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FALSE REPORTS FROM UNEXPERIENCED CHASERS

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Bart_Comstock said:
can be seen in this video(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfAmQFHXQwo) running a red light.
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Running a red light to me is not as big a deal as giving false reports. We've all ran red lights or stop signs while chasing one time or another. If you can honestly say you haven't, then you haven't chased long enough.

I guarantee that all the chaser police that cry and whine about running red lights and stop signs will eventually catch themselves doing it some day. It may be because it's a dirt road with no traffic, or it may be from escaping danger in a busy town. I promise it will happen sooner or later. If you have a tornado bearing down on your ass from 200-300 yards away at night, you'll do things that you wouldn't normally do. I'm not proud of it, but I have firsthand experience.
 
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Bart_Comstock said:
These same Yahoos move traffic with their lightbars and can be seen in this video(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfAmQFHXQwo) running a red light.
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I think you may have given a wrong link here. I never saw them move traffic with their lightbar. I did see traffic move over for them, but they sure weren't being made to move over. Also, I really didn't see them run a red light either. I really think they were driving quite safe if you ask me.
 
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I don't believe I've ever read a light bar thread... heard about them. But forget light bars...what about standard flashers. I've had folks come up behind me with just their flashers on and it's getting to the point that I don't want to ease up and let them by... but then in the back of my mind I'm thinking... well it could be someone with a real emergency, like a baby on the way. The reality is it's almost always gonna be some else doing the same thing I am and as in this case someone that is seriously lacking in knowledge. To say that it annoys me is putting it lightly. To see someone use flashing lights, like in this video to cause people to pull over for them on their way to a storm... well its a shame, for obvious reasons. Now if there is a tornado on the ground within eyesight, the more lights the better... to cause people to notice at least that something is up. Even then most folks would probably just wonder what's going on... not relate the lights to their being endanger from a tornado. Making false reports, using lights in a non emergency, disobey traffic signals... it's all bad.
 
LOL.

Dude! It's huge! Massive wedge tornado on the ground...25 miles away...in the dark!

Not even Reed is that zealous about tornadoes...and I didn't know the leading edges of rain shafts were called "tornadoes". If they were so concerned that these might've been tornadoes, perhaps they could've driven a little closer. Yeah it's sad that people like this are allowed to call in reports.
 
I understand he is inexperienced, but wow that is a nice gust front. Gust fronts are so photogenic. They're one of the best features of storms in Australia since most of our storms are just garden variety multi cells.
 
Wow, unbelievable videos. See, now that's the types I try to avoid. They know just enough to make a situation dangerous. They seriously abused that light bar and probably pissed off plenty of locals.
 
I can honestly say I have never called in a report that I was not certain of. However, I have experienced at least one situation where I wished I had - but luckily nobody was hurt.

It happened this summer near Mound, MN (in the NW part of the Minneapolis/St Paul metro area). It was during one of those fun 'cap busts' that happened this year. Just as we were about to call it quits on what was supposed to be a big day but with no action we noticed a storm starting to break the cap about 45 miles NW of us as the day was coming to a close (we could see the tower going up but nothing was on radar at this point). We decided to go after it and hoped we would have enough daylight. We caught the storm just as it was really starting to get its act together about 30 miles or so west of the Twin Cities. The storm slowly drifted east/northeast and kept getting stronger and stronger. As it approached the western suburbs of the Twin Cities our radar was showing a well developed hook and some good rotation - yet no tornado warning, not even a severe thunderstorm warning (maybe the NWS called it quits on the day too I don't know but I found it odd there was no warning of any kind - no disrespect to the NWS intended as they are normally very good). We continued to chase the storm as it moved into the northwest suburbs of the Twin Cities. Unfortunately, we ran in to some 'less then favorable' chase terrain with many trees, hills, lakes etc. As we entered Mound, MN we noticed what appeared to be a possible wall cloud and funnel just to our north/northwest but our view was fairly obstructed so we decided to head north to check it out. To our dismay just as we got north of town a tornado touched down literally right in front of us (it was crazy and scary to see several tornado vortices spin up no more then 10 yards from the hood of our vehicle and then move east and flatten trees just east of the road that we were traveling on). Again, at this point there was no warnings of any kind so we called it in as quickly as possible (the dispatcher reported nobody else had called it in and thankfully was very quick to sound the sirens). We continued to chase the tornado as much as we could but soon lost it when we hit some more lakes and winding roads. It was a crazy situation as we even came across several joggers who were out and about as the tornado passed by them no more then 50 yards to the north of them (of course we yelled at these people to take cover as we drove by them - I will never forget the terrified looks on their faces as they realized the danger they were in).

Anyhow, long story short I still kind of wish I would have trusted my hunch and called in the storm sooner. Despite the fact that numerous houses were damaged by the tornado, nobody was injured so all in all things turned out okay I suppose...
 
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Looking up more stats on this kid, he made a tornado report on August 19th near Springfield and looking at his video (http://www.youtube.com/user/MIDSCAR1#p/a/u/1/FfAmQFHXQwo) this is absolutely no evidence. He even talks about his adventure with his "encounter" with people that lost their possessions. (http://www.youtube.com/user/MIDSCAR1#p/a/u/0/6oViPo3g0II) There was definitely a tornado, there was definitely damage.... but in his video you would have no idea and considering he made the report at the time the video was taken, it makes you wonder. He also claimed to be building a new TIV and asked Sean Casey if he could name it "TIV 4." It seems like he just signed up for Severe Studios to stream which will not be good news for them if they ever allow that. Honestly based on these videos alone they shouldn't be allowed to have Spotter Network privileges. You see this stuff all the time on Youtube and usually look the other way, but I have seen this account post numerous reports via SN and it makes me question the validity of all of them...
 
Danny Neal said:
Looking up more stats on this kid, he made a tornado report on August 19th near Springfield and looking at his video (http://www.youtube.com/user/MIDSCAR1#p/a/u/1/FfAmQFHXQwo) this is absolutely no evidence. He even talks about his adventure with his "encounter" with people that lost their possessions. (http://www.youtube.com/user/MIDSCAR1#p/a/u/0/6oViPo3g0II) There was definitely a tornado, there was definitely damage.... but in his video you would have no idea and considering he made the report at the time the video was taken, it makes you wonder.
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Given the captions he put in that video, his depth perception is also very bad. He consistently said he was 1/2 mile from the tornado throughout the video and at the end said it was 100 yards in front of him....yeah....right.
 
Lol @ driving across a field with the lightbar going!

Seriously though...they shouldn't be allowed to call anything futher in untill they get either trained or retrained.
 
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