Oklahoma Tornado Video: Watch It Start

[Evo]

This is the best video of the tornado, it shows it starting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMF22_MEMJU&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMF22_MEMJU

 

[phinds]

You have to wonder why this guy wasn't driving like a bat out of hell in the other direction. I sure would have been.

 

[Evo]

Me too. A few years ago, I had dropped Evo Child off at a friend's and the tornado sirens started. They had a basement, and they were headed down, so I left her there. Driving home on the highway, there were three tornadoes in a row touched down, but miles away on the horizon. That was still too close for me. The tornadoes were in open fields, so only a couple of barns were damaged, but as more and more land is developed, more people end up with homes in what used to be open fields.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Really is amazing how it develops in just a few minutes

 

[Astronuc]

You have to wonder why this guy wasn't driving like a bat out of hell in the other direction. I sure would have been.

I think the tornado was moving across his field of vision.

 

[Evo]

I think the tornado was moving across his field of vision.

Uhm...yeah...but tornadoes are notorious for changing direction. So, I don't get your point. What he did was extremely dangerous. People shouldn't try that.

 

[Astronuc]

Uhm...yeah...but tornadoes are notorious for changing direction. So, I don't get your point. What he did was extremely dangerous. People shouldn't try that.

He rationalized he was OK. He repositioned the car a few times somewhat ahead and to the side of the path. Did he take a risk? Certainly.

The Weather Channel often shows 'storm/tornado chasers'. Most people shouldn't do that, but I think some are savvy enough to be responsible, especially if they monitor with radar and proper information.

 

[reenmachine]

Great video! Tornadoes are scary , I don't know how you guys in the tornado valley can live there with storms like this.

 

[davenn]

You have to wonder why this guy wasn't driving like a bat out of hell in the other direction. I sure would have been.

Us storm chasers never drive away from storm/tornadoes -- its what we live for ;)
heck my wife and I fly all the way to the USA just to get into the right spot in front of the storm to be able to photo/video it :)

Dave

 

[Evo]

Us storm chasers never drive away from storm/tornadoes -- its what we live for ;)
heck my wife and I fly all the way to the USA just to get into the right spot in front of the storm to be able to photo/video it :)

Dave

This guy wasn't a storm chaser though, it was a local resident.

Incredible video my Dad took of the May 20th tornado FORMING and destroying everything in its path near Newcastle," the user wrote

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/video-moore-tornado-formation-oklahoma-170200551.html

 

[berkeman]

Us storm chasers never drive away from storm/tornadoes -- its what we live for ;)
heck my wife and I fly all the way to the USA just to get into the right spot in front of the storm to be able to photo/video it :)

Sounds like you and your wife haven't been reading the small print on the back of the rental car agreement...

 

[Monique]

He repositioned the car a few times somewhat ahead and to the side of the path.

He was driving around in the same parking lot, that hardly qualifies as staying out of the path of a massive tornado...? The footage is imposing, how the funnel turns brown at some point.. glad I don't have to deal with such storms.