5-1-2024 Westmoreland, KS Strong tornado rips throug town destroying dozens of homes - Drone.mp4 

Westmoreland is a very small town. According to Wikipedia, the last census had the town at only 740 people. This is a big hit.

Westmoreland is a great town with great people. Took the scenic byway through the Flint Hills in 2021, followed other state roads into Nebraska. Westmoreland will rebuild. Praying for you guys! 🙏🏻

It's messed up when your house is completely gone but your backyard shed just has a door missing.

That's absolutely miserable! I hate to see people affected like that. This is good documentation of an unfortunate outcome. Thank you...

this tornado goes to show that even small tornadoes can cause devastating damage unfortunately 😢

This tornado has quite a few similarities to the relatively unknown Wales, WI F4 tornado of 4/27/84. Parent storm with a relatively high cloud base, very compact structure between rope-like and drillbit at times, and deceptively intense considering the relatively benign appearance. As far as I know, no videos exist of that tornado but it was well documented in still photos because of how visible it was for miles around. Serves as a reminder that you should never let your guard down based on the appearance of a tornado. My thoughts are with the people of Westmoreland, KS; Sulphur, Marietta, and Holdenville, OK; Minden, IA and all other communities impacted by this tornado outbreak sequence.

The force of nature is no joke 😮

My heart goes out to those people.

Prayers for all. God Bless them all

Man- rough start to the season. I hope everyone can rebuild and move on.

good luck to all residents affected by these destructive monsters. I pray for you from French 🙏❤

Just heartbreaking! I'm so sorry to see this. All those people and animals. Lives and livelihoods destroyed. My deepest sympathy and prayers to all💔💔💔

Thanks Brett! Great video but soooo sad!

This was one of the most impressive tornado I've ever seen! It stayed together for along time but yet looked like it was going to rope out. Sure messed things up.

I’m really shocked that the power lines are standing amongst the rubble! My heart goes out to these people. 😢

As much as I don't like -40+ winters in Canada, I would much rather have that then the poor people dealing with tornadoes....God bless you people and I'm not at all religious 😢

Prayers sent 🙏

Saw Reeds & JayJack videos of the tornadoes live. Unbelievable destruction for such a small but furious twister.

Just shows that you cant judge a tornadoes power by the size of it.

So sad praying for those people 🙏

I live 22 miles from this horrible tragedy 😢its a devastating blow for this small community🙏God bless

Truly Heartbreaking. 🙏

All those who have been impacted by this are in my thoughts 😔from the UK

Wow… Hope everyone is ok.

This has already been such a devastating year, and we're only getting started in May. So sorry to see this happening to so many small towns that just can't take hits like this. I don't mean to minimize the impact of larger cities getting hit, but these small towns just don't have the ONGOING support to rebuild. They get their "federal aid" right after these events, but then they are forgotten as it takes YEARS to recover - if they ever do.

Solid EF4 damage in the center with EF3 and EF2 damage on the edges

prayers to all who were in the path.

Unbelievable!

Praying for you’ll ❤

This is a better view of the destruction wreaked by the tornado 🌪️ than the videos put out by Reed timmer and Aaron jayjack-they show little of the damage-but the drone you put up gives a excellent view of the aftermath-keep this up, Brett! 😮😮😮😮

amazing to see the homes /trees shredded but the power lines / poles were unscathed with the exception of one wire it looks like.

Wow crazy drillbit

So sorry💔🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Prayers 🙏🙏🙏

Some powerlines are still up. So strange. Prayers to community

Prayers! Oh my goodness, I'm not sure I have ever noticed such ...just splintered. Big hugs and Loves to all and all the chasers and First Responders!!!

:{ dang my heart goes out to everyone impacted

People have terrible paint colors in their homes.

Prayers for one and all

At least EF3 level damage

Les dégats sont impressionnants ! Ceci dit, malgré le choix de s'installer dans l'Allée des Tornades, les habitants n'ont pas daigné de considérer le risque d'être balayé un jour ou l'autre par une tornade de printemps. A l'expertise visuelle des dégats, on comprend que murs et toitures étaient légers, et très fragiles. Et, de toute évidence, les propriétaires n'avaient pas regardé le dessin animé US des 3 Petits Cochons qui distinctement construisirent une maison de paille, une maison de bois, une maison de brique ... pour se protéger du Grand Méchant Loup ! Et surtout : ce dessin animé avait été commandé à Walt Disney par l'Autorité fédérale US, pour être diffusé auprès des nouveaux arrivants dans ces zones à risque de tornade. Qualité des matériaux et stratégie architecturale face aux vents : l'aspect de l'habitat pourrait bien changer ... et prendre la forme d'une calotte sphérique qui soit propice à n'offrir que peu de prise à des vents tourbillonnants de 250 km/h. Bref ! les futurs ingénieurs en construction d'habitat auront de solides notions en mécanique des fluides, voire d'autres connaissances en aéronautique - qu'est-ce qu'une aile d'avion, comment fonctionne-t-elle ? - pour qu'une toiture ne soit pas comparable ...

Devastating

EF4 Twister again !!! This what I see through the laptop !!!

Looks like EF-4 damage in some spots. That's crazy considering how small this tornado was

Prayers and comfort to all affected

And, in the midst of all the devastation, birds are flying! 😮

Looks like they were hard hit, very scary the power of these tornadoes

Dang,that was a bad one!

What are those power polls and lines made out of Adamantium?

Take the insurance money, buy an RV. And GTFO of there!

All that devastation....homes and other structures bashed to bits.....all caused by wind. It's hard to comprehend. My heart and prayers for these poor souls....they've lost almost everything except their lives....and, probably some did lose their lives...I haven't heard much. Poor things! I pray for them, in the Name of Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah. 💜💙🕊💙💜

These tornadoes this year have been bad.

🙏🙏😢

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻from Oklahoma

Easily EF3 or EF4

😢when was this?

WOW

I’m confused. The caption says this tornado happened in Westmorland, KS today, 5/1/24. Didn’t Westmorland get hit a couple of days ago? Did it get hit twice?

Eerie not to see any people.... aside from a solo reporter pre-taping a news story.

I feel bad for the people who do and don’t survive tornados

All this tragic obliteration but i am surprised to so many power lines still standing amidst rubble

Is there such a thing as house insurance in tornado prone parts of the country?

Didn’t take the telephone poles down…🤔 😔

Dang

Some of this looks like f4 damage.

The poles look undamaged because they are new poles. The power company had power restored to much of the town by morning.

Would there be as much devastation if more properties were brick built rather than wood? It’s so heartbreaking to see this kind of damage to property on a regular basis

It looks like a war zone,,poor people god bless you all from uk

This looks to be EF-3 to EF-4 damage. Any idea what the preliminary rating was? Regardless of the rating, it's devastating for the people of this community. My heart goes out to them.

Oh my gosh this is another tornado its so sad to watch all of this its take time to rebuild but this monster turnado just ripped just in instant so sad im hoping no one is injured

😢

May the God of love look after us. All........

Prayers from Topeka. Infuriates me to see a certain storm chaser giggling like a little girl on video while this is happening to people’s homes.

Absolutely heartbreaking. Something I haven’t seen addressed and that is what about farm animals?

A lot of buildings don’t with stand much anymore with that much force sad but true .

Prayers to the Lord for any good and decent hard working lives torn apart by this .

This looks like F5 destruction

Guys i live right by Westmoreland and i saw the tornado it was scary on its HUGE curl! 1 LIKE= 1 PRAYER

Not for broadcast what’s going on? Is this fake?

Everyone affected will see their homeowners insurance go up at least 600%

😮😮😮

Where's our government to help in the United States of America 🇺🇲

차가 집보다 강하네요? 차가 있다는것은 사람이 있었다는거 잖아요? 고인의 명복을 빕니다.

Praying for the people who are suffering from the destruction. Im so sorry for your loss. May God put his loving hands on everyone involved.

Tornados rarely hit mansions - hmmm.

Between the natural disasters And With the catastrophic lawlessness within DC It's Heartbreaking to witness

To much

Horrible prayers to all

Praying for everyone to keep yourselves strong in your FAITH in God inspite of what happened..,. God may send trials in your life, in order for you to get closer to Him.... TRUST His will and God will guide and protect you in miraculous ways.🙏❤️

我的狗死了，我哭很傷心， 如果嫁到這裏， 我也會哭很慘的， 即使我是不愛哭，很倔強的人，

Has pur so called president been out to Ok. Kansas Nebraska etc. Yet i doubt it and can't even answer a question

Many cities located in the Midwest called "The Tornado Alley" are permanently hit by tornadoes every year. How people can survive redoing their houses from "nada"?

2nd Enoch 20:3, The Most Highs Name means Father of all Life, and we meet him soon for Judement Day. Enoch returned in 2017 the tribulations are almost over.

Insurance to the moon or bankrupted 😅😅😅😅

鄉下地方，日本字的（田舍）

And i thought i had problems. I hope these poor people get help from our garbage government

Did you get permission from the homeowner to fly that close? Feels super creepy.

3:55 - news crew caught. hope they paid the family to use there property as a prop

You got to put an account these homes are manufactured homes you have to have foundations but they're built very cheap there's no brick homes anymore look at one to where it shows the power lines are still standing

I just seen the Cross at the thumbnail of the video ppl we gotta start giving God the glory 😢 🙏🏿🙏🏿