Edina Tornado, May 13, 2009

This video was shot approximately 2 miles north of Edina, Missouri, along SR15. Pardon the quality--it's not the best. I'm sharing the video not because it's great footage--it's untripoded, shaky, and zoomed out too far--but simply to provide a record of the tornado from my vantage point in case other storm chasers wish to compare notes. There are two areas of rotation. The wall cloud in the foreground put down a brief spinup or two, which you may or may not be able to make out, and developed a pretty dramatic tail cloud. Behind it, you'll see a second area of rotation emerge through a rain curtain and drop multiple vortices and then a slim tube which fattens into a cone/stovepipe that's barely discernible through the rain curtain. Again, video quality is lousy, but hopefully this will be of interest to fellow chasers.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Edina
• Missouri
• tornado
• multiple vortices
• storm chasers
• wall cloud
• Stormhorn

[brianekoch]

what time was this, were you guys in Edina looking North at the storm? Feel free to check out my video, I was chasing the same storm.

[stormhorn1]

I don't remember the time right offhand, Brian. We were roughly two miles north of Edina looking west. The LLO parked to our south and closed off our section of SR15 shortly after we arrived. The storm is moving almost directly at us, maybe a little to our north.

[midwestchaser]

tripod!!! good job guys great catch

[mskikey]

Tks - really appreciate the commentary

[ILsvrwxtorchsr]

Good Vid you are probably 1/2 south of us

[momotous]

Get closer! lol Nice shot.