Parking lot dashcam catches tornado scraping a building off the face of the earth.
Here you go. Drone footage.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lxdFh8nYMgM&pp=ygUVdG9ybmFkbyBkcm9uZSBmb290YWdl
I watched this tornado from my front yard. I lived about 5 miles from the path. Friend of mine lives in a new development and got footage of it crossing the field in front of his new house
Do people that live in these areas have huge tornado insurance? I’d have no idea what to do if my house got taken
I'd have small tornado insurance too
Can you bundle tornado with home and auto?
The tornado will bundle your home and auto
Yes. It's called homautnado.
I mean it's covered under your homeowners insurance, same as damage from winds or hail during a thunderstorm. The only policy that's an add-on is flood insurance. I'm sure insurance companies factor in how common damaging storms are when calculating rates.
Yup. It's why Florida as a state will have some serious problems in the next decade and beyond due to insurance companies getting out of the state. Too many giant hurricanes are destroying too many homes too often for people to afford insurance. Poor people can't afford it, so they don't have it, their homes get destroyed, and they leave the state or become a drain on the state with the assistance they require.
I had just moved from Wichita to a new city when that happened. In fact, that year, all there places I had lived in Kansas had tornadoes that year.
That drone operator is like nope, I'm not going to rotate the drone to keep watching the show...
Hey don't pick on him, it's impressive enough he can fly the drone at all without a right arm.
also with that drone footage you can see stuff being ripped off infront of the condensation funnel, which gives you a sense of how large the wind field can be vs what you actually see. (not as big in this footage, but in other videos and damage assessments you will see damage pretty far from the main circulation.
fly closer you coward
I don't blame them for not going closer, but I do wonder why they didn't pan the drone camera as the tornado left the shot.
Nice find. My jaw just dropped.
first time i saw that i was like..this cant be real! it looks uncanny realistic, but it was real and it was Andover KS
Makes me feel bad about vacuuming
That twister is popping bubble wrap, but people’s homes. wtf
Did anyone die in that one? It seemed to form and start nuking instantly… poor people
Sorry about that, I need to stop vaping.
This video really makes me feel like my plan of hiding in the powder room under the stairs if a tornado comes is NOT an adequate plan.
For someone who only knows what he reads but has never until today had such clear visual representation of a tornado…the one in OP and this drone footage…where would these be on the F scale? I mean, that building is just gone. Is that an f1? F3? 5? Shit, that is terrifying.
It's the best video I've seen illustrating the suction power of the vortex. You can see barrels and huge pieces of other buildings' HVAC system getting sucked in like it's nothing.
Yea saw a 55 gallon barrel just floating around. Damn
But yet 20 feet from the tornado is untouched. Really interesting phenomenon.
The white car in front of the building seems to be only pushed aside, also. This is a good parking lot.
It was the HVAC from the same building. There are no nearby buildings.
Agreed. The drone footage posted below is good and obviously a sweet Birds Eye view. It this video is insanely clear and every time I watch it, I see something new
Yeah and theres a parking lot full of vehicles next to this building implies there are people in there. Imagine going into work and your building gets sucked away in 10 seconds. Terrifying.
I was thinking the same thing as I was watching it. Incredible.
First thing I thought as well. It's always been shit quality, a cameraman who (understandably) gets scared and stops filming or drops the camera, or the power from the tornado shakes the camera so hard that it starts to malfunction and you don't see moment of destruction. This is pretty awe-inducing.
muh wife
Define building
Yeah, that's a sick beat!
2 years ago, December here. Drive down the road and look to the left, "Look, two shingles are missing from those apartments." Look to the right, "The ENTIRE SUBDIVISION IS GONE."
Luck/God/Nature . . . you never know.
Back in the late '80s, Hurricane Hugo ripped though my older sisters neighborhood and every house on her street was wrecked except for hers. They lost a few shingles.
All that was left of my Dads house was the brick front stairs.
Time to start worshipping stairs! Praise Stepus!
What are you doing, Stepus?
I survived Hugo. Almost every house had a tree through it. No power for two weeks.
Me too. I was young but can still remember it rolling through. Sounded like a freight train. My sister woke me up to it. I can remember looking out to our deck and seeing just a wall of storm outside. Little did we know everything was getting absolutely wrecked in our area. Can confirm no power for quite some time. Sounds of chainsaws for weeks.
In Florida in 2004 or 2005 several hurricanes hit the state. I remember seeing this one house trailer with the front and back that looked like nothing was wrong with it but the entire middle was gone like with the wind.
'80s East coast. . . That was probably Hugo we ran from. I was at one our factories in N.C. and we got a flight out late the day before it hit.
Same for my house during Hurricane Katrina. Lost two shingles, and hardly any debris in my yard. My dad rides up on his 4-wheeler from next door and I say, “That wasn’t as bad as everyone thought it was going to be.” He replied, “Son, go to the end of your driveway.” I go and look to my left, power lines are down and tree after tree is littering the road. Look to the left and my neighbors house is demolished due to a big tree down the middle of it and tree after tree are littering the road that way as well. The whole bottom half of the state looked like a war zone.
Technically the building is still on the face of the earth, just in significantly more locations than it used to be.
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Batman: “Where’s the building?!”
Tornado: “What’s the time?”
Batman: “Why does that matter?”
Tornado: “Well.. depending on the time, it may be in one spot, or SEVERAL.”
Fucking well done my friend. WELL DONE.
Question: Is there just trash everywhere in places where there are tornadoes? How could they possibly ever clean up all the debris caused by tornadoes and who would “they” even be? I can’t believe people choose to live anywhere this shit happens lol
Tornado: Fuck this building in particular.
It’s truly amazing to see one home that’s been destroyed while one two doors down has minor damage at worst.
Okie here: larger tornadoes (F4/F5) often have multiple vortexes spinning inside the larger funnel. Thats why you’ll sometimes see one house completely destroyed while the house next door takes minor damage. The interior vortexes take a narrow path & are incredibly violent.
Tornadoception
wtf. how did you just make F5 tornadoes SCARIER??
I'll take a crack at that. The subvortices in large tornados have much higher wind velocities than the bulk tornado has. I've seen speculation that they might actually exceed the speed of sound at times, based on damage to reinforced concrete and buried objects.
Back when it happened I went out to a local area that got leveled by the April 2011 tornadoes in Alabama to help with recovery. I remember the wildest part to me was seeing pieces of cloth or other random soft objects pierced straight through just ridiculously solid things. We found a piece of straw driven into a solid concrete wall.
When you see one with multiple vortexes join up into one big one, it’s really scary. I think the el Reno footage has them doing that.
A house in my town got destroyed by a tornado and there was still a roll of dry toilet tissue on the dispenser.
"You've never seen it miss this house, and miss that house and come after you!"
Christ, Jo. Is that what you think it did?!
When my mom was a kid they got hit by tornado. It took the porch but besides damage from the debris the house was fine.
You are dead-on. There isn't much around this place. 50 yards in any direction and nothing would have been damaged.
Tornadoes are the honey badger of meteorological events.
...and this pickup truck too!
You never know what it's gonna want. Seems like if it could just give us a list of the supplies it NEEDS, we could work something out!
And my axe
The truck next to it too. The one in the fronts side window blows out a half a second before the trucks to the right of it does. Air pressure?
That truck's windows didn't do so well either.
Some dudes TPS reports were all printed and stacked in a pile on his desk after weeks of work, in that building guaranteed.
Still no cover sheets though. ☕️ yeahhh
"...but...my stapler."
"Yeaaaaaah ... Peter, an 'Act of God' has nothing to do with it. I need those TPS reports done and on my desk by 4 PM."
"What desk?"
They were they "Yay! I Destroyed It!" confetti the tornado shot off at the end.
Like, how heavy is that AC unit that got absolutely yeeted like it was a paper weight. You scary nature.
The rear window of the pickup truck on the right shatters at you don’t even see what hit it. Whatever it was, it was going fast.
Ironic that the dodge was the one that didn't appear to dodge anything.
They are not heavy for their size. Mostly hollow.
Got dayum I live in South Carolina and we have our share of naders but them Midwest fuckers seriously rip ass. If I lived there I’d be puckered tighter than a bulls ass in fly season when the alarm went off.
Nature is wild. Like before humans this shit was happening. Now it just randomly terrorizes us. This thing that just happens can fuck your entire life in seconds. No wonder we came up with the idea of gods. Before we understood them, no wonder we thought this was the angry wrath of something.
Did that tornado ignite a fire in the building and then take the fire with it?
It is so hard for me to wrap my brain around how “wind” can do this … I can watch that video 10 times and my brain still can’t accept that wind is that powerful.
My initial reaction when I saw the thumbnail is that it will be a CGI video. I was not mentally prepared for that.
"What do you mean, I thought you said all my paperwork was safe with you?!"
The cars are safe. Maybe make buildings out of cars?
In all seriousness, I hope no one was hurt. Seeing this makes you wonder how fragile humans are, and how "taming nature" is an arrogant view about our place on this planet.
All 70 employees in the building lived with only minor injuries reported. Although apparently 63 of them got laid off shortly after, but that could be false internet rumors.
I just had a Brave Little Toaster moment watching le drama play out on the back of that car. So proud of screw for holding onto their license! lil' plate pals thru it all.
The distance difference between fucked and just fine is surprisingly low.
Hey the cars are still mostly fine!
I hope everyone was safe. now to pull out my soap box for a moment. This is why I think we still need siren poles with tornado sirens. Sure we all have phones, but people in a building like that could very likely not get signal or delayed signal and not get an alert in time, where a siren on a pole outside could alert people much more effectively. like, still have the phone alerts, but also the siren, it needs to be more ways tow arn people not less that depend on tech that isn't reliable.
They have tornado sirens where I live in the Midwest and we don’t screw around when we hear them.
Yeah, I’m not sure what the person you responded to is insinuating. I live in the middle of Chicago and we have sirens. Test them on the first Tuesday of the month from like March to November.
I’ve only heard them go off for real a handful of times, I assume it’s intentional but they sound different when they go off. Which I assume is to get people to pay attention and not think it’s a random test.
Downstate Illinois and my city just finished installing updated tornado sirens. The existing ones were 40yo and had to be activated manually. The new ones have a radio link to the NWS and will activate automatically and only within the "polygon". Tomorrow's test will be the first time hearing them and being a weather dork I'm excited to hear the difference in tone. 🤓
Also, everyone should get a NOAA weather radio. It'll work when your phone doesn't and is LOUD if a warning is issued when you're asleep. Phones also have carrier delays, my radio goes off a minute or two before my phone alerts.
I have a weather radio in the bedroom, you are right they get the alarm before my cell phone. People trust their phones but the backbone of emergency alert is the radio.
In Missouri when people hear the sirens that's the signal to grab a beer and lawnchair and post up on the front porch to watch.
The house I live in now in MO was built on the site of a house that was destroyed by a tornado. Only about 5-6 houses in my specific neighborhood were destroyed along the narrow path (though it caused extensive damage for many miles), everything immediately along either side was spared. One of the destroyed houses had only just been completed a few months earlier. One of my neighbors who was in a house that was hit said that it seemed that day like the storm had ended so he went outside to grill. He was happily cooking away when he noticed a really odd looking cloud headed his way. Once it dawned on him what it was he made it to safety with only seconds to spare.
Were the pork steaks OK?
Did they get Maulled?
LOL ---> Missouri
In STL we have the arch to protect us
The best definitely not a weather control device in the world
where I live in the midwest if you hear a tornado siren you either assume it's a test or you just assume it'll be nothing like it always is (I'm in west michigan)
There’s no way you’re a true Midwesterner if you’re saying “we don’t screw around when we hear them” unless by not screwing around you mean we’ll go outside to watch or hop in our truck to chase it.
Source: am one.
Where are you that doesn’t have tornado poles? Even my small home town of less than 1k people had tornado poles.
Moved to Florida a couple years ago. I've been through a couple Tornado Warnings and didn't hear one siren.
Were they warnings or actual tornadoes?
I live in literal Tornado Alley and we absolutely do have severe weather sirens (that go off for not only tornadoes but severe thunderstorms with wind and/or hail). My city tests them once a month as long as the weather is clear.
We have them like… everywhere. I don’t think you can go a half mile in an any direction without seeing one. They test them every Saturday at noon. They all go off at once a sound for about 3-5 minutes.
I live in Lincoln and can confirm we have many siren poles, they're tested regularly, and they were utilized to great effect during this tornado.
Why can't you hear them in this video? Well the building in this video is waaaaaaaaaaay on the edge of city limits in an industrial area with little else around, so the nearest siren isn't particularly close, plus you're hearing audio from a dashcam which means all the sound has to get through the car's sound isolation to begin with, which is why even the tornado itself isn't terribly loud and all the sounds are very muffled.
This tornado system also skirted the west edge of town and then turned up north well before what you see in this video, so everybody actually had quite a bit of time to prepare for this, relative to tornado warnings that is.
Only a few minor injuries, somehow. There were close to 70 people inside.
Although they can often be heard indoors, they were made with the intention of warning people stuck outdoors to go inside. Also, they are often, unfortunately, subject to failure. The last time a tornado (fortunately a small one) came through my town, none of ours went off due to a technical issue despite the regular tests. Really, the best thing for everyone to have is a battery-powered weather radio.
I believe James Spann in Birmingham is on record saying he thinks the current siren system is actually causing more harm than good exactly because of this. People assume it's meant to be heard inside their homes and when they don't hear it, they don't take action. The system currently is designed to alert people outside and only people outside to take shelter immediately.
That being said, I lived two houses away from a tornado siren pole here in Little Rock for 10 years. You could not hear someone standing 2 feet away speaking inside the house when they were going if the windows were closed. If the windows were open, it was painful. Now if I have the windows open I can hear about 5 of them fire up from every direction and then they all shut down over a 1-2 second period. I barely hear them if the windows are closed.
They’re all over the place here in north Texas but they’re the lame modern grey Federal Signal ones, like a large speaker.
Nothing hits harder than their older brother, the Federal Signal Thunderbolt 1000T.
It’s the sound of an air raid siren from the Cold War.
I know you cant hear these wimpy new ones, the old ones we had would wake you up in the middle of the night. The new ones you have to be outside to hear and its so low. I think thats dangerous, they should bring back the old design
huh? I thought they still existed everywhere that has tornados?
i'm in a tornado prone part of the country and they've never budged, just gotten better actually
We live in podunk GA and have emergency sirens. Do you really live somewhere that doesn't? I would start making a big stink if that's the case.
Or work in a place where they aren't allowed to have their phones with them.
I definitely thought that thing in the thumbnail was a blister pack of pills or something...that's the HVAC block from the top of the building. So 6 of those big loud things behind your house. Nature is scary.
Those buildings are built like shit, though. Load bearing outer walls made of thin rebar and concrete. It is basically a glorified barn.
Still, terrifying... but it is basically a card house.
So many of us work in these deathtrap structures too.
Hopefully you have an actual storm shelter to evacuate to (usually the bathrooms do double duty). I know after workers were killed in the Amazon distribution center near me there was talk of mandating new rules in Illinois. Idk if they followed through.
There was a manufacturing plant in northern IL that took a direct hit from an F4 or F5 several years ago but the owner was really strict about practicing tornado drills and had real storm shelters built and everyone survived. The vast majority aren't going to spend the money and time to do that unless forced though.
Yeah... :/
I seem them EVERYWHERE here in N Texas in Tornado Alley. Not just warehouses either. Office buildings too!
Lifted the building, but not the cars. go figure
About 15 seconds between the first sign of damage until it's gone. Crazy.
So they got the afternoon off?
Yeah, but you have to use your PTO
This happened about 10 days ago. They unfortunately had to let go half their workforce today.
I'm sure I could have held it and kept it from flying away!
Yeah! Where were you when we needed you?!
Mother nature bats last.
First, they came for the tree, and I did not speak out—because I was not a tree.
Then, they came for the roof, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a roof...
Fun things as a person who really likes learning about Tornadoes but has very little expertise on the matter I think there are some cool observations to be made from that:
So you see the trees bend away gently (the forward flank downdraft), before strongly bending toward the condensation funnel (the most visible portion of the tornado), when the tornado passes over, the incredible forces combine a strong central downdraft (which breaks the building apart) and the surrounding central axis updraft which sucks everything up. And, right behind the funnel, there's VERY violent wind called the rear flank downdraft which can cause nearly as much damage!
There's few ways to formally measure tornado windspeed directly. Doppler helps, but there's still not a perfect way and it's likely we might be underestimating wind speed. That means the majority of tornadoes have to be graded based on the damage they produce; a scale called the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale from 0-5 (and unknown).
They look at what is called "Degree of Damage" and the structure in question to grade the estimated middle, lower, and upper windspeed bounds. Everything from trees, high rises, automobile showrooms, and electric lines have different rating systems to measure the degree of damage (DoD).
So, in practice, even incredibly large or violent tornadoes (El Reno 2013, for instance) can have a surprisingly low EF rating if the majority of their life is in an open field.
Looking at the video, this building looks like some kind of non-timber Metal Building Sytem/Warehouse (MBS) or maybe some kind of building equivalent to a large, isolated retail building (like a Home Depot).
Interestingly- and I'd love to hear an Engineer's take on this- metal building structures are not considered particularly resilient to Tornadoes even compared to homes. Total destruction of a typical home (non-reinforced) would occur at estimated wind speeds of 200 MPH, whereas a Home Depot is expected to be totally destroyed at windspeeds of 173.
I think this is an MBS and not a large retail building. It looks like the DoD probably between a 7 and 8. Let's be generous and give it an 8 (I think this is closer to a 7, personally). That gives the estimated windspeed of between 132-178 (average 155). Or EF-3 damage! Possibly the Lancaster EF3 listed from this outbreak??
If you know more about this stuff than I do, please do educate me!
Nature is fucking scary and we all forget about that a lot of the time.
Said similar when the volcano erupted on Hawaii a while back and there was video of lava just "eating" vehicles like it wasn't a big deal because it wasn't.
There's no "fighting" it, there's just getting the fuck out of the way because nature doesn't give a fuck about your car, your warehouse, nothing. It does not feel, it cannot be reasoned with. Just get the fuck out of the way and as far away as possible.
I saw a few 55 gallon barrels flying around. I know there are worse debris weapons but fuck. A 55 gallon drum is scary as shit flying at you
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TIL that a tree will have a harder time resisting a tornado then a car would.
Dyson is finally making Mega Maid a reality.
Great tornado porn.
Damn nature. You scary.
That's amazing. I didn't realize how direct of a hit a tornado needed to cause dmg. That car is fairly close but other than minor dings i would say it's okay
Well if you slow down the video there are large pieces of a different building being sucked into the vortex from behind the camera. To slab a building takes a direct hit but to critically damage it definitely doesn't.
Can't remember I believe it was the Omaha airport, may have been Lincoln, but I was flying out during the summer and everyone was watching the TV because there were like nine funnel clouds that had formed. Well the airport terminal is all just glass and one of the clouds was right by the airport. I remember the storm rolling in and it turned totally black outside you couldn't even see the runway lights are super bright and just surrounded by glass. It was absolutely terrifying
..and its gone!
Why is the microphone crapping out once the tornado passes?
Window gets shattered on driver's side at around 0:30, wind noise inside the car afterwards probably makes the mic poop itself
Mother Nature: "I said no!"
Where is the dashboard on a parking lot to install a dash cam?
“What destroyed that building?”
“The air was moving too fast”
Tornadoes are insane to me for how much destruction they can cause.
“What destroyed that building?”
“The air was moving too fast”
Tornadoes are insane to me for how much destruction they can cause.
Construction these days ain't what it used to be...
I miss Dunder Mifflin
This is America. Don’t catch me blowing now.
I would like to argue that the tornado also placed it back on earth…..
Big max height ceiling warehouses with their single sidewalls and thin truss roofs are easy prey for a tornado. And if any of the garage doors are open the pressure differential is a recipe for absolutely instantaneous liftoff of the structure.
I remember in an atmospheric physics course I took we examined this briefly, but it was 37 yrs ago and I admit to being very foggy on the details.
Tornado is gone. Back to work everyone!
Was that a Dunder Mifflin? Looked like a lot of paper flying around.
Were there people in there?
All of those TPS reports flying around!
I wanna know what kind of dash cam that is.
Don't know the brand name but many dash cams support parking monitor by installing an extra hardwire kit, to get power from car battery directly.
This video makes me think a car is a fairly safe place to be during a tornado... is that the case?
I’m watching this while I’m cuddled up next to my living room window watching the lightning storm start in Kansas amidst a “state of emergency”. I like storms! Obviously I don’t want anyone or anything to be hurt, but storms are cool :/
Hope I don’t die tonight!
Tornado don’t give a shit
It's incredible how most cars seem to survive without much damage. Ironically, the Dodge is the only one which couldn't dodge any damage. Got the rear windshield broken and the HVAC seemed to crash into it from the front.
All those go getters who got their nice front row spots sure learned a valuable lesson about how the early bird gets the tornado.
Yoink
It's not that the wind is blowing. It's what the wind is blowing.
You'd think they'd start building with concrete
It's terrifying to witness the sheer power of a tornado up close
I was thinking, "do they not use bricks in buildings over there?!" til I saw gas cylinders being flung around
It looks like the building is made of styrofoam.
O_O
Are those concrete walls? Insane level of destruction, if so.
So this might be a silly question coming from Australia but...why don't you all build houses underground in the tornado areas in the USA?. Is it just the cost?.
THIS is the content I would watch Tornado Hunters for back in the day. This is quality content but, my heart goes out to everyone affected by this.
why do they make the houses from paper i never understand.
How do brick houses fair
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Well I guess I dont need to go watch that new Twisters movie. Twisters 2? Twosters?
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Where I'm from we build everything out of concrete because of hurricanes, y'all should try that in tornado alley
Thought the tornado was coming from the right by the way the tree came off the ground. Also, the truck on the right took the most beating. You can see when is hit multiple times and gets its windows broken.
I'd rather deal with earthquakes in California.
Bosses be like “ok it’s over back to work!”
Is this a promo for Twisters?
No wonder the rich are building storm shelters 👀
That’s interesting how the trees get uprooted to the left and the building to the right.
I think people are underselling this video. This is the closest, clearest video of a tornado destroying a building I have ever seen.