Columbus, GA April 19, 2009 Tornado Intercept

F.I.T. (Fujita Intercept Team) intercepted a night time tornado in Columbus, GA on April 19, 2009 around 11:30pm EST. The 1st part of the video is us punching the core saying "Uh oh, not good!" when the rain quickly stops, the 2nd part is the intercept at I-185 & Macon Rd, the 3rd part is after going 1 mile north to catch our nerves we didn't notice a 2nd funnel cloud move in front of our car, finally the 4th part is a intercept at SR-85/US-27A & Miller Rd of another transformer blowing up right after we stop. Official rating from NWS (National Weather Service) was an EF-2 with peak winds of 115 MPH, at its widest 250 yards, and a damage path of 4 miles long.

http://web.me.com/jordan.jacob/fit_st...

[Copyright (C) 2009 Fujita Intercept Team (Jordan Jacob & Lyndy Jacob)]

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[Anonymous Individual]

Tornadoes don't have cores... Also if you had really been hit by a tornado you wouldn't just be able to drive straight through it, much less this falsified core. That is like saying you drove through a hurricane... yeh okay.

[pilot76103]

Gee this comment sounds like it's coming from a good ol' friend John Sibley. Hence why it's from "Anonymous Individual". Not too sure what you're talking about with the core comment. The only core we drove through was a rain core or "core of the storm". We did not drive through the tornado either, we moved just in time before it hit us on the interstate.

[bryce Cena]

i live in columbus and i did not even find a tornado

[pilot76103]

Well you may not have watched the news the next morning.

[Peggy McLynn]

Good......Lord.........mom needs to stay home next time!!! And you need to learn what you're looking at...........did like the marriage counseling response though....LOL!

[pilot76103]

Not too sure what you mean by need to learn what I'm looking at.

[pilot76103]

well we don't need marriage counseling if you're not married. That's my mom. LOL

[mbaba88]

you need marriage counseling,

but good job, you saved lives.

[bryce Cena]

Your right

[Dominic Gutierrez]

I remember this. I live about a mile from were this was filmed. The stuff in our front yard was gone

[MrDrums76]

i was working security just 2 miles south of this overpass,i probably had just passed yall on my way to wal mart on the airport thruway. it got ugly that night. my neighborhood was missed by about 100 yards.

[TescoVee]

someone find her phone!!!!