The Most Dangerous Video Ever Recorded 😳

It's coming down! All right, holy, that's close, that's really close. It's May 17th, and I'm chasing the craziest tornado I've seen all year. And I have one goal, to film the inside of a tornado using my camera probe. To do this, I have to cut it as close as possible. One wrong move, and me and my cameraman could die. In the car right now! Holy ----! Strongest tornadoes I've ever seen. This is freaking violent as hell, man. I'm gonna leave the probe. We can go back if we have to. The tornado crosses the road about 100 yards away from the probe, a near miss, but I'm still chasing it. And now, a small subdivision of homes is directly in its path. This thing is insanely strong. Oh, my God. One of the strongest tornadoes I've ever seen. My God. All right, we gotta be careful. This thing is ripping stuff apart. It just ripped a house. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is an entire home flying through the air, shredded apart into millions of pieces. Downed power lines. We can't cross here. Crap. All right, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna go back, we're gonna get my probe, and we're gonna catch back up with this thing, all right? We can't go down this road. Because of the power lines blocking the road, I go back to pick up the probe and then try to catch back up with the tornado, possibly getting a second attempt at deploying the probe. Ah! Despite not getting a direct hit on the probe, it still captured incredible footage of the tornado crossing the road, along with Reid going in for the intercept. But I think the craziest shot is from the slow motion camera on the ground. This tornado is mesmerizing, and there goes the dominator. Missing the direct hit by the tornado is a tough pill to swallow, especially because up to this point in the season, I already had a few near misses on the probe and still hadn't gotten that direct intercept by a strong tornado. Before any of you guys come chirping in the comments about how this is actually so easy, I need you guys to understand how hard this really is. Getting a probe inside a tornado is like catching a fly ball, I need to be in the exact right place at the exact right time. But the playing field is half the size of the US, not to mention the hundreds of other storm chasers that also want to get as close as possible. And on top of all that, the stakes can't be higher. One wrong move and I could die. This isn't some Mr. Beast type video shot in a controlled environment. I am 1v1ing the unpredictability of mother nature. This is the hardest and most dangerous thing any YouTuber has tried to accomplish. But at least the next day was another big opportunity. Before I get into this next chase, I'd like to tell you about the sponsor of this video, ZocDoc. 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In theory, a high chance of tornadoes is great, but with all the hype surrounding this day brought pretty much every single storm chaser in the U.S. I was closing in on a mean supercell that looked like it was about to put down a big tornado. But with all the other chasers, I could not keep pace with the storm. I have never seen this many people storm chasing. There were literal traffic jams at random stop signs in the middle of Nowheresville, Kansas. Overall, this day did not live up to the hype, which is actually a good thing, because if any strong tornado had touched down, storm chasers stuck in traffic. Definitely would have been hit. Look at the conga line. The grind continued, but despite being peak meteorological tornado season, late May, tornadoes were not in the cards. May would turn into June, and still, I wasn't getting any opportunities for the probe. However, computer models were hinting at some activity up north in Canada, and of course, I journeyed all the way to our northern neighbors. In the morning, Environment Canada issued a rare, extreme risk for tornadoes, so for this chase, I was Extreme Risk Chris. Despite the new name, I was trailing a very non-extreme storm, but I wasn't giving up. Later that night, a derecho moved through the area, and within this derecho was a dusty Dusty circulation thing, which was pretty cool, but this is not what I'm after. At this moment, I was in another country, still in pursuit of this crazy mission. I was starting to lose my mind. Couple days later, another extreme risk was issued over southern Canada, so the chase continued near Winnipeg. On my way to a storm, Google Maps told me to take a shortcut, and I blindly followed it onto the muddiest road I have ever driven in my life. And my car got stuck. This is the only time this car has ever been stuck in the mud, and somehow I made it out. By the time I escaped, the storm was still going, but I didn't care anymore. All I wanted to do was get the hell out of Canada because the next day there'd be storms in the US I could not miss. On my way to the next day's storms, I would meet a new friend. I was already running behind for the day, and this set me back even further, causing me to miss a couple tornadoes in northern Missouri. This was a new low. However, the next day, June 11th, was looking extremely favorable for tornadoes. In Illinois, a powerful low-level jet would kick up supercells capable of producing strong tornadoes. As the day progressed, a storm was quickly developing to my southwest, showing signs of rapid rotation. This was too good to pass up, so I pounced. As I drove south, another storm popped to My northeast. And this thing was going bonkers, producing one tornado after the next. I would have chased it, but by that time I was too far behind and had no chance of catching up. This hurt. The forecast verified, but one wrong decision caused me to miss the storm of the year. However, the day was not over. I was approaching another supercell that was about to drop a tornado, and one of the strangest coincidences happened. I'm in the same exact spot. I am in the same exact spot I was hit. There's a tornado right there. I was in the same exact spot I had intercepted the Lewistown EF3 a few years earlier, the tornado that almost killed me. Maybe in some cosmic twist of fate, this is where I'd finally get the probe in. There is a tornado and it is getting stronger by the second. But the tornado was short-lived and quickly fizzled out. On June 17th, another extremely volatile environment was coming together in Illinois, again. A powerful jet streak would create some of the most wicked wind profiles I have ever chased. If a storm could take advantage, powerful tornadoes were on the table. The only issue was that storms would move at over 50 miles per hour. By late afternoon, a supercell was starting to mature west of Decatur, Illinois, so I dove in for the intercept. And this was a mean supercell. A tornado was actively passing through the town of Blue Mound, Illinois, and I was right in front of it, so I deployed the first probe of the day. Unfortunately, this was a nothing burger, but I kept riding with the storm complex, bobbing and weaving on the country roads of central Illinois. Eventually, another storm was starting to dominate near the town of Charleston, Illinois. It was obvious the storm was about to produce a tornado and I was in the perfect position to deploy the probe. But there was one problem. This tornado was completely wrapped in rain. Still rain wrapped. Can't really see it. It's in there. Bam. And moving extremely fast. Even I have a limit. So I decided against deploying a probe on this tornado. But the day wasn't over. Another supercell was starting to pop off to my south. This was by far the best tornado of the day. I just had to capitalize and deploy the probe in the path. You gotta just probe this thing. I approached Effingham from the highway and this road seemed to be right in the tornado's path. The plan was simple. Deploy my probe and follow behind the tornado as it entered Effingham. Right in front of us. Right in front of us. In the spur of the moment, I had misjudged the path of the tornado, and it was now crossing the road right in front of me, destroying homes. Ah, it's right here. It is right here. Ah, no, this is not good. This is not good. I came across some serious damage, so I jumped into action in case someone needed help. Fortunately, the flattened building was just a garage, and nobody at this home was hurt. Instead of driving back home to Oklahoma, I decided to stay in Chicago with my family because Illinois was basically Tornado Alley at this point. And this was a good decision because on June 21st, another setup was taking shape in Southern Illinois. Although this was a strange one. An MCV, or a spinning mass of air, would initiate many supercells. And with this much spin in the air, Any supercell had the potential to drop a tornado. Count me in. I started the day in Mount Vernon and was pulled north to a rapidly developing mini supercell. We got a tornado. It's going right through this town. Oh yeah, there it is. There it is, right in front of me. Ah, it seems close. With the ongoing tornado, I figured, why not? Just deploy the probe and see what happens. And unsurprisingly, the tornado missed the probe, but was now in the field right next to me. Right in the freaking field. Holy cow. As I kept chasing the storm, my check engine light came on. Fantastic. With potential car issues, I should have called the chase here. But another storm to my south was producing a tornado, so I had to keep pushing. Big wedge. Gotta be careful. Big wedge. All right, probe is recording. Should be coming right around here. Let's freaking do it. Might be the one. Might be the one. Almost immediately after I deployed the probe, the tornado dissipated. And maybe this was a good thing. I was deploying in front of a family's home who were out on their porch watching the tornado come right towards them, which is probably the most Midwestern thing ever. At this point in the season, I had completely lost my sanity. But I wasn't quitting. On June 29th, an environment in eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota was looking juicy. There was over 8,000 cape, which is the most I have ever seen since I've started storm chasing, which screamed strong to violent tornadoes. I just had to get a storm. And that's exactly what I got near Fargo, North Dakota, a giga supercell. All right, there's our storm. There's our probes. We might do something crazy today. It's a giant, giant storm. Everything had led up to this moment. This felt like the day it was going to happen. Mother Nature just had to do her part and produce a tornado. But as quickly as the storm went up, it withered away, never producing a long-lived tornado. And just like that, the season was over. Since starting the project in 2025, I have deployed the probe nine times. The first on a tornado in Kansas, where the probe actually took a direct hit by a weak tornado, which doesn't really count. The second deployment was on the incredible Gary, South Dakota EF-3. However, this tornado's behavior was impossible to predict. In 2026, I deployed the probe on seven separate occasions. I really, really want to complete this mission. And trust me, this is not how I wanted the series to end. After two seasons and over 50,000 miles driven, I still have not gotten that crazy video from inside a tornado. This really is the most difficult and dangerous mission ever attempted by any YouTuber. But I am not giving up. This story is not over.