In this video, we go over the 1999 Bridge Creek-Moore, Oklahoma F5 tornado – the tornado which produced the highest windspeeds ever recorded on planet earth.
Sources:
NWS Norman – https://www.weather.gov/oun/events-19990503
https://web.archive.org/web/20170211155104/http://www.weather.gov/oun/events-19990503-storma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Bridge_Creek%E2%80%93Moore_tornado
We in no way claim any of the photos or footage used in this video as our own. They belong to their respective owners.
Photos/Video:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Bridge_Creek%E2%80%93Moore_tornado
https://youtu.be/Sz60PW4XX3o
https://www.oklahomashelters.net/faq/
Music:
White Bat Audio –
Pixabay –
https://pixabay.com/music/synthwave-stranger-things-124008/
Megan McDuffee –
0:00-0:45 Introduction
0:46-3:00 Before the Storm
3:01-5:05 Touchdown
5:06-9:30 Destruction
9:31-11:37 Recovery
11:38-13:42 Reflection
13:43-14:08 Outro
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I’d be interested in a mulhall tornado documentary
"Strongest tornado of all time." Tristate, Loyal Valley, Smithville, and Hackleburg want to know your location. Joking, lol.
Monsters are definitely real. Had an F3 just miss us here in Tennessee. Tornado Emergency issued at 12:03am. Changed my view on tornadoes in a HEARTBEAT. I can't even imagine the monster in this video. Unbelievable.
The sequence starting at about 5:50 is the closest you will ever get to an F5 (or EF5) tornado and live to tell about it. The noise from that thing was something straight out of the bowels of Hell.
There are photogenic tornadoes, there are ugly tornadoes, and there are ones like Bridge Creek, Xenia, and Joplin, that just look like death.
Jarrell is still the scariest
im going tuck myself up and under and over passi n a corner……you go lay in a ditch lol
I believe the building codes, at least in Moore, were changed in significant ways.
What most people don't know is this may not have been the most powerful tornado on May 3, 1999. The most powerful was assumed to be the 1 & 1/2 mile wide tornado to the north towards Mullhal Oklahoma. That tornado did not have a doppler on wheels monitoring it so there were no direct measurements and luckily stayed out mostly in rural areas.
The wind speeds in Bridge Creek were revised 318 mph +
So this was what Schlatt did in 99. He was in the center of that tornado controlling it.
The tornado that struck Smithville, MS, during the Super Outbreak of 2011, was even more violent than this one.
The El Reno monster had multiple internal vortices with windspeeds purported by experts at 300MPH…that had to be the most powerful tornado to ever traverse the land.
Only one problem with this video, and it’s a big one..
You should have made this 45 minutes long cause I could listen/watch this stuff all day long.
I live in Moore, just had my shelter installed this week. I dream of tornadoes about twice a week since I moved here last year.
My friends grandparents house got hit by this tornado, but luckily they somehow survived. Very deadly tornado.
Not all time, but not recorded history either.
There have been tornadoes since/before 1999 that caused significantly worse damage. Especially some in 2011.
There is a significant distinction between "in recorded history" and "of all time." The Bridge Creek/Moore Tornado was the strongest in recorded history.
You did a fantastic job of putting this together. I like how you also documented the tornado In other areas other than moore
Jarrell 1997…
You mean it's the strongest recorded tornado. What about the tornado outbreak in the land we call America the spring of 1999 B.C.
Let's take a moment, and also remember the 2013 F5 Moore tornado!
By definition; a Tornado Emergency is issued when a large destructive tornado has been sighted by either storm spotters, Doppler radar or law enforcement agencies and is moving towards a heavily populated area with a high possibility of fatalities or serious injuries resulting from the tornado. The text of the Tornado Emergency that was broadcast during this particular tornado on May 3rd, 1999 was extremely sobering and conveyed the severity of the situation. This is the text:
"Tornado emergency in South Oklahoma City! At 6:57 PM Central Daylight Time, a large tornado was moving along Interstate 44 west of Newcastle. On its present path; this large damaging tornado will enter southwest sections of the Oklahoma City metro area between 7:15 PM and 7:30 PM. Persons in Moore and south Oklahoma City should take immediate tornado precautions! This is an extremely dangerous and life threatening situation! If you are in the path of this large and destructive tornado, take cover immediately! Doppler radar indicated this storm may contain destructive hail up to the size of baseballs, or larger." While the text of the Tornado Emergency that was broadcast during the tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma on May 20th, 2013 wasn't as alarming; it still did its job of telling the residents of Moore who were in the path of this storm to get their asses to safety or die. This is the text:
"The National Weather Service in Norman has issued a Tornado Warning for northwestern McClain County in central Oklahoma, southern Oklahoma County in central Oklahoma, and northern Cleveland County in central Oklahoma until 3:45 PM Central Daylight Time. At 2:59 PM Central Daylight Time; National Weather Service meteorologists and storm spotters were tracking a large and extremely dangerous tornado near Newcastle. Doppler radar showed this tornado moving northeast at twenty MPH. This is a Tornado Emergency for Moore and south Oklahoma City! In addition to a tornado; large, destructive hail up to tennis ball size is expected with this storm. Locations impacted include Midwest City, Moore, Newcastle, Stanley Draper Lake, Tinker Air Force Base, and Valley Brook. This is an extremely dangerous and life threatening situation! If you cannot get underground; go to a storm shelter or an interior room of a sturdy building now! Stay away from doors and windows!" In an episode of a show on The Weather Channel called "Tornado Alley: Real Time Tornado" which profiled the 2013 Moore tornado; I was awestruck by the story of a man named Sam Peña. Sam displayed nearly superhuman abilities to keep his son Benji as well as Benji's friends and classmates safe by using all of his psychical strength to hold up a cinder block wall to keep it from collapsing as they took shelter from the storm in a boys bathroom at Briarwood Elementary School. In the eyes of many; Sam deserved a medal of Valor for risking his own life to save the lives of his son and his son's friends and classmates. Sam doesn't consider himself a hero; saying that he was doing what any parent in his position would have done. Another survivor at Briarwood Elementary School by the name of Robin Dziedzic was interviewed in this episode as well. Robin was a fifth grade teacher at Briarwood Elementary School at the time of the tornado and she was sheltering in a girls bathroom with several students who were crying and borderline hysterical. When the tornado hit the school; Robin screamed bloody murder. Though she eventually pulled herself together and reassured the students the tornado was almost over. Once the tornado had passed over the school; Robin assured the students they were okay due to being in a brick building despite the roof having been damaged. But nothing could have prepared Robin for what she saw and heard the moment she opened the bathroom door and cautiously looked into the hallway to see if she could get the students in the bathroom out of the building to safety: the school was destroyed and she could hear children screaming and crying. After pulling herself together a second time following another mental breakdown Robin and her fellow Briarwood teachers sprang into action and began trying to get the students to safety. The day after the tornado; Robin and Sam returned to the school for different reasons: Sam returned to the school as a means of showing how he saved his son Benji as well as Benji's friends and classmates. Robin returned to the school as a means of accepting what she had experienced. Robin shot footage of the school in its ruined state and showed images of things such as the first grade wing of the school utterly destroyed, white X's spray painted onto doors indicating that the first responders had been there and found no loss of life, the bathrooms where she and the students had taken shelter as well as a small hallway where they were first sheltering and Robin was text messaging parents and friends to let them know what was going on until the power had been knocked out. Eventually Robin arrived at the door to her classroom. Robin explained that as a teacher her classroom is a second home for her and her students and she felt a sense of tremendous loss seeing her classroom destroyed. However she reconciled her feeling of loss by reminding herself that her children were safe, her students were safe and she didn't lose her life. The most ominous footage of Robin's classroom was that of the clock on the wall stopped at the time the tornado hit the school and the binders of Robin's students sitting on their desks undisturbed. Being from Ohio; I admire the strength and resilience of the people of Oklahoma as they have the know-how when it comes to finding out how to help their friends and neighbors following a tragedy like this. It's a phenomenon known as the Oklahoma Standard.
awesome video 😀