6/17/2010 Chase Compilation Northwest Minnesota

A video of my chase from start to finish including the Leaf Valley, MN multi vortex tornado, a large wall cloud north of Hoffman, MN, and a large barrel meso before the Leaf Valley tornado. What the feature(s) is/are in the last part of the video is still up in the air. It looks like a rain shaft but I am looking west and the video is shot between 4:50 and 4:55 pm cdt, which is abotu the time the Almora-Bluffton tornado lifted and the Wadena tornado touched down. It doesn't look like a tornado but it's looking right at the area the tornadoes were in.

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[dean681]

Yea I've got better quality video, I think the problem with this one is that I encoded it wrong. I have a couple pics I'll post in a bit too. There was a lot of motion (and IIRC a lot of rotation too) with that part of the storm at that time, but I dont think it lasted long. This storm was such a beast there was so much going on it was hard to keep track of it all. I'm still not sure what I was looking at so I'll get those pics linked so you can get a better view of it.

[dean681]

Thanks! Youtube pretty much butchered the quality of the video but oh well.

[TornadoBob1]

That last part of the video from 4:50 to 4:55 pm is interesting. I attached a video-- look about 2:03 to 2:50 in my video. You have the same item in yours. Could you see any debris? Do you have a higher quality video of the last 30 seconds before you fade out? FGF has not counted it as a tornado, but it's right on the edge, so wanted to see if there is any evidence one way or the other.

[bulletz202]

u sure u have the timing right at 5:30 the wadena tornado was a few blocks from my house.

[VideographyOfNature]

Great video man! Thanks for all the great information about the storm when you are describing it to us. Great footage as well!