Could You Survive a Tornado?

In 2006, a tornado carried a nineteen-year-old almost 400 meters, and he survived. But that was pure luck. We put you in the path of a tornado in five places, with a timer running: a car, a highway overpass, a mobile home, an ordinary house and a basement. Find out how a tornado is born, the fastest wind ever measured inside one, what really kills people in a tornado, why the overpass is one of the worst places to hide, why opening your windows is a myth, and where you should actually stand. In this video: • Matt Suter: carried 398 meters by a tornado, and alive • How supercell storms make tornadoes • Why the US gets about 1,200 tornadoes a year • The fastest tornado wind ever measured: about 486 km/h • Why flying debris is the real killer • Why a highway overpass is one of the worst places to hide • Why mobile homes are so dangerous • The open-the-windows myth, and the record pressure drop • Where to shelter at home • The Tri-State Tornado of 1925, and warnings today Chapters: 0:00 The teenager a tornado carried 0:54 What is a tornado? 1:09 How a tornado is born 1:48 Tornado Alley 2:14 Quiz: the fastest tornado wind 3:11 What really kills you 4:12 Stop 1: in a car 4:29 Quiz: where should you hide? 5:51 Stop 2: a mobile home 6:27 Stop 3: an ordinary house 6:39 Quiz: open the windows? 7:26 Where to hide at home 7:55 Stop 4: the basement 8:08 Quiz: the deadliest tornado 8:46 Warnings today 9:34 The scoreboard 9:58 Could you survive? Sources: Guinness World Records, Farthest distance survived in a tornado: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/... NOAA NCDC (archived), U.S. tornado climatology: https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eo... Live Science, What is the fastest recorded wind speed?: https://livescience.com/planet-earth/... Wikipedia, Overpass myth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpas... NWS Norman, Highway overpasses as tornado shelters: https://www.weather.gov/oun/safety-ov... Wikipedia, Tornado myths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado... AccuWeather, Tornado safety myths debunked: https://www.accuweather.com/en/weathe... NWS and American Red Cross, Joint statement on tornado safety (2009): https://www.weather.gov/media/safety/... AP via WBHM, Mobile homes turn deadly when tornadoes hit: https://wbhm.org/2023/mobile-homes-tu... Wikipedia, Tim Samaras: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Sam... National Geographic, Tornado history: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/fo... National Weather Service, The Tri-State Tornado: https://weather.gov/news/251803-tri-S... Newstalk 1280, Kentucky tornado photo found in Indiana: https://newstalk1280.com/kentucky-tor... Could You Survive? is our survival series: where should we drop you next? 👇 #tornado #survival #weather