re: Anyone ever seen a tornado in person?

I bet a lot of people don't even realize how close they have been to being hit by a tornado. I'm not talking about one on the ground, but a storm trying to produce a tornado.

In one of the threads here a couple years ago I was posting from the living room as a warned storm came almost directly over our house. It didn't have one on the ground, I had been watching the radar closely. It was rotating considerably, though. I was watching the rain blow away from the window in the living room and watched as the wind shifted within a few seconds and the rain started pounding the window. My girlfriend at the time yelled from the bathroom, "Is that a tornado?!?!?!" I yelled back, "Don't think so!" She yelled, "Well, it damn sure sounds like it!"