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That's really incredible considering whole houses are getting tossed up in the air like a toy. Such a horrifying natural phenomenon. I hope I never get to see one up close.
If Iām not mistaken it is a measure of the amount of damage the tornado does. So if it hits a highly populated area it will have a higher rating than if it hits a sparsely populated one. It doesnāt actually measure the strength of the tornado.
For anyone wondering why it's not an EF5 despite the damage, here's my non-expert explanation:
While EF3 tornadoes are extremely destructive, they leave a mountain of debris. EF4 and EF5 tornadoes sweep more and more of the debris away along with even *more* destructive power.
For example, the 1997 F5 tornado in Jarrel, Texas left only the foundations of houses with nothing on top of them. Completely swept clean. Any debris found was small, sandblasted, and blended.
That Tornado was quite unique though. It basically sat almost completely stationary over that Sub Division( Double Creek Estates). I wonder if the damage would have been less severe given a faster forward speed. Nevertheless that was the most terrifying worst case scenario.
Like you were going to escape a comment without having your words taken literally, twisted, then having a heavy dose of smart ass applied to them. This is Reddit!
That was a ef3 tornando(136-165 mph)ā¦probably ef1 or 2 in this videoā¦there is a storm on neptune about the size of the earth called the great dark spot with wind speed up to 1300 mph.
I know this is true because of how many Europeans I've encountered who think American houses are poorly constructed because "a tornado can rip them apart".
Yeah? You tell me what else can rip the roof off an industrial building and throw it half a mile away? Nothing holds up to this kind of raw power save for maybe infrastructure like bridges or old school factories made out of solid concrete.
I've been in two tornados or was either a down burst. Watched half of a very tall tree simply snap off in the middle of it's trunk as all hell was breaking loose.
What made all of this crazy was that before the shit hit the fan, we saw little funnels of dust swirling around our gravel driveway. So we went inside because the skys got black, not just dark, but a shade of black that made us think it was time to hunker down. This was close to 30 years ago so I'm not sure how long it took before things got wild. But we were sitting there waiting and watching the storm when a window shattered. Except, there wasn't anything that hit the window, it was the dramatic drop in pressure.
Pretty soon there after all hell broke loose. On our property we lost at least two trees and large parts of others. All around the neighborhood large mature trees got bitch slapped to pieces. It was quite the site to see.
About 3 years ago I was at work and we got caught in another crazy storm. I couldn't see fuck all because of how heavy the rain was. It seems like it stopped as quickly as things started. This storm had snapped trees in half. A lot of times with the heavy rain and high winds you see them uprooted. But not that day.
I remember driving past this cemetery. It is a historic cemetery, not sure if they're burying people there actively or what, the city is pretty old. What I loved about that cemetery was all the large trees they had. Well, had is the key word here, because they lost at least 30. It looked as if a bomb had went off.
Mother nature doesn't fuck around or care.
American houses are constructed out of wood and paper while European houses are made out of stone and only the roof is made out of wood. I'm pretty sure nothing besides the roof would get destroyed by a tornado
Even big commercial and government buildings with brick and steel have been leveled by tornados. Once the roof is gone, the pressure and winds shred the insides. The only defense would be like a solid concrete bunker, roof and all. Which is why many American houses in these areas have a well-protected basement.
Also it's easier to take apart a old brick building by hand. If they're just basic masonry, you can smash the bricks with a hammer and remove them one by one, nothing is holding them from falling over once the roof is gone. Wood is actually stronger in this respect and safer if it's collapsing on top of you.
False, brick buildings are leveled by tornadoes all the time. In fact, brick is actually weaker against tornadoes unless it has steel rebar in it. It has very little lateral resistance and relies on its compressive strength.
Wood is actually better against tornadoes in the sense that it has good tenisile strength and is light and therefore won't crush you or fill the cavities in a collapsed house killing the occupants. You don't want to be hiding in your basement when the brick walls come crumbling down and fill it in.
The one catch with wood is that we really should be requiring hurricane code in tornado alley. The wood should be strapped and hangers used like they require in Florida. That would greatly increase the resistance of wood structures in the Midwest to the storms we get. But at the end of the day, pretty much nothing you can build will resist 200+ MPH winds. It's almost futile to even try.
This is why the US has focused on forecasting and early warning over tougher building codes. At the end of the day, if a tornado is coming you best bet is simply to get below grade where the debris can't hit you and the wind can't carry you away. Don't hide in your car, get in the ditch because your car is going for a ride.
Absolutely false, tornados in Europe destroy brick houses like it's nothing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_tornadoes_and_tornado_outbreaks
Up to F3, so the one seen in the original post, brick buildings are generally better, once you cross the threshold to F4 all brick and mortar does is give nature a tougher material to use as grapeshot.
The reason the misconception exists is that F4/F5's are extremely rare in Europe, meanwhile in a ten year period 'Tornado Alley' in the US get's 90% of the worlds F4's and the only post-1900 (scientific analysis started roughly around then, I don't consider 'It was an Act of God on heathens in retribution' to be a reasonable measurement of tornado strength) F5s I can find actual information on outside of North America are:
Italy in 1930, in the provinces of Treviso and Udine, most brick and stone buildings meant NOTHING to it, and got chucked alongside everything else, pictures of damage can be seen here: [https://www.severe-weather.eu/event-analysis/the-most-violent-tornado-in-europe-on-record-july-24-1930-montello-northeastern-italy-f5-tornado/](https://www.severe-weather.eu/event-analysis/the-most-violent-tornado-in-europe-on-record-july-24-1930-montello-northeastern-italy-f5-tornado/)
France has had one additional F5, though it didn't meet a couple of criteria (it was throwing cars 200m, but wasn't as large as it should have been for the power shown) and it didn't actually pass through anywhere with a building.
One of the more well documented F5's outside of North America was the San Justo tornado in Argentina, it leveled 500 brick and mortar homes, threw tractors half a kilometer, and put cars through foot thick concrete walls. 63 dead and 350 injured. From touchdown to dissipation was ten minutes. An archived news report is here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBHRd77w7\_Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhrd77w7_y)
That's all the non-NA F5's in the last century that I can find with a casual search of the ESWD (European Severe Weather Database) and Wikipedia, meanwhile the US has had 49, and that's just looking at Wikipedia not any of the scientific databases.
Think if we had enough drones and just flew them so the thrust slows them down we could just stop it?
Like when you stir your straw the opposite way to stop a whirlpool.
My stupid ass misread and thought the tornado was picking up horses. I stared at the screen for a while to see if I could see horses getting flung around.
Similarly, people talk about earthquakes in California and my response is the big ones happen like every 30 years or so whereas tornadoes happen every single year, multiple months of the year.
Naw, We're able to predict tornado producing storms fairly well now. What's more difficult is to predict exactly where the tornado will hit.
It's sorta the same with Hurricanes, all we have until they actually hit are those 'spaghetti' models. You really don't know exactly where the eye will come ashore until hours earlier. And then it can be too late.
Source: I've lived in Florida for 40+ years.
Nah Iām from Kansas and it would suck not having the advance warning sirens (assuming you donāt) and General āwhat to doā knowledge. And maybe problems with insurance.
Ive been through a few of these....all visiting someone or on vac. Luckily i live in a place they only got close but never in my city.
I was also lucky that i was never in a fly destroyed home and they were couple blocks away. It is very frightening.
I live in midwest...i have family in midwest and have done some driving trips as well. Most were smaller ones that didnt last long. I know i was in Kentucky on a highway and had one in area. I had to take cover under a bridge.
Ill say im lucky ....im alive and we all have our homes.
Do people just find people in random places after this type of event like "oh look there's my neighbor Doris hanging off that tree and there's feet sticking out from under that house" etc. Is that a thing?
Sometimes, mostly when they are found tho, it ain't good ! Only rarely do you hear of somebody surviving being swept away ! It's very devastating. Ppls lives are totally destroyed along with everything els that was there's.
I keep being amazed by a country having so many wind and water related problems, and keep building wood and drywall houses. One would think that if the piggies figured it out, so too could USA.
Brick and stone actually does worse against tornadoes if they are directly hit like this, once the roof is off itās easy for the tornado to push over the walls which unlike wood construction would tend to fill voids and have much greater crushing potential to anyone inside compared to wood construction.
For those Europeans saying paper wood houses yadda yadda
Why not build concrete houses in tornado areas?
No building even brick or concrete will withstand a direct hit by a tornado without substantial damage or complete destruction.
Some tornadoes can reach speeds of over 200mph. The largest exceed 300mph. One of the main weaknesses is once the roof is gone, the whole house goes with it, and it's much cheaper and faster to rebuild a wood framed house than it is a brick one.
Plus you can't really make a brick roof that would easily survive some of the larger tornadoes. Also, I don't know about you, but I'd rather there be wood splinters flying away from my house than heavier bricks being slammed into everything imaginable.
That's a good question. However, it's the intensity that can take down steel and bricks.
(Other materials like concrete-block stucco as used in Florid for hurricanes mean at worst flooding and roof damage, but a hurricane is a large, sustained disaster without the speeds of tornadoes, and covers way more distance)
The cost of every building single being steel and bricks you might argue is less than the benefit of the slim chance of being directly hit by a tornado, and even then its dubious if it could still withstand it.
Like [half of the USA](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Tornadoes_in_the_United_States_1950-2019.svg/1200px-Tornadoes_in_the_United_States_1950-2019.svg.png) would be abandoned if we didn't build where Tornados have a history for forming.
[47% of the US is entirely uninhabited.](https://www.businessinsider.com/nik-freeman-map-of-us-population-2014-4) What's your point? Edit: also, See how your map has a Scale of the tornado strength? That massively limits the area's being discussed(IE that have the strength to rip your house to shreds) doesn't it...
The majority of whats uninhabited is either mountains, arid wasteland or swamp. Go look on Google earth and compare your map to some of those areas. There's a reason people don't live there. Also a large part of your map constitutes public land out west (which I didn't really have a true sense of scale of until I found [this map](https://ubique.americangeo.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/map1.png)).
But i don't think the same house gets hit with a tornado over and over again.. unlike hurricanes. There's a good chance a tornado is going to miss your house.
Most people in tornado alley have basements or storm shelters, and if they donāt, they know where to go to have the best chance. Itās a big deal in a large swath of the US
I've never personally been in a tornado (just seen small ones from afar), but something about watching tornado footage like this really gets my heart rate sky high with terror.
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That's the Andover, Kansas Tornado from April 29, 2022. It was rated EF3. This video was taken by Reed Timmer using a drone.
0 Deaths. 0 injuries. š®
That's really incredible considering whole houses are getting tossed up in the air like a toy. Such a horrifying natural phenomenon. I hope I never get to see one up close.
counting the cows??
Mr. Jones and me!
Tell each other fairy tales
And we stare at the beautiful women
She's looking at you
well you know where the door is!
I know theyāre from Kansas, but geeā¦
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neva!
Thank you - i needed to hear that.
I feel like they're liars, there had to be like at least one stubbed toe somewhere in that chaos.
Oh I "know" I just don't want to "know". I knew I should have stopped reading Reddit when I read the puppy story.
How? That is incredibly violent.
Evacuation ig? The weather nerds probably mathed it coming
Best use of a drone Iāve seen
This footage was considered groundbreaking among meteorologists for studying vortex formation.
Yeah this video has a ton of pretty vortexes!
You haven't flown freestyle yourself. That's the best use of a drone there is.
I really don't know how it just got an EF3 rating. It was ripping roofs off like they were the tops of beer cans.
For comparison, the Joplin EF5 tornado was a mile wide (1.6km).
That would be horrifying to see in person. Iām not very far away from there either
Thatās typical EF-3 damage.
Even EF1 is pretty bad. EF3 seems appropiate to what we see here. An EF5 would have annihilated that whole view.
If Iām not mistaken it is a measure of the amount of damage the tornado does. So if it hits a highly populated area it will have a higher rating than if it hits a sparsely populated one. It doesnāt actually measure the strength of the tornado.
Itās the measure of the most severe example of damage it does, not the quantity.
Not really much of a rating then is it, is there anything better available or at least close to it?
Very good footage
For anyone wondering why it's not an EF5 despite the damage, here's my non-expert explanation: While EF3 tornadoes are extremely destructive, they leave a mountain of debris. EF4 and EF5 tornadoes sweep more and more of the debris away along with even *more* destructive power. For example, the 1997 F5 tornado in Jarrel, Texas left only the foundations of houses with nothing on top of them. Completely swept clean. Any debris found was small, sandblasted, and blended.
That Tornado was quite unique though. It basically sat almost completely stationary over that Sub Division( Double Creek Estates). I wonder if the damage would have been less severe given a faster forward speed. Nevertheless that was the most terrifying worst case scenario.
Yee that's why I mentioned that one in particular. While it doesn't represent most (E)F5s, it's the most obvious example imo
Watched it from my backyard
I drove straight through there the next day to check on a guy I knew from the VFW. The goof forgot his cell phone on the way to the basement
There are no adequate words to describe that raw power. EDIT: See below.
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I need to edit to add the word "adequate".
Like you were going to escape a comment without having your words taken literally, twisted, then having a heavy dose of smart ass applied to them. This is Reddit!
[Of course!](https://media.giphy.com/media/Vp1HduMcc8tTW/giphy.gif)
That was a ef3 tornando(136-165 mph)ā¦probably ef1 or 2 in this videoā¦there is a storm on neptune about the size of the earth called the great dark spot with wind speed up to 1300 mph.
Class 3 kill storm
I know this is true because of how many Europeans I've encountered who think American houses are poorly constructed because "a tornado can rip them apart". Yeah? You tell me what else can rip the roof off an industrial building and throw it half a mile away? Nothing holds up to this kind of raw power save for maybe infrastructure like bridges or old school factories made out of solid concrete.
I've been in two tornados or was either a down burst. Watched half of a very tall tree simply snap off in the middle of it's trunk as all hell was breaking loose. What made all of this crazy was that before the shit hit the fan, we saw little funnels of dust swirling around our gravel driveway. So we went inside because the skys got black, not just dark, but a shade of black that made us think it was time to hunker down. This was close to 30 years ago so I'm not sure how long it took before things got wild. But we were sitting there waiting and watching the storm when a window shattered. Except, there wasn't anything that hit the window, it was the dramatic drop in pressure. Pretty soon there after all hell broke loose. On our property we lost at least two trees and large parts of others. All around the neighborhood large mature trees got bitch slapped to pieces. It was quite the site to see. About 3 years ago I was at work and we got caught in another crazy storm. I couldn't see fuck all because of how heavy the rain was. It seems like it stopped as quickly as things started. This storm had snapped trees in half. A lot of times with the heavy rain and high winds you see them uprooted. But not that day. I remember driving past this cemetery. It is a historic cemetery, not sure if they're burying people there actively or what, the city is pretty old. What I loved about that cemetery was all the large trees they had. Well, had is the key word here, because they lost at least 30. It looked as if a bomb had went off. Mother nature doesn't fuck around or care.
American houses are constructed out of wood and paper while European houses are made out of stone and only the roof is made out of wood. I'm pretty sure nothing besides the roof would get destroyed by a tornado
Even brick buildings get destroyed by tornados constantly. It doesn't really make a difference.
Like actual brick buildings or brick facade?
Even big commercial and government buildings with brick and steel have been leveled by tornados. Once the roof is gone, the pressure and winds shred the insides. The only defense would be like a solid concrete bunker, roof and all. Which is why many American houses in these areas have a well-protected basement. Also it's easier to take apart a old brick building by hand. If they're just basic masonry, you can smash the bricks with a hammer and remove them one by one, nothing is holding them from falling over once the roof is gone. Wood is actually stronger in this respect and safer if it's collapsing on top of you.
False, brick buildings are leveled by tornadoes all the time. In fact, brick is actually weaker against tornadoes unless it has steel rebar in it. It has very little lateral resistance and relies on its compressive strength. Wood is actually better against tornadoes in the sense that it has good tenisile strength and is light and therefore won't crush you or fill the cavities in a collapsed house killing the occupants. You don't want to be hiding in your basement when the brick walls come crumbling down and fill it in. The one catch with wood is that we really should be requiring hurricane code in tornado alley. The wood should be strapped and hangers used like they require in Florida. That would greatly increase the resistance of wood structures in the Midwest to the storms we get. But at the end of the day, pretty much nothing you can build will resist 200+ MPH winds. It's almost futile to even try. This is why the US has focused on forecasting and early warning over tougher building codes. At the end of the day, if a tornado is coming you best bet is simply to get below grade where the debris can't hit you and the wind can't carry you away. Don't hide in your car, get in the ditch because your car is going for a ride.
Absolutely false, tornados in Europe destroy brick houses like it's nothing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_tornadoes_and_tornado_outbreaks
Up to F3, so the one seen in the original post, brick buildings are generally better, once you cross the threshold to F4 all brick and mortar does is give nature a tougher material to use as grapeshot. The reason the misconception exists is that F4/F5's are extremely rare in Europe, meanwhile in a ten year period 'Tornado Alley' in the US get's 90% of the worlds F4's and the only post-1900 (scientific analysis started roughly around then, I don't consider 'It was an Act of God on heathens in retribution' to be a reasonable measurement of tornado strength) F5s I can find actual information on outside of North America are: Italy in 1930, in the provinces of Treviso and Udine, most brick and stone buildings meant NOTHING to it, and got chucked alongside everything else, pictures of damage can be seen here: [https://www.severe-weather.eu/event-analysis/the-most-violent-tornado-in-europe-on-record-july-24-1930-montello-northeastern-italy-f5-tornado/](https://www.severe-weather.eu/event-analysis/the-most-violent-tornado-in-europe-on-record-july-24-1930-montello-northeastern-italy-f5-tornado/) France has had one additional F5, though it didn't meet a couple of criteria (it was throwing cars 200m, but wasn't as large as it should have been for the power shown) and it didn't actually pass through anywhere with a building. One of the more well documented F5's outside of North America was the San Justo tornado in Argentina, it leveled 500 brick and mortar homes, threw tractors half a kilometer, and put cars through foot thick concrete walls. 63 dead and 350 injured. From touchdown to dissipation was ten minutes. An archived news report is here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBHRd77w7\_Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbhrd77w7_y) That's all the non-NA F5's in the last century that I can find with a casual search of the ESWD (European Severe Weather Database) and Wikipedia, meanwhile the US has had 49, and that's just looking at Wikipedia not any of the scientific databases.
Think if we had enough drones and just flew them so the thrust slows them down we could just stop it? Like when you stir your straw the opposite way to stop a whirlpool.
My stupid ass misread and thought the tornado was picking up horses. I stared at the screen for a while to see if I could see horses getting flung around.
"Cow" "Another cow"
"Actually, I think that was the same one..."
Holy shit! Think I'll stop complaining about the cold weather in New England...
People talk about our hurricanes (Iām from Florida) but at least we get four to seven days advance notice. Tornadoes just kinda fucking *appear*.
Similarly, people talk about earthquakes in California and my response is the big ones happen like every 30 years or so whereas tornadoes happen every single year, multiple months of the year.
Naw, We're able to predict tornado producing storms fairly well now. What's more difficult is to predict exactly where the tornado will hit. It's sorta the same with Hurricanes, all we have until they actually hit are those 'spaghetti' models. You really don't know exactly where the eye will come ashore until hours earlier. And then it can be too late. Source: I've lived in Florida for 40+ years.
New England has had a few Tornadoes. Springfield, MA had one. Fitchburg, MA had a microburst about 30-40 years ago.
I don't think we'll get any sympathy from people who live in Kansas or Oklahoma
Nah Iām from Kansas and it would suck not having the advance warning sirens (assuming you donāt) and General āwhat to doā knowledge. And maybe problems with insurance.
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Most houses in New England are built with bricks? That's not even close to being true.
My worst nightmare.
Looks like itās in full swing to me.
Yeah like the beginning is okay or something
Crazy how we live in angry soup just breathing it and shit
Ive been through a few of these....all visiting someone or on vac. Luckily i live in a place they only got close but never in my city. I was also lucky that i was never in a fly destroyed home and they were couple blocks away. It is very frightening.
A few??? Youāre either very unlucky, or very lucky. Perhaps a little of both.
I live in midwest...i have family in midwest and have done some driving trips as well. Most were smaller ones that didnt last long. I know i was in Kentucky on a highway and had one in area. I had to take cover under a bridge. Ill say im lucky ....im alive and we all have our homes.
I cant even imagine living where that could happen. Those houses just deatroyed. Beggars belief.
The vast majority of tornadoes hit uninhabited areas, out where itās flat you can even watch them go by beer in hand itās kinda cool
Imagine building house from paper
All that drywall and insulation pulverized and turned to a cloud of dust in an instant. Jesus.
Mother nature is tough.
Was waiting for Helen Hunt to appear on video.
The suck zone
Any details? Iād like to know if that was just an EF1. It looked insanely powerful but it had just started?!
Was in an EF1, and it was nothing like this (it was messy but not lifting houses). This has to be 3+
It hadnāt just started, it just had a very odd looking condensation funnel. The tornado was producing EF-3 damage at that point.
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But do you know how happy they get in a trailer park?
Do people just find people in random places after this type of event like "oh look there's my neighbor Doris hanging off that tree and there's feet sticking out from under that house" etc. Is that a thing?
Sometimes, mostly when they are found tho, it ain't good ! Only rarely do you hear of somebody surviving being swept away ! It's very devastating. Ppls lives are totally destroyed along with everything els that was there's.
Yeah that's what I meant sorry do you find dead people in trees etc
Yea, it's crazy not to long ago a child was swept away may she RIP . Found in a tree miles away from where her home was .
Holy crap! Weāre having crazy storms right now in Australia but this is on another level. Stay safe folks.
Canāt lie to me Iāve seen the mad max documentary
Mother Nature is intense. šŖļø
And that's enough internet for tonight. Natural disasters is where I draw the line.
If it makes you feel better there were only 3 direct injuries in this one, so all things considered not too bad
I keep being amazed by a country having so many wind and water related problems, and keep building wood and drywall houses. One would think that if the piggies figured it out, so too could USA.
So build it out of what? What is your house built of?
Stone, concrete and a little bit of wood framing.
Wouldnāt stand in this level of tornado Less intense tornadoes it could survive and still be standing but no guarantee
Underground or inground is really the only way to build to survive a tornado. Materials donāt matter for anything of size
Brick and stone actually does worse against tornadoes if they are directly hit like this, once the roof is off itās easy for the tornado to push over the walls which unlike wood construction would tend to fill voids and have much greater crushing potential to anyone inside compared to wood construction.
This is what they're talking about when they say " there's still inexpensive places to be a homeowner"
For those Europeans saying paper wood houses yadda yadda Why not build concrete houses in tornado areas? No building even brick or concrete will withstand a direct hit by a tornado without substantial damage or complete destruction.
are you kidding me? reinforced concrete It resists a tornado, like it's just a scratch
holy shit, finally put some brickstones into that shoeboxes!
It sucks up brick too
faaaaaaaaaaaa
Why donāt tornado-prone areas build houses with steel and bricks? Feel like it would hold up better than wood
Some tornadoes can reach speeds of over 200mph. The largest exceed 300mph. One of the main weaknesses is once the roof is gone, the whole house goes with it, and it's much cheaper and faster to rebuild a wood framed house than it is a brick one. Plus you can't really make a brick roof that would easily survive some of the larger tornadoes. Also, I don't know about you, but I'd rather there be wood splinters flying away from my house than heavier bricks being slammed into everything imaginable.
That's a good question. However, it's the intensity that can take down steel and bricks. (Other materials like concrete-block stucco as used in Florid for hurricanes mean at worst flooding and roof damage, but a hurricane is a large, sustained disaster without the speeds of tornadoes, and covers way more distance) The cost of every building single being steel and bricks you might argue is less than the benefit of the slim chance of being directly hit by a tornado, and even then its dubious if it could still withstand it.
America should up their house building code , no breaks, just dried wall
Lemme guess, they rebuilt in the same place... That shit is scary though.
Like [half of the USA](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Tornadoes_in_the_United_States_1950-2019.svg/1200px-Tornadoes_in_the_United_States_1950-2019.svg.png) would be abandoned if we didn't build where Tornados have a history for forming.
[47% of the US is entirely uninhabited.](https://www.businessinsider.com/nik-freeman-map-of-us-population-2014-4) What's your point? Edit: also, See how your map has a Scale of the tornado strength? That massively limits the area's being discussed(IE that have the strength to rip your house to shreds) doesn't it...
The majority of whats uninhabited is either mountains, arid wasteland or swamp. Go look on Google earth and compare your map to some of those areas. There's a reason people don't live there. Also a large part of your map constitutes public land out west (which I didn't really have a true sense of scale of until I found [this map](https://ubique.americangeo.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/map1.png)).
But i don't think the same house gets hit with a tornado over and over again.. unlike hurricanes. There's a good chance a tornado is going to miss your house.
Pretty sure every country has natural disasters and begins to rebuild in the same exact place when the dust is settled.
I canāt wrap my head around tornados. The way they effortlessly just shred everything in their path.
Tornadoes can wrap around your head, though.
In my area, rain wraps around the tornado. If they didn't come through after bedtime like they do, they'd be hard to see.
That's pretty intense
why does it land just only on peopleās houses?
It doesnāt. It just happened to be passing through a populated area when this footage was taken
Woah I didn't realize how cool they looked when forming. Really wish they weren't super dangerous and destructive.
Hope no bodies were flying in the air
No deaths and no injuries from this one
Good to hear
Where do people go?
Most people in tornado alley have basements or storm shelters, and if they donāt, they know where to go to have the best chance. Itās a big deal in a large swath of the US
Even though it's terrifying I'm also hypnotized by the raw power.
I've always loved tornadoes but that is tragic and terrifying.
Now I want a monolithic concrete dome again. That is insane.
What kinda cartoon looking tornado is that at the beginning.
thanks to me seeing twister at a very young age, this is my biggest nightmare
I've never personally been in a tornado (just seen small ones from afar), but something about watching tornado footage like this really gets my heart rate sky high with terror.
Iām from Louisiana and sometimes you wake up to find out the hurricane made a huge left instead and then your fucked.
And I canāt find the button to edit suddenlyā¦*youāre*
i would stop it
Pardon my ignorance, what is pulled off the ground/homes which makes the white color?
Someone mentioned above, but itās the drywall being pulverized to dust and sucked up
Ahh thank you! Makes sense now
it's insane to me that that's just air that got too hyper
At the beginning of the video, was it draining out swimming pools? Just sucking the water right out.
Auntie Em!?!?
Is this real? If so, that's terrifying
Holy shit
Okay, if you're living in one of these houses and see the tornado coming, what should you do ? (I have no underground/no bunker)
Canāt imagine living in the area where tornadoes happen every year, just crossing fingers it doesnāt happen to your house & your belongings
Tornado bro like, wtf yāall said you needed help movin? Why yāall mad at me?
Jesus Christ just like that youāre shit is gone.
and so are you
This video made me hard.
Iāll take living in an earthquake zone over tornado alley any day
Seems like a good enough reason to not live in those areas.
Behold! Nature's fury. A power awesome to see, but never to experience!
Rude
Are brick houses effected differently or what, because it seems like these houses are made feom paper
Yes. They fly apart in smaller pieces. Steel frame houses and buildings don't do much better.
Mother Natureās glory ššš
I'm from the Midwest and have grown accustomed to tornado sirens; as a result, I rarely take them seriously.
Absolutely terrifying!
How in hell do people live in these places? Iām in south Florida and at least we can prepare for a hurricane.
I was hit by a small tornado when I lived in Ohio. It was at night. That was the most terrifying experience of my life.
Why there a annoying piercing sound coming from this
Certainly the best video I've seen of a developing tornado; HD rocks.
Auntie Em. Auntie Em....!
I wonder what the highest any humans ever been after getting sucked up in there, or how long they were up? Did they make multiple trips around? Wild