00:00A rare and terrifying stovepipe tornado was captured on camera as it tore through southeastern
00:05Nebraska last night. And the video is going viral for a reason. A stovepipe tornado is one of the
00:11most dangerous tornado shapes on record. Unlike a thin rope funnel, a stovepipe tornado is wide,
00:18vertical, and almost perfectly cylindrical from cloud to ground, indicating an extremely powerful
00:24and well-organized vortex. Witnesses described the tornado as eerily silent before the roar arrived.
00:31This type of tornado formation is more associated with violent EF4 and EF5 events, the deadliest on
00:38the scale. This is the same system that has already produced a particularly dangerous situation tornado
00:44watch. And in EF3 in Howard County, meteorologists say conditions in Nebraska and Kansas remain ripe
00:52for additional tornado formation tonight. This outbreak is not over. The footage is both
00:58breathtaking and terrifying. A reminder that Tornado Alley produces some of the most powerful
01:03weather events on Earth.
