Multiple Vortex Tornado Near Marionville, Missouri on May 4th, 2003

Meteorologist Tom Trtan and Videographer Nick Penka intercepted this storm on ZZ Highway northwest of Marionville. This is the same tornado which damaged much of Pierce City, MO (before video) and Battlefield, MO at the end of its life. Many portions Lawrence and Christian Counties were torn apart by this tornado as well.

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Science & Technology

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• tornado
• may
• 2004
• storm
• chasing
• tom
• trtan

[WeathermanTed]

This was likely an EF3 most of its life.

[TheTaintedPsyche]

Holy sh--....

[cobra1691]

@uome20bukz tornadoes do here too!

[uome20bukz]

In Soviet Russia, tornado chase you.

[MultiHeadbut]

at 1:32 u can see the road i live on and at the end around 2:05 it was on my house i was in 2nd grade

[stlchevy95]

Did this end up hitting st louis the next morning? i remember literally walking out of my room and the sirens going off. Ise in 3rd grade at the time.

[FlyleafDamonElenaxox]

" keep going it'd coming our way "

ok we know SHUT UP!!!!!

[snaild0g]

I remember this. It was on my birthday I saw it on the news. (I was nowhere near here at the time)

[KCKEVIN1984]

Damn Tom go!

[blazefox2]

Woot!

thats the monster that lifted my trampoline up and set it down a few houses down!

god the cleanup the next day sucked!

[rmls34]

Thats an awesome video! The same one that tore through Battlefield, picked up near my house in S/W Springfield...