This was one of those derecho storms that guaranteed that if you thought you saw a funnel cloud, you did see a funnel cloud, & most of them also touched down. A tornado came through my town but I had advance warning while watching Max Velocity here on YT. It was late evening by the time my area got hit so most storm chasers had stopped chasing for the night because it was too dark to video. I’m glad you posted this footage, because I had repeatedly searched YT for videos immediately afterward, but found very little info.
Thank you. i was a bit surprised by the lack of other chasers out that evening. Granted it was nice in a sence that every country road wasn't like rush hour traffic like it can be when every weather enthusiast with a radar app is out chasing. The amount of areas of rotation within this line of storms was very impressive! Its not too uncommon to have a handful of QLCS rotations / tornadoes with a line like this but not like Monday was. It was pretty impressive visually when i was out in front of the storm, you could visually look up and down the line and see all the inflow knotch kinks in the line associated with the rotations. My only complaint was not having a camera that does better low light video along with the auto-focus never seeming to focus like it should. Next years bucket list...newer and better camera!
In North Aurora Illinois we were pretty close it was developing over us but it passed us thank you Lord be safe everyone and keep us informed love you guys❤❤. 6:01
Looking at a map, i was mainly parked on Moulton Rd, however you may have seen me driving around trying to find a decent view where the corn wasn't a mile high.
We were only a few miles from it lol the green skies were pretty interesting to look at. It was a bit scary for some in the car but we were heading east and for a majority of it heading away from it. My brother thought he saw it but the most I saw was the green skies 😊
this particulay shot was taken from the intersection of Prairis St. ( S. County Rd G ) & Sunny Lane Rd looking west. the other vido was taken on E. Woodman Rd crossing I90.
This is why rain-wrapped tornados are so dangerous. If you hadn't sat there and recorded the whole time, by the end it just looks like a "bad" thunderstorm with NO tornado visible (even though we know it is there).
Exactly! It was clear as day on radar what was happening with the storm. But visually, especially if you're not a chaser or weather savvy person, one could easily unknowingly drive right into a very compromising and dangerous situation.
I haven't seen ANY damage photos/videos that would approach that strength, most looks like EF1 damage. There was a split level ranch that was missing the roof and the corner of one of the rooms on the 1 1/2 level, but rest of house looked good, so likely EF2 damage there. I haven't seen any EF3 dmg yet, at least NOT in the Janesville part of the tornado. Going through an urban area on a weekend evening without any reported injuries also would seem to preclude much EF3 damage, too.
