Anyone ever seen a Tornado

[Jfrag Teh Foul]

Been through several, but never actually seen one.

Several years ago we had one pass through the field behind our house. It was eerie being in that tornado shelter listening to it rumbling through. That particular storm left 6 inches of hail on the ground (which btw, destroyed my roof and beat the paint off of he house.)

 

[Fritzo]

Once. Trust me, they suck.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: Jnetty99
I wonder if there is a way to stop a tornado, say shoot a missle at the storm cell above the tornado, not directly at it.

Maybe a nuclear one, so it can throw radioactive debris everywhere....

There is no stopping them once they have formed, and I don't think the technology is there to keep the favorable conditions from forming that spawn them. Bottom line is Mother Nature > man

I know my idea is well doesn?t have any scientific information behind it but, say you blow up a big explosion inside the cell, could it maybe disrupt the way the airflow is going? Maybe it would spit it back out or maybe it could make it worse. It?s just an idea that I always had. I?m sure scientist already thought about it and said no.

 

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
Once. Trust me, they suck.

lol

Yes, several. I grew up in Kentucky and always wondered if we'd lose any of our fruit trees each time the season started.

I was in the micro-shear that tore up Graham, NC about six years ago. It's caused by different forces than a tornado but with about the same effects. Destroyed the house next to my townhome, ripped part of my roof off and flung my privacy fence a couple of blocks.

I wonder if NFS4 was there in Burlington at the same time.

 

[MrChad]

I was in the middle of a tornado once, but I never saw the actual funnel cloud. We were sitting in our apartment at the time, and noticed an ugly storm brewing outside. We looked out the window (our apt. was on the third floor) and watched the wind start to howl. All of the sudden, the cars parked in front of our building all shifted about 45 degrees simultaneously. We moved to the bathroom and stayed there for a few minutes. The destruction we saw afterwards was pretty absurd.

This was in College Park, MD, BTW, back in 2001.

Link with some pics

 

[Chaotic42]

I've seen four. One in Texas, three at the same time a few hundred feet away in Indiana.

 

[Mr N8]

I saw one touch down in my firend's field when I was a kid. We were riding out bikes on the dirtbike trails his dad made for him. The weather started getting really weird, and we saw the funnel drop, touched the field for about 5 seconds, and then it drew back up into the clouds about half-way. We were in their basement before we were able to see anything else.

 

[Fingers]

Seen many water spouts. Once there was five of them that I could see at once.

On a related note I have also had lightning strike just several feet away from me, talk about loud.

 

[SynthDude2001]

I've lived in south Texas for 20 years (I'm only 20 years old ) and I've never seen one personally... I'm not even sure if they often come/form this far south though.

 

[ATLien247]

I saw a water spout over the Great Salt Lake once.

I would've gotten to see the tornado that came through SLC a couple years back. My office was in the Triad Center, for those of you familiar with the area. The tornado path was less than a block away, so I would've had a very nice view. Unfortunately, I was called to our other office location several blocks away. I didn't even know a tornado had touched down. I was driving back to my office when I noticed all these emergency vehicles, cops, undercover cops, etc. rushing somewhere. It was only when I turned on the radio that I learned what had happened.

Funny thing, we had a lady visiting from an office back East. She mentioned to one of my co-workers that it felt like tornado weather. Everyone laughed it off, though, since tornados are rare in Utah.

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
I've lived in south Texas for 20 years (I'm only 20 years old ) and I've never seen one personally... I'm not even sure if they often come/form this far south though.

I live in San Antonio as well, and I'm 20 as well, and I've seen a tornado before near SA. It was far west SA though.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

I've been in several. One when I was a kid. And one a few years ago. I was riding my motorcycle home when one came down in the intersection I was at pushed me over 3 lanes and then the tornado went back up.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
I've been in several. One when I was a kid. And one a few years ago. I was riding my motorcycle home when one came down in the intersection I was at pushed me over 3 lanes and then the tornado went back up.

seems like you got lucky

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Once, but I didnt know it at the time. There was a big thunderstorm in NJ and I heard a sound. A funny cloud was passing overhead, so I watched it. As it passed I could see that I had been looking directly up into a funnel that didn't make ground contact.

It sounded like a hundred locomotives all at once.

 

[ts3433]

No, and I've only been under a tornado warning once (1997 El Nino).

I love the unexciting weather around here.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

yup, there was one in my neighborhood in texas when i was younger. saw it outside of my window before we went to a different room

it trashed a couple construction trailers and ripped down the frames to some houses under construction. also popped the windows out and crumpled the garage doors of some other nearby completed houses, but left ours alone

also, seen quite a few waterspouts

 

[pclstyle]

<-ig'nant. what's a water spout?

 

[sharkeeper]

A funny cloud was passing overhead, so I watched it

That made me laugh.

<-ig'nant. what's a water spout?

Tornado over water.

 

[Bassyhead]

nope

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: pclstyle
<-ig'nant. what's a water spout?

here is a picture of one link

Here are several videos videos