That's what I was thinking too. Like how many vortices are in this one storm??? It's gotta be a new record...

Wind Rowing!

It had Nuts?

Absolutely amazing!

A multi vortex tornado, this was the type of tornado that generated the photo "The dead man walking",If you see this it is actually a sign of extreme danger as this normally only forms in F4 or F5 tornadoes

What EF Tornado 🌪️ is that, it looks like a EF-3

Don't pre rate tornadoes ​@@HelpingBaconsYT

Whoa!!! I've never seen one like this!!!

It might be the one that hit Greenfield, IA. DOW measured windspeeds of 210 MPH and it flattened a hospital. I'd say it's not an EF 2 or 3.​@@HelpingBaconsYT

its the same one that hit Greenfield. Sadly the damage looks significant

Reed's just like this all the time

@@warriyorcat that must make him the life of the party!

Yea, these people should not do this hobby.

Смешно.

Ukrainian or virtue signaler?

Hilarious 😂

😂😂😂

😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 You're hilarious!! OMG!!

“Screaming Man” - “ I’LL TAKE TWISTERS FOR $500 ALEX”

I'LL HAVE THE KUNG POW CHICKEN!!

I've seen one of those blades on the back of a semi flatbed in Eastern Washington. They are unbelievably massive. I'm surprised that those turbines didn't move a little faster with a tornado coming at it.

I'm in western IL and there's farms everywhere throughout West-Central and Central Illinois. They store the blades and the tower sections on the grounds of an old factory that's since been leveled. The blades barely fit on flatbeds and they have to close off the when they move anything. Tower sections are also massive, as are the turbine hubs. I hope seeing the way a middle of the road tornado absolutely shredding that wind turbine blade and collapsing the structure gives people an appreciation for the awesome power of a tornado.

@@LethalSaliva they lock the blades up when winds get too high to keep them from being damaged.

@@wyrdo1501 that makes sense

Tornados could never do that to hydroelectric damns! Good job!

It's the most incredible thing I have ever seen.

Agreed!

If he would stop screaming into the mic like at 0:59 it would be a lot better

And your excitement!

🎯 💯 🤯 🙀 👐 🌪 🌀 They're called "Whirlwinds" in the Bible.

I was just thinking the same thing.

It was incredible, but I'm sure glad to be thousands of miles away from it! On a different note, I wish Reed had been in Dominator 3 so they may have tried an intercept.

I've seen probably all the multi vortex videos and nothing compares to this. This is out of this world. Might be a first how many spawned in that.

The damage to windmills is severe. Should there be stricter construction standards to withstand such forces?

@@visiontv68 from my very limited knowledge the construction is already relatively strict. My question is how could you get something that tall (with not that much area and only one point of contact) to withstand such an event.

Damn right! This was the best chase footage I've ever seen. Clean, crisp, ANGRY.

In-sane! ❤

And those turbines aren't light they're thick steel and the twister bent it up like a toothpick

Totally looked like paper staws being blown over!

incredible never seen anything like it before!

(And windfarm)

Translate roll down window to modern language= press the button in downward motion in the bottom lower position, to lower window to the OPEN mode. Rolling window winder arm is no longer a thing, but played an important role in historical American societies attempts to either catch a breeze, or to better view and hear a tornado, but it's more obsolete with the modern invention of "the toggle switch, aka "the button." I hope this helps. 😉

When was this

I was 5 miles north of greenfield

It really is a monster

​@@Buurry Wow, I was in Fairborn !!!😳

@@erikgilreath3305 that’s crazy this was so scary for me

I'm guessing polarized filter on camera.

Was great until the one guy started screaming like a little girl. Everyone else was relatively calm.

and think how GREAT this video could have been without then yelling and screaming. Just a video with the sounds of nature.

solar max this yr plus man be VLF accelerating and precipitaing electrons in from outside the magnetosphere so everythings getting charged up. Stay vigilent.

@@davidtiessen7713 Gee, how does that cause tornadoes?

He's his own hype man. It sells, so he does it.

​@@danieparriott265 I don't think he's even trying to sell anything by yelling, dude is just so genuinely hype about weather that he can't contain it lol he really is just as excited every time

Windmill?

A clusterfu¢)< of tornadoes

@@I_Am_Your_Problem Turbine?

Should drone footage of natural disasters be regulated to prevent sensationalism?

The footage is not insane.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX really???????

Perfect description of this tornado.... it is indeed breathtakingly beautiful but also dangerously destructive at the same time!

Indeed. That tornado produced more spinoffs than "Law & Order" and "NCIS" combined.

Horrifyingly beautiful was my take off the video. WOW

Yes a wicked beautiful force of nature.

Yep, unprofessional.

It's just the way he is. Watch some of his other chase videos. I guess that's how he deals with the stress and adrenaline dump.

He should take some Xanax

You must be new here lol

It helps to use the mute button when watching storm chaser videos. Otherwise it sounds like a bunch of high schoolers drinking beer for the first time.

@@cluebin8398 😂😂😂

Central Illinois born and raised, and same 💔💔😢😢Good people! Been in CA these last 27 years, a beautiful state run by idiots.

4 deaths in Greenfield and 1 in Corning

@@jonidee1957 heartbreaking....praying for the folks affected and for their families.

@jeffreyg607, also from central Illinois. Saw a lot of tornado damage. Now outside Denver, I don't miss this kind of weather

He was ahead of his time.

(Epoch) (Epic )footage!

and that is just what you can see from the outside the sub Vs were all through it.

Those vortices were nuts. Looked like the tornado was striped there was so many around it

Yeah, when I saw it hit those windmills I was like OMG! I hope the tornado is ok!

Windmills…the new trailer parks to tornadoes 🌪️.

Haha Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder - It was a tornado playing a tornado disguised as a tornado😅😂🤦😅

It is not insane.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned how those windmills are useless for "sustainable" energy. This video is living proof of how weakly designed they are. Thing is literally aluminum which might as well be metallic paper.

@@johndoe-sx5pv The ones that I have been at are a fiberglass resin composite. Just think, the amount of energy to build the original and new one will pollute more than those could possibly save from polluting.

Same here

Same. They did sound crazy.

Looney 🤪

😭😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏

The Y'allSquad will be in town to offer assistance

People get so caught up in the chase or the videos they forget that people are in danger, lost homes or hurt. prayers

@@cmarie5355 Help is on the way

​@@cmarie5355 if they didn't chase there'd be no documentation of the storm....

Tornado 'Corn Pop.'

I laughed way too hard at this but now I can't unsee it lol

​@@stewpot6998corn pop 🤣🤣

Lnao

Those are corny rows.

Well put

This is up there for sure. One that always terrified me was the first person view of the tornado taking out a house and the noise.😊😊

I've never seen anything like this either. Amazing!

Those blades are pretty durable too. They're disposed of whole because of it. Rows of them get buried under dirt and they're considered not biodegradable.

Should there be more investment in safer ways to study tornadoes without risking lives?

Yeah it's CGI that's why...... Just joking 🤣🤣🤣🤣Reed does an incredible job tracking filming and getting data from tornados

Hi, Oh ho - there's much more to come yet that is - way beyond bizarre - and surpasses even the Most imaginative Sci - Fi Movie Genre. 🙃

@@norfolkngood8960 Are they collecting data for science purposes? It would be nice, if they did and not just wanted to film those bizzare tornados for our curiosity.

​@@elale8016 Do you even know Reed is? He literally dedicated his life on researching tornadoes and he has PhD in the field. Also this video is basically important as you can see subvortices on the tornado which is not common at all, which it helps to understand tornadoes more.

@@MonLyica No, I didn't know, thank you!!! It appeared to me, as if they were somewhat professionally hunting a tornado out of obsession, adrenaline rush and media footage to sell, but now I understand, why they were taking risks. I hope their car is very sturdy and can withstand debris hitting it, since it looked dangerously close and it occurs, that researchers don't get as good equipment as they would require. As I think about it, I realize, if he has a PhD, he must be having the best, refreshed forecast data that there is and that's hopefully reachable in those moments, can analyze their collected data with his experienced knowledge on the go, hopefully allowing them to make better predictions were it could be safe for them on the road and where and when they could stop to collect more data. But I was wondering, why they had no better camera then to catch the footage, as it would be important, I guess. I hoped, the better cameras would be mounted on top of the vehicle, but the rain might be a problem there. But why were they so often yelling to close the window? Because of the danger of debris? Because of the rain? And why had they no headsets (maybe integrated in helmets, so the microphones could do better jobs at filtering the wind sounds), in order to not needing to constantly yell at each other. They must have sore voices, when they get home. I'm glad, that they're doing such an important job.

Sending you love! Or sure what to do. Keep us updated for ways to donate

I'm so sorry for your losses!!! I've donated funds for your town and will continue to pray for all of you there!!! Keep steady friend 💕🙏

Thank you so much 🙏

😭 thank you sooo much! We literally need all the help we can get. 🙏

I am so sorry for you and your community.

They've been working on it for a long time.

YES!! It was like if a dozen tornados spun around to make one giant tornado monster!

It's not a mutli-vortex tornado. The parent vortex' wind pattern meets slower, more humid air on the exterior. His camera angle is aided by approaching from NNE (sunlight side)

Why scream like a little 12yo girl though?

This "footage" MIRRORS the trailer for the new Twister movie, that was released 13 days before he shot this, ...PERFECTLY! Including the silos, windmills AND multiple vortices!Probably just a coincidence though, right? Go back to sleep America.

They’re mostly composite. Not steel

The blades are basically fiberglass.

5:19 rool the window down!

Yep, I noticed the blades just shredded into what looked like strands of damp toilet paper blowing in the wind. 4:45

How can we prevent amateur drone pilots from putting themselves in harm’s way?

Great analogy for tornadoes!

Reminded me of a giant Dyson vacuum cleaner.

The "Dead man walking"......

... storm angels

The dead men walking deal is scary, it looked insanely powerful just like the wedge that formed that hit Iowa a few weeks ago too

absolutely beautiful, but sooo destructive

Never seen so many visible sub vortices in my life

Are those the ridge looking things within the outer tornado?

Looked like a Wolverine digging 🤯

Somewhat?

Or vortices.

This is going to be absolutely phenomenal footage for tornado researchers/modelers to test against their models for large, violent, long track tornados. They've been modeling the el reno tornado for over a decade and those modern models all have sub vortices that looks VERY similar to what this demonstrated in real life, but could not really be seen in detail in the el reno (or practically all tornados).

Check out Mike Bettes El Reno footage, where the Weather Channel team got hit.

I've never seen vorticies dancing around a tornado like that before either. Truly spectacular footage!!!

Absolutely agree👍🏼

Is there a way to balance the need for dramatic footage with public safety concerns?

Those DOW readings were Preliminary, they may decrease given time to properly estimate the winds

it was officially rated as the strongest tornado of all time with winds of around 313 moh

It is not insane.

@@bobbrenna9507 insane in a cool way

​@@bobbrenna9507like in an unbelievable kind of way not a mental illness

Should drone pilots be required to obtain special licenses for operating in extreme weather?

should there be a law that when AI chatbots post comments pretending to be humans, that their parent company has to pay a million dollar fine per comment? yes, i think so too.

🤣😂

Probably yelling to be heard over the roar of the tornado.

Adrenaline.

That never happend.

Excitement 😂

except for all the yelling

Omfg I see that. Like bending over and reaching down. That’s freaking insane.

Are drone operators receiving enough training on the risks of flying in hazardous conditions?

The footage is not insane.

@@bobbrenna9507 then why comment? Wasting time or just trying to stir the pot? The footage is incredible and us viewers appreciate it…..appreciate it more than snide pointless commentors

@@bobbrenna9507 Why are you replying with the same thing over and over again to multiple commenters? The footage was insane, and you're wasting your time sounding like a broken record attempting to make people think that this wasn't insane footage.

The power of the vortex

It's science homies.

He's not cussing though. I could listen to Reed scream all day. It's the potty mouth no one wants to hear

The steve earwin of meteorology. loud and obnoxious

'Over the top' is def. his approach

the audio wasn't properly overlaid

I knew someone who eneineers those and the main pylon is designed to take 450MPH and the blades are designed to shear at 220MPH. The forces from that were absolutely insane.😮

Each blade is 64 meters long. I believe SGRE 129s just by looking at it with the cooler on top near the back half. Could be wrong but they are big blades.

The blades are polymers and dumped into their own graveyards. You'd think they'd be recyclable but they are not. Reminds me of the hail storms taking out thousands of uninsured home panels on roofs.

@@billyroye3987 times have changed on recycling and how they’re built. Very interesting reading if you’re even interested.

​@ThatGirl-ku5dq I drive through west Texas and see thousands of blades just cut up and exposed to the environment. It turns out the blades nor any other part last that long on these things polluting the sky. They are like car batteries on EVs. It is proven the carbon footprint for EV batteries is so large it can never be overcome no matter how long one drives an EV. And then those $40,000 EV batteries have to be replaced after just a few years.

Same!

This was an amazing looking tornado 😱 al those vortexes going around...what was the windspeed of this thing? And what about damage reports?

@@nielsdorhout058 The same thing you witnessed is the same thing we are seeing here, rofl. smh

This Oklahoman agrees.

Can't even imagine.

@@DaveS71 This tornado was moving at 70-80 mph, which is the even more insane part. It arrived and left the town of Greenfield in ruins in under 3 seconds.

Nature was like ,"Gimme my wind power back!"

Nature was made by god

@@ShawnBowyer-nz4vj You funny.... lol

The size of a tornado is unimaginable until you’ve seen it in person.

Those things are huge too if you never been up close to one they can range anywhere from 100 to 300 feet tall and can handle well over 100mph winds. To fall like they did shows how big and strong this tornado was very cool to see on video.

@@midwestmike613 Turbines that surround me in SW MO are 605 ft and the ones planned just a few miles further are 768. Straight wind is different from a tornado though, remember that. Ours have taken 100 mph straight wind but several months ago one collapsed all on it's own, long before we had any storms. They have some seriously bad engineering among other things.

Yea but who could tolerate that guy continually screaming like a girl? JFC grow a pair.

If you think this is good then you need to see the drone footage he did of it.

Yes...sucks

Prayers to Greenfield Iowa, from S.W. Missouri 💜🙏

Yeah, but Reed got his footage so it's all good.

I hope they have alternate means of powering their electric grid...🤔

That's what annoys me about storm chasers. I live in Kansas and sometimes its like they are ecstatic when one touches down and its like bro people's live are in the balance

this has more vorticies (that i know of) of the el reno of 2013, ofc vorticies do not equal strength but it definitely shows that this is possibly one of the most important tornadoes in history due to this footage alone- the fact it was semi-photogenic and had several vorticies means meteorologists could use this footage to learn more about how multi vortex tornadoes work.

@@The_Joshuan_Empire I speculate that most tornadoes are actually composed of smaller vortices internal to the outer condensation & debris cloud of the main rotating funnel. Sometimes this is seen in tornadoes where the large external condensation/debris cloud thins out enough to see into and partially through the tornado. This tornado also seemed to have vortices on the outside of the main large & opaque rotating funnel. This does make some sense as the air next to the main funnel rotates in an opposite direction like a high pressure next to a low pressure, except this is on a much smaller scale, and because the rotation is so compact & wind is so fast, it gets broken into many adjacent regions of smaller vortices to compensate for the rotation of the main funnel vortice.

Multiple fatalities 💔

I believe as of today, the death toll is up to 9 across Iowa...

I wonder what kinda death those are. They got sucked into the tornado?

@@kamtarbol I don't know details for this specific case, but usually, tornado deaths are from debris and homes/buildings falling in.

​@@Betteroffborem2023Thank you for the update and I saw it on the news now. Truly heartbreaking 💔 indeed. This tornado appears to have so many vortices, and being as massive as it was, my goodness how on earth can one be safe from such....

The tornado is not insane.

@@bobbrenna9507 Seems everyone but you thinks it is.

Why are the sun vortices important?

@@evanhughes1510 sun vortices 👍👍

@@evanhughes1510 Perhaps one with so many sub vortices has never been recorded. First time I have seen such a thing.

@@Mugicha808 ok but what’s the big deal about them?

@@evanhughes1510most tornadoes don’t usually produce what’s called sub vortices. Basically, they are smaller, more powerful rotations that orbit the main vortex, and when the impact structures they can cause very extreme damage. Most tornado footage that has been recorded in the past 20 years has probably never been this clear, and also simultaneously showed that many sub vortices on a tornado such as this one,

They're called "Whirlwinds" in the Bible.

So? What does the term used by scientifically unaware Israelites have to do with this? Tornadoes are not whirlwinds, and your comment has nothing to do with anything. Lots of people don't believe in the Bible either, so I'm confused as to why you assume everyone would know the contents of the Bible.

as somebody from kansas. In my 30's. Its weird to me that midwesterners try to pass this off like some sort of weird badge. The VAAAAAAST majority of us have never laid physical eyes on a tornado. Not in real life. And definetly not to the point where we can talk like weve seen it with enough frequency to tell people whats unique or rare. Even if youre the extremely rare person whos seen a few tornados in their life. You dont know jack about what youve seen and not seen. Lets get real.

⁠Yikes! Little ASSumption-making jordie's having another bad day.

I do not believe anyone has ever seen anything quite like this tornado. I have watched thousands of hours of videos on the most violent tornados in history, and no tornado has ever presented itself quite like this.

It's called a "dead man walking" due to the vortices. The native Americans say if you see this people will die and they did, in Greenfield Ia.

@@terrybritton1258 I’m aware of the dead man walking. This doesn’t really take the form in my opinion - at least not nearly as well as the Jarrell, Texas tornado in 1997.