Storm chaser Tony Laubach joins AccuWeather where he put together a Christmas quiz about his past storm chases. Find out how many you can get correct.
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00:00Tony we hear you've got a little challenge for us today. What do you got?
00:08Well, here's what we're gonna do folks and you guys at home can play along as well
00:12So obviously part of the job is to be out in the weather across the country
00:16So what we're gonna do today folks is we're gonna look back at some of my timeless
00:20Live hits over the last year or so and we're gonna quiz you as to what state
00:25That those live hits happen and we're gonna get started right away roll that beautiful
00:3030 miles per hour yesterday, so it really was visibility issues early
00:35But today plenty of sunshine. The visibility is absolutely great. It is a very chilly day here at the beach
00:43Think I'm gonna go ahead and just enjoy a little bit of the snow
00:48Okay, that was not as much snow as I hope that looked like that hurt just a little bit there Tony
00:56All right, what state did that timeless hit take place I do you think I remember this yeah, I remember
01:03At least we were talking about it. It's not the beach. I think it's Eastern, Colorado if I'm not mistaken
01:09Am I right?
01:11I'm gonna go on the same train of thought roll it
01:14Okay, that threw me for a loop, yes, that was the great
01:18Yeah, the great state of Kansas that took place at the Oasis truck stop in the great town of Colby in northwest
01:24Kansas one of my favorite stops of all time you guys ready for number two
01:28Let's go. Let's go
01:32You guys missed the rolling here as we went into totality you're seeing the live shot right now
01:36Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. That's right. That's right
01:40Rolling here as we went into totality you're seeing the live shot right now
01:44There are no words. There are no words. I did this in
01:482017 and I practiced this and and folks if you're at home watching this you're not in the path of totality
01:53Nothing I can say this video you are seeing will even a fraction
01:59Describe this it's like sunset all around 360 degrees of sunset right now
02:05All right, you know the event but where was I for it and Bree did you want to guess first or do you want to get together?
02:10I know where he was, but I cannot remember the exact I know it was like, Nebraska or it was I will just say it
02:18Melissa, I think it was, Illinois, Illinois. Am I right in, Illinois?
02:24Okay, go for it
02:27That's one point for us Tony. Mm-hmm
02:29All right one point for you, all right, we're gonna go back a couple of these hits are timeless
02:32Just like the holidays of Christmas here. This one was last year, but was one of my favorites all-time events roll it
02:40We're gonna show you here I'm gonna kind of get out in front here and kind of show you what we're looking at
02:44That is one of the tornadoes. There's actually a second circulation right off in the back corner here
02:50So we've actually got two areas of circulation one in the front and one in the back
02:55Right off in the back corner here, so we've actually got two areas of circulation
02:59One is going to be this guy right here. Looks like it's starting to rope out a little bit here
03:03We're starting to see that funnel dissipate. You can kind of see just the leftover dust whirl of that
03:08So we're starting to lose that but really seeing the rope out kind of the thin funnel coming back down right now
03:15Oh that one's a little bit so that was the first time i've ever been live in front of a tornado
03:20Yes, I remember you
03:22Doing this hit and i'm tempted to say it happened
03:26across
03:28The plains more north. It wasn't nebraska or iowa. Am I wrong? I think it was nebraska if I had to guess
03:37All right, well i'm sorry to disappoint you
03:40I was wondering I was I was
03:43I suspected because you can see the tornado so clearly
03:47Yeah, that was my home state two hours from home and I would be remiss if I didn't mention last year
03:52Just an incredible tornado year for colorado nearly a record center
03:55If we're not going to show off a little bit of the akron tornadoes there as well
03:58Just a crazy year last year some of the cool places i've been and some of the cool sites that I have certainly seen
04:05Tony can I just ask you really quickly about your christmas sweater? Is that santa riding through the cosmos? I can't tell
04:12Sweater is that santa riding through the cosmos? I can't tell
04:19It is
04:21kitty santa riding a pizza slice across the cosmos pizza
04:26Amazing. Oh my god that that just tops it off that makes the sweater
04:31The cats are always so strong when it comes to tony. All right
04:35You got to thank tony for his time, of course
04:38And uh, hopefully you're having a wonderful christmas tony