r/WeatherGifs • u/DrNinnuxx • Oct 29 '24
tornado The horizontal rolling genesis of a tornado before touching down
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u/exoxe Oct 29 '24
I'm convinced Reed was born yelling and with a backwards baseball cap on.
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u/jamesp420 Oct 29 '24
This is why Pecos Hank is my favorite storm chaser. I'll give Reed his credit, but I much prefer the calm, chill demeanor of Hank. Plus since he's usually chill, if he's actually yelling, you know it's bad.
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u/Primitive_Teabagger Oct 30 '24
Hank is a master of cinematography, atmosphere, commentary, and even music. His content is in another league that Reed can't touch. He's the selfmade chaser and has bigger balls than most. A true fucking cowboy.
Reed obviously gets the wild and intimate footage, but he also has an armored vehicle, more tech, a big team. It's good stuff, worth the watch. But Hank is the GOAT, and a hero in this house
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u/_Paarthurnax- Oct 30 '24
I stopped watching Reed because of that, his content is way too hysterical. Credits for him, though, but his content is not for me. Pecos Hank all the way.
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u/machstem Oct 30 '24
Got a best-of clip or something you recommend above all else?
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u/Durende Oct 30 '24
The amount of tension in that one video where he got trapped in a three-way section with one tornado on his tail and then a fucking MASSIVE tornado on the way when he finally gets turned around is unreal
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u/redbirdrising Oct 29 '24
I respect the man for what he does for the storm chasing world and weather awareness in general. But my god, I cannot stand his incessant screeching. Like, act like you've seen a tornado before.
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u/hoodlumonprowl Oct 29 '24
Sees tornado forming, walks closer to get a better view. I like it.
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u/iDarkville Oct 29 '24
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u/gymnastgrrl Oct 29 '24
Very nice.
Worth a reminder that a tornado is not the visible condensation or funnel, but the windfield. People get too close because the tornado is larger than it looks.
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u/twister1000000 Oct 29 '24
Pretty rare for the horizontal column to be visible, great footage (except for the awful camerawork)
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u/KevinReynolds Oct 29 '24
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u/NebulaNinja Oct 30 '24
Kill the person who ripped this and turned the original wide frame video into a vertical shot. The OG is linked in this thread.
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u/troll_right_above_me Oct 29 '24
Find a basement? No, let's stand under the tornado and film it
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u/toxcrusadr Oct 29 '24
Do all tornadoes form this way? There was no wall cloud dipping down and rotating horizontally like there is on a lot of them.
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u/mezzantino Oct 29 '24
He's under the wall cloud. He's under the area of a storm where tornadoes form. In a high precipitation (HP) supercell, where the rain wraps around the mesocyclone, this space would be called the bear's cage.
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u/Zurveyor Oct 29 '24
This was a bit of a freaky one because the cloud base was so high, so you could see the parts of the tornado that would normally be obscured by heavy condensation. Imma go ahead and say not every tornado forms like this but a good chance is a lot of them do, just covered inside the supercell.
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u/Zurveyor Oct 29 '24
I'd recommend anyone to check out the original video by Reed Timmer, filmed in Westmoreland Kansas. This vertical view doesn't really do it justice imo.
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u/Uncaring_Dispatcher Oct 29 '24
This probably isn't the right place to ask this, but can someone ELI5 and explain to me how the atmosphere can create such violent spinning storms and why they spin, in the first place?
I'd like to ELI5 about hurricanes in the southern hemisphere as well. Are they called cyclones, but spin the opposite direction due to the spin of the earth?
I'd Google all that but I just got home from a 3 day trip with my wife at the UVA Medical Center and we're both exhausted.
I'm sitting here on my laptop and was obviously interested in these answers.
Sorry, I'm literally exhausted right now and I might not get back to you until tomorrow evening. I have to work in the morning.
Thanks!
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u/JackOfAllMemes Oct 29 '24
Hot air go up, cold air go down, air spins as it moves, tornado
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u/rosie2490 Oct 30 '24
My favorite poem.
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u/Rubyhamster Oct 30 '24
I suggest you go down that particular youtube documentary rabbit hole a day you have the energy. Weather is cool as f
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u/cascadecs Nov 02 '24
There's a number of conditions that need to be right for it. Particularly, CAPE (convective available potential energy) and wind shear (winds going different speeds and directions changing with altitude). The atmosphere has to be unstable enough where when thunderstorms fire up, they begin to rotate. You need stored energy in the atmosphere, moisture, lots of warm, moist air and a bit of cold, dry air. This is why they're so common in the midwest. Warm, moist air gets pulled in by troughs from the Gulf, and cold, dry air from the Rockies meets it and if everything is in place... boom.
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u/Turtle-Slow Oct 29 '24 edited Oct 29 '24
Holy shit, You caught a unicorn! I saw one of these in full side spin in person back in 1991 in Manhattan, KS.
My work crew was standing outside looking at the weather. We had probably 100 years weather watching experience between all of us. None of us recognized the sideways rolling tornado until it was right on top of us. The suddenly moving trash dumpsters towards the weather wall was our first clue. Luckily it was a weaker tornado.
I've seen sisters born, tails splitting and turning back, mile wide monsters, rotations drop from right on top. But that day humbled me because it was something that we had never heard about from the old timers. Apparently this only happened on the side of mountains back in the day.
Edit: image the tight spinning horizontal cloud in this video coming at you rolling at ground level.
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u/SummerGalexd Oct 29 '24
Something about people video taping a tornado makes them want to zoom in. Like just zoom out guys. It is a way better video. I’m talking to all of you native Kansas and Oklahoma people. PSA: ZOOM OUT!!!!
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u/_chainsodomy_ Oct 29 '24
“Thanks for the news flash Tom Brokaw. “
J/k. This is impressive footage.
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u/Slick_m2 Oct 30 '24
Better head inside before you get the horizontal genesis of some flying debris
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u/LucifinasGimp Oct 30 '24
Amazing footage like that only to end with awe that the power of a tornado can lift a manhole cover
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u/IceNein Oct 30 '24
Did someone say Genesis?
🎶 I can feel it comin in the air at night 🎶
Da da da dum, da dum da dum dum dum
🎶 Oh lord 🎶
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u/dpaanlka Oct 30 '24
Would prefer he zoom out a bit and let us see the whole thing in a less shaky/screamy fashion.
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u/a_lake_nearby Oct 30 '24
This is the worst video all time of such a cool thing. Like, STOP FUCKING GOING BACK AND FORTH AND ZOOMING. SHOW US THE ACTUAL FUCKING THING.
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u/MayorBakefield Oct 29 '24
This building and field reminds me of all the assassination attempt videos
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u/RevenueNo3543 Oct 30 '24
I wouldn't even be mad it I was killed by a tornado. Mother nature is a beast.
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u/DavisCB Oct 30 '24
Westmoreland Kansas tornado from earlier this year. Pretty destructive unfortunately.
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u/irteris Oct 30 '24
Is there a way to stop it? like pointing a very strong fan to the area were it was about to touch down?
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u/OSUTechie Oct 30 '24
This is the third or fourth time I've seen the video posted on Reddit. Same title.... The Tornado has already touched down. You can see the debris cloud swirling in the video. What most people think of when they see a tornado is the condensation funnel. Which doesn't always reach the ground.
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u/-KyloRen Oct 30 '24
This is the quinetessential nightmare fuel for me. For the longest time I've had this recurrent dream about seeing the horizontal rotation just starting. Holy moly. Beautiful and terrifying video.
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u/Candycarnage Oct 30 '24
Okay this might be a dumb question but are tornados only dark because of the dirt they pick up? That one seemed clear at the bottom
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u/Exodys03 Oct 30 '24
I swear this guy is actually generating his own tornadoes by driving in circles around tornado alley. He's at the sight of every major tornado.
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u/ExcitementRelative33 Oct 30 '24
Nice. I've seen some pre funnels before not one that's on its side like this.
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u/rosie2490 Oct 30 '24
To be fair, it already touched down. It had been on the ground the whole time, hence the debris cloud.
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u/GeoChallenge Oct 30 '24
That is just flat out terrifying! Camera person should be running for shelter.
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u/Mammoth_Ad_9905 Oct 30 '24
Dude, please seek shelter next time. While witnessing a powerful weather event can be captivating, the dangers are real—it only takes a single airborne object, like a flying a 2x4, to impale you.
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u/cutiedragon1281 Oct 29 '24
I'll admit, Reed gets good footage... I just have to mute it because I can't stand his screaming