Every now and then a video pops up that I haven’t seen, and it’s like Christmas all over again. This might be the longest anyone was able to catch visual of the condensation funnel.
A lot of people don't mention the lightning associated with this storm. It was utterly amazing. Even the thunder was very different, just like bombs or something. Does anyone else think so?
Kinda like a great visually stunning film Each time I watch/rewatch/discover/ I see things in this particular storm I've never seen before at all... Like just now.... 4 differently shaped/differently located small clouds near the funnel did full vertical loops and kept each and every original starting shape.... As almost if they were on different parts of the same insane pretzel roller coaster... One just did like three tumbling backflips/gainers Lol
That's what positively charged lightning looks and sounds like. Mostly straight, little to no branching, cg, and a single loud band instead of the insistent rumbling of most thunder. Also it's worth mentioning that there's generally a way higher amperage and therefore a good deal higher risk of death with positive lightning.
Wow! First view of your footage, and I thought I'd seen all the el reno footage. This is a very different perspective I don't know how you guys got so close stayed so close and got away from that behemoth(and that lightning) That sucker was dropping vortexes like streamers, which I've seen in other videos but you guys really captured how blustery this was. it was almost like the tornado was being blown along as well and it was interesting watching it getting rain wrapped. Great footage thanks glad you stayed safe and stay well because now we're being swept up and some of us swept away by this pandemic 🙄
What road were you on at the last half of the vid? I may have been getting hit at that point! if you watch my vid you'll see what I mean haha. GREAT shot by the way!
The chances are less since I've heard that tornado needs some conditions to form, ground temperature needs to be high or something so at night it's probably not gonna happen, not impossible but very rare
@@KhushMarwadi Nocturnal tornadoes are quite common, and even strong to violent nocturnal tornadoes occur (especially in 'Dixie Alley'). FYI, in order for a supercell to produce a tornado, it needs a very strong updraft, and that requires energy. However, the energy does not have to come from solar heating of the supercell thunderstorm. One has to remember that humid warm air contains a lot of stored energy, and as the warm humid air rises in an updraft, water vapour in the air is cooled to the point of condensation. When that occurs, the energy that was added to liquid water to turn it into a vapour is released when the vapour becomes a liquid. If there is sufficient moisture in the lowest levels of the atmosphere, and the air at mid & upper levels is cooler & drier, then there will be enough 'latent heat energy' released to power a very intense updraft. If there is enough shear in the lower & mid levels of the atmosphere, the intense updraft will also be rotating, and that rotation combined with the strong updraft can lead to tornadogenesis. So, if there is a source of lift (to get the updraft started), plenty of low & mid-level shear, very warm humid air at the lower levels of the atmosphere, and drier cooler air at mid & high levels of the atmosphere, then a supercell thunderstorm will be able to spawn a tornado, even if it is after sunset.
so now we know what happens with 6000 cape when 3 supercells merge. a carousel tornado, with powerful vortices spinning up and moving very erratically.
Satan's spinning sandpaper. It's grit level is determined by what neighbourhoods it can pick up and incorporate into Itself. It has a tendency to scour everything clean.
Do you think that most chasers know now that "If the genesis of the tornado looks like El Reno, keep well away.."? Like if it looks that the whole wall cloud is coming down, and maybe there are multiple vortices, then it gonna be a big boy, and you should move? I hope they do.
El Reno tornado.... The most infamous in history! I know the 1999 Moore was the strongest 302+mph) but this one wasn't too far too far behind (295) and the widest ever 2.6 miles wide...also one of the most unpredictable storms ever and unfortunately we lost some brave people in this twister
I believe the wind speeds,slightly more aloft, exceeded even the 1999 event. This might/coulda been far more destructive had it occured or reached larger populations. Even so, and we are all aware that it destroyed property,caused serious injuries to people,livestock etc and claimed lives.. Take away the word "Enhanced"from Fujita Scale and you have an undeniable F5. Shall we mention the intensity and frequency of lightning? Only for insurance purposes was it downgraded. Perhaps twisters should have 2 separate ratings. EF for costs of damages (insurance)and F for wind speeds and intensity.(scientific research). Payout should be based upon damages, injuries etc. These are separate. Just for arguenent's sake ,if we average out the 2 ratings from this event ,we still get a level 4. Possibly an oversimplification, however, they are 2 different scales and should be treated as such,IMO. The merger of the 3 cells made it that much more intense and unpredictable. This was kinda fun. Thanks if ya read all that. 😉
You guys were very wise to get off that road when you did it's my understanding that tornado grew From a half-mile wide to two miles wide within a span of 30 seconds. I hope Storm Chasers learn lessons from this you cannot predict what direction a tornado is going to go or how fast it's going to develop that's the danger of it. And I find it amazing some storm chasers standing in the middle of a field with that kind of lightning with a metal tripod and a camera standing next to a metal fence no thank you. 😳
If you haven’t seen it, there are a couple of women who filmed it. I can’t remember the name of their RUclips vid, something like ‘escaping the el Reno tornado.’ It in, they are driving north on 81 and the white Cobalt crosses in front of them. They turn right on Reuter, following the Cobalt but they are in communication with a guy that tells them to turn around, go back to 81 and go north.
ruclips.net/video/HcWrJGSIaGc/видео.html around 2:30 I think, the rain quits and the woman says she is making a right onto 81. Actually, she’s on 81 making a right onto Reuter. though the video has a break in quality here, you can see Dan Robinson, then Tim Samaras’ white Cobalt cross 81 in front of them and head down Reuter. This car follows them for a short while before the person communicating with them tells them to turn back. Heidi Farrar and Dave Demko captured the Cobalt earlier in their video, too.
Was there any point where the El Reno monster ever resembled a "normal" tornado? I've looked at tons of footage on RUclips and even seeing the huge funnel take shape in this one, I'm not convinced that wasn't just an enormous sub-vortex.
sabishiihito at one point when it wedged out the entire circulation was still funneled into it. But that ended quickly when it grew like a beast with multiple vortices.
New rest shows that all tornadoes are multi vortex tornadoes. Hank Pecos has a really interesting video where he speaks to a scientist about this theory.
For me, it's that moment of realizing that what I had been watching was just a sub vortex, and that ENTIRE area of rotation... ...was actually the tornado! Unbelievable!
So technically the tornado is both ef3 and 5 because the winds exceeded 200 mph and the tornado caused not that much damage so the damage assessment rated it a 3 because it caused ef3 damage where they assessed prob
I'm definitely no expert but from what I understand, tornadoes in America generally travel from West to East in direction (although being a tornado they will wander in any direction). During this tornado - people tired to flee south which is generally the safer side of the storm. But due to the size of this tornado a lot of guys got caught in their flee to the south. North generally puts you in areas of large hail - but also safer than being near the tornado. So - west, south, or north are your best options depending on your location relevant to the tornado.
This particular tornado started on a SE trajectory, later turning NE. If you were already south or north of it, go further S or N. Most of the injuries/fatalities here were caused by crossing the tornado path, or in Twistex case, by trying to outrun the storm to the East.
these videos especially this one is terrifying to me!!! i live in the eastern northern half of the states and we don't usually get tornados and i think thank God!! i thought i saw one last summer and i had a panic attack!!
If there was a survey by the storm chasers at the El Reno 13' tornado, how many of the individual chasers would consider this tornado to be EF3 EF5,I'm not sure what the answer but none of the chasers had an issue when it was first rated at EF5
This cuts off right before things really went nuts. There's a moment where it goes from a rain wrapped wedge, to just.....wtf is actually happening right now and that was getting ready to happen as this cuts off.
Size has nothing do with the enhanced Fujitsu scale my friend, it was rated as an Ef5 for having wind speeds over 300 mph technically, but some dumb asses officially rated it as a ef3 because of the lack of damage it caused from not hitting any populated areas.
@@bearzdlc2172 Actually those dumb asses were right, and they get to say, not you. EF scale is highly structural damage related, and the same rating is applied to an entire path as the worst observed damage at any point. So, if the biggest, fattest, most bad-ass looking tornado with 300 mph winds travels 20 miles and sucks up nothing but wheat, corn and a few sheds, it aint gonna rate. It's the way they do it, like it or not.
@@cmerton But this is not an accurate measurement, if this tornado reached a crowded area it was a disaster never seen before. Wind of almost 500km / h and is only F3 ?!. Fujita scale is outdated and the future will confirm it.
@@suitdruit435 You simply do not understand the Enhanced Fujita scale. Like most USian goobers, you see everything as a contest, bigger is better, faster is best, blablabla. Blow it out your ass, and go read up on what the Enhance Fujita scale actually measures.
Who the fuck storm chases on dirt roads in a fucken Chevy Covalt pure stupidity I would have a jacked up turbo diesel with some huge ass mud tires and winches everywhere
Had this dropped over an urban area or something like man made structures, this tornado would live in infamy. The nations population would had heard about the 2.6 mile tornado that ate a path of destruction larger than any other. It was a mini hurricane.
Okay who would be stupid enough to video a tornando I mean really lol I would be running and by the next day after all the running I did I would be a super model lol
Okay hi! So a lot of the times people have to go out in storms like these so they can rate and find out more information about tornados. THIBK about it like this. A scientist needs to go into the water to study a sea turtle. It’s the same thing with a tornado you need to get a video or witness it in the action to actually get a good reading. You cant really look up a tornado reading right when it forms. That’s why there’s people like this. To study and get information about storms and tornados.
Every now and then a video pops up that I haven’t seen, and it’s like Christmas all over again. This might be the longest anyone was able to catch visual of the condensation funnel.
I haven’t seen a better view of it in any video and I’ve seen hundreds, thanks to Nathaniel Gilsson’s channel.
A lot of people don't mention the lightning associated with this storm. It was utterly amazing. Even the thunder was very different, just like bombs or something. Does anyone else think so?
Kinda like a great visually stunning film
Each time I watch/rewatch/discover/ I see things in this particular storm I've never seen before at all...
Like just now....
4 differently shaped/differently located small clouds near the funnel did full vertical loops and kept each and every original starting shape....
As almost if they were on different parts of the same insane pretzel roller coaster...
One just did like three tumbling backflips/gainers
Lol
That's what positively charged lightning looks and sounds like. Mostly straight, little to no branching, cg, and a single loud band instead of the insistent rumbling of most thunder. Also it's worth mentioning that there's generally a way higher amperage and therefore a good deal higher risk of death with positive lightning.
Even when I'm well under the roof of my patio, a positive lightning strike anywhere nearby will send me scrambling inside.
I know one thing for sure Joy, that if you live in the middle of a city the sound of thunder is totaly different then on the country.
Yeah the thunder was like a bang from fireworks.
Great footage! Love how y’all were able to capture the actual tornado when most other footage loses the actual tornado in the intense rain.
Wow! First view of your footage, and I thought I'd seen all the el reno footage. This is a very different perspective I don't know how you guys got so close stayed so close and got away from that behemoth(and that lightning) That sucker was dropping vortexes like streamers, which I've seen in other videos but you guys really captured how blustery this was. it was almost like the tornado was being blown along as well and it was interesting watching it getting rain wrapped. Great footage thanks glad you stayed safe and stay well because now we're being swept up and some of us swept away by this pandemic 🙄
Great footage! You can really see the structure of the Tornado.
That BIG Intercepter vehicle was Reed Timmer!
And he said "we will not be intercepting this one". Even Reed wouldnt take the chance.
Reed is good
It's crazy that this video is the last video ever publish in this acc R.I.P😢
What road were you on at the last half of the vid? I may have been getting hit at that point! if you watch my vid you'll see what I mean haha.
GREAT shot by the way!
Words cant describe this storm the whole wall cloud practically touched down.
No practically about it. It did
Imagine if the El Reno tornado happened at night...
The chances are less since I've heard that tornado needs some conditions to form, ground temperature needs to be high or something so at night it's probably not gonna happen, not impossible but very rare
@@KhushMarwadi Nocturnal tornadoes are quite common, and even strong to violent nocturnal tornadoes occur (especially in 'Dixie Alley'). FYI, in order for a supercell to produce a tornado, it needs a very strong updraft, and that requires energy. However, the energy does not have to come from solar heating of the supercell thunderstorm. One has to remember that humid warm air contains a lot of stored energy, and as the warm humid air rises in an updraft, water vapour in the air is cooled to the point of condensation. When that occurs, the energy that was added to liquid water to turn it into a vapour is released when the vapour becomes a liquid. If there is sufficient moisture in the lowest levels of the atmosphere, and the air at mid & upper levels is cooler & drier, then there will be enough 'latent heat energy' released to power a very intense updraft. If there is enough shear in the lower & mid levels of the atmosphere, the intense updraft will also be rotating, and that rotation combined with the strong updraft can lead to tornadogenesis. So, if there is a source of lift (to get the updraft started), plenty of low & mid-level shear, very warm humid air at the lower levels of the atmosphere, and drier cooler air at mid & high levels of the atmosphere, then a supercell thunderstorm will be able to spawn a tornado, even if it is after sunset.
so now we know what happens with 6000 cape when 3 supercells merge. a carousel tornado, with powerful vortices spinning up and moving very erratically.
"Carousel tornado" should be made into an official term
Or gang a tornados up to no good. The boss in the middle.
@@hamhockbeans just wondering what the collective term would be - A Suck of tornados.
I like the name carousel tornado fyi this tornado was multivortex
Satan's spinning sandpaper.
It's grit level is determined by what neighbourhoods it can pick up and incorporate into Itself. It has a tendency to scour everything clean.
When the entire sky is swirling you know something's coming.
Do you think that most chasers know now that "If the genesis of the tornado looks like El Reno, keep well away.."? Like if it looks that the whole wall cloud is coming down, and maybe there are multiple vortices, then it gonna be a big boy, and you should move? I hope they do.
Certainly there were peoole who saw the writing on the wall and got the hell out.
This isn't the ordinary. Unlike any other honestly.
El Reno tornado.... The most infamous in history! I know the 1999 Moore was the strongest 302+mph) but this one wasn't too far too far behind (295) and the widest ever 2.6 miles wide...also one of the most unpredictable storms ever and unfortunately we lost some brave people in this twister
I believe the wind speeds,slightly more aloft, exceeded even the 1999 event. This might/coulda been far more destructive had it occured or reached larger populations. Even so, and we are all aware that it destroyed property,caused serious injuries to people,livestock etc and claimed lives.. Take away the word "Enhanced"from Fujita Scale and you have an undeniable F5. Shall we mention the intensity and frequency of lightning? Only for insurance purposes was it downgraded.
Perhaps twisters should have 2 separate ratings. EF for costs of damages (insurance)and F for wind speeds and intensity.(scientific research). Payout should be based upon damages, injuries etc. These are separate. Just for arguenent's sake ,if we average out the 2 ratings from this event ,we still get a level 4. Possibly an oversimplification, however, they are 2 different scales and should be treated as such,IMO.
The merger of the 3 cells made it that much more intense and unpredictable.
This was kinda fun. Thanks if ya read all that. 😉
You guys were very wise to get off that road when you did it's my understanding that tornado grew From a half-mile wide to two miles wide within a span of 30 seconds.
I hope Storm Chasers learn lessons from this you cannot predict what direction a tornado is going to go or how fast it's going to develop that's the danger of it.
And I find it amazing some storm chasers standing in the middle of a field with that kind of lightning with a metal tripod and a camera standing next to a metal fence no thank you. 😳
A very dangerous monster that was rip Tim Paul and Carl and Richard Henderson we will never forget you.
Tornadoes are a nightmare
Molon Lave Cuz you have so much city around you. Out in the plains, its war
Did it seem like you had a huge tornado over top of you once it was obvious?
Absolutely fantastic footage!
Man that thing grew sooo fast
2.6 miles wide I would call it a monster.
Is the guy in the Toyota Yaris the only one to get Tim Samaras' Cobalt on video? I've watched 30 vids or so.
If you haven’t seen it, there are a couple of women who filmed it. I can’t remember the name of their RUclips vid, something like ‘escaping the el Reno tornado.’ It in, they are driving north on 81 and the white Cobalt crosses in front of them. They turn right on Reuter, following the Cobalt but they are in communication with a guy that tells them to turn around, go back to 81 and go north.
Exciter You can watch the Yari,Dan Robbinsons video and see the satellite that killed the Twistex team.
ruclips.net/video/HcWrJGSIaGc/видео.html around 2:30 I think, the rain quits and the woman says she is making a right onto 81. Actually, she’s on 81 making a right onto Reuter. though the video has a break in quality here, you can see Dan Robinson, then Tim Samaras’ white Cobalt cross 81 in front of them and head down Reuter. This car follows them for a short while before the person communicating with them tells them to turn back. Heidi Farrar and Dave Demko captured the Cobalt earlier in their video, too.
Daniel Shaw also got them on video as they passed him.
dreemsnake1 Knowing what happens very soon make that very eerie
Was there any point where the El Reno monster ever resembled a "normal" tornado? I've looked at tons of footage on RUclips and even seeing the huge funnel take shape in this one, I'm not convinced that wasn't just an enormous sub-vortex.
sabishiihito at one point when it wedged out the entire circulation was still funneled into it. But that ended quickly when it grew like a beast with multiple vortices.
sabishiihito Uhg READ you moron
New rest shows that all tornadoes are multi vortex tornadoes. Hank Pecos has a really interesting video where he speaks to a scientist about this theory.
For me, it's that moment of realizing that what I had been watching was just a sub vortex, and that ENTIRE area of rotation...
...was actually the tornado! Unbelievable!
So technically the tornado is both ef3 and 5 because the winds exceeded 200 mph and the tornado caused not that much damage so the damage assessment rated it a 3 because it caused ef3 damage where they assessed prob
In a situation like this, which direction is safe???
Underground.😊
I'm definitely no expert but from what I understand, tornadoes in America generally travel from West to East in direction (although being a tornado they will wander in any direction).
During this tornado - people tired to flee south which is generally the safer side of the storm. But due to the size of this tornado a lot of guys got caught in their flee to the south.
North generally puts you in areas of large hail - but also safer than being near the tornado. So - west, south, or north are your best options depending on your location relevant to the tornado.
This particular tornado started on a SE trajectory, later turning NE. If you were already south or north of it, go further S or N. Most of the injuries/fatalities here were caused by crossing the tornado path, or in Twistex case, by trying to outrun the storm to the East.
Many storm chasers normally avoid the North side of storms, because that's usually where the hail is.
This one is new to me,how long did you hold on to this great filming,before you release it,I would like to thank you for let be shone to the public
I wonder why lightning near a strong tornado looks more like a flashbulb than a bolt.
Positive charged.
these videos especially this one is terrifying to me!!! i live in the eastern northern half of the states and we don't usually get tornados and i think thank God!! i thought i saw one last summer and i had a panic attack!!
If there was a survey by the storm chasers at the El Reno 13' tornado, how many of the individual chasers would consider this tornado to be EF3 EF5,I'm not sure what the answer but none of the chasers had an issue when it was first rated at EF5
I dont think they had a doubt it was a 5. They were in it! It was an insult to the memories of those lost to grade it less than a 5!
Is the white "fog" flowing across the ground, rain or RFD? I have seen it in many videos of the El Reno tornado.
Liberty Lost Inflow Jets I would think. Not too sure myself.
Rain
Those cars are like gnats in a hail storm with a turbine fan blowing . Wow
Lovely 💕
This cuts off right before things really went nuts. There's a moment where it goes from a rain wrapped wedge, to just.....wtf is actually happening right now and that was getting ready to happen as this cuts off.
I never get sick of watching this tornado. She was a real b**** but she demanded respect!
Brutto😓😓😓😓😓😓😓😓🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Disasters are to be learned from, not "enjoy"ed.
Words of wisdom.
El Reno is Spanish for....
The Reno!
well,that is f..king close.
That was extremely dangerous storm...
That’s a big tornado 🌪 I’d say like it’s a EF5
Size has nothing do with the enhanced Fujitsu scale my friend, it was rated as an Ef5 for having wind speeds over 300 mph technically, but some dumb asses officially rated it as a ef3 because of the lack of damage it caused from not hitting any populated areas.
@@bearzdlc2172 yeah
@@bearzdlc2172 Actually those dumb asses were right, and they get to say, not you. EF scale is highly structural damage related, and the same rating is applied to an entire path as the worst observed damage at any point. So, if the biggest, fattest, most bad-ass looking tornado with 300 mph winds travels 20 miles and sucks up nothing but wheat, corn and a few sheds, it aint gonna rate. It's the way they do it, like it or not.
@@cmerton But this is not an accurate measurement, if this tornado reached a crowded area it was a disaster never seen before. Wind of almost 500km / h and is only F3 ?!. Fujita scale is outdated and the future will confirm it.
@@suitdruit435 You simply do not understand the Enhanced Fujita scale. Like most USian goobers, you see everything as a contest, bigger is better, faster is best, blablabla. Blow it out your ass, and go read up on what the Enhance Fujita scale actually measures.
Who the fuck storm chases on dirt roads in a fucken Chevy Covalt pure stupidity I would have a jacked up turbo diesel with some huge ass mud tires and winches everywhere
Loud thunderstorm
Was that white truck with the radar on the back at 0:12 to 0:16 Tim Samaras?
bill frost No-the Twistex team was in a white Chevy Cobalt.You can see the subvortex that kills them inDan Robbinsons video.
Really late to this, but that is the RaXPol mobile radar operated by the research teams at Oklahoma University.
For those asking about which way was safe to travel, this is a good analysis video of what happened
ruclips.net/video/bJOjjzHUwsk/видео.html
Tornado turning the tables....
🌪TORNADO CHASES THE TORNADO CHASERS ‼️🌪
Supercell thunderstorm warning May 31st 2013
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶
Dead man walking footage.
Had this dropped over an urban area or something like man made structures, this tornado would live in infamy. The nations population would had heard about the 2.6 mile tornado that ate a path of destruction larger than any other. It was a mini hurricane.
Bro came back after 5 months
@@frostz5182 I'm not going anywhere, but if I do take your advice I'll need you to take care of this thread, just try not to be to bossy. Ok?
OH Gosh
Best shots = saying safe to the Backside of the Beast....,you don’t know how lucky you are to have a working brain cell!
An ugly ef4
With 300mph wind? Lol
Okay who would be stupid enough to video a tornando I mean really lol I would be running and by the next day after all the running I did I would be a super model lol
Ky Tatum no, you'd still be the dumb little twit you are. That's all, nothing more, nothing less
You’re already a model.
Well it's not your business its theirs
Some also do it for scientific purposes and this has helped to save human lives through the information in these videos.
Okay hi! So a lot of the times people have to go out in storms like these so they can rate and find out more information about tornados. THIBK about it like this. A scientist needs to go into the water to study a sea turtle. It’s the same thing with a tornado you need to get a video or witness it in the action to actually get a good reading. You cant really look up a tornado reading right when it forms. That’s why there’s people like this. To study and get information about storms and tornados.