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The Mississippi Valley faced some life-threatening storms on Wednesday including deadly tornadoes in Arkansas near Lake City and Monette. Storm chasers were on the ground ahead of the storms as all of the necessary weather elements for tornadoes were in place and among them was Fox Weather exclusive storm tracker Brandon Copic among them.
Storm chaser and Fox Weather exclusive storm tracker Brandon Copic held a 10+ hour live stream of the storms on his YouTube channel for his 260K+ subscribers and about 6 hours and 41 minutes into the stream things got insane. Copic was nearly swallowed by the massive tornado in Lake City, Arkansas.
Here is the link to his full live stream and it is set to start at the right time if you hit play:
The shorter clip has already been picked up by news outlets across the nation with viewers in awe of how close this Fox Weather exclusive storm tracker was to getting sucked up by the deadly tornado in Arkansas.
After making it away by the skin of his teeth, Copic shared a message for his followers on X (née Twitter) saying “Thank you all for the kind words, but please pray for those impacted by this evenings tornadoes. Nature keeps us all humble, I thank God for keeping me safe when others weren’t as fortunate.”
By dinnertime on Wednesday night, the Arkansas towns of Bono, Corning, Lake City, Monette, Leachville, Payneway, Poinsett County, Randolph County, and Butler County, Missouri had all reported significant damage from tornadoes touching down. The National Weather Service described the Lake City, Arkansas tornado as “catastrophic.”
Injuries were reported throughout the region and the scale of the damage caused by the tornadoes is yet to be known. One thing is for certain though, Brandon Copic got lucky running from that tornado in Arkansas. And he was able to maintain his composure while fleeing the storm which isn’t always the case with chasers on live streams.
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