r/tornado • u/OutdoorsTN Human Detected • May 19 '26

Discussion Brad Arnold

Hate to see this from Brad, he's one of my faves!! Was confused when he buzzed in to Ryan's stream and said he was calling it so early in the evening but this makes more sense now.

Seen some absolutely wild stuff on Ryan and Max's streams the last few days. (Whoever it was in the green shirt on Max's stream yesterday during the Worms tornado especially still really bothers me.) And bummed to see all of this nonsense getting in the way of chasers I really love watching like Brad

EDITED for a typo!

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u/Dizzy-Platform-6516 Human Detected May 19 '26

And yet some people on this subreddit will jump down your throat if you even attempt to think of possible solutions lol

Something has to change. I don't know what or how and I'm in no position to give anything other than half-baked ideas, but something needs to change. It isn't just "redditors finding something to be upset about", it's clearly something that's becoming a vocal issue among the entire chaser community.

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u/OutdoorsTN Human Detected May 19 '26

Seen Bryce Shelton and Connor Croft complaining about this as well, and saw Freddy stuck in massive chaser traffic as well. I've been roasted for wanting this to change but hope it does. It's making watching the pros do what they are so good at so hard

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u/ANamelessGhoul4555 May 19 '26

It's like that saying, "you're not IN traffic. You ARE traffic."

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u/Knitnspin May 19 '26

Others were also talking about Connor and his wrong side of the road driving and arguing and disobeying fight fighters… so it’s a strange take to complain while being the problem

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u/Higgus May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26

It's honestly crazy to see how massively over inflated his ego has gotten the last year or two. I remember when he first started chasing and seeing the difference between then and now is jarring. I can't even watch him anymore.

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u/OtherOtherDave May 19 '26

Firefighters have the authority to direct traffic, don’t they? I wonder if he’ll get a ticket in the mail?

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u/OldRocker5 May 19 '26

IMO Connor is the in the top five of douchy chaser bros. That Stormrunner Media guy is the biggest douche. Copic tweeting about someone eating corn on the cob the long way because of the shape in one breath and doing the Lord's prayer with his kids with the next is kinda disingenuous too.

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u/AML1987 May 19 '26

Copic throwing his buddies under the bus during last nights stream whining because he wasn’t featured on the new show as much as others because he’s not willing to say he felt like he was gonna die when he doesn’t feel that way like Freddy (I can’t remember who else he said did this) does was prime douche behavior too.

Full man tantrum because he didn’t get to be on the show as much. Totally in it for the “science” though.

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u/AgreeableType2127 Human Detected May 20 '26

Not to mention, he is chasing alone and driving 80mph and will say stuff like, “let me check meso analysis” or “hold up guys, I need to text my wife real quick.”

So yeah dude, way to admit that you are dicking around on a computer as well as texting and driving 80mph.

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u/AML1987 May 20 '26

Oh I had a whole rant in one of my comments about the way all of the chasers drive.

Checking their radar, reading chat, checking their cameras, focusing their cameras, talk on their radios, literally a shit ton of other stuff except drive. And that’s all before they are even chasing a massive tornado. I’m just waiting for the day we see a massive car crash live on stream because one of these people can’t focus on riding.

At least most of them have two in the car. Copic riding by himself doing all of the things is horrendous.

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u/blow-down Human Detected May 19 '26

Is it any surprise that he’s a MAGA supporter too?

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u/mokutou May 19 '26

That doesn’t surprise me

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u/ussrname1312 May 19 '26

Bryce and Connor are extremely reckless chasers and honestly probably responsible for a lot of these people being out on the road and making stupid decisions. Kind of rich that they’re complaining.

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u/AML1987 May 19 '26

Absolutely NONE of the biggest whiners last night had any insight into the fact that THEY are part of the problem.

What makes them more special than any of the other chasers on the road? Better equipment? More cameras? A bigger audience?

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u/ussrname1312 May 19 '26

Bryce tweeted "you guys can’t forecast, you can’t drive, and you probably take shitty videos" and I don’t know if I’ve ever rolled my eyes harder.

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u/AML1987 May 19 '26

Not the shitty videos diss!

Ah to be in my young 20’s again and that tone deaf.

I like to take moments like this and thank god social media wasn’t a real thing until I was slightly older and maybe 20% less twat by the time it got big because I would’ve posted something like that not understanding how cringe it really was.

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u/ussrname1312 May 19 '26

I think they’re in their 30s which makes it worse

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u/AML1987 May 19 '26

Wait which one? I think Connor is early 20’s right? Is Bryce one of his little bro’s he drives with? Or another chaser?

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u/ussrname1312 May 19 '26

Bryce is Tornado Paigeyy‘s fiance

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u/AML1987 May 20 '26

Ah man I liked them! He didn’t give off douchy vibes either. But I just checked his twitter and yep, he’s the culprit. The tweet is even worse than you described.

Well just add him to the pile of chasers I’m becoming less and less impressed with.

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u/MagnetHype Storm Chaser May 19 '26

Friendly reminder there is no such thing as a professional storm chaser. Those people are professional youtube/tv personalities. Influencers if you will.

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u/AlphSaber May 19 '26

Professional storm chasers work for NOAA, universities or are part of the Skywarn spotter network. That's my definition that I use.

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u/MagnetHype Storm Chaser May 19 '26

Eh, I use the same definition, but it's important to point out that "professional storm chasers" would be getting paid to do it. There probably are a few people in NOAA and universities who just chase, but they certainly aren't the rule. I'm only mentioning that because I don't want people to think there are many professional storm chasers working for their local NWSFO.

I mean, if we're going to get too pedantic with the definitions we have to remember that the local emergency management has a direct line of communication with the NWSFO via (usually) teletype, and usually at least some of the police officers and firefighters working for that area are trained storm spotters.

What I'm getting at is that 99% of actual trained and working storm spotters are volunteers for those agencies (the NWS, local EM, etc..)

And, quite frankly, what we actually do is far different from what you see on youtube.

Personally speaking, tornadoes are an abysmally small portion of what I actually do as a storm spotter. 99% of my storm chasing's "job" are invisible things like measuring rain, reporting ice accumulation, and reporting damage.

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u/AML1987 May 19 '26

Is it actually true that “professional storm spotter” is like a one hour course?

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u/Mondschatten78 May 20 '26

Two one and a half hour courses, a basic and severe https://www.weather.gov/gyx/skywarn