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Is there footage of a violent-looking tornado that didn't cause any damage to homes?

The kind with the violent-looking rotation that you'd swear is at least EF4 just by looking at it but ends up being rated like EF2 because it didn't hit anything. The St Libory EF3 is kind of a good example of what I'm looking for, but even though it didn't kill anyone, it did still flatten several homes, so I can't really admire or like it.

I do suppose though that such a tornado, one that manages to thread the needle and stay in open fields, would be a relatively unlikely event, considering how pretty much every tornado that touches down for more than a minute seems to end up blundering into some census-designated place before too long.

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