Matt Suter Survived Tornado Flight

In 2006, a teenager named Matt Suter survived the farthest known distance carried by a tornado, traveling 1,307 feet in Fordland, Missouri. He had been standing on a couch trying to close a window against winds of about 150 mph when a lamp hit him and knocked him unconscious. An F2 tornado then sucked him out of the house and threw him nearly a quarter mile. His only injury came from the lamp that hit him before the tornado carried him away.

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