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Have you ever experienced being caught in a tornado's path?

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This picture just freaks me out. There nothing you could hold on to to hold you down. Just gone. Sucked up. Thats SO crazy! I live in California, so the closest I get is some gusty winds.

But it got me thinking. Has you ever seen a Tornado coming towards your house? Even barely missed your house? Even be stuck in a car as one went by?

Do Tell!!
 
I had a tornado pass a few hundred yards in front of me while driving down the interstate. I was working for a radio station at the time and was driving while the news director was doing live reports.
 
Originally posted by: Heisenberg
I had a tornado pass a few hundred yards in front of me while driving down the interstate. I was working for a radio station at the time and was driving while the news director was doing live reports.
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A few hundred yards? So, like a football field away? What was it like? How big was it?
 
Twice, once while traveling in oklahoma at night, during some hellacious thunderstorms - the radio cut to an emergency recording saying that tonadoes had been spotted in the vacinity - at that time, the winds picked up and my family headed for cover at an abandoned gas station. After about an hour, we thought it was safe enought to travel and made it back home. The next day we found out that a tornado had grazed a portion of the highway that we were near when we pulled off. :Q

The second time was when I lived at Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota - you could literally see it out of our back window. I headed for the basement bathroom, but it dissapated a few minutes after it touched ground.

Funnel clouds on the other hand, I've seen tonnes of them 🙂
 
yes ... it was 6 miles from where I was ..... it happend when I was @ collage in OKC and working part time @ Dominos Pizza .... campus police ascorted us to a shelter on campus .... while running towards the building my back was towards the tornado and rain was hitting us in waves .... caught the glimpse of the funnul ... scary $hit .... went out as volunter to help people in the aftermath ... it was bad 🙁
 
Originally posted by: rbloedow
Twice, once while traveling in oklahoma at night, during some hellacious thunderstorms - the radio cut to an emergency recording saying that tonadoes had been spotted in the vacinity - at that time, the winds picked up and my family headed for cover at an abandoned gas station. After about an hour, we thought it was safe enought to travel and made it back home. The next day we found out that a tornado had grazed a portion of the highway that we were near when we pulled off. :Q

The second time was when I lived at Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota - you could literally see it out of our back window. I headed for the basement bathroom, but it dissapated a few minutes after it touched ground.

Funnel clouds on the other hand, I've seen tonnes of them 🙂
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Thats it, I'm keeping my a$$ in Cali!
 
Yep, sunofabitch was bearing right down at me. I stood up, glared the SOB right in the eye. Then n there we had us a show down of sorts, and when the tornado realized I was a cool tough guy badass, he backed down and did turn around and go the other way.
 
I've actually been through the largest tornado in recorded history (3 May 99, OKC), a decent-sized hurricane (Hurricane Bob, 1999), and a volcano (Mount Spurr, Alaska, 1992).
 
Originally posted by: warcrow
Originally posted by: Heisenberg
I had a tornado pass a few hundred yards in front of me while driving down the interstate. I was working for a radio station at the time and was driving while the news director was doing live reports.
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A few hundred yards? So, like a football field away? What was it like? How big was it?
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A football field is 100 yards, so this was several football fields away. It wasn't all that big of a tornado, but it was an F3, so fairly powerful. The interstate runs east-west, and it crossed going almost straight north. It crossed right at an overpass, so we stopped there and found that several people had crawled under the overpass for shelter. There was also a semi overturned on the exit ramp - the driver was one of the people who hid under the overpass. We were there several minutes before the police showed up.
 
Yeah, we've been under sever t-storm warnings and tornado warnings and flood warnings like all night.

hevnsnt, I don't envy you, its all moving your way.
 
some three months ago, just about a mile from my apartment building. it took out some roof plates of our local library. some huge trees were down, it's surreal to look at the remainings the next morning on my way to work, as if a giant pulled these trees out until you can see the roots, and just left it there. awesome yet scary.
 
Originally posted by: DonVito
I've actually been through the largest tornado in recorded history (3 May 99, OKC), a decent-sized hurricane (Hurricane Bob, 1999), and a volcano (Mount Spurr, Alaska, 1992).
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<Note to self: Dont travel with Don Vito>

I have lived in Oklahoma almost 40 years now, still havent even seen one of the damn things in person, only on the news. 😱

It seems so odd, I mean they are a hellacious force, but it has gotten to the point where I never even think about them. The news people would practically have to broadcast my home address over the airwaves before I thought about taking cover.
 
multiple times

growing up in illinois i was very curious and amazed by tornados and lightning
my closest encounter was me being very idiotic
i was 16 years old, got sent home from work (swiss colony) due to big ass storms
30 minutes after i got home we had tornado warnings and the wind was ripping corn from the field next to my house and blowing it down the streets
my mom, who is handicapped demanded that i go into the basement - but she couldn't go

I stepped onto the back deck to see how severe things were
i stayed close to the house and inched my way to the corner of the deck
i looked out into the field and seen the twister
it would touch down for a few seconds, then go back up, then touch down

as it moved closer the rain stopped and corn leaves and stalks filled the air
i could hear the shingles getting ripped off of our roof and panels of aluminum siding peeling from our house
i hugged the hand-rail of the deck with both arms as it got closer - within 100 yards

it ended up missing our town for the most part
the only damage was to the houses on my street and the junk yard/recycle center at the other side of the corn field (buttloads of water heaters and scrap metal were picked up and moved to the field)

heres a terraserver image
http://www.terraserver.com/imagery/image_gx.asp?cpx=-89.822196&amp;cpy=42.379398&amp;res=8&amp;provider_id=310

in the lower left is where i lived
 
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