WATCH: Tornado touches down in Iowa

Video shows a tornado touch down about 40 miles southwest of Des Moines.
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[@ShreddedRipcord]

And this is now officially the fastest tornado wind speed on Earth, finally dethroning the May 3rd, 1999 tornado after 25 years.

[@canadianoctopus1479]

Who confirmed?

[@ShreddedRipcord]

@@canadianoctopus1479 NWS and Reed Timmer

[@canadianoctopus1479]

@@ShreddedRipcord For some reason Wikipidia has it listed second to the Bridge Creek tornado, not that I trust Wikipidia more than actual trained meteorologists

[@purplelava563]

Reed Timmer was storm chasing & caught video the moment the tornado went by these😮😮

[@rachaelvann379]

Stay safe everyone 😢😢

[@nikkibonanno3794]

I was watching hey y’all it’s Ryan hall when it touched down. He said it was one of the biggest he ever seen and def. The biggest one they covered this year. Debris was hitting 31k feet up in the air!! That’s a BIG powerful tornadoe! Prayers for all in its path! My goodness that had to of be terrifying

[@ShadorianPrince]

So for those that don’t yet know. This was a record shattered. It had so many sun vortices that it looked like the tornado was made from tornadoes. It was clearly ef5 throwing debris from Greenville over 40,000ft in the air. Debris was thrown miles away NE of the city and rained down on several others. It was so powerful that some satellite tornadoes spawned around it before it lifted.

[@Townsendfamily]

Greenfield* I’m the only city in Des Moines that didn’t get hit

[@chacaabbaylee768]

They rated it ef4 with winds estimated at 185. But it was a crazy to see all those vortices. Reeds footage of one of the windmills going down was insane. That man is at every tornado of notable mention. And i do mean every tornado

[@iiDOCKERY]

Not called sun vortices

[@iiDOCKERY]

And not EF-5

[@jaidinlee6493]

@@chacaabbaylee768300+

[@CAM-wk3dj]

I’m definitely thinking that the US Government is going to have to come thru And help the insurance companies with all of this destruction so that increases to insurance don’t become unaffordable AND so that people are able to rebuild -We will NEVEr be able to keep up at this rate..

[@nothingreally8247]

Insurance should just be fully public at this point.

[@minnipearls3633]

I was there it was insane!!

[@franckrene-]

Yes but where's baph .....for help to you?

[@thenameugaveme1540]

Are you a news station in Iowa?

[@alliebo30]

Stay safe I’ve already had 3 warnings

[@JaxonSmithers]

Saw those on a storm chasing live stream. One tornado did a lot of damage to a small town down that way. Hope everyone is ok.

[@R-Lee-]

What is the name of the channel that you watched that on?

[@JaxonSmithers]

@@R-Lee- I believe it was Max Velocity Severe Weather Center.

[@manavanand18]

looks like an ef 2 tornado, hope everyone is safe

[@YourBoi-Ty]

It wasn't when it hit me in Greenfield Iowa estimated to be ef4 to ef5

[@Juii8iiiuooi]

how does it look an ef2?

[@YourBoi-Ty]

@@Juii8iiiuooi thats what I'm saying greenfield is flatend here

[@OblivionSeeker]

this thing was 100% EF4 to EF5. windspeeds were recorded over 300mph

[@franckrene-]

Le sénateur Chuck y doit être triste..,c'est hallucinant les pauvres gens .😮

[@Townsendfamily]

And yet bros outside recording it

[@dds363]

Totally man made to destroy farmland!

[@jackheintz9747]

No.

[@MacDonalds-6367]

It on you can go to the basement

[@bumirabumira4981]

Alhamdullillah..

[@albertafarmer8638]

Endtimes, get rapture ready, people! We are so close now!

[@jackheintz9747]

Whackos been saying that for 2000 years 😅

[@albertafarmer8638]

@@jackheintz9747 The 2000+ years were the great chance for the Gentiles to get saved now the signs of the end times are everywhere.