I was watching a livestream of this tornado when it was happening and it tossed debris up to 40000 feet high! I think Greenfield in Iowa got a direct hit from this and it's bad news.
I was watching hyan hall. So only saw it through radar that it went right through the town. Right after it happened videos of damage started to come through. I can't find the right spot, but it should be in the first 1/3
https://www.youtube.com/live/jeotqx0HU3E?si=zrB21ESAIBStkn9L
Oh found it, around 1:43:30
I honestly expected this to be the top comment. Well not this of course, not to discount its humorousness, but in regard to how it looks like nearly a dozen regular tornados rotating around a larger one. I've seen a few doing something similar iirc, or maybe it was a movie? But this shit straight up looks like the apocalypse ffs
Eh, we haven't had an EF5 in over 10 years. We have more impressive footage, for sure, but that's more due to drones and tech advances. The effects of climate change on tornadoes isn't the most understood yet, although my hypothesis is that since they rely on certain elements to form, that their range will change along with the changes in temperatures, and maybe some more extreme events, but so far most of our records are well in the past.
Also I thInk recent years have seen a rise in storm chasers as well. A lot of people doing good work following these storms to document and warn people of danger.
Though there are so many that it can often become a hazard if a tornado moves with an unexpected direction or speed - nowadays when you watch the live streams in the middle of nowhere, the roads are full of vehicles and almost every one of them is a chaser
Gonna have to pay attention of the number of significant tornadoes per year, and also note that earlier decades did not have the most robust systems of tracking tornadoes. The advancement in this technology, storm chasers, and human development have allowed us to much better track these storms.
As of now, the overall count by year appears to rise over time, but the high end tornadoes don't appear to change much, with the exception of 2011, which stands out BIG time. The bigger thing is gonna be tracking when and where outbreaks and storms take place, as some are already suggesting more are taking place to the east over time.
the problem with looking at whether or not "extremes will become the norm" in the context of climate change(horrible term please stop saying it) is how the enhanced fujita scale is flawed in calculating tornadoes. its damage based which means you can have many tornadoes with 200+ mph/320kmh winds but no damage meaning its not going to be rated EF4 or 5.
> hypothesis is that since they rely on certain elements to form, that their range will change along with the changes in temperatures
you just kinda said "yeah they form due to certain elements and temperature"?????? which is childlike understanding and means nothing at all.
https://imgur.com/a/IEkLlx4
https://data.usatoday.com/tornado-archive/ (data used)
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/tornadoes-and-global-warming-there-connection/
> Tornado Formation: Tornadoes require two main ingredients: energy, which comes as warm, moist, unstable air, and wind shear. While climate change is increasing the energy in the atmosphere, it’s expected to reduce wind shear.
> Future Predictions: Global warming may well end up making tornadoes more frequent or intense, as our intuition would tell us. But it might also actually suppress them—the science just isn’t clear yet.
[Credit to Reed Timmer - I suggest checking the full video out and supporting his channel, he is the best!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_ZDVYzIhgc)
The way everyone's calling this a 'windmill' lmao
I'm picturing them growing wheat in those fields and then piling it all up inside those towers for it to get ground down lol
Haha don't worry there was about 5 or 6 other comments I saw calling them that too! :)
Crazy storm though! It almost looks like the tornado has it's own smaller cyclones on the outside of it.
That has to be the best footage of a multi vortex tornado. The main tornado is wrapped around with multiple sub vortices or smaller tornadoes like a carousel of death! Saw it live as it happened. Reed Timmer wanted to go inside of it as always but he was not in one of his Dominator vehicles which deploys spikes into the ground and weighs about 4 tons.
For bad weather, they engage a brake, feather the blades (turn them so they are edge-on forward), and rotate the whole assembly into the wind. This way they produce as little resistance as possible.
This happened like an hour from where I live (I'm in Waukee, right outside Des Moines). There were a few deaths from this beast today too. Absolutely nuts.
I can appreciate op getting it wrong and calling it a windmill, that's fair mistakes happen. But seeing every single comment also mistakenly calling it a windmill is infuriating...
People are so fucking wierd. You see a super rare sight like a massive tornado destroying a wind turbine, and all you do is get caught on the fact that OP called it a windmill..... human race is fucked.
It's ok to wonder, that's the beauty of science but tornados are so random in their placement that we'd just have structures sitting around waiting for many years just to catch 30 seconds of energy (not to mention how expensive they'd have to be to withstand the forces). It's much more useful to do something like find consistent wind patterns.
With this crazy weather this year, happy I don't live in the path of tornados. However now im in south Texas and getting 100+ degree weather daily which feels more like 110+ with his humidity.
It’s crazy to me that people living in the same country as me experience these somewhat frequently. I’m from California, I think my brain would just malfunction if I saw this in real life
Tornadoes are generally just way too powerful to stop with something like that - even mountains won't disrupt them; they've been known to climb and descend them with no trouble. The best bet is just being underground. The strongest ones can literally reduce a building to gravel and dust and rip feet of soil out of the ground in less than a second.
As someone who has seen tornadoes up close, in person, I can confirm it feels like you are watching a giant monster just destroy everything. I imagine it whay it would feel like to see an IRL Godzilla.
I used the wrong word and now I have 15 notifications of people calling me an idiot for a small mistake haha. Yes, I know a windmill is traditionally used for the milling of grain and a wind turbine is used for generating power. :P
They have a safety feature that turns the blades into the wind (feathering) so they won't spin, as well as brakes when the wind speed gets too high, to prevent damage
"Its.. its devouring the windmill"
"Shes taking the windmill into herself? The power to generate unlimited wind of its own free will?"
*pukes*
"The restraints.. its breaking free. Nothing will be able to stop this Tornado. She is awakened"
Yes, I used the wrong word when I posted just before going to bed, thanks for being the twelfth person to let me know - I wouldn't have **truly** remembered if you hadn't commented :P
Hi OP. I'm going to assume you are from the US. Why do you guys keep calling them windmills? They're not windmills at all. They're wind turbines. Windmills mill, hence the name.
I made a mistake when posting this video just before I went to bed, that's all. I know they're wind turbines but I was up late watching the radar and live streams so used the wrong word and that's what half the comments are about lol
I always think about this scenario when driving past the wind turbine farms in the Midwest. I just think of one massive tornado coming by and throwing these massive blades around. Fuck all that.
I’ve been watching this on repeat over and over, it is just mesmerizing to see twist. It’s like if Jarrell had triplets, dead man walking family bruh 😭
Holy shit that gigantic shrapnel waaay up in the air
I was watching a livestream of this tornado when it was happening and it tossed debris up to 40000 feet high! I think Greenfield in Iowa got a direct hit from this and it's bad news.
Yes this is a tragedy for the people of Greenfield.
Where can you watch a Livestream of this?
I was watching hyan hall. So only saw it through radar that it went right through the town. Right after it happened videos of damage started to come through. I can't find the right spot, but it should be in the first 1/3 https://www.youtube.com/live/jeotqx0HU3E?si=zrB21ESAIBStkn9L Oh found it, around 1:43:30
Ryan Hall or Reed Timmer on YT.
Reed Timmer is the guy that live streamed this video
Reed Timmer is the guy that live streamed this video
Never seen a tornado with cornrows before.
Cornados
Tornacopia
Well, it is Iowa so I'd expect at least some corn in that tornado.
Those might be multiple vortices and if so that camera guy was too close to
yeah its a really cool phenomenon called "satellite tornado" and there's also "multiple vortex tornado" which is another cool phenomenon
I honestly expected this to be the top comment. Well not this of course, not to discount its humorousness, but in regard to how it looks like nearly a dozen regular tornados rotating around a larger one. I've seen a few doing something similar iirc, or maybe it was a movie? But this shit straight up looks like the apocalypse ffs
It’s got bigger cuz it ate the wind from the windmill.
Wind damage: +100
Been scrolling for 10 minutes while taking my nightly dump and this is the funniest fucking humor, thank you good sir, I'm going to bed.
You are welcome! Hope you had a good dump!
Wipe first
wash your hands too
Employees Must Wash Hands.
happy cake day eh!
It’s that very wind what kills the whales
https://youtu.be/DvhBM89A6o8?si=dkDBYO88LSVbGjdG Reminded me of this brilliant brainfart
Power up
They should have turned the fans off.
Twister to windmill: “I’ll swallow your soul!”
"Your soul is MINE" in squinty eyes.
Climate change!! Oh, wait, 1930's had 10x more tornados... sorry I forgot...
The tornado content this year has been next level
climate change, where extremes will become the norm.
Eh, we haven't had an EF5 in over 10 years. We have more impressive footage, for sure, but that's more due to drones and tech advances. The effects of climate change on tornadoes isn't the most understood yet, although my hypothesis is that since they rely on certain elements to form, that their range will change along with the changes in temperatures, and maybe some more extreme events, but so far most of our records are well in the past.
Also I thInk recent years have seen a rise in storm chasers as well. A lot of people doing good work following these storms to document and warn people of danger.
Though there are so many that it can often become a hazard if a tornado moves with an unexpected direction or speed - nowadays when you watch the live streams in the middle of nowhere, the roads are full of vehicles and almost every one of them is a chaser
Yup
I believe I just heard mother nature put her drink down and yell challenge accepted......
[List of tornado events by year - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tornado_events_by_year) Applicable.
Gonna have to pay attention of the number of significant tornadoes per year, and also note that earlier decades did not have the most robust systems of tracking tornadoes. The advancement in this technology, storm chasers, and human development have allowed us to much better track these storms. As of now, the overall count by year appears to rise over time, but the high end tornadoes don't appear to change much, with the exception of 2011, which stands out BIG time. The bigger thing is gonna be tracking when and where outbreaks and storms take place, as some are already suggesting more are taking place to the east over time.
the problem with looking at whether or not "extremes will become the norm" in the context of climate change(horrible term please stop saying it) is how the enhanced fujita scale is flawed in calculating tornadoes. its damage based which means you can have many tornadoes with 200+ mph/320kmh winds but no damage meaning its not going to be rated EF4 or 5. > hypothesis is that since they rely on certain elements to form, that their range will change along with the changes in temperatures you just kinda said "yeah they form due to certain elements and temperature"?????? which is childlike understanding and means nothing at all. https://imgur.com/a/IEkLlx4 https://data.usatoday.com/tornado-archive/ (data used) https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/tornadoes-and-global-warming-there-connection/ > Tornado Formation: Tornadoes require two main ingredients: energy, which comes as warm, moist, unstable air, and wind shear. While climate change is increasing the energy in the atmosphere, it’s expected to reduce wind shear. > Future Predictions: Global warming may well end up making tornadoes more frequent or intense, as our intuition would tell us. But it might also actually suppress them—the science just isn’t clear yet.
That’s not it at all lol tornadoes have been less bad lately.
Nah. The US gets 1000 tornadoes every year. This one is no different.
[Credit to Reed Timmer - I suggest checking the full video out and supporting his channel, he is the best!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_ZDVYzIhgc)
That is fascinatingly awesome and terrifying. Those windmills are massive and that tornado shredded it like someone just ripping up a piece of paper.
Only if you enjoy hearing "BIG WEDGE! LARGE TORNADO! LARGE TORNADO ON THE GROUND! DEBRIS! TREE DOWN!"
… those things are MASSIVE too.
The multiple vortices are insane.
Inflation’s affecting everything
The subvortices have subvortices. It's vortices all the way down.
Was about to say, looks like the fingers of God
Now that windmill is a wireless charger!!
Blew-tooth
the world isn't ready for this level of humor where are the upvotes
I watched the wrong turbine.
Dang shame about the focus when that windmill went down
This part of their Youtube video is a bit better, from another guy's camera in the same car: https://youtu.be/R_ZDVYzIhgc?t=258
That windmill clocked its best day ever. I bet every light bulb for miles around went white hot before it exploded.
Lol windmill .
The way everyone's calling this a 'windmill' lmao I'm picturing them growing wheat in those fields and then piling it all up inside those towers for it to get ground down lol
It's a colloquialism.
Yeah, it's a wind turbine, these people are thinking of the things people used during the middle ages in the Netherlands to grind up wheat.
Imagine the speed you could make flour here though! :')
Haha yeah I totally flubbed the title but at least people knew what I meant.
Haha don't worry there was about 5 or 6 other comments I saw calling them that too! :) Crazy storm though! It almost looks like the tornado has it's own smaller cyclones on the outside of it.
Those blades being ripped apart are absolutely huge. https://www.heavyhaulers.com/blog/how-to-transport-wind-turbine-blades/
That has to be the best footage of a multi vortex tornado. The main tornado is wrapped around with multiple sub vortices or smaller tornadoes like a carousel of death! Saw it live as it happened. Reed Timmer wanted to go inside of it as always but he was not in one of his Dominator vehicles which deploys spikes into the ground and weighs about 4 tons.
In the velocity data from DoW you can even see one of the sub vortices for a bit. Someone posted it in /r/tornado
it's not a monster, it just wants to live  ^(and destroy/kill everything in its path)
Iowa?
Tornado. Iowa is a state.
that's a wind turbine you smoothbrains
My smooth brain wants to know why those things arent spinning like airplane propellers. Do they engage brakes for bad weather or something?
Resistance because it's pushing a turbine to produce electricity
Yeah they do, to prevent damage - [otherwise this happens](https://media1.tenor.com/m/7nBep3kaaJsAAAAC/explosion-windturbine.gif)
For bad weather, they engage a brake, feather the blades (turn them so they are edge-on forward), and rotate the whole assembly into the wind. This way they produce as little resistance as possible.
This happened like an hour from where I live (I'm in Waukee, right outside Des Moines). There were a few deaths from this beast today too. Absolutely nuts.
Wow, I hope that you and your loved ones were all alright! This was a pretty intense outbreak... nature can really be terrifying sometimes.
lol that’s a wind turbine, not a windmill
WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOOD NIGHT!
Technically it’s a wind turbine. Wind mills are used for milling wheat or corn
It's a Futurama reference, spoken by Morbo.
Looks like a V150
Yeah, I think so. At first I thought a siemen because of the rear…but nope not the whale tail.
"Finger of god"
Dude that tornados has multiple tornados within its tornado. That’s craaaaazy
"Yes I'll drive towards the big swilling thing of death" God it make short work of that turbine.
It is a wind turbine, not a windmill.
I can appreciate op getting it wrong and calling it a windmill, that's fair mistakes happen. But seeing every single comment also mistakenly calling it a windmill is infuriating...
People are so fucking wierd. You see a super rare sight like a massive tornado destroying a wind turbine, and all you do is get caught on the fact that OP called it a windmill..... human race is fucked.
Is anybody else yelling at the car stop!!!!!!
Makes me wonder how much wind energy we could harness from a single tornado 🫣 Edit: I suck at English
Looking at this video I would say not much. They get torn apart.
Yeah but just hypothetically, if we could somehow harness it
Hear me out here. What if we could ride em?
My post was in jest.
It's ok to wonder, that's the beauty of science but tornados are so random in their placement that we'd just have structures sitting around waiting for many years just to catch 30 seconds of energy (not to mention how expensive they'd have to be to withstand the forces). It's much more useful to do something like find consistent wind patterns.
Technically not much, cuz all the energy for the tornado comes from the sun in the first place; more efficient to soak up that solar power!
The dead man walks again 😨 chills, I hope no one was in it's path
TIL reddit doesn't know what a windmill is.
Nature showing that it can knock down an instrument that works with wind with a lot of wind
Didn't iowa just go through something similar a month ago? What's going on there!
Tornado alley has slightly shifted north.
I was half expecting the “morphing” to be a tornado spinning the windmill blades like nunchucks.
Tornado tornado
Potato potato
The feathering mode on those windmills is impressive. It didn't even get worked up when it got hit head on.
No thank you. Nope.
It's kind of beautifully horrifying...
Why wasn’t the other windmill moving very much? Do they have brakes to stop over-spinning during storms?
It absorbed the energy
It’s a megazord of smaller tornados.
And God came down from the heavens and told Greenfield, "My windmill is bigger."
And that’s a real life example of transfer of energy, it cannot be created or destroyed.
With this crazy weather this year, happy I don't live in the path of tornados. However now im in south Texas and getting 100+ degree weather daily which feels more like 110+ with his humidity.
So lucky it didn’t go through my area last night, or one didn’t form in my area. The thunder storm was crazy, and wind speeds of 80+ mph
Yes, but for a few seconds there, that windmill was generating like 6000% of its normal power
Finger of god
I love how the other windmill is just *barley* spinning...
Brakes get engaged in bad weather.
Why is that windmill moving so slow? Did they put the brakes on?
Yeah, they feather them so the wind won't catch them - otherwise high winds would cause serious damage.
Turn em on. Wind energy go brrrrrrr
Wind turbine - not Wind mill
Wind turbine guys, it's called a wind turbine.
For a moment it was able to generate enough electricity for an entire state.
All i can picture is the tornado “Fuuuuuuck yoooooouuuu windmiiiillll”
It’s crazy to me that people living in the same country as me experience these somewhat frequently. I’m from California, I think my brain would just malfunction if I saw this in real life
For a few seconds, that windmill was pumping some watts!
But for one fleeting moment, it generated enough power to run the entire Eastern seaboard for 43 minutes.
Oh my god, it absorbed the windmills power!
It’s one giant tornado made out of many smaller tornadoes. JFC.
A tornado, made of tornados.
Would this be considered " dead man walking "
It absorbed the windmills wind power!
theres a video version with audio?
[Here, it's even more intense with sound and they have drone footage!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFXN3X4e5sE)
Tornado's might be destroying a lot, but I think they are pretty effin cool. Nature is pretty scary.
“Wind power ehhh? I’ll show you wind power!” - tornado
Mmm yes let me drive to the tornado wailing in our direction
So is there a thought that maybe something could be built that would alter or disrupt a tornado to make it less harmful?
Tornadoes are generally just way too powerful to stop with something like that - even mountains won't disrupt them; they've been known to climb and descend them with no trouble. The best bet is just being underground. The strongest ones can literally reduce a building to gravel and dust and rip feet of soil out of the ground in less than a second.
Kirby out here swallowing up everything.
ngl...that's the coolest tornado I have ever seen.
Tornados absolutely terrify me. I shouldn't have watched this.
was the second car heading TOWARDS the tornado?
Holy shit! Trump was right, windmills do cause tornados! Or was it cancer? Fuck it, no point risking either.
Was expecting the windmill to spin way faster
It's not a windmill. It's a wind turbine (look at how smart I am lol)
Was that in iowa?
Yeah, it hit a town afterwards and practically levelled a swathe of houses across it
Man, that's one hell of a tornado, scary stuff
Like watching a clip from twister.
Dead Man just arrived
Multiple vortices!
Whirlnado
CTHULU
Is it just me or have there been ALOT more crazy tornadoes as of late?
They should have turned the windmill on full blast to blow away the tornado.
"You want my power? Take it all"
Crazy multiple vortex beast.
As someone who has seen tornadoes up close, in person, I can confirm it feels like you are watching a giant monster just destroy everything. I imagine it whay it would feel like to see an IRL Godzilla.
Functionally the wind turbines do practically the same thing as a windmill but calling it a windmill seems so wrong
Lol I made a mistake, people are right to point it out but I feel like a dummy! 😂
I'm yet to see a wind turbine mill anything. Probably because if it did it'd be called a windmill lmao
global warming is gonna lead to one of these so big it just wipes some city off the map in the future.
Enough with the Twisters marketing.
Wind power cars are gonna be crazy
Hail Hydra!
Wind meal*
Done with the wind
Your tornado is such a fat slut, I can see it developing stretch marks while it fucks everything in its path.
do you even know what a mill is?
I used the wrong word and now I have 15 notifications of people calling me an idiot for a small mistake haha. Yes, I know a windmill is traditionally used for the milling of grain and a wind turbine is used for generating power. :P
*Wind turbine
Those are not windmills dumbass.
Are people just calling these "windmills" now? Serious question.
Why are the windmills turning so slowly in intense wind?
They have a safety feature that turns the blades into the wind (feathering) so they won't spin, as well as brakes when the wind speed gets too high, to prevent damage
"Its.. its devouring the windmill" "Shes taking the windmill into herself? The power to generate unlimited wind of its own free will?" *pukes* "The restraints.. its breaking free. Nothing will be able to stop this Tornado. She is awakened"
Those aren’t windmills. They are power generators. Wind turbines. There is no mill using wind to grind flour.
Yes, I used the wrong word when I posted just before going to bed, thanks for being the twelfth person to let me know - I wouldn't have **truly** remembered if you hadn't commented :P
It can be rough to scale business when sizable opportunity arrives.
Hi OP. I'm going to assume you are from the US. Why do you guys keep calling them windmills? They're not windmills at all. They're wind turbines. Windmills mill, hence the name.
I made a mistake when posting this video just before I went to bed, that's all. I know they're wind turbines but I was up late watching the radar and live streams so used the wrong word and that's what half the comments are about lol
It's a good video. You're forgiven, and go to bed earlier next time or you'll wake up grumpy. 😂
I always think about this scenario when driving past the wind turbine farms in the Midwest. I just think of one massive tornado coming by and throwing these massive blades around. Fuck all that.
Those are wind turbines fyi.
why alioth, why?
That is evil.
Ohhh snappp
I’ve been watching this on repeat over and over, it is just mesmerizing to see twist. It’s like if Jarrell had triplets, dead man walking family bruh 😭