The Weather Channel's "Tornado Hunt 2013" crew was hit by the Oklahoma City tornado on May 31 while trying to run away from it during Friday's rush hour evening and their car was thrown 200 yards into a field.

The crew was traveling in three vehicles and was reportedly ahead of the storm when it stopped to broadcast the monstrous phenomenon. At one point, they spotted a "large violent wedge tornado," and tried to escape but the tornado hit them.

One of the crew members remembers being thrown into the air.

"It was like we were floating. We were tumbling. We were airborne at least one point and we were floating. Then we weren't tumbling anymore and we came down hard," The Weather Channel's meteorologist Mike Bettes told the channel in a live phone interview right after the incident.

The Weather Channel also said its team was safe "but shaken up," after they survived the tornado.

"My life flashed before my eyes," Bettes told the channel.

The Weather Channel reports that the crew suffered minor injuries. Everyone reportedly had their seat belts on and the car's airbags deployed.

The tornado hit less than two weeks after a tornado killed dozens of people in Moore, Oklahoma.

The death toll from May 31 tornadoes rose to 9 as of 11:16 a.m. ET Saturday, according to the Associated Press.  

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