2017 was a big year for tornado numbers. It started early with several tornado outbreaks in January and February. It stayed at an above average pace through spring. Although the heart of peak season was not necessarily ideal for storm chasers, tornadoes continued to come at a fairly regular pace into summer. A big hurricane season threw a whole bunch more our way as several of those storms made landfall.
Over the final few months of 2017, activity was relatively sparse, but a few memorable tornadoes still happened. Despite a relatively tranquil end, 2017 will go down as a year that’s above average overall, and it certainly had its fair share of breathtaking twisters.
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In our sixth installment of this series, below are 2017’s top tornado videos…
January 16 – Houston, Texas
by Alan Sheppeard
January 22 – Albany, Georgia
by Live Storms Media
This isn’t the best video of the bunch, but Georgia had such a huge tornado year, had to include at least one.
February 7 – New Orleans, Louisiana
by Jeron Clark
February 28 – Washburn, Illinois
by Weatherman Will
March 28 – Anson, Texas
by Pecos Hank
April 14 – Dimmitt, Texas
by Stas Speransky
April 15 – Syracuse, Nebraska
by Katie Krivolavek
April 29 – Canton, Texas
by Storm Chasing Video
that awful copyright stuff tho
May 16 – McLean, Texas
by Gabe Garfield
May 18 – Waynoka, Oklahoma
by Twisting Fury
June 12 – Wyoming and Nebraska
by Max Olson Chasing
June 13 – Hancock, Minnesota
by Tornado Tailgaiters
June 24 – Howell, New Jersey
by NJ.com
June 28 – Stuart, Iowa
by Winston Wells
This one was also a contender on that day… Iowa!
July 11 – Mayville, North Dakota
by Reed Timmer/Accuweather
July 11 – Conroy, Iowa
by Aaron Meyer
And this one was good enough to see more. Another angle part one and part two of this gorgeous Iowa tornado. Iowa!
August 26 – Cypress, Texas
by Troy
For more on the hurricane tornadoes of 2017, see our breakdown of Harvey. Later storms also dropped a number of tornadoes, or maybenadoes, like this one that almost took out Mike Bettes of TWC.
November 5 – Portland, Indiana
by Live Storms Media
If Canada Was The U.S… Honorable Mention
Did we miss anything? Let us know in the comments!
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Thanks for sharing these videos. Very interesting to watch.