Posted by Bobl1958 on April 02, 2014 at 17:23:37 from (174.229.70.69):
In Reply to: Tornadoes posted by Mark W. on April 02, 2014 at 08:50:13:
Had a storm late last May. The clouds turned black and it started to spit a little hail. My draft horses were standing in the hail, so I went to the barn to shut them in. When I got them shut in, I decided I had better head to the house. As I looked towards the house, I saw a white rope tornado just above my house. I was looking to the NE and the tornado was just on the back side of the house, so I didnt really panic, but ran to the house and told my wife that if she wanted to see a tornado she had better come and look. As we went around the North side of the house and looked to the NE, I saw the rope tornado still just to the NE of the house, but beside it was a 1/2 mile wide black tornado. By now it was about 1/2 mile away to the NE. My neighbor who was 1 mile NE as the crow flies lost his roof, completely lost his barn and a shed. This was the tornado that you may have heard about on the news that actually ended up turning around and going backwards, which was towards my house again. It ended up just stopping about 3/4 mile straight West of me and tore things up for about another 20 minutes. It finally went back up and gave up. The meteorologists said they have never seen one back up that way. When I first saw it it was still light out, but soon it was dark and the power was out. It tore several power poles out. I had the weather and radar on the I-Pad, and the radio station kept saying the tornado was headed right towards me. It was dark by then and the wind was blowing so hard the rain was straight sideways. I could't see anything. My wife was in the basement with the little dogs. I was sure when the smoke all cleared there would be nothing left, but other than a few limbs, I survived just fine. A person might think that a tornado 1/2 mile away is not something to be worried about, but believe me it will make you sit up and take notice. There was over 400 head of cattle killed as the tornado went through a feedlot. Dead and dying cows and calves all over. Don't ever want to see anything like it again. Fortunately the tornado was in pasture land for the most of it's run. No person was hurt, and if not for the feedlot, there wouldn't have been too much loss of life. Bob
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