MAYFIELD - Tornado Horror in Kentucky

The way that tornado looked going through Bremen...

Why don't we have tornados in tornado alley anymore? Sometime around the mid-2000s all the serious tornados are in the Deep South or the Tennessee and Ohio River valley states.

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I love up in Louisville and for a few days before during and after we were in Disney down in Orlando honestly me and my family were very surprised after seeing the news. We were constantly checking about it. My condolences go out to everyone affected by this.

Seems the majority of those smaller homes that were destroyed were yet to even begin rebuilding.

I'm surprised more folks didn't have a cellar for tornados. Where we live I have a basement,but this fall/ winter ,I'm planning to build a shelter/ root cellar. East Tennessee where I live,seems to be getting more and more warnings and F0 TO F2 twisters.
So sorry for all who lost loved ones and , lost their homes. That close to Christmas makes it all the more sad

You should do a video on the Shawnee ok tornado that happened in April.

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I lost my guild mate in world of Warcraft who had been playing with the guild since the start
I met him irl when he came over to sweden to study internationally
and when he returned to the US the storm was only a week later
which took his life a little under 30 minutes after it’s touch down.
I miss him to this day he was such a chill dude
Great video and coverage
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Can anyone answer the question: why do very powerful tornadoes 🌪 F-4 and F-5 in particular have like very evil looking faces in them? Any reasonable answer would do.

This one strikes close to home. Literally. My grandparents live on the backside of woodland mills . Growing up we would get severe storms. But it always seemed like the tornadoes went north or south of this area .

I am from Mayfield, Ky. I moved away after high school. When I saw it on the news I cried silent tears.

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Mother Nature showed her wrath that day, so devastating.

2021?? It feels like yesterday the tornado watch had just gotten issued and then my mom woke me up and told me to take cover.. time flies by doesnt it...

I used to work and live in mayfield. What a shame the floods also ruined everything. My grandma thankfully survived and rip everybody who passed.

Poor Mayfield! What a charming slice of lost Americana it was and the tornado pulverized the very heart of the old downtown, stripped the city of its old trees and hundreds of historic residences. I remember in Joplin many were proudly saying 'we will rebuild!' until they faced the reality of the ugly treeless vacancy that was left.

You know one thing I noticed about every tornado video I watch. Round structures such as Silos, and Fuel/Oil Tanks always seem to survive all but the most absolutely violent EF 5s - even then sometimes these are the only Structures left. Even if they are made of light to medium metal materials.
Now this makes me think the shape has something to do with it. Humans tend to build houses in a box shape and even the seemingly strongest construction has no chance against a tornado.
Why not build round houses then? Or is it that humans are compelled to have a corner to piss in?

The crazy part for me is that I was in Mayfield not thirty minutes before the tornado.

I was finishing up some work and had gone late and was driving home

Shades of the Tri-State Tornado of 1925, the deadliest tornado in American history.

Maybe it's because I'm a weather nerd and watch oncoming storm systems hours, sometimes days, before, but when I know something is coming and I've been watching a cell/storm popping out warnings and/or observed tornadoes, I round my girls up and we head south or in the opposite direction of travel of the storm/system. I don't care what time it is. When the weather service puts yellow or red over you the previous day or days, you pay attention. People need to be trained better on how to track these storm systems so they know, THEY CAN RUN, if they pay attention and give themselves an hour or so of warning. No, minutes worth of warning isn't enough to jump in the car and bail, but 30 minutes or more is enough to run. Tracking these things is somewhat easy if you watch the right sites and watch the areas SW of you or West of you and pay attention to storm motion. People need to know, YOU CAN RUN. We've been trained for years to just get in a center room and "you can't outrun a tornado." Duh, not if it's already on top of you. But if you're in the car 15 minutes before it gets to you, YOU CAN RUN. Watch the warning tracks and at least get to a better structure to the south east of the track. We have improved warning times, now lets improve knowledge. Stop telling people not to leave and scaring them out of getting out of the path if they are not in a bunker or shelter. 10 miles south of the path is WAY BETTER than a mobile home bath tub in it's path. Amd 15 minutes is enough time to get out of it's path. Many sites and resources will give you more than that if you actually care to try. Complacency and people teaching tactics that won't get them sued are now our enemy. Technology has caught up, now our attention and reactions need to improve.

There is this eerie feeling you get when the meteorologist announce a statewide tornado emergency. God bless these people and our towns.

I don’t know how people live in tornado alley, it’s takes a special sort of gumption and courage. Every tornado season you roll the dice to either live through it, live through it and then live with trauma, or die. It boggles my mind, I would be beside myself with every thunderstorm.

I remember watching this thing on radar that evening, the awed horror as we waited for the tornado emergency for mayfield.

I’m from Lexington Kentucky

I could not believe hearing about this. This same tornado started off just south of our town and we ended up in a tornado warning from it...I couldn't believe it turned into this just shortly after

What's particularly disturbing about this and the comments below is that even with all those people killed in The Candle factory who are forbidden to leave with tornadoes bearing down on them… is the number of people who refuse to blame the business owners and the conservative mentality of that company.

Where are the conservative family values.? do any of you people realize how pathetically stupid and ignorant most conservatives and people in Kentucky actually are? when it came down to a choice of saving families and people's lives or making a few extra bucks hoping the tornado would miss the Candle factory…. the decision was made to keep working.

even worse suppose the tornado did Miss The Candle factory and you are stuck at work knowing that the town was being destroyed by a monster tornado and your kids and grandparents and families and friends were being blown apart and killed…. and there is nothing you could do about it because the boss said keep working or you lose your job?


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what a monster, a wind titan, elemental monster

I live about a hour away from mayfield and about 25 or 30 minutes away from Princeton in a small community called Cadiz. People were telling me all day how bad it was supposed to get. I thought the weather wasnt going to be bad...how wrong I was

I’m wondering about Kansas this year…things are so fueled and look to remain so for a long time!

As someone who lives in mayfield this video was so accurate and trigger warning right here this tornado so deadly and so traumatizing and so many people who I knew got injured or passed away one family had to go through something very traumatic and on that night they had to say goodbye to each other for the last time and most of them were toddlers
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I remember that day like it was yesterday, literally. I was in a small apartment house at the time—as I was in the middle of the process for my move to Florida once July of 2022 hit—in Indianapolis. NWS Indianapolis issued several warnings, and a couple were Tornado Warned, but nothing much from it.
Meanwhile I had no idea what was going on down south until around midnight, when several people notified me that Mayfield, Kentucky had been impacted by a very dangerous tornado.
And two more things to add: As stated here, the tornado wasn’t on the ground for as long as people thought it was, hence why it was nicknamed “The Quad-State Supercell.” Also, something I remember seeing is that this tornado could have been the first EF5 tornado since 2013 Moore, but “because it was moving so fast over Mayfield, there wasn’t enough time for EF5 damage to happen.”

I love the way you present the information, showing the aerial view with damage ratings down its path, alongside real footage of the damage combined with the radar data. It's all arranged nicely and is easy to understand and follow the storm's lifespan. Plus you have the perfect voice for narrating stuff like this :)

The quad state tornado was a hair away from being rated a f5?

Omg we where in mayfield pack up my sisters stuff from collage for summer and my older brother was not here cuz he had school work and we didn’t want to leave him alone while we are in a hotel but when we where having captain d’s I felt something off I told my parents and we canceled our reservation andddd thank god we did our hotel where about to stay it was gone only just concrete wall and foundation that’s what happen from the tornado

Man I don’t believe this even in December I still don’t believe this

I think most of us would like actual footage rather than you narrating over photos. Extremely boring voice and content

I don't live in Mayfield but I was there, a very close family friend had surgery and I was there to care for them. It was pitch black outside, but you could sense it, you could FEEL it. There were three tornado emergencies that were declared by the NWS. The NWS will avoid, avoid, AVOID declaring these if possible. We were watching Ryan Hall, someone who's known for trying to keep people from being afraid. But like he said "you can't run from this, you can't hide" We couldn't get away, nobody could get away! I remember as I was trying to get my friend and myself to shelter quickly and we were scrambling. Lightning was the only way to see it, Everytime it flashed it was closer, bigger, louder. I had never feared for my life before that day. We got to safety and somehow fell asleep. When we awoke, everything was gone, Mayfield wasn't there anymore.

I’ve almalst been hit 30 twister but never been hit

Prayers for All😢

So Sorry for Everyones Loss

I’m a 12 year old who was in Clay, KY at time of this, I was really concerned but nobody in my house seemed to care. Past me how they didn’t seem to worry about the death that was so close to us.

i live in bg in this was very emotional for us.

I've been through dozens of tornados in my life. im actually going to take meteorology classes in college. Every time I hear tornado sirens, I get flashbacks to this day. I learned a lot that day. How everything you know and love can be taken in an instant.

I remember the power generators exploding, little kids screaming, I don't have a safe space for weather like this in my home, so I remember feeling hopeless eventually I just decided to play some video games since there isn't a reason to panic when I can't do anything

The damage rating does not grant it an ef5 status. But the overall context of how and when it happened, the ground scouring etc makes it a strong ef5 candidate for me. My thoughts are with the victims, what a tragedy.

This is the longest running tornado right?

godddd someone I love very very much lives in kentucky. im from massachusetts, so when I saw this on the news I panicked. I texted her to see if she was doing okay. thankfully she was, but what shocked me is that she also told me that the tornado was like, five minutes away from her and that she could hear it.

This should’ve been rated ef5.