This is my most famous video segment and brief clips have been featured in numerous documentaries. This is the extended version from tornado touchdown through the crossing at I-35 mile marker 200. Included is a damage survey at I-35 mile marker 200 with an interview from a man who narrowly escaped danger by leaving home in his pickup truck. This internationally famous event has been featured in many documentary and news programs. Oddities include mangled cars, de-barked trees and a bent spoon embedded into the ground.
Some scenes contain flattened homes as far as the eye can see and a body sniffing dog.
Sobering video that forces us to remember the human toll tornadoes sometime take. This poorly documented outbreak ranks as one of the greatest storm chase events of all time with a rotating cluster of supercells producing multiple tornadoes. A report stated a farmer near Waconda Lake came out from his storm cellar three different times during the evening only to note fresh tornado damage each time. The original supercell from this outbreak contained the largest barrel shaped updraft I have ever seen, either in person or on video tape. Chase partners include Gene Rhoden, Greg Stumpf, DeWayne Mitchell, Roy Britt and Martin Lisius.