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Top 10 tornado videos, Nos. 8-7
Tornado videos can be as powerful as tornadoes themselves, so MNN rounded up some of the wildest funnels ever caught on film. Here's our top 10 tornado video countdown -- and we saved the best for last.
Thu, May 21 2009 at 9:33 AM
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8) An EF5 tornado, rotating at more than 200 mph, is a rare sight even in Tornado Alley. But storm chaser Reed Timmer and friends caught up with this one — and almost vice versa. It was the most severe storm in the deadly Great Plains Tornado Outbreak of May 3, 1999, generating the strongest winds ever recorded on Earth. Timmer says this is what hooked him on storm chasing, which he's been doing for 10 years since. He's also gotten better at holding a camera steady since then. See this video for more footage of the '99 twister.
7) This giant wedge tornado was filmed a few hundred miles north of Tornado Alley in Manitoba, but it'd be right at home in Kansas or Oklahoma. It gives the storm chasers a scare until it settles into a groove and churns around in place, but what it lacks in mobility it more than makes up for with size and power.
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Has to be the #1 Tornado video of all time. Althought the Andover KS video would be right up there. This monster EF5 comes within a few hundred yards of Reed Timmer and his group. Had the twister shifted a just a hundred yards closer we may never heard of this video or ever seen the quality of video footages they've produced since then. Thanks Reed for your incredible work.
holy cow
It must have been a thrill to video these tornadoes...
I can't believe how close that tornado got to them. That reminds me of the scene from Twister when they're under the bridge waiting for the tornado to come.
those are some scary tornado videos, wow