that guy talking is so funny lmaoo. that tree came down on us and we fell on the ground.. ( shakes head ) i looked up i see a star in the sky smiling down on me, i said what are you smiling about, it came right down on us, i then looked for more skid marks but i had no idea what i was really looking for.. ( other dude ) dude i am so shaken by your story ( man and woman, we hd no idea u were recording .. ) but we are shaking thats all it counts.
At least you're out there doing something, not like some of the trolls here hiding behind a screen. Chasing tornadoes, you will probably live longer having some fear of them. Those with no fear usually have no sense as well.
Great video man! Screw the "professional stormchaser" haters. You gotta start somewhere, and this is a pretty good start! Definately look forward to seeing more footage.
Good video. Dont mind all the stormchaser snobs. Its the same as going to the gym and not knowing the name of a certain excercise, the jocks get all upset. Or being among music buffs and not knowing the name of a new band. People are dicks sometimes because it makes them feel more important.
I love the guy in the freezer telling a kind of horror story about how he saw a tornado pick up the 18 wheeler and all.... to me that is like telling about how he saw a guy cut up once when the dude from texas chain saw massacre is right outside! Watching it that is funny shit though!! :-D
Ha Ha! Well, inexperienced or not, you got some great footage. I wish I could hear the "horrifying sound" when the winds changed, but all I can hear is that whuffing noise you get when air blows across the mike. Not your fault; I have no idea what you'd have to shield a mike with, to cancel out a tornado wind. Anyway, amazing footage and you had yourself quite an experience!
@ncn8ochaser Who are you to judge the words people use? Yes the technical word may be a tornado. Every time you see a bird do you use the scientific name? Do you call a Robin a Robin or do you call it Turdus Migratorius? Do you call a hamburger a "fried cow?" Quit badgering people. Twister is a word for a tornado.
@ncn8ochaser I have no "bubble." I know its not used in the storm chase community. But that's really harsh saying this person has no business near a tornado just because of a word he used.
@summer817 Getting struck by a dying tornado is proof enough that he belongs no where near a supercell (at least at the time of this filming). Let me put it this way, what kind of moron stops to fuel up at a location directly in the path of the storm he just ditched? I rest my case.
@CyrusNixes Doug Drace, Ashlee Busta, Lauren Heiden, Chris Hayes, Kris Hair, Amos Magliocco, Neal Rasmussen, and Michael Phelps. Most of the guys I've chased with are from College of Dupage. Anything else?
@ncn8ochaser So, if I take a class at this school, I can become part of "the community?" Will they teach me the proper terms to use? or will I end up posting video game footage instead of "twister" footage???
@ncn8ochaser You are an absolute snob who has no business commenting. Alot of people call them twisters, and besides, a name is just a fucking name. Get over yourself.
On the rainwrapped V-funnel I saw, I was just to the east of the road that leads up to Hill City from Wakeeney, I was probably less than a half mile from that road when I could see that v-funnel during the lightning strikes behind it. At the time I was seeing the "V" it was south of 70. It seem to dissappear when it was near 70, that's why I was thinking it may have become a multiple vortex when it hit where you were. It would have been hard 4 me to see it because of the rain. Found som damage
(Continued from my last comment.) This was my first day storm chasing also. I also saw the Collyer tornado less than an hour before I saw the Wakeeney tornado. And I saw the other funnel(v-shaped) which I believe could be the one that got you in that near miss. It wasn't visibly touching the ground, but it was at least halfway to the ground. As we know, it could have been on the ground even though the condensation funnel wasn't visibly touching. If this is the one, makes 3 for my 1st chase day.
I saw this same tornado, unless a second spawned from the same storm. I was on I-70 and I pulled off at the rest stop which should be a mile or less from your location. I saw the first tornado cross I-70 by the bridge in Wakeeney. I also saw what appeared to be a second funnel wrapped in the rain. It only could be seen when the lightnig struck behind it. It was trailing from the south of the 1st one. I noticed it was dark in your video, I believe you may have been hit by that second one I saw.
I don't know if it was the Wakeeney tornado or another tornado in the same family. A chaser who was with me saw footage from that same gas station that showed a swirl of debris pass directly over the building. Most likely the screaming sound we heard was a multiple vortice that flared up right before the tornado weakened and passed over us.
I think every storm chaser who was there got that same shot of the tornado crossing that country road around sunset. It was my first ever tornado on my first day ever storm chasing.
I'm not sure how. They were looking at the radar - they always were. For whatever reason (you'll have to ask Jim) they did not think we were in it's path. It was raining and hailing when the circulation passed over us, which I am guessing is kind of unusual - meaning maybe the tornado had wedged itself into "the core."
Like you said about a jet engine,,there was a night tornado at a apartment complexI used to live at we were kinda near ohare,you usually can hear jets ,one stormy night a few of us heard what sounded like a 4 engine commercial jet gunning and stalling it's engines real loud it wasn't a jet it was a tornado,and we're looking up in the sky to see the blinking lights on the very low jet,lol when it got real windy everybody went in,then slamo.
wow, i live on the edge of tornado alley and don't like it one bit.. had tornado watches/warnings all day yesterday, i try to avoid what you guys are chasing!! lol!!
Understandable, but the chasers I was with who have been chasing for up to 30 years thought it was a "full blown tornado", so it's hard to disagree. with them. It was clearly lifting up as it hit us, but it caused heavy damage moments before. And the sound was definitely that of a tornado, probably a dying multiple vortice.
THANK GODD!!! we don't have tornadoes in Newfoundland!! They are on my top 5 things that make me wana crawl into a spaceship and fly to the moon, maby there are some perdy aliens up there and i hear it has a GREAT view =]
i lived in grand forks northdakota for most of my life and parts of rapid city. i am now liveing in utah. it sucks. i dont see a lot of this down hear. i was hear in 1999 whean salt lake city got hit. i was only like 10 miles away. and one was all going on out over the lake and i was so high that day.LOL
Where? You mean in Switzerland or in my home state of Hawaii? Switzerland gets storms, especially in the North and East along the downward slopes of the Alps. Almost all are weak but a few have killed people. I looked this all up just now. Hawaii gets storms and tornadoes rarely, but mostly weak waterspouts.
Scary. At about 1:21 it looks like the tornado is about to cross paths with the cars that are headed towards your camera. Those guys must be crazy. . . .
Truth is the tornado was probably one to two miles away, and the cars were only maybe a quarter mile in front of us - so they weren't too close, although that was what I was thinking when I was watching it in person.
Apparently a few cars did get extremely close and atleast one person on youtube says they went right through it.
Haha You might be right, his story does sound real similar to what happened with that overpass tornado. But I think that hes probably to young to be the same guy - because that was 17 years ago...but that is creepy.
are you crazy that tornado could have killed you if i saw a tornado coming near me i would take cover i have weather and sound radio if we had a tornado in birmingham alabama the weather radio would go off i suggest you get a weather radio and don,t get caught in a tornado
We had much more than a weather radio. We had streaming internet feed from the NWS and live dopplar radar being watched by experienced chasers that I was with. It was just an unusual, unexpected incident. But thanks for the concern.
This was my first "real" tornado as well. We were headed south down 283 attempting to flank it, caught a brief shot of it, and then got hammered by RFDs near Trego Center. You guys must have been in that fridge with Jim Leonard and quite a few other chasers.
I don't really think it was a tornado that came through, probably just very strong occluding RFD. The winds were pretty rough but the tornado had lifted as far as I could tell.
Didn't you hear the tornado sound? And watch the wind completely change directions a few times within a a few seconds? Plus the damage that occurred immediately to our south was intense and localized. And there was a confirmed tornado starting a quarter mile to our NW.
I think the mistake I made in my video was saying it was the same tornado. I guess I meant to say same tornado family.
I was with old time chasers and they all had no doubt that i wasn't a tornado.
Man you have balls to be a tornado chaser. last week a tornado had hit Chapman, Kansas and I live outside of that town it was scary it was a BIG Son of a bitch for a F4
This is why when you start chasing, you team up with someone who has been doing it for a while and KNOWS what they are DOING!! Not only was this kid lucky, he was very stupid. How could ya have let yourself get caught in the path of the same tornado you were chasing?
I was chasing with experienced chasers - including perhaps the most experienced chaser there is. I was the only newbie chaser on that trip. And how did we get caught in the tornado? Hell if I know - it was outside of the conventional radar hook-echo.
I totally agree with you Max. Even the best storm chasers get caught in the bear cage or the tornado not meaning to. I can't help not to respond by with the comment that came from njluvpets. You are chasing with the best in the world in my opinion, and why does people have to leave stupid comments on here if they don't know what they are talking about. You are with some of the best experienced storm chasers out there, and the weather can change right away, and that happens.
i was drving my car and then a tornado came right out of the rain and flipped us 90 ft off the road... i was fine jstu a little cut up...................lol jk jk
Another awesome edit Max! Your footage came out great! You had a much better vantage point for the Wakeeny tornado, being in the car behind you guys, my view was partially blocked as the tornado crossed the road.
Great stuff! What a wonderful first day chasing. It must have been frustrating stuck in that freezer, next time stay outside and let it suck you up, but keep filming ;)
I kow I'm so pissed I stopped filming! I guess filming was the last thing I thought of when I believed I was going to die. Jim Leonard (you must know him, hes who I chased with) says he might have filmed the good stuff.
Hey this is Nathan and Welcome to my home state of Kansas man. Wicked weather here. I just wanted to say congrats on your first chase out here in the plains. But I also wanted to tell you that It is very dangerous, and the storms can change direction at anytime and they have no mercy on anything.
I feel that it is a great experience to see a tornado, but you don't want to be on the wrong side of one, and you want to be aware at all times where your location is, and to find a way out of its wrath. Be careful out there, and I know that you would like to be around to chase the next storm. I just wanted to tell you that I care, and hate to see that your first storm chase was a close call. But take Max.
those were just inflow wind gusts
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Soulstealer354 4 months ago
A dying tornado is still pretty much alive.
Mufaso1000 6 months ago
that guy talking is so funny lmaoo. that tree came down on us and we fell on the ground.. ( shakes head ) i looked up i see a star in the sky smiling down on me, i said what are you smiling about, it came right down on us, i then looked for more skid marks but i had no idea what i was really looking for.. ( other dude ) dude i am so shaken by your story ( man and woman, we hd no idea u were recording .. ) but we are shaking thats all it counts.
strictlyafghan 10 months ago
2:29 napoleon dynamite! lmao jajajaj, he turned around like gosh! watch what you are saying man. gosh!
strictlyafghan 10 months ago
sure it might not have been a micro burst?
darthhvader 10 months ago
At least you're out there doing something, not like some of the trolls here hiding behind a screen. Chasing tornadoes, you will probably live longer having some fear of them. Those with no fear usually have no sense as well.
hostile177 1 year ago
@hostile177 But if they hide behind a screen, then they're even safer, no?
mike4ty4 7 months ago
Great video man! Screw the "professional stormchaser" haters. You gotta start somewhere, and this is a pretty good start! Definately look forward to seeing more footage.
kylex102 1 year ago 2
Good to see that your alive and whats it like being a storm chaser?
XXTHE12THMANXX 1 year ago
Good video. Dont mind all the stormchaser snobs. Its the same as going to the gym and not knowing the name of a certain excercise, the jocks get all upset. Or being among music buffs and not knowing the name of a new band. People are dicks sometimes because it makes them feel more important.
northernsoul44 1 year ago 2
reckless thrill-seekers
goodlife404 1 year ago
I love the guy in the freezer telling a kind of horror story about how he saw a tornado pick up the 18 wheeler and all.... to me that is like telling about how he saw a guy cut up once when the dude from texas chain saw massacre is right outside! Watching it that is funny shit though!! :-D
JackaCrack1 1 year ago
Ha Ha! Well, inexperienced or not, you got some great footage. I wish I could hear the "horrifying sound" when the winds changed, but all I can hear is that whuffing noise you get when air blows across the mike. Not your fault; I have no idea what you'd have to shield a mike with, to cancel out a tornado wind. Anyway, amazing footage and you had yourself quite an experience!
dianafuse 1 year ago
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The fact that you used the word "twister" in your video, shows that you have no business anywhere near a tornado.
ncn8ochaser 1 year ago
@ncn8ochaser You clearly are far more experienced than me - my apologies.
CyrusNixes 1 year ago 8
@CyrusNixes: LOL, sarcasm win :-).
JohnnyDart76 1 year ago
@CyrusNixes: LOL, good one. =p
JDart1776 1 year ago
@ncn8ochaser Who are you to judge the words people use? Yes the technical word may be a tornado. Every time you see a bird do you use the scientific name? Do you call a Robin a Robin or do you call it Turdus Migratorius? Do you call a hamburger a "fried cow?" Quit badgering people. Twister is a word for a tornado.
summer817 1 year ago 3
@summer817 Twister is a word for a tornado, yes... but it's not used in the storm chase community. Sorry to bust your bubble.
ncn8ochaser 1 year ago
@ncn8ochaser I have no "bubble." I know its not used in the storm chase community. But that's really harsh saying this person has no business near a tornado just because of a word he used.
summer817 1 year ago 2
@summer817 Getting struck by a dying tornado is proof enough that he belongs no where near a supercell (at least at the time of this filming). Let me put it this way, what kind of moron stops to fuel up at a location directly in the path of the storm he just ditched? I rest my case.
ncn8ochaser 1 year ago
@ncn8ochaser
Sean Casey.
Tahima11 9 months ago
@Tahima11 Lol
71to96 8 months ago
@ncn8ochaser And which chasers have you chased with exactly, being that you are a storm chaser and a member of "the community"?
CyrusNixes 1 year ago 4
@CyrusNixes Doug Drace, Ashlee Busta, Lauren Heiden, Chris Hayes, Kris Hair, Amos Magliocco, Neal Rasmussen, and Michael Phelps. Most of the guys I've chased with are from College of Dupage. Anything else?
ncn8ochaser 1 year ago
@ncn8ochaser Wow, you are an integral member of the storm chasing community!! I look forward to seeing all the tornado footage you've taken!
CyrusNixes 1 year ago 4
@ncn8ochaser So, if I take a class at this school, I can become part of "the community?" Will they teach me the proper terms to use? or will I end up posting video game footage instead of "twister" footage???
wrongbusstop 6 months ago
@ncn8ochaser
Just because you call a tornado a twister does not say anything about one's credibility as a chaser.
Tahima11 9 months ago 2
@ncn8ochaser
Boo hoo. Cry more.
wrestlefanatic77 3 months ago
@ncn8ochaser You are an absolute snob who has no business commenting. Alot of people call them twisters, and besides, a name is just a fucking name. Get over yourself.
AslansButterfly 1 month ago
how was this a near death experience.....
steelrunner08 2 years ago
So you have a death wish?
RayAir1 2 years ago
Beautiful! I love tornadoes. Someday I wanna be a storm chaser... I just love clouds and violent storms. Watching the beauty of one is my life dream!
DraconisTheDragon 2 years ago
On the rainwrapped V-funnel I saw, I was just to the east of the road that leads up to Hill City from Wakeeney, I was probably less than a half mile from that road when I could see that v-funnel during the lightning strikes behind it. At the time I was seeing the "V" it was south of 70. It seem to dissappear when it was near 70, that's why I was thinking it may have become a multiple vortex when it hit where you were. It would have been hard 4 me to see it because of the rain. Found som damage
Torn80cj 2 years ago
(Continued from my last comment.) This was my first day storm chasing also. I also saw the Collyer tornado less than an hour before I saw the Wakeeney tornado. And I saw the other funnel(v-shaped) which I believe could be the one that got you in that near miss. It wasn't visibly touching the ground, but it was at least halfway to the ground. As we know, it could have been on the ground even though the condensation funnel wasn't visibly touching. If this is the one, makes 3 for my 1st chase day.
Torn80cj 2 years ago
I saw this same tornado, unless a second spawned from the same storm. I was on I-70 and I pulled off at the rest stop which should be a mile or less from your location. I saw the first tornado cross I-70 by the bridge in Wakeeney. I also saw what appeared to be a second funnel wrapped in the rain. It only could be seen when the lightnig struck behind it. It was trailing from the south of the 1st one. I noticed it was dark in your video, I believe you may have been hit by that second one I saw.
Torn80cj 2 years ago
I don't know if it was the Wakeeney tornado or another tornado in the same family. A chaser who was with me saw footage from that same gas station that showed a swirl of debris pass directly over the building. Most likely the screaming sound we heard was a multiple vortice that flared up right before the tornado weakened and passed over us.
CyrusNixes 2 years ago
Nice vid, nice documenting of events and keeping the viewer informed. 5/5
uploadJ 2 years ago
I have some of the exact video as you. What a week! back to back to back in KS... Storms were HAULIN!
honkytonkblood 2 years ago
I think every storm chaser who was there got that same shot of the tornado crossing that country road around sunset. It was my first ever tornado on my first day ever storm chasing.
CyrusNixes 2 years ago
Nice vid, keep it up....but try not to get killed.
scorpking68 2 years ago
ya it is Grlevel 2
collin27 2 years ago
so how did it catch you guys off guard... where you just not looking at the radar, or what?
liquidstl 2 years ago
I'm not sure how. They were looking at the radar - they always were. For whatever reason (you'll have to ask Jim) they did not think we were in it's path. It was raining and hailing when the circulation passed over us, which I am guessing is kind of unusual - meaning maybe the tornado had wedged itself into "the core."
CyrusNixes 2 years ago
Like you said about a jet engine,,there was a night tornado at a apartment complexI used to live at we were kinda near ohare,you usually can hear jets ,one stormy night a few of us heard what sounded like a 4 engine commercial jet gunning and stalling it's engines real loud it wasn't a jet it was a tornado,and we're looking up in the sky to see the blinking lights on the very low jet,lol when it got real windy everybody went in,then slamo.
GuardianKnight28 2 years ago
I couldn't hear it.
saxm 2 years ago
What kind of weather radar software is that at the beginning this video??
RappCliffhanger 2 years ago
I'm not sure, I don't own the software. It was my fellow chasers. I don't think it would be hard to find if you did a google search.
CyrusNixes 2 years ago
probably GrLevel2
liquidstl 2 years ago
Those people are risking their lifes for the science... they are truly heroes of the science...not like other peopel doing jack ass shit...
tinotrivino 3 years ago
id do this job its crazy
bizzybez 3 years ago
wow, i live on the edge of tornado alley and don't like it one bit.. had tornado watches/warnings all day yesterday, i try to avoid what you guys are chasing!! lol!!
jacquiebaird 3 years ago
I wish I lived there. I'm sure it gets scary sometimes, but it also must be exciting.
CyrusNixes 3 years ago
I would love to experience this. As they say; be careful what you wish for...
partybiscuit 3 years ago
Not really "near death".......always keep the camera rolling!
rmls34 3 years ago
Sorry to disagree, but from looking at the vid, I don't think that what you experienced at the end there was a full blown tornado.
naderchaser 3 years ago
Understandable, but the chasers I was with who have been chasing for up to 30 years thought it was a "full blown tornado", so it's hard to disagree. with them. It was clearly lifting up as it hit us, but it caused heavy damage moments before. And the sound was definitely that of a tornado, probably a dying multiple vortice.
CyrusNixes 3 years ago
yah full blown tornadoes r known to do that
goboygo18 3 years ago
omg
haasbw1989 3 years ago
THANK GODD!!! we don't have tornadoes in Newfoundland!! They are on my top 5 things that make me wana crawl into a spaceship and fly to the moon, maby there are some perdy aliens up there and i hear it has a GREAT view =]
IMxJONASxOBSESSED 3 years ago
its pretty scarey during a tornado.but at 2:12 i wouldve been yelling get in the fucking freezer people!
bountyhuntercenter 3 years ago
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I can destroy these monsters...
and want to make my discovering in practice...
maccKaron 3 years ago
wow why the hell did oyiu not keep the video going??
CCPnoob 3 years ago
Every day I have a hard time waking up because I didn't keep the camera rolling that day. My life is a mish mash of depression and regret.
CyrusNixes 3 years ago
next time be a good chaser and keep the camera rolling.
badboys00 3 years ago
You interrupted the dude's cool story.
Man, your driving in that brings back some harsh memories, though.
leopardseals 3 years ago
thats awesome i wana be a storm chaser soooo bad!!!!!
cellphone424 3 years ago
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lol.
no.
you dont.
gunnergahs 3 years ago
i lived in grand forks northdakota for most of my life and parts of rapid city. i am now liveing in utah. it sucks. i dont see a lot of this down hear. i was hear in 1999 whean salt lake city got hit. i was only like 10 miles away. and one was all going on out over the lake and i was so high that day.LOL
vhw11atr 3 years ago
aomeone should throw a camera into a tornado and see the beauty that lies within
Aspies4Life 3 years ago
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no not really
that sucks swiss sucks and its ficking boring
BjFYyYXxXyYyBjF 3 years ago
I wanna see a tornado 2 but i cant=(
I live in switzerland and there arent any tornados
unfortunately.
BjFYyYXxXyYyBjF 3 years ago
You might see one in Switzerland one day! But you should come to the States in May if you really wanna see one - or even just severe weather.
CyrusNixes 3 years ago
i think its impossible to see a tornado in Switzerland?
NoFear176 3 years ago
do you even get any storms at all?
ToastersAreEvil 3 years ago
Where? You mean in Switzerland or in my home state of Hawaii? Switzerland gets storms, especially in the North and East along the downward slopes of the Alps. Almost all are weak but a few have killed people. I looked this all up just now. Hawaii gets storms and tornadoes rarely, but mostly weak waterspouts.
CyrusNixes 3 years ago
you are braver than i am. i shit myself everytime i come even close to a tornado
margerineman666 3 years ago
Scary. At about 1:21 it looks like the tornado is about to cross paths with the cars that are headed towards your camera. Those guys must be crazy. . . .
sggsix 3 years ago
Truth is the tornado was probably one to two miles away, and the cars were only maybe a quarter mile in front of us - so they weren't too close, although that was what I was thinking when I was watching it in person.
Apparently a few cars did get extremely close and atleast one person on youtube says they went right through it.
CyrusNixes 3 years ago
They are storm chasers. Is'nt that guy that was talking to that woman the guy that "I'de like to be alone I've got some thinking to do!
nadokid1 3 years ago
Haha You might be right, his story does sound real similar to what happened with that overpass tornado. But I think that hes probably to young to be the same guy - because that was 17 years ago...but that is creepy.
CyrusNixes 3 years ago
are you crazy that tornado could have killed you if i saw a tornado coming near me i would take cover i have weather and sound radio if we had a tornado in birmingham alabama the weather radio would go off i suggest you get a weather radio and don,t get caught in a tornado
muffet2200 3 years ago
We had much more than a weather radio. We had streaming internet feed from the NWS and live dopplar radar being watched by experienced chasers that I was with. It was just an unusual, unexpected incident. But thanks for the concern.
CyrusNixes 3 years ago
Goly Shit! you got some balls mate. :)
ThunderDonkey 3 years ago
I Love this sort of movies
dingozr 3 years ago 2
Thanks, Dingozr.
CyrusNixes 3 years ago
me to :)
ThunderDonkey 3 years ago
This was my first "real" tornado as well. We were headed south down 283 attempting to flank it, caught a brief shot of it, and then got hammered by RFDs near Trego Center. You guys must have been in that fridge with Jim Leonard and quite a few other chasers.
darrinrasberry 3 years ago
I was with Jim from the beginning, but yes, he was also in the fridge with me, as well as two of our other chase partners.
CyrusNixes 3 years ago
awesome!!!
Tanner3000 3 years ago 2
I don't really think it was a tornado that came through, probably just very strong occluding RFD. The winds were pretty rough but the tornado had lifted as far as I could tell.
snowstorm1922 3 years ago
Didn't you hear the tornado sound? And watch the wind completely change directions a few times within a a few seconds? Plus the damage that occurred immediately to our south was intense and localized. And there was a confirmed tornado starting a quarter mile to our NW.
I think the mistake I made in my video was saying it was the same tornado. I guess I meant to say same tornado family.
I was with old time chasers and they all had no doubt that i wasn't a tornado.
CyrusNixes 3 years ago
Man you have balls to be a tornado chaser. last week a tornado had hit Chapman, Kansas and I live outside of that town it was scary it was a BIG Son of a bitch for a F4
videogamerlover1 3 years ago
Haha! That silver Kia under the gas station at 1:58 is me.
snowstorm1922 3 years ago
Did you film the tornado as it passed over?! I am so mad at myself for turning off my camera - but I thought I was gonna die a terrible death.
CyrusNixes 3 years ago
You guys are nuts!
hobbeekid 3 years ago
This is why when you start chasing, you team up with someone who has been doing it for a while and KNOWS what they are DOING!! Not only was this kid lucky, he was very stupid. How could ya have let yourself get caught in the path of the same tornado you were chasing?
njluvpets 3 years ago
I was chasing with experienced chasers - including perhaps the most experienced chaser there is. I was the only newbie chaser on that trip. And how did we get caught in the tornado? Hell if I know - it was outside of the conventional radar hook-echo.
CyrusNixes 3 years ago
I totally agree with you Max. Even the best storm chasers get caught in the bear cage or the tornado not meaning to. I can't help not to respond by with the comment that came from njluvpets. You are chasing with the best in the world in my opinion, and why does people have to leave stupid comments on here if they don't know what they are talking about. You are with some of the best experienced storm chasers out there, and the weather can change right away, and that happens.
SupercellNathan 3 years ago
Exactly!
CyrusNixes 3 years ago
Just curious...Just who do you think "the most experienced chaser there is", is??
Sahdadky 3 years ago
Jim
liquidstl 3 years ago
Thats scarey!
SweetAllysa 3 years ago
dude that IS super super amazing and crazy but "near death"???? i dont think so
jibsjaystunescgy 3 years ago
I think getting struck by a tornado at night and having to hide in a freezer is near death-esque.
CyrusNixes 3 years ago
potentially...yes! So, you not only got the thrills you were looking for...but a little something extra you didn't bargain for!
xman4un 3 years ago
i was drving my car and then a tornado came right out of the rain and flipped us 90 ft off the road... i was fine jstu a little cut up...................lol jk jk
evilshallfall 3 years ago
Another awesome edit Max! Your footage came out great! You had a much better vantage point for the Wakeeny tornado, being in the car behind you guys, my view was partially blocked as the tornado crossed the road.
vmax135 3 years ago
goddamn, max, i can't believe you got to do this!
tmmullenhevey 3 years ago
Great stuff! What a wonderful first day chasing. It must have been frustrating stuck in that freezer, next time stay outside and let it suck you up, but keep filming ;)
bwlfp 3 years ago
I kow I'm so pissed I stopped filming! I guess filming was the last thing I thought of when I believed I was going to die. Jim Leonard (you must know him, hes who I chased with) says he might have filmed the good stuff.
CyrusNixes 3 years ago
Dude your so lucky you survived and im glad you did keep up your career
airsoftkids 3 years ago
Hey this is Nathan and Welcome to my home state of Kansas man. Wicked weather here. I just wanted to say congrats on your first chase out here in the plains. But I also wanted to tell you that It is very dangerous, and the storms can change direction at anytime and they have no mercy on anything.
SupercellNathan 3 years ago
I feel that it is a great experience to see a tornado, but you don't want to be on the wrong side of one, and you want to be aware at all times where your location is, and to find a way out of its wrath. Be careful out there, and I know that you would like to be around to chase the next storm. I just wanted to tell you that I care, and hate to see that your first storm chase was a close call. But take Max.
SupercellNathan 3 years ago