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  • mother nature at night sucks, especially sitting through a hurricane

  • this so makes me NOT want to go to the University of Iowa now..................

  • I'm trained to do night spotting, including night tornado spotting, but I have to say I absolutely HATE spotting for tornadoes at night. It's entirely possible for the storm to be on top of you and for you not to know it -— until it's too late.

  • Hello.In my homecounty was in 1897 theafullest and scariest Tirnadoe with very big hail.

    On 100km Length of the storm was running ALL trees and Animals were killed.Big houses and churches were distroyes.

    Trains were thrown of the railways,and ships were pulled onto land.

    Alltogether 120 Death and also 12000 Injured.About 100Cities and villags were "bancrott" because of the big disturbing.

  • @Caddl123 you think tornado is spelled Tirnadoe?

  • @theplanet1985 Sorr,my tastature is not the best...i know how tornado must be spelled ;)

  • Storms getting more severe than ever before? How can you be so sure I mean really folks weather records only began in the late 17th century ( Ben Franklin was a major contributor) and they're accuracy is questionable, so 200+ years is really not much to go by when you have several 100 years prior to that that nothing is recorded on how large and/or devastating storms were so in about another 100 years or so we'll have a more accurate map of whether the present weather is actually the worse.

  • The weather is diffently changng. Iowa never used to get such large tornadoes. We have had a large number if EF5s. 2010 could have been another bad year with the large tornado in June that almost hit Albert Lea.

  • That night was crazy!

  • We had an EF4 Tornado around my area of Toledo Ohio, on June 5th at like 11:00ish at night. Millbury, Ohio looks like a war zone...it's very sad. Hugs from Toledo, Ohio!!!

  • No wonder tornados happen a lot in iowa!!!! because theres nothing there!!!!!!

  • @Eric23er lol i hate you

  • @Eric23er FUCK YOU BITCH!

  • At  0:40 - 0:45 you can see the monster tornado for the Lightning

  • I remember this. From England where we don't often get them, especially this size. I was on holiday at a friends house in Davenport IA and the sirens going crazy. Scarey stuff!

  • i agree night storms scare the SHIT outta me!

  • night tornadoes are even worse

  • OMFG AT NIGHT!!! this is not a good night photogenic tornado... HUGE TORNADO!!!

  • this was an F5 that hit the heart of Iowa City and the University of Iowa campus

  • @soxmonki

    Not even close...If that was an F5, Downtown Iowa City would probably not exist anymore...It was actually an F2 according to the NWS

  • perfect example...Hallam Nebraska...tornado was 2 miles wide but only considered an F4

  • It's a common misconception. Size does not always equal intensity...Some EF4-EF5 tornadoes had a recorded width of 300 feet or less...The stereotypical EF5 is more than a mile wide...

  • i live in CR, if this was the tornado in 06 my 2 bro-inlaws were working at carousell on hyw 1 when this happend, we got calls from them during it and they were freaking out

  • i live in iowa city, that tornado happened on my bday, it was crazy.

  • Was it an EF5? How much damage did it cause?

  • it was an EF3...an EF5 would have done tons more damage and would have been twice as wide

  • I asked how much damage it caused.

  • @DraconisTheDragon

    Too much

  • An I couldn't really tell because it was in the dark.

  • This was a f3? It looks more like a f5 o-o It's scaring me. The fact you can't see it is REALLY creepy.

  • I'd rather be able to see it! When it's dark, it's so much harder to tell how close it really is

  • @SpottedleafCCRVMK the lightning makes it worse!

  • Yes. D; Yes it does. One of my main fears is being stuck in a tornado in the middle of the night. And I'm hard to be woken up. I'd REALLY hate to be in that/this tornado..

  • one of my fears is being within 20 miles of a tornado. they scare the crap out of me!

  • Tell me about it.  I was in a f3 tornado when it hit Washington back in 1998

  • its a good job there is lots of lightning so you kinda have an idea where is is lol

  • after this tornado went through I went to this Christian Sunday deal and they tried to say God was mad at the gays and all the partyin is why god let it go through the ped mall. stupid shit. I about stood up and out burst I was so pissed off.

  • that is stupid and they definitely dont sound like Christians. being one myself, i can say that God is love and he is NOT mad at gays, rather He despises the SIN not the Persons. he died for every human being on the Cross and salvation is free to all who ask God :)

    btw great video

  • I watched the double tornadoe that night with my family from our porch but only when it was dying down we got to see the power go up and all this cool green smoke came from the ground totally cool

  • I can't see shit. It's almost like they're playing Doom 3.

  • Oh, damn. I would hate to be around a tornado at NIGHT. You can't see shit. That's scary. =/

  • yeah that tornado fucked our town up

  • i live in south caroline and last night we had this horribe storm with two funnel clouds the funnel coulds were just a block away it seemed

  • I remember the alarm going off in my dorm. We were supposed to be heading down to the basement, but I had an exam the next day, so I stayed in my room studying..... on the 4th floor... then we found out that a tornado had practically ripped through campus just minutes away...

  • DUDE at 0:40 you get the best look at it

  • Tornado+night= NOT GOOD lol cant see that shyt comin at you

  • I would wet my pants

  • not a fun time my cusins live there

  • Wow, this guy sounds like Tom Arnold.

  • OMG he does!!!!!!

  • @CJ7with285andt18 well I know you posted this a long time ago...but Tom Arnold did live in Iowa....hmmmm...

  • my cousins live here and i used to and it was really bad. like bad.

  • good thing the lightining strked everyo once in a whle

  • Cool video. Was this the same tornado that hit Parkersburg? Or was that a different one? Also, wasnt the Parkersburg tornado an EF5?

  • No this is not the same tornado. Parkersburg is farther NNE. The one that hit there WAS and EF5.

  • That thing is bigger then it looks lol. I heard it was almost half a mile wide D:

  • No way that it could be as they are not located by each other..Parkersburg is NE and Iowa City is in the SE..and the storm in Parkersburg was this summer and the one in IC was in 06

  • i was a chicken shit when this happened

  • i remember this, i'm from CR and we had a tennis meet that day, against who else? Iowa city high hah

  • I remember being packed into the basement of the Stanley dorm with a ton of people, waiting there for like two hours. Then after the storm passed, going out and observing all the insane amounts of damage.

  • Thats a big ass tornado and those cars arent gonna end up well

  • i was watchin that while it happened :)

  • worst time to get one- at night

  • Interesting. Wish it were clearer.

  • one time at the last day of school at the end threr was a tornado warning and we had to cram in a bathroom and i had to go poo

  • I hate when that happens

  • you had to poop once?

  • Night tornados are the absolute worse.

  • lol, i was there when it happened, i'm gad i lived in coralville though

  • You laugh but you are a damn blind fool.

  • SHUT UP

    i was hit by that one and it destroyed my house!!!!!!

    THEY ARE NOT FUN!

  • HAHAHAHAHAHA.  That comment made me laugh.

  • You really haven't got any brains at all have ya boy..

  • why don't you go dive into an ef4 and let us know how it goes.

  • holy shit

  • I recall that night, I was on a plane coming back from Vegas. I wondered why the ride was so damn bumpy, Iowa was stormy that evening.

  • Get inside! I live in Colorado, and i know damn well to get inside and take cover in the event of one of these! get the fuck inside! ur gonna kill yalls self!!!!!!!!!!!

  • get the fuck inside are u crazy or somfing

  • RIP and respect to those who died on that awful night.

  • DAM DUDE GET UNDER SUMTHIN DAMMIT! and those cars need to turn around lol gud video tho!

  • where exactly did the tornado hit? I was just there today

  • Stupid comment!!!!!!Your sick for saying that go hepl your neighbors...

  • It sounds like you had a bad experience with a dude here? Sorry for your pain.

  • My heart goes out to everyone affected by the tornado that hit the Iowa Boys Scout Camp.

  • @ClassicLoverA This is the video of a tornado that hit Iowa City on April 13, 2006. It has nothing to do with the 4 scouts that died at their camp more than 2 years later on June 11, 2008.

  • @Thisisntfunny2 I was already aware of that before I made that comment, thank you.

  • @Thisisntfunny2 No, some scouts were affected by this tornado i think

  • I was there! god, iowa city is getting weather duced on right about now too...oy. (flooding, idk if that national news but its some crazy stuff!)

  • dude get a night cam

  • your a douche bag

  • it does

  • The gentleman doing the "narration"

    sounds like the legendary storm chaser

    Tim Marshall. :=D

  • OMG! PURE TORNADO OWNAGE!

  • thanx for sharing, see ya on the road sometime. Storm chaser Tx. 73's

  • what fun! the horn is going off right now and im alone in the basement with my computer and im scared shitless..

  • wow lol

  • What K twister was this.. K2?

  • And this is why I decided not to go to U of I...We have tornadoes down here (Georgia), but nothing like this...

  • as we speek right at this moment the horn is going of in dubuque ia for a tornado but i dont think we will get one.

  • yeah dubuque never gets them. well iv never seen one in dubuque, i live there too. yeah i want to see one someday.

  • The last time Dubuque was anywhere near a tornado, if i remember was 93 or 94 when an F3 nearly socked Galena, IL. It missed and ended up out in a cornfield and it ran over a dilapidated barn. I used to live in Mt. Carroll, IL. When I was younger, that same year an F2 directly hit our house. You know you live in a Grand Ol' House when the only "damage" was a piece of siding that fell off and landed on the ground right next to where it came off. We popped it back in the next day!

  • i remember this

  • OMG I remembered when this happened my best friend was at a bar there and didn't even realized it happened until after I had called her to see if she was ok then she freaked out. No one in the bar knew what happened until it was over with.

  • dude that day scared me the tornado was heading straight at my house but went up the funnel passed over and i heard it it knocked over trees in my woods and threw a lot of things in my yard around that day was scary

  • you can hardly see it at first

  • I remember sitting watchin T.V. watching this!

  • That is the scariest situation to ever encounter; something that large, that ominous, and you cant even see it, only by virtue of lighting flashes. Very unnerving..

  • hey man i had that same scary feeling its like where is the tornado judging from that day i feel very intimated it could've hit any city in iowa too bad it had to target iowa city

  • on that day April 13th i was at a friends house and it just got dark as hell i swear.

  • beware of those Cyclones

  • That's one big son of a bitch.

  • naw imagined if it was an f5 now that would be horror movie or sight

  • that must have been horrifying....

  • i remember when that happened, the church collaspecd and it was all over the news

  • It's hard to see a tornado during the night time and people wil get confused.

  • my brother was in that area where the tornado had touched down. The alarms stopped so some of the people went back home and so did my brother and suddently while he was driving, litterly a torando touched down in front of him but there was no alarms going off.

  • you must have alot of balls to stand out in this shit

  • That had to be a surreal site to see. I've witnessed plenty of wicked weather in Cedar Rapids over the years but never actually seen a tornado. As big as that tornado was it's amazing the damage wasn't much worse.

  • it was roughly a f3. i live in iowa city and was watching the whole thing. there were like 5 tornados and im pretty sure this one was a f3ish but some of the other ones were no more than an f1

  • what kind of siren is heard at the begining of the vid.

  • it's the siren to warn people !

  • i know that smartass.

  • tornado sirens are only to warn people outside....they aren't intended to warn people inside buildings/homes

  • sounds like welens

  • thanks

  • first of all how can you be sure that this tornad will not spawn another closer to you

    it's night time "hello" secondly, maybe all of the tornad chases should invest in some night vision suited cameras. hmmmmm!

  • u know what sux?? I've always been fascinated by tornados, and have always wanted to see one. I lived in Iowa City from birth til 23. I move, then a few months later, we get hit by one! Destroyed beautiful parts of my hometown, and I wasn't even there to enjoy it! So that just pisses me off!

  • OMG! a tornado is already pretty scary during daylight and it happened during the night. Don't know what to say. I WOULD HAVE A HEART ATTACK.

  • I live about 35 miles away in Muscatine, which coincindentally, was struck on June 1st, 2007. Looking at this video it is amazing that it didnt cause more damage than it did. It is... A GIANT.

  • so this happened at night rite?

    anyways thank god i dont live in Iowa city i would be dead if i lived there and faced that tornado!

  • well i was not in iowa city tha time but now i'am and that was the only tornadoe that hit iowa city but one hit 1 month ago

  • oh ok

  • it didnt hit iowa city it hit tipton county

  • (not this tornado i mean)

  • wait u mean the tornado in this vid? bcuz this did hit iowa city, it cost like 10 million dollars in damage

  • Yea, I came home from Cedar Rapids 1 minute after the storm hit Iowa City. I'm diving on the interstate towards Iowa City going about 100 mph cuz I wanted to get home to family. I get off the Kalona/Iowa City exit to find that area destroyed & a semi over turned. It was really scary. I watched it destroy my city :(

  • O my god! that is one big tornado.

  • I was fighting this Tornado and song (We Will fight fight fight for Iowa)

  • ya my track was coming back from a meet.. it got delayed then cancelled because of this storm.. veryu scary.. and we got out of there just in time! thank god

  • i live just north of iowa city and my sister was at the hospital with one of her friends and normaly she parks inthe liqour house parking lot but it was full so she didnt park there the next day all the cars in that lot were upside down and destroyed her car was fine she had parked right down the street

  • That tornado hopped over my house!!!

  • i threw beer cans at that mother fucker. haha what a pussy tornado

  • One group of my friends lived by police station downtown when it happened. Were on the front porch watching sky turn greenish in color. I thought it was funny how it landed between two large buildings to demolish a small happy joes, then go back up. On a friends apartment building his room was on corner and it destroyed his room and everything he owned,left the rest of building minus some windows. (He was gone.) His words on the matter:

    "WHAT THE HELL!!" lol

  • thats my birth place. wow yea i heard it was bad

  • wow man! i'd be scared shitless!

  • Very real.

  • просто супер!!

  • OMG i remember i was at work at hat same time and it was scary.

  • id be out of there, but how do you escape that!!!!!!!!!!!

  • A Tornado cant Beat Hawkeye Nation, We Stomp on Cyclones Year Round!

  • You have balls, then. I piss myself while watching this video...

  • that's right, Hawkeyes-Are-Da-Bomb :D

  • no it isnt i was there in april when it hit it was right behind my house

  • It's not a fake Janne358. You can see it when the lightning flashes. Besides I used to live in Iowa City and I was there when it happened. It destroyed the downtown area.

  • sure.....

  • That's right, KWQC-TV in Davenport showed video from east of Iowa City that proved it was there, a good bolt of lightning flashed, which they were able to freeze the video right there where you could see that tornado on the ground. The power was already out in the footage in Iowa City.

  • look harder. you probably cant see it because the only light comes from lightning

  • k....

  • great video,.. watch uwrong4dat here on you tube

  • Those are lies and twisted facts. Please do not insult my people and my God in that manner. And what in the world does it have to do with Iowa City? Try commenting on the video than spreading your deceitful hate speech.

  • yeah i live in iowa i heard bout that must of sucked i know when i ever here tornado sirens i run to the basement i don't wanna be outside when one rips through

  • this tornado hit my uncles house.

  • Sirens were going off and it started to hail over in Coralville. I didn't pay much attention until I heard a thump and looked outside where good sized lump of hail hit my car, and then I was pissed. Until I learned portions of Iowa City was leveled, then I humbly went back to eating my spaghetti.

  • i live about 1 hour & 20 minutes from iowa city & i was at a movie on that night that was in f-2 tornado

  • wrong, it was an F3 on the Fujita Scale. The National Weather Service sent employees to survey the damage from Davenport, Iowa.

  • wrong it was an F1

  • it was an F2/F3...the size of a tornado has nothing to do with its strength, small ropes can be F5's...half mile wide ones can be F2's

  • who the hell siad anything about size? it was an F1 I was there I remember....btw what is an f2f3? is that like a F2.5

  • really...show me where it said it was an F1...I'll wait

  • pull up any news channel, USA today...they'll all say the same thing but if you want to keep digging a hole jr go ahead...if you were there you should know