04-26-2024 Minden, Iowa - Drone - Destruction of Town - Homes Leveled
2024 ж. 25 Сәу.
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MINDEN, Iowa - A devastating tornado moved through the area leveling homes and businesses. Drone shows serious damage across the town from a tornado around 5pm in the afternoon.
#Tornado #Drone #Minden #Iowa #IAwx
0:24 imagine hiding in your basement and the foundation above you gets ripped away, that has to be the most terrifying thing one can experience
Nope. A couple that I know were sucked up into a tornado and thrown out like rag dolls. They survived with multiple broken bones. They were in the hospital for weeks. They are much better now after a year of recovery and multiple surgeries each. That must be much more terrifying than surviving in a basement.
Bro my heart whould STOP youre safe and then BOOM foundation gone. Poor people. Kinda glad i dont live in america tornado alley
@@rehoboth_farmnope. Being circled by a family of tiger sharks before they collectively start tearing bits of limb off must be the most terrifying.. Whose next?
Riding in a space capsule to mars and a asteroid blows a hole in it and you get sucked out with all the air
@@darrellgarlock8478 space boy ey...
To see a room with a clock still hanging on the wall, and a bedroom next to it, is just heartbreaking. It's someone's dear home.
HOUSE, a Home is the Family in the House.
Unbelievable. My heart goes out to all of you who were affected. Just terrible.
Part of what is unnerving about this drone video is the utter silence.
I mean does it have a microphone?
Somehow I can still hear screaming and crying.
Creepy
@@beachbum77979really? I didn't hear anything 😢
It's a miracle there were no fatalities. Thank you for your coverage.
That is the thing that really gets me too. For much of this there is no-where to hide - then there are the animals. Rarely do they show that side of these tornados. Prayers for all.
There actually was 1 fatality. An elderly gentleman passed away from his injuries a day or so after the storm.
The randomness of tornado destruction always amazes me. Some houses are in splinters while others not that far away are still standing.
usually the result of suction vorticies...
That always amazes me too.
I grew up 8 miles away from this town, and vividly remember June 26, 1976 when it was hit by a tornado (I was 11 at the time). My heart sank when I heard the words "tornado emergency" and "Minden" put together today. 1976 pales in comparison to the damage I'm seeing in this video.
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A town in Oklahoma,Moore, gets hit on a regular basis. A friend of mine had a kid in school there when it was hit. The town rebuilds and repopulates every time. Tornadoes are wild. People are even wilder. Lol.
I had forgotten about that one, prayers for the community
@@thatderangedbunny❤
The first ever tornado emergency happened during one of the two Moore, Oklahoma F5/EF5's in either 1999 or 2013, I can't remember which
It’s shocking how some homes are flattened and others go barely unscathed! Prayers and the fortitude to rebuild their lives 🙏🏼
Shows how dominant the multi-vortex tornado structure was
More forecasted for today - April 27!!!! 🙏🙏🙏 I’m in Elkhorn, Nebraska- about 2 -3 mi from a hard hit area yesterday. EF-5 2 mi wide they said! My heart is broken for all who are experiencing the rage of these horrific storms!
@@redesign5096don’t be surprised if it’s not EF-5, but it was definitely a wide monster
Notice that the century-old homes are still standing... some of the structural failures may be attributed to lackluster construction standards of the 70's thru the 1990's.
Yeah that's likely due to the fact that this tornado was multi vortex, meaning there were basically multiple small and extremely powerful tornadoes on the ground right next to each other. These type of tornadoes are often the most deadly and unpredictable, especially for storm chasers. Like in El Reno 2013, when the multiple vortices were all over the place, trapping storm chasers along with the large size.
My brother lost his home and buildings near Treynor, IA from this storm. I've driven thru Minden many times, and this is unrecognizable.
Sorry to hear that, hopefully no one was hurt
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didnt ask
@boomstruck123...Nobody asked you to reply, either.
We were watching this unfold via Ryan Hall's live stream, from Pennsylvania. A tornados utter destruction is just heartbreaking!
I was watching this live unfolding as it happen... This truly is a day, I as a Canadian thousands of miles away will never forget... My heart goes out to those affected by mother natures beauty and fury. No words one human being can say may ease the heartache and pain of those who lived thru this story shall give it justice.. Only with time will the wounds of the heart , mind, body and soul heal.... My deepest prayers to everyone on April 26th 2024 across the many states touched by these storms.
Beautifully said !!!
Were you watching Conner?
@@BlazinRiver1 I was watching Reed mainly, you?
@@BlazinRiver1 I was between 4 chasers for 8 hours.
Sending Prayers from Cairns Queensland Australia to our Mate's 🙏🇦🇺🇺🇸
money not prayers
should have sent those prayers before the tornado passed through, this is all your fault
Go back to Europe. America and Australia aren't your native.
Go back to Europe, America and Australia are not your native. Aboriginals will always be Indonesians. Colonization is of poverty, your poor nature.
Thank you Mr. Aussie for your prayers. Our fellow Americans need them today....more bad tornados are going to go through the same area today 😢
That wedge tornado was 1.35 miles wide when it hit Minden. We watched it form and head straight for the town on Ryan Hall Y'All.
You're so cool
Yeah it went from a small rope to a massive wedge with multiple vortexes in two minutes. I wonder if the NWS offices watch channels like Ryan Hall's for the storm chaser's POV because that rapid growth quickly resulted in a tornado emergency being issued.
Elkhorn was gigantic and beastly. But I don't think I've seen rapid growth like you said, vortices, a wedge looking like El Reno but wasn't. Elkhorn did level homes from what I've seen, but Minden looks absolutely scoured. That tornado was certainly EF4+ with damage like that. Catastrophic night
@@kevinjoyce285 Go back to Ryan Hall's stream from yesterday. From rope to over half a mile wide in two minutes.
@@kevinjoyce285 The storm chasers and Ryan Hall had never seen that happen before either. It became the monster right before hitting Minden. The storm was the size of the town I have never seen Ryan Hall speechless as he told anyone in Minden,get underground. He was pale and looked ill. We counted 5 vertices at the base. It was like watching a cgi movie. The chat was praying. I hope we never see another one like that.
My heart goes out to everyone affected by the many tornados in Iowa, Nebraska, Texas and SE Kansas. Many prayers to all of you.
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Sincere prayers to my fellow Iowans that you all recover quickly. May God bless
What has always gotten me is, how the Tornado can completely destroy some homes, while others yards away aren’t even touched. Some of the foundations were so bare that you couldn’t even tell there was a house there. 😢 Prayers for all. 💜🙏🏼💜
money not prayers
Both
Masonry walls not prefabricated wood panels is one factor
Multi-Vortex structure of the tornado is the factor. Nothing to do with house quality
@@davepowell7168They are all the same house if you look on Google Earth. Multi Vortex is the reason.
So sorry for these people.
All of that empty surrounding land, and it had to go right through everyone’s lives. This is so heartbreaking. Sending my love and prayers.
It was mostly going through farmland, tearing up their livelihoods before wiping out this small town. An entire community has been wounded.
It’s actually incredible how many large tornadoes there were yesterday but a majority just narrowly missed so many small towns. This town was unfortunate though as this tornado caught the side of town.
Yes
No words. Tears and prayers from Texas.
Also 🇨🇦🙏
Scary how much damage the storms did. Our hearts go out to everyone that has to go through something like that.
Pray for strength and love and kindness and for all who were affected....😢
money not prayers
@@melodioushaste - Troll that you are, there is no money for you ....
@@ddbutikofer825 bitch, stop being willfully stupid.
@@melodioushasteprayers first!!!🙏❤️
lol "prayers" waste of time
Love the positivism of the guy at 1:49, even if he's standing on the ruins of his home still has something in him to wave hello at a drone, wish the best for him and everyone else who's going through hardship because of this
There are no words, unbelievable damage! I feel so bad for everyone who lost everything I pray they all get the help they need fast!
Prayers to the families that were hit by this. So very sad.
Prayers for Iowa.
That devastation is something else... Great camera btw.
Not from USA., what happens with the debris? Is there a local govt type agency that clears the mess or is it private initiatives who clear up? Is any of this salvageable?
I was watching a storm chaser when this touched down. So sad to see this devastation. Thanks for posting.
This is just heartbreaking to see. I’m so sorry for those affected who lost so much. May you be given strength love and support to rebuild your homes and your lives.
Thank you for sharing! To hear what happened is one thing, but to see it bring everything to a different level of real!
Brett - You do tremendous work. Thank you for this vital historical archive. You capture a moment in time of these severe weather events. I wish only strength and peace to these folks impacted by the storm.
Probably an EF4. So sad, and there were many tornados like this yesterday. I at least hope everyone was able to survive this destruction.
Thank you for Broadcasting this amazing footage. Well done!👻👌
In the top of the video it says not for broadcast, so how can he be broadcasting it?
EF4 to EF5 damage. May God help the people affected.
I don't think so. It looks more like EF3 to me but we're not professionals so let's leave it to them.
3's can do that damage as well. quit pretending you are an expert when you aren't.
Why don't you help yourself? God doesn't do anything
@@chrisuuu393 At 0:15 and 3:27 those houses have just the basements left. I'm no expert, but from the Enhanced Fujita Scale wiki page under EF4 damage "...frame homes are completely destroyed and some may be swept away."
@@mond000 There's only one home with an exposed basement, depends on the build quality of the home, it can be a high end EF3-EF5, there's just a lot of factors That go into how a building responds to wind load
sending love and prayers to everyone that got caught in the path of this monster tornado...🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️ praying there's no fatalities....
My heart goes out to those that were affected by these storms. Never ceases to amaze me how quickly mother nature can remind us she is in control.
My God! That’s terrible. I hope everyone is okay!
Thats horrible I pray for those people and pets 🙏
Very sad!
I'm so sorry for this. I pray God will Help all the people that were Injured and hurt by this tornado .
I get you are well intentioned, but honestly it's not like a god couldn't have seen this coming... If he wanted to help people he could have done something before they needed help, right? Let's thank the actual rescue teams and medical professionals that actually are helping these people!
@justinebuckleywright 🙏 Thank you for your prayers & please continue to pray for God's strength & peace as we recover.
@@voyagehome5810 I'll pray for the strength and peace of the people affected and those actually helping. If there is a god, I'd blame him for not diverting this tornado, he clearly doesn't want to intervene, if he exists...
@@pauldickman4379I get what your saying but this is mother nature. God is good.
@@thisissparta8884 But who controls everything, including nature? According to the story, god had a plan from the beginning, that includes every good AND bad thing that happens. If he wanted the universe to unfold differently, he is all powerful. He knew exactly how everything would happen, he is all knowing.
One has to walk thru such devastation to fully understand the event. Did that when in high school and the visions never left me. They have such a long road ahead of them.
I was sheltering in the gas station at Minden...I'm grateful I stopped instead of driving into the town
You know it was a powerful tornado when it picked up a whole house and moved it @ 2:09. House must have been built pretty sturdy as well to remain that intact after being lifted off it's foundation and moved like 75 feet like that.
Thank you for your video🦩❤️
It must be a very bittersweet feeling to be a resident of one of the homes that went unscathed. The nice thing about small towns is everyone knows each other and usually will help out neighbors without restraint. Even if there was beef before these communities always put aside petty differences work together when push comes to shove. Best wishes to those affected.
It's insane, some houses look virtually untouched, and others are decimated. Goes to show how random tornado damage can be, especially since this one was showing constant multiple vortex behavior.
most likely first EF4 of the year
It could be high end EF3, it depends on the anchoring of that leveled wooden house with exposed basement.
Let’s just wait for the rating to come out and hope for these people’s recovery. Guessing a tornado’s rating has no use.
@@epicans6065 Although the experts factor in the extent of the damage, the final rating is usually based on the recorded wind speed.
EF3 - EF5, it looks like its going to be EF4 + most likely
@@TS-wh4ey the wind speed is not taken into account in the EF scale
🙏 for those in Minden
Thanks for covering these yesterday Brett. I'm thinking you and others may well have saved some lives with that coverage. And yet we still have folks, here in Iowa that say "I'll be on the front porch waiting for the naders". As a non-native of Iowa, or the States, they still terrify me.
These storms always look worse than they are and they pass quickly. The risk is low of actually being hit by a tornado and there are good warning systems in these states.
May CREATOR have Mercy.
I saw a radar windspeed of a 158mph when this entered that town; the radar was several dozen miles away. From the scoured ground and stripped down tree “nubs,” I can guarantee you the winds were a LOT higher than that.
It does look EF3 to me at 1:53, in the vicinity of around EF3-damaged houses (damage to trees are by flying debris). Hence, I think the winds were around as measured.
I'd say high-end EF-3 for sure, I doubt they will find any legit EF-5 damage anywhere...
@@timnewman1172 Would the leveled foundations at 0:24 be EF-5, or is that still 4?
@@MaurickSh Depending on the houses near by too, but bet it is going to be the strongest of the year so far, IMO EF3 - EF5, most likely EF4, if you're curious about it, look up why rolling fork was not a EF5 dew to one building, and rightfully so
I think it will be rated an EF4
🙏🏻 for IOWA🙏🏻
You always got the best footage ❤
Guessing EF4
My prayers go out to the people of Minde /Harlan And for their difficult times ahead, God bless them.
So destructive. God bless everyone involved. Great footage LSM, as always.
Gen X, who else has had dreams of tornados throughout their lives?
Gen Xer here too. I did in 2014 and a few times after that. I still had storm dreams last year.
I’m 34 and have had them since I was a small child
@@FLINTmitten810 me too. They are exciting dreams. The last one I had was of wingless white dragons circling in the sky straight above. Then ofcourse they turned into a massive tornado.
@@jenniferkubik478 in dreams, people would be outside there homes or apartments on balconies, looking up and out for tornados as they began forming. Sometimes there wasn't a storm nearby, they would just form from the clouds out of nowhere. Thin whipping tornados forming all around in many dreams.
My 2014 dreams were F5s and were prophetic for different reasons. Though not necessarily weather related. They can be, but they mean problems and troubles coming for a deeper meaning. In my second tornado dream from 2014, people were ignoring the change in the weather.
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I am speechless and saddened by the wonders of nature. We will continue to pray for the recovery of those who lost their homes and livelihoods due to this disaster. From Japan
No words! Bless them all.
Prayers for people’s safety 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️
Prayers for these folks. What destruction!
May God bless and take care of all these people & help them rebuild. This storm was truly a monster tornado 😔
Prayers to all those involved. So devastating.
God bless all those affected. 🙏🏻
Lol , your child story "God" caused it 🤣
I lived in Oklahoma as a kid, been through tornados, this does not look like nothing ive ever seen ...like a tornado..new age tornados..lol
Yeah being from Oklahoma I imagine this is not your first rodeo. We have these kinds of tornadoes less frequently than OK, so it’s a real mindfuck
I'm from Oklahoma, been through a few. It definitely looks like things I've seen before. Different perspectives I guess.
You must be too young to remember the F-5 that hit Moore, OK in 1999. Or the F-4 that hit four years after that.
No words.😢 just prayers 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💔🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🎈🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
This is just heartbreaking. I was watching the storms live yesterday and knew it was bad, but I wasn’t prepared for this
Weather warfare
More than likely. Nobody is safe in these trying times.
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That town definitely had their El Reno moment. May they find strength through God & Nature.
Prayers for all involved. God bless!
Humbled. Give these folks strength to recover. 😢
high end ef4 at best. ef5 rating is somewhat likely, but i feel like more damage surveys must be done
With the way the NWS idiots have been rating obvious EF-5 tornadoes as only EF-4s in the last few years, it would surprise me if they ever rated one an EF-5 again. That antiquated system should’ve been abolished years ago, and yet they keep on using it, and ignoring other indicators of windspeed, including radar.
There is nothing showing above low end EF4 on this video. Even low end EF4 is not guaranteed. High end EF3 seems the most logical rating for now, as we don't have any images of the anchors of that exposed basement .
@@epicans6065Really? What's on the left at 0:28? Seems like a building that was on a concrete pad completely obliterated. There are also houses in the video with collapsed basements.
@@jeffkardosjr.3825 those are workshops/work building shops that are generally not well built. An EF3 can obliterate those. And for the house across the street, it was a wooden rectangle, probably not well anchored, so high end EF3 looks rational here. Ps : I verified the types of buildings on Google maps. It's on the east side of Minden along Main street and near the intersection of 340th street.
OMG It looks as if it had been hit by an atomic bomb. I can't give this video a "thumbs up" -- it's too sad.
Thumbs up are for the work done by the channel not the topic. This is better information than the main stream news gives.
We send our love and prayers and thoughts are with everyone effected by this tornado 🌪 🙏
Prayers to those who have been affected 😢🙏
Build Hobbit houses and you win for generations. Quit giving insurance companies your family’s wealth.
America's zoning laws are written to sell us expensive houses, so we'll all be debt slaves to the system. Cement construction would be stronger and 1/3 the cost of these stick houses, but they're disallowed everywhere.
Sorry folks no hope no help Biden gave all the tax money to Ukraine remember😂😂😂
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That is just so incredibly sad. I feel for all of those people!
Prayers to all that suffered their losses, can't fathom the emotions felt by all.
Sending love to all the ones suffering.
So sorry for your loss!!
This is devastation. So heartbreaking. Sending prayers for all those affected from South Africa.
Quite a few years ago I had the experience of a tornado roaring right over me when I was driving truck , it happened so fast I guess I would say I was more confused than scared, thank God I wasn't hurt 🙏. I had other fairly close encounters with tornadoes at different times in life but never experienced any significant loss . I do feel sorry for all affected by the losses you folks are experiencing , hopefully your town will be rebuild asap. God bless and protect all of you 🙏 😊❤😊
We watched this through Conner Croffs eyes as it unfolds and to hear this young man's voice and to see him run to aid in anyone that needed help was so devastating that it brought tears to my eyes for all those that lived there.
😢 hope everyone is alright ❤
I live in southern california often thought about moving to one of these beautiful little towns because of the homelessness, crime, high cost of living.Then I will see a video like his and Realize we're not safe anywhere.😢
My prayers to everyone who is affected by the storm
I feel so sorry for the people in that town. May they somehow find peace with what has happened to them.
Deepest sympathies. That’s devastating.
This is just awful. Hoping and praying that everyone survived 🙏
imagine picking up the pieces only to see a bunch of news vans and they do nothing to help you, but instead record and salivate over the destruction. that would hurt my heart more than the damage and trauma combined. It's like a bunch of hyenas showing up to a wounded buffalo stuck in mud.
sad...prayers for those affected - was watching live when this came thorugh
Brave people for living there, I was watching the storm chasers live and to see the destruction afterwards leaves me speechless in another way. Crazy how cool and amazing tornados look, but the destruction is heartbreaking.
Can’t imagine running to the basement for safety and then the whole house being torn off the foundation above you. It’s amazing anybody survived.
Prayers for everyone who endured this last night. More on the way today. My heart breaks for the ones who have lost everything! These storms are really getting wicked! Be safe everyone. ♥
Prayers Lifted 🙏🏻
Prayers for everyone
Sending prayers to those people. So heartbreaking
Beautiful scenery
My prayers go out to this community. 🙏 Cannot believe the damage !