Manhattan, KS Tornado 2008-06-11

[themrswoot]

i was across the street from that tornado!!!! but now im home... it was so freakin scary!!!! no lie about arcoss the street..

[DetroitLove4U]

Must be fun to be Highway Patrol out there.

[4soccerrox]

Wat was at the end?

[4soccerrox]

i couldnt see it at the end!

[kristenqueen1]

this was so scary cause i wasn't at home so i had no idea if my family was okay. They were and the tornado missed our house by about a 5th of mile. And our friends got trapped in there house and it took like 8 hours to find them.

[PauloCaetan0]

holy s**t

[mantelsitter]

my grandparents live in Manhattan.... it was the scariest moment of my life cause i didnt know if they were ok..... they were ok... we just recently moved to manhattan... that was a scary day.

[GAdawgsfan93]

That is great footage of a tornado for nightime! I live near Atlanta,GA and most of the stations, especially Channel 2, do great severe weather coverage during the Spring. But, they can't even identify what's a tornado or not from a live tower cam, IN DAYLIGHT. On March 15, 2008, the day after the Atlanta EF-2 tornado, another round of storms came through and one meteorologist scared everyone when he mistaked a low wall cloud as a wedge tornado going through Atlanta.

[kira66441]

pause at 5:18 u can kind of see the tornado in the middle to the right a lil it is a lil darker too

[GiffenGoods]

Pause it at 3:24 - you can definitely see the tornado.

[MTStingray]

"Pause it at 3:24 - you can definitely see the tornado." - GiffenGoods

What form would you say that is, a wedge tornado?

[XtremeWeirdo]

If you can, pause at 1:26. That's definitely the tornado.

[SteveLynch1973]

My girlfriend and wife-to-be, Amanda Molina, lived near here and she remembers this well. She told me it was really, really windy!!!!

[GiffenGoods]

Windy when a tornado hit? I doubt that.

[SteveLynch1973]

No, really. She reckoned it was really blowy and some candles even blew out! On ther own!!!!!!!!!!!!

[allynumber11]

omg i was in the dorms right next to that bulding with the camrea on it that was so scary my friends heard the tornado or sometihing geting hit by it

[ImATornadoChaser2008]

The camera starts shaking when the tornado comes closer. I want to see a storm like that someday.

[aufer21]

That sure is scary stuff. The one thing I noticed when I lived in the midwest is that the people are more caring and open than anywhere else. I think it is where the real american experience comes from...Trouble comes but it passes too.

[10erplayer]

I watched this live on television. This was the same tornado that hit Chapman, KS only 30 minutes before.

[MTStingray]

Actually, it wasn't the same tornado. It was just another tornado from the same storm. An EF3 hit Chapman, ann EF4 hit Manhattan (was an EF1 by the time it hit Kansas State University). I live in Junction City, right between the two cities. Strange that so many tornadoes miss us.

[kira66441]

i live in jc to i was shocked too and the reason y it went around us was because there are 3 rivers surrounding us so they wont go through it cuz i have lived here since 2005 and that was the first tornado since i lived in jc and the first tornado since i lived in kansas which was about 9 years

[MTStingray]

Well, you're right about the fact that it went around us, but rivers have no effect on tornadic activity. That's just an urban legend. A tornado can cross water easily.

[MTStingray]

Oh, and I've been living here since 1993, and we've had a minor tornado go through Junction City before.

[kira66441]

wow hmmm

[WDW1993]

watch at 3:23 the lights go out then come back on! must be backup power

[buunieboop]

i live in clevland so in 2004or 2005 we had a 6 hour blackout and in 2007 we had a blackout and all the parents were like inside my house with lit candles reading magazines and the only 4 kids on the street including me were playing hide and go seek in the dark at 1:00 A.M. it was fun

[ARom16]

Ok, thanks for sharing

[ALS2001]

Well, its 11/28/08, no tornado has hit New York, do you feel stupid yet?

[Madden07RyanMD439]

manhattan kansas retard

[ALS2001]

Fuck off douchem you said new york

[mboltonjr]

Inexperienced weather people.

They missed all the power flashes and assumed some of the flashes were lightning...up until the tornado was close to their camera.

[WIStarcraft]

I was just thinking the same thing. But hey, he has that piece of paper hanging on his wall in the office that states he took all the courses for meterology. Money buys education, not common sense...lol

[gokansasjayhawks2008]

my G-MA said she was moving and it started raining but she didnt care then 30 mins later she looked up and there was a great big funnel cloud (she lives in alma KS)

[XtremeWeirdo]

Good God, that thing was *huge*!

[1050HzSineWaveTone]

love this kind of footage....tornado caught live on tower cam hitting a town or city.

[bdis89]

thats some aggzilerating stuff man,

[machine989]

Its funny you know I live in canada and I never heard anything about this until today. As far as the weatherman goes he cant pick out whats going on. Maybe a suggestion here. Night vision.

[itsallinyourhead80]

It's hard for the meteorologists to see on the tiny TV's that are at the station. So... give 'em a break.

[pattybyler]

i was in this tornado!everyone in my family dyed exept for me.

[paddyleblanc]

dyed what?

[XtremeWeirdo]

Tie dye shirts, obviously.

[paddyleblanc]

Ahhhh..obvious when its explained to me

[kjmrjm124]

i was playing baseball at cico park and the sky looked exactlly like it did before a tornado and 2 hours after the game got cancelled the tornado was on its way to manhattan and when he says confirmed tornado in manhattan it scared me

[XxWateverBallsyxX]

man the campus looked like crap after that trust me right after the tornadoe we left the house and looked at the dubree even though everyone on the radio said it was dangerous everyone was out driving lol

[Karumachan]

Tornado's fasinate me but night time tornado's scare the living shit outha me

[buckeyesoprano72]

That is some amazing video. Though we are seeing more tornadoes being caught on SkyCams around the country, they always impress me... and frighten, too.

Hats off to Matt Miller for doing such a fine job that night. He won't stay in Topeka for long!

[bkmalone86]

I invide everyone to get on google earth and track the path this tornado took... then i invite you to move that path 1/3rd of a mile south and ponder what would have happened if it had hit Redbud Estates dead on. We were lucky.

[DarkXAngel5]

and one have more footage after the cam got hit?

[Kirara955]

good thing my dad doesnt live in manhattan

but im in arizona so theres not alot of storms here.... so ppl r actully happy when theres a storm

[sharkypu]

my friend called me (he ives in zeandale) and he said the there was like a green cloud over manhattan

[rattmausch]

If you fast forward through this video you can notice that the tornado its self is completely rain wrapped.

[ucsoccermanic11]

its night. sometimes the storms make it so dark during the day u can swear its night and not even know it. and thats why im applying to a uc school.

[webkinzfreak4000]

dude what time is it was it night or day?

[sharkypu]

night my mom and i were in the basement until 1 in the morning

[TRoss240]

When it was still an F-4, it hit my building. tore off [art of the roof and covered my car with fucking insulation from True Value. im over on Garden Way, and the wind was so hard it made the doors buzz.

[CatieRo11]

What kind of material is your building made out of? Being an EF-4 and hitting your building and only tearing off part of your roof is pretty amazing!

[TRoss240]

its brick outside and a tin roof.

[sharkypu]

i saw true value it like got chewed by the tornado

[TRoss240]

indeed it did. i heard the debris from that and little apple honda coming through the trees and dove down the stairs

[Cosmodot256]

I live about 4 blocks from the edge of the destruction a little northwest of campus. I was crouched in my cellar with a 12 pack of beer. Close enough to hear the howl and I got to spend a little while today collecting debris and insulation out of my yard.

Looks more exciting on the news than it did from my cellar. lol

[Kanmom]

OK, whichever idiot made this into a KU-KState feud ... IT WAS A TORNADO for God's sake. I — a lifelong K-State fan — watched in horror when a tornado hit Lawrence a few years back and prayed then as I pray now for my hometown and alma mater. It could have been so much worse. Can we put aside the school BS for a minute?

[kevin120857]

This coverage reminds me of the Topeka tornado in 66, where young Bill Curtis tracked the tornado and kept saying, "For God's sake take cover." Hope everyone is OK

[MattEchev]

I live 10 miles away from there. and the tornado was heading towards us and then it went back into the sky and missed Ogden and us. Then it hit manhatten

Junction City Kansas

ROCK CALK JAYHAWK

[mackbowden]

Typical for KU education. How do you get rid of the KU grad at your front door?? Pay for the pizza!! Go State!!!

[sharkypu]

i know i live on leaveworth street(across the street from woodrow wilson school) and my mom and i went up to to of the world hill and u could see the path of the tornado through manhattan. K........S........U........WIl­DCATS

[steelmedic24]

Matt Miller did an outstanding job covering this live as it came into town and left.  He is destined for a big metro area. Great job Matt!

[kknd11]

dude he totally missed the tornado... it was way right of it

[Quarthorned]

sounds like the storm wasnt strong enough...karma-wise. Sharon Stone said that not me

[theurge14]

God damn K-State fans... KU wins the National Championship, a tornado goes through campus... God hates us. :(

[CapPicard]

I got ahold of my cousin who lives north of Aggieville. She is ok. I was scared when I first heard it on the radio this morning.

[SexyStitches]

I was in this storm! Very scary.

[txstoryteller]

This is beyond frightening! The stuff of nightmares; just the thing I don't need to be watchin' before bedtime! YIKES!! Chilling vid; thanks! Stay safe; y'all are in my prayers! Hope the stormy skies go away soon; y'all have had a terrible year!!

[rangerjustice]

Wow... I'm a K-State alum (1990) and my sis back in KS called to tell me what was up. Scary stuff... best wishes with cleanup and recovery.

[carmenperez31275]

yeah it was scary last night i live in manhattan myself and it scared the bajeezes out of me. amazingly there was only daming in one area around my house which was just true value, the honda dealership, and a self-storage unit the tornado bounced out o that location into the k-state university. the damage is crazy manhattan hasn't seen a tornado sence the early 1960's

[kskcsfan]

1966 to be exact.

[YungTexz]

crazy year for tornadoes

[stormspinner1]

OH that's scary - tornado skies terrify me - WOW

*StormSpinner* in Texas

Hope the storm season eases off for y'all - y'all have had it BAD

[djdudemanhey]

Thanks Matt! Way to keep your composure- You can bet you saved a few lives in Manhattan