Ness City Tornadic Supercell - May 23, 2008

[11manko]

3:52 Amazing clouds;D

[mv4eva]

I'm pagan, and I wish I was in the middle of that. It would have been splendid.

[t80tank20]

What a memorable day that was. We were on the storm that produced the first 2 tornadoes near Quinter then dropped down to the Ness City storm. It was a spectacular storm, but in hindsight it was a mistake because it caused us to miss the EF4 that would cross I-70 later in the evening. Oh well, it feels good to have chased during the largest tornado outbreak in Kansas history

[UncleGrizzo]

Thats funny, because that is exactly what we did. After the first Quinter tornado, we also dropped south to the Ness City storm. What a huge storm that was but I was very upset when I heard about the huge tornado in Quinter again!

[padude64]

Great video of a classic supercell!

[torn80s]

This is one situation where auto focus can kill a good video. I had the same problem on this chase also. I now film these storms with manual, because the auto focus killed my video of the Lane County Kansas tornado. It was so windy that day. You want to zoom in on the tornado, Then auto focus suddenly becomes auto unfocused. Drives me crazy, so I know how you feel when your cam does that to you. Still a good video though. It brings back memories of those 2 days seeing tornadoes for the 1st time.

[UncleGrizzo]

Yeah, I seem to have that problem especially in low light or lightning videos. What's the best way to prevent that?

[torn80s]

Your camcorder should have a manual focus setting. Switch it to manual focus in the low light and bad contrast situations. If your camcorder behaves anything like mine, it will automatically switch to autofocus again if have had your camcorder turned off for a few hours. So if you're chasing the very next day, make sure it hasn't gone back to autofocus. This happened to me when I was filming the Kay County tornado in Oklahoma. Manual focus works great for night storms also. Hope this helps you.

[DjHardaFasta]

yea me too i was filming a pretty intense lightning storm in Sanford, FL every time the lightning flashed my camera would out focus with lightning was probably flashing 3 flashes to every 5 seconds round about it was utterly annoying so i had to half focus on a building across from my apartment block missing most of the action and my camera doesnt have a option to do manual focusing!

but the dvd got destroyed when i ran over it with my computer chair by accident oops!

[evan3214]

cool

[KILLDEZOMBIES]

i would be so scaed i would pee myself

[TPS996]

poopoo, i don't think we're in kansas anymore

[ctbomber65]

some crazy mutha f**kers. Good shit 5/5

[canibus19]

Talk about the wild wild westcoast of California all yall want, I'll take my earthquakes that happen every so often over the hundreds of tornados and supercell storms that occur every year in the midwest. LMAO

[darthhvader]

you know video's like this just want to make me cry!!! i live on the front range of colorado, here we get niente nothing!!! thanks for posting this just hope i get to see something like it someday!

[rejectofsoul24]

brother! it's not stopping huh

[ROVERSPORT22S]

Oh I live in Colorado nd I got to see my first tornado. It was crazy how they drop down. I got to see the one in Southglen mall, and 3 other ones further east from my job. INSANE, but awesome thing of nature! :D

[MileyWebkinz34]

On my birthday too..

[corporateDanny]

HAPPY LATE BIRTH DAY

[JakeTube4]

i see a face at 0:45

[darkravenboy1245]

dude look at it close and it looks like a deamon smile o.o.... and its like a girl to o.o

[coopmen]

Wow, you can hear the wind whistle through the barbed wire fence, thats cool.

Black are the clowds too.....

[nicoleakabumblebee]

Wowerrzz! Thats Crazyy

I wish something like that happend

over here at pennsylvania Lmao

For some reason i love rain nd storms!

[jasonrroberts099]

Woot. Storm footage in HQ.

[WarHawk44]

looks sweet. Why does it look like in the beggining, theres a window in the sky??

[UncleGrizzo]

Yeah, we were up north near Quinter and saw that tornado then headed down south of Ness City and watched this beast form, Followed it north of Ness City and also saw it drop one northeast of town but didnt get it on film for some stupid reason.

[12JDW2341]

why do people live in Tornado Alley when you know that the Storms are gonna come every year, you need to build stronger buildings like the ones in the UK

[CreativeCritisizm]

stronger homes cost to much, the older farm homes had thicker planks and good nailing & withstood much stronger winds, except large hail could still punch holes through the roof, unlike todays slap-together homes. The always alternative, the good old storm shelter, just make sure you take all your unreplaceables with you like photos, jewels, & keep them in one of those big plastic tubs, in other words just have a plan,,,lol

[12JDW2341]

The U.K. Does have Tornadoes bt there not as volient there more of an F1 or F2 Scale, what are they like tornadoes I would love to see one

[CreativeCritisizm]

I have never really seen one but have been close to them many times,,lol,,I've seen debris falling from the sky, I've seen wall clouds & clouds with circulation, I've lived in Oklahoma, now Alabama, the nations second tornado alley with tornados striking more in months like November, almost 2 seasons of it, however there are to many trees here to get a clear view of anything, makes storm chasing hard.

[evilnoob93]

i lived in ness city and my house was torn down....

[CreativeCritisizm]

did you move in a tent ?

[han777777]

1:16 lolz i saw marios cap XD (look at the sun going through the clouds XDDD)

[SICKBOYxHaR]

im a wuss when it comes to storms like that lmao besides blizzards and hurricanes :P

[DjHardaFasta]

not much lightning though!

[masonflowers]

holy crap! at 1:17 there is a face of mario with his cap!

[Unkownwatcher]

At 5:25 what time of day was it?

[crazyxemilia]

wow. it gets like pitch black around 5:40

man, i wish i was there. i love storms like that.

[vmax135]

EXCELLENT video! We were on this cell too. After moving to the NE of Ness city, we got to see three satellite tornadoes form on the edge of the parent circulation.

[samtron76v18]

That is CRAZY.

I would have been crying, but I'm a wuss when it comes to storms.

Great job!

[MissWhatever99]

Very nice!