Extreme video of the Quinter, Kansas Wedge Tornado on May 23

[Infaf09]

0:45 birds chirping? lol

[rachkj1981]

This is my hometown. It was very scary. I couldn't get ahold of my parents that were at work at the time this all happened.  It missed town by just about a mile.

[tornadomanatwork]

very nice footage

[illpunchyourbaby]

Wedge are the coolest and the scariest, I'd like to be a stormwatcher because your probably one of the safest because you know where and how to get away from these things.

[bull912000]

oh, wow

[nenblom1]

I KNOW it's science! Those storm chasers do an incredible job!  Did not mean anything bad!

[sniffinclose]

Oh my god, and oh wow...

[nenblom1]

That is WICKED!! The power of Mother Nature sure is tremendous!

[gloglee]

Mother nature? that's SCIENCE! BITCH! :)

[maccKaron]

NiteOwl1224... write this letter your mom...

[eatmewoot]

i had to laugh at 4:25-4:30

[CreativeCritisizm]

Atomic explosions ?

[maccKaron]

no, no, no... very new works and discoveries in physics ...

[thecompanycar]

Dang, that thing has some crazy rapid rotation at around 0:45.

[Smacco90]

but because in italy they aren't.

[FleeFlee1990]

LOL listen to thema t the beginning 'oh wow...OH......WOW.....dude...h­oly cow...' LOL!!!! cracks me up hhahaha

[CreativeCritisizm]

I think they sound stupid, stupid Yankees from Ohio, they make Americans look really stupid and cheesy, like a couple of teenagers just joined college.

[Everly1388]

whats thats supposed to mean? so hows an american supposed to act? im from Ohio.. i make americans look cheesy? its judgmental fucks like you who make us look bad

[CreativeCritisizm]

A real American should talk a little more like John Wayne like they did around 30 years ago, not like all these modern day yuppie yankees who say "dude"-taken from 80s california, "bro" & "woo" or "WouW" as these people start to age & keep speaking this way, it appears this is a nation of idiotic teenagers still enfluenced by harmones, drugs & quick fix orgasms.

[Ninety9Soulz]

Thats like saying all mexicans should act more mexican. What you say is just dumb end of story.

[DRUCO316]

do you guys use rain X you should if you dont could see alot easyer out the windshield :)

[Alexus1325]

good idea, hope they go buy some :D

[destroy414]

it went over my uncle cliffs farm. massive damage. threw the wheat baller about 5 miles away. massive tornado. hes on the news tonight.

[wiseyoshi22]

If you feel like mocking them, put yourself in front of an EF 4 and see if you can manage to pull something like this off.

[Korin145]

Now, because of global warming, does anyone here think that it's possible for these tornadoes to cause even more damage and wind speed than an EF5? Does anyone think the Fujita scale could ever be added on to because of global warming? Would an EF6, or even, if there was a long lasting tornado with the span of the Tri-State tornado and the winds over 300 MPH, an EF7? Can anyone concieve of this being possible?

[emeraldseven]

yes, i think that's a definite possibility. but we'll just have to wait and see lol

[TexasLonghorn07]

It's not. If the EF scale was a wind speed scale then it would, but it's not. It's a damage scale. EF5 is essentially complete destruction. Since you can't have any greater damage than a house being lifted off its foundation, tossed a quarter mile, and disintegrated, you can't have higher than an EF5 rating.

[Korin145]

Why is it not possible? Consider tornadoes destroying whole office buildings, throwing up topsoil (which is a non-renewable resource. Yes, topsoil cannot be created easily), and destroying landmarks?

No tornado has ever destroyed an office building. I believe if one could, it deserves a higher destruction rate, don't you?

[TexasLonghorn07]

Have you been to Fort Worth, Texas, in the last few years? There's your destroyed office building. And for topsoil, read up on the Jarrell, Texas, F5 from 1997. Not only did it carve out the soil, houses, etc., it ripped asphalt from the roads.

Like you say, it would be possible for greater damage than we have seen before to be done, but to my knowledge the EF scale does not allow for anything greater than that "complete destruction."

[Korin145]

Well thank you for the enlightening information!. If the Fujita scale cannot get above an EF5 like you say, then to at least nudge in my opinion, if the winds were recorded as being higher than say, 300, or 400, then could there then be sub-categories for strength? Such as an EF5-A which would be the most devestating with the highest winds (class A winds). I realize this is over simplified, but this is just an idea.

[TexasLonghorn07]

No problem :) I guess you COULD do that, but it would take a lot of revision and extra work. I think the scale we have right now works just fine lol. If you read the damage surveys of tornadoes when they are rated, you can almost always find the estimated wind speed, so this probably isn't necessary.

[dragonridley]

There's also the problem of actually getting an accurate measurement.

[carmelo1966]

bankerbuck probably your family and friends are alive today thanks for the chasers.can u hear them calling letting the authorities know where the tornado is.You are the inconsiderate for getting mad at this people. next time I hope theres no warning from the chasers.Thats when you people will be Hoping for the chasers to be parked in the middle of the road. Have a bless Day.

[crackertheberdie]

what was that rated?

[tonleee]

This one was the biggest and it was an EF4.

[40594059]

EF4

[hnbt06]

it was the biggest that day and the weather channel was all over it. luckily it didn't hit quinter. it was a EF4 tho

[scottsees]

Nice video but what is this dude slang lol

[BankerBuck]

I have relatives in Quinter and they wanted to choke the tornado chasers. They parked their damn vehicles in the middle of the road when emergency vehicles and friend were trying to get to the damaged areas. Inconsiderate jerks.

[traitorist]

what a load. i was there chasing myself and in the whole 2 days i NEVER saw a chaser parked in the middle of the road blocking emergency vehicles. NEVER.

[windgatedesign]

We were there. Not that we wanted to be. Our car was pretty much totaled.

[guttersieat]

the city hugo yesterday was hit by a tornado in Wisconsin, a whole block just depleted

[deliciousmorton]

get closer.

[tonleee]

My dad is an insurance agent in Quinter. Lots of damage....he should keep busy in the next few days!

[LaidbackLV]

I spoke a friend in Quinter and several homes are gone and several more damaged. More important nobody was seriously hurt.

[lkuepper]

that damage was huge. i talked to my friends from quinter (i was a foreign exchange student ther last year) and some houses are completely gone

[casarind1]

It's so hard for me not to think of tornadoes as living things...It's like they come down whenever they are hungry and destroy things to satisfy their needs. Jeez, they are so amazing!

[HyperActive7]

That's one I wouldn't want to get in front of.

Hold the camera still next time. You were moving it around so much I really didn't get an idea of how fast the tornado was moving and the amount of rotation on the ground associated with it.

[Mekayla2006]

um you try holding a camera still while near a tornado in a moving vehicle. not an easy task

[Momoftwinsplus1]

Great shots you guys got. That thing was huge! That rotation was more than rapid, wow! It was tearing stuff up.

[urbanpoet06]

lol 'ohhhh dude!' but wow, thats was epic, good work guys!

[Swatplll]

God huge!

[stpatrick95]

im lucky i dont get tornados. It would be cool to see one but i live in toronto so there aerent any at all

[gdfsob]

StPatrick.... never say never. And you won't think it's so cool with it bearing down on your house, or ripping the s*** out of it.

[stpatrick95]

ya true... i guesse i never really imagined a tornado rippin my house apart but i have never seen one but im not saying it would b cool to see it ripping apart a house im saying that i just want to c one but the thought of it ripping apart my house would scare the crap outof me

[erik0588]

YAH 5TH COMMENT!!!

[ipodtouchmaster95]

i seen that yesterday

[Kracer66]

How bad was the damage???

[ipodtouchmaster95]

it was pretty bad!! they also had like 4 in oklahoma and some more twisters and severe T-storms in iowa last night

[Kracer66]

Wow!

[Shooter333888]

Nice