Video Clip of Campo Colorado Tornado Coming Right At Us, 5-31-10

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Video footage of the Campo tornado as it turned southeast and moved directly toward us - - I had to move a little south when it was 500 yards from me.

My car was blocking most of the wind blown rain but the winds were so strong that my lens kept getting covered w/ rain.

I was wedged against my car, but I was still getting blown around -- the RFD winds were easily 65-75 mph. Notice the large debris field from the large tornado. It's picking up all the dirt from the fields since this is a very rural area of Colorado.

Feel free to check out our "Tornado" playlist showing video film footage of all types of tornadoes like elephant trunks, multiple-vortices, stovepipes, sidewinders and huge monster wedge tornadoes. Tornadoes from Aurora,NE ; Yazoo City, MS ; Campo,CO and Oberlin,KS for example. There's also video footage of tornado damage where buildings are blown completely off their foundations; people being rescued from collapsed buildings like in Yazoo City, MS where there was a deadly EF-4 tornado; truckers telling their near death experience when they jumped out of their semi-truck on I-80 and hide under a
bridge overpass during a large, violent tornado which blew their 18-wheel truck completely off the interstate; scary , heartpounding scenes as huge wedge tornadoes are coming directly at us; sounds of large tree limbs hitting our car and antennas being blown off our roof. These videos show the raw, unedited footage of storm chasing during the most dangerous and life-threatening times. Tornadoes are rated by the damage they do based on the operational Enhanced Fujita scale (EF) ranging from EF0 to EF5. An EF0 tornado has winds b/w 65-85 mph; an EF1 tornado 86-110 mph; EF2 tornado 111-135 mph; EF3 tornado 136-165; EF4 tornado 166-200; an EF5 tornado has winds over 200 mph. Note, these winds speeds refer to a 3 second gust. As stated before, tornadoes are rated by the damage they do -- so even if you had a violent, 2 mile wide monster wedge tornado in a remote area that didn't hit anything thus doing no damage (not even crop damage) -- it would be rated an EF0 (even if the wind speeds were measured by the Doppler on Wheels -- DOW -- at 275 mph). In general, tornadoes form when you have instability (moisture) -- measured by the CAPE (Convective Available Potential Energy). Once you have adequate moisture,
you look for a lifting mechanism like cold fronts or drylines that will lift or force this moisture high up into the atmosphere. Then you look for wind shear -- i.e changes in wind direction w/ height. Tornado Alley refers to the area in the U.S. b/w the Rocky & Appalachian Mountains. To me, tornado alley refers to these states: Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, N. & S. Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, E Wyoming, E Colorado, W Minnesota. Dixie Alley refers to the lower MS Valley -- i.e Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and the upper Tennessee Valley -- i.e N Alabama & Georgia. Hoosier Alley refers to an area from S Michigan to S Indiana plus E Illinois to W Ohio.

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[windy357]

What awsome footage!

[extremeweatherfilms]

@windy357 IMHO -- windy357 shoots the best tornado footage -- the guy gets the job done .. period

[Torn80cj]

Awesome video and tornado. I made a box for my camcorder so I wouldn't have to deal with those pesky raindrops blowing on the lense. I used a shoe box for this senario, because the rain messed me up some on the Jericho Texas tornado I got on April 22. I can keep it in the box even on a tripod or monopod.

[extremeweatherfilms]

@Torn80cj great idea -- thx !!!!

[Rain1290]

Wow, this is incredible footage. What was the measured strength of this tornado, and how long was it on the ground, approximately?

Again, this is an awesome capture!

~Trav.~

[extremeweatherfilms]

@Rain1290 thanks -- while I was filming, it was on the ground for 10 minutes but I heard longer for other spotters -- prelim strength I heard was EF-2 . thx for the comment

[ferrarimike23]

At the beginning it looked like a giant dildo

[benkoglin]

cool footage

[benkoglin]

looks like a pencil!!!!

[benkoglin]

big tornado!!!!

[VideographyOfStorms]

Very Photogenic! Great job!

[windy357]

When there's extreme weather happening this is where you see it first, what great coverage A+ footage

[CaStormChaser]

WOW! That's one BEAUTIFUL tornado right there! Congrats on the awesome capture!

...And thanks a TON for sharing!! :-)

[MUSTANGMAN50LX]

and that folks is how you get the good videos great job man ALSOME!! video call me subscripted!