Storm Chasing the Quad State Tornadic Supercell - December 10, 2021 

Congratulations. Sorry you lost everything. At least you still have each other. Hopefully you and your wife have many years together

Congrats 🎉 but in all seriousness I'm glad you are safe and have each other. Did you atleast have insurance?

We did not have insurance

Well you didn’t lose me and I’m a prayer warrior and I’ve been praying for everyone effected by this nasty unprecedented possible EF5 tornadoes and I deeply care for communities like yours💞🌹❤️😇🥰☮️✝️🇺🇸❤️‍🩹

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Yeah....it weird isn't it...

I was thinking this too. My theory is that some of the lightning is striking behind the tornado which actually provides backlight. The lightning that strikes in front effectively conceals it. I could be wrong though.

@@WesT-ge2jh Exactly. 👍

Just like Greensberg Kansas in 2007.

@@WesT-ge2jh You are 100% correct.

I literally thought this was Pecos Hank!! I even was like “dang when hed change the name?” And then I saw ur comment 😹 and realized

I think its kind of a disservice to the rest of them for people to always bring up pecos hank in their videos when he barely ever uploads for his channel or viewers anymore.

I love Pecos hank ❤

@@30goals well, its not easy creating video's about tornado chasing. not only that, he usually makes about 4 vids a year which are mostly recaps. Besides, this one was pretty much only visible due to lightning and powerflashes, it took me quite long to see an detailed video over this quad state tornado.

​@@30goals I don't think it's a disservice at all for someone to compare one person they admire/respect the work of to another. To put it in a different frame, think of someone who's working as a classical musician being compared to Mozart, Beethoven, Bach--it's recognition, not disservice. Hank's videos have greater gaps between them because of the amount of time and effort that goes into gathering the raw footage, planning them, editing them, scripting them, recording (and re-recording) the lines, and final touches (which sometimes includes composing and editing custom music tracks for them--he's also a musician). Hank's focused more largely on putting significant effort into the quality of his videos than the quantity of them. This next bit might come across as somewhat snide, but I don't intend it that way, just being honest/blunt: Check your expectations. You can't rationally/realistically demand different creators to put out exactly what you want exactly when you want it exactly how you want it. Even individuals do change over time in their taste and style, be it the person making the videos or you-the consumer. If Hank's style ain't to your liking, that's perfectly ok, there's nothing wrong with that...but don't try to push your ideals of good/bad content as the end-all be-all, either.

Tell me about it, 02/28/2017 Ft Branch, IN EF3

Sorry I’m not informed on types of tornado? Could you explain what a wedge tornado is?

@@felipeespinoza3259 The wedge are the super wide tornadoes; not the typical cone shape most people think of.

To me while Tornadoes are scary in of themselves, the ones that come out at night are the scariest because like some of the comments have said, you can’t see them unless there’s a flash of lightning. You don’t know how close you are to them, you don’t even know if you’re in their path.

@@geezushasrisen Like an EF5?

Thanks Ryan, great job with the live coverage.

Thank you for what you do too, Ryan!

Max if you ever need a camera man or good driver I’m available..retired firefighter paramedic some experience chasing…

@@fergieferguson2457 I no

@@MaxOlsonChasing he storm chases too bro is an absolute animal

I drove home from work late that night and it was almost like driving during the day, there was SO much lightning.

@@RompusJr Now that! is scary. Being totally blind all my life, I used to have light perception. I don't know if I would have been more scared of the lightning or the tornado or both equally. What horrifies me is not knowing that there's a tornado at night period. Were the police out there closing off the highway? Nope. It didn't even appear that way. If I'm wrong, please tell me.

Facts

SO? It's just a video recording of a natural event. These RU-vid uploaders are so pathetically self-involved.

@@CooManTunes yo- they do this to show ppl what’s going on- u should be grateful they risk there lifes just so they can show us how the tornado looks like and to update us-

@@kasia9279 There lifes? :'D

@@CooManTunes mhm

Yeah. Without devastating storms, these guys would suffer from depression. Sick individuals.

@@CooManTunes what

@@CooManTunes I don't think you watched the video.

Just don't watch some of my older videos 😂

@@MaxOlsonChasing 🤣🤣🌪🤷‍♂️

Well if I was that close to a big tornado or any tornado. I would be cussing and screaming too. Praying. Be doing it all. I'm scared of storms but love watching tornado videos 🤣😝

I understand it's intense environment and some people cannot handle any situations like that to point they need to scream it out. I always prefer people who are calm intense environment because it allows their team to actually concentrate and do what they need to do to provide coverage on the ground, and important information to new stations and people at home. For example Reed Timmers is amazing storm chaser but I often find him screaming to be annoying, it could be EF0 tornado out in rural fields and he'll be screaming already.

Glad you guys made it out safe and happy late birthday from Nashville TN

So glad you and your family are ok and happy birthday!!

Well u don't have many more to celebrate

It's very likely it's going to be rated an EF5

@@sethcourtemanche5738 It still isn't. 200mph windspeed ef4. Even lower on the scale can be dangerous. Especially with newer housing because of how crappily they're built. The 1.5 mile wide ef2 that hit nearby a few years ago would wipe out my neighborhood. These things are dangerous. It doesn't matter what rating you give it they still kill people.

@@sethcourtemanche5738 should of been a EF5 . Cause of how cheap people make buildings shouldn’t determine a ranking .

@@MrPapasvhilly I was just having this conversation with another person. I was sort of arguing the same thing. Like the Pilger EF-4's ... at least 1 of the 2 should have been EF-5. Why ? They say there are certain damage categories for tornadoes. 1 of them being lifting a house off it's foundation, or wiping a home off it's foundation. There is 1 video where you can see a WHOLE house many dozens of feet aloft, and you see the tornado just toss it off WHOLE to the side, probably got obliterated when it hit the ground and hit the R.I.J. but because the home I guess wasn't high enough standard quality it just got an EF-4 . . Or even El Reno, they say EF-3 but that thing was 2.5 miles wide, internal wind speeds around 200. It was SO large and the core was spinning fast enough and violent enough it was tossing out 175 mph (that's at least EF-3 speed) satellites the size of a standard tornado. . . But because it didn't do enough structural damage it only got an EF-3.

This tornado gave a lot of amazing night time footage. The best I've seen. The lightening was perfect for it.

Did this tornado actually sound like a train?

That’s because this was an EF5 tornado

@@rosewetzel8284 actually it wasnt a EF5 which is beyond me it was actually labled a EF3 they dont go by damage

@@NickyD nonsense

@@NickyD the twisters preliminary rating is EF4

My word I looked up some maps and it actually hit falls of rough pretty hard, oh my gosh- my heart breaks for these people 💔

Thank you Freddy, hope to see you out there next year!

@@MaxOlsonChasing same here! Hopefully out in the plains far away from civilization!

Her name was annistyn. Her loss is heartbreaking. She has fought and survived health problems from the time she was a tiny baby. She had a liver condition. Thankfully the rest of the family is healing. Mom was in a coma with a head injury but she's awake now and doing better than the drs expected. All should make a full recovery physically. I'm sure the loss of their oldest daughter will never heal tho.

Same here it's the hurricanes here in NC that scare me to death

Kinda reminds me of that Tuscaloosa one a few years back Terrifying

Idc what the NWS rated this . It was indeed a EF5 tornado .

@@MrPapasvhilly for sure. Radar was measuring wind speeds when it first hit mayfield at 300mph.

@@MrPapasvhilly definitely

@@bocephus6012 bullshit lol. 190 mph. NWS is very smart. A lot of the homes that were flattened were found to be poorly built. Definitely got it correct with the EF4. Sad tragedy however.

I am so sorry to hear this, that hits home. I am working with others to help victims like you and your family in the near future. I will send some prayers you’re way.

I thought the same. And then when I realized he meant he was stepping out of his vehicle I could only think "NO!!".

Fellow 256'er here Just wondering what part you hail from?

Thank god he took the risk

Same. It's a sound I know so well. It's instant fear

Usually conditions, there has to be specific conditions to stir up a tornado alone. I’ve been studying weather since I was young. Hot and cold air circle and “chase their tail.” Hot air rises so as more hot air rises through the cold air it creates a vacuum that picks up debris and creates the tornado shape. Thats where specific conditions come in, it has to be just perfect for the cold and hot air to do that. Often times when it does happen usually it isn’t too intense and doesn’t last long. However, sometimes you get storms like these that are just in too perfect conditions and create mass destruction.

It really depends on the conditions, as the other person said. But any storm bad enough could do this. But the weather was going for hot to cold back to hot in a span of a few days. Making this the "best" condition for it all.

During the day u can see and feel the difference in the atmosphere when tornadoes are possible. The sky turns an odd green color when one is coming. At night u have no way of knowing other that what the weather man says. Night time tornadoes are the most dangerous.

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@@beccabush1252 Thank you for letting me know, just updated them.

@@MaxOlsonChasing Your welcome. Stay safe & Merry Christmas.

That would be called a lightningstorm, basically a thunderstorm but without thunder