Tornado just ahead ( Sweden, Europe )

[Helge Tuschy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r08pzhA1iHM

Helge

[APritchard]

Um..


..... holy crap.

[Jason A.C. Brock]

One of the top 5 tornado videos ever.....

Also maybe the scariest thing ive ever seen. So fast....stops for .0001 sec like HAHA.....then whoosh...like a cartoon.:eek:

Seemed more ike a phantom than anything..... Suction vorticies IMO are much stronger than we realize. At least what the common person realizes.

[Sarah Glenn]

WOW! That was totally awesome. The tornado almost looks like a ghost whisping across the road and into the trees. That's highly unusual for it to be so far north - Stockholm is at a latitude equivalent to just north of Juneau, AK and just into the Northwest Territories, Canada! That's freaking 60 degrees North! Does anyone else know about other severe/tornado events happening in such extreme latitudes? 60 degrees South is within the rim of the winter sea ice near Antarctica. Just crazy. :eek:

[Marko Korosec]

That is incredible video, Helge!

You get another imagination when looking at that tree which breaks so easily! One wouldn't think such small vortices has such power.

[Andrea Griffa]

Oh men this is amazing...and very lucky ;)
Anyway I don't see any tornado touch down or funnel before the car gets in the road among the trees.Suddenly the tornado touches down and hits the car.

[Sarah Glenn]

Yeah, I think it's very interesting that you see the funnel and there's suspense as they drive through the trees - then all of a sudden debris is flying around and then this little white thing floats across the road, and then goes to tear up some more trees. It shows the same behavior as a small water vapor tornado one would see created in a lab!

[Matthew Fischer]

that was pretty cool tornado. you can see the tornado snap trees on the right side of the road.

[Shane Adams]

Looks like chaser video from 2008. I still like the AL car-flipping tornado clip better.

[D. Hayes]

I dunno, that video is pretty dang impressive but it definitely ranks up there with the coolest. Fun to hear the after the tornado reactions are universally awesome.

[Angie Norris]

How cool is that!! That little vortex was packing a bit of a punch, don't you think. I don't speak Swedish, but I can imagine what they were saying ;) ! Kind of reminds me of TN chasing with all the trees in the way.

Tornadoes are rare but not totally unheard of that far north. A quick peek at NCDC found 3 Alaska tornadoes, the fartherest north was 61 degrees on 6-14-2004, but it seems like I read a report from one of the Alaska WCMs that there have been more than that.

[Steve Miller TX]

Where is all of the outrage and gnashing of teeth about this guy driving into a tornado and then nearly getting hit along with his kids in the vehicle? I bet he had an amber lightbar flashing wildly too during this whole time. This is going to ruin stormchasing forever and ever! Oh my! :D

That really is some pretty cool video. The way it easily twisted and snapped that one small tree is amazing. The power from that little vortex is very impressive. I also like the kid towards the end that is laughing as if to suggest, "Hey, dad. That was fun! Let's do it again!" LOL!

[Dennis Sherrod]

Where is all of the outrage and gnashing of teeth about this guy driving into a tornado and then nearly getting hit along with his kids in the vehicle? I bet he had an amber lightbar flashing wildly too during this whole time. This is going to ruin stormchasing forever and ever! Oh my! :D

Man, how true is this? I think we all need to need to go to another weather site to bash them for driving like that and posting the video. I bet it was even all done on purpose to get fame and glory. :)

But seriously, as everyone has said, that is a really neat video. That little thing had some power behind it to snap that tree like that.

[Jim Saueressig]

Awesome video. I had been looking for years for a video of such a small tornado because the one that hit me years ago was no larger than a 55 gallon barrel at the bottom and when I had told some people that story I was told they didn't get that small so it must have been a dust devil or something (lol).

I was 16 years old and on my way via back roads to Emporia passing the South end of a HP severe when a tornado dropped next to me on the left, it was small and popping little branches off of the trees. I stopped and it went right over my Camaro which was neat because I looked out my sunroof as it passed over it. I got out of the car and watched it head toward a mobile home a half mile away. It picked up to pass over the mobile home and widened significantly as it did and then dropped as it became buried in the rain and lightning. That was what peaked my interest in weather besides my lightning shots.

I will say that in comparison to the little beast in the video that mine was much more well defined (shape) but less wind speed and a bit slower travel speed. The video is now one of my few favorites on YouTube.

[Dann Cianca]

From the related videos on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i0Rz47eoa4

... same one?

[David Draun]

Cool tornado, but look at the parent storm. This is obviously a supercell tornado. Definitely a rain-free base where the tornado drops from. Not only a tornado that far north, but a parent supercell as well. You can see a wall cloud and an RFD cut also.

[Dennis Sherrod]

From the related videos on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i0Rz47eoa4

... same one?

Look at the two people on motorcycles behind the guy filming. I think I would be trying to find somewhere to go real quick.

[Danny Neal]

LOL I seriously thought it was fake upon first glance. I say that because it looks so in your face, like someone HAD to have put that there because that just doesn't happen in real life...... That is pretty incredible.

[Darrin Rasberry]

I'm guessing that's a video of one of those "small vortices" (I'm sure there's a better term) that we can usually see milling about a multi-vortex tornado?

[Joel Wright]

Wow. If you look closely at the little tree right before it gets ripped apart, it appears there isn't a twig moving. Anyone else notice that? It looked as if it were standing there on a calm day. Amazing.

[Aric Cylkowski]

Reminds me of my first tornado intercept... except that tornado was behind the car a hundred feet or so... and it was much bigger D:.

[Bill Hark]

Wow, awesome video!!! Size doesn't always matter. The vortex is not very large but is intense.

Bill Hark

[Andrew Stoller]

This video should be titled "I needed a change of underwear".

That's as close as you could get without getting air-born!

[Adam Lucio]

Wow, I really like how it just stripped that tree away. Such power for such a small tornado. Reminds me of the Eli tornado video clip of a thin drill bit tossing a house. I always show that video to people when I explain to them size doesnt dictate strength.

Incredible. I wish I knew more details about the event.

[Robin Tanamachi]

I sent the video link to one of my professors who's currently in Finland, asking if any of his Swedish-speaking colleagues could interpret the commentary. They confirmed that the language spoken in the video is Swedish.

The driver didn't say much. Just conversational stuff, "Look at the tornado", "look at the trees," etc. No indication of what they were doing.

At least this settles the Sweden / Wales question. I still wonder if the person who shot the video was even aware of the danger he - and his kid! - were in.