Colorado thunderstorm appears to spawn two tornadoes at same time
Source: Mashable
Colorado thunderstorm appears to spawn two tornadoes at same time
Andrew Freedman
27 minutes ago
Storm chaser and professional photographer Kelly Delay took an epic picture of a particularly productive supercell thunderstorm near Simla, Colorado, on June 4.
The storm produced at least four tornadoes, according to reports and footage from Delay and other chasers who also followed the storm. At least one of these tornadoes destroyed a handful of homes.
Delay captured the image, which shows two tornadoes at the same time, or possibly one tornado on the right and a landspout funnel on the left.
Landspouts are tornadoes that are not spawned by the larger area of rotation in a supercell thunderstorm, which is known as the mesocyclone. These tornadoes generally form underneath thunderstorms, even non-severe ones, and are often thought of as the landform of waterspouts because they are weak tornadoes.
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I lived through a tornado and its aftermath once.
After it passed, there was no avoiding the feeling that it was just...evil. Seeing how it splattered mud across everything, tore down buildings, uprooted trees...When seeing it, one can't help but think of "evil."
They are weird, though. I had a brand new, hard-earned sports car at the time of this tornado. I saw it lift my car up about 10 feet in the air, then set it down: completely undamaged.
Cher
