Yes!!!!!!!!

Thank you very much! I appreciate the kind words.

Oh come on do you not know? Sinclair Broadcast owns majority of news station. There is like maybe 3 in total. It gives the illusion of options but they’re own by the few 😂 I hate to break it too you. This isn’t some conspiracy but actual FACT.

@@bewareofsasquatch the broadcast in Cedar Rapids, Iowa at KGAN is produced in-house and only for Cedar Rapids, IA. We do not do anyone else's newscasts.

​@@NStewWXhaters are gonna hate..

weatherman

Weatherman, weatherman, ☁️🌡️ WEATHERMAN!!!!!!! They said I was a lesser feller!!!!

Weathermanologist!

wouldn't you like to know, weather boy?

guy that talks about weather

Like “oh yeah this is why I went to the academy”

"and heres the X with the weather" really makes you forget they are trained professionals who take their jobs seriously to a Last Out standard.

You should watch Nick's coverage of the August 10th 2020 derecho. He was out of the studio, in the field reporting on that one. After he experienced that one, I'd bet he was quite glad to be in the studio for this one...

"Just like the simulations"

That... or he is smiling out of nervousness because a death event is close...

Me too. But my boss lives in Iowa.

I agree with you those guys are authentic weathermen.

Honestly, weather enthusiasts live for this shit. As threatening as it was, potentially for lives around them, its hard to shake the excitement of documenting such a storm in real time, observing all of the data and visuals.

@@vertigoalopolusabsolutely! One of my friends is a meteorologist and his enthusiasm for weather is so contagious. He's absolutely also all about safety no matter how unique and exciting the weather event

it blows my mind that his name is cayson cayson as a name is a very rare name plus I love weather too like tornadoes and severe weather and as you can tell my name is cayson based on my account name

All I heard was power flashes

​@michaeltaylor8835 but were there power flashes? I cant really tell

They all did a brilliant job.

Yes. Very good reporting!

Agreed!

LOOK UP RON HEARST KY3 SHORTS THAT DAY WAS HORRBILE

Thank you for report weather !!!

Keep up!!?? On you tube

They did

Balls of metal🗿

100 mph winds? Power flashes? Yeah, that might as well have been a tornado.

@@youseineko Yup. The main difference was the shape of the storm. A long line instead of a spinning column.

Hurricane force winds at least for sure.

Meteorologists of all stripes are heros when the chips are down.

@@vasilivladivostok1136 yeah they are. And if you give them time, they will fill and fill and fill with facts and stuff

Thanks my guy. Things have been really crazy the last few years here in DFW.

Skydivers?

@@pleasedontwatchthese9593 Yeah. That one surprised me too. But..these are guys who don’t jump because weather turns green quickly. They report too

I live in NE CR and the lightning was flashing constantly for probably 45 minutes to an hour after the storm had passed us. Never seen anything like that in my life before.

i would have been shitting bricks. i nearly got killed by a flying branch back in the fifth grade. later that day, our crab apple tree was split down the middle by a lightning strike. the wave of water cracked our front window. scary power.

I didn’t even think about how AI would have been happening at the time! I was at home about an hour south of IAC and eight of our trees got uprooted and could’ve easily smashed into our house. Definitely scary shit! Must have been even scarier with no basement to retreat to. Glad you were okay.

this was the first storm to the best of my memory where the winds hit before the warnings did, and debris was hitting the outer wall of my room and i decided to move everyone to the basement before our phones and the sirens went off

I’m from Waterloo and don’t even know about this… 😢

Wow

@@rachelolvera9435 Wow

@@Shrek881 Wow

@@PlagueJWow

Thank you for all you do driving! Hope you were not in the area. Iowas had bad weather this year. Live in lower southeast area drove threw there on 380 to 218 coming home from moms in SD wanted to stay a day longer but we both had to work now I’m glad we didn’t stay a day longer we would have ran right into this mess.

cedar rapids is no stranger to random insane weather, you could just be going about your day and BAM, a storm like this hits, and then you pick up the damage and continue with your day

it’s because of wonderful studios like KGAN that gives us such good information that let’s us take the weather in stride

Could I ask around what area in North Texas? My husband and I are trying to escape the growing hellscape that is Austin to hopefully start a family. It's a shame since I was born in Austin, but it's just unlivable here now.

@@officerwaifu6408 To be honest, I prefer the TX Hill Country than North Texas. Living here in Denton Co, but thinking about moving myself in the next few years..

@@moretoknowshow1887 My dad has said a lot of good things about Denton! We were personally looking at Abilene but also have ties to Killeen. I just want a population of 100k max, I'm tired of the cities.

​@@officerwaifu6408Not sure what kind of amenities you like, but I used to live in a tiny town near the Oklahoma border called Vernon. About 45 miles east is Wichita Falls. If you want the small rural town feel in a city, I would suggest Wichita Falls. If you prefer small town living and don't mind commuting, there are about 10 towns (like Vernon) within 25-30 miles of WF that are below 10,000 pop. It's hot, it's flat farmland everywhere, and there's not much too much to do, but if you're looking for a more "down home" style of living, people there take things pretty slow. And if you get bored Dallas is about an hour south if you drive fast and watch out for those Denton cops!

I knew you must have been talking about Denton! The strangest weather happens there.

For real, the local weathermen are like celebrities

The weather has been getting pretty crazy. We had crazy flooding in 1993, a blizard in May, 2013, and now, in the 2020s, we are getting these crazy wind storms. What next...

These kinds of events usually come in the forms of "Derechos" which are terrifying to experience in person. We got hit by the Iowa Derecho in 2020 here in Wisconsin and it was gnarly.

You will never be a woman

@@GrimKreeper 1993, 2013 and then this in 2023? Crazyyyyy at least you've got at least ten years before something else hits

⁠derechos are indeed terrifying, I've lived through one in Western Europe in 2008 and I don't want to see such a thing ever again. It's insane how the Midwest in the United States got hit by one this year and the year before that. I've also seen videos from the 2020 one.

Meee!

@@user-yb6ef1ji8i you know what would be cool is to post a series of video just documenting weather each day throughout the years. like Jan 1st as far as you can back then 2nd and 3rd. just so we can see the trend through the years.

I saw that part live too. I had just joined the stream and they lost him.

@@notmystify_ Yeah it was crazy, there was rain coming right at him from straight ahead and the side. For a second it seemed like that things were calming down but then it ramped back up and got worse and worse then his stream cut out

YES,,,I would tell anyone that if there is a storm near you at all, get on MAX VELOCITY. Or Ryan Hall, Ya all. You have absolute by the minute of where storm is.

​@@Mole460Where in Iowa were u? I live Iowa. My family lives right in between Waterloo & Cedar Rapids. It did get very bad south of them. My mom watched the RAGBRAI riders go through her town on the way to Coralville. The storm followed them in a tad later in the day. Coralville was the night stop-over.

Years ago in Kansas we had 107 tornado touchdowns in a single day. Our local weather guy stayed on air for 16 straight hours keeping people updated. Ended up with a total of three people injured across the whole state. It was an amazing result.

Get your modem and router on a battery backup UPS. They're affordable and sold everywhere. No matter whether cable, telco, or fiber, your ISP will have battery backup for their headends and server rooms and your Internet should not go down if you just keep power to your home networking gear.

Columbus is gorgeous. I visited my nephew there and loved it.

I lived in Columbus for over 50 years. All 3 stations would hype the simplest weather alert.... so much so that people tend to just ignore any and all bad weather alerts.

​​​@@teebob21mostly true. The local equipment such as nodes and amplifiers still need to be powered by a nearby power supply. The ISP i work for will set generators to get them back online, but if the power outage affecting you is big enough internet will definitely go down with it at first.

@@Thuase Your local cable company's power supplies are connected to grid power for normal operations, yes. They also have battery backup in those cabinets that should last through the first couple hours of an outage.

Come to Shetland, this is common place every winter for us. 70-100mph regularly 🎉

@@brionyhall4250 The strongest ever winds in the UK have been recorded on mountains, and the strongest ever gust was 150.3 knots (173 mph) recorded at Cairngorm Summit on 20 March 1986. However, some very strong gusts have been recorded at low levels too , these mostly along exposed coastal areas. more recent on in the south Storm Eunice's 122mph on the Isle of Wight , At a speed of 142mph, the strongest gust recorded at any low-level location in the UK was made at Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire on February 13, 1989.

We did have 100mph gusts in Liverpool several years back. A huge number of trees came down and an ambulance crashed whilst responding to an emergency landing at the airport. I believe two people were killed. We couldn't drive for a few days because so many roads were blocked by huge tree fall.

I’m always very thankful for our two primary news stations in my city. We experience storms similar to this nearly every summer and it’s terrifying. Only thing is, when it happens in my city, the winds only lasts about 5-15 minutes. I’m glad it never lasts long but it’s definitely long enough to give you sever anxiety.

We are

It was actually 8pm then.

When it happens here, you never know it. In 1995 I had to stop in the road, in traffic on I94, because visibility got so bad nobody could even pull over. I thought my very aerodynamic car was going to blow away; there were tree branches hitting it. When it cleared up, I was right behind an overpass. When I arrived at my destination, they were talking about a tornado that followed the road of the overpass.

Glad you and husband are ok. My uncle was in his work pickup truck when a tornado went through his hometown. He had a large dirty gash on his forehead from broken glass flying in the air. He had it stitched at nearest hospital, but they were too rushed with other storm victims to clean the wound first. He made his way slowly across town to a second hospital, where staff were less rushed. They undid the stitches, cleaned the wound, and did their best to restitch it. He recovered without complication. When he was able to build his own home, a few years later, he made sure to include a dedicated storm shelter, very sturdy construction!

1972 -- I was driving home in a little two-seater Fiat convertible when the storm hit. I pulled over and into a park8ng lot immediately because of the visibility, but the winds became strong enough to rock the car severely. I considered trying to run for the building, but the wind was too strong for me to make it. My in-laws had just bought a sailboat, and I had learned to head into the wind in bad weather. I ultimately started up my parked car and turned it directly into the wind. It stopped feeling like I was going to be blown over. It was a bad storm, with several radio towers and trees down all over the county.

Almost everyone that lives in this area where this broadcast was is very used to wind of this level. The August 2020 Midwest Derecho slammed into CR with 120mph winds.

No. I won’t get off the road

I live in Marion, nearby. I had been monitoring weather alerts that evening. I went to the safest part of my home until about 9:30. When I wanted an update on storm alerts, I found my TV was not receiving signal from any reasonably local channel. Or any channel for that matter. I resorted to internet to try, but couldnt find anything after the storm siren went off earlier. Ps. I had watched radar coverage of another storm cell go directly over the area where I had grown up as the storms had been starting. I wondered how families of old neighbors were fairing!

@@joycebrewer4150 There are several youtube channels that go live during severe weather anywhere in the country. These folks track the nasty storms and warn people who are in the path. You can subscribe to them to make them easier to find when you need them. I HIGHLY recommend you do. I sub to three/four of them because one may NOT go live but another will. They also do forecast almost daily so you can always have a good idea of what could be coming your way in advance. Ryan Hall, Y'all and Ryan Hall, Y'all XTRA Meteorologist Andy Hill Max Velocity - Severe Weather Center Ryan Hall, Yall has an entire TEAM of people, on and off camera, who work these live broadcasts. Andy is one of the on camera team. I highly suggest watching them and getting used to what they do so you get a real understanding before you need them to save your life. Yes, these people have saved lives with their warnings that often come BEFORE the National Weather Service warnings. That gives you an extra few minutes to get you and your family to the safest place in your home. As for your local siren, don't EVER go outside to look or waste time looking on the internet to see what's up. Get to your safe place FIRST and use a laptop or phone AFTER you are there. Ryan has a saying; "Don't be scared. be prepared."

Fellow Aussie here too. Bushfire season is always scary.

August 10, 2020. A Deracho that started in western Iowa and basically followed the US 30 corridor through central and eastern Iowa into western and central Illinois. Cedar Rapids has been ground zero for mother nature the last 15 years with major floods and the Deracho.

A tree went through my roof during that

⁠​⁠​⁠@@seththomas9105That derecho was the scariest storm I have ever been in. I was 11 when the storm happend. My above ground pool blew away lol.

​@seththomas9105 we had effects of it down here in s.e ia too. Put a tree through my mom's roof. Really scared her. My roomate works construction and she was up repairing and replacing roofs in CR after it happened. Took months to finish because they had a hard time getting orders filled for plywood and shingles

Yup...that was an experience.

Wow

You must not live in the Midwest or tornado alley. I'm 37 and have always heard them describe storms as destructive.

In 2021 the NWS added damage tags (categories) to Severe T-Storm Warnings. 80 mph winds and greater or 2.75 inch hail and greater is the criteria for “Destructive.” Will trigger the WEA alert on your cellular device & the communities in the warned areas will likely sound the sirens

​@@prollins6443 There is a difference between destructive and Destructive tagged. Any thunderstorm can be destructive. The Destructive tag wasn't used to describe Severe Thunderstorm Warnings until July 2021. The Destructive tag means that there is hail of 2.75in or larger -or- wind speeds of 80mph or more. Also, Destructive tags will usually include activation of the Outdoor Alert Sirens.

Iowa is my adopted state, and I learned early that thunderstorms definitely can be dangerous and trigger sirens to sound a warning.

​@@ArcalargoI work in the Geography/Geography Information Sciences sector. As rare as they can be, I am extremely curious if there will be a Derecho watch/warning implemented eventually. My apartment was damaged during the Derecho that hit Sioux Falls in May of 2022 and the danger in general is so severe that nothing currently is honestly imperative enough - bar tornado warnings - to describe it.

I was in the SW part of C.R. where the 140mph hit. When it hit it snapped the door closed on my arm and nearly broke it. That was fun, can we do it again?

Nature’s power is unfathomable.

Straight line winds are no joke, especially when we're talking 70, 80, 90 mph winds

Many of my friends were there for a horse show and were told to go to the arena for shelter at midnight!!

This was my thoughts too, but I'm in Ontario Canada and we got hit May 20th 2022 by a Derecho. I was knocked unconscious by a flying heavy cot mattress and it barely hit my city. I have family in other areas that had extensive damage and friends that had no power for 11 days following it. It moved in hours ahead of what we were anticipating and was much much stronger than we thought it to be. I believe it was 8 lives lost too 😔

@@melissab1360 Derechos do have this tendency to unexpectedly speed WAY UP. A derecho's fast forward speed is driven by its Rear Inflow Jet. It's also the Rear Inflow Jet that gives derechos their bow shape on radar.

@@WAMama84Were they ok? I worry for the animals,too! Horses can get so frightened.

@@toneenorman2135 I think mostly just some minor scrapes etc from being scared, they had to cancel nationals though because no power and damage to facilities, which is a real bummer for a lot of reasons (people work all year to make it, pay a lot to get there, take time off work, bring the horses a LONG way) etc. But thankfully no major injuries that I have heard of.

Yeah, we get some crazy weather here in Arkansas too. Had a tornado come right through the central Arkansas metro area (very populated) back on March 31st. It hit about a mile from our house. I had never heard of that happening before- right through town. It caused a lot of damage.

Sounds like it was T-mobile. They have a call center in Wichita. Well they used to.

yes, I saw, living in Chicago, we had HUGE wind and lighning

​@@botterwottleditzyikes! 😮

tornadoes tend to be stronger than hurricanes...hurricanes are just way bigger and last a lot longer

Derechos are straight line winds.

That's what I was going to say too, the only thing is as a Floridian I'm used to this, these people are not and with a hurricane you get plenty of warning.

Yeah, here in Terlton that Storm that hit Tulsa downed a huge oak tree on our RV which we live in. We are ok, but plan to replace this RV next month.

the climate ain't changing. it's all the weird people being weirdos. god don't like that much. ps. don't tell me you thought i was serious...

They told you when they lost power, but had put it on generator so they didn't go completely black out. They also evacuated everyone except for the two meteorologist