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Originally Posted by Wisdom
Today there was a tornado in Compton and a big one in Blythe, CA
This one looks to be a half a mile wide, maybe more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWDQVVxrgUM 
That's like what, 5 tornadoes in less than a week. Counting the 2 in Long Beach that happened on the 19th.
EDIT: the one in Blythe happened on the 21st. |
I guarantee she wouldn't have been laughing if she was that close to a 1/2 mile wide tornado! That's called a wall cloud silly! It looked like they were sitting on the leading edge of a front where the winds can get up to 60-70mph or more, it's also typified by a solid wall of rain. There didn't appear to be any kind of a debris field spinning around either, no cloud circulation, nor did I hear the loud freight train sound of a tornado...they would've seen cows-n-cars-n-barns flying by that close!
Californians aren't real experienced with weather....I lived in Oklahoma and Texas for 20 years and in that time became a real weather geek, even had a very good friend who was a meteorologist.
Granted the weather is getting nastier hear, but so far this is nothing compared to the storms that whip up in tornado alley...that stuff will scare the living cr** out of you when the storms kick-up and tornado's roll!!