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AERIAL VIEW: SkyCam 6 surveys the path of Kokomo's EF3 tornado

Posted at 8:22 PM, Aug 25, 2016
and last updated 2016-08-25 20:48:01-04

KOKOMO, Ind. -- A tornado is indiscriminate, but precise, with the damage it causes and that crazy fact of Mother Nature was evident when SkyCam 6 took the sky to survey damage caused by an EF3 tornado that blasted through Kokomo Wednesday with wind speeds of up to 152 miles per hour.

Watch the video player above for a full look at the destruction it caused, and you'll see the path it was on.

The tornado was on the ground for 4.82 miles and had a width of 300 yards. It was on the ground for 10 minutes between 3:20 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. 

Twenty people reported minor injuries as a result of the storm. 

Path length /Statute/:  4.82 miles
Path width /Maximum/:   300 yards
Fatalities:             0
Injuries:               20

Start date:             Aug 24 2016
Start time:             3:20 PM EDT
Start location:         3.4 SW Kokomo
Start Lat/Lon:          40.4613N /86.1884W

End date:               Aug 24 2016
End time:               3:30 PM EDT
End location:           2.1 SE Kokomo
End Lat/Lon:            40.4714N /86.0978W

Click around in the interactive map below for more on each of the five tornadoes that touched down Wednesday.

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