@@nelly870909 No, you film vertically because your parents are brother and sister and when you were made, the genetic mutations that occurred due to inbreeding have caused you to somehow not know how to turn your phone sideways. It's way more common than most people realize. You're not alone.
Rocky Dans lol I'm from Alabama in Dixie Alley, which is just an earlier season tornado alley that's way more dangerous to chase in, and am friends with a couple that moved here back in the 90's and they both said it was insane at the storms we have. One worked with me when we had the big outbreak back in April of 2011.
Bass Nazi such an alien thing for me to think of, we get pretty high winds in storm season but certainly no tornadoes that are deadly....however the uk holds the record as the country having the most tornadoes per capita each year but they are very rarely dangerous and most dont even get noticed...
Rocky Dans the one we had that day close by was EF5 and helping afterward was very strange to see. In spots it had actually pulled up the ground. No debris hit or anything to tear up chunks, just grass completely ripped from the earth, some pretty deep spots actually. Some of the poor people that were caught it...just never want to even imagine having to see anyone that way. One corpse looked to be laying face up, the closer they got they realized she had been twisted...the feet and legs were mostly pointed straight up and the torso and face toward the ground. We have a shorter season here than they do further west, but the early coolness mixed with the warming waters of the gulf mix to make some intense ones. Can't remember how many it was total, it was several ef5's and many smaller ones just in our state, the Super Outbreak 2011 I think is the Wikipedia page it's under, affected many more as well. Just Alabama being in that spot lends it to more powerful ones usually instead of the broader mix further over on the plains.
I’m in Missouri and this just gets my adrenaline going! I absolutely love severe weather! Number 1 on my bucket list is to see a tornado, from a safe distance of course.
Classic microburst. Happens in severe thunderstorms and can have winds up to an f1 tornado. They usually last anywhere from seconds to a couple minutes. But one thing you always need to remember is to stay away from windows if possible because all it takes is 1 piece of debris to hit the window and it could possibly break and injure you.
The pressure of the wind itself can also break windows. Even without any flying debris, a super heavy gust hits and those windows can literally implode, sending glass flying all over the place.
Reminded me of when katrina came through down here,now that was scary having huge pine and oak trees falling everywhere around us,tornados in the storm,one was close enough to pull me and a relative out of the door way,I'd never been so scared in all my life.
Penhassin I’ve been in one working at Lowe’s and it was so strong it knocked the doors in and I got hit with the glass door pane. It didn’t feel nice but fortunately I was only bruised and not sliced to ribbons. My manager freaked out when it happened as he and several of the other male associates pealed it off of me as they got pelted by rain and hail before he picked me up like a baby and carried me back to the back with everyone else running there because we thought it was a tornado. He told me not to move as I was placed on the table in the break room, I’m a tiny 5’3” woman, since we didn’t know if I had broken bones as he called 911 and I was transported to the hospital. The company paid all my bills. As for people who are going to say “Why didn’t you get out of the way” we had no warning, and it hit so fast we didn’t have time to react. The O’Charley’s that was close to us had its roof pealed back like a sardine can. There was extensive damage to our Garden Center and the display shed’s outside were mangled. The National Weather Service came out and told us it was a Microburst and not a tornado.
Sam Anime Freak Actually, a macroburst isn't necessarily stronger. A microburst/macroburst is determined by the size of it, micro being smaller, macro being larger. Both happen when a thunderstorm collapses, and puts out very strong winds. Hence why they don't tend to last very long, as they use up all their energy very quickly. I was actually hit by this one. I remember watching it come into Evansville and hit us, and then we got the warning issued after it passed. Basically, it collapsed right on top of me, and we got the full brunt of it before any warning could be given.
I've been in weather like this before and there was a confirmed tornado that touched down that night. The storm hit hard at night. I 100% believe there was a tornado in that area based off what I'm seeing here. This wasn't just a microburst on its own. I kept thinking that glass door & some of those windows weren't going to make it. That was a bad one. Glad your ok!
It's not a tornado, it's a "micro burst"!! A very brief but extremely intense storm that produces high forced wind speeds, high volumes of rain and it can take down trees, buildings and blow over trucks but it doesn't have the vortex that a tornado has. I have seen two of those while in Australia (I was on a 9 week vacation there, I'm a Dutchy) one was near Stradbrook island, the other in Brisbane. It took off roofs, snapped trees in half like matches and the temperature dropped from 38°C to only 15°C in a matter of seconds.
I lived near Dallas, Tx when a huge hailstorm led to hundreds if not thousands of cars getting hail discounts. Everywhere you drove for a year after you could spot a good number of cars dented that day.
I’m British too, and I have seen storms like this here where the downpour of rain is so heavy you literally can’t see your hand in front of you ! Scary !
As long as the business is open only during daylight hours and it's one room they don't need. As long as they can maintain one foot candle of light. Like what you just saw, so think movie theater dark that's one foot candle
That was exciting to watch, but considering the abundance of large windows in this dealership - and that the building is probably pretty flimsy - this guy should've been covered up and sheltered someplace, not standing with his camera watching.
That my friend was not a Tornado it was a Damaging MicroBurst.. Microburst are capable of producing wind speeds up to tornadic level..I went thru that in Dallas about a year ago.. broke a window in my apartment.. so I know how bad those can get..
There is such a thing as a Macroburst..this link from weather.com explains the difference weather.com/storms/severe/news/downbursts-macrobursts-microbursts-tornadoes
If that happened then this wouldn’t be on RU-vid because if the tornado picked him up, then his phone would be destroyed too and he wouldn’t be able to post it
He used the correct term. It was a "macro"burst. Not micro. Much to powerful for micro. I hope all were okay. Could care less about a few cars dented if people were safe at least.
DaBawmb I’ve never experienced a Macro micro bursts In Southern Ontario Canada all I get is Hardly any snow. Threats about tornados and bad thunderstorms and get heart broken when the storm is nothing more then small rain fall for ten mins
These places in the plains, do they have some type of weather insurance, I'm from California and I've never personally been through something like this.
That looked like a microburst. Similar thing happened recently at my house. There was a literal river running down my front walkway and the basement had about 6 inches of water in it for a short time before it drained into the lake i live on
Right up the road in Evansville that day: 2136 89 MPH WIND GUST EVANSVILLE VANDERBURGH COUNTY IN 3798 8754 EVANSVILLE REGIONAL AIRPORT TOWER PERSONNEL RECORDED A 77 KNOT - OR 89 MPH - WIND GUST AT 436 PM CDT. THE TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWER WAS BRIEFLY EVACUATED DURING THE WIND EV (PAH)
I used to work at a car dealership and if it was raining like this... we'd check to see if anyone was on a test drive and called them to pull over. If there was a customer asking for a test drive and this weather hit, we'd ask them to wait or come back. As for the Lot Attendent who I was, I would watch it from the wash bay and then head back in to mop up any water that made its way in.
I was thinking tornado about a minute before you said it. You can be very close to one and not see it, and at one point you couldn't see 2ft from the doors. I'm curious, was it confirmed by anybody though??