TORNADO DEATH TRAPS

Tornado video about deviant tornadoes, unpredictable traps, and the BARRAGE of deadly hazards awaiting storm chasers. Capturing extreme video of tornadoes up close comes at the ultimate risk! For licensing contact hankschyma@yahoo.com

The first tornado highlighted in this video is a deviant tornado tracking backwards. After tailing the parent supercell northeast for an hour,
It was surprising to see it's tornado tracking the opposite direction, southwest.

Tornadoes can be deceptive and unpredictable. They intensify, grow, morph and deviate any direction and at close range there is almost no time to react, adjust and escape when the unexpected occurs. I've witnessed tornadoes turn hard right, bank left, do U-turns, suddenly accelerate and go in reverse.

Besides evading erratic twists, storm chasers have to anticipate
unforeseeable escape route entrapment.

Maps may give you confidence that a maintained road will carry you to safety, but they fail to inform when a stalled 100 coach train is blocking your retreat, or when the bridge is out. Maps don't show fallen trees, flooded roads, or eroded pot holes. Out here county roads often change from a sturdy gravel base to slippery mud impossible to drive on and often the maps are flat out wrong.

Other hazards storm chasers need to consider are hail, lightning, RFD's, downbursts, and inflow jets but many chasers agree the most dangerous aspect of chasing are the many hours of commuting.

TORNADO FATALITIES in USA last 25 years (1991 - 2015)

In the last 25 years, Kansas has had only 57 tornado related fatalities.
Texas has had only 93 deaths. Mississippi 112, Arkansas 121, Oklahoma 131, Tennessee has had 175 tornado related deaths, Missouri has had 243 and Alabama leads this stat with 380... Almost triple the tornado deaths of Oklahoma.

MUSIC:
"They'll Never Come Between Our Love" by Southern Backtones
"Prelude in C-sharp minor" written by Sergei Rachmaninoff / performed by Hank Schyma
"March of the Serpents" by Pecos Hank
Other scores by Hank Schyma and Dan Workman

Видео TORNADO DEATH TRAPS канала Pecos Hank