June 13th Tornadoes, Near Orienta, Major County, OK (edit)

Tornadoes near Orienta on June 13th. After taking a dirt road north to head off a storm we were flanked by a quick moving thunderstorm that drenched the road we were cautiously traveling, which completely sealed our fate, leaving us stuck for the next few hours.

While we were stuck this flanking thunderstorm went supercellular, and started dropping tornadoes about 1/2 mile to 3/4 of mile to our NE and then moved to our NW. Shortly after the first few tornadoes, the storm then moved South and later dropped another tornado (reportedly more than one, but I only saw one) to our SE as the storm moved directly over us.

This cell then merged with several other storms in the region to form a quasi-stationary MCS which dropped an estimated 9 inches of rain on our position. Thankfully, after a few hours of being stuck, Major County firefighters helped me and Amos push our car to the nearest gravel road (while we were surrounded by Cloud to Ground lightning). Afterwards, we were treated to one hell of a lightning show on the ride home.

I apologize for any shaky camera shots. This was my first ever tornado experience and I was standing in 2 inches of water and then another 3-4 inches of red, wet, clay, which made moving and setting up my tripod a challenge, not to mention the wind, rain and hail that made it even more difficult.

Enjoy!

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[feemsterboy]

God damn, how hard is it to hold the fucking camera still

[Midas Bacidore]

That was awesome.

[Meedyweedy]

hi wat year was this in?

[dominicrooke]

brilliant video congrats

[TommyJoebowers1tycoo]

Good shots of several storms (the good part of getting stuck! Lol). You presented a nice view of each cloud mass. An example that no matter how prepared or experienced one is, mother nature always has the upper hand, and precision and even prudence may not always be to our avail -- even with the most talented experts. Good work, still

[SpottedleafCCRVMK]

Okay, tornadoes do not go DOWNNNN into the ground.

Tornadoes go on top of the house, they just don't go down the stairs.

If you stay upstairs and don't go into the basement, go kiss your life goodbye, you're dead. You'll get killed by a falling roof, being decintigrated, a car going through your window, or flying debris going through your window.

No, you should ALWAYS go in a basement if you're in your house.

No basement? The bathtub.

Outside? A ditch. If it's far, get in a car and FLOOR IT

[Torn80cj]

At least you got stuck in the right spot, not that you want to get stuck in the first place. But since you did get stuck, at least you got to see tornadoes and they didn't come straight at you. And you didn't go into panic mode either. I believe I was chasing in Kansas or Texas on this day, I would have to check out the date on some of my pics.

[minikin84]

Did you not see the foot of water in the road and ditch? So you'd rather them lay in that and drown than stay in the car, sheltered from the possible hail? There was NOWHERE to go.

[LuvsTstormTapes]

Excellent footage of all forms of the supercelled-Tstorms...the lightning, the wall-clouds, the funnels, the real tornadoes and the like. Nice narrative voices inside that car too. BTW...up where I live in southern RI, tornadoes are quite rare...but on 7/23/08...one did strike only 12 miles to my N((I got a video from 7/23/08)) and on 8/8/08...got on video((YouTube also)) a real tornado-like black cloud...hence my thumbnail pix...wanna see both videos???

[PsychoArsonX]

wow, the first and last tornado was at pine lake in canada, i was filming it but i dropped my camera in the panic and never saw it again