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”
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The twister quickly popped up near sunset and rapidly turned violent.