14 DAY TRIAL // On May 20, Oklahoma got hit by a major tornado that caused the death of over 90 people, some of whom were children.
The video above, which shows the tornado form and grow to an impressive size, was shared with the public by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, for short) in the United States.
The footage is made up of a series of pictures taken by the GOES-13 satellite. This satellite usually takes a picture of our planet once every 30 minutes.
However, given the severe weather conditions reported this past Monday afternoon, NOAA upped its picture-taking frequency, hence their being able to piece together this video.
“On May 20, 2013 as conditions were ripening for severe weather outbreaks in the U.S. Plains, the NOAA Satellite and Information Service placed the GOES-13 satellite into rapid scan operations - meaning that the satellite went from taking imagery every 30 minutes to every 5 minutes,” reads the video's description.
Specialists working with NOAA hope that, with the help of this high-speed animation, researchers will be able to learn more about such extreme weather manifestations and roll out better warning systems.