TWC El Reno/OKC Tornado Coverage, 5/31/2013 (Part 1)

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  • @rosscorlett4592
    @rosscorlett4592 5 років тому +26

    Mike Bettes has been through it all. I’ve grown up watching him every morning and chasing storms like this. He is a very lucky man to be alive.

  • @AJ1987LV
    @AJ1987LV Рік тому +2

    If I'm not mistaken, around 7:00, when Mike begins to talk to someone in background, I think it's when Reed Timmer arrived and went to check on the crew (Tornado Chasers, s2, "Nemesis")

  • @AirRaider56
    @AirRaider56 11 років тому +58

    I feel so bad for mike.. First its Tuscaloosa, Then he HAS to witness Joplin, then he gets thrown by a tornado itself.. Just retire Mike, enough is enough

    • @timbartschwolfman
      @timbartschwolfman 6 років тому +4

      Matt Schlicht
      It's hard for him to decide he likes to do what he does

    • @jimjohnston5719
      @jimjohnston5719 5 років тому +5

      He now works in the studio. Bless him and thankfully they were being watched over that day. Sadly, 3 other well known chasers, and possibly another, were killed in the same event.

    • @Gildhattie
      @Gildhattie 2 роки тому +1

      That El Reno was an anomaly with it's path.. Out of respect, I wish the NWS would've kept it's original EF-5 rating (I know why it was changed) but it still was confirmed having winds of 295mph (second only to May 3 1999)

    • @ljacks0264
      @ljacks0264 2 роки тому +1

      @@Gildhattie DOW (Doppler on Wheels) wind estimates at the ground we’re in excess of 300mph actually. This tornado was the most powerful in recorded history.

    • @Gildhattie
      @Gildhattie 2 роки тому

      @@ljacks0264 but not officially, because the NWS will officially only go by damage, that's why it was officially an ef-3... Which doesn't make sense to me

  • @brettyokum7473
    @brettyokum7473 3 роки тому +6

    I remember watching this live. I was glued to the TV waiting to hear from Mike. So thankful he was ok & I'm glad to see him settle down with his Weather Channel show Weather underground.

  • @normanwaterman2017
    @normanwaterman2017 3 роки тому +5

    3:47 I remember watching this the day it happened. When Mike said his crew was hit by the tornado, my stomach dropped to the floor in horror. He was lucky to survive. This was the same tornado that killed Tim Samaras.

  • @froey198033
    @froey198033 5 років тому +17

    While Mike Bettes is on the phone Tim Samaras Paul Samaras and Carl Young were killed by this monster tornado. Also another chaser Richard Henderson was also killed.

  • @RileyMax3
    @RileyMax3 9 років тому +22

    This was the scariest day in my life. And I've been through one too many tornadoes. We had a supposed hour warning before this hit the metro, and suddenly 15 minutes later everything was dark.

    • @timbartschwolfman
      @timbartschwolfman 6 років тому

      Ultimate Oaks
      I'm sorry to hear that..... Severe Weather is just scary and trust me I hate Severe Weather as well

    • @greatmoneystability7069
      @greatmoneystability7069 5 років тому

      Oof

    • @greatmoneystability7069
      @greatmoneystability7069 5 років тому

      @@timbartschwolfman duh, who doesn't

    • @froey198033
      @froey198033 4 роки тому

      Well thousands of people were very lucky cause that beast stayed in open land. If that tornado hit a populated area a lot more than 8 people would've died.

    • @hookedonreactions7649
      @hookedonreactions7649 2 роки тому

      We did have an hour. The local media, all channels, were carrying this live before the tornado touched down. We had been in a PDS (particularly dangerous situation) tornado watch before the clouds ever broke through the cap.
      Just over a week earlier two elementary schools were destroyed in the Moore tornado so the coverage for this was there, it may not have been seen but it was there.

  • @NOVARailandWeatherEnthusiast
    @NOVARailandWeatherEnthusiast 5 років тому +11

    I’m no where near Oklahoma but I remember watching this on the weather channel that day. I had no idea I was watching storm history occurring....

    • @oologahnorthernrailroad8873
      @oologahnorthernrailroad8873 3 роки тому

      I remember watching this too.

    • @michaellovely6601
      @michaellovely6601 3 роки тому +1

      In all honesty; the May 31st, 2013 tornado that hit El Reno, Oklahoma is at "Shit your pants" levels of terror. Like the April 4th, 1974 tornado that hit Xenia, Ohio, the Tri-state tornado on March 18th, 1925, both of the tornadoes that struck Moore, Oklahoma in 1999 and 2013, the May 22nd 2011 tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri, Jarrell, Texas on May 27th, 1997, and Hattiesburg, Mississippi on February 10th, 2013. What is particularly unsettling about the 2013 tornado that hit El Reno is that two years earlier El Reno was hit by a tornado on May 24th, 2011; just two days after the tornado in Joplin, Missouri. Not many people outside of Oklahoma know about the May 24th tornado because as I said, this tornado occurred just two days after Joplin, Missouri and so the eyes of the world focused on Joplin. It is extremely heartbreaking to see that St. John's Medical Center was practically decimated by the tornado because it looked like a bomb exploded on all nine floors of the building. I have seen footage of the tornadoes in Joplin and Moore that was shot by the Basehunters Storm Chasers team. This team is composed of four young men by the names of Scott Peake, Colt Forney, Isaac Pato, and Kevin Rolfs. Also a member of the team is Kevin's father Harland Rolfs. After the Joplin tornado had dissipated; Scott, Colt, and Isaac began search and rescue efforts and rescued a woman trapped under the rubble of her house using a door as a stretcher to load her into the back of a pick-up truck and get her to a hospital. Soon after; Kevin and Harland met up with Scott, Colt, and Isaac- whom Harland calls his boys- and took a man who was holding his infant son who had a bad cut on his head to St. John's Medical Center. When they crested the hill; they saw that St. John's looked like someone had taken nine bombs, planted one bomb on each floor of the building and detonated them. Kevin described having a feeling of utter helplessness seeing St. John's in its ruined state.

  • @F5Storm1
    @F5Storm1 11 років тому +19

    Glad this thing turned and didn't head into OKC or Moore, Moore didn't need another EF5 right after the one on May 20th.

    • @floodescapeguy8063
      @floodescapeguy8063 5 років тому +1

      El reno was EF3.

    • @brendan7138
      @brendan7138 5 років тому +2

      Would've been EF5 easy if it hit Moore.

    • @Deucealive75
      @Deucealive75 5 років тому +1

      @@brendan7138Doubt it. Most of the damage path had EF-2 and under damage. A direct house hit showed EF-3 damage with other EF-3 damage just south and north of I40.

    • @lishishur293
      @lishishur293 5 років тому +8

      @@Deucealive75 The wind speeds reached 302 miles per hour. If it hit a city it would've destroyed everything it touched. It was only EF3 because it didnt hit anything populated

    • @F5Storm1
      @F5Storm1 4 роки тому

      @@floodescapeguy8063 it was an EF5 wind wise

  • @Silverbullet1222
    @Silverbullet1222 11 років тому +23

    RIP Tim, Carl, and Tim's son :(

    • @froey198033
      @froey198033 4 роки тому +2

      Tim's son name is Paul.

    • @LIAA23423
      @LIAA23423 3 роки тому +4

      @Jared Zieff y’all replying to a comment that was 7 years ago. CLEARLY HE KNOWS HIS NAME BY NOW🤦🏾..

    • @sigsin1
      @sigsin1 3 роки тому +1

      @@LIAA23423 chill.

  • @F5Storm1
    @F5Storm1 11 років тому +6

    I think there were several weaker tornadoes in the Moore and OKC area but the one in Yukon and El Rino made a turn to the north and dissipated.

    • @Jake-hp8mg
      @Jake-hp8mg 5 років тому +1

      And there was like one ef2 tornado and a few EF1 and Ef0 tornados

  • @crambone20002000
    @crambone20002000 11 років тому +1

    Thank God Mike you all survived. You showed the whole country of USA TWC watchers that you are just a regular guy like all of us when you got shook up at Joplin seeing the damage there. I will not urge you to retire. My sister got bucked off horses when she was 8 years old, but always got back on. Keep up the good work brother.

  • @vero0992
    @vero0992 4 роки тому +8

    It bugs me that we judge tornado severity on damage only now. This is officially an EF3 but should be an F5. I understand using damage to gauge the power of a tornado if you don't have wind measurements but if you do, the wind measurements should be used (in my non-professional opinion). 🌪️

    • @ex_cathedra4237
      @ex_cathedra4237 3 роки тому +2

      I actually just watched an old ABC report about this, and it was apparently reclassified as an EF-5.
      I agree with you, though. I think measuring via damage/debris really downplays the severity of a tornado. We don't categorize hurricanes like that....

    • @nathandahl9233
      @nathandahl9233 3 роки тому

      @@ex_cathedra4237 It was initially classified as EF3 based on the damage survey, then briefly switched to EF5 based on radar observations, and finally switched back to EF-3 (which is what it remains today) because, in the end, the Enhanced Fujita scale is a "damage" scale by definition.

    • @nathandahl9233
      @nathandahl9233 3 роки тому +1

      It's not a sure thing that the tornado would have been an EF5 if it had hit more stuff. The EF scale wind speeds are based on a 3-second average gust; the extreme winds in the El Reno tornado were confined to small, fast-moving subvortices that only impacted a given spot for a fraction of a second. Also, the places where those winds occurred didn't show rural-area damage typically seen in EF5 tornadoes (extensive ground scouring, complete removal of vegetation and crops from fields, trees completely debarked/reduced to nubs, etc.). Using just the maximum instantaneous wind speed doesn't tell the whole story, is my point.

    • @packerman7410
      @packerman7410 3 роки тому

      Ef5 winds may have been near ground level but no intense scour to show it unlike the one in 2011 Philadelphia

    • @nathandahl9233
      @nathandahl9233 3 роки тому

      @@packerman7410 I agree, although, to be fair, there aren't many tornadoes, even EF5 tornadoes, that produce the amount of scouring that 2011 Philadelphia did. That was just ridiculous.

  • @thonatim5321
    @thonatim5321 3 роки тому +3

    Largest tornado on record. What a sight that must have been.

  • @BulletAgario
    @BulletAgario 5 років тому +6

    302mph. Crazy.

  • @denelson83
    @denelson83 2 роки тому

    9:11 - That debris ball covered roughly 20 square kilometres of ground according to that radar scan.

  • @matthewadair9783
    @matthewadair9783 11 років тому +6

    I live in Yukon and I got to close for comfort on this

  • @mitchellschwab1596
    @mitchellschwab1596 7 років тому +12

    Thank God Mike Bettes is okay!! Boy, he is very brave!! I am so very glad I am not him right now!!

  • @Zoomer30_
    @Zoomer30_ 3 роки тому +6

    "If we were in a smaller car, I think we'd be dead"
    GMC Chevy Tahoe vs GM Chevy Cobalt. Tim, Paul and Carl would have survived if they hadn't been in that crappy car.

    • @AJ1987LV
      @AJ1987LV Рік тому

      Yeah, but Mike was sideswept by it, while Tim practically got caught in middle - there are videos where you can see the chasers gps dots around the path of this tornado, and you can see where each of them were.

  • @xCmOn3yx777
    @xCmOn3yx777 3 роки тому +1

    when red and green are moving away from each other from the direction of the Doppler, its gate to gate shear and basically confirms a tornado

  • @christinab.2864
    @christinab.2864 5 років тому +3

    What was the wind speeds 300+

    • @mpk6664
      @mpk6664 4 роки тому

      299-301ish MPH

    • @nolancain8792
      @nolancain8792 3 роки тому

      @@mpk6664 302 max, second highest ever to Moore 1999’s 318 MPH.

  • @MichaelTheBlimpedFox
    @MichaelTheBlimpedFox 4 роки тому +2

    Seven years ago from today. Just think about that for a second...

  • @Wosiewose
    @Wosiewose 3 роки тому

    I really wish TWC had been showing the time on the screen.

  • @beantowne617
    @beantowne617 7 років тому +1

    I'm still astounded as to why and how, Bettes thought trying to out run this tornado to the south was a wise idea. Especially considering there was a relatively clear route back to the north away from it and how unpredictable the track was to begin with....wow!

    • @tylerjerabek5204
      @tylerjerabek5204 6 років тому +3

      Trizz SHARPE Tornadoes, on average, usually travel south east, the storm turned towards them and the chasers who died

    • @Cereal421
      @Cereal421 6 років тому +4

      Tyler Jerabek north east* and it made a hard right to the east which was unusual

  • @nicolemullally3609
    @nicolemullally3609 5 років тому +5

    people said it was an EF3 when its actully an EF5

    • @lishishur293
      @lishishur293 5 років тому

      The damage was EF3 but the size was EF5

    • @brianschaffer9220
      @brianschaffer9220 5 років тому +1

      Back in the day of the regular F scale, would have been easy F5

    • @astridayooo
      @astridayooo 5 років тому +2

      It only caused EF3 level damage because it mainly tracked through a rural area. The winds were easily EF5 speeds but it thankfully didn’t go into any densely populated urban areas so it caused far less damage than it could have.

    • @packerman7410
      @packerman7410 4 роки тому

      @@lishishur293 the winds were high-end ef5, size has nothing to do with rating

    • @AJ1987LV
      @AJ1987LV Рік тому

      It was ranked as EF5 on some moments, where it did the most damage. But by this new rating scale, it was solid EF3, varieting to EF4

  • @balmpatchvideos
    @balmpatchvideos 3 роки тому

    There's lots of sinking motion, watch the video. The breakdown on this one was huge and wide.

  • @literalfeline
    @literalfeline 4 роки тому +2

    I remember this.I was pretty young I think, and I just freaked the fuck out. My house was destroyed, luckily the storm shelter was fine and kept us safe

  • @taurusreborn2571
    @taurusreborn2571 10 років тому +4

    The rain cooled air killed it. It probably cutted off the inflow to the tornado and it roped out on I - 40.

  • @mikeb2611
    @mikeb2611 8 місяців тому +1

    only in oklahoma...we get extreme everything

  • @aircraftandmore9775
    @aircraftandmore9775 4 роки тому +3

    Just looking at the image, you can see the tornado was so large and so powerful, that it looks like it’s sucking down it’s entire supercell in the rfd

  • @analoghorrors
    @analoghorrors 6 років тому +1

    0:07 the video starts to glitch, crap's about to go down.

  • @ericweglarz3648
    @ericweglarz3648 3 роки тому +1

    "You've got to get underground or away from it!" My goodness, how incredibly dangerous that second recommendation was, that alone could have killed so many people had people acted on it

    • @hookedonreactions7649
      @hookedonreactions7649 2 роки тому

      The governor of Oklahoma called a meeting with the Oklahoma City stations and had a come to Jesus talk with them. They’ve calmed down some.
      I’ve been told by a credible source that manslaughter charges were considered but were not pursued because they couldn’t prove whether or not the people killed in cars were there by happenstance or if they followed the directions and fled. Source: emergency management volunteer for Oklahoma City.

  • @austinsteele5202
    @austinsteele5202 10 років тому +2

    That was a tragic day

  • @Michiganian8
    @Michiganian8 5 років тому +4

    Brave Mike Bettes!

  • @MarioLuigi11
    @MarioLuigi11 6 років тому +5

    A YUGE DEBRIS BALL

  • @brianschaffer9220
    @brianschaffer9220 Рік тому

    I tell you, if they were hit from the opposite end of the tornado, they are done.

  • @MadirdTiger91
    @MadirdTiger91 10 років тому +1

    It killed the storm chasers because it took a sharp Northeast turn that nobody could have predicted.

  • @TheNuklearMoose
    @TheNuklearMoose 11 років тому

    Very well said skateboy. You do it because you love to do it and nothing should stop you

  • @jenniferpesquera648
    @jenniferpesquera648 11 років тому +5

    I WILL PRAY FOR THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE TORNADO IN EL RENO AND MOORE OK.

  • @spiderboy410
    @spiderboy410 11 років тому

    So there wasnt a tornado in moore on may 31st? I heard the sirens and my dad was in the house and when he went in the shelter with me he saw trees flying above our house.And if there wasnt a tornado then that was a waste of 1/2 hours of my life

    • @alemarion
      @alemarion 6 років тому +2

      spiderboy410:
      The Moore tornado was not on May 31st. It was on May 20th.
      If this tornado (El Reno) kept its trajectory, then Moore would've been hit.

    • @tayloryetto
      @tayloryetto 6 років тому +2

      You’re slow. Taking cover is never a waste of your life. Not listening to the warnings might waste your life though

  • @bkriegel95
    @bkriegel95 11 років тому +1

    I watched this as it happened

  • @herniebadlautner.7340
    @herniebadlautner.7340 2 роки тому

    Scary naders.

  • @موسوعة-عالم.الجن
    @موسوعة-عالم.الجن 2 роки тому

    70
    حقيقة اعصار التورنادوا :
    هو في الاساس رباني ومن غضب الله الجبار
    ومن شدته انه اذا مر على نهر شقه نصفين ورفع قاعه الطيني وذر ترابه في الهواء
    وكذلك يقتلع البنايات والبيوت والاشجار ومن ثم رميها في مكان بعيد مهما كانت ثقيلة وعظيمة
    ويحمل الجسور والقناطر والخزانات الكبيرة ويدور بها وكانها عود ثقاب ويلفها كالمروحة من شدة قوته العنيفة
    ويحمل معه الحيوان والانسان الى عنان السماء ثم يلفظه خارج الغلاف الجوي او الكرة الارضية وكانها عملية تفريغ نحو الفضاء الخارجي
    مما يتسبب بخسائر مادية جسيمة وهائلة تقدر بتريليونات الدولارات
    وهذا غيظ من فيض وهذا بعض ما يجري في امريكا
    قال تعالى ( يَا مَعْشَرَ الْجِنِّ وَالْإِنسِ إِنِ اسْتَطَعْتُمْ أَن تَنفُذُوا مِنْ أَقْطَارِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ فَانفُذُوا ۚ لَا تَنفُذُونَ إِلَّا بِسُلْطَانٍ )
    وقال تعالى ( ان الذين كذبوا باياتنا واستكبروا عنها لا تفتح لهم ابواب السماء ولا يدخلون الجنة حتى يلج الجمل في سم الخياط ... )
    اوكل الله جل في علاه بكل شئ ملكا :
    فهناك ملك الجبال وملك البحار وملك السحاب وملك الرياح وباستطاعته ان يامرها بما يريد
    ان زلزلوا او احرقوا او دمروا او حطموا او اغرقوا
    فينتقم الله ممن يشاء ولا يستطيع اي مخلوق في هذا الكون منع قضاءه جل وعلا

    ويقال ان صوت الرعد حسبما ورد في الاثر
    انه صوت الملك الذي يزجر به السحاب ويسوقه حيث يشاء بامر الله عز وجل ... والله اعلم
    قال تعالى ( وما تاتيهم من آية من آيات ربهم الا كانوا عنها معرضين )
    وقال تعالى ( فأرسلنا عليهم الطوفان والجراد والقمل والضفادع والدم ... )
    وقال تعالى ( وان يروا كسفا من السماء ساقطا يقولوا سحاب مركوم )
    وقال تعالى ( فلما راوه عارضا مستقبل اوديتهم قالوا هذا عارض ممطرنا بل هو مااستعجلتم به ريح فيها عذاب اليم )
    وقال تعالى ( ولو شئنا لرفعناه بها ولكنه أخلد إلى الأرض واتبع هواه فمثله كمثل الكلب إن تحمل عليه يلهث أو تتركه يلهث ذلك مثل القوم الذين كذبوا بآياتنا فاقصص القصص لعلهم يتفكرون )
    وقال تعالى ( مثل الذين حملوا التوراة ثم لم يحملوها كمثل الحمار يحمل اسفارا بئس
    مثل القوم الذين كذبوا بآيات الله والله لا يهدي القوم الظالمين )
    وقال تعالى ( قل ياأهل الكتاب لستم على شيء حتى تقيموا التوراة والإنجيل وما أنزل إليكم من ربكم وليزيدن كثيرا منهم ما أنزل إليك من ربك طغيانا وكفرا فلا تأس على القوم الكافرين )
    وقال تعالى ( ذلك بان الله هو الحق وان ما يدعون من دونه هو الباطل وان الله هو العلي الكبير )
    وقال تعالى ( يَـأَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ قَدْ جَآءَكُمْ رَسُولُنَا يُبَيِّنُ لَكُمْ كَثِيراً مِّمَّا كُنتُمْ تُخْفُونَ مِنَ الْكِتَابِ وَيَعْفُواْ عَن كَثِيرٍ قَدْ جَآءَكُمْ مِّنَ اللَّهِ نُورٌ وَكِتَابٌ مُّبِينٌ يَهْدِي بِهِ اللَّهُ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ رِضْوَانَهُ سُبُلَ السَّلامِ وَيُخْرِجُهُمْ مِّنِ
    الظُّلُمَاتِ إِلَى النُّورِ بِإِذْنِهِ وَيَهْدِيهِمْ إِلَى صِراطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ )
    وهذا ما سيحدث لامريكا كثيرا وستدفع الثمن باهضا
    امريكا انتهت وكل شئ انتهى ولا يستطيعون فعل اي شئ الا الصراخ منادين يامغيثنا
    اللهم عليك بهم فانهم لا يعجزونك

    • @RUNNOFT71
      @RUNNOFT71 Рік тому

      Well....to quote the late great Colonel Sanders, who said "I'm too drunk to taste this chicken".

  • @jenniferpesuera4537
    @jenniferpesuera4537 11 років тому

    That's was scared.

  • @ILoveOldTWC
    @ILoveOldTWC 5 років тому

    Actually, it ended up being rated an EF3, not an EF4. Mike Morgan said, "I hope there are no cars..." Then STOP telling people to get in them and leave. This one PROVES tornadoes can change direction unpredictably! And it was moving fast!

    • @nolancain8792
      @nolancain8792 3 роки тому

      It practically broke every “rule” a tornado had.

    • @ILoveOldTWC
      @ILoveOldTWC 2 роки тому

      @@nolancain8792 It did! It rapidly intensified and picked up forward speed at the same time. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that what happened to the chasers was an inevitability. Sooner or later chasers would end up being casualties.

    • @nolancain8792
      @nolancain8792 2 роки тому

      @@ILoveOldTWC the Mayfield tornado, albeit smaller, had some of the same characteristics. It was going 55 most of the time but at times it hit 60 at peak strength. That’s probably one of the fastest violent tornadoes ever.

    • @michaellovely6601
      @michaellovely6601 2 роки тому

      @@nolancain8792 One particular story from the Quad State Tornado that just pisses me off is that the managers of the Mayfield Candle Factory in Mayfield, Kentucky ordered the workers at the factory to stay or be fired. Factories and industrial buildings are the worst type of building to take shelter from a tornado. It seems to me that the managers of the factory were more preoccupied with filling back orders to meet their Christmas quota instead of being concerned about the safety and lives of their employees. I just hope that the owners and managers of the factory are left bankrupt by the many lawsuits that will no doubt be filed against them by the families of the deceased as well as the survivors in order to cover their funeral expenses and medical bills, respectively.

  • @markmnorcal
    @markmnorcal 4 роки тому

    TIM

  • @MaddenDrums
    @MaddenDrums 7 років тому

    no there not called tornado in australia there called cyclones

    • @alemarion
      @alemarion 6 років тому +4

      Noogus Boogus: Isn't that another term for "hurricane"?

    • @BulletAgario
      @BulletAgario 5 років тому +2

      Noogus Boogus what? You are Stupid. First use proper grammar, second a cyclone is an ocean storm. Not a tornado.

    • @Michiganian8
      @Michiganian8 5 років тому +3

      And yet your watching videos on “UA-cam” American btw.

    • @shaytrueblueaussie
      @shaytrueblueaussie 2 роки тому +2

      Cyclones are completely different to tornadoes.

  • @2200Z
    @2200Z 11 років тому

    Yeah, well don't drive in front of tornadoes. I don't care if it gives you the best contrast for a photo op. Bettes is NOT an experienced storm chaser. See my avatar? That's a vidcap from my video of the Grand Island tornado of 17 June 2009. I FOLLOWED the tornado from about a half mile back. I FOLLOWED it down US34 and watched it hit the Iam's pet food plant. Was it the best contrast? Nope. But, I was able to watch it curve right and then left without danger. Stay home with your new wife, Mike.

    • @tayloryetto
      @tayloryetto 6 років тому +3

      2200Z it turned... no one expected it

    • @marshmellobunnies
      @marshmellobunnies 6 років тому +3

      It turned NE. Nobody could have predicted it.

    • @lgmmrm
      @lgmmrm 5 років тому +3

      It turned NE... As most strong storms do.

    • @2200Z
      @2200Z 3 роки тому

      @@tayloryetto That's why you follow them and don't drive in front of them like Bettes and Samaras did.

    • @2200Z
      @2200Z 3 роки тому

      @@Raya-ir4tm Funny thing about IQ: it changes very little - if at all - during the course of a human's lifetime. So, odds are, I'm smarter today than you'll be for the rest of your mundane lifetime.
      This tornado did not make a sudden turn. It traveled along a huge sweeping arc. There were multiple chasers to the east of the tornado. For no good reason. Bettes was east of the tornado and guided his crew to the south and directly into the path of an approaching tornado. His best escape route was to the north into the rain and hail core of the storm. They would have probably sustained broken windows, but, otherwise would have been relatively safe from the oncoming tornado.
      And, I said nothing disparaging about his wife. I told him to stay home with his wife.
      Reread my post. I've been chasing for 17 years. The best action during storm chasing is to FOLLOW a tornado; not drive in front of it and hope for the best.
      I find your lack of comprehension skills alarming.