Last Friday, not long before setting out on the salamander foray described in the previous post, a powerful tornado barreled right through the county seat of Adams County - West Union. I was staying at Murphin Ridge Inn, six miles NNE of this twister. It felt like a pack of locomotives was flying overhead during the peak of the event, and after seeing the following video I better understand why.
This video was lifted from a security camera in downtown West Union, and the parking lot looks like the one on the west side of the courthouse to me. The power of this tornado is awesome, and scary.