Top tornado videos of 2021

It’s our tenth year of perusing a ton of tornado videos to present the best of the year. 2021 was one of the trickier ones given the large amount of great tornado video. Even cutting it to 20 was difficult!

That’s an interesting fact, since much of the year was quieter than normal, particularly in the classic tornado alley of the Plains.

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Other regions, like the mid-Atlantic and northeast, saw elevated tornado activity, though finding twisters to shoot in those regions is often a tricky endeavor. Then there was the historic December, featuring mainly nighttime tornadoes.

The storms that did produce this year often did so in spectacular ways. You’ll probably get lost in this post for a bit!

Check out our picks below and let us know if we missed any!

March 12 – Shallowater, Texas

March 13 – Texas Panhandle

March 17 – Silas, Alabama

March 25 – Lake Purdy, Alabama

April 23 – Texas

One of those days many videos could have appeared here.

May 2 – Yazoo City, Mississippi

May 16 – Sudan/Earth, Texas

May 17 – Forsan, Texas

May 22 – Punkin Center, Colorado

May 24 – Selden, Kansas

A day that was quite hard to choose from.

May 26 – McCook, Nebraska

June 12 – Las Vegas, New Mexico

July 14 – Jewell, Iowa

Lots of great video from this day, as well.

July 15 – Lake City, Iowa

August 9 – Esmond, Illinois

August 10 – Maine, Wisconsin

September 1 – Annapolis, Maryland

September 1 – Mullica Hill, New Jersey

October 27 – Orange, Texas

And this one which is really just as good.

December 10 – Missouri portion of the “quad-state supercell”