tornado or waterspout? any ideas? please?
can you please tell me what we seen or what happened? i’m thinking a tornado or waterspout but friends say its a freak thing that nobody will believe.
i live in wisconsin next a river. last night me and some friends where sitting outside on the patio. it was lighting out typical storm for our area. then around 2 a.m. everything went eerily quiet no wind no ran and in the distant you heard this sound of a jet plane (like when they fly right above) we sorta just shrugged it off as some idiot trying to fly well we had sever warnings out. it kept coming closer and ears hurt and i actually could hear the jet sound (i’m severly deaf) trees bent a bit more to east. i do remember at this time telling my friends i don’t feel good something is wrong with me they told me that of course i would be sick (9 weeks pregnant) its morning sickness eat a cracker. then my boyfriend made how his ears popped. i then told everyone how faint i felt and how everything seemed to be going in slow motion with this feeling like i could hardly breath. others said they felt that to but didn’t feel the rumbling i could. well all a sudden the lighting came faster and brighter with thunder that sounded like a motorcyle just starting up. i became so obsessed with this one lighting bolt that only hit in one spot then i noticed this white circle of like waves dancing in the water it jumped and moved oddly i told all my friends to look at it. suddenly one of my friends screamed "run get inside NOW!" so we did but as we got to the door the white circle in the river came closer to the edge and the wind was so strong it moved chairs and pushed you, the rain hurt when it hit your body. we made it in turned around and noticed there was a black rope like coming from just above the tree line across the lake going crooked to the lake. the thing the rope was attached to was a very very dark black whippsy cloud edge that was yet thick like cotton not normal thin clouds. when it was over it sounded like a jet plane had just move past you over head and left with a weird hiss sound and suddenly the pressure and everything went away. we went outside and no damage accept a few bird houses knocked down and some yard stuff tipped.
the lighting was ground to cloud. and we did spot a cloud in sky that had a bouncing orange tint ball bouncing but as soon as we noticed the the sound it was gone. but the black rope did lead to that cloud.
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4 comments
TJ on June 8, 2010 at 4:36 am
Sounds like a waterspout imo.
Some more info about waterspouts can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterspout
Alex on June 8, 2010 at 4:36 am
Cant tell with out an actual description.
Smoorthy on June 8, 2010 at 4:36 am
Eye of the hurricane? If it was a tornado or water spout, getting that close, it would have torn your house apart. Its amazing your house even survived the hurricane!
davehuckleberry_55 on June 8, 2010 at 4:36 am
It was likely an F1 tornado which luckily for you is the weakest of all tornadoes. A waterspout would have been lighter in color and the fact that you had to pop your ears means that it was very very close to you because the center of the tornado has very low atmospheric pressure. And, it wasn’t a microburst of concentrated wind because you said that you saw looked like a black rope. Yes it was a tiny twister but if it had hit you it could have injured you very easily if not the winds then the debris it was throwing around.