A Missouri teen shattered Mike Powell’s world record by nearly a quarter-mile, but unfortunately this long jump was a bit wind-aided.
A tornado’s 150 mph winds blew Matt Suter, 19, wearing only his boxer shorts, clean out of his grandmother’s trailer home near Fordland and sent him flying into a grassy field — some 1,307 feet away, according to a National Weather Service GPS reading.
Except for getting briefly KO’d and cut on the scalp by a flying table lamp, Suter escaped remarkably unscathed.
As Tom Grazulis, a Vermont-based tornado researcher, told the Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader: “I’ve never heard of anyone going that far in a tornado and surviving.”