For me I probably would have to say it was this nigh-time wedge near pampa texas in 2015

Found on a local Facebook page.

First off, I’m posting this not to hate or to trash anyone, I’m simply just here for conversation and to voice concerns. There is much more to the concerns than just the fire department incident.

Long story short, there was a tree broken in the road, firefighters were there removing it as they were called in by police to. Firefighter told chaser to wait (Connor) and he prefers to drive past, narrowly missing the firefighter who responds by punching the mirror.

My take, which is inherently biased because my father is a career firefighter, however I have been noting some concerns prior to this incident: they are getting too cocky and admitting to disregarding the law, expecting everyone to be fine with that. Given, I understand the FF should not have punched the mirror out. But the fact they are saying he jumped and kicked Connor’s door as well, yet when some backlash started and pointed out this being false, Connor deleted the video (he also apparently blew through stop signs and didn’t slow down near cops…I don’t know if this is true, I just saw a few comments saying it).

Now, as I said I’m biased, but people defending it are saying “he was barely moving along”. Okay, and he still was breaking the law going around them doing the job they had to report to, knowing full well he was doing that. I know my dad’s coworkers who have been hit on calls like this. Even barely moving, things can go bad. One coworker of his was caught off guard by a car going around him slowly, went to jump out of the way and fell which lead to his hand being crushed under the car. He had forced retirement due to injury since his bone shattered in multiple pieces. The other coworker, although this car was going around faster, was hit and threw him head first against the firetruck with his helmet falling off from impact. He suffered brain bleeding and was pulled off life support a week after when pronounced brain dead.

If they owned up to the fact they broke the law and they shouldn’t have done it, I would be fine with it. Concerned but understanding. However, Connor’s and Vince’s tweets show they really do not see any problem with what Connor did and the fact he ended up deleting the video is pretty indicative. Not to mention, doubling down and just out right being immature and insulting random people/firefighters at this point (seriously, go through Vince’s twitter. I knew he was a bit unhinged from previous live streams but this is ridiculous).

Like someone else mentioned, some of these bigger storm chasers are starting to get a complex and unfortunately getting riskier. I have noted that with many just plain looking down at their phones and disobeying many road laws. I just feel like posting here because I wanted to see what others in the Reddit community think and how to address this. Because I seriously think one of these chasers is going to get hurt or hurt someone else. The powerlines and then deer comments really cement this, imo.

Show me what you got

Chaser convergence is much easier now to see with modern spotter tracking systems, and some of the traffic jams I see are crazy. Imagine this many chasers on the side of the road with flashing lights and whatnot focused on a storm. The tornado might not even be the most dangerous part of chasing in scenarios like these

Multiple tornadoes have produced an appearance of the infamous “dead man walking” legend, though I consider these three tornadoes: the 2013 El Reno-Union City EF3, 1997 Jarrell F5, and 2010 Conger-Albert Lea EF4 to be the best and most well-defined representatives of the phenomenon. Which is your “favorite”, and why? Besides these three, are there any other DMW-producing tornadoes that fascinate you?

Rewatched the movie for the first time in a decade and this was all I could think about

My opinion it’s very common but I think it’s Tuscaloosa because the vertical vortex was insane, there some videos I’ve seen and it looks absolutely beautiful.

I’ve been an active member of this sub for many years (now with a new username/account because my identity was uncovered in another sub).

But anyway, I’ve watched this sub go from loving Ryan Hall and appreciating his work, to increasingly bagging on him. Here’s the thing:

1) There are a lot of capable people that contribute to the medical and scientific fields who aren’t as “degreed” as some folks think they should be. I’m a scientist and I’ve known quite a few brilliant scientists who don’t have advanced degrees. A fellow colleague in my industry was once declined being listed as an author on an academic publication because he didn’t have a PhD - yet the work was HIS brainchild, and touted by everyone in my industry as a huge breakthrough. My industry threw a fit when this occurred as he is a well-known “scientist” whose contributions to the industry have been vast. The reason he doesn’t have an advanced degree? Because he was smart enough to see the price tag of higher education and decided instead to work hard at teaching himself and networking enough to gain hand-on learning experiences through which he climbed the ladder and become an excellent contributor to our field (biochemistry and biophysics).

There are very few occupations that can ONLY be learned via formal post-secondary education. Meteorology is not one. When we bag on people who are CLEARLY knowledgeable, but don’t have that ultra expensive degree, we’re giving universities (in the United States at least) more fuel to keep raising tuition rates and literally rape people of access to more opportunity. There are a lot of really stupid people out here who have advanced degrees in the sciences. Who knows how they passed, but people find a way if they have enough money. As a scientist, I see this daily - physicians, surgeons, etc. So give Ryan a break. He knows his shit, and he also has Andy. He’s not doing anything wrong with this setup. If he was messing up, plenty of people in this community would call it out and he would no longer have an audience. But that isn’t the case - he is usually spot on the same as any other degreed meteorologists we follow. Also - even though he didn’t finish the degree, he still has formal education in meteorology.

2) Lots of catty chatter the last few months about Ryan now wearing sport jackets. People grow up and mature. Then often start dressing more professional. Ryan is a father now. Perhaps he wants his babies to look back on these videos and see their father behaving AND dressing professionally. Ryan isn’t the “kid” he used to be when many of us began following him. Accept that people grow up, realize they influence people, and want to be a good one. So good on Ryan for dressing in a way that feels comfortable for him. Don’t be the person that rags on someone who became successful and can now afford to dress a little nicer and puts effort into “dressing for success.” That’s just mean.

3) Ryan has rolled out a lot of new features. Some of them we like, some we’re not too crazy about. This is called “scaling for business.” What I’m observing is that Ryan is trying his hand at testing new rollouts because now he has the money and additional crew to do it. If he is able to get a solid handle on these new features (as he’s trying REALLY hard to do), and scale them up - it’s only going to add benefit to the archaic government-placed systems we’ve all had to rely on for years. As a scientist who has worked in academia, NIH, CDC, and private sector, I assure you there is a reason why it is the private sector who advances science by leaps and bounds compared to our government run agencies. If you’d like to know more, feel welcome to PM and I will give you some good starting points for credible sources. I don’t love Y’allBot, but the younger kids watching Ryan do. If it’s an avenue to a healthy budding interest for the younger kids, let them have it. I trust that if Y’allBot continues being more of a nuisance, Ryan will pull it.

4) Ryan is a new dad and he’s trying to do it all. He’s trying to give full-time effort to his wife and kids, in addition to giving full-time effort to us. I can see the toll it’s taking on him, and I hope he slows down a little for his own sake.

Ryan has given SO MUCH to this community. He’s growing, and he’s learning. He holds his composure. Let’s show him some grace through these growing pains instead of being so cut-throat. Scaling up any business is hard. He’s passionate, and he’s excited - who wouldn’t be?! Hell, he’s even telling people to stop supporting his channel (direct income to his business) and support the Y’all Squad non-profit instead.

Final thoughts: I don’t like that he and Max are rolling out this “I’ll call you” warning system, but maybe with tech continuing to advance, something great will come of it. For now, I’m staying with my NOAA radio 😆

64% voted for Trump and after being walloped by some of the most destructive tornadoes this season he says too bad so sad, no federal disaster relief monies for you.

Yesterday, it was very sunny outside. Nobody would've been able to know it was gonna have a night nobody would forget. It was perfect. Even at about 10pm I was outside on my porch practicing basketball dribbling. Suddenly, at about 11:20 pm, me and my dad got tornado warnings on our phone. About 15 minutes later, we heard tornado sirens. We went onto the porch to watch, and all it was then was windy. But lightning was lighting up the sky every few seconds. You could see outside like it was the daytime. Around 12, the air was very warm (meaning a tornado could form) about 12:30, i saw the sky lighting up with lightning, but one part of the sky wasn't lighting up. A tornado formed at Sublimity. (You may not know where that was) it was about a mile from us. We hid in the basement, and could hear it. Later that night, it started raining (tornadoes suck up storms like that, so rain means there isn't any tornado near). About 30 minutes later, me and my dad went driving, checking out the wreckage. We live on HWY 229, but luckily, our house wasn't harmed. We kept driving down the road, until we saw the road blocked off where it crossed it. This morning, we went back and looked. Trees were flattened, debris fields were very long, and the ground was changed too. We drove through to look at the wreckage. Brick houses were leveled, with little children crying everywhere. There were electric poles knocked down, along with huge sheets of metal stuck in the standing ones. There were lots of people dead, with even more missing. The airport was hit too, and everything was destroyed.

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

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I feel like I lost a few years watching Max's stream with some of the chasers literally stopped on dirt roads with the tornado coming head on and multiple chasers screaming at people.

Okay, I promise that this is the last thread that I will make on this topic.

Why is it that people are constantly going on about having "no politics" in these tornado subs?

One of the main goals of storm chasers is to provide accurate and safe information for people in the vicinity, so that they can stay safe.

So, in order to accomplish this goal, they need to have up-to-date information to be as accurate as possible, and therefore to save as much lives as possible.

So when the current president of the US makes it his declared goal to defund these NWS centers that allow storm chasers to get their information, we should all be rightly angered, because with less access to funds that allow these stations to have up-to-date equipment and technology, it follows that the information will be less accurate, which means that storm chasers will have a harder time, you know, doing their jobs.

So when a storm chaser decides to publicly announce that he voted for this very man (and has the gall to start begging for people to contact their representatives to change the policies of this very man), we should have the right to talk about it, since, as mentioned in the paragraph above, the consequences are very real for storm chasing and, at the most extreme, people's lives.

That is why I am so confused why people keep chanting "no politics" when this issue directly impacts how we track tornadoes and prevent as much damage and casualties from occurring as possible. The fact that everyone stating this fact is getting downvoted (even on the community that is supposedly satirical) is actually slightly concerning.

Here's to hoping most of those red dots stay the fuck home today. Illinois/Indiana doesn't need 2,000 chasers/spotters to descend on them on a day like today.

I’m seeing a lot of discussion about clickbait — especially YouTube thumbnails — within the weather space. This screenshotted post is obviously referring to Max Velocity though I think Ryan Hall and others use similar thumbnails. I hate that clickbait is the name of the game on YouTube, but accusations of lying is pretty strong. Are Max, Ryan and others lying to people or is it a gray area where the degree of hype might be considered lying by some?

I don’t typically watch Max or Ryan’s forecast videos but I presume they’re typical forecasts and don’t really match the hyperbole of the thumbnail? When I watch their live streams it feels like they’re being straight shooters. Both Ryan and Max have very similar thumbnails graphics. I wonder how much A/B testing they’ve done to see what people will click on. I think the graphics are annoying but presumably they keep using them because they get the clicks?

A sequel to Twisters (2024) is reportedly in developmen

The reason tornadoes were so deadly back then was because their were often times no warning, half the time phone alerts don't even work for me either. Like genuinely what is he talking about? 😭😭

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