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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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who would run into a tornado
The wind isn't even blowing near them. If that guy had run into a real tornado he'd be dead.
My husband and I just sat on our couch watching all these videos last night...shouting at the computer screen as if the people filming could hear us...."get out of there! what are you doing?! don't run INTO the tornado!" haha. They were all great though...especially the one where the guy sets up the camera and then the tornado comes right over the camera
It's a dust devil.
Perhaps you missed the shots of the funnel making ground contact? Not a feature of a dust devil. While a dust devil kicks up a lot of dirt, they don't suck it up into a funnel
If you think that's not a tornado you are nuts. Where do you live, anyway -- mr. anonymous? It is firmly attached to the front wall of a really major thunderhead. It is full of dirt because it is sucking up a dry field. It is a big, dangerous tornado of the classic serpentine shape.
so what, good videos. I"m not going to click through 5 pages to see them all.
These are so much bigger than the tornado that chased me down the Henry Hudson Highway in the river valleys heading up to Lake George. I couldn't imagine seeing these monsters in the rear view mirror coming at me down the highway. Tornadoes are a little different here in the NorthEast.
So beautiful it doesn't even look real!!!! Wow!
My favorite is #9 - what a beautiful tornado!
It's like a tornado ballet almost.
Where's the Tin Man? Has anyone seen my little dog?
those are some scary tornado videos, wow
#5 is soooo scary! i don't think i like tornadoes
Feel like my hair has been blown around by those videos. Frightening, but impressive!
I LOVE watching tornado videos. I don't think I would like being in their place, but I love watching them. So beautiful and they can happen so quickly.
dang nature, you scary!
Thanks for compiling this. You can never have too many tornado videos.
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