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Speaker 6: I got some sto.

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Speaker 3: Good evening mass hysteria.

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Speaker 8: Yes, Welcome to Sunday Night with Alan Ray. I am

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your humble host, Alan ray I hope everybody is doing

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all right. You just heard the Lost Wonder with Jeff

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and Man. Always a good time, always great stuff. Welcome

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to everybody in the chat so far. I see Jeff,

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he’s popped in here, already’s popped in here. Of course

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he’s always first, according to him. Calvin’s in there. If

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you miss the Charles Vincent show earlier today, man, you

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missed a good one because because a lot of people

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in the Chat were in that show and it was

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just it’s always a good time. And I’ll tell you what.

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You can’t help us sit there and listen to these

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guys and not laugh hysterically. Wasn’t here last week last week,

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And I’m not gonna lie to you have folks, the

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last two weeks in a row have been like one

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giant week and there’s just not been enough of me

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to go around, not even kidding. I was going to

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do a show Sunday night, but there was an unexpected

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death in my circle of life long friends, and this

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one was an older guy that was a great person.

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He actually recorded and produced our first two country albums

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that we had as a band. Next to my dad,

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probably one of the biggest influences as far as spirituality

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and as far as just being a heck of a

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nice guy.

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Speaker 3: His his boys.

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Speaker 8: And I played music together. In fact, his youngest and

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I still are really close, good musicians, and it was

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like family. But he was eighty seven years old. It

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was more of a celebration of life than anything. And

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we’ll take it. I’ll take eighty seven years old and

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dying in your sleep any day. That’s just my view

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on life, guys. But that’s not what we want to

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talk about. This is kind of a special episode and

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past couple of years, every year. But last Friday night

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was kind of an awakening. As I sat there at

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work doing you know, pushing my digital papers from one

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screen to the other like I do at work a lot,

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and I had one of my screens. I had a

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live streaming YouTube tornado chaser down in Missouri, south of

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Saint Louis, and guy was pretty good. He tracked this

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thing down and he actually got it on film, almost

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got taken out by it. He didn’t realize it was

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right there and coming at him. But I was pretty

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exciting and he got me thinking. And we’ll talk about this.

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In fact, it was a pretty bad, pretty bad storm

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that front that hit last week. It was there was

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like dust storms in down in Texas. There were tornadoes

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in Missouri. I was on the road Saturday, last Saturday,

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the fifteenth day after and the entire sky was just

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it had this weird haze. It was very reminiscent of

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when Canada was basically on fire. All the woods, woodlands

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in Canada were on fire and everything was just really hazy,

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really cloudy. We got over to the Grand Rapids area,

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I met up with my kids.

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Speaker 3: On the way back. Horrible winds, horrible winds. Storms.

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Speaker 8: Got back here and just a quarter mile away there

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had been a giant branch blowdown took out power lines.

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Speaker 3: I was shocked that we had power, But.

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Speaker 8: It wasn’t a while awakening because it’s that time of year.

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It’s the end of March, we’re heading into April, and

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this is a time of year where and it’s been

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going on in certain areas. You know, the farther south

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you go and the farther southwest you go, tornadoes have.

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Speaker 3: Been breaking out Texas area.

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Speaker 8: They’ve been ducking and covering for a few weeks now,

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but it’s just gonna get worse from now all the

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way up to through June. You know, especially in May.

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and I get the feeling. I just get the feeling,

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and we’re gonna kind of dive into that a little

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bit that it’s gonna be an interesting year, even though

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you’ll see in predictions they don’t possibly agree with me.

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But we’re still having some some pretty hefty storms now.

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Last week, according to I don’t even know who the

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heck this is. I’ve got a whole bunch of notes

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and stuff up here. I don’t know where they came from.

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Why should I know? It’s associated press, associated propaganda. So

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you know, they’re probably gonna get their digs in about

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can climate change. But as we’re gonna talk about tonight,

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you’re gonna you have to rethink climate change a little

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bit because if we are experienced actually man made climate change,

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it could be for the better. The Weather Service last

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week said at least five tornadoes were reported in Missouri

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last Friday, including one in the Saint Louis area.

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Speaker 3: Several buildings were damaged in the storm, including.

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Speaker 8: A strip mall and roll of Missouri, where a tornado

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was reported Friday afternoon. A Storm Prediction Center said fast

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moving storms could spawn twisters and hail’s large as baseballs,

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but the greatest threat would come from a straight line

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winds near or exceeding hurricane force with gusts up to

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one hundred miles an hour possible.

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Speaker 3: Now I think a.

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Speaker 8: Scaled down version of that exact wind shear hit this

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area a lot of damage, and it was tough driving

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back across state. But when we got back home, there

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were some there was some damage. There were some trees

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that were branches were down, you know, not anything horrible,

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not any probably doom or anything, but you could tell

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that things were a really rough. I had to go

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secure my barn doors out of my big barn there

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because they were kind of flopping around. Those prey They’re

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gonna come right out the track, which would have been

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a nightmare for me. But this was a This was

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quite a storm and there were parts of Mississippi, including Jackson, Mattisburg,

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areas of Alabama, Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, they were at higher risk.

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There were severe storms. There was tornadoes who went through there,

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and it was a damaging front that came through. Now

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that got me thinking that got me just doing some

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research having fun with it.

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Speaker 9: I watched a whole lot of videos this week, live

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shots of a whole lot of tornadoes, and kind of

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picked out some that were kind of prominent, important, historical

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we’re gonna see right off the bat.

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Speaker 8: If you are listening to Sunday Night with Alen Ray,

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I as your humble host.

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Speaker 3: Salen Ray would like to welcome you.

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Speaker 8: If you are a first time listener and and have

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never actually tuned in before, I want to. I want

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to just first of all, just lay in terms go

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over what causes a tornado. The tornadoes are are formed

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when when a combination of atmospheric conditions come together. Warm

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moist air, yes, I said, I said the M word

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moist moist Warm moist air meets cool dry air. A

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key ingredient for tornado formation is the collision of warm

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moist air, often from the Gulf of Mexico, pushing on

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up through this area with cool dry air, often from

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Canada to the Rockies. This creates an instable atmosphere. It

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creates instability and you know you can kind of feel it.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 8: Winds shear when the winds at different altitudes blow at

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different speeds or directions. It creates horizontal spinning in the

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lower atmosphere. That’s kind of common updrafts from thunderstorms. That

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is part of the ingredients. Strong rising air within a

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thunderstorm can tilt the horizontal rotating rotation and to a

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vertical position, you know, and.

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Speaker 3: Things start happening.

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Speaker 8: One of the big things is a super cell thunderstorm development.

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The most powerful tornadoes come from super cells, which are

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large rotating storms. A spinning column of air called them.

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A messil cyclone forms inside the storms. That’s where you

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get a lot of your really big city killer tornadoes,

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the hill historical ones, and we’re going to talk about

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quite a few of those. And then there’s tornado formation.

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If rotation tightens and extends downward, it can form a

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funnel cloud. When this funnel cloud touches the ground, it

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officially becomes a tornado. Now there’s additional factors, you know, humidity, factors,

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atmospheric pressure, terrain can influence a tornado’s intensity and path.

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Tornadoes are most common in the US in an area

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called tornado Alley, where these conditions frequently align, but it’s

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not exclusive to that. There have been tornadoes in some

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really odd places like far western Texas. This is a

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town that they didn’t even feel that they needed the

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name of the town. And this is just off the

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top of my head. The name of the town eludes me,

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but it’s one of the videos I watched. These people

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didn’t even feel they needed a tornado sign. They were

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offered one for free, for free, and they just didn’t

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even reply. And it’s just out of sheer weirdness. Some

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moist stare from the golf of Mexico pushed farther inward

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than it usually does, met up with the dry air

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of you know, the Texas desert area, and it caused problems.

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It caused problems, and there was a tornado just basically

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destroyed this town and they had absolutely no warning whatsoever.

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fifty years.

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Speaker 9: Now.

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Speaker 8: I have talked about, and we will talk again about

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the Palm Sunday tornadoes. We’ll discuss those again that time

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my agenda. Last year, I did a whole show on them.

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This year, I want to go back even kind of

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not as far, but I remember these tornadoes.

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Speaker 3: I was a young.

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Speaker 8: Boy nineteen seventy four, I was I was nine years old,

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old enough to know what a tornado was. And this

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was the tornado outbreak that destroyed Xeni, Ohio. And I

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remember that name because I always thought it was a

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weird name, Xenia, Ohio.

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Speaker 3: It seemed like a different planet, the.

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Speaker 8: Planet of Xenia x Cnia is such a weird name

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for some reason that that name stuck in my head.

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But for almost forty years it was simply called the

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super Outbreak. And this is according to Spectrum localnews dot

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Com on April third and fourth in nineteen seventy four,

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fifty years ago. Okay, nineteen seventy four is over fifty

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years ago. Now this was this article was written last

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year sometime, but we’re looking at over fifty years.

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Speaker 9: I’m old.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god.

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Speaker 8: Anyway, a powerful storm system made its way across the

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United States into the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys. The system

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produced widespread beer thunderstorms, and some of the strongest storms

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produced tornadoes. In a period of less than twenty four hours,

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the system produced one hundred and forty eight confirmed tornadoes

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across thirteen US states and Ontario, Canada, which whatever, I kid, okay,

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I got a lot of Canadian friends they’re great people.

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Too bad the government though, you know, sorry about that.

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We’re gonna stay out of politics tonight, though We’re gonna

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try really really hard. But anyways, the first tornado occurred

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in northern Illinois and was short lived. Other more powerful

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tornadoes continued to form into the afternoon and evening hours

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of April third. At one point, there were fifteen tornados

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confirmed on the ground at the same time during the outbreak.

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Can you imagine that fifteen tornadoes on the ground. This

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weather event marked the first time in recorded history that

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more than one hundred tornadoes occurred in less than twenty

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four hours. Guys, that’s a big cell. That is a

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super cell and a half right there. And if you

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watch the videos on these things, the supercell was absolutely phenomenal. Now,

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one of the hardest hits towns, of course I mentioned

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earlier was in Ohio. I’ve devastating F five tornado destroyed

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a large portion of the town and coust thirty two fatalities.

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Other significant HAVE five tornadoes occurred in Brandenburg, Kentucky, where

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thirty one deaths reported. In all, the storms cost three

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hundred and fifteen fatalities along with five thousand, four hundred

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and eighty four injuries damages estimated were more than six

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hundred million. That’s three point seven billion in today’s currency. Now,

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we’re not going to go into how crazy it is that,

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you know, fifty years ago, six hundred million equates to

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three point seven billion today, and everything’s supposed to be

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okay and sane. But okay, well that speaks for itself.

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When the storms surveys were completed, seven tornadoes were rated

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as F five. An F five tornado rating means the

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winds were estimated to be an excess of two hundred

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miles pour. Now I want you to pay attention, pay

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particular attention to what I’m talking about with these F ratings, Okay,

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because there’s something significant going on in this report.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 8: Twenty three were rated F four, thirty five were rated

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F three. All are considered significant tornadoes with those ratings.

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This is before this is where it comes up. The

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Enhanced Fujida Tornado Scale was started in two thousand and seven. Now,

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the enhanced was one thing. We’re going to talk about

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that in a moment. The final two tornadoes of the

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outbreak occurred in North Carolina on the morning of April fourth,

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The one hundred and forty eighth and final tornado of

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the outbreak was reported in Caldwell County in North Carolina Foothills.

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In April twenty eleven. The term super outbreak was no

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longer used to identify this weather event. It is now

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referred to as the nineteen seventy four super outbreak because

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on April twenty fifth through twenty eighth and twenty eleven,

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we’re going to study this a little bit too, a

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weather system produced three hundred and sixty tornadoes in a

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three day period. Now, what is so special about what

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I was saying with the f.

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Speaker 3: Ratings on these.

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Speaker 8: During that nineteen seventy four tornado outbreak, Well, in nineteen

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seventy one, I should say a man was producing something

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pretty special. Doctor Fageta was kind of doing a lot

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of research and a lot of study and was producing

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an actual scale where you can tell what a tornado was,

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You can measure what a tornado was. Before that, there

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was really no measurement. It’s just a very big tornado.

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And we’re going to see a little example of that

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later in the show. The original Figeta scale scale, developed

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in nineteen seventy one by doctor Ted Fujita characterized tornadoes

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based on the damage they caused, and he arranged them

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from F zero the weakest to F five the strongest. Now,

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in this area where I’m sitting right now, we are

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prone to having tornadoes. For the most part, they are

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usually F zero’s to F ones. There have been a

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couple of F twos and an F three I have witnessed,

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and I believe what I believe was an F three

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going through this area that eventually hit the tiny town

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of Dundee and tore the roof off of a hotel,

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damaged a lot of houses. My neighbor and I sat

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out in the front yard directly overhead. It was stars,

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but you could see the clouds three hundred and sixty

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degrees around us, and we were watching this funnel cloud

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coming down and going back up with the lightning, and

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we watched it hit, and my neighbor turns to me

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and says, well, I hope these people are all taking cover.

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Of course, all of our families were locked down in

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his basement, and we’re stupid enough to be out there,

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and he’s smoking a cigarette, and I’m just watching the

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weather because that’s who we were. Sirens going off everything.

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Speaker 3: We didn’t care. But anyways, so.

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Speaker 8: What was important about the nineteen seventy four tornado outbreak

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was this was the first time that he really really

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did deep diving research, studied it, and he labeled each

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one of these tornadoes with an F rating. Now, let’s

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go over what doctor Ted Fugita did. Number one, He

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was a meteorologist at the University of Chicago. He developed

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the Fageta scale to classify tornadoes based on the damage

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they inflicted, rather than relying solely on wind speed measurements,

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which were difficult to obtain during a tornado. Now, the

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original F scale categories. The original F scale had six categories.

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F zero, which was a gale, F one, which is weak.

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F two was strong, F three was severe, F four

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was devastating, a F five they just labeled it as incredible.

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Pagina’s goals to create a system that could categorize tornadoes

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by intensity and area, and to estimate the wind speeds

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associated with the damage caused by the tornado. Now, area

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is important on a tornado. One of the biggest tornadoes

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on record was two and a quarter miles wide. Two

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and a quarter miles Can you even imagine that it’s

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nothing really, especially in the Tornado Alley in the South

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Georgia places like that.

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Speaker 3: To see a tornado.

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Speaker 8: That’s a mile wide, and we’ll study one of those

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outbreaks where that happened. Now, the original F scale had

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some limitations, including a lack of detailed damage indicators, no

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account for construction quality and variability, and a lack of

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definitive correlation between damage and wind speed. The Weather Service

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introduced the Enhanced Vegeta Scale, the e F scale, in

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two thousand and seven, addressing the original f scal’s limitations.

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So that’s what we use today is the EF scale.

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The S scale incorporates twenty eight damage indicators what they

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call dis such as building type, infrastructure, and trees, with

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eight degrees of damage which they call DoD for each

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indicator ranging from the beginning of visible damage to complete destruction.

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The EF scale is now used by the National Weather

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Service to rate tornadoes in the United States. Of course,

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they rate them from EF zero to EF five. What

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we see nowadays was more like this. An EF zero

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wind speeds estimate between sixty five and eighty five miles

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per hour. EF one wind speeds are around eighty six

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to one hundred and ten miles per hour. EF two

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wind speeds are between one hundred and eleven and one

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hundred and thirty five miles per hour, EF three one

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hundred and thirty six to one hundred and fifty nine

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miles per hour. EF four wind speeds estimate between one

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hundred and sixty and two hundred miles per hour, and

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So those are your speeds, those are the enhanced EF

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five And I’m hoping some of this is actually beneficial

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to you helping these because we’re gonna start talking about

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a few significant tornadoes.

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Speaker 3: Now I spoke to this last year. And bear with me, because.

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Speaker 8: When we get to the end of the show, we’re

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gonna we’re gonna discuss some things that are relatively important

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that I’ve come to the conclusion after a week of

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really studying heart on this stuff. First of all, let’s

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just recap the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of nineteen sixty five.

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Speaker 3: Okay, the Palm.

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Speaker 8: Sunday tornado outbreak of nineteen sixty five was one of

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the deadliest and it was the most intense tornado outbreak

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in US history. It occurred in April eleventh, nineteen sixty five,

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on Palm Sunday. Now, what have we got two weeks

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coming up? Two and a half weeks, we’ll be right

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in that area. The effect the tornado outbreak affected several

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Midwestern states, particularly Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa.

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Speaker 3: Now where I’m sitting right now.

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Speaker 8: Was very very close to where those tornadoes went through

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to Comme see, Michigan is just north of here five

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miles and it clipped the northernmost part of Compsy, did

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some damage to the airport. But the Irish Hills area

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where I do a lot of fishing and I spend

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a lot of time out there. If you’re if you

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follow me on Twitter, you see be talking about going

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out to the hill, the Hills and Irish Hills. Great place,

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excellent excellent fried perch dinner. It’s just a great place

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to hang out. But anyways, a lot of that area

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was decimated. Not too far from there, kind of and

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I’m trying to just I guess it would be like

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southwest of you know, Iris Hill area, kind of the

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southwestern tip One area there, A tornado hit it and

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as they were basically recovering and getting.

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Speaker 3: Their breath and pulling themselves out of the rubble.

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Speaker 8: Another F five went right through the exact same area,

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and then whatever was left after the first F five

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the second half five got a hold of. So it

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was a pretty wicked one open In the Grand Rapids area,

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just north of Grand Rapids, a tornado hit a bowling alley,

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which my daughter was kind of funny. My daughter and

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son in law had an apartment there just on the

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other side of the bowling alley that it hit, and

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I looked up there and I just was looking around

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and I what, you know, if you ever hear about

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the Palm.

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Speaker 3: Sunny tornadoes, you’re right where it happened.

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Speaker 8: This This apartment building would have been right in the

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tornado path.

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Speaker 3: And my daughter just kind of looks at me and said, oh,

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thank you, Dad, it’s your older eyes. But that’s okay.

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We haven’t seen anything like that since then.

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Speaker 8: The tornado count in the Palm Sunny tornadoes was forty

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seven confirmed tornadoes death, two hundred and seventy one people dead.

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Now I’m reporting on all this because I want you

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to realize something by the end of this show, something

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that is very significant. Prepper type stuff. We’ll get to it.

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There’s over fifteen hundred injuries. Of course, I went over

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the states that were affected. The most impacted areas were

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northern Indiana and southern Michigan. Most of those tornadoes, the

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f scale was multiple F fours and F fives, so

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it was crazy. Now notable the double twin tornado. The

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outbreak produced a rare twin tornado in Indiana and other

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areas where two tornadoes traveled paths parallel to each other,

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causing mass destruction. I just told you about that one.

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That one was more of a kind of followed the

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same path, maybe a little bit off, but almost the

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exact same path. And Dunlap, Indiana one of the hardest

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hit areas where violent tornadoes destroyed an entire trailer park,

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killing over thirty people. Elkhart, Indiana, powerful tornado hit that

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trailer park, killing dozens and leaving widespread destructions. The strongest tornadoes,

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several F four and F five tornadoes, tore through Indiana

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and Michigan, leveling entire communities. Now, when my dear old

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mother passed away, and it’s coming up on five years

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next month, we was going through her things and we

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actually found that her and my father must have done

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a road trip pretty soon after the Palm Sunday tornadoes

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and took a lot of pictures of the Iris Hills

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area of some of the devastation.

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Speaker 3: Pretty crazy.

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Speaker 8: I don’t have them on hand, but one of these

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days I’m gonna have to digitize them and put them out. Now,

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the significant impact of some of these is radar and

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warning systems changed after the Palm Sunday tornadoes. The disaster

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highlighted the need to improve tornado warning systems. As a

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result of the Palm Sunday tornadoes, National Weather Service revamped

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its tornado warning procedures. Tornado Watch was introduced after this.

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Before that, there was no tornado watch. There was just

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kind of a hey, there’s a tornado coming, Which do

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we call a warning?

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Speaker 3: Today?

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Speaker 8: The official adaptation of the term tornado watch helped warn

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people of severe weather conditions that could be prevalent. Now,

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that was not the only Palm Sunday tornado outbreak. A

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lot of people don’t remember this. I remember it vividly.

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There was also a Palm Sunday tornado outbreak in nineteen

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ninety four. This was not in the northern area. The Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois,

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Indiana area. This was in Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas.

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This one had a tornado count of twenty nine confirmed tornadoes.

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Over forty people died, over three hundred and twenty were injured,

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which is a significant can’t reduction from the original Palm

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Sunday tornadoes, where two hundred and seventy one people died

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fifteen hundred injury. Okay, still people died. Most of those

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tornadoes were F two to F four tornadoes. The states

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affected Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Now

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here’s some notable events of that. The Goshen United Methodist Church.

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The deadliest tornado of the outbreak, rated F four, struck

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the Goshen United Methodist Church in Peedemont, Alabama, during Palm

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Sunday service. Twenty people were killed, including the church pastor’s daughter,

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and over ninety were injured. The church was completely destroyed,

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and the tragedy became one of the most well known

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tornado related church disasters in US history. Now o there

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aren’t hard hit areas, multiple locations in Alabama and Georgia

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causing widespread damage to home, schools and businesses. Severe storms

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also led to flooding in large hail in parts of

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the Southeast. Now the significance of this tornado outbreak weather

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sirens and warning improvements. This disaster highlighted the importance of

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improving tornado warnings, especially in rural areas and churches where sirens.

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Speaker 3: Might not be heard.

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Speaker 8: Many communities began installing more sirens improving emergency preparedness plans

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after the event. The nineteen ninety four Palm Sunday outbreak

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remains one of the most tragic tornado events in the Southeast,

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especially due to the church disaster in Alabama. We’ve reached

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the bottom of the hour. I want to take a

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quick break, get myself something to drink. You can tell

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my voice is still a little scratchy. Guys have been

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fighting with my voice since Christmas. It comes and it goes.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully it’s just about there.

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Speaker 8: But I think once the weather hits sixty five seventy

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and stays there, hopefully whatever is ailing me goes away.

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Speaker 3: Don’t get anywhere. We come back.

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Speaker 8: We’re going to talk about the twenty eleven super outbreak,

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one of the craziest tornadoes in history. Hope you’re enjoying

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the Sunday Tornado and all of the d don’t go anywhere,

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We’ll be back in just a moment.

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Speaker 1: This breakfast isn’t just breakfast. It might be the first

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McDonald’s breakfast you’re having at McDonald’s again. This lunch might

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be a weekly tradition you hadn’t had in weeks. And

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this dinner might be the first Winging Bok for not just.

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Speaker 3: You in a while.

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to take it.

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Speaker 3: I’m reaching around trying to grab things.

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Speaker 8: Here, My Raspberry Pie that I usually have up on

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one of my screens just like locked up and.

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Speaker 3: I don’t know why. Hey, welcome back, Welcome back. It

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is Sunday Down with Ellen Ray.

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Speaker 8: It’s the show where we kind of sit around and

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ask ourselves.

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Speaker 6: What the wide wide world of sportses are going on here.

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Speaker 8: Well, tonight is kind of special because we are kind

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of doing the whole doom thing, doing the tornado thing,

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and just bring a little awareness talking about some some

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of the things that have happened over the years. And

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it’s important. It’s important, and we’ll get to that part later,

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but it’s just a brutal reminder, and especially if you

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live in the South. Just today, even today in Arkansas

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Tennessee area, there was a tornado watch warning in some

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parts there was some rotation.

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Speaker 3: It was only like two and a half three hours ago,

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so this is relevant.

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Speaker 8: One of the craziest outbreaks just happened not too long ago,

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in twenty eleven, The twenty eleven tornado outbreak, often referred

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to as the April twenty fifth to twenty eighth to

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twenty eleventh outbreak, was one of the largest and most

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devastating tornado outbreaks in US history. This multi day event

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produced three hundred and sixty two confirmed tornadoes across twenty

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one states from Texas to New York. Okay, guys, that’s huge.

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That’s huge.

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Speaker 3: The most destructive day was April twenty seventh.

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Speaker 8: This is twenty eleven, when an extraordinary two hundred and

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eighteen tornadoes touchdown, primarily affecting the southeastern United States. The

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outbreak caused extensive damage and resulted in three hundred and

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forty eight fatalities, making it the deadliest tornado outbreak in

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the US since the nineteen seventy four Super Outbreak. Some

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of the hardest hit areas included Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, and Alabama,

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where the intense e F four NEUS five tornadoes caused

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significant destruction.

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Speaker 3: The town of.

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Speaker 8: Joplin, Missouri, though heavily impacted by a separate tornado on

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May twenty second, twenty eleven, is often associated with the

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devastation that year. In addition to the loss of life.

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The outbreak costs billions of dollars in damages, destroying thousands

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of homes and businesses, and even the event highlighted the

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need for improved detection systems, emergency preparedness, and public awareness

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to better mitigate future tornado impacts. Okay, this is not

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too far away, and as you a lot of you

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probably remember the Joplin, Missouri tornado part of that outbreak,

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and it was a horrible I mean, I remember when

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that thing hit, and I was right here on Twitter

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x whatever you want to call its Twitter back then,

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and that’s when I found out that our own Polita

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Bunny Foo actually was from Joplin, because my mom is

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from Joplin, and we just had some comments about that.

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But it was a devastating, horrible, horrible tornado. Not the

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first one they’ve ever had though, trust me, definitely not.

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The Joplin twenty eleven tornado is one of the deadliest,

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most destructive tornadoes in US history. And here’s some key

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facts from it. And I gathered some of these facts

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and I’m gleaning I’m just doing some some facts and

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dates and stuff. It happened on May twenty second, twenty

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eleven touchdown at approximately five thirty four pm Central time.

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It was an EF five on the enhanced scale. When

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I say EF five, that’s enhanced. You just know that

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winds were over two hundred miles per hour. The path

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link was twenty two miles, the width was a mile

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wide at its largest point, and it lasted thirty eight minutes.

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Speaker 3: At thirty eight.

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Speaker 8: Minutes of a mile wide hell tearing up everything in

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this path. There was one hundred and sixty one deaths,

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over oney, one hundred and fifty injuries, and more than

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two point eight billion dollars in damage. Around seven thousand,

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five hundred homes were destroyed and about five hundred businesses

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were destroyed. One of the costliest tornadoes in US history

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at the time, and it was one of the deadliest

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since nineteen forty seven. The deadliest tornado in the US

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was the nineteen forty seven Woodward, Oklahoma tornado. There was

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a hospital destroyed. Saint John’s Regional Medical Center was severely damaged,

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requiring patient evacuation. The Female Assistance provided one hundred and

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fifty eight million dollars in eight which barely scratched the surface.

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There was over one hundred and twenty six thousand people

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volunteered with the recovery efforts. The city implemented improved building

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codes to enhance storm resilience. After that, now, let’s go

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into a little bit about this tornado.

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Speaker 3: It’s kind of interesting.

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Speaker 8: The tornado developed from a super self thunderstorm in southeast

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Kansas before rapidly intensifying as it entered Joplin. It touched

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down west of Joplin a movie eastward through the city

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before dissipating just decent town so basically had Joplin and

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its sites. It remained on the ground twenty two point

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one miles across Jasper and Newton Counties. The tornado reached

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its maximum width of one mile while passing through the

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densely populated area.

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Speaker 3: And that’s what made it so bad.

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Speaker 8: It was the widest and most powerful at the most

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populated point. It destroyed entire neighborhoods, shopping centers, critical infrastructure.

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As we mentioned before, as it destroyed Saint John’s Regional

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Medical Center. Joplin High School, where my mom went to school,

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was destroyed, along with several elementary schools. Nearly twenty five

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percent of the city, ninety two hundred homes, and buildings

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was damaged or destroyed. The tornado killed in that area

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one hundred and sixty one people injured over and fifty

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and making it the most deadly. First Responders faced significant

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challenges due to blocked roads and down power lines. Search

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and rescue efforts began immediately, with FEMA, the National Guard,

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and volunteers helping in recovery efforts. The economic impact was

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estimated at two point eight billion dollars. Businesses and infrastructure

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suffered long term impacts through the city, and they made

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a strong recovery. But the things that they learned, as

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we mentioned earlier, is that there’s been stricter building codes.

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The National sub Weather Service revised warning systems to improve

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messaging during tornado emergencies, and the disaster highlighted the importance

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emergency preparedness, leading to better public awareness.

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Speaker 3: Now we go through the Jopin.

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Speaker 8: Tornado system, we go through the twenty eleven tornado system

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Supercell and Rick, what are you testing? Boss Man’s in

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the chat room. He’s testing something. We compare it to

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something that happened one hundred years ago, one hundred years

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ago this year, the nineteen twenty five Tri State tornado,

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and I think about nineteen twenty five. They had nothing

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that we have today, nothing, no cell phones, They had electricity,

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they had radio, but you had to know that something

691
00:41:02,679 –> 00:41:06,360
was happening to turn on the radio. In nineteen twenty five,

692
00:41:06,360 –> 00:41:09,159
the Tri State Tornado was the deadliest tornado in US history,

693
00:41:09,199 –> 00:41:13,400
striking Missouri, Illinois, Indiana on March eighteenth, nineteen twenty five.

694
00:41:13,920 –> 00:41:17,199
It remains one of the most powerful destructive tornadoes ever recorded. Now,

695
00:41:17,599 –> 00:41:20,039
it was, of course of an F five tornado on

696
00:41:20,079 –> 00:41:23,960
the original Fajita scale. Six hundred and ninety five people

697
00:41:25,039 –> 00:41:29,599
died and over two thousand injuries. Now they’re saying, here’s

698
00:41:29,599 –> 00:41:31,760
the important part about this tornado, and though that’s something

699
00:41:31,840 –> 00:41:36,719
that’s kind of crazy about it. They don’t have exacts

700
00:41:36,920 –> 00:41:41,800
on this, okay, but they estimate that it was two

701
00:41:41,920 –> 00:41:45,280
hundred and nineteen miles on the ground. Two hundred and

702
00:41:45,320 –> 00:41:49,840
nineteen mile tornado path, the longest continuous tornado path ever recorded. Now,

703
00:41:50,360 –> 00:41:54,599
that cannot be completely proved, but all the evidence points

704
00:41:54,639 –> 00:41:57,960
to it. There are theories that there might have been

705
00:41:58,000 –> 00:42:00,679
two tornadoes that were basically following the same path, because

706
00:42:00,719 –> 00:42:02,760
it did make a crazy little curve at one point.

707
00:42:04,119 –> 00:42:08,199
But a lot of scientists with a lot of I

708
00:42:08,239 –> 00:42:11,400
don’t know evidence have suggested that it is one single

709
00:42:11,400 –> 00:42:14,159
tornado two hundred and nineteen mile path up to one

710
00:42:14,199 –> 00:42:17,400
mile wide. The duration of this tornado was right around

711
00:42:17,400 –> 00:42:21,039
three point five hours, and the estimated forward speed on it,

712
00:42:21,079 –> 00:42:24,559
this is the craziest part, was sixty to seventy three

713
00:42:24,599 –> 00:42:27,519
miles per hour at its highest point. This is a

714
00:42:27,599 –> 00:42:31,840
tornado heading to you, heading through your town like a

715
00:42:31,920 –> 00:42:35,039
car driving on a freeway. Okay, seventy three miles an hour.

716
00:42:35,360 –> 00:42:37,000
There’s not a lot of time to get the heck

717
00:42:37,039 –> 00:42:40,760
out of the way. It started in Missouri, touched down Ellington,

718
00:42:40,760 –> 00:42:45,039
Missouri around one pm, quickly intensified, moved into Illinois. Illinois

719
00:42:45,079 –> 00:42:49,719
was the hardest hit of course, Gorham, Illinois. Murphysboro, Illinois

720
00:42:49,719 –> 00:42:52,159
suffered the highest death toll two hundred and thirty four killed.

721
00:42:53,559 –> 00:42:58,639
Gorham was completely destroyed. Towns like DeSoto and West Frankfort

722
00:42:58,679 –> 00:43:02,599
were also devastated. They crossed into Indiana, hitting Griffin and

723
00:43:02,639 –> 00:43:06,480
Owensville before finally dissipating near Petersburg, Indiana. Now the thing

724
00:43:06,519 –> 00:43:08,480
about this is a lot of them in this path.

725
00:43:08,960 –> 00:43:12,000
There were a lot of things like mines, so a

726
00:43:12,000 –> 00:43:15,280
lot of workers were underground at one o’clock in the afternoon.

727
00:43:15,400 –> 00:43:19,199
You’re underground, you’re working. And when they came up, their cities,

728
00:43:19,239 –> 00:43:25,599
their towns that they lived in were just gone gone.

729
00:43:25,920 –> 00:43:28,880
Why I was so devastating. Of course, these exceptionally long

730
00:43:28,920 –> 00:43:32,760
path two hundred nineteen miles, that’s absolutely insane, the unusual

731
00:43:32,760 –> 00:43:36,000
speed seventy sixty to seventy three miles per hour. And

732
00:43:36,079 –> 00:43:39,519
here’s the big thing, the lack of warning. Of course,

733
00:43:39,559 –> 00:43:42,480
in nineteen twenty five, there were no tornado warnings or sirens,

734
00:43:42,679 –> 00:43:46,840
and the term tornado was banned in forecasts to prevent panic.

735
00:43:48,239 –> 00:43:52,480
They banned the term tornado in a forecast to prevent panic.

736
00:43:53,960 –> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 3: That makes a lot of sense.

737
00:43:56,039 –> 00:43:59,760
Speaker 8: Most people had absolutely no advanced warning before the tornado struck.

738
00:44:01,840 –> 00:44:04,360
It’s the deadliest tornado in US history, six hundred and

739
00:44:04,400 –> 00:44:11,159
ninety five deaths, single tornado, not outbreak, but single tornado.

740
00:44:11,760 –> 00:44:16,920
And this event began the drive for future improvedness in

741
00:44:17,280 –> 00:44:21,280
improvements in weather forecasting, warning systems, public awareness, and it

742
00:44:21,320 –> 00:44:25,440
contributed to the eventual establishment of tornado warnings that we

743
00:44:25,519 –> 00:44:29,239
know today. The Tri State tornado nineteen twenty five remains

744
00:44:29,239 –> 00:44:32,199
a benchmark for tornado intensity. It was the craziest thing

745
00:44:32,239 –> 00:44:40,119
people ever saw. Now we got fifteen minutes before the

746
00:44:40,159 –> 00:44:40,679
top of the hour.

747
00:44:41,320 –> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 3: We got one more.

748
00:44:41,920 –> 00:44:45,280
Speaker 8: I want to check out. Nineteen ninety seven Jerald, Texas tornado.

749
00:44:45,360 –> 00:44:48,039
Durell Jerald, Texas tornado was one of the most intense

750
00:44:48,079 –> 00:44:53,360
and devastating tornadoes in US history. May twenty seventh, nineteen

751
00:44:53,440 –> 00:44:55,960
ninety seven, touchdown at about three forty pm. It was

752
00:44:56,000 –> 00:44:58,280
a EF five. Of course you could probably imagine it’s

753
00:44:58,360 –> 00:45:01,880
modern ninety seven. Estimated at winds at two hundred and

754
00:45:01,880 –> 00:45:03,880
sixty miles per hour, and even though it was only

755
00:45:03,880 –> 00:45:06,599
on the ground for seven point six miles, it was

756
00:45:06,639 –> 00:45:11,280
three quarter of a mile wide. Just that tornadoes twenty

757
00:45:11,320 –> 00:45:14,960
seven deaths, forty million dollars in damage, homes destroyed around

758
00:45:15,039 –> 00:45:18,199
Double Creek Estate’s neighborhood. It was one of the most

759
00:45:18,320 –> 00:45:22,039
violent tornadoes ever recorded. Okay, by recorded, I mean there’s

760
00:45:22,079 –> 00:45:27,000
actually videotape of this thing. Extreme wind speeds, ground scouring,

761
00:45:27,480 –> 00:45:31,920
debris polarization. Some of these tornadoes are known, especially the

762
00:45:31,960 –> 00:45:35,559
twenty eleven tornado, especially in the Alabama area. Some of

763
00:45:35,599 –> 00:45:41,440
those places this tornado here actually dug up pavement on roads.

764
00:45:42,480 –> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 3: You’re looking at.

765
00:45:43,119 –> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 8: Trees being just you know, going through little forest, little

766
00:45:46,199 –> 00:45:49,880
wooded areas, tearing up trees, pavement coming off the roads.

767
00:45:49,880 –> 00:45:51,320
Speaker 3: You literally have to rebuild the roads.

768
00:45:52,199 –> 00:45:57,639
Speaker 8: Some of these tornadoes have torn up bridges to train bridges.

769
00:45:58,800 –> 00:46:03,239
They’ve removed things that you just wouldn’t think were able

770
00:46:03,280 –> 00:46:08,000
to move. Absolutely incredible. The ground scouring on a tornado

771
00:46:08,239 –> 00:46:13,000
is crazy. When you see it, cars and bodies carried

772
00:46:13,039 –> 00:46:16,679
long distances. Vehicles were thrown hundreds of yards from this tornado.

773
00:46:17,079 –> 00:46:23,039
Victims were found far from their original location, and the

774
00:46:23,079 –> 00:46:26,199
hardest hit area is the Double Creek Estate subdivision, was obliterated,

775
00:46:26,239 –> 00:46:30,079
with all twenty seven victims killed instantly when it hit.

776
00:46:32,719 –> 00:46:35,360
This disaster led to increased public awareness of the importance

777
00:46:35,360 –> 00:46:39,960
of storm shelters in Texas. This tornado is often compared

778
00:46:40,000 –> 00:46:42,320
to the twenty eleven Joplin tornado and the twenty thirteen

779
00:46:42,400 –> 00:46:45,400
More Oklahoma tornado for its intensity. And I’m not going

780
00:46:45,440 –> 00:46:47,480
to go through the More Oklahoma tornado, but that’s one

781
00:46:47,519 –> 00:46:49,760
you can look up. There’s videos of it out there,

782
00:46:49,760 –> 00:46:52,800
there’s things out there that you can study. But unlike Joplin,

783
00:46:52,800 –> 00:46:56,519
which infected an urban area, the Gerald or Durell was

784
00:46:56,519 –> 00:46:59,719
a small rural community, resulting in fewer overall casualties. That’s

785
00:46:59,760 –> 00:47:02,679
the only saving thing about it. But it was just

786
00:47:02,719 –> 00:47:06,639
as bad, just as crazy. The tornado slow speed and

787
00:47:06,840 –> 00:47:11,480
unusual motion southward allowed it to stay over areas longer,

788
00:47:12,079 –> 00:47:20,000
maximizing the destruction. Now that’s I don’t want to worry

789
00:47:20,039 –> 00:47:23,400
you too much longer with reading about these tornadoes, but.

790
00:47:25,039 –> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 3: I want you to notice something.

791
00:47:29,440 –> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 8: Nineteen twenty five, A lot of deaths, a lot of injuries,

792
00:47:35,039 –> 00:47:40,920
just a massive amount just from one tornado. Nineteen sixty five,

793
00:47:42,199 –> 00:47:50,280
massive amount of injuries from a tornado outbreak those eras,

794
00:47:51,440 –> 00:47:55,760
and you know the Palm Sunday tornadoes. Technically I was

795
00:47:55,880 –> 00:47:58,679
here for that. I was in my mama’s belly.

796
00:48:00,199 –> 00:48:01,320
Speaker 3: And she had to have been. Let’s seny.

797
00:48:01,320 –> 00:48:05,960
Speaker 8: I was born in September, so she felt that I

798
00:48:06,039 –> 00:48:14,320
was there. But anyways, there wasn’t very reliable, very accurate systems.

799
00:48:15,079 –> 00:48:21,119
Nineteen seventy four outbreak that just they were starting to

800
00:48:21,159 –> 00:48:23,840
come online, they were starting to report things. They were

801
00:48:23,880 –> 00:48:26,800
starting to say, hey, we got to do something better,

802
00:48:27,000 –> 00:48:30,840
we got to make improvements. And if you noticed, some

803
00:48:30,880 –> 00:48:34,119
of these tornadoes were extremely violent. But as time goes on,

804
00:48:35,800 –> 00:48:40,760
the likelihood of a single tornado, barring the Joblin, Missouri one,

805
00:48:40,760 –> 00:48:45,280
which was just an anomaly. The more time goes on,

806
00:48:47,000 –> 00:48:51,360
the fewer people die in a tornado. That’s a good thing, right,

807
00:48:52,599 –> 00:48:58,440
And I think, and I don’t just think that. It’s

808
00:48:58,480 –> 00:49:04,039
proven that one of the most important tools you can

809
00:49:04,079 –> 00:49:07,760
have and preparing for a tornado, and I’m gonna put

810
00:49:07,800 –> 00:49:11,320
this out there right now, one of the most important

811
00:49:11,360 –> 00:49:15,119
tools you can have preparing for a tornado is information.

812
00:49:19,440 –> 00:49:25,440
Just having experienced a few tornadoes myself, a few things

813
00:49:25,440 –> 00:49:26,840
that have gone wrong in.

814
00:49:26,800 –> 00:49:28,679
Speaker 3: This area that we’ve had to take cover for.

815
00:49:30,480 –> 00:49:37,719
Speaker 8: Having time to take cover is paramount. Having time to

816
00:49:37,840 –> 00:49:42,320
seek shelter reduces the number of lives lost.

817
00:49:42,480 –> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 3: That’s just a fact. Now.

818
00:49:47,760 –> 00:49:52,920
Speaker 8: Of course, I’m sitting here looking at one two three, four, five, six, seven,

819
00:49:53,000 –> 00:49:59,320
eight just just here right around me. I have eight

820
00:49:59,679 –> 00:50:03,519
different for it things that will tune in to weather

821
00:50:03,960 –> 00:50:09,199
radio and one two three more out front on my porch,

822
00:50:11,559 –> 00:50:15,280
not counting a regular radio or the TV. And I

823
00:50:15,480 –> 00:50:20,360
actually have a weather radio one that if it starts

824
00:50:20,360 –> 00:50:22,400
getting kind of dubious out you can just turn on

825
00:50:22,519 –> 00:50:26,199
and forget, because if something goes off, it’ll kick on

826
00:50:26,320 –> 00:50:29,559
and tell you. The question I have for you is

827
00:50:31,320 –> 00:50:35,199
are you going to wait until tornado sirens go off

828
00:50:35,880 –> 00:50:39,519
to take cover or to take action, or to even

829
00:50:39,519 –> 00:50:42,960
look up in the sky, or would you rather have

830
00:50:43,079 –> 00:50:48,920
something that basically, when it goes off, it’s telling the

831
00:50:49,000 –> 00:50:52,280
people to activate the tornado sirens and it might be

832
00:50:52,320 –> 00:50:54,360
up to sixty seconds for you hear the tornado sirens

833
00:50:54,400 –> 00:50:59,000
after your weather radio goes off. I would much rather

834
00:50:59,199 –> 00:51:03,639
have something that gives me a good minute head start

835
00:51:04,320 –> 00:51:08,880
on everybody else on any emergency. Really, I mean, nuke’s

836
00:51:08,880 –> 00:51:11,679
getting launched, datus whatever, you’ve got a weather.

837
00:51:11,559 –> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 3: Radio, they’re gonna use that to announce it.

838
00:51:17,559 –> 00:51:21,320
Speaker 8: Of course, prepping for this, having a place to go,

839
00:51:23,960 –> 00:51:28,480
basements are the best. Basements are great. Basements are probably

840
00:51:29,159 –> 00:51:31,079
right up there with one of the safer places. An

841
00:51:31,239 –> 00:51:37,519
actual concrete storm shelter is maximum. That’s probably the best.

842
00:51:37,719 –> 00:51:42,159
If I lived in Tornado Alley, I would spend a

843
00:51:42,239 –> 00:51:45,119
good deal of money making sure I had one and

844
00:51:45,159 –> 00:51:47,519
it was very accessible and I could get things down there,

845
00:51:47,599 –> 00:51:48,320
and I would.

846
00:51:48,119 –> 00:51:49,320
Speaker 3: Have some supplies in there.

847
00:51:50,599 –> 00:51:52,440
Speaker 8: Now, I’m kind of a risk taker when it comes

848
00:51:52,440 –> 00:51:54,800
to Tornado’s okay, if it really gets bad and things

849
00:51:54,800 –> 00:51:56,360
are really hitting the fan. I could go to my

850
00:51:56,360 –> 00:51:59,719
neighbor’s house. I mean, he’s already a couple of times

851
00:51:59,760 –> 00:52:01,840
is noted on my door and said, hey, man, get

852
00:52:01,840 –> 00:52:03,519
your wife and kids, get them down in their basement,

853
00:52:03,519 –> 00:52:10,159
because I’m I’m on a slab. But even if you

854
00:52:10,599 –> 00:52:16,159
if you live somewhere where you don’t have shelter, getting

855
00:52:16,159 –> 00:52:19,679
in a bathtub, covering up with blankets, grabbing blankets and

856
00:52:19,679 –> 00:52:22,000
pulling them over you so you know it’s not.

857
00:52:23,880 –> 00:52:24,159
Speaker 3: Well.

858
00:52:24,400 –> 00:52:27,079
Speaker 8: It is sometimes a tornado hitting you directly and throwing

859
00:52:27,119 –> 00:52:29,440
you hundreds of yards that will get you. But it’s

860
00:52:29,480 –> 00:52:32,639
the things blowing around in the wind that makes them

861
00:52:32,719 –> 00:52:36,119
so dangerous. And if you’re blowing around in the wind

862
00:52:36,159 –> 00:52:41,480
with them, well you’ve got problems. Sometimes it’s just completely unavoidable.

863
00:52:41,519 –> 00:52:44,280
I mean, the videos I’ve watched this week, some of

864
00:52:44,320 –> 00:52:46,239
these people were doing all the right things. They were

865
00:52:46,239 –> 00:52:49,000
in their basement, they were against the wall, they were,

866
00:52:49,039 –> 00:52:51,639
you know, doing all their and they still just got obliterated.

867
00:52:51,679 –> 00:52:55,880
Sometimes it just happens. But what I’m saying is you’re

868
00:52:55,920 –> 00:52:58,559
playing the odds anytime you’re talking about prepping, anytime you’re

869
00:52:58,599 –> 00:53:00,480
talking about doing anything, being paired for.

870
00:53:00,440 –> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 3: Anything, you’re playing the odds.

871
00:53:05,119 –> 00:53:08,440
Speaker 8: So my best advice for this whole thing, Number one

872
00:53:09,320 –> 00:53:15,719
is have one, maybe two things that you can dial

873
00:53:15,719 –> 00:53:18,679
in on the weather. Now, of course you know a

874
00:53:18,679 –> 00:53:22,239
lot of areas, hopefully your area does too. I am

875
00:53:22,280 –> 00:53:26,760
signed up for my county where if there’s any kind

876
00:53:26,840 –> 00:53:31,400
of event, boom, I get a phone call, a text,

877
00:53:31,519 –> 00:53:36,400
and an email, all all of the above. Okay, and

878
00:53:36,440 –> 00:53:40,239
it’s come in handy a few times. But if you

879
00:53:40,280 –> 00:53:42,559
really want to know what’s going on, the handy little

880
00:53:42,559 –> 00:53:45,320
ballfang that you have that you spend twelve twenty bucks on,

881
00:53:45,800 –> 00:53:48,480
and that I’ve preached on, hey maybe it’s a good, good,

882
00:53:48,639 –> 00:53:50,599
same thing. Even if you’re not licensed to have one

883
00:53:50,599 –> 00:53:55,559
of these round, if you have your local repeater programmed

884
00:53:55,559 –> 00:53:57,800
in it, there’s a good chance that they have a

885
00:53:57,840 –> 00:54:00,719
weather net going on and they’re talking about what’s going

886
00:54:00,760 –> 00:54:03,960
on live in your area. They’re calling in saying, hey,

887
00:54:04,400 –> 00:54:06,960
I’m over in this area and this is what’s happening.

888
00:54:07,840 –> 00:54:13,639
And these people are trained in Skyworn. Skyworn is a great,

889
00:54:13,960 –> 00:54:17,400
great venue, great thing to be, you know, to immerse

890
00:54:17,440 –> 00:54:21,679
yourself in. I’m getting certified in it hopefully pretty soon.

891
00:54:21,679 –> 00:54:21,920
Speaker 3: Here.

892
00:54:24,079 –> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 8: But that little bill fang hook to your local repeater.

893
00:54:27,679 –> 00:54:30,239
Of course, in already’s condition, I already don’t have a

894
00:54:30,239 –> 00:54:32,880
local repeater. He’s out in the middle of nowhere. I

895
00:54:32,880 –> 00:54:36,119
don’t know if he has tornadoes either, but he does

896
00:54:36,159 –> 00:54:38,239
have wildfires and windshears and everything else.

897
00:54:38,280 –> 00:54:38,719
Speaker 3: I’m sure.

898
00:54:40,119 –> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 8: But I’m just saying, just after a week of studying,

899
00:54:45,840 –> 00:54:51,800
the glaring thing that points to me is information is

900
00:54:52,039 –> 00:54:55,199
key for survival in a tornado situation.

901
00:54:56,400 –> 00:54:58,320
Speaker 3: The more time you have.

902
00:54:58,639 –> 00:55:00,800
Speaker 8: To find a place to go, find a place to

903
00:55:01,199 –> 00:55:06,880
get down, hunker down, not getting caught off guard.

904
00:55:08,320 –> 00:55:10,159
Speaker 3: Is key. It’s paramount.

905
00:55:11,400 –> 00:55:15,559
Speaker 8: Knowing what weather looks like, knowing that when you step

906
00:55:15,599 –> 00:55:18,199
outside or you look outside your window and you’re watching

907
00:55:18,280 –> 00:55:20,480
cloud formations form and you’re going, okay, this is a

908
00:55:20,519 –> 00:55:25,840
super cell forming right over my head. Information like that

909
00:55:26,559 –> 00:55:28,880
personal information where you’re looking up and going, hey, I

910
00:55:28,880 –> 00:55:32,320
know I’m on the eighth hole of this golf course,

911
00:55:32,440 –> 00:55:37,480
but I’m looking up and something’s happening that is dangerous

912
00:55:38,199 –> 00:55:41,360
and knowing to take cover it’s key, or at least

913
00:55:41,360 –> 00:55:44,039
knowing to having the common sense to switch on your

914
00:55:44,239 –> 00:55:46,519
phone or switch on your you know, if you got

915
00:55:46,559 –> 00:55:48,719
a cell phone, you got that weather or you’ve got

916
00:55:48,719 –> 00:55:51,760
the scanner app that I push all the time.

917
00:55:52,760 –> 00:55:55,639
Speaker 3: Turn that on. It’s gonna have some weather on it.

918
00:55:58,440 –> 00:56:03,119
Speaker 8: Seconds count, second count every single time. Now we can

919
00:56:03,119 –> 00:56:05,000
go into hey, you know, it’s a good time to

920
00:56:05,039 –> 00:56:05,880
have your bug out bag.

921
00:56:05,920 –> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 3: You’re seventy two hour bag.

922
00:56:06,960 –> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 8: You grab it, find some place to go in case

923
00:56:09,519 –> 00:56:12,239
you’re trapped, in case it’s a couple of days before

924
00:56:12,320 –> 00:56:15,360
you know there’s power or anything. I’ve preached that over

925
00:56:15,400 –> 00:56:18,760
and over again. This time I’m just telling you, in

926
00:56:19,039 –> 00:56:24,960
a situation where you’re in tornado alley, things are happening,

927
00:56:26,119 –> 00:56:29,159
sirens are going off, information is key.

928
00:56:31,039 –> 00:56:34,800
Speaker 3: Knowing what to listen to, knowing where to go, knowing.

929
00:56:36,239 –> 00:56:40,400
Speaker 8: The ex weather channel frequency, and if you’ve got that

930
00:56:40,440 –> 00:56:42,800
little bowel thing I off the top of my head,

931
00:56:42,840 –> 00:56:46,039
mine’s one sixty two forty five one sixty two point

932
00:56:46,079 –> 00:56:49,400
four five zero boom, got weather on any of my

933
00:56:50,199 –> 00:56:59,159
UHFVHF dual band HTS comes in gangbusters having batteries. Now,

934
00:56:59,199 –> 00:57:02,519
after the tornado, you know, after the weather’s gone through. Okay,

935
00:57:02,559 –> 00:57:06,039
we’ll talk about that a little bit. Usually they happen

936
00:57:06,079 –> 00:57:08,000
in the summer. Usually they happen in warm weather, so

937
00:57:08,880 –> 00:57:10,800
most of the time, you’re not going to get you know,

938
00:57:11,039 –> 00:57:12,199
ten degrees.

939
00:57:11,840 –> 00:57:15,360
Speaker 3: Afterwards, you’re not going to die a frostbite. But having.

940
00:57:16,679 –> 00:57:21,559
Speaker 8: Having battery backup, having a generator, having something that allows

941
00:57:21,599 –> 00:57:24,440
you to be able to at least have a little

942
00:57:24,440 –> 00:57:25,920
bit of light and at least have a little bit

943
00:57:25,960 –> 00:57:31,639
of communication. And as we’ve seen from the Palm Sunday tornadoes,

944
00:57:31,639 –> 00:57:34,079
the original nineteen sixty five ones, you may be looking

945
00:57:34,079 –> 00:57:36,280
at a tornado coming through and another one coming through

946
00:57:36,679 –> 00:57:38,920
a half hour later, twenty minutes later, ten minutes later,

947
00:57:40,000 –> 00:57:42,800
still listening to the information, still keeping tuned in to

948
00:57:42,800 –> 00:57:47,400
figure out what’s going on. That’s what I’ve come up

949
00:57:47,440 –> 00:57:50,159
with is just the best thing you can do this

950
00:57:50,239 –> 00:57:53,280
time of year. Go on Amazon or wherever you want

951
00:57:53,280 –> 00:57:56,119
to go, get you one of those weather radios. They’re

952
00:57:56,159 –> 00:57:58,920
not that expensive, and the new ones are tuned right

953
00:57:58,960 –> 00:58:01,400
into your area. This iron goes off when it’s in

954
00:58:01,440 –> 00:58:03,800
your area, so you don’t get to have it going

955
00:58:03,840 –> 00:58:06,039
off for like every five minutes when something’s going on

956
00:58:06,119 –> 00:58:09,679
in Illinois, like mine does. It’s old, but usually the

957
00:58:09,679 –> 00:58:12,480
first time it goes off, I flip on one of

958
00:58:12,480 –> 00:58:14,599
the other radios and listen to the weather, listen to.

959
00:58:14,599 –> 00:58:21,199
Speaker 3: What’s going on. That’s the tornado special this week.

960
00:58:23,320 –> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 8: I hope I said something anything, informed you a little bit,

961
00:58:28,400 –> 00:58:33,079
got you aware, got you awake. Get that seventy two

962
00:58:33,079 –> 00:58:34,519
hour bag tuned to.

963
00:58:36,360 –> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 3: Spring.

964
00:58:37,119 –> 00:58:40,239
Speaker 8: Like we talked about. Have a couple of go bags,

965
00:58:40,760 –> 00:58:42,960
you know, I’ve got one that is tuned to Spring.

966
00:58:43,159 –> 00:58:47,119
I got one that’s all communications now, all communications.

967
00:58:47,360 –> 00:58:49,559
Speaker 3: Hey, of course, a few snacks, a few Sundrys, and

968
00:58:49,719 –> 00:58:50,320
first aid kit.

969
00:58:50,480 –> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 8: But I can strap that baby on and I could

970
00:58:53,440 –> 00:58:56,480
talk to people all across the United States right now

971
00:58:56,480 –> 00:59:00,960
if I wanted to. Kind of a neat thing to have,

972
00:59:01,360 –> 00:59:04,000
and I can listen, most importantly, listen to what’s going

973
00:59:04,000 –> 00:59:07,679
on everywhere in the area, out of the area. Highly

974
00:59:07,719 –> 00:59:11,280
recommend that. I’m Alan Ray Sunday down with Alan Ray,

975
00:59:12,199 –> 00:59:14,519
Lord Willing. I’ll be back next week. Hopefully we’ll see

976
00:59:14,559 –> 00:59:19,679
what’s going on. Continue to keep your eyes to the skies.

977
00:59:19,840 –> 00:59:24,079
Continue to go down this rabbit hole. Check out tons

978
00:59:24,119 –> 00:59:26,280
of videos on YouTube of some of the tornadoes I

979
00:59:26,280 –> 00:59:30,360
was talking about and others. Once you start the YouTube algorithm,

980
00:59:30,400 –> 00:59:32,440
once you fire up on two or three of these

981
00:59:32,679 –> 00:59:34,480
will just lead you down this rabbit hole. And it’s

982
00:59:34,519 –> 00:59:39,000
just absolutely phenomenal. Be safe out there, God bless We’ll

983
00:59:39,000 –> 00:59:39,679
talk again soon.