We just had the first F5 tornado in 12 years>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Enderlin_tornadoThoughts?
>"E" F5I sleep.
Eh, it's no Bridge Creek but it's neat I guess
>>5056051>After intensifying to EF2 strength, destroying an outbuilding and snapping trees, the tornado became extremely violent southeast of Enderlin, derailing and tossing several train cars and empty tanker cars at EF5 intensity.
>>5056060DAMNThomas got fucked up
>>5056060poor train
>>5056051Wish it had more interesting damage indicators. Glad it happened, but if this EF4 was overturned, several others need to be reviewed as well.
>>5056051As a kid i was obsessed with tornadoes for no reason. I would watch that tornado chasing show on Discovery religiously. It's the most interesting natural disaster to me, visually. These things are mesmerizing.
>>5056216>It's the most interesting natural disaster to me, visually. These things are mesmerizing.Agreed man. They really are something and seeing one in real life is such a strange feeling. Hearing that siren going off and seeing one in the distance knowing its tearing shit up is scary but you can't really stop looking
I was watching a livestream on the june 20th outbreak and saw some footage of it before falling asleep. Surreal is an understatement for what I feel about this info
As someone who is not from the US, where do tornados appear the most? I ask because>A) Someday I would like to actually see one in person>B) the photos and videos of them are in really beutifull places straight out of a windows desktop wallpaper
>>5056051Williston, Minot, Fargo, Dickinson, and Killdeer are shit.
>>5056391The midwest.
>>5056216Same for me but it never really stopped
>>5056413>Minot>shitBe careful what you say, Minot AFB has ICBM fields
>Last EF5 occurred when I was 10Wow.Also RIP Tim Samaras
>>5056051What took them four months to upgrade the tornado's rating?
>>5056051had 3 tornadoes come through my neighborhood last year and it fucked everything up. I lost 6 massive trees in my backyard, where it looks like a bomb went off, but the front yard was untouched. It was very strange. The rumors about it sounding like a "train" are sort of true. It definitely sounds unnatural and all the pets in the house started freaking out too, but it came and went with about 5 minutes. Curiouser and curiouser.....
>>5056391tornado alley, storm chasing is the only way to actually see them, which you shouldnt be doing anyway because its extremely dangerous, even a weak tornado can lift your car
>>5057516>you shouldnt be doing anyway because its extremely dangerous, even a weak tornado can lift your carEven from a distance? I know tornados can move quickly but if I was cautious enough and kept them in view along the horizon it's viable right? How fucked would I be riding something like motorbike because that's likely what I am considering to do in the future to do a tour of some of the great plains
>>5057569use the nuke rule, if its bigger than your thumb, youre too close, because you dont only have to worry about being picked up, its also the stuff its throwing around
Nope, not getting out of this chair.
>>5057569>Tornado chasing >In a motorbike It's not just that the wind is blowing, it's what the wind is blowing and if there's a ton of hail and rain scouring your body too. That shit hurts and visibility is drastically lessened. Look up El Reno Tornado, that thing killed professional and amateur storm chasers and injured several too.
Aren't these ratings kind of bullshit? Like you can have a tornado just as strong as these but if it spawns in buttfuck nowhere and doesn't damage any infrastructure then it isn't going to be counted as F5
>>5057825F scale determines by wind speed, EF scale is determined by damage, the EF scale mostly exists to standardize construction practices, like a tornado sweeping away a house is not as strong as a house and its foundation being swept away
>>5057808>The tornado's unusual behavior consisted of several simultaneous occurrences: abrupt changes in direction, rapid enlargement to a width of 2.6 mi (4.2 km) in diameter in about 30 seconds, swift increase in forward motion from about 20 to 55 mph (32 to 89 km/h) within a few minutes, multiple vortices within and around, and an expansive translucent outer circulation without a full condensation funnel while being surrounded and obscured by precipitationWell that's kinda terrifying
>>5057808>Caught in the midst of the gigantic storm was a group of storm chasers who had nowhere to hide. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Betsy Randolph heard the panicked voices of the crew over her patrol radio right before the storm turned into their car.>“They were screaming, ‘We’re going to die, we’re going to die,'” Randolph told USA Today. “There was just no place to go. There was no place to hide.”>The three storm chasers — Tim Samaras, his photographer son Paul Samaras, and meteorologist Carl Young — were killed when the twister they were pursuing made a sudden left turn and slammed into their car, sending it flying through the air like a toy.>The three had no chance, said Tim Samaras’ brother, Jim.>“Because of the circumstances on the two-lane road, it appears that he could not get out of the way, and, basically, the tornado picked up his vehicle,” Jim Samaras told the “Today” show.>The tornado then hurled the light Chevy Cobalt to the ground, leaving it looking as though it had been rammed through a trash compactor, police said.>Tim Samaras, 55, was found dead still belted into the mangled wreck, while the bodies of his son, 24, and Young, 45, were flung a quarter-mile away— in opposite directions.>Their car was found upright in a ditch with its wheels blown off and the engine a quarter-mile away.
>>5056060You are deserving what you get mleccha benchod
