Oklahoma tornado footage up very close Reply

Absolutely incredible footage. First they put it in reverse to get away from the funnel, then they start driving driving parallel to it.

From Holy Tornado:

After coming really close to a giant wedge tornado in Lookeba Oklahoma, Holy Tornado then raced south to Chickasha were we once again got our visual of the mesocyclone just of to our southwest. Before this thing had condensed all the way to the ground, you could see the concentrated area where the funnel was about to emerge from the meso. It seemed like there was just a cloud of debris on the ground underneath this meso forever until it had finally fully condensed. Thereafter as the twister gets closer, it intensifies dramatically right outside Jeremy’s window. Shortly after this, you see it hit several homes in a small community and also hits a trailor house and lofts it out the back of the twister. We immediately start searching through rubble and debris. Fortunately, nobody that we know so far has been reported dead from this area although there were some injuries. May god be with the families that were effected by this and may the recovery process get underway fast and be quickly completed.

Another video from Holy Tornado:


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Other footage of the recent tornados:


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This video gives me the chills as you can first hear the warning sirens, then the crashing as the tornado hits the building – thankfully they’re in a basement


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TornadoVideosdotnet

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TornadoVideosdotnet – Just wait until about 1:16 into the video… footage up close

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Aerial footage of Joplin MO, destroyed by EF-5 tornado Reply

Aerial photos of the Missouri city of Joplin taken on Tuesday showed the widespread devastation wrought by the record-breaking tornado that struck over the weekend, with entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble and massive buildings levelled. The National Weather Service said Sunday’s twister was an EF-5, the strongest rating assigned to tornadoes, with winds of more than 200 miles per hour. With 122 people confirmed dead so far, it was the deadliest single twister since the National Weather Service began keeping official records in 1950 and the eighth-deadliest in US history.

Joplin MO Tornado, several footages – 75% of city gone, 89 dead, many still missing 1

Currently estimated to have been an EF4 (166-200mph winds) strength twister. Death toll currently at 89 and still counting. 75% of the city has been devastated, leveled – 2,000 buildings. Estimated to have been a mile wide. Debris found 70 miles away.

The tornado slammed into St. John’s Hospital, doing damage from the top to the bottom of the building. One witness reported seeing a victim blown out of the building when the twister hit.

Will add more video through the day as it comes in.

On the following video, from the person who took it, “The video i took while at Fastrip on east 20th street. We huddled in the back of the store until the glass got sucked out , then ran into the walk in storage fridge. Sorry for the lack of visuals but the audio is pretty telling of how intense the storm was. The tornado hits at around 1:20 seconds.”

2011 Year of the Tornadoes – Pix from TX to MI tornadoes which hit Sunday May 22 Reply

Tornadoes ripped through parts of the Midwest today killing at least 24 people in a Missouri town where a hospital was damaged, and at least one person in Minneapolis.

These storms were part of a series that battered the Midwest tonight. Tornado warnings and watches were posted from Texas to Michigan.

Those storms followed a tornado Saturday night that swept through a small eastern Kansas town, killing one person and destroying at least 20 homes, as severe thunderstorms pelted the region with hail that some residents described as the size of baseballs, authorities said today.

AP Photo/The Capital-Journal, An

AP Photo/The Capital-Journal, An

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AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Marli

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AP Photo/The Capital-Journal, An

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AP Photo/The Star Tribune, David

Jaime Green/Wichita Eagle

Jaime Green/Wichita Eagle

AP Photo/The Capital-Journal, An

Photos from Detroit Free Press