[imagesource: YouTube / Reed Timmer]

Kansas gets its fair share of tornadoes.

However, it is not often that high-res footage from a drone manages to capture the twists and twirls of the extreme meteorological phenomena as it wrecks a small suburb.

Until this drone-wielding storm chaser entered the scene.

Reed Timmer, self-described as an extreme meteorologist per Drone DJ, used a relatively small drone to capture the immense devastation of the presumed level EF-3 tornado that hit Andover, Kansas, on Friday.

Whipping about with wind speeds ranging from 220 to 265 kilometres per hour, the tornado knocked out around 1 000 buildings as the debris was lifted and thrown in the air.

Observe:

Highest-res drone footage of the Andover, KS #tornado which has received a preliminary rating of EF3. Note how the tornado propagates via vortex dynamics and likely terrain. Incredibly, no lives were lost by this tornado pic.twitter.com/FJDBH8TAv6

— Reed Timmer (@ReedTimmerAccu) April 30, 2022

Amazingly, there were no fatalities and only a few injuries.

AccuWeather meteorologist Ali Davis captured the twister from her front porch, which was around 13 kilometres away:

Image: Ali Davis

The twister came from a larger system of severe weather that was moving through Kansas.

Further footage can be seen in the video below:

That suburb stood no chance.

From above, you can see how extensive the damage is:

[sources:accuweather&dronedj]