Wild Wyoming Tornado Video Shows Even Small Tornadoes Are Incredible

Damage to the inside of a mobile home after a weak but
dramatic EF-0 tornado swept through Marbleton, Wyoming.
Photo by Nikki Williston. 

A resident of Marbleton, Wyoming captured video of a tornado on Friday that shows that even weak ones are nothing to be toyed with.

On paper, the tornado doesn't sound that awful at all. The tornado was measured as an EF-0, the weakest in a scale that goes up to EF-5, which is the strongest.

The Marbleton tornado had maximum winds of 80 mph. Its path on the ground went only a tenth of a mile. The thing was just 20 yards wide. Not exactly the Midwest tornado disaster we often see on the news.

Still, the video below captures the wild drama. (Note: Video is NSFW, as the videographer is understandably swearing.)  You see near the beginning of the brief video a mobile home flop over in the wind. Debris swirls in the air. Remarkably, a trampoline goes flying in a broad arc overhead.

The person shooting the video probably shouldn't have been watching the tornado from her front window with the tornado so close. Debris could have smashed through, injuring people. But still, it's a brief but wild ride. Watch: