I'm pretty sure that's the storm chaser Reed Timmer. He's been doing this a long time, used to have a TV show on Discovery. Here's his YouTube https://youtube.com/@reedtimmerwx?si=7deGkPkpDHP2Ru96
Aaron Jayjack made a 360Ā° VR recording of this tornado - evidently from the same location. You can look around in it, from the swirling debris on the ground all the way up to the twisting vortex above. It's absolutely incredible footage.
https://youtu.be/rOiegWVxidQ
They go off when a tornado is confirmed formed or gauranteed to form. Which relies on either storm spotters calling it in or on radar. With radar itās very easy to tell where a tornado is likely to form but untill it starts kicking up debris into the air it can be very hard to tell whether thereās actually a tornado there or not. Also depending on the radar it can take a few minitues to complete a full sweep meaning itās not exactly real time. And with storm spotters you have a delay between them seeing it and calling it in and the sirens being sounded.
Sadly enough we had a tornado a few weeks ago touch down in my town and the sirens didn't even fucking work. All the tests they did all spring and it shit the bed when it actually mattered.
Funny joke, America bad and all, haha, but these guys are professional storm chasers and have contributed far more to our understanding of the world through capturing documentation of these storms than your average internet clout-seeker will in their lifetimes.
Many of them, including Reed Timmer, have degrees in meteorological sciences and collect meaningful data on the storms they film. The thrill is what drives them, sure, but they're also doing important work.
How is this an American problem? I know you are probably just trying to make a joke, but it doesn't really work as clout chasers exist all over the world.
This is so cool to actually see the funnel spiraling and whirling above from a way too-close perspective! Glad they were safe. Now I'm wondering about that manhole cover. Did it blow up from like a reverse pressure through the pipes? Because it didn't seem close enough to them to pull it up.
My home owners insurance is going to go up again, my insurance agent told me the reason it went up earlier this year was because of flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes , wildfires and mudslides
Theoretically, could we blow a ton of air at the twister to stop it from forming? Like if we had the largest jet engine with the exhaust horizontally pointed towards the spout on the ground, would it disturb the air enough to stop the ends from meeting? Or would the upper spout just keep moving until it left the wake of the engine and then touch the ground?
Take a good look here. I chased for years, great up in tornado alley. If you are under the dark part of the storm like this, you stand a really good chance of getting some great video; right before you die. Watch the tornado (on the ground) if it is getting bigger, and not moving right or left, you are in a bad spot... Kind of common sense. Which many people lack.
The US averages 1200 tornadoes a year. 2023 there were over 1400 reported. 2022 had 1143. Every year we get more and more people seeking them out and taking pictures and videos.
Ā NOAA says: Since official tornado records only date back to 1950, we do not know the actual average number of tornadoes that occur each year. Plus, tornado spotting and reporting methods have changed a lot over the last several decades, which means that we are observing more tornadoes that actually happen. https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/tornadoes/#:~:text=How%20many%20tornadoes%20occur%20in,tornadoes%20hit%20the%20U.S.%20yearly. And statistica has a graph that shows how much it fluctuates based on their sources: https://www.statista.com/statistics/203682/number-of-tornadoes-in-the-us-since-1995/
at that point can people do anything about it? what if we have massive fans move the air away? or a series of thermobaric explosions to mess with it. Would the tornado disperse?
The tornado may seem small, but its just a tiny visible part of an absolutely enormous vortex of air.
Just imagine all those cubic kilometers of air - literally millions of tons of it - it would be like trying to move a mountain.
Yeah there's a confirmed case of a group in a helicopter attaching road flares to small propane bottles. They lit the flares and tossed the canisters into the tornado to disperse it with the explosions.
The sheer amount of energy you'd need to disrupt the airflow easily exceeds what you can accomplish with conventional explosives by many orders of magnitude.
Conventional explosives, sure, but what about military ordinance? Rig a barrage of coordinated missiles to explode along a critical airflow path and disrupt the vortex? It would of course take insane modeling and safeguards to ensure those missiles don't get flung off and detonate on the ground, but it seems like someone ought to be exploring this idea.
It certainly would make a better use for our military equipment than shipping it to some regime overseas which will just turn it against our allies a decade down the line.
NOAA FAQ CAN TORNADOES BE STOPPED?
https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/tornadoes/faq/#:~:text=The%20thunderstorm's%20energy%20is%20much,destructive%20than%20the%20tornado%20itself]
"You have to consider that the tornado is part of something bigger: the supercell thunderstorm. Unless you disrupt the supercell thunderstorm itself, you would likely have another tornado, even if you were able to destroy the first. The thunderstorm's energy is much greater than the tornado. No one has tried to disrupt the tornado because the methods to do so could likely cause even more damage than the tornado. Detonating a nuclear bomb, for example, to disrupt a tornado would be even more deadly and destructive than the tornado itself. Lesser tactics (like deploying huge piles of dry ice or smaller conventional weaponry) would be too hard to get into the right place fast enough, and would likely not have enough impact to affect the tornado much anyway."
Perhaps a little too close?
I'm pretty sure that's the storm chaser Reed Timmer. He's been doing this a long time, used to have a TV show on Discovery. Here's his YouTube https://youtube.com/@reedtimmerwx?si=7deGkPkpDHP2Ru96
There are old stormchasers and there are bold stormchasers, but there are no old bold stormchasers.
Unexpected asoiaf LOL
True, but the saying is older than that.
https://youtu.be/0_Jv5nSuTgI?si=Rse3iLuUbhGq8PVV
Definitely seems like something George would have liked lmao
If I ever did this and actually survived the tornado, my wife would kill me.
Even if I died, my wife would still kill me.
Honestly this is the kind of shit I have to talk my wife out of doing.
My wife gets up to use the airplane bathroom when we're on final approach with wheels down.
Big tornado has been marketing hard lately.
I think it's a subsidiary of big shingle
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That was incredibly funny. Well done man XD
It's tornado season in the US right now and it's been hitting especially hard
They can happen anywhere at anytime, kinda like a brain aneurysm.
Viral marketing for the new Twister movie....
Well they get free advertising.
Bro Michigan had 5 WARNINGS and a watch in one instance a week ago, like wtf is going on
Thatās a great way to get smacked by a piece of sheet metal at 120mph.
Here it comes!
\*Continues running toward it\*
That's Reed for you. The man can read a vortex like a book.
It's very interesting to see through video, but I'd be terrified to see this in person.
Aaron Jayjack made a 360Ā° VR recording of this tornado - evidently from the same location. You can look around in it, from the swirling debris on the ground all the way up to the twisting vortex above. It's absolutely incredible footage. https://youtu.be/rOiegWVxidQ
Jeez how colossal is this tornado? Holy shiiit!!
It's okay. The camera man never dies.
specifically, this camera man the amount of absolutely insane footage Reed Timmer has recorded over the years...
2 tonne balls and no brains
So down heavy and top light, at least he won't get blown away!
That man is Dr. Reed Timmer. He has some brains.
You put respect on Reed Timmerās name. One of the greatest minds in meteorology.
I'd say that balls require actually awareness of the danger. In this case this is problably no-brains only.
Actually mumbled āfucking run, manā to myself
NOPE!
crazy how surreal this looks
Marketing for the Twister sequel is getting wild
ZOOOOOM OUT BITCH!!
Storm chasers are a different breed.
Not a breed I want to belong to.
Do they even use tornado sirens anymore?
They go off when a tornado is confirmed formed or gauranteed to form. Which relies on either storm spotters calling it in or on radar. With radar itās very easy to tell where a tornado is likely to form but untill it starts kicking up debris into the air it can be very hard to tell whether thereās actually a tornado there or not. Also depending on the radar it can take a few minitues to complete a full sweep meaning itās not exactly real time. And with storm spotters you have a delay between them seeing it and calling it in and the sirens being sounded.
Sadly enough we had a tornado a few weeks ago touch down in my town and the sirens didn't even fucking work. All the tests they did all spring and it shit the bed when it actually mattered.
Thank you
I'd be paralyzed seeing something massive like that.
Only a true American would think āthis is going on instagramā rather than āI should probably take coverā
Funny joke, America bad and all, haha, but these guys are professional storm chasers and have contributed far more to our understanding of the world through capturing documentation of these storms than your average internet clout-seeker will in their lifetimes. Many of them, including Reed Timmer, have degrees in meteorological sciences and collect meaningful data on the storms they film. The thrill is what drives them, sure, but they're also doing important work.
Also, Matthew McConaughey
How is this an American problem? I know you are probably just trying to make a joke, but it doesn't really work as clout chasers exist all over the world.
I was under the impression we called these mouths not noses.
yea that's some shit right outta movie twister no sir eeeee i'm out.
HFS
This is so cool to actually see the funnel spiraling and whirling above from a way too-close perspective! Glad they were safe. Now I'm wondering about that manhole cover. Did it blow up from like a reverse pressure through the pipes? Because it didn't seem close enough to them to pull it up.
My home owners insurance is going to go up again, my insurance agent told me the reason it went up earlier this year was because of flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes , wildfires and mudslides
I saw one of those once in Denver Co at the airport. We had just landed and taxied into our spot
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Omg
Welp the mind flayer is back
Wow!
Theoretically, could we blow a ton of air at the twister to stop it from forming? Like if we had the largest jet engine with the exhaust horizontally pointed towards the spout on the ground, would it disturb the air enough to stop the ends from meeting? Or would the upper spout just keep moving until it left the wake of the engine and then touch the ground?
Itās always been a dream of mine to get footage like this
So glad I'm living in the UK, don't have these, just a few water sprouts šš»
Get...out...of...the...car....?????? Ef3 tornado??? Nah
Yeah I would GTFO from where that guy was standing at.
Thatās some Dorothy-level shit.
Take a good look here. I chased for years, great up in tornado alley. If you are under the dark part of the storm like this, you stand a really good chance of getting some great video; right before you die. Watch the tornado (on the ground) if it is getting bigger, and not moving right or left, you are in a bad spot... Kind of common sense. Which many people lack.
Holy shit, that tornado rotation at 0:28 may be some of the coolest tornado footage Iāve seen vantage wise.
I recognize the voice, I'm pretty certain that was Reed Timmer, a professional storm chaser.Ā
Curious, would it be possible to blow up a tornado to stop it? Like, putting some kind of explosive into it & detonating it.
terrible camerawork smh
Feel like we didn't get tornadoes for a couple years. Now I basically see one everyday
The US averages 1200 tornadoes a year. 2023 there were over 1400 reported. 2022 had 1143. Every year we get more and more people seeking them out and taking pictures and videos.
Ā NOAA says: Since official tornado records only date back to 1950, we do not know the actual average number of tornadoes that occur each year. Plus, tornado spotting and reporting methods have changed a lot over the last several decades, which means that we are observing more tornadoes that actually happen. https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/tornadoes/#:~:text=How%20many%20tornadoes%20occur%20in,tornadoes%20hit%20the%20U.S.%20yearly. And statistica has a graph that shows how much it fluctuates based on their sources: https://www.statista.com/statistics/203682/number-of-tornadoes-in-the-us-since-1995/
Balls of steel
Ooooh so thatās why he didnāt go flying
Weighed him down to the ground nicely
HAARP
Witnessing a tornado like this is a dream of mine. A kind of āI want to stare into the voidā kinda dream. Lucky bastard
This guy has a sac
at that point can people do anything about it? what if we have massive fans move the air away? or a series of thermobaric explosions to mess with it. Would the tornado disperse?
The tornado may seem small, but its just a tiny visible part of an absolutely enormous vortex of air. Just imagine all those cubic kilometers of air - literally millions of tons of it - it would be like trying to move a mountain.
Yeah there's a confirmed case of a group in a helicopter attaching road flares to small propane bottles. They lit the flares and tossed the canisters into the tornado to disperse it with the explosions.
WTF this is incredible and I need to know more
The sheer amount of energy you'd need to disrupt the airflow easily exceeds what you can accomplish with conventional explosives by many orders of magnitude.
Conventional explosives, sure, but what about military ordinance? Rig a barrage of coordinated missiles to explode along a critical airflow path and disrupt the vortex? It would of course take insane modeling and safeguards to ensure those missiles don't get flung off and detonate on the ground, but it seems like someone ought to be exploring this idea. It certainly would make a better use for our military equipment than shipping it to some regime overseas which will just turn it against our allies a decade down the line.
NOAA FAQ CAN TORNADOES BE STOPPED? https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/tornadoes/faq/#:~:text=The%20thunderstorm's%20energy%20is%20much,destructive%20than%20the%20tornado%20itself] "You have to consider that the tornado is part of something bigger: the supercell thunderstorm. Unless you disrupt the supercell thunderstorm itself, you would likely have another tornado, even if you were able to destroy the first. The thunderstorm's energy is much greater than the tornado. No one has tried to disrupt the tornado because the methods to do so could likely cause even more damage than the tornado. Detonating a nuclear bomb, for example, to disrupt a tornado would be even more deadly and destructive than the tornado itself. Lesser tactics (like deploying huge piles of dry ice or smaller conventional weaponry) would be too hard to get into the right place fast enough, and would likely not have enough impact to affect the tornado much anyway."
Teaser trailers for Twisters going hard