It could have been this dude’s first time experiencing a downburst or RFD. These can be destructive like a tornado, and causes people to confuse a downburst with a tornado. Just letting you know. 🙂
@@BruiserTheWolf if he really thought that there was a tornado he didn’t show it. He stayed in his truck which is a terrible place to be if you experience a tornado or a hurricane. This was a bad thunderstorm with some gusts of wind and nowhere near a tornado.
Allureana Draenei I was working at Walmart when the power was knocked out once. Of course, right after I’d finished scanning an order with like, 100 items, right as the customer goes to pay... then had no way to retrieve the transaction. I had to start over when the power came back a few minutes later. I was out in the garden center register, and I heard several people scream from inside the store. That was a fun day... a huge puddle of rainwater leaked under the covers and got way too close to the register for comfort.
Those were probably Meijer shopping carts. You can see a Meijer sign in the video, and toward the end, you see one of the signs from the cart corral come blowing into the scene. I hear they're still gathering up all the carts from that storm...lolz. ;)
There might of been a tornado in the area.. but you are by no means inside of it or even super close to it. That is simply just high winds. If you were inside of a tornado.. or one came that close to you.. your truck would of at the least tipped over.
This is the RFD (Rear Flanking Downsdraft) of a thunderstorm. The winds are incredibly impressive and the RFD in this storm probably came from a supercell thunderstorm but the winds are not a tornado by definition. However the winds here appear to be capable of causing damage to life and property and should be taken just as serious as a tornado.
@@1991svxwidebody And you must be from the north cause you don't know what a fucking tornado is. You were not inside a tornado at all in this video. I was being nice and polite telling you it was an awesome video, and you repay me with an insult. Thanks.
@@MrCandK5 Yep. If that had been a tornado, even an EF-1, that giant truck would have flipped or at least been scooted along the asphalt. It may have been near a tornado, but not in it. Still would have made me pretty nervous.
Im born n raised in Florida as well and can agree with ya on that, we occasionally get tornadoes up here in Duval County, just had one last year was an EF2-3… And Hurricanes are an annual thing, the bigguns are becoming more common what it seems like
@@brandonnewman98 If there is still a La Niña in the Pacific Ocean this fall, hurricanes won't have much to sheer their tops in the Gulf of Mexico. Yes, there could be a few more and stronger hurricanes because of that.
I’ve heard that you’ve confirmed there was a tornado, you were fortunately only in the RFD (rear flank downdraft). Thank god you only experienced that instead of a flipped truck!
@@wolfaviator0112 Mm...I'm learning too. I live in the UK so I can only experience vicariously thru youtube vids. A couple of people here verified that this is inflow. The wind direction can be seen changing as the tornado (very close) passes by behind him (very slowly)
@@lildeegurrl 2:35 Didn't fly but rather tipped over right after invoking the Lord's name. It wouldn't have tipped over if the carts were parked in the corral like they are suppose to be.
I was in a fire engine years ago during a similar storm. Shopping carts were sliding across large parking lots one their side. One got in a main road and slid for several blocks. Trees blew over all over town, roofs blew off garages and sheds and boats were swamped and docks broke loose. Serious wind damage ! We ran calls the entire shift after that storm. BUT, they said id was severe straight-line winds, with shear. We were convinced it was a tornado, but regardless it was bad.
@@1991svxwidebody This is my other account but I have chased tornadoes for 27 years ... you seen 89 mile an hour winds coming from a downburst.. very scary very dangerous but definitely not tornadic.
Micro burst straight line winds .. no tornado.. I live in Kansas in the heart of tornado alley. Tornado wouldn't have lasted that long and the winds were straight line.. great vid but no twister sorry Dorothy
I was here in North Carolina when Fran came through... the eye passed right over the single wide mobile home I was living in at the time. I kind of enjoyed a good storm before Fran, not anymore!
After the storm, the driver finds himself at a shipper/receiver stop and has to walk the yellow brick road to check in and gets the run around from people he meets along the way. After 3 days, he finally makes it there only for them to tell him he's late for his appointment and has to set up another appointment.
Not inside of the funnel. But, you should have gotten out of the truck and sought shelter. Never, never, never, never stay inside of a vehicle during a tornado or severe thunder storm. I grew up in Indiana and drove semi cross country for 10 years and have common sense enough to stay the hell out of a big truck during a severe thunderstorm or tornado
Well where do you go if you get stuck on a highway in the middle of nowhere? Still get out the car? I know look4a ditch.... what if there's none around?
He was probably OK since he had his truck parked into the wind. Notice the rain was always coming toward his windshield. Had he been parked at a 90 degree angle, the outcome might have been much different. Check this video. th-cam.com/video/EibCuXvkRSw/w-d-xo.html The truck was going to roll, so the trucker makes a right turn into a field and saves his rig. Amazing.
You were very close to it but not quite in it. Posters are right; that's RFD. However, RFD isn't terribly far from the twister itself, so you weren't missed by much at all. It's a very near miss.
N D Clearly there are better explanations than this but I will tell you that in the Southwest our air is so dry (arid zona...Arizona) that we get summer monsoons (flow of moisture from South). Now, because our air is so dry, moisture is very welcome. We get huge thunder clouds that build up high into the atmosphere and they hover over us until boom! They release all of that wind and water that comes toward the ground, either at an angle or straight down, it's nuts. Looks just like this video, although I suppose this could accompany a tornado. I posted a video a few years ago of a microburst. If i see it, I'll send your way. The video is taken 3 miles away.
Take it from an Alabama native that has been through tornadoes for the last 45 years - this was not a tornado. Just straight line winds. A weekly occurrence down here.
Ok... perhaps this can put an end to the debate here... No, the video that was shot indeed did not film any tornado/funnel/twister or whatever term you prefer to use, so the title of the video is misleading and incorrect. The poster is claiming that NWS confirmed EF2 and 130mph wind damage, which is certainly true. Was his semi "inside a tornado"? Absolutely not. you experienced the rain/ wind core of the storm or rear flow downdraft at most... But you absolutely and undeniably did not experience anything as a result of the actual tornado. You were in and filmed some heavy rain and maybe at most a 75mph gust. Sure, it was part of the same storm, but the tornado was occurring far enough away from that parking lot that you experienced none of it's direct affects. I'm not being a hater, just trying to clear things up. I did enjoy the video. Definitely some cool footage. If you want to clear the air and know for yourself exactly how far you were from the circulation, re watch the video and pause it when your GPS shows your location. Make note of it then you can look up the NWS survey and get a map of the damage path. Find your location on the map and find the damage path. Simple as that
So, I got curious and did what you suggested. The video was shot at the Meijer on Keystone Ave. Since the poster has said multiple times here that this was the same storm that tore through Kokomo (which, by the way, is 40 miles away), I was able to find a date of Aug. 24, 2016. This tornado was an EF3 with a track length of a little over 8 miles. So he did not experience this tornado. There was, however, an EF0 that dropped about 4 miles to his SE. My guess is what we see in the video is RFD feeding that tornado.
Definitely feel for ya. My husband drives long haul and he has only told me about a few of the tornadoes he's been around bc he knows I would freak being a mom and all. Glad you're safe and hope it continues that way.
I'm glad I'm able to see this tornado/storm from the comfort of my apartment on my laptop on You Tube. That was some storm/tornado. Thanx for posting this.
TheEverythingKing85 no, microburst. There was no rotation. That was straight line winds. If there was a tornado affiliated with that storm it was no where near that truck because that truck would’ve been one of the first things to be swept away if it was a tornado. Don’t argue if you don’t know what you’re talking about
I live in Indy, yes it was a bad storm that day and yes there were tornadoes in the area that day but in this location there was not one. It was bad but it was just a micro burst
That was inflow, but the twister was very close to you. Watch the wind very closely. The tornado was behind you (very close behind you) and moving very slowly from your left to right. You can see the inflow wind slowly change direction as the tornado moved. Scary stuff! Glad you’re safe!
People need to cut you a break, ugh dont mind these trolls and know it alls, great video, that would be scary and exciting! I love storms and am so glad your okay.
1991svxwidebody do you really expect us to click on your video and read through everybody’s comments? You uploaded a video with a misleading title. End of story
Bobby duke I didn’t know you where Interested in tornadoes too! Or just weather in general lol. Texas weather is crazy. Never thought I’d live in Texas but there I was living in Texas with the craziest storms. Never had storms like them in PENNSYLVANIA. now I’m really into weather it’s just crazy and cool.
I live about an hour away from Kokomo, IN. I remember hearing about that tornado! Very sad the damage it caused. I live in Fishers, IN like i said about an hour from Kokomo.
“Semi near a rain wrapped tornado” if you were in the circulation the semi would have been flipped. The wind stayed the same direction throughout the entire video. Another indication that you weren’t actually inside of the tornado. Probably just got the RFD winds from it which can be pretty strong too.
Not inside a tornado either. But that's more epic than most people have ever been thru. That was no joke. Winds did change direction but nothing say tornado on that. Most impressive though. Good footage!!
I think what they mean by 'inside' is kinda... In the tornadic cell, I'd assume. It had to be somewhere close because of how heavy the winds got, it seemed like he was experiencing RFD
No notable wind rotation or wind changing direction during the length of the video. I see that as straight line wind not a tornado. Now, there may have been a tornado produced from this storm, but he wasn't in it. If I was asked to guess, I'd guess that was around 70-80 MPH wind.
1991svxwidebody yah but the wind in the video was blowing in a straight line... and it was WAY too sustained... even if it was a violent tornado. Straight line winds can easily exceed 130 mph.
That's RFD. The rear flank downdraft is what is driving the tornado circulation together with the inflow and mid level vorticity. In LP supercells with a tornado on the ground, you can often see the RFD, also referred to as ghost jet, flow into the tornado from behind it. (The RFD and RIJ have the same source of origin, so I am clumping them together) th-cam.com/video/bJOjjzHUwsk/w-d-xo.htmlm50s Skip Talbot explained the tornadic structure really well in that video, with the El Reno EF5. You were hit by straight line winds, not a tornado. You might have been within the bears cage in a HP supercell, so differentiating between tornado, RFD and inflow is tough, which is why storm chasers need to respect the bears cage and steer clear of it. As a matter of fact, oftentimes it is the RFD with hail that is destroying the windshields of storm chasing vehicles, not the tornado itself.
a straight line wind is created when a large upper pressure system is increased above and over the jet stream. Squeezing, forcing it closer to the ground, and has winds of 75-200 mph.
I live in Marion Indiana . Been here about 2 years and I didn’t know they have them there. I don’t know a lot about the state and still learning lol. Kokomo is 30 minutes from me
You're sitting immediately south of 55th street, which is really only an access road into the parking lot of the Meijer on the SE corner of 56th and Keystone. You're facing about ten-ish degrees east of north, with an Autozone across Keystone to your east. Mousetrap to your NE, too much time in there to count. I was born about a mile west of there, across from Broad Ripple High, the area you're in is probably most often referred to as Glendale. According to NWS Indy, and SPC, there were two confirmed Indiana tornados on April 3 2018, one in Fountain County, one in Tippecanoe County, about 60 miles northeast of your position. Both were officially designated EF-0. As of April 2, SPC had issued an Enhanced Risk of Severe Weather for Indianapolis and points south and east, which was upgraded to Moderate Risk around noon on April 3rd. For that reason I began monitoring a WSR-88D feed from NWS IND, via Allison House, using the GR Level 2 Analyst software package, and began posting updates on the Central Indiana Severe Weather page, as of around 02:38 am, 3 April 2018, here: m.facebook.com/IndySevere/ By 1:30 pm, the system had sorted itself out, and a Tornado Watch was up. We had a quasi-linear structure initiating roughly diagonal across Indiana, NE to SW, thru Indy, with some ugly looking isolated supercells out front, Shelbyville and Greenfield...ish. They huffed and puffed, but couldn't get a tornado down, to the best of my knowlege. A second linear structure fired over St. Louis, similar orientation, and was responsible for the Fountain-Tippecanoe EF-0 around 7:30 pm. I stayed on the radar till at least 8:49pm, at which point that second line was collapsing as it approached Indy. The southernmost cell in that line did remain Warned Severe as the line transitioned over Indy, but there were no gross anomalies in the Velocity, Storm Relative Velocity, MESH, POSH, SW, or NROT scans, nor any reports of structural damage in the EF2 range anywhere inside the beltway. Could you have seen a brief, un-warned spin-up, after this video ends, that went unnoticed by myself or NWS? Most certainly, and this would have been the perfect day for it. Significant instability, strong shear, and rapidly transitioning cells, forward speeds up to 60 mph, Moderate Risk days are not all that common here. There are often radar attenuation, ground clutter and backscatter issues inside the beltway, all of which lower tornado detection chances. Do I see any evidence of rotation in this video? I'm afraid not. Not RFD either. Not with your visible winds out of the NNW, generated by a squall line oriented NNE to SSW, moving ENE at about 055 Magnetic. It's clear that wind had your attention, it would have had mine too. I'm guessing you found yourself on the south side of a Microburst, or perhaps a localized Derecho, at least during the video presented. Not to be taken lightly. I've seen these snap 4 inch thick marble or granite headstones in cemetaries. To properly ID rotational winds with enough time to take shelter, you need to be looking directly upstream towards the cell with your name on it, in this case, over your left shoulder to the WSW and SW. (You need to be watching radar, animated, to look in the right direction.) In that direction, you'd see SIGNIFICANT left to right movement from a counterclockwise circulation. About the time you start picking out individual missiles, plywood sheets or structural lumber, you are down to a very few seconds, especially with storms moving this fast. Too late to avoid...maybe between the seats and condo area, down low. You'd want to be wedged in, that whole rig is likely to tumble...or fly. Shooting video, from the driver's seat? Your first mouthfull would be glass, then things would really get serious. Rough eyeball, from a guy who's been in visual range of at least 25 confirmed tornados, and who has been deliberately holding down the mouth of the number 3 (tied) all time, all tornado alley, and number one lethal F5 tornado alley, for 22 years now... 105. Maybe110, tops. Straight line, mostly, a wee bit of swing. Not the reversal you'd see after passage. Certainly not the right to left motion you'd see from the inside, looking out. At 120 mph, you'd have moderate clouds of smaller home pieces, especially in that area, where most homes went up in the 1940s and 50s. 120..by and large, equates to 40 psi overpressure, and that's where western platform framing, roof decking, and siding begin to fail. Only debris I find in this vid are the shopping carts (rolling) and the cart return frame and signage, (sliding.) That last cart coulda done your windshield, curbage was your friend. Here's the official report from SPC for 3 April, 2018. www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/event.php?date=20180403
+MarcusGoodwyn That was a certainty, before I even wrote it. Him reading it, was not my objective. Others, perhaps, but really, I needed to put it out there, mostly to know I tried. Pretty standard. You can lead a horse to water, but if he refuses to drink, you still know you did what you could.
jefft4303 it would seem nothing u can say will make him believe he wasn't in a tornado... only issue i take from what u wrote.... can't say i have ever heard of a "localized Derecho", just another way of saying "bowing segment"?? or "bow echo"??
Thanks for the informative comment. I know I'm a year late, but I keep seeing people say this is RFD and it's not. I've seen RFD before because where I live we had an EF3 tornado in 2014. My jobsite was in the RFD of that tornado, and I can for sure say that this is NOT RFD in the video.
Just a few hours ago, I had a small tornado go over my house, a video will never be able to tell what it is like to actually have a tornado go right over you.
1991svxwidebody Thank you ! I was not disappointed , You had something wild Happen while you were on the job and Filmed it . It is nice that you shared it with so many people who just watch Videos and comment . If the people who comment also actually shoot their own footage and upload they would understand . Where I live We get Tornados but it is not Typical Tornado country , Every Tornado that happens always has the experts arguing if it was a Tornado ? I have lived thru two of those strait line wind events and the Damage they cause is incredible . One went a 1/4 way across the state , the Route 31 Storm leaving areas of Damage that was Real . The best part of your Video is that you pulled into a Parking lot and were smart about The storm . Please keep making Videos !
If I could post pics. I'd show everyone. Can't post pics on here, so therefore I can't show anybody what I have from the NWS... And the destruction path that was left.
I can relate with poor guy. Storm comes on quickly you can't well enough to drive, it is not safe to jump out of your vehicle and the winds are so strong you pray the windows aren't broken as you wait it out. It doesn't matter what you want to call the storm it is PLAIN SCARY WINDY!!!
You're Brave. We don't realize. Goods have to travel via 18 wheelers and those drivers hit all kinds of weather. Be safe out there on those highway and byways.
Sure are alot of rude angry people. Does it really matter what he calls this? Damn, he experienced something, he sharing it, just watch and move on. Ne need to leave rude comments. For crying out loud, so many marshmallows or cotton balls or whatever their called. Oh yeah, snowflakes. I'm old, have a hard time remembering things sometimes.
Jesus is Lord of all!! Every knee shall bow what a ridiculous statement. People click on the video expecting to see a tornado because of the title and waste 4 min waiting for something that never happens. You can’t describe something just because you feel like it was. That’s dumb
Jesus is Lord of all!! Every knee shall bow "Does it really matter what he calls this?" ya your right, he should have called it "the mandalay bay massacre" then right?? who cares if its incorrect, still a cool video right??
As a professional meteorologist, this is not a tornado. Straight-line winds of 60 mph, then a microburst from (presumably) another storm in the area caused the wind direction to change slightly. But definitely not a tornado. I've looked up the weather in Kokomo on this day, and there was no confirmed tornado report there.
Alexa D They are dangerous, yeah. But rain wrapped tornadoes, have an actual shape to it, and a slight rotation. Even though it's hard to notice, if you've been around tornados enough, you can spot them!
The truly amazing this is that for either all of the video or at least most until the very end (I can't tell if the power went out or the weather is blocking the view of the lights), the power is still on. It would have gone out after about 30 MPH winds where I live!
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I wonder how many hits I'd get if I put up a video titled "Inside a Volcano"?
LMFAO
It could have been this dude’s first time experiencing a downburst or RFD. These can be destructive like a tornado, and causes people to confuse a downburst with a tornado.
Just letting you know. 🙂
@@BruiserTheWolf I appreciate your perspective. Stay well.
Sure could use that dislike button right about now.
@@BruiserTheWolf if he really thought that there was a tornado he didn’t show it. He stayed in his truck which is a terrible place to be if you experience a tornado or a hurricane. This was a bad thunderstorm with some gusts of wind and nowhere near a tornado.
Strong winds does not automatically mean "Tornado"
All I saw was powerful straight line winds (No rotation), likely from a Microburst event.
Microbursts can be just as scary and dangerous
@@gandernan1822 microbursts don't level entire towns and throw cars through the air tho
Chillax cadet!!
If you look closely. You definitely can see the rain change direction and most likely a weak to moderate tornado was no more than a mile away from him
@@stackflow343 ok tell me when u have seen a tornado level a whole town
This is literally what it looks like every time I walk out of Walmart 🤦🏼♀️
lol
Meijer shopping carts....sign when he pans to the left.
Especially after u buy a new TV
Allureana Draenei I was working at Walmart when the power was knocked out once. Of course, right after I’d finished scanning an order with like, 100 items, right as the customer goes to pay... then had no way to retrieve the transaction. I had to start over when the power came back a few minutes later.
I was out in the garden center register, and I heard several people scream from inside the store. That was a fun day... a huge puddle of rainwater leaked under the covers and got way too close to the register for comfort.
This comment deserves more likes
All I saw was 3 Wal-Mart shopping carts K.I.A. They gave it their all.
Those were probably Meijer shopping carts. You can see a Meijer sign in the video, and toward the end, you see one of the signs from the cart corral come blowing into the scene. I hear they're still gathering up all the carts from that storm...lolz. ;)
All gave some. Some gave all.
Let us drink in their memory.
Shopping carts’ lives matter
Best comment yet lol
There might of been a tornado in the area.. but you are by no means inside of it or even super close to it.
That is simply just high winds. If you were inside of a tornado.. or one came that close to you.. your truck would of at the least tipped over.
Looks more like straight-line winds than a tornado. Everything was moving in one direction vs circular.
You were not in the tornado. It was close behind you. That is inflow that we are looking at. Thank God brother you did not get hurt.
You're very lucky that nothing came flying through your window...straight line winds are still dangerous
Cool footage, btw...😎👍
Very refreshing to hear someone saying "holy cow!" instead of the conventional "omigod omigod omigod..." ad infinitum.
exactly, or to listen to someone cursing for the entire 3 minutes
Definitely! I’m so fed up with everyone using the Lords name or saying F every other word
@@kathyh4804 Then the internet isn't for high Kathy.
Or saying, “Oh/Holy s**t!”.
This is the RFD (Rear Flanking Downsdraft) of a thunderstorm. The winds are incredibly impressive and the RFD in this storm probably came from a supercell thunderstorm but the winds are not a tornado by definition. However the winds here appear to be capable of causing damage to life and property and should be taken just as serious as a tornado.
I have rear flanking downdrafts after eating at Taco Bell.
@@cameracamel2994 bwaaahaaahaaa
@@cameracamel2994 LMFAO!!
Micro burst.
Absolutely - rfd can be in excess of 100 mph - it is no joke.
Awesome video of strong straight line winds! Wasn't a tornado. Great video none the less. Was fun to watch.
I take it you must be from one of the southern states and you don't know how to read
Because if you would read the comments below the proof is below
@@1991svxwidebody And you must be from the north cause you don't know what a fucking tornado is. You were not inside a tornado at all in this video. I was being nice and polite telling you it was an awesome video, and you repay me with an insult. Thanks.
@@MrCandK5 Yep. If that had been a tornado, even an EF-1, that giant truck would have flipped or at least been scooted along the asphalt. It may have been near a tornado, but not in it. Still would have made me pretty nervous.
@@MrCandK5 truck drivers are assholes anyways.
Glad you made it through. I live in FL and have been through many hurricanes. The projectiles caused by the wind are deadly.
I was just thinking that. Only a sheet of glass protecting him.
Im born n raised in Florida as well and can agree with ya on that, we occasionally get tornadoes up here in Duval County, just had one last year was an EF2-3… And Hurricanes are an annual thing, the bigguns are becoming more common what it seems like
@@brandonnewman98 If there is still a La Niña in the Pacific Ocean this fall, hurricanes won't have much to sheer their tops in the Gulf of Mexico. Yes, there could be a few more and stronger hurricanes because of that.
I’ve heard that you’ve confirmed there was a tornado, you were fortunately only in the RFD (rear flank downdraft). Thank god you only experienced that instead of a flipped truck!
RFD is not inflow
@@steved6149 thanks for clarifying, I’ve learned that since 10 months ago
@@wolfaviator0112 Mm...I'm learning too. I live in the UK so I can only experience vicariously thru youtube vids. A couple of people here verified that this is inflow. The wind direction can be seen changing as the tornado (very close) passes by behind him (very slowly)
If people would just return the carts into the cart corral, the carts wouldn't have been injured by the wind.
Fairly sure I saw the cart corral flying too
@@lildeegurrl 2:35 Didn't fly but rather tipped over right after invoking the Lord's name. It wouldn't have tipped over if the carts were parked in the corral like they are suppose to be.
Cart narcs needed.
People are lazy.
Did you not see the cart coral blown across the parking lot?
I was in a fire engine years ago during a similar storm. Shopping carts were sliding across large parking lots one their side. One got in a main road and slid for several blocks. Trees blew over all over town, roofs blew off garages and sheds and boats were swamped and docks broke loose. Serious wind damage ! We ran calls the entire shift after that storm. BUT, they said id was severe straight-line winds, with shear. We were convinced it was a tornado, but regardless it was bad.
Inside of a tornado? If so, that was surprisingly tame. I see a storm like this from my living room almost every year (I’m in Iowa).
m.th-cam.com/video/dZRJQClK39M/w-d-xo.html
@@1991svxwidebody
This is my other account but I have chased tornadoes for 27 years ...
you seen 89 mile an hour winds coming from a downburst.. very scary very dangerous but definitely not tornadic.
Micro burst straight line winds .. no tornado.. I live in Kansas in the heart of tornado alley. Tornado wouldn't have lasted that long and the winds were straight line.. great vid but no twister sorry Dorothy
I was in Biloxi when Katrina hit. Imagine if you can 10-12 hours of this during high tide in the middle of the night. Makes this look a nature sneeze.
I'm 100 miles north, Kenneth. Considering what she did to this town, I can only imagine the horrors of being in Biloxi/Gulfport at the time.
I was here in North Carolina when Fran came through... the eye passed right over the single wide mobile home I was living in at the time. I kind of enjoyed a good storm before Fran, not anymore!
"Go get all the carts out of the lot"
Employee: "why, they aren't going anywhere"
After the storm, the driver finds himself at a shipper/receiver stop and has to walk the yellow brick road to check in and gets the run around from people he meets along the way. After 3 days, he finally makes it there only for them to tell him he's late for his appointment and has to set up another appointment.
Those poor baskets were trying to run but kept getting caught on the grass. Lol
Instead of tumble weeds it's shopping carts rolling through. Lol
Not inside of the funnel. But, you should have gotten out of the truck and sought shelter. Never, never, never, never stay inside of a vehicle during a tornado or severe thunder storm. I grew up in Indiana and drove semi cross country for 10 years and have common sense enough to stay the hell out of a big truck during a severe thunderstorm or tornado
Why? In all the videos I watch the cars are the safest places
Because your windshield will protect you from all of those big heavy flying object.
Well where do you go if you get stuck on a highway in the middle of nowhere? Still get out the car? I know look4a ditch.... what if there's none around?
And I really would like to know that is one of my biggest fears, storms and getting caught in a tornado
He was probably OK since he had his truck parked into the wind. Notice the rain was always coming toward his windshield. Had he been parked at a 90 degree angle, the outcome might have been much different. Check this video. th-cam.com/video/EibCuXvkRSw/w-d-xo.html The truck was going to roll, so the trucker makes a right turn into a field and saves his rig. Amazing.
You were very close to it but not quite in it. Posters are right; that's RFD. However, RFD isn't terribly far from the twister itself, so you weren't missed by much at all. It's a very near miss.
1:15 everybody gangsta till jah start pushing the cart
man u really are dumb that aint a tornadere
That looked more like a micro downburst then a tornado. Trees were blowing straight not circular. Micro downbursts can be just as destructive.
Well burstnadoes are a thing
Please take care of yourself while you're helping out other tornado victims. Thank you for all that you do for others. ☺️
I drove Moore OK in May 2013 after the F5. Cars launched like missiles into the side of a hospital. Houses cleaned off to the foundation.
You ended the video right when it was getting good...
No I didn't. That is all my phone would allow me to upload
If you would have read the comments. You would have already known
1991svxwidebody who the fuck reads al, the comments?
@@officialWWM People who are actually nice enough to like comments
@@officialWWM People who have time to
Microburst, just as exciting though.
Exactly
Yeah, that could be July at any Walmart in Arizona during monsoon season. Scary stuff!
And what exactly is a microburst?
N D Clearly there are better explanations than this but I will tell you that in the Southwest our air is so dry (arid zona...Arizona) that we get summer monsoons (flow of moisture from South). Now, because our air is so dry, moisture is very welcome. We get huge thunder clouds that build up high into the atmosphere and they hover over us until boom! They release all of that wind and water that comes toward the ground, either at an angle or straight down, it's nuts. Looks just like this video, although I suppose this could accompany a tornado. I posted a video a few years ago of a microburst. If i see it, I'll send your way. The video is taken 3 miles away.
N D th-cam.com/video/u-WK00yZYhI/w-d-xo.html
Glad I bought a tornado shelter! Thanks for the video.
I also bought a tornado shelter. It is called -a house in Arizona.
Meanwhile dispatcher 950 miles away says...
Weather is fine here, don't worry about it, proceed to shipper.
I like the old demented person in the white Murano going about his business like the apocalypse has not begun around him.
I Know Right..?!
LMAO
That Woulda Been me.
LOL
Take it from an Alabama native that has been through tornadoes for the last 45 years - this was not a tornado. Just straight line winds. A weekly occurrence down here.
If you see the wind suddenly and quickly change directions, there's a good chance that wherever the wind is blowing towards, there's a tornado.
The trucks getting a good pressure wash. lol!
You bought it, he brought it. Thank a trucker
Ok... perhaps this can put an end to the debate here...
No, the video that was shot indeed did not film any tornado/funnel/twister or whatever term you prefer to use, so the title of the video is misleading and incorrect.
The poster is claiming that NWS confirmed EF2 and 130mph wind damage, which is certainly true.
Was his semi "inside a tornado"? Absolutely not.
you experienced the rain/ wind core of the storm or rear flow downdraft at most... But you absolutely and undeniably did not experience anything as a result of the actual tornado.
You were in and filmed some heavy rain and maybe at most a 75mph gust. Sure, it was part of the same storm, but the tornado was occurring far enough away from that parking lot that you experienced none of it's direct affects.
I'm not being a hater, just trying to clear things up. I did enjoy the video. Definitely some cool footage.
If you want to clear the air and know for yourself exactly how far you were from the circulation, re watch the video and pause it when your GPS shows your location. Make note of it then you can look up the NWS survey and get a map of the damage path. Find your location on the map and find the damage path. Simple as that
So, I got curious and did what you suggested. The video was shot at the Meijer on Keystone Ave. Since the poster has said multiple times here that this was the same storm that tore through Kokomo (which, by the way, is 40 miles away), I was able to find a date of Aug. 24, 2016. This tornado was an EF3 with a track length of a little over 8 miles. So he did not experience this tornado. There was, however, an EF0 that dropped about 4 miles to his SE. My guess is what we see in the video is RFD feeding that tornado.
IceNFire09 very well done!
IceNFire09 That's really impressive! 💙
Danny Bell but that's too easy
Fuckin nerd
Incredible video! Glad you were OK!
2:50 what a responsible cart going to the corral all by itself.
shopping cart be like: GOTTA GO FAST *falls on nonexistent face*
OOF!
😂😂😂😂
Definitely feel for ya. My husband drives long haul and he has only told me about a few of the tornadoes he's been around bc he knows I would freak being a mom and all. Glad you're safe and hope it continues that way.
Gotta love that beautiful truck icon on the gps
I'm glad I'm able to see this tornado/storm from the comfort of my apartment on my laptop on You Tube. That was some storm/tornado. Thanx for posting this.
Thank you for sharing this experience. Crazy and so scary.
This was a microburst. Very dangerous but not a tornado
TheEverythingKing85 no, microburst. There was no rotation. That was straight line winds. If there was a tornado affiliated with that storm it was no where near that truck because that truck would’ve been one of the first things to be swept away if it was a tornado. Don’t argue if you don’t know what you’re talking about
I live in Indy, yes it was a bad storm that day and yes there were tornadoes in the area that day but in this location there was not one. It was bad but it was just a micro burst
@@AJ_76421 it's the internet, everyone argue's and don't know what they are talking about.
Tornado?? No way!! I’m a trained Weather Spotter and all I saw was a lot of rain and some wind. Just a normal thunderstorm!
Awesome video! That was wild!!! Glad you are okay!
It's like a hurricane wrapped in a tornado bottled up in a nuclear explosion surrounded by a supernova.
I pray that you’re okay. I’ve been through two tornadoes and it was the scariest thing I can remember. God Bless you and your family.
whoever designed the parking lot did a fantastic job on their curbs; stopped both buggeys from becoming a dent in someone's car; thanks for the video!
That was inflow, but the twister was very close to you. Watch the wind very closely. The tornado was behind you (very close behind you) and moving very slowly from your left to right. You can see the inflow wind slowly change direction as the tornado moved. Scary stuff! Glad you’re safe!
I’m surprised some cars were still driving in that
AeoniumRed oh you would be surprised how many people drive in this weather where I’m from. This is just a normal day , just with stronger winds.
People need to cut you a break, ugh dont mind these trolls and know it alls, great video, that would be scary and exciting! I love storms and am so glad your okay.
Lmao..jajajajjajaja
NariNaraga22 but it isn’t a tornado, it actually isn’t. How is that trolling?
Amazing video!! Thank you for sharing!!
Wow, glad you're OK. I'd have been holding my breath on that one.
“Inside a tornado”
Just curious, why after so many people have informed you that is not a tornado, you still haven't changed the title?
Did you read any of the other comments or did you just decide to watch the video and then make a comment.....
There are videos of a funnel cloud on the ground, 3 other videos actually.
@@1991svxwidebody Thanks for the video...glad you are ok....it was truly frightening.....but very cool to watch..
1991svxwidebody do you really expect us to click on your video and read through everybody’s comments? You uploaded a video with a misleading title. End of story
Bobby duke I didn’t know you where Interested in tornadoes too! Or just weather in general lol. Texas weather is crazy. Never thought I’d live in Texas but there I was living in Texas with the craziest storms. Never had storms like them in PENNSYLVANIA. now I’m really into weather it’s just crazy and cool.
All those carts flying are hilarious 🤣
A rain wrapped tornado 🌪️ so glad that cart corral didn't fly at you!!! Whew 😥 I hope those folks in the Walmart parking lot are okay!
Wow. Much respect to truck drivers for braving harsh weather conditions
WOW that got really intense especially right at the end. When was this video shot? And was it the 2016 Kokomo tornado you were referring to?
Ethan B nah this was in castleton indiana just north east of indy, there hasnt been a tornado worth mentioning here for like a decade
This looks more like a hurricane than a tornado, just a lot of strong winds. No swirling that I saw.
I like how the cart came out of nowhere and put itself away. Its out of the street now
Inside a tornado
First reaction : "Holy Cow!"
Who cares if it was or wasn't technically a tornado? This was amazing footage.
Title says 'inside a tornado'...which it wasn't. Which would be like me saying, I was there. It's a lie for clicks....and it works
I don't care if it wasn't a bona fide tornado...I still enjoyed the very cool footage!!!
I live about an hour away from Kokomo, IN. I remember hearing about that tornado! Very sad the damage it caused. I live in Fishers, IN like i said about an hour from Kokomo.
2:49: I swear I saw R2 or another astromech droid.
Looks just like it 🤪
“Semi near a rain wrapped tornado” if you were in the circulation the semi would have been flipped. The wind stayed the same direction throughout the entire video. Another indication that you weren’t actually inside of the tornado. Probably just got the RFD winds from it which can be pretty strong too.
Not inside a tornado either. But that's more epic than most people have ever been thru. That was no joke. Winds did change direction but nothing say tornado on that. Most impressive though. Good footage!!
hope you were ok...i don't remember any such storms near Indy in 2018
I think what they mean by 'inside' is kinda... In the tornadic cell, I'd assume. It had to be somewhere close because of how heavy the winds got, it seemed like he was experiencing RFD
yeah, but he wasn’t affected by the tornado itself. it’s shameless clickbait.
This is an RFD but it's insanely scary all the same.
m.th-cam.com/video/dZRJQClK39M/w-d-xo.html
@@1991svxwidebody Ignore all the know it all's on here!
No notable wind rotation or wind changing direction during the length of the video. I see that as straight line wind not a tornado. Now, there may have been a tornado produced from this storm, but he wasn't in it. If I was asked to guess, I'd guess that was around 70-80 MPH wind.
Rain wrapped tornadoes seem so scary, you can’t see it coming
I'm sorry people. Straight line winds don't exceed 130mph. Was confirmed a EF2
1991svxwidebody yah but the wind in the video was blowing in a straight line... and it was WAY too sustained... even if it was a violent tornado. Straight line winds can easily exceed 130 mph.
NumberOneAirgunner well Florida had a 130 straight line winds couple years ago
That's RFD. The rear flank downdraft is what is driving the tornado circulation together with the inflow and mid level vorticity. In LP supercells with a tornado on the ground, you can often see the RFD, also referred to as ghost jet, flow into the tornado from behind it. (The RFD and RIJ have the same source of origin, so I am clumping them together)
th-cam.com/video/bJOjjzHUwsk/w-d-xo.htmlm50s Skip Talbot explained the tornadic structure really well in that video, with the El Reno EF5. You were hit by straight line winds, not a tornado. You might have been within the bears cage in a HP supercell, so differentiating between tornado, RFD and inflow is tough, which is why storm chasers need to respect the bears cage and steer clear of it. As a matter of fact, oftentimes it is the RFD with hail that is destroying the windshields of storm chasing vehicles, not the tornado itself.
1991svxwidebody The point is, you were not “in” a tornado. I agree with those that say it was RFD
Yeah not a Tornado, and actually yes straight line winds can exceed 130 mph easily.
2:33 😨 I would have had a panic attack...so scary!
Christine ishere ikr😬😨
a straight line wind is created when a large upper pressure system is increased above and over the jet stream. Squeezing, forcing it closer to the ground, and has winds of 75-200 mph.
This is an awesome demonstration of straight-line winds. Awesome footage my man..but Holy shit..pretty gnarly lol
Still scary and cool at the same time. Those winds were crazy strong. Glad you're ok regardless of tornado or not.
You were in NO WAY inside of a tornado. Not even an EF0 or EF1. On the outskirts maybe, but not in.
Figure of Speech.
Apollonia Shaw
In that case, I walked through lava wearing shorts.
Do you now concede your stupidity???
@@lukenukem8028 Why are you being rude?
He used to be a fisherman..lmao..caught a sardine and said he caught a great white lmao
www.cnn.com/2016/08/24/us/indiana-tornadoes/index.html
That wasn't a tornado. Those were just powerful straight-line winds.
I live in Marion Indiana . Been here about 2 years and I didn’t know they have them there. I don’t know a lot about the state and still learning lol. Kokomo is 30 minutes from me
I was just in marion yesterday
@@1991svxwidebody lol
You're sitting immediately south of 55th street, which is really only an access road into the parking lot of the Meijer on the SE corner of 56th and Keystone.
You're facing about ten-ish degrees east of north, with an Autozone across Keystone to your east.
Mousetrap to your NE, too much time in there to count.
I was born about a mile west of there, across from Broad Ripple High, the area you're in is probably most often referred to as Glendale.
According to NWS Indy, and SPC, there were two confirmed Indiana tornados on April 3 2018, one in Fountain County, one in Tippecanoe County, about 60 miles northeast of your position. Both were officially designated EF-0.
As of April 2, SPC had issued an Enhanced Risk of Severe Weather for Indianapolis and points south and east, which was upgraded to Moderate Risk around noon on April 3rd.
For that reason I began monitoring a WSR-88D feed from NWS IND, via Allison House, using the GR Level 2 Analyst software package, and began posting updates on the Central Indiana Severe Weather page, as of around 02:38 am, 3 April 2018, here:
m.facebook.com/IndySevere/
By 1:30 pm, the system had sorted itself out, and a Tornado Watch was up. We had a quasi-linear structure initiating roughly diagonal across Indiana, NE to SW, thru Indy, with some ugly looking isolated supercells out front, Shelbyville and Greenfield...ish. They huffed and puffed, but couldn't get a tornado down, to the best of my knowlege.
A second linear structure fired over St. Louis, similar orientation, and was responsible for the Fountain-Tippecanoe EF-0 around 7:30 pm.
I stayed on the radar till at least 8:49pm, at which point that second line was collapsing as it approached Indy.
The southernmost cell in that line did remain Warned Severe as the line transitioned over Indy, but there were no gross anomalies in the Velocity, Storm Relative Velocity, MESH, POSH, SW, or NROT scans, nor any reports of structural damage in the EF2 range anywhere inside the beltway.
Could you have seen a brief, un-warned spin-up, after this video ends, that went unnoticed by myself or NWS?
Most certainly, and this would have been the perfect day for it. Significant instability, strong shear, and rapidly transitioning cells, forward speeds up to 60 mph, Moderate Risk days are not all that common here. There are often radar attenuation, ground clutter and backscatter issues inside the beltway, all of which lower tornado detection chances.
Do I see any evidence of rotation in this video?
I'm afraid not. Not RFD either. Not with your visible winds out of the NNW, generated by a squall line oriented NNE to SSW, moving ENE at about 055 Magnetic.
It's clear that wind had your attention, it would have had mine too.
I'm guessing you found yourself on the south side of a Microburst, or perhaps a localized Derecho, at least during the video presented.
Not to be taken lightly. I've seen these snap 4 inch thick marble or granite headstones in cemetaries.
To properly ID rotational winds with enough time to take shelter, you need to be looking directly upstream towards the cell with your name on it, in this case, over your left shoulder to the WSW and SW. (You need to be watching radar, animated, to look in the right direction.)
In that direction, you'd see SIGNIFICANT left to right movement from a counterclockwise circulation. About the time you start picking out individual missiles, plywood sheets or structural lumber, you are down to a very few seconds, especially with storms moving this fast.
Too late to avoid...maybe between the seats and condo area, down low. You'd want to be wedged in, that whole rig is likely to tumble...or fly.
Shooting video, from the driver's seat? Your first mouthfull would be glass, then things would really get serious.
Rough eyeball, from a guy who's been in visual range of at least 25 confirmed tornados, and who has been deliberately holding down the mouth of the number 3 (tied) all time, all tornado alley, and number one lethal F5 tornado alley, for 22 years now...
105. Maybe110, tops. Straight line, mostly, a wee bit of swing. Not the reversal you'd see after passage. Certainly not the right to left motion you'd see from the inside, looking out.
At 120 mph, you'd have moderate clouds of smaller home pieces, especially in that area, where most homes went up in the 1940s and 50s.
120..by and large, equates to 40 psi overpressure, and that's where western platform framing, roof decking, and siding begin to fail.
Only debris I find in this vid are the shopping carts (rolling) and the cart return frame and signage, (sliding.)
That last cart coulda done your windshield, curbage was your friend.
Here's the official report from SPC for 3 April, 2018.
www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/event.php?date=20180403
You know he didn't read that.
+MarcusGoodwyn That was a certainty, before I even wrote it. Him reading it, was not my objective. Others, perhaps, but really, I needed to put it out there, mostly to know I tried. Pretty standard. You can lead a horse to water, but if he refuses to drink, you still know you did what you could.
Blah blah blah LOL
jefft4303 it would seem nothing u can say will make him believe he wasn't in a tornado... only issue i take from what u wrote.... can't say i have ever heard of a "localized Derecho", just another way of saying "bowing segment"?? or "bow echo"??
Thanks for the informative comment. I know I'm a year late, but I keep seeing people say this is RFD and it's not. I've seen RFD before because where I live we had an EF3 tornado in 2014. My jobsite was in the RFD of that tornado, and I can for sure say that this is NOT RFD in the video.
Uh........what tornado?
Thank you
Just a few hours ago, I had a small tornado go over my house, a video will never be able to tell what it is like to actually have a tornado go right over you.
This was 2 years ago. Hope you're okay though! ♥️
I would have been in the back of the semi under a blanket scared! 😱
If nobody likes the video. Nobody is breaking your neck to watch it.
1991svxwidebody Thank you ! I was not disappointed , You had something wild Happen while you were on the job and Filmed it . It is nice that you shared it with so many people who just watch Videos and comment . If the people who comment also actually shoot their own footage and upload they would understand . Where I live We get Tornados but it is not Typical Tornado country , Every Tornado that happens always has the experts arguing if it was a Tornado ? I have lived thru two of those strait line wind events and the Damage they cause is incredible . One went a 1/4 way across the state , the Route 31 Storm leaving areas of Damage that was Real . The best part of your Video is that you pulled into a Parking lot and were smart about The storm . Please keep making Videos !
We watched it because you lied and said you were inside a tornado idiot!! Click bait much
If I could post pics. I'd show everyone. Can't post pics on here, so therefore I can't show anybody what I have from the NWS... And the destruction path that was left.
1991svxwidebody if there was a destruction path and I’m not saying there wasn’t how did you end up not getting destroyed?
Donna Waller www.cnn.com/2016/08/24/us/indiana-tornadoes/index.html
I can relate with poor guy. Storm comes on quickly you can't well enough to drive, it is not safe to jump out of your vehicle and the winds are so strong you pray the windows aren't broken as you wait it out. It doesn't matter what you want to call the storm it is PLAIN SCARY WINDY!!!
You're Brave. We don't realize. Goods have to travel via 18 wheelers and those drivers hit all kinds of weather. Be safe out there on those highway and byways.
Good size t- storm but not in anyway circulation.
Sure are alot of rude angry people. Does it really matter what he calls this? Damn, he experienced something, he sharing it, just watch and move on. Ne need to leave rude comments. For crying out loud, so many marshmallows or cotton balls or whatever their called. Oh yeah, snowflakes. I'm old, have a hard time remembering things sometimes.
Jesus is Lord of all!! Every knee shall bow what a ridiculous statement. People click on the video expecting to see a tornado because of the title and waste 4 min waiting for something that never happens. You can’t describe something just because you feel like it was. That’s dumb
Of course it matters you fool!!#!
Jesus is Lord of all!! Every knee shall bow "Does it really matter what he calls this?" ya your right, he should have called it "the mandalay bay massacre" then right?? who cares if its incorrect, still a cool video right??
Lol
I was in the tornado that ripped through Arkansas and Kentucky a few weeks ago, this is exactly what I experienced.
As a professional meteorologist, this is not a tornado. Straight-line winds of 60 mph, then a microburst from (presumably) another storm in the area caused the wind direction to change slightly. But definitely not a tornado. I've looked up the weather in Kokomo on this day, and there was no confirmed tornado report there.
Dude need to learn the difference between straight line winds "microbursts" and a tornado.
With the wind’s sudden change in direction, he might have been near a tornado, or more likely getting the RFD.
Not a tornado... straight-line winds perhaps, but no rotation.... if it was a confirmed EF2, I'd love to see the report.
david lamb there probably was a tornado associated with this... but youre right... this video has no rotation in it
Alexa D They are dangerous, yeah. But rain wrapped tornadoes, have an actual shape to it, and a slight rotation. Even though it's hard to notice, if you've been around tornados enough, you can spot them!
OMG! I would have had a heart attack! That was really scary. Hope you were ok. Thumbs up. Beth
The truly amazing this is that for either all of the video or at least most until the very end (I can't tell if the power went out or the weather is blocking the view of the lights), the power is still on. It would have gone out after about 30 MPH winds where I live!