The Worst Tornadoes You've Never Heard Of

Forgotten record breaking tornadoes throughout history.

#tornado #history #forgotten

Image Credits
2013 El Reno Tornado - Simon Brewer
2004 Hallam Tornado - TwisterChasers
2023 Keota Tornado - Devin Pitts

Video Credits (in order) -

0:00 - Intro
0:23 - 1945
0:57 - 1947
1:38 - 1956
2:06 - 1957
2:43 - 1965
3:38 - 1990
4:08 - 1977
4:42 - 1991
5:14 - May 1995
5:53 - June 1995
7:00 - 1996
7:29 - 1998
8:25 - 1999
9:08 - 2004
9:39 - 2007
10:13 - 2011

[glissyyy]

One tornado I've never seen mentioned is the Gans, Oklahoma F4 tornado. Considering its the tornado with the deepest ground scouring in recorded history, its definitely underappreciated, dug a pit in the ground 20 feet wide and 3 feet deep near the beginning of its life.

[rainer]

A 4.2 mile wide tornado? That's scary to imagine. The damage it'd be able to inflict.

[tornadotrx]

This was an awesome video Chris, and your videos have been banging recently!!! Love these so much they are incredibly amazing.

[akj]

*amazing* video, i love retro tornado pics and vids and didn't know about a LOT of these!!

[charlayned]

As I said on the other version (uploaded before), my husband was born and grew up in Antlers Oklahoma. That tornado darned near wiped the town out. The Army was called in from Camp Maxie in Paris Texas and assistance from all over the Texas border and SE Oklahoma sent help to help dig out, clean up, and start the rebuild. Their house was built right after that, the other one was destroyed. His family wasn't there at the time, they moved to the town in 1955, his father was the county abstractor for decades. One of the first thing they did was build a shelter (and then put a room above it). When we got married, we were gifted a silverware set in a very nice wooden box. The story is that it came through that tornado, still sitting on a shelf, intact.

[stuffidowhenimbored]

FINALLY, somebody mentioned the Oakfield tornado!

[dillyboyq]

As a native michigander I absolutely love any bits on the Hudsonville or Flint Beecher F5s. I live 30min from Gaylord which was hit by an EF3 few years ago, usually don’t get strong boys like that how far north I am, but they can happen. They scare & fascinate me greatly! Great video !

[LankyWx]

The Woodward, Oklahoma tornado is what got my father into meteorology, ultimately getting me into meteorology. It’s a pretty mysterious tornado, I wish more was known about it.

[potatothechaser]

I could have sworn I've seen this video

[donausmus]

An amazing video. I noticed on the map of EF5 tornadoes it showed the April 12 1927 Rocksprings TX tornado. I know that it was unusual in the fact that, after killing 71 in Rocksprings, it moved SE for 62 miles, roping out west of Uvalde, Tx. There were obviously a rare atmospheric setup to cause this movement.

[theukstormchaser]

Absolutely amazing video on some incredible forgotten tornadoes. it is crazy that the Lawrenceberg F5 is completely forgotten despite it being the strongest tornado of the outbreak. Or that the Mulhall F4 tornado was possibly
over 4 miles wide but it’s completely forgotten.

[xanderc]

The oakfield Wisconsin tornado is a very close subject to me because it happened 6 years exactly before I was born when my dad was heading home from west bend to fond du lac. He used to tell me stories of him driving his Volkswagen bus through the storm and when he was going through oakfield lightning was striking all around his bus and hitting the road around him. He could have very easily been the only one to die that day but he didn’t. The fact nobody ever discusses how strong this tornado was just surprises me.

[Beaster]

2011 El Reno EF5 is probably the strongest and most forgotten beast, gets overshadowed by the 2013 EF3.

[travisnickeystorms]

Awesome video man! You put in a lot of research on this one! Really interesting to watch. That similarity to the Keota tornado is pretty crazy. 👏.

[RobloxianPilot]

My grandpa lived in Ottawa when the Ruskin Heights tornado happened. He said that it could be seen very well. Not many people talk about it anymore.

[semaj]

You should check out the 1998 Spencer South Dakota twister. It took out the town and had winds over 250 mph . Cool footage on YouTube as well. It was huge

[BBernard]

The 1945 F5 is one I've not heard of before. I've always had an interest in the April 11, 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak - Ted Fujita did a paper on that outbreak in 1970, and it makes for fascinating reading. A paper I've read on the El Reno - Piedmont EF5, mentioned that the Midway tornado may have been two tornadoes, but for a very short time. The photo of the F4 tornado in Toledo is very strange looking. It looks like two vertical lights instead of two tornadoes. I'm surprised you made no mention of Tanner, Alabama, which was hit by two F5 tornadoes on April 3, 1974. Then was hit by an EF5 on April 27, 2011.

[yourlocalstormchasing]

So are we not gonna mention the one light blue tornado track shaped like a shoe

[thepestilence]

epic video, this got me thinking that what if there was a tornado so wide you couldve just thought it was the sky. that must be extremely terrifying

[PhilipMurphyExtra]

This is a great video on tornados, there has being so many in the past.