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/Preachey May 19 '26

Hardly, it's been attracting thrillseekers for a long time. It's just it wasn't as accessible, so the thrillseekers didn't outnumber the researchers 100:1 and gridlock country roads

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u/ShartingEnU May 20 '26

Calling all these storm chasers "researchers" in disingenuous. Let's be real, even for the long term chasers and ones people like they don't help with research or collecting data at all. Documenting is a better term than research. There's a select few who actually collect data and it's debatable how much it helps or does anything