On Jan 11, 10:14*am, "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.)

Missed NWPilot's airfield by just a few miles. *From the looks of the
damage, it would have tossed everything there.

The weather forecast had not called for thunderstorms or significant
activity at all.

-c

Pretty much all the "tornadoes" that we get in the PNW are mild F1
types that don't last long, and are usually association with small
convective cells. Other than blower around garbage cans and knocking
down old fences, they don't do a lot of damage.