Amazing footage and the first time I've seen the scouring of the ground. I want to come and tornado chase briefly next year (part of a road trip.) These things fascinate me and we don't have them like this in Australia.
I used to live in Abilene, pretty little town. I was near Greensburg the night that massive EF5 hit, my automobile was destroyed with hail damage. I'll never forget that night.
I remember that day so well. I was heading back home to CO knowing this was happening .. bawling like a baby!!! I had to get back to work or I'd have been on that!!!!!
Yeah, imagine it like three miles away from your house, just cruising on by. My dad got some amazing footage of it as it was passing just a couple of miles from our house on the other side of the interstate. Could literally see the debris getting sucked into it. Closest our house has been to one.
Half-mile wide, for title accuracy; otherwise it's clickbait. Also, it was on the ground for 90 minutes, not "multiple hours". Respect for filming, though! My video isn't quite as good, as it was rain-wrapped by the time I filmed it from Chapman.
David Dushane - Technically speaking, multiple hours would be greater than one so if the tornado is on the ground for 90 minutes it is considered multiple hours.
Thankfully it didn't go into any of the towns and stayed mostly on the outer parts, or we would have had much more damage like Moore. We're lucky that the only injury we had was one of my dad's buddies got a piece of something fly straight through his hand. At least, that's the only injury I heard of.
HI TO ALL I LIKE TO SAY THAT NEXT YEAR WELL BE BAD WITH TORNADOS IN BOTH THE NORTH AND SOUTH BUT THE MEAN THING IS THIS IT WELL BE IN THE MID WESTERN STATS BUT FIRST THIS WELL START IN THE CENTROW PLEANDS IN January
