What it's like within a massive EF-4 tornado

Nothing special...

Things start off looking like your typical springtime thunderstorm in the great plains of the United States

Oh look, there's some rain coming our way.

Nah, son. That ain't just rain. Behind that is a monster that will tear your damn limbs off and send pieces of debris through your fucking skull if it feels like it.

Shit starts getting real.

See that dark spot to the left of the screen? Yeah... That's a massive "wedge" tornado (meaning it's wider than it is tall, in terms of the ground to the cloud base). It's coming right for these poor souls. But then again, they got themselves into it, so it's their fault really.

Can't see shit.

Winds start reaching upwards of 140 mph (200 kmh) at this point. Soon enough, nothing beyond the headlights of this vehicle is visible.

REALLY can't see shit.

Day turns to night with the amount of dirt and debris flying around in this monster. Seriously, unless you were in a bomb shelter or something, you'd probably be left in pieces a few hundred feet away. Unless you're like these insane bastards who drove right in the path of this thing. Wind speeds were recorded at about 175 mph (280 kmh) before the measuring equipment was destroyed, suggesting it could have been stronger than that.

The eye of the tornado

A few seconds in you can see a flash across the windshield leaving a scrape on it. My guess is this was a piece of iron roofing from a shed or something that hit the vehicle's windscreen so hard that it sparked. Good thing this tank of a car was lined in bulletproof glass.

Things start clearing up... finally

2 minutes into the ordeal, it finally starts to pass. You can notice the darkness of that spiraling wind of hate passing by, and daylight once more setting in. The road finally becomes visible. I dunno about you guys, but I would have likely been a fatality from having A FUCKING HEART ATTACK FROM HOW BULLSHIT SCARY THIS MUST HAVE BEEN.

The vehicle itself that rode this storm out

Called the Tornado Intercept Vehicle 2 (TIV2 for short, as it's the second version these guys had custom made), it's basically a tank that has lowering shields that hug the ground so that no wind can scoop up underneath it and cause it to fly through the air. It's just a modified SUV I believe. See those red pipe looking things on the side there? Those are spikes that lower down and prod into the earth to hold this thing down, though honestly, I think that's useless considering they would probably be safe with just the weight of the massive balls from the people riding within this thing.