This tornado...

[RickC Sniper]

missed my house by about 5 miles.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/24778702#24778702

[Syxx_Killer]

Dang! :o:o Glad it missed your place. That looks absolutely terrifying. We don't get many tornadoes in MI, let alone giant behemoths like that one. :huh:

[sonar732]

The weather geeks on Accuweather's forum are following this situation like crazy...yes...I'm one of them.

http://forums.accuweather.com/index.php?showtopic=6783

[HunterICX]

:o Thats a big one, just the sight of it blows you away.

HunterICX

[nikimcbee]

I'm glad to hear you're okay!:up: When I lived in Minnesota, we had a tornado come near I lived. Scary stuff:dead:

[Oberon]

Wow...that's quite an outbreak and a big wedge to boot! :o Anyone catch the Fujita on that beast or was it more wrap than funnel?

[STEED]

You guys really get some cool weather:cool: just a shame it's some what on the destructive side. :ping:

[jpm1]

it's when we see the damages caused after than we realize how powerful the thing is http://www.emoticonland.net/smileys/Meteo/mete002.gif (http://www.emoticonland.net)

[Dowly]

it's when we see the damages caused after than we realize how powerful the thing is
Exactly. Few years back we had 2 very very very small tornados that formed 1-2km away from our summer cottage out in the lake, the first one 'died' in a few minutes, but the second one went through the island on the opposite side of the lake. Yet the tornado was tiny and looked like it couldnt hurt a fly, the trees were moving from side to side pretttty violently.

The one on the video looks 30x bigger.

[RickC Sniper]

Wow...that's quite an outbreak and a big wedge to boot! :o Anyone catch the Fujita on that beast or was it more wrap than funnel?


They are calling it an F3. It did considerable damage when it moved north from this location and struck the town of Windsor. This particular funnel was on the ground for 45 minutes, which is unusually long. There were somewhere between 5-7 funnels that touched down nearby from this storm cell but the others were small and did minor damage.

[Oberon]

An F3? Phew, that'll do the job, nasty one...what a wedge. What did you see of it?
5-7 from one storm? That's quite an outbreak :o

Is it just me or has it been quite a severe season so far, hardly seems like a week goes by without hearing of an outbreak. :hmm:

[Stealth Hunter]

Just glad to hear you're alright, mate.:up:

[mcf1]

Glad you're OK.
Must be frustrating to see a tornado from that close

[Ishmael]

I can relate. I lived in Longmont, about 40-50 miles west of there for a couple of years. One of the reasons I moved so close to the Front Range was to avoid tornados like that one before they develop into something like that. When I lived there, I remember there were some incidents out on I-75 near Greeley where people were painting cinder blocks black and putting them in the middle of the freeway on tripods at windshield height in the middle of the night. At least 3 or 4 motorists wound up with one of those blocks through the windshield. Crazy s**t.