Tornado in Washington state

Yea, had me sweating a bit just finished annnual and I am tied down
outside...


"gatt" wrote in message
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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