The 2008 Parkersburg EF5 Tornado - How to rebuild a Tornado Town.
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- In May of 2008, a small town in Iowa was devastated by a long-track EF5 tornado. In a few short minutes, the southern half of Parkersburg was wiped clean off the map. Over 300 homes, several banks, and a high school were subject to winds over 200 miles per hour. Just one year removed from the Greensburg disaster, many residents were left wondering how, and if, their beloved town would recover. Against the odds, and with the help of Americans across the country, Parkersburg has made a full recovery, and is now a decent small mid-American town with a brand-new high school. Today we’ll look at the meteorology behind one of the most devastating tornadoes of the early 2000s, examine in-detail the wild and inconsistent damage path that this tornado produced, and draw eerily similar comparisons to one of the most infamous tornadoes of all time that occurred 5 years later.
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0:00 Intro
1:03 The EF Scale
4:17 2008 was BAD.
5:22 May 22 tornadoes
8:55 May 23-24 tornadoes
11:20 May 25 - The Big One
13:28 All hell broke loose
17:36 How can you rebuild?
19:13 Visiting Parkersburg Today
The 2008 Parkersburg EF5 Tornado - How to rebuild a Tornado Town.
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What is the song playing during the intro? I hope everyone and their loved ones have a fun, happy, healthy, and safe 2024! :)
(disaster footage) The Music:💃💃💃
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@@pinnnn2234 I’m from Louisiana.
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To be fair, I find it more 'objective' and fitting of an educational documentary than melodramatic music.
@@tsunamianakinstay safe out there from your Minnesotan neighbor
Parkersburg and Greensburg are perfect examples of what happens when a civilization comes together and rebuilds a town back better than it was before the event happened.
From what I remember though, didn't a noticeable part of the population of Greensburg feel like the changes and energy restrictions were being forced on them?
Greensburg got off to a really quick start when it came to rebuilding but has slowed down significantly in recent years. There’s practically no rebuilt houses or structures on the northern section of town and the whole town is still very barren and the population is declining still.
@@kjburns3226 That's because inflation is wiping towns like this off the map because the little mom and pop businesses can't hang on like the big boxes and if the town doesn't have a major employer in it or around it, people are forced to go find work elsewhere and many next generations move away and don't come back as a result.
@@RT-qd8yl Imagine my shock when you say this was forced on the people of Greensburg who are mostly farmers and small town business people who probably have lived the way their ancestors who settled the town did and have got by without modern intrusive technologies making their lives miserable.
Of course, if you're willing to live in an area like those named ,you really have no other option but to rebuild.
Where else are you going to have residents or community like minded people other than to rebuild so you maintain that particular community.
I actually went and helped with relief efforts after the tornado and it was a very sobering experience coming into town and seeing road names spray painted on plywood to tell you where you were because there weren't even street signs left. I vividly remember driving past what was left of the foundation and basement walls of a house and seeing a piano, unscathed, balanced perfectly on top of the cinderblocks. It was so wild. It was a formative experience for me, seeing the damage first hand but also getting to know the people of Parkersburg. They're amazingly strong and I got to drive back through town a couple months ago. I'm so happy to see the town rebuilt and the people thriving again. Keep on rocking, Parkersburg, y'all are amazing!
I'm a native of Ackley and the tornado sirens were going off in town that afternoon, but the tornado touched down on the Sherm Hook farm straight south of Aplington. They had just refurbished the old barn and of course it was destroyed. I was in P-burg a week after the storm and I lost my sense of bearing in the destruction path. Never will forget it.
Can't believe it's been 10 years since an EF5.
I feel that this one is not so well-known.
Another not well know EF5 is the El Reno EF5 that happened on may 24th 2011. It gets overshadowed by the Joplin tornado that happened 2 days prior.
@@Sj430 And also by the 2013 El Reno storm.
@@Sj430 what about the rainsville EF5 that happened on april 27th 2011?
@@NeoJae the rainsville tornado is also not well known either. It gets overshadowed by the other 3 EF5 tornadoes that happened on the same day. It also it gets overshadowed by the Tuscaloosa and Cullman tornadoes as well.
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An excellent demonstration of how to use this medium to provide detailed and complex information without ever 'dumbing down'. You have a real talent for this, and we are all the beneficiaries.
We got called out to storm spotting 30 min west of Parkersburg. I remember watching the storm to our north of us travel east. It was black as night. A little bit later, we were called to travel to Parkersburg for assistance. It was crazy driving into town from the west. Everything looked fine until we got to the turn on Hwy 14. I will never forget that day. Thank you for this video.
Topic suggestion: You should do a video about the little known April 4, 1966 EF4 tornado/tornado family that touched down in Tampa and crossed virtually the entire Florida peninsula before dissipating. In addition, it killed 11 People and injured 530 according to the tornado archive website and Wikipedia. It was also part of a little-known tornado outbreak in the region. Look up the Tornado outbreak of April 4-5, 1966.
*F4
@@cipherpurinina Thanks for the clarification. I almost forgot that we used to have a better, more efficient scale in place before the EF one was implemented.
Also was/is the only violent tornado within Florida...
The power of Florida being a hub for oddities continues
@@3dpyromaniac560i mean in 1963 the most violent tornado of the year hit Milton, FL and killed something like 13 people. Florida gets a lot of tornadoes, just most of them are EF-0 to EF-2 damage.
@@Breadmaker332 that was an F3, "Violent" are (E)F4-5
As a native to Fort Collins, I remember my parents and the news constantly recounting the Windsor Tornado. I think it was that storm that fueled my interest in severe weather
My house had its roof torn off in that tornado (Source, I was in junior high at that time in windsod)
To add to how bonkers 2008 was, early August saw a significant derecho move through my area in northern Illinois. A short lived EF1 passed directly next to my house when the derecho hit, kick-starting my interest in severe weather. It's a shame 10 year old me ran straight to the basement instead of glancing upwards, I would've had a perfect view of the tornado going by.
I am also in Illinois, so I'm familiar with how minor the tornados here usually are, but I'd still be hesitant to watch one passing by next to my house. You never know when the thing will chuck a 2×4 through your window.
My teacher asked what was the most prominent thing that happended the year when you were born, i shared this story and everyone was like " ....*oh* "
Absolutley love your content. Stumbled onto your videos when looking up the infamous tornadoes that struck Kentucky in December of 2021. Your channel was part of the recommendations, and really helps to better learn and understand how these vicious storms are created, and the strange circumstances that sometimes create these monsters of storms in the most unlikely places. I'm also curious what other major tornadoes you'll be covering, such as possibly the 2021 Kentucky F4, or maybe the 1991 Andover Kansas tornado, which as I recall was one of the storms that began the myth that if you hide under a highway bridge you can be 'safe' from tornadoes. Keep up the fantastic work!
CarlyAnnaWX has some great videos on those two events!
It's an EF4...and that storm was a beast. The warm air was a welcome early Christmas present (I have back issues, the warmer the air, the less I hurt). Other Creators have videos on those events, AND more, such as Moore, El Reno, Tuscaloosa, and so on. Saddly, no-body will cover the lesser known tornadoes of such events as the big one is the flagship...It'd be interesting to hear about the stories of the smaller ones too.
I very much admire your ability to explain scientific concepts into laymen's terms. Your videos are well done.
I just drove through Parkersburg an hour ago. Got into Marshalltown, popped up my laptop in a hotel and I click on a weatherbox vid as I always do. (Here for work, out of state)
I HAD NO IDEA. That town is super clean and I am dumb founded. Definitely made my year by this coincidence. Great video again.
Parkersburg was the first EF5 to strike Iowa in 32 years, and the third to occur on a May 25th (Blackwell, Oklahoma (20 dead) and Udall, Kansas (80 dead) were hit in 1955). The last one at that point was Jordan on 6/13/1976, another heavily studied F5 by Fujita and Forbes. Fujita labeled Jordan as one of the most intense tornadoes he surveyed saying winds were probably 500 MPH! As of this upload, a total of 66 tornadoes have been rated F5/EF5 around the world: 59 in the US since 1950 (first one was Waco, Texas in 1953), and seven outside the US.
Ah yes, the tornado that a lot of reddit thinks shouldn't be an EF-5, and somehow think Rolling Fork should have been despite not having anywhere remotely close to the damage of Parkersburg. The reality is, Parkersburg was an absolutely insane tornado. It quite literally sucked people out of of their basements, sucked literally every possession from the house from top to bottom of houses that exceeded "well built" by the NWS standards. It left land so barren you would think a new house was about to built. There was absolutely nothing left on entire properties. This tornado placed on the track or Joplin would have been far far worse. The videos we have of Joplin taken from basements and underground oil change businesses just wouldn't exist. I would absolutely put this one in my top five scariest tornadoes. It's insane just how little was left on some of the properties. A concrete pad, that was it. No belingings, no debris, just gone.
The 2006 Iowa City F2 missed me by a few blocks, and then this one hit Parkersburg a few weeks after I'd finished school. I loved my time in Iowa, resilient people when it comes to tornados!
"As is, no warranty" and "Open floor plan" have to be some of the most Midwest reactions to an ef-5 tornado's damage I've ever seen
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I absolutely love your channel. The information presented is neither dumbed down nor elitist. Its clear, factual and well documented. You should go into teaching because the love you have for the subject you transmit well. Thank you.
I will never ever forget this tornado I was one of the first people to respond after the tornado passed the level of destruction and the dread of knowing there would be fatalities unfortunately there was but fortunately there wasn’t many thanks to the early enough warning. It’s great to see how the town has rebounded I’ve always enjoyed going to Parkersburg
I looked in your back-catalogue and didn't see it, but the 2012 Derecho that put much of the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic in the dark for several days is of interest to me.
Watching it coming from the porch of my home in West Virginia and hearing that freight-train sound as it approached was one of the most interesting moments of my life.
That storm took power from my town (in NW Ohio), but my town having it's own power grid & related techs & equipment meant that power was back in less than 6 hours. Also, have you heard a freight train? A B1 Lancer is the closest man made object I can think of that even closely matches that of a tornado or derecho. Freight trains have all kinds of METALLIC bangs, clangs, squeals, thumping, and in various obviously metallic tones. Having heard a tornado, said tornado having gone through my town and personally seeing the 2012 Derecho, and living less than 100ft from a 50+train a day rail line, tornadoes & derecho's are completely different sounding. A B1 Lancer is the closest match I could find when played with a video that has an audible roar. And note how specific I was on aircraft.
Both this tornado and it's parent supercell were supremely violent. The Parkersburg EF5, similarly to the Rainsville EF5 and 2011 Piedmont El-Reno EF5 were all high-end EF5s that produced amongst the most violent damage ever recorded. The Parkersburg EF5 was also rather unique in the sense that despite being produced by a titanic sized HP supercell, it was a highly visible and photogenic tornado. It also basically touched down as a violent wedge, wasting no time.
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I've gotta say, I really do love the music you produce for these videos.
It reminds me a lot of Boards of Canada. Takes me back to watching the classic tornado vhs documentaries from the 90s.
Sir, I’d like to add one thing to this video.
As a fellow storm chaser and former resident of Aplington/Parkersburg (2016-2019) I can say unequivocally that you did this town justice.
I worked as a bartender & cook at Beaver Meadows Country Club. This isn’t your typical golf establishment. On hot summer days, it’s not uncommon for 10+ year members to walk into the clubhouse shirtless looking for a cold beer.
During one such day, the former owner of Mad Dog’s found out that I’m a storm chaser and descended on me with his buddies telling me stories about their experiences on May 25th.
All of them talked about the roar and the violence of it, but they also told me how long it took them to decide to start clean-up.
It took 20 minutes.
20 minutes after the tornado passed, these people were already out sorting debris, looking for survivors and coordinating relief.
I think that says something about that town. They’d just been rocked by one of the most violent things the earth can produce, and 20 minutes later they were carrying on.
That’s pretty special.
20 minutes in the midst of all this must've felt like the blink of an eye, that story is incredible. Thank you for sharing!
Another great video by Weatherbox Steve. I always look forward to your Tornado videos. I’m looking forward to the next one. Would love to see your prospective of the 1991 Andover F5 and the 1990 Plainfield F5.
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I’ve been a Windsor, CO resident my whole life. May 22nd is the day that started my interest in weather and Tornadoes in particular. I remember it was the last day of 1st grade and the whole class was supposed to go to Main Park for lunch. It ended up taking a direct hit from the tornado. The footage at 8:04 is actually the tornado going over the regional State Farm Insurance call and claims center where my mom was working at the time. My sister was in the Windmill daycare center that took a direct hit. All were okay thankfully but May 22nd is a day we all remember.
It’s always a good day when Weatherbox uploads
As an Iowan at heart... this video was........ fantastic. Thank you. 💜
Been waiting for this as an Iowa native
Just went to Iowa for the first time! Loved it
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I'm currently in school to be a pilot and these videos help me get a better understanding of weather phenomenon I don't have a lot of experience with. Thanks for making quality and well researched videos!
Fly safe brother -fellow pilot
Man, the songs you make for the intros are awesome! I wouldn't mind hearing a full version of em
Making a full album soon!
Great video and very educational on the Parkersburg-New Hartford EF5 tornado!
As for recommendations: can you cover the Birmingham-Smithfield F5 tornado from 1977? That was one of three (alongside Lubbock 1970 and Xenia 1974) that Dr Fujita nearly rated an F6.
I wish you much success with your channel. This is super high quality stuff and you do a better job of making your content as educational as possible without overloading everyone with too much technical info. Thanks for the great videos!
I think this is your best video yet. Fantastic story telling and loved the personal touch at the end about your visit
The music keeps me coming back these intro songs are always bangers
Dope dope dope. Immediately saved in my Storm playlist.
As far as suggestions, the 1965 Palm Sunday or the 1980 Grand Island outbreaks would be interesting.
This video is comprehensive and well edited! Great job as always, keep it up!
This is the best channel about tornado's with detailed information, thank you!
Keep up the good work, I can really see all the effort put into this stuff
best notification ive gotten all week! Love your content. The west is really beautiful, glad you got to see Yellowstone and the Tetons, super incredible sights.
I'd always love to hear about the last 2000s dericho that went across the midwest, but all the stuff you talk about is always super entertaining regardless
You are by far my favorite tornado documentary channel. Your videos are short and don’t drag. Everything is also easily explained too. Keep up the great work.
Love the Jexus-esque synth overlay fade into disaster footage. Great work as always
Man I binged watched all of Pecos Hanks videos and was looking for someone new to watch. Clicked and abandoned so many youtubers but once I got to yours I was hooked. Good content!
Great work Weatherbox! I appreciate the effort you put into your videos.
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Just when the world needed him the most, he returned.
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I’ve been watching your videos recently and they are such a banger! Keep up the great work weatherbox!
Great to have you back with another quality video.
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Fantastic video, right to the very end, this was so well done! Thank you!
Killer video man. The intro music was a absolute banger! I'd genuinely like to see you do a tornado edit like you have for the beginning of the video!
Once again, top notch reporting and coverate here. Thank you for all the work you and your fellow young weather experts and/or students (and some skilled amateurs) are doing.
Hope that you keep up the good work and content, you have a talent for explaining things in such way that looking at the news weather report takes on a whole new level of meaning. Prior to watching some of your videos it was always lines on screen without any explination about what any of them meant or how they came to be. Well done explaining things in such an incredable fashion as to answer those questions for me.
He's cute and covers the stories incredibly! Awesome channel!
Great day when he uploads
Iowa strong, baby!
I live in Iowa just a bit south of Parkersburg. Really proud of how folks pulled together to rebuild after this tornado.
I think you shoild stick to Iowa and cover the 2020 derecho. Absolutely crazy what it did, especially to Cedar Rapids, which was horribly flooded about a month after the Parkersburg tornado. It's quite a story.
Heck, maybe even consider the December 2021 derecho. I've lived in Iowa my entire life, and the timing of that storm along with the conditions leading up to it still blows my mind!
You know I have to tell you . Your knowledge of the weather is really amazing !! Very Impressive !! At least for a layman like myself. I've always been interested in the weather ! But lacked the knowledge . That's where you come in. You help people like me understand (sorta) what's going on. Or why it happened? Thank You for your time, and your break downs
Really like these videos and your channel thanks !!
Love your channel! You're great at presenting information and I learn something new each time I watch! :)
Nice job with this video - both the content and the narration 👏🏻
Great documentary!!
Great video, amazingly researched
Amazing content once again! Your videos are the perfect intersection of being scientific and educational, and that's a tough one with these kind of topics - keep 'em coming please!
Also, I'd highly recommend doing a video of the Armistice Day Storm of 1940 - an absolutely mind-boggling weather event (albeit also downright tragic with the death count) that is still hard to comprehend to this day! Furthermore, it was a major turning point for how weather forecasting was monitored and communicated regionally. As a avid duck hunter and native to Wisconsin, this one would be a fascinating topic to hear more about, especially with some meteorological and scientific insight!
You do a phenomenal job brother. I thoroughly enjoy your content, your narration and your personality while educating us. Keep up the great work and I wish sweet success for you sir.
Thank you!
I lived just outside Parkersburg a couple miles away from senator chuck Grassley. I worked for the company who cleaned up the metal from the absolute destruction this storm caused. I've never seen anything like that disaster before , I've never seen anything like it since then, thank God. My friend Jerry's house was the first house hit. His kids were in the basement and were uninjured. Although looking at the aftermath, you would have thought nobody could survive such an event...
That tornado put pieces of Parkersburg in central Iowa into Franklin County Wisconsin
As a weather enthusiast, this is incredibly well built
yet another banger. love it. keep it up
Thank you bro!!
I always learn so much watching these dependably enjoyable videos.
I am from the Waterloo area and remember this tornado. I have cousins who live in the Dike New Hartford area. They were hit hard, their house was gone and they probably wouldn’t have made it if not for the fact that they built their house and choose to add a extra bunker. My grandpa even made a door for them. When I learned about what they went though I was amazed. We don’t talk about it us cousins. We were all young then(2-5 years old).
I was like 8 when this happened and the memories are still so clear in my mind, and I didn’t even live in Parkersburg. But I did live fairly close to the Waterloo airport so the tornado felt way too close as it passed a couple miles north of us and toward Dunkerton. This was the storm that made me realize not having a basement really sucks when it’s tornado time.
Hey weatherbox! Glad to see another amazing video today! With the winter season approaching I was wondering if you'd consider making a video on some of the more recent blizzards such as the 2016 Snowmagedden or the 2017 Blizzard?
Wow... That was a TREMENDOUS video. Thanks for taking the time and effort to put it into such informative detail.
My suggestion, as we approach the anniversary of it, would be the EF3 Dallas "Cowboys" tornado of October 20th, 2019.
An example of how tornadoes hit in odd parts of the year, can hit large metropolitan areas, give little warning - that can be "ignored" because of a football game, and do MAJOR damage to residential areas, yet miraculously not kill anyone. There are still signs of the damage today, though much recovery has been completed.
I've been in a number of homes that were damaged (I install blinds and shades for a living - and people took advantage of insurance claims to upgrade after repairs/renovation), and there's some interesting analysis to be made. Especially if you time-sync it to the game going on at AT&T Stadium in Arlington just a few miles away.
Welcome back and great episode. Consider looking into the recent Idabel Oklahoma tornado. That area is somewhat isolated and overlooked by weather news. So I wonder how much preparation time they had for that big tornado that went through.
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thanks for making such high quality videos
So happy I found your channel a couple months ago your videos are very well done
Thanks Robert!
@@weatherboxstudios you're welcome
I live about 30 minutes from Parkersburg and helped clean up in the aftermath. That day was as tragic as it was terrifying. Thank god none of the kids were in school because of the holiday weekend. There was literally nothing left outside downtown... Rolling into town after the tornado is an imagine that will forever be burned into my brain. It was devastating. People describe it like a bomb went off. EF5 damage is so much worse than that. You can see all the videos and photos you want. But you will never really understand it fully until you see it in person. The smell of earth and gas and splintered wood. It makes you realize just the absolute raw power mother nature has over us and how little we can do to stop it.
It is a great day whenever weatherbox uploads a new video!
So cool to see your video on this, I live super close and a lot of family lived in Parkersburg at the time. I remember my mom going to help clean up. You should cover the 2020 derecho too
You should do a video on the most terrifying tornado of all time in my opinion the Cal Fire tornado of 2018. It was a real meteorological occurence with EF3 wind speeds wide as 3 football fields strong enough to lift a 25 ton bulldozer. It moved fast with little to no warning and many firefireghters and residents stuck in its path. What made this tornado the most insane was the flames inside the vortex reached 3000 degrees blowing up houses firetrucks and obliterating and melting everything in its path. Truly terrifying!
Great vid. Love your content man xx
Love your stuff man ❤❤😊
I would love for you to cover the 1990 tornado that hit Joliet and Springfield Illinois. I was 4, it hit a mile or so from the restaurant we were sheltering in. Great video as always!
Ahh, the Plainfield F5. I was around 11 years old when that happened. I was living in Evergreen Park at that time.
So scary
Excellent piece.
A little known tornado event in Jasper Ga in 1994 where 2 tornadoes hit hours apart killing several people. An F4 and F2. This would be an excellent event to document. Thanks
We missed you Steve, don't take so long to upload the next video please 😅
your videos are great and educational! thank you from yuma colorado!
Great to see a new vid! ❤
YES. Steve is back on air. It's amazing how now I am feeding on this content like a Mesoscale Convective System. Lol, now I am trapped in a full blown drug addiction or perhaps it's just a full blown Discrete Supercell; maybe a Progressive Derecheo, not quite sure.
It seems like Weatherbox is a Cold Front and my brain is a Moisture laden Warm Air Mass ahead of a dryline. The time spent waiting for the next video is equivalent to being the width of the dryline and after the time is up (dryline merges into the cold front) my Brains neurons (equivalent to air parcels) collide with Weatherbox and get EXPLOSIVELY FORCED THOUGH THE CAP. 🤯🤯🤯
The longer I wait for a video, the deeper the my depression gets so you could also say that the longer I wait the stronger the Low Pressure gets and if kept waiting too long I get isolated and "closed off", making my brain a warm front forming along the boundary of a Closed Low. Clear resemblance to a "Baroclinic Zone" such as from Sub Tropical cyclones.
Surely, my brain is like all brains and therefore has an EL (equilibrium level) but mine seems to always be the same height as the LFC (level of free convection) so there is a very narrow window of unrestrained growth and so there is always a struggle to absorb more energy, hence always met with resistance. This resistance (surely because I overthink everything) is like a guaranteed potential for a "Loaded Gun Scenario" every time a Weatherbox video is brewing, these air parcels will never be allowed to just rise freely without resistance.
Furthermore, the depth and technical nature of the Meteorology Data and Storm Destruction aftermath in this content is equivalent to being greater potential energy, so the greater amount of in depth discussion is equivalent to higher CAPE values. Combine this TIME WAITING parameter (deeper trough of low pressure) with the QUALITY OF CONTENT parameter (CAPE), it's like an extremely well mixed "Elevated Mixed Dry Layer" just like May 31st, 2013 during the El Reno F4 that had an invisible 2.6 Mile wide Wind Field.
But after the cold front passes through a particular region the threat for Tornadoes dissapears, in essence, the intoxication wears off and withdrawls set in; leaving me trembling and chomping at the bit in anticipation of the next video. Mainly, because I know I don't know much more than the basics and have so many more questions such as how to go about interpreting the STORM RELATIVE HELICITY or the ENERGY HELICITY INDEX on atmosphere soundings. The most fascinting is that "Elevated Mixed Dry Layer", I still dont fully grasp the Kinematics of this parameter. And the most confusing aspect about storm motion and how it discards unused material after sucking it clean of all the available energy is the OUTFLOW BOUNDARY; how in the h*** does an outflow boundary preceed the storm and leave dry air ahead of its path? What have I been failing to understand here?
Alas, you should now see that I have learned quite a bit from you. My humor is korny and this is the nerdiest comment I have ever written in social media, I probably made a stupid mistake in my references. Keep up the good work Steve, you are officially my new "content dealer", can't get this quality anywhere else.
*and I really have so much more to ask about how that Blocking High Pressure (omega block) influenced the jet stream wrapping around the backside of the closed low because the Jetstream always drops southward under and hence gets deformed by the Aleutian Low but its never sending storms in a NW trajectory like in Colorado, so though the High was weaker than the Low I can't help but focus on the Clockwise rotation of the High acting like a pulley on a conveyor belt which helped the particular supercells that formed along that Front to head NW instead of NE. This alone may deserve a short Weatherbox video such as the one you did on "Instability".
Best weather channel. Keep going!
The shot at 0:43 was really cool and I kinda wish more videos did that when talking about tornados
This is an outstanding video.
Thanks Shelby!
Damn, I'm glad that was a good recovery, had me worried with the title but they really made the best out of the worst situation in the end.
love it when you upload
It's that time again! Another Weatherbox video! Yay!
Hey! Just wanted to let you know you are one of the best metereology content creators on this platform, and my personal favorite!
I believe you've covered the FL "Villages" tornado outbreak, but if you read this comment: I'd like to suggest compiling a video on Florida tornadoes in general - perhaps their unique signatures, both ones that occur during hurricanes, and ones that occur at more mundane times, when no one expects violent weather.
This coming from the recent Tornado Warnings that were issued Thursday morning the 11th/ 12th of October 2023. Which of course, reports and footage are scant to be found. Debris is usually what is recorded since most FL tornados are short lasting and not devastating; this makes them elusive and mysterious.
Sorry for the ramble, much love.
-Fan