--- description: A video of a Monday storm in McKenzie County gets up and close and personal with the eye of a tornado. title: Watch a Tornado Rip Through North Dakota image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc905978616ca3d7/698690ffcd804dbfb5ccb093/north-dakota-tornado-video.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [weather](/tag/weather/) ## weather Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch a Tornado Rip Through North Dakota Workers' Camp  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 27, 2014 9:33 PM CUT   by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 27, 2014 9:33 PM CUT Amateur footage out of North Dakota shows what it’s like to get caught in a tornado after one tore through an oil field workers’ camp Monday. Nine people, including a 15-year-old girl, were sent to the hospital after the tornado passed, [the Associated Press reports](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tornado-damages-trailers-north-dakota-man-camp-23876754 "undefined"). McKenzie County Emergency Manager Jerry Samuelson said the girl, who suffered a head injury and was in intensive care, is expected to survive. The tornado, a rare event for North Dakota, reached wind speeds of up to 120 miles per hour and destroyed 15 trailers near Watford City. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/120768/north-dakota-tornado/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/120768/north-dakota-tornado/"},"headline":"Watch a Tornado Rip Through North Dakota Workers' Camp","datePublished":"2014-05-27T21:33:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:04:14.330Z","description":"A video of Monday's storm in McKenzie County gets up and close and personal with the eye of a tornado","url":"https://time.com/120768/north-dakota-tornado/","keywords":["weather","video","Storms","North Dakota","hurricane","tornado"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc905978616ca3d7/698690ffcd804dbfb5ccb093/north-dakota-tornado-video.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc905978616ca3d7/698690ffcd804dbfb5ccb093/north-dakota-tornado-video.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"North Dakota Tornado Video","caption":"North Dakota Tornado Video","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/weather/","name":"weather"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/120768/north-dakota-tornado/","name":"Watch a Tornado Rip Through North Dakota Workers' Camp"}}]}] ```