A few tornado videos from 6/8/09, Shiloh, IL

[John Farley]

While playing around in Youtube today I came across a few videos of the 6/8/09 Shiloh, IL tornado that I had not seen before. Turns out this tornado was documented better than I had thought. The first video, taken from a hotel room window, is IMHO the most interesting, because the photographer was very close to the path of the tornado, and keeps the camera rolling even as the tornado skirts the hotel. At this time there was not a well-defined condensation funnel, although there were lowered, rotating clouds, and a fair amount of swirling debris. There also appear to be some multiple vortices toward the end of the video. A condensation funnel is very evident in the other videos, however, though often wrapped in rain.

Closeup video from hotel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL6pUkvfRZM&NR=1


Good video from near Scott AFB:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovmOKeBecFU


Shaky home video, but does have some good views of the tornado:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5InmlSxkgE&feature=related


Another shaky video from someone pretty close to the path. You can see the tornado beginning about halfway through the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krRUrJtOv8s&feature=related

 

[Danny Neal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_idObEk0G0&feature=related - Chalk this one up for the Holy !##$@!@$@@ !!!!!! category.

 

[Dennis Dennison]

Another shaky video from someone pretty close to the path. You can see the tornado beginning about halfway through the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krRUr...eature=related

Watch this video again closly--It looks like at around :54 and again at 1:18 - you can see near the ground at right side - what looks like a leader very short little lightning leader

 

[Adam Lucio]

That first clip is amazing - especially with all those little sub vorticies within the broad circulation - now thats a clear shot from near/inside a tornado! Makes me mad that was the one day we decide to take backroads home rather than I-70 as we were driving home from the 6-7 chase [the gorilla hail atomic bomb near Oregon,MO]