TORNADO DEATH TRAPS

a supercell was cruising northeast at 30 miles per hour after an hour of trailing the storm I finally caught up to it and as if waiting for me dropped a glorious tornado what the tornado does next I would have never thought was possible that suckers coil this video is about deviant tornadoes unpredictable traps and the barrage of deadly hazards awaiting storm chasers No after tailing the parents supercell northeast for an hour it was surprising to see its tornado tracking the opposite direction though deviating from its projected path it was moving slow enough for me to have some confidence to allow it to approach close enough to practically eat out of my hand at this range you really see the detail in the suction vortices the smaller evil tornadoes inside the tornado it is right there Oh this close the condensation funnel looks like an angel of death a twisted waterfall writhing and reversed back into the heavens a flutter in the wind field swayed the tornado into a graceful sort of ghost ballet Oh after a pirouette the tornado glided back over its previous steps I always wonder if the owners of the house had any idea their home narrowly dodged destruction twice witnessing an apparition like this is truly otherworldly but this spectacle comes at the ultimate risk tornadoes can be deceptive and unpredictable they intensify grow morph and deviate any direction and at this range there's almost no time to react adjust and escape when the unexpected occurs I've witnessed tornadoes turned hard right bank left do you turn suddenly accelerate and go in reverse besides evading erratic twists stormchasers have to anticipate unforeseeable escape route in traffic maps may give you confidence that a maintained road will carry you to safety but they fail to inform when a stalled 100 coach train is blocking your retreat awesome or when the bridge is out road is blocked maps don't show fallen trees flooded roads or the random deep potholes anxious to tear your wheel off its axle out here County roads often change from a sturdy gravel base to slippery slimy mud impossible to drive on even for four by fours and often the maps are just flat-out wrong you see a tornado there's an excellent chance large hail is in the vicinity so ask yourself if you're prepared to tackle X factors with this going on that just came inside of my car and broke my windshield here when Hill cracks your window tiny shards of glass can Fleck into your face and dies which is why safety glasses on standby is imperative how fast can you escape on a road covered with icy golf balls or a road buried in six to 12 inches of hail slug any thunderstorm out there could discharge a lightning bolt with your heads name on it at any time and storm chasers all agree the most dangerous aspect of chasing are the many many many many miles of commuting large gatherings of chasers tend to accumulate under isolated thunderstorm events and more often than not everyone chases in relative harmony experienced chasers can move fast together in tight caravans and they pull completely off the road when pausing to film others not so much whenever a high risk of tornadoes is forecast near a populated area suddenly every Tom Dick and Harry with a camera phone in that County becomes a storm chaser and drives into their siren blaring streets to catch their glimpse of the madness in these situations hordes of local sightseers and amateur chasers can clog the roads often smashing into each other in metropolitan areas rush-hour traffic times coincide with prime tornado time that and a media induced Exodus can create an epic log jam of sitting ducks for these reasons many chasers avoid heavily populated areas altogether adjacent areas beautiful axis there's also plenty of furry friends out there that don't want to get sucked up either in La mule deer and others that are completely oblivious this is what a car looks like after hitting a mule deer' don't ask how the knife got bloody look at that really Oklahoma Oh God look at that ran now there are several other features feeding into and out of a supercell that are capable of blowing out your windows or roll in your vehicles a surging rear flank downdraft rapping powerful wind and rain around a developing tornado dangerous downbursts straight-line winds and thin rivers of concentrated powerful wind called in flow Jets blasting into a feeding tornado the perfect tornado is a well-lit visible tube descending from a high base the low precipitation storm mode allows you to marvel these tornadoes from miles away but this is a rare experience even for the most dedicated chasers the more common experience is a rain wrapped mess these obscured tornadoes are difficult to see from a distance and thus can lure aggressive chasers in closer into an extremely dangerous trap the boundaries of these tornadoes are less defined and almost invisible in the heavy rain many chaser vehicles have been rolled while driving right into these outer boundary tornado force winds tornado writes to us to this right behind right behind me Oh the definition of a tornado has been argued as a violently rotating column of air extending from a cumulonimbus cloud to the ground even though some non cumulonimbus clouds can produce land spouts tornadoes but a key word here is air and air is usually invisible this can make defining the boundary of the tornado visually confusing and making it closer than you calculated Becca come on cargo this condensation funnel has a sharp visible boundary but there is still violence around the funnel thus the actual tornado is wider than what is visible in this case dust and debris is being lifted revealing the actual boundary but this happened in dry conditions when present dust was easily lifted so you can imagine in more wet conditions when dust is absent or more reluctant to become airborne there is often no dust cloud to reveal that boundary in this tornado in this tornado there is no signature long condensation funnel to give away its presence only a dust cloud and check out this tornado no condensation funnel or dust cloud only a white whirling mist on the ground directly under a swirling base vaguely announced its existence you can see clear air completely under this mesocyclone and if you look closely here you'll notice a brief suction vortices touchdown with likely ef3 force winds but ef-1 force when damage was recorded well beyond the suction vortices out to the edge of the mesocyclone and beyond here is the more likely tornado force wind boundary this is the birth of the tornado that killed four storm chasers and nearly a dozen others the infamous el reno 2013 tornado it was this clear air deception underneath as well as direction changing unfathomable growth and sudden increasing speed that made this tornado the most deadly ever - storm chasers yet we've all seen the horror of what a powerful tornado is capable of doing these are the stories replayed over and over by the media and a common common I see on this channel is why would anyone ever live in Oklahoma I hope nobody was in this house here are some quarter century statistics those people might find surprising in the last 25 years Kansas has had only 57 tornado related fatalities that's just above 2 per year Texas has had only 93 Mississippi 112 Arkansas 121 Oklahoma 131 Tennessee has had 175 Missouri 243 and Alabama leads this stat with 380 almost triple that of Oklahoma but it only takes one worst-case scenario to tip the scales toward another state on average about 60 people are killed by tornadoes in the USA per year now stack that number against people that are killed in your town by homicide or drugs or heart disease you may think it's crazy living in an area prone to monster tornadoes but a true monster is clever enough not to be scary it hides in plain sight preying on our ignorance it doesn't roar before it devours us rather waits for us to openly invite it into our lives which leads me to another serious hazard of storm chasing for storm chasers have died in action here in the USA and one in every four people will die of heart disease here there it is that's a giant tornado and it might be coming right this way go go go go go go go go go

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Length: 11min 40sec (700 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 10 2016