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  • The Sideways Tornado

    by Mike Krumboltz

    Jun 8, 2009

    3,926 Votes

    It never fails. Whenever a natural disaster hits, somebody always risks bodily harm to take some video amid the chaos and destruction. Insane? Perhaps, but the fact is that footage from Mother Nature blows away anything you'll see in a summer blockbuster.

    This weekend, when several tornadoes touched down in the West—and at least five slamming Colorado—the storm-chasing team from The Weather Channel was in the right place (Wyoming), at the right time (Friday June 5), with the right equipment. The result? An amazing look into the eye of the tornado. The video (embedded below), gives viewers a look at how tornadoes form and what happens when one turns on its side. It's terrifying and beautiful all at once.

    Searches on the "wyoming tornado" have been soaring ever since the clip aired on NBC's "The Today Show." Related lookups on "colorado tornado video," "colorado tornadoes," and "denver tornado damage" also posted triple digit gains. Also surging on the Web: "southlands mall," a shopping center heavily damaged by one of the twisters. (CBS News hosts one video of the Colorado twister.)

    Below, you can see the Wyoming sideways tornado for yourself. No special effects needed. Eat your heart out, Michael Bay.

    3,926 Votes
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Very interesting. Kinda scary and I would not want that job, nonetheless, very informative.

posted Jun 8, 2009 |
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i think that is so cool

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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That is so cool when it turns sideways, i am a storm chaser and i have never seen a twister do that.

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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This may sound geeky, but I've been a huge meteorology fan since childhood, and I admit my jaw actually dropped when I say this was captured for the first time.

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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I like cheese

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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glad they finally gt to see something cool before there venture was over!

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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E+

hey, was that Dorothy behind him?

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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ya my kids and i live about 30 miles from were that was that was like one of 4 that hit close too us

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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WOW...so amazing!! It is scary and exciting at the same time.
Hope all this work and research will help find out before the tornado's hit and save lives.

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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Fantastic footage! Just wish they would have cut out the secondary audio. Videos of tornadoes are much more intense when when all you hear is the audio from the actually tornado. No talking what so ever! Only seen one video like that but it was incredible!!!

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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me too,,i had a couple chase me while i was driving my 18 wheeler a few years back on i-80 nebraska ,its interesting how they scar up the fields,hey weather storm chaser guys remember were on the highways with you round about so be safe drivers please

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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Wow! That looks so awsome. You know it kinda looks like inside of the tornado in Twister but smaller. I have been so fasinated ( I spelled it wrong I know.) in tornadoes. I buzzed it up! :)

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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horrible joke that every weather man or woman seems to pull out whenever something tornado-ie happens.. sweet video besides that

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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Please send me this video i am unable to see the hula bulallo

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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Really fascinating, esp. to see 'inside' the funnel of the tornado!

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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Well we do know the strongest storms called super cells usually spawn the twisters.But that would be cool if the NWS could tell which storms were going to produce tornadoes long before anyone ever sees a hook echo on radar. This could increase lead time to warn the public of a developing twister from minutes to hours.

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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I have people in Colo, I pray that everyone is OK...may" GOD" bless them all and keep them out of harms way!

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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then there was this time I took my 13 yr old Son with me chasing a tornado, I had my scanner to follow the action,but it turned on me and I pulled into a country church parking lot, the torrent, gales of Mother Nature finest passed by and I found my Chevy P/U had turned 180 degrees during the wrath.The drainage culvert which was dry had about 3 ft of rainwater directly across the road. My Son asked me during the "best","Dad are you going to get me killed today?" tear me apart and stomp on my soul, no more with the kids. I've seen 2 funnel clouds this year. Beautiful storms.

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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If they were only two miles away, they were damned near too close. On a driving trip across country several years ago, I went through Arkansas at night.

I was about 20+ miles south of Jonesboro where a tornado hit. The wind gusts were so strong I thought my car was going to turn over. I had to share an underpass with a huge tractor trailer rig 'till the storm finished.

Therefore, this tornado in Colorado must not have been quite as powerful as the Arkansas tornado if these people were hanging out within two miles.

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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Pam

I have actually looked up from my porch and seen the tornado swirling above my head!!!
NO JOKE! It did not drop until it got about 4 miles away as the crow flies. As soon as I looked up and saw it, I got my kids and made a mad dash for the basement.
I was TERRIFIED that the tail would drop down right on us!!!!
My kids remember that to this day!

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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That was so awsome and scary at the same time! I wish I was there! And it was so cool that they actually got to see inside it!

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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Tom

it wasn't clear when the tornado was horizontal. The logos at the bottom were incredibly annoying.

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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I think that was very fascinating i have been wondering about tornadoes my whole life and im wanting to know more.

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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its pretty cool...

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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I GOT CAUGHT IN IT..IT TOOK ME AND MY CAR UP INTO THE AIR AND WAS THROWN AROUND...I MANAGED TO ESCAPE FROM THE SUNROOF WHILE THE CAR WAS TAKEN AWAY.I FLEW AROUND LIKE SUPERMAN..THE WINDS WERE UNBELIEVABLE...WHILE I WAS IN THE TORNADO THERE WAS ALSO A BEAVER THAT WAS BEING THROWN AROUND ALSO.

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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That's 20 miles from my house. haha

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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That was so cool!

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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It reminds me of that movie, I think it's Red Planet, where the vortex has its own life and it killed people.

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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Gosh, that's so beautiful. I just love it. Except the part of damaging property...

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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Stupid Stupid STUPID! That's why america is in debt, because we're wasting money on learning something we already know! that's why beer and gas and chicken is going up; because they need to make ends meet! The weather people need to afford Beaufort so they take tax dollars, the gas people need chicken, so they increase the price of their gas, and the farmers need beer too so chicken is rising, and to afford all of this the weather people rob the us treasury. If you stop watching meteorologists then gas prices will go back to normal*, and we can afford beer and people will stop going to Canada!!!!! Of course we'll need more jobs for the canadians, but hey. That's what makes the beer taste so good. The Canadians.

* normal means $5.87 per gallon

posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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