The man's dashcam camera also recorded the moment a tornado blew by him while he was inside his vehicle. Here's the terrifying video. www.thv11.com/article/news/lo...
I have kids and grandkids who live in Arkansas, and they are not Arkansas natives, so tornados are new to them. I am so proud of them for paying attention to the weather and doing their level best to avoid this tornado. My grandaughter in law watched it as it went by from the hospital she was working in, my grandson closed down his business and sent the crew in the opposite direction, my son-in-law who was driving a semi near Little Rock, shut down out of harms way. The others live around Fayetteville, Conway and Heber Springs and were fine. My heart goes out to all who were affected, injured and displaced. God bless you and Arkansas!
Job a sigh of natural relief the 1’st chapter Allows us to understand Gods protection especially Love. The enemy who caused this has the greater punishment. The promise is written in the Book 📖 of Matthew 1’st chapter verses 20 through 21z Godspeed sincerely I understand but, your fortunate because I have many people who were my family that I love & not 1 person has asked me if I’m ok 🙂 😕 however the love of importance is their obligation now. Love never fails.
Glad your family is OK. I'm hoping that as these disasters happen, people will begin to understand that there ARE resources to know what's coming and never be surprised, but more importantly, realize that you can't count on cell phone notifications, or warnings on TV or Twitter.... recommend Ryan Hall Y'all channel, and actively checking the weather often. Much love to everybody. Think outside the box.. If a tornado is coming, put on your bike helmet. For hail storms, If you're in your car, put the floor mats around you or put them against the windows. If you have warning, you can cover the car windows on the outside with the floor mats and duct tape em.
@@Claire6y Love your name, btw! Looks like we may have a repeat tonight and I fear the middle of the night tornados the most. ruclips.net/video/Soxw_b1WOx8/видео.html
My son was driving his semi in Arkansas and the tornado came up behind him. The truck in front of him wheels lifted off the pavement but he didn't tip over thankfully. Everyone...Please stay weather aware!🥺
@@vivianking8980 ... you still believe in fairy tales, the Easter bunny, the tooth fairy and Santa Clause don't you 🤔 ... people and children who believe in stuff like this, is why y'all are easily deceived. see: #RevJimJonesKoolaid
Actually, winds blow 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 (toward) a tornado. So the winds - as the tornado was approaching (from behind) anyway - were hitting the front of the truck head on (at 0:52 you can observe the tree fall toward his truck for reference). So the fact the tornado came up from behind him was really the most dangerous angle and made it even more amazing this didn't turn out worse.
You're absolutely right! Thanks for pointing this out. They had it backwards. Tornadic winds hit you from the opposite direction the tornado is coming from. So if a tornado is coming at you from the south, you get hit with north wind first. So yes the front of the truck was exposed to the direct windflow.
I have lived in an area where two tornadoes came within a mile of where I was living. The Ringgold EF4 of 2011, which tore w gash in Apison TN very close to my family home. As well as the EF3 that ripped through Chattanooga, which also hit in Eastern Ooltewah/Collegedale in 2020. Let me tell you, even being a mile away from one is pretty terrifying.
That tornado was at least a quarter of a mile ahead of that vehicle. Don't give people false information that could get them killed. He was not in the circulation, otherwise him and his van would have been thrown.
@@herbertharris1663 I am watching on a phone. I could see the funnel clearly ahead of him. That was most likely RFD or the rear flank downdraft of the storm. My point was the News leaves the viewer with the impression that it is safe to ride out a tornado in a vehicle. Its not. He should have exited the vehicle and layed in the closest ditch or other low spot.
@@zakonkrzyzacki3921 Yeah. Exit your vehicle while a tornado is flinging debris all over the place and lay in a ditch. You're criticizing the news for giving people the wrong idea while you're giving people TERRIBLE advice. You're going to get someone killed.
Yes, glad he is OK. He should pick a weather channel and listen to it each day for info about exact locations of storms and tornadoes. It's just as important as tires on the van.
"very quickly this happened and he - of course - because of how quickly it happened ... didn't expect that t- eh - happen so rapidly as you - mentioned, he was just kind of seeing off in the distance... and things just quickly changed " my thoughts exactly
So God was watching over Cody but not the people that the tornado killed? Why would God even allow this tornado to happen and kill people? Such retarded reasoning and logic
... Gawd failed to warn the other 24+ people that got injured, and the other fatalities that happened in other parts of the State, and in Iowa and Tennessee 🤔
This is also why Hurricanes are so devastating, as many as 72 Tornadoes can form in one as it crosses land! During Andrew this is what got us mostly, the Tornadoes. Praying for Arkansas for Strength and Determination, God Bless You All!
Did the reporters just have tornado 101 this week? They sound like they wrote an essay in middle school and needed to add words to get to the word count. "I have been thinking about this so much in my mind" and then in that community they have "Hundred years old trees" Y'all are really trying too hard.
He said himself that he was trying to record so I highly doubt he cared about seeking shelter. There was a man on yesterday's news that allowed an Amazon driver into his home.
In today's age, people would want to know who you voted for before they would give you shelter from death. If it didn't align with their own view, than you're just going to have to go for a ride inside of a tornado.
I invited an Amazon driver in during a tornado warning a while back, but he declined. I think he was too worried about delivering the packages on time. Luckily, no tornado formed.
By the looks of the video, I don't think that he had the time to go knocking on any doors. It happened too fast, they usually do. I know, I have had a similar experience myself, back in the 90's.
I went through this a couple months ago in my work van. A tree was thrown at my van so hard the limbs went through the dash. There were parts and wood sticking cling out of the truck everywhere afterward. Mine was also filmed. Its raining right now and I’m parked. When I go through rain and it starts to pick up I freeze and my blood pressure goes sky high. Now I can’t drive through rain. Im horrified of rain. The way the winds violently shake and throw everything around. I saw huge tree portions being propelled right in front of me and couldn’t do anything. The log smacked into my windshield so hard that it took the truck off the ground. It was the scariest thing I’ve ever been through. The one I drove into was at night in the middle of a very wooded area with no lights on the road.
She wants to warn us that there's foul language but they beeped it out. Are you kidding me!?!? Out of everything going on, you want to warn us about censored words? Jesus Christ!
Got a news flash for ya...the weight of the van, and the equipment in it, did not have a thing to do with the van not being upended and blown around like a toy! Did ya check the trees flying by? That van staying on the ground was because his name was not written down to leave this world that day.... Some things in a tornado are just not explainable, much less understandable!!
If that was an EF3 tornado then I am a 3000 year old wizard with the power to create a tornado. That’s EF1 maybe 2 but not one of those homes had roofs missing or major damage other than trees. If it was EF3 he was in the outer bands of the rotation.
He's lucky that the winds of the Tornado didn't carried that work van off. If a Tornado can pick up 18 wheelers and flip trains then a work van is no problem. Angels were watching over him.
😳😳😳😳 An EF-3,.....everything around him blowing and trees falling right in front of him. You can't TELL me the Father above wasn't with him during this tornado. He shows us his presence, without showing us his presence,.....if you all know what I mean!!!!
His mother made sure that he had clean underwear before leaving for work, in the glove box. Must have come in handy THAT day. LOL Glad that he came through okay, shaken, but not stirred.
These things are hard to predict for experienced meteorologists, let alone the common employer. You may have heard the stories that begin with, "The day started out like any other day, when later....." One never knows what the day will bring until it does.
@@superboats2 while that is absolutely correct. This particular instance was warned way earlier into the morning. This wasn’t an out of the blue weather event.
@@mtiger5 True. However, I have received at multiple times, severe weather warnings and advisories without anything ever happening. One has to go to work in order to pay one's bills and cannot wait on the weather to decide if it is going to do anything or not. One just has to keep alert. In this case (the featured video), the young man got lucky, and may or may not have that many financial obligations to risk it like so many of us older people do. In any case, life is a risk all on its own everyday, rain or shine.
I have kids and grandkids who live in Arkansas, and they are not Arkansas natives, so tornados are new to them. I am so proud of them for paying attention to the weather and doing their level best to avoid this tornado. My grandaughter in law watched it as it went by from the hospital she was working in, my grandson closed down his business and sent the crew in the opposite direction, my son-in-law who was driving a semi near Little Rock, shut down out of harms way. The others live around Fayetteville, Conway and Heber Springs and were fine. My heart goes out to all who were affected, injured and displaced. God bless you and Arkansas!
Job a sigh of natural relief the 1’st chapter
Allows us to understand Gods protection especially Love.
The enemy who caused this has the greater punishment.
The promise is written in the Book 📖 of Matthew 1’st chapter verses 20 through 21z
Godspeed sincerely
I understand but, your fortunate because I have many people who were my family that I love & not 1 person has asked me if I’m ok
🙂 😕 however the love of importance is their obligation now. Love never fails.
@@ManaBDew Are you okay, Larry? I hope so and pray God's protection over your wellbeing. Godspeed to you, my friend!
Glad your family is OK. I'm hoping that as these disasters happen, people will begin to understand that there ARE resources to know what's coming and never be surprised, but more importantly, realize that you can't count on cell phone notifications, or warnings on TV or Twitter.... recommend Ryan Hall Y'all channel, and actively checking the weather often.
Much love to everybody. Think outside the box.. If a tornado is coming, put on your bike helmet. For hail storms, If you're in your car, put the floor mats around you or put them against the windows. If you have warning, you can cover the car windows on the outside with the floor mats and duct tape em.
@@Claire6y Love your name, btw! Looks like we may have a repeat tonight and I fear the middle of the night tornados the most. ruclips.net/video/Soxw_b1WOx8/видео.html
My son was driving his semi in Arkansas and the tornado came up behind him. The truck in front of him wheels lifted off the pavement but he didn't tip over thankfully. Everyone...Please stay weather aware!🥺
This fella was indeed facing the winds properly. Anything broadside would have been disastrous!
U literally didn’t need to narrate how he was feeling 😂 u could clearly hear how he was feeling
😂
I hate the media!
Great video! Shows how fast a tornado can sneak up on you if not listening to weather reports!
This kid is truly blessed. He's here for a special reason ❤
That’s a lovely sentiment. He seems very levelheaded and luck was with him, for sure.
The Lord was with him
@@livhonestly no, the truck was with him.
@@zeliminator666 Lord*
@@allentoyokawa9068 prove that. It’s physics.
Cody was very lucky his van did not get tossed by the tornado, glad he is okay!
...yeah everything inside the Van, could've been turned into a weapon against him 🤔
No such thing as luck. Only the mercy, grace and love of God Almighty. In Joy
@@vivianking8980 ... you still believe in fairy tales, the Easter bunny, the tooth fairy and Santa Clause don't you 🤔
... people and children who believe in stuff like this, is why y'all are easily deceived.
see: #RevJimJonesKoolaid
You will find out on judgement day.
@@vivianking8980 hail satan
Actually, winds blow 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 (toward) a tornado. So the winds - as the tornado was approaching (from behind) anyway - were hitting the front of the truck head on (at 0:52 you can observe the tree fall toward his truck for reference). So the fact the tornado came up from behind him was really the most dangerous angle and made it even more amazing this didn't turn out worse.
You're absolutely right! Thanks for pointing this out. They had it backwards. Tornadic winds hit you from the opposite direction the tornado is coming from. So if a tornado is coming at you from the south, you get hit with north wind first. So yes the front of the truck was exposed to the direct windflow.
I have lived in an area where two tornadoes came within a mile of where I was living. The Ringgold EF4 of 2011, which tore w gash in Apison TN very close to my family home. As well as the EF3 that ripped through Chattanooga, which also hit in Eastern Ooltewah/Collegedale in 2020. Let me tell you, even being a mile away from one is pretty terrifying.
That tornado was at least a quarter of a mile ahead of that vehicle.
Don't give people false information that could get them killed.
He was not in the circulation, otherwise him and his van would have been thrown.
That's what I was thinking. This looked like the thunderstorms we get where I live so I was surprised it was a tornado going over his van.
@@herbertharris1663 I am watching on a phone. I could see the funnel clearly ahead of him. That was most likely RFD or the rear flank downdraft of the storm.
My point was the News leaves the viewer with the impression that it is safe to ride out a tornado in a vehicle.
Its not.
He should have exited the vehicle and layed in the closest ditch or other low spot.
@@fbbWaddell You don't get storms this bad where you live. Stop lying.
@@zakonkrzyzacki3921 Yeah. Exit your vehicle while a tornado is flinging debris all over the place and lay in a ditch. You're criticizing the news for giving people the wrong idea while you're giving people TERRIBLE advice. You're going to get someone killed.
Exactly true wasn't in full circulation
Nice of the people whos home he just sprayed to let him in during the storm
70 mph wind is terrifying. I can't fathom 160.Wow.
Yes, glad he is OK. He should pick a weather channel and listen to it each day for info about exact locations of storms and tornadoes. It's just as important as tires on the van.
he was working
@@nowistime8070 RUclips live weather shows... It's bad if he has no reception underway.. Cb radio?
I counted at least 2 flying cars,
Cody you are a lucky man :)
...where? In this video or another one? 🤔
@@Texaca 00.50 upper right, then another seconds later
@@debbie991 Not cars. First was a trampoline and then the other seemed like sheet metal.
According to these comments it wasn't luck..lol...it was God
Great humanitarian ladies. Thank you for your report.
"very quickly this happened and he - of course - because of how quickly it happened ... didn't expect that t- eh - happen so rapidly as you - mentioned, he was just kind of seeing off in the distance... and things just quickly changed "
my thoughts exactly
Now the man named Cody in the van I'm sorry you had to go through that
Great footage brother glad you made it!
Holly Shit‼️
-Cody
God was watching over Cody. So glad that young man is alright. ❤🙏
So God was watching over Cody but not the people that the tornado killed?
Why would God even allow this tornado to happen and kill people?
Such retarded reasoning and logic
... Gawd failed to warn the other 24+ people that got injured, and the other fatalities that happened in other parts of the State, and in Iowa and Tennessee 🤔
@@Texaca Right? I hate it when people say shit like that. Like God wasn't watching over the people that were KILLED.
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
WOW is all i can say .. the coverage .. if you are ever in this much danger usually cant capture but this is so true ..
He is very bless to be here to explain his self other then that I wouldn’t video anything I would’ve totally escaped and selected to take videos later
This is also why Hurricanes are so devastating, as many as 72 Tornadoes can form in one as it crosses land! During Andrew this is what got us mostly, the Tornadoes. Praying for Arkansas for Strength and Determination, God Bless You All!
Amazing, glad Cody came through this A-OK.
Did the reporters just have tornado 101 this week? They sound like they wrote an essay in middle school and needed to add words to get to the word count. "I have been thinking about this so much in my mind" and then in that community they have "Hundred years old trees" Y'all are really trying too hard.
He's never going to say "turn off the damn boring weather" again!
what does it say about our society, that he didnt feel ok asking someone to just let him inside their home. geez
He said himself that he was trying to record so I highly doubt he cared about seeking shelter. There was a man on yesterday's news that allowed an Amazon driver into his home.
In today's age, people would want to know who you voted for before they would give you shelter from death. If it didn't align with their own view, than you're just going to have to go for a ride inside of a tornado.
I invited an Amazon driver in during a tornado warning a while back, but he declined. I think he was too worried about delivering the packages on time. Luckily, no tornado formed.
By the looks of the video, I don't think that he had the time to go knocking on any doors. It happened too fast, they usually do. I know, I have had a similar experience myself, back in the 90's.
Poor Cody! Thank goodness he was in a heavy vehicle.
Thank goodness you are ok 🙏🙏🙏
well he will have a great story to tell his kid and grandkids....
So glad he's alright, that would have been terrifying.
I went through this a couple months ago in my work van. A tree was thrown at my van so hard the limbs went through the dash. There were parts and wood sticking cling out of the truck everywhere afterward. Mine was also filmed. Its raining right now and I’m parked. When I go through rain and it starts to pick up I freeze and my blood pressure goes sky high. Now I can’t drive through rain. Im horrified of rain. The way the winds violently shake and throw everything around. I saw huge tree portions being propelled right in front of me and couldn’t do anything. The log smacked into my windshield so hard that it took the truck off the ground. It was the scariest thing I’ve ever been through. The one I drove into was at night in the middle of a very wooded area with no lights on the road.
Good job to stay safe & you didn’t panic. 🙏🏻🤷♂️🌪️💨
Feeling stuck I been there many time's am glad your okay bro God bless you 🙏❤️
Thank the Lord Cody is safe and sound! Glad he shared it! Amazing!
So thankful he's OK. GOD bless that area.
Good Lord! Never under estimate the power of Mother Nature!
You got THAT right.
Her hair could have stopped that tornado.
Thanks god he is alive
holy sh!t..it's so damn violent..and what they leave behind..
In my opinion Cody you can say HOLY SHIT as long and as loud as you want. Thankfully you survived.
Holy cow 😮
I'm amazed that truck didn't blow away!
He knew the rule "camera man never dies"
I would still be shell shock and mess my pants. God Blessed you, Cody. Live a long, healthy and safe life.
The fact that it's a whole Car flying thru the air smh. Just crazy.
He’s lucky he didn’t end up like that trampoline that flew past his window....
That takes courage ❤❤❤
WOW!!!
Cody remembered the camera man never dies!
Was that a car flying through the air?
It sure looked like it, and I think there was a flying lawnmower the preceded it. Hard to tell.
2 years ago my friends have moved to Arkansas from California and they said there are NO tornados 🌪️ in Arkansas 😳
Cody uses the tornado for his deluxe pest eradication package. We don't recommend the deluxe package.
She wants to warn us that there's foul language but they beeped it out. Are you kidding me!?!?
Out of everything going on, you want to warn us about censored words? Jesus Christ!
I would have much rather have been warned about that Pocahontas wig.
Anybody know if that big momma on the right is marry gurl??🥰❤
Between Tornadoes and guns one has to wonder where to hide
Looks like 2 vehicles flew from the left side into the air and fell onto the right side of the street.
If you frame by frame they look like they had handles or something on them, the second may have been a square trampoline with a net enclosure.
Was he in Kansas when he started?
Got a news flash for ya...the weight of the van, and the equipment in it, did not have a thing to do with the van not being upended and blown around like a toy! Did ya check the trees flying by? That van staying on the ground was because his name was not written down to leave this world that day.... Some things in a tornado are just not explainable, much less understandable!!
Did you see that car go flying by 150 feet in the air ?
I'd be cursing like a sailor too!
I live near Jacksonville, though miles from where the tornado came through. Still found debris from that same storm that came from who knows where.
Have you seen my trampoline?
@@yourhandlehere1 No trampolines found, just bits of insulation, shingles, and other tornado debris.
Did he say the tornado came from behind him?
Cody the goat for this
He was on the very edge of that! Had he been fifty feet closer, it would've been curtains for him.
According to NWS data 167 feet from tornado path. EF3 Tornado is to left of picture.
How much weight can you even put in those little vans?
Pretty amazing that it didn't take his van, but took roofs off of steel buildings and mangled the girders. He's one lucky man.
Alot of weight. Mine stays packed lol
Thought the news lady was gonna say ‘holy shit’ there for a sec
Wow!!
Smart move to record it. Cameraman always seems to make it
Looks like his van was pointed into the wind is. Maybe that's the reason the van wasn't lofted into the air.
Why am I thinking while looking at that reporter gal...so thats where my mop flew off to.
Florida man been quiet since this dropped
If that was an EF3 tornado then I am a 3000 year old wizard with the power to create a tornado. That’s EF1 maybe 2 but not one of those homes had roofs missing or major damage other than trees. If it was EF3 he was in the outer bands of the rotation.
That’s one of my oldest friends houses
All I heard was BLEEP! Holy BLEEP!
Hope Cody got PAID BEFORE the job he had just completed...
1:20: Notice the street light survived.
He's lucky that the winds of the Tornado didn't carried that work van off. If a Tornado can pick up 18 wheelers and flip trains then a work van is no problem. Angels were watching over him.
I believe that tornado was an EF3. If it had been stronger, the van problem would have been sent flying.
The home he was at didn't know the storm was producing a tornado? They should have let him hang out in the house, geez.
This is why you have to stay weather aware. Most people don't.
He must have a lot of crap in that van.. it had to be heavy to just sit there
Wow
Tadpole and lovable will have
Tree misses him by 20ft and destroys pickup in closest driveway....obviously no warning and did not see it. He lucky he did not get picked up
Wow! Those looked like 2 cars being fought in the air, but maybe they were trees or something.
In slow motion it looked more like trampolines
Can't believe how much he looks like my son. Wow
There shoupd be a law that punishes people for recording in portrait mode.
😳😳😳😳 An EF-3,.....everything around him blowing and trees falling right in front of him. You can't TELL me the Father above wasn't with him during this tornado. He shows us his presence, without showing us his presence,.....if you all know what I mean!!!!
How was Cody feeling I'm pretty sure he had to go wipe afterwards
His mother made sure that he had clean underwear before leaving for work, in the glove box. Must have come in handy THAT day. LOL Glad that he came through okay, shaken, but not stirred.
😮
Thank God he stayed safe❤😮
Corallys fine ass hell. She gives me a good reason to visit Puerto Rico. I’ll make sure to check the weather before visiting though most certainly
the tornado passed right in front of him.
Shows what kinda employer that dude works for. Shouldn’t have been there to begin with
These things are hard to predict for experienced meteorologists, let alone the common employer. You may have heard the stories that begin with, "The day started out like any other day, when later....." One never knows what the day will bring until it does.
@@superboats2 while that is absolutely correct. This particular instance was warned way earlier into the morning. This wasn’t an out of the blue weather event.
@@mtiger5 True. However, I have received at multiple times, severe weather warnings and advisories without anything ever happening. One has to go to work in order to pay one's bills and cannot wait on the weather to decide if it is going to do anything or not. One just has to keep alert. In this case (the featured video), the young man got lucky, and may or may not have that many financial obligations to risk it like so many of us older people do. In any case, life is a risk all on its own everyday, rain or shine.
That's not a direct hit, that's q side swipe of the tornadoe
I don't blame him for cursing 😂
The lady with fake hair can’t turn her head
Holy Shit!
Today current weather in arkansas city is heavy thunderstorm
Call Cody for your pest control needs !!
👉 watch your weather broadcasts, guys!
Cant go park close to building protect from wind omg