A Russian Twisterski
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Tarmo Tanilsoo
EF5
Looks more like a funnel cloud for me. It also appeared to be very near to the photographer.
Damon Poole
EF2
A Russian Twisterski?
More like Funnelski. Tarmo's right. Remember, a tornado is in contact with the ground, otherwise it's a funnel cloud. Where is the debris cloud? Where are the flashing power lines?
More like Funnelski. Tarmo's right. Remember, a tornado is in contact with the ground, otherwise it's a funnel cloud. Where is the debris cloud? Where are the flashing power lines?
Angie Norris
EF5
Yep, good baby funnelski. Pretty much directly over the photographer it looks like to me 
. Any reports out of Russia (radar, LSRs, etc) that we can find? 
. Any reports out of Russia (radar, LSRs, etc) that we can find? Doug Lee
I was going to comment on the comments posted below the pictures, but now I'll just say...
"No comment."
"No comment."
T. Mosley
EF0
No luck
I have looked diligently for the story behind these photos but have thus far been unsuccessful. Any information of the sort is probably censored due to concerns of national security.
You are correct, this is a funnel cloudski and not a twisterski, but the more I look at it I wonder if it is really just a landspoutski. I am not familiar with extreme weather in that part of the world, other than blizzards, and I wonder just how rare a phenomenon this is. High latitudes for this sort of thing, and St. Petersburg is hardly an Oklahoma City.
Heh - maybe that is why the photographer appears to have been so close; he didn't know what this was or could soon become.
I have looked diligently for the story behind these photos but have thus far been unsuccessful. Any information of the sort is probably censored due to concerns of national security.
You are correct, this is a funnel cloudski and not a twisterski, but the more I look at it I wonder if it is really just a landspoutski. I am not familiar with extreme weather in that part of the world, other than blizzards, and I wonder just how rare a phenomenon this is. High latitudes for this sort of thing, and St. Petersburg is hardly an Oklahoma City.
Heh - maybe that is why the photographer appears to have been so close; he didn't know what this was or could soon become.
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