Car flies in Rolling Fork, MS Tornado

[@calamitytor]

It’s known that the car was unoccupied because this occurred as the tornado was entering rolling fork, the only vehicle related fatality occurred at the end of town, and we know that person was traveling South on 61

[@evanm6739]

What kind of car was it for it to be thrown like that? As a pilot you can get wheels up with 150kn of airspeed but just barely so this wind has to be like 200kn sustained around the whole fucking thing.

[@TheDudeNamedBob]

i dont know if thats even a car

[@thedouglaspodcast]

@@TheDudeNamedBobit’s a car.. I watched a chaser’s video and replayed that part like 30x. You can see brake lights 😭 so idk if I’m all the way convinced of this pinned comment.. 24 people passed. How do we know their family has just kept it super private with how viral the rolling fork disaster was?

[@NCP-Cool]

@@evanm6739Sorry I am late but here, I am not very good with changing speeds to different measurements so it would be somewhere between 166-200mph I’m not sure if it was at that exact moment but close enough to those speeds

[@NCP-Cool]

Just researched and from what I can find it reached speeds of 195mph

[@Mr_dominodude]

Holy crap the scary thing is to you see it turning and rolling mid air

[@k1ng5urfer]

I don't know that you can say that. The video is highly unstabilized due to being handshot out the window with high zoom. I'd really love to see a stabilized version of it so you could actually tell for sure. I'd guess given the size and distances involved it would be near impossible to discern it flipping over/tumbling midair and most if not all abberant motion is from the camera shake. Same for everyone claiming to see multiple seperate headlights when they watch it in slo-mo or go frame by frame but it's tough to say without access to the original footage.

[@BrightLamar]

There are atleast 3 of them, there was the one which is the main flying around the vortex, the 2nd one in the ground and the thrif one in the very right

[@SadieMeadors]

Looks like the second one was the third starting around the ground was flung around

[@clintonreisig]

There is a video somewhere on KZbin of a pickup truck with headlights on making a 1 1/2 orbit at about 100 feet around a huge wedge tornado

[@echo-channel77]

I'm not sure it's a car. Headlights are pretty directional, yet it's rotating around always keeping the headlights pointing towards our view. I don't see that as being likely, but perhaps it's an omni-directional light source, like a leaking butane tank on fire. Second, it's not the same object that vanishes in the first part. It's only 2 seconds to fly around the back, but then 9 seconds around the front, if anything it would be the opposite as it is accelerating on the back side. What a mystery!

[@Ir0nP8ri0t]

Then you should see the photos

[@calamitytor]

Video cuts, it took a lot longer for it to fly around the back, but even then, I’m not sure it was a car. However, there were a few vehicles found in town that were located on top of structures in strange locations, and just before it entered town, the search teams found absolutely mangled vehicles just Northeast of Pinkins Road, Southwest of Rolling Fork

[@thelemonlimeninja2144]

There’s a specific video of the 2013 el Reno tornado where you can faintly see a car getting spun around the main funnel. As you pointed out, in that case it was like a lighthouse cause you would see the light beams come in and out as it rotated. Considering how large the tornado was and how far away the video is, it’s actually sickening how fast it was being rotated as well as propelled

[@aldorfc220]

Watch it live from Scotland and night time has to be the worse time to experience that monster. Rip and God bless ❤

[@Allenmarshall]

You watched this from Scotland? Cool.

[@PowersFamily2011]

We can see the headlights but no talilights? Why would an unoccupied car have the headlights on? This is definitely unconfirmed.

[@NCP-Cool]

I’m pretty sure there is other videos where you can see the tail lights I saw someone else in the comments talking about, don’t quote me on that though

[@joanmanelramirezjavega5688]

If I was trapped by a nearby tornado while driving a car, I didn't care about turning off the lights or the engine. I would ran looking for shelter... But I agree that it coud be something else too. PS: I'm sorry for my poor English writing, too.

[@k1ng5urfer]

Yeah when you are booking it to shelter before a ef4+ wedge eats you for a light snack i dont think you're gonna take the time to shutoff the vehicle or lights. As far as headlights vs tailights the tailights are several orders of magnitude dimmer and remember this is in a rain/vapour/dust/debris wrapped wedge. Any lights you see are obscured by that haze. Not surprising at all then that the headlights would be visible but not tailights particularly as what you are seing wouldn't be the headlights themselves but actually the light glowing through and reflecting off the haze. You'll also note that people who watch the video on slo-mo or frame by frame state they can see the two seperate headlights or that they can see the vehicle flipping and moving erratically. They are incorrect these effects are cause by camera shake and video compression. This also provides your answer for why the lights don't appear to dissapear as the vehicle presumably is pointing away from us at numerous times in the footage while spinning and yet the light remains visible none the less. If you were seeing the true headlights rather than the glow through the tornado then it should apear and dissapear as the vehicle rotates around its axis relative to the camera.

[@packerman7410]

It was unoccupied

[@Allenmarshall]

​@@NCP-Coolincorrect

[@MichaelBryce1125]

to make matters worse, the rain was making the tornado A LOT more difficult to see.

[@MJTacay]

That’s scary 😳 Thought it was a drone for a sec

[@Emg2463]

...if there was no one in the car....why were the lights on ?

[@swiphouse]

some car alarms cause the lights to go on, and in a case where debris is smashing into it the chances of the alarm going off are pretty high

[@ACE_1923]

From what I’ve seen it’s confirmed the car was empty the lights were ether on due to the car alarm or the engine was on but the owner ditched the car this right here is why a car is the worst place to be in a tornado it picks you up lifts you and drops you 1000s of feet you will die no debate needed

[@Mirfan-wt4sp]

Car alarm.. you for real never see a car alarm went off by itself because of small collision hell even smal bump by some stupid kids?

[@LITTLE1994]

Because the person driving it abandoned the vehicle for his or her own sake of life.

[@diontaedaughtry974]

Great video 👍👍

[@awesomegaming8617]

There was actually two, maybe three, look to the right. 0:03 Now look under. 0:07

[@TornadoChickWeatherNetwork]

pretty sure that wasn't a car. Believe this was already debunked as an optical thing from the filming camera lens. If i am recalling the story correctly...i mean, this was a thing when it happened so it was seriously checked out.

[@Ponderthis79]

OMFG!!!!

[@cotysalisbury861]

Right out of the movie into the storm wow.

[@knowledgehunter8234]

"WHOA CHECK OUT THIS TINY CAR!" "shoot i broke it, oh well"

[@markmiller489]

No way a car flies around in a tornado like that. Absolutely no way, second the light wouldn’t stay on. The battery would be ripped from it.

[@ProjectMorten]

It has been documented a few times before, even with big trucks

[@Mirfan-wt4sp]

Bro are you serious right now?.. i dunno if you are dumb or just ignorant... Car flies by tornado with power of ef4-5 is extremely a possible hell it has so many evidence even for big vehicle like trucks... I lived in tropical country where tornado or twister rarely occurred but last year near the end of the year.. a place near my home was struck by unusual strong twister its almost called as ef0-1 tornado by our weather analyst ... The twister here although a rare occurrence unlike in tornado valley in the US... Usually only did destroy some poorly built roof... Now the recent huge twister almost hovering a box car(freight car) and rolling some regular cars... Also the one that usually ripped cars body arent the winds. But the debris it brought.. moving at high speed making some tornadoes as a nature blender. You know cars isnt something that put together with glues and hope. That why some evidence that cars are mangled are most likely cause from thrown impact by the tornadoes.. the evidence where it got ripped are most from the other debris it collided

[@Dak1624]

It's actually a case. It happened.

[@TheDee87]

There were 2 cars imao

[@huntermossakajunkerman9646]

How is that funny?

[@ethannnn1227]

@@huntermossakajunkerman9646 (In My Actual Opinion)

[@huntermossakajunkerman9646]

@Phoenix1_07 I mistook an i for a lowercase L. I shall now crawl back under my moss covered rock in embarrassment.

[@ethannnn1227]

@@huntermossakajunkerman9646 Your good, i could see how you mistaked it for an L.

[@AngelWhisper_7]

​@@huntermossakajunkerman9646🤣☺️

[@andersb6014]

No one knows what it was.. 🤷‍♂️ it could be a car..

[@Rex_WX]

dosent look like a car what headlights would be that strong

[@NormanWeather]

It was confirmed as a car.

[@weltvonoben]

​@@NormanWeatherfrom who?

[@Bone89]

​@NormanWeather it's never been confirmed what it was. And probably never will.

[@buschm1]

@@Bone89bro ? A tornado of that size hands down can do that to a car

[@Bone89]

@buschm1 watch some experts that have analyzed it. No one has come to a conclusion. I'm not saying it's not. I'm saying it wasn't confirmed. Of course tornados can lift cars, semi's. There's never been confirmation of vehicles reaching that high of elevation.

[@ryanranard5187]

I don’t think it’s been proven it’s been anything. Only speculation.

[@GM_FoirCipher]

“THAT TORNADO’S CARRYING A CAR” -Sonic

[@carlitosdinkler5213]

Lmfao

[@iiDOCKERY]

Not confirmed that this was ever a car

[@Ron1nAirsoft]

It’s for sure a car. most likely people inside

[@Dak1624]

Or they run to hide somewhere and left lights on or it took the car and the alarm went off. In some cars when alarm starts it causes lights to turn on.

[@CesarPedraza-wv4lt]

I can’t see the car lifting