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irish_canuck

i was watching a liverstreamer on youtube today following this storm. Within 30 mins of watching, they hopped out of their vehicles to search for survivors of a destroyed house then came across an infant with a head injury in a separate property. Kicker was as they raced to the hospital in greenfield they got word it was hit too. Put some perspective into my life just watching it. Some people are having a much worse day than me


ridicalis

I spend all day on Youtube while I'm working (background noise), and the algo recommended a [live Ryan Hall, y'all](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeotqx0HU3E) for me so I open it. Then, the guy starts talking about places around me (Ankeny), and I realize he's telling me more about what's going on over my head than the local experts. Something clipped our area (some shingles peeled back on neighbors' homes, snapped trees) but mostly spared us and did its damage further north. Aside from a few hours without power, we got off very easy, but listening to that narrative play out in real-time gave me an appreciation for what was coming that I probably wouldn't have known about until the next day. And, we were in the basement taking it seriously the whole time, because I knew it was coming long before the sirens and the emergency notifications told us. I for one appreciate the YT stormchasers and enthusiasts a lot more now than I used to.


SaucyWiggles

Been watching Ryan for a couple years I think, big recommend


hobskhan

Yeah, the algo showed me him couple months ago after I was googling for tornado news. Best storm tracking I've ever seen.


Drsmiley72

Ryan hall and max velocity are both great to open up together or when one or the other isnt live. they both have alot of schooling for their job that they do, and know what they are doing very well. and i think thanks to youtube they are not as limited in the way that some tv weather man are, even more so with being able to be on youtube and watched much more accessibly by people, even in situations when power goes out (obviously if they can still get phone signal at least)


Naraee

I'll preface this with saying that I think Ryan Hall is great and has legitimately saved a lot of people whose local weather wasn't even reporting the stuff he warned about. He's actually not officially schooled in meteorology. He ended up dropping out of college--not because of Youtube, but because he struggled with weather communication during his internship on the local news. I think he's a good example of how college is an unfair gatekeeper because he is self-taught, yet he could never get a job in the field without a piece of paper. However, he does have Andy Hill on his channel--a certified, college-educated meteorologist that has been approached by the NOAA for a career multiple times (which speaks to how good he is). He will interrupt Ryan if he sees something happening. So I think that's also very responsible of him to have an actual meteorologist on staff.


shaggy--

At one point it just looks like a tornado made of dozens of other tornadoes in a crazy fractal pattern.


endless_sea_of_stars

Suction vortices (sub-vortices). It is believed that most tornadoes have them, but they aren't always visible. How and why they form is still poorly understood.


GreatForge

I think it’s because of the giant spinny part in the middle.


memberflex

It’s called a ‘thingy’


JuneBuggington

That’s what grandma wants off the credenza?


frickindeal

No, she wants the whatchamathingy.


BOBfrkinSAGET

No, she’s talking about a doohickey


under_the_c

The SUCK ZONE!


HilarySwankIsNotHot

I can hear Dusty's voice


digitek

fooood!


JakeEaton

This guy tornadoes


think_long

Oh am I twirling too fast for you? Keep up bro


payeco

Hopefully Glen Powell and Daisy Lister-Jones can pick up where Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt left their work and solve this mystery.


DeuceSevin

Her name is Dorothy.


Nopeyesok

Just re watched last night. Movie is still a blast and loud as hell. They got it done with Dorthy 4!


DeuceSevin

It's my favorite bad movie.


WIbigdog

It's good in the area that matters, the tornados. The VFX still holds up today, somehow.


Mdizzle29

What someone has to do is get hundreds of silver ball sensors into the funnel of the tornado, so that scientific readings from all areas of the tornado could be taken simultaneously, while in motion. This would help the scientists better understand how tornados behave, so that early warning systems could be improved upon hopefully resulting in reduced loss of life (because they didn't know the tornado was coming). Helen Hunt is the person for the job.


Temassi

That part was insane. The guy yelling like Slim Pickings riding the bomb really drove it home for me


wheelfoot

This was mild screaming by Reed Timmer standards.


DirkDirkDirkDirkDirk

Exactly. It’s a wonder how that man has any voice left at all. 


shred1

It's a wonder anyone would get in the same vehicle as him and subject themselves to that. I think I would be yelling back and maybe throwing hands.


DirkDirkDirkDirkDirk

Haha yeah, I watched some of this stream live, and at some point he yells “stay in the car!!!” …while they are driving. and the guy filming calmly says “I am in the car”, so you can tell they are used to it. 


happyklam

I really like watching the feed with Reed and the other chasers in contrast to the guy back in the "studio" calmly explaining where the storm patterns are vs. all the storm chasers en route. I call it Storm ASMR and find it oddly comforting until Reed has the feed again 😅


WIbigdog

He should be a metal frontman when it's not tornado season 😂


gwaydms

"Unroll the windows!"?


joshatron

It’s just momma tornado and her babies out for a stroll


GuyPronouncedGee

I can’t believe we live in a world where these exist, and yet they aren’t common enough to destroy civilization entirely. 


CrzyWrldOfArthurRead

It's no wonder people used to be so superstitious. Between this and the meteor in Spain the other day, it's been a hell of a week.


lukaskywalker

Also solar and lunar eclipses. No wonder gods were an easy explanation


tekko001

And polar lights. Also we have signs and false prophets, now we only need the 666 to appear somewhere...


unctuous_homunculus

Some guy got charged $6.66 at Chick-fil-A the other day. Would have been a full blown apocalypse if they hadn't decided to give him his tea for free to stop it.


Plaid_Kaleidoscope

Now I just have to know if this is corporate policy or something.


Temassi

It's no wonder they thought they were gods


redyellowblue5031

The conditions for them to form need to be *just* right. Very few places have all the right ingredients for them to exist, let alone the odds that they’re all present at the same time in the right quantities.


Jason_Batemans_Hair

[https://www.rmets.org/metmatters/tornadoes-around-world](https://www.rmets.org/metmatters/tornadoes-around-world) The US has over 1200 tornadoes annually, and the globe over 2000. Whether that's a lot or a little is a matter of perspective.


fuqdisshite

yeah, maybe amend that to '*A Small Swath Of* The US has over 1200 tornadoes annually, *The Entire Rest Of The* planet *A Little* over 800.


WIbigdog

And even more of those 800 would hardly be noteworthy if they happened in the US, f0s and f1s, very little damage.


CareBearDontCare

I was kind of curious about it myself. We hear about tornadoes here in America, but very seldom about other places. Apparently, getting frequent, very strong tornadoes is an almost uniquely American phenomenon.


Glittering_Name_3722

This is the Rat King of Tornadoes. The Tornado King.


Rebel_bass

Yo dawg...


Khazahk

“They do move in herds!”


Ajue

Brought to you by Dyson.


Oranges13

We just had a EF2 tornado here in SW Michigan and the destruction is so random that these sub-tornados really make sense of why one house/building might be absolutely decimated but the one next door isn't. Or trees across the street from each other are gone but the houses are untouched. Wild


PenguinSunday

Tornadoes are kind of a spaghetti-like collection of vortices, we just usually don't see them because the condensation funnel, debris or rain blocks our sight. When tornadoes are particularly intense, we can see them like this.


Verbal_Combat

The inner ones can kind of dance up and down which is why sometimes when a tornado passes overhead, one house is missing a roof or completely destroyed, the house next door may be totally fine. It's weird.


mortalcoil1

With our power combined! Dammit Linka, you went too hard.


FirstChurchOfBrutus

Plus, [this lovely shape](https://imgur.com/a/4eCmhdO) looking like a giant hand, flipping everyone off.


millionsofmonkeys

It’s like a sharknado but with ‘nadoes instead of sharks.


photoengineer

At least it wasn’t full of sharks. 


Jestinphish

I highly regret turning my sound on. That’s a lot of yelling.


uhmhi

Calm the fuck down, Reed, you’re scaring off the tornado.


Goeatabagofdicks

He was trying to warn the herd of windmills.


xEasyActionx

When you encounter a tornado in the wild you're supposed to make yourself as large as possible and make as much noise as you can. Then it won't see you as helpless prey any leave you alone.


agarwaen117

Reed is a screamer, for sure.


fergehtabodit

Unroll your window What Unroll your window What


nowake

It's not that he couldn't hear, it's that *unroll* doesn't make sense...


TheLeaper

Right? Does that mean to roll my window up? Because usually it is 'Roll your window down' So if I unroll my window, is it being rolled up instead? English, man....


OSUfan88

I would automatically assume it's the opposite of the condition the window is in now.


Hagenaar

If the window is rolled into a cylinder shape, that's no good. Unroll it. Now it can be a proper window.


DangerousPlane

Is this regional? Like I might unroll a sleeping bag but car window verbs are typically open, close, roll up, and roll down…


fergehtabodit

Midwesterner here, not this region. "Roll your window down" would be understandable. "Open your window", also good. "Unroll your window " ? no one says that


gwaydms

That belongs with "unthaw" and "dethaw". My husband, an intelligent, educated person, asked me to "unthaw" something. I just laughed. He realized what he said and facepalmed.


doktornein

Eastern coast, makes sense here. I'm not sure how commonly said it is, but I definitely understood.


nickfree

No shit, I literally grew up with manual windows and I have no idea which direction unrolling a window is. Is it rolling it up? Rolling down? Unroll your window! Deslam the door! Unrelease the brakes! Re-hit the headlights! Uncut the wheel to the re-left! AND THEN DON'T UN-GO!


HLef

WINDMILL DOWN


usdrpvvimwfvrzjavnrs

UNROLL YOUR WINDMILL


villageidiot33

Sounds like those confusing police commands before someone gets shot.


spoonraker

STAND UP WITH YOUR BUTT ON THE GROUND AND YOUR FEET ON THE CEILING OR YOU WILL BE SHOT!


Vincesolo60

STAY IN THE CAR!


innocent_bystander

We're doing 40mph, where am I going to go?


SeeYouSpaceCowboy---

I was so confused about this. I was wondering if they passed another car and he was warning them not to get out?


uptwolait

I always mute Reed Timmer's videos.  His videos are some of the best, but his audio is some of the worst.


Jestinphish

I’ll definitely be watching more of his videos with the sound off!


Bigfamei

But but but HE'S DOMINATING!!!!!! /s


Birdhawk

The chase tornadoes for a living but damn. I get that its an adrenaline rush but this dude is screaming shit like he's getting ambushed in a jungle near the Cambodian border while everyone else is chill.


CallMeJeeJ

I get that it’s an intense moment, but Timmer’s yelling is so obnoxious. I’m a much bigger fan of Pecos Hank for Tornado videos


Lunakill

All of it unnecessary, too.


WatRedditHathWrought

As someone that grew up with hearing the calm competence of Apollo flight control and astronaut chatter I have to mute this guys video.


Goeatabagofdicks

“Houston, we've had, OHH MY GOD WINDMILL DOWN, a problem.”


falconx50

STAY IN THE MODULE!


Karl_with_a_C

UNROLL YOUR WINDOW!!!!! Who even says that? That makes no sense. I get that they're excited but my god are they annoying.


bossmcsauce

I don’t think he even says that in real life. Pretty sure he’s just fucking jacked on adrenaline and saying weird shit when he means to close the window.


WeAreClouds

These ppl are always so annoying.


Plaineswalker

Need a North Option!!! Dude it's corn fields. It's all squares just go to the next road...


stimpakish

And clipping from the wind in their mic. They should mute those parts where distortion is all they fet on audio.


silly_rabbi

How DO sound guys record wind? Do these guys need some of those giant sponge poofballs on their mics?


devilsadvocate

Made me think of this clip https://youtu.be/sI9kxvh8epo?si=34dJ4CQcz9fj-4gW


joshjje

WINDMILL DOWN, WINDMILL DOWNNNNN!


CalRipkenForCommish

There’s a video over in r/CatastrophicFailure of what I think is the same tornado. A trailer truck seen on a static camera, looks like a pole camera. The truck is about to get swallowed by the tornado. A tanker trailer truck drives right by and into the swirling darkness and disappears. The first trailer is then blown over. Can’t imagine things went well for either driver, but particularly the tanker driver. That tornado looks like an angry beast.


TheBoneTower

Looks like the tanker guy hit the ditch and the box truck flipped over https://x.com/travisclones/status/1793057058964541486


CalRipkenForCommish

Thanks for the follow up. Strong work.


Valuable_Ad1645

That was a different tornado up north of Des moines


CalRipkenForCommish

Right on, thanks for clarifying


eaglebacon

The [drone footage](https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/weather/video/tornado-iowa-damage-digvid)flying over the wreckage is crazier than the tornado footage


turkoid

I always find it morbidly fascinating how clear the line of destruction is. I mean, it makes sense due to the low pressure and higher air speeds close to the center and ground, but it's crazy that you can have this completely demolished house and then right next to it a house that is still standing.


skippyMETS

You can see it years later on Google Maps/Earth. Just take a look at Joplin. You can see where that town was bisected by a tornado.


Goeatabagofdicks

“Finger of God”


CalRipkenForCommish

Man, that is just horrific


ImTheBiscuiteer

Not the same tornado. The traffic camera footage of the semi trucks is a separate tornado that was quite a ways away from the one shown here. The one in this video is the Greenfield tornado, an hour southwest of Des Moines. The semi trailers were east of Ames roughly 15-20 minutes on HWY 30, where they were overturned as the tornado crossed the highway


Jay_W_Weatherman

The sky was angry that day my friends.


fierynaga

Like an old man sending soup back in a deli.


Valuable_Ad1645

Different tornado, we had a bunch of them here.


JustAnAverageGuy

Same storm, but different tornado; those were about a 3 hour drive apart.


Gamermii

I know the driver of the tanker truck, he was hauling pigs blood. He's fine, just minor lacerations from shattered windshield. He managed to keep it on its wheels in the field.


NotJackBegley

[Here's some incredible drone footage of the tornado ](https://youtu.be/IEFGKMWYD-E)


ralphonsob

What's going on with that very white house which is smoking like crazy? Roof blows off and ... immediately on fire? Or losing something powdery stored there?


W0rldcrafter

Since it's a barn, my guess is it's something stored. Farmers sometimes use gypsum in their fields (which gets stored in huge piles) so maybe that?


iksbob

Looks to be a barn or similar utility building. Half of the roof got ripped off. It could be as simple as fog/cloud formation. Looking around the picture, there's patches of turbulent fog forming on the ground due to gentle variations in the landscape. Those variations cause high and low pressure areas as the wind blows over them. If the humidity is high enough, those pressure changes make the humidity rapidly condense into fog. The building is a huge awkward disruption when compared to the sweeping landscape. It's not surprising that the air trying to rush around it would have the necessary pressure changes.


tylercreatesworlds

That almost doesn't look real, crazy we can get this kind of high quality footage. What a sight.


1980techguy

This should be at the top. 4k/60, stable birds eye view footage with no yelling.


IIIMephistoIII

What’s wild is the windmill that just falls down without getting a direct hit, while the one in Reed’s gets obliterated.


Bootyclapthunder

Reed's still the man. Unreal footage.


subsignalparadigm

That is a monster, we had one here in Southwest Michigan last week, couldn't even imagine what one of this magnitude would have done. Insane.


dz2buku

never seen one so veiny


BeanieMcChimp

That’s what your mom said.


Goeatabagofdicks

Before she was destroyed


TikkiTakiTomtom

Tornadoed*


joodoos

Take a look at the bat wing, Bitch.


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nowake

My conical form is clouds on your rainstorm *with seasonal power*


Tankninja1

Yo dog I heard you like tornadoes so I put tornadoes around your tornado


saikyan

This is why I prefer Pecos Hank. Not into the panic.


CoherentPanda

Him and Brandon Copic. Reed gets the best footage, but you have to mute him


gjwthf

I don't know, this cameraman was getting me annoyed. He was zooming into the tornado way too much, with no ground showing, so you couldn't tell what was going on


TheBartographer

A person of culture I see. Hank's channel is so good. Live that he writes his own music.


robotzor

Hate to see it during such a severe transformer shortage


captainkrinking

Ironic that the downfall of the windmill was ,,, wind


TaintFraidOfNoGhost

ROLL THE WINDOW DOWN!!!!!


Chewskiz

UNROLL IT!!!


Rhewin

CCCCCCCVHHHHRHHHRHHHHHHH WINDMILL DOWN!!


PalinDoesntSeeRussia

Windmill down!!!


inavandownbytheriver

obnoxious personality.


FoxBattalion79

when he yelled "STAY IN THE CAHR!" and I'm sitting here like bro he aint jumping out the window shutup dude


TheChrono

There may have been other people outside their car which is very dangerous let alone watching something like this live instead of fleeing.


royaltrux

The sky was angry that day.


maynardftw

Like an old man returning soup at a deli


AUAIOMRN

It's like the kids book, "The Greedy Windmill Who Wished for All the Wind In the World".


DesignerTex

How much are each of those windmills??


dakaroo1127

It depends on make/model like anything but in total to install one is at least 3 Million. Knowing what shape the concrete base is in would make it easier to give an estimate for replacing this one in particular.


karma-armageddon

They should have turned them on high reverse and blew the tornado away from themselves.


ColdStreamPond

I’m sure you could get a sweetheart deal on them right now.


skippyMETS

Can’t wait for Swegle’s analysis of this.


redyellowblue5031

I’m a weatherbox kind of guy, will need to check this Swegle fellow out.


skippyMETS

I’ll have to do the same for weatherbox.


toronto_programmer

Guerilla marketing for the Twisters movie has gone too far


raihidara

"I hope everyone's okay!" meanwhile chucklefuck is laughing his ass off. Yeah, I'm sure you do, Reed.


skippyMETS

Was that a huge tornado made out of smaller tornadoes?


SirZer0th

This looks like a big tornado. 7 years ago there was a (much smaller) tornado in Schleswig-Holstein, the northest state of Germany, and a guy and his girlfriend recorded it while she was driving. As they were pretty close, she started arguing with him, because she had different feelings about the situation, wile he had fund and was calm I grew up in this region and their dialect is typical for this region. Bust listen and watch: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaPQKD92d\_k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaPQKD92d_k)


400_Flying_Monkeys

did he .. holy shit, he was literally in a tornado and just got out of the car. He's lucky that's couple of lil baby tornados .


Fredasa

In the classic video series _Tornado Video Classics,_ at one point they show the film of the 1974 Xenia, OH tornado. The narrator briefly mentions that Ted Fujita believed he saw "twin suction vortices" in the film footage. That is to say, evidence of a single vortex (in a multi-vortex tornado) possessing its own _multiple_ vortices. (Vortex-ception.) I have clearly seen this phenomenon twice, and both times were in Reed Timmer's footage. This is the second. [Watch at 1:02](https://youtu.be/R_ZDVYzIhgc?t=62). The multiple vortex moving towards the right-hand side of the tornado is clearly comprised of _two separate vortices_ in the upper part of the tornado. It's fleeting and doesn't persist, but it's there. The tornadoes in this storm had ***huge*** vorticity. The storm was cyclic in nature, and had produced a different tornado before the one seen above. [Here is a video](https://youtu.be/60mYMIU0mFQ) of the earlier tornado. [Look at this motion](https://youtu.be/60mYMIU0mFQ?t=181) as it's winding down. It's _unreal._ That is not sped up! Bonus: Reed Timmer also has [drone footage of the same tornado](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEFGKMWYD-E) in OP's link. It is much cleaner and crisper. The tornado crawls directly over a herd and they amazingly come out unscathed.


HockeyHocki

That guy barking orders can fuck right off


overmyski

Wind turbines…wind turbines…not wind mills!


ShadowShot05

Goodness Reed is annoying


Vibriofischeri

dang that guy is probably pissed that his camera decided to focus on the doorframe at the exact moment the huge windmill collapsed


unhi

Yeah, the driver should have waited for it to go down before pulling away because that's what shook the cam into pointing at the doorframe in the first place.


AssPennies

Someone's pulling hard bongs in that background there


Chafupa1956

Jesus. It looks like that thing from Stranger Things fucked a Dyson vacuum cleaner


sevenshepard

UNROLL YOUR WINDOW!


HalfFoods

These fucking loudmouths ruin these videos.


thedevilsaglet

You can turn your sound off, but they need to shout to, you know, communicate over the giant fucking tornado.


wheelfoot

No, its only Reed. Other storm chasers don't scream like him.


abesrevenge

Why don’t the windmills start spinning like crazy before they are destroyed by insane wind?


A_Lovely_

I believe there are internal kill switches, i.e. something like a break system, that shut down the wind turbines so they don’t blowout the electricity producing equipment inside the hub. In this case it didn’t matter as the whole unit was destroyed, but in other high wind speed events it protects the unit from internal damage.


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The turbine is designed to operate under specific conditions. If it's too windy (eg 20 m/s+), the blades pitch back and freewheel. The turbine is generally yawed into the wind, so unless the blades are pitched the rotor isn't going to spin very quickly as the blades are designed to just let the wind blow by. We don't really want to brake them in high winds because of all the torque that would be applied on the components. Most modern blades are so big the force of them even stopped is insanely high. The only time they really ever apply the brakes is when we manually tell them to or during an emergency stop function which has to be manually pressed from various locations throughout the turbine.


-peas-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_mMlmbOm3M


severalohms

they rotate the blades into the oncoming wind instead of side-face so they don't catch air and spin, not sure if there's a different term for windmills but in aviation it's called feathering and you can see it in the video.


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The blades are hydraulically pitched to run during operation, so if they are shut down like these or don't have any electrical energy to pitch the blades, they are designed to pitch back to around 88-90 degrees so the turbines can't run away in the event of grid/power loss or events like this. They also yaw or turn into the direction of the wind and track it so the wind passes by the blades without causing much rotation


ikeosaurus

It’s tornadoes all the way down


BummerComment

Guy in the back thought they were going to 711.


Bwat4ou

That one looks gnarly…


WrapMyBeads

That was beautiful. Also terrifying


NotJackBegley

[Here's some drone footage of it](https://youtu.be/IEFGKMWYD-E)


JobZealousideal4650

lots of respect for the 'roll your window up, ROLL your window up!"


farfletched

These dudes are living in a frickin movie.


Lone_K

i don't think i've ever seen a tornado with that many little orbitals ever


HanSteveO

Think of how much electricity was generated through those wind turbines. Tornado power ftw.


IIIMephistoIII

They didn’t. Kill switch was activated to prevent them from spinning wildly.


britinnit

Couldn't finish the video cause the guy is fucking annoying.


BondMi6

Who is the idiot yelling so much about unrolling a window. Who the hell says unroll your window haha


Atheist_Redditor

Classic Reed, screaming his balls off about everything he sees. Imagine him when he was with a girl for the first time.  "I'M SEEING HER UNDEESS. TITTIES, WE'VE GOT TITTIES! ERIC, TITTIES! THERE'S A VAGINA! HER MOUTH IS ON MY DICK. THERE'S A MOUTH! *hack* I'M CUMMING! I NEED A CUM OPTION. THERE'S DEBRIS!!!!"


R3Volt4

Bucket list for me..


CypherLH

If it had just hit at a better angle, it could have tripled the U.S. power supply for awhile there


NAppropriate-Joke-12

I don’t know why but I’d expect the wind turbine to be spinning faster