That Joel Ewing should be honored with the Nobel Prize for /animal / humanitarian kindness...blah blah blah ha ha just kidding! Hey Hank, this is Joel Ewing! Geez....thanks much for putting my little cameo appearance in your vid....I had no idea! Yeah, that poor pup...this finally had a happy ending, but very literally the in-vehicle distraction he initiated almost caused us (trusty storm chase partner / cousin Doren Berge) and I to get killed when that BIG, long lived tornado that wasn't shown in this vid that was following us in this video (I had forgotten it was behind us) caused our vehicle to begin bouncing wildly up and down and back and forth sideways from it's violent inflow (dude....it was SO close for real) At this point we truly could not see the road in front of us to drive, and that big tornado just kept creeping up closer and closer to us. The hail and heavy precip had gotten the best of me, and I had to poke along with the driver's door open in pouring precip and insanely fast pitched big hail to try to keep us on the muddy road by watching the ditches on the road's sides. We thought we were goners.....it's the closest I have come to death by chasing in 35 plus years of doing this. That little mutt stray dog had initially come up to us whimpering and crying with abject fright. He was soaked, cold and the hail terrified him. I never saw him, but began feeling something groveling on top of my feet, and by instinct as a dog guy myself, I scooped the muddy little dude up without a thought and tossed him into my driver's seat. When we stopped filming the anti-cyclonic tornadoes, we went from farm house to farm house....nobody knew this dog at all. FINALLY....a long distance from where we scooped him up....we found the frantic farm owner who owned this pup and a happy ending was had by all. I DID give that farmer a gentle little scolding for NOT having a collar on his pup, and I meant it. My poor chase partner Doren just holds his breath now any time we happen to drive by any critter that looks like a stray animal as we blast around the alley. We've picked them up in Texas, Nebraska and other locales before, and have had happy endings each time, thank God. Hank...Anton....I KNOW you guys would do the same for any poor, stray animal....I just happened to beat you two to the puppy-grab this time! Thanks for putting me in your vid, Hank. I'm honored. joel ewing / tucson

"Every now and then, a burrito spins the wrong way." Thank you auto-generated captions, I haven't laughed that hard in months.

Hank: “Cyclonic, Anticyclonic, Mesocyclone, RFD Surge, Supercell, etc.” Also Hank: “Swirlies.”

Pecos Hank, 4 years ago I commented on your best tornadoes of 2016 video asking you what I should name my very first Ball Python. You told me that it if was a boy that I should name it Hank, and he was indeed a boy. To this day my ball python Hank is doing well and I still get super excited when you drop a new video. Thank you, and happy trails.

It’s so cool how the tornado just switched colors so fast because it kicked up all that dirt. That was mesmerizing to see ✨

Because of Hank, I've discovered a genuine passion in severe weather, and am looking into studying it in college. Thanks for everything!

I think we all can agree everyone’s day lights up when we see a pecos hank upload

I'm absolutely obsessed with meteorology, but I'm definitely fearful of tornadoes. Watching your videos has the same feeling to me as watching a scary movie! Spring of '91 Andover KS- we noticed a strong storm coming in, my parents were roofing the house that day and only had ½ of the roof on when the sirens started to cry, my dad had a first hand look at the funnel cloud forming to the west as he was hurrying to tarp the roof. He yelled for all of us to get into the closet and mom to open the windows in the house (at that time we thought that would equalize the pressure in the house) My dad grabbed the matress off of my bed and we huddled in the hall closet under it. We heard what I could only describe as the loudest wind I've ever heard, so loud it sounded like a freight train! We emerged from the closet thankfully safe, and with only vehicle and sidding damage! That tornado claimed the lives of 21 people and was an EF5!

I don’t know if you were chasing a few nights ago in the mid west. But I hope you are safe. That was an incredibly scary outbreak.

The perfect blend of visual awe and scientific fact is back once again!

Hank's music really adds to the creepy-but-beautiful nature of these videos.

That one at 5:15 was absolutely beautiful! The way the dust allowed us to see it so defined!

Hank! I’m not sure what area you’re exactly in but I hope you’re alright after yesterdays storms. Thinking of you and all the people affected by this record breaking event.

As soon as I saw the post I had to click I’ve wanted to chase tornadoes since I was 4 and haven’t chased but ended up getting blindsided by a very weak tornado on a road trip last year and that got me even more hooked

Hank never fails to provide new, intriguing information on weather and tornadoes. With his camerawork, editing, and genuine love for his audience, hank is undisputedly the best person on youtube.

Hank I’ve been watching you for years now and you’re almost at 1,000,000 followers it’s almost like watching a kid grow up even though I’m 13 and don’t know what it feels like. Just know I’m thankful for all you taught your followers and me about weather.

I want more and more up close action tornado chasing, tornadoes intrigue me so much. I just about got killed in one. One night, not realizing, I drove right into a tornado around 10:30 pm In my Rv motorhome while traveling, yes the warning signs were there but it was wayyy too late for me to turn around kept driving thinking it would clear up, nothing doing, it turned into a vicious nightmare with no power on the gas pedal, zero power. Nothing left of my totally destroyed Rv but the cab where I was buckled in after the tornado lifted it up, tossing it like a rag doll over and over across the highway, what a very scary ride Lol. I have a strong respect for mother nature. Fascinating kool. Thx 4 these vids!

As a meteorologist who teaches others about weather daily, today I got the privilege of learning from you :)

I’ve learned more on this channel than I ever would in school. Thank you Hank!

My home State of KY was just hit with possibly the worst Tornado in the States History. Several towns are completely destroyed. Weather Service is saying the Tornado was on the ground for at least 200 miles. Mayfield,Ky and Dawson's Springs are two of the worst hit. Over 7p deaths reported so far. Absolutely horrible. Especially this time of year

Praying hard for all the people touch by the violent tornados in Kentucky, Ilinois, and Arkansas, may rest in peace for the 83 victimes who lost their life and their families.

The legend himself has bestowed upon us another masterpiece

1:24 knocked me out so bad just as i was thinking about how annoying it must be for vehicles to get in the shot he came back to apologize

Our home was destroyed during Katrina when we lived in Florida and then back in 2010 a tornado came and ripped half of our house up and ever since then I've been obsessed. Weather definitely plays a huge part in my life. I love studying the clouds. You make it so much better!! You've educated me a lot!

kinda worried about you after the recent storms/disasters. they were awful. please let us know you're okay hank !!

Fascinating! I did not know about anticyclonic tornadoes until now. Great footage too. That dusty brown tornado really was beautiful.

I love the dry ice visual representation! Very cool and fun way to learn about tornado rotation.

Really gutted to hear about all those people 50+ in Kentucky, who have lost their lives in a tornado 10.12.21. Scary stuff😞

100% Some of the best, wholesome content on KZfaq. Thank you for being you, Hank.

As a truck driver your channel has definitely helped me understand tornadoes alot more and what to look out for when I'm out here on the open roads 💯

Can we take a moment to appreciate that this is the best channel on KZfaq where we can actually enjoy severe Weather.....💙

Hank I hope you covered the Mayfield, Kentucky tornado that happened recently. The damage that thing caused man..

hey there!! i’m obsessed with your vids but did you get any shots of the kentucky tornado today? it would be so much more insightful than the 2 videos shown on the news.. i pray for those who lost their lives on this day…

Hank is slowwwly becoming one of the more important science communicators out there. The reason being, this stuff is right on the very cutting edge of atmospheric research…what’s more important than our atmosphere when it comes to survival? Not much, when you REALLY think about it. On top of that, he’s got a knack for breaking this stuff down for a general audience. When I first got into this stuff as a kid back in the 90s, we knew almost none of what you hear nowadays on extreme weather channels. We heard about converging air masses, updrafts and little more. The wealth of data that’s been shared in the last 20 years is almost mind boggling…

Hank, I hope you know I'm going to be pursuing a career in meteorology, and you've been a big reason for that. Both my best friend and I love your content so much

Maybe hank can make a video about the one that hit Kentucky and other states it was pretty bad at least 50 dead

Any chance of you covering the tornadoes that ripped through Kentucky these past few days? It was crazy.

I'm Joel Ewing's chase partner. I remember that day well.. we have nearly identical footage of the full event. And that damn dog nearly got us killed!.. The owner was quite happy when we returned him safely home so it was worth it for the chase karma. What a day... Another great video. Love your channel.

*Czech viewer's perspective and story:* I've been following your channel for a couple of years as I've always been fascinated by tornadoes. I never considered them a real danger in my country (in the middle of Europe), tornadoes were "the big ones happen only in America" kind of a thing, but I always took interest in your videos explaining how they form, the structure of storms, accompanying weather phenomena etc. I live and work in Prague, but my family lives in the region of South Moravia, Hodonin district. This summer we'd had some severe thunderstorms. On the 24th ofJune I was looking at an online rain forecast, planning my evening activities. The radar showed a huge incoming complex of strong storms spanning across our whole country. I told to myself "damn, this looks nasty", because they looked like real supercells and a thought "if I'd live in the US, I would be afraid that there could be a tornado" actually did cross my mind. That evening, I called my mum, to chat about how my family was doing. My mum told me that a huge storm was coming. That the air "felt weird", that she had never experienced anything like that before a storm. They have also seen some "strange clouds" and she described mammatus clouds to me. I could hear thunder rumbling over the phone. Then I heard my father come over to my mum and tell her with a grave voice that a strong tornado had just completely levelled a nearby village to the ground. My father is a retired firefighter, so he got the news immediately, probably when the tornado was still on the ground. It reached the strength of EF4, destroyed 5 villages and killed 6 people, its path was 26 kilometres long and at some stages it reached a width of 500 metres. It stopped 15 km from the village where my family lives. If you'd climb the hill behind our house, you could actually see it. Some of my father's former coworkers lost their homes or were injured. Most of the people had no clue what was coming, because no one thought such a strong tornado could happen in our country. We don't have any tornado warning system, no tornado shelters. So you can find some crazy footage on youtube from people who shot "a strong storm" on their phones from their balconies, not knowing they are staring at an EF4 tornado coming right at them, not knowing that they should hide... I can tell you, expecting a storm won't ever be the same here! Thank you for your great content, Hank! I told my family everything I could about possible warning signs and what to do if they see them. Since then, they've actually felt the weird air once more before a strong storm and thought they'd seen a rotating wall cloud forming.... well, we hope South Moravia won't become a European tornado alley, but one can never know.

Hank… I can’t believe you’re at 2.6M views on this video already. I anxiously wait for you to post and have been watching your videos for a long time now. Your work is superb and it’s nice to see you do so well on this video. Love you mane. Post4meeeeeeeeeeeeeee pl0x

Hoping you covered the Kentucky incident. Would love to see your break down of the whole event

Having studied fluid mechanics, the massive real world phenomena of tornadoes is so cool! It never occurred to me that anticyclonic tornadoes existed but it makes so much sense now that I see it! Keep up the good work and be safe!

AMAZING work, Hank, and the Drs. Seimon! RFD intensity and atmospheric volatility will continue to produce greater, more powerful companion storms and resultant multi-vortex disasters. Thank you, all in the stormchasing and research community for the incredible work you do! It will become critical to survival in the very near future.

I wonder if you were able to cover the ef4 maybe even 5 that demolished the town of mayfield Kentucky very close to my home

You know, this channel has really helped me overcome my crippling fear of storms and tornadoes and so on, and has given me more of a feeling of fascination and respect towards these events instead. Thank you so much for everything you do, Hank! Keep up the great work, I can't wait to see what you post next!

I am a 43 year old father. i have always been fascinated with severe weather. I always want to chase storms like Hank does. And now after watching Hanks channel my 11 year old daughter getting interested and passionate like i was in my youth. Maybe she will start chasing or go to school for meteorology. Thank You Hank!!!!

Please post soon!! All these tornados yesterday made me start rewatching your videos again. I'm sure I've seen each one 2-3 times at this point....help! XD

I hope you have some info on the devastating tornadoes in KY last night, could be 100 plus fatalities

Pecos my man, you are a different breed of natural hunger for the unknown and the knowledge you have/obtain so you can apply this amazing gift in the form of a KZfaq video is even more amazing. Thank you! You keep making them and I'll keep coming to watch em!

Always very happy when I get an upload notification from your channel! Thanks for the great video Hank!

I can’t wait for your insight on the recent Kentucky tornados!

Number one on my bucket list is to see a tornado in person before I die. It is my dream. For now, I will live vicariously through you

Pecos Hank has fantastic sound design in his vids. I just love how he combines those gloomy guitar chords with the scary dark clouds, sending shivers down the spine. And even the timing of the lighter, mysterious chords whenever they were whirling up vortices in the dry ice vapor.

Hank is the embodiment of the "dads during a tornado" meme.

You should make a video about the tornado out break today

As a flight instructor I guess I think of this like moving your flat hand through water and watching a whirlpool form behind where your hand was, then the equal and opposite reaction is the liquid spinning off in the other direction as a direct result. I notice this when watching the tide come in and out at the beach. I imagine air behaving exactly like water now when I fly and teach new students. Enough about me, I LOVE this channel. Such amazing content. I wish you could have seen the microburst I was in the middle of at Orlando Executive Airport yesterday. A student lost their life because the plane was flipped over. Thank you for showing people to respect mother nature.

Subtitles: "We refer to these deviant burritos, as anticyclonic" Me: Ooooooh it’s burritos not tornadoes. Got it.

Man, I remember having an irrationally high level of stress related to tornados when I was a kid. Though, since I was, and still am, in an area where it rarely ever occurs, it seems a bit silly now. Basically on the same level as the concern about quicksand and acid rain I got from movies. Thankfully it has developed into a deep fascination for these wind devils. It's a shame I don't see these in survival/open world games enough.

I just want to thank you for all of your amazing videos. You've Inspired me to start photographing storms here in Florida. You've filled your videos with so much valuable information all while making them fun to watch and share! Thanks again Hank I admire you and salute you and your beautiful work. Keep em coming!!!!

We’re you there in Kentucky? Cuz that might’ve been one of the worst storms in history

Hank’s weather videos transcend into art, he’s like the David Attenborough of supercells.

Well, Dan now has documentation to point at when CBP at the airport ask what his empoyment is: "I'm a certified vapor-nado technician."

I have always been so captivated by tornadoes since I was a kid. I’m in Australia, and they are a very very rare sight here, if ever! There is something so majestic and mesmerising about them. The one in this video was hypnotic. I feel like Tornado ASMR could be a thing.. 😂😍

We have lived in FL for 40 years my son was born in 88 we were talking weather the other day and he said his top 2 things to do before he dies is to experience the eye and eye wall of a cat 5 hurricane and to chase tornadoes in the mid west with Pecos Hank. His hero until he retired from the hurricane center was Dr Bob Sheets. He's been a weather nut since he was 4, and dreamed of being a weatherman. He wanted to chase with Reed Timmer but he's not chil enough lol

Literally nobody Captions: "But every now and then a burrito spins the wrong way" I almost spat out my water lmao

Been following Dr. Orf's work for years... so amazing to finally see a really well edited video of his sims/work with their real-life examples in such high resolution video and audio detail. Thanks for all the work Hank, and obviously huge thanks to Dr. Orf for his incredible contributions to our understanding of these beasts.

Dude. EVERY vid you produce is a winner. Thanks for the education, the excitement and the storytelling style that is legendary. Cheers.

Your vids are the best. A true highlight of my average day when I see a new vid from you… Hope to see more sometime soon.😁👍

I always feel bad for all the wandering animals and pets who can sense the impending destruction coming but don't know where to go

You are one of the rare channels that shows scientific and real footage of a subject. Most channels use stock footage to lure us. You somehow explain, show and makes us understand subjects. With a tend of humor too. Definitely makes this channel worth watching! I've actually used abit of your knowledge watching some thunderstorms myself and I want to thank you for it!

Your videos are great. Much better than some others I’ve seen on y-tube. Keep it up and stay safe man.

I watched most of your videos about a year ago when my grandpa died. For some reason it really helped me cope because it was like a visual for grief. My grandma died just a few days ago and I’m back here to find this weird comfort again. Grief is much like severe weather/tornados. In a weird way. I appreciate your videos

I remember seeing the storm that dropped the tornado in West Bend, Wi. Also remember the mess it left behind & the apartments, farm & college that got nailed. We had chipped in some clothes & canned food for the drive. That was something else!

Hank is literally the only KZfaqr that I have the bell icon selected for. One, he doesn't upload too often. And, two: when he does, it's going to be worth watching.

Will there be a video on the recent tornado outbreak and Kentucky tornadoes?

Thank you so much for adding captions, this vid was insightful

Based off of everything I know about how gas and liquids flow I have concluded that nature loves mushroom shapes

This man could make a documentary on paper clips and I’d find it amusing

You're a legend Pecos Hank. Always awesome and informational videos and all around good dude. Keep it rad and stay safe my friend. 🤘🏻🦅

What a fascinating video! I never knew there was such a thing as anti-cyclonic tornadoes. Nicely Done PH!!

Is crazy I can watch your videos like im watching a movie easily

Wow, first I've heard of anticyclonic tornadoes. The one they filmed that had gathered up a lot of the dirt was gorgeous. It is strange to see the different rotation but it doesn't make it any less mesmerizing and frightening as a cyclonic tornado is. Just fascinating.

Ive been watching Pecos Hank for years and I'm still amazed at how I learn something new every video. Truly world class 👏👏👏

Absolutely brilliant video. Haven't checked in for a while, but really impressed. 👏👏👏

You know it’s a good day when you see a upload from Pecos Hank!

What I enjoy a lot about Hank’s videos are the calming presentations of these unique tornadoes. He lets Mother Nature speak for herself without need of dramatic music or flashy cuts.

Plz make a vid about tornados in December

You have an amazing channel. You commentaries are well spaced and you descriptions a excellent and super informative. Keep up the amazing passion !

On June 3, 1980, 3 anti-cyclonic tornadoes hit the city of Grand Island, NE from a stalling supercell. 2 of these were on the ground at once and one of those ended up getting an F-3 rating as it damaged a hospital and destroyed other buildings around it. This was part of a larger outbreak that produced 7 tornadoes in and around the city.

While anticyclonic tornadoes can be weaker than some of the mammoth wedges and tubes that Hank has seen before, don't ever underestimate them. There's no such thing as a minor tornado if you're in one! Towards the end of the video, Hank touched on the strongest anticyclonic tornado ever recorded - it hit my home state over by West Bend - it's believed to have been of F4 intensity and there was little to no warning (it also struck around midnight).

Please tell me you got those tornados in Kentucky

I'm hooked on your narrations. You do an amazing job at bringing us in

I've been obsessed with tornadoes and hurricanes since I was in elementary. I just love to watch the strength in severe weather and oddly love to be in it. During Hurricane Ike I stood outside in 140+ mph winds, so awesome.

You sir are the main reason I'm devoting my life just around weather and atmospheric science even if i'm only 12-

Dude you get some of the best videos on naders I've seen and stay pretty calm, which is important to your survival. Well done sir.

I came back and revisited this video because I live in Clarksville, Tennessee and we almost got hit by two tornadoes Friday through Saturday morning and they ripped through 6 states. I mainly feel bad for the Kentucky governor because of all the deaths and damage. RIP to all the victims and all my prayers go out to their families and friends.

these videos are so much more entertaining with the closed captions turned on. Gotta love those demonic burritos!!!

This channel showed me that there's A LOT more to storms than just "oh look, beautiful cloud". Turns out, every piece of science behind them is equally interesting. Thank you Hank for opening something new and exciting for us and sometimes probably for humanity

That dry ice experiment visualizing RFD was the best visualization/understanding of RFD I have ever seen. It was a real "Oh, I get it now!"-moment.

I love Hank's videos. This channel really makes me thankful. We have tornadoes and hurricanes here in Florida. But man for some crazy reason, you guys really seem to grow em! Good luck to you all. God's Speed!!