Why Do Tornadoes Hate America?

[@neverXcatchXme]

I live in tornado alley and when one comes people are outside watching it until the last possible second before taking shelter. It's about the only thing to do around here.

[@kodakohl]

True that

[@lisadooley3872]

I do that too we had a person from Arizona work for our company and the first summer storm we had she’s freaking out

[@Dee-nonamnamrson8718]

@@lisadooley3872 tornadoes are a lot scarier in other places. Most of tornado alley has amazing weather services that let you know where the tornado is, and where it's most likely to go. I was in a tornado in south Texas and the news just said what county it was in. Literally nothing else.

[@lisadooley3872]

nonam namrson yes it’s true but I won’t be one of those idiots who want to video it as it comes toward you

[@saintvictorie]

Nice

[@ThatBoomerDude]

Tornadoes *don't hate* America. Tornadoes *LOVE* America. The problem is that America doesn't like tornadoes. (Also we keep building stuff where the tornadoes hang out. It's not like it's the tornadoes' fault or anything. Poor things.)

[@Bififress0r]

It's pretty much safe to say: Tornadoes were there first.

[@joedufour8188]

There were no tornadoes in America before Obama became President.

[@ThatBoomerDude]

Joe Dufour And the proof of that is that, now there are no tornadoes in Kenya. They obviously followed Obama here.

[@tylermech66]

kenya? but he was born in Hawaii...

[@joedufour8188]

tylermech66 We are making fun of right-wingers.

[@SubcarpatiRO2010]

Tornadoes Love America. they get back every year

[@camiam119]

*come

[@promontorium]

cam clark Get back is fine Nazi. It implies something, that you can't say he's not implying.

[@GarretH]

*person speaking to tornado* Get back to where you once belonged.

[@cain0089]

what does he mean?

[@Moonlitwatersofaqua]

We have an admirer I see.

[@rustyshakleford4949]

Scishow is like a bag of salt and vinegar chips, once you have one chip, you must have another.

[@austin09jj]

cant stop watching.... must go... sleep.... one...more..... vi-... deo........

[@RestingJudge]

No! I can't stand salt and vinegar....pringles pizza chips...now that shit is addictive!

[@polixstar8249]

***** NO sour cream and onion chips

[@RestingJudge]

Wyverngamer Those are acceptable....I just get those...Pringles are too expensive these days.

[@polixstar8249]

***** then buy some lays or go to the dollar store

[@kill4karma]

Tornadoes don't hate us they love us depending on how you look at it

[@sophiahanna5485]

That is true, but someone needs to tell them they're the clingy friend who needs to chill and go bug someone else because I liked my swing set.

[@kill4karma]

Rosie Hanna lol I hate those types of friends

[@TheSlaight]

+Hope Winters I have no friends, only tornadoes :(

[@drpoundsign]

+Rosie Hanna Funny you mention a Swing Set. When I was young, back in the Sixties, some Bullies with sledge hammers came at night and broke a slide in my back yard. I was Indignant(!) My now Late Father thought I was just Jealous. I miss my Sheltie, Too, but WHY did that Crazy Dog who barked at Relatives, Neighbors and the Mailmen always sleep through Vandalism on our property or Burglaries next door??

[@condorboss3339]

Tornados are especially fond of trailer parks.

[@rosestewart0]

A tornado took a shipment of Doritos from the local Walmart and opened all the bags. IT RAINED DORITOS!!!!! 😄😄

[@ZebrasFirst]

+Benton Stewart , Your comment should have hundreds of Likes by now! Come on, people, you're passing up an excellent one here!! Forget the "Sharknado", imagine hundreds of people getting stabbed to death by flying Dorito chips!!

[@gibbyethridge6079]

+ZebrasFirst snack-time shrapnel from above

[@ZebrasFirst]

+Gibby Ethridge , The SYFY Channel should make "Doritornado!" Flying triangles of salty, crunchy death!! (Then they will jump to a scene of a guy getting Dorito chips to the eyes!!)

[@proccessingunit2337]

It's raining doritos from out of the sky doritos no need to ask why just open your mouth and close your eyes it's raining doritos

[@KingofPepsi]

+Gibby Ethridge , Ironically, I just watched a movie called, "Held Up" (2000), and there's a scene where Jamie Foxx's character tries to dodge bullets from the police, and his cheek ends up getting impaled by a Dorito chip!! It made me think of this comment column.

[@asapientmachine]

Tornados don't necessarily hate America, they mostly just have a preference for trailer parks.

[@rllyleel]

That is one of the funniest comments on this video so far

[@asapientmachine]

It was just the first thought that came to mind.

[@jessicabecause3717]

Yes, OKC is nothing but trailers parks and tee-pees. Just everywhere!

[@lisadooley3872]

Nothing better than trailer park trash

[@solvingpolitics3172]

Ash Wolter Tornados love wobble box’s, I mean mobile homes!

[@Huntracony]

i love science. people are like "hey, we've got terrifying things that kill you! help!" and science is like, yeah that's very interesting, good luck with that.

[@jlukes5790]

Hey yeah that does look dangerous....... I wonder how it works..

[@kalebtheevilgamer8536]

Josh Lucas yeah let's go close to it where we can possibly die and study yay

[@Oceanman42]

This is Oklahoma. Yeah, we're aware of where we live.

[@melodyrebelle]

Ryan King From Texas, pain is felt.

[@syntheticfox_real]

Alabama. The pain is shared.

[@scenicdepictionsofchicagolife]

Illinois, commiserating with y'all.

[@xtremegamer2218]

Missouri. Just 36 miles from the 2011 Joplin Tornado, and chillin

[@lisadooley3872]

I am from Arkansas and live in Missouri

[@OrNaurItsKat]

Oklahoman here, I'm happy to say we are currently 3 days tornado free and it's been a week since one hit my house.

[@SirGuifoyle]

Same. The one that hit El Reno last week made for a sad day.

[@valmharbor]

Now I finally understand that stupid song "Oklahoma where the winds come sweeping down the plain" and I still live here. Boo.

[@dawsonmudd9283]

+HongIce That song was used in 'Twister' and that movie was based in Oklahoma XD

[@abelardovillasenor1116]

least they don't live in the same state as a supervolcano

[@user-jr4pz5td2r]

Abelardo Villasenor im on the edge of the 3rd zone for ashfall so

[@purplekush5640]

That would wipe out the Midwest too, you know that right?

[@BrandonClaridge]

Aside from the Raton-Clayton volcanic field in NE NM (which may be extinct now), all of the volcanoes in the US are along (Yellowstone and Valles calderas) or west of (Cascade Volcanic Arc, etc.) the Rockies. You would have to go back millions of years to find volcanoes in eastern North America. Similarly, most major earthquakes in the US also happen along or west of the Rockies, but there are parts of the central and eastern US where earthquakes are a real threat (New Madrid, Wabash Valley, Charleston SC area, etc.). Coincidentally, the New Madrid area also lines up with the region of the US most likely to see tornado fatalities. Natural disasters in the western US, as such, trend towards wildfires and geological phenomena (earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides). On the other hand, natural disasters tend to be weather-related in the central and eastern US (tornadoes, other severe thunderstorms, hurricanes, nor'easters, etc.), but portions can still see some earthquake and landslide activity.

[@Darknimbus3]

Umm yeah they do. Eastern and some of Central Wyoming is in the Plains :P

[@BrandonClaridge]

@@Darknimbus3 True with respect to eastern WY... also eastern NM for those including the Valles Caldera as a supervolcano. That said, eastern WY and NM are high plains, and tend to see tornadoes less frequently than areas further east, although the higher elevation does compensate for lower moisture levels (see bangladeshtornadoes.org/elevated_heating/mix.html for more).

[@arcadegamesify]

I thought the title was "Why Do Tomatoes Hate America?"

[@NumPad]

+Yawning Gull Because they're Red.

[@Bififress0r]

Tomatoes are as red as native americans. You might guess it, they have some unhappy history with eachother.

[@inorite4553]

Because Science!!! OOps....wrong channel. sorry

[@RainbowThistles]

I read Tornadoes as Tomatoes. I was very confused... its time for bed...

[@shadenox8164]

Living in Australia I have to say I'll stick with the dangerous animals over more frequent natural disasters.

[@PrussiasGirl]

idk what scares ke more tornadoes or deadly animals.

[@shadenox8164]

Jory Feinberg We're also geologically stable since we're in the middle of our plate. So we don't get a lot of noticeable earthquakes either.

[@PrussiasGirl]

yea well i have been in earth quakes and i am not scared of thoae but i have an irrational fear of tornados to the point of tears and panick attacks

[@shadenox8164]

Really? I find the idea of the very earth itself violently shaking beneath my feet to be a very scary thought.

[@PrussiasGirl]

meh i was in class when one hit and the teacher just kept on teaching.*California* but everyone has their fears rational or not

[@AlexPuckett]

Also, I must add that radar image was NOT a mesocyclone, it was a low pressure system (likely a surface low or mesolow).

[@paytonpryor]

Me so cyclone

[@808thampire]

The jet-stream also plays a vital part in tornadoes, I'm surprised that wasn't mentioned :/

[@adamlea6339]

Yes, the jet stream creates wind shear which creates vorticity which is then tilted from horizontal to vertical by the updraft.

[@PuzzleQodec]

He did say at 2:48 that the latitude was favorable for tornadogenesis, because wind speeds and directions vary a lot across the troposphere - which implies the jet stream.

[@kindlin]

@@PuzzleQodec Good point, but one of the main sources of a those wind shears has a common name, the jet stream.

[@stevenbrown7042]

Just build a bunch of false trailer parks away from town and boom problem solved. The tornadoes will fall for it guaranteed.

[@elmariachi5472]

In Bangladesh, at the beginning of the summer season we wait a tornado named "Kalbaishakhi". When she comes, she covers the sky with the darkest clouds of the year. You can hear them roar and the lightnings are brighter than day light. She can actually make you realize that the sound of raining sometimes can be louder than the sound of thunder. She is dangerously beautiful !

[@AndyM2571]

I live in Kansas and we always have at least one tornado false alarm a year. Everyone goes outside and takes pictures instead of seeking shelter lol

[@Steven-bg1uj]

At least 1? I have at least 10 in the spring where I live lol

[@poppoku9229]

I think its called a "Watch"

[@lethargogpeterson4083]

I grew up in rural Minnesota. It sometimes seemed like the tornado siren was the go-outside-and-look-at-the-weather siren.

[@malluk7064]

Andy Molina same here many false alarms

[@SpazzyMcGee1337]

Tornadoes hate our freedom.

[@kayhoorn]

They hate us cuz they aint us

[@sammythesnake1986]

What freedom?

[@rejectedenterprise5101]

SpazzyMcGee1337 Most American comment EVER XD LOL

[@pinruihuang8463]

65th like

[@noobjitsu1743]

SpazzyMcGee1337 freedom my ass

[@rennydesu]

Brits complain about rain and clouds. Americans complain about deadly tornados.

[@fefalim13]

well he actually said england has plenty of tornadoes

[@themelonsoup]

We complain about weather always.

[@garrusn7702]

+Darim Alan Fen smaller ones, and not nearly as many. The tornado per area stat is misleading, because American tornadoes mainly occur in tornado alley.

[@inSpihr]

I seen a tornado up here in Michigan once, it was crazy! I don't see how people live in tornado alley, I'm nervous to even drive through there.

[@TrueLimeyhoney]

Tornados are very fickle. Unlike hurricanes, they only destroy a very small area. There is a joke here in tornado alley that a tornado can take away your neighbors house, but leave yours perfectly fine.

[@micahphilson]

Yay for tornado alley! I've heard Nebraska actually has the most twisters per square mile each year, and that Texas has the most of any state, but that's because it has so much land for it to occur.

[@micahphilson]

I may be biased, though, as a Nebraskan.

[@TrueLimeyhoney]

:O another Nebraskan! An interesting note about tornados here, Omaha is dense enough to give basically a cushion against tornados. It creates this heat bubble around it, which disallows the formation of tornados in the city. They can wander in though sometimes.

[@Totalpleasure1972]

You can have the tornadoes we have in Alabama, and how they act, but you probably don't want that kind of bad tornado.

[@chikenbone2]

I live in texas. My older brother was on a cell phone tower doing repairs when a tornado touched down less than a quarter mile away, he said it was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. All rain clouds have a silver lining; i say.

[@toad9724]

_mountains blow on storm_ "I'm.......... *TRIGGGEREDDDDDDDD*"

[@numbah12time]

"This is one of the reasons why I live on the internet instead of land or water."

[@Calico_Crow]

Kansas here. I actually lived about fifteen minutes away from a town that was very literally wiped off the face of the earth. Was so big, Bush even went down to address it. RIP In Peace, Greensburg.

[@evanrgray]

Notice how that line goes right over Moore, Oklahoma, part of the greater OKC area, where I live. They are truly devastating. Also, grammar is important. VVV

[@evanrgray]

The line at 1:12. Sorry, should have specified... lots of lines...

[@Koshunae]

So how come the tornadoes frequent the South East as well? Not as much as tornado alley , obviously, but still a pretty decent amount, to the point where it can be known unofficially as Dixie Alley.

[@3Authoress]

This is generally because tornadoes in Dixie Alley tend to occur during early spring when the atmosphere is more volatile. By the time the height of tornado season strikes Tornado Alley, it's already mid May and the atmosphere is calming down.

[@confettistar]

Tornados are like unwanted house guests. Not only are their visits often sudden and unexpected but they also leave a path of destruction. Like terrible houseguests, tornados love you but have no idea how much you despise them.

[@Sandy_Rosenthal]

The next time anyone from Tornado Alley asks me "Why would you live in New Orleans if another hurricane might come?", I know what my reply will be. Thanks Hank!

[@ezking76]

I've noticed that every major tornado since 2005 has has a headline along the lines of 'Displaced New Orleanian Losses Everything Again to Tornado'. It would be nice to collect all those stories.

[@komali100]

Hurricanes are a bit more wide reaching than tornadoes. New Orleans is also below sea level, which makes it more prone to flooding. I like living in San Antonio, too far from the coast to be majorly effected by hurricanes, but far enough south where I don't experience tornadoes. :)

[@Sandy_Rosenthal]

Half of New Orleans is at or well above sea level according to a joint study Xavier and Tulane Universities. blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/04/study_bust_myth_that_new_orlea.html

[@Roland14d]

What I really want to know is, why do trailer parks act like Tornado Magnets?

[@Horsecrazz]

My personal theory on the matter is that trailer parks tend to be situated on larger, flatter ground, which is easier for tornadoes to form and move on. It's more difficult for tornadoes to form in big cities, and it takes a powerful one to do real damage in a suburb. Trailer parks tend to be in more rural areas. Nothing scientific about this, just how I think it works :D

[@Horsecrazz]

My personal theory on the matter is that trailer parks tend to be situated on larger, flatter ground, which is easier for tornadoes to form and move on. It's more difficult for tornadoes to form in big cities, and it takes a powerful one to do real damage in a suburb. Trailer parks tend to be in more rural areas. Nothing scientific about this, just how I think it works :D

[@rasensugarcane2069]

Here in Louisiana we just got over a small hurricane and I saw a couple small tornadoes. scary as hell to see really.

[@dolecrash5802]

God are you okay? I heard the flooding was awful. Is it all evaporated yet?

[@forcumj]

upon seeing a tornado there are two reactions: The reaction of someone who lives here which is to take pictures and stand around. The reaction of someone who does not live here which is to freak out and panic lol.

[@LidaHaut]

Luckily I live east of the Appalachian mountains!

[@dolecrash5802]

Who's gonna tell Lida about Dixie Alley? NVM, probably knows, it's been 5 years.

[@trashdotcom753]

I actually like tornadoes. Idk man, I think they're exciting despite their devastating nature

[@dawsonmudd9283]

+Ashley Benton Same here

[@VanillahatVII]

I'm in Nebraska. Usually, we don't get too many tornadoes in the state... But this year was insane.

[@gothboy2991]

One thing that amazes me (at least from what I've seen on TV) is how most Americans that are vulnerable to tornadoes and hurricanes have houses made of wood. Here in England, nearly all houses are made of mostly brick and concrete.

[@TheTornadoChaser]

It is a soft e, not a hard e in mesocyclone. You pronounce the MES in meso like you pronounce the MES in messy. You also do not have to have a condensed funnel to have a tornado as you suggest in your video. In addition to this, the RFD or rear flank downdraft is a very critical part of tightening up the circulation under the mesocyclone which becomes the tornado. There is also a secondary tornado alley which may actually produce more tornadoes than the traditional one. It also is in the US and is known as dixie alley and consists of the gulf states. In fact the largest and most violent tornado outbreak in recorded history took place there on April 27th, 2011

[@kalixkatt]

Tornadoes dosn't hate the us, they love it!

[@kingofthegifs]

as a meteorologist I must say that was a pretty good way of dumbing it down... there were a few important bits missing, but overall, not bad....

[@MetallF]

Gee i read "Why Do Tomatoes Hate America?... :/

[@828burke]

I think they actually love us!

[@garethfuller2700]

You did not mention that the central US is also fairly flat, which means that the air is not broken up by mountains or other such things. This, in part, also contributes to the making of tornadoes as well.... Also, the largest tornado ever was 2.6 mi wide and was an EF4-EF-5 (the El Reno tornado, I believe). (reminded me of that when you said the mesocyclone was 2-6 miles in diameter)

[@UnknownChan000]

I thought the title of the video was Why do tomatos hate America

[@Kevin15047]

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. :)

[@Foxxx-01]

lol

[@MarioMonte13]

This summer my town was hit by 2 tornadoes at the same time. Hooray for Western Kentucky

[@acck01]

The same can be said for people who live in areas prone to hurricanes. The difference is that tornadoes are FAR less likely to actually hit peoples homes.

[@SarthorS]

I thought it was caused by the affordable care act. Thanks Obama.

[@discordmod]

LOL

[@ethansmithweiss6170]

he's better than bush, palin, bachmann, and romney combined

[@SarthorS]

I'd say he's pretty mediocre, but that the other people you mention would be harmful if not downright disastrous. Bush is a religious nut. Romney would take even more power from the people and hand it to the corporations. Palin and Bachmann are just morons and opportunists.

[@bachmann436]

SarthorS I am.

[@EckkoVoid]

SarthorS Obama is not perfect, but compared to the ones that Ethan mentioned, Obama is perfect.

[@crusigala]

But why do they hate trailer parks even more?

[@kindlin]

That's similar to asking, why is there a correlation with height and intelligence? Because babies are stooped. I think it makes sense an area ravaged with natural disasters and without massive natural resources is sparsely populated with low density, low wealth communities.

[@crusigala]

@@kindlin the fact midgets exist disproves your point. Bye internet stranger and btw, you should learn what sarcasm is.

[@plannedobsolescence2167]

I saw a video years ago that talked about how tornadoes became more and more prominent as the geography of America was gradually changed through damning, flattening mountains, and rerouting of rivers. Apparently they were nowhere near as prevalent before the layout of the land was changed. I'm going back to do some more research.

[@runawaysparklers622]

I live in Oklahoma, also known as tornado central. HELP ME.

[@blue0035]

Ashley Thomas You need more freedom!

[@runawaysparklers622]

More freedom to do what?

[@blue0035]

'Murica freedom.

[@runawaysparklers622]

What will that do?

[@blue0035]

I don't know. Probably something at least...

[@casinogiant]

Have you ever noticed that if you take a map of tornado ally and overlay on top of the bible belt they match up almost perfectly. Coincidence, I think not.

[@therealr0bert]

This is absofuckingloutley brilliant. Seriously you sir are a genius.

[@casinogiant]

Why does everyone keep saying that?

[@thenoobfactor]

Maybe people are more inclined to worship and fear a god when the sky fucks up thier shit on a regular basis. Sort of like islanders worshipping a volcano.

[@casinogiant]

fear has far more respect than love I guess huh?

[@s4ujcd]

thenoobfactor Virgin sacrifices might appease God in the Bible Belt.

[@Blalack77]

I live in Arkansas and every time it rains or thunders, I get jittery thinking my house is going to be smashed by a falling tree. My house is surrounded by trees and I love them all - the Pecan, Elm, Sycamore, Walnut, and Mulberry trees - but they're all huge and close to the house...

[@sebern2]

Thanks, from Central Kansas! BTW, for those not from here, the loud sirens that alarm in spring and summer storms is not a signal to get to the basement... it indicates that there is limited time to get the popcorn done and get to the porch to watch the storm come in. (Pardon the participle. )

[@deadbutmoving]

If there was a scale between 1 and 10 measuring the danger to health and property, I would rank Tornadoes at about 2. Comparatively, American women would rank at about 7.

[@minefilms1122]

you (and racism) would rank 11.

[@austin09jj]

Aaron Gosselin dont you mean sexisme?

[@minefilms1122]

Austin Murre racist sexism i guess?

[@austin09jj]

Aaron Gosselin rexisme

[@naomibousson]

So thankful that tornados are rare here, its smalleer brother, the whirlwind, is more common. One passed me on the beach once. That was exciting!

[@tsutl84]

I love our lovely Tornado Alley. Those amazing tornadoes kill stupid people every year and remove just a few more of my amazingly stupid neighbors. And some of them can appear quite suddenly too so it's like a jack-in-a-box. Around and around the winds go, will it spawn a tornado or be a dud: the ultimate russian roulette! On a serious note: I love natures fury and hate stupid people.

[@kevinmcd7680]

Tornadoes need the same things that SJWs need, a trigger,

[@l.u.c.a.s.]

You are incredibly funny. Not.

[@bublik11]

You are black not.

[@malluk7064]

Lucas T nope he is funny

[@bildova]

so...how does it feel being wrong lucas ?

[@coldspade1590]

I mean I get it. but that was probably the stupidest joke you could have made

[@TheTuttle99]

this guy is so clearly the best host. he's awesome

[@WinterKing0793]

Why? Because we elected Trump

[@stoner4311]

I like how you say we don't know why tornadoes happen in the beginning and then go on to explain exactly how tornadoes happen.

[@danielr4640]

I live in Salt Lake City, Utah and it’s been 20 years since a tornado has swept through this city. I don’t care to see another tornado again aside from the drought and wildfires

[@lifevest1]

You almost have to wonder what the first settlers thought crossing the plains when they came into contact with an F5.

[@solvingpolitics3172]

Tornadoes love wobble box’s, I mean mobile homes. I.E. tornado play toys!

[@AlwaysWright42]

The picture at 2:45 is NOT a funnel cloud. A funnel cloud is defined as the events you speak of at the time, but a funnel cloud has not touched yet. Once the cone of impending doom has touched the ground, it is officially a tornado. This is similar to how a hurricane isn't considered a hurricane until it reaches a certain wind speed. The picture has a cyclone that has touched the ground, aka a tornado. Credentials: I live in Kansas

[@marshallbs]

There's also something called an "elevated mixed layer" that's critical for the development of strong thunderstorms. It occurs whenever you have a humid tropical airmass downwind of a mountainous region.

[@annaRRNA]

Hearing the correct pronunciation of Appalachian in one of these videos made my day.

[@johnransom9039]

Tornado alley continues into southern Ontario Canada. We get them every summer. August 6 1979 Woodstock ontario Canada got 4 F4 funnels that did a burnout on us. Took down concrete silos even that wreckage was never found. Was really frightening

[@kanewilliams775]

I think it's an honor to us since floods, thunderstorms, ETC. can strike in many places but tornados are pretty much only here

[@ThePi314Man]

There's also the factor that tornado alley is primarily flatland and fields, which further aids the development and sustaining of tornadoes. We're just a perfect mesh of factors for one of the most brutal forces of nature to frequently occur.

[@Limpn00dle84]

Tornadoes are fkn scary man, I have been through one and I must say, the sound they make is something you will NEVER EVER EVER, did I mention EVER Forget! Mark my words, if in fact you see one, TAKE COVER!

[@SiliconBassist]

I live in Florida which has more tornadoes per square mile than any other state. However, rarely exceeding EF2, they are generally much weaker than those found in Tornado Alley.

[@stephenbrand5661]

I was probably at least 20 years old the first time I realized that I'd never heard of tornados occurring anywhere outside of the United States.

[@Ragesauce]

Tell that to anyone who has lost their home to a tornado, even after the first lost home this idea is worth it.

[@emyywolf]

In Orlando FL there are tornado warnings every summer in every storm. Yet, I don’t think the tornadoes here really do much, last, or form at all. A small tornado went right on top of my car really fast and the sky looked dark as night, it was horrifying. It didn’t do anything to me though... my car just shook.

[@troublesome7145]

Just had a tornado here in Oklahoma their were 3 at first then 2 combined then there was 1 tornado left which touched the ground for a few seconds then the other storm pulled in the 1 tornado left and there could have been a mile wide tornado which could have destroyed my home town in a few seconds but I'm glad that storm never landed and became a mile wide tornado lucky the storm went on for miles and never landed

[@AgentWillMoney]

That "sorry" was hilarious

[@johnnyboy5875]

That sorry at the end was hilarious

[@rickd1412]

Actually, most of us living in the plains states are much more worried about straight line winds. These storms can be many miles wide, while most tornadoes are fairly narrow.

[@octapusxft]

At least they are expecting tornadoes there and know what to do in case of one. It gets more complicated when a tornado happens to some place where they are unlikely to happen and people do not know what to do.

[@falcon9983]

Hank i really wanted to applaud you on your pronunciation of the the Appalachian mts. you Pronounced it just like we do. love learning with you

[@AngelSamael]

has a volcanic eruption ever coincided with a hurricane/cyclone and a lighting storm at the same time? because you have no idea how cool that would be, it would be like the 3 main gods of olympus fighting.

[@sisyphus4579]

Imagine the ash and lava being picked up in the tornado and buildings collapsing in the background it'll be like the day after tomorrow

[@3Authoress]

Not that I could find but ash clouds from particularly violent volcanoes can cause lightning to occur.

[@rahmaali8409]

Is it wrong that it is 10:20 and i am watching this!

[@Modern_Genesis]

Tornadoes are just a normal part of life. To us, when a tornado touches down we just say something like, "Honey, grab the kids, those tornadoes are back again." Sometimes it is as common as a weekly appearance in tornado alley.

[@TheCsel]

indiana is peculiar in that its not considered part of tornado alley, and do not get tornadoes as frequently as the plains states, but some of the biggest tornado outbreaks have happened there.

[@Gongasoso]

It's this kind of scientific awareness that is preventing me from writing a fantasy novel... Thank you Brain, for not being able to suspend disbelief because of too much knowledge.

[@Gongasoso]

Yes. Moisture... Blood... Vaporised whales penis infused with anthrax... That's not the point, is it? That's like making a composer come out of writers block by saying: "WELL, IT'S ONLY SOUNDS, RIGHT?"

[@adrianpetkov8354]

Hank is amazing, don’t know how you do it bro but keep doing it!

[@Tony-375]

I literally stood on a destroyed house, with hundreds like it. It rained 30 minutes straight, and a gas leak was near by. It smelt horrible

[@celtgunn9775]

I live in SW South Dakota, we get tornadoes here sometimes. I'd rather see what's coming vs earthquakes. Which you cannot see at all, except the disaster they leave behind. '89 was not fun. Lived in CA during the quake in Oakland.

[@nicevideomancanada]

I live in Calgary in Western Canada and we get some here too from time to time.

[@macsnafu]

I've lived in Oklahoma all my life, and I still haven't seen a live tornado. Sure, there have been tornado warnings in my area, but no tornado has passed by close to me. Yet.

[@pickinvidders]

They don't hate America; they LOVE America because it's such an inviting place for them to form and get grounded.

[@sailthemarigold_7864]

I'm sorry WHAT?! This is coming from someone who grew up in Oklahoma, and I also assumed they were a mainly worldwide thing.

[@AnyMotoUSA]

Tornadoes do not hate us, they want to give us a big swirly hug!

[@notsew008]

Greatings from missouri

[@helloits_morgan]

Here in Oklahoma, tornado watching is just entertainment, unless you're in the direct path of one. In college, I was once heading to the basement of a campus building because of a tornado warning, and I passed by a class of people still taking their final, just completely ignoring the sirens outside.

[@samuely3813]

Anyone saw a tornado in front of you and you just stood there wondering why you are not suck in and the people near there are crying while you say "Cool I wish I recorded that to show I survived a tornado at really did no harm...'

[@KingYoite]

I've always wanted to be a storm chaser/tornado chaser. Terrifying, but *awesome*.

[@ihuth]

To set it straight for everyone, Australia gets cyclones, tornadoes and willy-willies but they are all different things. Cyclones (hurricane, typhoon) are intense low pressure systems which develop over tropical water and then move over land. Tornadoes are described in this video but come from extreme storms. Willy-willies (dust devil, fire devil (even scarier)) are caused by wind shear creating a spinning column of air which picks up anything it can like dust and leaves.