JAW-DROPPING Tornado Drone Footage Shows Kansas Town Get Ripped Apart

Seems like most of the damage initiates from the loss of the roofing on most of the buildings. Perhaps some new design is required that makes the roofing resistant to the "pull" of the vortices and would go some way to saving many buildings and their occupants.

Hands down the best footage ever of a tornado. Get an incredible perspective on what is really occurring, it’s structure and impact. Unreal work Reed! Be safe!

Watching entire homes be lifted like they were toys is so unbelievable. This is the clearest and most detailed tornado footage I’ve ever seen.

It doesn’t even look like a massive tornado but yet look at the unbelievable devastation. How sad 😭 My heart goes out to the folks affected

My favorite take is the one at 4:58 where it begins with the drone taking off and moving towards the funnelcloud. It really gives a overwhelming sense of depth and size of the disaster unfolding, and how strangely beautiful it looks. I'm glad there were no deaths, which just shows how important preparedness and awareness is. Also a huge debt of gratitude to storm chasers who get the warning out quick.

Absolutely the most unusual footage I have ever seen. The transparency is insane. Surely this helps with research? Anyway this is the perfect example of how a tornado can be "invisible" on the ground until enough debris is pulled up or the dark funnel goes low enough to the ground. It also shows how a tornado can seem to not be strong from the ground when it is. I share this fact all of the time.

I'm an old geezer who has been interested in severe weather since the 1960's after watching a tornado as it ripped across the the town I live near. I've been an avid watcher of any and every film or video footage of tornadoes for decades, and while this entire video is extraordinary, I have to say that the first 30 seconds or so of this video have to be the most remarkable footage of a tornado ever recorded, absolutely amazing!

Man, this really shows how critical a tornado warning system would be. I hope folks in those destroyed homes were not harmed.

April 27 2011 my town was tore up by EF4 tornado it took out homes and businesses it pretty much flattened Cullman Alabama that's something I'll never forget

I don't know what to say. Watching people's homes torn apart is awful and yet the majesty of nature is incredible. At the very least there is a lot to be learned from this footage. Thank you Reed and Team: Tim would be proud.

Is this real or is it Ai?

pure genius to use a drone to capture footage of a tornado, I've never seen that before. super clean images, not shaky at all! the higher vantage gives better perspective of all the debris lofted too. awesome video

Dr. Reed Timmer finished his PhD in meteorology in 2015, with that said, I was guilty of seeing this man as just a celebrity storm chaser ( I'm sure most do) until learning of his years of study and degrees. And now he is the only person that shares his knowledge before these events by going into such depths on storm prediction it's hard to comprehend and is frankly unprecedented. Reed may never demand to be called Dr but I will gladly make sure people know that he has earned that title and deserves the recognition.

This footage has extremely high scientific value. Nice, clear looks at the vortex breakdown, tornadogenesis, vortex stretching, and shedding, plus inflow jet & vortex interactions with the ground, trees, and structures.

I still don't understand why building cardboard houses is the norm in the USA.

Poor Wakita

The first part of this video is probably the best footage to show people when they ask why you didn't see the tornado. It's kinda transparent and hard to tell if it's actually on the ground or not. Tornados don't start off easy to see until they've picked up some dirt and debris. Also--That tornado was wicked fast. Even if you DID see it coming or heard the sirens, you'd have seconds to get to somewhere safe. Yikes.

This is the most incredible tornado footage I think I've ever seen. This vantage point makes it clear why so many witnesses said the tornado dropped down, then went back up and dropped down again. From where they were on the ground, their view of the bottom of the tornado was obscured, and the condensation shaft didn't go all the way down, but the wind vortex certainly did and the tornado was on the ground the whole time. Just amazing. Glad you were able to find your drone again.

Cool AF!

What has always puzzled me is why in a tornado area that they continue to build houses out of wood which gets detroyed so easily. What happened to concrete and bricks like the rest of the world? Personally, living in tornado alley, I would build a home of concrete.