Tornado Close Calls

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Contents:
0:00 Intro
0:43 Davis Besse Nuclear Power Station Tornado
2:55 Basketball Tournament Close Call
4:45 Morgan and Morgan Ad
5:56 Tornado School Close Calls
7:54 Iowa State Football Tornado
9:57 Texas Prison Close Call
11:50 2013 El Reno Tornado

References:
Atomic Twister:

Ames Iowa Tornado 2005:

F5 Narrowly Misses Prison:

Ray Bohac 2013 El Reno Tornado Footage:

#tornado #weather #history

[SwegleStudios]

Sorry I had to reupload due to an issue haha. Thanks for watching!! What are some tornado close calls you remember?

[nickdotjpg]

i still wonder why im so obsessed with the beauty of tornadoes and learning about them when im beyond terrified of them

[UnbarablePain]

So as an engineer in nuclear power I'll give some additional information, the Davis-Besse event was pretty bad but especially for that plant it's not the worst thing that has happened.
The April 27, 2011 Super Outbreak nearly took out Brown's Ferry in Alabama. Multiple tornadoes hit high voltage 500kV lines feeding the plant just a few miles away causing a LOOP (Loss Of Offsite Power). Units scramed (emergency trip) automatically but the problem came down to the EDGs (Emergency Diesel Generators). BF has a total of 8 EDGs for their 3 reactors.

Well on that fateful day one EDG was down for maintenance and once the reactors tripped necessitating cooling power they had an oil leak the next day on another and had to shut down that diesel too resulting in a loss of cooling power to 2 Units. So already the Diesels are struggling to provide adequate power for cooling and this is Day 1 of the event. Nuclear plant EDGs have enough fuel oil to run for 7 days and this event would end up going on for 6 days of continious operation until power was restored.

On Day 5 an EDG breaker tripped due to a misalignment and now all of Unit 1's shutdown cooling was lost. If this wasn't already bad enough one of the Unit 3 EDGs had erratic output frequency and was only saved by adding loads to it which stablized it. The good news is a single high voltage power line remained allowing the operators to put some of the plant cooling loads on it but it was not qualified for emergency serivce. Had they lost this last diesel it would have likely gone into a major nuclear emergency of being unable to cool the cores like at Fukushima.
As iciing on the cake, due to the mass loss of power 9/10 of the 100 emergency notification sirens were inoperable.

To put it simply, this was a major screw up that nearly had the whole industry shut down and it happened cocurrently with the 2011 Fukushima meltdown, and the 2011 Fort Calhoun plant flooding that happened right after. We have since recovered as an industry and made serious safety improvements but it was pretty bad. Feel free to ask further questions in the comments, and I would suggest you cover the 2011 Super Outbreak event with Brown's Ferry in the future.

[coult]

I was at the Georgia Dome that night the tornado hit. Seeing the roof of the dome flap in the winds of the tornado was something I’ll never forget even though I was 8 at the time. It was definitely one of the craziest situations I’ve ever been in.

[Avgeekblueambush]

8:52 the tornado was like, ”Are you hiring for a mascot?”

[matthewd]

I’m glad that you mentioned the 1990 Plainfield tornado! I go to that school now, and there’s a memorial in one of the hallways (contains newspapers and other memorabilia) and there is a memorial to all of the victims just outside our school across the street.

[B_B_]

ooooh i always love when anyone brings up that 2013 el reno tornado. i remember i was on the way home with a friend who worked at fort reno. the storms that day were unreal! couldn't see past the nose of the car through the rain at times! but we got through it!

[TsunamiSephi]

The big thing you missed about the El Reno tornado is that channel 4 was telling people to drive south away from it causing a huge influx of traffic that wasn't supposed to be there on top of the already packed rush hour commuters. It was a huge blunder by Chief meteorologist Mike Morgan, and I'm pretty sure you covered it in a previous video.

[Smokeyjoedamanedamythdalegend]

Can you do a video on people who have been picked up by a tornado and survived? I’ve heard many stories and it would be cool to see a video compiling them all or something.

Love the content my man keep it up and I hope you have a good day.

[zrkch]

The students’ close call with the Plainsville tornado was one of the first Storm Stories episodes I saw as a kid- cementing a fascination of tornados. Such an interesting story to hear from the survivors.

[PurpleAngling]

A couple months ago the strongest tornado in Delaware history (EF3) touched down half a mile away from my school’s prom. It’s what got me into tornados. Coolest + scariest moment of my life

[sunboy]

By far one of my favorite youtubers. Not only do you make a usually confusing subject easy for outsiders to understand, you're engaging, your video editing is well-done, you do massive amounts of research and are dedicated to your craft, and you're funny! Can't wait to see more from you!

[davidci]

Your videos fill my tornado-shaped hole in my life, I love watching these tornado deep dives/analyses

[spookyscaryskeletonsmith]

2:24 Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, June 13 1976, F4 tornado ripped the root off of the building holding a nuclear reactor

[chickennoodles]

Great video! Surprised you didn’t mention the 2011 Hackleburg EF-5, widely considered one of the most powerful tornadoes ever recorded, passing within 2 miles of the 2nd largest nuclear power plant in the US

[CaptnHampton]

The searching for nuke plants in Oklahoma and Kansas was mad funny. Love this channel. It gets better and better with every video.

[Litch]

6:04 An interesting one to talk about here would’ve been the Gloucester VA high end EF3 on April 16th, 2011. A tornado hit a school completely destroying some parts of it during what would’ve have been school hours. However, it was a Saturday, so no students or faculty were injured in the school.

[OnEst_Opinion]

The very first situation he brought up was two things I never remotely thought would see each other: a tornado and a nuclear plants. That is WICKED. Also, that basketball player hitting the three to send the game to OT was CLUTCH and not just for the team but thousands upon thousands of unsuspecting fans. That’s just crazy. Great video man!! Great video. What a channel!

[shizzle]

Always a good day when Swegle puts out a video! Thanks man!

[giarc]

2:13 funniest thing I’ve seen in a long while. Thank you for editing this clip into your video. The look on old man’s face….gold. Poor Stu.