June 17 2010 large tornado near Albert Lea and Hollandale, MN

[floridamn22]

I remember this. It was a Thursday. My dad was getting married on Saturday and all the family from out of town was in the living room watching this in St. Paul. My aunt and I had just returned from Montgomery. While we were in the shop in Montgomery, we heard all of the warnings firing from the radio. I was really glad we made it back otherwise we would've been caught in some nasty storms. Great video, although the wind sound is a little bothersome, but no biggie.

[jl2426]

I was trying to get my mom to get a video while i was driving, but she was busy calling my dad crying, " I love you, I'm going to die."

[Raiders99Disney]

small world..........

[glitterfly13]

i was camping in geneva with my two kids. luckily everything was alright.

[TurtleJake97]

i lived in blooming prarire i was shitting my pants on that day

[mistyeyedchick]

Hope no one got hurt. Was that a fire on the side of the road about 3 mins in video?

[Abertleasquid]

@mistyeyedchick im still livin at my opas (grandmas) house cuz of this torando

[Abertleasquid]

@mistyeyedchick im still livin at my opas (grandmas) house cuz of this torando

[techman823]

what direction did the thunderstorm cloud come from,great video

[gohuge]

This storm produced EF 4 destruction, but did not get to EF 5 levels. Less than 0.1% of tornadoes ever reach or break that threshold. Historically we have less than one EF 5 per year in the US while we average about 1000 tornadoes. Gives you a little perspective on how rare an EF 5 is. Hell only 5% reach EF 3 status.

[xll3abyxDoll21x]

thats soo scary...it makes me sad for all those people who live in an area were they get tornados so frequently. I'm glad i live somewhere where we don't get them.

[Abertleasquid]

@xll3abyxDoll21x hell it totaly sucked i still having my house redun

[Abertleasquid]

@xll3abyxDoll21x hell it totaly sucked i still having my house redun

[mrswartz]

@xll3abyxDoll21x me too lol..i stayed in alabama for a year, we had a wind storm one night you could barely walk in..i thought one was going to happen after we had to watch news on a battery operated television.

[zappatx]

I was heading back home last night and we photographed the tornado just north of the bridge 6/25/10 just west of the western most exit to Albert Lea on I 90. Was pretty scarey as we pulled over in Alden then when hit the interstate heading west there was a strong wall cloud with rotation right over our path. The winds almost knocked us off the road. SHould have stayed in Cedar Rapids another night!

[kites0852]

This is the same tornado I got footage of. Can even see it appearing to break apart. I must have been closer shooting from my yard. Good shot!

[IamKEIL]

I was stuck at the Travel America in Albert Lea on I-35 when this happened.

[2007shorthair]

Rated an EF4 at times, not a 5 but still a bad ass tornado.

[renjichic78]

good video, didnt that turn into an F5?

[crstormchaser]

@renjichic78 I haven't saw the ratings for this tornado yet, but i believe the tornado that turned in to a possible EF-5 would be the tornado that went west of Albert Lea, this was east. My other video of Albert lea was the tornado that grew to 1 mile wide and could be rated very strong!

[paulsonj72]

@crstormchaser

No EF-5 on that day. The one west of Alden was an EF-4 while there were some EF-3 in Freeborn County that day

[FireHawk459z]

@renjichic78 It was an EF4, not EF5.

[pmdwashere]

hope none of that shit hit Baxter too bad, cuz my little bros there at a summer camp

[Truckguy74391]

i was in the middle of that i almost shit my self

[dfhohj]

that damn rear view @ 3:50

[emmymad87]

Luckily Rochester didn't see to much of it... Awesome video!

[LongTimeNoSwing]

Wow. yikes.