tornado on E. Lake street and 4th minneapolis

[trainz675]

F0-F1, This is still amazing.

[GodlessMartyr666]

you sure this is a "tornado"? it looks more like an angry cell that never produced a funnel....

[genogeno1234]

amazing how the pond empties before your eyes...

[TheTallMan35]

Yep...I saw it. Sucked that pond dry. Maybe it was thirsty.

[millertime6888]

daaaaaaaaaamn nature... YOU SCARY!

[yetibiker08]

that was the lamest Tornado I have ever seen not even a -2 dust devil, dude are all of you working with nuns?

[IAmLostWithoutYou]

"my water!"

[severrnijKGU]

they need to put rain-x on those lenses, or some type of commercial grade surfactant that lasts a looooong time untouched, but if you can put a camera there, you can access it by humans, so you just spray that shit on there.

[stackedactor1]

August(?) of 2009.

I go storm chasing sometimes, and one of the oddest tornadoes ever popped up in my literal back yard.

Strangest storm to produce a tornado I've ever seen- no lightning, no thunder,no hail, incredibly fast low cloud decks 100 miles wide spinning around a grand center, more like something out of Ghostbusters than what you'd see out on the open Plains.

[GixxerJeeves]

@stackedactor1 I cant remember if it was the day after when I posted this or not... but I think I posted it the day of, which would make it the 19th.

[dragonridley]

When exactly was this?

[TBirdSCIL]

Holy shit. It looks like the tornado spun up right in the parking lot!

[nativechika89]

i was workin in the brown buildin and dayum that was crazy as hell...

[cyclista]

I was biking on the Greenway right then in the heaviest rain I've ever experienced. Got home 10 minutes later to hear about the tornado.

[omgthisiscrazy1]

Wow, and I bike through there all the time on the Green Way and had no idea that this video is located almost RIGHT there. Awesome. It got really warm before the storm blew through. Came out of now where.

[MrDyablo1143]

Chales este es d cristo rey

[Wivanunu]

Wow...it sucked the water out of that poor little pond! Is this the tornado that hit that Lutheran Church and broke the Cross?

[danthehitman741]

You are right it did empty that pond!!!!!!

[MMSBANQUET]

man i could have stood in that hardly a tornado at all

[adrianagarciagirl]

Hahaha this camera is my shool's camera lmao.

[I2FF2R]

I was on 35W and Lake Street when i noticed some debris falling on the Interstate. I assumed it was a careless garbage truck on the highway, but looked to my SE and there it was swirling around.

I am a storm spotter, driving around seeing if any flooding occurred to report to NWS in Chanhassan, The radar i was using didn't "see" the tornado, there was to much rain, radar just seen the rain. God couldn't predict a tornado was going to be there.

[GixxerJeeves]

yeah, it happened in seconds as you can see, it was just here then gone. Thanks for the comment, I wish I could have seen it from your perspective though.

[I2FF2R]

it was pretty bitchin', however knowing that the debris was actually my fellow Minnesotans houses was depressing.

[arohn2007]

@I2FF2R I use to live in Minneapolis and am also a trained storm spotter, what did the National weather service ever rate it at. The winds must've been well above 70mph

[I2FF2R]

@arohn2007 confirmed EF-0 with winds likely 65-70MPH due to trees 2' in diameter were snapped like toothpicks, signs were twisted 1.5 times and still standing.

[arohn2007]

@I2FF2R Really? If trees 2' in diameter were snapped like toothpicks I would've guessed it to be a high end EF0

[I2FF2R]

@arohn2007 I've talked to some one @ NWS in TC and they put an estimate at 70-75 mph but confirmed it only to an EF 0 because only trees were down, and any houses that where damaged or destroyed were caused by those trees. I suppose if there were houses alone, being destroyed they would have given it a good mid EF-1

[arohn2007]

@I2FF2R I agree with the weather service, I didn't see any damage on photos I've seen of any damage to give it higher than a EF0 and I also agree winds were probably above 70 to 75, but in your last post you said 65-70 so thats why I surprised because I would've guessed the wind to be higher then 65-70mph for those trees to have been snapped.

[I2FF2R]

@arohn2007 reasons why i never give out wind measurements to the NWS, I suck at it.

[arohn2007]

@I2FF2R hehe, I hear you there and actually they prefer you don't give them windspeed, just report what damage you see.

[Creepydorky]

crazy video! Thanks for posting! :)

[danreino]

The winds with this F0 tornado were about 80-90 MPH.

[BSagitarius]

Does anyone know how strong those winds were?

[robb21572]

Wow, hardcore wind! Cool video.

[panties123456789]

WTF WH0 EVER MADE DiS iS SL0W CUZ WE LiVE 0NLY 1 BLOCK 0VER FR0M 4TH ND LAKE.....SUCKAZZZZZZZ!!

[GixxerJeeves]

what?

[Discokid715]

@panties123456789 nice screen name pervert.

[MissHarpoMarx]

That was the best day of my life! I woke up around noon, it's raining and cold. two hours after i get up plymouth has trees in the road. I then for the next 3 hours nearly gave my neice a heart attack cause i would run out side to see what was going on. lol

[and0243]

Now that is the money shot; eventhough is was surveillance. Thanks for posting.

[karlaadriana21]

was this from cristo rey school? i think it is....

[GixxerJeeves]

yes

[panties123456789]

wows..looks awful but one thing...thats not in MPLS cause i live on 4th and they have no pond!!! sorry dont post stuff that is'nt true..

[GixxerJeeves]

LOL you should really think before you type.... this is S4th and ELake, and yes this isnt a "real" pond but it is a runoff for our parking lot that was full of water. I have no reason to lie about where this is, have fun being a youtube nazi :)

[toyotamanus]

That's pretty crazy! I live in Baton Rouge, LA and the winds during Hurricane Gustav were similar to that but lasted for 3 hours. Main difference is that they were straight line winds in the hurricane.

The white stuff at the end is either large drops of water being blown off the roof or bits of the roof itself that were loosened by the tornado. It's to warm for snow, and I didnt see any hail falling (believe me it'd be large enough to show up in that cam).

[RenderMeThis]

needs to be edited shorter, kept waiting till the end so see more action, but nothing

[GixxerJeeves]

actually it looks like it doesn't.... there is snow or something that blows across the screen at the end, thanks for nit-picking

[Chippy569]

Saw this on the news this morning. I had to watch it twice to find the tree hitting the van. Thanks for posting!

[starstina69]

Where that then?! I cant see it... :S

[sugarbushvt]

SWEET!!!!

[jim09091]

Cool

[Houseofgauss]

It was an F0. 70 to 85 MPH winds. What are those white things whisping by at the end of the video? Rain, snow flakes? It was in the 60's Could be snow, check it out.

[GixxerJeeves]

wow I never even noticed that but yea it could had been snow or even little hail chunks

[toyotamanus]

was this a reply to my post?

[msrw2021]

thanks for sharing. great video of the tornado. scary when tornadoes pop up without warning

[BRZ118]

nice work uri XD

[Lukelr]

Wow. Great vid.

[stormspinner1]

That's CRAZY!!!! Winds switch from left to right to right to left - awesome capture, 5/5 stars. Glad it wasn't worse. Adding to Tornado Chase playlist - although in this case, think it chased you. 0.o

[jerrynsara]

awsome video, thanks for sharing

[ahzmandius]

It it was an F-0

[rockmanac]

@suisside: I see ground base rotation. It's a tornado. Tornado != the condensation funnel that most people *think* is the tornado.

[japple38]

Cool candid tornado intercept.

[boochy115]

Awesome video!

[onehitta1]

That's crazy!!

Whenever you can get an up close look of a tornado it's scary yet amazing at the same time.

[suisside]

thats no tornado

[euvUffDa]

That's for the comment, but you are wrong. It's a tornado.

[BlueSkyBust]

Great video

[manofwar93]

Wow, thats cool. I had to watch is several times to catch it though.

[GixxerJeeves]

yeah there is a lot going on in the video and it takes a few times of watching it to see everything

[WRplayer2]

Very nice !!!

[WinchesterLock]

oh wow, pretty cool stuff there