3/9/09 NOW: OK/KS/MO

[Dave Kaplow]

Brian Emfinger has something dropping out of the cloudbase and touching the ground! http://tornadovideos.net/full-screen-chaser-video.php

I was watching that... But was it a tube? For some reason I kept thinking, "that's one of the best tornado lookalikes I've ever seen" but I couldn't tell you exactly why I didn't think it was a real tornado. The stream quality wasn't all that great, and the closeups were all blurry... I dunno, it's hard to say what that was.

Edit: Ah, I see. Smoke... My intuition didn't fail me on that one, somehow I knew. But it was a VERY good lookalike, at times.

 

[Brian Emfinger]

Brian Emfinger has something dropping out of the cloudbase and touching the ground! http://tornadovideos.net/full-screen-chaser-video.php

That was one big grass fire! I could see the flames from my vantage point.

I will admit that there was a small fire earlier that was right underneath the crappy base (that had just emerged out of the rain) that fooled me for a few seconds.