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

This extreme, jaw-dropping drone footage shows you the real destruction that a tornado is capable of causing where a town gets completely ripped apart. The evolution of this erratic vortex behavior was captured by the Dominator Drone on April 29, 2022 in Andover, Kansas. Remarkably, no lives were lost as a result of this EF3 tornado, despite immense damage and nearly 1,000 structures impacted. This just goes to show you how incredibly important tornado warnings are to helping prevent lives from being lost in such natural disasters.

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4/29/2022

[KCMNJL]

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.

[deniseyeaisaidit]

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.

[jpdenk]

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!

[RoyGNH]

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!

[ABYStheOyster]

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.

[djscrizzle]

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.

[rossmilner]

Being Australian, the only coverage we ever see of tornadoes is on the news and from the ground, and it is usually dark, ill defined and shot from a great distance away, but this footage is something else! WOW! Now I understand just how devastating these tornadoes are. Those houses instantaneously disintegrated the moment they were hit, and now I can see for the first time just how erratic and unpredictable they really are. Thank you for this Reed. It is a truly exceptional record of a natural phenomenon which until now I have never seen with such frightening clarity and detail.

[stanleykonopka]

With availability of high quality drones, videos like this will become much more common. This is definitely the best video of its kind to date.

[zalkona]

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

[SuzDn]

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.

[RebeccaStout]

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.

[Stormchazer]

The fact that the condensation funnel is just barely visible when you zoom out, and the houses still look like little specks really shows just how massive tornadoes really are, even the smaller ones.

[mtnbikr]

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

[jimblejamm]

thank you so much for providing this footage!! as a 20 year old lifelong resident of andover, ks this was the scariest tornado experience i’ve ever had. both my parents lived through the 1991 andover tornado and i am so glad it wasn’t as deadly as that one!! luckily we have no reported fatalities so far

[highlander]

That’s one of the weirdest tornadoes I’ve ever seen. No precipitation, barely visible condensation cloud at times. Multi- vortex and small but violent. What a catch team Timmer!

[cpc]

That’s insane how that vortex stays in one spot then rockets forward like that 🥶 Incredible work Reed

[Jeff-yeso]

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

[bkduclos]

That's the strangest looking tornado I've ever seen. It looks so tiny and invisible most of the time, yet it did extensive damages.

[HughLlewellyn]

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.

[SupaDaBloopa]

This is actually the craziest tornado footage I’ve ever seen. It looks surreal, like I’m actually there watching from afar. Most tornado videos has this sort of unreal fantastical feel to them, but this _actually_ feels real. I’ve never seen such amazing footage!