The Viral Storm Streamers Predicting Deadly Tornadoes--Sometimes Faster Than the Government

At 10:44 pm eastern time on May 16, Ryan Hall spotted a blue square on his radar indicating debris flying into the air and realized a huge tornado was racing toward Somerset, Kentucky. "We've been watching this storm for a while, we've been hootin' and hollerin' for a while, hopefully the message has gotten out there and we know to be in our safe spots," Hall warned his YouTube audience in a calm voice with a Southern twang. A silver robot with blue eyes popped onto the screen to tell Hall that a viewer had commented about tiny houses near the tornado. Hall replied to his AI robot, known as Y'all Bot. The 31-year-old host of Ryan Hall, Y'all--one of YouTube's most popular weather channels with 2.8 million subscribers--went live for nearly 12 hours that day as more than 70 tornadoes swept through the central U.S., killing at least 28 people.