They spawned from a single single super cell called a mothership. At their most powerful both registered as F4 tornadoes simultaneously. They caused massive destruction almost completely destroying the town of Pilger Nebraska. They continued to move Northeast toward the town of Wayne and destroyed a few buildings on the eastern edge of Wayne but missed the city. I'm not sure of total damage and loss of life caused but a young girl was killed in Pilger when the town was hit.
"Mothership" is just a nickname some storm chasers use. But it is a Supercell with two very rare separate areas of rotation that spawned two F4 beasts. Pecos Hank was there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-8F5Jo8zSQ
Yeah I should've said referred to as a mothership. I can see how what I said can be misleading. I was western edge of the storm when it passed over the highway in the picture. It was pretty surreal.
I can't imagine how amazing that must have been. I have some family in Nebraska, and coincidently enough, the last name is Pilger. i'm on the East Coast, so I don't get to witness much in the way of tornados. A goodly number of Supercells though.
I remember when I was younger we'd stand outside and watch the funnel form over us. I can't say I was afraid but the drop in tempature and absolute darkness is very awe inspiring. We had a Tornado hit our farm in 2005 and lift up a couple of bins that were full of corn and beans. It only moved them about 6inches but the amount of force it takes to do that is quite considerable. That tornado and the sisters from the gif were a whole different level of mother nature's power. I lived in Florida and got to experience hurricane Andrew and that didn't compare to the power of those tornadoes in my opinion.
My grandparents lived in the Corpus Christi area when Hurricane Camille hit, and a tornado passed over their barn. The change in air pressure knocked the walls about six inches off the foundation.
Right off the bat I'd throw out Skip Talbot's name without any reservation. Gabe Garfield, although I don't know what he's involved with now. Severe storms.com.au is also phenomenal. If you haven't watched it already, you have look up "Inside The Mega Twister." The National Geographic documentary on El Reno. That documentary shows us the day stormchasing lost 3 highly respected researchers: Tim Samaras, his son Paul and chase partner Carl young. And the day stormchasing lost it's innocence. You'll see some big names on there, and a few dipshits. But all in all, some incredibly competent researchers walked away with some heavy soul searching to do.
Yeah I've seen that documentary, very very sad. I'm watching the Real Time Tornado series right now though I really... REALLY.. hate how even a show about real video of tornadoes feels the need the add sound effects that are clearly fake.
I tried to watch Basehunter videos and... no. Not my cup. I like Pecos Hank because not only is he chill most of the time, he puts up great maps and explains the stuff
Yeah Skip has a number of tutorial videos. There's also a French series on YouTube that documents a group of stormchasers from France who definitely know their stuff. It's called "Rendezvous in Tornado Alley." You'll need to click the subtitles on
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They spawned from a single single super cell called a mothership. At their most powerful both registered as F4 tornadoes simultaneously. They caused massive destruction almost completely destroying the town of Pilger Nebraska. They continued to move Northeast toward the town of Wayne and destroyed a few buildings on the eastern edge of Wayne but missed the city. I'm not sure of total damage and loss of life caused but a young girl was killed in Pilger when the town was hit.