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Post by Greenedog on Jul 20, 2010 19:50:16 GMT -5
Seen my first twister ever at 6:25 this evening. I was driving home from work and turned south on Louisville Road in Riley. As soon as I got out of town into the open fields I seen it. My buddy Mike was asleep and I say "Look." "LOOK!" It was snow white and reached clear to the ground. I was saying something about wishing I had my camera and Mike whips out his phone. By then the bottom of it was behind some trees. I should have stopped right when I first seen it. Mike's cell phone pic; I took off to the next open area so we could get a better pic, along the way we were in a heavy canopy of trees and couldn't see the twister, that was a little spooky! By the time we reached the next open area it had already dissipated. At the south end of Louisville Road, we sat and watched the thunderhead for a while. It looked like the tornado would drop out of it again at any moment, but never did. Chase posted the pic and story on Channel 10's facebook page, but I don't think weatherman Kevin Orpurt believes it was a twister because he didn't see any rotation on his Doppler radar. I GUARANTEE there was rotation and there's more witnesses than just Mike and me. Like Mike said, we can mark this one off our "bucket list!"
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Post by anthonydykes on Jul 20, 2010 20:22:41 GMT -5
lol, i go past loisville rd all the time via woodsmall rd. better you seein it than me lol.
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Post by Brian on Jul 20, 2010 21:49:10 GMT -5
thats an awesome pic. I've never seen a tornado either. I'm glad it didn't last long and didn't do any major damage.
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Post by Jordan on Jul 21, 2010 0:47:12 GMT -5
wow have any of u guys seen any damage from these storms lately? we;ve lost a tree and a few halves of trees.
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Post by strippitman on Jul 21, 2010 7:17:35 GMT -5
I noticed you guys have been getting hammered down there lately. We need rain up here really bad! Good job on the tornado! I have been a storm chaser for years and still have yet to see one . I've seen rotation several times but never have I seen form into a full fledged tornado
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Post by hunterguy28 on Jul 21, 2010 14:15:43 GMT -5
Cool pic we didn't get much severe weather here, it went south to you guys.
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Post by Catfishsam on Aug 6, 2010 8:29:11 GMT -5
cool pic
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