Thank you for what you people do in helping to keep people safe and learn more on how these storms work ! I live in south central Kansas by the little town of Murdock . Other than the 4 years that I was stationed at Minot AFB in North Dakota I have lived the Wichita , Kansas area my whole life !
if you can't tell if a tornado is on the ground. always make a shape. it helps. I was watching storm riders and storm chaser Simon Brewer was chasing either the Moore Oklahoma or Tuscaloosa Alabama tornado. I think he was chasing Tuscaloosa Alabama tornado. The tornado was rain wrapped. So he made out a shape by looking at the storm to determine if there was a tornado on the ground or not. It was amazing. It must work for a lot of chasers!
This tornado reminds me of the 1991 Andover tornado which also had insane motion and updrafts horizontal vortices multi-vortex monster Andover remains to me one of the strongest tornados in American history and just a few months before Andover in August of 1990 the famous Illinois killer Plainfield tornado which was another 300 mph + monster that decimated the rural town of Plainfield crest hill Joliet and crystal lawns
14:57 how is that real?!?? It almost looks like it's sped up video but the motion of everything else is normal so that's just how fast it was moving. IN SANE.
I mean, one of my dad's friends out of the many that lived in the country got a tree stick through his hand and someone found a tractor tire with a tree stick shot through it. Cows were also relocated miles away from their home. Thankfully there were no fatalities but from the footage that my dad caught from about 2 miles away from our house I'm pretty certain that if it had gone through one of our towns it would have been horrific.
This would have made a nice video except for the fbombs being dropped-please clean it up or you can count us out as we won’t be subscribing to your channel.
"A 15% hatched moderate risk bust": You got that right. After Chapman happening in a 2% marginal risk I was psyched for the next day! Aaaaaand then nothing. Lots of supercells but the wind shear blew them all apart before any could produce tornadoes
Bryan Rogers I remember sitting in Olive Garden around noon the next day, getting ready to eat and check the models and outlooks...and out the window, towers going up everywhere. Still worth it lol
Yeah I remember there was still a lot to see that day. One storm in particular was being blown to the North but building to the East. There was rotation everywhere in that sucker! Unfortunately while I was chasing it just a few miles West of McPherson a gravel road ended without warning and the trail (I can't even call it a road after that point) came to a T-intersection, and I had to stop to turn. Got about 100 feet, started throwing mud everywhere and came to a stop. I ended up overheating the engine and warping my cylinder head trying to get out before I decided to call for a tow. Called everyone within 50 miles and no one had a truck that was able to work in mud so I was on my own. The next day once the mud dried enough for me to take another shot I ended up walking all the way to the other side of town for a shovel so I could dig myself out. Got myself about halfway back to the intersection before a farmer who lived up the road came with a little tractor and was able to pull me the rest of the way out. Altogether the car was there about 30 hours and fixing the head costed me 2 weekends and ~$500. Seeing the Dodge City family and the picture-perfect tornadogenesis North of Solomon the day before more than made up for it!
I believe there was a monster tornado in Chapman prior to this in 2008 that did some of the most extreme damage I’ve seen like twisting railroad tracks all out of whack and decimating a farm including old heavy American machinery from the 70’s into unrecognizable hunks of twisted steel it was rated a f-4 but based on the damage I saw a f-5 was responsible for that extreme damage also wind rowing debarked trees completely debarked and removal of ground material 12 in deep based on that I give it a high f-5 over 300 mph in that area
Lisa Monk Thanks for getting back so quickly. My question was what first got you interested in storm chasing/meteorology? For me, it was Howie Bluestein and Tim Samaras, so I jumped at the chance when my school offered Meteorology 101 as a science course.
@@Labyrinthine_Complexities Do you feel as if 2019 season ( coming up very soon) will be like 2011?..I can not remember if 2011 was a strong " ElNino" year.
Tornado footage was over an hour long alone, had to be condensed down. I thought about uploading the entire uncut chase but it would be huge and I wasn't sure if there was enough interest.
I know chasing is what you guys do but when you see a tornado and your reaction is "yes, yes WOOOOO" I think it's time to take a moment and think about what you're rooting for. These things kill people and destroy lives. I'm fascinated by these videos but I'd rather see a chaser that's more into the scientific aspect of it or chasing to warn people rather than being giddy that one is touching the ground. I know, debbie downer here, I just think sometimes people need to take a second and think about what these things do to towns, it's not a joyful event for most involved.
I bring that up a lot during talks. My home has been impacted by a derecho and an EF-1, I know exactly how they feel. I wish I could get funding to do research, I have plans but don't have about $1k to dump into a probe right now, so the best I can hope for is to catch that missing piece of the puzzle on video. Scientific grade sensors aren't cheap, I've looked into all of that, also found someone to make the probe shell. You're not being a Debbiedowner, you're just putting the shoe on the other foot.
Nick Slone Thanks for the honest reply. I did like the video and I know sometimes chasers get into it and probably don't mean to be excited so much as letting the adrenaline take over. I subbed, hope you're able to get that probe and keep making videos. Good luck!
I’m sry context is everything here, they are not hoping it hits populated areas. But when they track for days weeks and longer and miss storms or are in the wrong spot it feels good to put yourself in good position. Also they are doing this to learn about theses storms and warn people . I don”t comment much but I wanted to say that
Let people enjoy whatever without guilt tripping them! Whether people enjoy that a tornado is big/powerful or not, the tornado is still gonna do its thing. It literally doesn't matter if they are happy or sad about it. They can't do anything to stop it so their reactions don't matter at all for the victims
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