Chasing and Probing a DANGEROUS EF-4 Tornado Near Paris, Texas | 11/4/22 Texas Tornado Outbreak!

On November 4, 2022, a large tornado ripped across Texas near the towns of Powderly and Paris, causing millions of dollars in damage. It was a massive, rain-wrapped EF-4, growing to nearly a mile wide at its peak with winds close to 170mph, making it one of the most powerful storms on Earth...and I was there to witness it. This video documents my very first storm chasing experience, and everything that lead up to me deploying my homemade Mark II probe in front of this mega-twister!

WARNING: under no circumstances should you ever attempt to replicate the actions depicted in this video. I had the assistance of several experienced storm chasers, who do this kind of thing every year. We also had a trained emergency responder with us at all times. Seriously...DON'T RISK IT.

...unless you're an idiot like me!

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0:00 Intro
1:22 Planning the chase
2:48 How do you predict a tornado??
5:03 Packing up and heading out
6:51 First storms
7:50 NWS risk increases!
8:51 Waiting with the chasers (and Matt)
12:33 Storms ramp up
13:24 TORNADO WARNING
14:30 The intercept
15:12 Escape and watching the storm
15:41 Probe retrieval and data review
16:18 We missed...and went home
16:33 Conclusion and outro

[Teslaundmehr]

Awesome, I really enjoyed the video. Hope you producing more chasing videos next Year!!! And then in future with me haha :D

[engineer]

Congrats on the sponsorship! With this dedication and momentum I have no doubts that your channel can get into the 6 digit subscriber range!

[justinbanks]

Soooo much of this went over my head, but very cool and interesting!

[HistoricallyAccurate]

Absolutely one of the best science channels out there.

[clamhands]

:O I'm surprised this video doesn't have more views! I've been going through your videos and this one has some of my favorite cinematography and editing you've done yet. Great stuff! I think you're going to blow up 😊

[emilyrln]

Y'all making me nervous lol! Sounds like you have people who know what they're doing and what the risks involved are. Stay safe!

[petevenuti]

Ever run into styropryro?
Did I hear you say you were 2 stories underground (before the brilliant ad)

[-_-Code-_-]

so glad i found your channel man, great content and happy holidays!

[fsgamingtutorials]

dont worry man if you keep chasing your dreams and tornadoes you will eventually get a perfect intercept and good data! keep up the work this is awesome and i might build this myself too even tho we dont have tornadoes in finland.

[Ecksterphono]

Storm chasing is another one of my specialities. I actually do weather updates for my group and other groups. I go over weather anomalies daily and am part of the storm spotters network.

[justie]

3:40 What you’re looking at is called a hodograph. What you’re looking at is a sample of the wind direction and speed with relation to the altitude. The CINH that you referred to is called Convective Inhibition which is a measure of the ability for convection to form and strengthen and the CAPE that you refer to is the Convectively Available Potential Energy which is a measure of the energy in the atmosphere at a given location. To have a strong likelihood of tornadoes forming, you would need a hodograph that shoes a veering of the wind with altitude (which this hodograph shows very well) a relatively low CINH, and a relatively high CAPE.

[Omasinator]

Man, you should of deployed on my FIL's land. That nader took about 70% of his trees out. And his neighbor who was about 500 yards away had their entire cabin flipped upside down.

Still can see the damage trail nearly a year later

[ChromeGD]

Good video, I even know some places that where in this video since I live in Paris texas

[AustinDeras]

I’d love to chase with y’all if your ever down here in Texas or if I make it up to Oklahoma! I’m designing a probe myself for 2024 season.

[TheUltimm]

Literally this month we had a high enough chance where I live for me to get radaromega because I knew that it was gonna be a crazy day (looking at models and spc outlooks) and I'm happy I did because a tornado hit around 1.75 miles away from where I live (no injuries/deaths thankfully it also missed our city east by a little otherwise it could've been way worse). It was very surreal seeing the CC drop from that EF-2 and was the first tornado so far in my city that's on the Damage Assessment Toolkit. Stay safe!

[abhishekdutta]

Enjoyed it... Felt your curiosity... Great to have a team like this to work on the same thing and they also have the same curiosity that you had... Nice adventure bro... Letzzz Hack the Nature...

[thematthewbox]

I hope you have your 107. The FAA is a hardass when it comes to using drone footage on a monetized video.

[antejl]

Best storms are in April May when Carribean tropical air meet cold continental Canadian air and the sun is stronger, the leaves and field crops are in full folliage giving massive transpiration.

[MTd]

Look for flying cows! It worked in Twister!

[epluribusunum]

I was in this storm! I was driving back to houston from a job. crazy