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At the ADM plant in Enderlin, this ex IC GP10 resides as the switcher. It appears this did receive a new paint job at some point, but it has faded significantly over the years, and the IC heritage is now quite apparent. Not much info I could find on this locomotive, but it was a neat find. In light of recent news, I went to the tornado path online, and found out this photo was taken less than a mile from where the EF5 had struck. Can't imagine what it must have been like that night.
May 14, 2025 - Maxwell Nebraska
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A landspout touches down over a rural landscape under a dramatic sky, where the swirling column of wind is starkly visible against intense cloud formations. The foreground features a few trees and farmland, emphasizing the stark contrast between human activity and natural phenomena.
We were not set up & riding parallel with this storm.. so only a few shots eh...
For folks that don't know the difference between a tornado & a landspout... Please Read Below!
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What is the Difference between a Landspout & a Tornado?
A landspout and a tornado are both rotating columns of air that can cause damage, but they differ in their formation, structure, and characteristics:
Formation:
Landspout: A landspout is a type of non-supercell tornado that forms from a growing thunderstorm or cumulus cloud without a mesocyclone (a rotating updraft within a supercell). It typically develops from the ground upward when converging surface winds create a vortex that is stretched by an updraft in a developing storm.
Tornado: A tornado usually forms from a supercell thunderstorm with a mesocyclone. It descends from the cloud base downward as the mesocyclone tightens and intensifies due to strong atmospheric dynamics, such as wind shear.
Structure and Appearance:
Landspout: Landspouts are often narrower, more rope-like, and less organized than tornadoes. They typically appear as a slender, tube-like vortex extending from the cloud base to the ground, sometimes resembling a waterspout over land.
Tornado: Tornadoes are generally wider, more robust, and can take various shapes (e.g., wedge, cone, or rope). They are often associated with a visible funnel cloud and a debris cloud at the surface due to stronger winds.
Intensity and Duration:
Landspout: Landspouts are usually weaker (EF0–EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita scale) and shorter-lived, lasting a few minutes. They cause localized, less severe damage compared to tornadoes.
Tornado: Tornadoes can range from weak (EF0–EF1) to extremely violent (EF4–EF5), with some lasting over an hour. They can cause widespread, catastrophic damage due to higher wind speeds.
Associated Weather:
Landspout: Occurs in less severe weather, often under developing thunderstorms or cumulus clouds with minimal wind shear. They are not typically associated with large-scale storm systems.
Tornado: Often occurs in severe thunderstorms, especially supercells, with strong wind shear and dynamic atmospheric conditions conducive to powerful, long-lived storms.
Detection:
Landspout: Landspouts are harder to detect on radar because they lack a mesocyclone and may not produce a distinct radar signature.
Tornado: Tornadoes from supercells often show a mesocyclone signature on Doppler radar, aiding in their detection and warning issuance.
In summary, while both are rotating columns of air that contact the ground, landspouts are weaker, shorter-lived, and form without a mesocyclone under less severe conditions, whereas tornadoes are typically stronger, longer-lasting, and associated with supercell thunderstorms and mesocyclones.
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On this bright and beautiful first day of May in 2024, 2816 pauses in Enderlin, North Dakota, for a service stop on the Golden Spike Tour, bound for Mexico City. Happier times, perhaps. A little over a year later, a tornado outbreak occurred on June 20th, 2025, devastating the state of North Dakota. Enderlin suffered the worst of it, with three fatalities, and just yesterday, the NWS gave an official EF5 rating to the Enderlin tornado, the first such rating in 12 years. The rating was given due to train cars being toppled and thrown about 3 miles down the line from this location. A bit surreal looking back at some of these photos now. Rest easy to the three lives lost that night...
May 14, 2025 - Maxwell Nebraska
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A landspout touches down over a rural landscape under a dramatic sky, where the swirling column of wind is starkly visible against intense cloud formations. The foreground features a few trees and farmland, emphasizing the stark contrast between human activity and natural phenomena.
We were not set up & riding parallel with this storm.. so only a few shots eh...
For folks that don't know the difference between a tornado & a landspout... Please Read Below!
*****
What is the Difference between a Landspout & a Tornado?
A landspout and a tornado are both rotating columns of air that can cause damage, but they differ in their formation, structure, and characteristics:
Formation:
Landspout: A landspout is a type of non-supercell tornado that forms from a growing thunderstorm or cumulus cloud without a mesocyclone (a rotating updraft within a supercell). It typically develops from the ground upward when converging surface winds create a vortex that is stretched by an updraft in a developing storm.
Tornado: A tornado usually forms from a supercell thunderstorm with a mesocyclone. It descends from the cloud base downward as the mesocyclone tightens and intensifies due to strong atmospheric dynamics, such as wind shear.
Structure and Appearance:
Landspout: Landspouts are often narrower, more rope-like, and less organized than tornadoes. They typically appear as a slender, tube-like vortex extending from the cloud base to the ground, sometimes resembling a waterspout over land.
Tornado: Tornadoes are generally wider, more robust, and can take various shapes (e.g., wedge, cone, or rope). They are often associated with a visible funnel cloud and a debris cloud at the surface due to stronger winds.
Intensity and Duration:
Landspout: Landspouts are usually weaker (EF0–EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita scale) and shorter-lived, lasting a few minutes. They cause localized, less severe damage compared to tornadoes.
Tornado: Tornadoes can range from weak (EF0–EF1) to extremely violent (EF4–EF5), with some lasting over an hour. They can cause widespread, catastrophic damage due to higher wind speeds.
Associated Weather:
Landspout: Occurs in less severe weather, often under developing thunderstorms or cumulus clouds with minimal wind shear. They are not typically associated with large-scale storm systems.
Tornado: Often occurs in severe thunderstorms, especially supercells, with strong wind shear and dynamic atmospheric conditions conducive to powerful, long-lived storms.
Detection:
Landspout: Landspouts are harder to detect on radar because they lack a mesocyclone and may not produce a distinct radar signature.
Tornado: Tornadoes from supercells often show a mesocyclone signature on Doppler radar, aiding in their detection and warning issuance.
In summary, while both are rotating columns of air that contact the ground, landspouts are weaker, shorter-lived, and form without a mesocyclone under less severe conditions, whereas tornadoes are typically stronger, longer-lasting, and associated with supercell thunderstorms and mesocyclones.
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A strong tornado churns in North Central Kansas. This tornado lasted 90 minutes. It was rated a high end EF4 but would likely have been an EF5 had it hit anything. It bent rail tracks at one point. www.mrtwister.us May 25th 2016
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The birth of earth is or was in something so MINISCULE that we never really noticed ! Open your eyes and your mind like the lens of your favorite camera, look deep and thorough, don't miss the fine details that your mind has never encountered until now! there's life in everything and everything can change with the blink of an eye or a snap of your shutter. Look close I see another world a place that is yet to be discovered. I feel like Ferdinand Megellan. Sorry for the babbling but I'm super stoked at this shot ! LOL hope you like this shot as much as I do !
I used a Canon EF5 55-250 lens for this shot. The light was shifting very rapidly every few minutes, and even every few seconds, from sunny to cloudy and back. Had to keep changing the white balance to match the changing light.
Not long before I took this shot of Metra F40C 612 at Mont Clare on August 28, 1990, a terrible EF5 tornado hit Plainfield killing 29 people. Looking at this shot, you would never know it. An hour before this was taken it got very dark and stormed, but it wasn't until later I learned of the Tornado.
While these Mammatus clouds hung over my yard, an EF5 tornado was ripping through Moore, OK, just seven miles north.
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This is a phone pic I took while standing outside my tornado shelter as the sirens were wailing. I didn't think it an outstanding image, but apparently a lot of people find it interesting and it made Explore, so I've posted it to some groups.
Debris surrounds a swing set in Moore, Okla., May 22, 2013, two days after an EF5 tornado with winds exceeding 200 miles per hour tore through the Oklahoma City suburb. The Oklahoma National Guard assisted with disaster response efforts in the aftermath of the tornado, which killed 24 people, injured more than 200 and displaced thousands. (DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Caroline Hayworth, U.S. Air Force/Released)
Alabama. Damage from the EF-5 tornado be seen here, especially in the valley on the bottom left side. Also, if you look at the bottom of the picture, you can see a boat that was blown a great distance to this valley. It caused a great deal of damage to Phil Cambell and all around Franklin County.
Oklahoma City often shortened to OKC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is the 20th-most populous U.S. city and 8th largest in the Southern United States, with a population of 681,054 at the 2020 census. The Oklahoma City metropolitan area, with an estimated 1.49 million residents, is the largest metropolitan area in the state and 42nd-most populous in the country. It is the county seat of Oklahoma County, with the city limits extending into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties; however, areas beyond Oklahoma County primarily consist of suburban developments or areas designated rural and watershed zones. Oklahoma City ranks as the tenth-largest city by area in the United States when including consolidated city-counties, and second-largest when such consolidations are excluded. It is also the second-largest state capital by area, after Juneau, Alaska.
Oklahoma City has one of the world's largest livestock markets. Oil, natural gas, petroleum products, and related industries are its economy's largest sector. The city is in the middle of an active oil field, and oil derricks dot the capitol grounds. The federal government employs a large number of workers at Tinker Air Force Base and the United States Department of Transportation's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (which house offices of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Department's Enterprise Service Center, respectively).
Oklahoma City is on the I-35 and I-40 corridors, one of the primary travel corridors south into Texas and New Mexico, north towards Wichita and Kansas City, west towards Albuquerque, and east towards Little Rock and Memphis. Located in the state's Frontier Country region, the city's northeast section lies in an ecological region known as the Cross Timbers. The city was founded during the Land Run of 1889 and grew to a population of over 10,000 within hours of its founding. It was the site of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, in which 168 people died.
Since weather records have been kept beginning in 1890, Oklahoma City has been struck by 13 violent tornadoes, 11 of which were rated F4 or EF4 on the Fujita and Enhanced Fujita scales, and two which were rated F5 or EF5.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City
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Oklahoma City often shortened to OKC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is the 20th-most populous U.S. city and 8th largest in the Southern United States, with a population of 681,054 at the 2020 census. The Oklahoma City metropolitan area, with an estimated 1.49 million residents, is the largest metropolitan area in the state and 42nd-most populous in the country. It is the county seat of Oklahoma County, with the city limits extending into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties; however, areas beyond Oklahoma County primarily consist of suburban developments or areas designated rural and watershed zones. Oklahoma City ranks as the tenth-largest city by area in the United States when including consolidated city-counties, and second-largest when such consolidations are excluded. It is also the second-largest state capital by area, after Juneau, Alaska.
Oklahoma City has one of the world's largest livestock markets. Oil, natural gas, petroleum products, and related industries are its economy's largest sector. The city is in the middle of an active oil field, and oil derricks dot the capitol grounds. The federal government employs a large number of workers at Tinker Air Force Base and the United States Department of Transportation's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center (which house offices of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Department's Enterprise Service Center, respectively).
Oklahoma City is on the I-35 and I-40 corridors, one of the primary travel corridors south into Texas and New Mexico, north towards Wichita and Kansas City, west towards Albuquerque, and east towards Little Rock and Memphis. Located in the state's Frontier Country region, the city's northeast section lies in an ecological region known as the Cross Timbers. The city was founded during the Land Run of 1889 and grew to a population of over 10,000 within hours of its founding. It was the site of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, in which 168 people died.
Since weather records have been kept beginning in 1890, Oklahoma City has been struck by 13 violent tornadoes, 11 of which were rated F4 or EF4 on the Fujita and Enhanced Fujita scales, and two which were rated F5 or EF5.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City
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Under tornado watch tonight, 13 years tomorrow is Joplin's EF5 Tornado Anniversary
Hope to publish more from this series tomorrow.
Largest Tornado ever recorded in history: 2,5 miles wide. That sad day scientists Tim Samaras, Paul Samaras and Carl Young lost their life hit by that huge twister while doing their job.
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Road Trip 2013 - Day 16 - June 26 - Moore, OK after the 2013 Tornado
It was an intense experience. You can only be prepared for something like this so much. Despite all of the news coverage things become more real when you're standing on the spot yourself. Standing on the spot where a whole neighborhood stood just a month ago and now ... #etbtsy
I've had the opportunity to visit Joplin the past 3 years, stopping to photograph a few historic places in town. It's a nice town and good people.
An EF5 strength tornado swept through Joplin on May 22nd, killing at least 139 persons and devastating the town. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.
After a horrific event like the May 20th tornado in Moore, OK, or the fires in Colorado or Hurricane Sandy in NJ or NY or any number of other natural disasters that seemingly destroy a community's way of life, I'm always so heartened to see the strength, determination, and amazing compassion people have to survive and help those in need. We humans can be pretty amazing creatures when we want to be.
6-20-11 Poole, NE tornado from one of the best tornado days of 2011. I will never forget the day. Great chase!
EF-4 tornado north of Salina, Kansas. We were probably 1/4-1/2 mile away and struggling with rain and 100 mph RFD winds while trying to document this twister. It was on the ground for an hour and moving at only 2 mph. We watched it from the same area until it turned into a wedge and got rain wrapped. I just love the rain you can see in this image whipping around the field.
To quote the driver of our chase team: "I think we may have experienced the 'second RFD' that Vortex 2 discovered. As the Bennington tornado formed we were hit with a blast of hightened RFD winds that was so intense I thought the car was going to roll over. I pulled out of our parking area and turned the front of the vehicle into the blast to keep the nose on the ground. The stop sign next to us was vibrating so fast next to us it was about to tear free."
Afterwards the car was covered in shredded grass and a spot of chrome had peeled off the front grill on the vehicle. The stop sign remained, but when we drove back to the spot we had left there was a telephone pole pushed halfway over from the winds. It's reassuring to have a low profile vehicle.
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A beautiful rainbow at the edge of a horrible deadly storm.
This is the storm system that produced an EF5 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma, and adjacent areas on the afternoon of May 20, 2013, with peak winds estimated at 210 miles per hour (340 km/h), killing 23 people (+2 indirectly) and injuring 377 others.
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Later classified as an EF5 tornado, it tore up a train, flattened a cell tower, shredded century old trees and killed 3 people.
One woman spoke to us the next day and she said she was in bed as per normal when she was sure her house shifted on its foundation. She had no warning.
Basement steps through the window of an abandoned foundation, the house having been destroyed by an EF5 in 2007.
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Old Depot and Caboose Riverfront Park in Parkersburg, IA
In 1865 the Chicago Central Railroad Tracks were built in Parkersburg to provide adequate transportation for the local community. The First Parkersburg Depot was built in the same month to accommodate travelers. In 1929 the Parkersburg Depot was destroyed due to a fire. Then in December of 1936 a new depot was built and stayed in good service until they discontinued the freight service. It sat near the Illinois tracks for many years. It was declared that they would make a historical park located just north of the train tracks. There stood the Parkersburg salvage yard, but some people of Parkersburg thought that they could turn it into a beautiful park. So they declared that the Parkersburg Depot be moved to the salvage yard. After two years of cleaning, painting, and hard work they made the salvage yard into a beautiful park. Added to the park was an old caboose. The caboose was placed on 37' tracks for historic significance. Now instead of a salvage yard the park is a beautiful masterpiece created by The Parkersburg Committee. The park is an active place now. Located at the park are two bathrooms, (painted yellow) a yellow Depot, a red caboose, a picnic shelter, and other many great things. Memorial benches and flowers cover the area.
Parkersburg, Iowa is also known for a 2008 EF5 Tornado that completely destroyed the south side of the town over 400 homes and killing 7 people and injuring 70 other individuals.
Picture ID# 6123, 6124, 6125
HDR - High Dynamic Range
From Wikipedia: TIV 2
Casey and his team developed and built the second Tornado Intercept Vehicle, dubbed TIV 2, to be featured in their next IMAX movie and the Storm Chasers series.[5] Work began in September 2007 by forty welding students at the Great Plains Technology Center in Lawton, Oklahoma and was completed in time for the 2008 tornado chase season. TIV 2 was designed to address some of the problems experienced with the original TIV, namely its low ground clearance, lack of four-wheel drive, and low top speed. It is based on a Dodge Ram 3500 that was strengthened and converted to six-wheel drive by adding a third axle. After season two the six-wheel drive system was modified to four-wheel drive.[citation needed] It is powered by a 6.7-liter Cummins turbo charged Diesel engine, modified with propane and water injection to produce 625 horsepower (466 kW). This gives TIV 2 an estimated top speed of over 100 mph (160 km/h). Its fuel capacity is 95 US gallons (360 L), giving TIV 2 an approximate range of 750 miles (1,210 km). The body of TIV 2 is constructed of a 1/8-inch steel skin welded over a 2 in (51 mm) square tubing steel frame. The windows in TIV 2 are all bullet-resistant 1.63 in (41 mm) interlayered polycarbonate sheets and tempered glass. TIV 2 also features an IMAX filming turret similar to the one on the original TIV. The original TIV's somewhat cumbersome hydraulic claws were not used on TIV 2 in favor of six hydraulic skirts that drop down to deflect wind over the TIV to stabilize it and protect the underside from debris, and four hydraulically operated anchoring spikes.
TIV 2 debuted on the second season of Storm Chasers, which began airing on the Discovery Channel in October 2008. Its initial performance did not go well, as it was plagued by mechanical failures, including several broken axles, which forced Casey to abandon TIV 2 and return to chasing in the original TIV until TIV 2's issues could be resolved.[3][6] Although Casey hoped he would be back in TIV 2 before the end of the season, repairs and modifications on TIV 2 took longer than expected and Casey was shown on Storm Chasers ending the season in the original TIV.[6]
In the fall of 2008, TIV 2 received several modifications, mostly focused on reducing the vehicle's 16,500 lb (7,500 kg) weight. To achieve this, certain less crucial areas of TIV 2's armor were converted from steel to aluminum while more vital areas were reinforced with supplemental composite armor consisting of thin layers of steel, Kevlar, polycarbonate, and rubber. In all, the weight reduction measures brought TIV 2's weight down to 14,300 lb (6,500 kg). The safety systems were also improved, with the three front wind skirts being consolidated into one and new hydraulic stabilizing spikes to further increase stability in high winds. Other modifications included additional doors that provided every seat position with an exit (wind skirts up or down), and a redesigned IMAX turret with 50% more windows. The third axle was disconnected from the drive train, thus changing TIV2 to 6×4 from its 6×6 design. The third axle now acts as a brace for the vehicle's weight.[3]
The TIV 2 appeared again in the fourth season of Storm Chasers, and also in an episode of another Discovery Channel series, Mythbusters, wherein both the TIV 2 and the SRV Dominator vehicle operated by Reed Timmer of TornadoVideos.Net were tested to determine their endurance to storm-force winds by being parked behind a Boeing 747 with the engines at full throttle. When tested at a wind speed of 160 mph (260 km/h), the TIV 2 had the driver's door pulled open, though this was due to human error, as Casey forgot to lock the door prior to the test. When tested again at 250 mph (400 km/h) (equivalent to an EF5 tornado), the TIV 2 suffered no ill effects other than the anchoring spikes being slightly bent; the Dominator ended up being blown approximately 50 feet (15 m), although it remained upright.[7]
In 2011, a siren was added to the vehicle to allow the TIV 2 to act as a mobile warning system for civilians in the path of incoming tornadoes, after several incidents earlier that year where the TIV team was unable to effectively warn locals of the imminent danger of the tornadoes they were tracking, especially during the 2011 Super Outbreak.[8] On April 27, 2011, the TIV 2 team intercepted an EF4 tornado that hit near Enterprise, Mississippi, while not in the path but 200 yards from it, it was the first tornado he shot with his new 3-Dimensional IMAX camera.
Casey removed the rear flap in early 2012 and built a new set of two hydraulic spikes that go into the ground during an intercept.[citation needed]
On May 27, 2013, TIV 2 intercepted a large tornado near Smith Center, Kansas. The vehicle was struck by large debris from a nearby farm and suffered damage to the roof-mounted anemometer and at least two breaches of the crew compartment when the roof hatch and one of the doors were compromised. Before the anemometer was disabled, it recorded winds of 150 to 175 mph (241 to 282 km/h), placing the tornado in the EF3 to EF4 range.[9]
Created in 1887, this hand-dug well is 109 feet deep and 32 feet in diameter. It is believed to be the largest such well in the Americas. The original museum was destroyed by the 2007 tornado, but a new museum and visitor center has been erected in its place. The well was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and is open to visitors.
Greensburg is located in southwestern Kansas, west of Wichita. The population was 1,574 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat and most populous city of Kiowa County. The town is also home to what is claimed to be the "world's largest hand-dug well," but more accurately may be described as the largest hand-dug well in the United States.
During the evening of May 4, 2007, Greensburg was devastated by an EF5 tornado that traveled rapidly through the area, leveling at least 95 percent of the city and killing eleven people. The 2010 Census recorded 777 residents.
Old Depot and Caboose Riverfront Park in Parkersburg, IA
In 1865 the Chicago Central Railroad Tracks were built in Parkersburg to provide adequate transportation for the local community. The First Parkersburg Depot was built in the same month to accommodate travelers. In 1929 the Parkersburg Depot was destroyed due to a fire. Then in December of 1936 a new depot was built and stayed in good service until they discontinued the freight service. It sat near the Illinois tracks for many years. It was declared that they would make a historical park located just north of the train tracks. There stood the Parkersburg salvage yard, but some people of Parkersburg thought that they could turn it into a beautiful park. So they declared that the Parkersburg Depot be moved to the salvage yard. After two years of cleaning, painting, and hard work they made the salvage yard into a beautiful park. Added to the park was an old caboose. The caboose was placed on 37' tracks for historic significance. Now instead of a salvage yard the park is a beautiful masterpiece created by The Parkersburg Committee. The park is an active place now. Located at the park are two bathrooms, (painted yellow) a yellow Depot, a red caboose, a picnic shelter, and other many great things. Memorial benches and flowers cover the area.
Parkersburg, Iowa is also known for a 2008 EF5 Tornado that completely destroyed the south side of the town over 400 homes and killing 7 people and injuring 70 other individuals.
Picture 6117, 6118, 6119
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These are the only two houses left standing in a several block area hit hardest by the May 20th tornado.
UP 1989 leads a 3-car SCBAU-05 (Special from Council Bluffs, IA to Austin, TX. Just east of Jordan, IA which is just east of Boone. Jordan was a good sized town but in 1975 it was wiped out by an EF5 tornado.
Ive worked this image on and off for 3 years and I think its ready to be seen.
5-24-11
Tracked for 75 miles and became rain wrapped very fast.
EF-5 winds greater than 210mph
9 people lost
Debris wrapped around debarked trees in Joplin, Missouri, May 25, 2011. On May 22, 2011, Joplin Missouri was devastated by an EF-5 tornado. Shot on film.