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My first videos of severe weather: rotating wall cloud

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Okay, right off the bat these are bad videos with little to bad sound taken with my cell phone while I was at work. I had gotten a call from my sis stating that they where not going to bring me lunch at work due to a tornado warning in effect. A bit later, I go out side to take my break and heard the sirens going off. My first thought was, where is it. I go to the end of the little mall and looking west, was the wall cloud:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp-C5eo0Wdg

The next thing I did was call my house and told everyone to get to the basement that I had spotted the wall cloud and the sirens where going off. Then I shot the vid.

A short time later, I started to feel a bit uncomfortable and decided to head back to the door. Glad I did because the cloud shifted into high gear and was headed my way fast. Not long after, the sirens went off again, and this thing had a group of people watching it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV9CruipEyQ

Rotation was obvious and so was the feeling of perhaps being a bit too close. It tried so hard to produce something, I even felt the air cool down a bit and the wind started to feel a bit "jerky"

Sorry the building was in the way, but running behind the building where I could not have a place to duck or get in would have not been a great idea :eek:

Hope you enjoy the very amature vids :)
 
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