TOO CLOSE! Russellville, AL Tornado 19 March 2018 Storm Chase
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- čas přidán 24. 03. 2018
- My First tornado of 2018!
Chasing, and being chased by, a tornado that hit Russellville, AL. A "moderate" risk (4 out of 5) for severe weather was outlined and a PDS tornado watch (Particularly Dangerous Situation) was issued for the likelihood of numerous tornadoes. Chris Dickerson and myself were positioned just East of where storms initiated before they quickly became tornadic supercells, also producing significant hail including an Alabama record 5.25" diameter hailstone. We navigated our way throughout a line of dangerous supercells to come into contact with a fairly large multi-vortex tornado, eventually being impacted directly by an ever-intensifying storm and seeking shelter to allow the tornado to pass so we could pursue from behind. This video highlights our tornado chase throughout the day. (DISCLAIMER: As I've said before, it is NOT my intent to drive into tornadoes as I do not have a specially built vehicle for that and quite frankly it's just not my thing. We were chasing in a standard vehicle and while we may have chased aggressively we always take steps to maintain our safety.)
Proud but always anxious Mom here. Great job son!!! You amaze me more everyday!
Lori Duncan Thank ya. I do my best.
I can't even imagine how you must feel! God Bless ya'all!
Dirtmaid Thanks for that! Chasing tornadoes is just something I've wanted to do since I was a kid, for some reason ha, and I figure that I'm going to be out there anyway so we try to give people a head's up whenever we can since there usually aren't too many people close enough to know exactly where these things are at.
Stay Safe young man! Will be looking for your videos!
Dirtmaid Always! I'll be posting all of my chases this season (I stayed away from CZcams until last year) and I will also be doing webcasts over various things so hopefully you'll dig it. I'm also on FB, Twitter, and I have a website as well so I plan on being much more active publicly this year as opposed to previous seasons where I preferred to stay more stealthy. Again, thanks for the kind words.
As a mother, When warnings are out I call all my adult children and tell them to be careful and take cover. Your poor momma! Lol. Thanks for the calmness, the clean language, and the actual sounds. Subscribed to you because of it. You and Pecos Hank...the best. Be careful, tho. AND watch out for the excitable storm chasers driving all fast and crazy and not paying attention to the traffic.
I'm trying to get caught up on comments and I want to say thank you for the praise! Hank is a big inspiration of mine and I really appreciate such a comment.
I haven't been active for awhile and honestly planned on just leaving my channel alone but the support has been pretty awesome so I'll be back at it this season. And I make a point to not act insane when I'm chasing. I like to make content anyone can watch so I'm happy you enjoy it and keep an eye out for new content soon.
At last someone is putting some decent up to date storm chasing footage on CZcams. Thank you so much and wow that was intense! Have definitely hit subscribe and the notifications bell 😆😆😆
The Dummyblondes Wow, thank you! Once mother nature cooperates there's going to be plenty more so I'm glad you love it.
Dustin Knight well stay safe, have fun and I'll keep watching and sharing 😆😆😆
It's a breath of fresh air you make a great video and the best part no constant foul language I live in hartselle Alabama and we need professional people being our eyes and ears keep up the good work and be safe
OMG...that was intense..I felt like I was sitting in that trunk and about to blow away. I thought the window or at least the windshield wipers would break. Awesome video!
Awesome meeting up with you folks out there too (Chris Collura in the Jeep there from Florida). Great work.
cdcollura Oh man! I was just wondering yesterday how things went for you after we went our separate ways. It's so awesome to hear from ya.
Thanks Chris! Looking forward to seeing ya in the field again 😊
I can't get enough of Tornado videos... Yours is very interesting
Rain wrapped tornadoes are the hardest to predict its trajectory when your following it! One of the reasons the El reno tornado was so unpredictable and plus multi forces dont help either.
Good job mate 👍👍
tony machaveli Yeah that definitely made it tricky. Part of our problem was that we had such a clear view of what appeared to be the tornado but it was actually just a satellite vortex. I saw the rain curtains wrapping around the actual tornado and that's when we realized it was pretty much on top of us so obviously we took our escape route and stuff. Fortunately it was early in its life cycle so it wasn't terribly strong yet. It was strong for sure but not the destructive EF3 It became.
Intense footage, Dustin! That one was difficult with how rain-wrapped it was, I was worried about the chasers out there on it.
It certainly was! We knew that would probably be the case and even getting right up on it we could only see the actual tornado for a few moments when it first touched down. We saw the funnel make contact with the ground right in front of us and, no joke, within just a few seconds it looked like the whole wall cloud came down around it.
Oh gosh, yeah that sounds intense!
jesus man ... in your experience of storm chasing i gotta ask, do you think the frequency of intense storms are increasing??
It was better on Belmont Ms my community I was out on Belmont Ms that day March 19th 2018 the was a very heavy core to my north with large hail and I got in the notch
That reminds me of the tornado I got caught in driving, last year. Very scary, even though it was a weak one. The hail was brutal and the wind and rain, caused a total white-out in front of me, at the side and behind my car. Scary!
ON TARIO Oh wow! I believe it. Often times it's not like some may imagine when you're in something like that but it's more just extreme wind and rain/hail. It may seem like a regular storm and then all of a sudden you're in it without ever seeing it coming. That's why it's always a good idea to never assume anything and make the decision that keeps you safe. I'll admit we probably pushed our luck a bit in the video and I wouldn't recommend people get that close regardless of how strong you think it is. Fortunately we had the benefit of radar data etc and we knew the visual clues that kept us oriented to the actual tornado's center because we only saw the condensation funnel on the ground a few times, first behind us and then again in front of us on the highway when we pulled over on the side of the road to give it a lead on us, the rest of the time it was just intense rain/wind/hail. If you don't have the experience, knowledge, and tools or simply just get caught off guard it would have been easy to drive right into it. Unfortunately we did see vehicles that were blown off the road and flipped (they were okay) from that very thing. Glad you were alright after your situation!
Canada doesn't see intense Tornado weather like you all do. Great footage, stay safe!
watersfan You all DID have lawnmower man last year though sooo...that has to count for something haha. Thank you very much.
Stereotypical Canadian behavior. A little too chill, lol!
watersfan I hope to channel that chillness every time I chase. I can't come close but I can certainly try lol
Imagine driving down Interstate 20 on your way home to Atlanta and a storm chaser passes you by. Sh!t what storm are they chasing and am I driving into it? Scary, man.
OMG!!! You Guys are awesome, i have watched many videos and live streams of storm chasers over the years, but this one has hit me with an F5 of scaredness. 😰😟 keep safe & ML❤
ML?
Thank you sooo much!!
@@plazmatter Much Love ❤
Your first tornado of 2018, and the first of my life. I can do without any more.
VirlomiEntreri Yeah we'd much rather see those tornadoes that stay in open fields and don't really do anything as opposed to these that move through towns. Coincidentally my second tornado of this year was on Tuesday about 2.5 blocks from my house.
Yikes!
Hi Dustin Knight. First storm of the year... wow! With footage like that will deffo be watching. I can only watch you guys chase. I'm in UK. My dream holiday would be to see a storm chase. As long as everyone is safe...😊🌪🌩. Thanks for sharing... 💞
Thank you so much Julie Norton! It's really fantastic that you enjoy our storm chases. I'm grateful that something I love to do brings so many a bit of entertainment and joy (which is always good) and I'll definitely be doing my best to get some more storms to share. Hopefully you can make it across one of these days yourself.
I live in the UK too Julie, would also love to see a storm one day.
That inflow tail looks sick, nice video.
Great footage. You've got a new subscriber.
A Crawford Boy Thank you very much!!
Subscribed. Thank you, stay safe!
Was interesting seeing the wipers still going Had not seen like that before. Glad you took shelter. Shows wisdom.
Carolyn Brt Thank you very much. I'm as comfortable as you can be getting close to tornadoes but when it overtook us and we didn't really have an orientation of it for a couple minutes me knew the smart move was to let it pass over us and come back at it from the other side.
That green was popping!! I was scared af!!
Definitely a new subscriber here, I love this sh*t, thank you for risking your neck for us. Much appreciated 🙏🏽
Thank you! I really slacked on comments for awhile but I'm trying to catch up and I appreciate this so much. I'm making new content right now so it's super motivating to see people enjoy it. All I try to do is share something I love with other people who may like it. I've even considered making more discussion-based videos and stuff too but we'll see how it all plays out. Either way I've got an entire chase season worth of footage to use for videos so stay tuned. And again, thank you!
Why did you go south toward the core?
Oh funny coincidence! In German "Rüssel" means "Trunk" and the word is colloquially used for a Tornado or a Funnelcloud!
Thanks for this tidbit!
12:25 when it's exams in just a few minutes and you haven't studied
A tornado video without the extra screaming! Good job 👍
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP. Storm Storm Storm Storm BEEP BEEP! Your truck was scared too! Great tor vid. RWMess! But good!
Matt Furman haha it really was. It was a mess, that's why we took the western area instead of East because we figured we'd have a better shot visually if we were close to the burst point. We were kinda right but it still wrapped up super quickly.
Dustin Knight I love rain wrapped messes. Not enough of them are posted! They show how intense things can get! Good job Dustin. Thanks for risking your butts out there to get this awesome footage.
Matt Furman Thanks man! I do what I can. Obviously I prefer visible tornadoes in open fields just throwing dirt around but unfortunately that's not how it always goes so I try to document them as they really are and do my best in any given situation.
No storm chaser thinks about their wheels being scared 😉
Rachel Jennings We'll have to start being more considerate of our ride's feelings now 😀
Dude!!! Where is the rotation??
That eerie green tinted sky..I bet that was beautiful to witness.
soulful terrain It was! Never gets old to be honest.
That constant rumbling of thunder sounds amazing
I remember watching chasers that day on livestormchasing and severestudios. Heckuva day!
Wow great quality sound and footage. 🌪
Renné Edwards Thank you!
You can hear the roar so well. Incredible! Why didn't you take the keys to the car in with you?
Honestly I just think he didn't think about it. I was riding in the passenger seat so I of course wasn't thinking about it either. There have been some people asking "where the tornado was" and that's what made it sketchy. The tornado actually is never clearly visible and we were overconfident that we were ok. We realized at the last second that there was a tornado within the rain and that's what rolled over us.
What was this tornado rated
M Robinson It was rated a high-end EF1 when we were on it in the video. I only worded it "high end" because it was surveyed at 110mph and EF2 starts at 111mph. This was the early stages of the supercell that produced the EF3 in Jacksonville, AL a little later.
Was it you who designed the SVL media logo? Pretty cool
Have you ever heard of Rain-X?
If it is scraping the ground, then does that make it technically a tornado?
avenger007007 By definition the circulation must be in contact with the ground so technically it would be a tornado if it was in fact connecting to the surface. A lot of times we'll refer to a very low and usually large wall cloud in slang as "ground scraping" which isn't technically a tornado but if the circulation makes contact with the surface then it is.
Amazing
Thank you! I do my best out there to cover these things.
This video realy nice i love the hevy rainy lik this thanks alot from mi iiiiii. Your frend from saudia arabia
Why exactly does the sky turn green?
I've always wondered that !
Lara Kite there is video on that .
Deals with light reflecting through the storm so it appears green.
Lara Kite Yeah like Patrick said, you get yellow light from the Sun filtered through the blueish color of water within the storm and you end up with greenish colors, some more vivid than others.
Dustin Knight thank you for the break down. I truly appreciate it! 😁 It's always so pretty when it happens. Just wish it didn't always bring destruction. 😞
Bro that bearcage was intense, that green color was just eerie as hell to see
🌪♥️🌪 Those were some intense storms that day through nightfall❗️
Colette' G. Yes they were! We were on them when they first developed near Tupelo, MS and ended up watching them throughout the night until they reached Atlanta, GA and they never lost any steam from when they produced this tornado until pretty much the next day. I'm glad everyone seemed prepared because those were dangerous storms, especially after dark.
Dustin Knight 🌪 Yes I watched you guys all the way to Atlanta 😉😄 I was glued to it❗️Great job‼️
Dustin Knight 🌪 I got a little nervous when they started for Stanford Ga. My sister & family live there. I was blowing up there phone when I heard that. I was already freakin out at how much stronger they had gotten after dark. Like monsters coming across there.
Colette' G. I don't blame you. I would've been calling anyone I knew in the path as well. Obviously any one of them were capable of producing tornadoes (most did actually produce tornadoes) but every one of them was putting down large to insanely large hail and dangerous lightning too.
Colette' G. I also want to say thanks for following along! I've been pretty distant from CZcams with working on my degrees and stuff but with storm season back upon us I'm going to be a lot more active on here and it's awesome to know people enjoy and appreciate it.
Good storm senses, Intense.
Thank you!
I was out in the field that day in my community of Belmont Ms where that same wall cloud came right at me and I got git by strong rfd winds I loved every bit of it 😂😂
Scary Stuff. Right Here!
Was that off of hwy 43? Or 78 ?
Initially, when we were watching the wall cloud move in toward us as the storm started to blow up, we were on hwy 24 West of 43. When we actually saw the tornado we were on 43 and took shelter near the Waffle House. As soon as it passed over us we pursued it from the backside of the circulation on 48 I believe and after being on that road we ended up on 78 eastbound eventually. There were obviously a few times we had to be on various back roads around town but those were the primary roads we used.
Dustin Knight . I use to live in Hackleburg back in 2011 the year of the super outbreak. I haven't been in that area for a few years now but thought it looked familiar.
Oh wow! I remember that day (as I'm sure everyone does) but I can't imagine living down there during that. I've gone through major outbreaks here (2 March 2012) as well but the 1974 super outbreak was before my time and the 2011 super outbreak spared us up here. Hackleburg was also one of the most hard hit areas too so I imagine that was crazy. We've reviewed that day quite a bit in college.
I watched you pull in. What a ⛈
Matt Fuller No kidding?
That’s my house just up from the mex lol
Where was the tornado?
Joy Zuegn When we were sitting stationary and the windshield wipers were going right before we said we have to go South that big dark green thing in front of us was the tornado. You can see a horizontal vortex/satellite vortex sticking out of the side of it. We were watching the satellite circulation but when we realized the whole thing was actually a large rain-wrapped tornado we realized we were in a sketchy spot so we tried to get out of it. After that we were inside of it and took shelter, let it pass right over us, and then went into the backside of it. After we left the restaurant or whatever it was it was only 100-400yds ahead of us at any time but as you can see at that point it was completely wrapped up and wasn't visible anymore except by knowing visual clues (wind direction, rain curtains, appearance of suction vortices). We prefer to try to get on photogenic tornadoes in open fields in the plains but that's just not how it works all the time, especially in Alabama.
Joy Zuegn Russellville Albama
Pretty good wiper blades your running....
I wonder how much rain is dumped during these Tornadoes
Joyleen Poortier I'd have to look at the observed rainfall data from these particular storms but a little number crunching can tell you just how much water a storm can drop. So if a storm produces 1" of rain (as measured in a gauge) that would be about one US gallon in a 1'-1' area or on a more fun scale of 1 square mile, 1" of rain would produce 17,378,560 gallons. That's enough to fill 434,464 40-gal bathtubs by the way!
Im more curious of the amount within close proximity to the tornado versus the rest of thr storm myself. 50% more? A little less?
heretic30176 Ok I get what you're saying. I'll see if I can figure it out for you. I know it is only a percentage of what the whole storm itself produced but the areal amounts/rates will be the same as the numbers I gave you before so I'll see if I can figure out some specifics for you.
Jeez I did not know about any of the stuff that goes on in my state.
hey one of you came to my school and showed me this
love storms wish had this here in australia
No you dont!!! They kill you
That ominous green tinted sky........
Remember People Tornadoes are very unpredictable, speed up slow, backup and take hard Left and Right turns. Stay Safe.
Great footage... BUT there's one thing I don't quite understand. You run in for shelter that was smart. BUT you left your car running??? That not so smart, around here if you'd done that your car would have been gone before you had reached the door, storm or no storm... I'm happy to see y'all got more honest people there... But still why did you leave the car running??? It just don't make sense to me...
Bobby Baldeagle For one thing, we were right inside looking out so it wasn't entirely unattended. Also, if someone wants to steal a Jeep while literally inside of a rain-wrapped multi-vortex tornado then they need it more than we do lol. Plus it was rigged with GPS that we can track with our phone so unless they figured that out we would just show up and get it back.
joe sar Yep. Also, we knew the tornado was just a few seconds behind us and was going to pass directly over us so we wanted to chill somewhere safe for a minute and let it pass so we could come back at it immediately on its West flank (back of the tornado). I didn't necessarily want to deal with the RFD and "ghost train" but we really liked the idea of chasing it from just a few yards behind it instead of a few yards in front of it. Basically we left the keep running because we knew we'd be jumping right back in it and making pursuit.
I thought about the whole car theft thing, but I figured even the druggies were ducking for cover thru that!
Bobby Baldeagle Is the car doors open too? As the dinging suggests? ...
Priorities. Leaving a truck on during a tornado would be the last thing I'm thinking of when I'm trying to get out of the truck during a tornado.
When the sky turns green here in the south you better duck and dodge! It takes courage to chase storms great work but be careful!
Close the damn door!!!
you think
Did I miss it?
Nah, what happened was that we got caught by a larger rain-wrapped tornado. There was never really a clear shot of a tornado but when the rain overran us that was the edge of the tornado (this was further confirmed with radar data, other chasers who shot from farther away, and the post-event damage survey in addition to our observations). When it became clear we weren't going to see the tornado clearly and had perhaps been too aggressive we sheltered to hopefully get a shot from behind it, but after it passed it was never visible anymore and stayed well within the rain (this storm did cycle several times and produced visible tornadoes across parts of Georgia later that night but we decided not to chase farther into the jungle after dark).
Thanks. U r brave.
Thank you! I'm just a dude doing something I love though. I try to do it in a way that helps others since I'm going to be out there anyway because I don't want to be in the way. I spent several days with wildland firefighters in Gatlinburg, Tennessee a few years ago assisting with search and rescue while the fires were burning and my gosh THOSE folks are brave.
"I can't see shit in this downpour, Man!" This was a nightmare!
james woody Definitely! I always feel for my chase partner because he does most of the driving and I don't necessarily help us stay in "driver friendly" conditions.
I hear ya'.
Highly distinctive green color in that one.
Sound like a flat tire great video
I'm a trained skywarn storm spotter and storm chaser and I was on the massive wall cloud that came threw my community of Belmont Ms we have bad storms around here all the time but I'd say the March 19th 2018 massive wall cloud in Belmont Ms was in the top five all time worse storms I've ever been on in Belmont ms
Great job.....I likes....glad not all the FOUL Cussing, & Screaming......really enjoy & relaxing...
elizabeth barnes Glad you like it! There are times when something might slip here or there because it does get intense and sometimes we might be a little excited but I make it a point to watch what I say. I'm typically a relaxed guy so it carries over, even when I'm chasing tornadoes.
Come on man
He tried to save the restuarant
People don’t laugh because it’s not every day that I watch something on CZcams and see your Miami of Ohio Redhawks hat on someone I live 15 miles away from it what a coincidence pretty cool
Cap guess guarantee preserve intense sum result participant precious unknown stuff.
Greenage
Nice hat GO REDHAWKS !!!!!
If we start getting monster Hale I'm bailing. Lmao. Just jump out of the car moving at high speed would be better..
Hahaha. You gotta do what you gotta do. This thing was throwing down 5" hail but we chose to tangle with the tornado instead.
Shout out for my hometown. Lol
BamaMedic, Russellville is your hometown? I've chased in Alabama before but that was my first time there specifically and I thought it was a nice place. I always try to explore every place I end up because I don't want to travel the Country all the time just to drive past everything. You never know what kind of things you'll discover, ya know.
BamaMedic I've seen you somewhere before, don't remember what video.
Go GoldenTigers!!
Invest in a $5 bottle of Rain-X
No actual tornado footage, eh?
Imaginertiophile Actually, in the style of all the 2018 rain-wrapped messes (except Tescott, KS and anything in Wyoming) the tornado is briefly visible across the street from us when we're under the awning. It pokes out of the right side of the RFD clear slot before occluding. From that point we were inside and on the edge of the circulation for the remainder of the video. We knew it was an HP supercell so we got right up into the notch but unfortunately it wasn't the photogenic tornado you may hope for. As a matter of fact, anyone who was on this tornado has similar footage. They don't always look like they do in Twister.
Hey nothing wrong with Michigan 🤓🤓🤓🤓
Laura Gadille Not at all hehe. My buddy that was with me got his degree from Miami, Ohio so he may feel a little differently 😊.
Haha! Yeah, I went to Miami, but the Michigan stuff is because I’m a big Ohio State guy (several family members are alumni). I don’t take the rivalry THAT seriously, but it’s always fun to make jokes 😉
Chris Dickerson Not to a die hard Michigan fan lol GO BLUE
Laura Gadille I'm going to remain neutral since one of you enjoys my chase videos and the other is, ya know, my chase partner, so I'll stay loyal to my college haha. Go Tops!
Dustin Knight lol
God That Was Close To Were I Live!
The bird knows...trying to warn you. Foolish human.
Give me back my 14:35.
Awee man. Not the Waffle House.
Rachel It's just awful isn't it?
Just brings a tear to my eye 😢
Needless to say the Waffle House employees were just a little shaken up. I had to check since we were some of the first people on the scene.
No video is worth your lives. Stay away from those high precipitation killers.
We were relatively safe. That's a big reason why we took shelter inside. We were watching a little funnel we thought was the developing tornado, but we realized the actual tornado was much larger and concealed within the HP core, which meant we were in a sketchier spot. We could have been more aggressive and possibly gotten a clearer view but once the edge of the tornadic circulation at large overran us we decided to play it safe and let it pass, ultimately to attempt a play from behind it (which didn't work since it was entirely rain-wrapped). Thank you for the concern, we appreciate that.
Dude you weren't even close to the tornado. That was just a bunch of rain. The trees weren't even blowing. Boring
Cindy Church never get to close one thing you shouldnt do in storm chasing
Jfv nation understood. God speed. Be safe
No! not the Waffle House! That's just not fair.
Say it ain't so! A Waffle House was hit. Noooooooooo! We don't have Waffle House restaurants where I live. I love Waffle House. On a more serious note...I hope no one was killed. That was a crazy storm.
WD7N To my knowledge no one was killed. There were injuries unfortunately but last I had checked no one was killed during the entire outbreak.
WD7N, If you live where there's no Waffle Houses, no Cheerwine, no GooGoo Clusters, and the restaurants don't include grits with breakfast then it's time to move. 73 from 4-land where life is mighty good!
I'm originally from FL and I have to make my own grits. Live near Yellowstone in Idaho. We do have GooGoo's here but I really miss the Waffle House Restaurants. I miss real food.
I'm not a big fan of them, but I believe that Waffle House is a Southern institution, of sorts, aren't they?