Meteorologist Rates 7 Extreme Weather Scenes In Movies and TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

Storm chaser Cyrena Arnold looks at seven hurricane and tornado scenes from popular TV shows and movies and rates them based on realism.
She looks at storm scenes in "Geostorm" (2017), "Twister" (1996), "Into the Storm" (2014), "The Day After Tomorrow" (2004), "Sharknado" (2013), "Night of the Twisters" (1996), and "X-Men" (2000).
Can anyone survive in the center of a tornado? Should you take shelter in a basement when a storm hits? Are fire tornadoes a thing? Could "Sharknado" actually happen?
Arnold is a meteorologist and has worked at Mount Washington Observatory and NASA. She hosts talks for STEM careers, and is the author of "The Weather Story: With Frances Fox."
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Meteorologist Rates 7 Extreme Weather Scenes In Movies and TV | How Real Is It?

[@andyfriederichsen]

Fun Fact: Sharks often leave areas before severe weather. Sharks can feel the changes in air pressure and will flee to deeper waters to wait out the storm.

[@sdg7502]

Into the storm tornado

[@polreamonn]

@@sdg7502 Where they become Sharknado.

[@zancchi]

@@polreamonn the best tv films ever created

[@Nick-bk7es]

4:31 For those who do not know, she is referring to the El Reno Tornado In May, 31st, 2013, it killed 4 Storm Chasers 1 of which being Veteran Chaser Tim Samaras, he was killed in his vehicle as the tornado suddenly switched directions coming straight for Tim Samaras

[@KingGhidorah777]

The TWISTEX Team, i remember them on storm chasers, was so sad to hear about their passing

[@motsumilioness]

It was 3 accredited storm chasers. Tim Samaras, Paul Samaras and Carl Young. Paul and Carl were ejected, Tim remained in the car as it was tossed by one of the sub vortices. The tornado did not suddenly switch directions, watch the track of El Reno. There is no single deviation where TWISTEX was. El Reno in no way shape or form stalked people. Tornadoes don't do that. The fourth was Richard Henderson who was in no way accredited. You didn't even see the storm chasing community rally in his memory with his initials like they did for Tim, Carl and Paul. He was going after the tornado, then the last image on his phone was of Richard standing in front of the tornado. Needless to say, he was no longer Richard after the photo was taken. He was killed not long afterwards.

[@Bififress0r]

@@motsumilioness Their miscalculating error actually rooted within their position in relation to the tornado due to the optical illusion of spinning objects. Moving along with you, the spin twirling from your front, it will still look like coming closer, twirling from your back, it will look like moving away. ..... or like moving with you eventhough actually getting closer --- combined with its size and the impaired sight due to rain and dust.

[@wadewilson8011]

It's not that it ”changed direction.” It was 2.6 miles wide and rain-wrapped. The main condensation funnel didn't change directions at the moment the Twistex team was hit. Tim, Carl, and Paul were hit by a rogue sub-vortices. El Reno was a massive multi-vortex tornado. Many of the sub-vortices had their own windspeeds of an access of 180 mph. You can look up the path of the El Reno tornado and see that it followed a natural path of west to east/northeastward direction. They basically misjudged their location and tried to outrun it. Dan Henderson (an amateur storm chaser) was roughly ¾ a mile in front of them on the same road, and he survived by barely escaping the tornado.

[@JC-hq7iu]

@@wadewilson8011those sub vortices were the literal devil

[@alaric_]

Living in a metric country, we have had a "divide by three" rule for measuring the distance between the lighting and you. When you see the flash, count seconds and stop when you hear the strike. Divide those seconds by three and you get rough approximation of the distance. For example you see the flash and count to 15 before the strike and it was roughly 5 km from you. As sound travels 344m/s and kilometer is 1000 meters the result is close enough. Close enough because there are always variables like how fast you count the seconds, overlapping lightnings, echoes, etc. but it should give a decent approximation and something to do while enjoying the show :)

[@jamesrosewell9081]

That's interesting, in the US we have the same rule but we don't divide by 3.

[@jsngallery]

in US, one second = one mile away. much easier. you guys should think about switching to SAE. 😁

[@trololoev]

@@jsngallery in USA sound has different speed? because it should be 5 seconds. Also why you didn't count in football fields? And instead of seconds - Mississippints - "time you need to say word "Missisipi"

[@Ganiscol]

@@jsngallery heh, thats nonsense. The average ground speed of sound is nowhere near 1 mile per second

[@petersmythe6462]

@@jsngallery "1 second = 1 mile" Sounds don't go a mile per second though so the translation of this is "In America we have no idea how fast anything is because we use an asinine system of measurement so we just make a wild guess and hope we don't get hit by lightning." In the US you should divide seconds from a sound by 5 to get miles from the source. Sound moves about 1100 feet per second and a mile is 5280 feet.

[@juandenz2008]

She's knowledgeable and pleasant to listen to, I hope they get her to react to more weather scenes.

[@petersmythe6462]

Sharks have another issue with tornadoes. They are streamlined. Even a tornado that can suck up a breaching shark probably can't carry it for long because the shark will probably reorient its nose upwind because of it's large aerodynamic surfaces near the rear. This means sharks are inherently streamlined and likely to end up in a very high speed dive through the tornado when they do fall.

[@wxcyrena]

Someone please tell me the terminal velocity of a falling shark

[@Ch3fdadda]

What about a Sharknado? Are they streamlined or just awesomely cool

[@danone2414]

still.... acording to her insight the tornado would have to be PRETTY strong wind and the shark swiming on the surface nar the shore. which is unlikely bc every fish in the ocean when there is trouble on the suface the swim down... however a tsunami could potentially bring them near the surface.

[@kcfate7285]

the antiquate analysis of this reasoning is interceptions of the logic that biology is concept which surpasses the causality of the compass of subject flaws the softmax of the retrospective hyperplane which exists in a 5d setting therefore hes not in the radiant of mass to be intepreted as such being as a living W requires both hyper parameter and the gradient descent so u need to install the classifications of these transcendent concepts of a hypermass so u would understand the true quantum space of the retrospective So how would theat change the hyothetical polydimensional truth of the sharks density fro seismic tornadoes along quantum fields

[@dontgivupsquishy9754]

Sharknado 😮

[@Librariansaysook]

She sounds exactly how I imagine a weather person would sound

[@wxcyrena]

Thank... you...? 🤣

[@SveaArrowsSweden]

dumb thing to say

[@mtnman8783]

Strangely enough she is!

[@tommyt1971]

She’s all about the science, yo! Yeah, Ms Arnold!! Yeah SCIENCE!!

[@Joze1090]

My friend, have you ever watched the news? :p

[@jsngallery]

youtube recommended these and i can't stop watching. have you done one on emergency landings? they're always over the top.

[@whateveranyhow]

Living by the Black sea, I've seen small tornadoes and usually there were several of them at the same time. Once we've counted up to 7 of them in the sea, but there was quite some distance between them. And in that area they are mostly harmless - shortly after they get to the ground, they disappear. And it was a spectacular view, by the way, with a heavy rain and the sky turning almost black and the lightnings revealing them.

[@petersmythe6462]

The problem with the really violent cold front isn't that air can't do that, it's that everything else can't do that. There's no way to have a gaseous mixture of nitrogen and oxygen at around 1 atmosphere suck that much heat out of large solid or liquid objects instantly. The fastest an object could cool would be if the air were just above its boiling point, but even then, that's only gonna cool you about 12x faster than room temperature air. Not only won't it instantly freeze you, but if you are wearing a good coat or exercising a lot, you might not even go hypothermic, although I would be a bit concerned about frostbite to exposed extremities and inhaling supercold air.

[@danreyn]

Completely agree. I use liquid nitrogen frequently and you can't snap freeze an object that fast even by completely submerging it and sloshing it about in LN2. It takes a few seconds at least. And you know it has to be warmer air than that because the air is, well, air. If it was that cold, the CO2, oxygen, and nitrogen wouldn't be gas anymore. also, there would be a massive thunderstorm leading that cold front. The warm air isn't simply turned cold, it is pushed up by the cold air. This makes the moisture condense and rain down. Those people wouldn't be on the beach because there should be the most violent thunderstorm they've ever seen.

[@Croz89]

That and with a temperature gradient that large there would be extreme winds trying to equalise the air pressure (because warm air is less dense than cold air), to the point that the friction generated would probably heat up the air so much it would probably consume the cold front.

[@subman721]

10:03 The premise of Geostorm was that the weather was not natural. It was artificially made by a malfunctioning weather control system that had been built in space around the earth.

[@samuelking3626]

Not realistic, but a great film nonetheless.

[@grayden4138]

I dont care what anyone says, the night tornado during 'The Shining" drive-in scene in 'Twister' is absolutely terrifying. The way it tears the screen away right when Nicholson sticks his face in the door after hacking into it with the axe and the horror on Shelley Duvall's face is just :chef's kiss:

[@derickthomasjuan1118]

The Storm Chaser referenced the 2013 El Reno f5 Tornado, which killed well-known storm chaser Tim Samaras, his son Paul, and research partner Carl Young, who were directly affected by the said huge tornado and unpredictable path. May these storm chasers rest in peace.

[@Gooberville101]

It was EF3, not 5

[@XBrightFutureX]

@@Gooberville101 Technically it was an EF5 if you look at it's wind speed and power, but because it touched down in a rural era it wasn't able to do much damage (which is used for the measurement of a tornado).

[@K1BY457]

@@XBrightFutureXits based on damage

[@goldgamercommenting2990]

@@Gooberville101the weird thing that el Reno was downgraded And now it’s often confused with the 2011 el Reno which was an EF5

[@HikerHansen]

They could've picked the absolutely ridiculous scenes from Twister that would been awesome for her to tear apart!

[@wxcyrena]

I was seriously hoping for it!

[@ninjabiatch101]

I mean they did do Sharknado... for some reason.

[@humansrants1694]

Yes like strapping your self to plumbing and take a direct hit from an F5.

[@koya326]

I’ve never watched twister, so I don’t know which scenes you are talking about, but they did another one of these, where the guy does talk about twister

[@danreyn]

I liked that they showed the scene where it came through the drive-in. The only time I can recall a tornado going through my home town, it hit right while the drive-in theater was showing that exact movie. Went right through the screen. It was only an EF1, so the screen wasn't demolished, but there was a giant gap right in the center of it. The people watching Twister must have thought the special effects were amazing

[@icarusbinns3156]

2017, my sister was driving west across Nebraska. She said that there was this weird pressure and smell around her, the sky was a weird shade of green. And she saw a massive funnel. It didn’t look to be moving. She got off the interstate, to the nearest clump of buildings. She was crazy lucky, to be flagged down by a middle-aged woman, who got her down into their storm cellar. When asked why she was out driving on a Tornado Day, sis just shrugged and said, “I’m from Denver. We really don’t get tornados in my area. We had an F2 tear through Lakewood a few years ago. It took a long time to clean up the mess. We know fire, not tornados.” Which is accurate! My own first tornado was a night tornado. In Minnesota. Got the alarm on my phone, grabbed my dinner, grabbed the cat, and down into the cellar. I’m a mountain kid!

[@voidling2632]

Living in West Europe, never saw a tornado or hurricane, it's so captivating to watch them.

[@andyfriederichsen]

I live in Minnesota and have never seen a single tornado in-person, but hearing tornado sirens in summer never stops being scary.

[@filanfyretracker]

Midwestern USA is pretty unique in that it gets the conditions to reliably produce them.

[@Croz89]

Some parts of the UK get small tornadoes fairly often. These are never above about EF2 (though the UK uses the Torro scale which like with hurricanes is based on wind speed) but they can cause damage and injuries, roofs have been ripped off. One hit only a few miles from my house earlier this year.

[@mavfin8720]

@@filanfyretracker I live 75-ish miles from Joplin, and I saw the huge wall cloud pass south of my house about 90 minutes after that tornado wrecked the town. Then I visited a few days later with some volunteers helping start the cleanup, and saw the destruction.

[@anna-hc6dz]

Same!

[@C.R.W]

Twister showed that a tornado can be strong enough to pick up a full fuel tanker, rip a home to pieces and throw cows around, but it can't tear a white tank top off of Helen Hunt.

[@aralornwolf3140]

That's because... um... they would have been killed by the debris... before their clothes are torn off... The writers/director wanted a "happy" ending...

[@C.R.W]

It also can't help that guy get a joke ^

[@Rust-e3q]

Imagine what dusty would say...

[@mrsnrub282]

It was a bit unfair for Geostorm to be there, because that's a science fiction film and all those weather events were man-made

[@theMMAdhatter]

Just because something is man-made doesn't mean it doesn't have to adhere to the laws of physics.

[@bugpybear]

they had X-Men on there. Geostorm can still be based on natural events, caused by a machine, but X-Men does not make sense being on this!

[@joseescobedo7899]

​@@theMMAdhatteryeah but we're the hella are we gonna have a natural disaster where everything freezes immediately like the one scene on Puerto Rico

[@italatin18]

All I learned from this was..... stay away from Oklahoma.

[@Tis_I_SirJames]

I live in Oklahoma. What we lack in white sandy beaches, we made up for in tornadoes, dust, and meth heads.

[@Kenderland]

@@Tis_I_SirJames the comment I was searching for. 🤣

[@Anon26535]

When they say the wind comes sweepin' down the plain they ain't kidding.

[@DaJuGGalos918]

aye I live in tulsa it ain't all that bad🤣🤣

[@gowthamprithvi245]

"It's gotta be a one cuz I don't know anyone who has got the power of weather", that is quite the remark of an expert.

[@stormchaser-domaintor]

if you guys dont know this car 11:23 The Titus was a 12,000 pound armored Storm Chasing vehicle that was constructed from a Dodge Pickup chassis. It was in construction for a year for the 2010 season before movie Into The Storm. Pete was given an idea by Steve for the 2010 storm chasing season. Pete decide to start working after 2009 season. Before the start of the season as he get it out on the road from beginning of 2010 storm outbreak in Oklahoma. After Pete Perfect building it his goal for 2010 season is to shoot a film for KZbin, The Titus is equipped with 4 Anchoring Spikes that go down and allow it to stay in one spot when tornadoes pass near or over it, it uses a turret with a cinema camera to allow the crew to capture videos of tornadoes coming at the team at any direction, The interior for the turret is allowed to be viewed from outside. and the status of it when it drop Destroyed also its windsthres hold 170 MPH

[@Kuskus62]

I think the editor forgot to set the volume back to 100%, its getting so quiet at 2:23.

[@khianjoshabesamis9608]

“Please don’t take safety in your cars, please” *Not one second after* “While we’re out chasing storms, we’re in our cars” P.S. Yes I heard what she said fully

[@aralornwolf3140]

As tornadoes can go in excess of 80 miles per hour... you need a car to keep up with the chase, lol.

[@rockero1313]

they aren't taking "safety in their cars", they are using the cars to follow the storm

[@khianjoshabesamis9608]

@@rockero1313 Basically the exact opposite of “taking safety”

[@GabrielusPrime]

@@khianjoshabesamis9608 Well, I imagine it's RELATIVELY safe if you keep a safe distance and know what direction it's going so you don't just blunder into it... I've heard there are amateur storm chasers that do it as a extreme hobby...

[@katykat978]

@@khianjoshabesamis9608 a meteorologist and seasoned tornado watcher is smart enough to keep space and understand how the tornado is going to move, making the car useful and safer for moving with it. Not everyday people who would just sit in their car while the tornado passes them.

[@ShadowMachine00]

There's been a few " fire cyclones" where a industrial building caught fire and there were cross winds. It was pretty skinny of a fire "tornado" and lasted like a few minutes i think. Was more visually scary but its not some fat moving self sustaining fire tornado

[@jessiszk4676]

It was crazy when we had a tornado in Port Orchard, WA. It dissipated a block away from where i live. It made national news a few years ago. Haha

[@petrfedor1851]

Last year tornado unexpectatly hppened in South Moravia, Czechia. It went throw 7 villages and destroyed multiple houses.

[@cjallday1130plays]

About the twister clip. In 1991, there was a waterspout in Lake Okeechobee, Florida and it was captured with a lightning bolt next to the tornado, while rare, it does happen

[@misterrbl5156]

The weekend that Twister came out a tornado hit a drive in movie theater in Canada of all places.

[@humansrants1694]

@@misterrbl5156 What film were they watching.

[@misterrbl5156]

@@humansrants1694 if not mistaken it was ironically the movie Twister. I'm not hundred percent sure but that's what I heard.

[@edgeninja]

Twister is an awesomely-underrated movie. I first saw it on VHS when I was 13. After that, I think I watched it at least once every Sunmer for a while. I was such a huge fan of the movie, I actually spent extra money to buy the Region 2 version of the blu-ray cause I read it had a better transfer. The special effects somehow still hold up amazingly 25 years later.

[@akidfani11111]

IMO it was a pretty bad film. The plot was pretty lame and predictable. Not to mention the end ***SPOILER*** where they survive a F5 torando by being tied with a leather belt to a pipe on the ground….

[@BlenderStudy]

Thank you for the update, Cyrena and Insider..!! The Day After Tomorrow seems to have the scariest tornadoes. @.@

[@DanSpotYT]

Lived in the midwest for decades and no live sightings, just minor damage miles away. Moved to the mid southeastern area and one night under a tornado watch my ears popped. Grabbed the dog and ran downstairs. Confirmed tornado touched down about 3km away. Crazy stuff.

[@rajeshr6440]

Awesome Cyrena

[@KainedbutAble123]

Who remembers Twister the Ride at Universal?

[@isaiahbaggett5014]

So glad I got to go through it before they got rid of it :/

[@chrismeetswest]

The weathercaster voice is strong in this one.

[@aWatchmakers]

Loved her review of X-Men! 😄

[@JinxXKurt]

Me too!

[@hunterasbury6529]

I mean most of the danger ain’t from you actually getting hit by the tornado itself in your car. A lot of the danger is from flying debris like fence posts, hay bales, and chunks of buildings. Hay bales might not seem that deadly, but a large round bale can flip over a car and would have no trouble crushing you to a painful death. Not to mention hail, fence posts, chunks of buildings, falling telephone poles, and even other cars.

[@marisoto9873]

This is so true. I was in the first grade when the Henryville tornado hit(Southern Indiana). I was fortunately not in that school I went to another school a couple minutes away. I have a friend who was in that who even got this day still remembers that horrific day. I heard that most dangers come from the flying debris and getting thrown around by the tornado from high distance. We had a woman and her family survive being inside a tornado and being thrown a long distance.

[@petersmythe6462]

Yup. Tornados are wind, not bombs. That means they are good at picking up debris from the surroundings and throwing it through your house.

[@firechasersparkles2023]

@@marisoto9873 Whoa. That woman and her family are extremely lucky to have survived something like that.

[@hemaka482]

She' really knowledgeable!

[@wxcyrena]

Thank you!

[@TheMoises1213]

Loved her yes!! Bring her back!😆

[@MrDan1713]

I remember when we had to open the school windows, before taking cover, during tornado drills when the pressure differential theory was popular.

[@CoryG1981]

I could sit there all day and listen to talk about storms

[@hexamael9458]

They seriously used an X-men movie for this lmao

[@martinqizeaq]

And Sharknado🤦‍♂️. I can sense the cringe on her to see that clip.

[@wxcyrena]

@@martinqizeaq oh no, was it that obvious?

[@martinqizeaq]

@@wxcyrena oh yes. Yes it was.

[@quanpham5239]

And where is 13 Minutes??. The movie shows realistic tornado and the storm structure, which is not mentioned in other tornado movies. In my opinion, 13 Minutes would be 10/10 for accuracy.

[@wxcyrena]

@@quanpham5239 we recorded this before 13 Minutes was released, but I did see it. Very accurate.

[@reneehomen2226]

Meteorology is fascinating to me.

[@humansrants1694]

See the tornado simulator.

[@reneehomen2226]

@@humansrants1694 ??

[@joesikkspac7904]

Tornadoes in Wisconsin frequently spin off on the leading edges of the storms. Not big ones, but enough to rip siding and rooves off.

[@animehuntress9018]

I'd say the only thing she missed was that Firenadoes/fir whirls/firestorms, can and are made from fire. They aren't always dust devils but can also be their own unique weather made by the fire creating its own winds.

[@Metalalbumreviewers]

Me, a guy that moved to Tornado Alley from the Cascade Mountains as a kid: So we’re talking tornadoes in movies on a realistic scale. Tornado “Expert”: “Tornadoes are common in SoCal. There’s been 48 of them since the last century and a quarter”. Me: “Oh. Sweet summer child…You have no idea.”

[@V3ntilator]

The reason why they are making so much unrealistic scenes in movies, is because realism often would look dull in a disaster movie for example. They are making the movies unrealistic on purpose to sell more tickets. Without popcorn scenes, movies like this is harder to sell.

[@HistorysRaven]

I was in Huber Heights, Ohio during the Memorial Day Outbreak and saw the EF4 that went through the area around 10:30 that night. I was in my car, living out of it at the time, and saw it due to the lightning.

[@jennglow4647]

Very cool😲

[@762x69]

I'm only here for the Sharknado rating 😅

[@DUBEE43]

I've seen fire tornadoes in forest fires!!

[@dandomine]

8:00 The only video that I know of of multiple true tornadoes is the Pilger, Nebraska twins. A truly magnificent sight but they weren't nearly as close to each other as that.

[@DIAC1987]

I liked her, more Cyrena Arnold content please.

[@salam-peace5519]

There actually was a case in Australia where a dead bull shark was found on land after a storm. Although it is unknown if it was actually taken there by the storm or just by the flood, this was called a "real life sharknado" by some news pages.

[@Jackkenway]

Seriously, you show her a clip from X-Men and want her opinion on how real it is! Of course it's not gonna be realistic. I love X-Men btw, I just think they could have picked a different movie for her, one who depicts real weather conditions.

[@phoebs69]

My point exactly. What they showed is from a mutant named Storm, it's not real, because it's a movie made about comic book characters.

[@Jackkenway]

@@phoebs69 Yeah! I mean everyone knows that it's not realistic because it's a superhero movie, so we won't learn anything new from her, whereas when you ask an expert's opinion about a weather disaster movie, we learn a lot from the breakdown of that movie. 😊

[@wxcyrena]

I looked at it as an opportunity to teach others about lighting 🤷

[@theMMAdhatter]

A lot of the other guests have done a good job of analysing films based on in-world laws. Kind of a disappointment here, but it is what it is.

[@ron4202]

@@wxcyrena They should have used movies that depicted actual weather disasters instead of super hero stuff

[@rae-raetheturtledemon.]

They should show her the Wizard of Oz tornado scene.

[@smiegto]

"tornadoes can rather pick and choose", im definitly gonna dream about intelligent tornadoes tonight

[@John_Smith_86]

My hometown has an attraction at the science centre where they have a fire whirl. Pretty cool. They feed fuel into a structure built to draw in air from beneath, that self-powers a fire vortex.

[@ShampootheSpider2019]

4:46 the shining move playing during tornado

[@MrJohnisthename]

I was watching Twister and eating Twizzlers while playing Twister the day of the twister.

[@joshcowart2446]

The funniest was the night of the twisters. The house is shaking yet he says he needs to get the weather channel. At that point do you really need the weather channel to tell you there’s tornadoes

[@nannerpie6184]

"I dont know anyone who's got the power of weather" That killed me

[@thelisanalgaib9702]

I was wondering if she'd comment on the scene in Day After Tomorrow regarding the air coming down from the upper troposphere and freezing everything. My FSU climatology professor used that scene as an "impossibility" to hone in on his lesson. the air molecules will warm up by the very physics involved with the change in elevation, the speed of the descending air would make no difference. Also at FSU Meteorology classes at that time (2006), using Al Gore's name in any way other than derisive was an instant F.

[@1-2-bap78]

Great to see a comment from another Floridian 🎊 FIU alumnus here 🙋🏻‍♂️

[@cziegle3794]

Yay top 54 and top 9 likes and comments. Love these videos.

[@motsumilioness]

Correction about 4:41. Richard Henderson was a local yokel who wanted to get a selfie with the El Reno tornado. In no way, shape, or form was he knowledgeable about any tornado, let alone a 2.6 mile wide monster. The last image on his phone was of him STANDING IN FRONT of the tornado! I'm pretty sure you know that you DO NOT DO THAT! He was killed not long after that image. He was not in his truck, he was outside. So please change that to three knowledgeable people were killed and one idiot. Tim, Carl and Paul were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The tornado itself did NOT change directions, they were struck by one of the sub vortices. Tim remained in his car, Paul and Carl were ejected. If you look at the track of the El Reno tornado, you can see it did not shift directions. It did not stalk Tim, his son and best friend.

[@devon_morgan]

I was here for Night of the Twisters 🌪

[@xstraightedgechrisx]

I remember watching that first movie in my Climatology class and my professor said there's no way two tornadoes can conjoin together.

[@danone2414]

9:48 me on genshin impact. freezing hillichurls with the MC anemo after pulling barbara and Ayaka.... Only in videogames

[@ashokdevalla3750]

Where is that scene with a cow ?? I was waiting for it!!

[@JGFogarty228]

This was a fun lesson!

[@jacobvardy]

We had fire tornadoes here in NSW in the 2019 bushfires. I think technically they were what the Dr called fire whirlies but they were big twisting tongues of fire going up to the sky. So everyone called them tornadoes.

[@primetime_mitch]

Into The Storm is a lot of fun

[@surajpatil8040]

I Came here after watching Cyrena's Wired video

[@tylerrose3633]

Fun fact: The strongest fire whirl in recent history happened during the Carr Fire back in 2019. It was 1,000 feet wide at the base, and had EF3 equivalent winds.

[@Mublica929]

Twister! I wanted to be a storm chaser so bad as a kid. Not so much now. Tornadoes look scary AF.

[@bebepopsr]

I really like these, I always learn something

[@02ujtb00626]

In the last movie they were going up the stairs to save the main characters baby brother. THEN they went in the basement to a more or less isolated room, covered the window's, covered themselves, and took shelter. I woould say that's pretty realistic.

[@user-pw8zd7ns3p]

I'd like to see her do a playthrough of Trail of the Twister and find out how accurate/not accurate the information in the game is.

[@magtasia]

Very fun video

[@arunimas517]

Y'all should bring an exorcist to rate exorcism scenes.

[@banganne602]

can't understand why this has much lower views than the others natural disaster movies' break down :')

[@Reelunique]

What have we learned? Hollywood tornadoes keep getting more fake looking. The original Twister movie is where it’s at.

[@Harlequiin333]

The way i feel like i watchin the news rn 😭

[@noahharley1001]

A storm movie that included realistic scenarios could actually be more intense and scary/thrilling than all of the “Hollywoodified” films

[@airborne1459]

3:12 Yeah I live in that town that that happened obviously I wasn’t alive then but my dad tells me that story all the time about the fish getting picked up and thrown into the town of marksville spring bayou was the place the tornado was that picked up all those fish and landed in marksville my dads dad was there at the time and even picked a fish up as well😂

[@firechasersparkles2023]

I love weather a lot and I love tornadoes, but the tornadoes at night are the ones that scare me the most. I call them Nightnadoes. But what makes them so terrifying and deadly in general is that there's no form of light except the flashes of lightning or power flashes to show you where the tornado actually is, the hail and rain just coming down like crazy is enough to drown out the sound of the tornado so you can't hear it coming. Basically, when it comes to Nightnadoes, if you're stuck on the road in the middle of nowhere or something like that and there's a Nightnado in the area, you're toast.

[@Prizzlesticks]

I thought she said Vegeta scale instead of Fujita scale and was very taken aback. But now I think if we ever get a tornado above an F5, we must upgrade the scale and call it the Vegeta scale. 11:45 Also, in 2015 in my city, we had a major windstorm with gusts up to 71 mph, killed 2 people and left hundreds of thousands with no power for weeks. I weighed 105 lbs at the time, maybe a little less. And while I do remember being blown about a bit, I was able to walk through the wind when it was about 60 mph without being blown off my feet. It was difficult, but I weighed nowhere near 120 lbs, so... I dunno about that one. Maybe if it had been consistent, sustained wind and not long and short gusts that eventually lowered down for a few seconds.

[@PINTofCARLING]

I think she might be referring to somebody just standing. As you said, you were blown about a bit when walking through the wind. If you had just stopped moving and stood still, I reckon it would have been quite difficult to stay in one spot even though it would not have taken you straight to Oz.

[@aturboford1]

This tornados over 9000…

[@sirsasthnigam3918]

Night of the Twisters" (1996) & Twister" (1996)-most real

[@marcus3567]

Twister is one of the best natural disaster movies ever. I am worried about the reboot of the movie because you can't recreate the magic of the cast like with Bill Paxton, Phillip Seymour Hoffman (RIP to both) and Helen Hunt. But I am always good for a movie that includes tornadoes so I am going to give it a chance. I am also interested in 13 Minutes and Supercell so we'll see how they both fare.

[@haleyanne86]

Wait...there's going to be a reboot of Twister?? Why?

[@edgeninja]

@@haleyanne86 Cause money.

[@haleyanne86]

@@edgeninja ugh...😠

[@jbreezy101]

Bill was hinting at it a year or so before he died. I haven't heard anything. Most recent movie I would like to see is 13 minutes

[@wxcyrena]

Saw 13 Minutes. They build the characters for the first half and the weather part, while short, is accurate! Would have gotten a 9/10 for me.

[@ashwoods2334]

Wait, not every town has a tornado siren? That's news to me!

[@humansrants1694]

None in the Uk or most US towns.

[@celticlass8573]

I'd be interested to hear her impressions of the dragon twist from The Great Japan Earthquake of 1923. Obviously it wasn't a tornado in the sense that it wasn't created by a thunderstorm, but I'd love to learn the differences between something that massive, and a tornado of equal strength, especially since the results of both are devastating.

[@keatonterry]

7:25 *Pilger, NE has entered the chat*

[@Metonymy1979]

She ain't no joke

[@UltimateGamer027]

10:20 in this scene of Into the Storm he actually was lifted up after the had made it through the eye of the tornado not near the tornado. One of the things one of the main characters said when they were in the eye of the tornado was that the trailing winds would be stronger. Can someone please tell me if this is true?

[@SupermarketSweep777]

This is true. At least in the northern hemisphere. The angular velocity favors the right side of tornadoes and hurricanes because of their rotation in the northern hemisphere creates stronger winds. Now tornados carry a lot more factors that can make the strength and damage pretty negligible compared to the other sides, but this is more prevalent with hurricanes. The upper right quadrant of a hurricane creates much stronger winds, higher wavs and storm surges.

[@UltimateGamer027]

@@SupermarketSweep777 Ty

[@mr.goldfarmer4883]

Fire Tornados are pretty real..

[@WestExplainsBest]

Insider doesn't seem to think teachers are experts - they have NEVER had a teaching expert breakdown cinema. I made an OC video to breakdown the realism in teaching scenes to show the profession some love.

[@davidcox6454]

Don’t get in your car….three seconds later we usually go out in our cars

[@MF99K]

I'm pretty sure I have actually seen a fire tornado on the news on several occasions

[@TheArtObsessed]

Out of all the disaster movies available to choose, they put in X-Men lol

[@Kroomist]

That massive tornado that change directions and grew in size that took the lives of 4 storm chasers was the El Reno tornado correct?

[@jordanferrazza8700]

11:53 What's the ratio in killograms?

[@Ylyrra]

2.2 pounds to a kilo, so just don't do the halving... ie it's a 1:1 ratio.

[@fanndisgoldbraid3183]

Geostorm was pretty silly, but the entire premise what that the orbital systems were being used to manipulate global weather, so none of the normal rules applied. Into The Storm, the guy getting lifted up into the center of the tornado doesn't live to tell about it, but he does get one helluva view for a moment.

[@SpencersStuffTV]

RIP to Tim Samaras and his crew. I remember seeing the news that they were all killed and I couldn't believe it. I remember watching Sean Casey and Reed Timmer both trying to drive into tornados

[@hiderrsupbrah23]

By 6/10 I think you mean the Day after Tomorrow is a 100% scientifically accurate portrayal of real life weather with no exceptions

[@andyfriederichsen]

I really hope you are joking.

[@hiderrsupbrah23]

@@andyfriederichsen what are you talking about you've never been in a city with 3 tornadoes forming one giant mega tornado

[@thedailyembarassment]

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