On average roughly 1,200 burritos touch down in the United States every year.
On average I miss 1,183 of them.
That's a big burrito
Wow!
on March 24th powerful tornadoes impacted Mississippi Alabama and Tennessee at night.
Morning Light revealed catastrophic ef4 ated damage in Rolling Fork Mississippi
where 17 people lost their lives.
That's a tornado.
Racing away into the rain,
my first tornado of the year was this lousy capture in Louisiana.
Can't see it anymore.
Racing toward me at 50 mph was this killer EF3 in Arkansas.
it's coming right for me.
I'm going to have to run away.
Yeah, It's going to creep up behind me.
After ripping through Little Rock,
This Tornado would injure 50 people and miraculously only one fatality was reported.
However this outbreak was just beginning.
Another large intense tornado was about to tear through Wynne Arkansas.
That's a big tornado. Its going to cross the highway right up.
Looks like the town might take a direct hit.
In its wake of obliterated homes
the EF3 claimed the lives of four people.
some woman yelled, "there's a woman trapped" and so
I ran into the door with a couple other guys and
debris was everywhere and we went room to room and there was nobody in there
and turns out that the neighbor
she thought they were home.
but they weren't even there thank goodness.
She was holding her dog and I went up to her
and tried to comfort her she was obviously in shock and said hey everything's going to be fine
the worst has passed
But anyway I'm at the hotel now I don't think I'm out of this yet.
Beautiful supercell.
While I was keeping my distance from this dangerous storm in Illinois,
over in Iowa Scott Currans was documenting this!
Wow! this is amazing.
Gorgeous burrito!
My lizard brain starting to kick in. I'm starting to get creeped out a little bit.
the hook might hit us with some hail so we might have to run from that but
Big cone funnel just sitting.
OH!
Oh my god you wouldn't believe would just hit my window.
Time to go.
Wow!
I've got shards of glass all over me.
It went North of town so it did not hit the town.
This large and powerful tor-Night-o
tormented headstones in a cemetery as it creeped through mostly open country.
This was an amazing storm and I don't think it caused any major damage
so hopefully everybody's okay but man,
2023
off to a wicked, wicked start.
Kind of pretty huh?
horse is saying hi to all the cars driving by.
Oh wow!
Hi how are you?
Gotcha!
How's this for a gem?
Rough green snake.
Bright fluorescent green on the back,
fluorescent yellow on the belly.
Super cool snake. You've kind of got a slight smile.
Looks like somebody bit you on the neck. Maybe a bird grabbed a hold of you.
He's now part of the car.
Don't go in there or you're going to be riding with me for a long time.
Come out. These guys are obviously Arboreal.
And he likes to climb. Let's take you and let you go.
I'm getting hot in here and I know you are too.
The remainder of April brought rounds of photogenic supercells to Texas.
Look at that blue. That is gorgeous.
The active tornado season would roll over into May.
The presence of weatherwise Chasers passing through a community
Often serves the public.
One way, is we tend to pass down useful information and warnings
to any locals unaware of the situation
Go home!
Good boy!
On May 12th it was Nebraska's turn for Twisters.
Escape Routes everywhere. Right? North East West South.
After inflicting ef2 rated damage to several homes
a soggy tornado emerged from the heavy rain.
During this outbreak a few other e2s were reported.
Luckily no fatalities were.
it's just too wrapped in rain.
The following day,
numerous Chasers
and cattle
lined up for the potential tornado show in Iowa.
I can see it pulling on the trees. That is so weird.
The herds observed several strange scud-nado thingies
Thanks guys.
and another heavily rain wrapped tornado.
There's the tornado.
Lots of twirly swiries.
Pretty storm today but all the tornadoes I've seen this year
have been ugly. They've either been nasty rain wrapped
destructive tornadoes or they've been really weak or they've been too far away.
Where's my spork?
And they didn't have any golden grahams
at Loves.
But they did have
Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Not complaining.
Actually I kind of am.
But I think between venting to you guys
and my Cinnamon Toast Crunch
everything's going to be okay.
In late May
the Chaser horde converged in New Mexico
big time!
hello everybody
Hundreds of cameras documented this slow-moving supercell spectacular
lightning activity.
Every 2 second exposure I shot
showcased a unique look with different colors
as frequent flashes illuminated various regions of the storm.
Can't help but Ponder who's the real artist here,
the photographers
or Mother Nature.
I'm so happy that we found this spot here.
It's wonderful!
On June 11th
devoted Chasers intercepted this mean storm in Colorado
and pursued it into New Mexico
and then into Oklahoma.
What is up Ryan? How are you doing Hank?
How's your 2023 been?
Oh it's you know it's been interesting.
It's been going really, really well.
Bolts are shooting everywhere.
Bam Bam Bam.
While this tiny tornado tickled the ground in Oklahoma,
over in Texas people were crawling out of rubble
after an intense tornado tore through their Town
We're in Perryton Texas and last night It got hit by a significant tornado
Today I have to drive through Perryton to get to our next Target
and I always hate filming the damage.
These people, some of them have lost their lives. Some of them have lost friends.
Their property... It's just a mess
and all the locals come in and and help them out
and then you're some stranger.
I step out of the car
and I snap one picture and this woman walks up to me with a really sad face
and she says, "Are you from Town?"
and I said no ma'am I'm documenting the damage
and I said, "How are you?"
and she immediately started crying
and said I lost a good friend yesterday
and just and started crying and I said I'm so sorry...
And that's what it's like filming tornado damage.
It's uh it kind of ruins the whole
excitement of seeing tornadoes.
It's depressing and uh anyway
That's why I never really film damage and I never really do it well and
and I want to do it and I want to see
the incredible things that tornadoes do
but at the same time I don't want to invade their privacy
I don't want to invade their hardships I don't want to take advantage of them so uh...
Anyway I documented a little bit of it as just passing through town.
For all of those here in Perryton
I hope you have Swift recovery
and for those of you that have lost friends and loved ones our condolences do go out to you.
Hang in there.
In the path of a monster
grasshoppers are a lot like storm chasers.
Some calculate their escape and carefully navigate to safety.
Others
clumsily fling themselves into the Winds of fate.
A distinct intermediate circulation
that's smaller than the mesocyclone and larger than the tornado
is often referred to as a tornado cyclone.
it's funnel cloud right above me.
Little ones.
In case this tornado cyclone abruptly produced a tornado, like they do,
many Chasers navigated out of its path.
Others
just flung themselves into the winds of fate.
Why are they going that way? Crazy.
That's incredible.
It's a big tornado back in there if you look at radar.
It's a freaking monster man!
After a long day of chasing Madness
conditions appeared to be ripening for a long night of red sprites.
Far away from the chaos of the storm
Nice!
Magical sights and sounds filled the night.
Man,
bullfrogs are loud tonight
Boom! Big daddy sprites.
I can't help Marvel how much bug splatters look like red sprites.
On June 21st
another extremely dangerous storm was
tracking over a region with limited roads.
Anticyclonic funnel right there.
the storm means business.
I got to get out of here.
While I was giving the storm a wide birth,
Daniel Shaw managed to capture and Report
the intense rain wrap tornado prior to its striking Matador Texas.
That's going right over Matador God help them.
National Weather Service uh Amarillo far and rescue
put this down as a possible major incident.
It's just is behind us at the moment.
I believe that's going to impact Matador.
The same day over in Colorado
Juston Drake and Simon Brewer
were bagging one of the wildest tornado scenes of the Year.
Wow! oh my god!
How's your 2023 season been?
it's been going pretty good. It's a good year. Its been non-stop chasing.
As the 2023 storm season continued scattering multiple targets all over the nation
Chasers continued bouncing from state to state.
Beautiful cone funnel cloud tickling the ground.
On June 23rd in Wyoming
I finally scored some pretty tornadoes.
Tornado just went over Hawk Springs.
Let's see if there's any way to get to that sucker.
Oh nice!
Chasing around the scenic Bluffs and challenging road network
I managed to eek out a couple more tornadoes
as the cylic supercell moved into Nebraska.
After a long active tornado season
I'll see you next year.
I departed from Tornado Alley
hoping to catch storms in other parts of the world.
In Cambodia the pulse storms weren't too impressive
but the architecture sure was.
In the Maldives
the squalls were nothing to write home about
but man the manta rays sure were!
As of the making of this video
1,165 tornadoes have been confirmed in the US.
Of those I missed 1,145.
You ready? Let's go. Arf arf arf!
Though there's still one more month left in 2023.
in December I'll be flying into the summer
down to Argentina!
Hoping to capture the photogenic storms and tornadoes that often occur there this time of year.
but that will be a whole other story.
'Til next time friends, happy trails!