Tornado at Night with Flying Debris

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May 9th, 2003 One of my most frightening encounters in all my years of tornado chasing. A night time tornado in the town of Yukon, Oklahoma. The debris starts to fly and chase partner, Ron Gravelle and I scramble to seek shelter behind a shopping mall.

After a few minutes we continue to chase the tornado which is now wrapped in rain. Listen to the radio announcer as we approach the Britton Road overpass. We almost drive into the tornado a second time.

This is why I hesitate to storm chase at night anymore.

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• George
• Kourounis
• Explorer
• Adventurer
• Angry
• Planet
• Tornado
• Storm
• Debris
• Oklahoma
• Stormchaser

[MrDmacawesome]

nice job keeping a cool head guys!

[Josephized]

oh is it a tornado warning noise

[Josephized]

wats that noise

its like a car horn or something

[kkloomis]

@LookinatLife Yah really scary ain"t it

[LookinatLife]

I really hate tornadoes at night. Especially in hilly or wooded areas.

I like how you kept checking on each other. That probably helped you both stay grounded a bit in a pretty tense situation.

[womanintheshadow]

That is crazy!!! You were practically in the tornado!

[KlipsiGeneva]

this is the night when curious George became furious George ;-)

[PeteTheBritt]

Nice job George, both you & your chase partner kept your heads nice & cool in a very stressfull situation. You'd not make it in todays "stormchasers" programme as you're way to level headed & not nearly excitable enough lol ;O) See you in May/June no doubt.

[larry2043]

Wow, that is awesome, George!!!!

[strandwolf]

I'm thinking culvert time. That brick could be pulverized and end up in your lap.