September 21st, 2005 in Albertville, MN

A mean shelf cloud with torrential wind, rain, and wind driven hail. The hail was marble sized and lasted a good 5-8 minutes

Shelf cloud coming in:

Click HERE for a 6x time lapse of shelf coming in: (611K AVI)
If you can't play that, try this MPEG. (2.1 MB)

Realtime clip of the speed of the cloud, with siren audio.
AVI Video. (762K AVI)
MPEG Video. (3.6 MB)

Chase time: 2 hours, Mileage: ~60 miles
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Created on 09-21-2005 by Tony Perkins