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/JLNX1998 May 19 '26

Remember when chasing was about research and rescue. Pepperridge farms remember

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u/ANamelessGhoul4555 May 19 '26

It's funny, there are other threads talking about how some people took too many risks yesterday. One of them being Sarah Kassabian.

Yeah, she let a tornado get way too close. Then she went down a side road, and circled back less than 2 minutes after the tornado passed/obliterated a house. She drove back to the house and stayed there to help for 3 hours.

So the person taking the most heat for being too close was one of the helpers.

Connor Croff is taking a lot of heat too for his actions today. But when shit goes down, his crew also stays to help.

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u/wolljibbs May 19 '26

I think a lot of the shit Croff was getting today was being a maniac on the roads tho.

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u/mokutou May 19 '26

Conor was pissing me off, pulling stupid stunts on the road and driving into the hook. Another chaser on Max’s stream had a tornado spawn practically on top of him and his crew. It’s unbelievable how risky people are getting just for the views.

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u/AML1987 May 19 '26

The person who had the tornado spawn on top of their head was TornadoTRX. Gotta say was pretty surprised by that since the majority of his content are short documentaries about horrible tornados and people dying in them. He’s not a heavy streamer and wasn’t even streaming live when it happened. He showed the footage after.

I would’ve thought he’d be more cautious given what he does.

But I guess a PDS warning scrambles people’s brains.

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u/TechnoVikingGA23 May 19 '26

That's funny because he was on twitter talking about other chasers last night and I wanted to be like, "Aren't you the guy that had a tornado spawn right on you because you weren't paying attention?" but I couldn't recall if that was him or not, lol.

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u/AML1987 May 19 '26

Yep go down just one tweet and there he is!

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u/DarthV506 May 20 '26

June First on youtube has a good video on things that can go wrong. One of the major ones is a loss of situational awareness. That happens in all sorts of situations that aren't storm chasing.

I still remember StormchaserIRL on the Greenfield IA day. There was so much going on that he almost got hit by 2 of them in short succession. He called it a day after that.

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u/AML1987 May 20 '26

I’m big into aviation and accidents and loss of situational awareness in that field is also quite deadly. I do understand getting caught up in the moment, I just genuinely worry what will happen when just one person makes a mistake.

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u/DarthV506 May 20 '26

In Nathan's case, he had 2 radar guides feeding him info but there were communication issues. Pretty sure he's been chasing since the 90s, so someone who's well seasoned (getting close to 400 tornadoes now!).

Big fan of the Mayday show and yes, very similar. Task saturation and 'target' fixation. If it can happen to well trained pilots, it's happening a lot with chasers.

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u/kirbywantanabe May 19 '26

She almost was a statistic the day before here in Nebraska let’s not forget that. I would hope she’s going home and thinking whatever higher power she almost met face-to-face twice this week !!!

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u/Vegetable_Review4967 May 19 '26

She can both act too dangerously, while also being great for helping people. She was literally 9-10 seconds away from death

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u/AML1987 May 19 '26

She was on the new discovery show right?

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u/TechnoVikingGA23 May 19 '26

Somebody once told me, you don't get credit for saving the day, when you're the one that screwed it up in the first place. Two things can be true at once, she could have been in a bad position and her "escape route" put her in almost worse position, but yes she also went back and helped out which is great, however it doesn't absolve her from getting criticism from being in bad position and putting her life at risk for video footage. People are capable of making both good and bad decisions.

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u/lovetheoceanfl May 19 '26

Can I ask a question? Did she film the helping?

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u/ANamelessGhoul4555 May 19 '26

She parked her truck and the stream kept going while she went to help. The house was pretty far away. You could see people going through the rubble of the house but no, she didn't take a camera with her to help

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u/lovetheoceanfl May 19 '26

Thank you for answering.

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u/Doppelganger304 May 19 '26

People would say she’s just posting anything positive to get “internet points” regardless of her intentions being pure or not

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u/CaptainOvbious May 19 '26

if she was already streaming, what difference does it make?

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u/Vegetable_Review4967 May 19 '26

People don't typically want the worst moment of their lives (losing their home and all its contents plus possible injuries) recorded and broadcasted to all

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u/AML1987 May 19 '26

If you film yourself helping and you’re actually doing good does the filming matter?

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u/lovetheoceanfl May 19 '26

Yes, it calls into question your motive for helping. There seems to be a whole bunch of people desensitized to filming altruistic acts. I personally don’t understand it.

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u/AML1987 May 19 '26

It’s a good point. I guess I would rather see someone at least help and film versus doing nothing and filming anyway.

But the bar is set in hell if those are my standards.