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re: Anyone ever seen a tornado in person?
Posted on 1/31/24 at 9:38 am to SidewalkTiger
Posted on 1/31/24 at 9:38 am to SidewalkTiger
One hit my hometown during the 2011 outbreak in the south and did some pretty bad damage. I didn’t see it because I was hunkered down in the basement but I damn sure heard it
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Posted on 1/31/24 at 9:50 am to SidewalkTiger
I have. A big one in Illinois when I was 20, right in the middle of the day. Talk about surreal.
This post was edited on 1/31/24 at 9:51 am
Posted on 1/31/24 at 10:01 am to SidewalkTiger
Saw a water spout on Lake Pontchartrain while I was on the I-10 spillway
Posted on 1/31/24 at 10:15 am to SidewalkTiger
I was in one when Episcopal High was hit in the early 70's but didn't see it. Pretty wild day.
In the 90's I got to watch a water spout come ashore at Port Fourchon and wreck stuff. We were legit worried it was headed our way but it went through the marsh a bit north. Great look at it, I wish cell phones were around because the video would have been awesome. It went on to wreck stuff on Grand Isle as well.
A couple of times I've seen funnels start to drop out of the clouds (in Iowa and Oklahoma) but they pulled back up rather than dropped down.
In the 90's I got to watch a water spout come ashore at Port Fourchon and wreck stuff. We were legit worried it was headed our way but it went through the marsh a bit north. Great look at it, I wish cell phones were around because the video would have been awesome. It went on to wreck stuff on Grand Isle as well.
A couple of times I've seen funnels start to drop out of the clouds (in Iowa and Oklahoma) but they pulled back up rather than dropped down.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 10:18 am to delta_zulu
seen 5-6 waterspouts. I also saw the front of the storm that hit Yazoo City years ago but not really a defined funnel.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 10:23 am to Purple Spoon
does my wife on sunday monrnings cleaning the house count?
Posted on 1/31/24 at 10:44 am to SidewalkTiger
During hurricane Gustav there was a small one that passed between me and my neighbor's house. It knocked down two pine trees in my back yard and messed up the fence. I saw it as it sort of lifted up and dissolved. That's the closest I came to seeing one.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 10:45 am to Chad504boy
I saw the one that hit Tuscaloosa passing north of Bham from red mountain, I saw the one that his South of Birmingham a few years ago from my apartment balcony about 3/4 miles from it. was in a bank that had one go within several blocks and we had to hide int he Vault.
growing up in mobile I saw the one that hit Brookly Field years ago, and more Waterspouts that I can remember. even saw one a 1/2 mile from me come in off the gulf, turn into a tornado on Dauphin Island, and cross back into the Bay as a spout.
growing up in mobile I saw the one that hit Brookly Field years ago, and more Waterspouts that I can remember. even saw one a 1/2 mile from me come in off the gulf, turn into a tornado on Dauphin Island, and cross back into the Bay as a spout.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 10:47 am to SidewalkTiger
Yes. I saw the tornado that destroyed Joplin, MO.
I don't see many from my land in Oklahoma but an old timer rancher I know lost his wife in a tornado a couple of years ago about 10 miles away.
I don't see many from my land in Oklahoma but an old timer rancher I know lost his wife in a tornado a couple of years ago about 10 miles away.
This post was edited on 1/31/24 at 10:48 am
Posted on 1/31/24 at 10:53 am to SidewalkTiger
A few times.
There was a fairly nasty storm I was in with low vis, everything was dark grey with low clouds. I was driving down this back road with pine trees on each side when a few people stopped. One crossed the road a few hundred feet in front of us. Pucker factor was high. I completely understand how people could have no idea one is headed right for them.
By the time I saw it, well it was way too late.
There was a fairly nasty storm I was in with low vis, everything was dark grey with low clouds. I was driving down this back road with pine trees on each side when a few people stopped. One crossed the road a few hundred feet in front of us. Pucker factor was high. I completely understand how people could have no idea one is headed right for them.
By the time I saw it, well it was way too late.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 10:55 am to SidewalkTiger
I saw the 2011 here in Tuscaloosa. From about 600 yards away.
Hope to never see something like that again.
Hope to never see something like that again.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 10:59 am to SidewalkTiger
I saw one in Gulfport, MS...I thought it was smoke and people were pulling over on the Interstate to film it.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 11:07 am to SidewalkTiger
I can't say if I actually saw the tornado, but on 4/27/2011 I watched the Hackleburg/Phil Campbell storm cross the Tennessee River. That whole storm was practically on the ground and rotating. I was at work across the river (on the west side) and SW of the high tension power lines it took out on the other side of the river near Brownsferry Nuclear Power Plant. Looking at the map and the tornado path I was ~3 miles from that tornado. A co-worker lost his mom and uncle in that one, and his house was heavily damaged earlier, and another person I know died in it after it passed us.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 11:11 am to SidewalkTiger
Haven't seen one with my eyes, but have been in a basement as a big one went by. Went outside to what looked like a war zone.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 11:13 am to LegendInMyMind
Another, an EF1, came within 50 yards (maybe closer) of our house. It split the distance between us and our neighbors. It took out a huge tractor shed and other outbuildings, sending debris into the road and causing a wreck. I wasn't home at the time, but no one else saw it, either. It was quick, had no warning, and on the ground for less than five minutes.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 11:23 am to SidewalkTiger
Yes, in Tuscaloosa on April 27th, 2011. Was terrifying.
My good friend took this video of it from his apartment a couple of miles down the street from me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A3BYtc00I8
My good friend took this video of it from his apartment a couple of miles down the street from me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A3BYtc00I8
Posted on 1/31/24 at 11:25 am to SidewalkTiger
A couple years ago we were going to my sons graduation at LSU and I filmed one near Sherwood Forrest. Video went viral was shown on today show. I had other news agencies contacting me asking for permission to use even in other countries
Posted on 1/31/24 at 11:28 am to LSURoss
5 Star got hit so many times they moved! I remember the one you mentioned, I was living just outside Shreveport and had significant tree damage, IIRC that storm continued across north La and south Arkansas and did damage as far as Mississippi and Alabama, I always dread that part of Spring in the ArkLATex
Posted on 1/31/24 at 11:29 am to SidewalkTiger
Easter 1999 Bossier
This one. Was as close to an EF5 as it can be. 200 yards wide and had a miles long track that even jumped the red river. I was working for the FBO at Shreveport Downtown Airport. We watched it from the tarmac then went up with the skydiving group after to take pics of the destruction for the news. I remember a hardware store on north market that was busy when I went to work and when I came home there was nothing but a slab. Not even any debris. It took everything but the concrete.
This one. Was as close to an EF5 as it can be. 200 yards wide and had a miles long track that even jumped the red river. I was working for the FBO at Shreveport Downtown Airport. We watched it from the tarmac then went up with the skydiving group after to take pics of the destruction for the news. I remember a hardware store on north market that was busy when I went to work and when I came home there was nothing but a slab. Not even any debris. It took everything but the concrete.
Posted on 1/31/24 at 11:33 am to TTU97NI
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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?)
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.
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