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Tornado Scare!

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Well we had a pretty scary night.. We dont have a basement so we drove to our grandparents, and waited it out there. No tornados touched down around us, but there was big hail and lots of wind!!

Torquise Sky
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The hail

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Compared to a loonie
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Pretty Rainbow and 1\2

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We are all fine, animals seem good so it was all ok in the end!
:)

Katy
 
glad all is well
the rainbow is beutiful
but the hail looks large enough to do some damage
the farmers in this area are scared that a storm like that will hit here
as they are in the middle of harvesting wheat "and it looks like a good crop"
until later
jerry
 
kolanuraven said:
Yep....when you see that color in the sky..............RUN!!!!
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RUN HELL!!! I was caught out in a field once on the old 4020.... decided I could out run the hail, but it was a no win situation.... crawled under the tractor and hoped there was no twister in the storm. golf ball sized hail and a 40 mph wind tends to sting when it hits you!
 
jigs said:
kolanuraven said:
Yep....when you see that color in the sky..............RUN!!!!
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RUN HELL!!! I was caught out in a field once on the old 4020.... decided I could out run the hail, but it was a no win situation.... crawled under the tractor and hoped there was no twister in the storm. golf ball sized hail and a 40 mph wind tends to sting when it hits you!
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Jigs you dont just get "caught" by a storm in your part of Ks. You can see it coming all the way back to the Colorado border or in your case they might come out of Wy. Anyway, how can you be caught? You can sure get caught here. I've seen them pop over the mountains where you can barely get the trucks tarped.
 
Red Robin said:
jigs said:
kolanuraven said:
Yep....when you see that color in the sky..............RUN!!!!
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RUN HELL!!! I was caught out in a field once on the old 4020.... decided I could out run the hail, but it was a no win situation.... crawled under the tractor and hoped there was no twister in the storm. golf ball sized hail and a 40 mph wind tends to sting when it hits you!
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Jigs you dont just get "caught" by a storm in your part of Ks. You can see it coming all the way back to the Colorado border or in your case they might come out of Wy. Anyway, how can you be caught? You can sure get caught here. I've seen them pop over the mountains where you can barely get the trucks tarped.
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I was doing some shredding down in a thick draw, lots of trees, I knew it was moving in, it was getting dark, and I thought it would rain pretty soon, so I head out and look up and it is a green cloud......... I had no idea it built so fast, you are right though, we can see them coming
 
I've never seen a sky like that around here- what an absolutely frightening sight. Glad you survived, gal, and still managed to get some photos while on the run.
 
Front page of Edmonton Journal showed a pic of a tornado that hit down at Eli??? I think that was the name,are you pretty close to this town,said something like 4 tornadoes hit down that night....you sure were lucky :)
 
Not a good color to see in the sky although we often seem to have the tornados without that color.. A few years back, we were in a dry spell, just a 2-3 week one, and a storm started forming and we got real excited that we would get rain.. Well, it didn't fire until after it was to the east of us except for a few small showers but as the front crossed over the road t the east of our property we saw the rotation starting and a funnel forming.. We didn't beleive it until going inside and than a tornado warning popped up... Touched down miles to the north and east of here.... Good news is around here you can generally see for miles..
 
Mrs.Greg said:
Front page of Edmonton Journal showed a pic of a tornado that hit down at Eli??? I think that was the name,are you pretty close to this town,said something like 4 tornadoes hit down that night....you sure were lucky :)
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No where not near there bout 4 hours away, it was amazing no one was hurt!! :)
 
Growin up in West Texas,and a few years in the Texas Panhandle...you learn fast, if the air looks green ya better be findin you a place to git in outta the weather. Usually when it's green it is fixin to hail or a tornado is possible. Don't get that too much here. I've seen hail the size of Softballs........hope I never hafta go thru another storm like that ever again.
 
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Growin up in West Texas,and a few years in the Texas Panhandle...you learn fast, if the air looks green ya better be findin you a place to git in outta the weather. Usually when it's green it is fixin to hail or a tornado is possible. Don't get that too much here. I've seen hail the size of Softballs........hope I never hafta go thru another storm like that ever again.
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Does anyone know the scientific reason for the green color??
 
That could be it too Jigs. Wished I'd paid more attention in my 4th grade science class......lol ya'll are probably wonderin "why 4th grade"....well it was cuz of the wonderful man, Mr. Anderson, that was our teacher. One day while in his class, the sky turned the green color, and our daily science lesson began...before long the sky had turned completely black......like pitch dark midnight....the street lights even came on. So....he began explainin weather to us in ernest. Kept our minds off of bein scared, but I can't remember exactly what he said about "why". LOL
 
I think Jigs is correct on it being light refraction off the hail stones being the cause....

Looking on line they don't seem to be entirely sure why it turns green, lol...
 
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
That could be it too Jigs. Wished I'd paid more attention in my 4th grade science class......lol ya'll are probably wonderin "why 4th grade"....well it was cuz of the wonderful man, Mr. Anderson, that was our teacher. One day while in his class, the sky turned the green color, and our daily science lesson began...before long the sky had turned completely black......like pitch dark midnight....the street lights even came on. So....he began explainin weather to us in ernest. Kept our minds off of bein scared, but I can't remember exactly what he said about "why". LOL
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I do hope all the dear hardworking teachers never learn how little students actually absorb until after the teachers retire. It would be too demoralizing.
 

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