Raw Video: Aftermath of Iowa Tornado

[yetibiker08]

So what is more important here your life or the house? I would think both since without a home you are now destitute and of course without your life you certainly cannot rebuild. So what if there was a solution to all this with a home that can withstand any F5,F6,F7 and even an F10 that does not exist on this planet, yet anyway?? I see this year after year decade after decade of people buying homes that are poorly built, junk boxes then lose them to Tornado's??

[clubpenguinlemonhead]

why are all the god dang tornados in fing iowa

[devilchild4526]

@clubpenguinlemonhead tornado alley lol

[ivegotalongdong]

F4, F5 - impressive either way. sorry anyone lost their stuff, but the sheer awe of mother nature. grew up in Iowa and have been in 5 tornadoes over my life. add 2 tropical storms and a hurricane to that, and i've seen about all weather. tornadoes are the most frightening, because they can form so fast, and gone just like that. at least with a hurricane you know it is coming!

[dragonridley]

I hear Flash flooding can be pretty bad.

[AnastasiaCaine18]

Yeah It could be worse than a tornado.

[AnastasiaCaine18]

Are you still living in Iowa? Because I grew up here in Iowa and at the time I just graduated from high school in Washington Iowa.

[ivegotalongdong]

no. we moved to hawaii in May 2008

[Chasermaan]

That was the EF5 that happened this year right? BOy it seems like we're setting up for an EF5 for every year.

[dragonridley]

The pattern is pretty close to that, the average is about 5 every 6 years

[dennyfrontier]

This was in a different part of Iowa, good chance your sister is fine

[Indogo]

my sister is in waterloo,iowa,anyone know what state this part is in?I am in uk,I havnt heard from her,I am so worried xxx

[momof2boyswithautism]

Waterloo is about 30 miles southeast of waterloo. I live in

grundy center which is 14 miles directly south. I am an occupational therapist, and have worked with some of the victims, I also volunteered for a couple of hours with the clean up. I wrote an e-mail about the experience. I will try to post it somewhere so others can read it. It was an experience I will NEVER forget!

[AnastasiaCaine18]

That will be nice. I would like to see what it feels like to help people in disasters like this and the flood of 08.

[horseowner]

It's in Iowa...I love a couple miles from Parkersburg

[AnastasiaCaine18]

eastern iowa. How I know I live in Cedar Rapids and Waterloo is about 45 mins away. Maybe in Northeastern Iowa.

[7Kaisea7]

it was an f4 tornado....

[levischultz]

actually it was an EF5... on the lower end of an F5, but none the less, wind speeds over 200 mph.

[dragonridley]

Do you mean to say EF5 is on the lower end of F5? That is incorrect

[Golferchix]

it was 70% of my town gone..it was pry 50%...

and yeah it is now official...the biggest tornado to ever hit iowa....

and what do u know ....It had to hit my town..=(

[callofputy]

dude im from parkersburg too. Poppens family, and not to like put down our town or anything but if you really think hard, it wasnt 50%. Maybe 30. Just think if main street got hit. eep. My mom was in dollar general at 4:30.

[Jozie1]

I believe the beginning of this footage belongs to KCCI.

You are against copyright laws by calling it yours.

[WomanWhoFarts]

it doesn't belong to KCCI. it belongs to the associated press. that shitty excuse for a news station doesn't own independent storm chaser teams.

[Jozie1]

This isn't the original video. And you can tell because the qualitly sucks. If you look at the original video posted by KCCI, you can tell that it is the original. And they're not a shitty news station. What do you have to support that?

[dan202006]

this was an EF 5 tornado

[Movielady666]

It was an F-4. There's no E in front! I'm a meterologist -- see below!

Fujita Scale of Tornado Ratings

F4 Devastating tornado 207-260 mph Well-constructed houses leveled; structures with weak foundations blown off some distance; cars thrown and large missiles generated.

F5 Incredible tornado 261-318 mph Strong frame houses lifted off foundations and carried considerable distances to disintegrate; automobile sized missiles fly through the air in excess of 100 meters; trees debarked;

[paleale36]

You must not be a vey well educated meteroligist, it is called an EF-5 Enhanced Fujita, it is all the weather channel refers to anymore as well, and, the NWS here in Iowa called it an EF-5

[ProfessorIgor]

you're a meteorologist in your own mind you mean... the scale used to rate tornadic damage in the USA is the Enhanced Fujita Scale. EF-?

[djmweatherman]

I could not believe that tornado was on the ground for 43 miles and was 1.5 miles wide just north of Dunkerton. I was chasing to the north of there because I thought the storms would travel more NEasterly, rather than west, but I did experience shingles and other debris falling for 15 miles.

[Kpizzle007]

That stormy system was headed straight for my town in the direction of my neighborhood. This thing was HUGE. "twister" cant even make a comparison to how big it was and how much damage it caused.

[ProfessorIgor]

"twister" might be one of the best comedies ever produced. ANY comparison with that movie and reality is a great laugh.

[Jozie1]

hahah, I agree.

[schultzee101]

F4 Manitoba!. 2nd biggest tornado

70% of parkersburg is gone from this storm. my heart goes out to that town and there people.

[CovertCops]

"stay focused on the road"

[parkman35]

The Doppler images from this tornado were huge, I followed the weather statements as it occured, and each one told of grim situation as it moved through the areas hit.

[OnLoOkEr0070]

second... iam in watelroo 40 or so miles from where that huge one hit.

[Damage2042]

LOL 1ST COMMENT awesome lol!