Amazing Wilkin County Tornado! 8.7.10

Got on this cell around 6PM and noticed a beautiful wall cloud far detached from the downdraft base/precip. This allowed a relatively high precip storm to drop a low precip tornado and by about 6:20PM. I was to the North and West of it the entire time, allowing for some awesome lighting! Despite all the destruction, there has been no injuries reported. The National Weather Service rated this a weak F4 with winds up to 175mph! This thing was a drill bit!

My apologies for the hand held video and auto-focus problems. I was too excited to take time out and grab the tripod! Also, sorry for the length, but this thing was on the ground for over a half hour and I rolled the camera through the entire life span of the tornado... just didn't have the heart to cut down the footage more. For those of you having issues with the music, please just mute it. I like to listen to music when I chase.. If you don't like it, try out storm chasing for yourself!

Filmed with a Sanyo VPC-FH1A.

Check out the amazing damage this tornado did at the NWS damage survey link: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/fgf/?n=20100807_tor_wilkin

Thank you for viewing!

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• low precip
• minnesota
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• county
• wahpeton
• nd
• north
• dakota
• richland
• 8/7/2010
• 8-7-2010
• extreme

[KruCrack]

epic music to epic tornado

[Drew99GT]

That's one of the most photogenic tornado videos on Youtube! Nice.

[JaydeZilla]

It almost doesnt look real.

[davidallenroth]

i feel terrible whosever property that was . the twister just sat there and didnt move.. i hope nobody had to live threw that.......

[AmaRealtor37]

I loved the music and tornado. Great video! You should have kept singing at 4:23...I love that tune!

[Wiechu123]

Warning centers tornadoes should warn against the lack of love between men. This lack of basic feelings means that you are doing this in advance chepeningi to teach us the way to their hearts. The poor people to unite and find their way to another human being.

[TeeOmnoi]

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[zenguitarankh]

I dig how you slowed it down to show the lightning....and the soundtrack was awesome too...80s rock and tornadoes are like milk and cereal

[zenguitarankh]

@AngelOfDarkness2681 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[AngelOfDarkness2681]

awesome looking tornado. man there are lots of sheds in that town making lots of duhbrees XD

[N4ugh7y6irl]

this is a really cool video of a tornado. thanks for uploading it.

[MrOOTFREAK1]

oh and btw @spongy is my sister's profile