I have been chasing thunderstorms for over a decade. I have documented over 100 tornadoes and enjoy teaching people about photography and weather; by giving presentations, hosting workshops, and creating tutorials for online use.
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In 1974 I had the great experience of flying hail suppression (base seeding and top seeding) in a combined suppression/research project (Alberta Hailstop '74). In 'those days' our understanding of the detailed airflow around these storms was less clear. While I and my colleagues were flying cloud seeding missions, the scientists/meteorologists on the project were flying updraft penetrations in Cessna 414 equipped with cloud physics sensors. I learned a lot about SAFELY maneuvering around thunderstorms and this knowledge proved to be a great advantage for my airline career that followed. Your analysis and radar images here are a great training aid for any pilot. This understanding, along with our industry standard recommendations for circumnavigating this kind of weather, serves us well. My main 'beef' is that airliner radars only pitch upwards to 15 degrees and become somewhat useless for terminal area (close in) weather avoidance. Then we become much more dependant upon ATC 'suggestions,' PIREPS, and our own visual analysis out the front windows. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent! The most information one could possibly get in 30 minutes. I was a storm spotter in McHenry county Illinois and this should be a requirement for all that take storm spotter classes.
I am a spotter with Skywarn and I do a lot of independent training to better my understanding of severe weather. Your video is absolutely fantastic as it covers things that we were not taught in spotter class. Thank you for posting this video!
Rarely have I seen an educational video on any topic I'm interested in that delivered so much information in such a short time while also being digestible and answering so many questions without even having to explicitly do so. I didn't know the exact reason shelf clouds looked the way they did or formed where they did, but watching this, I didn't need to be told that the more spindle-y or "slc" shelf clouds that form where a wall cloud can usually be seen were are due to the condensation of warm moist air on the inflow boundary being pulled in by the mezocyclone's updraft. The parent info to make that inference was just so well delivered that it just clicked. There's about 10 other important pieces to the puzzle that I was missing and understood from this video in the same way without it ever needing to be explicitly stated. This is quality educational content if there ever was such a thing.
LMAO normal guy calls himself a storm chaser... yelling in the car by himself to people who can't hear him how dumb they are for doing the very exact same thing he's doing... best part of the commentary
Great Video. I will be watching a few more times for sure. I know the use of the word "suction vortices" is common and I'm not complaining. I now use it but sparingly. But, in physics, there is no such force as suction. High pressure is pushing inflow in. It's not sucked in. Took me years after a physics class I had in school and use of the word again cause just saying it was trouble.
Anyone else confused I don’t understand any of these term it could be easier if you could explain term such as updraft, inflow band, outflow boundary ETC.
I teach a local high school meteorology class and this was STELLAR!! Thank you so much for taking the time to design this educational video! Forever grateful! Saved my lesson plans for the day...LOL!!!
Incredibly complex dynamics , all coming together, makes you wonder how it’s possible for this to actually function as an entity, truly witnessing a miracle in action.
I've been interested in learning more about tornadoes when I was younger I got into watching the movie twister with bill Paxton I've never been or experienced any tornadoes cuz I'm from California already but I got family in Atlanta Georgia USA This is very educational about tornadoes and how they form 🕊️ Of ✌️
Twister Hunters did you feel it's power this 2.6 tornado. What was the wind speed? Did it growl and roar? You need the dominator car to be in to with stand this wide one. I actually was in NYC with my son in grid lock next to the Dominator with all the twister men sitting in it laughing my face off they were in NYC with that.
great video. I just dont understand where is moisture? It says moist air goes up and make clouds because of moisture. i know about phisics and condensation also but if its summer, reallly hot days....where is the moisture. Few days ago we in Croatia, Zagreb had biggest storm ever. Not usual for this region so Id like to know about this things a lil bit more.
