Near Cromwell, OK Wedges (5/10/10) (© Greg Nordstrom 2010)

Two large wedge shape tornado passed less than a 100 yards in front of us! This was the 4th High Risk of the year, with over 40 tornado reports in Oklahoma/Kansas... Considering the HP nature of these tornadoes, terrain, and road network, I think we did the best we could...

Both tornadoes were large, yet fairly weak! The first one was very rain wrapped... The second one was the stronger of the two and less rained wrapped... Go about 4:00 in to get to the second one... We were so close to the second tornado you could see vortices spinning right in front of us... Also, you can see a car drive straight into it without even knowing... He eventually turns around.. Thankfully it was weak or that would have been very bad!

I would say near us it was in the high EF-0 range as the vortices came about 100-200 feet in front of us! In the middle of it we saw damage more typical of high end EF-1 or low end EF-2...

©Copyright Greg Nordstrom 2010

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[bookworm1960]

That was huge!

Was it 3/4ths of a mile wide like it looked?

[LDCTSTORMCHASER]

@bookworm1960 You are exactly right! It was rated by the NWS as an EF-3 tornado, .75 miles wide... It was huge and the other tornado was big also... Going to send the video Monday to the NWS in Norman to help them verify it...

[Pyrotech56]

Call NWS and tell them you have a tornado in front of you?

[LDCTSTORMCHASER]

@Pyrotech56 We did...

[randeegirl13]

this is right by my house :/..lol

[VideographyOfStorms]

Awesome new Tornado video Greg!!!

[MrFatJoe559]

omg!