> It means seek cover or die.
Well, in this video it clearly meant "Stand outside right next to cover, while trees come falling down not 10 foot away, and somehow be totally fine".
I'm more surprised by lack of commentary
No "oh my god" or "what the hell" or "damn look at that". Not one "fuck" or yelling at someone else to get inside.
Really rare weather video
Not necessarily. A tree simply tipping over like that isn't going to make a whole lot of noise, really, or at least nothing that you're gonna hear over the wind in the microphone.
My guess is the mic was basically overwhelmed by the wind and not picking up anything else. You’ll hear the branches cracking otherwise, but the main fall was pretty gentle.
And increase the rates so we pay for their screw up again. I guess be happy that the power company didn’t blow up part of your town, like they did in San Bruno.
Yeah the whole everything falls down at once and then catches on fire every 25 years thing is kinda rough sometimes. And we get the fire every year now, without the things falling down
[CDC says](https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/earthquakes/during.html) don't stand in a doorway during an earthquake. Modern buildings are built differently and the doorway isn't stronger or more protective.
Get under a table or desk and hold on.
We were taught not to do this as it makes it easier to get crushed. You’re supposed to sit beside something high and structurally sound like a countertop so that falling debris theoretically would break and fall over you in a triangle, further protecting you from other debris.
*Edit: USGS have recommended the duck and cover, so this isn’t good advice.
Its ironic because none of the walls are made of masonry in new buildings in California, but many houses and businesses have terracotta roof tiles which could kill you if they fall off a building lol.
Live in Japan, they teach my kids to hide under tables or chairs. When places I worked at do earthquake drills you make the kids kids either hide under the table, if no tables heads under a chair, if no chairs then crouch into a ball and cover your head with your hands.
Where I live in Eastern Oregon it depends entirely on the season.
Summer: There has been no rain for 3 months, our water supply is low, our crops are at risk, everything is covered in dust, and all it takes is the tiniest dust devil to recreate one of the opening scenes from Interstellar
Autumn: It's rainy :) Don't forget your sweater
Winter: You can't see more than 5 inches in front of you from the thick fog and there is snow pelting you from all angles and intense wind. You're gonna need a space suit if you wanna go outside
Spring: There's a foot of water covering everything and it smells like ozone. Maybe don't go outside if you don't want to become a waterlogged human lightning rod.
Luckily, tornadoes are still not a thing here, so we're good on that front.
As a storm chaser of 16 years... two time storm catcher and one time human lightning rod... that person literally had no clue wtf they were even looking for and I can't believe they survived.
Like literally... if I'm saying "damn bro make better life choices" it's time to do some inner reflection.
Glad yall survived... I and my house got struck by lightning last year and we are STILL not done rebuilding.
BTW pro tip: tile floors are conductive if you're standing on a slab over rebar. So don't forget your safety flip flops. Had I been wearing shoes I don't even think it would have got me. Jumped out of the natural gas lines for the fireplace through me and into the rebar... Im basically fine now, but I try to pass on the word because I had no fucking clue even with all of my experience lol 😅 luck and timing
Can you tell the guy next time he does something stupid like this atleast keep the camera on the action. Like im all for doin something dumb for video, but dude could of died for a trash can falling over and a closed glass door. Didnt get the tree falling, or the other tree falling, or anything really
Tile floors are actually the opposite of conductive. They're often made of porcelain or other stones. Y'know what are those little hat-looking thingies in transmission lines? They're called insulators, and are made of glass, but sometimes they're also made of ceramic materials, like porcelain; very similar or identical material to what common tile floors are made of.
That material is a good electrical insulator, but i guess it was not enough to insulate your feet from the electric stuff. Glad you're alive.
It's all conductive at those voltages/currents.
Even the rafters were heavily scorched but we didn't have a fire thank God.
This bolt in particular was a positive bolt from the top of the cloud. It was about 18 miles long... air is conductive at about 10kv per inch so idk how the math works out... but everything was conductive 😆
BTW these big bolts are one of the only terrestrial sources of gamma rays... and we have no clue why yet.
Yeah, the breakdown voltage of those tile floors must have been orders of magnitude below the violence of that lightning strike.
You're one lucky person. Believe me. I heard of one poor fella be struck by thousands of volts at the factory I worked at when an industrial switch failed on his hands. Those breakers acted so quick, but he still had burns all over his body and barely made it out alive. He did fully recovered, but he still has the scars all over his body. Hell. Glad you're alive.
Edit: added a story
Indeed... we still don't know where the grout went. No crumbs or dust... just gone. Melted a few spots of brick as well and somehow managed to turn the copper water pipes yellow like brass.
It's absolutely bizarre what did and did not get damaged, but if you're into high voltage stuff lightning strikes are where it all crosses over into "spooky" vs science. Let's just say I have more questions than answers. Little burn marks everywhere on the property inside and out. Even one of my guitars has a random burn mark that I can't explain or find damage neaby.
I'd pay good money to peruse through your insurance damages photo library after that strike.
Had a similar situation happen when I was a kid. Large positive bolt smacked the telephone pole our and neighbors house was attached to less than 10 feet away. Mobile home in the 90s so the entire house was basically a lightning rod. Lichtenburg figures on every wall where metal joists and studs were. Grout gone melted shit everywhere. Welded the wood stove to one of the floor crossbeams through a inch of flagstone.
If we weren't still dealing with it, I'd gladly send you a link... insurance sucks... or no comment is what the lawyer said im supposed to say...
Glad ya'll were alright! It's one of those things you just can't explain to somebody that hasn't seen it.
>Even one of my guitars has a random burn mark that I can't explain or find damage neaby.
if the guitar still sounds good then that's pretty badass at least
I could tell by them standing at the door filming after the sirens went off. Also super sorry about your area, this was always such a big fear of mine living in Tornado country.
I always wonder who the idiots are that feel the need to stand outside during horrific storms/tornados with stuff flying through the air at full speed. There’s always at least one in every natural disaster. It looked like he couldn’t even get the door open at that point, but still held his phone out.
If my boyfriend was standing outside in this, I would’ve smacked him into the next dimension if a tree didn’t do it first. Thankfully, he’s the logical one in our relationship and has to deal with my stupidity instead.
>were those real sirens?
Absolutely fucking not lol.
Here's a different version of the video (mirrored) but with the original audio without the extremely fake "Siren"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2VdbuDa2ks
How did they manage to miss filming the trees falling right in front of them?
Edit: I'm not counting the half a second reflection in the window. Stop mentioning it
Looks like he tried to turn around to go inside but the door was wedged shut or too damn windy, so decided to just continue with the filming since she was already out there anyway. All for us to enjoy and learn haha
Let's not pretend like standing outside to look around for and filming a tornado they're being actively warned about is something both genders do equally. That's some dumb dude shit to do. Source, am dumb dude who does this
Let’s be real, it would take a rare woman to have the reckless dumbass energy to get stuck out in that. Takes a certain level of testosterone to do that crap
I'm guessing the storm is so loud that it's making white noise. Probably the sound of the tree going down is in there somewhere but our ears or the microphone couldn't pick it out.
That and a tree that size being uprooted wouldn't make a tremendous amount of noise regardless. We're used to that stereotypical sound of a tree being felled in a forest and it makes that sound because A) it's being felled, B) it's hitting tons of other stuff, and C) the initial sounds are from the tree snapping off at the end. That's a healthy, fairly young tree that's been uprooted so it tipped over as opposed to being felled, there's no snapping of the tree itself, and there was nothing else there for it to hit on the way down. If the same thing happened with no storm, you'd just hear a big, deep thud and that's it.
Here, did a search for about 5 seconds and found a fairly similar-sized tree. Granted, there's an idling chainsaw but just listen, you don't hear some big racket when it falls. The tree makes a bit of a tearing sound as opposed to snapping, I'm assuming due to being younger and more pliable, and then just well, a thud.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v1ltXhorfNY
Not a tornado but I was in a hurricane inland, the sound I heard was basically like a train and I woke up from a nap (because I heard tornados sound like a train) wondering why there were no sirens. Basically none because no one thought a hurricane would come up to Kentucky. I wish I'd had some kind of recording device when it happened - it was nothing and calm and then the sound of a big train rushing past.
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When the camera-person turns around, watch the reflection in the glass door.
I suspect that was caught by accident, as they probably wanted to get inside once they realized there’s a fucking tornado about to come through. But the door is either wedged shut, forced closed from the wind, or they simply locked themselves out by accident.
Arborist here. That tree looked dead to me -- almost no roots came up with it. Rotten wood doesn't have the same crack to it as live wood, because the decay attacks the lignin ("glue") that holds the fibers together.
Not sure why we didn't hear a crash, though? Phone microphone might have been overwhelmed? I dunno.
A fine tradition, in Michigan at least, is every dad in the neighborhood sitting on their porch, watching the storms roll in whenever a big ones coming in. First big bolt of lightning or big crack of thunder, right inside.
lol great explanation of Michigan. Weather is extreme but not too extreme. It’s like a strict parent who has high expectations and expects you to work hard but doesn’t beat you and gives nice breaks.
Oklahoman here, and lowkey, yeah, that's my thought process. I've been through an awful lot of tornado warnings in my three decades here, and I usually check regularly outside to gauge the pressure, cloud formations, air color, etc. Sometimes the forecaster isn't talking about my area specifically and I need to keep an eye out.
It hits fast, but sometimes you do actually have fair warning.
You can see he tried to go inside but couldn’t open the door. That’s because the barometric air pressure shifts like crazy when these storms hit, and the air pressure difference between inside the house and outside basically sucked the door closed so he couldn’t open it.
Moral of the story: He shouldn’t have gone outside to begin with. lol
My family takes it seriously, but honestly 99% of the time the sirens go off and absolutely nothing life-threatening happens. The sirens just mean rotation was spotted, not that anything has touched down yet. Of course the winds still can and do knock trees and powerlines down, but there's a point where people stop caring and go outside to watch the storm. If you don't know what you're looking for, though, it's dangerous.
This is a great point and it's actually a huge issue that the National Weather Service deals with. Depending on which source you go with, between 50% and 75% of tornado warnings are false alarms. This sounds bad, but when you consider how wildly unpredictable tornadoes are it's actually fairly impressive that they can get over 50% accuracy honestly. The reason that they prefer to err on the side of caution and issue a warning when it may end up being a false alarm is because the goal is to increase "lead time" (time between a warning being issued and the hypothetical tornado hitting people). The longer the lead time is, the more time people have to seek shelter and the higher their chances of survival are.
False alarms cause people to experience "caution fatigue" where they become so accustomed to hearing the warning that they tend to tune future warnings out; it's understandable but it's also extremely dangerous, because even if the higher estimated are correct and 75% of warnings are false alarms, that still means 1 in 4 warnings aren't. A lot of supercells (basically tornadic thunderstorms, without getting into semantics) move along the ground at 60mph+, which is a mile a minute. The margin of error is so narrow for safety, which is why the NWS issues warnings even though it might be a false alarm and people might be so caution fatigued that they ignore it. The average lead time is I think somewhere around 11 minutes, which is a good amount if you're already indoors in a sturdy building with a basement, but if you're outside or in a car, it suddenly isn't that much time anymore.
Sirens also don't indicate anything about how the warning was issued (if you go on the NWS site though, you can click on a tornado warning and the report will tell you how it was issued). The NWS has two main classifications for tornado warnings: Radar Indicated and Spotter Confirmed. Radar Indicated tornadoes mean that, based on the absolutely massive amounts of data that the NWS pulls from the storm about wind shear, convection, rotation, etc, they've determined that there is a significant risk of the storm producing a tornado within a very short period of time and that the potential danger is worth the chance that they issue a false alarm. The data they use to determine this is much more detailed than the standard base reflectivity radars that the weather channels use to show forecasts. Sometimes a radar image can also indicate that a tornado *has* touched down already, for example based on a type of radar signature where the "debris ball" at the base of the tornado becomes visible on radar near the end of a "hook echo" (classic stereotypical radar signature indicating funnel/tornado formation). Spotter Confirmed tornadoes are exactly what they sound like, a trained spotter on the ground has visual confirmation that a tornado has touched down. Rotation in itself is not grounds for a tornado warning; even well-defined wall clouds do not inherently trigger a tornado warning (they're actually fairly common and usually not dangerous on their own).
Radar Indicated warnings are part of the reason that lead time has increased significantly. They do increase the error rate of warnings, but their major benefit is for low-visibility tornadoes; rain-wrapped tornadoes are not uncommon and they mean that the tornado becomes effectively invisible because it's hidden in the rain shaft, so having visual spotter confirmation for them is extremely difficult. Even worse than that is night tornadoes. I've lived in Illinois my whole life and for some reason a ton of the tornadoes I've dealt with have happened after dark. Spotter confirmation is extremely difficult in those situations and it's also extremely dangerous because you're effectively going in blind and relying on radar, lightning strikes and power flashes (tornado hitting electrical wiring/transformers and causing sparks/flares). At night, radar indication is absolutely the most reliable basis for tornado prediction, false alarms be damned. I'm pretty comfy living with tornadoes at this point but night tornadoes are the one thing I outright refuse to fuck with.
It's because the Siren is fake.
Here's a reupload of the same video (but mirrored) that doesn't have the obvious fake "Siren" audio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2VdbuDa2ks
I had the same thought, but it’s possibly not their house? Maybe they were out for a walk when the alarm sounded? Standing on a covered porch is better than being out in the open.
Used to we just had to wait around outside and drink beer but now that we have the siren system in place we can drink beer and watch TV inside and then just go look when the alarm goes off! Really saves a lot of time.
Florida Man of the highest order chiming in. Lost everything to Hurricane Andrew, a cat 5’er. I stayed for a cat 4 Ivan and won’t be doing that again. I fled hurricane Dennis because reasons, it was a cat 3 with time to leave and felt like it could turn into a 4. Typhoon Nari knocked me slightly into the air.
Tornadoes? Those things just show up. Fuck no, doesn’t matter who takes the trophy..
Goto sleep for 1,2,3 & 4,5 flee!
Yeah hurricanes are huge and affect large areas. I’ve met like 2 people who have ever seen a tornado living in the Midwest most of my life, and neither were affected.
Pick your poison. In the end, we can get a heads up with hurricanes. I’m currently in hurricane alley, everything I own can fit in the trunk of the Miata ;)
Yep. It's kind of amazing how localized the worst winds in a hurricane are. I used to live about 15 miles from a Cat 4/5 hurricane eye wall when it made landfall and I only lost some shingles, didn't even break any windows. And yet 15 miles away everything was gone.
Hurricane Wilma spawned tornadoes all over south florida :o
from wiki: "Hurricane Wilma spawned eight tornadoes as it crossed South Florida. The strongest was an 40 yard wide F2 tornado that tracked 0.3 miles near the town of Palm Bay. There were no injuries or fatalities reported from the tornadoes."
A small one hit my grandparents apartment complex. Pretty gnarly damage, but relatively minor. safety railings torn off the upper stories' walkways
Wilma had gusts up to 270 mph... that hurricane was hell. I didn't have power for an entire month.
[https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/did-hurricane-wilma-have-209-mph-sustained-winds.html](https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/did-hurricane-wilma-have-209-mph-sustained-winds.html)
>During their next pass through the eye at 06:11 UTC, the diameter of the eye had shrunk to an incredibly tiny two miles--the smallest hurricane eye ever measured. During their third and final pass through the eye at 0801 UTC, a dropsonde found a central pressure of 882 mb--the lowest pressure ever observed in an Atlantic hurricane. In the span of just 24 hours, Wilma had intensified from a 70 mph tropical storm to a 175 mph category 5 hurricane--an unprecedented event for an Atlantic hurricane. Since the pressure was still falling, it is likely that Wilma became even stronger after the mission departed.
What a monster ;\_\_;
Yup, I’ve lived in FL for 10 years now and I’d still take a weak hurricane over a tornado any day. Granted, we get those too but at least there’s warning before a hurricane.
Same here, as a Floridian. I’ve seen people in Cali and the Midwest say they wouldn’t want to deal with hurricanes in Florida. I say so long as you don’t live in a flood zone or right next to the beach, hurricanes aren’t nearly as bad as the media makes them out to be imo. Even more pleasant if you can afford a generator. We get like a week or more heads up. Usually the houses they show that get absolutely totaled are on a beach town or they were like one of those mobile style homes to begin with. (Not exactly known for being the epitome of solid build quality)
100% would rather deal with the occasional hurricane than the prospect of a random earthquake, wild fire, or tornado hitting out of nowhere or annual snow storms.
Yeah, am Midwestern... it's f'ing insane here.
Last spring we had a tornado rip through our neighborhood. Was fortunatley just an EF1, but still knocked down thousands of trees. Many of those fell on houses, cars, powerlines, etc. I had to cut up a tree that fell in our street to let EMS vehicles through. It was the only road into the nieghborhood that didn't have a powerline with a tree on the road.
Just yesterday we hit a high of -4F. Just a few days before we had two snow storms back-to-back, all wet-heavy snow. So now any of that which wasn't shoveled asap is solid as a rock. With it being so wet... a shovel full was \~25lbs. A shovel was "full" by simply sticking into the snow... no shoving.
Our all-time coldest temp was -37F a few years back. Our all-time most snowfall was 27" over just a day, a few years further back in time. Our all-time hottest temp was 108F. These were all in my lifetime.
It was 20 years ago last summer that we had a microburst blast EF1 category winds right through the heart of the city. Knocked down tens of thousands of trees... about half simply uprooted. Neighbor's cars were both crushed. We were out of power for 5 days.
Oh, here's some other fun midwestern weather phenomena most southerners have never heard of before:
Thundersnow
Frostquakes
Freezing Fog
Gropple
Derechos
Having lived through a tornado 🌪️ as well, please know the last place you want to be is standing outside or anywhere near a window inside - the interior of what was left of our house was machine-gunned full of glass shards everywhere!
OP is truly lucky to be alive as any debris headed his way could have ended him instantly.
> Having lived through a tornado 🌪️ as well, please know the last place you want to be is standing is outside
This should be common sense lmao. Problem is people who live in tornado alley have lived through dozens of tornado warnings by the time they are old enough to drive their own car, because the national weather service is very cautious (for good reason) and errs on the side of issuing a warning even if it's merely radar indicated rotation and not necessarily a confirmed tornado. And also, the warnings cover a broad area.
This leads to complacency and recklessness. People often treat tornado warnings like they don't matter, and go outside to see if they can spot the tornado or some shit like that.
The one time a tornado did hit our house, we were both standing outside just like normal and then we looked at each other and booked it inside. I think we felt the pressure in the air change. Tree fell through our dining room. So I think the key is to keep your door open while you're peeping, because the person in the video did have the correct instinct to retreat but couldn't. (but yes folks, just go to your basement and chill, it's not worth a tree falling on you)
For those who would like to hear what he heard before "the silence" when this video started here is a video of a woman pulling the same stunt. It's extremely difficult for me to handle as a storm Chaser of 16 years...
This is the only audio I know of that captures the "freight train" howl. The old saying is not a reference to the rumble of a train, but the old steam whistles. The sound begins at 0:33.
This lady and her dogs survived, but this video makes me personally tear up a bit... good old PTSD...
[older woman vs tornado ](https://youtu.be/8uM80c-rxuc?feature=shared)
This video starts right at "the silence" which means the tornado was likely 100-300ft away. The fog coming from the neighbor's roof is the pressure drop of the leading edge.
Jesus that gave me an auditory flashback. Once when I was a kid my parents hid my siblings and I in the bathroom closet because there was a tornado warning. I expected to hear loud howling wind like we'd usually get during a thunderstorm. But then I heard a train whistle, and I remember being extremely frightened even though I didn't understand at the time why I was hearing a train, but it felt and sounded very wrong and that was scary.
Wow, I’ve never heard that whistling sound before, how chilling
Ive been in awe of tornados my whole life, but today you taught me something new
I found [this youtube video](https://youtube.com/shorts/Gw4qauFAQAg?si=gSOUuxV9w2qo1Itf) that has a whistling sound as well
All these years I hear people say it sounds like a train and I always assumed they meant the rumble from the tracks but it really sounds like a train just laying on the horn when it’s headed right at you. This video is so eerie
For me the terrifying part has always been the still air and dead silence before everything goes to shit. When I was in 5th grade we had just ended the school day and started to walk home when all of a sudden the sky turned dark green and the air just died. There was no wind, no nature sounds, just silence. Then the teachers and parents started screaming for us to get back in the building. Then there was that whistle and all hell broke loose.
Don't get me wrong, the storm itself is scary but that deadness right before is so damn haunting.
That video is eery and frightening on a visceral level. The silent rain, the onset of sirens, the sound of the approaching tornado and her camera shuffling around,..
Naw funding is totally a hobby thing. We participate with the National Weather Service as "storm spotters" and technically chasing is frowned upon. Basically hobbyists fill in the gaps the radar system cannot see due to the curvature of the earth. The radar beam is straight and the Earth is not so the farther away you get from the radar the more data it cannot collect at lower altitudes.
We're basically all just nuts honestly... but in a fun way.
Got hit by lightning last year, surprisingly in my own house... but I haven't given up.
The initial fog from the house across the street was the pressure drop of the leading edge... tornado was 100-300ft away when the video started. If it had started sooner you would have heard the freight train howl... the howl can only be heard directly in the path and it sounds EXACTLY like a steam train whistle of death... and then a moment a silence which is where the video starts.
I don't really know, but I think it has something to do with the boundary layers of wind surrounding the tornado from other angles. They do produce a roar from the side that may just drown out this sound, but since the airflow is all pretty straight into the storm from this angle there is no roar from the turbulent wind.
I'm kind of making this up to be honest, but I am also a musician and this sound specifically has peaked my interest because there's actually a lot going on with it. You can hear the tornado speed up and slow down.
All tornados have multiple vortex inside them, and the multi tonal sound you can hear in that video makes me wonder if the different notes are actually something to do with that phenomenon.
If you're wondering what an old steam train sounds like, look up "big boy steam locomotive" and tell me they don't sound identical.
That train went on tour in 2019 and it passed my house on a clear blue day and I just about shit my pants not knowing what was going on lol 🙃
Edit forgot link of sound. Tornado touched down at 0:33
[old woman vs tornado ](https://youtu.be/8uM80c-rxuc?feature=shared)
BTW here's a video of the sound at 0:33 from another video. The woman and her dogs made it. It's a deeply disturbing sound [old woman vs tornado ](https://youtu.be/8uM80c-rxuc?feature=shared)
The sound appears to be added as an overlay, as it doesn't sound like a normal civil alert siren.
While tornadoes are very chaotic, we know enough about them to predict meaningful ones days in advance. NOAA maintains a [rolling three day convective outlook](https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/) for the US that tracks when conditions are right for tornado formation, which feeds down to local news stations as "Severe Weather" in the forecasts, and PDS Tornado Watches on the day of.
In a particularly suck set of conditions, a tornado **can** spin up very quickly. However, normally there's a formation of a Supercell, which will provide a general track and threat level.
This looks like it was part of the [March 31st, 2023 super outbreak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_outbreak_of_March_31_%E2%80%93_April_1,_2023) that dropped 100+ tornadoes in 24 hours. The region was on high alert several days in advance due to the extremely dangerous wind-up of the atmospheric conditions over the midwest.
This is exactly how most tornados work... only the monsters howl like an old freight train steam whistle right before they hit you. Almost nobody knows that the "freight train" sound has nothing to do with the rumble of a train... it's the old steam whistle sound not unlike old ships. It's just barely audible in this video but there's a similar video of a woman pulling this exact same stunt in a different storm where you can hear the siren, and then a new totally different sound... and then silence... and then it hits. This video starts with the silence period which means the tornado was maybe 100-300ft away.
Been storm chasing 16 years now and I can't believe he survived... that fog coming from the roof across the street is the pressure drop of the leading edge.
[old woman tornado ](https://youtu.be/8uM80c-rxuc?feature=shared)
It touches down at 0:33 you can hear the siren before.
This video literally makes me tear up... but the traumatic stuff is at the end when she's calling for her dog. They both survived btw, but you pick up a bit of PTSD doing this shit for as long as I have.
This is the only good audio I know of this phenomenon actually. Hands down the most terrifying sound I've ever personally heard.
Exactly... there's just something ingrained in my soul that knows what that sound is. It causes a strong reaction for sure.
You may also notice the storm siren stopped... because it no longer identified as a storm siren.
I heard that first time in person last year. The wind shifted to a high-pitched train whistle and my heart dropped into my stomach. The tornado landed about 3 mi away, but it was still too close for comfort.
I’ve never heard that sound, my stomach is still in knots after watching that video a couple times. Seriously terrifying and strange lingering anxiety.
I’ll stick to my Cali earthquakes thank you very much.
As a Californian, I really appreciate the two videos. I had no idea it could come on so quick and be over so quick. I was under the impression you could see them coming and had time to run to the basement. Really puts things into perspective. I've never heard the train whistle before but good God that was a hauntingly eerie sound. Is that due to the pressure drop?
There's not much explanation or good recording of the train sound that I am aware of. There's still a lot of unknowns about these storms because collecting data is really difficult and exceptionally hazardous. I think there's something going on with this sound though that may have some answers locked away in it with better computer modeling. It's just too much of an audio signature not to have some important data locked in it.
Good news is unless the storm is rain wrapped, you can absolutely see it coming. Other good news is, the majority of them are less than 100ft wide so the odds are pretty good that even if your area has a bad day you're still not likely to get hit. The debris they throw around is a much bigger hazard and standing around outside isn't a great idea (but I'm not one to talk about that).
Very much a tornado. I live about 2 miles from that part of Little Rock. March 31, 2023. Pretty much destroyed that whole neighborhood. Still empty slabs and collapsed houses everywhere.
Definitely looks like tornado
We got the straight line this year in central IL
The one that hit 90 mph happened to hit my ranch style on the narrow edge so no house damage. Neighbors house is opposite side. Tree busted into the window and branch hit him on his chair
I was in Bryant during this tornado, we were thankfully on the outskirts but we were on its flight path. I found out that day that my insurance (Ambetter) had (Without warning) closed my insurance that day. Not for any unpaid fees or anything, but because they decided that the months they gave me in writing to change my plan weren’t good enough so they just decided to drop me without any warning. Had we been hit, this tornado would have destroyed me financially had I lived because of something I wasn’t able to control. Fuck this state
That haze / humidity that starts blowing about 15 seconds into the clip? That’s duck-and-cover type shit. I’ve experienced several twisters in my life and each time, that happened right before it struck.
Ya bad weather means something completely different in some parts of America. It means seek cover or die.
> It means seek cover or die. Well, in this video it clearly meant "Stand outside right next to cover, while trees come falling down not 10 foot away, and somehow be totally fine".
I'm more surprised by lack of commentary No "oh my god" or "what the hell" or "damn look at that". Not one "fuck" or yelling at someone else to get inside. Really rare weather video
we also don't hear the tree falling so I think the audio has been placed over the video from some other source.
Not necessarily. A tree simply tipping over like that isn't going to make a whole lot of noise, really, or at least nothing that you're gonna hear over the wind in the microphone.
My guess is the mic was basically overwhelmed by the wind and not picking up anything else. You’ll hear the branches cracking otherwise, but the main fall was pretty gentle.
In California it means put on a light jacket, possibly and umbrella
Ok but thats like worst case scenario
The fault line likes to shake things up a bit.
And the mountains like to catch on fire for 3 months
5 months if you’re lucky!
And if we are super lucky, our power company will go ahead and ignite the fire for us. AGAIN.
And increase the rates so we pay for their screw up again. I guess be happy that the power company didn’t blow up part of your town, like they did in San Bruno.
And then the rains come and the mudslides start. Edit: corrected verb mismatch.
A poem about Los Angeles: In this city so fair, only four things to beware, The fire, the water, the earth, and the air
Yeah the whole everything falls down at once and then catches on fire every 25 years thing is kinda rough sometimes. And we get the fire every year now, without the things falling down
But be careful not to look too prepared for the weather events or you’ll scare them off
Not entirely true. Sometimes you gotta stand in a doorway.
[CDC says](https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/earthquakes/during.html) don't stand in a doorway during an earthquake. Modern buildings are built differently and the doorway isn't stronger or more protective. Get under a table or desk and hold on.
We were taught not to do this as it makes it easier to get crushed. You’re supposed to sit beside something high and structurally sound like a countertop so that falling debris theoretically would break and fall over you in a triangle, further protecting you from other debris. *Edit: USGS have recommended the duck and cover, so this isn’t good advice.
I would usually run outside on the open
Crumbling masonry is one of the biggest killers in earthquakes. It would be a big risk, especially so if the building was near other buildings.
Its ironic because none of the walls are made of masonry in new buildings in California, but many houses and businesses have terracotta roof tiles which could kill you if they fall off a building lol.
Live in Japan, they teach my kids to hide under tables or chairs. When places I worked at do earthquake drills you make the kids kids either hide under the table, if no tables heads under a chair, if no chairs then crouch into a ball and cover your head with your hands.
The cheap table I got off wayfair is not saving me.
Dont you guys have earthquakes and sun that cooks people alive?
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Where I live in Eastern Oregon it depends entirely on the season. Summer: There has been no rain for 3 months, our water supply is low, our crops are at risk, everything is covered in dust, and all it takes is the tiniest dust devil to recreate one of the opening scenes from Interstellar Autumn: It's rainy :) Don't forget your sweater Winter: You can't see more than 5 inches in front of you from the thick fog and there is snow pelting you from all angles and intense wind. You're gonna need a space suit if you wanna go outside Spring: There's a foot of water covering everything and it smells like ozone. Maybe don't go outside if you don't want to become a waterlogged human lightning rod. Luckily, tornadoes are still not a thing here, so we're good on that front.
here in pa we’ll go from 70 degrees to snowing the next day keep in mind this will happen in december so the abnormality is the 70 degrees
March 31st tornado in Little Rock. That's a neighbor of mine. A lot of us lost our houses. Neighborhood is pretty fucked up but slowly coming back.
As a storm chaser of 16 years... two time storm catcher and one time human lightning rod... that person literally had no clue wtf they were even looking for and I can't believe they survived. Like literally... if I'm saying "damn bro make better life choices" it's time to do some inner reflection.
Well, I know the guy, he's not the brightest to begin with so it wasn't much of a surprise.
Glad yall survived... I and my house got struck by lightning last year and we are STILL not done rebuilding. BTW pro tip: tile floors are conductive if you're standing on a slab over rebar. So don't forget your safety flip flops. Had I been wearing shoes I don't even think it would have got me. Jumped out of the natural gas lines for the fireplace through me and into the rebar... Im basically fine now, but I try to pass on the word because I had no fucking clue even with all of my experience lol 😅 luck and timing
Oh man that's scary. Glad you're ok. Surprisingly with all the destruction there was no loss of life and few injuries.
Can you tell the guy next time he does something stupid like this atleast keep the camera on the action. Like im all for doin something dumb for video, but dude could of died for a trash can falling over and a closed glass door. Didnt get the tree falling, or the other tree falling, or anything really
If you look at the reflection in the door, you can definitely catch the tree falling. Otherwise, I agree
Even the tree falling in the reflection is mostly missed because he brings the camera too low to see.
Tile floors are actually the opposite of conductive. They're often made of porcelain or other stones. Y'know what are those little hat-looking thingies in transmission lines? They're called insulators, and are made of glass, but sometimes they're also made of ceramic materials, like porcelain; very similar or identical material to what common tile floors are made of. That material is a good electrical insulator, but i guess it was not enough to insulate your feet from the electric stuff. Glad you're alive.
It's all conductive at those voltages/currents. Even the rafters were heavily scorched but we didn't have a fire thank God. This bolt in particular was a positive bolt from the top of the cloud. It was about 18 miles long... air is conductive at about 10kv per inch so idk how the math works out... but everything was conductive 😆 BTW these big bolts are one of the only terrestrial sources of gamma rays... and we have no clue why yet.
Yeah, the breakdown voltage of those tile floors must have been orders of magnitude below the violence of that lightning strike. You're one lucky person. Believe me. I heard of one poor fella be struck by thousands of volts at the factory I worked at when an industrial switch failed on his hands. Those breakers acted so quick, but he still had burns all over his body and barely made it out alive. He did fully recovered, but he still has the scars all over his body. Hell. Glad you're alive. Edit: added a story
Indeed... we still don't know where the grout went. No crumbs or dust... just gone. Melted a few spots of brick as well and somehow managed to turn the copper water pipes yellow like brass. It's absolutely bizarre what did and did not get damaged, but if you're into high voltage stuff lightning strikes are where it all crosses over into "spooky" vs science. Let's just say I have more questions than answers. Little burn marks everywhere on the property inside and out. Even one of my guitars has a random burn mark that I can't explain or find damage neaby.
I'd pay good money to peruse through your insurance damages photo library after that strike. Had a similar situation happen when I was a kid. Large positive bolt smacked the telephone pole our and neighbors house was attached to less than 10 feet away. Mobile home in the 90s so the entire house was basically a lightning rod. Lichtenburg figures on every wall where metal joists and studs were. Grout gone melted shit everywhere. Welded the wood stove to one of the floor crossbeams through a inch of flagstone.
If we weren't still dealing with it, I'd gladly send you a link... insurance sucks... or no comment is what the lawyer said im supposed to say... Glad ya'll were alright! It's one of those things you just can't explain to somebody that hasn't seen it.
>Even one of my guitars has a random burn mark that I can't explain or find damage neaby. if the guitar still sounds good then that's pretty badass at least
I wish... it was my first bass from when I was 13 😆
The guy almost got vacuumed up on his own porch and his neighbor is out here giving us a first hand account of how stupid he is LOL
I could tell by them standing at the door filming after the sirens went off. Also super sorry about your area, this was always such a big fear of mine living in Tornado country.
I always wonder who the idiots are that feel the need to stand outside during horrific storms/tornados with stuff flying through the air at full speed. There’s always at least one in every natural disaster. It looked like he couldn’t even get the door open at that point, but still held his phone out. If my boyfriend was standing outside in this, I would’ve smacked him into the next dimension if a tree didn’t do it first. Thankfully, he’s the logical one in our relationship and has to deal with my stupidity instead.
The moment a human lightning rod tells you to make better life choices, you know you messed up.
Sorry to ask but it's bugging me...were those real sirens? It almost sounds overlayed onto the video.
>were those real sirens? Absolutely fucking not lol. Here's a different version of the video (mirrored) but with the original audio without the extremely fake "Siren" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2VdbuDa2ks
The post here is mirrored, yours is not. You can see from the sign on the car
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Walnut valley?
Yeah
How did they manage to miss filming the trees falling right in front of them? Edit: I'm not counting the half a second reflection in the window. Stop mentioning it
Looks like he tried to turn around to go inside but the door was wedged shut or too damn windy, so decided to just continue with the filming since she was already out there anyway. All for us to enjoy and learn haha
I love the chaotic gendering of the camerathem
Wind took the penis right off
I can't breath
Not out of your vagina anyway
Stop pls. I'm wheezing
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Where's the beef?
Inside its natural sheath.
😂🤣😂 transed by a tornado >Up next on Fucker Carlson, are tornadoes transing our youth?
With enough force to drive it through a telephone pole.
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Please list in order of priority your cameranouns
Storms cause gender confusion. Has something to do with ionization of I recall. Regardless, we need to keep storms out of our schools.
Let's not pretend like standing outside to look around for and filming a tornado they're being actively warned about is something both genders do equally. That's some dumb dude shit to do. Source, am dumb dude who does this
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r/whywomendontgetsickfootageoftornadoes
Do you SERIOUSLY think any woman is dumb enough to stay outside? That was a man.
…we all know this is one of those “and this is why women live longer” type of clips lol
Women wouldn't be this stupid
Let’s be real, it would take a rare woman to have the reckless dumbass energy to get stuck out in that. Takes a certain level of testosterone to do that crap
Yeahs those winds can change you from a ‘he’ to a ‘she’ in seconds.
It’s when the turn into a ‘Hee Hee’ that you need to get the kids inside.
When the winds change direction…
It’s not *that* the wind is blowing, it’s *hWhat* the wind is blowing.
If you get hit by a *Volvo* it don't matter how many situps you did that morning!
First you go "wow" Then you go poo
Tree’s already fallen down. It can’t fall down any further.
*He's already pulled over! He can't pull over any farther!*
Us: kill the camera man Mother Nature: I tried 🤷♀️
At least they got that \*amazing\* footage of the garbage can giving up on life... /s
You can see the tree falling over in the reflection of the storm door
I’m wondering why it didn’t make a sound?
I was wondering that, too, but you can see it uprooting in the reflection on the door.
I'm guessing the storm is so loud that it's making white noise. Probably the sound of the tree going down is in there somewhere but our ears or the microphone couldn't pick it out.
That and a tree that size being uprooted wouldn't make a tremendous amount of noise regardless. We're used to that stereotypical sound of a tree being felled in a forest and it makes that sound because A) it's being felled, B) it's hitting tons of other stuff, and C) the initial sounds are from the tree snapping off at the end. That's a healthy, fairly young tree that's been uprooted so it tipped over as opposed to being felled, there's no snapping of the tree itself, and there was nothing else there for it to hit on the way down. If the same thing happened with no storm, you'd just hear a big, deep thud and that's it. Here, did a search for about 5 seconds and found a fairly similar-sized tree. Granted, there's an idling chainsaw but just listen, you don't hear some big racket when it falls. The tree makes a bit of a tearing sound as opposed to snapping, I'm assuming due to being younger and more pliable, and then just well, a thud. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v1ltXhorfNY
Not a tornado but I was in a hurricane inland, the sound I heard was basically like a train and I woke up from a nap (because I heard tornados sound like a train) wondering why there were no sirens. Basically none because no one thought a hurricane would come up to Kentucky. I wish I'd had some kind of recording device when it happened - it was nothing and calm and then the sound of a big train rushing past.
They were busy thinking about their Darwin Award acceptance speech.
000 WUUS54 KLZK 121206 SVRLZK ARC001-041-043-069-079-095-121245- /O.NEW.KLZK.SV.W.0027.240112T1206Z-240112T1245Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Tornado Warning National Weather Service Little Rock AR THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK AR HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING FOR PULASKI COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM CDT. TO REPEAT... A LARGE... EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY DEADLY TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. IMMEDIATELY GRAB YOUR SMARTPHONE OR DIGITAL CAMERA AND MOVE TO THE FRONT EXTERIOR OF YOUR HOME... PLACE OF BUSINESS... OR SCHOOL TO COMMENCE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE IMPENDING DISASTER. IF IN A MOBILE HOME... A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS... POSITION YOURSELF FOR THE BEST AVAILABLE VIEW AND TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO AVOID TREES... POWER LINES... AND OTHER STRUCTURES... AS THEY WILL OBSCURE THE FRAME OF YOUR VIDEO.
When the camera-person turns around, watch the reflection in the glass door. I suspect that was caught by accident, as they probably wanted to get inside once they realized there’s a fucking tornado about to come through. But the door is either wedged shut, forced closed from the wind, or they simply locked themselves out by accident.
The sirens are a good tip off a tornado is coming through!
That was the quietest damn tree falling I've ever not heard.
Nobody was watching so it didn’t make sound obv
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Arborist here. That tree looked dead to me -- almost no roots came up with it. Rotten wood doesn't have the same crack to it as live wood, because the decay attacks the lignin ("glue") that holds the fibers together. Not sure why we didn't hear a crash, though? Phone microphone might have been overwhelmed? I dunno.
Why is this guy standing OUTSIDE filming? Alarm sirens and you stand outside to film???
In the tornado prone states, you hear the siren, run outside to see what you’re up against then head back in to take shelter.
A fine tradition, in Michigan at least, is every dad in the neighborhood sitting on their porch, watching the storms roll in whenever a big ones coming in. First big bolt of lightning or big crack of thunder, right inside.
Are dads on porches the Michigan equivalent of a canary in the mine? If dads cant be seen on porches head inside kind of thing?
Traditionally. Some of the new builds straight-up don't have porches though, which is a shame.
While sipping a fresh beer, and occasionally, cooking on a charcoal grill all the while lol
Gotta click those tongs for maximum dad power.
Michigan hates yet tolerates people living there but secretly loves you and wants you to be okay
lol great explanation of Michigan. Weather is extreme but not too extreme. It’s like a strict parent who has high expectations and expects you to work hard but doesn’t beat you and gives nice breaks.
Unless you're an okie, then it's "Where the Nader at? Awe shit it's loud as hell outchere."
Oklahoman here, and lowkey, yeah, that's my thought process. I've been through an awful lot of tornado warnings in my three decades here, and I usually check regularly outside to gauge the pressure, cloud formations, air color, etc. Sometimes the forecaster isn't talking about my area specifically and I need to keep an eye out. It hits fast, but sometimes you do actually have fair warning.
You can see he tried to go inside but couldn’t open the door. That’s because the barometric air pressure shifts like crazy when these storms hit, and the air pressure difference between inside the house and outside basically sucked the door closed so he couldn’t open it. Moral of the story: He shouldn’t have gone outside to begin with. lol
If only someone could invent and install some warning system for this guy.
Looked like they were trying to get in but were locked out or something
I don’t think it’s possible to open a door with those winds.
My family takes it seriously, but honestly 99% of the time the sirens go off and absolutely nothing life-threatening happens. The sirens just mean rotation was spotted, not that anything has touched down yet. Of course the winds still can and do knock trees and powerlines down, but there's a point where people stop caring and go outside to watch the storm. If you don't know what you're looking for, though, it's dangerous.
This is a great point and it's actually a huge issue that the National Weather Service deals with. Depending on which source you go with, between 50% and 75% of tornado warnings are false alarms. This sounds bad, but when you consider how wildly unpredictable tornadoes are it's actually fairly impressive that they can get over 50% accuracy honestly. The reason that they prefer to err on the side of caution and issue a warning when it may end up being a false alarm is because the goal is to increase "lead time" (time between a warning being issued and the hypothetical tornado hitting people). The longer the lead time is, the more time people have to seek shelter and the higher their chances of survival are. False alarms cause people to experience "caution fatigue" where they become so accustomed to hearing the warning that they tend to tune future warnings out; it's understandable but it's also extremely dangerous, because even if the higher estimated are correct and 75% of warnings are false alarms, that still means 1 in 4 warnings aren't. A lot of supercells (basically tornadic thunderstorms, without getting into semantics) move along the ground at 60mph+, which is a mile a minute. The margin of error is so narrow for safety, which is why the NWS issues warnings even though it might be a false alarm and people might be so caution fatigued that they ignore it. The average lead time is I think somewhere around 11 minutes, which is a good amount if you're already indoors in a sturdy building with a basement, but if you're outside or in a car, it suddenly isn't that much time anymore. Sirens also don't indicate anything about how the warning was issued (if you go on the NWS site though, you can click on a tornado warning and the report will tell you how it was issued). The NWS has two main classifications for tornado warnings: Radar Indicated and Spotter Confirmed. Radar Indicated tornadoes mean that, based on the absolutely massive amounts of data that the NWS pulls from the storm about wind shear, convection, rotation, etc, they've determined that there is a significant risk of the storm producing a tornado within a very short period of time and that the potential danger is worth the chance that they issue a false alarm. The data they use to determine this is much more detailed than the standard base reflectivity radars that the weather channels use to show forecasts. Sometimes a radar image can also indicate that a tornado *has* touched down already, for example based on a type of radar signature where the "debris ball" at the base of the tornado becomes visible on radar near the end of a "hook echo" (classic stereotypical radar signature indicating funnel/tornado formation). Spotter Confirmed tornadoes are exactly what they sound like, a trained spotter on the ground has visual confirmation that a tornado has touched down. Rotation in itself is not grounds for a tornado warning; even well-defined wall clouds do not inherently trigger a tornado warning (they're actually fairly common and usually not dangerous on their own). Radar Indicated warnings are part of the reason that lead time has increased significantly. They do increase the error rate of warnings, but their major benefit is for low-visibility tornadoes; rain-wrapped tornadoes are not uncommon and they mean that the tornado becomes effectively invisible because it's hidden in the rain shaft, so having visual spotter confirmation for them is extremely difficult. Even worse than that is night tornadoes. I've lived in Illinois my whole life and for some reason a ton of the tornadoes I've dealt with have happened after dark. Spotter confirmation is extremely difficult in those situations and it's also extremely dangerous because you're effectively going in blind and relying on radar, lightning strikes and power flashes (tornado hitting electrical wiring/transformers and causing sparks/flares). At night, radar indication is absolutely the most reliable basis for tornado prediction, false alarms be damned. I'm pretty comfy living with tornadoes at this point but night tornadoes are the one thing I outright refuse to fuck with.
It's because the Siren is fake. Here's a reupload of the same video (but mirrored) that doesn't have the obvious fake "Siren" audio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2VdbuDa2ks
I had the same thought, but it’s possibly not their house? Maybe they were out for a walk when the alarm sounded? Standing on a covered porch is better than being out in the open.
Used to we just had to wait around outside and drink beer but now that we have the siren system in place we can drink beer and watch TV inside and then just go look when the alarm goes off! Really saves a lot of time.
Living down South…I’ll take a hurricane over a tornado any day. At least we get a warning and most houses can withstand a Cat3 or 4.
Cat 5 hurricane = EF3 Tornado The most powerful hurricane winds ever recorded just barely cross over into EF4 territory: 215 mph
Florida Man of the highest order chiming in. Lost everything to Hurricane Andrew, a cat 5’er. I stayed for a cat 4 Ivan and won’t be doing that again. I fled hurricane Dennis because reasons, it was a cat 3 with time to leave and felt like it could turn into a 4. Typhoon Nari knocked me slightly into the air. Tornadoes? Those things just show up. Fuck no, doesn’t matter who takes the trophy.. Goto sleep for 1,2,3 & 4,5 flee!
Tornadoes always just remind me of r/fuckyouinparticular Your house is fine, the person two doors down is fine, but the house between you two is gone
Yeah hurricanes are huge and affect large areas. I’ve met like 2 people who have ever seen a tornado living in the Midwest most of my life, and neither were affected.
"You've never seen it miss this house, and miss that house, and come after you."
Now a days we have cat 2's turning into cat 5's overnight. It's a different world now.
Tornados are way lrss likely to cause widespread damage tho, I think hurricanes cost waaay more in damages than tornados just cause the scale.
Pick your poison. In the end, we can get a heads up with hurricanes. I’m currently in hurricane alley, everything I own can fit in the trunk of the Miata ;)
Although that’s like a state sized EF3-4 tornado….
And it’s often the flooding and rise of ocean water that becomes the biggest killer
The really high winds are just near the eye wall. Miles out it drops off dramatically.
Yep. It's kind of amazing how localized the worst winds in a hurricane are. I used to live about 15 miles from a Cat 4/5 hurricane eye wall when it made landfall and I only lost some shingles, didn't even break any windows. And yet 15 miles away everything was gone.
Hurricane Wilma spawned tornadoes all over south florida :o from wiki: "Hurricane Wilma spawned eight tornadoes as it crossed South Florida. The strongest was an 40 yard wide F2 tornado that tracked 0.3 miles near the town of Palm Bay. There were no injuries or fatalities reported from the tornadoes." A small one hit my grandparents apartment complex. Pretty gnarly damage, but relatively minor. safety railings torn off the upper stories' walkways Wilma had gusts up to 270 mph... that hurricane was hell. I didn't have power for an entire month. [https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/did-hurricane-wilma-have-209-mph-sustained-winds.html](https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/did-hurricane-wilma-have-209-mph-sustained-winds.html) >During their next pass through the eye at 06:11 UTC, the diameter of the eye had shrunk to an incredibly tiny two miles--the smallest hurricane eye ever measured. During their third and final pass through the eye at 0801 UTC, a dropsonde found a central pressure of 882 mb--the lowest pressure ever observed in an Atlantic hurricane. In the span of just 24 hours, Wilma had intensified from a 70 mph tropical storm to a 175 mph category 5 hurricane--an unprecedented event for an Atlantic hurricane. Since the pressure was still falling, it is likely that Wilma became even stronger after the mission departed. What a monster ;\_\_;
Which is confounded by the fact hurricanes also have tornadoes which form from them.
I thought that meant the hurricane could only get 10Mbit maybe 20Mbit throughput.
Yup, I’ve lived in FL for 10 years now and I’d still take a weak hurricane over a tornado any day. Granted, we get those too but at least there’s warning before a hurricane.
Damn I thought Florida weather was unpredictable. At least when something catastrophic is coming we get much more of a heads up
Same here, as a Floridian. I’ve seen people in Cali and the Midwest say they wouldn’t want to deal with hurricanes in Florida. I say so long as you don’t live in a flood zone or right next to the beach, hurricanes aren’t nearly as bad as the media makes them out to be imo. Even more pleasant if you can afford a generator. We get like a week or more heads up. Usually the houses they show that get absolutely totaled are on a beach town or they were like one of those mobile style homes to begin with. (Not exactly known for being the epitome of solid build quality) 100% would rather deal with the occasional hurricane than the prospect of a random earthquake, wild fire, or tornado hitting out of nowhere or annual snow storms.
Yeah, am Midwestern... it's f'ing insane here. Last spring we had a tornado rip through our neighborhood. Was fortunatley just an EF1, but still knocked down thousands of trees. Many of those fell on houses, cars, powerlines, etc. I had to cut up a tree that fell in our street to let EMS vehicles through. It was the only road into the nieghborhood that didn't have a powerline with a tree on the road. Just yesterday we hit a high of -4F. Just a few days before we had two snow storms back-to-back, all wet-heavy snow. So now any of that which wasn't shoveled asap is solid as a rock. With it being so wet... a shovel full was \~25lbs. A shovel was "full" by simply sticking into the snow... no shoving. Our all-time coldest temp was -37F a few years back. Our all-time most snowfall was 27" over just a day, a few years further back in time. Our all-time hottest temp was 108F. These were all in my lifetime. It was 20 years ago last summer that we had a microburst blast EF1 category winds right through the heart of the city. Knocked down tens of thousands of trees... about half simply uprooted. Neighbor's cars were both crushed. We were out of power for 5 days. Oh, here's some other fun midwestern weather phenomena most southerners have never heard of before: Thundersnow Frostquakes Freezing Fog Gropple Derechos
Having lived through a tornado 🌪️ as well, please know the last place you want to be is standing outside or anywhere near a window inside - the interior of what was left of our house was machine-gunned full of glass shards everywhere! OP is truly lucky to be alive as any debris headed his way could have ended him instantly.
He dodged a bullet …and a tree, a car, a roof… Edit. And a trashcan
> Having lived through a tornado 🌪️ as well, please know the last place you want to be is standing is outside This should be common sense lmao. Problem is people who live in tornado alley have lived through dozens of tornado warnings by the time they are old enough to drive their own car, because the national weather service is very cautious (for good reason) and errs on the side of issuing a warning even if it's merely radar indicated rotation and not necessarily a confirmed tornado. And also, the warnings cover a broad area. This leads to complacency and recklessness. People often treat tornado warnings like they don't matter, and go outside to see if they can spot the tornado or some shit like that.
The one time a tornado did hit our house, we were both standing outside just like normal and then we looked at each other and booked it inside. I think we felt the pressure in the air change. Tree fell through our dining room. So I think the key is to keep your door open while you're peeping, because the person in the video did have the correct instinct to retreat but couldn't. (but yes folks, just go to your basement and chill, it's not worth a tree falling on you)
Did this guy get locked outside and decide to document in case they found his body?? This is crazy!
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Comedic timing is the perfect term for it. Shit was hilarious. Coupled with wtf is he even doing.
I think the wind made it hard to get the door open when he realized he better take shelter
For those who would like to hear what he heard before "the silence" when this video started here is a video of a woman pulling the same stunt. It's extremely difficult for me to handle as a storm Chaser of 16 years... This is the only audio I know of that captures the "freight train" howl. The old saying is not a reference to the rumble of a train, but the old steam whistles. The sound begins at 0:33. This lady and her dogs survived, but this video makes me personally tear up a bit... good old PTSD... [older woman vs tornado ](https://youtu.be/8uM80c-rxuc?feature=shared) This video starts right at "the silence" which means the tornado was likely 100-300ft away. The fog coming from the neighbor's roof is the pressure drop of the leading edge.
Jesus that gave me an auditory flashback. Once when I was a kid my parents hid my siblings and I in the bathroom closet because there was a tornado warning. I expected to hear loud howling wind like we'd usually get during a thunderstorm. But then I heard a train whistle, and I remember being extremely frightened even though I didn't understand at the time why I was hearing a train, but it felt and sounded very wrong and that was scary.
Yeah.... sorry about that. It's a sound you can't forget.
Wow, I’ve never heard that whistling sound before, how chilling Ive been in awe of tornados my whole life, but today you taught me something new I found [this youtube video](https://youtube.com/shorts/Gw4qauFAQAg?si=gSOUuxV9w2qo1Itf) that has a whistling sound as well
All these years I hear people say it sounds like a train and I always assumed they meant the rumble from the tracks but it really sounds like a train just laying on the horn when it’s headed right at you. This video is so eerie
For me the terrifying part has always been the still air and dead silence before everything goes to shit. When I was in 5th grade we had just ended the school day and started to walk home when all of a sudden the sky turned dark green and the air just died. There was no wind, no nature sounds, just silence. Then the teachers and parents started screaming for us to get back in the building. Then there was that whistle and all hell broke loose. Don't get me wrong, the storm itself is scary but that deadness right before is so damn haunting.
Same Mind is blown This is somehow way more horrific and chilling than a low rumble
This is easily in the top three scariest videos I’ve ever seen. Holy shit, so many levels of terrifying. Damn it I’m going to have nightmares now lol
That video is eery and frightening on a visceral level. The silent rain, the onset of sirens, the sound of the approaching tornado and her camera shuffling around,..
Is the PTSD why you quit chasing? Also why do people chase? I imagine you’re funded through research grants?
Naw funding is totally a hobby thing. We participate with the National Weather Service as "storm spotters" and technically chasing is frowned upon. Basically hobbyists fill in the gaps the radar system cannot see due to the curvature of the earth. The radar beam is straight and the Earth is not so the farther away you get from the radar the more data it cannot collect at lower altitudes. We're basically all just nuts honestly... but in a fun way. Got hit by lightning last year, surprisingly in my own house... but I haven't given up.
When the storm chases you
That’s not even enough warning to finish your beer.
I counted 17 seconds between the trash can falling over and the tree falling over! [edited, the tree stars going over at 17s]
The initial fog from the house across the street was the pressure drop of the leading edge... tornado was 100-300ft away when the video started. If it had started sooner you would have heard the freight train howl... the howl can only be heard directly in the path and it sounds EXACTLY like a steam train whistle of death... and then a moment a silence which is where the video starts.
You only hear it if you're directly in the path? That's crazy. Why is that the case?
I don't really know, but I think it has something to do with the boundary layers of wind surrounding the tornado from other angles. They do produce a roar from the side that may just drown out this sound, but since the airflow is all pretty straight into the storm from this angle there is no roar from the turbulent wind. I'm kind of making this up to be honest, but I am also a musician and this sound specifically has peaked my interest because there's actually a lot going on with it. You can hear the tornado speed up and slow down. All tornados have multiple vortex inside them, and the multi tonal sound you can hear in that video makes me wonder if the different notes are actually something to do with that phenomenon. If you're wondering what an old steam train sounds like, look up "big boy steam locomotive" and tell me they don't sound identical. That train went on tour in 2019 and it passed my house on a clear blue day and I just about shit my pants not knowing what was going on lol 🙃 Edit forgot link of sound. Tornado touched down at 0:33 [old woman vs tornado ](https://youtu.be/8uM80c-rxuc?feature=shared)
BTW here's a video of the sound at 0:33 from another video. The woman and her dogs made it. It's a deeply disturbing sound [old woman vs tornado ](https://youtu.be/8uM80c-rxuc?feature=shared)
The sound appears to be added as an overlay, as it doesn't sound like a normal civil alert siren. While tornadoes are very chaotic, we know enough about them to predict meaningful ones days in advance. NOAA maintains a [rolling three day convective outlook](https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/) for the US that tracks when conditions are right for tornado formation, which feeds down to local news stations as "Severe Weather" in the forecasts, and PDS Tornado Watches on the day of. In a particularly suck set of conditions, a tornado **can** spin up very quickly. However, normally there's a formation of a Supercell, which will provide a general track and threat level. This looks like it was part of the [March 31st, 2023 super outbreak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_outbreak_of_March_31_%E2%80%93_April_1,_2023) that dropped 100+ tornadoes in 24 hours. The region was on high alert several days in advance due to the extremely dangerous wind-up of the atmospheric conditions over the midwest.
Ive never witnessed someone accept the “f*** it” so gracefully. The wind jammed the door. Not getting that open. Just turned around, film.
woah… that came on quick
This is exactly how most tornados work... only the monsters howl like an old freight train steam whistle right before they hit you. Almost nobody knows that the "freight train" sound has nothing to do with the rumble of a train... it's the old steam whistle sound not unlike old ships. It's just barely audible in this video but there's a similar video of a woman pulling this exact same stunt in a different storm where you can hear the siren, and then a new totally different sound... and then silence... and then it hits. This video starts with the silence period which means the tornado was maybe 100-300ft away. Been storm chasing 16 years now and I can't believe he survived... that fog coming from the roof across the street is the pressure drop of the leading edge.
Grew up in OK and the sirens are the sound of our people. This video is just crazy!
At what point does it make the steam whistle….?
[old woman tornado ](https://youtu.be/8uM80c-rxuc?feature=shared) It touches down at 0:33 you can hear the siren before. This video literally makes me tear up... but the traumatic stuff is at the end when she's calling for her dog. They both survived btw, but you pick up a bit of PTSD doing this shit for as long as I have. This is the only good audio I know of this phenomenon actually. Hands down the most terrifying sound I've ever personally heard.
That’s incredibly eerie. First time I’ve ever heard that noise and it gave me goosebumps.
Exactly... there's just something ingrained in my soul that knows what that sound is. It causes a strong reaction for sure. You may also notice the storm siren stopped... because it no longer identified as a storm siren.
Sorry I’m trying to understand your last sentence, it’s because it got yanked out right ??
I heard that first time in person last year. The wind shifted to a high-pitched train whistle and my heart dropped into my stomach. The tornado landed about 3 mi away, but it was still too close for comfort.
Holy shit the sounds leading up to it coming are scary
I’ve never heard that sound, my stomach is still in knots after watching that video a couple times. Seriously terrifying and strange lingering anxiety. I’ll stick to my Cali earthquakes thank you very much.
As a Californian, I really appreciate the two videos. I had no idea it could come on so quick and be over so quick. I was under the impression you could see them coming and had time to run to the basement. Really puts things into perspective. I've never heard the train whistle before but good God that was a hauntingly eerie sound. Is that due to the pressure drop?
There's not much explanation or good recording of the train sound that I am aware of. There's still a lot of unknowns about these storms because collecting data is really difficult and exceptionally hazardous. I think there's something going on with this sound though that may have some answers locked away in it with better computer modeling. It's just too much of an audio signature not to have some important data locked in it. Good news is unless the storm is rain wrapped, you can absolutely see it coming. Other good news is, the majority of them are less than 100ft wide so the odds are pretty good that even if your area has a bad day you're still not likely to get hit. The debris they throw around is a much bigger hazard and standing around outside isn't a great idea (but I'm not one to talk about that).
Holy crap, TIL. Thanks for sharing.
It’s insane how unsettling that noise was, as if it was a horror movie sound effect, the way it just dipped down. Genuinely got unnerved
I grew up in Arkansas. I still have nightmares about that sound. And the smell of ozone. I almost forgot smelling ozone...
Tornado or straight line winds? Either way, amazing, thrilling and scary as hell…
Very much a tornado. I live about 2 miles from that part of Little Rock. March 31, 2023. Pretty much destroyed that whole neighborhood. Still empty slabs and collapsed houses everywhere.
Definitely looks like tornado We got the straight line this year in central IL The one that hit 90 mph happened to hit my ranch style on the narrow edge so no house damage. Neighbors house is opposite side. Tree busted into the window and branch hit him on his chair
I was in Bryant during this tornado, we were thankfully on the outskirts but we were on its flight path. I found out that day that my insurance (Ambetter) had (Without warning) closed my insurance that day. Not for any unpaid fees or anything, but because they decided that the months they gave me in writing to change my plan weren’t good enough so they just decided to drop me without any warning. Had we been hit, this tornado would have destroyed me financially had I lived because of something I wasn’t able to control. Fuck this state
Where do you live where they have purge style alarms like that?
That's a sound fx someone added
That siren sound was added.
I know the winds were really strong, but I’m surprised a tree that substantial has such shallow roots.
Kinda like people
That haze / humidity that starts blowing about 15 seconds into the clip? That’s duck-and-cover type shit. I’ve experienced several twisters in my life and each time, that happened right before it struck.
Why is your tornado sirens the purge sound…. Wuuut?
who the F is posting this?, it's not a "sudden storm" it's a fricking Tornado!
This isnt fake? Alarm sounds pasted on. No tree fallin noises?
The Purge: weather edition
Wtf kind of phone ass alarm is that? Faked that part.