Storm Chasers Close Call With Furious Tornado Twisters

[@brandisuperstar]

I'm from SLC, UT. There was an F2 that hit downtown in 1999. I remember looking up and seeing the sky spinning minutes before it hit downtown. I was pregnant with my 3rd child and eating lunch outside at work. Ill never forget that day ! 🌪️🌪️

[@BeeWhistler]

Yeah, I recently watched a girl from Utah reacting to Twisters and she said “fortunately Utah doesn’t get tornadoes.” My sweet summer child…

[@stormangelus6638]

LOL Tornado Tim was talking about the trees and I couldn't help but think, "Come try Dixie Alley, Tim. You'll learn better respect for Nature if you do." XD

[@staceylovebeauty724]

Jeff Is a great dude. I love his Joplin video. Great video. Finally one I haven't seenb❤😊❤❤ TO THE STORM CHASERS. YA'LL BE SAFE AND CAREFUL

[@rodneymills5508]

Aint he the best in storm videos

[@BigAndy80sGen]

Legend has it That tornado Tim has actually become a tornado 🌪️ 😅

[@yuanfurbax]

that's how twistex died. they wanted to follow the tornado which went well but what they didn't know/notice is it was also growing which caught them, then their car gave up which made the situation from bad to worse

[@airdefender1]

My man just totally took the air out of the crop circle aliens theory 🤣

[@EVGUY13245]

It's crazy how this was uploaded the same day chicago got hit with a derecho of 11 tornados

[@DivinityzBeAsT]

What i experienced on June 14th of 2024 was the strongest underrated and unwarned storm ive ever been out in or even filmed in NYC throughout my 14 years of filming. I had rotating clouds directly above my head which was later confirmed by the NWS as rotation from a few other videos others filmed and also radar observation and then what came after that was the heaviest rain with lightning and wind I've ever experienced all in one storm cell. I will never forget that storm for as long as I live

[@tonyb33]

Moved from Missouri 17 years ago to Atlanta to get away from the strong storms and occasional tornado. Shortly after moving one hit downtown Atlanta. Was living in College Park so was able to still see the tornado from all the city lights that hadn't gone out...

[@KubotaManDan]

I was with friends driving from PA to Ohio, we could see the circulation in the clouds. My friend was driving to get us to Warren, OH and we were caught in the in flow maybe even the wall of the twister we were yelling at him to slow down and pull over. He did stop and after a few minutes when the winds were calm we proceeded there were wires down and sheet metal, tree limbs you name it; in the road. Really scary when someone else is driving and you have no control. Now you can go on KZbin and experience the chase on a live stream. There were some really spectacular twisters to be seen and the season went well into July.

[@freshmozart]

Tornados are extremely rare in Germany, where I live. One day I looked out of my living room window and I saw one. It was really impressive but also very scary to see house pieces flying in the air. I live in Hamburg and the tornado devastated a very densely populated city district.

[@Richard-p3b]

Glad that you were not injured.

[@MEGAFARTMEOW]

hamburger :D

[@MEGAFARTMEOW]

hamburger :D

[@mattekumba]

Germany gets plenty of tornadoes.

[@barbarawaddell4264]

I'm from Wichita Kansas. Usually I go down to the basement when they call for a watch. Once my brother and I were in the car and 3 small tornadoes were headed straight towards us.

[@Visitor2Earth]

I'm also in Wichita, and I take NO chances with those monsters, either! I remember back in the late 1960's, my Dad RAN to a tornado shelter in the Hilltop area, carrying me on his back....just after our family (literally) dove into the shelter, a tree fell on the door and trapped us in the shelter.

[@Patriot2332]

The day team twistex was killed, Tim and his son Tim Jr lost their lives in this monster. This was a sad day for so many in Oklahoma. 😢

[@thedyingmeme6]

Dont forget thier navigator too! And a different amatuer chaser also lost his life.

[@BeeWhistler]

I thought you meant Tornado Tim! But no, different Tim.

[@umbrellacorp.]

Fun Fact: Tornados are very Windy. 🌪

[@kaymad143]

The El Rino tornado was devastating, Tim and Jay Samaris died in that one as did their spotter, Carl Young. Sad and terrifying day.

[@chuckthetekkie]

The closest I ever got to a "Tornado" was a dust devil that appeared in my elementary school's baseball field during recess. Very cool to see and be so close to essentially a baby tornado. The second closest was a Tornado that formed in the next town over in Lynbrook, NY that took the roof off the sports center down the road form us.

[@Fluffy-Fluffy]

I saw those but with leaves quite often outside where my mom used to live.

[@chuckthetekkie]

@@Fluffy-Fluffy I see the leaves one all the time but the Dust Devil I saw at my school was several yards tall and a few yards wide and made of lots of the baseball field's dirt. It was definitely a sight to see, Everyone outside was staring at it. Too bad camera phones weren't a thing 30 years ago. I've never seen anything like it since.

[@Fluffy-Fluffy]

​@@chuckthetekkieit sounds cool to witness and glad it wasn't anything destructive!

[@GarryFisherProRider]

Over 10 years ago I was under influence of the 2011-2013 storm chasing videos from the US and back then we had quite many tornadoes in Poland too. I've already learned some basics about how storms work and where to find a tornado, if I urgently need one. I (hope I still) have a video from Woodstock festival in Poland (it's much larger than the original Woodstock). There was a severe storm warning issued, but the storm has passed north from us and it wasn't even raining too much. I went with one of my friends to buy some beer and on the way back to our camping site I was recording the storm and explaining to my friend: - Look, this is exactly the part of a storm, where a tornado would happen. There's even a wall cloud-ish thing, so... Oh! A funnel! Look! Right there! A funnel cloud has materialized in the area, where I was pointing my finger at. 😆 It wasn't really a tornado, the cloud base was ridiculously high and I don't know if it was even a supercell, but it happened on the Polish-German border, 100km north and 100-200km east from two European "tornado alleys". It was my own baby-tornado 🥰 PS. A second funnel, of similar size but much closer to the ground, I saw in the middle of the Schiphol airport in Holland (Amsterdam).

[@Broody58]

Good to see other chasers images of the same tornado. All good chasers! Quite a few passengers I've seen really freak out in panic when they're close. Chasers are all " nah..we're good" calm.

[@HellcatMad]

Great video! Thanks

[@soundslike8454]

Tornado Tim is the ultimate of muck around and find out. Boy did he find out too. Amazing that the likes of twisterx (super responsible and experienced researchers) were lost but this guy is still alive and kicking. I do respect his honesty though, hobby chaser to his core and doesn't try to come up with a reason the way I've seem some others do (i'm not talking about the actual researchers here, just the ones who say they are but don't collect data). Tim lucked out here on his positioning, he seems to be in a spot where stuff bounces over the top or starts to collect around his car. If you get a debris pile around you it acts like a really effective shield and helps keep you from getting swept away. Only downside is you might be stuck under it once its past so you'll often need rescue. This i think, is why some people have survived by hunkering in the bathtub with a mattress on top of them (only works if you have a heavy iron bathtub). But the general concept of getting low in an area that is strong as it can be with whatever protection from debris that you can find seems to have saved a fair few lives.

[@garylagstrom3864]

I tell you if I lived in Oklahoma particularly the town of Moore I would definitely a have a storm shelter in the ground probably at least 15-20 feet into the Earth! Especially after what happened on May 3rd 1999 and now May 20th 2013. I live in Knoxville Tennessee and have never witnessed tornadoes 🌪 larger than F3 although F4’s are common west of here about 3 counties over! My heart goes out to Oklahomans but particularly people in Moore especially after what happened on May 3rd 1999!

[@garylagstrom3864]

As Jim Morrison of the world famous Doors would say: IT’S A MONSTER OF ENERGY!!! A MONSTER!!!!

[@joeyeakin4460]

This guy says "van" but gets out of a suv lol

[@AVideoMan83]

I believe the Kirksville, MO tornado that hit in 2009 is the same storm system responsible for causing a fatal tornado to hit the next day in Kirksville, KY. Interesting. I saw the damage from that one firsthand. Sickening feeling in the stomach. And yes, one of the most important things you can do as a storm chaser is first and foremost make absolutely certain you have a path of escape if things go south in a hurry. Unfamiliarity with the local road system is a hidden danger not revealed until the last minute if you're not prepared in advance.

[@SadisticSenpai61]

So he changed from a reckless idiot with a death wish to a proper storm chaser that respects the storms he's chasing. Well, at least he lived to make that change. Many in that situation don't.

[@TeKnoVKNG23]

With all the footage out there, you'd think you could spring to get the actual footage of El Reno instead of just using some random dinky tornado footage to show what was one of the greatest tornadoes ever recorded.

[@latashaharvin618]

I live in New Jersey and when it's lightning and thunder I don't go in the house I sit or stand on my porch and watch sometimes record. When I was little I was scared and always went in the house and held on to my sister. I stopped being scared in my early 30s.

[@sweetwolfsteve5583]

Tornado tim isjt a good storm chaser he puts him and other peoples lifes in danger with his stupid reckless driving you cant touch a tornado you never ever taunt mother nature

[@thedyingmeme6]

I .ean, given that he had been doing stormchasing for 2+ decades tends to mean he's at least decent. Sure, he made bad desicions during the chase, but doesnt everyone make some not-smart desicions at least once in their life?

[@KittyGonzalez-bc8ee]

Nebraska is notorius for bad roads and sudden deed ends and Mud

[@hansmaurer6776]

What's the difference between me and a tornado? --_-_-_-_--- -_-_-_ -_-_- -__- _-_ _- -_ _-_ A tornado can pick up girls

[@corvettesbme]

Omg! Lol

[@pedenmk]

I respect your honesty ;~)

[@nuclearchef-san8304]

Well, it’s kinda like fishing,you gotta use the right bait.. I recommend chocolate,strawberries,and Starbucks; try these first!😉

[@lisawhitear4]

😂😂😂

[@harryparsons2750]

lol

[@anderstauschristensen9184]

46:37 Second Widest??? what is number 1 then when everywhere El reno 2013 is said to be the widest ever?

[@jamesashby9806]

Mulhall OK 1999 3.6 miles not sure why it's not talked about

[@anderstauschristensen9184]

@@jamesashby9806 Mulhall had a damage path with a peak width of around 1 mile, youre talking measurements that are not nearly as accurate as the methods used to measure the El reno tornado though. If we use those kinds of measurements then the El reno tornado had wind speeds of 336 mph which is the highest estimate. Its not confirmed which is why i feel weird about it, there is not enough concrete evidence to back it.

[@thedyingmeme6]

​@@anderstauschristensen9184 El Reno is ONLY an EF3 because it tracked mostly over rural land. If it had hit, say, Oklahoma City (which was probably less than 20 miles to the east) it would be one of the worst tornadoes to ever exist, up there with Joplin, Andover, and the Tri-State Tornado of '25

[@anderstauschristensen9184]

@@thedyingmeme6 I know........................................................ It could also have hit A bit more north and then it would have hit El reno

[@rjones02775]

😮 whoo playing with an unpredictable bullet 😢

[@josephleonard5846]

I'm sorry but this guy just said " if we're lucky we'll see a tornado??? really that's kinda morbid ! I know they're storm chasers but they really shouldn't wish for one. I don't know maybe it's just me. What do you all think???

[@brendaturner9970]

Tornado Tim tricked the Tornado because it thought he was at his dead end !!! 😱

[@mccueam]

I love watching tornados, but I would never way to be caught in one. God bless all who put their lives in dangers way and those who lost their lives to help the scientists warn everyone.

[@KittyGonzalez-bc8ee]

Whats tge diff between eadar and satellute feeds? Is it a big d j fferebce i n predicting where and i when a storm will develop?

[@howdyhannav]

meteorologist here!!!- satellite imaging feeds are composite photos that are displaying atmospheric energy by detecting wavelengths and albedo at night time. Total Doppler radar measures and records values of atmospheric particulate from ground level up to about 65,000 feet. Doppler radars rely on what is called reflectivity to produce imaging. The reflectivity is literally what the name says. It is the way the radar beam emitted from the disc reflects off of the particles above ground and bounce back to the emission point of the radar. TDWR measure real time. satellite is delayed. we can deduce our weather predictions based off of readings of atmospheric conditions that we gather from air parcels, isobars, isotherms, surface observations, jet streams, upper air maps, etc etc. tornados are a phenomenon that we don’t fully understand yet. we can “predict” around ‘when’ & ‘where’ you may get rain, and the expected conditions should X,Y,Z happen. the amount of math that we use in meteorology is insane. weather is entirely CONDITIONAL. 🥲🥲🥲🥲

[@thedyingmeme6]

Bruh can you type english or nah? Anyway, RADAR (i believe it's actually an acronym but i dunno what it means) is the pixellated green-blue-yellow-orange-red-purple-black transition that shows how dense rain or clouds are, while Satellite show s height and excatly how big a storm is. RADAR alao doesnt have the range that satellite has (i dont know the exact range of NWS RADAR but its prolly less that 100 miles), while Satellites take pictures from orbit

[@Disteltje]

Does that man know that England is a part of Europe?

[@dwdanby1]

Depends which UK politician you ask.

[@CharlesWilliams-pl5lq]

Charles I don't know if their has ever been a Tornado in Roswell new Mexico not since I lived there lots has passed over Roswell and hit like in Artesia new Mexico

[@01_HD_DYNA]

Is tornado tim still alive ?

[@CharlesWilliams-pl5lq]

Charles 13:32 we were building underwater cables for the Navy in Roswell new Mexico

[@deyontecoleman2163]

34:50 I already knew that he was talking about the El Reno tornado

[@sassytbc7923]

Exactly HOW does one touch the edge of a tornado?

[@wesltall1]

There's more to tornadoes at ground level than just the debris cloud at the base of the condensation funnel. There is also the wind field that surrounds the funnel and can extend quite a few yards outwards sometimes. The wind field is considered part of the tornado, so if you're within the wind field but still a ways off from the funnel, you could be said to be touching the edge of the tornado.

[@jakz737]

Reed Timmer makes every one of these people look like amateurs

[@kathyroux7386]

How does a tornado chaser follow a massive tornado and not have a compass in his car? Stupid and reckless!

[@CharlesWilliams-pl5lq]

I was at work at a business in Roswell and the sky got dark the Forman said if anyone wants to leave do it now so I left as I was born driving home I noticed the rotation in the clouds going over Roswell the rotation was there but no Tornado came down just went over cause it Roswell is between 2 mountains Sandia mountain in Albuquerque and the mountains in Carlsbad new Mexico Tornado 🌪 does not dip down people say if you ever get caught in a Tornado find a ditch and lay down

[@artofdan1840]

How can you not out run a tornado? The fastest they go tops out ~65mph and you're in a car.. I guess it's the road layout that kind of screws you

[@StormsandSaugeye]

During the El reno tornado, the wind field was such that many storm chasers had their accelerators floored but were only making 45 mph at most because of the winds that kept pushing against them.

[@GamymKoleche]

Movi 3d

[@nicoendlych]

Oh god I hate these reenacted scenes..

[@clyde4296]

You have only one person to thank for letting you guys live that day he is your heavenly father thank him in Jesus name !!!

[@Aussiematee]

Hate these reenactment type ones. Just show us the footage and narrate.

[@ericascali5427]

😢😢😢😢

[@Alchemyst_Prime]

@25:30 You're trapped because you never learned how to read a map without GPS. Stop Chasing.

[@adriel7229]

Who expects a subdivision to provide an escape route?! Not his finest moment.

[@oldmcdonald3376]

these chasers care only about tornadoes. they don't care about ppl getting killed or hurt. they say they do, but they are so dissapointed when a tornado does not form where they think it will. and the residents are glad. plus,they are terror on the roads.

[@EveryDooDarnDiddlyDay]

You think furious tornado twisters are bad, wait until you meet Angry Hurricane Cyclones

[@turidhelenkjnvik5491]

It s easey for us to say to peoepl who lived ther,Moved Away. I m sure,many of them have no plase to moved, or they lived Alone. Many have a isscue or bad Health. And they raised their Kids Alone. And have just themself to trust on.

[@judymeinhardt5006]

I DON'T WANT YOUR ADDS ON MY PHONE!!!

[@thedyingmeme6]

What are you yapping about

[@caribbeanfreddy]

Reenactments are so corny and cringe. He had to fake a phone call with his mom as a reenactment. So cringe. Wish he would just show the raw footage

[@xheralt]

What makes you think there IS raw footage of the phone call? Would YOU selfie a routine _personal_ phone call to YOUR mom and post it on TikTok?

[@thedyingmeme6]

Bro thinks people record private conversations lmaoo

[@raymondsullivan7230]

I told you people there's going to be hundreds of tornadoes and floods and the United States and England RPS 111

[@thedyingmeme6]

??????

[@02records64]

First

[@Kaniization]

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[@SurvivenTerry]

But what did you do with it?

[@harryparsons2750]

Last

[@Soffity]

Where I live we don’t have tornados. We just have severe fires, floods, cyclones and crazy hail storms. I’d love to see one touch down but only if I was safe and sound. 🦘