re: Anyone ever seen a tornado in person?

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Lived in the panhandle of TX for 3 years. We have seen quite of few small ones, called Rope Tornadoes? but have seen quite a few start to form and make a funnel but then disappear. Only seen the aftermath of the big ones that have touched down, OKC (2000) and Mississippi around Laural (2014/15?)

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from San Angelo. Lived through a few. one or two killers.

one of them ripped half our roof off and all of our porch. we were driving out about 5 miles from the house on the way to school and my dad stops on a dime. he goes out and pulls up a piece of sheet metal and brings it to me it was our handwriting in pencil from when we were cutting and measuring a few years back on the install.


i'm in central texas now and we still get them, but not as bad. last year we were hosting a friend of a friend who was on the professional disc golf tournament. he was supposed to leave here and go somewhere else but it got delayed due to weather and we had a tornado pop up out of nowhere. it wasn't bad other than limbs, but this kid was from Portland OR and had never seen more than a drizzle of rain in his life he lost his mind thinking that we were going to die.