Skip, that is really some BREATHTAKING footage you have there!! WOW!!! So clear and precise, no trembling camera, no disconcerting music in the backgroun - just clear, straightforward, no-nonsense REMARKABLE footage!! Thanks so much for sharing it with us!!
P. J. Bovio Agree! That’s why I love watching his work. No yelling and screaming, no motion sickness from a camera all over the place. So glad no fatalities that day!
I also recommend Pecos Hank's channel if you haven't checked it out yet. There's background music, but he's also not one to yell or scream and his camera work is incredible. Him and Skip are definitely my top tornado chasers on RUclips!
I live in Knoxville IA, and we have a street called Harlan Street Place... lmao!!! But go just north of South Street, and it's simply called Harlan Street.
Love watching Skip's videos! Not a lot of zooming in/out or panning, and no emotional outbreaks at the first sign of rotation. Perfect sky/cloud/ground radio. Skip's the best there is!
Got the awesome opportunity to see the Bath, IL tornado from roughly 2 miles out. First tornado ever, in person. I've never been so mesmerized by anything in my life.. Almost like wanting to walk up to it and touch it... If that makes any sense... awesome video as always Skip. 👍👌😃
Mike, you sound like good chaser material. lol Just be careful, that mesmerizing tornado can kill you in an instant. I could never chase, I have a problem with anxiety and would totally freak out. lol
Most chasers struggle to get decent funnel footage inside tornado alley right smack in the middle of twister season. Skip, on the other hand, manages to capture FIVE... in Illinois... and in the dead-middle of Winter. What can we say? The man is amazing at what he does. Keep up the great work, my friend!
its not really that much of a surprise. IL is in transition usually around this time in terms of temperatures, more flux than that of most midwest states. Indiana is thr same in this regard. though the tornadoes were unusual, they werent uncharacteristic. we get tornadoes here 12 months our of the year. they say if you dont like the weather, dont worry, itl change in a few days. its not uncommon to have 50 degree daily haighs until mid january then all of a sudden a huge deep freeze, then a deep freeze again and so forth. if you think about it, this instability is what drives storms like these...even the summers here go from 105 to 65 in a matter of hours for a variety of reasons. if you like consistent weather, dont live here. we have extremely hot summers and frigid (relatively speaking, not like Wisconsin or Minnesota obviously but still) winters, and it always feels like theres only 2 seasons. whens summer is done, its done, like a flipped switch and bam, you got anywhere from -20 to 55 degrees for 4 1/2 months and then bam again swelthingly hot humid days till mid october and bam again winter. weird shit. i guess it give this place a certain kind of charm. we need good basements, good air conditions, and good heating. wouldnt trade this state for nothin in the world though. love it here. its home.
Skip, that wide shot starting around 16:10 is some of the most incredible footage I have ever seen. Seeing the full cloud structure is amazing. Thank you.
What a great job you did on the photography! Thanks, Skip. Another thing I love about your videos is the minimal amount of talking. You let the storm take center stage.
This work is BRILLIANT. It's SO nice to finally see some tornado videos (your account) that have CLEAR visuals and vocals, and not just a floppy arm hanging out a window with a pixelated dark cloud, & a person screaming unintelligibly through bluster. Thank you!
Saw your dot out there while I was chasing man, and some aquiantences of mine from Stormtrack convoyed w/ya. You're one of the best chasers/spotters around and your "Storm Spotting Secrets" video helped me immensely in chasing this event. Much love from Missouri and may the Midwest continue to shock and amaze plains chasers!
This is amazing work! Here in the UK we struggle to get decent storms in the summer months, never mind December. Thank you for capturing some of the most amazing sights on the planet.
It STILL kills me that I had to work that day. I watched your dot roll closer and closer (I'm in Quincy) and kept whining that something was going to go twarned.. And sure enough! As always, you're on it. Great footage!
I think that this just might be one of your best videos I’ve seen. I grew up in Illinois and I now live in NW Indiana, and this video of yours reminds me of some of the best times I had storm chasing in Illinois.
I loved your interaction with that guy outside Beardstown. Pretty sure you being so calm and explaining it's location/direction was really comforting to him.
Very beautiful work. Watching it in full screen, I almost feel as if I'm looking out my window, seeing it majestically swirling before me. Thank you for your labors (and for taking such risks).
For a storm chaser, this is some of the best footage I've seen. Excellent job capturing each tornadoes life, and superb camera set up. I love that the camera isn't bouncing all around. Be safe.
Skip, at the 3:35 scene in your video, some friends and I saw that rotation (and tornado) form from the beginning, about five minutes before then. You were less than a half mile from us, we were just to your southwest. The rotation started almost right above us, and we had to throw the vehicle in reverse because it nearly dropped on us! Very cool to see that you were right there with us, we had the idea that we were the only storm chasers to see that tornado form up close. I also want to add that it was my first tornado, and we could not have been in a better spot. Seeing an entire life cycle of a tornado on my first time out chasing was pretty awesome!
I love the people in the back ground in the video. Just seem like genuine honest friendly folk. And btw that's some gorgeous footage of offseason tornadoes!!
I watched the entire event unfold on radar from the other side of the ocean and as soon as I saw your photos on Facebook, I could’t wait to see your video. Great as always, Skip. Greetings from Italy!
Spellbinding & mesmerizing footage, Skip, especially by using a 4K camera !! Stay safe out there and many thanks for sharing with us all of your fine efforts !!
Well done chase buddy. You and Pecos Hank are my favorite channels regarding video editing quality and the fact there is no constant yelling and screaming
At 2:08 (Exit 46), Skip is exiting West I-72 for North IL-100 (Bluffs, IL). At 9:30 you see Debris from the tornado above the tree level ... funnel likely there ... but not dark (dirt). At 11:00 on Boulevard Road (IL-100 to West, Arzenville Road to East) South of Beardstown. Traffic light is IL-125. Damage from tornado on south-east edge of Beardstown. At 13:00 Skip is moving north on East side of Illinois River (Bath). Bluff City is across the Illinois river on west side. Bluff City video captured by another chaser (featured on ABC national news). Only highway crossings to west side of river are at Beardstown and Havana.
You must know the area well. The Illinois River throws a real wrench in chasing western and central Illinois, but there's something about that river valley that also makes it a tornado magnet so I always find myself there.
at 8:02 under the tornado, the cables tranporting energy, exploded or something. And i just wanted to say you are my favorite youtuber and thanks that you do the videos so good!
@Nichijou Bot You're correct and there's been some pretty strong ones at that. Hell the January 7, 2008 Tornadoes in Southeast Wisconsin were crazy. One was a strong upper EF3.
@@R6-D2 ... Yes. I lived on Lake Geneva coming back from Burlington. There were 4 funnels that crossed the lake. After getting to New Munster after the ef3 passed it was time to see if everyone's ok. Lots of damage. One broken arm. I don't think the red canoe was ever found. I'm not much of a chaser yet, but I can surely help those in need. Thank you Skip for all you do.
I live in Indiana. There have been several times I have been blinded by lightning because it is being reflected off of snow that fell just a few days prior. We say here "If you don't like the weather in Indiana, don't worry, it will change." 😂
Lived in Jacksonville IL as a kid....saw six Tornados up close and in person growing up there, and they scared the you know what out of me. I would rather see them on RUclips. Stay safe everyone!
@@skiptalbot hahahaha...hopefully you make it up to Alberta some day and we meet up on a chase. I don't give out compliments often but I really appreciate the science, planning, calculated risks and intelligence of your chases. I have learned alot from you work!!!!!
You and pecos need to get together for a video. Yall are just the best. Clear and calm explanations, close up and wide views, no panicking, shouting or shaky cameras, just amazing.
What’s weird is me my brother and dad were working on a fire bird and while we were doing it, it got super warm to were it was colder in the garage than it was outside. Then it dropped instantly. Every one else was working on the car and thought nothing of it. I thought what if there was a tornado today were would we go. I kept thinking there was going to be a tornado today and I don’t know why. But it got super windy out of nowhere. I then thought well it’s December it most likely won’t happen. The next day I found out there was 22 tornadoes that day all over Illinois and one close to us only 30 miles away.
You got great video!! I'm about 10 miles from Beardstown, we got called to come help tarp roofs and cut brush later that day and the whole next week. We were up in Washington in 13' after that huge November tornado. Love your videos
Well done, Skip.. Yourself & Pecos Hank are far & away, the 2 best masters of capturing visually & audially the stunning effects of our North American twisters.. Hats-off !
1:19 That is perhaps the most realistic and amazing footage of a supercell as a whole! You can see a lowering and a large dump of rain from the distance as well as the anvil top of the storm- and above the lowering on the left u can clearly see an overshooting top- a good indicator of rotation from a distance! Truely amazing footage!
My first ever tornado on that day! Saw an amazing 8 tornadoes!! Witnessed the three around Detroit, Beardstown, and the Litchfield/Taylorville tornado family! Mesmerizing that day was!!
I love when the chaser gives a bit of a rundown in the beginning of the video. What the conditions and parameters are, where they’re going. What they’re expecting
I grew up in Illinois and I remember we see to get so many tornadoes-especially when we were at school. I have always been scared to death of them and I still am-even watching video of it!
Here in St. Louis it's happened several times in my lifetime. One of them was January of 1967 which was an EF4 that passed by our house only 1/4 mile a way. For locals who might be interested, this was on Olive St. Road at Hog Hollow, about 1 mile from where the tornado originated at Ladue and Olive near the Emergency Operations Center. Mom and I were looking out the dining room window and we clearly saw it. After seeing and hearing the roar of the tornado, Mom almost killed me trying to save me by rushing me down the stairs. I ended up falling off the side of the stairs, well before code required better safety standards for stairways -- oops! In her defense, lighting struck our patio as we were rushing by the double glass doors and the electric went out instantly, so everything went black. That made us panic even worse. I was just a little kid but remember it like yesterday. IIRC, 3 people died in that storm.
Spotter here, from St.Louis, Missouri. I'll start by saying, love all of the work that you do! However, I was wondering as to if you are a licensed HAM or not? It just seems like the HAM route would be way easier in terms of relaying reports, rather than the spotter network. Thoughts?
WX9KIP here. I'm active with Central Illinois Skywarn, which is amateur radio based out of Springfield, IL. Ham radio is the way to go when I'm back porch spotting. However, I've found it much easier to use Spotter Network when chasing. I move quickly from area to area, so the logistics of keeping up with which repeater I'm closest to, which Skywarn nets are active in the area (if any), and in which NWS CWA I'm located are a time consuming hassle. With just a 5 watt handheld and at highway speed, I may not even be on the repeater long enough to wait for traffic, introduce myself, and then give what's going to be a third party report before I'm out of range. I also don't even immediately know where I'm at, but would have to stop and consult the map to get the intersection. Spotter Network takes care of all of this for me. It sends my precise GPS position off to the correct NWS CWA. So all I have to do is bang out a report and hit send. And sometimes it's as simple as "1 n" which is how I reported that last nighttime tornado, meaning it was one mile north of my position. It took about 10 seconds to hit the Send Report button, the Tornado option, type "1 n" and send.
mPING is geared more toward general weather observations like taking rain and snow measurements. There's a little bit of overlap there as I believe it's also used for hail reporting and flooding as is Spotter Network. But Spotter Network is focused on emergency situations, threats to life and property, that the Weather Service needs to see immediately for warning decisions. mPING is used more for forecasts, research, and event logging. Citizen weather observing as opposed to storm spotting.
Ham definitely is, I'm not a chaser myself but I was raised to operate, That night was the first time i broadcasted to those in surrounding towns to be ready.
That’s great footage you have there, Skip. You are the best storm chaser that people like to see more of your video work. You are very calm person not act like Reed Timmer, I don’t like the way he screams his butt off!!! Plus I don’t hear any sirens going off?! Did they go off just wondering. Thanks so much
Yep, the sirens sounded in Beardstown and they're pretty eerie sounding. You can hear them in Andrew Pritchard's and Dan Robinson's videos from this day. The tornado had cleared the area and they turned the sirens off by the time I entered town.
I'd like to know what the Bath tornado would have been rated as if it had actually made it into a populated area. The upward velocity seems to be incredibly high for an EF0
There was a wedge EF-3 tornado that went through Taylorville, IL, that day too. They aired a tornado emergency over the radio. I had never heard one of those in real time before that point.
Great video Skip! It's been a while since I've had a good storm to chase here on the East Coast, though our last storm season was very interesting, just gotta get through winter, thanks for sharing!
Excellent footage Skip. I also liked there was no shouting and screaming. However, a bit of commentary would have not gone amiss. I saw, at around 19 minutes, multiple vortices, horizontal vortices and a power flash or two, or was it lightning? Your expertise would leave no doubt and confirm the viewers observations. All in all, though, an excellent production.
The Bluffs tornado formed less than a half a mile from me near the river near Valley City as I was waiting. You and I must have been very near each other. Great day, yet sad day for some. Nice video
at right around 8:04 you can see a bright flash at the bottom of the screen at ground level near the tornado. is that a power line getting ripped up or somehting?
Yes. Power flashes are are the winds causing power lines to arc. There is another one at 23:36. If you look closely or watch in 4k you can even see sparks being blown off the lines after the flash.
I live in Illinois. It's pretty freaky seeing tornado's in the late,late fall with snow on the ground. Skip I have to say you have great skill in photography. It looks like I'm watching it with you in your vehicle,Awesome. I was getting food at White Castle when a F4 or F5 hit Joliet & Plainfield IL. years ago. When ordering my food at the drive up window all of a sudden the sky turned black and the temperature dropped about 20 degrees. K-Mart was across the parking lot so my sister & I went in there for cover. People in the store all stood in front of the windows to watch. We ran to the back of the store to take cover from all the glass if it touched down there. It touched down about a quarter of a mile behind the K-mart and hit a big apartment complex. It was real bad touch down and people died and cars were thrown like toys cars piled up on each other. My sister friends little girl lived in the apartment bld and lived on top fl. and she went through 3 fls. to bottom fl. and survived thankfully. We later went to Plainfield to help some people gather some belongings that were left from their home being destroyed so they can go stay with friends. Most homes there were only the foundations left and not one tiny stick of wood or anything from the homes could be found. That tornado was a deadly one for sure. Was something you'll never forget as it was so tragic. Let me say that these tornado's this late in the year are signs from our Lord God. The book has been opened just recent and the 7 seals of Revelation are opened. That means our Lord Jesus Christ is coming for his bride anytime now. Todays date is 12/14/2018 so be watching. God bless and hope everyone is repenting and born again in Christ so they can leave with our King Jesus Christ.
Thank you for the story, Lindy. It was the Plainfield F5 that sparked my interest in tornadoes. I lived in Bolingbrook at the time. You know that tornado hit without a tornado warning. It would be unthinkable if that happened today. We’ve come so far since 1990, making huge strides in our understanding of tornadoes and the technology we have to detect them. It was science that got us those advances, hard work furthering the fields of meteorology, physics, and engineering. It is ignorance that leads us to appeal to our ancestor’s superstitions, look to ancient mythology for answers, and resort to magical thinking. For thousands of years people have been seeing disaster and exclaiming, “the end is nigh!” But these are natural events that we can understand and for which we can prepare. It’s time that we take responsibility for our own wellbeing, and not leave our fate to ignorance and magical thinking. Because ignorance costs lives when it comes to tornadoes. If the Chicago weather service office could have gotten a WSR-88D radar a couple years earlier, some of the folks that died in Plainfield might still be with us today. That’s something all of the Bibles in the world couldn’t do.
What an awesome sky! But why is the tornado sort of stuttery and blurry? Is it because of your camera? And what is a really good camera for storm chasing? Thanks.
Not sure what's causing the stuttering issues you are seeing, but tornadoes are naturally soft subjects. That funnel is a fluffy cloud after all. For storm chasing applications you want to look at cameras that have a high dynamic range, and also good low-light performance.
It's the power lines arcing from the tornado's winds. I think it's just a coincidence that I made a noise in the car at that moment, but I have heard lightning induce sounds in nearby objects. This discharge was nowhere near that big though.
Skip, that is really some BREATHTAKING footage you have there!! WOW!!! So clear and precise, no trembling camera, no disconcerting music in the backgroun - just clear, straightforward, no-nonsense REMARKABLE footage!! Thanks so much for sharing it with us!!
P. J. Bovio Agree! That’s why I love watching his work. No yelling and screaming, no motion sickness from a camera all over the place. So glad no fatalities that day!
Agreed! One of the reasons I enjoy Skip's videos so much.
Awsome to watch no yelling or screaming in the background no trembling clear spot on Thank you
I also recommend Pecos Hank's channel if you haven't checked it out yet. There's background music, but he's also not one to yell or scream and his camera work is incredible. Him and Skip are definitely my top tornado chasers on RUclips!
Wow what a nice way to say a compliment
The amount of patience and understanding you have with passerby... I’m impressed! You sure helped people feel safe!
Just imagine having a snowball fight and seeing a tornado drop down close by
Then the tornado starts chucking snowballs towards you at 100 mph
"Boulevard Road" That's some genius road naming right there.
Welcome to illinois in my town we have a sign that says make 3 right turns to go left
@@bradanderson6803 an on ramp?
Brad Anderson lmao
I live in Knoxville IA, and we have a street called Harlan Street Place... lmao!!! But go just north of South Street, and it's simply called Harlan Street.
Love watching Skip's videos! Not a lot of zooming in/out or panning, and no emotional outbreaks at the first sign of rotation. Perfect sky/cloud/ground radio. Skip's the best there is!
Got the awesome opportunity to see the Bath, IL tornado from roughly 2 miles out. First tornado ever, in person. I've never been so mesmerized by anything in my life.. Almost like wanting to walk up to it and touch it... If that makes any sense... awesome video as always Skip. 👍👌😃
That first time is a magical, special moment you'll never forget. I'll never forget my first. What a great tube you had for a first catch too.
I’ve seen two tornadoes and this one is just great!
It’s so astonishing just watching.
An EF3 missed my house by two blocks. Close enough. Flattened my sisters house, thankfully they weren't hurt.
Mike, you sound like good chaser material. lol Just be careful, that mesmerizing tornado can kill you in an instant. I could never chase, I have a problem with anxiety and would totally freak out. lol
I like tornadoes and storms too, but I wouldn't get "mesmerized"/"hypnotized" by one & make the potentially fatal mistake of getting TOO close!
16:11 is just the most fantastic footage. Ridiculously photogenic...and in December of all times of year. Way to go, Skip. Thanks for sharing.
20:35
Having lived around that area years ago, the back road capabilities while storm chasing was amazing! Great footage!
Most chasers struggle to get decent funnel footage inside tornado alley right smack in the middle of twister season. Skip, on the other hand, manages to capture FIVE... in Illinois... and in the dead-middle of Winter. What can we say? The man is amazing at what he does. Keep up the great work, my friend!
its not really that much of a surprise. IL is in transition usually around this time in terms of temperatures, more flux than that of most midwest states. Indiana is thr same in this regard. though the tornadoes were unusual, they werent uncharacteristic. we get tornadoes here 12 months our of the year. they say if you dont like the weather, dont worry, itl change in a few days. its not uncommon to have 50 degree daily haighs until mid january then all of a sudden a huge deep freeze, then a deep freeze again and so forth. if you think about it, this instability is what drives storms like these...even the summers here go from 105 to 65 in a matter of hours for a variety of reasons. if you like consistent weather, dont live here. we have extremely hot summers and frigid (relatively speaking, not like Wisconsin or Minnesota obviously but still) winters, and it always feels like theres only 2 seasons. whens summer is done, its done, like a flipped switch and bam, you got anywhere from -20 to 55 degrees for 4 1/2 months and then bam again swelthingly hot humid days till mid october and bam again winter. weird shit. i guess it give this place a certain kind of charm. we need good basements, good air conditions, and good heating. wouldnt trade this state for nothin in the world though. love it here. its home.
@@scenicdepictionsofchicagolife Very informative post, Eric. Thanks for sharing.
Just absolutely stunning work, Skip! Incredible!!!
You guys are amazing.
Skip, that wide shot starting around 16:10 is some of the most incredible footage I have ever seen. Seeing the full cloud structure is amazing. Thank you.
Really solid footage, probably the best of the day: No shaky-cam, combo of wide angle, close up and timelapse. Fantastic!
Nice
Love the storm structure, color contrast, and tornado presentation at 8:45. What a great day you had. Nice work Skip!
Thanks, Bill. Love those cold air setups. Always great contrast and robust structure.
Leave it to Skip Talbot to sniff out Tornadoes in Illinois in December. Well done.
Yeah, that is true. I'm from Belleville myself and it's been my dream to see a tornado here in Illinois!
let it be my luck I live in the worst hit town and was at the store
What a great job you did on the photography! Thanks, Skip. Another thing I love about your videos is the minimal amount of talking. You let the storm take center stage.
The weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful.....
and since we just came from Krogers, let it storm let it storm let it storm
@@jackylnhyde 😂
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Lol now I'm imagining someone playing that song in their house until tornado wacks off the roof xD
This work is BRILLIANT.
It's SO nice to finally see some tornado videos (your account) that have CLEAR visuals and vocals, and not just a floppy arm hanging out a window with a pixelated dark cloud, & a person screaming unintelligibly through bluster.
Thank you!
Savage editing skills! Getting a whole day down to half an hour and still have it look and feel like a proper chase.
RevolutionNo1 >>> Video editing is an art that I still need lots of practice on.
@@B3burner
Yeah me too.
Great compilation, what a treat for December!
Saw your dot out there while I was chasing man, and some aquiantences of mine from Stormtrack convoyed w/ya. You're one of the best chasers/spotters around and your "Storm Spotting Secrets" video helped me immensely in chasing this event. Much love from Missouri and may the Midwest continue to shock and amaze plains chasers!
This is amazing work! Here in the UK we struggle to get decent storms in the summer months, never mind December.
Thank you for capturing some of the most amazing sights on the planet.
It STILL kills me that I had to work that day. I watched your dot roll closer and closer (I'm in Quincy) and kept whining that something was going to go twarned.. And sure enough! As always, you're on it. Great footage!
They are so beautiful and lovely, even though they are destructive and deadly. Nature is just phenomenal
I think that this just might be one of your best videos I’ve seen. I grew up in Illinois and I now live in NW Indiana, and this video of yours reminds me of some of the best times I had storm chasing in Illinois.
I loved your interaction with that guy outside Beardstown. Pretty sure you being so calm and explaining it's location/direction was really comforting to him.
Very impressive
Beardstown Was My Town
Indiana: "I'm gonna fake everyone out with a surprise photogenic tornado outbreak in August."
Illinois: "Hold my beer."
Yeah, and a cold core in Iowa in July. What a bunch of trolls those weather gods.
cowboystormchaser That beautiful white funnel looked like it came down, took a taste and then said “Nope, back to Indiana.”
If this isn't accurate i dont know what could be. I live in Illinois and we had a blizzard with in a week of these tornadoes. Wtf Illinois.
@@spookybass1966 😂
I am a Central Illinois resident and I approve of cowboystormchaser's comment
Very beautiful work. Watching it in full screen, I almost feel as if I'm looking out my window, seeing it majestically swirling before me. Thank you for your labors (and for taking such risks).
Did you catch the power flash at 8:04?
Then 9:50 l see debris.
Yeah
For a storm chaser, this is some of the best footage I've seen. Excellent job capturing each tornadoes life, and superb camera set up. I love that the camera isn't bouncing all around. Be safe.
Skip, at the 3:35 scene in your video, some friends and I saw that rotation (and tornado) form from the beginning, about five minutes before then. You were less than a half mile from us, we were just to your southwest. The rotation started almost right above us, and we had to throw the vehicle in reverse because it nearly dropped on us! Very cool to see that you were right there with us, we had the idea that we were the only storm chasers to see that tornado form up close. I also want to add that it was my first tornado, and we could not have been in a better spot. Seeing an entire life cycle of a tornado on my first time out chasing was pretty awesome!
Congrats on your first catch!
08:37 "Ok, i'm gonna drive down this road in my white pickup truck and OH HELL NO A TORNADO I AM NOT GONNA DRIVE DOWN THIS ROAD" *engage reverse gear*
Lol
I love the people in the back ground in the video. Just seem like genuine honest friendly folk. And btw that's some gorgeous footage of offseason tornadoes!!
I watched the entire event unfold on radar from the other side of the ocean and as soon as I saw your photos on Facebook, I could’t wait to see your video. Great as always, Skip. Greetings from Italy!
If you have a brief tornado that hits an underwear factory..... would it be a "torn briefnado"?
BigBoy4005 >>> ‘sactly! 😽
Lolo cute
unless they're boxers
That wouldn't even qualify as a bad dad joke.
Haha, thank you for this!
I live 19 minutes away from Staunton Illinois when this happened. I remember hearing a bunch of tornadoes had dropped down on the same day.
Spellbinding & mesmerizing footage, Skip, especially by using a 4K camera !! Stay safe out there and many thanks for sharing with us all of your fine efforts !!
Well done chase buddy. You and Pecos Hank are my favorite channels regarding video editing quality and the fact there is no constant yelling and screaming
Beautifully done, Skip, as always. What a day!
10:55 Beautiful visual of a Rear Flank Downdraft surrounding the Tornado there!!
Cool i saw the cells that day and hoped you were chasing.Your 4k camera and narrative videos are top notch.
At 2:08 (Exit 46), Skip is exiting West I-72 for North IL-100 (Bluffs, IL).
At 9:30 you see Debris from the tornado above the tree level ... funnel likely there ... but not dark (dirt).
At 11:00 on Boulevard Road (IL-100 to West, Arzenville Road to East) South of Beardstown.
Traffic light is IL-125. Damage from tornado on south-east edge of Beardstown.
At 13:00 Skip is moving north on East side of Illinois River (Bath). Bluff City is across the Illinois river on west side.
Bluff City video captured by another chaser (featured on ABC national news).
Only highway crossings to west side of river are at Beardstown and Havana.
You must know the area well. The Illinois River throws a real wrench in chasing western and central Illinois, but there's something about that river valley that also makes it a tornado magnet so I always find myself there.
Skip Talbot's Storm Chasing Chronicles 10 min early and at the Griggsville exit you would have got great footage of the storm hitting Griggsville.
Great chase, Skip! Thanks for sharing. That system hit us in Missouri at 12am Sat morning...couldn't see anything but we could hear it!
at 8:02 under the tornado, the cables tranporting energy, exploded or something. And i just wanted to say you are my favorite youtuber and thanks that you do the videos so good!
whats weird is its december and there's snow on the ground
We got snow on the ground people!!!
Number One - That happens in Illinois more than you might think.
@Nichijou Bot You're correct and there's been some pretty strong ones at that. Hell the January 7, 2008 Tornadoes in Southeast Wisconsin were crazy. One was a strong upper EF3.
@@R6-D2 ... Yes. I lived on Lake Geneva coming back from Burlington. There were 4 funnels that crossed the lake. After getting to New Munster after the ef3 passed it was time to see if everyone's ok. Lots of damage. One broken arm. I don't think the red canoe was ever found.
I'm not much of a chaser yet, but I can surely help those in need.
Thank you Skip for all you do.
I live in Indiana. There have been several times I have been blinded by lightning because it is being reflected off of snow that fell just a few days prior. We say here "If you don't like the weather in Indiana, don't worry, it will change." 😂
Lived in Jacksonville IL as a kid....saw six Tornados up close and in person growing up there, and they scared the you know what out of me. I would rather see them on RUclips. Stay safe everyone!
Love you work skip!!!!!! Best technical and safest chaser by a mile...peace from canada
Safest!? Did you see me get run over by that leafnado? I was outside of the car and everything. ;)
@@skiptalbot hahahaha...hopefully you make it up to Alberta some day and we meet up on a chase. I don't give out compliments often but I really appreciate the science, planning, calculated risks and intelligence of your chases. I have learned alot from you work!!!!!
Thanks for the words. I'd love to chase Canada someday.
I know someone with better video quality ;) Pecos Hank, but its great too
Moe Lester Fellow Albertan saying hello! Be safe this upcoming season.
One of the best tornadoes video i have ever seen, congrats!!
You and pecos need to get together for a video. Yall are just the best. Clear and calm explanations, close up and wide views, no panicking, shouting or shaky cameras, just amazing.
Thanks, and we did. Check out the May 28, 2019 Tipton Kansas videos.
@@skiptalbot oh! Im gonna go watch it now! I just found you today! Happy hunting and be careful!
What’s weird is me my brother and dad were working on a fire bird and while we were doing it, it got super warm to were it was colder in the garage than it was outside. Then it dropped instantly. Every one else was working on the car and thought nothing of it. I thought what if there was a tornado today were would we go. I kept thinking there was going to be a tornado today and I don’t know why. But it got super windy out of nowhere. I then thought well it’s December it most likely won’t happen. The next day I found out there was 22 tornadoes that day all over Illinois and one close to us only 30 miles away.
You got great video!! I'm about 10 miles from Beardstown, we got called to come help tarp roofs and cut brush later that day and the whole next week. We were up in Washington in 13' after that huge November tornado. Love your videos
Great job Skip. The shot @ 16:09 is jaw dropping! Thanks for the upload, stay safe...
ths by far best coverage of tornado chasing i seen
Well done, Skip.. Yourself & Pecos Hank are far & away, the 2 best masters of capturing visually & audially the stunning effects of our North American twisters.. Hats-off !
Some nice captures of the RFD Skip. Thanks for sharing these.
1:19 That is perhaps the most realistic and amazing footage of a supercell as a whole! You can see a lowering and a large dump of rain from the distance as well as the anvil top of the storm- and above the lowering on the left u can clearly see an overshooting top- a good indicator of rotation from a distance! Truely amazing footage!
My first ever tornado on that day! Saw an amazing 8 tornadoes!! Witnessed the three around Detroit, Beardstown, and the Litchfield/Taylorville tornado family! Mesmerizing that day was!!
Skip, this is an absolutely amazing film. It has to be watched full screen (and not on a smart phone).
Awesome work. Stunning video; calculating maneuvering; calm reporting; and superior editing! All the best going forward.
Who’s here after the 2021 December tornadoes that hit Illinois and the rest of the Midwest?
"Dippy doo lowering" New storm spotter jargon 😆 Excellent work as always Skip! Keep up the great work.
At 16:10, some of the best photography of a tornado I’ve ever seen. Excellent work!
I think this might be the best video I've ever seen of tornadogenesis. Great job.
I love when the chaser gives a bit of a rundown in the beginning of the video. What the conditions and parameters are, where they’re going. What they’re expecting
Pecos Hank was my only go to RUclips storm chaser. Not anymore. Wow Skip you are astonishing! Fastest sub click ever.
Great stuff! Thanks for not being one of those hyperactive yellers while recording.
Nice video. No crappy music. No screaming and yelling. And appears you use a tripod for the camera. Very nice.
I grew up in Illinois and I remember we see to get so many tornadoes-especially when we were at school. I have always been scared to death of them and I still am-even watching video of it!
That was a very rare opportunity you had there. Glad you seized the moment and get some amazing footage. Best of luck in your future travels.
Skip, really love the quality and commentary of your videos. Keep up the great work!!!
Incredible footage, Skip! Thanks for sharing it with us. The shots at 12:49 and 16:10 are just beautiful!
Tornados in December?
They can happen any time of year. It's somewhat rare to get enough surface based instability in the Dec-Feb period outside the deep south though.
Yes it can even happened in December not just in April to August
Here in St. Louis it's happened several times in my lifetime. One of them was January of 1967 which was an EF4 that passed by our house only 1/4 mile a way. For locals who might be interested, this was on Olive St. Road at Hog Hollow, about 1 mile from where the tornado originated at Ladue and Olive near the Emergency Operations Center. Mom and I were looking out the dining room window and we clearly saw it. After seeing and hearing the roar of the tornado, Mom almost killed me trying to save me by rushing me down the stairs. I ended up falling off the side of the stairs, well before code required better safety standards for stairways -- oops! In her defense, lighting struck our patio as we were rushing by the double glass doors and the electric went out instantly, so everything went black. That made us panic even worse. I was just a little kid but remember it like yesterday. IIRC, 3 people died in that storm.
It's just very warm here in Illinois
Yeah, couple years ago in Rowlett, Tx there was an Ef4 tornado that touched down on Dec 26
Iowa has had some weird tornado outbreaks this year as well, july 19 was unforecast, and then we had multiple episodes of tornado in october.
You saw more tornadoes on this December day than I have seen in 14 years of chasing early-mid July. Nice work!
Spotter here, from St.Louis, Missouri. I'll start by saying, love all of the work that you do! However, I was wondering as to if you are a licensed HAM or not? It just seems like the HAM route would be way easier in terms of relaying reports, rather than the spotter network. Thoughts?
WX9KIP here. I'm active with Central Illinois Skywarn, which is amateur radio based out of Springfield, IL. Ham radio is the way to go when I'm back porch spotting. However, I've found it much easier to use Spotter Network when chasing. I move quickly from area to area, so the logistics of keeping up with which repeater I'm closest to, which Skywarn nets are active in the area (if any), and in which NWS CWA I'm located are a time consuming hassle. With just a 5 watt handheld and at highway speed, I may not even be on the repeater long enough to wait for traffic, introduce myself, and then give what's going to be a third party report before I'm out of range. I also don't even immediately know where I'm at, but would have to stop and consult the map to get the intersection. Spotter Network takes care of all of this for me. It sends my precise GPS position off to the correct NWS CWA. So all I have to do is bang out a report and hit send. And sometimes it's as simple as "1 n" which is how I reported that last nighttime tornado, meaning it was one mile north of my position. It took about 10 seconds to hit the Send Report button, the Tornado option, type "1 n" and send.
mPING is geared more toward general weather observations like taking rain and snow measurements. There's a little bit of overlap there as I believe it's also used for hail reporting and flooding as is Spotter Network. But Spotter Network is focused on emergency situations, threats to life and property, that the Weather Service needs to see immediately for warning decisions. mPING is used more for forecasts, research, and event logging. Citizen weather observing as opposed to storm spotting.
Ham definitely is, I'm not a chaser myself but I was raised to operate, That night was the first time i broadcasted to those in surrounding towns to be ready.
Amazing footage- and thanks for keeping the original audio with this rather than a music track!
Welcome back, Skip. I'm dying for more of your vids. I see you're running solo. I hope this isn't permanent next season.
You've got some beautiful photography here! Thank you...
you and pecos always have the best video footage
Why is it there is so much beauty in nature but it can be so dangerous at the same time? What a great video, Skip.
Impressive footage, well done, Skip! Great job putting this video together and thanks for posting it!
I like your videos....good pics, good details, very informative.....keep up the good work and be safe......Ohio storm chaser, Fayette county...
Your footage is incredible. Terrific editing. Stay safe out there.
That’s great footage you have there, Skip. You are the best storm chaser that people like to see more of your video work. You are very calm person not act like Reed Timmer, I don’t like the way he screams his butt off!!! Plus I don’t hear any sirens going off?! Did they go off just wondering. Thanks so much
Yep, the sirens sounded in Beardstown and they're pretty eerie sounding. You can hear them in Andrew Pritchard's and Dan Robinson's videos from this day. The tornado had cleared the area and they turned the sirens off by the time I entered town.
I'd like to know what the Bath tornado would have been rated as if it had actually made it into a populated area. The upward velocity seems to be incredibly high for an EF0
There was a wedge EF-3 tornado that went through Taylorville, IL, that day too. They aired a tornado emergency over the radio. I had never heard one of those in real time before that point.
Poah this sc is absolutely stunning, especially at 16 minutes with all the layers. Love this
Great video Skip! It's been a while since I've had a good storm to chase here on the East Coast, though our last storm season was very interesting, just gotta get through winter, thanks for sharing!
Excellent footage Skip. I also liked there was no shouting and screaming. However, a bit of commentary would have not gone amiss. I saw, at around 19 minutes, multiple vortices, horizontal vortices and a power flash or two, or was it lightning? Your expertise would leave no doubt and confirm the viewers observations. All in all, though, an excellent production.
Thanks. Commentary for this event: ruclips.net/video/rVIQtKuDr2c/видео.html
Watching this on a 4K TV I felt like I was there with you because it was such crisp footage.
The Bluffs tornado formed less than a half a mile from me near the river near Valley City as I was waiting. You and I must have been very near each other. Great day, yet sad day for some. Nice video
Love the cinematography style in this video 😍
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at right around 8:04 you can see a bright flash at the bottom of the screen at ground level near the tornado. is that a power line getting ripped up or somehting?
Yes. Power flashes are are the winds causing power lines to arc. There is another one at 23:36. If you look closely or watch in 4k you can even see sparks being blown off the lines after the flash.
There was also one in Taylorville, IL
That was a EF-3
it was reported as one but it was a clear EF5 entering
Hats of to you sir great chase finally someone with more than 5 minutes
Worth of footage great to watch thank you from Australia 👍🏻
I live in Illinois. It's pretty freaky seeing tornado's in the late,late fall with snow on the ground. Skip I have to say you have great skill in photography. It looks like I'm watching it with you in your vehicle,Awesome. I was getting food at White Castle when a F4 or F5 hit Joliet & Plainfield IL. years ago. When ordering my food at the drive up window all of a sudden the sky turned black and the temperature dropped about 20 degrees. K-Mart was across the parking lot so my sister & I went in there for cover. People in the store all stood in front of the windows to watch. We ran to the back of the store to take cover from all the glass if it touched down there. It touched down about a quarter of a mile behind the K-mart and hit a big apartment complex. It was real bad touch down and people died and cars were thrown like toys cars piled up on each other. My sister friends little girl lived in the apartment bld and lived on top fl. and she went through 3 fls. to bottom fl. and survived thankfully. We later went to Plainfield to help some people gather some belongings that were left from their home being destroyed so they can go stay with friends. Most homes there were only the foundations left and not one tiny stick of wood or anything from the homes could be found. That tornado was a deadly one for sure. Was something you'll never forget as it was so tragic. Let me say that these tornado's this late in the year are signs from our Lord God. The book has been opened just recent and the 7 seals of Revelation are opened. That means our Lord Jesus Christ is coming for his bride anytime now. Todays date is 12/14/2018 so be watching. God bless and hope everyone is repenting and born again in Christ so they can leave with our King Jesus Christ.
Thank you for the story, Lindy. It was the Plainfield F5 that sparked my interest in tornadoes. I lived in Bolingbrook at the time. You know that tornado hit without a tornado warning. It would be unthinkable if that happened today. We’ve come so far since 1990, making huge strides in our understanding of tornadoes and the technology we have to detect them. It was science that got us those advances, hard work furthering the fields of meteorology, physics, and engineering. It is ignorance that leads us to appeal to our ancestor’s superstitions, look to ancient mythology for answers, and resort to magical thinking. For thousands of years people have been seeing disaster and exclaiming, “the end is nigh!” But these are natural events that we can understand and for which we can prepare. It’s time that we take responsibility for our own wellbeing, and not leave our fate to ignorance and magical thinking. Because ignorance costs lives when it comes to tornadoes. If the Chicago weather service office could have gotten a WSR-88D radar a couple years earlier, some of the folks that died in Plainfield might still be with us today. That’s something all of the Bibles in the world couldn’t do.
What an awesome sky! But why is the tornado sort of stuttery and blurry? Is it because of your camera? And what is a really good camera for storm chasing? Thanks.
Not sure what's causing the stuttering issues you are seeing, but tornadoes are naturally soft subjects. That funnel is a fluffy cloud after all. For storm chasing applications you want to look at cameras that have a high dynamic range, and also good low-light performance.
Great work as always Skip! Yeah not every day you get them in central IL in December with snow on the ground!
You gonna get colder temps in February like -60 degrees cold.
What was that electrical discharge at 8:03? Whatever it was you can hear it pop on the camera so I imagine it was powerful.
It's the power lines arcing from the tornado's winds. I think it's just a coincidence that I made a noise in the car at that moment, but I have heard lightning induce sounds in nearby objects. This discharge was nowhere near that big though.
you are realllllllly good at predicting drop zones! GREAT VIDEO MAN!