Multi Vortex Tornadoes in Iowa Hit Home, Tour Van, and Dog

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  1. Smart dog; knew enough to run away from a tornado. Fortunately the vortex that hit the van wasn't enough to roll the van. (Someone lost their house on that earlier tornado, though; hopefully they got to shelter in time.)

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  2. I have to hold my tongue but I really hope this tour van isn’t who I think it is! When people pay for a tour it’s usually because they don’t have the confidence or knowledge to chase themselves. So the question should be… Do the people pay to get in a multi vortex tornado? I bet they could do that themselves. The last 23-24 seasons this one company has multiple incidents every season it seams like where they get the van in circulations. The conclusion; one day luck will run out and the van will get thrown (it’s large surface area) it’s incredibly easy for a tornado to toss her like a trailer house. Then they will run months of news stories about how chasing tours should banned blah blah blah. When it was preventable.

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  3. Been thru a derecheo an had a small tornado 8 years ago in Platteville Wisconsin. We don't get a lot of the bad storms because I believe once the storms get by the Mississippi they break up. Wisconsin is not a state with a lot of tornadoes.

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  4. I don't understand the unnecessary drama. Yelling about a large tornado (it wasn't), yelling about a strong tornado (it wasn't), yelling about multi-vortex (dust devils are multiple-vortex. Many if not all tornadoes are multiple-vortex, it is a matter of if you can see them), yelling about not being able to see anything because the windshield is covered in rain (wipers?), yelling that it was going to hit a tour van (while technically true, it was just a stuff breeze), yelling that a car is driving right through it.
    This tornado was at the bottom of the scale. A very lazy main circulation with slightly more spirited subs dancing around it. 20+ years ago while chasing we stood in a field elsewhere in Iowa and let a replica of this tornado pass through and over us. It was beautiful and it was windy but it was not dangerous.
    So please, stop the manufactured drama. Report what you have and not what you wish you had.

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  5. what I like about this illustration is that it may help explain why, in a large tornado, one house survives and another nearby is trashed. It has nothing to do with god, an explanation people still use to explain things they don't understand.

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  6. Another chaser that missed this storm said on his live stream that "some newb chaser reported a multi-vortex tornado and probably doesn't know what he's talking about"
    Then stated that it probably didn't happen.
    I was watching both streams… I'm now unsubbed from that "other" channel

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