Treacherous weather yesterday evening. This video was taken in a neighborhood about half a mile from my house.
[video=youtube;b7KM28chL14]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7KM28chL14[/video]
I'd been keeping an eye on the Doppler weather maps a few hours before this hit. It was a fast moving cell with a pronounced hook on the northwestern edge. The closer it got, the less pronounced the hook, so I thought it had degraded. Not so.
Our local weather guys did a good job zooming into pixel-level areas of the system, showing a red pixel next to a light green, indicating a profound change in a small area and favorable conditions for a tornado. It was crazy when that feature appeared in my community. Stuff like that just never happens. My family and I huddled into an interior bathroom, streaming the news on my mobile phone after a few brown-outs convinced us to leave the television off.
The wind blew the swings on our back yard swingset up as high as they could stretch, and it scooted my grill and patio furniture a bit, but we encountered no damage thankfully. But in that neighborhood, there were several trees snapped in half and a few roofs missing shingles. A barn was completely dismantled.
