The LARGEST Tornado Ever Recorded: El Reno 2013 2.6 Miles Wide! #historicaltidbits

The 2013 El Reno, Oklahoma Tornado that took the lives of eight people and four storm chasers. The El Reno tornado might be the scariest storm ever witnessed. Despite this, it had little damage and so it was classified as an EF3, despite its strong winds and size. This is to date the largest tornado that has ever existed and certainly caught on film. At its peak it was 2.6 miles wide. The entire cell came down and spawned multiple subvortices that orbited around the tornado. The subvortices contained the strongest wind speeds at 302 mph, one of the strongest recorded wind speeds of any known tornado. the storm ballooned so quickly that many storm chasers who were close to the initial funnel found themselves trapped within the tornado and struggling to escape. It was actually one of the subcortices that took the life of Tim Samaras and his team. . *Re-edit of an earlier version. Removed subtitles. Color graded. Other minor edits. #shorts #history #tornado #tornadoes #modernhistory #tornadoalley #tornado #wind #supercell #storm #storms #elreno #2013 #weather #dangerousstorm #twister #oklahoma #stormchase #stormchasers #stormchasing #stormchaser #death #scarystories #rip