I’ve watched your storm chase many times for nostalgia because I love to study storms and now watching the recap, I was yelling at my phone “YES YES GO GO GO!” when you said “that’s it I’m done!” I gasped when I saw that monster was UNDER YOUR NOSE. You wouldn’t have been sitting here today if you continued north.

That’s a seriously intense Tornado. You can see the horizontal vorticies coming off it

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I know this is really late just wanted to talk about the crazy experience I had in bowling green KY at 3 am we were struck by a huge ef3 I was at Western Kentucky university and it was crazy how many deaths were caused by this tornado and it barely missed downtown I’m glad you are ok from the same storms that affected me and the whole state

What was the automated voice that was telling you the warnings and locations during the chase?

Great video .don't know why there wasn't more chasers that night

Wow insane footage, quick question what vehicle do you use to chase with?

i remember watching this live popping in and out, right around the 2 hour mark and was wondering if he had any clue just how close he is to getting "got". Im right outside of Dawson Springs (got absolutely hammered about an hour after this by the same tornado). Its such an eerie surreal feeling watching a chasers livestream a tornado, knowing its coming to your neck of the woods soon, and not knowing that 1 hour later 60% of your hometown will be destroyed along with 13 of your neighbors lives.

This has to be one of the scariest storm chasing videos I've ever seen.

did the sirens go off in mayfield that night

SO EXCITED 😊

Yall went past me when I was filming the tornado lol

I think once he got off the exit you could hear the sirens going off

Fulton lost power that njght same as union city due to a transmission line that was blown down

Great video!! 👍👍

Nathan....going back and watching again....I think at 37:58 this beast show up....maybe????

Tornadoes were tearing up the midwest. This guy: Still got to work the fields. (continues to roll through on his tractor)

Hello Nathan

Before roughly 43:00 of your otherwise superb and historic footage, you sat in the same position behind some type of wide structure that largely masked what was happening under the meso and wall cloud. Was this an oversight or did you intend to do so? I faced a similar quandary south of the 5/4/07 Greensburg, KS, tornado and I still kick myself we didn't move further north, while we had ample time.

good job friend

Coastal NC gets some intense afternoon and evening, once or twice a summer a real boomer 3 or 4 in the morning all multicellular thunderstorms. Lightning and thunder looks and sounds like bombs. Those are like April showers compared to this. That's a Lightning show for sure. Wonder if the star is gonna show? Ha saw it first behind building.

I got to see this, the western edge of this storm this video focuses on, move right over my home in Kearney, and it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I've been really into following storm chasers this year, and had been learning a lot the past two months. Being able to recognize and point out so many things to my mother as we stood on her driveway as it came in was incredible. Clouds were racing every direction. The neon blues. The rapidly shifting direction of wind gusts. The rotation that went right over the top of her house. The tree damage in town... and just the unmatched beauty compared to anything I've seen in my life. I've been in some crazy storms before... 2008 three F1/F2 tornadoes hit Kearney, F2 touching down a block north of my home, taking out an apartment complex. Many cars flipped, and a motorcycle embedded into a car. That was an incredible experience, as I raced into town after watching it come in, just a mass of black... right after I saw a local storm chasers I recognized race into town, I panicked and raced after them to get to shelter right before it hit. I didn't even know an episode of storm chasers had been shot there until this year, with Reed, Tim and others reaching where I had been watching it right after I ran for my life. A few years earlier, I got caught out in a field with five inch hail. That was like bombs being dropped around me. Dirt from the impacts obscuring my vision and getting in my mouth... But both those experiences didn't compare to the storm in this video. I wasn't terrified, just in awe of the absolute majestic beauty in front of me. All these layers of clouds moving in various directions with such perfect visibility. It was incredible. This video almost does it justice, great captures, but nothing can really compare to seeing and feeling it in real life. I wouldn't want to be out in anything more scary than that though, just leave that to the professionals!

Mother nature is freaking awesome and you captured this beautifully! Music was spot on as well!

That was amazing! Thank you!

That was incredible.

wow. just wow.

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That was absolutely breathtaking! I had tears in my eyes watching that and kicking myself for missing what looks to be a very awesome stream. Thank you Nathan for all that you do, for sharing your love of storm chasing. I do have to say, this might rank up there with Structure of the DECADE, because.. OH MY GOODNESS!

1:57:04 the candle factory became the center of attention by this tornado when workers from what I heard were told to stay at the factory when the alarms sounded. Many of em wanted to go home to get to somewhere safe and sturdy, but was threatened by managers that they would be fired if they left. And then when the tornado hit, 8 or 10 coworkers lost their lives as the building collapsed after swaying left and right by the tornado's winds ... First the lightning lit up the sky, and then it got quiet in between where no sounds or chirps of animals and insects making noises, and then the wind gusts picked up and the power flickered and went out as the tornado is hitting the candle factory. And then it tracked directly through the heart of Mayfield afterwards, increasing in intensity and strength between Mayfield and Benton... The candle factory was a shocking and nightmarish sight ... 1:59:18 that lightning strike was unbelievably too close as Nathan exits I-69 on 58 towards 121 ... 2:00:43 the candle factory is about to get hit by the tornado 🌪️ , and then the power goes out at 2:01:53 after Nathan runs the red light near the Shell gas station and the tornado enters the city of Mayfield at 2:02:10 causing EF4 to near EF5 damage then directly towards downtown destroying everything in its path ... And then Nathan turns onto 121 at 2:02:54 to outrun an escape the tornado in time E or NE of its path which is at 1 mile wide ... Nathan and then the police officer a little while later run for their lives escaping as fast as they could away from the tornado that's a mile or less behind them speeding 60 mph right on top of them, while the police officer and Nathan speed 80 to 90 or 100 mph on the back road 🛣️ ... 2:05:10 the tornado enters downtown Mayfield at peak intensity destroying the church, courthouse, theatre, and historic buildings and then at 2:05:55 it exits Mayfield towards the town of Benton and rest was history.. Note: the tornado itself (being the second one after the first dissipated from the same parent supercell thunderstorm ⛈️) travelled on the ground for a whopping nearly 200 miles while this long lived supercell thunderstorm traveled across 4 states in couple more hours from its lifetime to the end ... 2:08:34 I hope that police officer had escaped the tornado to somewhere safer and was okay as he was panicking and running for his life ... You can imagine the fear both Nathan and the police officer had as they were outrunning the tornado 🌪️

I did my chemo treatments in Mayfield I know Mayfield well, Everytime you got further into Mayfield my blood pressure was sky high lol if you'd taken Broadway instead of that left you'd been well in the shit lol

Well good news is I69 is finished now so if you ever have to drive through I69 you'll hit it in union city and take it all the way to Mayfield or lone oak, still has a purchase parkway exit in ky

You can barely see the funnel but you can see the cloud floating that's weird