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  • I still remember a woman at the trailer park saying she lost her son 7 months ago and then this.

    The night before Grande Prairie also had severe weather I remember the thunderstorms shaking the house

  • This clip was taped from 3516 10 Ave. Google Street View will show you the correct position if you search for 3539 10 Ave.

  • I was working just behind the Grand Hotel when this was happening. I remember on the commute home how still everything was at 4:30pm that Friday afternoon

  • I remember that day like it was yesterday. I was ten and living in a small town west of edmonton, Stony Plain. I cried the day before watching the sky to the south, clouds rolling all green blue red and black. Scary shite i gotta say. Ever since then tornadoes have been my life and i love chasing em.

  • RIP folks who died on Black Friday. I'm pretty sure one was my friend's uncle, oye. We'll miss you guys always. Edmontonians immortal.

  • The distruction was simply a nightmare I wasn't waking up from. Driving on Sherwood Park Freeway half hour after, was visually a war zone. Vehicles were scattered, and completly demolished in ditches and beyond. Nothing was left of buildings, or of anything in this industrial area. Even giant oil tanks were dented and smashed. Had appointment at a bank nearby. Wore a construction hardhat, as baseball size hail slammed me, as I made my way from my car. At the time I was unaware of the tornado.

  • I was born in 1986 i was still in my car seat when this was going on

  • my cousin danny was killed in this tornado

  • my cousin danny was kileed in this tornado.

  • first you see this little funnel could then it turns into a big ass tornado!

  • Asian Canadians sometimes do.

  • sounds like russell peters

  • XD the kids crying at the end..... Just fucking balling like i used to when i seen tornadoes

  • my dad got hit on the head by a hail chunk from that storm, when the first one hit the car he thought someone had hucked a rock at it and got out to see where it came from :P

  • this tornado is lucky i wasnt born yet, i woulda kicked it's ass... If it had one anyways lol

  • thats amazing

  • Whoops, but anyways my dad slept through the tornado. Pretty weird.

  • My dad sleptthroigh

  • @cbehr91 yes, it's imperative that I know right away.

  • Eh That is known as black friday correct ?

  • Omg :o

  • I bet those folks in those houses were were clueless of what was happening just behind their back yard. 0_0

  • this tornado went through the ravine behind my backyard

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  • *live* sorry bout the f***ing typo

  • I live in Grande Prairie AB, never saw a tornado (yet) but saw several tornado and severe thunderstorm watches, a typical day in Alberta. I wish my parents woulda told me what the weather was like here. I didnt like in Grande Prairie in 2004 tho

  • @cpae132 Edmonton Alberta Canada, I was 3 Years old! It killed 27 people!! *Heart E-town*

  • that was a big tornado... the video is from an early on in the storm and doesnt show the peak

    my parents have a epic picture from that day

  • Its july 31.... I want another one!!! I love massive storms. Sorry for those who died tho ):

  • July 31st is tomorrow. And temperatures and dew-points are going to be very close to what they were when this tornado happened. Risk of severe weather has already been foretasted for Edmonton 2morrow. hopefully nothing like his happens especially on the anniversary. temperature was 25 with dewpoint of 18.9 tomorrow is expected to be 24 and dew-point of 20. jet stream is in the right spot and lower level and mid level winds will most likely produce some good sheer. Kinda spooky

  • lol i love how the kid asks what id it but the guy just says "it's a cloud" and then the kid wants to go home

  • we lived through that.. this was just the beginning.. when noone had any idea what was about to happen next... this gives me ice in my blood when i watch it...

  • omg that looks soo creppy!

  • This happened in Evergreen park. i used to live there. theres a rock saying the time and exact info about this. and around that rock is a whole bunch of trees. each tree representes a person who died in the tornado

  • I remember that event very well, long distance, that is, here in Calgary. I was 17, just graduated high school and was at home with the folks when news of the tornado was on the radio and television. A frightening and uncommon event to have a tornado of such magnitude here in Alberta, for which people were tragically and understandably completely unprepared.

  • @peeknocker

    And for those idiots commenting on the voice of the person who captured this historic video, bear in mind that he was obviously talking to young children and did an admirable job in maintaining his composure in the face of what was an anomolous and horrific event and thus kept the children calm, as well.

  • @peeknocker Yeah uncommon for twisters of this magnitude near calgary scince you guys are near the rockies, but Edmonton is on the plains and so is most of Alberta, we have major tornadoes like this hit rural parts every year, doesn't hit much, but the cities are growing thus becomming a bigger target. Edmonton has been side swiped several times by tornadoes scince then. in july of 2000 edmonton had a night of the region slammed by nocturnal tornadic supercells. Many more over the years.

  • Black Friday ..July 31st 87

  • @cpae132 July 31, 1987. It's in the video description.

  • @cbehr91 black friday

  • These shots are from before The Tornado really got going.

  • I know that this was a very sad day, and alot of people died and lost family and friends.. But im sorry the video at the beggining when the kid was like whats that daddy and the dad was like Thats A cloud.. I couldnt stop laughing..

  • This footage is insane! Ive lived in Edmonton my whole life and never once seen a tornado I've seen a few in the u.s !

  • @lilbitch873 You either don't remeber or you were busy somewhere else, Many people don't relize you can't always see the tornado, alot times in Alberta they become rain wrapped., you coulda been looking at a severe storm and see a wall of rain but behind it a tornado. Edmontons general area has been hit several times scince then and before then too. My mom remebers one that hit in 1972 on a farm on the outskirts then where west ed mall is now.

  • does that guy have an asian accent?

  • @espositoaaron23 Does it really matter?

  • I was there!

  • I survived that tornado, I was 6 at the time.

  • After watching the video, I knew the comments would probably turn into a YouTube racist party. That being said, I can only imagine how dangerous a tornado this big can be for people coming from countries where there are no tornadoes. It's hard for me to imagine what kind of damage 400km/h winds can bring.

  • at the end of the video, that is the biggest tornado i've ever seen in my life! i lived in Edmonton that summer, it was a day i'll never forget.

  • AWWWEEEE SO SAD AT THE END WHEN THE KIDS WERE CRYING D:

  • Great Video !

  • I'm getting better footage of lightning (the bolts themselves instead of just the flashes).

  • wow so glad i wasnt born yet when this happened. and im glad now i live in earthquake island then tornado edmonton lol

  • @angel5469ca no i suppose i wouldent yor right any hows i plan to visit canada next year hope there is no tornados lol

  • @angel5469ca i was just wondering why the bathroom

  • its a cloud my ass is a cloud on steroids tearing up edmonton

  • @thedudedude56 haha funny comment til the tornado comes to your house ruins everything you have and kills your family

    hahaha

  • I was aboot to boone my girlfriend, boot there waoos a fooonel clooooud and she said there waaas nooo waaay!

  • @spongersurfer Nice Ontario Accent impression The rural folk actually sound like that there.

  • I was there....it was a 5....

  • the little girl's name is Jada:)

  • thanks for sharing

  • Who the hell cares if the guy is Asian!!!! So what.................good vid man and thanx for sharing

  • ahahah thats a funnel cloud! xD

  • Wow, not all of us Canadians sound like that lmfao..

  • @GrantChampionTV yea lol... This tornado hit in a ethnic rich area of Edmonton south side so chances are we are listening to a immigrant. The ethnic population here pretty much built 1/3 of Edmonton as we see it today on the south side. "Millwoods"

  • ROFL I thought the guy saying "that's a cloooud" in the beginning was pretty damn funny because of how well he handled it, but there are some other comments that I've read that are calling this guy a dipstick and a dummy which is just bull. Even if those comments were from a while ago I still needed to get that point across.

  • It amazes me how fucking stupid some of these comments are, bitching at the guy in the beginning for saying "that's a cloooud" to his kid. WELL WHAT THE FUCK WOULD YOU LIKE HIM TO SAY?!? Sure yeah, lets just say instead "OH NO, ITS A TORNADO!" WTF? He obviously said it was a cloud so his kid wouldnt freak out and any parent with common sence would do the same. But since youve failed to realize this, its clear none of you have common sence. In that case LOL I hope none of you are parents! :)

  • This Tornado Looks Savage!!!

  • I was 15months when this happened and my mom was 9months pregnant with my sister lol she had no idea until she seen a chunk of roof fly by. Lucky too she wasn't far we lived not to far from the path it took

  • Kinda creepy near the end where suddenly there isnt any sound and then suddenly we hear crying in the background

  • Seriously, the commentary is awesome...couldn't stop laughing at " dat's a cloud".

  • Multiple vertices. Easily could have hit F5

  • I remember this day and seeing this tornado like yesterday. Black Friday.

    Still have nightmares sometimes.

    and ya lol, "that's a clooooud" is halarious :D

  • lol you just kinda stand there calmly with your kid

  • Aside from your usual end of the world scenarios, the end of this excellent footage would be my nightmares come true. And although I live in Montreal, I feel such an event is not impossible.

  • thing turned into a monster

  • but i never got a tornado or funnel on tape. The only severe weather i filmed was last summer at night filming a severe storm and the lightning was constant and it was pouring too and if you played the video back when there's a flash it looks like it's daytime.

  • omg I remember this horrible Tornado. We lived In Grande Prairie AB

    the phones went dead cause too many people jammed the lines calling

    Edmonton. CFGP radio announced that the Tornado was hitting Evergreen

    Trailer court. That song by the grateful dead came on called Touch Of Grey

    everything was surreal. It shocked all Albertans cause it blindsided us

    We never though it could happen to us

  • Being a subscriber and amateur chaser myself, cbehr91, you did an excellent job picking up a very well known tornado that doesn't have many actual footage tapes. I'll admit it was funny when he said its a cloud, but sensational job, watching it go from a multiple vortex to a straight stovepipe monster later on is incredible.

  • Was this the 1987 one?

  • @TheLoserSakaTheOiler Not even close... obviously you've never heard a drunk native before. This man was chinese.

  • Seriously, to you people commenting how "Canadians are stupid and funny, they never freak out" If I were in something like that I'd yell "LET'S GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!" and probably drive off at a psychotic speed, and if others refused to go with me I wouldn't attempt to make them jump in the car with me because it would waste time...that probably would be stupid, too, but I'D DEFINITELY FREAK OUT.

  • Naturally most of the deaths were in Trailer Parks...i wonder which...i used to live in Edmonton but only tornado warnings/funnel clouds occurred when i lived there.

  • @CaraAsoleada Evergreen trailer park, now called the evergreen memorial park.

  • Does anyone know where in the city this footage was shot? Sherwood Park? Millwoods?  North East?

  • my worst nightmare. i hate living in alberta. and in a trailer park. we get warnings for this crap all the time and there's nothing to do but drive downtown since we dont have a basement..

  • @kendallbob Driving downtown wouldn't be the best idea. Tornadoes can strike there too.

  • wow 8 mini-funnels i thought it wasn't going to form at first and at the end was it going over the calgary trail?

  • it was almost a wedge it tried but it failed

  • These people sound retarded

  • @Dilo22 It's called an accent. If you had the slightest inkling of an IQ or weren't a troll, you'd know that.

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  • @Axelhander Gosh really? My god, I never noticed that. Thank god that we have super smart people like you on the internet to point things out like this!

    However, being the thickheaded pseuo-intellectual you are, your point doesn't really change or influence my point in any way. gj

    derp

  • @Dilo22 What was your "point," Mr. I Have To Get My YouTube Comment Just Right While Thinking of an Excuse For Why I Seem To Give a Crap About What Some Random Stranger Thinks of Me Despite Working So Hard to Get My Comment Right? Because it seems to have been lost on this "pseuo" intellectual.

  • 3 years before i was born. Anyways I was caught in the tornadoes at Canada's Wonderland 1 year from today, August 20'th 2009. There was 19 that hit that day in southern Ontario. 4 of them were a couple traffic lights behind us. My sister was so scared was hard to keep her calm. During that day lightning bolts were striking consecutivly one after another per second. At Yorkdale mall the lightning went threw the glass ceilings and she was so panic'd. Was an extrodinary day of experience.

  • @MyThIcPwn For some of you's thinking of what I meant by "extrodinary day of experience" my child hood dream was to be a storm chaser tornadoes in particulary.

  • @MyThIcPwn i've seen a funnel and a tornado within a year (April 2007 and May 2008) (in the same classroom) and i'm from st.louis. and in March 2003, i was leaving school (it was right after 3:00 and no one left) but the sky was dark (like nighttime but a little green too) and i was 9 at the time and all of us for some reason stood there until the siren went off and then went into the basement but i was upstairs and was really scared and there was a tornado that day but it was a brief touchdown.

  • i saw that outside my house and i was im gonna die i was so cared

  • lol he sounds alittle bit like Mike Judges' Hank from King Of The Hill

  • the thing is in all likely hood this tornado was an F5. people don't know this but tornado experts don't measure an F scale by wind speed because they still don't know enough about tornadoes for it. so if this tornado would have hit a village instead, it may have gotten an F2 or F3 instead. it has been proven even an F0 tornado can rip apart a regular house if it wanted. but generally F5 tornadoes are measured by how wide the destruction was and how strong the buildings were.

  • @ultradumbass Most of that is true, but not entirely. The destruction width is not taken into consideration in the determination of the Fujita rating of a tornado, just the severity of damage.

  • Cowtown owns Edmonchuk dude

  • You're son must be in his 20's - 30's now lol

  • my neighbours house was destroyed in the tornado but mine survived

  • Meh no one cares about Regina anyways. It could be wiped off the face of the earth and no one would notice. Canada would lose a lot of welfare recipients in the process :D Edmonton pwns Regina

  • @canababe23 o you missed the the 2 huge wind storms we had last summer both of the wind was so strong it measured up to a f1 tornado, gulf ball size hail, and lost of rain

  • IS THIS THE BLACK FRIDAY

    ?

  • @mspopprincess1 yea it is..

  • @mspopprincess1 yes..

  • Do we know the exact location of this video or do we just know it was taken in the Edmonton area?

  • @TheLoserSakaTheOiler What the heck? Why post something so ignorant like that on this footage? Better check yourself.

  • cloud sorry my mistake

  • i was video taping that cloooooooooood.

  • Canadians are polite even in the face of violent, windy death.

    "That's-a clo-ooooud" had me laughing

  • @jjjjjjustin12 if by canadian, you mean asian immigrant who lives in canada, then yes i agree

  • @drizzo613 We're all Canadians at heart.

  • @jjjjjjustin12 Yeah. Don't wanna insult Mother Nature. She gets pissed off easily.

  • @jjjjjjustin12 What's so polite about it? It was a statement.

  • What street is that in Edmonton that this the video at 1:20 was taken?

  • @BeerisAwesome2 Looks like Capilano (Wayne Gretzky Drive) to me... maybe at around 112 ave (by the Concordia University) looking south.

  • Thats wicked!.

  • You didnt think to put the kid in the basment? moron

  • You are so right I was thinking the same thing!!!!

  • @BeerisAwesome2 umm... for one thing it wasnt really heading towards them, it was going PAST them so i wouldn't be too worried unless it shifted directions and a tornado moving that fast is not very likely to shift directions too quickly...

  • @curlyjoe8135 The most dangerous thing in the world is people with a little bit of knowledge telling other people the way weather works. This tornado was nearly a mile wide at it's base. Where this video was shot, they were directly in the path of danger. Why do you think a entire cities are under a tornado watch at one time? Because no one can predict where or when it will drop, or it's path. Please study more before you give advice on youtube.

  • @mmanna82 oh trust me... i have studied quite a bit about tornadoes... it is one of my favourite things to do on my spare time and i can honestly tell you that when a tornado is moving that fast, it is not too likely that it will shift directions BUT i am NOT saying that they are predictable i completely agree that u cannot predict where they are going. All i was trying to say in the first place is that it is not likely to shift paths if it moves that fast.

  • "thats a clooooooud" hahahaha

  • My mother was in the tralior park it hit.. she was home alone with her friend but luckly they both surived.. My grandmother and Grandfather got spun around in there vechils thought but my grandfather got injured badly but my grandmother was fine after a few days in the hosptial

  • lmao i laugh at the voice of the fob holding the camera

  • That's scary. My parents met two days after the tornado. It was a disaster.

  • Omg.....its not a cloud its a tornado dip stick!

  • This was truly the stangest day of my life.

  • OMG made my hair stand on end - how TERRIFIYING! thanks for the share Danno!!

  • Wow same here, Thank God i wasn't born that time, i was born in 92 hehe.

  • wow,

  • There were some comments on here asking where that was filmed. I used to live on this street and recognize the houses/surroundings. This was filmed from the front yard of 3516 10 Ave NW, the house and garage most of the video focuses in on is 1003 35 St NW. I went for a drive to the old neighborhood to get that info. The large gap between the two houses at the beginning of the video were two vacant lots at the time, made for a nice clear camera shot. Should be easy to pull up on Google Maps

  • wow that is really scary and amazing. I drive to work on that road 5 days a week. I hope history doesnt repeat itself.

  • you can clearly see the multiple vortex structure of a tornado

  • LOL THE VOICES TALKING!!!!"i think dats a funnel cloud!"

  • then how come your info next to your subscribe says it is?

  • Accually a tornado is a powerful column of winds spiraling around a center of low atmospheric pressure. :D

  • exactly,a tornado isnt a cloud.

    they get their cloud looking colours from all of the dirt they pick up.

  • im glad someone agrees with me :D

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  • @PanterA325 That's not true in it's entirety. A tornado is most definitely a cloud in the way that we describe clouds as being condensed water vapour. A lot of the debris (dust) makes up the column of the tornado, however a lot of it actually is water vapour. When you have fast enough rotation, the humidity in the air condenses as the temperature drastically drops in the vortex, causing what you see is essentially a tornado cloud. This is similar to condensation trails from jet planes.

  • this is sad i live there well in frt sask very close to there and my brothers was minutes from it he was a couple months i wasnt born this is sad

  • did you know, for the movie Twister, they actually used clips of edmonton's F5 tornado in the movie? cool huh? =D

  • REALLLLY ? i love that movie! that's sweet

  • @comisrevenge It would be neat if that were the case, unfortunately it is nothing but myth. It was all CGI. I know this because there is very little footage of the Edmonton Tornado, and whatever footage there is, is too grainy and of poor quality to be put into a hollywood movie.

  • Who cares! good video!

  • DAT'S A CLOUD! try tornado u dummy

  • This is a great video of Ralph Klein on a drinking binge!

  • You might want to change the description. First, this tornado was an F4, not an F5. Some have speculated it *may* have briefly hit F5 strength, but that has never been verified.

    Second, the Regina Cyclone of 1912 killed 28 people, not 26, and it remains the deadliest tornado event in Canadian history.

  • Well, the guide to one of the videos this is from says 26 deaths in the Regina Cyclone. But Wikipedia says 28. It was difficult in earlier tornadoes to track deaths by tornadoes because sloppy records were taken.  But the description has been updated regardless.

  • @cbehr91 Keep in mind Wikipedia is not a reliable source.

    Also, yeah, I know this reply is 1 year late.

    Regardless, "strong F4" is still horrible.

  • This is why I'm in Vancouver.

    Lol

  • 27 people got killed during the tornado..

    i've never seen a tornado move that fast ( in the beginning i mean)

  • you are lower than a pregnant snail you f@%king moron I will give you a chink up your ass so far that when you sneezed, you would actually give me a blow j*b ...lol as*hole

  • Zomg.

  • omg. I wasn't born at that time. But my older brothers were 8 and 6. They are right, this was a bad tornado.

  • this tornado was an F4. it missed being a F5 by about 3 kilometers per hour.

  • what your looking at there was a tri-vortex tornado. was pretty cool