My name is Andrew Pritchard, and I’m a meteorologist and storm chaser, born and raised in the American Midwest. My focus professionally is high-impact, disruptive weather, and my passion is being there to document it first hand. I bought my first video camera at age 15 with money I saved up from working a paper route and began filming storms in my garage. A couple of decades later I'm basically doing the same thing, only now I can drive myself to the storms instead of waiting for them to come to me. Thanks for following along as I try to tell the story of the storm.
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Such an ethereal and tumultuous sound. This was such a monster tornado, and I know it left you with so many mixed emotions. This storm was a catch of a lifetime.
Awesome videoed. Stunned watching those fools passing you guys near Omaha driving into the storm. Blows my mind. I grew up dealing with rain-wrapped tornadoes in South. Respect these storms.
Great video 👍! I don't live in this area and derechos are very rare where I live but this storm looked apocalyptic with that huge dark wave in the sky and those lightning bolts ! Incredible ! 😮
I made it through 11:30 of the video. I’m already upset it took them until a tornado was in the center of town to sound the sirens. Shows that place is a joke
Thank you for the beautiful video. Also thank you for keeping a respectful distance from these storms. I am amazed a few chasers on RU-vid are still alive as they will drive right into an EF-3 bold as brass like it isn't even there giving others the false impression that they can too.
Andrew-- My name is Curley Temple, I live in Fort Scott, Kansas. I'm 60 years old...lived in the Midwest all my life...and have NEVER seen an actual Tornado-! I would LOVE to have the opportunity to go out on a Tornado Chase with you. (It's on my Bucket List..lol)
@@AndrewPritchard wild video though im up in ohio we dont have tornadoes too often, Cleveland gets a few small ones but they tend to burn out pretty quick Stay safe dude
Wow, that's a lot of rain! Our storms usually slide central/south towards you. We got some rain this morning (far west suburb of Chicago) but not anywhere close to this much. Hope everyone stays safe down there. Did you see the great storm we got Tuesday night?
Wow!! We didn't get anywhere near that much rain over here by Springfield. These storm systems have gone nuts. I've become a total radar junky 😄. I'm not on Facebook but I discovered that I can access your FB channel and see just enough to read your daily forecasts. That's been a huge relief when severe weather is lurking about. Always appreciate you so much 😊👍.
We were N.W. of that storm in Seward and Butler counties at that time getting our tornado video. There was at least five touchdowns in about 15 min on either side of the highway. Never seen anything like it. That will probably a once in a lifetime event for us.
Lucky the tornado north of Ashland missed the new construction of Runza and the steakhouse. Lol, Then what would they have done.....It's open now if you ever need any food next time thru.....
Im in OK. Ive been watching tornado vids the last few days. We had storms twice so far. Yesterday i kept pausing the TV to see if it was the TV or real life. Luckily it was the TV. We get F5's here. Yet nobody on my road has a shelter. In my tiny house with tiny closets, the innermost area with no windows is the end of the hallway. I dont know if ill survive a smaller tornado but if F5 comes, I'm a goner.
Thank you for doing a video on this day! I was only 7 years old and the tornado that crossed north of Roodhouse went right by my house and that's what sparked my obsession and now I live in north Oklahoma chasing for channel 5. John Farley has a good video of that tornado that he filmed from in front of my house!
You should do a video analysing how accurate the movie Twister is. Is it accurate, way off. Would love to hear your thoughts. I think it would be a banger.
I remember this outbreak, not because i was in any of the tornadoes, but because i was watching it on radar, and it happened a day before my birthday. My cousin also had family in some of the towns that had tornado warnings. It was an interesting day. Thank you for not treating these storms as some spectacle that should be cheered for. Amazing video!
IN New England, we rarely see many tornadoes. But all that changed one summer morning in June. I was half listening when they said Tornado WARNING! I was what? They repeated it, so I woke my son he came downstairs carrying our cat. I was put kitty down,if she wants to follow us she will. However we were spared,but downtown wasn't. It took out 3 buildings the town was 'talking about' taking down, and it still had enough energy to spawn a weak one uptown. The increasing number of those storms are scary.I've seen my share of them. It was late not this summer but last summer,I was heading for home after running errands. The sky was inky black. Something said look up! I did,and was shocked, an EF3 was forming right in back of the store I just exited.Everyone was still doing whatever it was they were doing. Grocery shopping finding an EF5 beig born, then Juluy31 of this year I found an EF4, and an EF1at the same time! I've sen my share several times. When that sky gets black, I keep a wary eye on it.
You guys are AMAZING!! My dream is to see an actual tornado in person before I die, I have cancer so that's definitely on my bucket list! If I don't get to at least I have you guys!!! ❤❤❤
I appreciate the disclaimer at the beginning. I get so aggravated when I hear storm chasers call tornadoes "beautiful".....like do they not realize what these monsters do to people?
It's tough. None of us out there want to see the human impact, and at their most raw form, the wild things these storms do CAN be beautiful. But when it's placed over a city and the storm is having a lifelong impact on human lives, you just have to keep perspective.
