It was a funnel for sure, it was rotating like crazy. It wasn't scud or a lowering wall cloud. I probably could have got a better picture but I was calling EC and trying to get into a decent position on the side of the road.
I'm going to swipe your photo and put it on fb for family to see back home. Not even having to leave the city, must be like a dream come true for a storm chaser, haha!
KevanGuy, I was right under the funnel in your pics, sitting on my deck under an umbrella. I have no idea what it is was, but it was not windy at all. Bit of thunder and lots of rain, but there was no wind.
This just missed these houses however, according to some FB photos, A/C units were ripped from houses, a trampoline was thrown a fair distance and there were plenty of smashed windows. Crazy.
I watched it set up from Stampede Park. We were sitting in the infield watching the chuckwagons and we could see the funnel cloud starting - started to drop and then rotate and then the vapour started moving upwards and spinning faster. Unfortunately it then moved north and went behind the main granstand so I couldn't see it - I would guess it hit it's worst when I couldn't see it because whenit came out the other side it was still rotating but not funnelling.
Pretty cool to see from a distance away! My pictures are not nearly as good as those on here.
Down here in the Joplin area, the clean up is in full swing. THe Walgreen's drug store that was destroyed had the exterior finished a couple of weeks ago and they are working on the interior. THe Chik-fil-A that was destroyed is nearly done the exterior building (can't tell you how glad I am that Chik-Fil-A isn't open on Sundays. It's the busiest fast food restaurant for families in town). They have started in on the next door IHOP I believe. The Home Depot and Walmart super center have also started rebuilding.
Residential areas are getting cleaned out to the point that you can tell which people opted to pay the couple thousand dollars for the government to remove all the debris and those that for some reason decided not to go that route. A couple of sections of town have been given the go ahead to get building permits and start rebuilding.
THey are going to re-build the hospital that was hit but it has not been demolished yet. THey expect it will take 3 years to get it back up and running once they start work. During that time they are paying all staff full salaries even if they don't have a temporary place to put a department (tells you how expensive it must be to start staffing from the ground up for such a facility).
F0 Tornado, first seen in Calgary since 2009 and 9th since 1970.
These seems rather insignificant when we are, if you will, freaking out over a storm that blew a car into a lightpost and knocked some shingles off of a roof and caused rather minor things. I'm sure for people down in the Southern States, this is a joke of a storm to them.
These seems rather insignificant when we are, if you will, freaking out over a storm that blew a car into a lightpost and knocked some shingles off of a roof and caused rather minor things. I'm sure for people down in the Southern States, this is a joke of a storm to them.
The winds that did some of the stuff you mentioned there might not have been tornadic in nature though.
