Mesocyclone Videos

This amazing EF2 tornado was the 3rd intercepted by Hank Schyma just east of Grand Island Nebraska (approaching Aurora) on June 17th 2009. At one point it was a 1/4 mile wide and destroyed a families home and barn. 6 people escaped into the basement seconds before their house was ripped apart. BTW, RFD= Rear Flank Downdraft... Big hail, Strong wrap-around wind, torrential rains, muddy roads, and flying monkeys! Often storm chasers on the back side of the tornado try to maintain possition between the tornado and the RFD... not too close to either, hence the We gotta keep moving people quote. The Business warehouse in the video was only grazed by the tornado. Still the outer most wind bands were able to do significant damage. Luckily, this tornado touched down between 2 towns keeping destruction to a relative minimal. It could have been much much worst. At the end of the video, telephone lines were draped all the way across the road preventing passage (for non 4-wheel drive vehicles). A spiralling Mesocyclone convecting clear to the tropopause presented the most spectacular storm structure. The supercell continued moving east down I80 for close to 2 hours after dark before dissapating. The first half of this event tornadic event can be seen here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e2Ts0iLr-Q

This amazing tornado was the 3rd intercepted by Hank Schyma just east of Grand Island Nebraska (approaching Aurora) on June 17th 2009.

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This video shows me talking about what looks to be a low topped mesocyclone over the south bay offshore. This storm did produce a tornado in Palos Verdes, and hail in Redono and I saw a funnel cloud to my west. Very interesting stuff. Author: Mesocyclone33 Keywords: Mesocyclone Cast Weather Tornado Added: February 19, 2009

Here is a timelapse showing the heavy rain with the front. Author: Mesocyclone33 Keywords: Mesocyclone Cast Weather Rain Added: February 17, 2009

This is a forecast video that talks about the pending storm, Winter Storm Drake. RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ON THE WAY! Author: Mesocyclone33 Keywords: OWSweather.com RWR Mesocyclone Cast Weather Added: November 25, 2008

big jump in time here i'm letting the mesocyclone and wall cloud get away I have some amazing shots of everything when i got caught up it was still an amazing storm...this video is probably an hour after the last and i had been taking pictures of some amazing wall clouds close by for some time before this video....the supercell had a low hanging large wall cloud to my north and the trailing gust front was beginning to overtake me....good day today ...two good storms and a tornado!! Author: Jamiesyme999 Keywords: Southwestern ontario stormchase June22 2008 london tornado supercell thunderstorm lightning mesocyclone severe wallcoud Added: June 23, 2008

North of Hoxie, KS on May 22, 2008 at 6:00 CDT. Author: huskie2husker Keywords: wall cloud severe weather storms mesocyclone Added: May 23, 2008

Author: scordell Added: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:16:20 -0800 Duration: 360This was a massive rotating super cell that I videotaped in low light. If you will look at the video in the upper part of the cloud, you can see what looks like bands or stripes...kind of like dinner plates stacked on top of each other. When you see something like this, you know the storm is rotating. This storm did produce a tornado, but unfortunately, it was too dark for me to videotape.

The Science Detectives chase storms and launch rockets into tornadoes after which Richard Heene rides a motorcycle into the rotating storms to get magnetic fields measurements. Author: YouTubianAwards Keywords: Tornado motorcyle crazy insane rocket hurricane mesocyclone rain storm chase weather severe environment Added: January 6, 2008