Fire Tornado - Street Science

This powerful #tornado not only had the strongest winds ever record by mobile Doppler radar at over 300 mph and changed our perception of wind turbines forever, it also planted corn along its path up to Greenfield, Iowa. I hear the Minden tornado from the April 26 outbreak also had this. | Reed Timmer Extreme Meteorologist

Chasing down a twister in Texas south of Vernon! This sped up view shows a segment of this April chase day, where the tornado was almost perfectly tracking along the highway. I had plans to intercept this tornado right as it crossed the highway when it turned north, but this twister disintegrated just before it reached that location. I’m pretty sure someone was doing a Twisters experiment or something. (In reality it is remarkable to see how rapidly vortex breakdown happens sometimes). 4.23.21 |