Storm Chasing During the 2020 Pandemic
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- The 2020 storm chasing season was a train wreck of uncertainty due to the pandemic, mishaps, and dismal, uncooperative weather. Events featured include:
March 28 - Illinois Moderate Risk and tornado warned supercells
April 12 - Mississippi Moderate Risk tornado outbreak and Brooksville, EF2
May 17 - Decatur, Illinois localized tornado event and chase mishap
May 23 - Northern Illinois tornadic supercells and Coleta, EF1
July 15 - Central Illinois tornadoes and Waverly, EF0 close encounter
Sources stats for cited stats: NOAA Storm Prediction Center and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
My dude just whacked into the ditch without saying a word.
Kudos to the tornadoes for socially distancing and wrapping themselves in rain as a face covering.
Glad they are least 6 miles apart.
Good one 🤣🤣🤣
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The end of that video really hits home... driving for hours on a dark road in silence, probably thinking about what the day could have been.
That last blurb about the EF2 killing the motorist still gets me, I was one of maybe 3 chasers on that tornado and reported to ABR with an actual image of the tornado and the fact that they still didn't warn it despite that really pissed me off for lack of better words.
Chances are a warning wouldn't have helped the motorist anyway. Don't feel too bad
How come they never issued a warning?
Most people in cars, unless listening to the radio, or in an area with sirens, are oblivious. I remember one chase video and a huge tornado was getting ready to cross a road, when the guy saw a car coming towards him. It was two old ladies, in a red Cadillac, who were completely oblivious to what was going on. 10 seconds later, they would've been demolished.
@@mkp3824 do you know what chase video this was???
The hydroplaning is another weather related occurrence that more people should understand and avoid if at all possible.
Yeah but Subaru has a rather aggressive All Wheel Drive system. If he was in just 2 wheel drive this wouldn't have happened. Turning the steering wheel and the car not moving activated the active suspension system to find out why.. hence the back coming around. All Wheel Drive vs. 2 wheel drive can cause more problems in certain situations. Bad tires don't help the situation. When I hydroplane,I just let off the gas and keep the wheel steady..it usually recovers in a second or two then I just slow way down.
@@netrioter if the gas pedal wasn't on the floor then it doesn't matter if his car was FWD, RWD, AWD or none of the above. AWD is only an advantage when you're trying to put power to the road and accelerate as each wheel handles 1/4 the power therefore less chance of causing a wheel to loose traction due to too much power being sent to it, compared to 2WD where two wheels handle 1/2 the engine power each. AWD is really useful in snow, where with 2WD you'd plant the gas and the wheels would spin and the car remain stationary. If you're just coasting or braking then it is no longer an advantage. Hydroplaning is caused by driving through more water than the tires can disperse and the way of stopping it is to slow down so the amount of water the tires deal with is reduced - this mirrors your experience and the ability to slow down without loosing control isn't enhanced by having AWD. It's enhanced by a well setup chassis (good weight distribution, good suspension setup) and electronic stability control in newer cars which uses the brakes to redistribute the weight of the car and try to get the car to go where the wheels are pointed.
AWD 4x4 nothing substitutes for good tires. I just upgraded mine for winter better safe than sorry.
I had a front-wheel drive Ford Escape, didn't matter what tires I had on it it would hydroplane at the drop of a hat... never so glad to be rid of a vehicle in all my life!
@Tennessee Country boy Didn't anybody see his tread? I think the lesson he was trying to point out is to inspect your tread and don't go chasing with balding tires. The deep, wide grooves on the sides are intact, but the grooves meant to channel water from the grip patch to those big lateral teeth are worn down to nothing. That's what I see.
Man, I forgot how bizarre it was driving around back in late March. No one at all on those highways.
i'm already forgetting that enjoyable time on the roads this year. in ohio, the state police ticketing for 100 + mph driving has doubled this year due to people believing they have the right to do whatever they please.
@@sicfrynut speeding is so bad 😒
low traffic was nice and weird same time
As a long haul trucker I can say that it was definitely unnerving but also nice not having people cut me off every ten minutes.....but the freight sucked for obvious reasons
Lol I was coming from northern Ohio to Kentucky on 75 and I swear I saw maybe 10 cars after leaving Cincinnati.. in a weird way it was kind of cool..😂
Man idk how you didnt flip and roll, glad you’re ok
Heavy precip likely kept the ditch slick, very lucky!
@@Anthrillist couldve been bad... like really bad. Incidents like those always turn out horrible, this man is lucky
@@Anthrillist just got really lucky I hate to say it
Not a scientist but i'm pretty sure he didn't flip because he was *beyond* 90 degrees when he first touched the grass.. fully entered grass at 180 and, i guess thank god, he lost enough speed by the time he was 3/4 turned.
I thought early on in the video, that he was driving pretty quickly, considering the rain. Segway to his crash where, frankly, driving way too fast for the amount of rain falling/pooling on the road. Hydroplaning gets folks all the time. Consider it a lesson learned- you didn't damage your car badly and could walk away from it. (You also found a shop open during the Pandemic-CONGRATS) All that being said, Cool video for sure! 👍
I appreciate both the editing that went into this video and your integrity. The latter is the product of your honesty, your lack of hype or self-aggrandizement, and your pursuit of accuracy in presenting how the 2020 tornado season appeared to your eyes. All documentaries should aspire to reach your level of integrity.
Skip is also really good at not getting killed and teaching others not to get killed. A few times in this vid, he couldn't see things clearly, so he made the boring, wise decision to stay clear. When I see that stuff, my respect grows. He has a big audience of impressionable would-be chasers watching him, and he models safe and responsible chasing - except that bit about going out on worn tread :-/ But even in his mistakes, he teaches. Fantastic attitude!
From dodging tornadoes to dodging COVID, you are always safety-first, and I think that's fantastic. Keep on doing you! You're the most wholesome of them all.
Loved the way you marked and put the location of the tornadoes. Idk why felt nice. Nice touch
Damn dude. I'm really glad you and your Forester are okay. The whole vibe of this video sums up all the existential dread and ennui that has crept and festered into every aspect of life since the 11th of March. Just hoping the rainy haze goes away. Someday.
Skip, I just came across your videos about a month ago. I grew up fascinated by storms and violent weather. I love the attention to detail and information you provide in your videos and just wanted to take a moment to say that I appreciate you and the work that you do. Stay safe!
I remember that Waverly Tornado. I was on shift (Scott AFB) and we were watching that system push through central IL. Blew my mind we had a spotter confirmed report and velocity scans to back it up, but no NWS Warning.
How come they never issued a warning?
"I've got some sanitizer too" *bag of 50 condoms appears*
Yea I was looking for this comment 😂
I know your probably joking but those look like gloves 😂
Tbh I'm thinking that they are probably finger cots, which look a lot like little bitty condoms. Imagine a glove but just for one finger!
The last time I was this early, tornado chasing wasn't so consistently bleak! Glad to see you're back.
I would’ve been screaming & cussing had I gone in the ditch like that. Lmao
I would have been too scared to cuss. I had it happen to me in on a snowy/icy road, but I wasn’t going more than 30mph. I wasn’t feeling “I might die in a few seconds”, but still had that dread of smashing into something while out of control spinning. Same deal, no body damage but had to get towed out of the snow bank. He had enough speed it could have been nasty if something was in the way though.
@@marshallsweatherhiking1820 had same experience as you, but luckily I was able to drive out of the median and had a big gap in traffic in front and behind. By the time I was back on the road the traffic behind was getting closer. Definitely scary doing a 720 but going in slow motion.
You and a few others have inspired my choice to study meteorology in college, and I hope to take a trip out to the midwest to chase at some point, even if from afar.
Keep up the great content and chasing, and stay safe!
Tornados must stay away at least 6 miles away from other tornadoes.
Ouch, bad luck with the crash there, I have had that sort of thing happen to me on gravel roads. Spending so much time on the road, mistakes are bound to happen.
I was kind of fortunate that I missed this season due to the pandemic, as mentioned, by just about everyone there wasn't a whole lot to see at any one point in time. But it wasn't a total flop. 2020 had some big individual events such as:
- 6th Costliest tornado in US history in Nashville in early March
- Big Easter Outbreak which had 3 violent tornados in short order, 2 of them long tracked and going in parallel at the same time, one would end up being rated the 3rd widest on record, all 3 probably had potential for EF-5 winds.
- Nice visible tornado in Madill that allowed several chasers to get up close to it.
- Extremely photogenic Ashby/Dalton EF-4
- 3rd documented instance of a firenado with a pyro-cumulonimbus supercell
Not a very active season, but a few things for people who happened to be in those areas. Lets see how next year goes.
It really was a quiet season this year in the plains. Glad to see you at least got some stuff. Stay safe.
it was real quiet here in the midwest too, in illinois where im at we had one storm the whole summer and it was a little hail, spring had some little storms too, nothing like 2019
@@j0sh368 I was in the Midwest Derecho up in NW Illinois and it was scary.
We had barely an EF0 touchdown a few miles from my house and that was it all last year. Besides the Derecho that it, I live in Central Iowa and that sucker went right through us like a 150 mile wide EF3 tornado.
Thank you for pointing out the little details that I'd have missed trying to take the whole scene in.
I had started to forget what LCL's under 3km look like. Thanks Skip!
Hey, at least spin me right round wasn’t playing on the radio...
Subscribed! Great content, Skip! The empty roads in this video make your experience seem even more eerie! I remember driving to work back in March and April and being one of only a handful of cars on the highway. So weird!
Although the covid situation completely SUCKS, it must be really nice being able to storm chase on relatively empty roads!
Your perspective of the March 28th storms is one of the best I've seen from an otherwise underwhelming day.
Some stunning footage of empty roads under stormy skies dude. Great video as always
Rain-wrapped tornadoes can be so frustrating.
The supercells decided 2020 was a bad enough year without them making it worse. Hopefully 2021 is better all around. Your end sequence with the dark road really was a great metaphor for this year.
New subscriber. Love what you do, and I am from Northern IL and grew up in Belvidere. Look up our 1967 tornado if you wanna see a sad story...no video footage but we could have used a few more guys like you back then on that day. The tornado dropped right as school let out and destroyed our high school, killed kids, and caused confusion because its route/situation with kids boarding busses and not knowing whether to go back inside and seek shelter or try to get home first and THEN seek shelter.. Fortunately I was born in 88 but the stories remain years later and our high school has a memorial for the kids/staff/civilians lost.
Thanks for this amazing video! I'm sure I am not the only one here that missed your content! 👍
Love your videos, thank you from a fellow illinoian :P you guys are a line of defense against storms, I think it should be deemed necessary
Hey Skip, I'm glad to see you made it out this year. Stay safe brotha!
Good to have you back and safe. I had a spin like that once. I was driving about 11mph with snow chains on, but hit a set of frozen wheel ruts where someone had done a 360 when it was mud. The muddy groves had frozen solid. It was the slowest 360 I have ever done.
Take care and merry Christmas
IK this season was pretty crap this year but I got to at least go chasing for the first time this season in North and South Dakota. I didn't see any tornadoes but getting to see the Supercell structure I've read and seen videos about for the first time made the the trip from Tampa to the Plains all worth it. I hope 2021 is your best year yet Skip.
Isn't a productive year a bad thing? We want no tornadoes not hundreds of them. Lol
I never want to see Tornadoes hurt people or damage their stuff, so in that regard, yes, it was a good year. The ideal scenario is a prolific tornado season with most of not all being photogenic and non destructive to anyone’s property.
Glad you're still with us, Skip.
At 1.15.. in the plastic bag.. Care to explain?! 😂Jokes and vivid emagination aside, you are my source to go to when it comes to objektive reports on chasing. I still go back to your coverage of El Reno that is in my mind worthy of and Emmy in the category "Live documentary" if there would be one.. I am glad you were ok skidding of the road and i hope you will remain safe through this pest of our lifetime. Thank you for sharing, bless you Skip!
Calamari? Econo-pak of very tiny condoms? Who knows? No, during the initial PPE shortage, and before we knew what kind of PPE made sense, all I had were finger gloves for touching public surfaces. Thanks for the comments.
I think it's insane how he kept his cool through that entire hydroplane.
I would've gone nuts.
First time here. I subscribed after the first 30 seconds.
Heard about you with Pecos, the alGodrithm did the rest :)
I'm not sure which is more eerie, the tornadoes or the empty roads.
9:05 ...now that's moving! K.I.T.T. full boost..
10:23 Oh my gosh, that came out of nowhere-so glad you were okay!
Incredible footage! Much love from CT
Did you experience any derecho conditions on 10/7? All I saw in my area was a leaf whirl:
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I didn't know that an EF1 would look that organized. We had one blow through at night, on April 7th, 2020. I figured an EF1 would just be wind whirling around, with no condensation cloud.
The condensation funnel really doesn't correlate well with EF strength. I've seen EF0s with fat, fully condensed funnels. And EF3s that looked like huge dust clouds without much of any funnel. The funnel depends a lot on how much moisture is in the tornadic inflow, which might be quite a bit different than the strength or volume of the tornadic inflow.
@@skiptalbot good to know! Thanks!
How crazy out of all the videos of yours I find, it’s the one featuring my hometown area of Western IL! Cool !
Absolutely incredible footage thanku so much ...stay safe much love an God bless x
Very disappointing storm season in Illinois this year. Only ended up chasing some spotty hail and straight line winds each chase haha
the german "thunderstorm season" was not good as well. a very quiet year.. disappointing.
Our Tornado Season was really dissapointing too.
That was the most intense first 15 seconds!!!!
most terrifying sound someone could ever hear is the roar of the tornado approaching them as they hope it doesn't take their life.
Yes, Finally. Been waiting for this.
I hope your ears are burning, Skip, cuz I'm talking to some buddies about how badass your storm chasing videos are.
Buddy, I'm glad you're okay.
Do you ever get up to northern burbs of Chicago, near Gurnee?
I'm from the sw burbs originally. I don't chase anywhere near Chicago though. The traffic and urban sprawl makes it almost impossible, but also quite dangerous. I'll chase eastward up to about highway 47 before I call it quits. The exception is waterspouts. I've seen a few off of Illinois Beach State Park already.
I've followed your work for some time. You are intelligent and thorough. I recently retired after 35 years in the ministry, and enjoy weather observation. Alas, my vision is slowly leaving. My mobile number is 847-894-2100. I would treasure any observations you care to share. I know people completely inundate you with requests of this nature. I would love to receive anything you care to pass along, but I don't expect it. Meanwhile, I pray for your safety all the time. God bless you and your family.
Thanks. Hop on my Facebook and send me a friend request or just hit the follow button if you like. I post updates there, but I've also been running a daily email list for the past couple years. Every morning during the spring I send out a chase forecast. I do it for donations to the ALS Association Greater Chicago chapter. If I do it next spring, I'll post info about it on Facebook then.
@@PAPAMOZO u should delete or edit the message with ur mobile number as everyone watching the video can see it and may decide to call
That's what we call good old fashioned hydroplaning
Hydroplaning and black ice are two of the scariest road conditions.
Yes! I love your videos. Especially love it when watching this at night to relax my sleep. It cures insomnia
Holy crap Skip... glad you’re ok.
Man, that 360 spin made my buttcheeks clench real hard. Gone trough same crap 2y ago. Please take care...
1:15 We just gonna ignore the 100 condoms?
Buy in bulk and save!
@@skiptalbot Lmao
Lol what
Great video. Glad to see you were still chasing and staying safe. Sad to see the comparison between the death counts.
Also is there less tornado warned storms since there isn't a lot of people storm chasing rn? I feel like some of these storms were not warned because there wasn't people looking at them.
Agree
2:32, Woah I can feel the darkness, the coldness.
NWS: remember, turn around don't drown!
Skip Talbot: imma pretend I didn't hear that
Storm chasers are more, not less, important during a pandemic. So many people aren't on the job due to illness or quarantine that we can't rely on official sources for timely and accurate information. Sometimes the storm chasers relay the first warning to news outlets.
I've always loved your vids Skip, I think this could be my favorite:) Thank you!
Severe thunderstorm and tornado warning those clouds look kinda strange and terrible and horrible but we not surprised
Lol
I'm so so glad that you're being safe.
Storm chasing, aka: Playing hide and seek with tornadoes! Thank You for sharing your adventures.
I went through a storm chasing phase and found your website back in 2014, when I first discovered the internet. The internet has become more centralized on mainstream platforms such as youtube since then.
I had a prime seat for the Easter Sunday ef4 tornado in Covington County Mississippi. You could have sat in my neighbors driveway and watched my house get ate while me and my family were in it. Luckily we only sustained minor injuries. House was not repairable.
"food"
*pans to cheerios*
Part of this complete breakfast!
@@skiptalbot XD
@@skiptalbot I Believe You Already Know About That Severe Weather/Tornado Outbreak That Happened Yesterday And The Potentiall/Possible Severe Weather Outbreak For Dixie Alley And Carolina Alley?
Is That Right??
Started school as a meteorology major, switched to microbiology 2 years in. I feel pretty confident saying you'd be *amazed* how much viral RNA a tornado contains if it could ever be measured ;)
That does not surprise me at all. The *smell* of a tornado's damage path is *distinct*. You know it's pulling in and mulching all kinds of nasties.
I'd say that yeah, storm chasers are essential personnel. It's a hell of a thing to be a professional bad ass.
Skip hats off to you! I am so glad to get to watch your chases and your information and all that I've been a storm chasers since about for oh my god almost 40 years I don't believe it oh my I got involved when I was like 11 and this coil spring came up in this new plow field across the street, looked up seen a tornado well a funnel cloud, It picked me up when I was running from it about 10 ft high then drop me in the backyard in my mom's a big old rose bush. All I can say is OUCH!! The rest is history. Mr Skip keep up the great fantastic awesome work! Sincerely Anthony
Hi skip that 4K camcorder has amazing quality looks so much better than go pro great vid
Having this kind of perspective on storm chasing, Dang does it take guts and sheer determination to chase. MUCH more appreciative of chasers now. Most videos of tornadoes are of fairly clear shots. This helped emphasize that it really isn't ususally the case. How many expenses does it take to keep storm chasing, i wonder.
Dangit. I wanted to watch this so bad and had to rewind so many times because the white noise sound of the road kept making me doze off.
I spun off the road just like that twice last year. Pretty good thrill, wish the reaper would pull the trigger and stop flirting though. Also good video 👍
Kids are like dad go on the rollercoaster with me it's fun. And Dad is like no thanks I just had an epic highspeed aquaplane spin out while chasing tornadoes.
Illinois got a lot of activity this year, it was quite scary
Love the sky great video
What App do you use to Chase?
I use GrLevel3, Grlevel2, and Delorme Street Atlas on a laptop, and Radarscope and Google Maps on my phone.
Long before Stephen Hawking did the alerts, I did them at WSFO-IND back in the early 1990's as a summer intern. The opportunity was incredible, as I worked alongside meteorologists using the old WSR-74 radars. Indy didn't have the new Doppler yet, and the old radar was an antique. I went on a few damage surveys too.
I live in Dayton and the dude from the Wilmington office always sounded like a car shifting gears becaue each of his sentences would gradually increase in pitch, and then he'd go back down at the beginning of each new phrase. xD
1:15 you sure do love calamari.
Hey Skip! 3/28 We were on the same storm and visited the same BP gas station! I take it you didn't get to see the Cambridge tornado?
I came in from the north as fast as I could after Brooksville, but I didn't see crap through the low clouds and terrain once I got down there to Quitman.
what's crazy about the first couple of minutes of this video is, i knew exactly where you were.
I still have satellite imagry, Super-Res velocity shots as well as HR BR/SRV. This tornado was massive! April 12th. Mississippi
My tornado obsessed toddler is forcing me to watch this video while I sit here shaking and terrified. No clue how you do it.
Does your tot have any questions if they're talking yet? I'm making a tornado video for kids at the request of my daughter's kindergarten teacher.
I spun out in the rain on a newly paved road. Civic didn’t make it thanks to the guard wire. Got a nice preowned Grand Cherokee Overland out of it though.
Should check out SE Wisconsin during tornado season! A lot tend to pop up close to the WI-IL border especially!
Thanks for the vid and the info on what was going on the roads, Did you stream at all ?. Ie on say the tornado map live things they have on the net ?
That opening clip was fucking awesome my dude! Take care out there bruddah
Liked that a lot! Thank you.
man really went above and beyond.
Minnesota been through a lot of storms including the storm system we had back in july
wow the clouds at 2:15 were gorgeous
DUDE IN THE START I WAS SO SCARED FOR YOU
Are we not going to give the wipers their due credit? Those are awesome wipers.
Rain-X
I chased on the 28th of March in Illinois also. Got an early afternoon/late morning line segment or w/e with 1" hail and experienced 50mph winds. Later in the day I chased one of the first tornado warnings on a tail end Charlie in Illinois. I didn't see anything though. My nowcasting skills aren't very good else i might have stayed put for another storm in the area. Wish I had someone to navigate as I find it hard to follow storms after I find them. I have been extremely successful with bad navigation skill year after year. This year I got hit with a tornado near Albany NY, saw what was likely another tornado that day and at least debris from another tornado. Wind had been my chase story this year as I have gotten 50-70mph winds half dozen or so times with even 4 power poles down in a row in PA simply from wind. I got a magnificent shelf cloud off of a storm (not severe) and great mammatus clouds in NY. Recently in Vt I got a severe supercell on video with decent wall clouds extending pretty low and maybe even forming a funnel. I didn't get any good lightning shows even with tornado warned cells, so that is the only thing missing this year as I did get some mesos.
John Calvin, I’m glad Skip put out this video because I wanted to chase this storm but family said no, don’t risk the state orders with the lock downs.
You can hear the groaning from those new tires
I love it, but dang bro you gotta take it easy. That looks nuts
OMG UR BACK!
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@@skiptalbot or not