Reed Timmer: tornado footage captured by drone over Andover, KS last night! Erratic vortex behavior

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It's amazing and terrifying to see the funnel sucking up structures like that. ETA: It Reed Timmer's voice annoys you, this video is completely silent.

[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

[Budi]

2. Really is just like the Wizard of Oz...

Terrifying..

[Nittersing]

3. Not sure I've ever seen the carnage as it's happening...

I'm used to far off videos and then videos of the aftermath... Watching an entire house get sucked up is both horrifying and fascinating.

[MomInTheCrowd]

4. Wow. Just wow. thanks for posting

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Having been in enough of these storms, it's still scary to me yet to this day. Never ever want to

be in another one.

[MuseRider]

8. Same here.

I am usually pretty calm but when they get close and you can feel that pressure changing all calm leaves and it gets real.

I lived through the big 66 tornado in Topeka, it took years and years and years to recover and rebuild. Andover was bad the first time, 1991 I think? This was some tornado, it will be interesting to contrast the damage at some point.

Timmer got some really good stuff on this one. We were in the basement for a little while. It is really odd when your tiny community that never gets mentioned gets mentioned as the next target of a tornado. Scared for a little while but no damage except for some branches.

[SWBTATTReg]

12. You're right, Timmer did get some really good stuff on this particular storm, plus there are

tons of other good stuff out there. Man, talk about a mean storm. They show just how powerful these nasty storms are, and it did make me really feel for the victims in its path. My hometown is ironically, of all places Joplin MO, so I know what you mean that no one talks about your community until it almost gets wiped out by a tornado. Thank god you all survived w/o a scratch for the most part, and that all of you are okay, I'm really glad to hear this. Maybe there are some Youtube clips on the '66 storm in Topeka, I'll have to look into. My parents ironically lived there for a bit before they moved back to MO.

But as you know, anywhere in the Midwest seems to be a target for these storms, I've lived in Tulsa, KC, Lincoln (NE), Joplin, all targets of tornadoes and truly, I don't want to be in one ever again. Talk about being helpless, out of power w/ these storms when they occur. So many people really don't know just how powerful these things are.

Take care and bests wishes to you and your community.

[MuseRider]

13. Here you go, just remember this was 1966 so the quality is not great.

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LOL, the music and narration of this little show is pretty hysterical. It is a quick show of what it looked like after. I went to Washburn University 5 years later and many of the classes were still being held in mobile units.

At the time it was the biggest ever, the first later called an F5 although there is a lot of missing info so who really knows. I saw 7 tornados, or funnels, that evening. I was in a good spot to sneak outside and see this monster with a good friend who really knew how to sneak away from the grumps! The stories around here are still going. It was a massive test to see if we could ever get out from under this.

[SWBTATTReg]

15. Wow. Just 'Wow'. And seeing 7 funnel clouds in one event, that's got to be a record. I have...

to ironically laugh, one of my hobbies was sitting outside when I lived in Joplin w/ my family, sit in the lawn chair and watch the funnel clouds go over. Not all of them would hit the ground, contrary to what some people think, most of them (the funnel clouds) stayed up in the air, and drifted over (over 99%) of them. Of course the sirens would go off, but usually nothing ever happened, no rain, no wind, just the nasty looking clouds going over.

Thanks for the two video clips above. I jotted down the name of the site too, for looking into, it looks very interesting, site-wise. Maybe there are earthquake clips on there, being that being in STLMO now, earthquakes are the thing (which by the way, I actually felt the 2.8 one 4/29 when it shook my bed when I was taking a nap. I thought at first one of the dogs jumped onto the bed causing the shaking of the bed, but when I looked, no dogs, so I thought immediately, oh oh, an earthquake, and sure enough, the news reports stated that a small quake shook the area.

Again, my heart and best wishes go out to you all out there.

[MuseRider]

16. Same to you.

I mentioned earthquakes below, nope. I forgot that I have felt the little tremors than come from the fracking in the Southern part of the state. But only one quake. I had no idea STLMO was having them.

That same night in 1966 Manhattan had a bad time with tornados as well. There were many that night all around. They are overshadowed by the Topeka tornado. There were funnels (I guess I never stopped to think they were not on the ground therefore funnels, all over the damned place, the entire sky looked like what you see before a tornado drops.

I think tornado alley has shifted. This is the first time in years we have had to go into the basement. We had a lowering funnel that had been a tornado about 10 miles away come directly over our brand new house. We had been in it for less than a year, it was terrifying again. Aren't they all? Around here they have stopped warning for funnels. There are pictures of them that we see the next day never knowing we should have been wary. The National weather service was dropping the warning and the news media was going to go back to regular programming when the TV weather guy told them to wait just a minute, he was not sure that was a good idea. That was when the 80 MPH winds hit and he called for a tornado warning saying that my little community was directly in its path. Thankfully nothing but some branches down. First time in a long time we have had to go to the basement so....I think tornado alley has moved South.

You stay safe. They are sure fun to watch on video when it is not you and interesting to research. Just don't go getting in their way!! Be well!

[MN2theMax]

6. Amazing video

K&R

[MN2theMax]

7. K&R

Pretty amazing video!

[AllaN01Bear]

9. wow. i dont want your tornadoes or our earthqakes .

[MuseRider]

14. I was in one teeny tiny earthquake

in Honduras. Nope nope nope, I will deal with tornados any day of the year! Or my life!!

[Bengus81]

10. About 18 miles east of where I live in Wichita. Andover got hit big time back in 91 too.

More destruction and deaths in that one as it went over a trailer park.

[Wingus Dingus]

11. The drone storm chasers have the regular storm chasers beat by a mile.

Some of those shots, especially around the 5:00 to 5:30 mark, are downright beautiful.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

17. Amazing! Fascinating! Terrifying!