Fordland, MO (AHN)-19-year-old high school senior Matt Suter had an unusual experience-one that most don't live to tell about. On March 12, a raging tornado ripped Suter from his mobile home and deposited him in a pasture-some 1,307 feet from the trailer site.

According to the report, a large, heavy glass lamp struck him on the top of his head, knocking him unconscious. Suter apparently found himself in a soft, grassy pasture about a quarter-mile away.

Suter says, "When I woke up in the field, I didn't know how long I was lying there."

Dazed and unsure if his grandmother and uncle were still alive, Suter ran in bare feet along a gravel road to the residence of neighbor Don Cornelison and reported what happened.

Aside from a cut on his head that required five staples, and badly bruised feet from running on the gravel, Suter survived the ordeal remarkably injury-free.

Tom Grazulis, a Vermont meteorologist who studies tornado behavior, says he knew of no person who traveled as far as Suter and survived.

Grazulis says to live through his ordeal, Suter must have been lifted straight up and managed to avoid being struck by whatever debris went up with him at the same time, adding that he sort of "went with the flow" in an unconscious state.