Kentucky Bank Tornado Security Video Eerily Similar To Iowa Bank Video From 2008 Hit By Similar Intense Tornado

Screen shot of surveillance video in the front lobby of
FNB Bank in Mayfield, Kentucky a 9:29:05 p.m 
December 10.

As I have anticipated, security videos are surfacing of the terrible tornadoes that wrecked swaths of Kentucky and surrounding states earlier this month.  
 

Cameras were rolling at the FNB Bank in downtown Mayfield when the tornado arrived at 9:28 p.m. December 10. 

The surveillance videos show the interior of the bank, meticulously neat, clean and tidy before the storm arrives. Cheerful Christmas trees guard the front doors, which are adorned with well-crafted wreaths.   

As the power fails, posters in the bank lobby begin to sway in a breeze. Then, the front walls and doors implode violently into the bank, mowing everything inside down with debris.

The video is almost a carbon copy of surveillance videos taken at a bank in  Parkersburg Iowa on May 25, 2008 when an EF-5 tornado hit. Fortunately, both banks were closed at the time the tornadoes it. Unfortunately, the 2008 Iowa tornado killed 9 people and the Kentucky tornado killed at least 55 people. Other tornadoes in the outbreak earlier this month caused a total of at least 90 deaths.

Just five seconds after the above screen shot, the bank
is being blown apart by the EF-4 deadly tornado that
struck Mayfield, Kentucky. 

By the way, there are some updated, but still preliminary statistics about the Kentucky/Mayfield tornado that are jaw-dropping.   The tornado was on the ground for about three hours, traveling a distance of at least 165 miles. 

It wasn't the "Quad  State Tornado that early media reports suggested traveled 250 miles.   The supercell that produced the scary weather produced one EF-4 tornado earlier.  

 Then, as intense supercell storms normally do, the system cycled, leaving a 15-mile gap in tornado damage before the storm produced the new EF-4 tornado that hit devastated towns like Mayfield, Cayce and Dawson Springs, Kentucky.  

The Mayfield bank video is below. As usual, mobile users might need to click on this hyperlink to see it. Otherwise here it is. Click on the arrow and then the YouTube logo for best viewing.