Video has some thinking Pilger tornado took house on ride, returned it intact

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This video screenshot from June 16 shows a structure that had been airborne in an EF4 tornado. Is it a grain bin? Or is it the house that afterward was found rotated 180 degrees on its Pilger, Nebraska, foundation?

POSTED: SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2014 12:30 AM
By Joe Duggan / World-Herald Bureau

Pilger tornado: The latest updates and continuing coverage

LINCOLN — Amid the shingles, lumber and tin swirling in the Pilger tornado, it appears for a second or two before falling back to the ground.

A house.

It’s there in a storm chaser’s video of the June 16 tornado that took two lives along with millions of dollars worth of homes, farm equipment, commercial buildings and vehicles.




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This battered house, which has since been razed, belonged to Juliana and Corey Savage. He thinks it's the structure a videographer captured flying through the June 16 tornado. Afterward, it sat rotated 180 degrees.


Several weather experts who have studied the video agreed that the tornado appears to have picked up an entire house and tossed it back to earth like an empty matchbox. It’s happened before, they said.

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