I had to click through and download the .flv to get this to play

Haa-Pooo!
in Canada twisters spin counter-clockwise.

one guy says, "It's not the mill but the town!"

I remember that storm; we live in Winnipeg. They just revised the damage estimates from it to $4million (astonishing for how small of a populated area it affected), and declared it the very first confirmed F5 tornado in Canada.

It's also because of this storm that they're finally getting moving on an emergency notification system for severe weather. I grew up in Tornado Alley, so finding out that Winnipeg has no tornado sirens is a bit of a psychological blow for me.

Also, it looks (and sounds!) like the people who took the video are members of the Hutterite colony right by Elie, which is why it sounds like they're speaking German - they are! (Low/Old German, anyway).

I live in Winnipeg also... at 6:25 you can see it pick up an entire building and disintegrate it. Amazing. I remember some crazy sized hail at the forks that night.

The people driving by it are pretty nonchalant about the whole thing. Do Canadians not know what a tornado is?

oh and I highly doubt this is an F5. Damage looks more like something from a F1 or F2. Does anybody have the news story for this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie,_Manitoba_Tornado

Yes . . . F5

Also, it's, "Canadians don't know what a tornado is, eh!

And, is this possibly Canada? Those must be tourists. Not that many people live in Canada.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2008/02/07/tornado-damage.html
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2007/18/c2203.html

Fujita scale = windspeed, not actual damage (although they use that for estimates.
Some good photos of the area taken from the air:
http://www.kosarang.net/g4/bbs/board.php?bo_table=news_canada&wr_id=231&page=3

Fujita scale ≠ wind speed. It is based on damage assessments.

From the Fujita Scale wiki entry:

The Fujita scale (F-Scale), or Fujita-Pearson scale, is a scale for rating tornado intensity, based on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation. The official Fujita scale category is determined by meteorologists (and engineers) after a ground and/or aerial damage survey ...
Though each damage level is associated with a wind speed, the Fujita scale is a damage scale, and the wind speeds associated with the damage listed are unverified.

The close up at the beginning is awesome - cyclone within the cyclone. That's freaking wild. Is that common?

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@jonny: Ah, mea culpa, I always thought it was windspeed first, damage second (when no windspeed was available.) Thanks for the info.

FAKE!

Canada isn't real.

i was watching pretty closely but must've missed it. at what point does the cow fly past?

lol, look at the corner...it looks like this video was taken off of live link...and then re-uploaded to live link

great video. It looks small at first until they zoom in and you realize just how massive the formation is.

lol someone said "cum hair"

sorry

A big WTF to the car at around 2:15 that actually slows down for a better look at the windy doom headed their way.

The beauty of natural disasters is better seen on the comfort of your laptop screen at home where the only wind you need to worry about is whether or not your heat is cutting on in a timely manner. One woman's opinion, anyway.

Looks like the climate zones are moving North, therefore so would tornado alley. Sucks for us, except for the warm weather.

That sucker's a monster.

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