Since I included the amazing aerial video in the last post I did a little digging around. I wanted to include a few more, for various reasons.

This first one is the Pampa TX F4 that was made famous for the van and truck thrown out of the funnel at about 100 feet above the ground at at greater than 90 mph. This is best shown in the Tornado Video Classics series where they analyze this quite effectively. Still, if it looks large and tumbling, its most likely a truck or van ... look for it in the zoom in on the debris.



This second video is of the Parkersburg EF5. It is a bank camera catching the tornado destroying the house across the street. Few videos show the sheer violence of a major tornado like this video does ...



This video reminds me of the Parkersburg video. Its short and I suggest watching it a few times. Sadly it is believed that the man who shot this video was one of the 19 people who died in this F4 at Warner Robins AFB in Georgia. The TVC series states the following about this clip:

Buildings disintegrating in slow motion, as they accelerate to 100 mph in less than 1 second in the Warner-Robins, Georgia tornado.

It was filmed April 30, 1953



This video is of the Andover tornado as it rips through McConnel AFB in Kansas on April 26, 1991. Twenty minutes later it killed 17 people in Andover. This tornado strengthened to F4 intensity just after exiting the base and eventually became an F5 tornado.



This final tornado is one that happened when I was a teenager. My mom woke us up and huddled us into the bathtub as tornado warnings were going off on the cable weather station. It was June 8, 1989 and this tornado was one of several that hit south Louisiana that morning (it was around sunrise). A map of the outbreak is included below the video (click for a larger version). It was rated F2.