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Very few people have lived to tell the tale of what it is like to be inside a tornado – and you can't rely on Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz.

But now a video has emerged taken from inside a car, which survived a tornado passing over it.

The dashboard-mounted device recorded the incredible transformation of the weather from persistent rain to a terrifying cyclone of wind uprooting trees and whipping debris through the air.

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A dashboard-mounted device recorded the incredible transformation of the weather from persistent rain to a terrifying wall of wind uprooting trees and whipping debris through the air (pictured). The footage is thought to be coming from the eye of the storm

It was left switched on by its owner who was not in the car.

The footage was filmed in Bashkiria, Russia last year, but was released this week on Reddit. 

The video shows the weather changing from calm to chaos in under a minute, starting with raindrops rolling down the car's windscreen, with the sky a foreboding grey and descending into large pieces of wood being flung through the air and the car's previously clean glass covered in pieces of debris.

AMAZING footage of a tornado in Russia, from a car camera

The video shows the weather changing from calm to chaos in under a minute, starting with raindrops rolling down the car's windscreen, with the sky a foreboding grey (pictured) 

The end of the video (pictured) shows large pieces of wood being flung through the air and the car's previously clean glass covered in pieces of debris

Incredibly, despite trailers and trees nearby being thrown around and uprooted, the car remains intact and on the ground, indicating perhaps it was in the eye of the storm, which if so, was not as calm as many might imagine.

It has not yet been confirmed by Russia's meteorological services whether the footage really does capture a video from the centre of a tornado. MailOnline has contacted weather authorities to see if this is the case.

Eyewitness accounts from people who claim to have been inside a tornado are rare, but seem to support the theory that the eye of the storm is eerily calm.

Will Keller, a farmer from Kansas claims to have been in the eye of a storm in 1928 and said that once he was inside a tornado, everything was 'as still as death,' How Stuff Works reported. 

He said there was a strong gassy smell, which made it hard to breathe and looked up to see the circular shape of the tornado around him.

Another farmer called Roy Hall found himself inside a tornado in Texas in 1951.

He ran inside his house when hail stones that size of tennis balls began raining down. He then reportedly heard a low rumbling and then silence.

The roof of his house was ripped off and he was surrounded by a wall of clouds illumined blue from lightning, he said.

The footage was filmed in Bashkiria, Russia (marked on the map) last year, but was released this week

The American Meteorological Society defines a tornado, known as a twister, 'a violent rotating column of air, in contact with the ground, either pendant from a cumuliform cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud, and often (but not always) visible as a funnel cloud. A stock image is pictured