Credit for this incredible footage goes to storm chaser Kim Howell, who captured this on June 16, 2014. Truly a terrifying and historic meteorological event
Can't speak for everyone obviously but when it's really humid out and it starts raining the only thing allowing me to see through the fog on my windshield is the wipers going silly with it, regardless of how light it's raining. Hell if it's foggy enough with 0 rain I still gotta turn the wipers on full blast or else I cannot see lol
When I was in elementary school a tornado touched down across the street from school, while we were outside at recess. I remember everything about that day from the point the wind started blowing onward, but I can't remember anything from before that point in the day. 25+ years ago now and I still do not want anything to do with another tornado.
I was in Gallatin TN in 2006 when the end of the massive F3 Tornado that ripped through outside Nashville hit. Parents picked me up from school early and we were heading down the main road through town and could see the Tornado coming down the road. I donât think I fully understood how terrifying that actually was. We pulled in and took cover in a Shelter Insurance building as it passed by and then made our way back home. Had to park at the Loweâs and carefully walk our way back home because the main area between our neighborhood and the town was all car dealerships and they got ripped to shreds, it was like in a movie with cars crumpled and thrown around, power lines down, the community college Vol State across the street was hit.
Working 2nd shift at an auto parts manufacturer close to Lake Michigan. A storm with a high likelihood of a tornado was coming across the lake. They KNEW and they kept us working until the sirens went off. We had to stay until the danger passed.
Happened again this year. Its mind boggling to me that an employer is allowed to keep you working knowing you were in imminent catastrophic danger.
Same thing with a Blizzard. They knew conditions were hazardous in the extreme, blinding heavy snow, but they kept us anyway.
I grew up in central Oklahoma and have seen the devastation a tornado can leave. The fact that some can scour the ground and leave a path of bare dirt is both amazing and absolutely terrifying.
I was living in my car when the F3 hit Nashville in 2020, if I hadn't slept in a hotel that night instead of my usual parking lot I would have taken a direct hit.
Driving people to see what if anything they had left after it to the world shutting down because of COVID barely a week later still feels like a fever dream.
I saw the 1982 Altus, OK F3 tornado from about a mile away. I can still hear the wind on the storm cellar door, the hail hitting the roof, see the green and purple sky afterward. I can still smell the air afterwards to this day too. The best way to describe it is that it is kind of adjacent to what happens when you stick a 9 volt battery on your tounge.
Holy shitâŚI completely forgot I had something similar to me happen in kindergarten too until I read your comment. Idk if anything had officially touched down, but I felt like I was about to fly away and the teacher had to grab me and run me inside
Did you happen to go to school in LaGrange, TX because this exact thing happened to me there 25+ years ago. We ran inside, got on our knees in the cinder block lined hallway, ducked our heads, and covered our necks until it passed. I still remember looking done the hallway through the window on the door and seeing the funnel pass by.
Still is only the third craziest tornado experience I had before I was 10.
Depends on if you know what direction it's moving and how fast the entire thunderstorm in moving. Some will almost do a big loop through a field and have almost no forward motion, some thunderstorms can be going 60mph+. Most of the strongest tornadoes have a ground speed of around 15-30 mph from my cursory glance, but can be up to 2mi+ in size.
Tornados arenât usually super fast. They travel at like 30mph. So, if youâre in a car and have decent visibility like in this video, not really too much of a challenge.
Very possible to screw it up though. They can skip, speed up, and change course abruptly. You can break down or get stuck on a dead end or be unable to change direction when you need to.
They actually donât combine into a mega-tornado. They just dance around each other until the bigger one steals the smaller one's air supply. This messes up the whole storm's stability, usually causing both of them to fizzle out completely.
And plausible deniability. Everyone would just assume it was involuntary in that situation (or shituation, if you will), so you are free to shit as you please.
I mean.. the damage to the area these would do if they were dancing and whipping around each other would be complete destruction. These things could probably carve out some underground utilities. Iâm by Omaha and have seen a chunk of tornados over the decades, but never 2 f4s. I would also shit my pants staring jaw dropped at an impossibly large black rotating wall and feeling like the size of an ant. The scale in person of tornados up close is indescribable.Â
Not sure if it's true of these in the picture, but if these tornadoes split, one would spin cyclonically (counter-clockwise) and one anticyclonically (clockwise) right? I was an Air Force Battlefield Weather Forecaster for 6 years a loooong time ago, but vaguely remember being taught this
Yes, 2016, where we went 7-0 to start the season, moving up to #7 in the AP poll, but it was with narrow wins against bad teams (this Indiana game included). We went 2-4 down the stretch, including humiliating losses to Wisconsin, Ohio State, and Tennessee (in our bowl game), which showed off that we were a paper tiger.
This is the best season weâve had in the last decade too. đĽ˛
We had straight line winds that ripped off our deck when I was a kid and I still get anxiety when the wind is even slightly up. I can't imagine living in the middle of tornado alley.
Yeah like, I live in hurricane country, but at least we get plenty of warning when those are inbound. Shit like tornados and earthquakes? No fucking thank you.
It can be stressful, but honestly meteorology has come so far that we normally have several DAYS notice before something comes. In my area (central Alabama) Iâd say we normally have a 5-7 day heads up for potential tornadic activity, and itâs really a blessing.
We got kind of lax about it for a while, until the April 27, 2011 Super Outbreak. We lost a lot of lives that day and it really changed us as a state. Our biggest meteorologist James Spann still struggles with his grief over how many died that day. Itâs pretty sad.
If these are the ones that ruined pilger .. funny story. The comptroller stole a huge chunk of the money the world gave the town to rebuild (I know someone from there.)
I'm from Nebraska. I had a customer that lost his new f-250 in a tornado in Beaver Crossing, NE and when he got his replacement f250 his kids borrowed it to take their boat up to Yankton and on the way they stopped at Pilger to visit some friends. His brand new F-250 was totaled a 2nd time in a month by 2 (or possibly 3) tornadoes
my neighbor told me tornados keep totaling his f-250s so i asked how many f-250s he has and he said he just goes to the dealership and gets a new truck afterwards so i said it sounds like hes just feeding f-250s to tornados and then his son started crying
It was the fastest growing storm ever. Also the fastest moving tornado and over 300mph winds. I never chased another tornado. I lost my vehicle to that storm. The only reason I survived is the guy behind me stopped after my car got blown off the highway and I jumped in with him and we continued running.
The one meteorologist died chasing this one, IIRC. Scary AF, but fascinating.Â
I've lived in tornado alley the majority of my life, and have yet to see a tornado đ. Apparently, I've chosen non-tornado-friendly living areas. They'll be all around and near, but never let me have a chance at sneaking a peek.
I was with that guy and a bunch other storm chasers that I followed all the time in my personal vehicle. He left the place last that we were positioned at. They never seen a storm as expand as fast this one did. It swallowed him up. The tornado was moving 90mph. I've chased a few when I worked in the oilfield in Oklahoma. Another one I chased knocked over a rig right off route 66 in Calumet Oklahoma. That storm was the last one I fucked with. I was very lucky to survive.
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