Inside the Kirksville Tornado 2009
Kirksville Missouri Tornado and Novinger Missouri Tornado video here. NWS says there were 3
separate tornadoes and I filmed 2 of tornadoes that day with the last one in
Kirksville Mo. nearly
killing me. Below are tornado pictures and videos.
Inside the Kirksville Missouri Tornado
Video in HD. This is the only video taken from inside
the tornado in the subdivision in Kirksville Missouri as
the tornado hit. What makes this Kirksville
tornado video so unique is that it was filmed inside the
tornado as it destroyed houses and pelted Tornado Tim's
car with debris from the homes. No other chaser
has ever filmed from inside a tornado while debris is
seen pummeling them with large pieces of house and
building debris. This is the video you saw on The Weather Channel and the clip that Jim Cantore talked live on the air with Tornado Tim about. This video shows the Car Dealership where Jim Cantore and the Weather Channel did their live feed after the tornado hit it. See the tornado descended on
the city and then watch the second clip which features damage video as the rescue teams arrive on the scene and are involved in rescue efforts as they take place.
Stock Tornado video of the "One of a Kind"
inside Kirksville
Missouri tornado is available in HD for licensing. There
is no other video like this anywhere.
Below is the only video taken immediately after the
tornado hit Kirksville from within the subdivision next
to the car dealership. This Kirksville tornado
damage video and rescue video was filmed by tornado Tim
as he tried to find his way out of the subdivision and
past the Kirksville car dealership. Rescue crews
were quickly on the scene and can be seen trying to
rescue people from their vehicles
Novinger Missouri Tornado Video
HD Stock Tornado video Available
I arrived just as the tornado formed along the hi-way,
and started filming the tornado as it moved towards
Novinger Missouri. As I filmed the event I
continued to see many cars driving into the tornado, and
many people were actually inside the tornado at times.
As I neared Novinger I started warning everyone I could
of the tornado approaching. I yelled to a police
officer that the tornado was on the ground heading
towards the city. As I drove into Novinger I found
cars sitting at a stop sign, I did all I could to warn
them of the impending danger as the tornado descended on
Novinger. Sadly one person was killed in Novinger
Missouri from this tornado. I saw large debris from
within the city of Novinger as I sped away trying to
stay out of the damage area myself. The following
video leads up to my leaving Novinger and heading
towards Kirksville Missouri where I ended up inside the
tornado.
Here is the National weather Service
Report on the Kirksville & Novinger Tornadoes:
The following information was taken from NOAA NWS site.
Damage surveys conducted by National Weather Service in
conjunction with emergency management have found
evidence of three tornadoes from storms in Sullivan and
Adair counties which struck on May 13, 2009. All
tornadoes appeared to have been produced by the same
supercell thunderstorm.
1) The first tornado to form touched down just north Milan, Missouri and
proceeded east where it destroyed a mobile home killing a female occupant. The
tornado continued eastward for a few more miles damaging numerous trees for
before lifting. The damage produced by this tornado indicates it was of EF-1
strength.
2) The second tornado to form touched down approximately 5 miles west of
Novinger near Highway 149. This tornado destroyed a house and an out building
west of Novinger before destroying a mobile home, and producing additional power
line and minor building damage on the south side of Novinger. The tornado
paralleled highway 6 east of Novinger, damaging numerous power poles for a few
more miles before lifting. This tornado produced EF-1 damage along its track.
3) The third tornado produced by this storm touched down about 2 miles west
northwest of Kirksville and moved eastward through the northern part of the
city. This tornado killed two people just northwest of Kirksville and went on to
produce EF-1 damage to several structures in northern Kirksville including
damage to a car dealership and several homes. Initially damage found east of
Kirksville was thought to be the result of a separate tornado, however further
analysis of the damage path shows that the tornado which struck northern
Kirksville continued eastward into a rural area and strengthened. Several
farmsteads were struck by this tornado east of Kirksville and at one point the
tornado produced EF-2 damage.
The Kirksville Missouri tornado in 2009 added to the list of reasons why
those who live in Missouri should have an emergency tornado safety plan in
place. With the history of tornadoes in Missouri that plan should include being
vigilant all year long as the state has proven to be deadly at any time of year,
not just in the spring.
Missouri has had many deadly tornadoes with 2008 proving to be one of those
years. It all started early in 2008 with the first deadly tornado striking on
January 7th at 6:33 PM in GREENE-WEBSTER CO. Missouri where 3 people died
when a F3 tornado roared through the area. An 84 year old female was
killed when her wood constructed home was destroyed in Greene County. Six
injuries and two fatalities also occurred in rural areas north of Marshfield in
Webster County and was a sign of what kind of year Missouri faced from killer
tornadoes.
Then on May 10th 2008 at 4:59 PM in NEWTON-BARRY CO. Missouri a powerful F4
tornado caused 14 fatalities and 200 injuries from just west of Highway 43 to
Highway 86 in Newton County. One man was killed as he was taking shelter in a
mobile home in Barry County. The deadly day continued at 05:10 PM JASPER CO.
Missouri when an F1 tornado caused one fatality (17-year old female) which
occurred when a large tree fell on a mobile home she was in.
2007 was a good example that Missouri can get tornadoes at any time of the
year with killer tornadoes striking in both March and October. The first deadly
tornado in 2007 was on March 1st early in the morning at 6:33 AM about 3
miles southwest of Caulfield Missouri where one person was killed from an F3
tornado. It was reported that two gas stations, four mobile homes and two
frame homes suffered extensive damage. Then later in the year an F2
tornado struck on October 17 at 11:05 PM in the evening in Paris Missouri
where it tossed a Mobile home 1/3rd mile into field. You can read more
about why you need to have a tornado emergency plan prepared if you live in
Missouri by reading our article "Is Missouri in Tornado Alley?
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Kirksville Missouri is in Adair County and is located in the northern part of
the state
Remember the Kirksville Missouri tornado of 1889 - April 27th
April 27, 1899, Kirksville, the county seat of Adair County, a city of 7,000
inhabitants, was visited by a tornado, which swept over and through the place
about five o’clock in the afternoon, making a track about four blocks in width
and a mile in length, killing 45 persons, injuring 150, and destroying 200
houses. Theodore Brigham was found dead on the ground several hundred feet from
his house, having been carried off by the wind. An infant was carried some
distance and gently deposited in a field without being injured. The house of J.
T. Coonfield was blown across a ditch and jammed into the side of a hill, all
its inmates escaping without serious injury. A girl sixteen years old was found
dead with a two by four inch scantling thrust through her body, and a child was
taken from a heap of ruins with a limb of a tree run through its neck. Newtown,
with a population of 750, in Sullivan County, thirty-five miles northeast of
Kirksville, was visited by the same tornado a few minutes later and half
destroyed. The duration of the storm at this place was only two minutes but its
work was shocking. Herman Despers’ family of five persons, father, mother and
three children, were all killed, William Hayes and his wife were blown with
their house, a distance of one hundred yards and killed. Laban Evans was blown
150 yards and his two daughters 200 yards and killed. One of the Desper children
was found after the storm flattened against a post, dead. One of the Hayes
children, two years old, was found lodged in an apple tree, dead. Four children
of Henry Barbee were found alive and but slightly injured under the ruins of
Widow Pierce’s house, their own house having blown off over their heads and the
Pierce house blown from the other side of the street and deposited over them in
such a way as to shelter them. Ten persons were killed and twenty-five injured
at Newtown and the number of victims at the two places, Newtown and Kirksville,
was 55 killed and 175 injured.
Information taken from the University of
Missouri Digital Library Encyclopedia of the
History of Missouri Edited by Howard Conard. Volume II
Plainview Texas Tornadoes
Earlier
in 2009 I filmed what I thought was a close encounter with two tornadoes,
although not as close as the Kirksville Missouri Tornado this was some of the
best HD video I shot all year. Watch a tornado form and then pass right in front
of my car, and then take out the power lines right near me. Power
flashes are less than 100 yards from my car as the tornado intensifies and takes
down multiple power poles.
Plainview Tornado Video Part 1
HD Stock Tornado video Available
Plainview Tornado Video Part 2
HD Stock Tornado video Available
