on_wx Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Stumped on what just happened here. The line came through about 10 minutes ago so I went upstairs to shut the windows, and out the bay window overlooking the city there was a ragged low hanging shelf cloud passing overhead and the winds kicked up. At that moment my friend sent me a text "is that a tornado?" so I replied with a laugh and came back downstairs, and then she replied again so I looked out front as the shelf had just passed overheard there was a low hanging area of rotating clouds whipping around just northeast of the house. It broke apart a couple of minutes later, but I can guarantee it rotating at a good pace with the clouds taking quick defined shapes and dispersing -- looking almost brief funnel like at times. Not sure what it was, but it must have passed almost directly over the house, and it's weird because there was a brief maybe 5 seconds where the wind got particularly intense and a whole flurry of leaves got picked up in the air from maybe 150-200 metres to the southeast of the window and blew past the house. I didn't think anything of it at first, but a minute or two later when I looked out front is when it felt a little suspicious. I have no idea what else to say. This is what the Exeter Environment Canada radar looked like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icebreaker5221 Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Stumped on what just happened here. The line came through about 10 minutes ago so I went upstairs to shut the windows, and out the bay window overlooking the city there was a ragged low hanging shelf cloud passing overhead and the winds kicked up. At that moment my friend sent me a text "is that a tornado?" so I replied with a laugh and came back downstairs, and then she replied again so I looked out front as the shelf had just passed overheard there was a low hanging area of rotating clouds whipping around just northeast of the house. It broke apart a couple of minutes later, but I can guarantee it rotating at a good pace with the clouds taking quick defined shapes and dispersing -- looking almost brief funnel like at times. Not sure what it was, but it must have passed almost directly over the house, and it's weird because there was a brief maybe 5 seconds where the wind got particularly intense and a whole flurry of leaves got picked up in the air from maybe 150-200 metres to the southeast of the window and blew past the house. I didn't think anything of it at first, but a minute or two later when I looked out front is when it felt a little suspicious. I have no idea what else to say. This is what the Exeter Environment Canada radar looked like. Cool story Could have been a gust-nado. They wont appear very well on radial velocity either, too small-scale / no mesocyclone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on_wx Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Cool story Could have been a gust-nado. They wont appear very well on radial velocity either, too small-scale / no mesocyclone. That would make a lot of sense. Nothing on twitter, scanner, etc so it couldn't have been too intense if that's even what it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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