Incredible video of supercell spawning 10 tornadoes in one day:

[tblue37]

https://vimeo.com/218994650

[Laffy Kat]

1. Deadly but awesome.

They mesmerize me.

[tblue37]

2. I live in Kansas.Because I am severely hearing impaired I slept through a tornado

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because I was napping and didn't hear the alarm. Fortunately for me the tornado hit closer to the edge of town, not the center where I live.

[Laffy Kat]

3. Man. You're in the belt.

Be careful, tblue37.

[tblue37]

7. See my post #6 below. nt

[madokie]

10. I've slept thought two tornados

One I guess never actually made it all the way to the ground it just ripped the tops from about 20 feet up out of the trees in the yard. The other one tossed one of the out buildings where we were living onto the power line. It was leaning on the power line. The line was holding it up. the building started out about 30 feet from the house I was sleeping in. I had gone to work but came back home cause it was raining cats and dogs and you can't pour concrete in a rain. When my step son went out to go to school he comes back in and says, I guess we must have had a tornado or something. We go check it out and sure enough it was obvious what had happened.

[MuseRider]

4. I heard about that

but did not know about the videos. Wow.

[mnhtnbb]

5. I once went to pick up my husband and two sons at the general aviation section

of the airport in Lincoln, NE. They were back from one of their summer adventures
they called "great adventures". My husband held a general aviation license and would fly
the boys on a 7-10 day trip just for the guys.

So, I was looking out the huge window at the general aviation terminal while my husband was finishing his flight paperwork and I counted five--yes 5--tornadoes out on the horizon.

None of them touched down. None of them came in to town. Still. It was quite a sight.

[uppityperson]

8. Isn't it amazing to see funnel clouds dipping down, disappearing again,?

I grew up in the flatlands and miss the sky

[tblue37]

6. I am fascinated by extreme weather. Once, during a downburst (like a tornado, but the winds push

violently downward instead of spiraling) I went outside to watch he wild weather.

The wind uprooted my neighbor's pear tree and threw it right at me! I scrambled backward, tripped, and landed on my bottom. The tree missed me by inches. If I had stayed standing where I originally was, that tree would have gone through me!

Around town roofs were ripped off buildings by the downburst, and trees were embedded in walls.

But oh, my goodness, that storm was beautiful!

[tblue37]

9. This link is to a page with amazing pictures if the damage caused by the microburst I describe

in post #6:

https://www.weather.gov/top/2006_LawrenceMicroburst

[Laffy Kat]

12. Yep, you need to respect Mother Nature. Once I was in a glider with my former instructor...

It was outside of Elizabeth, Colorado many years ago. The weather was very unstable which is good for thermals and we had gained a lot of altitude when suddenly, it was almost like someone took a flyswatter and tried to swat us out of the sky, we encountered a micro-burst. I can't remember how much altitude we lost in what seemed like a split second; it was impressive. Nothing to do but let go of the controls. Of course we recovered, but had we been closer to the ground we probably wouldn't have survived. Just a freak thing.

[tblue37]

13. Before experiencing that microburst up close & personal, I had never even heard of such things. nt

[Scurrilous]

11. K&R

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. That very last bit, with the sunlit clouds

is one of the most gorgeous things I've ever seen!


I've never slept through a tornado, but I did once sleep through an earthquake.

[tblue37]

15. Yes, that is a gorgeous image at the end! nt