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This sucker happend near Waverly, NE a few days ago.
Funnel

Enjoy the pic.
Glad you didn't experience the tornado. ;)

There have been a number of pretty bad thunderstorms and tornados around which sure isn't like the last few years.
 
That reminds me of the time a tornado popped out of no where in like 5 minutes as one of my tennis matches at my high school and we had to run inside and wait it out. It was just so scary becuase it went from sunny nice weather to clouds, rain and a tornado in like 5 minutes. That one looks scary as hell.
 
That isn't a torando. I live in tornado alley (north central texas) I know them well. I had one about 2 years ago rip through my neighbor hood. I repeat NOT A TORANDO. I agree it's a cool picture but it is not a tornado.
 
I say that because it's a cloud (I cannot remmber the name). Notice how the cloud is shaped like an anvil? these types of clouds produce thunderstorms and lots of lighting. Second of all when tornadoes occur the funnell is "rapped" much tigher, shaped like a big V. they dont have stray clouds like that just floating merily along. This might lead you to believe: "oh well then it's just a cloud 'warming up' to be a torando". Not true tornadoes form when there is lots of roation in clouds. the clouds are ussually rotating around flat and at the point where alot of ration occurs, a funnel and tornado occurs. think about your bathtub, no stray funnells or formations occur around it. second to last, you can see that that cloud is not touching the ground. and last of all, it looks like the cloud is passing through some lightly wooded areas. if this were a tornado you'd see alot of debris flying around and also the cloud would be darker because of all the debris that is getting "sucked up" or trapped inside the tornado.
 
staddydaddy = prejudice against Tornados cause they are a little thick around teh mid-section.
 
Pitbul said:
staddydaddy = prejudice against Tornados cause they are a little thick around teh mid-section.
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teh funneh :D

seriously though, on first impression I thought it was just a Photoshopped image. In no way does it look like the tornado's i've seen prior to this 'one'
 
I think that it's not technically a tornado, since it's not touching the ground.

Still pretty sweet tho.
 
The picture is a funnel like the Link says. I just called it a tornado because it did touch down later after the picture was taken.
Funnel = not touching ground
Tornado = touching ground
 
That makes me glad that we don't get tornadoes here in southern California.
 
Oh yea...Well watch THE DAY AFTER TOMMOROW.So be afraid...very afraid...
 
I get a dns error here at work from ur link Matt :-/

Id def sh*t my pants and possibly cry if I where near such a twister :D could be fun to see though... Id rather try skydiving!
 
Heh...funny after staddy came in everyone knew it wasn't really a tornado.


Anyway, i love pictures like that Matt...Not just the Tornado but when people catch lightning like that.
 
I heard from somewhere that us here in the US get 95% of all the worlds tornados, but other countries must get them. Have any of you in the UK or other places seen one?
 
i heard of one being in the UK, but it wasnt big, a leve 2 or 3 at most i think.. it went through Surrey or somewhere like that, not sure ^_^
Day after tomorrow is an awful film... Tornado's are formed through a low pressure and high pressure air mass meeting, and circulating over land right?.... how the fook can they have 5-6 in San Francisco at the same time and the helicopter just flying inbetween them like its a piece of piss.. well tbh, the film is a piece of piss. A tsunami would never happen in new york, they come from tectonic movement ^_^
 
Farrowlesparrow said:
Most days...

Ahem.

Are you refering to the weather?
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Yup. I wish I was worse at guessing. Then I might actually not have a very good idea what you were referring to.

Murray_H said:
Is that when a halo appears around your shadow?
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Not here. It's a big "Rolling Pin"-type cloud that appears over the coast in some spots. Looks really weird... Almost solid... You get this long, almost perfectly cylindrical cloud that just rolls in over the coastline, sometimes trailing other clouds behind it...
 
Lethal8472 said:
I heard from somewhere that us here in the US get 95% of all the worlds tornados, but other countries must get them. Have any of you in the UK or other places seen one?
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Actually lots of Tornadoes thouch down in and around the UK, most of them aren't very big and the ones that are big form out at sea as water spouts.
 
Farrowlesparrow said:
Actually lots of Tornadoes thouch down in and around the UK, most of them aren't very big and the ones that are big form out at sea as water spouts.
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The UK actually gets around 50-60 reported tornadoes per annum which is actually more than the reported number per annum in the US. However almost ALL tornado's within the UK are tiny, hardly ever going above the F1 scale. Tornado's in the US however happen on amuch grander scale.

That vid was interesting although it wasn't a tornado, just what many people refer to as a 'dust devil'
 
I love dustdevils, never seen one that huge, biggest one I saw picked up a garbage can chained to a fence and ripped it off.
 
[Matt] said:
The UK actually gets around 50-60 reported tornadoes per annum which is actually more than the reported number per annum in the US.
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Dude, sometimes there are 50-60 tornadoes reported in one storm cycle here in the midwest. I could be wrong but I think there are more tornadoes in the US than UK anually.
 
yeah that's a dust devil. Those things are soo ****ing fun to jump into. this one time when i went to philmont there was this really powerful one in this huge field and everyone in my backpacking crew was jumping into it. you get like thrown off your ass but you fly around. it's so much fun. only problem is, the devil was going through lots of cow patties so everyone got a mouth full of cow shit. my other friend threw his bandana up into it and it went like prolly 1/4 mile into the sky and then came back down.. it was awesome
 
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