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A couple of years back I was leaving a friend's place for home, maybe a 15 minute drive. There was a tornado watch, but that's nothing really new in this neck of the woods. As I got to my truck and started it, the sky was this real fucking nasty shade of green. "Huh," I thought to myself. "That looks real fucking nasty."

Not 30 seconds down the road, all of the tornado warning sirens went off. "Eh, I'll just make it home to my basement and all will be well." Nope. The wind and debris was starting to really pick up so I pulled over in the nearest open establishment, which happened to be the local Taco Bell.

So there I am with 3-4 randos plus the employees, all standing in the nasty ass kitchen, watching as the giant windows are flexing in and out, the trees across the parking lot are at a 45 degree angle with the ground. The power eventually goes out, but it's still mid afternoon.

When it was over, I walked out, cleared the debris off of my truck, and my 15 minute drive home turned into a 45 minute drive on account of almost every road home having some combination of trees and powerlines laying across them. Made it home. Found out that there was an EF-2 less than 10 minutes away.
 
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New Pecos Hank, from Arkansas.

"You, get to shelter!"
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The recent glut of good tornado videos after the outbreak got me on a severe weather before bed kick. After watching some videos about the outbreak that spawned the Mayfield EF4, down in the recommended videos I found one of the most ominous videos I think I've ever seen.


I'm not completely certain that's the Mayfield tornado or another from the same outbreak but the handful of copy-pasted news articles featuring the video seem to think it is. Whatever it is, that's one scary bastard.

This is pretty good too, but the twister sisters don't have quite the same punch as the first one.


 
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Fun tornado story:

I grew up in the Midwest, but not in a particularly heavy Tornado area. Any we got were pretty small and short lived and the area was so vast with either wilderness or farmland it never bothered much.

I never worried about a tornado hitting our house, particularly because it always hit one of our neighbor's a mile down the road 100% of the time. I'm not sure what specifically prompts the tornado to touch down there, the landscape isn't any different, so it must be something else I'm not scientifically knowledgeable of. By the time I moved out as an adult, a tornado had hit his barn 5 times. It happened so often that on the third time he painted a giant bullseye on the side of the barn as a joke.

I'll see if I can find it, but I got it on VHS tape with my parents old military camcorder. I've got some Super 8 water funnel videos too that I actually have digitized if anyone is interested.
 
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Yaks said:
Fun tornado story:

I grew up in the Midwest, but not in a particularly heavy Tornado area. Any we got were pretty small and short lived and the area was so vast with either wilderness or farmland it never bothered much.

I never worried about a tornado hitting our house, particularly because it always hit one of our neighbor's a mile down the road 100% of the time. I'm not sure what specifically prompts the tornado to touch down there, the landscape isn't any different, so it must be something else I'm not scientifically knowledgeable of. By the time I moved out as an adult, a tornado had hit his barn 5 times. It happened so often that on the third time he painted a giant bullseye on the side of the barn as a joke.

I'll see if I can find it, but I got it on VHS tape with my parents old military camcorder. I've got some Super 8 water funnel videos too that I actually have digitized if anyone is interested.
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Wait, wait, wait. A neighbour of yours had a tornado land a direct strike on his property five times and didn't leave the country to avoid the wrath of God Himself?

Fuck. I can't decide between your neighbour having the biggest balls in the entire history of mankind, or being the stupidest individual in the entire history of mankind.
 
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Wait, wait, wait. A neighbour of yours had a tornado land a direct strike on his property five times and didn't leave the country to avoid the wrath of God Himself?

Fuck. I can't decide between your neighbour having the biggest balls in the entire history of mankind, or being the stupidest individual in the entire history of mankind.
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I mean if the wrath of god is upon him where the fuck is he gonna go?

For context this was over like a 15 year period, so not any worse than people who decide to live on the coast in Hurricane territory imo.
 
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No storms or natural disasters where I live

Just 3-digit inflation

I rather be right in the middle of this shit, plus a typhoon:
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Lunar Eclipse Paradox said:
This was a thunderstorm that happened in May 26, 2018 and it's a pretty good one too.
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Nigger you got marty mcfly's disease or what?
 
That thing has got to be about two miles wide.

I was scrolling through the Tornado Records page on Wikipedia and apparently that storm system that passed through a few weeks ago was the third-largest outbreak in recorded history, as far as total amount of tornadoes (143) is concerned.
 
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one time I spent the front half of a hurricane outside against a couple of load-bearing walls so really no less in peril than inside
the way the wind was I was totally dry
so I got totally fucking blazed af and read Dune on my GBA while a hurricane was going apeshit around me
shit was so cash
 
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The tornadoes that hit Oklahoma yesterday were pretty crazy. The sirens were going off constantly for at least thirty minutes. They were popping up everywhere.

The official report sent out by the NWS for the big tornado was rated a 4/5 You’re Fuckeds, so it was a big chonkin’ tornado. But it didn’t hit any notable towns, so it didn’t do much damage. It almost hit Riverwind Casino, but it changed direction at almost the last second. Which was disappointing. I was rooting for it to nail that place and make it literally rain money.


The You’re Fucked scale, for folks not from Oklahoma:
1. Report says there is a tornado on the ground
2. Report says to get indoors and away from exterior walls
3. Report says to leave your mobile home and find a secure shelter
4. Report uses exclamation points and some form of ‘This is a dangerous situation!’
5. Report says to get underground (if you ever hear a meteorologist say this on the air shit’s gotten REAL BAD)
 
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Welp, I think I can safely say I have now experienced a lower end derecho event.

Not fun. There's apparently numerous trees and poles snapped around town, and power restoration might take a few days or longer. Luckily, we got put back on earlier this morning.
 
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A gentle necro.

Pecos Hank has uploaded his retrospective video for this year and it's a pretty good one.


My folks live in an area that's not in one of the major tornado zones but does get a few. While up there visiting this Thanksgiving, we all piled into a van to head into town and hit up some Black Friday sales. Along the way I started to notice a lot of trees down, looked up and on the other side of the highway all the trees are just raggedy trunks with no branches. A little farther along there was a billboard fully knocked over and realized it was all still from the EF-2 that came through this past summer.

Some big trees came down on their property from the same storm system but when I was there helping with that a couple months ago they still had the highway shut down. The damage I saw on the way to dinner then was both on the far side of the path looking toward it and also somewhat masked by summer foliage. Seeing it naked for the winter after more or less forgetting it happened was striking.

I'm not too concerned about revealing the general region since I don't live there and my Dad sure loves his guns, so here are some overhead pictures of the damage from when it was fresh.

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It's turning out to be a big weekend for storms.

I think Clarksville, Tennessee got walloped first right as everyone was kind of realizing that this wouldn't be a nothingburger like a couple weeks ago. Today's preliminary estimate from the NWS is EF2 but so far the death toll is six. A note for non weatherfags- The EF scale is based on damage, not wind speed or size. So you can end up with a huge scary fuck off monster, but if it only moves over farmland and takes down a couple old barns the official rating will be lower than you'd expect. In this case people were thinking ahead of time that this was going to be rated higher because some of the aftermath pics on twitex are intense, but it might have been that the shit it hit wasn't as well built as it looked. There's a lot of fighting about the EF scale and there hasn't been a rated EF5 since 2013 despite a few tornados really going for the gold in recent years, the rating system will be overhauled again eventually.

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It wedged out a little bit.



Bowling Green, Kentucky had some ominous looking shit go down. I was watching the WKU skycam as the storm was rolling in over there and didn't see the funnel, but someone shot this video of it.



Almost simultaneously at dusk two big, intense areas in the line of storms started to spin up and instead of just tornado warnings PDS warnings got issued, first for the one that looked for a hot minute like it might go straight for downtown Nashville which everyone is calling the Hendersonville tornado because of where it hit hardest, and then for the Ashland cell. The PDS was upgraded to a tornado emergency warning, which is HUGE. A PDS bulletin is rare, a tornado emergency is a big deal.

It crossed the road very politely.





And then started blowing shit up in Madison, Tennessee.




Best video of the explosion.



There's less about the Ashland one and I haven't had the time to do a big social media scrape for good footage of it, but what I have seen looks threatening as shit.

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It looks like the same storm system is causing trouble in North Carolina right now but it's not as crazy as last night. I think over the next couple weeks as the NWS untangles how many tornados there actually were from this and they get rated more footage and pictures from people who aren't storm chasers are going to trickle out. Hell of a way to celebrate an anniversary, it's two years to the day since the Quad State Supercell that produced the Mayfield tornado.
 
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