Sunday Night with Allen Ray: Tornado!

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Speaker 8 (03:31):
Yes, Welcome to Sunday Night with Alan Ray. I am
your humble host, Alan ray I hope everybody is doing
all right. You just heard the Lost Wonder with Jeff
and Man. Always a good time, always great stuff. Welcome
to everybody in the chat so far. I see Jeff,
he's popped in here, already's popped in here. Of course
he's always first, according to him. Calvin's in there. If

(03:54):
you miss the Charles Vincent show earlier today, man, you
missed a good one because because a lot of people
in the Chat were in that show and it was
just it's always a good time. And I'll tell you what.
You can't help us sit there and listen to these
guys and not laugh hysterically. Wasn't here last week last week,

(04:15):
And I'm not gonna lie to you have folks, the
last two weeks in a row have been like one
giant week and there's just not been enough of me
to go around, not even kidding. I was going to
do a show Sunday night, but there was an unexpected
death in my circle of life long friends, and this

(04:39):
one was an older guy that was a great person.
He actually recorded and produced our first two country albums
that we had as a band. Next to my dad,
probably one of the biggest influences as far as spirituality
and as far as just being a heck of a
nice guy.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
His his boys.

Speaker 8 (05:01):
And I played music together. In fact, his youngest and
I still are really close, good musicians, and it was
like family. But he was eighty seven years old. It
was more of a celebration of life than anything. And
we'll take it. I'll take eighty seven years old and
dying in your sleep any day. That's just my view

(05:25):
on life, guys. But that's not what we want to
talk about. This is kind of a special episode and
I kind of hit on this episode. Yeah, for the
past couple of years, every year. But last Friday night
was kind of an awakening. As I sat there at
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,
and I had one of my screens. I had a
live streaming YouTube tornado chaser down in Missouri, south of
Saint Louis, and guy was pretty good. He tracked this
thing down and he actually got it on film, almost
got taken out by it. He didn't realize it was
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.
In fact, it was a pretty bad, pretty bad storm
that front that hit last week. It was there was
like dust storms in down in Texas. There were tornadoes
in Missouri. I was on the road Saturday, last Saturday,

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the fifteenth day after and the entire sky was just
it had this weird haze. It was very reminiscent of
when Canada was basically on fire. All the woods, woodlands
in Canada were on fire and everything was just really hazy,
really cloudy. We got over to the Grand Rapids area,
I met up with my kids.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
On the way back. Horrible winds, horrible winds. Storms.

Speaker 8 (06:57):
Got back here and just a quarter mile away there
had been a giant branch blowdown took out power lines.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
I was shocked that we had power, But.

Speaker 8 (07:08):
It wasn't a while awakening because it's that time of year.
It's the end of March, we're heading into April, and
this is a time of year where and it's been
going on in certain areas. You know, the farther south
you go and the farther southwest you go, tornadoes have.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Been breaking out Texas area.

Speaker 8 (07:27):
They've been ducking and covering for a few weeks now,
but it's just gonna get worse from now all the
way up to through June. You know, especially in May.
May it kind of peaks. We're gonna have some weather,
and I get the feeling. I just get the feeling,
and we're gonna kind of dive into that a little
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.
But we're still having some some pretty hefty storms now.
Last week, according to I don't even know who the
heck this is. I've got a whole bunch of notes
and stuff up here. I don't know where they came from.
Why should I know? It's associated press, associated propaganda. So

(08:12):
you know, they're probably gonna get their digs in about
can climate change. But as we're gonna talk about tonight,
you're gonna you have to rethink climate change a little
bit because if we are experienced actually man made climate change,
it could be for the better. The Weather Service last
week said at least five tornadoes were reported in Missouri
last Friday, including one in the Saint Louis area.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Several buildings were damaged in the storm, including.

Speaker 8 (08:36):
A strip mall and roll of Missouri, where a tornado
was reported Friday afternoon. A Storm Prediction Center said fast
moving storms could spawn twisters and hail's large as baseballs,
but the greatest threat would come from a straight line
winds near or exceeding hurricane force with gusts up to
one hundred miles an hour possible.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Now I think a.

Speaker 8 (08:56):
Scaled down version of that exact wind shear hit this
area a lot of damage, and it was tough driving
back across state. But when we got back home, there
were some there was some damage. There were some trees
that were branches were down, you know, not anything horrible,
not any probably doom or anything, but you could tell

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that things were a really rough. I had to go
secure my barn doors out of my big barn there
because they were kind of flopping around. Those prey They're
gonna come right out the track, which would have been
a nightmare for me. But this was a This was
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.
There were severe storms. There was tornadoes who went through there,
and it was a damaging front that came through. Now
that got me thinking that got me just doing some
research having fun with it.

Speaker 9 (10:00):
I watched a whole lot of videos this week, live
shots of a whole lot of tornadoes, and kind of
picked out some that were kind of prominent, important, historical
we're gonna see right off the bat.

Speaker 8 (10:20):
If you are listening to Sunday Night with Alen Ray,
I as your humble host.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Salen Ray would like to welcome you.

Speaker 8 (10:27):
If you are a first time listener and and have
never actually tuned in before, I want to. I want
to just first of all, just lay in terms go
over what causes a tornado. The tornadoes are are formed
when when a combination of atmospheric conditions come together. Warm

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moist air, yes, I said, I said the M word
moist moist Warm moist air meets cool dry air. A
key ingredient for tornado formation is the collision of warm
moist air, often from the Gulf of Mexico, pushing on
up through this area with cool dry air, often from
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.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Now.

Speaker 8 (11:17):
Winds shear when the winds at different altitudes blow at
different speeds or directions. It creates horizontal spinning in the
lower atmosphere. That's kind of common updrafts from thunderstorms. That
is part of the ingredients. Strong rising air within a
thunderstorm can tilt the horizontal rotating rotation and to a
vertical position, you know, and.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
Things start happening.

Speaker 8 (11:40):
One of the big things is a super cell thunderstorm development.
The most powerful tornadoes come from super cells, which are
large rotating storms. A spinning column of air called them.
A messil cyclone forms inside the storms. That's where you
get a lot of your really big city killer tornadoes,
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.
If rotation tightens and extends downward, it can form a
funnel cloud. When this funnel cloud touches the ground, it
officially becomes a tornado. Now there's additional factors, you know, humidity, factors,
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
called tornado Alley, where these conditions frequently align, but it's
not exclusive to that. There have been tornadoes in some
really odd places like far western Texas. This is a
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
top of my head. The name of the town eludes me,
but it's one of the videos I watched. These people
didn't even feel they needed a tornado sign. They were
offered one for free, for free, and they just didn't
even reply. And it's just out of sheer weirdness. Some
moist stare from the golf of Mexico pushed farther inward

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than it usually does, met up with the dry air
of you know, the Texas desert area, and it caused problems.
It caused problems, and there was a tornado just basically
destroyed this town and they had absolutely no warning whatsoever.

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Now we're going to start out tonight and go back
fifty years.

Speaker 9 (13:35):
Now.

Speaker 8 (13:36):
I have talked about, and we will talk again about
the Palm Sunday tornadoes. We'll discuss those again that time
my agenda. Last year, I did a whole show on them.
This year, I want to go back even kind of
not as far, but I remember these tornadoes.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
I was a young.

Speaker 8 (14:00):
Boy nineteen seventy four, I was I was nine years old,
old enough to know what a tornado was. And this
was the tornado outbreak that destroyed Xeni, Ohio. And I
remember that name because I always thought it was a
weird name, Xenia, Ohio.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
It seemed like a different planet, the.

Speaker 8 (14:18):
Planet of Xenia x Cnia is such a weird name
for some reason that that name stuck in my head.
But for almost forty years it was simply called the
super Outbreak. And this is according to Spectrum localnews dot
Com on April third and fourth in nineteen seventy four,
fifty years ago. Okay, nineteen seventy four is over fifty

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years ago. Now this was this article was written last
year sometime, but we're looking at over fifty years.

Speaker 9 (14:47):
I'm old.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Oh my god.

Speaker 8 (14:51):
Anyway, a powerful storm system made its way across the
United States into the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys. The system
produced widespread beer thunderstorms, and some of the strongest storms
produced tornadoes. In a period of less than twenty four hours,
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,
I got a lot of Canadian friends they're great people.
Too bad the government though, you know, sorry about that.
We're gonna stay out of politics tonight, though We're gonna
try really really hard. But anyways, the first tornado occurred

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in northern Illinois and was short lived. Other more powerful
tornadoes continued to form into the afternoon and evening hours
of April third. At one point, there were fifteen tornados
confirmed on the ground at the same time during the outbreak.
Can you imagine that fifteen tornadoes on the ground. This
weather event marked the first time in recorded history that

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more than one hundred tornadoes occurred in less than twenty
four hours. Guys, that's a big cell. That is a
super cell and a half right there. And if you
watch the videos on these things, the supercell was absolutely phenomenal. Now,
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
a large portion of the town and coust thirty two fatalities.
Other significant HAVE five tornadoes occurred in Brandenburg, Kentucky, where
thirty one deaths reported. In all, the storms cost three
hundred and fifteen fatalities along with five thousand, four hundred
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,
we're not going to go into how crazy it is that,
you know, fifty years ago, six hundred million equates to
three point seven billion today, and everything's supposed to be
okay and sane. But okay, well that speaks for itself.

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When the storms surveys were completed, seven tornadoes were rated
as F five. An F five tornado rating means the
winds were estimated to be an excess of two hundred
miles pour. Now I want you to pay attention, pay
particular attention to what I'm talking about with these F ratings, Okay,
because there's something significant going on in this report.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (17:18):
Twenty three were rated F four, thirty five were rated
F three. All are considered significant tornadoes with those ratings.
This is before this is where it comes up. The
Enhanced Fujida Tornado Scale was started in two thousand and seven. Now,
the enhanced was one thing. We're going to talk about
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,
The one hundred and forty eighth and final tornado of
the outbreak was reported in Caldwell County in North Carolina Foothills.
In April twenty eleven. The term super outbreak was no
longer used to identify this weather event. It is now
referred to as the nineteen seventy four super outbreak because

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on April twenty fifth through twenty eighth and twenty eleven,
we're going to study this a little bit too, a
weather system produced three hundred and sixty tornadoes in a
three day period. Now, what is so special about what
I was saying with the f.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
Ratings on these.

Speaker 8 (18:20):
During that nineteen seventy four tornado outbreak, Well, in nineteen
seventy one, I should say a man was producing something
pretty special. Doctor Fageta was kind of doing a lot
of research and a lot of study and was producing
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
was really no measurement. It's just a very big tornado.
And we're going to see a little example of that
later in the show. The original Figeta scale scale, developed
in nineteen seventy one by doctor Ted Fujita characterized tornadoes
based on the damage they caused, and he arranged them

(19:08):
from F zero the weakest to F five the strongest. Now,
in this area where I'm sitting right now, we are
prone to having tornadoes. For the most part, they are
usually F zero's to F ones. There have been a
couple of F twos and an F three I have witnessed,
and I believe what I believe was an F three
going through this area that eventually hit the tiny town

(19:31):
of Dundee and tore the roof off of a hotel,
damaged a lot of houses. My neighbor and I sat
out in the front yard directly overhead. It was stars,
but you could see the clouds three hundred and sixty
degrees around us, and we were watching this funnel cloud
coming down and going back up with the lightning, and
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.
Of course, all of our families were locked down in
his basement, and we're stupid enough to be out there,
and he's smoking a cigarette, and I'm just watching the
weather because that's who we were. Sirens going off everything.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
We didn't care. But anyways, so.

Speaker 8 (20:12):
What was important about the nineteen seventy four tornado outbreak
was this was the first time that he really really
did deep diving research, studied it, and he labeled each
one of these tornadoes with an F rating. Now, let's
go over what doctor Ted Fugita did. Number one, He

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was a meteorologist at the University of Chicago. He developed
the Fageta scale to classify tornadoes based on the damage
they inflicted, rather than relying solely on wind speed measurements,
which were difficult to obtain during a tornado. Now, the
original F scale categories. The original F scale had six categories.
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
was devastating, a F five they just labeled it as incredible.
Pagina's goals to create a system that could categorize tornadoes
by intensity and area, and to estimate the wind speeds
associated with the damage caused by the tornado. Now, area
is important on a tornado. One of the biggest tornadoes

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on record was two and a quarter miles wide. Two
and a quarter miles Can you even imagine that it's
nothing really, especially in the Tornado Alley in the South
Georgia places like that.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
To see a tornado.

Speaker 8 (21:35):
That's a mile wide, and we'll study one of those
outbreaks where that happened. Now, the original F scale had
some limitations, including a lack of detailed damage indicators, no
account for construction quality and variability, and a lack of
definitive correlation between damage and wind speed. The Weather Service

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introduced the Enhanced Vegeta Scale, the e F scale, in
two thousand and seven, addressing the original f scal's limitations.
So that's what we use today is the EF scale.
The S scale incorporates twenty eight damage indicators what they
call dis such as building type, infrastructure, and trees, with
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.
The EF scale is now used by the National Weather
Service to rate tornadoes in the United States. Of course,
they rate them from EF zero to EF five. What
we see nowadays was more like this. An EF zero
wind speeds estimate between sixty five and eighty five miles
per hour. EF one wind speeds are around eighty six

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to one hundred and ten miles per hour. EF two
wind speeds are between one hundred and eleven and one
hundred and thirty five miles per hour, EF three one
hundred and thirty six to one hundred and fifty nine
miles per hour. EF four wind speeds estimate between one
hundred and sixty and two hundred miles per hour, and
EF five is anything of two hundred miles per hour.
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
to you helping these because we're gonna start talking about
a few significant tornadoes.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
Now I spoke to this last year. And bear with me, because.

Speaker 8 (23:24):
When we get to the end of the show, we're
gonna we're gonna discuss some things that are relatively important
that I've come to the conclusion after a week of
really studying heart on this stuff. First of all, let's
just recap the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of nineteen sixty five.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
Okay, the Palm.

Speaker 8 (23:42):
Sunday tornado outbreak of nineteen sixty five was one of
the deadliest and it was the most intense tornado outbreak
in US history. It occurred in April eleventh, nineteen sixty five,
on Palm Sunday. Now, what have we got two weeks
coming up? Two and a half weeks, we'll be right
in that area. The effect the tornado outbreak affected several

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

Speaker 3 (24:08):
Now where I'm sitting right now.

Speaker 8 (24:12):
Was very very close to where those tornadoes went through
to Comme see, Michigan is just north of here five
miles and it clipped the northernmost part of Compsy, did
some damage to the airport. But the Irish Hills area
where I do a lot of fishing and I spend
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
out to the hill, the Hills and Irish Hills. Great place,
excellent excellent fried perch dinner. It's just a great place
to hang out. But anyways, a lot of that area
was decimated. Not too far from there, kind of and
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
southwestern tip One area there, A tornado hit it and
as they were basically recovering and getting.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Their breath and pulling themselves out of the rubble.

Speaker 8 (25:15):
Another F five went right through the exact same area,
and then whatever was left after the first F five
the second half five got a hold of. So it
was a pretty wicked one open In the Grand Rapids area,
just north of Grand Rapids, a tornado hit a bowling alley,
which my daughter was kind of funny. My daughter and
son in law had an apartment there just on the

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other side of the bowling alley that it hit, and
I looked up there and I just was looking around
and I what, you know, if you ever hear about
the Palm.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Sunny tornadoes, you're right where it happened.

Speaker 8 (25:48):
This This apartment building would have been right in the
tornado path.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
And my daughter just kind of looks at me and said, oh,
thank you, Dad, it's your older eyes. But that's okay.
We haven't seen anything like that since then.

Speaker 8 (26:03):
The tornado count in the Palm Sunny tornadoes was forty
seven confirmed tornadoes death, two hundred and seventy one people dead.
Now I'm reporting on all this because I want you
to realize something by the end of this show, something
that is very significant. Prepper type stuff. We'll get to it.
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
northern Indiana and southern Michigan. Most of those tornadoes, the
f scale was multiple F fours and F fives, so
it was crazy. Now notable the double twin tornado. The
outbreak produced a rare twin tornado in Indiana and other
areas where two tornadoes traveled paths parallel to each other,

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causing mass destruction. I just told you about that one.
That one was more of a kind of followed the
same path, maybe a little bit off, but almost the
exact same path. And Dunlap, Indiana one of the hardest
hit areas where violent tornadoes destroyed an entire trailer park,
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,
several F four and F five tornadoes, tore through Indiana
and Michigan, leveling entire communities. Now, when my dear old
mother passed away, and it's coming up on five years
next month, we was going through her things and we
actually found that her and my father must have done

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a road trip pretty soon after the Palm Sunday tornadoes
and took a lot of pictures of the Iris Hills
area of some of the devastation.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Pretty crazy.

Speaker 8 (27:39):
I don't have them on hand, but one of these
days I'm gonna have to digitize them and put them out. Now,
the significant impact of some of these is radar and
warning systems changed after the Palm Sunday tornadoes. The disaster
highlighted the need to improve tornado warning systems. As a
result of the Palm Sunday tornadoes, National Weather Service revamped

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its tornado warning procedures. Tornado Watch was introduced after this.
Before that, there was no tornado watch. There was just
kind of a hey, there's a tornado coming, Which do
we call a warning?

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Today?

Speaker 8 (28:14):
The official adaptation of the term tornado watch helped warn
people of severe weather conditions that could be prevalent. Now,
that was not the only Palm Sunday tornado outbreak. A
lot of people don't remember this. I remember it vividly.
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,
Indiana area. This was in Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas.
This one had a tornado count of twenty nine confirmed tornadoes.
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
Sunday tornadoes, where two hundred and seventy one people died
fifteen hundred injury. Okay, still people died. Most of those
tornadoes were F two to F four tornadoes. The states
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.
The deadliest tornado of the outbreak, rated F four, struck
the Goshen United Methodist Church in Peedemont, Alabama, during Palm
Sunday service. Twenty people were killed, including the church pastor's daughter,
and over ninety were injured. The church was completely destroyed,
and the tragedy became one of the most well known
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
causing widespread damage to home, schools and businesses. Severe storms
also led to flooding in large hail in parts of
the Southeast. Now the significance of this tornado outbreak weather
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.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Might not be heard.

Speaker 8 (30:10):
Many communities began installing more sirens improving emergency preparedness plans
after the event. The nineteen ninety four Palm Sunday outbreak
remains one of the most tragic tornado events in the Southeast,
especially due to the church disaster in Alabama. We've reached
the bottom of the hour. I want to take a
quick break, get myself something to drink. You can tell
my voice is still a little scratchy. Guys have been

(30:32):
fighting with my voice since Christmas. It comes and it goes.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Hopefully it's just about there.

Speaker 8 (30:39):
But I think once the weather hits sixty five seventy
and stays there, hopefully whatever is ailing me goes away.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
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Speaker 8 (30:46):
We're going to talk about the twenty eleven super outbreak,
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I don't know why. Hey, welcome back, Welcome back. It
is Sunday Down with Ellen Ray.

Speaker 8 (34:01):
It's the show where we kind of sit around and
ask ourselves.

Speaker 6 (34:05):
What the wide wide world of sportses are going on here.

Speaker 8 (34:09):
Well, tonight is kind of special because we are kind
of doing the whole doom thing, doing the tornado thing,
and just bring a little awareness talking about some some
of the things that have happened over the years. And
it's important. It's important, and we'll get to that part later,

(34:30):
but it's just a brutal reminder, and especially if you
live in the South. Just today, even today in Arkansas
Tennessee area, there was a tornado watch warning in some
parts there was some rotation.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
It was only like two and a half three hours ago,
so this is relevant.

Speaker 8 (34:52):
One of the craziest outbreaks just happened not too long ago,
in twenty eleven, The twenty eleven tornado outbreak, often referred
to as the April twenty fifth to twenty eighth to
twenty eleventh outbreak, was one of the largest and most
devastating tornado outbreaks in US history. This multi day event
produced three hundred and sixty two confirmed tornadoes across twenty

(35:13):
one states from Texas to New York. Okay, guys, that's huge.
That's huge.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
The most destructive day was April twenty seventh.

Speaker 8 (35:22):
This is twenty eleven, when an extraordinary two hundred and
eighteen tornadoes touchdown, primarily affecting the southeastern United States. The
outbreak caused extensive damage and resulted in three hundred and
forty eight fatalities, making it the deadliest tornado outbreak in
the US since the nineteen seventy four Super Outbreak. Some
of the hardest hit areas included Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, and Alabama,

(35:44):
where the intense e F four NEUS five tornadoes caused
significant destruction.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
The town of.

Speaker 8 (35:50):
Joplin, Missouri, though heavily impacted by a separate tornado on
May twenty second, twenty eleven, is often associated with the
devastation that year. In addition to the loss of life.
The outbreak costs billions of dollars in damages, destroying thousands
of homes and businesses, and even the event highlighted the
need for improved detection systems, emergency preparedness, and public awareness

(36:13):
to better mitigate future tornado impacts. Okay, this is not
too far away, and as you a lot of you
probably remember the Joplin, Missouri tornado part of that outbreak,
and it was a horrible I mean, I remember when
that thing hit, and I was right here on Twitter

(36:33):
x whatever you want to call its Twitter back then,
and that's when I found out that our own Polita
Bunny Foo actually was from Joplin, because my mom is
from Joplin, and we just had some comments about that.
But it was a devastating, horrible, horrible tornado. Not the
first one they've ever had though, trust me, definitely not.

(36:57):
The Joplin twenty eleven tornado is one of the deadliest,
most destructive tornadoes in US history. And here's some key
facts from it. And I gathered some of these facts
and I'm gleaning I'm just doing some some facts and
dates and stuff. It happened on May twenty second, twenty
eleven touchdown at approximately five thirty four pm Central time.
It was an EF five on the enhanced scale. When

(37:17):
I say EF five, that's enhanced. You just know that
winds were over two hundred miles per hour. The path
link was twenty two miles, the width was a mile
wide at its largest point, and it lasted thirty eight minutes.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
At thirty eight.

Speaker 8 (37:30):
Minutes of a mile wide hell tearing up everything in
this path. There was one hundred and sixty one deaths,
over oney, one hundred and fifty injuries, and more than
two point eight billion dollars in damage. Around seven thousand,
five hundred homes were destroyed and about five hundred businesses
were destroyed. One of the costliest tornadoes in US history

(37:52):
at the time, and it was one of the deadliest
since nineteen forty seven. The deadliest tornado in the US
was the nineteen forty seven Woodward, Oklahoma tornado. There was
a hospital destroyed. Saint John's Regional Medical Center was severely damaged,
requiring patient evacuation. The Female Assistance provided one hundred and

(38:15):
fifty eight million dollars in eight which barely scratched the surface.
There was over one hundred and twenty six thousand people
volunteered with the recovery efforts. The city implemented improved building
codes to enhance storm resilience. After that, now, let's go
into a little bit about this tornado.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
It's kind of interesting.

Speaker 8 (38:31):
The tornado developed from a super self thunderstorm in southeast
Kansas before rapidly intensifying as it entered Joplin. It touched
down west of Joplin a movie eastward through the city
before dissipating just decent town so basically had Joplin and
its sites. It remained on the ground twenty two point
one miles across Jasper and Newton Counties. The tornado reached

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its maximum width of one mile while passing through the
densely populated area.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
And that's what made it so bad.

Speaker 8 (38:57):
It was the widest and most powerful at the most
populated point. It destroyed entire neighborhoods, shopping centers, critical infrastructure.
As we mentioned before, as it destroyed Saint John's Regional
Medical Center. Joplin High School, where my mom went to school,
was destroyed, along with several elementary schools. Nearly twenty five

(39:19):
percent of the city, ninety two hundred homes, and buildings
was damaged or destroyed. The tornado killed in that area
one hundred and sixty one people injured over and fifty
and making it the most deadly. First Responders faced significant
challenges due to blocked roads and down power lines. Search
and rescue efforts began immediately, with FEMA, the National Guard,

(39:39):
and volunteers helping in recovery efforts. The economic impact was
estimated at two point eight billion dollars. Businesses and infrastructure
suffered long term impacts through the city, and they made
a strong recovery. But the things that they learned, as
we mentioned earlier, is that there's been stricter building codes.

(40:02):
The National sub Weather Service revised warning systems to improve
messaging during tornado emergencies, and the disaster highlighted the importance
emergency preparedness, leading to better public awareness.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
Now we go through the Jopin.

Speaker 8 (40:20):
Tornado system, we go through the twenty eleven tornado system
Supercell and Rick, what are you testing? Boss Man's in
the chat room. He's testing something. We compare it to

(40:41):
something that happened one hundred years ago, one hundred years
ago this year, the nineteen twenty five Tri State tornado,
and I think about nineteen twenty five. They had nothing
that we have today, nothing, no cell phones, They had electricity,
they had radio, but you had to know that something

(41:02):
was happening to turn on the radio. In nineteen twenty five,
the Tri State Tornado was the deadliest tornado in US history,
striking Missouri, Illinois, Indiana on March eighteenth, nineteen twenty five.
It remains one of the most powerful destructive tornadoes ever recorded. Now,
it was, of course of an F five tornado on
the original Fajita scale. Six hundred and ninety five people

(41:25):
died and over two thousand injuries. Now they're saying, here's
the important part about this tornado, and though that's something
that's kind of crazy about it. They don't have exacts
on this, okay, but they estimate that it was two
hundred and nineteen miles on the ground. Two hundred and

(41:45):
nineteen mile tornado path, the longest continuous tornado path ever recorded. Now,
that cannot be completely proved, but all the evidence points
to it. There are theories that there might have been
two tornadoes that were basically following the same path, because
it did make a crazy little curve at one point.
But a lot of scientists with a lot of I

(42:08):
don't know evidence have suggested that it is one single
tornado two hundred and nineteen mile path up to one
mile wide. The duration of this tornado was right around
three point five hours, and the estimated forward speed on it,
this is the craziest part, was sixty to seventy three
miles per hour at its highest point. This is a
tornado heading to you, heading through your town like a

(42:31):
car driving on a freeway. Okay, seventy three miles an hour.
There's not a lot of time to get the heck
out of the way. It started in Missouri, touched down Ellington,
Missouri around one pm, quickly intensified, moved into Illinois. Illinois
was the hardest hit of course, Gorham, Illinois. Murphysboro, Illinois
suffered the highest death toll two hundred and thirty four killed.

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Gorham was completely destroyed. Towns like DeSoto and West Frankfort
were also devastated. They crossed into Indiana, hitting Griffin and
Owensville before finally dissipating near Petersburg, Indiana. Now the thing
about this is a lot of them in this path.
There were a lot of things like mines, so a
lot of workers were underground at one o'clock in the afternoon.

(43:15):
You're underground, you're working. And when they came up, their cities,
their towns that they lived in were just gone gone.
Why I was so devastating. Of course, these exceptionally long
path two hundred nineteen miles, that's absolutely insane, the unusual
speed seventy sixty to seventy three miles per hour. And

(43:36):
here's the big thing, the lack of warning. Of course,
in nineteen twenty five, there were no tornado warnings or sirens,
and the term tornado was banned in forecasts to prevent panic.
They banned the term tornado in a forecast to prevent panic.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
That makes a lot of sense.

Speaker 8 (43:56):
Most people had absolutely no advanced warning before the tornado struck.
It's the deadliest tornado in US history, six hundred and
ninety five deaths, single tornado, not outbreak, but single tornado.
And this event began the drive for future improvedness in

(44:17):
improvements in weather forecasting, warning systems, public awareness, and it
contributed to the eventual establishment of tornado warnings that we
know today. The Tri State tornado nineteen twenty five remains
a benchmark for tornado intensity. It was the craziest thing
people ever saw. Now we got fifteen minutes before the

(44:40):
top of the hour.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
We got one more.

Speaker 8 (44:41):
I want to check out. Nineteen ninety seven Jerald, Texas tornado.
Durell Jerald, Texas tornado was one of the most intense
and devastating tornadoes in US history. May twenty seventh, nineteen
ninety seven, touchdown at about three forty pm. It was
a EF five. Of course you could probably imagine it's
modern ninety seven. Estimated at winds at two hundred and
sixty miles per hour, and even though it was only

(45:03):
on the ground for seven point six miles, it was
three quarter of a mile wide. Just that tornadoes twenty
seven deaths, forty million dollars in damage, homes destroyed around
Double Creek Estate's neighborhood. It was one of the most
violent tornadoes ever recorded. Okay, by recorded, I mean there's
actually videotape of this thing. Extreme wind speeds, ground scouring,

(45:27):
debris polarization. Some of these tornadoes are known, especially the
twenty eleven tornado, especially in the Alabama area. Some of
those places this tornado here actually dug up pavement on roads.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
You're looking at.

Speaker 8 (45:43):
Trees being just you know, going through little forest, little
wooded areas, tearing up trees, pavement coming off the roads.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
You literally have to rebuild the roads.

Speaker 8 (45:52):
Some of these tornadoes have torn up bridges to train bridges.
They've removed things that you just wouldn't think were able
to move. Absolutely incredible. The ground scouring on a tornado
is crazy. When you see it, cars and bodies carried

(46:13):
long distances. Vehicles were thrown hundreds of yards from this tornado.
Victims were found far from their original location, and the
hardest hit area is the Double Creek Estate subdivision, was obliterated,
with all twenty seven victims killed instantly when it hit.
This disaster led to increased public awareness of the importance

(46:35):
of storm shelters in Texas. This tornado is often compared
to the twenty eleven Joplin tornado and the twenty thirteen
More Oklahoma tornado for its intensity. And I'm not going
to go through the More Oklahoma tornado, but that's one
you can look up. There's videos of it out there,
there's things out there that you can study. But unlike Joplin,
which infected an urban area, the Gerald or Durell was

(46:56):
a small rural community, resulting in fewer overall casualties. That's
the only saving thing about it. But it was just
as bad, just as crazy. The tornado slow speed and
unusual motion southward allowed it to stay over areas longer,
maximizing the destruction. Now that's I don't want to worry

(47:20):
you too much longer with reading about these tornadoes, but.

Speaker 3 (47:25):
I want you to notice something.

Speaker 8 (47:29):
Nineteen twenty five, A lot of deaths, a lot of injuries,
just a massive amount just from one tornado. Nineteen sixty five,
massive amount of injuries from a tornado outbreak those eras,

(47:51):
and you know the Palm Sunday tornadoes. Technically I was
here for that. I was in my mama's belly.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
And she had to have been. Let's seny.

Speaker 8 (48:01):
I was born in September, so she felt that I
was there. But anyways, there wasn't very reliable, very accurate systems.
Nineteen seventy four outbreak that just they were starting to
come online, they were starting to report things. They were

(48:23):
starting to say, hey, we got to do something better,
we got to make improvements. And if you noticed, some
of these tornadoes were extremely violent. But as time goes on,
the likelihood of a single tornado, barring the Joblin, Missouri one,
which was just an anomaly. The more time goes on,

(48:47):
the fewer people die in a tornado. That's a good thing, right,
And I think, and I don't just think that. It's
proven that one of the most important tools you can
have and preparing for a tornado, and I'm gonna put

(49:07):
this out there right now, one of the most important
tools you can have preparing for a tornado is information.
Just having experienced a few tornadoes myself, a few things
that have gone wrong in.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
This area that we've had to take cover for.

Speaker 8 (49:30):
Having time to take cover is paramount. Having time to
seek shelter reduces the number of lives lost.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
That's just a fact. Now.

Speaker 8 (49:47):
Of course, I'm sitting here looking at one two three, four, five, six, seven,
eight just just here right around me. I have eight
different for it things that will tune in to weather
radio and one two three more out front on my porch,

(50:11):
not counting a regular radio or the TV. And I
actually have a weather radio one that if it starts
getting kind of dubious out you can just turn on
and forget, because if something goes off, it'll kick on
and tell you. The question I have for you is
are you going to wait until tornado sirens go off

(50:35):
to take cover or to take action, or to even
look up in the sky, or would you rather have
something that basically, when it goes off, it's telling the
people to activate the tornado sirens and it might be
up to sixty seconds for you hear the tornado sirens
after your weather radio goes off. I would much rather

(50:59):
have something that gives me a good minute head start
on everybody else on any emergency. Really, I mean, nuke's
getting launched, datus whatever, you've got a weather.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
Radio, they're gonna use that to announce it.

Speaker 8 (51:17):
Of course, prepping for this, having a place to go,
basements are the best. Basements are great. Basements are probably
right up there with one of the safer places. An
actual concrete storm shelter is maximum. That's probably the best.

(51:37):
If I lived in Tornado Alley, I would spend a
good deal of money making sure I had one and
it was very accessible and I could get things down there,
and I would.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
Have some supplies in there.

Speaker 8 (51:50):
Now, I'm kind of a risk taker when it comes
to Tornado's okay, if it really gets bad and things
are really hitting the fan. I could go to my
neighbor's house. I mean, he's already a couple of times
is noted on my door and said, hey, man, get
your wife and kids, get them down in their basement,
because I'm I'm on a slab. But even if you
if you live somewhere where you don't have shelter, getting

(52:16):
in a bathtub, covering up with blankets, grabbing blankets and
pulling them over you so you know it's not.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
Well.

Speaker 8 (52:24):
It is sometimes a tornado hitting you directly and throwing
you hundreds of yards that will get you. But it's
the things blowing around in the wind that makes them
so dangerous. And if you're blowing around in the wind
with them, well you've got problems. Sometimes it's just completely unavoidable.
I mean, the videos I've watched this week, some of
these people were doing all the right things. They were

(52:46):
in their basement, they were against the wall, they were,
you know, doing all their and they still just got obliterated.
Sometimes it just happens. But what I'm saying is you're
playing the odds anytime you're talking about prepping, anytime you're
talking about doing anything, being paired for.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Anything, you're playing the odds.

Speaker 8 (53:05):
So my best advice for this whole thing, Number one
is have one, maybe two things that you can dial
in on the weather. Now, of course you know a
lot of areas, hopefully your area does too. I am
signed up for my county where if there's any kind

(53:26):
of event, boom, I get a phone call, a text,
and an email, all all of the above. Okay, and
it's come in handy a few times. But if you
really want to know what's going on, the handy little
ballfang that you have that you spend twelve twenty bucks on,
and that I've preached on, hey maybe it's a good, good,

(53:48):
same thing. Even if you're not licensed to have one
of these round, if you have your local repeater programmed
in it, there's a good chance that they have a
weather net going on and they're talking about what's going
on live in your area. They're calling in saying, hey,
I'm over in this area and this is what's happening.
And these people are trained in Skyworn. Skyworn is a great,

(54:13):
great venue, great thing to be, you know, to immerse
yourself in. I'm getting certified in it hopefully pretty soon.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
Here.

Speaker 8 (54:24):
But that little bill fang hook to your local repeater.
Of course, in already's condition, I already don't have a
local repeater. He's out in the middle of nowhere. I
don't know if he has tornadoes either, but he does
have wildfires and windshears and everything else.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
I'm sure.

Speaker 8 (54:40):
But I'm just saying, just after a week of studying,
the glaring thing that points to me is information is
key for survival in a tornado situation.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
The more time you have.

Speaker 8 (54:58):
To find a place to go, find a place to
get down, hunker down, not getting caught off guard.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
Is key. It's paramount.

Speaker 8 (55:11):
Knowing what weather looks like, knowing that when you step
outside or you look outside your window and you're watching
cloud formations form and you're going, okay, this is a
super cell forming right over my head. Information like that
personal information where you're looking up and going, hey, I
know I'm on the eighth hole of this golf course,

(55:32):
but I'm looking up and something's happening that is dangerous
and knowing to take cover it's key, or at least
knowing to having the common sense to switch on your
phone or switch on your you know, if you got
a cell phone, you got that weather or you've got
the scanner app that I push all the time.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Turn that on. It's gonna have some weather on it.

Speaker 8 (55:58):
Seconds count, second count every single time. Now we can
go into hey, you know, it's a good time to
have your bug out bag.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
You're seventy two hour bag.

Speaker 8 (56:06):
You grab it, find some place to go in case
you're trapped, in case it's a couple of days before
you know there's power or anything. I've preached that over
and over again. This time I'm just telling you, in
a situation where you're in tornado alley, things are happening,
sirens are going off, information is key.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
Knowing what to listen to, knowing where to go, knowing.

Speaker 8 (56:36):
The ex weather channel frequency, and if you've got that
little bowel thing I off the top of my head,
mine's one sixty two forty five one sixty two point
four five zero boom, got weather on any of my
UHFVHF dual band HTS comes in gangbusters having batteries. Now,

(56:59):
after the tornado, you know, after the weather's gone through. Okay,
we'll talk about that a little bit. Usually they happen
in the summer. Usually they happen in warm weather, so
most of the time, you're not going to get you know,
ten degrees.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
Afterwards, you're not going to die a frostbite. But having.

Speaker 8 (57:16):
Having battery backup, having a generator, having something that allows
you to be able to at least have a little
bit of light and at least have a little bit
of communication. And as we've seen from the Palm Sunday tornadoes,
the original nineteen sixty five ones, you may be looking
at a tornado coming through and another one coming through
a half hour later, twenty minutes later, ten minutes later,

(57:40):
still listening to the information, still keeping tuned in to
figure out what's going on. That's what I've come up
with is just the best thing you can do this
time of year. Go on Amazon or wherever you want
to go, get you one of those weather radios. They're
not that expensive, and the new ones are tuned right
into your area. This iron goes off when it's in

(58:01):
your area, so you don't get to have it going
off for like every five minutes when something's going on
in Illinois, like mine does. It's old, but usually the
first time it goes off, I flip on one of
the other radios and listen to the weather, listen to.

Speaker 3 (58:14):
What's going on. That's the tornado special this week.

Speaker 8 (58:23):
I hope I said something anything, informed you a little bit,
got you aware, got you awake. Get that seventy two
hour bag tuned to.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
Spring.

Speaker 8 (58:37):
Like we talked about. Have a couple of go bags,
you know, I've got one that is tuned to Spring.
I got one that's all communications now, all communications.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
Hey, of course, a few snacks, a few Sundrys, and
first aid kit.

Speaker 8 (58:50):
But I can strap that baby on and I could
talk to people all across the United States right now
if I wanted to. Kind of a neat thing to have,
and I can listen, most importantly, listen to what's going
on everywhere in the area, out of the area. Highly
recommend that. I'm Alan Ray Sunday down with Alan Ray,

(59:12):
Lord Willing. I'll be back next week. Hopefully we'll see
what's going on. Continue to keep your eyes to the skies.
Continue to go down this rabbit hole. Check out tons
of videos on YouTube of some of the tornadoes I
was talking about and others. Once you start the YouTube algorithm,
once you fire up on two or three of these

(59:32):
will just lead you down this rabbit hole. And it's
just absolutely phenomenal. Be safe out there, God bless We'll
talk again soon.