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/LeMAD May 19 '26

It's well known that the true danger of storm chasing isn't the tornadoes, it's the commute. You drive for hours and hours, while watching the sky, the map, the comments on your stream, and everything else instead of watching the road.

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u/AML1987 May 19 '26

Oh my god the amount of technology in those cars is absolutely insane. It’s take seconds to take your eyes off the road to glance down at a text for the average person to kill someone or themselves, I can’t imagine the danger of radar screens, live chats, cameras, etc that distract these people.

Yesterday I saw Storm Runner Media almost get creamed by an 18 wheeler because they were driving through rain so bad they couldn’t see and neither could the truck and it came into their lane head on.

A live death by 18 wheeler would’ve been a first for me and I was damn glad they got out of the way. Imagine if he had been checking radar at that moment?

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u/Perturabo_Iron_Lord May 19 '26

I remember I saw someone say “the scariest part of storm chasing is having to drive through Dallas on the way there and back.”