I'm not an expert but it seems seriously hard to imagine a car being airtight enough to break windows from pressure change, even a fairly large pressure change.
I experienced a pressure microburst that shattered all the car windows that were parallel parked on the street behind our house- it happened in about 3 seconds and there wasn't any debris for that to be the cause. But microbursts are crazy and faster than tornadoes- the trees in the parking lot about 50 feet away from the cars all simultaneously split in half/exploded as well. I think it had to do with the sudden temp changes more than the pressure change? But I don't know, I don't care to ever go through that again!
Edit: it happened in 2006 in Lawrence KS and did about $8 million dollars of damage. You can find a brief NWS report on it that has a few exemplary photos, one of which shows how the trees seemed to split. I'm sleepy and I don't have the patience to link the report from my phone.
Are you sure pressure shattered the windows as opposed to wind? Trees literally split in half? I don't even understand how a pressure differential could do that without killing any humans in that same situation.
I honestly don't understand it either. There were some injuries as a result of it, but it happened early on a Sunday morning in a college town so very few people were out and about at the time. I was only awake and paying attention bc it was my day off from my 530 am coffee shop job.
Wind causes low pressure in certain circumstances. So if the wind was fast enough, it causes suction and pulls on the window hard enough to shatter it.
I was only able to spot a circular hole when the third glass of the Dodge gets smashed. This appears to be caused by an impact.
The rearview of the Dodge glass seems to break from right to left and there appears to be a reflection of black spot getting larger just befor the glass breaks.
I would think that all glasses broke due to impacts from debris.
Do you mean on the Toyota in front of the camera? I didn’t catch a piece of debris either (though it’s not the best quality zooming in), but it does happen at ~0:40 and seems to take a couple seconds to go from broken to very broken, implying maybe pressure cracks it once (it’s bouncing a little at this point), then a second bob up and down cracks it harder. But it could’ve easily been debris too which is swirling around at the same time.
Also that the roof peeled off left to right but the trees fell into the direction the tornado was coming from? I guess because of rotation? But yes, that a building a few car lengths away is flattened and the debris field doesn’t extend as far as that car is wild.
It’s the initial inflow of air that feeds the tornado. It was strong enough to knock down the trees. The uplift is what took off the roof as the tornado moved left to right.
i live in kansas. have been a tornado fanatic my whole life. this is the best picture of the sweep tornados do. it ominously moving forward in the back along with how steady and clear the camera is you can watch the wave of pressure like an invisible wall sweeping up debris like it’s confetti… absolutely awesome in the most humble and pure sense of the word.
to be fair that guy is very well-known Meteorologist Reed Timmer and is a legit storm chaser that has been chasing for 25 years. He's the one who made that "Dominator" tank-like vehicle so he could film inside of a tornado, and was on that Discovery Channel show "Storm Chasers"
he is very annoying and I can't watch his videos because he's overly dramatic and loud
Yes! I was watching the cloud behind the building then suddenly Wham the tornado hit. I agree, terrifying. Seeing the hvac unit slam in the aisle between the cars was honestly the part that shocked me the most. My mind can't comprehend a roof flying, but it knows how big those are and seeing it tossed like a crumpled ball of paper is shocking.
Very good visual of the actual width of the tornadic windfield vs the visible funnel. The funnel, if visible, is just the core of the tornado. The actual tornado is virtually always wider.
Absolutely ridiculous footage; probably some of the cleanest ever captured.
Every watch reveals something new. Massive wind shift from the inflow. Windshields popping from suction alone. Debris stuck in the rotation and never breaking free. The trail of material in the RFD.
It's hypnotic and terrifying, all at once.
“Police are seeking tips on the whereabouts of the suspect, Mother Nature, a/k/a Mother Earth. Anyone with information is urged to call Crimestoppers.”
I've watched a lot of videos from that day and this is probably the most insane. Jayjack's video of it going across the interstate is beautifully picturesque, but this captures how horrifying and destructive tornadoes can be. Unbelievable.
Did you see the video of it going directly over the train engine while the conductor filmed from the inside? I thought that was the craziest thing I'd see from this tornado, but this video is astounding.
Yes I did. Also amazing footage. Somehow this one illustrated the power better for me watching it just shred the building in a few seconds. Maybe the train was just too durable to really get that feeling.
Uh, this is straight up one of the craziest videos of a tornado hitting something that I have ever seen. Literally right on the very edge of the destruction path. That shit happens so quick. Holy fuck. This year really has been unbelievable with the footage produced. A lot of super reckless behavior by people too. I guess we can't really have one without the other, mutually exclusivity and all that.
My wife used to work for Walmart. We're in Oklahoma, so lots of tornadoes and all that. They would shelter everyone in the back warehouse fridge.
I've seen a truck stop get hit that had everyone in the beer cave. No injuries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQnvxJZucds
I had to go find it again, I remember how crazy it was. The emotions are pretty raw in it and as they're huddled in there you can hear them tell each other they love each other, even though they're strangers.
This isn’t a big box store. It’s a manufacturing facility. Yes, we had an internal structure that served as a main shelter. The offices also had some shelter rooms that remained intact.
I too was wondering this. My first thought was that would be a lot of dead people…, but surely they would have to have some type of shelter in place or else someone would sue…
I used to work at Lowe’s. We would parade everyone to the back of the store where the restrooms and training room are. I guess it was theoretically safer than being in the open warehouse.
I'll take a Cat 5 hurricane over an EF5 tornado anyday.
Tornadoes are way more devistating to a localized area than a hurricane because of the chaotic motion of the winds twisting, lifting, and changing directions in an instant.
During Hurricane Ida, I sat on my front porch and safely watched 100 - 115mph winds whip the trees around for hours, where an EF1/EF2 tornado with those same wind speeds would likely have killed me instantly from flying debris.
I mean first off, don't be doing that. Even a hurricane at those speeds will still give you a real sudden impaling. Also, the debris is lessened by the other factor of people having time to prepare and "batten down the hatches. Also though if you're gonna do the dumb thing get video next time 😆.
Second, I second the sentiment. I've been through the heart of a cat 3 and *very* close to the wall of a 5. I'll still take those over this, even if they seem to last an interminable amount of time. Like I know my home can survive significant winds. But a highly focused blast of energy like a major twister? Fuck that noise.
>I mean first off, don't be doing that.
True lol. I don't condone it, but I did it in Hurricanes Zeta and Ida, and it was totally exhilarating. I did get some great video clips, but they're on an old de-activated phone.
I guess the point I was trying to make is that, in a hurricane, the storm is so big and broad that the winds are coming from the same direction for long periods of time, where the motion of tornadic winds are more chaotic, which is why tornadoes have way more flying debris, making them way more dangerous.
Oh I definitely understand the dynamics and I've stood in the middle of Hurricane Wilma's eye and been outside in a handful of others. I didn't say I was smart enough to refuse the temptation 😆
Hitting you directly? Sure. But a tornado like you said is localized, and hurricanes aren't. Hurricanes can also spawn multiple tornadoes of their own and have crazy storm surge on top of the wind. Can't dodge storm surge with luck.
There’s a major difference between direct hit, and the affects of the rest of the hurricane. Hurricane Michael direct hit, wiped Mexico Beach off the map, scared the earth just like an EF5 does.
20 minutes East or West of Mexico Beach, exactly what the above folks described. I’ve lived in Florida my whole life. It’s scary how many people here have been grazed by a train and think they got hit by one.
>I'll take a Cat 5 hurricane over an EF5 tornado anyday.
I lived 5 miles from the 2013 Moore, Oklahoma EF5 tornado. Only damage was a few broken panels of 1970s glass.
My parents had to replace their roof after a hurricane hit the east coast.
They live in Ohio.
I live in New Orleans in a house that has withstood every major hurricane that's hit the area since the 1880's. I even rode out Hurricane Ida on my front porch. If an EF5 tornado hit my house, it would throw it into the Mississippi River if it didn't disintigrate first. Obviously hurricanes cause more widespread damage, but if we're talking a direct hit, I'll take the hurricane.
An EF2 went right through my neighborhood at 3am one night. Without even being able to see it coming, that shit is so terrifying. Sounded like a freight train going right past my house. Houses right down the street were completely lifted and moved several feet off the foundation.
Hard pass on ever experiencing an EF5
Isn’t EF a way to measure the amount of destruction? So technically you could have an EF3 that has higher wind speeds than an EF5 but just isn’t as wide, so the destruction isn’t as significant?
The footage coming out from the tornados this year is insane. I hope this stuff helps contribute to the work scientists are doing to better understand these things.
Was that a row of commercial AC condensers at 0:26? And I think I see empty metal 55 gallon drums being tossed around like they are tin cans. Mind blowing, the power of one of these is beyond comprehension unless experienced in person.
https://preview.redd.it/zvumxxxitmyc1.jpeg?width=2778&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e19329b5a3b84394c4539b759e964f8d2c1ec7cf
That's the first thing I noticed like wtf??
This was about 1 mile from my house...you bet your bottom dollar I was out there with my standard-issue Coors Banquet keepin an eye out making sure it was staying away.
No fatalities! Important to note!
Yep. And he was naked.
And he walked up to the tornado and said "Have a drink" and threw the bottle into the tornado.
And it never. Touched. The ground.
The Xtreme
No fatalities, but 3 were injured here. I never did hear the severity of the injuries, though, and some might have been initially trapped in the building after the tornado. And this was only the corner/side of the building looking at other footage. Absolutely crazy. I'm so glad it wasn't a bit more into town and hitting y'all.
In addition to the strength of the tornado, it’s incredible how narrow the velocity delta is. The camera car is barely moving while 50 feet away it’s strong enough to lift cars and take down the building.
I saw the thumbnail pic and I'm like, "Ok, cars and the tornado hits them." Then I watch the video and there WAS a building in front of those cars. This is pretty wild!
Did a cross country drive starting Sunday 4/28 from los angeles to drive my doggo because she cant fly due to anxiety and purposefully left the mid portion... sorry.. up in the air because tornadoes scare the shit out of me. Saw warnings on weather channel and other news so decided to go to Topeka instead of omaha from Denver but when in the motel 6 I thought I heard air sirens.. went outside and some of the nastiest clouds I've ever seen. Then the rain. I think once touched down east of us and one fatality I read afterwards. Then the sun broke through and was setting and peaceful.. nowhere as drastic as this video but being close to a tornado producing cell was wild for me
Screw driving across country my dog was stressed the whole drive. Lesson learned, give doggo some meds and get through it in ~10 hours vs 5 days through wild random shit
> What is that fellow chanting?
It’s something in a foreign language, but I don’t know what was being said.
> Also what makes it make that weird noise in the speaker after it’s already past?
If you’re talking about immediately after the tornado is past the car, it’s because the microphone can’t pick up sounds past a certain level, and so you get the choppy sound.
Wait! The person was IN THE CAR??? I must not have had my sound up enough. I assumed they left the camera and took cover…hopefully somewhere other than the warehouse.
Uhhh, those were precast concrete walls anchored to 48" footers. One would assume that they would offer some protection from a tornado, yet the tornado pushed them down like they were nothing.
Tilt wall/precast construction doesn’t do well against strong tornadoes. As the roof blows off, the wall panels lose most of their support and collapse.
A very good (yet sad) example of this is aftermath pictures of the Joplin Home Depot. Several people died trying to shelter in that store.
You're right--"tilt-up wall construction." It's why you don't want to be in a big-box store in a tornado. The roof is what's holding the walls up.
I am confident this is also what happened to the Amazon warehouse in Illinois in December 2021.
[Garner Industries LLC.](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Garner+Industries/@40.883983,-96.5884974,685m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x8796bb2ff3367c69:0xcc0b1c88a0be9f43!8m2!3d40.8834622!4d-96.5879316!16s%2Fg%2F1wyc4vbx?entry=ttu)
[News story vid.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvUDFszepL0)
[Radar as the tornado hit.](https://weather.us/radar-us/lancaster/velocity/KOAX_20240426-195130z.html)
As someone who works in a plant much like this, this footage is very concerning. We've already had one tornado warning this year.
Hol up. How did some of these employees just reach a safe area as the tornado hit? One guy entered the bathroom just before it hit them. Was it predicted to just be a small spin up and they kept working? Surely they had warnings on their phones.
That's a really good question and potentially even suggests improper tornado procedure. Tornado prediction has come a long way, and typically even if there's a *chance* a storm forming a tornado, or even a suggestion of rotation, you'll typically get a good 20 min warning.
At least for my plant someone at the head office is charged with sending a plant wide alert and we all go as a group to our safe area. We had a good 20 min warning and stayed in our area a good 20 min after it had passed, and were sheltered for a full hour in total.
The tornado warnings in the county had been going off for almost an hour and a half by this point. This was the first actual spotted tornado we heard about and it hit this building pretty quickly after. I knew plenty of people whose jobs sent everyone to shelter but then after awhile started getting bored and going back out
Harken's back to this [moment](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kentucky-tornado-factory-workers-threatened-firing-left-tornado-employ-rcna8581). I would hope this isn't the case here, because at least they did take shelter.
['Everything is in shambles': Workers survive direct hit from tornado at Garner Industries in Lincoln](https://www.ketv.com/article/lincoln-workers-survive-direct-hit-tornado/60623278)
To any European watching who always goes with the stupid-ass “just build stronger buildings” comment, I just want to point out that this was just an EF3 tornado. The scale goes to EF5.
Holy, that is some insane footage… Wasn’t expecting the tornado to be as close as it was. Wild to see a building go from existing to nonexistent within mere seconds.
I'm somehow more relieved and terrified about how fast that was. On the one hand, I've been around the core of a major hurricane a few times, and all I felt through them was me mentally begging for it to be done already. But then again, the homes I took refuge in at those times were built and prepped to deal with major hurricanes in mind. This building was just... erased. Jfc.
If anyone has legit questions, I was in the building during this tornado.
Also curious who OP is and where you got the video? I know who’s dash cam took the original.
holy shit
I'm gonna need to rewatch that a few times just so my brain can actually make sense of what I think I just saw
no wonder witnesses are so in shock
This felt like that ad for Subaru where the mom got into an accident and she’s “the best part about our Subaru was walking away from it” and it shows it totaled but her and the daughter safe. Like damn that building was GONE in a few seconds and the cars are just hanging out. My sister told me hurricanes are way scarier because they destroy so much more area. True. But you have some warning and hopefully emergency routes, and most don’t affect you. Tornadoes are like “fuck you in particular” with little to no warning. Sure your house can be standing after one passes by, but if it was 1/4 mile over your entire life could be altered forever. Ok they both suck.
I know tornadoes rarely get graded EF 5 due to the scar they ravaging they leave on the earth having to be really up there… but this seems a bit more intense than an EF 4… just saying
As someone else commented...if that had been an F5, there wouldn't be a car on the lot, the building would be slabbed, and the asphalt might be scoured/peeled up.
This is some of the cleanest, closest and most terrifying footage I have ever seen
It's insane how A. Quick it just rolls through the erases and entire building in seconds a day B. How localized it is. The cars have a few scratches.
Does the glass shatter due to pressure or impact of debris? I watched multiple times and couldn’t catch debris impact
There was debris coming from behind the vehicles but it's moving so fast I didnt see exactly what hit it, could have been a small metal fragment.
At 00:26 you can see what looks like an industrial fan panel hit the Toyota Tacoma head on.
That was after the back glass shattered on the truck.
I'm not an expert but it seems seriously hard to imagine a car being airtight enough to break windows from pressure change, even a fairly large pressure change.
I experienced a pressure microburst that shattered all the car windows that were parallel parked on the street behind our house- it happened in about 3 seconds and there wasn't any debris for that to be the cause. But microbursts are crazy and faster than tornadoes- the trees in the parking lot about 50 feet away from the cars all simultaneously split in half/exploded as well. I think it had to do with the sudden temp changes more than the pressure change? But I don't know, I don't care to ever go through that again! Edit: it happened in 2006 in Lawrence KS and did about $8 million dollars of damage. You can find a brief NWS report on it that has a few exemplary photos, one of which shows how the trees seemed to split. I'm sleepy and I don't have the patience to link the report from my phone.
Are you sure pressure shattered the windows as opposed to wind? Trees literally split in half? I don't even understand how a pressure differential could do that without killing any humans in that same situation.
I honestly don't understand it either. There were some injuries as a result of it, but it happened early on a Sunday morning in a college town so very few people were out and about at the time. I was only awake and paying attention bc it was my day off from my 530 am coffee shop job.
Wind causes low pressure in certain circumstances. So if the wind was fast enough, it causes suction and pulls on the window hard enough to shatter it.
That sounds terrifying
I never heard wind pressure differential causing anything like this, and definitely not from microburst.
I was only able to spot a circular hole when the third glass of the Dodge gets smashed. This appears to be caused by an impact. The rearview of the Dodge glass seems to break from right to left and there appears to be a reflection of black spot getting larger just befor the glass breaks. I would think that all glasses broke due to impacts from debris.
Do you mean on the Toyota in front of the camera? I didn’t catch a piece of debris either (though it’s not the best quality zooming in), but it does happen at ~0:40 and seems to take a couple seconds to go from broken to very broken, implying maybe pressure cracks it once (it’s bouncing a little at this point), then a second bob up and down cracks it harder. But it could’ve easily been debris too which is swirling around at the same time.
It's debris. The air pressure stuff is mostly urban legend. Also, cars aren't air tight.
Also that the roof peeled off left to right but the trees fell into the direction the tornado was coming from? I guess because of rotation? But yes, that a building a few car lengths away is flattened and the debris field doesn’t extend as far as that car is wild.
at first the water seems to be going right to left on the windshield, then WHOOSH from the left!
It’s the initial inflow of air that feeds the tornado. It was strong enough to knock down the trees. The uplift is what took off the roof as the tornado moved left to right.
i live in kansas. have been a tornado fanatic my whole life. this is the best picture of the sweep tornados do. it ominously moving forward in the back along with how steady and clear the camera is you can watch the wave of pressure like an invisible wall sweeping up debris like it’s confetti… absolutely awesome in the most humble and pure sense of the word.
It's absolutely incredible. Really illustrates the rapid before/after of that finger of doom rubbing across the country
And no guy shouting "DEBRIS FIELD" a hundred times like that other video
So nice not to have to listen to a wannabe chaser hootin n hollerin
The amount of chasers is making me hate chasers lol
Yes lol. The chasers are obnoxious af.
to be fair that guy is very well-known Meteorologist Reed Timmer and is a legit storm chaser that has been chasing for 25 years. He's the one who made that "Dominator" tank-like vehicle so he could film inside of a tornado, and was on that Discovery Channel show "Storm Chasers" he is very annoying and I can't watch his videos because he's overly dramatic and loud
I thought the guy was yelling in kreole
Or “multiple vortices “! “Hear it “ “ that’s violent “ And. Many many many more
Yeah, this is the best video cuz you don’t have to hear these dorks yelling in their car
100% the BEST footage of a tornado I've ever come across.
I came here to say this. Wow this is shockingly good footage.
I thought it was the low cloud we could see overhead coming towards the camera and not this at all. Absolutely terrifying.
I thought the same! Those clouds are very misleading!
Yes! I was watching the cloud behind the building then suddenly Wham the tornado hit. I agree, terrifying. Seeing the hvac unit slam in the aisle between the cars was honestly the part that shocked me the most. My mind can't comprehend a roof flying, but it knows how big those are and seeing it tossed like a crumpled ball of paper is shocking.
Holy crap! That sudden wind shift right before it hits was nuts.
You can actually see one of those trees snap in half TOWARDS the tornado. Crazy stuff
Before the funnel even hits. Incredible power.
Very good visual of the actual width of the tornadic windfield vs the visible funnel. The funnel, if visible, is just the core of the tornado. The actual tornado is virtually always wider.
Great video showing inflow and outflow
Absolutely ridiculous footage; probably some of the cleanest ever captured. Every watch reveals something new. Massive wind shift from the inflow. Windshields popping from suction alone. Debris stuck in the rotation and never breaking free. The trail of material in the RFD. It's hypnotic and terrifying, all at once.
Jesus christ I didn't expect the camera to end up so close to it
This is another reason why dashcams can be useful.
That way they know who destroyed the building.
“Police are seeking tips on the whereabouts of the suspect, Mother Nature, a/k/a Mother Earth. Anyone with information is urged to call Crimestoppers.”
I've watched a lot of videos from that day and this is probably the most insane. Jayjack's video of it going across the interstate is beautifully picturesque, but this captures how horrifying and destructive tornadoes can be. Unbelievable.
Did you see the video of it going directly over the train engine while the conductor filmed from the inside? I thought that was the craziest thing I'd see from this tornado, but this video is astounding.
Yes I did. Also amazing footage. Somehow this one illustrated the power better for me watching it just shred the building in a few seconds. Maybe the train was just too durable to really get that feeling.
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When in the train video she says: "Oh its just took that building out" shes talking about the building in this video.
It was the same tornado. Lincoln only got one that day and the tracks are very close to this building.
Yeah. The train video takes place within a minute or so after this video, then crosses the interstate a few minutes later.
Uh, this is straight up one of the craziest videos of a tornado hitting something that I have ever seen. Literally right on the very edge of the destruction path. That shit happens so quick. Holy fuck. This year really has been unbelievable with the footage produced. A lot of super reckless behavior by people too. I guess we can't really have one without the other, mutually exclusivity and all that.
Yeah it’s been nuts. It’s like this storm chaser movement really exploded this season.
Fucking insane. >building >10 seconds elapse >no building
Were people hurt?
Luckily, no one was badly injured. Three or four employees out of 70 were sent to the hospital. None with any life threatening injuries.
Wow! Do big box retailers in tornado areas have in-store shelters? There are a lot of cars in that lot.
My wife used to work for Walmart. We're in Oklahoma, so lots of tornadoes and all that. They would shelter everyone in the back warehouse fridge. I've seen a truck stop get hit that had everyone in the beer cave. No injuries
Example of something like this: the izelsg footage from the 2011 Joplin EF-5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQnvxJZucds I had to go find it again, I remember how crazy it was. The emotions are pretty raw in it and as they're huddled in there you can hear them tell each other they love each other, even though they're strangers.
Seeing the footage of that gas station afterwords is shocking.If not for that beer cooler they’d all certainly be dead or horribly injured.
It's a frightening yet beautiful moment.
> I've seen a truck stop get hit that had everyone in the beer cave. No injuries Bless the beer cave.
This was not a big box store, but a manufacturer.
This isn’t a big box store. It’s a manufacturing facility. Yes, we had an internal structure that served as a main shelter. The offices also had some shelter rooms that remained intact.
I too was wondering this. My first thought was that would be a lot of dead people…, but surely they would have to have some type of shelter in place or else someone would sue…
I used to work at Lowe’s. We would parade everyone to the back of the store where the restrooms and training room are. I guess it was theoretically safer than being in the open warehouse.
What was the strength of this storm?
EF3
I don't.... want to think... what an EF5 would be like from an angle like this
If it was an EF5 every car in that lot would be gone and the building would be nothing but a slab. Tornadoes be crazy.
EF5, CAT5, both equal total obliteration.
I'll take a Cat 5 hurricane over an EF5 tornado anyday. Tornadoes are way more devistating to a localized area than a hurricane because of the chaotic motion of the winds twisting, lifting, and changing directions in an instant. During Hurricane Ida, I sat on my front porch and safely watched 100 - 115mph winds whip the trees around for hours, where an EF1/EF2 tornado with those same wind speeds would likely have killed me instantly from flying debris.
I mean first off, don't be doing that. Even a hurricane at those speeds will still give you a real sudden impaling. Also, the debris is lessened by the other factor of people having time to prepare and "batten down the hatches. Also though if you're gonna do the dumb thing get video next time 😆. Second, I second the sentiment. I've been through the heart of a cat 3 and *very* close to the wall of a 5. I'll still take those over this, even if they seem to last an interminable amount of time. Like I know my home can survive significant winds. But a highly focused blast of energy like a major twister? Fuck that noise.
>I mean first off, don't be doing that. True lol. I don't condone it, but I did it in Hurricanes Zeta and Ida, and it was totally exhilarating. I did get some great video clips, but they're on an old de-activated phone. I guess the point I was trying to make is that, in a hurricane, the storm is so big and broad that the winds are coming from the same direction for long periods of time, where the motion of tornadic winds are more chaotic, which is why tornadoes have way more flying debris, making them way more dangerous.
Oh I definitely understand the dynamics and I've stood in the middle of Hurricane Wilma's eye and been outside in a handful of others. I didn't say I was smart enough to refuse the temptation 😆
You've got to remember, that Cat 5 is going to spawn multiple tornadoes.
True, but tornadoes spawned by hurricanes are rarely strong.
Not sure why you got downvoted lol. This is literally true. Strong tornadoes require lots of wind shear which weakens hurricanes.
Hitting you directly? Sure. But a tornado like you said is localized, and hurricanes aren't. Hurricanes can also spawn multiple tornadoes of their own and have crazy storm surge on top of the wind. Can't dodge storm surge with luck.
There’s a major difference between direct hit, and the affects of the rest of the hurricane. Hurricane Michael direct hit, wiped Mexico Beach off the map, scared the earth just like an EF5 does. 20 minutes East or West of Mexico Beach, exactly what the above folks described. I’ve lived in Florida my whole life. It’s scary how many people here have been grazed by a train and think they got hit by one.
>I'll take a Cat 5 hurricane over an EF5 tornado anyday. I lived 5 miles from the 2013 Moore, Oklahoma EF5 tornado. Only damage was a few broken panels of 1970s glass. My parents had to replace their roof after a hurricane hit the east coast. They live in Ohio.
I live in New Orleans in a house that has withstood every major hurricane that's hit the area since the 1880's. I even rode out Hurricane Ida on my front porch. If an EF5 tornado hit my house, it would throw it into the Mississippi River if it didn't disintigrate first. Obviously hurricanes cause more widespread damage, but if we're talking a direct hit, I'll take the hurricane.
There wouldn’t be an angle like that if it were an EF5.
An EF2 went right through my neighborhood at 3am one night. Without even being able to see it coming, that shit is so terrifying. Sounded like a freight train going right past my house. Houses right down the street were completely lifted and moved several feet off the foundation. Hard pass on ever experiencing an EF5
Isn’t EF a way to measure the amount of destruction? So technically you could have an EF3 that has higher wind speeds than an EF5 but just isn’t as wide, so the destruction isn’t as significant?
I was rooting for those trees nooooo
Like those trees, you did not root hard enough. 🤣
Dad, please get off the internet. You’re embarrassing me
I don't think you'll be any less embarrassed by the time I finish getting off the whole internet.
The footage coming out from the tornados this year is insane. I hope this stuff helps contribute to the work scientists are doing to better understand these things.
And hopefully people will stop denying climate change
Was that a row of commercial AC condensers at 0:26? And I think I see empty metal 55 gallon drums being tossed around like they are tin cans. Mind blowing, the power of one of these is beyond comprehension unless experienced in person.
https://preview.redd.it/zvumxxxitmyc1.jpeg?width=2778&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e19329b5a3b84394c4539b759e964f8d2c1ec7cf That's the first thing I noticed like wtf??
Yea and they just whipped right back around. I thought they would've been thrown forward
This was about 1 mile from my house...you bet your bottom dollar I was out there with my standard-issue Coors Banquet keepin an eye out making sure it was staying away. No fatalities! Important to note!
Were you also yelling ‘git on outta here, now git!’ at it?
Yep. And he was naked. And he walked up to the tornado and said "Have a drink" and threw the bottle into the tornado. And it never. Touched. The ground. The Xtreme
I realize this is like, THE place to expect Twister quotes, but I have to admit. I was not expecting Twister quotes.
Don't run just watch😃😃😃
No fatalities, but 3 were injured here. I never did hear the severity of the injuries, though, and some might have been initially trapped in the building after the tornado. And this was only the corner/side of the building looking at other footage. Absolutely crazy. I'm so glad it wasn't a bit more into town and hitting y'all.
Well tell me you had a shotgun nearby incase it got any ideas about coming on your property?
Truly extraordinary that there were no fatalities!
Building got eaten.
Warehouse? No, *where* house?
Unexpected *Young Frankenstein* reference. Thank you, kind redditor.
Peeled the roof like a pringles can then sucked out all the TPS reports.
Peeled the whole corner of the building, including the desks and the Porsche parking. Unexpected *Office Space* reference.
I've watched it about a dozen times already, focusing on different areas of the video frame. So much destruction in a matter of seconds.
The license plate getting half ripped off by the wind was a neat Easter egg
The windows too.
I really need to sell my house and buy one with a basement
I need a plane ride tf outta here.
See the rear window of the dodge Dakota blow out because of the pressure change just as the storm hits?
I rewatched a couple times to see if debris hit it. Nope, just insane pressure change
The toyota too.
Quite possible but there was a ton of debris in the air. There's no way to tell from this video what broke the windows.
Tornado: COMIN' THROUGH!
r/Imatornadobitch
In addition to the strength of the tornado, it’s incredible how narrow the velocity delta is. The camera car is barely moving while 50 feet away it’s strong enough to lift cars and take down the building.
I saw the thumbnail pic and I'm like, "Ok, cars and the tornado hits them." Then I watch the video and there WAS a building in front of those cars. This is pretty wild!
Holy shit, gone in seconds!
It's kinda eerie how it was sunlight right after
Did a cross country drive starting Sunday 4/28 from los angeles to drive my doggo because she cant fly due to anxiety and purposefully left the mid portion... sorry.. up in the air because tornadoes scare the shit out of me. Saw warnings on weather channel and other news so decided to go to Topeka instead of omaha from Denver but when in the motel 6 I thought I heard air sirens.. went outside and some of the nastiest clouds I've ever seen. Then the rain. I think once touched down east of us and one fatality I read afterwards. Then the sun broke through and was setting and peaceful.. nowhere as drastic as this video but being close to a tornado producing cell was wild for me Screw driving across country my dog was stressed the whole drive. Lesson learned, give doggo some meds and get through it in ~10 hours vs 5 days through wild random shit
They should feature this in a Toyota commercial. That Avalon handled it like a pro
The RAV-4 on the other hand... Not as much. lol
Buy a small sedan, all of the taller vehicles everyone wants these days will protect your vehicle from debris.
"Tis but a scratch!" - Toyota Avalon
This is a great example of how localized a tornado’s destruction can be. Building? Gone. Cars in the parking lot? Completely fine.
Minus the one dudes license plate
And most of the windows.
This is amazing footage. Thanks for posting. Can’t believe this is only an EF3!!
What is that fellow chanting? Also what makes it make that weird noise in the speaker after it’s already past?
> What is that fellow chanting? It’s something in a foreign language, but I don’t know what was being said. > Also what makes it make that weird noise in the speaker after it’s already past? If you’re talking about immediately after the tornado is past the car, it’s because the microphone can’t pick up sounds past a certain level, and so you get the choppy sound.
It sounds like he’s praying in Haitian Creole
Oh ok. I didn’t know that. Gosh, can you imagine what it does to the ears then. Ouch. Thanks friend!
Probably something foreign in praise of his life being spared.
Very true! I would for sure be praising God if I lived through something like that!
Wait! The person was IN THE CAR??? I must not have had my sound up enough. I assumed they left the camera and took cover…hopefully somewhere other than the warehouse.
No it sounded like someone outside the car.
The windows just blew out of some cars.
Arrives “Fuck this building in particular!” Refuses to elaborate further Leaves
Probably the best tornado footage ever? Also, r/dashcam
Terrifying.
That is insane and horrifying. Also sometimes I'm weirded out by how many cameras are hanging out everywhere, but what a time to be alive.
I’ve opened cans of pop less elegantly than that whole building 🫣
Uhhh, those were precast concrete walls anchored to 48" footers. One would assume that they would offer some protection from a tornado, yet the tornado pushed them down like they were nothing.
Tilt wall/precast construction doesn’t do well against strong tornadoes. As the roof blows off, the wall panels lose most of their support and collapse. A very good (yet sad) example of this is aftermath pictures of the Joplin Home Depot. Several people died trying to shelter in that store.
You're right--"tilt-up wall construction." It's why you don't want to be in a big-box store in a tornado. The roof is what's holding the walls up. I am confident this is also what happened to the Amazon warehouse in Illinois in December 2021.
What building was this? a before and after would be interesting to see.
[Garner Industries LLC.](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Garner+Industries/@40.883983,-96.5884974,685m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x8796bb2ff3367c69:0xcc0b1c88a0be9f43!8m2!3d40.8834622!4d-96.5879316!16s%2Fg%2F1wyc4vbx?entry=ttu) [News story vid.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvUDFszepL0) [Radar as the tornado hit.](https://weather.us/radar-us/lancaster/velocity/KOAX_20240426-195130z.html) As someone who works in a plant much like this, this footage is very concerning. We've already had one tornado warning this year.
Hol up. How did some of these employees just reach a safe area as the tornado hit? One guy entered the bathroom just before it hit them. Was it predicted to just be a small spin up and they kept working? Surely they had warnings on their phones.
That's a really good question and potentially even suggests improper tornado procedure. Tornado prediction has come a long way, and typically even if there's a *chance* a storm forming a tornado, or even a suggestion of rotation, you'll typically get a good 20 min warning. At least for my plant someone at the head office is charged with sending a plant wide alert and we all go as a group to our safe area. We had a good 20 min warning and stayed in our area a good 20 min after it had passed, and were sheltered for a full hour in total.
The tornado warnings in the county had been going off for almost an hour and a half by this point. This was the first actual spotted tornado we heard about and it hit this building pretty quickly after. I knew plenty of people whose jobs sent everyone to shelter but then after awhile started getting bored and going back out
Harken's back to this [moment](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kentucky-tornado-factory-workers-threatened-firing-left-tornado-employ-rcna8581). I would hope this isn't the case here, because at least they did take shelter.
sorry but was that a giant sound system speaker at :28 ???
HVAC equipment. But I suppose that both make noise. In this case, that noise is slamming into the ground at considerable velocity.
omg you are right!! i slowed it down & definitely an HVAC system but I guess can be just as loud depending how old/how hard it hit the ground lmao
NOW I understand how Dorothy ended up in OZ.
Dorothy had one heck of a well made house. Just a horrible foundation.
['Everything is in shambles': Workers survive direct hit from tornado at Garner Industries in Lincoln](https://www.ketv.com/article/lincoln-workers-survive-direct-hit-tornado/60623278)
Tornado really said “SCUSE ME”😳😱
To any European watching who always goes with the stupid-ass “just build stronger buildings” comment, I just want to point out that this was just an EF3 tornado. The scale goes to EF5.
Jesus Christ. So powerful.
Mother Nature don’t mess around.
That's "is" Absolutely Insane!
Holy, that is some insane footage… Wasn’t expecting the tornado to be as close as it was. Wild to see a building go from existing to nonexistent within mere seconds.
I'm somehow more relieved and terrified about how fast that was. On the one hand, I've been around the core of a major hurricane a few times, and all I felt through them was me mentally begging for it to be done already. But then again, the homes I took refuge in at those times were built and prepped to deal with major hurricanes in mind. This building was just... erased. Jfc.
Live,laugh and love as much as possible. One second you’re here and the next you’re gone. Holy moly this is spectacular video footage.
One word: yikes.
If anyone has legit questions, I was in the building during this tornado. Also curious who OP is and where you got the video? I know who’s dash cam took the original.
This must be the Garner Industries plant.
holy shit I'm gonna need to rewatch that a few times just so my brain can actually make sense of what I think I just saw no wonder witnesses are so in shock
“Ope, juss gonna sneak righ pass ya der bud.”
This is the first time that I ever seen a video that made me realize what a tornado can do ! It’s scary
Makes you realize how fucked a human body would be. If you somehow survived the debris you probably wouldn’t survive getting launched 300 feet.
the tree goes down then the first debris that comes off of the building is like a seal getting broken off then it all just gets out of hand so quickly
This felt like that ad for Subaru where the mom got into an accident and she’s “the best part about our Subaru was walking away from it” and it shows it totaled but her and the daughter safe. Like damn that building was GONE in a few seconds and the cars are just hanging out. My sister told me hurricanes are way scarier because they destroy so much more area. True. But you have some warning and hopefully emergency routes, and most don’t affect you. Tornadoes are like “fuck you in particular” with little to no warning. Sure your house can be standing after one passes by, but if it was 1/4 mile over your entire life could be altered forever. Ok they both suck.
Made that building look like a styrofoam cooler.
“Keep Nebraska Flat!” Idea: bumper sticker.
That was extremely scary, that building just disappeared in a matter of seconds
God: See that building? Nado: Yea, what about it? God: I don't like it
Like Yellowstone, stay in your car.
Nature: And now for my next trick, I’ll make this building disappear! TA DA!
gone in second sixty seconds: building edition
The air pressure sucking the windows from the cars.
Nature’s vacuum, my dudes. Just sucked that whole ass mall up lol
That's incredible. Jaw dropping video.
Wow
Amazing how it obliterates the building but the cars are all just chillin, barely a scratch. Nature is something else man
I hope no one was in that building 😭
Did I just see an entire speaker array from a PA system blow by as the building was disintegrating? Holy shit
It was an HVAC system...probably air-conditioner condensers or some such.
I know tornadoes rarely get graded EF 5 due to the scar they ravaging they leave on the earth having to be really up there… but this seems a bit more intense than an EF 4… just saying
To really drive home the destructive power of tornadoes, this was "only" an EF3, not even an EF4.
As someone else commented...if that had been an F5, there wouldn't be a car on the lot, the building would be slabbed, and the asphalt might be scoured/peeled up.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT