Edmonton Alberta Tornado ( Mutiple Vortex )

July 31, 1987

Canada has had a handful of violent tornadoes. On the day of the Hermitage twister in 1985 (look for it in my uploads), the city of Barrie Ontario was devastated by an F4.

This clip is of the Edmonton twister in its developing stages, captured on home video. This tornado was also F4, and killed 27 people. Check out the massive bowl-shaped wall cloud. The multiple vortices in this thing are wild; it rivals the Oshkosh tornado of April 21st, 1974 for the most dramatic example of a multi-vortex storm.

Sorry, the quality of the footage isn't the best.

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• Edmonton
• Mutiple
• Vortex
• Tornado

[kmfdm5]

@lolbieberr1000 i share your sentiment

[lolbieberr1000]

scary im terified of tornados!!!

[WIG23]

spectacular...the poor video quality actually makes the video even scarier to me. good stuff

[mesedrew]

@pspboy7 We don't say eh in Alberta if we do usually ppl moved here from a different area of canada. I have never heared it here only a couple times but found out thoes of my friends who said it moved here from ontario, plus even in Ontario they don't it very much. Its just a thing someone made up about canada in alberta we say about like they do in the states. pS this reply isn't directed at pspboy7 its just an added point i wanted to make, basically i'm agreeing with pspboy7.

[mesedrew]

@pspboy7 Well i do agree too a point, Yes people are blaming normal everyday citizens in America of invading when in fact its the Governments causing it and it only takes one or two jerks to change the reputation of the rest, which is rediculus, even the opposite, when a few Canadians and from my cousins Experience in Ontario they say eh and aboot oot, then americans think all of canada has the same accent might as well say all of americans have a new york accent, (these are examples). not true.

[mesedrew]

Ok here it is, Whatever Environment Canada says is the norm is obveiously not accurate the Canadian Weather Service is over 10 years behind the USA in Weather and Tornado Forecasting, Combining that with a relatively less population compared to the USA, Most twisters go unreported and unseen, usually unseen due to the low population density. So Yes Alberta saskatchewan and Manitoba are in Tornado Alley.

[pspboy7]

Are we Canadians so desparate to have somebody think more nicely of us that now we just got to have better tornadoes than the US does, I think not! Canada is a cool place to live for Canadians, and I'm sure the Americans think their land is cool too, so lets all just be friends ok? I'm sure the U.S. is probably sick of hearing about how some people think of them! Heck, my Dad and half of my family are from the USA, so let's let the anti-American sentiments die a quick death folks, huh?

[NismoDJ20]

Hey,I was wondering what VHS this is because I have it and I was wondering of the name of it.

[incubusnb]

WTF? Edmonton is considered part of tornado Alley. The North American tornado super highway. What would make you think we rarely get tornados. Whether you hear about them or not, it's estimated that about 1000 tornados touch down every year in the Edmonton area.

[zyphoid666]

Was that continuous touchdown time or a massive super cell that constantly dropped successive tornadoes over a 3 hour span? I have a really hard time believing in a single 3 hour tornado event (though if it were true then holy shit, mother nature's got a little somethin' for us in her back pocket eh?).