Video shows the rescue of a woman trapped in an overturned car after a tornado

• Body camera footage shows the moments a police officer found a woman and helped rescue her from a car that rolled over during a tornado in Slidell, Louisiana
• The EF-2 tornado reportedly came with winds of 120 miles per hour and traveled more than nine miles in 10 minutes
• After the rescue, the woman managed to free herself from the wreckage

Footage captured by a Louisiana police officer's body camera shows the harrowing rescue of a woman trapped in an overturned car following a tornado.

The Slidell Police Department released the footage Friday showing Officer Rodney West's efforts to rescue the woman from the SUV that flipped on its side on Wednesday, April 10, producing winds of 120 miles per hour and covered more than nine miles in 10 minutes to NOLA.com.

The clip showed West running into a McDonald's parking lot, where he found the vehicle on its side. Then he noticed that someone was inside.

“Are you all right?” West shouted from outside the car. The woman appeared to respond, but it is unclear what she said. The officer then replied, “Someone is coming to help you, okay?”

After checking with employees at the McDonald's building, West returned to the car to check on the woman, who did not report being injured.

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“Are you a little scared?” West then asked, to which she nodded her head. “Okay, me too, okay?” the officer continued. “You'll be fine.”

West continued to comfort the woman until crews arrived with the necessary equipment to pull her from the vehicle.

According to SPD, members of the St. Tammany Fire Protection District No. 1 eventually arrived with the tools and helped remove the woman from the car.

A short time later, the woman left the rubble alone and was accompanied by officers into the McDonald's building.

“This is real, people,” the SPD wrote on its Facebook page. “This is one of MANY acts of heroism carried out daily.”

West told FOX Weather that he personally “rode through” the tornado that ripped through the city, causing “total devastation” and a “catastrophic loss of property.”

“It was such a force acting in such a concentrated area that it was overwhelming,” the officer recalled. “My visibility in my car, with my car shaking and stuff, was absolutely zero.”

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry will survey tornado damage in Slidell on Monday, according to NBC affiliate WDSU.