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• © 2013 National Geographic; video from Tim Samaras

  Birth of a Tornado

  May 21, 2013—Two days before a tornado—with winds clocked at over 200 miles per hour—tore through suburban Oklahoma City on May 20, National Geographic explorer and storm researcher Tim Samaras captured this video of a tornado forming in south-central Kansas.

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