Malacka11

Thanks hoss.

Trust me homie I can't stop thinking about how badly we fucked up. The message was especially driven home by the smashed houses we drove past afterwards. I dont know when I'm gonna chase again but I will seriously reevaluate my approach when I do. We really weren't trying to get close, it's just that as the cell became tornadic it seemed as if the mesocyclone veered straight west towards us. We got to the storm just as it was entering the "capable of producing a tornado" verbiage phase of its warning. After about two minutes of standing and watching the beautiful supercell structure, we realized that the base of the storm was starting to race towards us and a second later we noticed that every single pro chaser was barreling down the road towards us straight away from the storm (talking trucks with sensors and warning lights). Of course we jumped in and started tailing then but it turns out they had no idea what they were doing either. At some point they made a left and then we all ended up doing a three point turn on this tiny ass farm road to double back. Only at the very last second did they save themselves by turning left where we turned right in the town. We realized our error and made a u-turn and that's when we got hit.

You saw the other video right? The other chaser's POV? The headlights in the distance was us. We just got screwed because we thought the tornado was far wider than it was and let ourselves get forced into a town. Thought we were running from a wall and then ended up getting directly hit by a skinny drill bit.

Here are two videos from yesterday. First one is of the supercell itself and the second is from inside the tornado. I'd like to apologize in advance for not only using phones, but also recording in vertical format. Didn't have time to pull the DSLR out unfortunately for good shots of the storm, and obviously I'm just happy to have any footage from inside the tornado at all. Oh yeah, and please excuse my language in the second video. Hard to stay PG when you think you're about to get maimed. Looking back I didn't even duck down, idk what I was thinking. https://youtube.com/shorts/d5M407cuge4? feature=sharehttps://youtube.com/shorts/fRWcBVP-nUA?feature=share Again, apologies for the excessively amateur impression I'm making here.

The headlights on the left side of the road in the distance is my car. Turns out it wasn't a wide tornado like I thought, it was actually a little shit at that point and I'm even dumber than I initially figured.

Got stuck in the outside of the tornado. It was a rain wrapped beast the size of a field. We ended up trapped in a small town. A trashcan went airborne and hit us. We missed the trampoline by a couple yards at least. I am truly thankful to have survived. Judging by the EMTs everywhere and the couple of destroyed houses we came across miles later, I probably shouldn't have. I fucked up so badly today that it's hard to actually comprehend the magnitude of it. I know I'm the amateur of amateurs amongst you all but even I knew better than to do what I did today.

Oh?

I just got stuck in the Nader lost two windows and a mirror

Opting to chase the Beardstown storm for now since it's more discrete. Nice CGs from it right ahead.

In Iowa now. Just gonna have to wait and see.

In terms of actual impact what would this mean?

Best I can do right now

Up to five flipped semis now

Appreciate you big guy, hopefully I manage to find something worth posting

Dude that cell near Rochelle was legit as it passed overhead. The greenest clouds I've ever seen, the whole sky was one writhing mass. One semi almost tipped over right in front of us, a mile down the road one was on its side.

Tipped semis on 88

Just hitting the road, the "first Tuesday of the month" siren just deafened us from right across the road. Foreshadowing much?

I'll go with two mods too

The RRFS looks a whole lot better too. Still west but with a whole squad of beefy discrete cells.

FV3 still holds with a couple of good storms along the border.

Yeah I'm just starting to catch on to that. Oopsies

FWIW, the RRFS A is up and running again. its 12z run had what discrete cells do fire in Central IA rather than closer to the border.

D-. Only reason it isn't a fucking E is because we got a white Christmas out of it, which means a lot to me. Tempted to lower it anyway just because of how badly we got baited with that event. Don't even get me started on the rest of the farce that was this winter.

I thought roughly the same area is in play tomorrow?