Elite Sniper Corps

ok so I have been a ham operator for a number of years now, and a member of Skywarn, which is a group of volunteer storm spotters.

tonight, we received the storms that tore Missouri up yesterday, and it generated quite a stir up here..

i was in Twinsburg Ohio, when i caught the following on camera, and it is the beginning formation of a tornado.

what i captured was the rotation, updraft, wall cloud, and then the sirens went off and the hail hit so i jumped in the truck and booked outta there..

this is one of the 9 videos i took, and i edited it down to 4 and a half minutes where i had the camera sitting on the roof of my explorer, and then i sped it up x3 so as not to bore anyone, but this clearly shows the development of the tornado, and like i said, when the sirens went off, and the pea and chick-pea hail started coming down, i got out..

the intention of Skywarn is NOT to storm-chase, it is to storm-SPOT, and report, so the warnings can get out ASAP, and with as much accuracy as possible.

here is a link to the Summit county Skywarn page, which is my home county here in Ohio.

http://sumsky.org/
73's, and above all, BE SAFE.

Woah...I've never seen the development before - went through one while I was in boot camp down in Florida -- but it was super mild. I'm sure glad there are people like you around = I bet you guys really help to save lives. Thanks for what you do!

Boops

must be super freaky to hear warning sirens!!

And here's what I get to look forward to in the next few hours...

I live in Nashville Il, this is the hotzone right now. We have 2 tornadoes heading this way. There are a total of 5 in about a 50 mile radius of me. All of them heading north east. It starting to look weird outside too lol the one tornado is about 5 miles south west heading directly for us. I cant see the tornado but it looks pretty funky real yellowish and calm.

Nahville is 50 miles east of St. Louis, nothing happened here. A few limbs fell and the power went out for a couple hours.