True, and honestly the distance he was was close enough anyway. Unnecessary risks are not worth the lives. We don't need more storm chaser losses, who in turn try and save lives from these terrifying storms. As beautiful and mesmerizing as these deadly storms can be, I just want people to be safe. It's a mixed bag for me, having been in the path of at least 3 decently powerful tornadoes myself (and having several nightmares for over 20 years of them since), I am both interested in them and terrified of them at the same time. That being said I would love to tag along with Daniel or Hank sometime. As much as I'd love to be a storm chaser myself, I don't think I can afford the gas, nor can I afford the equipment needed to track storms. I live in the correct areas (I live in the Midwest. I used to live in North Texas (DFW Metroplex), my hometown of Weatherford, TX, however I moved in 2015 to be with my current spouse of now 7+ years. My father missed his calling of being a meteorologist, because he's usually correct about weather every single time. And I wonder if I inherited that gift myself, because I usually have instincts about when storms are about to hit (I can sense it in the air). I hope this year (other than the few that I've seen on KZfaq, plus whatever was involved in the one I experienced a few weeks ago which I am PRETTY sure was one even though NW Iowa hasn't experienced one in awhile - live in Estherville, the city that invented the term "Blizzard" look it up....and trust me winters can get bad here). The last I heard of any bad tornadoes was in 2017 in Worthington when my parent-in-laws were coming back from Sioux Falls, SD (where I go often to appointments, two-hour drive), and then one in Sioux Falls itself. Tornadoes are no laughing matter. Although you may laugh to cope, remember we used to have a time where you had *no warning at all*. Imagine the lives lost pre-DOPLAR RADAR. Pre-sirens. Pre-verbal warning. Just simply getting struck by this twisting cloud thing that picks up everything in its path and flinging it feet....miles away from where it originated. Imagine what the Romans must've thought? I know of one historical instance in Washington I think during the War of 1812 at the White House, a tornado struck and the British didn't really know what to make of it? That might be a rumor, I am not sure. Someone can correct me. I got off on a tangent here, I apologize. The primary point here is that saving lives from these things is a great priority and I'm glad that Daniel is around doing this and I have to apologize to Daniel for the US being so hard to get into in order to do this sort of thing. It's mid-June now, so this weather should have calmed down by now, so I can only imagine what kind of footage they must've gotten this year. I hope even more lives were saved this year, but also I hope some great scientific studies were made. I know I saw some great drone footage. Thank you Daniel for your service on the storm chasing frontlines!

Also greatly appreciate that you note the things you did wrong as well, like forgetting to mark the building prior to entering or calling in a report before you could actually see a fully condensed funnel. It's great for educating people and putting safety and correct action ahead of your ego. Thank you!

@LadyPhaedra42 a fully-condensed funnel does not a tornado make

Hank Schyma (Pecos Hank) does the same thing.

All for thrill but hopefully it saves lives…cmon…let’s say it as it is here…

Did he get anything right? I can't tell. He seemed to like to say dead.

It's only funny if you think that tornados only happen in the US. Looks like he chases severe weather (including tornados) all over the world.

He’s a spotter here in the States, and he covers weather and news in Australia as well.

He's got some really solid dedication to literally be going halfway around the world just to chase some really weird wind.

I think he's a kiwi

Believe me I wanted to go around, but you must also factor that non-chasers (Resident / Travellers) could be in a panic and driving could be unpredictable. The last thing you want is a collision and a diversion of emergency resources.

@@DanielShawAU It's good that you recognize them, and try your best to assist them. You're an outstanding man, and keep doing your thing.

@@DanielShawAU lol I thought you were being sarcastic, I laughed out loud at that part

@@KaileyB616 for a second I thought he was but he had plenty of room to go around.i then realized he was being genuine and honestly I do agree. People panic in heavy weather not everyone is comfortable in that weather.

@@DanielShawAU It's humorous that "chasers" think they are special.

U.S. resident that agrees with you. I’m fascinated by tornados like the next person but it does seem like a lot of other chasers are more concerned with getting the perfect shot or sensationalizing things before the intense concern of safety. Not all storm chasers are that way, but it felt like this guy was a public safety guy first.

LETS NOT FORGET ABOUT STORM CHASER REED TIMMER! THAT GUY ROCKS AND HE ALSO WILL STOP FOR S&R TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS OK!

I can see it now. Shaw: Break, break, VK2FSRV, reporting a whirly wind on the groundywound. NWS: ..... Alrighty then... I hear that they have pills for that...

God I can't imagine cheering when someone's house gets sucked up! They must have been 13 years old and stuck in video game mentality.

@@leewomack3498 Pecos Hank is also a gem.

It was not the fastest not even close you need to go check on other videos because you will see that you are dead wrong

@@markhammond8375 you for sure don’t know what you’re talking about

@@13_cmi my dad said my tornado is faster than both of yours

@Thunder98 how do you get 73 miles an hour as wind speed you goof?

@Thunder98 no it didn't because if it did when you Google it it would say that but nowhere does it say that so shut up

Right! I feel like the El Reno tornado changed how many storm chasers view safety and after watching Daniel’s video of being in it, it was so intense. He is a class act!

He help people

@@xodaniee it also depends on if your studying or warning people, just warning you don't need to be near

@Franz Fanon He’s not an amateur by any means. If you look at his website, his FB, and watch his YT videos, he’s a very talented photographer and chaser, and he’s been doing this since at least 2013.

@@celestaengland8317 also you have to start somewhere, if there was no amatures then there would be no professionals. Although the difference would be a hobby vs work

Well look at the storm chasers of the Joplin,Missouri tornado in 2011 ,they did the same thing here.

A lot of the Americans chasers do the same

As does Pecos Hank, Freddy McKinney and his dad, Skip Talbot. Most of the serious storm chasers, actually.

Thank you. Unfortunately missed some of the most incredible tornado video ever captured due to stopping, but I was there and I felt it the right decision at the time

@@DanielShawAU it is always the right choice to stop and help those in need. footage is one thing but peoples lives are worth so much more.

Sometimes you just get those vibes from the air, especially after you've lived through a couple storm seasons.

It sounds like you were being asked to leave by your 'looker afters' ;-) Wonderful story of following your intuition.

Glad you listened to your gut, stay safe and thanks for sharing.

Glad u r ok

@@praisejesusrepentorlikewis6218 please stop, this is so incredibly arrogant of you

Me too

It works (sometimes.) I was afraid to climb and loved it. I like to dive underwater but it really bothers me to have a mask and oxygen. I took diving class to try and desensitize but I’m still the same way about it. Maybe I didn’t do it long enough. I’m afraid of tornadoes for family members in certain vulnerable areas and get nervous when I hear weather. I started watching these out of curiosity and the advances in science really are reassuring me of them getting accurate warnings. Good luck-I think you’re onto something.

I love in Kentucky & have been feeling something similar since the tornado hit Mayfield last year. I hope you find success, conquering your anxiety.

Hi Kaitlin. I feel so relatable to you. I transplanted from California in 2009 and was told I’d get used to warnings. I still get really scared and nervous when those sirens go off…..especially at night. My logic was the same… I decided to study videos about the “enemy” in the hopes I would feel more in control when they are in my area. Not that it matters but I live in Oklahoma….I joke that I’ll take a California earthquake any day. My only logic of earth quake over a tornado is earthquakes happen suddenly and you react and have no time to worry, then it’s over. Tornadoes……I think it’s the waiting.

Sometimes fears or phobias can save your life.

I have seen the bad ones on many occasions. Death by impalement, crush and shredding is not considered fun.

​@mooncricket8192uhhhh bro?

@mooncricket8192 it was a figure of speech also seriously wtf

Him and Pecos Hank will also wait for the storm to clear and help search and rescue as well

More more more. Try an actual relationship rather than a parasocial one. They dont owe you any additional content.

​@@brysoncherry9884what has someone watching a storm chasing video got to do with needing their own personal relationships? we watch these because we're interested in weather particularly tornadoes. we all have our favorite storm chaser. I happen to be a big fan of Reed Timmer. that fact has nothing to do with my personal relationships.

Reed timmer is a douchebag. ​@@kathyharbarger13

still he cant beat pecos hank

@@VxbeMusicProduction I got nothing but respect for Pecos Hank him and Dan are the best of the best when it comes to severe weather

Little bit of reed trimmer also.

@Franz Fanon invited who?

@@lukebarratt7492 she's a schizo with a hate boner for the Aussie chaser, I've seen her comments elsewhere

Calm? Ok lol

@@Jase-L yeah calm. You can please some people some of the time. But you can't please all the people all of the time. I've seen years of tornado videos. Some are too excited. Yell. Repeat themselves. These people didn't as much. They were calm in my opinion. Keep yours to yourself if it's a negative one or talking down to strangers. Cowardly thing to do.

this guy's really good, i agree. i rlly like Pecos Hank, as well

Pecos Hank would like a word lol

Thanks for writing that all out; you seem to be a pretty interesting person. May you find the energy and time to chase a storm one day!! (:

I have witnessed too many horrible events. I am here to chase tornadoes, but don't want them impacting populated areas or active crops for that matter. Red dirt in Texas and grasslands in remote Colorado is the best.

Actually we Oklahomans have that title

Don't forget the winds coming down from the mountains. It's really the perfect collision for tornadoes.

@@Handro-cs4oo I guess I didn't know oklahoma wasn't in the US and tornado alley. Who knew.

@@katherineduke3232 definitely. Colorado has bad wind storms.

@@Handro-cs4oo Oklahoma is part of the area they are talking about 🤦‍♂️

You gotta watch Pecos Hank. He gets the lightening, sprites, all that stuff and awesome tornado footage.

I admire Australians. They have good honest hearts. Much appreciate this guys integrity in here. God bless him. We need more of him in our world. Thanks Daniel for simply being you. 💜🇦🇺

We can only do our best. This was NE Nebraska and controlled emergency weather nets in very regional areas are very rare. But we have other ways of getting confirmations in. Spotter Network was used to relay information to the NWS, but it can't compare to a controlled net with a liaison sitting next to the warning coordinator at the NWS.

The dude always jumps the gun, ,.. at 36:16 he admits it,… too eager to be first , not eager enough to be accurate,… DO BETTER!!!!!

All I could think of was 'Twister'. Lol *Cow flies by* "Cow!" *Cow flies by again* "Another cow!" "Actually I think that was the same one."

@@aether13x69 one of my favorite movies ever.

I agree with you there. 100% Same!

LOL! I was just about to say, "That looks like the Mothership" when you said that very thing. That makes me prescient, right? But a year late, so maybe not.

So sorry that you had to start over. That must have been so hard.

Very sorry to hear that you were impacted. Glad you are alive and ok though. Hope the warnings arrived ahead of time so you could make the right decision and protect yourself.

Speaking from a medical background, having bigger balls is a bad thing - (Cancer perhaps), but thank you. Nothing brave here, just wishing to document the event as best as possible and assist with real time warning information.

Western Massachusetts is like a tiny tornado alley. Springfield got an EF3 a few years ago. A high end EF3. Also the 1953 Worcester tornado. And there was one in great Barrington quite a few years ago. Eastern Massachusetts though doesn’t get many and usually when we do get them they are from tropical storms/hurricanes. One exception is the Revere MA tornado about ten years ago. Revere is right on the cold Atlantic Ocean and not only that but it touched down at around 8:30 AM! How that happened exactly I have no idea. I wish someone would make a short documentary about it or at least mention it but nobody does. Even the local news barely talked about it much less explained how it was able to drop a tornado under those circumstances.

I do remember when that happened. I changed my comment, as I also remember one in CT too. @@harryparsons2750

@Franz Fanon 1: not screaming and yelling the whole time. 2: genuinely trying to help, and getting information out as fast as possible. 3: works with first responders instead of getting in their way. 4: sticks around after the storm to help with cleanup, and first aid. 5: very educational to people who may not know much about tornadoes, and gives narration about what's going on in real time.

@Franz Fanon this Franz girl must be a psycho ex girlfriend of his or something. She comments everywhere trying to shit on him (and failing to, because she doesn't know what she's talking about).

@@mindharp white woman moment

Why are you amazed? It's their JOB

What's sad that is most people will need something of this degree to be thankful for what they have

He and Pecos Hank are honestly neck and neck, they both have the same temperament and care for things around them.

Like that one guy who tried to race a tornado in his prius and got caught in it,thankfully he survived without no injuries.

zeker!

I live in Sloan, and remember the head of the path arrow for the storm from Pilger was directly on Sloan on the Weather Channel. I went to the city library where there was a children's program going on, and they didnt know about the storm and asked what to do. I said keep the kids in the library storm room and not let them get disseminated about town. Thankfully, it didnt matter as the storm weakened and tracked north.

We have both here in texas. Dry windy days lead to all these wildfires and people ignoreing the burn bans.

I live in ga (part of Dixie alley) that’s in a rural area. There’s no service in many areas of my county & not everyone is in ear’s reach of tornado sirens. We had a funnel start forming in front of our house, but luckily it went over before the sirens went off. I’ve never ran so fast in my life so I could alert my husband(he was inside w our baby).

I couldn't imagine

@@praisejesusrepentorlikewis6218 do you comment these on every post you see or just tornado ones?

It's actually a live broadcast. This is how viewers can support my work via Patreon via www.severestorms.com.au The chase is live and you hear all the decision making processes in real time. A lot of conflict can occur during a weather event. Nail biting for many at times and things can go wrong.

No hero. Just a nerd with a camera (well.. 9 of them). A heap of emergency radios, more first aid equipment than camera equipment and really good training that would be "partially" useful in a serious incident. No person is prepared for a major disaster. Anyone who says they are is just fooling themselves.

@@DanielShawAU 9 cameras, i would be in heaven. You still case these monsters ad report back….hero .

With all due respect.... I am not a chaser but active navy in a professional type environment. This guy based off how hyper and jumpy he sounds while helping people and driving sets off MAJOR RED FLAGS for me. These are the kind of guys who in the heat of the moment forget the difference between CO2 and PKP and freeze someone's foot off. Not sure if you saw him "helping" the first people but even his actions, how he ran, how breathless he was from low intensity moments, etc. Tell me he is too caught up in the excitement to act professional. I can appreciate the warnings he gives and the willingness to help but I would not reccommend him for a job in rescue, first response, or any other if such jobs. Again. I appreciate him for sending warnings on ham radio but I still think he is too jumpy and fight or flight based.

@@ethanf5441 okay not everyone got broken down and built back up in boot camp, okay? He’s not an EMT. He’s a chaser doing his best to make sure people are okay. Would you prefer him to do nothing and keep on driving? “Too fight or flight based” how else are you supposed to react to a force of nature like that? Lmao. You are literally watching as peoples homes and lives are being ripped apart and destroyed.

@@exactlybasically8603 ok let me put this into perspective. A. If you can't keep clamer, DONT. CHASE. He isn't actually doing much. He is extremely caught up in the excitement. Story time: did training a while back. We had to don EAB devices. Essentially airtight masks with a hose to attach to compressed air lines so you can survive in a contaminated environment. Now me being new got jumpy, as I had NEVER handled an EAB in my entire life. I got it on late and had to go manifold to manifold holding my breath in-between to catch up with the squad. Not only was I hurrying but I was forgetting that there is very limited oxygen when that hose detaches for you to move, So I ended up with multiple times where I detached early and didn't get air. By the time I got caught up I was so tired I had to catch my breath (reasonably so) and so I hooked up and took a 10 sec break. Now everyone else had finished briefing and getting their tasks done and needed to leave And here I was out of breath, unhelpful, and uncoordinated BLOCKING them from escaping the Engine room LL. I detached to get out of the way and almost suffocated in my mask. I had to pull it off effectively killing me in the evolution, and because of the time it took for me to move blocking them, another one of my buddies "died" as well. Since then I have trained up on this, gotten decent at EAB and keep my cool, keeping me alive. ------‐------------------------ If you are untrained and in a casualty event, especially acting like this, you are more likely to get yourself and others killed and add to the casualty. I understand willingness, and that's all fine and good when you can act properly, or if you are doing something like a soup kitchen, red cross, or FEMA. Not in the heat of a casualty.

@@ethanf5441 my man this is pretty par for the course for chasers. This isn’t a military training course. This is something entirely different that you can’t even really compare too. There are veteran, and extremely professional chasers who get “caught up in the excitement” like this because it’s a crazy experience to go through. I really want you to point out something he did wrong other than get a little excited.

​@@ethanf5441 Hello Ethan. Thank you for your service in the Military. I appreciate you may interpret me as a "red flag". However please factor that I am witnessing a double wedge tornado event that I had never come across in my lifetime with the knowledge that multiple townships are about to be impacted by a likely EF4, EF5. (Was rated EF4 in the end) I have seen many who wish to "help" when they are actually a hinderance. More so during initial patient care and primary assessment. I do not like the feeling of adrenaline, but also realise that am perceived to think and talk too quickly. However this is how I am. I can slow down my talking, but it's actually additional work, rather than talking and narrating to the live viewers in real time. You are seeing an edit of what happened live and I call it all in real time. The final edit can come over as "too quick" and "hyper" some, but I am factoring for safety throughout. If one were to play "Hero coming through" they would go right into danger and entered the building immediately with no PPE. (Nor wait for the winds to die down) - More evident in the recent Lockett, Texas tornado when debris flew into my car post town impact. Ideally this needed to be done as a team. I performed S&R in a town called Perrin Nebraska some years ago with an off duty fire chief and two others. (First and only people on scene) It was methodical and done safely and slowly. Thankfully no injures, but one mobile home wiped out, and other structures and vehicles damaged.

Thank you, But it' ok to be scared. Fear is a natural response to act quickly. However the key is to make the right decision.

S&R was not perfect. Building should be marked with a single slash on entry and done as a team. Also needed other equipment (AC Hotstick) for live power detection which I now own.

Thank you for your feedback. Agreed on taking a few breaths. Double wedges don't happen. I have lost count of how many tornadoes I have seen, and this was a first for me (and everyone else for that matter)

Beaucoup de mort ??,😒

@@davidsensei2128il y a eu des morts :/