Beautiful EF-1 Elephant Trunk Tornado - Pleasantville, IA (April 4th, 2023)

Here's my footage of the Pleasantville, IA EF-1 tornado. This tornado started 2.5 miles east of liberty center and then tracked northeast for about 15 miles where it dissipated in Marion County just south of Pleasantville.
I've been chasing for about a year and have only been on a few chases, and this is my first time ever seeing a tornado. So that explains why we were all kind of freaking out in the video, this was all our first tornado. Also sorry for the bad microphone quality, I'm just using the built in mic from my camera, so I tried to turn the volume down in my editing software whenever it peaked.
This video was taken with a Canon T6i and an 18-55mm STM lens.
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[@EthanBWeather]

Wow that is a really beautiful tornado!

[@user-cj5sq7pq4s]

Beautifull twister you've got there. I love how it slowly fades away into nothingness.

[@jerrychapmanwx5637]

Thanks for the kind words bro!

[@gabrieltatarsky9086]

Dude, that's so awesome. Awesome shots. I love when it disappeared, it looked like a scar in the sky, healing

[@jerrychapmanwx5637]

Thanks for the kind words man! Yeah watching the tornado dissipate in person is incredible, will never forget that day.

[@momfullofjoy9514]

Really enjoyed this footage. Very photographic tornado!

[@jerrychapmanwx5637]

Thanks! Yeah it was a gorgeous tornado.

[@nightmare1010]

Actually amazing shots over here, Great job son.

[@jerrychapmanwx5637]

Thanks bro

[@markchapman5398]

That was one of the most exciting days of my life!!! Let's do it again sometime.

[@jerrychapmanwx5637]

Same, yeah we gotta chase more this year.

[@stormguys]

The people yelling in the background are me and my chase partners at 0:55 . We have a shorter clip of this tornado on our channel haha! Awesome footage. We didn't want to lose our vantage point because we werent sure if the road went all of the way through so we ended up staying there until its ropeout.

[@stormguys]

In fact, when you guys said "he says theres a tornado" thats my buddy haha! Was an awesome chase!

[@jerrychapmanwx5637]

That's awesome that y'all found this video! Yeah we didn't realize there was dust on the ground until you guys started yelling, so thanks for the heads up! 😂 Yeah we decided to head down the road since it seemed to have lifted and then when we were in town it dropped down again with a very well defined funnel, we got on to the highway and found a good spot where the trees weren't blocking the view and we just sat there and watched it, one of the craziest experiences in my life!

[@jacobpunch9178]

@@jerrychapmanwx5637 yeah when we were driving away it went drillbit and we got a couple decent pictures. From our vantage point we were able to see the entire structure of the hook. it was beautiful!!!!

[@jacobpunch9178]

Oops I switched accounts to respond haha

[@ericascali5427]

Mamia😱

[@convectioncowboy]

HAHAHAA THATS US YELLING 😂😂😂😂

[@jacobpunch9178]

LMAOOOOO