Watch: 7 ways Mother Nature impacted the nation this week

Mother nature unfurled her worst across the U.S. this week. In just two days, Americans have experienced the worst of all weather: blizzards, tornadoes, floods, fire and hail.

Tornado

A storm chaser caught the moment a tornado ripped the roof off a home in Gilmore City, Iowa. The roof flew 50 feet in the air and looked more like paper.

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Watch: Tornado blows roof off house in Iowa

Video captures a tornado moving through Gilmore City, Iowa and taking off a roof from a house. (Video: SevereStudios Hall/Peake)

Storm chaser @adamorgler on Twitter posted a timelapse video of the same tornado in Gilmore City. It shows the birth of the tornado all the way to when it became rain wrapped.

Iowa, South Dakota, Texas and Nebraska all had confirmed tornadoes Tuesday.

TORNADOES SIGHTED IN 4 STATES AS MULTI-DAY SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK CONTINUES

Hail

Storms across the Plains generated enormous hail. Watch as a storm chaser is caught in golf ball-sized hail. He watches it pelt the ground around his car before it smashes his windshield.

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Storm chaser's windshield cracked by hail

A storm chaser was caught in a large hail storm in Milltown, South Dakota. A stone broke his windshield.

Thankfully, he wasn't chasing the storm in Salado, Texas where hail larger than the photographer's hand fell. The stone measured 5.5 inches across.

Can you believe the record holder for hail in the U.S. was almost an inch larger? Hondo, Texas saw 6.4 inch hail last year.

HAIL LARGER THAN GRAPEFRUIT FALLS OVER CENTRAL TEXAS

Snow

The National Weather Service issued a Blizzard Warning for much of South Dakota Tuesday. The North Dakota Department of Transportation tweeted photos of 40-50 mile per hour winds blowing snow over roads in Bismark.

Visibility at the airport was a quarter to half a mile in blowing snow through the afternoon.

POTENTIALLY LIFE-THREATENING BLIZZARD IMPACTS NORTHERN PLAINS WITH HISTORIC SNOW, WIND

One resident in Billings, Montana enjoyed the late taste of winter.

Fire

Wildfires spread quickly on 71 mph wind gusts in Ruidoso, New Mexico. Several neighborhoods were evacuated. New Mexico Fire reported that many structures were lost.

The McBride Fire so far burned 1,000 acres and is 0% contained.

(Mary Wilmeth)

One resident said, "I've lived here 15 years and have seen many large fires, evacuated twice yet have not experienced a wind event like this."

HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS DRIVE DESTRUCTIVE WILDFIRES IN NEW MEXICO

Lightning

Lightening in Knoxville, Tennessee ignited a gas line.

The Knoxville, Tennessee Fire Department extinguished this fire that was soaring as high as the second story of the house. They say lightening struck the gas line which erupted in the blaze.

LIGHTNING STRIKE TRIGGERS GAS FIRE IN KNOXVILLE

Wind

Who knew that being a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma was hazardous? Winds gusted to 39 mph as the scientists released one of the twice daily balloons attached to a radiosonde which reports back upper-atmospheric conditions.

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'Failure is not an option!'

"Failure is not an option!" tweeted meteorologists struggling to release a research balloon at the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma.

Flood

Inches of rain fell over Paragould, Arkansas Monday. Roads quickly flooded as the ground was already saturated after four weeks in a row of thunderstorms.

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Flash flooding in Paragould, Arkansas

Neighborhood streets in Paragould, Arkansas flowed after rainstorms for the fourth week in a row. Credit: @mcmasters_tim / TMX