I remember you saying a while ago you would make a video about Native American legends about tornadoes, is that ever going to be made, sounds interesting!
Please go and play the Roblox game twisted, I know you are not a gaming content creator, but Roblox twisted is the most realistic storm chasing game out there.
Imagine how psyched Ben Franklin was coming across written documentation of a tornado for the first time. He's browsing through some old documentation about Rome, and does a double take at the footnote: "by the way, a colossal rotating column of wind destroyed a section of Rome a few decades ago." It's fascinating that tornados are so rare that before the modern era, they were considered pseudo-mythical (like giant squids used to be).
@@Cascada2009 Well, you know, if the Natives had warned foreign settlers about the vortices of death descending from the sky by the hundreds every spring, maybe the US government wouldn't have been so eager to expand in that direction.
@@AtarahDerek The thing is, even in Oklahoma, a typical person isn't going to see one of those vortices of death every year. Before modern communication systems, you could easily never know about a tornado that hit 20 miles away from you. You would probably know there was a storm if it got that close, but you wouldn't know it was a tornado.
RIP the Twistex team The 2013 El Reno Tornado was the widest ever recorded at 2.6 miles wide and a wind speed that rivaled the 1999 Moore F5, and it expanded at an insane rate with a massive radius that was not obvious to chasers and that's what led to their deaths. One other chaser also died that day as well, Richard Henderson. Another chaser from the Weather Channel had his vehicle picked up and tossed and miraculously made it out with no significant injury. That tornado challenged very knowledgeable people and did things that were not typical or precedented. It moved the way it wanted and took up as much space as it wanted, too. I hope all chasers keep that day in mind because it's a really good reminder to watch out for the wildcard that defies common knowledge.
Yeah, Mike Bettes and the Tornado Hunt 2013 team from the Weather Channel got tossed by that tornado. A bit of their footage was at the end of the video. They were lucky. Most of them had minor injuries, and while the driver had to go to the hospital, they all survived. I don’t think Mike Bettes has been out in the field since then, and I cannot blame him. Between that and arriving in Joplin moments after the 2011 tornado, he was traumatized.
I saw it in 2002, aged 10. My interest in tornadoes had begun a year earlier, and Twister also made me want to be a storm chaser one day. Sadly, there were too many obstacles: I live in South Africa; my final grades for Geography and Maths were C and D respectively (meaning my chances of studying Meteorology weren't high) and my father's heart won't survive my chasing severe storms. 😮😅😂
Ok, as both a kid, and now a middle aged adult, the tornado scene from Wizard of Oz is still one of my favorite movie tornado scenes of all time. The fact they pulled that off so beautifully eighty five years ago is stunning to me. And this weekend (as of release/as of typing this) helped to show how far technology has come with spotters on the ground when channels like Ryan Hall Y'all helped massively with warning time in Sulphur, Oklahoma this weekend, and out ahead of that storm. I have a good friend in Oklahoma that I was worried about and it turned out she was close enough to the worst storms to warrant spending time in the basement with her family. Be it from warnings or just the storm winds alone, they didn't take chances. You have no idea how thankful I am to everyone in the weather community, from my childhood to even now. From those that chase to for the beauty, to those that chase for the hard science, to those that chase to warn, I am thankful. The science videos and lessons I learned in school, to those like this channel that help keep the science alive and up to date, I am also very thankful.
The modern vehicles used to chase storms are so badass, they look like something out of a sci-fi film and are like a middle finger to tornadoes. Like "Bring it on, twister! We're ready!
The wizard of Oz tornado actually terrified me as a 4 year old to the point where I was afraid of wind, I was convinced I would blow away with just a small gust. That fear eventually evolved into an absolute fascination with weather and tornados and that crazy energy jolt when the sirens go off 🤩
The wiz was terrifying I mean look what happened to Micheal Jackson and the scene that scarred me for life when they went to the subway station and piller came to life but still my favorite movie
I'm kinda jealous. I've lived in central Florida almost all my life, we don't have sirens here. I've never heard one except in movies or on TH-cam. We have a busy local park where ppl play basketball and such, it has a small siren for lightning (which of course is extremely bad here.) One day I was across the street from it at a Family Dollar putting groceries in my car when it went off, and I thought I was going to have a heart attack, lol! I can't even conceive living near a tornado siren 😮
For the week of Thanksgiving 2022, I locked myself in my bedroom for a week straight in an effort to quit smoking. That's when I started watching Swegle Studios. A year and a half later, I'm still watching the channel and still not smoking.
You don't want to be a quitter do you? Quitters never win! I'm just messing around, lol. Congratulations on quitting. It's a very difficult thing to accomplish so kudos to you.
Imagine being an explorer in the 17th/18th century, knowing only about water spouts, exploring the Midwest and southwest and you accidentally encounter a mile long tornado with 250 mile per hour winds destroying everything in its path.
thanks for mentioning ryan hall and his team! my family and i watch his streams all the time, even if the storms aren’t near us. i’ve learned so much about storms and tornadoes because of him.
Twister was what got me fascinated with tornadoes and weather in general. It's amazing how much technology and storm chasing has advanced even since then.
Same here I saw my first in 2017 came through my house and both my parents saw the ef5 80years ago seen the pictures my self some say the ef5 was a 3 quarters of a mile wide and 295mph and took out most of the town
Same! Well, kinda. My dad let me watch 1996 Twister when I was in first grade and I was absolutely obsessed and enchanted. Funny enough though, I'm fairly certain I liked Twister BECAUSE I liked tornadoes, not the other way around. I was already a weird weather nerd kid, Twister just fueled it 💀
Same!! I use to get on my bike with a bunch of notebooks and pretend to chase storms. On another note, my family and I actually went to a local drive in movie theater to watch Twister when it first came out.. lol I’ll never forget watching the scene where the tornado comes plowing through the drive in movie.. that was wild
Franklin also chased storms to study lightning, not just cyclonic winds. Again, on horseback. I don't believe it is possible for this guy to ever be overrated.
Franklin was also so well like that the founding fathers sent him to take the traitorous Declaration of Independence document straight to the face of the king. And he agreed. The courts of Britain literally did nothing to him because of how like he was.
And that horse (or horses) were incredibly brave as well. I’ve been riding for 13 years, and nowadays, horses will spook at plastic bags, their own shadow, birds, and much more.
@@fishbowlliz Ah, the increased hazards of 21st Century Equestrianism . . . horses didn't have to put up with the egregious stimuli of today, all that long ago. And they surprisingly were hard-boiled enough to handle the stresses and terrors of combat, as Cavalry animals! The Marine Corps still teaches the "old school", at the Mountain Warfare Training Center, outside of Bridgeport, California, along the East slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. After these Marines eventually muster out, they would make the finest wranglers available for the myriad Pack Stations in that vicinity.
Benjamin Franklin is such a badass, he was already cool but learning that he was perhaps the first storm chaser is crazzzzy. And on HORSEBACK such a menace
In the late 1970's I met Dave Hoadley at a Severe Storms Conference in Omaha. A year later while working in the Washington DC area, he invited me to his home for dinner and was a great host. I tried to get him to take me along one of his tornado chases but he like being on the road alone. I still have a slide collection of his of some fantastic tornado images.
Love hearing someone else give love to Hank, he's amazing!! AND Ryan Hall Y'all!! They're my absolute favorites and always do their best to help others, as well. Such beautiful souls ^^
Twister was the movie that got me into meteorology. I love that movie so dang much. Storm chasing and anything to do with the weather was spawned in me by that movie
I became interested in Weather in general while as far back as I can remember, I went flying with my Dad, a WW II U.S. Army Air Corp Combat Pilot & General Aviation Recreational Pilot. I remember observing that different Weather Conditions caused us to have different kinds of rides in my Dad's collection of Airplanes. At a very early age I learned of Thermals, (Updrafts & Downdrafts,) which caused us to have Bumpy Rides. We were a Puerto Rican Jewish Israeli Family, so we also got a fair share of Wind Shear. Tornadoes are rare in Puerto Rico, but in 1973, My Parents & I moved briefly to New York then to Xenia Ohio just in time to Survive The April 3rd, 1974 Xenia F-5 Tornado. My Parents had just bought our house in The Arrowhead Subdivision. While our house was completely disassembled from around us, Miraculously we survived completely uninjured!!! The next day I decided that I would become a Meteorologist, although I had to wait a few years, as I was just 11 years old when the Tornado Hit us. But I also wanted to be a Pilot. I became a Licensed Glider Pilot at The Age of 14, I Soloed in A Powered Airplane on my 16th Birthday, I received My Airplane Private Pilot License at age 17, & later that same year I earned my Commercial & Instrument Ratings. From there I had to work my way up to Multiengine Ratings, Turbo Prop Ratings & Jet Ratings, which as it turned out, my Dad owned all three types of Airplanes. I just had to get Instruction Time in each of these Airplanes, which I did while I was attending UCLA earning my Degree in Meteorology. I was going for my Master's Degree in Meteorology. However my goal was to become an Airline Pilot, which I did until I retired, taking time off in The Spring to Chase Tornadoes. I was most interested in Researching The Same Thing that Tim Samaras was working on, to provide understanding of The Dynamics that occur at The Lower Levels Of Tornadoes, with The Hopes of Providing Structural Engineers & Architects with information that would lead to The Development of Tornado Resistant Homes & Public Buildings. Now, getting older, but still in Retirement from 40 years of Flying Airliners. As a Pilot, I worked in The Level of The Atmosphere where Weather Forms, giving me incredible insight into The Weather. Yes, I saw The Wizard Of Oz, & Perhaps that influenced me to a certain degree, but I didn't speak English yet, so My Parents explained everything to me in Spanish. But for me, I look to Personal Experiences as my primary catalyst for my dual-faceted Career. I don't put videos on Social Media, I'm extremely Computer Literate, but I do Put Tornado Warnings on my Facebook Page. This past Saturday Evening, in Oklahoma, I was too busy with avoiding Multiple Nocturnal Tornadoes to even post Tornado Warnings. I stopped my Chase at about midnight & went back to help in any way that I could, namely in The Sulfur Area! I was taken aback by The Total Devastation there.
Sulfur was a nasty tornado, to be sure. And they got hit twice, if I remember right. I've been seeing the aftermath and it's horrible. I watch Ryan Hall Y'all's coverage of storms and was watching when those tornados were dropping all over mid-south-east of the state. Scary night certainly.
@@charlayned It was hit twice, & it seemed to be warned more times than that. It was indeed a very scary event! Ryan Hall does a good job, covering multiple areas at once. He's built a great new way to receive Weather Warnings! I'm glad that you made it through The Storms ok! G-d Bless!
"My dearest Matilda, whilst observing the clouds, I saw plentiful gorilla hail and a 'yuge wedge form. T'was a wondrous sight. The RFD had winds violent enough for me to quicken my step and return to my trusty steed, Wildemere."
I live in Georgia an have never seen a tornado but been close to a city that was hit. Tanner Charles has some raw Tornado footage that’s worth a watch, even one being inside it. Incredible heart an dedication these people have with storm chasing.
I live in GA too! I've never seen one, but we've had one or two hit our city, one just barely missed our street. None too severe; damaged fences, downed trees, roof damage to a house or two. The ones I've lived through hit at night. Our city was one of the ones hit in the April 2021 outbreak. (April 24, I think? The night after Easter, I believe.) I don't think there were any casualties from what I recall, thankfully.
I honestly love this channel and Carly Ann WX, listening about the different kinds of tornadoes, the stories behind it, and of course the tragedies that will come with it. Both channels are so underrated and it deserves so much more. ❤❤❤
Oh Carlie. She does not chase, but I love to watch her the same. She’s an amazing story teller. I suspect from her latest post, though ,that she’s experiencing a little bit of burnout, so some support definitely be appreciated, I’m sure.
I tuned in to one of the chaser live streams on Friday and literally 30 seconds in they were driving directly through a tornado before getting stopped by a felled tree. I'm hooked on them now.
Swegle I really love your videos, I’m 16 and trying to become a meteorologist when I grow up. I’m autistic and I love tornadoes and storms. I also love your video styles and editing, how are you so good at editing and everything. I really appreciate you!❤. Also we have the same name Jacob! 😂
Great video. So grateful for all of the storm chasers and researchers who have contributed to the technology that allows for advanced warnings. Still amazed that there has been only one reported death from the Barnsdall/B-ville storm. Advanced warning saves lives.
I grew up in North Dakota in the 1950s and I have to say I had never heard of either of those early stormchasers. I always learn something from your videos. Thanks!
My brother and I loved to watch storm chasers back in the day. My brother and I used to play storm chasers in our backyard. My brother would be the storm chaser and I would be the meterologist. I would use the fort in our swing set as our base. We would mostly play when it was windy outside or before a storm to make it more realistic.
it's fascinating how early tornado chasers contrast on modern one's. We've gone from just knowing tornados are even real, to be able to live stream a tornado from start to finish
I grew up in the 90s and I was absolutely obsessed with tornados. I had a bunch of vhs tapes of tornadoes, storm chasers, books, ect. I would've loved having this channel to watch back then.
I remember watching "In search of" like it was yesterday! That brought back some memories! It's great that we have this network of storm chasers on TH-cam.
Hoping/looking forward to you doing a video on the massive tornado outbreak happening right now, been some insane footage, especially the absolutely crazy sidewinder in texas
Glad to see a shout out to Ryan Hall Y’all here - I honestly think that the realtime compilation of data from many different sources that he uses (live radar, storm chasers on the ground, twitter and Emergency Management Updates, Meteorologists like Andy Hill, etc) are the future of severe weather broadcasting. They have the realistic potential to save many lives by going so in-depth and being so responsive to immediate events. Max Velocity also does a good job of this. The only limitation is the lack of co-operation amongst *some* within the storm chasing community (copyright issues, not being allowed to show twitter feeds live, etc)…These people should all share a common interest of educating and protecting the public as their first priority above all else. Would love to see a big storm chasing name like Pecos Hank or Reed Timmer link up with these guys as clearly this is where things are heading.
Storm Chasers on Discovery was my in, it’s what got me hooked for the most part but the biggest thing was the Sunday after the El Reno tornado. I was 9, just about to turn ten in a week and it was a weird Sunday because my family didn’t go to church that day. My brother and I did our ritual of making a blanket fort and watching Storm Chasers all day (regular weekend day occurrence) and right before I went to bed my parents had told me the news of Tim Samaras, Paul Samaras, and Carl Young passing just that Friday in what would become one of the best studied and most famous tornadoes ever. It was so weird hearing that after having watched him all day on Storm Chasers and missing tornado intercepts for safety concerns. I think that is what sealed my fascination with tornadoes and I’ve just started chasing now! I’ve yet to visit the memorial as I haven’t found myself out that way yet but I know the first time I am, I am paying the memorial a visit so I can officially pay my respects and call myself a proper storm chaser.
My folks are familiar with Ryan Hall; he used to be a meteorologist out of their part of the country. We rely a lot on his weather forecasts too. He does SO much good work for communities hard hit by severe weather and honestly, mad respect for that. We didn't get to use it, but we bought one of his Y'all-o-meters for snowfall this past year lol... the money goes to a good cause! That being said, the work these guys do is intense and I could NEVER. Putting their lives on the line to get data that will (hopefully) ultimately lead to better forecasting and prediction models to save more lives in areas both hard hit by tornadoes and those that may see one rarely. Putting in the real work out there.
This is such an awesome video! Thanks a bunch for this! I started chasing about 5 years ago, and fall somewhere between functional addict and junkie on the storm chasing obsession spectrum. Its truly my favorite thing to do in the world to do, and am thankful for this video explaining the origins of this obscure niche hobby and how far it has come. Its incredible to think how far this has come in the past 50 years. We went from not knowing basically anything about tornadoes to having so much knowledge, boots on ground observations, and forecasting ability that the public can escape major tornado outbreaks essentially unharmed (4/26/24 for example).
Has a kid Twister and Storm Chasers were my favourite shows and wanted to be a storm chaser myself for a lil bit. As an adult moved to the middle of tornado alley and was right at home with the locals being outside watching the storms from my apartment porch lol
Do you think you could make a video about the plainfield F5? it is a very significant tornado and changed storm chasing and weather culture, it also hits close to home personally.
I live in tornado alley and a couple days ago we had a tornado warning in my town and the tornado just barely missed us. Honestly one of the most terrifying moments of my life; running red lights trying to get to my aunts house because she has a basement and we don’t. Couldn’t imagine driving through one.
OU was still working on the Doppler project in the late 1970s. They were recruiting people to be chasers to send in data as to where they were and what was happening. My husband, a chemistry major, in 1974/78, who grew up in Oklahoma (Antlers) volunteered. He talks about the radio, clip board, and binoculars that he had to do the work. They would spot, then the triangulation to make sure that what they saw on Doppler actually was where the tornado was. That calibration too a few years but it's so valuable now for calling storms and their paths. When we went to see Sean Casey's IMAX film in Galveston, he had the TIV-2 with him. My husband got a photo with the vehicle and Sean. As I was working to set up things, they got to talking about the old chases and Sean surprised (and actually flattered) my husband by asking for HIS autograph as an early chaser. That was wild.
Came here from your wife’s page and found this is 100 right up my alley I love history anything about storms evolution and most of all space!! The crazy wicked mind blowing planets that shouldn’t even seem possible anyway new sub and looking forward to going through your content
I got back into watching stormchasing probably by just searching “tornado” sometime 5yrs ago, but it was the discovery channel which first taught me it at age five
No mention of Roger Hill?! Once held (or maybe still does) the record for most tornados seen by one person, 676 at the time of the record! Think Roger was the first to run storm chasing tours.
Howdy, Swegle Studios, I appreciate you making these videos. As a recent graduate in Meteorology, your videos expanded my learning that wasn't covered in the fast-paced, financially stressful educational years. Thank you for your videos!
Growing up in Canada, storm chasing wasn't really a thing anyone knew about. It was the movie "Twister" that introduced me, a weather junkie, to the concept of storm chasing. It will forever be my favorite movie of all time. And Pecos Hank might be the single best channel to follow in terms of video quality.
Just want to mention something, that El Rino tornado mentioned at the end. I'm sure most people know, but it was only rated EF3 due to it not causing much damage (mostly in Rural areas) It reached wind speeds up to 302Mph, easily breaking EF5 speeds. Actually I think it's one of the fastest speeds recorded in tornadoes. I've seen so many videos about it, and some are seriously terrifying. I would never want to see that headed towards me. Terrifying but beautiful.
It came four miles of hitting an interstate overpass that had a traffic jam on it and everyone on that overpass could see that monster coming closer and closer. If it had lasted another 10 minutes, the death toll would've been horrific.
when i was a kid i was OBSESSED with tornadoes. i would watch storm chasers over and over. i also watched the weather channel for fun, like a kid would watch cartoons. i wanted to be a meteorologist and storm chaser. my love for weather has never changed. i’m from omaha, nebraska and we were hit hard on 4/26/24. i’m an adult now with kids, so it became extremely scary and not a rush like when i was a kid. i would still love to be a storm chaser but things have definitely come into perspective after what hit my city.
I'm from Kentucky. We still remember that fateful night in December of 2021 just after Christmas. My love for violent storms still hasn't been dampened.
I’m definitely in the crowd of people whose fascination of tornadoes started with The Wizard of Oz, which I watched a million times when I was little. Then my fascination picked up more with the show Storm Chasers, and I wanted to be one myself up until I experienced my own tornado at age 11 and realized I wasn’t mentally cut out to be one. Now, almost 14 years later, I get to “storm chase” from the safety of my home outside of tornado alley with livestreams. (Got to witness many of the significant events of the first half of the April 2024 outbreak 3 days ago via livestream.) It’s amazing how much the scene has evolved in 20 years and I can’t wait to see what’s next! (I also may storm chase myself one day, but only if it involves waterspouts way off the coastline.)
I recently started watching Reed Timmer, Ryan Hall, Connor Croff, Brandon Copic and many more after the April 2nd scare that was had in Ohio where we had a 4/5 risk. I remember my parents watching Storm Chasers on TV when I was younger and talking about the Dominator, so when I found out that Reed and the Dominator are still around, I was really excited.
I was watching Storm Chaser Brandon Copic's livestream recently when he was in Oklahoma & Texas, and he stopped at the Twistex Memorial, and that was a day after Reed's team intercepted multiple tornadoes in the Dominator 3. Different chasers, different tools, different methods.
Hell yeah, Hank deserves all the spotlights he can get, and Twister inspired a whole generation of chasers. TIV > literally every other "intercept" vehicle made yet. Reed himself is impressive, but his nadomobile is like the flimsy Chinese knockoff TIV that can barely handle outer bands. Please cover the Night the Sirens Blew, aka the Twin Cities nighttime outbreak of May 6 1965! My dad and grandparents survived the Fridley F4s that picked up their roof, moved it over 2 feet and set it back down w/o any other real damage.
Hey Swegle, if you plan to create a storm chasing vehicle video, feel free to include info about tornado intercept devices too. I don't know how many kinds are out there, but I remember seeing one team design these mostly flat red cones fitted with a camera inside. The camera was at the tip of the cone pointing straight up at the sky- the goal was to film straight into the eye of a tornado. Another more recent team built actual rockets that they fired directly into tornados. These rockets were able to gather multiple weather data like changes in pressure and altitude. They're really cool, they even have little parachutes and gps markers so they can be recovered afterwards. Just an idea for the video. I bet there's more devices out there that chasers have come up with.
I didn't think Ben Franklin could get any cooler. Then again I need to take some time to sit down and brush up on my US history again sometime. Tornado chasing on horseback has got to be one of the most epic things ever. :D Discovery's Storm Chasers was what really got me into tornadoes, severe weather, and chasing. Specifically, the tornado intercept vehicle. I live in New England, and we get all sorts of weather on a daily basis, in all seasons of the year. Tornadoes are something of a rarity here due to the geography (although one recently went through Rhode Island not far from where I go to college), but I've been aware of and fascinated by them pretty much forever. I couldn't tell you how it started: one day I learned what a tornado was, and that was it. I've seen Twister, and younger me thought it was a cool movie, chasing tornadoes in all these different and colorful vehicles, but I never really cared much for it, the idea of storm chasing, or tornadoes themselves. It was kind of a niche thing to me, if you will. That all changed when I got the Discovery Kids' Tornado Lab for Christmas, and with it a DVD of Season 1 Episode 1 of Storm Chasers. The moment when TIV 1 roared across the screen in a cloud of dust on a dirt road in the first opening shot of the episode, my little mind was blown, as I had never seen or heard of something like it before. Being a far bigger vehicle junkie than a weather fan, the idea of a homemade armored tank that can drive into tornadoes was perhaps the coolest idea I had learned of in a while at the time, and that was what got me hooked. So with that said, I really cannot wait for whenever you make a video covering these incredible machines.
This episode reminds me of a book I love called Storm Kings by Lee Sandlin, an awesome book. It’s also on audible. It’s an extensive history of storm chasers. That book turned me on to “The Great Mysterious Tornado of 1805”. What’s interesting about that tornado is that it’s lasted for hours and travelled 100’s of miles. It’s damage path created a huge impassable wall of trees piled on top of each other 2 miles wide that parts of it was still in place after the American Civil War. BUT MOST INTERESTING is its path would be the nearly the path that 120 years later the Great Tristate Tornado would follow. It’s possible the 1805 actually may have gone through 4 states. The Great Tristate had a granddaddy.
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Can you please 🙏 do a video of the top 10 biggest EF5 tornados in the world.
@@crashaviation7272hopefully he will
I remember you saying a while ago you would make a video about Native American legends about tornadoes, is that ever going to be made, sounds interesting!
Please go and play the Roblox game twisted, I know you are not a gaming content creator, but Roblox twisted is the most realistic storm chasing game out there.
great video dude 👍
Chasing a tornado on horseback has got to be one of the most badass things that man ever did
Yes
indeed
Draggyrhaeke please explain what you mean. Does that mean you are a bad___?
@@annelefevre9457 ? I’m not sure what you mean
No, it a term we use to describe something awesome. @@annelefevre9457
Imagine how psyched Ben Franklin was coming across written documentation of a tornado for the first time. He's browsing through some old documentation about Rome, and does a double take at the footnote: "by the way, a colossal rotating column of wind destroyed a section of Rome a few decades ago." It's fascinating that tornados are so rare that before the modern era, they were considered pseudo-mythical (like giant squids used to be).
Until people got to Oklahoma and realized the US has a surplus of tornadoes.
@@AtarahDerek lol
Until *white* people got to Oklahoma-@@AtarahDerek
@@Cascada2009 Well, you know, if the Natives had warned foreign settlers about the vortices of death descending from the sky by the hundreds every spring, maybe the US government wouldn't have been so eager to expand in that direction.
@@AtarahDerek The thing is, even in Oklahoma, a typical person isn't going to see one of those vortices of death every year. Before modern communication systems, you could easily never know about a tornado that hit 20 miles away from you. You would probably know there was a storm if it got that close, but you wouldn't know it was a tornado.
RIP the Twistex team
The 2013 El Reno Tornado was the widest ever recorded at 2.6 miles wide and a wind speed that rivaled the 1999 Moore F5, and it expanded at an insane rate with a massive radius that was not obvious to chasers and that's what led to their deaths. One other chaser also died that day as well, Richard Henderson. Another chaser from the Weather Channel had his vehicle picked up and tossed and miraculously made it out with no significant injury. That tornado challenged very knowledgeable people and did things that were not typical or precedented. It moved the way it wanted and took up as much space as it wanted, too. I hope all chasers keep that day in mind because it's a really good reminder to watch out for the wildcard that defies common knowledge.
2.6 mph? Wtf you mean 2.6 miles wide? 2.6 mph winds and could create like a small dust devil
@@rafaelmacias9979 A typo. Also dust devils would need more wind than that lol
@@AMightyStorm my bad
Yeah, Mike Bettes and the Tornado Hunt 2013 team from the Weather Channel got tossed by that tornado. A bit of their footage was at the end of the video. They were lucky. Most of them had minor injuries, and while the driver had to go to the hospital, they all survived. I don’t think Mike Bettes has been out in the field since then, and I cannot blame him. Between that and arriving in Joplin moments after the 2011 tornado, he was traumatized.
In the Tarot Deck, that tornado was XXIII.
Watching Twister as a kid made me want to be storm chaser. I still have the desire to see a tornado in person from a distance.
Same!
I've done Stormchasing. Twister is innaccurate.
ok?
@@leifpreskon3883 so? it's a movie not a documentary
I saw it in 2002, aged 10. My interest in tornadoes had begun a year earlier, and Twister also made me want to be a storm chaser one day.
Sadly, there were too many obstacles: I live in South Africa; my final grades for Geography and Maths were C and D respectively (meaning my chances of studying Meteorology weren't high) and my father's heart won't survive my chasing severe storms. 😮😅😂
Fun fact: Twister was the first movie in the USA to be released on DVD!
Nice
It was one of the first ones. Dozens of titles came out the first day.
reddit isn't an official source there bud
@@xobrynn90 bro, it’s Wikipedia.
@@captainminecraft631Wikipedia definately isn't an official source either
Ok, as both a kid, and now a middle aged adult, the tornado scene from Wizard of Oz is still one of my favorite movie tornado scenes of all time. The fact they pulled that off so beautifully eighty five years ago is stunning to me. And this weekend (as of release/as of typing this) helped to show how far technology has come with spotters on the ground when channels like Ryan Hall Y'all helped massively with warning time in Sulphur, Oklahoma this weekend, and out ahead of that storm. I have a good friend in Oklahoma that I was worried about and it turned out she was close enough to the worst storms to warrant spending time in the basement with her family. Be it from warnings or just the storm winds alone, they didn't take chances. You have no idea how thankful I am to everyone in the weather community, from my childhood to even now. From those that chase to for the beauty, to those that chase for the hard science, to those that chase to warn, I am thankful. The science videos and lessons I learned in school, to those like this channel that help keep the science alive and up to date, I am also very thankful.
Same I loved the first oz movie however there was a 2nd the wiz with Micheal Jackson
The modern vehicles used to chase storms are so badass, they look like something out of a sci-fi film and are like a middle finger to tornadoes. Like "Bring it on, twister! We're ready!
Hell yeah
And then there's Pecos Hank's TIT and WindBreaker
@@GenesisSaturnapeople be fronting on hank’s TITty for real. long live the tornado intercepting toyota
@@GenesisSaturnano problem, as the weight of his balls prevents the vehicles from being lifted by any tornado.
I’m so glad you mentioned the Twistex team
The wizard of Oz tornado actually terrified me as a 4 year old to the point where I was afraid of wind, I was convinced I would blow away with just a small gust. That fear eventually evolved into an absolute fascination with weather and tornados and that crazy energy jolt when the sirens go off 🤩
you're NOT alone. One bad overnight "electrical" storm that hit Central Ohio in May 1966 set me off. I was about two and a half.
As a kid in the late 60's & 70's they always showed it at the beginning of tornado season & it would absolutely terrify me!
The wiz was terrifying I mean look what happened to Micheal Jackson and the scene that scarred me for life when they went to the subway station and piller came to life but still my favorite movie
I'm kinda jealous. I've lived in central Florida almost all my life, we don't have sirens here. I've never heard one except in movies or on TH-cam. We have a busy local park where ppl play basketball and such, it has a small siren for lightning (which of course is extremely bad here.)
One day I was across the street from it at a Family Dollar putting groceries in my car when it went off, and I thought I was going to have a heart attack, lol!
I can't even conceive living near a tornado siren 😮
@@elflingskitten actually Florida do have tornadoes mainly waterspouts but can do serious damage
For the week of Thanksgiving 2022, I locked myself in my bedroom for a week straight in an effort to quit smoking.
That's when I started watching Swegle Studios.
A year and a half later, I'm still watching the channel and still not smoking.
To better health! Cheers! 🍷
Congrats! 😊
You don't want to be a quitter do you? Quitters never win! I'm just messing around, lol. Congratulations on quitting. It's a very difficult thing to accomplish so kudos to you.
Aye! Congrats! Not only is your entertainment better, but your health is too!
Hell yeah man! Big ups :)
Tim Samaras was a true pioneer in storm chasing history, I definitely wish he was still with us.
Imagine being an explorer in the 17th/18th century, knowing only about water spouts, exploring the Midwest and southwest and you accidentally encounter a mile long tornado with 250 mile per hour winds destroying everything in its path.
I’m so glad that you finally talked about this topic.
me too
thanks for mentioning ryan hall and his team! my family and i watch his streams all the time, even if the storms aren’t near us. i’ve learned so much about storms and tornadoes because of him.
And Evan fryburger
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I absolutely love Pecos Hank’s videos, they’re the perfect mix of serious documentary and silly vlog
I crack up every time he talks about the " dangly bits". He's great. I wish he would chase and post content more.
Twister was what got me fascinated with tornadoes and weather in general. It's amazing how much technology and storm chasing has advanced even since then.
Same here I saw my first in 2017 came through my house and both my parents saw the ef5 80years ago seen the pictures my self some say the ef5 was a 3 quarters of a mile wide and 295mph and took out most of the town
same
Same! Well, kinda. My dad let me watch 1996 Twister when I was in first grade and I was absolutely obsessed and enchanted. Funny enough though, I'm fairly certain I liked Twister BECAUSE I liked tornadoes, not the other way around. I was already a weird weather nerd kid, Twister just fueled it 💀
Same!! I use to get on my bike with a bunch of notebooks and pretend to chase storms. On another note, my family and I actually went to a local drive in movie theater to watch Twister when it first came out.. lol I’ll never forget watching the scene where the tornado comes plowing through the drive in movie.. that was wild
Franklin also chased storms to study lightning, not just cyclonic winds. Again, on horseback. I don't believe it is possible for this guy to ever be overrated.
Probably many, most contemporaries thought he was nuts, off his rocker, like, "Why can he not do something more 'productive' and sensible"?
Franklin was also so well like that the founding fathers sent him to take the traitorous Declaration of Independence document straight to the face of the king. And he agreed. The courts of Britain literally did nothing to him because of how like he was.
And that horse (or horses) were incredibly brave as well. I’ve been riding for 13 years, and nowadays, horses will spook at plastic bags, their own shadow, birds, and much more.
@@fishbowlliz Ah, the increased hazards of 21st Century Equestrianism . . . horses didn't have to put up with the egregious stimuli of today, all that long ago. And they surprisingly were hard-boiled enough to handle the stresses and terrors of combat, as Cavalry animals! The Marine Corps still teaches the "old school", at the Mountain Warfare Training Center, outside of Bridgeport, California, along the East slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. After these Marines eventually muster out, they would make the finest wranglers available for the myriad Pack Stations in that vicinity.
The man himself has uploaded, drop everything and watch
Benjamin Franklin is such a badass, he was already cool but learning that he was perhaps the first storm chaser is crazzzzy. And on HORSEBACK such a menace
I was on my lunch break today thinking "I have a feeling swegle is gonna upload today". I just got home from work and I have been blessed.
I just got home from school
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In the late 1970's I met Dave Hoadley at a Severe Storms Conference in Omaha. A year later while working in the Washington DC area, he invited me to his home for dinner and was a great host. I tried to get him to take me along one of his tornado chases but he like being on the road alone. I still have a slide collection of his of some fantastic tornado images.
Love hearing someone else give love to Hank, he's amazing!! AND Ryan Hall Y'all!! They're my absolute favorites and always do their best to help others, as well. Such beautiful souls ^^
So creative too.
i got to walk inside the TIV when i was a wean in 2009. Met sean and reed, it was great!
swegle studios you are the love of my life fr 😔😔
Twister was the movie that got me into meteorology. I love that movie so dang much. Storm chasing and anything to do with the weather was spawned in me by that movie
I gotta admit I LOVE your backdrop. I love all the items you have on display and the furniture is beautiful. The vibes fit your content very well
I became interested in Weather in general while as far back as I can remember, I went flying with my Dad, a WW II U.S. Army Air Corp Combat Pilot & General Aviation Recreational Pilot. I remember observing that different Weather Conditions caused us to have different kinds of rides in my Dad's collection of Airplanes. At a very early age I learned of Thermals, (Updrafts & Downdrafts,) which caused us to have Bumpy Rides.
We were a Puerto Rican Jewish Israeli Family, so we also got a fair share of Wind Shear. Tornadoes are rare in Puerto Rico, but in 1973, My Parents & I moved briefly to New York then to Xenia Ohio just in time to Survive The April 3rd, 1974 Xenia F-5 Tornado. My Parents had just bought our house in The Arrowhead Subdivision. While our house was completely disassembled from around us, Miraculously we survived completely uninjured!!!
The next day I decided that I would become a Meteorologist, although I had to wait a few years, as I was just 11 years old when the Tornado Hit us.
But I also wanted to be a Pilot. I became a Licensed Glider Pilot at The Age of 14, I Soloed in A Powered Airplane on my 16th Birthday, I received My Airplane Private Pilot License at age 17, & later that same year I earned my Commercial & Instrument Ratings. From there I had to work my way up to Multiengine Ratings, Turbo Prop Ratings & Jet Ratings, which as it turned out, my Dad owned all three types of Airplanes. I just had to get Instruction Time in each of these Airplanes, which I did while I was attending UCLA earning my Degree in Meteorology. I was going for my Master's Degree in Meteorology.
However my goal was to become an Airline Pilot, which I did until I retired, taking time off in The Spring to Chase Tornadoes. I was most interested in Researching The Same Thing that Tim Samaras was working on, to provide understanding of The Dynamics that occur at The Lower Levels Of Tornadoes, with The Hopes of Providing Structural Engineers & Architects with information that would lead to The Development of Tornado Resistant Homes & Public Buildings.
Now, getting older, but still in Retirement from 40 years of Flying Airliners. As a Pilot, I worked in The Level of The Atmosphere where Weather Forms, giving me incredible insight into The Weather.
Yes, I saw The Wizard Of Oz, & Perhaps that influenced me to a certain degree, but I didn't speak English yet, so My Parents explained everything to me in Spanish.
But for me, I look to Personal Experiences as my primary catalyst for my dual-faceted Career.
I don't put videos on Social Media, I'm extremely Computer Literate, but I do Put Tornado Warnings on my Facebook Page.
This past Saturday Evening, in Oklahoma, I was too busy with avoiding Multiple Nocturnal Tornadoes to even post Tornado Warnings.
I stopped my Chase at about midnight & went back to help in any way that I could, namely in The Sulfur Area! I was taken aback by The Total Devastation there.
Sulfur was a nasty tornado, to be sure. And they got hit twice, if I remember right. I've been seeing the aftermath and it's horrible. I watch Ryan Hall Y'all's coverage of storms and was watching when those tornados were dropping all over mid-south-east of the state. Scary night certainly.
@@charlayned It was hit twice, & it seemed to be warned more times than that. It was indeed a very scary event!
Ryan Hall does a good job, covering multiple areas at once. He's built a great new way to receive Weather Warnings!
I'm glad that you made it through The Storms ok!
G-d Bless!
thats epic
For some reason ben franklin seems like he would have reed timmer energy
Reed timmer on horseback
Yeehaw 🤠
He'd probably meet up with some...women of the evening to celebrate afterwards.
"My dearest Matilda, whilst observing the clouds, I saw plentiful gorilla hail and a 'yuge wedge form. T'was a wondrous sight. The RFD had winds violent enough for me to quicken my step and return to my trusty steed, Wildemere."
1:35 Twister is my favorite movie, I watched it yesterday.
I live in Georgia an have never seen a tornado but been close to a city that was hit. Tanner Charles has some raw Tornado footage that’s worth a watch, even one being inside it. Incredible heart an dedication these people have with storm chasing.
I live in GA too! I've never seen one, but we've had one or two hit our city, one just barely missed our street. None too severe; damaged fences, downed trees, roof damage to a house or two. The ones I've lived through hit at night. Our city was one of the ones hit in the April 2021 outbreak. (April 24, I think? The night after Easter, I believe.) I don't think there were any casualties from what I recall, thankfully.
I honestly love this channel and Carly Ann WX, listening about the different kinds of tornadoes, the stories behind it, and of course the tragedies that will come with it.
Both channels are so underrated and it deserves so much more. ❤❤❤
Oh Carlie. She does not chase, but I love to watch her the same. She’s an amazing story teller. I suspect from her latest post, though ,that she’s experiencing a little bit of burnout, so some support definitely be appreciated, I’m sure.
I tuned in to one of the chaser live streams on Friday and literally 30 seconds in they were driving directly through a tornado before getting stopped by a felled tree. I'm hooked on them now.
Swegle I really love your videos, I’m 16 and trying to become a meteorologist when I grow up. I’m autistic and I love tornadoes and storms. I also love your video styles and editing, how are you so good at editing and everything. I really appreciate you!❤. Also we have the same name Jacob! 😂
About becoming a meteorologist. Study and get results, make sure it’s something you truly want to do
As a meteorologist myself, you got this!
@@jigwignibs is it hard to become a meteorologist
Literally yesterday I explained the El Reno tornado to my friend and was telling her about the Twistex team being killed... 💔 love your videos!
Great video. So grateful for all of the storm chasers and researchers who have contributed to the technology that allows for advanced warnings. Still amazed that there has been only one reported death from the Barnsdall/B-ville storm. Advanced warning saves lives.
I grew up in North Dakota in the 1950s and I have to say I had never heard of either of those early stormchasers. I always learn something from your videos. Thanks!
Nice reel it back moment there at the end. Thanks for the awesome video, sir. ❤
Those re-enactments are so realistic, I would’ve thought you traveled back in time
I really got into storms when watching Storm Chasers with the original TIV and how many issues it had
same here!
This and Twister
“WE LOST A TIRE!” will never stop making me laugh 😂
Four-year-old me had no business watching that but I’m glad I did I was absolutely delighted when I rediscovered Reed and found others last year
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Storm Chasers on Discovery did it for me too! What a show!
My brother and I loved to watch storm chasers back in the day. My brother and I used to play storm chasers in our backyard. My brother would be the storm chaser and I would be the meterologist. I would use the fort in our swing set as our base. We would mostly play when it was windy outside or before a storm to make it more realistic.
I was a Storm Chasers baby too, but I was too young to play😍
RIP Team Twistex
11:54 never thought id see a clip of i love lucy in a tornado related video but here we are 😂
Perfect yet another masterpiece
it's fascinating how early tornado chasers contrast on modern one's. We've gone from just knowing tornados are even real, to be able to live stream a tornado from start to finish
Everything.
Ben Franklin: "Been there, done that."
I grew up in the 90s and I was absolutely obsessed with tornados. I had a bunch of vhs tapes of tornadoes, storm chasers, books, ect. I would've loved having this channel to watch back then.
I love when you release new videos. Thank you for your calm, informative content with your unique charm. You're one of my top 5 favorite creators.
I remember watching "In search of" like it was yesterday! That brought back some memories! It's great that we have this network of storm chasers on TH-cam.
Hoping/looking forward to you doing a video on the massive tornado outbreak happening right now, been some insane footage, especially the absolutely crazy sidewinder in texas
Babe wake up! Someone’s commenting “Babe wake up, a new Swegle Studios video just dropped!” In the comments section of a new Swegle Studios video!
This is quickly becoming my favorite channel!
I live in Oklahoma. During the 90s we lived through countless tornadoes. In fact in my 20s when the storms rolled in I'd go out and watch them
You and Pecos Hank are my favorite YT tornado channels, cheers from AZ dude
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Glad to see a shout out to Ryan Hall Y’all here - I honestly think that the realtime compilation of data from many different sources that he uses (live radar, storm chasers on the ground, twitter and Emergency Management Updates, Meteorologists like Andy Hill, etc) are the future of severe weather broadcasting. They have the realistic potential to save many lives by going so in-depth and being so responsive to immediate events. Max Velocity also does a good job of this.
The only limitation is the lack of co-operation amongst *some* within the storm chasing community (copyright issues, not being allowed to show twitter feeds live, etc)…These people should all share a common interest of educating and protecting the public as their first priority above all else.
Would love to see a big storm chasing name like Pecos Hank or Reed Timmer link up with these guys as clearly this is where things are heading.
There has never been a more relatable and amazing TH-camr than you. You’re literally my spirit animal thank you love the videos. ❤🌪️
Storm Chasers on Discovery was my in, it’s what got me hooked for the most part but the biggest thing was the Sunday after the El Reno tornado. I was 9, just about to turn ten in a week and it was a weird Sunday because my family didn’t go to church that day. My brother and I did our ritual of making a blanket fort and watching Storm Chasers all day (regular weekend day occurrence) and right before I went to bed my parents had told me the news of Tim Samaras, Paul Samaras, and Carl Young passing just that Friday in what would become one of the best studied and most famous tornadoes ever. It was so weird hearing that after having watched him all day on Storm Chasers and missing tornado intercepts for safety concerns. I think that is what sealed my fascination with tornadoes and I’ve just started chasing now! I’ve yet to visit the memorial as I haven’t found myself out that way yet but I know the first time I am, I am paying the memorial a visit so I can officially pay my respects and call myself a proper storm chaser.
10:50 “That was a kickass ‘In Search Of,’ with Leonard Nimoy kickin’ out the jams, ahhh!”- Tenacious D
My folks are familiar with Ryan Hall; he used to be a meteorologist out of their part of the country. We rely a lot on his weather forecasts too. He does SO much good work for communities hard hit by severe weather and honestly, mad respect for that. We didn't get to use it, but we bought one of his Y'all-o-meters for snowfall this past year lol... the money goes to a good cause!
That being said, the work these guys do is intense and I could NEVER. Putting their lives on the line to get data that will (hopefully) ultimately lead to better forecasting and prediction models to save more lives in areas both hard hit by tornadoes and those that may see one rarely. Putting in the real work out there.
Great video! Recently wrote a 20-page paper on this topic, so it was nice to see every part covered!
For school?
@@emrilbennett8704 yep
omg i LOVE that jazz bass in the baground!
This is such an awesome video! Thanks a bunch for this!
I started chasing about 5 years ago, and fall somewhere between functional addict and junkie on the storm chasing obsession spectrum. Its truly my favorite thing to do in the world to do, and am thankful for this video explaining the origins of this obscure niche hobby and how far it has come.
Its incredible to think how far this has come in the past 50 years. We went from not knowing basically anything about tornadoes to having so much knowledge, boots on ground observations, and forecasting ability that the public can escape major tornado outbreaks essentially unharmed (4/26/24 for example).
It’s honestly crazy how in a few hundred years, humans have learned to harness nature’s wrath (to an extent).
Idk about harness natures wrath, more like we understand better how to not get killed by natures wrath lol
I mean, in regards to electricity sure.
Tornadoes? Nahhh
???? We cant harvest any of a tornados power
Has a kid Twister and Storm Chasers were my favourite shows and wanted to be a storm chaser myself for a lil bit. As an adult moved to the middle of tornado alley and was right at home with the locals being outside watching the storms from my apartment porch lol
Nice use of Carrington Institute from Perfect Dark :)
Love your vids, Swegle. Great content, footage and cohesive dialog.
Do you think you could make a video about the plainfield F5? it is a very significant tornado and changed storm chasing and weather culture, it also hits close to home personally.
I live in tornado alley and a couple days ago we had a tornado warning in my town and the tornado just barely missed us. Honestly one of the most terrifying moments of my life; running red lights trying to get to my aunts house because she has a basement and we don’t. Couldn’t imagine driving through one.
Great timing after the marathon outbreak this weekend. Watched Ryan Hall and Max Velocity for dozens of hours.
OU was still working on the Doppler project in the late 1970s. They were recruiting people to be chasers to send in data as to where they were and what was happening. My husband, a chemistry major, in 1974/78, who grew up in Oklahoma (Antlers) volunteered. He talks about the radio, clip board, and binoculars that he had to do the work. They would spot, then the triangulation to make sure that what they saw on Doppler actually was where the tornado was. That calibration too a few years but it's so valuable now for calling storms and their paths. When we went to see Sean Casey's IMAX film in Galveston, he had the TIV-2 with him. My husband got a photo with the vehicle and Sean. As I was working to set up things, they got to talking about the old chases and Sean surprised (and actually flattered) my husband by asking for HIS autograph as an early chaser. That was wild.
Came here from your wife’s page and found this is 100 right up my alley I love history anything about storms evolution and most of all space!! The crazy wicked mind blowing planets that shouldn’t even seem possible anyway new sub and looking forward to going through your content
I got back into watching stormchasing probably by just searching “tornado” sometime 5yrs ago, but it was the discovery channel which first taught me it at age five
No mention of Roger Hill?! Once held (or maybe still does) the record for most tornados seen by one person, 676 at the time of the record! Think Roger was the first to run storm chasing tours.
Howdy, Swegle Studios, I appreciate you making these videos. As a recent graduate in Meteorology, your videos expanded my learning that wasn't covered in the fast-paced, financially stressful educational years. Thank you for your videos!
My fascination of tornadoes and extreme weather came from watching storm chasers as a kid myself! It was my favorite show!
Love your videos! Could you do a video that gives some information about Ted Fugita?
Love your videos you dropped another banger. I love the throw back intro reminds me of TV when I was a kid
You are one of the few TH-camrs I consistently drop everything I'm doing to watch. Love it
Anytime I see them I must say it, RIP the Twistex Team. Pioneers in storm chasing and taken from us way too soon. We miss you Twistex ❤
Growing up in Canada, storm chasing wasn't really a thing anyone knew about. It was the movie "Twister" that introduced me, a weather junkie, to the concept of storm chasing. It will forever be my favorite movie of all time. And Pecos Hank might be the single best channel to follow in terms of video quality.
I love TWISTER TOO
Just want to mention something, that El Rino tornado mentioned at the end. I'm sure most people know, but it was only rated EF3 due to it not causing much damage (mostly in Rural areas)
It reached wind speeds up to 302Mph, easily breaking EF5 speeds. Actually I think it's one of the fastest speeds recorded in tornadoes.
I've seen so many videos about it, and some are seriously terrifying. I would never want to see that headed towards me.
Terrifying but beautiful.
It came four miles of hitting an interstate overpass that had a traffic jam on it and everyone on that overpass could see that monster coming closer and closer. If it had lasted another 10 minutes, the death toll would've been horrific.
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Perfect dark music was unexpected but appreciated.
I wish your videos were an hour long, you are a great storyteller. Keep it up!
your my favorite tornado
youtuber
when i was a kid i was OBSESSED with tornadoes. i would watch storm chasers over and over. i also watched the weather channel for fun, like a kid would watch cartoons. i wanted to be a meteorologist and storm chaser. my love for weather has never changed. i’m from omaha, nebraska and we were hit hard on 4/26/24. i’m an adult now with kids, so it became extremely scary and not a rush like when i was a kid. i would still love to be a storm chaser but things have definitely come into perspective after what hit my city.
I'm from Kentucky. We still remember that fateful night in December of 2021 just after Christmas. My love for violent storms still hasn't been dampened.
Thank you so much for that educational trip down memory lane! It was great!
never heard of this channel before but I like storm chasing, so I like this guy
I’m definitely in the crowd of people whose fascination of tornadoes started with The Wizard of Oz, which I watched a million times when I was little. Then my fascination picked up more with the show Storm Chasers, and I wanted to be one myself up until I experienced my own tornado at age 11 and realized I wasn’t mentally cut out to be one. Now, almost 14 years later, I get to “storm chase” from the safety of my home outside of tornado alley with livestreams. (Got to witness many of the significant events of the first half of the April 2024 outbreak 3 days ago via livestream.) It’s amazing how much the scene has evolved in 20 years and I can’t wait to see what’s next! (I also may storm chase myself one day, but only if it involves waterspouts way off the coastline.)
I recently started watching Reed Timmer, Ryan Hall, Connor Croff, Brandon Copic and many more after the April 2nd scare that was had in Ohio where we had a 4/5 risk. I remember my parents watching Storm Chasers on TV when I was younger and talking about the Dominator, so when I found out that Reed and the Dominator are still around, I was really excited.
I was watching Storm Chaser Brandon Copic's livestream recently when he was in Oklahoma & Texas, and he stopped at the Twistex Memorial, and that was a day after Reed's team intercepted multiple tornadoes in the Dominator 3. Different chasers, different tools, different methods.
Hell yeah, Hank deserves all the spotlights he can get, and Twister inspired a whole generation of chasers. TIV > literally every other "intercept" vehicle made yet. Reed himself is impressive, but his nadomobile is like the flimsy Chinese knockoff TIV that can barely handle outer bands.
Please cover the Night the Sirens Blew, aka the Twin Cities nighttime outbreak of May 6 1965! My dad and grandparents survived the Fridley F4s that picked up their roof, moved it over 2 feet and set it back down w/o any other real damage.
Yah
Great video as always. You obviously have a fascination with history and a real knack for portraying it in an entertaining and informative fashion.
Sweet! A Swegle Studios video on my birthday!
Happy Birthday 🎉🎁🎈
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Jake. We need a playlist of all your videos.
Hey Swegle, if you plan to create a storm chasing vehicle video, feel free to include info about tornado intercept devices too.
I don't know how many kinds are out there, but I remember seeing one team design these mostly flat red cones fitted with a camera inside. The camera was at the tip of the cone pointing straight up at the sky- the goal was to film straight into the eye of a tornado.
Another more recent team built actual rockets that they fired directly into tornados. These rockets were able to gather multiple weather data like changes in pressure and altitude. They're really cool, they even have little parachutes and gps markers so they can be recovered afterwards.
Just an idea for the video. I bet there's more devices out there that chasers have come up with.
I didn't think Ben Franklin could get any cooler. Then again I need to take some time to sit down and brush up on my US history again sometime. Tornado chasing on horseback has got to be one of the most epic things ever. :D
Discovery's Storm Chasers was what really got me into tornadoes, severe weather, and chasing. Specifically, the tornado intercept vehicle. I live in New England, and we get all sorts of weather on a daily basis, in all seasons of the year. Tornadoes are something of a rarity here due to the geography (although one recently went through Rhode Island not far from where I go to college), but I've been aware of and fascinated by them pretty much forever. I couldn't tell you how it started: one day I learned what a tornado was, and that was it. I've seen Twister, and younger me thought it was a cool movie, chasing tornadoes in all these different and colorful vehicles, but I never really cared much for it, the idea of storm chasing, or tornadoes themselves. It was kind of a niche thing to me, if you will.
That all changed when I got the Discovery Kids' Tornado Lab for Christmas, and with it a DVD of Season 1 Episode 1 of Storm Chasers. The moment when TIV 1 roared across the screen in a cloud of dust on a dirt road in the first opening shot of the episode, my little mind was blown, as I had never seen or heard of something like it before. Being a far bigger vehicle junkie than a weather fan, the idea of a homemade armored tank that can drive into tornadoes was perhaps the coolest idea I had learned of in a while at the time, and that was what got me hooked. So with that said, I really cannot wait for whenever you make a video covering these incredible machines.
This episode reminds me of a book I love called Storm Kings by Lee Sandlin, an awesome book. It’s also on audible.
It’s an extensive history of storm chasers. That book turned me on to “The Great Mysterious Tornado of 1805”. What’s interesting about that tornado is that it’s lasted for hours and travelled 100’s of miles.
It’s damage path created a huge impassable wall of trees piled on top of each other 2 miles wide that parts of it was still in place after the American Civil War. BUT MOST INTERESTING is its path would be the nearly the path that 120 years later the Great Tristate Tornado would follow.
It’s possible the 1805 actually may have gone through 4 states. The Great Tristate had a granddaddy.
I am so appreciative of this video. What a neat topic. You do such a great job with all of these.
my favorite TV tornado program as a kid was Raging Planet: Tornado, with the old school raging planet intro. so classic.