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  • A man and his dog were actually in the house sleeping at the time. Both survived

  • Amazin.

  • Gee, I hope they paid their tornado insurance!

  • i guess that house is in oz now...

  • how the hell did the camera survive?

    feel sorry for the people inside.

  • Where did it go??? O:

  • Ever notice that nearly every tornado video posted on Youtube is an EF5. Even the dust devils and waterspout videos are EF5's If someone posts a vidoe of a whirlpool in a toilet it will be callled an EF5 also.

  • @syzygyful Yea but this one really was an EF5.

  • Now thats magic!

  • FINISH HIM.......FATALITY

  • its a nice way to demolish the house quickly not just let it rot XD

  • I really feel bad to people who's... HOUSE GOT HIT BY A TORNADO!! BLAHHAHHAHAH! *Ahem* Sorry bout that.

  • I live in Chattanooga and never heard about this tornado?!

  • @bow2theprincess This tornado was the EF5 tornado in Parkersburg, Iowa in 2008. The video was just posted by WDEF-TV Channel 12 in Chattanooga because it was a major event.

  • the video loock awsome but a qwestion... in that house has peoples?

  • @BluberryGum

    I think there was 1 person in the basement, but he was ok.

  • @BluberryGum um....learn to spell.

  • U can just imagine how much more vile a tornado's destruction could be if it had the same density as a hurricane. that would be unbelievable. like an a-bomb.

  • over 100 people killed in america from tornadoes so far in 2010, from january to june so far. expect another 100 for the remainder of the season. expect thousands injured severely and crippled for life. these things do not get the media coverage they deserve. they kill more americans per year than earthquakes do on average.

  • @elitesack

    Over 100? Where did you get that?

    According to NOAA 29 people have been killed by tornadoes as of June 27.

    50 percent chance of survival? Where do you get that?

    Only thing more violent is a pyroclastic flow? Where did you get that?

    The OKC and Greensburg tornadoes were rated F5/EF5, in the strongest 0.05% of tornadoes. Most tornadoes are rated EF0 and EF1 causing only light to moderate damage.

    Just how often do you think a tornado will kill hundreds anyway?

  • @dragonridley one did the biggest one in history

  • @datechydude

    Yes, I've actually found the records.

    In U.S. history 14 tornadoes have killed 100 or more people and 5 have killed more than 200.

  • @elitesack Over 100? We've had only about 30 and we're not going to have many more deaths.

  • only reason tornados dont kill more people than they do is cuz they have a small and sudden path, chances are you will have a 50 percent chance of survival from a direct hit from a tornado. horribly violent phenomena. nothing on earth like it.

  • @elitesack Have you ever been in a Tornado? Know anyone that has? What is it like?

  • @milnusthegnome I experience a wedge EF5 tornado every time i urinate. It is like stepping into a gicantic ravenous vagina.

  • @elitesack omfg baby

  • @milnusthegnome

    I just experienced a small tornado in Germany. it was scary but impressive

  • @milnusthegnome

    Something you never want to go through. We get them all the time. This one hit about 50 miles from me. We just had another big one last week. It wiped out a whole other town. This one here was a real bad one though. They are something you never want to see firsthand! Just on video.

  • @johnlott1960 Looks really crazy, I wanna move to America. What would happen if you was in the eye of it? Would you be ripped apart?

  • @milnusthegnome More or less, yeah. 300 mile per hour winds, ish, full of flying metal, trees, roofs, etc. would probably shred you to bits.

  • nice house (when it wasn't destroyed...)

  • Lol I know

    

  • That was my house!!!

  • Damn Nature you scary!!!

  • Its just devastating and terrifying!!!

  • wo awsome .

  • That house got OWNED! (I hope the people's were okay though)

  • ok retard below v thhey dont name tornados, they name hurricanes

  • @11texfan LOL.

  • to be honest with you they should stop naming tornados...

    "we are waiting for the arrival of UM DUN UM"

  • @TheNarutofan12345 they dont name tornados. never have. they classify them on the fujita scale. BUT as of now, no names

  • only thing natural on the planet more violent than tornadoes is pyroclastic flow from something similar to mt. st. helens eruption. Most volcanos dont even come close to tornados in violence levels, nor earthquakes or hurricanes. not even tsunamis. tornados just happen so quick and sudden and violently that there is no time to name them. but some are named after the fact. for example: oklahoma city tornado and greensburg tornado. whiped out cities killed tens of people. some kill hundreds

  • bye bye house......

  • thats why i live in a town that doesnt have tornados that often.

  • Even if you live in the most active part of tornado Alley you're unlikely to find a tornado this strong.

  • Oh nooooooooo! F5 is the worst type of tonardo!

  • Great job, Dad.

  • @naturerules777 Pep Pep?

  • It's magic feel sorry for the people that were in that town.

  • @05brute650 You really shouldn't any more they love when they get attention, during the floods of 2008 they complained because no one was paying attention to them anymore.

    I stopped feeling sorry for them( i live 12 miles north in Allison, their whining for more media spot light has gotten very annoying)

  • Hmm... I looks very realistic to me... the motion and the surroundings, it all fits.

    And this was probably captured through a zoom... although it must've been a very clear area in order for them to get a good look at an F5 from a safe distance... unless they were reckless but lucky, lol.

  • Actually it was footage shot by a bank security camera. The bank was destroyed.

  • Oh wow I see. Damn this is some excellent footage then... the tape survived, though? Or was it broadcast and at an external control room?

  • From What I've heard the bank didn't get hit by the worst of the tornado and took EF3 damage rather than EF5 damage. Also, I think the footage is recorded to a place that is designed to withstand a bombing so it could probably survive a tornado as well.

  • @dragonridley

    Hm I see. Like a black box or something.

  • These cameras are made real strong, film survived from the oklahoma city bombing and 9/11.I think film survived the May 3rd Tornado too.

  • you're right it says in the description

  • this is fake, this is no tornado, it's TAZ the Tasmanian devil, if you look closely you can see him at 0:19

  • lol

  • I SAW HIM TOO!!!

  • nicely

  • i think it means fuck the what. LOL

  • STF

    means SHIT THE FUCK!?

  • for the win or fuc* the win....

  • i hope the tornado is ok

  • An EF5 is essentially the same thing as an F5. In both cases the damage includes homes being swept off their foundations. Originally it was estimated that it took winds over 260 mph to do that type of damage (hence the estimate of 261-318 mph) now it is estimated that wind just over 200 can do it.

  • That's really sad...

  • i remeber watchin dis on the news

  • This maccKaron guy has posted his bullshit comments on every tornado video I have seen. He is either just trying to be funny or is out of his mind.

    maccKaron GET A LIFE

  • I would hate to be in that house. wouldn't you get sucked right up into the tornado??

  • Well, If you're in the basement you might survive. This was an EF5 but not the whole time it was on the ground. In the video you see EF2 to EF3 damage taking place. If you were in the basement during that you could probably escape without injury.

  • holy shit a what a force!

  • i couldn't really see what was going on during the vid....

  • tornado's are two conflicting air masses with a reaction of electromagnetic protons.....Not to sound like a know it all just wondering how the fuck you go from that to global warming(which no one has ever proved has any affect on natural disasters)

  • Well the logic is violent thundestroms cause tornadoes, global warming causes more violent thunderstorms.

    btw the clliding air masses caus the thunder storms, not the tornadoes themselves. reactions with protons are also not par of the tornado froming sequence.

  • man made global warming is a scam to levy new taxes on the population. how will taxes stop the earth from warming? it wont!! the earth will do what it damn well pleases. but just so you know when you breathe out your spewing a toxic waste according to the EPA

  • is the tornado behind the house, in between the house and the camera or behind the camera?

  • Its to the left of the screen. Look at the way the debris is flying, it flies towards the tornado.

  • "The Suck Zone"

  • and it truely does suck too :p

  • lol Dusty FTW

  • lol

  • unlucky mayb next year ur house will b stronger

  • This is Parkersburg Iowa.. Not Tennessee

  • The best weather

  • Well, even if we stopped ALL greenhouse gas emissions today, global warming would still occur: because our star, the Sun is in a cycle of increased activity. Our contribution to this event is minor. What needs to be done is preparing people in coastal areas to move to what will be more habitable land, Moving people in what will be desert in the future to other areas. Perhaps set up solar arrays for energy in these areas. Stop the ridiculous rate at which we are overpopulating this planet.

  • i love how all of you guys are bitching about global warming and all i just have one question... if you're so conserned about it why waste the energy the comunity needs by posing comments on youtube bitching about it?

  • the bank got hit to..this is part of the cameras from the bank. The inside of the bank was destroyed within seconds. You can see massive lightning strikes lighting up the lobby.

  • Ouch... That pretty much sucks for whoever owns that house.

  • 00:12 is evil

  • How is that evil?

  • I thought this video was fake at first because to see the power of such a storm up close is unreal!!!

  • so did the bank survive ?

  • wow

  • Tornadoes happen all the time in areas where there are frequent chances of them.

    I'm all for stopping global warming, but tornadoes have been happening since before humans even existed. They're natural disasters caused by humidity and cold fronts. Not pollution.

  • #1 this video is not fake

    #2 Global warming did not cause this tornado

  • that was my house to!!!!!!!

    Thats the second fucker i lived through!!!

    :D

  • ROFL!!!!

  • so where were you when it hit ?

  • WEAK

  • Hope no one was in there

  • Wow.

  • MY HOUSE!! NOOOO!!!!!

    seriously that's a nice house, ruined by the destruction of mother nature.

  • And as to the conclusion that there are more, it's merely an illusion of more created by the very same phenomenon that has reduced the deadliness of tornadoes....advances in meteorology that allows us to identify and track tornadoes and give early warnings. Many of the most active areas of the US in the late 1800's and early 1900's were sparsely populated, and most tornadoes went unreported or even unobserved.

  • The 2009 season would also appear to be off to a bad start but we shall see.

  • whos*

  • Ive heard of scientist saying that the sun is puting out more heat then usual. So it may not exactly be man hos doing this.

  • D:

    Just like that....

  • Well good luck with that. I think those were power flashes at the end. But i don't know it's hard to tell.

  • dragonridley... No, I will not use more force, but I have a method to deal with these issues a small force

  • Here I fail to see how you can stop something as powerful as a tornado without either producing or using a very large amount of energy in a very short period of time Which would likely cost a very large amount of money.

  • dragonridley ... when we do not see anything, then it does not mean that it is not ... we do not see, and only ... but it is, and will not depend on our vision... I not such as others themes, because I see that others do not see. Money is necessary, but not so it is a lot of as you think.

  • Still, I remeber seeing an earlier comment that you made saying you do not intend to use force to stop a tornado. But in order to stop a tornado wouldn't you need to produce an amount of force at least equal to that of the tornado? That again would be difficult when dealing with an EF4 or EF5.

  • Delay only that I am looking for a sponsor and assistance from the Government.

  • Still, given that most tornadoes are weak and that most thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes never do so. I would imageine many methods would cost more than the amount of property damage cause by tornadoes. Personally I think the best thing we can do is reduce our greenhouse emissions.

  • don't tell me your sucked into that global warming hoax too....ohh god i thought you had some common sense there for a second..then you started talking aout greenhouse emmisions

  • I' suck into that global warming "hoax."

  • xfactor5492:what? i hope this is a joke...why do you think ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE was putt into place for these freakish tornados ? There weren't as many in the past century.Common sense has nothing to do with science (NASA scientist can confirm that.). Greenhouse effect is caused by CO2 layering in the atmosphere.Fuel (gasoline) produces a vast amount of CO2.America is the most poluting country in the world.Stop being such an idiot ... We didn't have tornados in eastern Europe before!!Now we do!

  • That has nothing to do w/ weather or temperature increase. Wake the fk up. The planet increases and decreases in temperature due to the Sun's activity. It's always been that way. As the Earth's climate changes, warming and cooling in effect, the weather changes. Moons of ice and gases on other planets further away from the Sun than Earth have melted away already. Our cars and factories didn't cause that, and neither did cow farts. -_- Climate change caused by man is complete and total bullshit.

  • Common sense certainly doesn't have anything to do with the 'religion' of 'global warming'. The longest and most destructive tornadoes in history were in the FIRST part of the 20th century, genius, not NOW! The perceived difference is that we can better measure wind speed with Doppler radar. The worst tornado outbreak in US history was in 1965 and the recorded tornado was The tri-state twister in 1925.  It traveled 219 miles.

  • The main reason tornadoes at the beginning of the century were deadlier was because we had no warning systems.

  • The body count of those tornadoes isn't the issue....the damage path of the 'Tri-State twister' dwarfs any recent tornadoes. There's no evidence of 'stronger tornadoes' in the later part of the 20th Century. AGW is more religion than science.

  • The possibility still remains that the Tri-state tornado was not one but multiple tornadoes in a series. I don't think global warming would affect the average strength of tornadoes. Rather it would increase the frequency of tornadoes in general. The fact that there are more tornadoes reported is partially the result of having trained spotters and better technology but that wouldn't explain why 2008 had more than double the average number of tornadoes...

  • 2008 was an anomaly. Global Warming (if you really buy that crap) would cause the tornado alley in the US to shift northward. You still need the big 3 ingredients for tornadoes. lift (by cold dry air undercutting warm moist air, shear and mositure.. if the cold air is warmer, you'd have to go further north to encounter it, right ? Just so you're aware. 2008 was the coolest year we've had since 1997. Don't buy into the media created global warming bullshit, rely on science, not science fiction

  • cold/warm fronts and low pressure systems are acapable of spawning tornadoes.

    As far as the media goes. For the most part they actually give theose who deny glbal warming more credit than they deserve. The vast majority of peer-reviewed scientific papers are in support of global warming.

  • you really gotta stop with the Gore-isms... "peer reviewed scientific papers" ?? C'mon man !! I will translate. "Scientists" that want to contimue to receive grants from their respective constituents and or universities. They are not going to bite the hand that feeds them by taking a real look at the global warming hype. Simply put, you don't like the climate ?? yell at Mr. Sun, not the human race. We are POWERLESS to change it, we can only adapt.

  • And you get the idea of us being powerless to change the climate from the Bible I presume.

  • not at all. I am FAR from what you would call a religious person. I look at it this way, 900yrs ago the Norwegians were fully involved in agriculture on Greenland. Not sure, but I don't think we had much in the way of heavy industry in the 11th century. There's also the VERY compelling fact in that when the earth's ice caps shrunk, all other planets in our solar system had their caps shrink as well. That is a coincedence ?? Mr, Sun ?? stop warming our globe so much, k ?

  • And how exactly do you know what the extent of the ice caps on Mars were 900 years ago?

  • we don't, and you'll find that the ice caps here on earth were MUCH thinner than they are now. It all goes in cycles, again, blame Mr. Sun, not us.

  • There still has been a spike in CO2 levels that is not consistent with the natural cycle of the past few hundred thousand years.

  • CO2 is in reality not a powerful greenhouse gas. Water vapor & methane are FAR stronger than CO2. Higher CO2 levels will result in a rise in algae in al lthe seas and lakes. This has not occured.

  • What has happened is an increase in the acidity of the oceans. Resulting in the deaths of coral reefs.

  • Yes there are natural cycles and the temperature has shifted quite frequently throughout the earth's history. The problem with global warming today is the rapid rate at which it is occuring.

  • tbh i think Gw is bullshit. There isn't enough information for us to determine if we are causing it or not. fact is its a theory. The mainstream media has sold as fact. We have been taking notes for what 20 years ? Bottom line . quit feeding everyone BS when you hardly have a clue what it is to begin with .

  • You are an idiot. 20 years? Scientists have access to geological climate samples dating back hundreds of millions of years... And it IS a fact that increased CO2 in the atmosphere leads to increased heat retention. Are we causing global warming? This is unknown. Are we accelerating it? Highly likely. Perhaps you should take your own advice and not post if you do not know what you are talking about

  • highly UNLIKELY... if you'll go back 1000 years you'll find that the Norwegians FARMED on Greenland... you know, back 1000 yrs ago when everyone had cars & heavy industry... no wait, they didn't.... oh BTW... 2007 & 2008 were COOLER than average... an average that only dated back reliably 150yrs.. 150yrs on a planet that's been here nearly 5 BILLION... don't even DREAM we havea grasp on this planet's heating and cooling cycles. Not really.

  • Seriously mate, how can you say a problem can only have ONE route cause. Life is far more complicated than your simple simple black and white rationale. Yes maybe the Sun does effect our climate, nonetheless it is certainly NOT the only reason behind the state of our climate at the moment. Try to reason with problems holistically rather than presuming one problem only has one cause. Especially when dealing with something as complicated as the environment.

  • Kudos ProfessorIgor! I take it most people have never heard of "Junk Science" which is what global warming is.

  • And as to your asinine comment about the 'Enhanced Fujita Scale' being some sort of new measurement to take in to account 'these freakish tornados', that merely illustrates that you have ZERO business talking about 'science'. The EFS was developed to include more factors in the determination of the power of a tornado. There are not 'more' tornadoes today than 100 years ago, not more powerful tornadoes today than 100 years. There are more REPORTED than 100 years ago due to radar and spotters.

  • dragonridley ... so can not be ... but you can still man to live as live animal ... I write only what I can to do, But the people understand only as want to understand... and so is always. :-(

  • I would like to undestand how you intend to stop tornadoes though.

    From what I know now the only thing humans could possibly do to stop a tornado would be to set off a nuclear bomb near one which would do more damage than even the strongest tornado.

  • No ... bombs are not needed ... Scientific me completely different methods and I bypassed without nuclear horror.

  • So give me the basics of your idea.

  • I can not do it, but if you want, I can give you the keys of the apartment where the money is ...

  • From what I have heard you intend to somehow stop a tornado with your mind.

    I'm not asking for any specific details. Just enought to see the basic logic.

  • acetheheretic. You have got used to be with the one who nothing can make... It is bad... If I have told, that I can, I can !

  • In that case then, if I say I can turn into an animal at will then can I?

  • that's Badass but that really sucks that someone's house was destroyed!

    let's hope that the people were okay.

  • And the cam survived!?

  • That's bad, but I couldn't even see half of it!!!

  • I can destroy these monsters...

    and want to make my discovering in practice...

  • No, you can't.

  • i couldnt imagine...scarry stuff

  • I just crapped my pants!

  • thats disdurbing

  • What's that strange light near 3 seconds? Lighning? Power line going dowm?

  • I'd probably say lightning because it only shows on parts of the house that are facing the same direction.

  • Actually, I just realised it's probably not timelapse, because that would mean stuff is just kind of hanging in the air.

  • This is in Parkersburg, IA. The footage is from a bank across the street from the house. There is also surveillance footage on youtube from inside that bank showing it getting destroyed. The lights you see at the beginning are exploding power transformers.

  • Maybe car headlights? It stays around for too long to be lightning. This is timelapse.

  • i don't think we're in Kansas anymore todo

  • Lol!

  • Wow that could get that on video lol.

  • dat junk tight

  • that is preety scary to see your neighbors house get torn up off the ground from its rout and get crushed by one of the biggest tornadoes in the world.

  • i hope no one was inside