Tornado!

Took this picture from our living room. It had just dissipated before it reached us. BTW, we are near downtown Jacksonville!

Holy Crap that is just like my nightmares

Thankfully it wasn't a bad tornado at all. Really interesting to see. It actually was a lot more defined but by the time we found the camera, that was what was left. Don't get me wrong, I am happy about that!!

that's one of my weird desires before I die...see and photograph a tornado. If this whole magazine thing doesn't work out, I'm going to go stalk Jim Cantore.

Cantore is the Angel of Death. He shows up in your neighborhood, you KNOW you're berkeleyed.

cwh wrote: Cantore is the Angel of Death. He shows up in your neighborhood, you KNOW you're berkeleyed.

This should totally make it in the mag. Oh, and I need a new monitor and keyboard now.

They sure are freaky looking. Unlike Per, I'm content to never be anywhere near one.

Rangeball wrote:

That's not a tornado, that's Jennie headed back to her bottle.

My primary memory of near miss was how the sky turned brown just before it hit. It was creepy.

When Jim came to Ormond and Daytona in 2004, Kim and I tried to get out to the beach to be the dumbasses in the background of a shot. Didn't get there in time.

and yes, we were pretty screwed up from those storms.

a few years ago, one touched down by our lake house...I witnessed a waterspout...water was swirled probably 10-15 feet out of the lake...it was the most eerie and scary thing I had ever seen.

I would love a chance to go play storm chaser

I almost got caught in a tornado one day due to my own stupidity.

I was at our office, which was at one end of a long steel & concrete building in an industrial park. They'd annouced the tornado warning & the trajectory said it was heading right toward us. I though "Well I'm not going to wait around to see what happens, I'm getting out of here."

I made it about a block down the street, but the rain was so hard that even with my wipers on high I couldn't see past the end of my hood. I managed to get turned around & back to the office, but the wind was so strong I couldn't get the front door open. Fortunately, a couple of the guys inside watched all my asshattery, and one grabbed the door & opened it, while the other one grabbed me & pulled me in.

We found out afterward that the office on the opposite end of our building had an overhead door blown out & part of the roof came off!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK2cuZIaQx0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymVEDKlBUEU&feature=related

http://www.geocities.com/ingodwetrustforweareundergod/vwtornado2.html

This little feller came through our county in 02, it wasn't something I want to go through again. Most of our debris wiped out a little town called Melrose when the Tornado disipated

maroon92 wrote: a few years ago, one touched down by our lake house...I witnessed a waterspout...water was swirled probably 10-15 feet out of the lake...it was the most eerie and scary thing I had ever seen.

I was out on a lake near my house about a year ago with a fishing buddy of mine. Pretty weather but fairly windy and while we were casting near the dam when one suddenly appeared about 150yds away from us. It was about 10 to 12 feet tall and kicked around for a minute or two. It also made a good bit of noise. We both agreed that it was one of the stranger things we had ever seen.

We get little baby ones here in New England:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuI27T5WDOE

You kind of have to speed it up to see the rotation.

I've watched a few of them here in west Michigan. Oceana Co. seems to attract a few of them by sticking out into the lake.

just have issues with the sky turning that yellowish green that seems to accompany them

dyintorace wrote: They sure are freaky looking. Unlike Per, I'm content to never be anywhere near one.

That has to be photoshopped.

Joey

There is a spot where two of the highrises in the office complex whwere i work that regularly generates "dust devils" about 5 feet tall. Like a little tornado in training. When the wind is right they will form and spin for about 1 minute then dissipate and another forms a few minutes later.