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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:04:02 PM EDT
With the crazy tornado warnings all over the place today I wondered if anyone here has seen or was in an actual tornado that touched down?
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:04:28 PM EDT
[#1]
Yes
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:06:49 PM EDT
[#2]
Saw a few baby tornadoes on the same day last year. It's pretty easy when you're in Kansas with just fields around you.
 They may have been 10 or 20 miles away. No truly destructive ones though. |
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AR, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:07:18 PM EDT
[#3]
Growing up in OKC I saw several, including the May 3rd tornado. It is an incredibly terrifying, humbling and awakening experience.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:07:56 PM EDT
[#4]
I had one come by my house to visit. 0/10 would not recommend.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:08:18 PM EDT
[#5]
Skywarn nerd here. Many times over.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:08:25 PM EDT
[#6]
Many.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:08:37 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Rob940]
[#7]
Yep. Quite a few. One half miler that I was a bit too close for comfort for also. Amazing how fast you can get a 4cyl Sonoma going.
Mom was in Belvedere IL when that one hit in the high school in 1967. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:09:34 PM EDT
[#8]
Funnel cloud in eastern CO. The Texas tornadoes near me were obscured by storm or I was in the path and hiding like a bitch in my house.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:10:07 PM EDT
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I was in the Outer Banks many years ago, lower villages, Salvo I think. A bunch of friends had rented a beach house for a bachelor party. Was alone in the house when I heard a radio start squeaking. Found it and listened, was a weather radio issuing a tornado warning for our area. I went out in the deck and looked north to see a very large tornado/waterspout making its way from the sound, across the island and out to sea. All the homes were on stilts, car was completely blocked in...whole area was flat. No idea what I would've done if it was closer.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:10:49 PM EDT
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Had an F4 rip the roof off our house in 1990. I was only 2 and a half at the time, but I can still distinctly remember my dad up there on the roof repairing it, smoking away with his Marlboros as I was tinkering around the back yard.
I still remember when we went in the "basement" (it was a bi-level) that we were allowed one toy to occupy us as we hunkered down in the closet under the steps. I picked this really neat see through plastic fire truck that had all kinds of gears and gadgets that moved inside. Not that I could see anything in the pitch black under the steps.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:11:31 PM EDT
[#11]
Seen one? No. In one? Yes.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:11:33 PM EDT
[#12]
Yessir
Several in fact |
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MO, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:12:25 PM EDT
[#13]
Tornado? No… the one chance I’ve had so far was when I was a kid. My mother was shoving me into a closet as I was trying to get to a window to see it coming. It went around our house by a couple hundred yards or so and apparently it was a small tornado.
That being said, I’ve seen six water spouts in the Gulf of Mexico while deep sea fishing. But those dont count, right? 
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CO, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:13:08 PM EDT
[#14]
I've seen one picking up a truck and dumping it on the rooftop of the grocery store. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:13:20 PM EDT
[#15]
Yes. An EF2 that I got on video where my video made it to local news.
EF3 that hit a few miles away but was at night. When the lightning flashed you could clearly see that whole black wall of angry right in front of us with a ton of rotation right off our front porch. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:13:50 PM EDT
[#16]
Water spouts and dirt devils.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:14:36 PM EDT
[#17]
Nope
But I've been with a mile or two of one and watched another from about 5-8 miles away, just couldn't see the funnel. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:14:46 PM EDT
[#18]
I've lived in VA my whole life and have never seen one (I think we have one on the news every 10-20 years). When I worked in TN a bit the facility I was at told me and showed me where the tornado shelter was, I made sure I remembered it just in case. Other than hurricanes VA doesn't have many natural disasters and the hurricanes generally don't affect the western 2/3rds of the state.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:15:33 PM EDT
[#19]
I watched the tornado that drilled Covington TN form 200 yards over my house.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:16:54 PM EDT
[#20]
May 29 1997 F5 seen from a far. June 1997 F2 3 miles or so away. Certain things you just don't forget.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:18:15 PM EDT
[#21]
In '85 I was in one. I was fishing under the footbridge that leads out to the dam control at West Branch Reservoir. It was a decent day but all of a sudden everything got very black. My car was about a half mile away. I was able to climb the rocks toward the underside of the footbridge but didn't make it. The tornado hit and threw me into the steel girders knocking me out cold for a few minutes. When the tornado cleared out and I was able to climb out of there the paved road on top of the dam was covered in a layer of what looked like driveway gravel.
This was the tornado that hit Newton Falls Ohio. |
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USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:19:53 PM EDT
[#22]
Yep.
Do not recommend. 
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USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:20:35 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Switchback_Arms]
[#23]
Couple times, working in Ft. Leonard Wood Missouri and in Monroe Washington
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:22:22 PM EDT
[#24]
As a teen, sometimes my dad would give me a ride to high school...were you drive pass bodies of water where we could see like funnel clouds or something...one day there was literally three of them lined up...
It was Panama, where I guess the winds weren't strong enough to turn it into anything. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:22:28 PM EDT
[#25]
No and I'd like to keep it that way
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:26:01 PM EDT
[#26]
Been in visual range of three, to close for comfort for all three. One was the Garland (DFW) tornado that killed 13, mostly people in their cars on the interstate/turnpike intersection it hit. We were headed straight for that intersection. Radio was insisting that there was no tornado on the ground, but we could see the transformers exploding in the distance and knew better. We hung a hard left and ran for it across the Lake Ray Hubbard bridge, we could see the tornado coming in the distance, but our Honda minivan was good for about 110 MPH with that tailwind, and I didn't think it could catch us!
Second one was a rare white tornado back in maybe 1990. I was almost parallel with it, going in the opposite direction, didn't realize what it was because it filled my entire field of view to the right, it was dark, and I had tinted windows, and I was busy watching the road. I was in an '84 Rx7 GSL-SE, which had a lot of roll stiffness and not much sail area, so it was very deceptive in high winds, you just didn't feel them until you stopped the car and got out. The car didn't get blown around at all. I topped a small rise, and there was a tanker truck turned over in the middle of the 4 lane and debris everywhere. I had to detour around 15 miles to get home. The tornado had crossed directly in front of me, and then more or less paralleled the highway for a distance. Third one passed within 500 yards of my parent's house when I was a kid, might have been during the infamous outbreak of '73 (or '74?). Today, I live in a concrete house that fully encloses a windowless concrete box (incl the roof) that is also our laundry room. I figure 16" of reinforced concrete is enough.
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PA, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:28:18 PM EDT
[#27]
A few. One here in PA, mostly when we lived in Iowa.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:28:59 PM EDT
[#28]
I saw a few while I lived in Oklahoma. I’ve seen a couple associated with hurricanes here at home. Also some waterspouts on Ponchartrain while I was the end of the runway at Lakefront. That probably made me the most nervous. I’ve also been offshore diving and surfaced to see a couple a couple miles or so away. Fortunately moving away.
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CO, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:29:12 PM EDT
[#29]
Witnessed one in Kansas. It's an amazing thing to watch if you are a safe distance away.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:31:44 PM EDT
[Last Edit: monadh]
[#30]
I actually have lost count of how many I have seen. I have been very close to maybe 10, had 3 powerful funnels go directly over me, and had one very weak one hit me in my car one night and almost push me into a median.
I remember watching a F4 tornado hit Catoosa, OK in April 1993. Where I was had perfectly clear skies, and the cloud over Catoosa was as black as coal. So far so good. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:32:26 PM EDT
[#31]
Yes, used to chase after them in high school on our motorcycles.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:36:59 PM EDT
[#32]
I have video of the one that destroyed the factory in Lincoln Nebraska a couple weeks ago. I don't know how to post video here. I have lived in Nebraska my whole life. Tornados are just like hurricanes. We just live with it. Most of them don't hit you. They are a big deal, but not for most people.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:37:15 PM EDT
[#33]
Yep yep
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NE, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:37:34 PM EDT
[#34]
I saw a rain encased tornado by my place. Very disappointing.
Spoiler, so much rain around it you couldn't see the actual tornado. |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:39:15 PM EDT
[#35]
Yep, had one blow right through a concrete dorm at Sheppard AFB in the armpit of the world, Wichita Falls, TX
Yep, sounded just like freight train |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:41:10 PM EDT
[#36]
yep a couple of times
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:41:44 PM EDT
[#37]
Yes, too many
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:42:11 PM EDT
[#38]
Yes, three.
Oklahoma , Ft. Campbell, Ky., and Pemberton, NJ. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:42:49 PM EDT
[#39]
No, thankfully.
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:45:51 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Southernman077: I had one come by my house to visit. 0/10 would not recommend. This but mine was a night....didn't really see shit but a crap ton of lighting......besides my UPS's starting crying for power, the color was different, and that train making a personal delivery to my home...I would have thought it was a normal afternoon day..... 
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:46:19 PM EDT
[#41]
Two.
Two too many, FWIW. |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:47:21 PM EDT
[#42]
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TN, USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:48:53 PM EDT
[#43]
Twice.
The Easter Sunday tornado about 5 years back. Tore through my neighborhood including my yard. I drove through the one that hit the TVA dam here. There was a wall cloud in front of it so you couldn't see it until you were in it. https://www.local3news.com/local-news/recalling-the-2020-easter-tornado-outbreak-in-the-tennessee-valley/article_74336f16-b8ef-11ec-8809-73d5b1ca0ec7.html https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/oct/27/tornadoes-possibility/ |
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:51:19 PM EDT
[#44]
Back when I lived in Nebraska I only twice.
When I was young we had one rip through the far northern edge of town, but we were away coming back from a baseball tournament in another town and missed it. I remember being so pissed off I didn't get to see it |
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USA
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Posted: 5/7/2024 11:56:50 PM EDT
[#45]
Nope, but I have seen and been in some dust devil's.
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KY, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:05:47 AM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By pr24guy: Yes, three. Oklahoma , Ft. Campbell, Ky., and Pemberton, NJ. Was it the one that hit the hangers a few years back on campbell? That was pretty nasty |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:14:45 AM EDT
[#47]
Yes
Small one Raining hard as he'll Rain coming in thru my weather stripping on my 78 camaro Couldn't see shit Car rocking slightly Then it turned green and went clear as day Then Rain resumed and Camero shook Then nothing I siaf to myself Wtf was that I was |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:17:42 AM EDT
[#48]
Yes. In the gulf while working on a shrimp boat. There were three on the starboard side and two to port side. Never got really close though.
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:19:11 AM EDT
[#49]
I watched the Nashville tornado rip through the north side of town from my 10th story balcony. I couldn't see the funnel, since it was late at night, but I watched the debris and electrical flashes go in a line. Debris landed on my balcony.
I knew it was a tornado, and, being a dutiful neighbor, I promptly loaded up the truck and left town.  (I was actually part of a damage assessment team but was, ironically, due to be in a different state later that day) |
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Posted: 5/8/2024 12:21:51 AM EDT
[#50]
Sure. Never got very close though. Mom’s place got hit by a small one. Ripped out her steel pole fence but didn’t hardly move the cheap plastic patio furniture. Place I used to live got hit by an F1 some years after we moved, went down to see and it was a mile wide path of stripped clean ground. Bit of tin wrapped around what little fencing remained. Girl I ran around with was saved by her dad holding her in a ditch. Almost got pulled away.
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