gatt wrote:
Yesterday was the first time I've heard a real EBS broadcast in a long time.
I finished gassing my jeep and going to lunch when I heard it. They said
there was a tornado warning and described the location. It's a peculiar
feeling when you realize they're describing right where you're at, but we
don't have real tornadoes here so I didn't even think about it.

Amazingly, it had just dissipated when it went overhead, and then it almost
seem to start up again over the building I work in. I watched it from
across the highway and saw the cloud collapse. One of our coworkers was in
a stripmall and literally saw the whole thing happen right outside the
window. (She said everybody was standing behind the plate-glass storefront
gawking at the hailstorm when debris started getting sucked into the air and
a trailer flipped in the parking lot.)

Had the same thing happen here in the
Sacramento valley two or three years
ago. Heard the alert, went out in the
backyard and watched a small but very
nasty little storm system dance it's way
past about 3 miles south of me. Serious
lightning and thunder, dark gray columns
of cloud/water and 40-50 mph winds from
where I was at. I would not liked to
have been any closer.