Introducing the fastest moving tornado ever recorded. In this video we discuss 5 scary fast tornadoes, each one with a forward moving velocity faster than the previous including a mind blowing NEW world record for the fastest tornado ever recorded.

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Over the last couple decades, I’ve found myself trying to outrun some fast tornadoes. But what exactly is considered a fast tornado? And how fast can tornadoes move? The majority of tornadoes I encounter track roughly 2530 mph. For me, anything slower than that, I consider slow and anything faster than 39 mph, I consider a fast tornado. But tornadoes can move much faster than that. Ride along with this scientific mission to uncover how the fastest tornado yet documented was discovered and how we calculated its ground speed.

The Fastest Moving Tornado Calculations
On June 16, 2016 twin EF4 tornadoes terrorized Nebraska. One of these EF4 directly impacted the town of Pilger. Besides being extremely unusual and visually stunning, this event is also scientifically intriguing. Our team applied photogrammetry techniques to analyze multiple videos. By carefully mapping the fast moving Pilger tornado's passage past features seen in each video, we calculated its speed between each marked point. This refined Skip Talbot's earlier work. A newly acquired damage scar from google earth allowed us to fix the tornadoes position with precision.

At 4:42 Central Time, the tornado is moving at just 20 miles per hour and slowly accelerates to 33 mph minutes later. Then, after briefly slowing to 26 miles per hour It begins a pulsing acceleration to about 62 mph at 4:46 PM, when the intense positive lightning bolt occurs. The vortex then accelerates extremely rapidly, gaining another 30 mph in just 10 seconds and at 4:47 pm, we fix its fastest ground speed at 94.6 miles per hour sustained over 5.33 seconds before equally rapid deceleration starts. We therefore conclude that this tornado, being the end stage of the Pilger Nebraska EF4 tornado that formed 46 minutes earlier. Should be recognized as the fastest moving tornado yet documented.

TEAM VIDEO & PHOTOGRAPHY:
Jennifer Brindley Ubl
Hank Schyma
Dr. Anton Seimon
Dr. Tracie Seimon
Skip Talbot

ADDITIONAL STORM VIDEO:
Simon Brewer
Greg Johnson Tornadohunter.com
Doug Kiesling stormchasingvideo.com
Rob Hurkes
Daniel Shaw www.severestorms.com.au
Josh Vanden Top

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE CONTRIBUTIONS:
Dr. Anton Seimon Appalachian State University
Dr. Leigh Orf University of Wisconsin

University of Oklahoma:
Dr. Howard Bluestein
Dr Kyle Thiem
Dr Jeffrey Snyder
Dr Jana Houser

American Meteorological Society
Figure 2 from Bluestein, H. B., Thiem, K. J., Snyder, J. C., & Houser, J. B. (2018). The multiplevortex structure of the El Reno, Oklahoma, tornado on 31 May 2013. Monthly Weather Review, 146(8), 24832502, , (c) 2018 American Meteorological Society and used with the permission of the American Meteorological Society. 

NOAA NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit
elrenosurvey.net

Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology
Johns, R. H., D. W. Burgess, C. A. Doswell III, M. S. Gilmore, J. A. Hart, and S. F. Piltz, 2013: The 1925 Tri State tornado damage path and associated storm system. Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor., 8 (2), 1–33.

STILL PHOTOGRAPHY
Jennifer Brindley Ubl
Hank Schyma

EDITED by Hank Schyma

GRAPHICS
Dr. Leigh Orf
Hank Schyma
Dr. Anton Seimon
Dr. Tracie Seimon
Skip Talbot

MUSIC
“Deep River” Piano performance by Anton Seimon
“March of the Serpents” by Pecos Hank
“La male'diction de la danse du poulet” by Pecos Hank
Background music by Hank Schyma