Tornado vs. Wind Turbine May 19, 2012 Harper County, Kansas
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2012
- An EF-3 tornado destroys a wind turbine south of Spivey and west of Duquoin in Harper County, Kansas. The HD video is shown at normal size, then it repeats with the video enlarged and enhanced to show the blades ripped off the wind turbine and flying through the air. This was one of several Kansas tornadoes intercepted on an unexpectedly prolific tornadic day. This HD video is available for licensing.
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Tornado be like, "So you like wind eh? Here I'll give some wind! Hahahaha."
Windmill: Stupid Tornado
@@finneganthao9164 it’s a wind turbine windmills are a lot smaller
WeatherBalls? how "Country Balls"
Wind turbine: b***h please 🥱😒
seems like the tornado didn't like being ignored and made an example out of one of them
you are right , it tore that one that it went through on the turbine and the blades ! there will have to be some major repairs to the turbine and blades, we have the same type here in south Texas !
+Ana Berces it destroyed at least 4 in tis video..3-4 mil apiece
I only saw one being destroyed; the second might have been damaged, but it wasn't obvious from the footage.
@@1948tc I'm not sure undamaged turbines will be updated to be stronger. Greater strength typically means greater mass (more weight). The rotor blades are designed to be lightweight as a matter of efficiency.
Why don't they just turn on those giant fans and blow the tornado away?
ken m?
Windmills do not work that way! Good night!
😂😂😂
i really hope your joking
I really hope you're joking spelling you're incorrectly.
Before it was destroyed, that one turbine produced enough electricity to run Montana for a month.
It never was spinning 🙄
Tell us you don’t have a sense of humor without telling us you don’t have a sense of humor 😅
That one turbine was probably powering the entirety of Kansas all by itself in the last few seconds lol.
It never was spinning..🙄
@@lovetofly32 exactly
@@lovetofly32 ua-cam.com/video/yr3ngmRuGUc/v-deo.html
This effect might explain
Looks like the sh1t really hit the fan.
(Q) How is a marriage like a tornado?
(A) It *starts* with a lot of blowing & sucking, and it *ends* with you losing the house.
lmao,love it-priceless,lol
shitnado (sharknado's inbred cousin)
Hear that squeaking noise? It sounds like the windmill in the beginning of the movie" Once Upon A Time In The West". Damned impressive video. Kudos for hanging in there.
THANK YOU this video has incredible value
Does anyone else find irony in this? Anyone?
Brivixxycej8 Irony in the fact that tornadoes are destructive? Hmmm... no.
Irony that wind is destroying a wind turbine? There's almost a sense of poetic justice there. Almost.
+Brivixxycej8 - it might seem ironic to someone who is only just now becoming aware that one of the highest wind resource areas in the United States is also called Tornado Alley. But rest assured, the insurance industry did their research beforehand. With thousands of wind turbines going up, a few will be hit by tornadoes. Any loss that can be reliably predicted can be insured against.
@@danielmocsny5066 Yep. Only problem? It sends the message that "renewable energy" is more important than human lives whenever a turbine blade failure results in someone ending up dead.
Sure, tornadoes can kill regardless, and no source of energy is without hazards. But, when there are no wind farms around, your likelihood of dying from flying or falling man-made debris -- even in Tornado Alley -- is likely going to be reduced.
@@lyndagruen2047 But that could go for pretty much any man made structure in tornado alley.
Hello again my friends, we just got recommended another turbine video.
And for 2.3 seconds that one wind turbine provided power for the entire nation...
Am I the only one seeing this bc UA-cam recommended it in quarantine???
Nopsy
Why can't these fidget spinners spin?
Emergency brakes are on.
Yes. Have you ever seen the video where a turbine blew up from spinning too fast?
You want them to be yanked out of the ground and spiral through the air like a projectile?
That would be awesome if a tornado did that 😎👍
Here's a video of one exploding: m.ua-cam.com/video/l3tqjuvy7i0/v-deo.html
Always wondered what would happen if a tornado were to hit one of these things, now we know.
Wow, that is one intense fire
Yes
This puts a new meaning to wind harvesting.
Serious question, what is the cost analysis on this? The returns of wind turbines being placed in the windiest place in America (Tornado Alley), as opposed to the probability cost of repairs that turbines will need after they are damaged by tornadoes. Is it worth placing expensive machinery in an area where they are most likely to be damaged?
A local community college had one of their turbines struck by lightening within the first year with damages exceeding $100,000. The cost of creating, erecting, and maintain these monstrosities is greater than the resources and energy needed to create them. If the government had not subsidized them, no one would use them. Think about that.
The president community college I previously mentioned said the wind turbines were 'a complete embarrassment. ' Three could not even supply power for the college. The second turbine broke down within the second year. Students could not focus because of the 'thudding' noise resonating within the buildings, which is even more tragic when they disrupt homes.
The chance of any one location on the plains being impacted by a Tornado in a given year is actually astronomically low. Combine this with the space between turbines and the (usually) fairly small size of tornados and it isn't even a consideration.
there is a lot of thing wrong with wind farms
That tornadoes power level is
Over 9000!
"Hey Bob, I've got a GREAT idea!"
"What is it, Chuck?"
"How 'bout we build a wind farm in Tornado Alley? All that wind's gonna be worth something!"
"Well spank my ass and call me Charlie! Where in tarnation do you get these brilliant ideas, Chuck? Get the pickup truck; we gonna build us a mighty fine wind thingamajig!"
"I always knew them tornadoes would come in handy!"
But wouldnt the tornado make so much energy its gonna blow out the citys power?
there isn't really much a tornado CANT destroy. no matter how well built it is
concrete underground bunker. lol I remember July 1993's outbreak well - West Wichita, and I was in a church for VBS - that took 3 (THREE) "Sisters" that trained off of each other...... SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad to live in the mountains now. Sure, Tornadoes are possible everywhere - but only a true finger of God could get the ridge I'm in. (The last one was documented over 150 years ago.) Hopefully, He'll see fit to guide them elsewhere.
Hey! Is there any way I could possibly contact you (like through email)? I would love to discuss getting permission to use this video in a video production if this is possible. Thanks!
on the EF scale EF0 being the smallest and least destructive, to EF5 which are the violent, dangerous, and deadly types is used by looking at how much damage the tornado has caused and there are some indicators that are left behind that can tell you wind speeds. that's if youre not using an anemometer. the thing about large violent tornadoes like EF3 or higher, is that they can grow to be 3/4-1mile wide and can move very quickly, up to 40, 50, 60, even 70mph ground speed
would love to know the make and model of the dash cam being used, great quality!
Holy moly the tornado has breaked a wind turbine
amazing vid!!
I was hoping they would start spinning like crazy but i guess the weakness of an ef3 and the weight of the blades make restriction.
I love tornados
I dont care tornados
especially when they are destroying bird-chopping-mobiles
Shouldn't these turbines be spinning crazy fast right now?
They have brakes inside the transmission; can be shut down
Ah! Okay.
Just 'guessing' here - the blades may also "feather" when stopped to prevent the wind from spinning. Much like an airplane propeller is feathered when its associated engine is shut down to prevent it from spinning the engine.
They operate on winds from 3 m/s to 15 m/s. Higher and it will automatically shutdown to prevent damages to the nacelle components.
The feathering you are saying is called pitching. It is like fine tuning of the blade's angle to compensate with the wind. Lower winds and it will flap out, on high winds it will fold to 86 degrees. 90 degrees being parallel to the wind. But higher than 15m/s and the generator automatically stops.
yt had to recommend this to everyone now
Impressive!
as I said almost anything. this tornado had winds around 150-180 mph and those wind mills are made of fiberglass and aluminum so basically the turbine tower can only withstand winds up 100mph or less
Person:LOOK A TORNADO ITS HEADING FOR A TURBINE OF WIND
2 PERSON:IF THE TURBINE GETS WIND
*TORNADO SUCKS IT IN*
PERSON 2:GREAT DOES SOMEONE HAVE DUCKTAPE
what state are you in? if you were Oklahoma, Kansas, or Nebraska you might've seen at least a few
Isn’t supposed to be extremely windy if there’s a huge tornado, but why aren’t the windmills spinning then. R they locked or something ?
The irony here is killing me
The tornado was like "Screw you in particular!"
The irony of the wind turbines not even turning...
they invented that scale to rate the strength of the tornado by the amount of structural damage caused
The blades were clearly destroyed,but, is it repairable other than that? How did the tower and nacelle fair in that extreme wind? What about the transmission? Is an "act of nature" like this covered by insurance?
1 year later on may 30th moore, Oklahoma was hit by a violent tornado killing lots of people, parents devastated to hear the news that there child didnt make it it was the worst Oklahoma day ever and it was expected since Oklahoma state is in the heart of tornado alley lots of tornados hit every tornado season and that one very tornado almost killed my dad he survived and came home safely and may those people who have been killed be the violent EF5 tornado rest in peace
Now I live in Southern Louisiana and our tornadoes aren't anywhere close to those in the Alley of DOOM!!!
But when my 16yr old son didn't believe me when I told him how large a tornado really was. I had to bring him here.
Back in July of 1989 I woke up to my dogs going crazy. Now I was only 13 at the time and knew we had bad weather coming in. When I walked out my front door and saw this tornado across the street, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It was maybe an EF0 or EF1. But for a kid that never seen one before I just stood there as my mom was yelling hey stupid, get your butt I side now. Shingles were getting ripped off our roof and my basketball goal was no more. But other then that, we didn't have very much damage unlike the people that had direct hits. All I can think of is, just how weak this one was compared to the monsters yall get.
that's true, mainly with winds under 100mph and only cause small amounts of damage
Tornado was like... "harness this bitch!"
Question for ya: Can large-scale wind farms impact the generation (or lack thereof) of tornadoes?
I ask, because I have been probably pretty close to a couple operating wind turbines, and I could definitely feel the air pressure. Forget noise. That's negligible. Air pressure, on the other hand.....
doubtful, but it does increase the chance of idiocy within society.
First a turbine being destroyed in a storm, then a bird getting hit by a turbine, and now a turbine being ng destroyed by a tornado.
if youre caught outside without protection right as the tornado reaches your exact location NO. because tornadoes pick up pieces of debris that turn to lethal shrapnel that are moving as fast as the winds are moving. plus the winds would pick you up and carry you several hundred even several thousand feet into the air. and when the wind cant keep you aloft anymore youll fall to your death. The F scale meant fujita and now its basically enhanced fujita (EF)
Harper County got some extra power that day. Mother nature handing out discounts.
Holy cow this is so awesome
I didn't see any reason to. for what purpose would I need to "Caps" tornado?
So, twisters hate wind turbines more than mobile homes lol
i think the tornado won that one
It shouldn't of... If that turbine was over engineered we all could have had energy for a year.
Amazing that in a storm with tornado force winds the turbines are all calm.
They shut down automatically.
They get locked down and taken offline, either remotely or possibly automatically as Harrison suggested.
the two things im most scared of in on video... why am i here
My Name turbines
My Name no wind turbines and wind mills are two different things, (you can look it up) i have a phobia of wind turbines that i’ve had since i was a child.
My Name please before you harass me about it look up a picture of wind mills, then one of wind turbines. and it’s a PHOBIA. also look up that and don’t be ignorant.
My Name LOL my phobia is WIND TURBINES not MILLS. you my friend are a fucking idiot
Aight, no fight, no party
Wow. What are the odds of that??? Direct hit.
I was under the impression that the turbines would be spinning like crazy with a tornado close by
@@GoldFaceFella what does this have to do with my comment? How are you going to make a statement about calm before the storm when the video shows the tornado is on the ground?
@@jmw9904 he made sense to me
@@jmw9904 was there another tornado on the ground in front of it? The fact that there wasn’t one is exactly what he means by the calm before the storm
@@dasapples if there were 2, then it would have been shown. Also, how could there be calm before the storm when the tornado was already down? Calm before the storm would still imply that the tornado hadn't touched down or hadn't even formed yet.
@@dasapples It seems like you chose my comment and you haven't even watched the video. If you haven't, then I suggest you watch it
What is that beeping sound in the background?
computer for weather service - these guys are professional storm runners.
Wind turbines are designed to shut down in high winds, so they aren't damaged or destroyed.Not sure what the operational limit is on the wind speed is, I want to say 15mph but it could be as much as 50mph. Considering that the strongest tornados can reach 300+ mph I'd say this was way beyond the limit. If you know I'd be interested on the limits
Max operational wind speed is around 55 mph. I will get back with survivable speed
@@Mike-kr5dn please do! I would imagine there is some damage to these
@@toryknotts8026 Hi! So the most common survivable wind speed is around 50 m/s that is about 111 mph. There are some turbines that can withstand even higher operational speeds up to 76 mph and survivable around 150 mph. But like I said most common is a ~55 mph cut-out (turn off speed) and ~ 110 mph survivable. One of the turbines got all 3 blades damaged so yes they are not invulnerable.
@@Mike-kr5dn thank you! And how do you know this?
@@toryknotts8026 I want to get a turbine down myself so I'm really invested in everything surrounding it :)
Looks like that wind turbine not only stood up well to the tornado, but it went a long way towards dissipating it.
You were obviously only watching the one in the front lol
an EF 4 tornado with winds reaching 190-220mph+ can easily pick up a locomotive and toss it for well over a mile, and EF3 with winds around 130-165+mph can easily destroy a small structure including wind turbines and TV towers
Skin??
the turbine doesn't spin, the tornado is a paid actor
Thumbs downs are from people that did not watch it long enough. At 1:27 it eats the windmill. The blades look like leaves blowing in a breeze.
Damn is it Possabal to live Durning an F5 !! Wait whats the diffrents between an F5 and EF5 ? :/
That windmill is a SAVAGE!
Am I the only one getting recommended?
Seems like the tornado just yeeted that smoke
so how come there not a lot of them :/
I see windmills can't even do anything productive even when a tornado is around
Imagine the destruction caused by the notorious EF5 tornado. wind speeds can be as high as 320+mph which is strong enough to rip the clothing and even skin right off a persons body
Oh boy, that storm will peel the skin right off of you!
Not exactly sir...
If you’re a tree, for sure. Trees that don’t get pulled out by their roots get their bark peeled off.
That is when I noticed
Im a very friendly person who can get along with almost anyone, and whatever differences there may be I try not to let them get in the way of things because in the end it only leads to chaos. what else might I ask are u into aside from tornadoes? im into music, guns, and having fun with friends and family and a lot of other things
Is that snow on the hill?
more than likely large hail - kansas is known to have insanely large hailstones.
Why is everybody running?! I thought y'all wanted wind power!
Bestia🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
The tornado be like :
*OUT OF MY WAY,MADAFAKAS*
to be honest with ya, I don't really know. but I can guess what wed see as far as destruction in a twister on that high of a scale is unimaginable. nothing, no even the toughest hardened structure would survive something like that. but for something like that to happen, the amount of energy being released by the storm would be similar to that of a nuclear blast wrapped up in a minefield
Its windmill week on UA-cam.
south Dakota 4 tornadoes. all EF2 or less
Well? I am from the country that the gov will plan to make the wind turbine....... by the way.... there are many storm also in my country.... so it seems the wind turbine is not so suitable to build.....
Damn tornado can’t even make them spin
so really there is no difference at all. it used to be just the F scale, now its the EF scale. im sure you might know this fact, the F scale to begin with was named after a weatherman named Theodore Fujita
I guess they sort of play for the same team.
How come none of them were spinning? Windless tornado maybe??
+William Martin I'd say there was plenty of wind to make them operate. Wind turbines have a relatively narrow operating envelope and must be shut down when the wind is too strong - or too weak (even if they would still operate sporadically). Otherwise they may have been shut down as a precaution, the power lines were taken out so there is no place to 'put' the energy, or control signals were lost due to the storm.
Turbines have breaks, to keep at a safe speed just about all large wind turbines have disk breaks so they don't spin too fast or there's already enough electricity in the transmission lines.
Indeed they do have brakes, but they aren't used (at least not for any prolonged amount of time) to regulate the speed - the amount of heat that would create would be very hard to dissipate. The brakes are used for stopping and holding the turbine. The means for regulating power output is through multiple/variable gearing to the generator and/or blade pitch control. If the wind blows too fast, the turbine is shut down completely. The same goes for a situation where the power is not needed.
ok but you Christain ?
tornadoes like EF0s to EF3s are very common but short lived. tornadoes like EF4s & EF5s are rare and often long lived because most thunderstorms have enough energy to produce a large and violent tornado. tornadoes large and small mainly come from supercell thunderstorms. and depending on how much energy and instability there is in the atmosphere is why tornadoes vary in size
Very sad :c
I wanted that damn thing to get snatched like a weave
Rip
Fun.. Tornados.. Cartoons.. Friendly.. people and Music :3
i would sue god for ripping down my wind turbine !
Ugh. YT. Why are you recommending me creepy twister vids!? They're like my worst fear. (Even tho I'll admit they're kinda cool when they're not killing things.)
i know there no such thing as a F6 or F7 but would they be like
WIND TURBINE
Those cost 3 to 4 million each...ouch!
30 million, you mean?
You call that a tornado that was a dust devil Compared to the tornadoes we get
That Tornado did that shit on purpose !!
+beavis simpson BAD! BAD TORNADO!
She loves me, she loves me not, SHE LOVES ME!
Ripped the blades right off, that's one turbine down.
epic
The result is not that the wind farmer gets rich?
Insurance my friend