Moore - The Most Destructive Tornado Ever Recorded

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This is the story of the horrific Moore 2013 EF5 tornado that impacted central areas of Oklahoma, and the OKC Metro

Special thanks:
@TornadoForensics - Helping with research, scripting, and media
@junefirst - Letting me rob his thumbnail image xD
@totallysurfaceman - Helping 3D model Plaza Towers
@.crosby7 - Helping with media
@hrisipisi - Helping with media

[Unhinged_Pegasus]

The fact that the El Reno tornado happened 11 days later and only about 38 miles away is mind boggling.

[henrylotl]

A sad, lesser-known fact about this tornado that wasn't mentioned in the video; another death contributed to the tornado came around 5 years after May 20th 2013, when a survivor from Plaza Towers named Xavier Delgado took his life after losing 7 of his friends in the tornado. He was only in 3rd grade when the storm happened. He was there at the school where he lost his friends and classmates.

[svience]

I dropped everything and came here. Saw “Moore” and “TRX” and went, “yup. This’ll be worth it.

[neptuneWX]

You forgot to mention Xavier J. Delgado. After surviving the 2013 Moore Tornado although his abdomen was impaled and he spent 40 minutes under the debris, he lost 7 (all of the deaths at Plaza Towers) friends in the tornado as they were killed when the wall collapsed. It affected his mental health so significantly that on May 6th, 2018, Xavier took himself out.

*Rest in Peace.*

[natet]

I really love how your satellite imagery changes as the tornado path goes over it. This is such a quality channel. Definitely worth the subscription

[Memphis_ritz]

Shoutout to whoever does the animations as the circle moves revealing the damage a bit at a time rather than showing it all at once. It truly does enhance the suspense for the viewer like me that isn’t familiar with the incident

[nannieshanny]

Born and riased in Moore. Still live here and I'm 55. Went thru all those tornadoes. Took shelter with my mom at Moore high school while i was trying to pick up my daughter before it hit... we didn't get out in time. I'll never forget walking out to the devastation and total fear. Hearing it had hit several elementary schools and being terrified for my nephew in one near by. The tornado missed my house by 3 blocks.... still so sad about those little babies in plaza towers

[k__t__]

This tornado destroyed my house, surreal to see all the footage again. The smell after the tornado passed was wild, like a mix of natural gas and freshly snapped wood. My home was destroyed at 13:24 in the video, we lived on Country Edge Dr. Great video!

[AmberLUVSBTR]

The fact that the police department called in the rotation so quickly and had them run the sirens probably saved SO many lives ❤

[OkieDokieOk]

Another incredible thing about this tornado is that I live 100 miles to the NE of Moore(near Tulsa), & we were finding debris in our town. Even family photos. I couldn’t figure out what the stuff was I was finding in my backyard until it dawned on me that it was blown debris from Moore.
Also, my mom, sister-in-law & I went down there to help with cleanup of the cemetery near Plaza Towers elementary to prepare for burials of those lost. We just couldn’t believe what we saw. There was no grass at all in the cemetery. Looking over at the school, knowing those babies lost their lives in there was just heart wrenching. I cried so much while trying to help that community. No words can describe any of it.

[yamazukas]

trx dropping this in the middle of my crippling tornado hyperfixation phase. i owe you my life

[milasanderson]

Hello! I actually lived through this tornado! It came right by my old house, barely missing it thankfully.

My mother was so worried though that once she felt that the tornado was too close, she packed me and my siblings up and drove off. It was terrifying because I could see the tornado through the rear view mirror. All my family luckily survived with no injuries. But when we returned home, we had to pick through the trash that was in thrown into our yard, finding pictures of others and other things we thought might contain sentimental value in hopes in giving it back to its owners. (At one point, we even had a dog to take care of because he had escaped from the tornado. His owners luckily found us and he went back home with them.) But overall, this tornado was terrible and destructive.

Sorry for the rambling, hopefully someone enjoys this comment though. :)

[Revolupine]

The sheer bravery and compassion you must have to sit with screaming children sheltering through a violent tornado and try to reassure them... woah.

[Joe-qpv]

I lived in that "new development of homes" barely missed off Western just south of the oil tanks that were scattered. My house was not damaged but was covered in debris. This storm caused only the second ever use of the NWS "Tornado Emergency" status declaration, the first being May 3rd 1999 also in Moore. Most people did not know that the warning system went past "Tornado Warning" myself included at that time. In that area warnings were very common that time of year, but what made it real for me was when Gary England, meteorologist and tornado expert (was the technical expert on the movie Twister), said on live TV "If you are in the path of this tornado you need to get underground, being in an internal closet is not good enough. IF YOU ARE NOT UNDERGROUND YOU WILL DIE!" which is a sound bite that plays in my head to this day. A few of the things that amazed me after the fact were the neighborhood streets just past Briarwood Elementary there was nothing left but the street, driveways, and house foundations. It was reported that up to 6 inches of soil was removed in some places in the path. In my neighborhood there was a splinter of a 2x4 about 3ft long that was driven through the concrete curb of the street. Also the day following the tornado there was a very eerie silence, you never realize how much background noise there is in life until it suddenly is all gone, that was repeatedly broken up by the sound of what was obvious gun fire. It would be a single shot then a minute or two later another, I don't know how many there were in total but it took me 4 or 5 of them before I realized that was the sound of wounded horses being put down to end their suffering at Orr Farms. That realization hit me like a ton of bricks that day.

Also I see a lot of people in the comments asking about storm shelters. They were not all that common at the time. Sure some people had them, mostly in older homes from the 80's and 90's but very few in homes built in the 2000's. It was after this storm that they because much more prevalent and would get dug into a garage floor.

@tornadotrx thank you for this video. You and your team did an amazing job on every aspect of it. Almost from the start I had goosebumps and my hair standing on end. By the time the video go to Briarwood Elementary I had tears flowing which has never happened to me before. It was because I was instantly taken back to seeing the damage to the school and now I have my own kids in elementary school. I am glad I never saw Plaza Towers after.

[Ceres-kl]

What really scares me is that it literally tore roads off of the ground.

[jeffhowerton]

I'll never forget that day... I was working at a different elementary school in Moore and when we saw what was coming we immediately started placing children in my office and classrooms with gym mats piled on top of them. In the heat of the moment while running back and forth from the gym to the school to grab more mats the gym teacher and I saw the tornado and knew it was going to be devastating but never could imagine that it would cause the death of 7 of our children. Every year since that day I've placed 7 long stem roses on the memorial benches on the 20th in memory of those who were taken to soon ❤️ We will never forget 🙏🏻

[muhssyn]

When the world needs tornado trx the most he RETUNED and btw do Joplin next

[ZigZnagol]

It amazes me that those elementary schools didn't have storm shelters. You'd think they'd be standard. Those poor kids

[JesseLikesWeather]

Sitting through a stationary EF5 tornado has to be horrifying to sit through. And yet the sharp difference in the winds is crazy, seeing your home just fine while seeing the home across the street is just plain crazy. Thanks again Will!
Edit: this is the most amount of attraction a comment of mine has ever gotten. Thanks guys :)

[leanneadams]

This is the absolute best voice for this event. Not high pitched or screaming.
Just a very appropriate level. I could listen to him for hours !!