When the tornado siren blared Wednesday afternoon, I stepped into the front yard - camera in hand - to check the clouds. This ominous appendage drifted around awhile, then (like Carl Sandburg's "Fog") silently moved on. Large hail was reported further north. These clouds were on the southern end of a supercell that formed in West Alabama and hung together all the way to the eastern part of our state.
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Those clouds would certainly make me wary. Tornadoes are truly scary events. Of course I say this as someone from an area where people have been known to watch tornadoes from their front porches...
We get the odd "freek" tornado, and they do enough serious damage in their limited way.....but fortunately we don't see this often. For me, thta's an interesting photo.
Low clouds like this are fairly common during tornado weather here, but one never knows when they could turn into a swirling funnel. Other than distant thunder, everything was calm. We did not even get any rain.
A tornado did touch down in our neighborhood in the 1990s, destroying some nearby homes. The storm occurred at night, and it did sound like a train. After that, I got a weather radio, and now there's a siren just outside our neighborhood entrance.
These clouds look really scary - we tend not to have extremes of weather here in Ireland and its hard for me to imagine living through this sort of weather - but it sounds like you're well prepared for every eventuality!
We used to have a neighbor from Spain. Shortly after moving to the U.S., she had to flee Hurricane Andrew in Florida, then moved here and went through the '96 tornado. She said Spain never had the kind of severe weather that we have here!
Ominous looking clouds!
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