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Top 10 tornado videos
Tornado videos can be as powerful as tornadoes themselves, so MNN rounded up some of the most powerful funnels ever caught on film. Here's our top 10 tornado video countdown -- and we saved the most forbidding for last.
Thu, May 21 2009 at 9:30 AM
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Tornadoes are one of the planet's most photogenic natural disasters, and with zealous storm chasers hunting them each spring and summer, they're well-documented on YouTube. But as this year's U.S. twister season hits its peak, we decided to sift through all that funnel footage and round up the 10 videos that best convey these storms' — and storm chasers' — intensity.
10) Veteran storm chaser Jim Reed tailed this tornado across Kansas in May 2008 along with very patient intern Robin Lorenson. The funnel is impressive, but the most memorable part comes at the 3:58-minute mark, when Reed inexplicably jogs off into the tornado to end the clip.
9) If tornadoes could make promotional videos about themselves, they'd look like this. With a sunset peeking through the clouds and shimmering background music, this scene is more idyllic than intimidating. Storm chaser Roger Hill does offer a compelling case study for the delicate beauty of tornadoes, but if the next eight videos are any indication, this is the exception rather than the rule.
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but i hate them because there fast and some people aren't saved easly!
i never know tornado undo i mean stop while the tornado spinning break apart just like tht.it so amazing.........!
i hate tornados
they go very fast faster than any thang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we had like 4 EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEMs go off and the sky was black ive never felt so scared :-0
Tornados amaze me!!! Its so crazy that I can be so scared of them and excited by them at the same time!! Ever since I was little I wanted to be a storm hunter!!!
Ops! I pressed the enter button without typing a comment.Anyways im a huge fan of tornadoes accept i don't like them when they try to kill me or destroy my house. COOL!!!!!
i never had a tornado before but I like waching the videos.
iv never seen a tornado befor and i never whant one to happen and i live were there are tornados and thers been about 1,380 of them here and i just moved there creapy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i have been in a tornado befor and its really cool but really scary its like someone standing right next to 100000 king crobras
YO um i like the cobra part funny but this is wors try taking shelter in a dog hous derring two tornados so eney way i was lucky that day and what can be wors then that rite
Ihave ben in three tornados befor and two of them wher in mexico so i jumt in the dog house now i know some of u think that was stoupid an i agree but as long i was safe there
number 10 is not a tornado its like a
tornado picture on a wall its not a dustdevil either wow
I've always wanted to be a tornado hunter ever since I was 5 and I was in one. I was so amazed!!!
me too
tornados are no joke i have been in 1 2 and its not a game i lost my sister in a tornado
I love crazy stuff like that
you should join me in my storm chasing quest it would be very fun!!!!!!!
AAAHHH!
10! is not a tornadoe or it would of dun more damange cause yesterday i watched Twister
I was in a giant twister and i broke my leg!
Hey man sorry about your leg
In disaater context most people stay safe with miles distance.But in this context man who capture the natures fury is hardhearted.Those who capture this type of event for us are jwells for our society.I like to draw kind intention that they may use safty materials as well as should take necessary pre preparation.
If I were only younger...I'd be chasing them too. I think they are beautiful and awesome. Something to be respected and feared as well. My warning sign that one is near is when the hair on my neck bristles. You can feel the electricity in the air. Makes my blood rush...I love it.
this was wicked but did the guy who ran into the tornado die? that was awesome though
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