Rope Tornado Caught on Video Moving Through Rural IA

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 

WEATHER / TORNADOS

If there were ever a beauty contest for tornados, this one would win first place with ease.

Do you remember the tornado from the movie "The Wizard of Oz"?  Did you ever wonder why no one ever seems to share video of tornados that look like that?   Well, wonder no more, as a storm chaser in Iowa caught a "rope tornado" that looks exactly like the tornado in The Wizard of Oz movie!   It's absolutely stunning.  

This footage was taken on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 during yet another massive tornado outbreak, which is the the third one we've had this spring.  

But it's not global warming or climate change that is causing all this activity, every single one of these outbreaks has been caused by a massive cold front coming in from the west.   As a matter of fact, the western United States is having one of the coldest winters ever recorded.   The snow and cold have been at levels never seen before in American history.