Family of meteorologists catch tornado on video
Posted at 5:25 PM on August 19, 2009
by Ken Paulman
(4 Comments)
Tom Clark, a meteorologist visiting the Twin Cities from Pennsylvania, captured this video of the tornado moving across south Minneapolis. Clark was staying at the home of his daughter, Kristin, who is also a meteorologist.
Comments (4)
Wow. I'm glad they were trained meteorologists.... I would have seen that and thought.... low clouds, bad storm. I guess I watched Wizard of Oz too many times. Thanks for sharing what a real tornado looks like!
small debris????? really??
Do you consider 75 yr. old trees ripped from the ground small debris?
It seems a little ridiculous to me that MPR has to keep mentioning that the NWS hasn't yet determined whether they were tornadoes when there were eyewitnesses who saw them.
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