Greensburg Tornado Damage Video - Greensburg Kansas

[johnburtonbalnis]

How do people even survive in the basement? These houses were wiped away! Basements here were actually filled with rubble.

[tigers23333]

the widest tornado ever recored was about 3.75 miles wide. im a meteorologist and i study tornadoes. you can never really know what a tornadoes wind speed was. but based on the amount of damage im estimating that the geensburg tornado had a wind speed of at least 220mph. the highest wind speed that was recoreded in history was 318mph. there have probly been tornadoes with higher wind speeds but you can never know for sure.

[greysonandjordanlove]

the tornados ive been were not as bad but ive been in ALOT of tordanos

[Rocketryman]

Nice footage. Would have been nicer if you used some sticks.

Video Production 101. Always use a tripod whenever possible.

[BlueYup]

The train in the background at 0:57 seems to be oblivious to all the destruction.

[kherbert2]

Great footage!

[TheWaynelds]

another thing thats scary is that they have the weather warnings and doppler radar maps from the news stations on the night of the greenburg tornado with the weathermen saying that they,ve never seen radar signatures like that before and as theyre talking about the storm you can see it move closer and closer to greensburg. How big was it exaclty? i heard it was over a mile wide. Thats unimaginable!!

[314isabeast]

@TheWaynelds when it was strongest at dusk it was a 2 mile wide tornado, its the 2nd largest tornado ever recorded and when it hit greensburg it was 1.75 miles wide

[dragonridley]

@314isabeast

2nd widest? I know the Hallam tornado was the widest at 2.5 miles, and I think there have been other recorded tornadoes that were almost as wide as that.

[moviemagg]

Reminds me of the Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925. You may see the actual damage from the Tri-State storm to compare, by just going to my channel here on Youtube and watching the video. This video you shot in Greensburg is absolutely incredible.

[Dvoracekmara]

omg, horror

[tornadovideostock]

Very powerful video Mike! I remember we ran into you on this day in town. The devastation was unbelievable..every year we try to pass through there and it's nice to see that they've come a long way in the rebuilding of the town.

[vmax135]

I drove through Greensburg on May 22nd, 2008 and even though there was a lot of progress, the desolation was still unbelievable... even a year later! Your video captures the absolute totality of the destruction perfectly.

[HurricaneChaser]

I actually saw that tornado ! Great documentation of the destruction. Thanks for sharing...