At the University of Mississippi (or maybe it was Mississippi State) experiments were done to try and drive a 2x4 through different materials without shredding the board. They could not duplicate the board through the tree at any wind speed which would not brake off the tree! I would love to see those experiments repeated in the presence of strong eletrostatic field vortices.
I’ve seen photos of odd things like that produced by tornadoes like a piece of wheat straw driven into a telephone pole. And from what little I know about it no one has been able to duplicate it.