FASTEST MOVING TORNADO - New World Record

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Published 2020-12-03
Introducing the fastest moving tornado ever recorded. In this video we discuss 5 scary fast tornadoes, each one with a forward moving velocity faster than the previous including a mind blowing NEW world record for the fastest tornado ever recorded.

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Over the last couple decades, I’ve found myself trying to outrun some fast tornadoes. But what exactly is considered a fast tornado? And how fast can tornadoes move? The majority of tornadoes I encounter track roughly 25-30 mph. For me, anything slower than that, I consider slow and anything faster than 39 mph, I consider a fast tornado. But tornadoes can move much faster than that. Ride along with this scientific mission to uncover how the fastest tornado yet documented was discovered and how we calculated its ground speed.

TEAM VIDEO & PHOTOGRAPHY:
Jennifer Brindley Ubl
Hank Schyma
Dr. Anton Seimon
Dr. Tracie Seimon
Skip Talbot

ADDITIONAL STORM VIDEO:
Simon Brewer
Greg Johnson - Tornadohunter.com
Doug Kiesling - stormchasingvideo.com
Rob Hurkes
Daniel Shaw - www.severestorms.com.au
Josh Vanden Top

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE CONTRIBUTIONS:
Dr. Anton Seimon - Appalachian State University
Dr. Leigh Orf - University of Wisconsin

University of Oklahoma:
Dr. Howard Bluestein
Dr Kyle Thiem
Dr Jeffrey Snyder
Dr Jana Houser

American Meteorological Society
Figure 2 from Bluestein, H. B., Thiem, K. J., Snyder, J. C., & Houser, J. B. (2018). The multiple-vortex structure of the El Reno, Oklahoma, tornado on 31 May 2013. Monthly Weather Review, 146(8), 2483-2502, , (c) 2018 American Meteorological Society and used with the permission of the American Meteorological Society. 

NOAA NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit
el-reno-survey.net

Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology
Johns, R. H., D. W. Burgess, C. A. Doswell III, M. S. Gilmore, J. A. Hart, and S. F. Piltz, 2013: The 1925 Tri- State tornado damage path and associated storm system. Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor., 8 (2), 1–33.

STILL PHOTOGRAPHY
Jennifer Brindley Ubl
Hank Schyma

EDITED by Hank Schyma

GRAPHICS
Dr. Leigh Orf
Hank Schyma
Dr. Anton Seimon
Dr. Tracie Seimon
Skip Talbot

MUSIC
“Deep River” Piano performance by Anton Seimon
“March of the Serpents” by Pecos Hank
“La male'diction de la danse du poulet” by Pecos Hank
Background music by Hank Schyma

All Comments (21)
  • @toshley6192
    Imagine doing 90mph down the highway and being passed by a tornado
  • @mebrithiel
    "We heard you liked tornadoes so we put tornadoes around your tornadoes and within your tornadoes"
  • @LiesNDeceit
    That satellite tornado slingshot by the El Reno tornado right at the chasers was genuinely one of the most terrifying things I’ve seen. The speed at which it grew as it came closer was insane.
  • @jefflindeman
    That graphic at 13:23 of the El Reno showing the moving chaser positions is incredible! I had to watch it over and over. I feelings of panic are palpable! This channel has become so much better than anything you might see on television.
  • @Pokkeli_
    Watching this with captions made me realize how deadly burritos can be.
  • It's simple, the Pilger tornado has the shit scared outa it by that lightning bolt. I can relate.
  • @RoySATX
    Great footage, as always. I was rather confused at first, though, closed captions kept replacing "tornado" with "Burrito". Especially since I've experienced a few fast moving burritos, and at least one I couldn't outrun. Very dangerous, those.
  • Several of my friends have told me that storm chasers have no reason to chase tornados, and that it’s just suicide instead of science. I’m glad that I’ve seen your videos, otherwise I wouldn’t have my hobby of researching weather. Thank you so much for posting these online, because I watch your videos everyday of my life.
  • @lakb45
    My grandmother survived the tri-state tornado of 1925. She was 10 and talked about it the rest of her life. They had NO warning. She said the common person didn’t know what a tornado was. She also remembers watching her town, Murphysboro, IL burn throughout the night. Those horrific images were always sharp in her brain to the point that even though she is gone now, I can tell her stories.
  • @sandeegrey5977
    When Pecos Hank uploads a video it feels like Christmas Day.
  • @marcelbinder2150
    Man the science behind this is amazing. 94.6 mph. Incredible. Also - what the Pilger EF4 did was to kind of prepare for becoming a satellite of the East Pilger EF4, and once that one decided to become obsolete, it just went "Nah, there's another tornado developing to the east, let me just scoot over there so I can become a satellite for that one."
  • @scotthudson1000
    I have been a side line storm enthusiast for years now. 58 btw. When I was in high school got made fun of because I wanted and did chase storms in my 1970 Chrysler New Yorker . This is the first video I have watched of yours and I will say hands down it is wonderfully presented. Your a gifted orator. All the other folks on here are fantastic. I know you posted this years ago but this should be part of a meteorological curriculum. Well done, thank you for all your work and you have another fan for life.
  • @ania5038
    The Internet has truly killed television because this is one of the best tornado documentaries around.
  • @GiDD504
    “Which way is it moving?” Not what you want to hear while looking at a tornado...
  • @foranken
    My ex-wifes mother was 9, and in grade school in Murphysboro on the day that storm hit. She survived, and as a kid would, climbed out of the rubble of her school and just stood there a minute trying to understand what had just happened to her world. She was standing on wood and bricks when she heard painful cries. Underneath the rubble and her feet was the head of her teacher! Who was in additional pain from being stood upon. Thankfully she was dug out, and as I remember, survived. Pretty beat up though.
  • Living on the east coast, I've never seen a tornado, and the ones we usually get are F 0-2, and wrapped in rain. I would love to see a mid-west tornado, from a distance.
  • captions are a must on this, every time someone says tornado it gets replaced with burrito and its godly
  • @whitenoise509
    The El Reno tornado was easily the craziest storm I've ever seen. It barely even looked like a tornado. It just looked like the sky was smudged into the ground, destroying everything.
  • @taipan185
    The tracks on those twin tornados looks like something you'd expect when seeing objects affected by the gravity of a planet. Its insanely cool to see it mapped out like you guys have done here.
  • I had no idea that the deadliest tornado ever literally tore through a town not 20 minutes from where I've lived my entire life. I've only recently gotten into learning about tornados and this was a massive surprise!