Hello Dr. Timmer, my name is Cody. I am a future double major in Meteorology with focus in Research Meteorology (for severe weather) and Mathematics of Physical Phenomena starting at the University of Nebraska Lincoln next semester. I plan to also complete my Doctor in Philosophy from Oklahoma immediately following graduation from Nebraska. For years you have been one of two of my idols, the other being Dr. Greg Forbes, and I dearly appreciate the live weather briefings that you have done recently as they are so informative and you aren't afraid to talk about advanced topics in front of your audience. One day I hope to work as a colleague of yours in the field (maybe not alongside you but in the same profession). I wanted to ask you what advice you would give to someone majoring in your specific area, whether it be academically, financially, or socially. I want to give myself the best opportunity to succeed that I can, and what better way than to ask the advice from one of the most popular and most successful research/extreme meteorologists out there. Anyways, I thank you for taking the time to read and respond to this comment if it finds your eyes. Respectfully, Cody
Don’t waste half a million on getting accreditation from a University.. Also, with you being so young, don’t expect things to go as you plan. It never does. Good luck!
I have been watching you now for about 3 months and you really have focus and admiration to your work. I ask a question today on your live and someone answered and laughed and it was directed to you 👍💨
Would you be able to do a live meteorological case study of the 2008 Windsor, CO tornado. This EF 3 tornado had a very rare north northwest track. It would be very educational to hear the dynamics of how this occurred.
@@rainesbobo that day was so weird, I lived in southeast Fort Collins at the time. I think my subconscious knew because I woke up that day thinking “it smells like a midwestern basement and it’s so dark sirens would be going off.”
Thank you for putting this together and sharing your insight on the parameters we need to pay attention to during peak season outbreaks. It's all too easy to look at SPC and pick a bullseye target these days, but armed with this knowledge it enables us to find those secondary targets we usually overlook.
This video is super good! Since I was a toddler my appetite for what's going on inside these mysterious "monster machines" is insatiable. However, this video of yours is what I never get enough of. Your years of, real, high-risk chasing "chemically reacted" with your Ph.D in Meteorology, make you a "killer" at chasing, researching, and explaining Tornadoes to the general public and "fanatics" like myself! Thank You!!!!The work you do in warning big cities and small towns of the sudden drop of a funnel, and, the fact that with your strong personal knowledge you can predict a change of direction which would the system aim for a line of towns, makes you invaluable! I do hope that all involved in proving you with, monetary compensation, such as You Tube, TV and documentary producers, the Nstiona Weather Service, etc., take you, "monetarily", into consideration for your heroic work! Pray for my health and I pray for your health, your safety and your happinss!
I wish I would have continued storm chasing, but getting married and having a child kind of changed my plans. I was chasing tornadoes back in the 1970 - 1980s with nothing more than a NOAA radio, HAM Radio, and a paper folding map. I graduated from Moore High School, but I ended up getting my degree in Geography down at U.T. I also love studying the formation of the Earth and its interaction with the atmosphere (Physical Geography). I'm now down in S.W. Florida and I try to get into as many Hurricane Eye's as possible. I've been inside my far share of Hurricane Eyes, and sometimes I don't even have to leave the house (such was the case with Hurricane Irma that made landfall at Marco Island/Naples area. It's much easier getting in the eye of a hurricane than intercepting a tornado that's for sure. Keep chasing - Maybe I'll see you down here in my neck of the woods, if we get a major hurricane sometime in the near future.
So refreshing and enjoyable to listen to a calm well informed discussion and explanation of the event. The "live" videos are great but you can only hear holy cow, multiple vortex, dangerous, RFD being screamed over and over for so long.
Always appreciate your work and knowledge of Tornadoes Reed. Great job on explaining the low pressures that influence these sub-vortices, I learned something new. Keep it up and stay safe bro.
Every time we try to get them to meet a reptile crosses the road and Pecos Hank takes off chasing it leaving Reed standing in the middle of the road. If your a true Pecos Hank fan you will understand that joke.
@@markwhite6782 Cute... Oh I definitely do. He watches out for the critters, too. I don't think a video has gone by without a mention of a snake or turtle or lizard. 🙂
@@julymiller2308 All kidding aside, I do not know Hanks background. One day he comes across as a meteorologist the next a zoologist and on and on. What I do know is nobody seems to be able to match that guys cinematology. He always gets the best camera and video shots while expanding the science on things such as sprites, lightning etc and puts just enough humor and sarcasm in to make you want to view more of his videos.
I used to dream of being a tornado chaser at 16 (34 years ago) but I have Relapsing Polychondritis & so my joint cartilage is a thing in the past... I know I never could physically chase anything now. I feel the direction and severity of pressure fluctuations from around Wichita (sometimes only Fort Scott), Flippin, Cape Girardeau, & Columbia... I've usually got everything packed, put up, and wife & kids in cellar long before a siren goes off. If a tornado or microburst or even derecho comes thru I'm usually a scream pukin fetal position on the floor, thankfully I don't remember them tho, but I get told about it later. Being a human barometer isn't as cool as you'd think it is actually. Thank God there's people like you all out there tho, sincerely. 🙏🏻
Really like this case study, would love to see more of them (if you don’t do them) just to see a hind sight of the storms and what all happened, big thanks for doing this!
@@ReedTimmerWx definitely seems like it! I live in what seems to be the heart of the activity this year (Dixie Alley/Alabama) enjoy seeing your lives, and videos like this, again thank you for what you do! Never stop chasing and continue being safe out there!
Hey reed Iam a huge fan and I want to be a storm chaser too. I love watching the your episodes. I never saw a torndo in real-life but sometime I will. I love torndos and storms Never stop chasing
I bet the dominators the hood is unknowingly on a rooftop of a strip mall in a suburb of kansas city. I will never forget this day, there was something in the air you could feel it (74 degree dewpoint). Great video and explaining how everything comes together. I always think of ball bearings and how they rotate around the main bearing. Ive experienced two really awesome dust devils in the past few years that happened in early summer around noon on clear calm days around here that were 50-100 ft wide, 40-60mph winds, and were moving south west which means they were doing the full circling around the main rotation which is so cool to think about. (i was able to find the second one later that day on radar because of dust lofted in the air. I was so excited)
I think it would be interesting to go back into the archives, if the data are available, and do a post mortem analysis of the tornado outbreak of the early 1970's, the one that hit Xenia, Ohio. Given the technology of the day, I wonder how well the forecasters saw it coming and what were the conditions that led to such a monster outbreak.
RIP Twistex; this tornado was no doubt incredibly unusual and dangerous. However, it is absolutely warranted and beneficial that tornadoes are rated on the damage that they do rather than on wind measurements (let alone ones above ground level). The reasons for this are clear: tornadoes are rated in relation to their damage/danger to humans, and because damage is more irrefutable evidence of their power at ground level. This tornado most likely had the potential to cause EF4 or even EF5 damage, but so have 100s of other tornadoes over the years as well. The 2013 El Reno tornado did very little (arguably zero) ground scouring and vegetation damage damage at the EF5 level. By removing hypotheticals, if you compare it to the 2011 El Reno tornado, you have to come to the conclusion that the 2011 EF5 was far, far more damaging and stronger at the ground level than this 2013 one. Both were extremely tragic in the loss of lives, but based on the Enhanced Fujita scale and its (rightful, imo) assessment patterns, the 2011 tornado was far stronger at the ground level and the 2013 one did not warrant a rating above EF3.
Reed Timmer why do you think there are not? I’m not super savvy on this stuff...though it seems the EF scale is economically based and not meteorologically based...and I’m just a couch tornado chaser...are large tornadoes more prevalent or are there just more of you guys chasing them now?
@@Tylercorrell TO be honest, I am with you. The fact that this tornado is officially rated an EF3 is ridiculous. I grew up in Oklahoma, storm chased for a few years in Oklahoma and Texas before I moved to Washington state so I am limited to being a couch chaser now as well. I was watching this on TV and my computer as it was happening. It was scary as I still have tons of family and friends that live there. This thing was a monster and very unique.
What I always found interesting is that they say 2.6 miles wide when in fact the funnel width was only ~800 meters at 6:25. That's a little over a half mile wide. The reasoning is that the wind speeds out side of the main funnel (down to EF-0) met the criteria of a tornado. This is what adds 2 miles to the width.
@@Deucealive75 What we call the funnel is only the condensation of water vapor in the low pressure area of a cyclone, it is not the whole tornado, but more like the water beads on a chilled glass, but turned inside out. It is the extreme high wind immediately around the condensation that does the damage, that is the tornado. That simply was one big mug.
Your hood got caught on the power lines before you could do the hook slice. If it hadn't, do you think you'd have been hit directly by the expanding and turning storm?
I want to storm chase so bad but I don't because I would just be another untrained hobbyist congesting the roads for the true meteorologist. I could watch tornado videos all day. Good job on this video Reed!
@@johnkittz In all due respect it is a huge problem in Oklahoma and storm chasers have even complained both on-air and social media. I have seen videos of lines of cars jamming the roads while chasers can't adjust their position to avoid danger or accurate media coverage. Is it BS? Maybe but I would just rather not get in the way.
@@markwhite6782 I understand that, but being trained would have you riding with a chaser. You wouldn't be getting in the way. We need more serious chasers that are trained.
Eight dead. Four of which were Storm Chasers who were caught off guard by the erratic movements of the twister. Others were impacted, rolled, tossed, and injured. Chaser/Meteorologist Mike Bettes was extremely lucky to survive after what happened to his team in this storm. Reed himself came across their damaged SUV as shown in Tornado Chasers Nemesis Part 2.
47:31 that will always haunt me..... just a stunning image . their is probably 3 "tornadoes" in that shot.... if not more (plus the parent, which they are inside) nightmare fuel.... it really is
Yes i wanna see that I chased it as it flatten my neighborhood crazy thing is tho Reed wasn't chasing that storm I believe he was kinda debating on which storm he should go after but he ended up chasing a storm that was somewhere else
So, I have always wondered of course, if the El Reno monster had hit southwest OKC at the beginning of itself, there by increasing the damage & the Enhanced Fujita Scale, would the El Reno have possibly been the first EF-6 & it's sub vortices been individual EF-5s, or would the sub vortices been counted as part of the El Reno monster as a whole?
Here in the Netherlands, we get more and more tornadoes, they're getting stronger, too Sometimes I wonder how long it would take to have the first EF5 here The current strongest tornado here was an F4 in '96 I believe, it was out on the Veluwe
I vibe with your antimaterialism philosophy and live like a spartan too. Could blab for awhile but just would like to suggest an analysis on the 1997 jerrel tx tornado that moved due south. Seems quite unique for a system to do that.
Unfortunately your right it was on it's way towards Oklahoma City and people were jammed packed in traffic because everyone was trying to evacuate out of Oklahoma City after chasing the tornado I had to go south into Moore which is where I live by my house was destroyed in order to get into OKC where i stayed since my house was gone i live in Moore today tho our house was rebuilt like others
I don't know why Tim tried to pursue this erratic unusual tornado. It started out going SE - contrary to classic tornado direction. Im sure he observed just how big it was when he came up Reuter Rd and 81. These huge tornados tend to make sharp left turns to the north. I'm sure he realized this. He could have outrun it if he had had a bigger V 6 or V8 engine.
It’s on record that Carl Young wanted to stay just outside of the circulation but Tim Samaras believed they were in a bad spot but had enough time to outrun it to the East. In short - they lost situational awareness. The twister was moving much faster than it appeared to be due to the bears cage being the entire tornado instead of just the Tornadic core usually found inside the cone of the funnel.
Hey, Reed, a question from one West Michigan kid to another that probably nobody else in the comments section will get--Gary Bazner, Dennis Hodges, Dave Carmichael, or Craig James? (Four of the voices of my childhood...)
@@ReedTimmerWx Ha! We were a Channel 8 family (13 didn't come in too good down in Battle Creek, and we had 41 for ABC anyway), so I never got to see Bill until I was an adult, but he was always really good, too. Last I saw, he was still the head meteorologist at Channel 8, with Craig and Dennis having retired while Dave, last I knew, was doing syndicated radio weather for pretty much the entire state. (And hey, even if Gary wasn't a meteorologist, but just a WOOD-FM DJ who also did weather on TV, he certainly seemed to be genuinely interested and learned a lot from Dave and Dennis...)
@@ReedTimmerWx Not arguing, but what about the hail? And can’t the rain impede your view and make it harder to be situationally aware? Just wanting to learn; you’re the PhD. LOL.
@@djamo1969 Hurricanes/Cyclones/Typhoons use a different rating system. I’ve seen Cyclones come in at Cat 5 status do Cat 2 or 3 damage once they make landfall. Darwin, Australia got one of the nastiest of Christmas presents when a midget Cyclone no bigger than 60ft wide came in as Cat 4 rating but wiped Darwin off the map completely. Every single structure completely levelled to foundations.
So, Jesus said the Holy Ghost would come in His name and do miracles greater than what Jesus did... and Jesus said the worst tribulation to come on the world will come, then the moon and sun quit giving their light, then the stars fall from the sky, THEN the JESUS returns... How you gonna ignore all of that scripture to believe the rapture is imminent? How horrible of a workman are you? You ought to be ashamed. "STUDY TO SHEW THYSELF APPROVED." =( This is the BEGINNING of the HARVEST, not the END. You should be filling up your lamp with OIL (your heart with the Word) instead of WAITING idle.
That's Before the second coming, which is not the rapture. Enough with shaming.... this is not the place for debate.. plus it's a waste of time energy and doesn't glorify God. Not a salvation issue. It doesn't mean anyone is being idle.. worry about yourself.
I'll never get over Tim Samaras, Carl Young and Paul Samaras passing from this horrible event. 7 years later and it still hurts 😔
Tornado threw tim samaras car half a mile
I'm not going to lie...
I choked up when Reed talked about Tim, Paul, and Carl. Much respect for these men and what they were doing. RIP TWISTEX. 😢💕
No you don't. You don't even know those people.
Hello Dr. Timmer, my name is Cody. I am a future double major in Meteorology with focus in Research Meteorology (for severe weather) and Mathematics of Physical Phenomena starting at the University of Nebraska Lincoln next semester. I plan to also complete my Doctor in Philosophy from Oklahoma immediately following graduation from Nebraska. For years you have been one of two of my idols, the other being Dr. Greg Forbes, and I dearly appreciate the live weather briefings that you have done recently as they are so informative and you aren't afraid to talk about advanced topics in front of your audience. One day I hope to work as a colleague of yours in the field (maybe not alongside you but in the same profession). I wanted to ask you what advice you would give to someone majoring in your specific area, whether it be academically, financially, or socially. I want to give myself the best opportunity to succeed that I can, and what better way than to ask the advice from one of the most popular and most successful research/extreme meteorologists out there. Anyways, I thank you for taking the time to read and respond to this comment if it finds your eyes.
Respectfully,
Cody
Damn. You’re parents are going to be spending about $500,000 😂
Don’t waste half a million on getting accreditation from a University..
Also, with you being so young, don’t expect things to go as you plan. It never does. Good luck!
I have been watching you now for about 3 months and you really have focus and admiration to your work. I ask a question today on your live and someone answered and laughed and it was directed to you 👍💨
R.I.P. TWISTEX
Would you be able to do a live meteorological case study of the 2008 Windsor, CO tornado. This EF 3 tornado had a very rare north northwest track. It would be very educational to hear the dynamics of how this occurred.
Sure I can do that one! I remember that day well. First season of Storm Chasers
Good Pick! That was a strange one
@@ReedTimmerWx when can we expect this to be released?
@@rainesbobo that day was so weird, I lived in southeast Fort Collins at the time. I think my subconscious knew because I woke up that day thinking “it smells like a midwestern basement and it’s so dark sirens would be going off.”
Thank you for putting this together and sharing your insight on the parameters we need to pay attention to during peak season outbreaks. It's all too easy to look at SPC and pick a bullseye target these days, but armed with this knowledge it enables us to find those secondary targets we usually overlook.
RIP Twistex. 10 years today. Never forgotten.
Reed Keep these videos coming!! Never Stop Chasing!!
Thank you for this video, Dr. Timmer, and thank you for all that you do! Very educational!
Thank you, Reed! I sure appreciate your dedication! It gives us another perspective for those of us who chase in the southeastern states! Be blessed!
This video is super good! Since I was a toddler my appetite for what's going on inside these mysterious "monster machines" is insatiable.
However, this video of yours is what I never get enough of.
Your years of, real, high-risk chasing "chemically reacted" with your Ph.D in Meteorology, make you a "killer" at chasing, researching, and explaining Tornadoes to the general public and "fanatics" like myself! Thank You!!!!The work you do in warning big cities and small towns of the sudden drop of a funnel, and, the fact that with your strong personal knowledge you can predict a change of direction which would the system aim for a line of towns, makes you invaluable!
I do hope that all involved in proving you with, monetary compensation, such as You Tube, TV and documentary producers, the Nstiona Weather Service, etc., take you, "monetarily", into consideration for your heroic work!
Pray for my health and I pray for your health, your safety and your happinss!
I love these case studies, keep it up!
Love ya dude...what a mind...alot of knowledge. Keep doin what your doin bro.
This was a fascinating tornado. I still watch videos of it! Crazy, powerful stuff happening all the way through it in so many different areas.
I wish I would have continued storm chasing, but getting married and having a child kind of changed my plans. I was chasing tornadoes back in the 1970 - 1980s with nothing more than a NOAA radio, HAM Radio, and a paper folding map. I graduated from Moore High School, but I ended up getting my degree in Geography down at U.T. I also love studying the formation of the Earth and its interaction with the atmosphere (Physical Geography). I'm now down in S.W. Florida and I try to get into as many Hurricane Eye's as possible. I've been inside my far share of Hurricane Eyes, and sometimes I don't even have to leave the house (such was the case with Hurricane Irma that made landfall at Marco Island/Naples area. It's much easier getting in the eye of a hurricane than intercepting a tornado that's for sure. Keep chasing - Maybe I'll see you down here in my neck of the woods, if we get a major hurricane sometime in the near future.
So refreshing and enjoyable to listen to a calm well informed discussion and explanation of the event. The "live" videos are great but you can only hear holy cow, multiple vortex, dangerous, RFD being screamed over and over for so long.
Always appreciate your work and knowledge of Tornadoes Reed. Great job on explaining the low pressures that influence these sub-vortices, I learned something new. Keep it up and stay safe bro.
Praying for protection for you. You will be in contact with people when you storms chase, praying you keep well, and safe.
Really enjoyed this not a storm chasers and I did have to research some of the terminology but found it very informative and entertaining as well
I'd love to see you interview my other favorite storm chaser: Pecos Hank. Any chance of that happening?
hank will teach reed a lesson
i WANNA SEE THIS SO BAD!!! DO it!!
Every time we try to get them to meet a reptile crosses the road and Pecos Hank takes off chasing it leaving Reed standing in the middle of the road. If your a true Pecos Hank fan you will understand that joke.
@@markwhite6782 Cute... Oh I definitely do. He watches out for the critters, too. I don't think a video has gone by without a mention of a snake or turtle or lizard. 🙂
@@julymiller2308 All kidding aside, I do not know Hanks background. One day he comes across as a meteorologist the next a zoologist and on and on. What I do know is nobody seems to be able to match that guys cinematology. He always gets the best camera and video shots while expanding the science on things such as sprites, lightning etc and puts just enough humor and sarcasm in to make you want to view more of his videos.
I've been waiting on this for so so long
ME TOO!
Reed, you need to do this on the Pilger, Nebraska twin tornadoes 👀 I'd love that thx 👍😌
This was one scary storm. The whole Meso was nearly touching the ground.
I used to dream of being a tornado chaser at 16 (34 years ago) but I have Relapsing Polychondritis & so my joint cartilage is a thing in the past... I know I never could physically chase anything now. I feel the direction and severity of pressure fluctuations from around Wichita (sometimes only Fort Scott), Flippin, Cape Girardeau, & Columbia... I've usually got everything packed, put up, and wife & kids in cellar long before a siren goes off. If a tornado or microburst or even derecho comes thru I'm usually a scream pukin fetal position on the floor, thankfully I don't remember them tho, but I get told about it later. Being a human barometer isn't as cool as you'd think it is actually.
Thank God there's people like you all out there tho, sincerely. 🙏🏻
Really like this case study, would love to see more of them (if you don’t do them) just to see a hind sight of the storms and what all happened, big thanks for doing this!
Yes I need to do more of these. Non-stop storm chasing these days
@@ReedTimmerWx definitely seems like it! I live in what seems to be the heart of the activity this year (Dixie Alley/Alabama) enjoy seeing your lives, and videos like this, again thank you for what you do! Never stop chasing and continue being safe out there!
Hey reed Iam a huge fan and I want to be a storm chaser too. I love watching the your episodes. I never saw a torndo in real-life but sometime I will. I love torndos and storms
Never stop chasing
Rip peace tim samaras you were one of best storm chasers
I bet the dominators the hood is unknowingly on a rooftop of a strip mall in a suburb of kansas city. I will never forget this day, there was something in the air you could feel it (74 degree dewpoint). Great video and explaining how everything comes together. I always think of ball bearings and how they rotate around the main bearing. Ive experienced two really awesome dust devils in the past few years that happened in early summer around noon on clear calm days around here that were 50-100 ft wide, 40-60mph winds, and were moving south west which means they were doing the full circling around the main rotation which is so cool to think about. (i was able to find the second one later that day on radar because of dust lofted in the air. I was so excited)
I think it would be interesting to go back into the archives, if the data are available, and do a post mortem analysis of the tornado outbreak of the early 1970's, the one that hit Xenia, Ohio. Given the technology of the day, I wonder how well the forecasters saw it coming and what were the conditions that led to such a monster outbreak.
RIP Twistex; this tornado was no doubt incredibly unusual and dangerous. However, it is absolutely warranted and beneficial that tornadoes are rated on the damage that they do rather than on wind measurements (let alone ones above ground level). The reasons for this are clear: tornadoes are rated in relation to their damage/danger to humans, and because damage is more irrefutable evidence of their power at ground level. This tornado most likely had the potential to cause EF4 or even EF5 damage, but so have 100s of other tornadoes over the years as well. The 2013 El Reno tornado did very little (arguably zero) ground scouring and vegetation damage damage at the EF5 level. By removing hypotheticals, if you compare it to the 2011 El Reno tornado, you have to come to the conclusion that the 2011 EF5 was far, far more damaging and stronger at the ground level than this 2013 one. Both were extremely tragic in the loss of lives, but based on the Enhanced Fujita scale and its (rightful, imo) assessment patterns, the 2011 tornado was far stronger at the ground level and the 2013 one did not warrant a rating above EF3.
Easy f5 wind speed over 300mph
Since the EF scale doesn’t measure the size of a tornado...are there any studies based on tornado size?
Not many. There should be though
Reed Timmer why do you think there are not? I’m not super savvy on this stuff...though it seems the EF scale is economically based and not meteorologically based...and I’m just a couch tornado chaser...are large tornadoes more prevalent or are there just more of you guys chasing them now?
@@Tylercorrell TO be honest, I am with you. The fact that this tornado is officially rated an EF3 is ridiculous. I grew up in Oklahoma, storm chased for a few years in Oklahoma and Texas before I moved to Washington state so I am limited to being a couch chaser now as well. I was watching this on TV and my computer as it was happening. It was scary as I still have tons of family and friends that live there. This thing was a monster and very unique.
What I always found interesting is that they say 2.6 miles wide when in fact the funnel width was only ~800 meters at 6:25. That's a little over a half mile wide. The reasoning is that the wind speeds out side of the main funnel (down to EF-0) met the criteria of a tornado. This is what adds 2 miles to the width.
@@Deucealive75 What we call the funnel is only the condensation of water vapor in the low pressure area of a cyclone, it is not the whole tornado, but more like the water beads on a chilled glass, but turned inside out. It is the extreme high wind immediately around the condensation that does the damage, that is the tornado. That simply was one big mug.
Great review
Your hood got caught on the power lines before you could do the hook slice. If it hadn't, do you think you'd have been hit directly by the expanding and turning storm?
Very possible but we would have stopped in the col area as the northward turn was apparent
The tornado that made the news worldwide back in 2013
Thanks for this intressthing Brief about el Reno . Keep up your Mental happyness Reed , felt some deep bitter feelings at the End .
Alright guys every time Reed Timmer says "outflow boundary" you have to take a shot
I want to storm chase so bad but I don't because I would just be another untrained hobbyist congesting the roads for the true meteorologist. I could watch tornado videos all day. Good job on this video Reed!
Get trained. I'm sure you can go through training if there wasnt training then we wouldnt be seeing new storm chasers lol
@@johnkittz In all due respect it is a huge problem in Oklahoma and storm chasers have even complained both on-air and social media. I have seen videos of lines of cars jamming the roads while chasers can't adjust their position to avoid danger or accurate media coverage. Is it BS? Maybe but I would just rather not get in the way.
@@markwhite6782 I understand that, but being trained would have you riding with a chaser. You wouldn't be getting in the way. We need more serious chasers that are trained.
I hope 🤞 nobody got hurt or killed or injured 🤕 by the tornado 🌪 Rest In Peace for the tornado victims 😢
There were 9 deaths during the el Reno tornado. 2 of which were among the most highly respected chasers out there. Tim samaras and Carl young
Eight dead.
Four of which were Storm Chasers who were caught off guard by the erratic movements of the twister.
Others were impacted, rolled, tossed, and injured.
Chaser/Meteorologist Mike Bettes was extremely lucky to survive after what happened to his team in this storm. Reed himself came across their damaged SUV as shown in Tornado Chasers Nemesis Part 2.
47:31 that will always haunt me..... just a stunning image
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their is probably 3 "tornadoes" in that shot.... if not more (plus the parent, which they are inside)
nightmare fuel.... it really is
Mike Bettis team tried to outrun to the south, encountering a powerful subvortice. They were lucky to be alive
I love these types of videos! So fascinating, can you do one on the Moore Oklahoma tornado of May 20th, 2013?
Yes i wanna see that I chased it as it flatten my neighborhood crazy thing is tho Reed wasn't chasing that storm I believe he was kinda debating on which storm he should go after but he ended up chasing a storm that was somewhere else
RIP Twistex
Just shut up.
Started out as a dead man walking. Cool video....thanks.
This was monster. It was almost like the entire Meso, was the twister.
Unfortunately, the El Reno tornado was the Dyson version of monster twisters. 🤯🌪️🤯
I have no idea how but I didn't know about this tornado til about a month ago
So, I have always wondered of course, if the El Reno monster had hit southwest OKC at the beginning of itself, there by increasing the damage & the Enhanced Fujita Scale, would the El Reno have possibly been the first EF-6 & it's sub vortices been individual EF-5s, or would the sub vortices been counted as part of the El Reno monster as a whole?
Here in the Netherlands, we get more and more tornadoes, they're getting stronger, too
Sometimes I wonder how long it would take to have the first EF5 here
The current strongest tornado here was an F4 in '96 I believe, it was out on the Veluwe
@@elpolloesfuego as far as I know it's the other way around, an EF4 is what used to be an F5, but I could be wrong
Do you think that when the dominator hit the powerline that it saved you from being possibly hit by the todnado?
I thought the same thing . Who knows what might of happened . I think they got lucky when they hit that wire
i can barley get my pants on. lmao
Wasn't the vorticity at the surface pretty crosswise if it was initially going southeast?
Tomorrow is 10 years since it happened…. RIP Twistex
In the occlusion of a tornado does the cold front wrap around the meso and cut off the inflow to the storm?
That one horizonal vortice from this tornado after it touched down is there any kind of explanation of why that happens?
This is the only tornado that scares me.
Why does radar omega not have dual radar option anymore? And why does the radar look worse and lower quality after the latest update?
I vibe with your antimaterialism philosophy and live like a spartan too. Could blab for awhile but just would like to suggest an analysis on the 1997 jerrel tx tornado that moved due south. Seems quite unique for a system to do that.
Idc what people say El Reno was really a EF5 stronger then May 20th and bigger then May 20th
Wish this wasn't live streamed. Video always end up choppy and the resolution gets diminished
@@peachxtaehyung when I watched it live 7 months ago, it was choppy and bad quality
Imagine if this tornado directly hit a metro area that wasn't used to tornadoes. I'm sure the death toll would be like 1000.
Unfortunately your right it was on it's way towards Oklahoma City and people were jammed packed in traffic because everyone was trying to evacuate out of Oklahoma City after chasing the tornado I had to go south into Moore which is where I live by my house was destroyed in order to get into OKC where i stayed since my house was gone i live in Moore today tho our house was rebuilt like others
Even the tornados are quarantined
I remember this tornado.. scary because be came violent quicky.. large as well..
Rip peace tim samaras
Human interaction scares me worst than tornados 🌪️ too 😂
I don't know why Tim tried to pursue this erratic unusual tornado. It started out going SE - contrary to classic tornado direction. Im sure he observed just how big it was when he came up Reuter Rd and 81. These huge tornados tend to make sharp left turns to the north. I'm sure he realized this. He could have outrun it if he had had a bigger V 6 or V8 engine.
It’s on record that Carl Young wanted to stay just outside of the circulation but Tim Samaras believed they were in a bad spot but had enough time to outrun it to the East.
In short - they lost situational awareness.
The twister was moving much faster than it appeared to be due to the bears cage being the entire tornado instead of just the Tornadic core usually found inside the cone of the funnel.
@@C21L01 thank you for this explanation. :)
Hi Reed.. hope all is well
Do a video on Jarral tx f5 southwest movement.
agreed! all that was left was concrete slabs. amazing!
I'd love to see that.
flyinglizards80 that wasn't a tornado that was God's straw
@@spankthemonkey3437 I was 10 miles away. Scariest day of my life. I drove around the damage area words can't describe it.
2nd that. Jarrell TX. very close to me. Friends in law enforcement told me horrific stories.
Good & Interesting vid.
Glad I watched.
10 years wow
Is Dr. Josh still chasing?
Hey, Reed, a question from one West Michigan kid to another that probably nobody else in the comments section will get--Gary Bazner, Dennis Hodges, Dave Carmichael, or Craig James? (Four of the voices of my childhood...)
Haha mine too!!! What about Bill Steffen!
@@ReedTimmerWx Ha! We were a Channel 8 family (13 didn't come in too good down in Battle Creek, and we had 41 for ABC anyway), so I never got to see Bill until I was an adult, but he was always really good, too. Last I saw, he was still the head meteorologist at Channel 8, with Craig and Dennis having retired while Dave, last I knew, was doing syndicated radio weather for pretty much the entire state. (And hey, even if Gary wasn't a meteorologist, but just a WOOD-FM DJ who also did weather on TV, he certainly seemed to be genuinely interested and learned a lot from Dave and Dennis...)
Got hit 3.3.20. Never saw anything like that ..from my own eyebulbs.
Nashville/Putnum County?
Reed explaining while doing doodles
Hook Slicing, so thats your avenue of approach :D
Yes the hook slice maneuver is the perfect approach. It saved our lives that day with stopping the dominator being an escape route
@@ReedTimmerWx oh definitely especially with the engine hood....saw that episode too on your channel
@@ReedTimmerWx Not arguing, but what about the hail? And can’t the rain impede your view and make it harder to be situationally aware? Just wanting to learn; you’re the PhD. LOL.
Was you all in the tornado at times
If you look at the video around the 47:30 mark, they're almost certainly inside the tornadic circulation at that point.
Reed Timmer is my man
Thank you Kevin!
reed explain what an eddie is to ur peeps
Man I wish I knew what any of this lingo meant
it was rated ef3 then ef5 then ef3 again. should of stayed ef5
Nope. No EF-5 damage, no EF-5 rating.
@@Deucealive75 I know that’s how tornadoes are rated, but that’s flawed logic. A hurricane can be a cat 5 over the open ocean, hitting nothing.
@@djamo1969 Hurricanes/Cyclones/Typhoons use a different rating system.
I’ve seen Cyclones come in at Cat 5 status do Cat 2 or 3 damage once they make landfall.
Darwin, Australia got one of the nastiest of Christmas presents when a midget Cyclone no bigger than 60ft wide came in as Cat 4 rating but wiped Darwin off the map completely. Every single structure completely levelled to foundations.
43:13 Dyson vacuum cleaner times 3 billion
I want to be a storm chaser
debahendrix get an older model Subaru Forester or outback wagon with all wheel drive with preferably a manual transmission
HI REED
CAPE's over 5K? Has that been seen before?
so cute
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Sign of The Times. The Rapture is Soon!
So, Jesus said the Holy Ghost would come in His name and do miracles greater than what Jesus did... and Jesus said the worst tribulation to come on the world will come, then the moon and sun quit giving their light, then the stars fall from the sky, THEN the JESUS returns...
How you gonna ignore all of that scripture to believe the rapture is imminent? How horrible of a workman are you? You ought to be ashamed. "STUDY TO SHEW THYSELF APPROVED." =(
This is the BEGINNING of the HARVEST, not the END. You should be filling up your lamp with OIL (your heart with the Word) instead of WAITING idle.
That's Before the second coming, which is not the rapture. Enough with shaming.... this is not the place for debate.. plus it's a waste of time energy and doesn't glorify God. Not a salvation issue. It doesn't mean anyone is being idle.. worry about yourself.
@@holls11271 I AM set down at the LEFT hand of the Most High.
My Words are not my own, but the Father's which sent me.
Chill the fuck out. Jesus you need medications.
Hey yo like the gotee starting, the mustache wasn't bad on you but this looks better. But we your fans don't care how you look