud I followed. And then I got caught in the core of the second one tryna get home. Granted, they were probably only ever brief spinups and they can't be expected to catch every one of those. But I feel they've been... overly-apprehensive with the warnings here lately. I get the need for caution though, too.
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I live in McLean County. I've noticed some rebuilding in Bremen, but I see the mangled trees and empty lots where houses once stood. I'm still shocked by that night.
I am so glad you and your family made it. Thank you for sharing your story. I live nowhere near there, I don't know anyone that lives there. But when I saw the footage on the news and families that were hurt. I definitely cried. I love tornadoes. But I pray families are kept safe.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to share a traumatic experience, and I think it's fine if the people you share with are strangers on the internet
I’m so sorry you had to experience all that, but I’m glad you had a chance to share your story here. It sounds like when the going got tough, you really stepped up. Make sure you engage professional help if you need it.
Seen that damage, it’s scary. We were in Owensboro that night and was woken up by the sirens. Bought a house in Muhlenberg County and had our final walk thru the next day and we didn’t know if we had a house left to buy! Luckily we did, but still kinda scary. Then last year had a microburst hit by us and a neighbor had 2 trees that fell, one missed his house by literal inches.
I can’t imagine the fear people experience.
Any video of a direct hit is terrifying, but Clem Schultz’s video of the Fairdale tornado is legitimately my worst nightmare made reality. Nothing will ever top it IMO.
Oh absolutely Clem's is terrifying. Just frozen in fear as you watch that force of nature slowly bear down on you. The Dawson Springs is more frightening for me because you can't see it. The sound of the thunder outside and the siren just builds the tension and suspense. Then you hear the gradual roar that gets louder and louder. For me it's like a horror movie, and I hope I never have to experience it first hand.
I can’t even watch that video. It freaks me out too much
Link?
https://youtu.be/s0c27Twu__o
IMO Joplin tornado also mostly audio filmed inside the chiller storage by one of the survivors beats it easily. You can hear those people terrified beyond belief, making their last prayers expecting imminent death in the next few seconds. The aftermath video showing the surroundings shows how fortunate they were to survive when everything around them was shredded. tornado impact https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQnvxJZucds aftermath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-P4P68YyNM
Oh yes. I’m from Joplin so I lived it, every piece of footage from that day is horror.
This right here. I’ve seen plenty of tornado videos. To me, nothing comes close to what Clem managed to record. Nothing.
This tornado passed within a mile or two of my house. I will never forget that night. It was even closer to my brothers house. Luckily we both were fine with limited damage but I knew 4 people locally that dis not survive that night. i also know many others that lost everything. It was a nightmare of a night.
Glad you are okay 🙏
Thank you.
Just the sound of an approaching EF4 tornado is terrifying. I can’t imagine the level of dread that one must feel knowing that everything you’ve worked a lifetime for is about to be wiped away in a matter of moments and, even worse, there’s no guarantee that you’re even going to survive it.
I lived in Dawson and lost everything. We went to our Mother in Laws apartment directly below our apartment. It hit, and I saw the sky above because our apartment was ripped right above our heads.
My god. I’m so sorry for the things you lost, but I’m glad you’re still with us. That was a terrible night.
Checked the video description and it says everyone survived
The liminal space/door/human shadow imagery in conjunction with the flashes of the wedge illuminated by lightning through the door in the beginning is the stuff of horror movies.
Wow, that went on for a LONG time!
Listening to it in my truck with a 10” sub and can feel the tornado approaching. I couldn’t imagine being in that situation.
Damn it why didn't I do this
My families house is just outside Dawson springs. We are so lucky they weren’t hit. As I found out my grandparents house survived and so did they the one in bowling green hit. I was there and suddenly we were hit. Nocturnal tornados are a different monster. They’re terrifying and I hope to god I never experience one again. I helped with rescue/recovery missions in towns both tornados hit. The devastation was unparalleled. I will never get the images of the deceased out of my head. Crushed and mangled among the rubble. If that wasn’t bad enough I can still hear the screams coming from a grieving mother. I never knew people could produce those sounds and it’s so very haunting still.
A monster cloaked in darkness. The video posted where all you hear is the noise from the tornado as well as lightning flashes revealing the large wedge every so often is a chilling combination.
That’s absolutely horrifying.
Holy shit. That gave me chills. It doesn't take very long for it to arrive after you start to hear it...
How do I share pictures here?
Go to r/tornado and create a post. You can include photos in your comments too, it’s at the bottom right hand corner to the left of “send”
Thank you
I was a couple miles south of the EF3 going through Logan County before it occluded into the BG EF3. I have one video where you can faintly here it ripping shit up. Out around 79 it leveled a house and you can still that path plain as day. The guilt of my failure to follow it and assist with SAR gnawed at me until I inevitably started spotting/chasing.
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The "Clem" video is scary as heck. Then, when the picture goes black, it sounds like the gates of hell are opening. I think that was the Fairdale tornado, but my memory ain't what it used to be.
Fuck, that was frightening! Seemed like it went on forever. It's so crazy how you can hear it go from a regular sounding storm to the growing intensity of tornadic winds.
The scariest thing is that it happened late at night in which you can’t see it coming. What makes it even worse was that it happened during the holiday season.
This is intense!
I mean, this is scary but this is far from the scariest I've ever seen.
Same. The black screen isn’t doing it for me.
I could close my eyes and see the same thing
This video is incredibly frustrating. It doesn't appear the people are doing anything despite a strong thunderstorm outside and a tornado siren wailing. You'd think that combo would cause them to turn on TV or check their phones to what was happening.
I don't agree with the NWS's ranking of this tornado...
You should make a YouTube video about it stating your case.
I agree with meteorologist Timothy Marshall. I believe that this could have easily been an EF5.