However, lurking a short distance away lies the surrounding eyewall, where the most intense and destructive winds of a hurricane are found. So I held my son and soothed him there in the root cellar, as the pounding increased to a roar, coming from the entire house above us, and slowly diminished again. Some think it might have been a small tornado. Jonas asks if there is an updraft shift over the radio. My dog would just stand in the yard and howl for hours those entire 3 days as well as acting off in other ways. Although severe summer storms occur, the tornado is rarely experienced in our area. All I could think of was get to a low spot. We chatted with the neighbors, made sure we were all safe and ok, and listened to the emergency sirens for an hour and a half as we all checked out our homes. WTVA Chief Meteorologist Matt Laubhan said the storm was coming to Smithville and I just stood there watching, waiting, looking at the TV and thinking this isn't gonna happen. There were people running about in every direction. The tornado cut a path through the woods directed behind the house, maybe 10 feet, and continued until the whole town seemed to have been torn down. My friends and I were sitting on her porch talking and having a wonderful time. About 10 minutes. The first tornado of the day has no supercell characteristics surrounding it. Preliminary reports indicated two homes were destroyed northwest of Smith Center but no injuries were reported. The comments below have not been moderated. Very disturbing, especially with continuous lightning but NO thunder. Then my mom said to move from the window and to grab my little sister, who was 2 years old and so I moved her. Everybody in town had to have a new roof. Then the entire back wall of the shop began to bow in. This was the 90s before camera phones were a thing. As I tore through the porch, into the house and north, down the hall, the windows along the west wall exploded, one by one, to my left and just a fraction of a second behind me. So we all went out front and encountered multiple neighbors and their children doing the same. PLEASE note that we have permission to print your story online and let us know the town and state and the month and year of the event. Then I was hit with a force I can’t describe and felt myself being lifted into the air traveling backwards at what seemed like 100 mph. When I got to the Little Caesars they had run out of pizzas. I took cover in the hallway as the train sound rumbled outside. We closed the door. Our neighbors to the north reported hail went through their roof and embedded in their hardwood floor. The tornado tracked closer and the praying got louder. Hook echoes do not always indicate a tornado, either. When Melissa, Bill’s wife, says “oh my god” while driving towards the bridge, the tractor that was on top of the bridge can be seen near the side of the road after it was thrown by the tornado. Inside the eye, winds are mostly light. There was not an inch that hadn’t been smattered with leaves. It might be an F-5.”.

We watched, and it was obvious to me that the rotation on the storm was very strong and I mentioned that to Terry about a half minute before WHIO said the exact same thing. 'I need a flight home now! was lifted and thrown at a campground, and another man was killed in his car by a falling tree. At that time, 10:40 pm approx., the on air meteorologist changed views to show the storm that was spinning up a rotation signature over Brookville, Ohio. A microburst is a rapid downward acceleration of air out of the downdraft, and can often lead to minor or major wind damage. When they arrive in Wakita again, the damage that you see in the movie was real. Schools had let out early and after school events were either postponed or canceled. Two weeks later, if I recall correctly, KOA -the local radio station- acknowledged with chagrin that they had missed the storm entirely. We and our partners will store and/or access information on your device through the use of cookies and similar technologies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. While all sizes of hail occur within a supercell, the larger hailstones are found closer to the updraft to the core. I told my wife we would be heading toward the basement when I made the call. Roofing companies were going door to door. Dusty says to Jo that the NSSL is predicting an F-5 the next day. All of us do really. I was watching the news. Lives were saved that June afternoon thanks to their dedication and pursuit of the understanding of weather. There is no possible way to make it that distance while driving and still have daylight given they left Wakita in the afternoon. It is impossible to know when exactly the cap begins to break until storms initiate completely. Storms pop up so quickly, you have to be a good watchful person. After it moved by, we hung up and they were in good shape and safe with little impact to them.

We lost several big (12” diameter) silver maple limbs that were now blocking our driveway. National Weather Service Some hurricane eyes are clear enough that portions of the ocean surface may be visible from satellite images, while others are filled with clouds. Fast forward to November 11 2002, Mossy Grove, TN. They said they could see a black cloud approaching them fast and then the hail hit. Tornadoes can do some awesome, yet scary things. My mom just about had a terrible accident racing to town in the pouring rain to find me.

I flipped when she wasn't out there after the storm. Lawrence takes shelter in his truck, which you should never do during a tornado as it can easily loft the vehicle.

On April 24, 2019, I was in my shop at 6964 Coyote Run, Bryan, TX, working on a Volkswagon engine. If 2×4 pieces of wood, metal, or a vehicle is traveling over 200mph, then that is a tremendous force involved. I pushed one more time and was able to create enough space to breathe.

However, it is possible to have such high based tornadoes in real life. After a minute or so, the winds settled down and the door shopped shaking. My father went under a large wooden rack where tons of lumber was stored. Has anyone been inside a tornado? Ironically, their mobile home wasn't touched but their truck was and both of them perished together.

It busted out their windshields and the car got picked up and thrown in a ditch.

I felt pressure difference in my ears, heard the toilet gurgle, and we both noticed the pressure difference as waves of pressure variation washed through the house and us.

The TIV2 is a modified Dodge Ram 3500 platform, giving it six wheel drive capability. I was not with him when the incident took place. I didn't smell smoke. Some livestock were missing and power lines were down on Tuesday morning around the town, which is about 150 miles northwest of Kansas City near the Nebraska border.

Brandon Ivey and Sean Casey, who appear in the Discovery Channel series Storm Chasers, captured the footage in eastern Smith County before the tornado ripped instruments from the top of the vehicle. We heard the winds increasing and gusting heavily in a slightly pulsing ebb and flow. I could see the semi that was behind me had blown over top of me and landed next to the carport. She also mentions that they are running into the flanking line, which is incorrect.

It had been so dense with hail that it showed up on radar as solid- just like the earth itself. Turned out the tornado did not touch down fully in the park, but still threw a carport into a neighboring car and tipped a tree to the point you couldn’t go up the road in any type of vehicle. While talking about Dorothy to the crew, they state how if they successfully deploy, they will be able to understand some of the complex dynamics involved within tornadoes and to increase warning time to 15 minutes. He sent his wife and kids inside to hide under a bed but stayed to watch the coming storm. This is due to weak mid-level winds that can steer storms. Somehow, some way it "jumped" our house and continued on for a short time behind us. I couldn’t breathe because I was being crushed. Also the north side of our house was sand blasted with shredded leaves and debris, but the other sides of the house were clean. The tornado was classified two days later as an EF-1 tornado. I went out to cover the baby vegetable plants in my mother's garden, on the hillside about 100 yards south of the house.

I kept looking toward Zorinsky Lake.

And then, just like that, the tornado passed and the sky turned sunny. It had been so humid that day and as the storm grew closer it had dropped temperature fast. With diminishing lightning to the east. Then as fast as it started it was over. This is the best motion we’ve ever seen, it’s like a piece of this fatty is over a half mile wide” there is a highway sign with the state of Texas on it. I didn’t hear thunder at all. With just me and the children and Hobo, I spent the longest night of my life. Take control of your data: © Copyright TWC Product and Technology LLC 2014, 2020, Photo from the International Space Station of Hurricane Rita's eye in the Gulf of Mexico during September 2005. Credit: Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. Asked by Wiki User.