VIDEO: Walgreens surveillance camera captures tornado passing by Mobile, Alabama store
Posted: 12/27/2012
MOBILE, Ala. - Surveillance video gives a unique view of a tornado that passed by a drugstore in Mobile, Alabama.
The video from a Walgreens security camera shows the twister from two angles as it plowed through the parking lot. Sparks can be seen coming from power lines and a transformer.
The wind is strong enough to move cars around the parking lot.
No one was seriously hurt in that incident, but the tornado was 6 miles long and 200 yards wide.
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