1986 Fridley Forest Tornado

[MrAlbarral]

Impressionante!!!!!!!!!

[TheseNuts86]

"Wow." I was exactly 4 months old when this happened. (my D.O.B: 3/18/1986)

[MNpolarbear]

flying a plane, no. I remember this particuliar tornado I was 4-6 blocks from this thing, and they were helicopter pilots for a tv station out of minneapolis and they were all fired for this. and yes, they are very awesome videos.

[sisqokidd808]

tornado landing in the air?at 0:48

[TheJayroh]

Whoever actually filmed this thing has balls. Flying a plane near a tornado can't be easy.

[cierrabrownable]

Om freking g

[andyt1424]

How does it keep condensing in mid air between the main funnel and the condensation on the ground? There are two air spaces.

[TheGalligan]

whats wrong with you

[GanjikaAranyaka]

looks like my dad.......

[partyman147]

Thought it said "friendly forest tornado"

thoughts.. : Hmm.. this is a new one.. *click*

I reread it and thought.. I'm dumb :(

[20Akshay]

Extreme beauty with extreme dangers

[cloewagg]

really? friendly? sence when are tornados friendly? hu!?

[5961238]

Where is the forest? all I see is white shit with black dick.

[Shadowedge1000]

1986 upload 2008 xD

[brzezij]

Where is this?

[tocaracer06]

@brzezij Fridley Minnesota

[IcePickSnowmanzzzz]

what  the fuck

[MrArcadia2009]

Yeah, it looks like a single suction vortex tornado! Unbelieveable!

How Rare is that? Extremely rare, I'd say.

[Belugagymnast567]

Whoa thats really cool seeing it trying to form on the ground!

[xDarkRaynex]

1:55 looks like something you see on naruto e.e

[barfootsarah]

its like a scy pretsle

[littlejonh1]

It looks graceful like its dancing most beautiful tornado I ever seen.

[keljar77]

2:10 Someone collected all the dragon balls and summoned Shinzo.

[singingblondie1234]

that isnt a tornado thats a mother fucker

[CaptnHampton22]

scary

[waynebrasler]

Regarding helix and spiral, a big shot tornado expert told me it was a helix. I am afraid he is in for terrible trouble when I next see him. Thanks for the correction and, if you have time, pray for my tornado expert friend's eternal soul.

[mysuperliam]

Tornado had a spaz attack

[leisulin]

I bought a copy of the raw footage on VHS from the Minneapolis news station that aired this footage. It's awesome. The whole thing is a half hour long or so, and at one point you can see REALLY CLEARLY the tornado picking up some somethings and throwing them hundreds of feet through the air, and if you look more closely you can see that it's tearing WHOLE PINE TREES out of the ground and tossing them. It did a lot more than "whip up tree branches"...

[turkeybacon2009]

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[klimtkiller]

"2 1/4 of a mile." it's called a half dumby

[electroshock98]

 its alive!!!!

[sheshevenomess]

i was sitting there the whole time thinking WHERE THE FUCK IS THE TORNADO -_-

[leisulin]

@sheshevenomess

During much of the footage there is no visible condensation funnel that extends all the way to the ground, or even apparently down from the cloud. But the tornado is there. One of the first things I learned when I became a storm chaser is that the tornado can be on the ground with no visible condensation funnel at all. That's why spotters and chasers sometimes have to look for circulating dirt or debris at ground level to truly know whether there's a tornado there or not.

[sheshevenomess]

@leisulin oh.... ok O.O

[leisulin]

@sheshevenomess

yeah.....if you watch it again with that mindset, you'll "see" the tornado a lot better....at times the invisible condensation funnel winks into visibility for a moment then disappears...and even in the very early part of the footage, there's this cloud of dust below the visible funnel that's being kicked up at ground level, even though the VISIBLE funnel only extends partway to the ground. But the main indication most of the time is the debris cloud just above ground level.

[nikowe123]

My city!

[KillJoyTNTFilms]

wtf?

[SonicFan977]

Oh my gosh....

[bieber184]

Wwwgere did this happen in MN?

[ExtraTerrestrials]

i was sucking up on my mom's tit when it happened lol

[BlackHawkGaming]

@ExtraTerrestrials as sick as that sounds, i'd have to say you're probably about right...=/

[BlameRepublicans]

Two homosexual child molesters watched and disliked this film

[princessbeexxxx]

this looks like a mess xxx but cool tornado

[aet4life]

eyy my dad was in this tornado

[ranoverbunny1]

In Soviet Russia Tornadoes are bigger

[neil219315]

thumbs up if the thumbnail of a man brought you here.

[batfromhell100]

fake

[leisulin]

@batfromhell100

Fake!? No. Shot from a Minneapolis, Minnesota news chopper. As I said in another comment, the full footage is available for sale (or was) from the news station that produced it.

[vajjcream107]

dude ether its smoke from a fire or the tornado hit a power line? 2:07

[codywindsor12]

wtf is that red thing at 2:07

[kaboosha]

@codywindsor12 It looks like a fire, possibly a fuel tank set alight by the force and then quickly extinguished. What an amazing phenomenon... I've never seen anything like it.

[cookiesncream12346]

@codywindsor12 fire



[BarbieGirlsRox113]

@codywindsor12 Fire. It might've hit a power line.

[leisulin]

@codywindsor12

Probably, as the narrator says, a flash from a power line getting torn loose. That can often be seen in footage of tornadoes moving through populated areas.

[LunatikTokyo]

2:14 Time to GTFO now!! I like how he said that they should start to leave, but then they just stay lol!!

[rocky29935]

That little bugger is like a 3 year old demon on a tantrum.

[prettygurl8D]

2:11 ROFL IT LOOKS FUNNY

[indyfan22k]

On July 18, 1986, a widely photographed tornado spent 16 minutes in Springbrook Nature Center, destroying thousands of century old trees and extensive areas of mature forest habitat. A KARE 11 television news helicopter passing through the area shot the first aerial video of a tornado.

[waynebrasler]

What a tornado for being relatively small. The helix formation as the funnel cloud lowered was remarkable. I have the whole videotape; these gentlemen did a superb job of documentation for an event neither expected. Another funnel hung above the helicopter, with a suction vortex slithering in and out like a snake.

[Snoep76239]

@waynebrasler Wow! Only Chuck Norris would have the balls to fly a helicopter near a tornado. Welcome back to YouTube, Chuck!

[alicraig94]

@waynebrasler It's not a helix. This is a spiral. A helix keeps the same radius all the way up, where as a with a spiral, the radius changes.

[chrisjames1962]

This is unwatchable at 240.

[XyZxYz1293]

Wow not much tornadoes touchdown in minnesota. Amazing little thing.

[skatahkickflip]

@XyZxYz1293 Acutally in 2010 Minnesota had more tornadoes touchdown than anyother state. usually states like Kansas Oklahoma or Texas take that title.

[XyZxYz1293]

@skatahkickflip Amazing, it doesn't seem like it for me, of course becuase im still a kid.

[SureShotGal]

Man it looks as if there was bodies and faces hands etc coming out from the  ground!?

[adj789]

I remember the day this happened, there were several other tornadoes that day

[norka25]

it loks like ghost or smth in 2:00

[thebjm1967]

absolutely amazing. thank you for this video!

[Andrew90091]

Recordings like theses r used in a lot of Tornado vids.

[Hellafireleli]

nice you have the extended version!