I live in the Twin Cities. This storm actually caused the first ever tornadoes to occur in December in Minnesota. While those did not strike where I live, we were still hit pretty hard by the storm and wind. It was so strange to experience it being 60 degrees and storming one day in December and then back to snow and cold the next day as if it didn't even happen
I live south of Rochester and oh boy was it interesting 😅 I had a EF0 tornado go in front of my apartment. I like severe weather and all, but earlier in the day with it being in the 70s and the air was super still scared the hell out of me
I live in South Central Minnesota and I remember how incredible the lightning was. A lot of actual CTG lightning and huge CTC lightning webs arcing across the skies. It was really cool to watch.
@@moblinmajorgeneral true as someone who lives in Minnesota what happen in December 10th 11th in Kentucky and then the 15th in Minnesota is only the beginning it might get worse in future years
I live in Florida, I’d much rather deal with hurricanes than how volatile the weather is in the plains and northern plains. After hunting there for years I’ve learned to respect it
@@cstrick1113 Florida weather is still pretty volatile. They get severe thunderstorms and even tornadoes. Plus, when it DOES snow there, it's a big problem
I get their state is smaller but if I heard a storm was about to cross my entire state AT ONCE, you better believe there is an uncomfortable pucker factor.😅
I'd love to see an analysis of the 2020 Derecho that hit Iowa in August. This derecho you talked about was a frighting experience for us Iowans, but not because of the storm itself, but because we had all just gone through the 2020 derecho a year prior. This derecho knocked out the entire power grid in Cedar Rapids, caused damage to virtually every property for a hundred square miles, destroyed our treeline and destroyed millions of dollars of crops. To this day a common talking point in this area is "Where were you during the 2020 derecho?".
I’m from the Quad Cities, I’ll never forget that day! Most intense non-tornadic storm in IA history. Some of the damage in Lynn/Johnson county was unreal.
Also add in the one on June 6, that one occurred unusually far west and hit Colorado particularly hard, with 110 mph winds and being the first derecho to ever directly hit the state.
I wish there was video about the 2011 Iowa Derecho I was in Vinton, Iowa when struck in the early morning hours of July 11th, 2011 it peaked right as it passed over Vinton with winds up to 135mph It was an intense experience I was just grateful that I was at the Braille school in Vinton because it had underground tunnels built during the Cold War era for shelter
I live in central Wisconsin, this was the craziest weather I’d ever seen. It was below freezing that then changed to 70s. And all of a sudden the rain and wind came. Flooding was crazy
I live in Marinette County. First off, it started with the worst fog in 30+ years. A pile up occurred in Pound, when a train crossed the highway. Many stopped just in time. However, two dump trucks going at the same speed as a normal day, and with no headlights on, slammed into the line, killing a band teacher, when his van was thrust into the railroad cars, derailing them. And no buses were allowed to travel as a bus vs car accident happened further south. Then came the derecho. It luckily died just before reaching me, but there was still a bit of a gust front. Then came the winds. For a few hours (11 pm to 2 am) The gusts were easily reaching 50-55 mph. Then 40-50 mph wind gusts occurred through the early half of the next day. Many big branches and trees splintered. But Rhinelander had it much worst.
me and my family just so happened to take a road trip up to Wisconsin Dells on the 15th. We got there that night and it was insane seeing what was happening outside the hotel. There were tornado reports everywhere around us, and I remember being shocked at how warm it was despite it being mid December
Yeah it was crazy that day it was like 60 or 70 degrees when I was going to school and I live in Minnesota so this is not happen and we got tornado warnings left and right
Dec 15th sw iowa was just beautiful warm weather. I was blissfully unaware and happy with favorable outside work conditions....up until i started seeing dark clouds around 3pm, and nearly driving into the tornado an hour later trying to run home lol.
I live in Des Moines and the weather was so eerie and awful that day. I remember the wind just howling nonstop, similar to the wind during the 2020 derecho when I lived in Waterloo. My grandmother who lives in Aurelia had a wall of her garage torn off by a tornado that night, too. Thank you for this video
I live in OMaha Nebraska and was in the thick of it when this hit, it was pretty surreal going to school on a December day in shorts. It was 60 degrees in the morning, my god it was so windy. Every other school district had school called off during the day, except for my district. As the day went on, more and more people got called out from school, and it just kept getting windier. From the moment you stepped outside that morning, you could just tell something bad was coming. When it finally hit, our house was slammed by a gust front. It only lasted for about 10 minutes, but in just that time we lost parts of the roof and our entire fence.
Great video! Given the way Nick Stewart said "we don't normally go from a severe weather event to snow... so quickly" makes me think this video is qualified for this title: "When Fall Happens in a Single Day"
I remember realizing this was a derecho by how the wind just nonstop kept moving in one direction. I was in the safest room in the house with the cats most of the day thanks to it.
Nick Stewart is one of the most passionate meteorologists I've ever met (we were classmates briefly in college). As for this event, it was one of the most interesting events due to the extreme wind and the dangerously high risk for wildfire, with the extreme wind gusts and tornadoes in the derecho.
I live in western NE and my mom lives in south eastern NE. They were hit with this storm. I remember watching radar and hoping my family would be safe! They did have some damage to their property and lots of debris from trees. At one point their county was in a tornado warning. Thank you for covering this event. July 9th, 2021 was the most recent storm I lived through. Huge hail and winds that sounded like a tornado. Will never forget it because there were funnel clouds forming right outside my town (none touched down) and it made me realize how lucky we were!! But we won’t always be that lucky which is why it’s so important to stay informed.
I remember I was wearing shorts that day as I went to take my finance final. As the night came, I was mad because I thought mother nature was gonna take me out AFTER I took the hardest final ever. Needless to say, it was pretty scary, especially since I was under a fire ban and there suddenly was intense smoke after the storm passed. The cars were cover in soot in the morning after.
Very good documentary! This outbreak is not as talked about as much as it should due to the extreme nature of it. Snow, wildfires, tornadoes, and extreme wind gusts all in one day just crazy. Keep up the great work and it’s nice you interview people who experienced these events it gives more insight.
There was a week straight of just constant tornado threats for my area of Michigan. I also remember there was one night that my boyfriend and I were woken up in the middle of the night by his mom because there was a tornado headed our direction. Everyone was watching radar and luckily it missed us by a good bit.
I live in the Tri cities of Nebraska, I was in 8th grade and in my music class. Now beforehand we had only a high wind warning for us. Some kids went home cause of it earlier in the morning, that was such a good idea. But I had stayed cause my mom and dad worked and couldn’t come in time and just thought it was winds. Hell we had gone outside after lunch and everything. Back to my music class, it was around 12:45-1 pm, our school let out at 2. So this was our last class, our phones went off for a tornado warning. The school was like “yeah you can call your parents to take you home now” well my mom showed up around 1 pm, and I went to my sisters class to pick her up, she was in 6th grade. So we got in my moms car and then shit went down. The winds were insane, you could see the wall clouds and heard the sirens. We lived far from this school (20 miles probably) so we drove through the whole storm, with two tornadoes touching down near us. We couldn’t see and it was probably the scariest moment of my life. We had made it home alive. And when we got home everything was okay. Of course trees were down and stuff was everywhere. But the most strangest part was when I got out of the car, you could hear the storm that had passed, it sounded like a train going by, it was just constant, maybe like thunder. But it was constant and it was like you could see the storm just going further away. It was the strangest thing and I can’t describe it. It was sure an experience. But props to my mom for keeping calm and driving and outrunning tornadoes and storms. I just can’t describe it
I had the same problem. I also live in the Tri Cities, and was in the middle of my Orchestra class. Suddenly, the intercom comes on warning us there was a tornado warning and to report to our home rooms immediately. I still remember the terror on my partners face as we rushed to our homerooms.
I finished my research paper on the history of tornadoes in Iowa on December 12. On March 1 I gave my presentation on the same topic. Winterset happened four days later. Quite a coincidence.
i remember that day very clearly i was in school and there was like 300+ kids in a gym so the story: it was a sunny day with a chance of storms and so it was during math and i was working with my friend on our assignment and i go to use the restroom and the restrooms were by the office so the office window was open and the secretary was with the principal talking about the weather so i was like whatever so then when i went back to class i passed the office and the secretary was like there's a tornado warning not noticing i was there and so i head back to class and warn my friend so then the tornado system through the school went off then the city sirens went off and so there was so many kids crying and screaming so it was chaotic and then it got really loud with tons of hail and wind. there was a touchdown downtown and a touchdown right by my house they were confirmed tornados but when we went to leave we couldn't because there was so much hail that the doors were blocked shut by hail. luckily no one was hurt no bad damages i think it was only like 2k in damages or something like that and it was just a chaotic weird day for us but the tornados were like f0 and f1 so it wasn't anything to terrible
Green Bay, WI resident here. Temperatures were in the mid 50s that day and while that hasn't been too strange in recent years, it was weird for me to hear my weather radio go off for a severe thunderstorm watch. For us, we just had a minor thunderstorm in our area but it was just so bizarre watching a thunderstorm in December. This was also the first time I ever heard my weather radio go off in the winter months since I've purchased it in June 2018.
fun fact: every school system in the omaha metro area closed or had to send everybody home early because of the weather risk. it was a really weird thing to experience.
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I was worried about tornadoes. This was before I did my own forecasting and only stocked the SPC website. When I saw similar verbiage to the tornado outbreak days before that produced the Mayfield tornado I made sure to have my disaster kit ready to go.
I live in Coralville, Iowa, right next to Iowa City. I remember how wet and warm that day was. The air was so warm and wet, and the ground was so cold, that water was literally condensing on the pavement. I had no idea that was possible in December. I knew things were going to get bad when I saw that.
Great video!. I am from the Des Moines area but now live in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. My husband mentioned that there was going to be severe weather in Nebraska. I was looking at all the data and realized that this was going to hit some family that lived in the Lincoln, Nebraska area. My husband's sister and brother-in-law work at night and may not have heard about the storms. I called them with the storms about an hour away. They had no idea and got up and made preparations. The winds at the Lincoln airport reached 102 MPH if I am not mistaken. The number of tornadoes in Iowa was absolutely breathtaking. Most of them did occur NW of Des Moines. That afternoon and evening, EVERY single county with the exception of Lyon County in the farthest NW County of Iowa and in the Sioux Falls, South Dakota NWS area of responsibility were included in a tornado watch at some point that evening. The National Weather Service Sioux Falls, South Dakota had never issued a tornado watch/warning nor a severe thunderstorm watch/warning EVER in December. Nor had there ever been a derecho in the Month of December. The fact that December now holds the record for greatest the number of tornadoes and the greatest number of EF2 or greater tornadoes in addition to the warmest temperature for the month of December was astounding. Thanks Nick - you saved lives that night.
Fremont Nebraska shockingly got hammered and got little to no damage. This was extreme for even spring standards. At 11:00 PM while I was walking out I noticed there were a lot of clouds developing. I realized that was all because of instability. And At 12:00 PM the Cap Breaks near Kansas and allows the outbreak to begin. 16:05 There is an outline of the line of storms.
As a survivor of the derecho, I could tell you it was terrifying, I ended up evacuating my house only to go back to check on it, the sky was a deep crimson and the power went out, luckily the trailer was fine and I am still terrified today.
Very informative video! I’m a sucker for case studies so I’ve binged your channel. I’d like to make note of some firsts I noticed that day as an amateur spotter in Omaha. 1. Warning time - We had a company wide email released at about 12:30 PM stating we were either allowed to leave now or not at all as “100 MPH winds” were forecast for our area. I left as I wanted to get a head start on the rapidly developing convection. What I found very odd and almost eery was that most towns sounded their sirens atleast an hour in advance of any warning polygons reaching their area. It really must’ve caught anybody off guard who didn’t know of the impending events as the wildfire haze obscured the horizon enough that it was just sunny and windy in any direction you looked. 2. Impact by all 5 weather events - I attempted to chase the storm to just beyond Atlantic, Iowa until it over ran me and I decided to watch it pass (10 min from start to finish max). After cleaning some debris at a farm inflicted by the Atlantic, IA EF-2 tornado I proceeded westbound back to Omaha through a sea of downed semis and heavy, heavy smoke. Visibility had to be less than a mile for much of my trek down I80. Once crossing the Nebraska border, I got out of my car and watched the winds change before my eyes. The smoke stalled, turned courses, vanished, and then we were blasted by equal strength frigid winds from the north. It was an absolutely insane thing to witness and feel.
Amazing video. I live in the Omaha area and that day (as a wx enthusiast) was absolutely insane for me. the craziest part to me was the fact I went to bed in a MRGL risk and woke up in a MDT. Overall that day is one I will always remember.
That ef2 that hit my house during this outbreak was the worst in my towns history. 2 story houses knocked off their foundations. It was 1/3 of a mile wide and the corner must’ve hit my house. My neighbors house had complete walls torn away. I’d say that tornado was much higher than an ef2. I wasn’t home and my dad had picked me up 10 mins before it hit. We hid under an underpass in the eastern part of the county and then there was a second twister that hit us. That one was determined to be an ef1. That was the scariest night of my life and I’ll never forget it
I don’t think I’ll forget this day My experience Here in Wisconsin, steady 70mph winds, very loud just howling winds literally shaking my 2 story house. Somehow no damage to my property
As crazy as this Derecho was with all the tornados it spawned, it was nothing in comparison to the aftermath from the Derecho that happened in 2020. That thing caused power outages that lasted actual weeks for some places. Great video; would love to see more.
@@tylerball9600 I was on the southern edge of the core of it with family living right where the worst winds were. It was surreal to see how much damage a storm could do without producing any significant tornadoes.
Prob cause this was a serial derecho. The derecho you're most likely referring to was the August 10 derecho, which was a progressive derecho. Progressive derechos, sometimes referred to as warm season derechos, are smaller, but often produce extremely violent straight line winds, and tend to be more long lived (and their winds are sometimes more long lived as well). Serial derechos are much larger in size, and can travel very quickly, and often produce tornadoes more frequently than their smaller counterparts, but the overall straight line winds tend to be both weaker and more short lived in serial derechos.
The main reason i’ll remember this outbreak is because a tornado brought down an entire fucking Amazon warehouse not too far from where I live. I may have acted all nonchalant during it, but hearing that news scared the piss outta me.
I live in Minnesota. You don’t have to believe me on this, but the week before this event I was predicting there would be a risk of severe weather, I noticed that this one day would be 50s, almost the 60s, instead of the low 20’s. And the day of storm, I found out there was actually a tornado. I wasn’t surprised I was one.
Ugh I remember this so vividly… I live in the Iowa Great Lakes, and I feel like severe weather tends to always JUST miss my area so like the idiot Iowans we are my husband and I went to Walmart to get our groceries. Got out of the car and the tornado sirens started going off (I’ve only actually heard those a few times here) we looked at each other like “woah. Nice” and kept going in. Got to the doors and the workers were actually walking out telling us to go home because they were closing (which has only happened once ever that I can remember). So we got in the car and went back home. As soon as we got back into the house- and I mean within SECONDS- we got hit with straight line winds that easily would have knocked me on my you know what. Moral of this long uninteresting post- listen to the weather reports. Even if you live in Iowa🙃
Doing something good here! Appreciate all the effort you put into this, can clearly hear your passion for this. and i think that passion is the most important thing in any field. Cheers man!
I live in Iowa, but was skiing in Breckinridge, CO the day this happened. There was a snow squall warning at 6am there. We couldn’t leave that day as planned due to road closures. I’m glad we didn’t, because severe weather continued/worsened our whole path home! Thanks for the video.
I was in school at the time and people were talking about an incoming storm and I also looked at the NWS SPC and that's where I saw my area of western Iowa in a moderate risk. Around 1 pm my town announced that we should cancel all schools of my area to keep people safe from the incoming "twister" since we didn't know it was a Derecho incoming. Tornado watches were issued and I can feel and smell the unstable pressure when my mom was also told to head home from work to pick me up. After getting me we rushed to get my other siblings at the other side of town. We got home way before the storm arrived. I headed to my room to turn on my TV and PC for weather updates. No storm chasers were in my area sadly lol. Hours later sirens were sounded when the Derecho was minutes away from hitting us. A Tornado was reported somewhere around Nebraska heading towards us but thankfully it shifted and died out after a few minutes. Since 18?? Iowa had there twister happen in December what I learned. After the passing of the Derecho the wind grew in strength where the temperatures dropped to our normal December weather. Phew that's a story.
If it tickles your fancy, an interesting storm system to cover would definitely have to be the 1993 “Storm of the Century.” It was a massive storm system that covered nearly a third of the entire US at its peak and affected twenty six states and a good chunk of eastern Canada.
i live in north georgia & wasn’t alive when this happened but people love bringing it up any time we have cold weather. my county got 35 inches of snow
I live in southern Minnesota, and I (at the time) didn’t check the weather much at all. We weren’t very prepared, and I remember our power going out an hour or so before bed. We tried to tough it out, but as it continued to be out for multiple days, we went over to a friend’s house who luckily still had power. First day of the power outage though, we took the food from our fridge/freezer and put it outside to try and save as much as we could. It was a good a time as any to clean the inside too, was something to do. I worked at a combo gas station/food service place at the time, which also lost power. After a couple days, we had to go in while the power was still out and began to throw away stuff from coolers/freezers as it was above temperature. Lots of waste.
I remember that day in Kentucky Spencer County to be exact it was really weird like I knew something was wrong when it was 70 degrees at night in December I immediately got my family and my cats down to the basement Siren's was going off and that Wind was blowing the hail was crashing I kept hearing Thunderstorms we had just a barn and tractor killed lol thankfully nobody got hurt but it definitely could of been worse Edit : EF1 🌪️ touched down through my County
I live in Central Iowa. And I’ll admit, I was legitimately nervous during the hours leading up to this system, especially with what had happened in KY a few days prior.
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I chased storms for Mr. Stewart that night in NE Iowa. I've never experienced a more interesting weather day before in my life. What stuck out most was the intense winds that day outside of any convective event. Out in the open that night after the storms had passed over, our chase vehicle was getting sustained winds of 40 to 50 mph. In addition, the air quality was extremely poor from all the smoke that advected up from the fires in Kansas. It looked like fog in Cedar Rapids the smoke was so thick.
I live in Iowa but my area seemed to go right between a majority of where the tornadoes ended up, and some much stronger winds just a little bit south than what we got. It was still quite bad but since I witnessed the August 2020 Derecho that hit Cedar Rapids (close to my area) really hard, it wasn't close to the level of straight-line winds that storm had at least in my small area. The most severe stuff happened farther west in my case. Watching the whole event unfold on radar was crazy. I remember at one point the entire line of storms in our state seemed to have some tornado warning. I've never really seen anything like that and I hope not to ever again.
Sorta happy it wasnt as overall as bad as the august 2020 event at least for were i work, i was working helpdesk for hospitals in Iowa and all my coworkers were without internet and power (we mostly worked remote since covid and im in wisconsin) so all us Wisconsin helpdesk techs had to take the load of all the techs in Iowa for calls and tickets and some locations took a long time to get internet working again it was crazy busy. I had moved to network operations by the time the December 2021 event and luckily we only lost internet/power to a few locations and they were not down for as long and i think we were more prepaired.
Not only did the December Tenth outbreak just so happen to occur on the night of my birthday, I was up when the sirens went off and only a 40 mile drive from where I lived.
My birthday was the next day. I live in the stl area where there was multiple tornados. I remember the 10th clearly but hardly remember my birthday lol.
I had been watching Omaha coverage, so I had plenty of time to prepare and have my shelter ready. When the warning was issued, I went outside and saw powerflashes to my S.W. so I didn't hesitate to go to the bssement!
I would love to see a documentary on the strongest derecho in recorded history. August 10, 2020. Survey estimated 140 mph. Confirmed recorded winds of 126 mph. I got 100 mph from it.
There was also another derecho in Michigan on July 16, 1980 of identical intensity with isolated surveyed damage of 150 mph and confirmed gusts of 116 mph at Tecumseh, MI which intensified leaving a 30 mile streak of 150 mph gusts from Ann Arbor to Ecorse
This day was crazy in Kansas City. Very warm winds the whole day, then during the night I got my first ever emergency alert for a thunderstorm (80 mph winds). After the storm passed it blew a bunch of smoke and ash in from wildfires in the West of Kansas and I genuinely thought I was in hell that day
I’m really familiar with this day because this day was the first time I ever had a TRUE tornado warning while being in school. This day was literally the worst day of my life. Although we were safe, the sky was literally like a monster. My father got off early and got videos of ROTATION above our house. We have over 20 animals located at our house, so I’m sure he was devastated. Moral of the story, don’t take tornado warnings lightly (this was in the Tri Cities of Nebraska)
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I live in northeast Kansas and when he said it was a night that didn’t want to end, he’s not kidding. The winds were terrible and the smoke was so thick it was all I could smell even inside the house the next couple of days. And with no power and heat on top of all of that. It was definitely one of the craziest days and nights in terms of weather I’ve ever experienced and that’s saying something since it’s Kansas lol And not to mention it was in mid-December!
I would not have known what a Derecho was until I looked Hurricane Elvis which was a storm that I experienced when I was younger. Like those winds were equivalent to that of a category 2 hurricane. Straight line winds are no joke. 😦😦😦
i live in southwest iowa and have never seen anything like that in december. it was actually the first time my house was in a tornado warning and a confirmed tornado warning actually in years.
Weird question. When this rolled through, here in Wisconsin, we got absolutely dumped on all night with snow. I hadn't seen snowfall that thick and long in ages. I know there's some humor in asking this about the weather, but is there a way to predict this again a few days in advance? I want to make sure I can fully enjoy it.
Just wanted to say I came across your channel in my suggested videos. Keep up the great work! I love the fact you're covering more of the meteorology stuff than just the damage the storms do.
I was at my home in Iowa when the derecho hit, it was sunny and nice one minute then almost immediately changed to black and REALLY windy. I don’t think our sirens even had time to go off before it was already wreaking havoc 👀
i remember staying in hotel for a week because my didn't have power on december 10th, and it started to rain on the 15th. i remember telling my mom and i heard her heavily sigh like she was nervous. i'm pretty sure that was the only time she was super worried over the weather, since she wasn't worried at all during the actual tornado.
I remember watching this on the news. During the months of August to December, and I was really anxious about the storms that were hitting my state. I remember keeping an eye on this, even though it didnt really have an impat on my state, but it was really sad to hear. I also remember a amazon place or store of some sort? they didnt allow the people to get home to their familes to keep them working. It costed some lives, i believe. I could be mistaking that with another storm, that might have happened in november though. Anyways, Thank you for covering this storm!
Would love to maybe see the 2012 derechos covered sometime in the future - something about that year in particular just had one right after the other and were brutal that year
I live in Central Wisconsin, I just remember watching the weather channel and then the power flickering on and off for a while while our front door blew open, and a lot of wind
December has a lot of windiness, but usually its so cold that it snows. So when the temps are far above normal, combined with abnormal wind profiles, high humidity, and the jet stream being at the perfect angle, it was inevitable that this would be powerful.
I live in the Twin Cities. This storm actually caused the first ever tornadoes to occur in December in Minnesota. While those did not strike where I live, we were still hit pretty hard by the storm and wind. It was so strange to experience it being 60 degrees and storming one day in December and then back to snow and cold the next day as if it didn't even happen
I live in Duluth MN, and by the time we got this storm it was some rain and lightning and was weakening as it passed over Duluth.
I live south of Rochester and oh boy was it interesting 😅 I had a EF0 tornado go in front of my apartment. I like severe weather and all, but earlier in the day with it being in the 70s and the air was super still scared the hell out of me
Same I think I was a few miles away from one
I WAS LITERALLY JUST IN MINNASOTA WHAT-
I live in South Central Minnesota and I remember how incredible the lightning was. A lot of actual CTG lightning and huge CTC lightning webs arcing across the skies. It was really cool to watch.
This was one of the WEIRDEST days in my over 3 decades of living. NEVER had I EVER had to go to a tornado shelter in freaking December!
A severe weather system such as the December 2021 feels like one of those "Once in a lifetime" kind of storms.
Unfortunately, I think it's only going to continue as winter comes later and later due to climate change.
@@moblinmajorgeneral true as someone who lives in Minnesota what happen in December 10th 11th in Kentucky and then the 15th in Minnesota is only the beginning it might get worse in future years
I live in Florida, I’d much rather deal with hurricanes than how volatile the weather is in the plains and northern plains. After hunting there for years I’ve learned to respect it
@@cstrick1113 You can evacuate before a hurricane. Pre-frontal supercells can form in minutes.
@@cstrick1113 Florida weather is still pretty volatile. They get severe thunderstorms and even tornadoes. Plus, when it DOES snow there, it's a big problem
I get their state is smaller but if I heard a storm was about to cross my entire state AT ONCE, you better believe there is an uncomfortable pucker factor.😅
I'd love to see an analysis of the 2020 Derecho that hit Iowa in August. This derecho you talked about was a frighting experience for us Iowans, but not because of the storm itself, but because we had all just gone through the 2020 derecho a year prior. This derecho knocked out the entire power grid in Cedar Rapids, caused damage to virtually every property for a hundred square miles, destroyed our treeline and destroyed millions of dollars of crops.
To this day a common talking point in this area is "Where were you during the 2020 derecho?".
I’m from the Quad Cities, I’ll never forget that day! Most intense non-tornadic storm in IA history. Some of the damage in Lynn/Johnson county was unreal.
Also add in the one on June 6, that one occurred unusually far west and hit Colorado particularly hard, with 110 mph winds and being the first derecho to ever directly hit the state.
I live in Iowa
THIS! Being I'm in CR, the August 10, 2020 derecho was horrifying!
I wish there was video about the 2011 Iowa Derecho I was in Vinton, Iowa when struck in the early morning hours of July 11th, 2011 it peaked right as it passed over Vinton with winds up to 135mph
It was an intense experience I was just grateful that I was at the Braille school in Vinton because it had underground tunnels built during the Cold War era for shelter
I live in central Wisconsin, this was the craziest weather I’d ever seen. It was below freezing that then changed to 70s. And all of a sudden the rain and wind came. Flooding was crazy
I live in Marinette County. First off, it started with the worst fog in 30+ years. A pile up occurred in Pound, when a train crossed the highway. Many stopped just in time. However, two dump trucks going at the same speed as a normal day, and with no headlights on, slammed into the line, killing a band teacher, when his van was thrust into the railroad cars, derailing them. And no buses were allowed to travel as a bus vs car accident happened further south. Then came the derecho. It luckily died just before reaching me, but there was still a bit of a gust front. Then came the winds. For a few hours (11 pm to 2 am) The gusts were easily reaching 50-55 mph. Then 40-50 mph wind gusts occurred through the early half of the next day. Many big branches and trees splintered. But Rhinelander had it much worst.
me and my family just so happened to take a road trip up to Wisconsin Dells on the 15th. We got there that night and it was insane seeing what was happening outside the hotel. There were tornado reports everywhere around us, and I remember being shocked at how warm it was despite it being mid December
Yeah it was crazy that day it was like 60 or 70 degrees when I was going to school and I live in Minnesota so this is not happen and we got tornado warnings left and right
Dec 15th sw iowa was just beautiful warm weather. I was blissfully unaware and happy with favorable outside work conditions....up until i started seeing dark clouds around 3pm, and nearly driving into the tornado an hour later trying to run home lol.
Warm weather in winter is a red flag. Storms feed off of warm, moist air so just know if it’s warm, except storms
@@KoId. Exactly, my "red flags" were going off that morning for sure!
Excellently done. This channel is going places, and I'm here for it.
Same
Agreed
The 2020 Derecho needs a proper documentary like this. That thing was unprecedented in my opinion.
It does have a documentary. It's not as detailed as this but nonetheless there is a documentary and it's pretty good.
I live in Des Moines and the weather was so eerie and awful that day. I remember the wind just howling nonstop, similar to the wind during the 2020 derecho when I lived in Waterloo. My grandmother who lives in Aurelia had a wall of her garage torn off by a tornado that night, too. Thank you for this video
I live in OMaha Nebraska and was in the thick of it when this hit, it was pretty surreal going to school on a December day in shorts. It was 60 degrees in the morning, my god it was so windy. Every other school district had school called off during the day, except for my district. As the day went on, more and more people got called out from school, and it just kept getting windier. From the moment you stepped outside that morning, you could just tell something bad was coming. When it finally hit, our house was slammed by a gust front. It only lasted for about 10 minutes, but in just that time we lost parts of the roof and our entire fence.
Great video! Given the way Nick Stewart said "we don't normally go from a severe weather event to snow... so quickly" makes me think this video is qualified for this title: "When Fall Happens in a Single Day"
summer severe. fall normal. winter c o l d.
I remember realizing this was a derecho by how the wind just nonstop kept moving in one direction. I was in the safest room in the house with the cats most of the day thanks to it.
Nick Stewart is one of the most passionate meteorologists I've ever met (we were classmates briefly in college). As for this event, it was one of the most interesting events due to the extreme wind and the dangerously high risk for wildfire, with the extreme wind gusts and tornadoes in the derecho.
I live in western NE and my mom lives in south eastern NE. They were hit with this storm. I remember watching radar and hoping my family would be safe! They did have some damage to their property and lots of debris from trees. At one point their county was in a tornado warning. Thank you for covering this event.
July 9th, 2021 was the most recent storm I lived through. Huge hail and winds that sounded like a tornado. Will never forget it because there were funnel clouds forming right outside my town (none touched down) and it made me realize how lucky we were!! But we won’t always be that lucky which is why it’s so important to stay informed.
I remember I was wearing shorts that day as I went to take my finance final. As the night came, I was mad because I thought mother nature was gonna take me out AFTER I took the hardest final ever. Needless to say, it was pretty scary, especially since I was under a fire ban and there suddenly was intense smoke after the storm passed. The cars were cover in soot in the morning after.
I got hit by a tornado in Wisconsin by this, although not big, made me realize that this stuff can happen literally any time
Very good documentary! This outbreak is not as talked about as much as it should due to the extreme nature of it. Snow, wildfires, tornadoes, and extreme wind gusts all in one day just crazy. Keep up the great work and it’s nice you interview people who experienced these events it gives more insight.
There was a week straight of just constant tornado threats for my area of Michigan. I also remember there was one night that my boyfriend and I were woken up in the middle of the night by his mom because there was a tornado headed our direction. Everyone was watching radar and luckily it missed us by a good bit.
I live in the Tri cities of Nebraska, I was in 8th grade and in my music class. Now beforehand we had only a high wind warning for us. Some kids went home cause of it earlier in the morning, that was such a good idea. But I had stayed cause my mom and dad worked and couldn’t come in time and just thought it was winds. Hell we had gone outside after lunch and everything. Back to my music class, it was around 12:45-1 pm, our school let out at 2. So this was our last class, our phones went off for a tornado warning. The school was like “yeah you can call your parents to take you home now” well my mom showed up around 1 pm, and I went to my sisters class to pick her up, she was in 6th grade. So we got in my moms car and then shit went down. The winds were insane, you could see the wall clouds and heard the sirens. We lived far from this school (20 miles probably) so we drove through the whole storm, with two tornadoes touching down near us. We couldn’t see and it was probably the scariest moment of my life. We had made it home alive. And when we got home everything was okay. Of course trees were down and stuff was everywhere. But the most strangest part was when I got out of the car, you could hear the storm that had passed, it sounded like a train going by, it was just constant, maybe like thunder. But it was constant and it was like you could see the storm just going further away. It was the strangest thing and I can’t describe it. It was sure an experience. But props to my mom for keeping calm and driving and outrunning tornadoes and storms. I just can’t describe it
I had the same problem. I also live in the Tri Cities, and was in the middle of my Orchestra class. Suddenly, the intercom comes on warning us there was a tornado warning and to report to our home rooms immediately. I still remember the terror on my partners face as we rushed to our homerooms.
I finished my research paper on the history of tornadoes in Iowa on December 12. On March 1 I gave my presentation on the same topic. Winterset happened four days later. Quite a coincidence.
A couple of family members lost there house in mayfield so glad they were in there basement, loved the video thanks for making it!
i remember that day very clearly i was in school and there was like 300+ kids in a gym
so the story:
it was a sunny day with a chance of storms and so it was during math and i was working with my friend on our assignment and i go to use the restroom and the restrooms were by the office so the office window was open and the secretary was with the principal talking about the weather so i was like whatever so then when i went back to class i passed the office and the secretary was like there's a tornado warning not noticing i was there and so i head back to class and warn my friend so then the tornado system through the school went off then the city sirens went off and so there was so many kids crying and screaming so it was chaotic and then it got really loud with tons of hail and wind. there was a touchdown downtown and a touchdown right by my house they were confirmed tornados but when we went to leave we couldn't because there was so much hail that the doors were blocked shut by hail. luckily no one was hurt no bad damages i think it was only like 2k in damages or something like that and it was just a chaotic weird day for us but the tornados were like f0 and f1 so it wasn't anything to terrible
Green Bay, WI resident here. Temperatures were in the mid 50s that day and while that hasn't been too strange in recent years, it was weird for me to hear my weather radio go off for a severe thunderstorm watch. For us, we just had a minor thunderstorm in our area but it was just so bizarre watching a thunderstorm in December. This was also the first time I ever heard my weather radio go off in the winter months since I've purchased it in June 2018.
fun fact: every school system in the omaha metro area closed or had to send everybody home early because of the weather risk. it was a really weird thing to experience.
You put your heart and soul into making these videos so people would know and understand more about these types of disasters and the havoc they will cause. I subbed for your cause
Thankfully I have studied weather and terms associated with it so I understood almost all he was explaining. Thanks so much for going over this.
I was worried about tornadoes. This was before I did my own forecasting and only stocked the SPC website. When I saw similar verbiage to the tornado outbreak days before that produced the Mayfield tornado I made sure to have my disaster kit ready to go.
I live in Coralville, Iowa, right next to Iowa City. I remember how wet and warm that day was. The air was so warm and wet, and the ground was so cold, that water was literally condensing on the pavement. I had no idea that was possible in December. I knew things were going to get bad when I saw that.
Driving home the night after the storm passed it was insane to see all the Christmas decorations blown all over the place
Great video!. I am from the Des Moines area but now live in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. My husband mentioned that there was going to be severe weather in Nebraska. I was looking at all the data and realized that this was going to hit some family that lived in the Lincoln, Nebraska area. My husband's sister and brother-in-law work at night and may not have heard about the storms. I called them with the storms about an hour away. They had no idea and got up and made preparations. The winds at the Lincoln airport reached 102 MPH if I am not mistaken. The number of tornadoes in Iowa was absolutely breathtaking. Most of them did occur NW of Des Moines. That afternoon and evening, EVERY single county with the exception of Lyon County in the farthest NW County of Iowa and in the Sioux Falls, South Dakota NWS area of responsibility were included in a tornado watch at some point that evening. The National Weather Service Sioux Falls, South Dakota had never issued a tornado watch/warning nor a severe thunderstorm watch/warning EVER in December. Nor had there ever been a derecho in the Month of December. The fact that December now holds the record for greatest the number of tornadoes and the greatest number of EF2 or greater tornadoes in addition to the warmest temperature for the month of December was astounding. Thanks Nick - you saved lives that night.
Fremont Nebraska shockingly got hammered and got little to no damage. This was extreme for even spring standards.
At 11:00 PM while I was walking out I noticed there were a lot of clouds developing. I realized that was all because of instability. And At 12:00 PM the Cap Breaks near Kansas and allows the outbreak to begin.
16:05 There is an outline of the line of storms.
As a survivor of the derecho, I could tell you it was terrifying, I ended up evacuating my house only to go back to check on it, the sky was a deep crimson and the power went out, luckily the trailer was fine and I am still terrified today.
Very informative video! I’m a sucker for case studies so I’ve binged your channel. I’d like to make note of some firsts I noticed that day as an amateur spotter in Omaha.
1. Warning time - We had a company wide email released at about 12:30 PM stating we were either allowed to leave now or not at all as “100 MPH winds” were forecast for our area. I left as I wanted to get a head start on the rapidly developing convection. What I found very odd and almost eery was that most towns sounded their sirens atleast an hour in advance of any warning polygons reaching their area. It really must’ve caught anybody off guard who didn’t know of the impending events as the wildfire haze obscured the horizon enough that it was just sunny and windy in any direction you looked.
2. Impact by all 5 weather events - I attempted to chase the storm to just beyond Atlantic, Iowa until it over ran me and I decided to watch it pass (10 min from start to finish max). After cleaning some debris at a farm inflicted by the Atlantic, IA EF-2 tornado I proceeded westbound back to Omaha through a sea of downed semis and heavy, heavy smoke. Visibility had to be less than a mile for much of my trek down I80. Once crossing the Nebraska border, I got out of my car and watched the winds change before my eyes. The smoke stalled, turned courses, vanished, and then we were blasted by equal strength frigid winds from the north. It was an absolutely insane thing to witness and feel.
My school day got halved cause of it.
Amazing video. I live in the Omaha area and that day (as a wx enthusiast) was absolutely insane for me. the craziest part to me was the fact I went to bed in a MRGL risk and woke up in a MDT. Overall that day is one I will always remember.
That ef2 that hit my house during this outbreak was the worst in my towns history. 2 story houses knocked off their foundations. It was 1/3 of a mile wide and the corner must’ve hit my house. My neighbors house had complete walls torn away. I’d say that tornado was much higher than an ef2. I wasn’t home and my dad had picked me up 10 mins before it hit. We hid under an underpass in the eastern part of the county and then there was a second twister that hit us. That one was determined to be an ef1. That was the scariest night of my life and I’ll never forget it
Great work Alferia, had no idea the storms we had in Wisconsin during that time were part of this massive Derecho.
I don’t think I’ll forget this day
My experience Here in Wisconsin, steady 70mph winds, very loud just howling winds literally shaking my 2 story house. Somehow no damage to my property
As crazy as this Derecho was with all the tornados it spawned, it was nothing in comparison to the aftermath from the Derecho that happened in 2020. That thing caused power outages that lasted actual weeks for some places. Great video; would love to see more.
I really want a proper documentary on that Derecho. It was unlike anything I had ever seen.
@@tylerball9600 I was on the southern edge of the core of it with family living right where the worst winds were. It was surreal to see how much damage a storm could do without producing any significant tornadoes.
Prob cause this was a serial derecho. The derecho you're most likely referring to was the August 10 derecho, which was a progressive derecho. Progressive derechos, sometimes referred to as warm season derechos, are smaller, but often produce extremely violent straight line winds, and tend to be more long lived (and their winds are sometimes more long lived as well). Serial derechos are much larger in size, and can travel very quickly, and often produce tornadoes more frequently than their smaller counterparts, but the overall straight line winds tend to be both weaker and more short lived in serial derechos.
2020 Derecho (I’m from Quad Cities. Very close to Cedar Rapids) was far beyond this thing in terms of intensity.
The main reason i’ll remember this outbreak is because a tornado brought down an entire fucking Amazon warehouse not too far from where I live. I may have acted all nonchalant during it, but hearing that news scared the piss outta me.
Wasn’t in the loop for meteorology last Christmas… but the crazy of the season explains why we had a heavy and late snow fall in Colorado
I live in Minnesota. You don’t have to believe me on this, but the week before this event I was predicting there would be a risk of severe weather, I noticed that this one day would be 50s, almost the 60s, instead of the low 20’s. And the day of storm, I found out there was actually a tornado. I wasn’t surprised I was one.
Ugh I remember this so vividly… I live in the Iowa Great Lakes, and I feel like severe weather tends to always JUST miss my area so like the idiot Iowans we are my husband and I went to Walmart to get our groceries. Got out of the car and the tornado sirens started going off (I’ve only actually heard those a few times here) we looked at each other like “woah. Nice” and kept going in. Got to the doors and the workers were actually walking out telling us to go home because they were closing (which has only happened once ever that I can remember). So we got in the car and went back home. As soon as we got back into the house- and I mean within SECONDS- we got hit with straight line winds that easily would have knocked me on my you know what. Moral of this long uninteresting post- listen to the weather reports. Even if you live in Iowa🙃
Doing something good here! Appreciate all the effort you put into this, can clearly hear your passion for this. and i think that passion is the most important thing in any field. Cheers man!
Another fantastic documentary!
Keep up the great work
I live in Iowa, but was skiing in Breckinridge, CO the day this happened. There was a snow squall warning at 6am there. We couldn’t leave that day as planned due to road closures. I’m glad we didn’t, because severe weather continued/worsened our whole path home! Thanks for the video.
I’ve never been to brec. How is it
I live near where the tornado in New Jersey was, It was utterly shocking and disturbing
I was in school at the time and people were talking about an incoming storm and I also looked at the NWS SPC and that's where I saw my area of western Iowa in a moderate risk. Around 1 pm my town announced that we should cancel all schools of my area to keep people safe from the incoming "twister" since we didn't know it was a Derecho incoming. Tornado watches were issued and I can feel and smell the unstable pressure when my mom was also told to head home from work to pick me up. After getting me we rushed to get my other siblings at the other side of town. We got home way before the storm arrived. I headed to my room to turn on my TV and PC for weather updates. No storm chasers were in my area sadly lol. Hours later sirens were sounded when the Derecho was minutes away from hitting us. A Tornado was reported somewhere around Nebraska heading towards us but thankfully it shifted and died out after a few minutes. Since 18?? Iowa had there twister happen in December what I learned. After the passing of the Derecho the wind grew in strength where the temperatures dropped to our normal December weather. Phew that's a story.
This channel just keeps getting better and better with each upload, keep it up man!
you have really good content man, appreciate your hard work!
Nick's insight added a lot to the video. nice work
If it tickles your fancy, an interesting storm system to cover would definitely have to be the 1993 “Storm of the Century.” It was a massive storm system that covered nearly a third of the entire US at its peak and affected twenty six states and a good chunk of eastern Canada.
i live in north georgia & wasn’t alive when this happened but people love bringing it up any time we have cold weather. my county got 35 inches of snow
@@misseselise3864 Yeah, it was a few months before my time, as well. But it’s still quite an interesting storm to read about.
I live in southern Minnesota, and I (at the time) didn’t check the weather much at all. We weren’t very prepared, and I remember our power going out an hour or so before bed. We tried to tough it out, but as it continued to be out for multiple days, we went over to a friend’s house who luckily still had power. First day of the power outage though, we took the food from our fridge/freezer and put it outside to try and save as much as we could. It was a good a time as any to clean the inside too, was something to do.
I worked at a combo gas station/food service place at the time, which also lost power. After a couple days, we had to go in while the power was still out and began to throw away stuff from coolers/freezers as it was above temperature. Lots of waste.
I remember that day in Kentucky Spencer County to be exact it was really weird like I knew something was wrong when it was 70 degrees at night in December I immediately got my family and my cats down to the basement Siren's was going off and that Wind was blowing the hail was crashing I kept hearing Thunderstorms we had just a barn and tractor killed lol thankfully nobody got hurt but it definitely could of been worse
Edit : EF1 🌪️ touched down through my County
I live in Central Iowa. And I’ll admit, I was legitimately nervous during the hours leading up to this system, especially with what had happened in KY a few days prior.
As soon as you mentioned that most of the watchers are not subscribed i went ahead and subscribed to your channel i really like your videos and understand that one way of supporting you i by doing that, than you for the info you present on every video
Watched all your vids this afternoon, love what you’re doing
Subbed, excited for the next one
I chased storms for Mr. Stewart that night in NE Iowa. I've never experienced a more interesting weather day before in my life. What stuck out most was the intense winds that day outside of any convective event. Out in the open that night after the storms had passed over, our chase vehicle was getting sustained winds of 40 to 50 mph. In addition, the air quality was extremely poor from all the smoke that advected up from the fires in Kansas. It looked like fog in Cedar Rapids the smoke was so thick.
I live in Iowa but my area seemed to go right between a majority of where the tornadoes ended up, and some much stronger winds just a little bit south than what we got. It was still quite bad but since I witnessed the August 2020 Derecho that hit Cedar Rapids (close to my area) really hard, it wasn't close to the level of straight-line winds that storm had at least in my small area. The most severe stuff happened farther west in my case. Watching the whole event unfold on radar was crazy. I remember at one point the entire line of storms in our state seemed to have some tornado warning. I've never really seen anything like that and I hope not to ever again.
Sorta happy it wasnt as overall as bad as the august 2020 event at least for were i work, i was working helpdesk for hospitals in Iowa and all my coworkers were without internet and power (we mostly worked remote since covid and im in wisconsin) so all us Wisconsin helpdesk techs had to take the load of all the techs in Iowa for calls and tickets and some locations took a long time to get internet working again it was crazy busy. I had moved to network operations by the time the December 2021 event and luckily we only lost internet/power to a few locations and they were not down for as long and i think we were more prepaired.
The music choices are always so good. Love your content aswell
I’m so glad I found your channel. I’m going to binge watch all your videos 🍿
Not only did the December Tenth outbreak just so happen to occur on the night of my birthday, I was up when the sirens went off and only a 40 mile drive from where I lived.
My birthday was the next day. I live in the stl area where there was multiple tornados. I remember the 10th clearly but hardly remember my birthday lol.
Let’s go man good job! Keep up the good work for us weather lovers!
I was within 1/4 mile of an F0 in western Iowa, with an F1 and F2 just a few miles away... spookiest storm in my memory!
I had been watching Omaha coverage, so I had plenty of time to prepare and have my shelter ready. When the warning was issued, I went outside and saw powerflashes to my S.W. so I didn't hesitate to go to the bssement!
I would love to see a documentary on the strongest derecho in recorded history. August 10, 2020. Survey estimated 140 mph. Confirmed recorded winds of 126 mph. I got 100 mph from it.
There was also another derecho in Michigan on July 16, 1980 of identical intensity with isolated surveyed damage of 150 mph and confirmed gusts of 116 mph at Tecumseh, MI which intensified leaving a 30 mile streak of 150 mph gusts from Ann Arbor to Ecorse
This day was crazy in Kansas City. Very warm winds the whole day, then during the night I got my first ever emergency alert for a thunderstorm (80 mph winds). After the storm passed it blew a bunch of smoke and ash in from wildfires in the West of Kansas and I genuinely thought I was in hell that day
Great vid, love the enthusiasm that keeps me invested. Keep it up, you've got real talent.
Doing great, bro. The content and explanation is great as well. Keep going and doing your best. :)
Excellent video. Great details & understandable explanations.
Really enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work!
Digging the musical selection, lol. Nice job.
I've been meaning to look up what a derecho was.
I’m really familiar with this day because this day was the first time I ever had a TRUE tornado warning while being in school. This day was literally the worst day of my life. Although we were safe, the sky was literally like a monster. My father got off early and got videos of ROTATION above our house. We have over 20 animals located at our house, so I’m sure he was devastated. Moral of the story, don’t take tornado warnings lightly
(this was in the Tri Cities of Nebraska)
I'm new to all the storm stuff (just watched Twister so now I'm hooked), so I really appreciate the breakdown of terminology!
Hello Alferia,
I just found you and subscribed to your channel. I love weather phenomenon as well and I see you do as well. I really look forward to watching the rest of your extreme weather videos. Keep showing the love.
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Steve Upesleja
I live in northeast Kansas and when he said it was a night that didn’t want to end, he’s not kidding. The winds were terrible and the smoke was so thick it was all I could smell even inside the house the next couple of days. And with no power and heat on top of all of that. It was definitely one of the craziest days and nights in terms of weather I’ve ever experienced and that’s saying something since it’s Kansas lol And not to mention it was in mid-December!
Your channel is growing in the right way!
I had a driving class that day. I was in shorts and a t shirt while the instructor was going over proper ice and snow precautions.
It ain't winter till shit goes wild
I would not have known what a Derecho was until I looked Hurricane Elvis which was a storm that I experienced when I was younger. Like those winds were equivalent to that of a category 2 hurricane. Straight line winds are no joke. 😦😦😦
i live in southwest iowa and have never seen anything like that in december. it was actually the first time my house was in a tornado warning and a confirmed tornado warning actually in years.
It was damn spooky!
Weird question. When this rolled through, here in Wisconsin, we got absolutely dumped on all night with snow. I hadn't seen snowfall that thick and long in ages. I know there's some humor in asking this about the weather, but is there a way to predict this again a few days in advance? I want to make sure I can fully enjoy it.
Just wanted to say I came across your channel in my suggested videos. Keep up the great work! I love the fact you're covering more of the meteorology stuff than just the damage the storms do.
I’m addicted now man definitely got my subscription
I was at my home in Iowa when the derecho hit, it was sunny and nice one minute then almost immediately changed to black and REALLY windy. I don’t think our sirens even had time to go off before it was already wreaking havoc 👀
i remember staying in hotel for a week because my didn't have power on december 10th, and it started to rain on the 15th. i remember telling my mom and i heard her heavily sigh like she was nervous. i'm pretty sure that was the only time she was super worried over the weather, since she wasn't worried at all during the actual tornado.
Another amazing job!
I remember watching this on the news. During the months of August to December, and I was really anxious about the storms that were hitting my state. I remember keeping an eye on this, even though it didnt really have an impat on my state, but it was really sad to hear. I also remember a amazon place or store of some sort? they didnt allow the people to get home to their familes to keep them working. It costed some lives, i believe. I could be mistaking that with another storm, that might have happened in november though. Anyways, Thank you for covering this storm!
Really good documentary! I watched the whole thing it was great.
Very interesting. Great job man.
This storm was nuts, didn't feel as crazy as the 2020 derecho though. Another supposed to pass through tonight too
I’m surprised someone else likes Scarlet Nexus. Liking these tornado vids man, keep it up
I saw that straight line on radar, with super clear skies behind it, and I knew it would bring a lot of wind
i live in Burnsville Minnesota and i got a severe storm watch and tornado watch for Dakota county so i liked your video about this event.
Would love to maybe see the 2012 derechos covered sometime in the future - something about that year in particular just had one right after the other and were brutal that year
In MN it it was 73 with snow still on the ground. Sirens went off and I lost power along with most my shingles. Straight up felt like a fever dream
When you mentioned, “November tornado outbreaks”,I was like,”go to the Northeast and see what you find”
I live in Central Wisconsin, I just remember watching the weather channel and then the power flickering on and off for a while while our front door blew open, and a lot of wind
Love this video!!! You did amazinf
I remember this event because I live in Nebraska and the weather was very crazy that day
December was wild. It was so warm that it actually cuased Thunderstorms in winter... That's just insane. In my area, this was extremely werid.
December has a lot of windiness, but usually its so cold that it snows.
So when the temps are far above normal, combined with abnormal wind profiles, high humidity, and the jet stream being at the perfect angle, it was inevitable that this would be powerful.