Tornado Alley: The Storm That Defied the Odds | Mega Disaster | Episode 3 | Documentary Central

So sorry about poor Sugar.

18:00 the fact that those two survived being thrown around by that tornado is insane... Hope they had a speedy recovery

I sure wish that these would use miles per hour and miles for measurements, seeing as these occur in the United States .

I moved to Oklahoma 13 years ago and we moved into Moore. We were told real quick about the 99 tornado from most people. The stories from that day and seeing the evidence that was still present in 09 10 years later sidewalk slabs that were pulled up and then sent into the earth, still there. Now having gone thru a few tornadoes, mostly in Moore, it’s traumatic. Absolute panic when you hear the sirens and see the colors of the sky. The house shaking. The power is indescribable

Born and Raised here in Texas, I was 5 yrs old in the Wichita Falls 79 tornado that tore us up. I was heavily pregnant in May of 99 when the Moore Oklahoma tornados, I was at my mommas in Byres TX, literally on the Texas Oklahoma border.. we watched the tornados jumping all over we seen the black sky with trash and debri you could smell it. You could feel the temps drop from the high 90s all the way down into the low 60s, we just knew at any giving moment one of those tornados was going to jump the red river.. I remember moving to Dallas TX early 2000s and they would sound the tornado 🚨 even when a thunder storm warning would happen. I was always so confused because back home you only hear that when there is an actual tornado spotted or wall cloud. So one day we are eating at a restaurant and we hear the sirens, figured ohh its a thunder storm, u could clearly tell the weather was bad. Look across the highway I start seeing these orange things flying, TV is on but its turned down everyone still eating.. I see the weather man on and I see tornado on the ground .. noone is taking cover! So I look at the waiter and said hey where do yall go when a tornado hits.. pointed at the TV and then all the sudden it started hailing & rain was so bad you couldn't see the orange things flying anymore ( now I know those were truck trailers) tornado was across the freeway.. I said then and still say if a huge tornado ever hits the DFW area so many will die because they sound those warning sirens for thunder storms so noone really takes it to heart. If a tornado ever hits down town Dallas it's going to be bad bad bad because of all the glass and buildings & because they sound those sirens the way they do even just for a storm warning people won't take cover for the real deal. Me & my kids laugh now but back then everytime we heard those sirens we took pillows and pets to the closet, we didn't know what was going on. Here in Wichita Falls if you hear them sirens and it ain't the 1st of the month at noon you better get somewhere!! I love Texas, but I hate the tornado season.. After seeing the 79 tornado I've always been terrified of them.

Born and raised in Texas, Hurricanes take a back seat to a Tornado. 3 day warning is everything!😢

My daughter was in jail in Dallas when they had a tornado. The residents all had to put on toe tags in case they had to identify bodies. She thought the whole experience was fun. In Texas when the alarm goes off' everyone goes outside and looks around. I met more neighbors that way. Happy to say I've never seen a tornado in my 70 years. But they've been close.

Kansas is a great place for the world's best and most famous tornadoes. The tornado of 1939 sucked up a whole farmhouse and dropped it on a witch. (Probably in Witchita.) After that, Dorothy's little dog ended up in thousands of bathrooms across the country, serving people who had the.... scared out of them.

I live in DFW and was hit by an F3 a few years ago. It’s amazing how powerful these twisters can be. I witnessed steel beams bent. I was sooo fortunate. I never want to think about what an F5 could do.

Hard to believe this episode is 19 years old.

As a native Texan, I remember as a kid wondering why Storm, from X Men never came to help us out when we got hit 😂😂😂

I know that some of these documentaries have poor research, but describing a 40 ton semi truck as a three ton pickup truck, is very sloppy.

I live in Dallas and I remember the tornado that came through and tore up certain areas.. you can actually still see that path and the houses it hit

The scariest thing is that major tornadoes are rarely alone.

Ah yes the mid and early 2000s weather documentaries. When anyone was an expert and it can be said as evidence for anything ridiculous and terrifying on an apocalyptic scale

Kudos to the excellent narrator. He has the perfect voice and inflection.

Born and raised in South Florida, I moved to TN. I would take a hurricane, over a tornado, any day. At least with a hurricane, you have days to prepare.

Where'd you find this? I saw this very episode on Discovery about 12 years ago. I've had a copy of this episode on my system for the last eight.

8:59 Poor sugar she didn’t deserve to die she was ready for the tornado

Being born and raised near Dallas, we were always conscious of the dangers tornadoes posed. We had some close calls, VERY close, less than a mile during one of them. The most terrifying part though about tornadoes in NE Texas is that they like to strike at night you can't see them coming and you can't hear them until they're danger close. All we could hear is the sirens blaring and the wind whipping violently, but not the freight train sound of an approaching twister. Anytime we thought were going to actually get hit by one we opened up windows in the house to equalize the pressure, which unless it's a direct hit will save your home from implosion and keep the roof from blowing off.