[imagesource: YouTube / Reed Timmer]
Kansas gets its fair share of tornadoes.
However, it is not often that high-res footage from a drone manages to capture the twists and twirls of the extreme meteorological phenomena as it wrecks a small suburb.
Until this drone-wielding storm chaser entered the scene.
Reed Timmer, self-described as an extreme meteorologist per Drone DJ, used a relatively small drone to capture the immense devastation of the presumed level EF-3 tornado that hit Andover, Kansas, on Friday.
Whipping about with wind speeds ranging from 220 to 265 kilometres per hour, the tornado knocked out around 1 000 buildings as the debris was lifted and thrown in the air.
Observe:
Highest-res drone footage of the Andover, KS #tornado which has received a preliminary rating of EF3. Note how the tornado propagates via vortex dynamics and likely terrain. Incredibly, no lives were lost by this tornado pic.twitter.com/FJDBH8TAv6
— Reed Timmer (@ReedTimmerAccu) April 30, 2022
Amazingly, there were no fatalities and only a few injuries.
AccuWeather meteorologist Ali Davis captured the twister from her front porch, which was around 13 kilometres away:
Image: Ali Davis
The twister came from a larger system of severe weather that was moving through Kansas.
Further footage can be seen in the video below:
That suburb stood no chance.
From above, you can see how extensive the damage is:
[sources:accuweather&dronedj]
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