Chasing Tornadoes (Tornado Alley)

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/chasing-tornadoes/



Around dinner hour on June 24, 2003, the entire hamlet of Manchester, South Dakota—walls and rooftops, sheds and fences, TVs, refrigerators, and leftover casseroles—lifts from the earth and disappears into a dark, thick, half-mile-wide (0.8-kilometer-wide) tornado. The pieces whirl high in the twister's 200-mile-an-hour (321-kilometer-an-hour) winds, like so much random debris swept clean from the landscape.