On August 7th, an EF-4 tornado touched down in western Minnesota near the border with North Dakota. I am making a post of this because it was, I believe, the 12th EF-4 rated tornado this year. This year has been pretty normal for numbers of tornadoes but for the number of violent tornadoes, it has been a very high number. 5 of those EF-4's were in Minnesota too, which has become the new tornado central for the U.S.!! There is also some amazing video of this violent tornado. this time of year, there aren't a lot of chasers out, so it's always a treat to be able to still see pics and videos of these storms. the tornado was a very narrow, "drill bit" tornado. normally people think violent tornadoes are large, very wide tornadoes, but this one was a slow moving, narrow, but very violent tornado. luckily the farms that were destroyed had no one home at the time. a pickup truck at one of the farms was thrown 1/2 a mile with the engine block from the truck thrown 2/3 of a mile. a sugarbeet field was heavily scarred with some of the beets pulled out of the ground! i've posted some links to videos and pics and storm info below:
damage survey:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/fgf/?n=20100807_tor_wilkin
some videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-4Nu1r3510&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=509woimlfD4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjvlsBIEss4&feature=related
pics:
http://www.mnwxchaser.com/10august07.html
http://www.chasethestorms.com/Other/Spring-2010/12006343_P5snn#962067920_WzMwo-A-LB
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