Kicking off the 2021 tornado and storm chasing season, a brief, weak tornado is documented one mile west of Rockport, IL or a few miles north of Louisiana, MO on March 23.
It's amazing. No screaming or shouting about what's going on but yet we still know. It's no wonder you and Hank are the only storm chasers I watch. Looking forward to more. Cause it sure seems like things are getting fired up here in the south again after last week. From Hampton GA.
This is really a better representation of what a typical tornado is like, passes through mostly unnoticed by but a few and then ppl argue over it being just straight line winds or not.
Yeah, know exactly what you mean. Had a storm pass through Jackson Michigan late spring of last year that had visible rotation with a funnel starting to develop, but everyone in my neighborhood is all "Nuh uh! It was just straight line winds!"
@@lonewolf9390 You get a thumbs up just for Jackson, MI. Problem is, you can still have straight wind damage even with a 'nado nearby, and its hard to tell. Especially in those ugly squalls MI usually sees.
Totally not true. Its more like 50/50. And its really not hard to tell the difference between damage from SLW and a tornado. SLW damage goes in a straight line. And tornadoes spin so the damage they leave behind is very different.
Thanks for the video, Skip! This year has reignited my passion for studying tornadoes and extreme weather, and your storm chasing and educational videos have played a HUGE role in that. Stay safe out there!
I need to be careful when I get into my storm chaser obsession and watch loads of good storm videos like Skip's and Hank's as it makes me question my life plan and make me think I should study weather instead and be a storm chaser haha.
there's something so oddly peaceful about this one, with the quiet driving, the rain, the wind, and the swirling clouds. hope nobody was hurt. thanks for sharing.
I have learned so much by watching your videos, Skip! I grew up in Illinois, too, and I never knew anything about storm structure until watching your excellent videos. I also never knew there were so many tornadoes in Illinois!
Not a fan of the high end events in Dixie Alley. They're often damaging killers, and are difficult and dangerous to chase with ugly rain wrapped tornadoes. For the people living there and for storm chasers, it's a lose lose situation. Not heading down there, but good luck and stay safe if you're in Dixie tomorrow!
@@skiptalbot I can understand that. Not in Dixie myself, but I wish the best for everyone tracking and living through the storms. Where's your next chase going to take place, do you think?
@skip talbot yes dixie alley tornadoes are often rainwraped making them difficult to see and also making them dangerous and the tornado season there having the most amount of violent tornadoes are beetween february to april making them even more dangerous in the past few years dixie alley have the strongest and most deadly twisters so if you are living in dixie alley be aware of tornadoes and stay safe.
i was actually a chaser for this storm, only i was located in little rock, ar. i watched this beauty from the second the velocity radar showed rotation to the second it went back up in the sky. truly magnificent to experience as it happened. i also watched live feed cameras from local businesses and storm chasers as this happened, and it helped me gather info and get a better chase. this was so fun, and i hope that i can find more storms to chase virtually!
This shows the incredible structure of how these things work really well Skip, you should do a video analysis of this to inform the people?.. Well done as usual brother, have a great year and safe travels.
Thanks, I might put it in a future spotter presentation if I'm asked to talk at a conference or seminar again. This one would be an example of really classical storm spotting technique where you've got a tornado developing from a textbook wall cloud.
@@skiptalbot As soon as you came beyond those trees, my brain took me back to the lessons yourself and Pecos Hank have taught me/us through your videos. Man I would really enjoy hearing you do a presentation on this and other things. Your chasing and uploads are very appreciated sir. Have a great year...
This storm was like, "Do I want to touch down? Yeahhh, let's do it rigghhh...nah, not yet. Ok, now we'll do i...nah. Oh wait, that looks like a good spo....forget it, got some little guy filming me, can't do it right now."
My friends and family really appreciate your severe storm lectures. The thought came to mind if it could be possible for an end of storm season lecture public event uploaded to RU-vid If this could ever be possible? Perhaps a Dr. Anton along with the rest of (Team HP☔) Pecos Hank your self, Mr. Blake etc, a well grounded group of common sense folks sharing they're knowledge and Safety expertise. -Blessings and Peace with you Mr. Skip. 🐌☔
I was tracking this exact same storm that you got video of yesterday. I saw rotation in base velocity and knew that it was tornado warned 20 minutes before the NWS declared it to be tornado warned. Thank you for getting some excellent footage of what I was seeing on my radar.
Skip, what do you think about the dewpoints and 500mb winds for the Shreveport, LA area on 3/25/21. Looks like there's some bad weather headed their way! Stay safe! :)
Haven't had time to scrutinize the forecast. Dr. Victor Gensini did a great discussion on the event on his Facebook page last night, but last I looked ground zero for the big long tracking supercells was on the northern MS/AL border, and indeed you can see SPC went high risk there.
SPC: "A STORM CHASER OBSERVED A TORNADO NORTHWEST OF ROCKPORT. THE FUNNEL WAS NOT FULLY CONDENSED BUT THERE WAS A DISTINCT DEBRIS CLOUD EVIDENT FOR SEVERAL MINUTES" Skip was that you?!
Yeah during the lapse sequences it really wasn't visible, and one of the times where the wall cloud was a better landmark, followed by the inflow band notch. By the time the horseshoe was really prominent, I was so close that you couldn't really see it. 1:22 the RFD gust front had bowed out into a big horseshoe, the very north end of the clear slot is visible on the left side of the frame, but I'm basically under the base at that point. West facing GoPro might have gotten the whole structure, but I wasn't running one.
@@skiptalbot So... based on your response, I THINK the camera at 1:22 is aimed kinda NW? I dunno man, if I was navigating we'd probably just be upside down in the field. You're very skilled.
I was hoping to start seeing more videos from you this season. Are you going down to Mississippi and Alabama for tomorrow's outrageous weather? Sounds like it's THE place to be so far this season.
Fun chase! Great catch Skip! 👍👍 Nice to have storms that aren't rocketing by at 60mph, so you could do that cool timelapse. 👍👍 Love the "Bob's Road" reference too! 😁 Glad that "Skip's videos season" has arrived! 👍👍
This was gonna be my first chase, but I slept through my alarm, and I wasn’t gonna make it after my four hour drive, so I stayed home. Maybe next time!
@@bentrider1972 oh wow! Yeah.. here in Illinois we got hit worse with an EF1 tornado tho we’re alright during that tornado, but there was a lot of damage with trees & of course a few roofs blew off that day as well.
dude down south is where the majority of the violent storms have been. About a week or two ago my town of Newnan was smacked by a midnight ef4 destroying a high school and the northwestern part. It was scary as he11.
I live 10 minutes from rockport, on this day I was traveling from atlas il to Lousiana mo and got caught in heavy heavy rain trying to get away from this storm. We were traveling 20 mph in a 55mph because the rain was so blinding
I am in Florida, I don’t get many tornadoes, but we get good storms and stuff, we always get missed by the L pressure storms (ex. Cold fronts) they all weaken before even hitting where I live :(
How many years have you been chasing? I am also curious if you have a rough guess on how many tornadoes you have seen in your “chase career”? I live in NC but I’ll be out on the plains for a bit in may and again in June so maybe I’ll run into you. Good luck and be safe this season!
I started in '03, and I've probably documented 150 tornadoes or so. I'm still working on getting the past couple years updated, but you can check out my chases and stats here: www.skip.cc/chase
Look how low those dark clouds are to the ground🤦 that's very scary😳😱😱🤦here we go again last week and now again this week almost the same areas🤷🤦😱stay safe EveryOne 🙏🙏
My friends and I sat in Warrenton, Missouri Mc Donald’s for 7 hours, we would of not have up hope and head home we should of stayed another hour lol! Great video documentation of this tornado!
The center of US tornado activity is shifting eastward according to work by Dr. Victor Gensini. However, even with the shift, the Great Plains remain the focal point of America's most violent and largest number of tornadoes. Late winter/early spring is when you see more tornadoes in the Southeast, and Illinois and the OH River valley are also no strangers to March tornadoes. So after a quiet winter, folks just tend to notice the tornadoes out East first. The Plains season typically gets going later in May.
A debris cloud is what we're looking for when visually spotting a tornado. It's just a funnel cloud otherwise. A debris ball is a radar signature of a tornado.
I'm not sure what it is about these visuals but they're so pleasing! The footage just seems crisp and great, I'd love to be able to shoot video like this normally.
I don't check the 'confirmed tornado' box until I here someone yelling "TORNADO ON THE GROUND" at least 3 or 4 times within a 90 second window... thanks
So it begins... I am waiting to see if my town gets hit again with another set of twisters. I live in northern IN and in 2019 my town was hit by 3 tornados. 2 in the same day. Kinda scary. XD Stay safe Skip and team!
