Manhattan, Kansas Tornado - June 11, 2008

Head-on footage of the tornado that destroyed parts of west Manhattan and parts of the K-State campus on June 11, 2008.

Video tracks the tornado until the camera is destroyed.

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• manhattan
• kansas
• tornado

[thirtyguitars]

I was looking for the tornado by pausing and fast forwarding, and I found two thing. 1) pause and :53 and :54 seconds and it appears that what the wx dude is pointing at is a rain shaft. However, it seems like there is a funnel hanging down a bit closer to the screen. 2) After letting the video load up and fastfowrarding by dragging the play button, you can see the rain shaft move through town from right to left, and the tornado may have come in from the right, off camera. What can you find?

[soonercary]

The camera was never pointed south enough for the tornado to come in from the right - it tore a pretty straight path from southwest Manhattan to just past campus, which is almost exactly the center of the city. So essentially what you are seeing is the tornado coming straight at the camera almost the whole time, although it does appear that the rain sweeps from right to left.

[mexican6988]

@ccaian1 lol

[bohrokthunder]

i think that the power goes out during those big flashes 0:01 to 7:03 i guess

[cygnus122]

That's some scary stuff right there.

[AmericanAirlinesRule]

When ever they say Manhattan, I keep thinking of Manhattan, New York when its really Kansas. xD

[ProDrummer84]

realy everyone in ur family died?

[ccaian1]

wdf june 11 was my birthday

i am a tornado :D

[revolp69]

wow those lightning flashes are bright if you can get lucky and pause it when they flash the whole town is lit!!! there must have been some great lightning just behind where this camera was..how could that weatherman not tell those were power flashes...

[Gr8TeaLvr]

I'm awfully sorry to hear about that. I went through several tornados in Junction city as well. Glad you servived.

[MTStingray]

yes, and then, i'm assuming, west Manhattan would look FAR worse than it was. My god, more than just Waters (a store) would've been blown away completely.

[kskcsfan]

If the tornado would have stayed on the ground for the whole time it would have been on the ground for at least 30 miles and likely would have reached EF5 strength I assume.