Severe weather hitting the Midwest has damaged buildings and killed one person in Minnesota.
A family driving down a road in Woodbury County, Iowa, recorded with their phone’s camera the moment a tornado briefly touched ground just feet ahead of them. In a less than one minute clip shared with KTIV News 4, the car owned by the Oleson family can be seen driving down I-29 southbound near Sergeant Bluff, when a tornado suddenly appears less than a mile ahead of the vehicle. The camera then follows the tornado, which quickly advances towards the car and passes it on the left, a dangerous-looking, swirly column of thick gray air. The family and their vehicle appear unharmed and untouched by the tornado, but KTIV News 4 did not provide any more information on the Olesons. Severe weather was reported across the Big Sioux River basin stretching through Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and South Dakota on Thursday, with destructive winds moving through the region throughout the afternoon.
