Force Thirteen

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**Force Thirteen**, also known as **F13**, **Force 13**, or **Force13**, is a tropical cyclone tracking YouTube channel made in 2011. It was made by Nathan Foy, and is used to update the public on the tropics. The channel also has other social media outputs, with Force Thirteen also being on Discord, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok. Force Thirteen also has multiple of their own websites, 3 of them to be exact. The Headquarters for Force Thirteen is located in Manchester, UK. The Force Thirteen channel consists of not only Nathan Foy, but also team members, and "Ultimate Fans." These Ultimate Fans are YouTube channels that have joined a membership for Force Thirteen. There are 5 Ultimate Fan stages, which are as follows:

* Category 1 membership: Loyalty Badges on Force Thirteen YouTube channel, custom emojis, Supporter Role for Force Thirteen Discord server
* Category 2 membership: See newest uploads first
* Category 3 membership: On-air shoutouts, airtime, priority reply to comments
* Category 4 membership: Video requests, discounted merchandise
* Category 5 membership: Beat the queue on gameshows, monthly creativity workshops, monthly Category 5 exclusive live streams

Force Thirteen has many team members and Ultimate Fans. Some Ultimate Fans of Force Thirteen have made videos similar to Force Thirteen. Force Thirteen tropical cyclone updates and storm track animations. The most popular video made by Force Thirteen used to be "2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season Animation" with 1M views, but now it's "Dora now a Category 4, additional intensification possible" with 1.8M views. The video is an update on Hurricane/Typhoon Dora, or only called Hurricane Dora when the video was uploaded. People started calling it "Dora the Explorer" as a joke because it started as an invest off the coast of Western Africa, moved into the Caribbean Sea, into the Eastern Pacific, became a tropical storm, got named Dora, then entered the Central Pacific, then into the Western Pacific as a Category 2, then back into the Central Pacific as a subtropical depression, then turned extratropical, moved toward the islands of Alaska, then dissipated. Dora. It's a weird name for a hurricane, right? Anyways, the first ever video made by Force Thirteen was "Force 13 Opening Titles," which was made on November 30th, 2011, and has 7.7K views.

Force Thirteen also makes YouTube Shorts, with its most popular short being "Extremely Powerful Super Typhoon Mawar Heading Towards the Philippines/Taiwan Regions." When the video was made, according to Force Thirteen analysis, Super Typhoon Mawar, an extremely powerful super typhoon that reached its highest peak out to sea and caused large affects to Guam and minor affects to Japan, had winds of 180mph and had a pressure of 906mbars/hPa, which is 26.75inhg. The video has 11K views and 309 likes. Their first short is titled "Severe Weather Minute - May 3rd #shorts #severeweather" and was made on May 4th, 2022. It has 5.4K Views and 208 likes.

Force Thirteen also makes music, with popular songs being Rapid Intensification, Monsoon Season, The Apex, Forest Sprint, In Summary, In Sequence, Tropical Weather Bulletin Theme, Worldwide Reveille, Dream Thirteen, Crystalline, Force Thirteen US Theme, Supercell, Elements, The Day After Dorian, Lonely Memories, Low Earth Orbit, The Finish Line, etc.

Force Thirteen also makes live streams, with their first live stream being "Force Thirteen Gameshow - Live! 17/02/2015," which was made on, you guessed it, February 17th, 2015, and has 298 views. Their most popular live stream is "Super Typhoon Goni (#RollyPH) Still a Category 5 Nearing the Philippines - Live Update," which was made on Halloween of 2020, and has 387K views.

Force Thirteen also makes things called "Tropical Weather Bulletins," which are 10-15 minute YouTube videos made for updating the public on the tropics. If a full Tropical Weather Bulletin isn't able to be made, a "Tropical Weather Bulletin Lite" will be made instead. This is instead a 1 minute and 30 second video that only shows what tropical cyclones are currently active, with satellite imagery in the background, and doesn't show sea surface temperatures or radar products or other things that a normal Tropical Weather Bulletin would have. They also make live streams once at almost every Sunday creatively titled "Force Thirteen Sundays."

Overall, with over a decade of tropical cyclone tracking, starting in 2011, and still here to this day, reaching the 100K subscriber mark in 2023, Force Thirteen has grown remarkably over the years. Force Thirteen also has made other channels, such as regional channels and channels for other topics that aren't the tropics, and those channels have also been successful (mostly, at least).