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Brandon Copic got hit by a tree that came down on us during the intense RFD surge from the tornado forming nearby on 04/23/26. 🌪️🚨 I was running outside trying to grab my $180 sunglasses after they flew off, but I had to forget about them fast because that...

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I’ll add some context to my earlier tweet because I’m still mentally recovering from everything that happened. We were southwest of Kankakee, Illinois and we turned north to go down a dirt road with a bunch of chasers, and once we turned down that road everyone started turning around. I assumed everyone was turning around because of the wall cloud/tornado crossing it, well I was wrong. I couple people turned around and very large hail started hitting the road, so we use a persons driveway to turn around and once we got turned around, a big chunk of hail hit my passenger window (because I’m not the driver), presumably baseball sized hail or larger and nearly shattered the window, but thankfully it was soft enough that it didn’t. We went back east and north on the highway to get another view of the tornado and it goes into full multi-vortex like 30 yards in front of us as hail starts hitting the vehicle, so we turn back around to find a vehicle (I don’t wanna call them out directly) was parked in the middle of the road and was blocking it. That chaser moved and we went south to find more cars on the shoulder on the left side of the road and another car stopped in the southbound lanes and they were panicking and they were blocking us from going south. Thankfully they moved and we were able to get south. Around this time, we start getting text messages that my grandparents who live in Yukon were hearing tornado sirens and we’re getting into shelter. So once we got south of the supercell and were repositioning, I was looking at this while driving and directing my mom because I was trying to figure out what was going on. We were going north on a highway and accidentally missed the road to turn right because my mom didn’t see it and I wasn’t paying attention. So she is forced to make a very sharp right turn on a road that curves, and since we chase in a 13,000 pound Chevy dually 1 ton, we can’t exactly turn on a dime. She tries to turn once and can’t make it so she backs up, she then goes forward again thinking she can make it and she can’t, so she has to back up again. In the midst of this, 3 chasers including Connor Croff were behind us and we were getting honked at. I got told that over stream Connor was bad mouthing us, got mad at us, and said that we almost caused a 3 car pile up simply because we stopped at a stop sign, cleared it, then tried to make a sharp right turn but couldn’t make it all the way, and this made me and my mom very mad once we learned this because we didn’t almost cause a 3 car pile up. If we almost did, they shouldn’t have been driving that close to us and should’ve been giving us space. After this, we continued east and eventually ended up ahead of the supercell as it was producing a wedge tornado. We began driving north towards it and my mom told me there was a semi truck coming up beside us and I asked her to turn our CB Radio on and see if I could get into contact with that driver and get him to stop. In the act of doing all of this, I lost complete situational awareness and ended up putting us in a terrible position. I was able to get into contact with the driver who passed us on the left and managed to get him to stop. Once I got him to stop I looked back at radar to see that we were in the path of the tornado so we turned back south. As we were turning south the tornado was crossing the highway and winds increased significantly. Visibility was bad and we got hit by the tornado. We got hit by a satellite or a vortex on the south side of the tornado and almost blew us off of the road. By losing situational awareness, it got us into a terrible situation, and had we not been in our chase vehicle, Black Betty, that could’ve been a lot worse, but it takes a lot to move this truck, let alone roll it. We’re alright, I’m alright. The truck is alright and didn’t sustain any damage from that tornado, but I’m going to be taking a huge step back and reevaluating the way I chase. Thank god we’re alright.

Max Archer

223,889 次观看 • 4 个月前

What's a "wedge" tornado? And how rare are "megawedge" tornadoes? There is no technical definition of a "wedge." Storm chasers consider wedge tornadoes to tornadoes that appear wider than they are tall. (For the tornado's height, they use the distance from the ground to the cloud base – AKA the "lifting condensation level". True tornado circulations extend up to 30,000 or 40,000 feet into the storm, so no tornadoes are *actually* wider than they are tall. We just can only see the part of the tornado that hangs down from the cloud base.) The tornado you see below occurred in Harlan, Iowa on April 26, 2024. It's the biggest I have ever seen. It was 1.1 miles wide, and had winds estimated by mobile Doppler radar up to 224 mph! Only 1 or 2 in 1,000 tornadoes grows larger than a mile wide – at least according to National Weather Service survey data. Realistically, that number might be significantly higher when counting inflow winds and ill-defined edges of the tornadic circulation, especially in rain-wrapped environments. (Where does the "tornado" end and the wind "around" the tornado begin?) MEGAWEDGE tornadoes are informally considered anything wider than 1.5 miles in diameter. The National Weather Service has only "officially" logged 30 megawedge tornadoes out of the 84,000+ in their database. The BIGGEST tornado on record occurred in El Reno, Oklahoma on May 31, 2013. It was 2.6 miles across! That said, researchers found evidence that the Mulhall, Okla. tornado on May 3, 1999 had a peak "core circulation" about 4.3 miles wide. In other words, that's the diameter of the 96 mph or greater winds. Let's hope 2025 doesn't feature any megawedges! If there are, we'll be streaming them in the MyRadar Weather app!

Matthew Cappucci

23,980 次观看 • 1 年前

The tornado was headed straight for us, and we were stuck in a ditch. On June 5, 2009, I was chasing storms with the VORTEX-2 field project near La Grange, Wyoming. My job was to navigate for Mobile Mesonet 4, which was basically a soccer-mom van outfitted with wind and temperature sensors. Our mission was to get as close to tornadoes as possible to gather data. As we drove west on a gravel road, a wall cloud began to spin faster in front of us. We turned south, making a “transect” in front of the developing tornado. The plan was simple: drive south past the tornado, then turn around once we reached its latitude. It should’ve been easy. Just make a “T-turn” to reverse course safely. I urged my driver to be careful. Right after I said that, I heard a thump. We’d slid into a ditch with a steep embankment. The driver tried to get us out several times, but it was no use. Panic set in as the tornado widened, likely moving directly toward us. I put down my camera and started pushing, but we were stuck. With no escape in sight, I felt hopeless. Then, out of nowhere, a storm chaser pulled up in his hatchback. “Do you guys need help?” Absolutely, we did! We scrambled into his car and made our escape. After driving for about a half mile, we stopped and got out to film the tornado as it crossed the road, not far from where we’d been stuck. My heart was still racing, but I felt incredibly grateful for our narrow escape—and for the chaser who saved us that day.

Gabe Garfield

21,845 次观看 • 1 年前

🚨 American Biker Was Able To Enter The Pennsylvania Donald Trump Rally By Simply Jumping A Fence, Walked Right By The Same Roof The Shooter Was On “We could've brought anything in there. I saw police. They saw us. They never stopped us. I'm very concerned about this” “This is Sergeant of Arms, Bikers for Trump. — Something very important happened yesterday. We all know about it. But I wanna share it with everybody because I've been trying to get this to the right people. ‌ I went to that rally yesterday in Butler, Pennsylvania. It's about 40 minutes from me. So I drove up on my motorcycle, me and my girlfriend, and, uh, when we got there, a cop told me I had to park an hour away. It was extremely hot. So I decided not to do that. ‌ I cut down a side street, saw a lady, asked her if I could park park my bike in her yard. She said yes, and she told me how to get into the rally a back way. So me and my girlfriend followed her directions, went up to an end of a cul de sac, went down a dirt road into the woods to a 6 foot fence that was surrounding a big field that was a part of the venue. We climbed over the 6 foot fence, walked past some people, under a yellow police tape, and walked right by that building where the shooter was. I could have gone on that building. ‌ I'm a supporter. But if I was a hater, I could've got on that building. I could've brought anything in there. We could've brought anything in there. I saw police. They saw us. They never stopped us. I'm very concerned about this. There was either an extreme lack of ability on the part of the Secret Service and the police to do their job or something's going on here. I'm making this video so I can get this message out to the right people. ‌ Somebody wasn't doing their job. I walked right by that building. I looked in that building. There was nobody in that building. There was nobody on top of the building. ‌ We went up to the line. We stood for about a half hour 45 minutes. It was just too hot, so we left the same way. We went back down past that building where the shooter was. He wasn't on it yet. ‌ It was about 4 o'clock, back through the yellow tape, back up along the fence, through the woods, and left. Nobody stopped us. Nobody said a word to us. Not a policeman. No one. ‌ I'm very concerned. I'm trying to get this message to somebody in the Trump family or somebody in authority that can get to them. It's very, very important. I'll stop here”

Wall Street Apes

430,350 次观看 • 2 年前

Sometimes it is best to just get things off your chest… So here it goes I guess. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Friday night was like nothing I’ve ever experienced. This tornado was just… Different. It was scary. It was loud. It had a growl. It was a terrifying beast in the dark that literally destroyed a town. My only views were when the lightning illuminated this monster. Each flash it got closer and closer. It’s not appropriate to go into detail about what me and Frankie experienced being one of the first few people in town (post tornado). Everyone is probably well aware of what we observed and more. It’s a part of violent storms like this one. ——— Prior to the tornado hitting town, I was inside the city limits of Rolling Fork. I knew a tornado was about to strike and there were NO sirens going off. There were people out and about, going about their lives. We honked the horn over and over on the storm tracker hoping people would see it (wrapped in storm graphics) and put two and two together. The destruction this tornado left behind was something I hope I never see again. It changed me as a person, but for good too. I’m even more fueled to warn people, learn more, improve warning process and study these massive storms we observe. For those of you who have reached out, thank you. It means a bunch. I’m good, I’m okay. I took today off (from chasing) and spent some much needed time with family. I’ll be back at it this week. 🤙🏻

Zachary Hall

715,226 次观看 • 3 年前

🌪️ Tornado Aftermath – I-57 South of Effingham, IL (02/19/26) 🚨 A possible tornado crossed I-57 south of Effingham, Illinois, on February 19, 2026, near Edgewood, causing multiple vehicles — including cars and semi-trucks — to be blown off the roadway and severely damaged. Several individuals sustained serious injuries and were transported to the hospital by ambulance. All victims were alive at the scene. The incident led to major traffic disruptions, with I-57 backed up for several hours as emergency crews responded and cleared the area. Contact [email protected] for licensing. FYI: I want to clarify that recording accident scenes and storm damage is legal, and Illinois State Police did not raise any concerns about my filming. As a storm chaser, documenting severe weather, damage, and related incidents — including rescues — has been part of my work for over 10 years. The individual involved in this incident was alive at the time, and the purpose of the video was to inform the public about a serious accident, injuries, and traffic impacts following a tornado-warned storm.I chose to remove the video out of respect for the family after being contacted, not because I was required to do so. Fellow professional chasers have also confirmed that the footage was legal and focus remains on responsibly chasing storms, documenting severe weather, and providing accurate reporting to the public. #Illinois #ILwx #Tornado #I57 #EffinghamIL #EdgewoodIL #SevereWeather #StormDamage #TrafficAlert #WeatherNews

Chicago & Midwest Storm Chasers

93,085 次观看 • 5 个月前