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 to no precip tornado at around 6:20PM. I was to the North and West of the tornado the entire time, allowing for some awesome lighting! Despite all the destruction, there was 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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Видео Amazing Wilkin County Tornado! 8.7.10 канала Keith Strang