F5 Tornado Limestone County Alabama 2011

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Published 2011-05-07
F5 tornado on ground in East Limestone county Alabama at 4:32pm. Debris (mostly tar paper and insulation) was already raining down a few minutes earlier at our location 2 miles NE. Cell tower is on East Limestone just North of Nick Davis. 4/27/2011

All Comments (16)
  • @F5Storm1
    The entire mesocyclone was almost on the ground, the contrast of the sky and heavy rainfall made it difficult to see the tornado, plus it was wrapped in dust at times. This here is likely what the Tri-State tornado of 1925 looked like.
  • @tennisguyky
    This tornado was the stuff nightmares are made of. That low deep steady rumble, unseen but you know it’s in there. Terrifying
  • @stewiepid4385
    I have my 700W sub-woofer running on the audio of this video. I can FEEL that tornado!
  • @LouisvilleTorn8o
    That's one of the deepest roars from a tornado I've ever heard. Sounds deeper than the largest fighter jet. If I would have heard that in person I would have been freaking out and praying hard.
  • @MyJback
    This same area was hit by 2 F5s 20 minutes apart during the 1974 outbreak
  • @moreintime
    It has been a couple years, but I do remember a rumble that I thought was continuous thunder. At the time, most of my thought was on which way it was going compared to where I was standing. Last March, I took the video "Morning Tornado" which came even closer, but was less powerful.
  • @moreintime
    This video continues in F5 Tornado Part 2
  • @moreintime
    The roar was bad enough, but I think some of that deep sound in the recording was wind on the microphone. Thanks for watching!
  • @moreintime
    Yes, it didn't look like the classic elephant trunk, but the proof was in what it did. I also took video this spring of an F2 on a similar path. See my video "Morning Tornado". It also did damage and gave me more respect for an F2.
  • @LouisvilleTorn8o
    I'm pretty sure that what I'm talking about isn't microphone wind noise. There's another video of this same tornado as it passed really close to a house in Phil Campbell from inside the house, and the roar is just as deep in that video. It's really more of a deep rumble than a roar.
  • I feel so lucky! I live just to the north of where it leveled many of my daughters friends houses. We live in a triple wide trailer, I got inthe storm shelter when I saw shit falling from the sky.....anybody who knows me, knows I love STORMS not TORNADOS, but i got in our storm shelter three times on the 27th of April!
  • @BigBiff122
    watched this one drop and followed to all the way to my house went right behind my house verry lucky
  • @zakkholguin3942
    damn that thing was pulling in air so fast the tail cloud could barely even form.