Weakest Tornado You've Ever Documented

[Jeff Duda]

It doesn't look weak to me. Impressive one-cell structure for sure!

 

[Jeff Duda]

Now this, on the other hand, I submit for entry in the funnel-clouds-only category.

 

[Jeff Wright]

If I might digress a moment…you can have small vortices that are actually quite strong.

I was watching the Starship/SuperHeavy launch at Boca on 4/20/2023, where the pad eroded and huge chunks of concrete lifted:

The Space Review: Grading on a suborbital curve

www.thespacereview.com

This might be PERFECT for Tim Marshall’s Haig…also in Texas…or the Texas Tech guys to examine before repair…Musk having described a “rock tornado.”

This is a rare opportunity to study the effects of destructive flows.

 

[Jeff Duda]

If I might digress a moment…you can have small vortices that are actually quite strong.

I was watching the Starship/SuperHeavy launch at Boca on 4/20/2023, where the pad eroded and huge chunks of concrete lifted:

The Space Review: Grading on a suborbital curve

www.thespacereview.com

This might be PERFECT for Tim Marshall’s Haig…also in Texas…or the Texas Tech guys to examine before repair…Musk having described a “rock tornado.”

This is a rare opportunity to study the effects of destructive flows.

Staff note
This post is off-topic, but I will let it stand for now. Any replies to this specific post or continuations along this topic will be removed with prejudice, though.

 

[Jeff Wright]

Back to the regularly scheduled topic.

Who's the cutest little EF-0?

You are:

Nevada Tornado Takes a Stroll Down the Street (Video)

This was a pretty cool video that appeared on YouTube this week. An EF-0 tornado almost appears out of no where and moves down the si...

bwdweather.blogspot.com

Mom can we keep him? I promise to feed him the proper Lapse rates and everything.

On second thought, Dad would just dump him out on the road once he gets too big:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1656082719112310787

 

[Tony Laubach]

Every tornado I saw in Iowa on Saturday.