In 2001, when the freak tornado hit the College Park, MD Campus of the U of Maryland, I had a friend who lived in the dorms on North Campus (pretty much the highest point on campus) and had a 1967 Corvette parked in a parking lot next to the dorm.
I can hear everyone who just read that paragraph wincing. Yeah, pretty much.
I never did find out how much the car that had landed on the Corvette was damaged, though.
Could have been an F0 or an F1. I was about 20 feet away from something that apparently BARELY qualified as an F1 when I was a kid.
Our trailer rocked on the suspension a lot and things were VERY low visibility because it had just sucked up a big chunk of the lake and was busy dropping it, but other than falling objects and possibly drowning on dry land, we weren't at risk. My dad even went out to hold the awning down (STUPID STUPID STUPID).
It knocked trees over but didn't pick them up any significant distance and when it scored the direct hit on one trailer it ripped it in half, but couldn't actually throw it.
That video looks like heavy rain, so if so, it's a tornado, not a dust devil. Dust devils occur when it's dry and clear out.
Dust devils are small localized low speed events. You see them in the desert under clear blue skies, usually near buttes where the shade causes large temperature deltas over small distances.
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Date: 2008-11-07 08:22 pm (UTC)Cars: 0
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Date: 2008-11-07 08:56 pm (UTC)Tornado: 3
Cars: 0
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Date: 2008-11-08 04:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-11-07 09:16 pm (UTC)"WILL there be a mighty wind?"
The really funny thing is that the internet hasn't got a clue what I'm talking about.
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Date: 2008-11-07 09:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-08 01:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-07 10:09 pm (UTC)I can hear everyone who just read that paragraph wincing. Yeah, pretty much.
I never did find out how much the car that had landed on the Corvette was damaged, though.
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Date: 2008-11-07 10:13 pm (UTC)Any meteorology types out there who can clarify?
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Date: 2008-11-08 12:10 am (UTC)Our trailer rocked on the suspension a lot and things were VERY low visibility because it had just sucked up a big chunk of the lake and was busy dropping it, but other than falling objects and possibly drowning on dry land, we weren't at risk. My dad even went out to hold the awning down (STUPID STUPID STUPID).
It knocked trees over but didn't pick them up any significant distance and when it scored the direct hit on one trailer it ripped it in half, but couldn't actually throw it.
That video looks like heavy rain, so if so, it's a tornado, not a dust devil. Dust devils occur when it's dry and clear out.
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Date: 2008-11-08 01:15 am (UTC)