CHICAGO, The Unknown Tornado Magnet

Chicago, The Unexpected Tornado Hotspot. Home to some of the strangest, most violent, and Deadliest Tornadoes in history, yet for some reason nobody ever talks about it.

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Photo Credits:
Oak Lawn Public Library
Texas Tech University

#chicago #tornado #documentary

[Doughey]

“The tornado hit my childhood friends home, but more importantly it almost hit my favorite burrito place” got me dying💀

[MaurickSh]

Anyone else coming to this video after the 10+ tornadoes that just hit tonight?

[deadmeatgaming]

His mom saying "No this is cool!" in reference to getting in the basement makes me realize where he got his attitude towards tornadoes from.

[danielwieten]

Trying to imagine my face after seeing Twister in 96 and then being told that in 2024 I'd be watching a pube trimming ad amidst an independently made tornado documentary on a platform like YouTube. What a time to be alive

[EarlysBaby]

I am so glad someone is talking about this! I get so frustrated and confused when there is severe weather and tornadoes in the Chicagoland area and people act shocked and surprised that it happened. People need to realize that the Chicagoland area is very prone to severe weather, particularly tornadoes, on the same level as more recognized metro areas. Just because a tornado hasn’t hit your town, or even the town next to you in your lifetime doesn’t mean that they are rare, or that it hasn’t happened before you were born. Chicagoland needs to wake up and take ALL severe weather warnings seriously.

[SLLY_TTN_SB_LVR]

The fact that the 1967 Oak Lawn tornado impacted a cementary while being the deadliest tornado in the Chicago area is ironic.

[kennethlacewell]

It's well known in Chicago that Joliet is NOT where you want to be during severe weather!

I was 11 years old when the 1976 Lemont tornado hit. My Mom was driving me and my 7 year old sister, from a carnival in Chicago, back home to Darien. We went through torrential rain driving south on the Stevenson Expressway. As we topped a hill and approached County Line Road, the rain stopped and the sky in front of us was that horrible green color. My Mom took the ramp for County Line north, and I was old enough to know that wasn't our exit. As we were on the ramp, the radio announcer said there might be a tornado in Burr Ridge, by County Line Road.

It didn't get that far, but we were literally driving straight at it.

That was good for years of nightmares.

[rubywine]

This is so ironic, considering our area had a huge outbreak the last two days with 17 tornadoes and counting (surveys are still ongoing).

[tornadotrx]

Great video once again man. I never knew Chicago was such a tornado magnet!

[ippsofacto]

HAHAHAAAA we did it fellow We survived the 10+ tornadoes that cbs said were active at the same time

[CatBatss]

Watching this right after a tornado warning in Chicago 😅

[WatashiWannabe]

Crazy you post this video, and then 6 days later, a derecho passes through Chicago with several spin-up tornadoes likely hitting the city (I counted 5 different areas of defined rotation on TMDW radar just within the city of Chicago at about 9:50 PM CDT, with several others in the suburbs). The timing! Of course, the setup was nothing close to some of these...but still, a heck of a coincidence.

On the topic of Chicago tornadoes...my parents both have told me of several tornado stories from around the Chicago area...the 1965 Palm Sunday outbreak and the '67 Oak Lawn tornado feature heavily in their stories... My dad was out and about, saw the tornado, decided to stop in a bar for shelter (and, presumably, a drink or two), and when he came out, every vehicle in the parking lot had been flipped over.

[MobiusAmpere]

My Mom watched it, always told me how green the sky was, that story saved me years later, was driving up to Chicago around Louisville, and the sky turned green, I stopped at the next exit got under a manual car wash as I was in a Mustang convertible, as soon as I did the sky went black as night, after it passed I drove to the next exit, every car at the truck stop looked like someone took a sledgehammer to it, softball size hail and tornado passed nearby. TL;DR You see a green sky, get to a safe place. Hope the tornado breakout tonight wasn't as bad in Chicago 7/15/24 found this video looking for damage reports on the storm, as it was in the area. Hope you and yours are safe, great video.

[TheRhythmicStorm]

I live 30 or so minutes north of Chicago and I did in fact pick up on the fact that since 2020, there had been a noticeable uptick in tornadoes hitting in and around the area. I noticed we have been getting more frequent tornado warnings every summer, having two nearly hitting where I live in just this past year. On the July 12th, 2023 outbreak, an EF0 passed to my south in Long Grove, I even got video of the storm moving east from my balcony and the second was from the February 27th, 2024 outbreak, where an EF1 ripped the roof off of an apartment building in Mundelein, just a couple miles north of where I live. That tornado passed just to our west along route 83 and I remember my dad and out on the balcony watching the storm. I remember feeling how cold the air was from the inflow once that came through. That was such an insane night!

[ejtappan]

Yup. I was born in 1961 and grew up outside of Chicago. I remember a grade-school teacher of mine talking about the 1967 outbreak. He had lived in Belvidere IL where school kids were just being let out right as an F4 hit. He showed us pictures of the damage and they really made a big impression on me. Twice in my childhood I remember the skies going green and mom taking us down into the basement. I didn't leave the Chicagoland area until the early 80's so many of the storms mentioned here are etched into my own memories, but it's nice to see it all detailed out like this. Thanks!

[mysticakhenaton]

I am here in Chicago. I heard Tom Skilling say some years back...that Chicago is LONG overdue for a BIG tornado to come through here.

[snuggies]

As a native Chicagoan the spring is scary here. We had 11 yesterday and the day before that 6. Terrifying. Illinois has had the most tornados a year recently.

[angelsfancrc]

This video showed up on my timeline the same day there were several tornado warnings in Chicago and a large tornado near O’Hare

[DepressedBearsFan]

As a resident of a far chicago suburb, the last two days have been intresting to say the least

[NerdsPsychoticInterlude]

as someone from Chicago, just a few years ago we had large supercell go right over the loop, I think it was the closest we've ever had to a genuine downtown tornado scenario, because it had rotation and everything but it floated over and went farther east over the lake before it could produce anything