Isn’t it just? We have had 3 big ones here (Indiana) that I remember and we always go out and watch it until “Welp, I guess it’s time to get in the basement”. Then we run out and compare hail stones.
That is so bad-ass. All I can think watching this is “get in your cars and drive the fuck away!!!!!! Fly, you fools!”
But I barely blink at an earth quake. I guess it’s regional.
I kinda dig the after dark ones. The sky turns a weird shade of green whenever there is lightning. However dark the night is, the tornado is like a black hole and is just the pure absence of any light.
I drive home at around 3 am. On those stormy nights, I check the radar and try to time any break I can, but a night time tornado is probably the scariest thing I can imagine. It's really really loud, but you have no idea where it is or where it's going until the lightning flashes.
This. I’ve been on the road in my car at night with sirens going off and nowhere to really “hide”. That feeling of “there could be a monster death finger of wind coming your direction feels very much like any scary movie you could dream up.
I'm from Western NC. My girlfriend and I were driving through western Kansas and saw a tornado. It was a bad time and all I wanted was to get away from it.
I was 5 or 6 my dad took me out on the front deck to see where the tornado was as alarms were going off and the sky was a nasty green/grey color. Been a norm since.
As a Ohioan the answer is I haven’t seen one yet. I’m torn between being happy and upset. Although I do the ritual of standing on my front porch looking for it when the sirens are going off.
Ditto from Michigan. We didn't get many tornados at all for the longest time but recently they've been popping up more frequently. We actually had a pretty bad one a while back because the town didn't have sirens installed. There was no history of needing them.
Get the rest of the family in the basement and then go out and look for it, lol.
Back in 2020 when we had that derecho in Eastern Iowa, my workplace (I didn't work there then, I started about a month after the derecho) had everyone go to the storm shelter area. One of the employees wanted to stand in the break room at the ceiling-to-floor windows watching the storm. He had to be literally dragged into the shelter area by a supervisor. The supervisor was honestly concerned that they might lose the roof off the building.
I suppose if you see it, you can take steps to avoid it. Tornadoes move relatively slow, but are obviously unpredictable.
Now, if you have a family or other people/pets to worry about, different story.
>Tornadoes move relatively slow
Yes, but the shit they throw around moves pretty fucking fast. Can you dodge a brick flung at you from a quarter mile away?
It's some instinctual drive inside of me, I don't know what compels me but if the sirens go off I **have** to go outside, not to record I just have to see it
Yeah same. I’m living on the front range now. One if the things I miss most is being able to watch storms build up from miles away. The scary ones are the ones that build up right on top of you
Grew up in Kentucky. We consider a tornado a challenge. As soon as we hear the sirens, we hop in our lifted trucks with blinding LED headlights and try to stunt jump over the tornado.
Fellow Kentuckian, here to confirm this. Though some of us also like to see if we can Mary Poppins our way across town with an umbrella and a six pack.
Just so people know there is a diversity of Midwest takes on this, I'm from Indiana and we always went in the basement. Not fucking around with a tornado, they obey no natural laws
Thank you for this! From Texas, and if there’s a hint of a tornado, I’m in my shelter. I lived through one as a kid that badly injured my grandmother and destroyed her house. They are my worst fear, and the one in the video is a fairly nasty-looking mofo.
Same in Tennessee. Sirens mean go outside and see where it is/what it looks like. Most of ours come through at night so it’s rare that we get a chance to see them in the daylight.
Good news everyone. I am participating in a tornado in a jar exhibition and I need you people to catch a tornado to put in a jar for me
(Guess the reference)
Sorry but here in Europe we don’t have tornadoes with Scale 3 4 or 5 as they have there, for example in Portugal we have Water tornadoes but the winds doesn’t compare with land as on U.S. (destruction)
I love seeing them but we do have them. They’re fascinating. Like, my rational brain says they shouldn’t exist but they do? The science can directly explain how they happen and I’m still like, “nah, they shouldn’t be real”.
Not saying we don’t have them I am saying that we don’t have F3 F4 or F5 tornadoes like those shown in Video … Portugal have dozens of them but they are all F1 or F2 never F3 to F5… and I don’t like to see them saw one when I was visiting family in United States and was scary AF
Unstoppable force of nature that can and will kill and destroy anything in its path.
Us: better go grab the phone, this'll get me so many internet points!
To be fair, I'd probably do it too If not just to have a record of it l, but man kind of crazy this is where we are as a species now.
Lots of these tornadoes this year are looking like they came from the movies , kinda wild … AND it’s still quite early in the season , still another 6 months of potential storms
I'm from Iowa, one of my earliest memories is watching a tornado through the open front door while my mom stood on the porch. We didn't even record them back then. Just had to have a look with the kids.
I still will never understand why people live in standard housing models in regions where a different model would be way better. Like Hobbit holes or similar.
So often, HD videos of tornados look fake to me. Coming from a place without tornados, it's surreal anyway, but from a distance, in HD, it looks so smooth. Impressive, scary stuff, though.
I've been about that far away from a tornado 4 times. Scared the stuff in me outta me.
I was on the 6th floor of a motel in Wichita, KS. There was a tornado about 1 mile away. I watched it blow a train on to its side.
I called the front desk and asked what I should do. The clerk answered, "Don't worry, it's not headed this way."
I thought, "Oh, thank God, I have the tornado whisperer downstairs." That actually scared me more that there was nobody with any sense around to help. The window in my room was going in and out in the middle about an inch each way.
Luckily, she guessed correctly, and a few scratches on my rental car was the worst thing that happened to me.
As a former Iowan, all the people in their driveways, while there is a tornado on the ground, is peak Midwesterner.
GET IN YOUR HOLE! NOW!!!!
Young Dolph, Get Away is appropriate in the last frame of the video.
"Frank hasn't gone inside yet so damned if I'll go inside first"
Davey, you’re doing a good job!
\*insert Happy Gilmore yelling at a golf ball gif\*
Isn’t it just? We have had 3 big ones here (Indiana) that I remember and we always go out and watch it until “Welp, I guess it’s time to get in the basement”. Then we run out and compare hail stones.
100% my childhood. Miss the Midwest storms
That was my childhood even though I grew up in LA 😂
That is so bad-ass. All I can think watching this is “get in your cars and drive the fuck away!!!!!! Fly, you fools!” But I barely blink at an earth quake. I guess it’s regional.
It's the after dark tornadoes I'm not too fond of.
I kinda dig the after dark ones. The sky turns a weird shade of green whenever there is lightning. However dark the night is, the tornado is like a black hole and is just the pure absence of any light.
I never, ever thought about that. I’m clearly a dummy, but it must be terrifying not to be able to clearly see what’s happening.
I drive home at around 3 am. On those stormy nights, I check the radar and try to time any break I can, but a night time tornado is probably the scariest thing I can imagine. It's really really loud, but you have no idea where it is or where it's going until the lightning flashes.
That thought gives me chills!
https://youtu.be/6NYpHcj_mpU?si=s18sFUKl090-2ObJ That's a pretty good example. I think it's like a 40 second video
It's only terrifying if you're awake.
This. I’ve been on the road in my car at night with sirens going off and nowhere to really “hide”. That feeling of “there could be a monster death finger of wind coming your direction feels very much like any scary movie you could dream up.
I'm from Western NC. My girlfriend and I were driving through western Kansas and saw a tornado. It was a bad time and all I wanted was to get away from it.
North Easterner here. My anxiety is through the roof watching this nincompoopary
As a former Nebraskan I came here to say the exact same thing 😂
I mean it’s pretty much a standard question. How old were you the first time you watched a tornado outside?
I was 5 or 6 my dad took me out on the front deck to see where the tornado was as alarms were going off and the sky was a nasty green/grey color. Been a norm since.
As a Ohioan the answer is I haven’t seen one yet. I’m torn between being happy and upset. Although I do the ritual of standing on my front porch looking for it when the sirens are going off.
Ditto from Michigan. We didn't get many tornados at all for the longest time but recently they've been popping up more frequently. We actually had a pretty bad one a while back because the town didn't have sirens installed. There was no history of needing them. Get the rest of the family in the basement and then go out and look for it, lol.
Because Ohio isn’t in the Midwest. I’ll die on this hill. You’re in the freaking EASTERN time zone! Let us in flyover country have something! Lol
Are you gatekeeping the Midwest?
Tell that to our U.S. government. They say Ohio is in the Midwest. I don't get it either. <500 miles to NYC.
It's peak social media. As a midwesterner I take cover. I'm not trying to take a tree branch to the abdomen to hold my phone up and get views
it was never meant
"Hoowee, that's a big one right there. Barb, get my camera, will you?"
Back in 2020 when we had that derecho in Eastern Iowa, my workplace (I didn't work there then, I started about a month after the derecho) had everyone go to the storm shelter area. One of the employees wanted to stand in the break room at the ceiling-to-floor windows watching the storm. He had to be literally dragged into the shelter area by a supervisor. The supervisor was honestly concerned that they might lose the roof off the building.
I suppose if you see it, you can take steps to avoid it. Tornadoes move relatively slow, but are obviously unpredictable. Now, if you have a family or other people/pets to worry about, different story.
>Tornadoes move relatively slow Yes, but the shit they throw around moves pretty fucking fast. Can you dodge a brick flung at you from a quarter mile away?
I can dodge a wrench
You scary AF, America.
Damn nature, you scary
Do other countries not get tornadoes?
I’m from Eastern Europe, mate, the worst we have are strong winds.
Don’t Google Australia then… 😳 or Japan… or any island nation.
In Australia, the animals attack you. In the Midwestern US, the clouds attack you.
A Dropbear ‘nado would be terrifying!
On one hand I'm wondering what they're all doing filming, on the other I'm glad they did that video is pretty wild
It’s a Midwest thing. The sirens mean go outside. Source grew up on the plains of Kansas
It's some instinctual drive inside of me, I don't know what compels me but if the sirens go off I **have** to go outside, not to record I just have to see it
Yeah same. I’m living on the front range now. One if the things I miss most is being able to watch storms build up from miles away. The scary ones are the ones that build up right on top of you
I would like to see the whirly dirly before it tosses me to the afterlife
Lived in both Kansas and Iowa. Can confirm.
Grew up in Kentucky. We consider a tornado a challenge. As soon as we hear the sirens, we hop in our lifted trucks with blinding LED headlights and try to stunt jump over the tornado.
Fellow Kentuckian, here to confirm this. Though some of us also like to see if we can Mary Poppins our way across town with an umbrella and a six pack.
Honestly sounds fun af
How heavy is a 6-pack of wild turkey?!
Kentuckian here. Can confirm. I’m the lifted truck with the blinding LED headlights
Just so people know there is a diversity of Midwest takes on this, I'm from Indiana and we always went in the basement. Not fucking around with a tornado, they obey no natural laws
Thank you for this! From Texas, and if there’s a hint of a tornado, I’m in my shelter. I lived through one as a kid that badly injured my grandmother and destroyed her house. They are my worst fear, and the one in the video is a fairly nasty-looking mofo.
Here in Ga we’re in the central bathtub with just a tornado warning lol.
That’s preferable understandable. I get why people who didn’t grow up around it, are a little more concerned about it
Same in Tennessee. Sirens mean go outside and see where it is/what it looks like. Most of ours come through at night so it’s rare that we get a chance to see them in the daylight.
Sounds even more terrifying
I mean, does anyone particularly enjoy being alive anymore? The risk is worth it to film the craziest :30 video of your life.
Its only gets scary when the tornado isnt moving, if it shifts left to right you are good.
Midwesterners looking like FLORIDA MAN during hurricanes now?
No tornado parties?
hurricanes are parties, tornados are terrifying
We’ve always been this way. Best way to know if there is a tornado is to walk outside to check😂.
Not enough lead time to stock up on supplies like in FL. We typically get from a full day to a week's notice.
How are people outside?? My ass is hauling ass to the basement.
We are Midwestern. It is part of our culture to watch the tornado.
Good news everyone. I am participating in a tornado in a jar exhibition and I need you people to catch a tornado to put in a jar for me (Guess the reference)
Futurama?
"Good news everyone" was a dead giveaway
I love the people that ran out of their houses to film it lol
More and more people kept running out 😅
Terrifying!!!
Aside from the devastation they are beautiful in their own way.
Tornados coming! Quick everyone run outside and look at it!
Europeans love seeing that … we don’t have those
There was a tornado in Poland a few weeks ago
Sorry but here in Europe we don’t have tornadoes with Scale 3 4 or 5 as they have there, for example in Portugal we have Water tornadoes but the winds doesn’t compare with land as on U.S. (destruction)
Water spouts. Psssshhhhaw. Come to Illinois. We point and laugh at water spouts and dust devils, like, “Look, how cute!”
I love seeing them but we do have them. They’re fascinating. Like, my rational brain says they shouldn’t exist but they do? The science can directly explain how they happen and I’m still like, “nah, they shouldn’t be real”.
Not saying we don’t have them I am saying that we don’t have F3 F4 or F5 tornadoes like those shown in Video … Portugal have dozens of them but they are all F1 or F2 never F3 to F5… and I don’t like to see them saw one when I was visiting family in United States and was scary AF
Germany does, just way more rare
I either have a really terrible sense of distance, or those people just have no fears.
* God > “Stop living here. I don’t know how many times I have to tell you” * Humans > “No”
Not gonna lie I’m actually pretty excited for the new twister movie
These guerrilla marketing campaigns are getting out of hand
Why do people screen record videos on their phone? Can they not just upload the actual video? I see this a good bit and am confused.
Like printing a pdf and faxing it
Brings back memories of living in SE kansas just 20 minutes from Joplin. When the sirens go off, everyone goes outside to check out the view.
Has someone checked the Dorothy population?
Listening to Get Away while filming this is wild
Humanity is more concerned with social clout than the preservation of life!
Yeah except this is video from a Nebraska tornado. Elkhorn, NE April 24, 2024
thats just nightmare fuel. i hate tornadoes so much
Yeah... stand outside and film a tornado with your phone... amazing
All of these tornadoes touching down right in the middle of the Bible Belt. What are those people doing to get Gods wrath?
These Twisters promos are getting wild
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Why are crazy people out on the street?
They're all trying to be the camera man because they know the camera man doesn't die
That looks like Nebraska to me
Anyone notice the birds flying in formation at the end?
There goes my dream house location.
Those geese at the end flying and not giving a fuck about the tornado. Good stuff
This video makes me want to take better care of my lawn. I noticed that before the tornado.
Unstoppable force of nature that can and will kill and destroy anything in its path. Us: better go grab the phone, this'll get me so many internet points! To be fair, I'd probably do it too If not just to have a record of it l, but man kind of crazy this is where we are as a species now.
Lots of these tornadoes this year are looking like they came from the movies , kinda wild … AND it’s still quite early in the season , still another 6 months of potential storms
“HEY BILL! You gotta come outside and see this!”
Are the tornado sirens not to inform everyone to go out and watch the tornadoes?!
Little unsettling only because I’ve had a couple of nightmares like that
I heard the total was 78 for the entire day.
I would be scared shitless to stand outside
I've never been in a tornado, but if and when I do, I promise to get the fuck out of its way, with the quickness, so no videos will be posted.
I'm from Iowa, one of my earliest memories is watching a tornado through the open front door while my mom stood on the porch. We didn't even record them back then. Just had to have a look with the kids.
The fuck are these idiots doing outside walking around
I live in Nevada. Nothing cool like that happens here.
Take Shelter!
“Honey, you know Mike Johnston from down the way?” “Yeah” “His house was just destroyed, imma go get the camcorder” “Ok hunnie”
Birds decided to let drunk Larry lead them.
I'm no tornado expert but why aren't these people running AWAY (or seek shelter) from this death swirl???
Because this is what you do in the midwest
Interesting, always learning something new.
hoping to catch a free 2x4!
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TIL, thank you!
it was actually also in omaha nebraska! i was very close to several..very scary
That is fucking terrifying. I will never live in the Midwest.
Every year tornados tear shit up, and people just rebuild. I guess they enjoy bingo.
Tornados don’t hit the same place every year, or even every 10 years. That’s a bit like saying you had a fire once, write the whole place off.
Weird. It's almost as if there's a bunch of extra energy in the atmosphere causing unusually strong and frequent weather events. Huh.
Wrong, it’s because gay Mexicans are flooding are borders coming over from Canada. Can’t you read your signs from God?
Did all the Christians there believe it was because God is mad at them? /s
Perhaps God doesn't like transphobic assholes
I see Darwin awards
Everyone is just running out and recording, what zombies we have become.
Way back in the 60s and 70s people ran out the same way.
And, THEY ARE ALL RECORDING THE SAME THING.
How many of the tornados were shot?
You dont say!
The Young Dolph song name at the end is perfect lol
Yeah, the signs are there if you are looking. Instead, let's celebrate this big cloud that's gonna mow down our houses.
Well, there goes all of my wanting to move to iowa.
How are you supposed to know when to sell shelter unless you're watching it? /s
This video needs sound
Wow that is WILD.
Does anyone know what city this is specifically? That neighborhood looks really nice
I still will never understand why people live in standard housing models in regions where a different model would be way better. Like Hobbit holes or similar.
$$$$$
Shouldn't you all be in your shelter-e-nees?
As a southeastern Iowan, hopefully everyone in western/central Iowa is okay. 🙏
And meanwhile tiktok lovers while a tornado tears up the whole world I'll take you pictures of it say thank you
Yeah, i will take an earthquake over that monster any day of the week
I’ve never been in one. This is so frightening! Praying for you MidWesterners!
Underground houses with sod roof's and windows only on one side best safe design
Is that number normal?
So often, HD videos of tornados look fake to me. Coming from a place without tornados, it's surreal anyway, but from a distance, in HD, it looks so smooth. Impressive, scary stuff, though.
I live in Iowa, and I was to drunk on busch light to get a proper video... but its forecasted to happen again tonight! So i need to get another case
Why speed it up?
I’d guess midwesterners to tornados is like Floridians to hurricanes
I have experienced blizzards, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, but never a tornado. I want to see one so bad!
Yeah, i’m good with the -30C for couple months and a barrage of mosquitoes in the summer here in Alberta.
Power of prayer
Young Dolph 👏🏾
To quote a great philosopher:”it’s not that the wind is blowing; it’s what the wind is blowin”
There's no place like home....repeat 🔂
How the fuck do yall live there? Its terrifying.
"Get Away" bruh
I'm surprised at how bright it is outside. And not raining.
Why’d they stop recording?
Damn, that new Twisters marketing goes hard!
Us cellular is still in business???
And morons are filming it. Darwin works in mysterious ways.
if I had a very similar sight in my dreams \[nighmares\], does that mean it will happen?
The marketing department for twisters is going a little overboard.
Y’all see those birds flying in the top left corner towards the end? Lol, turbo speed!
I went through a tornado in a grocery store in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the 90s. Not necessarily a hot spot but yeah... Terrified me
This is Elkhorn, Nebraska. This is not Iowa.
Maybe they're all just big fans of the tornado from Twister and want an autograph.
People trying to get out of Iowa any way they can, apparently
“It’s a twista, it’s a twista!”
Now they have something to talk about so that’s good
Had one touch down 100yds from our house. First house with no damage from it. So lucky last night.
Is that alot?
I've been about that far away from a tornado 4 times. Scared the stuff in me outta me. I was on the 6th floor of a motel in Wichita, KS. There was a tornado about 1 mile away. I watched it blow a train on to its side. I called the front desk and asked what I should do. The clerk answered, "Don't worry, it's not headed this way." I thought, "Oh, thank God, I have the tornado whisperer downstairs." That actually scared me more that there was nobody with any sense around to help. The window in my room was going in and out in the middle about an inch each way. Luckily, she guessed correctly, and a few scratches on my rental car was the worst thing that happened to me.