Did you ever see a tornado up close and personal?

Question

It's not like in the movies! It's pretty darned scary and loud. Anybody else ever have this experience?

Answer 1

Only seen two from a distance - but I define it as a waterspout - because they were over the water. In my opinion, they look so cool from a distance and very interesting. I have never actually experienced one up close... I assume you have.

Answer 2

My parents and grandma, who were in Moore Okla., got to expierence the May 3rd tornado a few years ago. They were about 4 blocks from the path it cut. The only way my dad could describe it, being that he used to work for a railroad, was that it sounded like 100 trains. My grandma had a stone pot with flowers in it. The tornado TOOK the pot & left the FLOWERS!

Answer 3

yes, when i was a little kid.  my grandparents lived in Oklahoma city and one night my granddad said, put away the lawn chairs it's coming and then there was a sound like a big train and the wind went bananas...i was only about 4 so i didn't really understand what was going on, but then my granddad picked me up and held me and pointed to the funnel in the air moving through the air...pretty frightening

Answer 4

One passed right over our apartment when I lived in central Illinois.  It touched down about 2 miles away.  We were sitting in the bathroom listening to the weather on a radio...it was the only room in the house without windows!  Scary!

Answer 5

Yes. about 13 years ago. but luckily it went around the lake we were living by. and decided to go the other direction the only thing that woke us up was the wind that came through the window..we didn't know what it was until the next day we found out it was a tornado.  I am glad that is all I felt. That is the last thing I would want to experience in my entire life.

Answer 6

Yes I have. I was in my trailer at about 7:15 a.m. with my husband and a weak(very loud,though) tornado blew right over us. It was pretty nerve racking!

Answer 7

No, but I can surely imagine it is scaring.

Answer 8

Yes, about 22 years back. It was indeed a memorable experience. It was really very noisy,  and scary, but not as they show in Movies. Then, I was more worried about the safety of my German Guests.

Answer 9

No. I would like to see it in close range sitting in a glass cabin - safe and secure.

Answer 10

Yes, I had to go pick up my husband last night in Greensburg KS, where he was working - our car was totaled and everything in his apartment is gone. Scarry!

Answer 11

Yes, one passed right over the top of the little town that I was raised in.  I was 16.  My sister and I heard a loud roaring noise that sounded like a train passing over head; we didn't know what it was.  Later when we looked outside, we saw a large black funnel cloud that had landed in a field to the east of our town and headed away from us.  Had that thing landed in town, it would have torn the place to shreds.

Later in life, I've seen others at a distance; eerie dark fingers touching the ground and just sort of moving around.

Answer 12

Thankfully not! My city is surrounded by mountains, there is no way we could get hit with a tornado.

But it looks absolutely terrifying. A huge, black, whirling funnel, the wind, things getting sucked up... and apparently they leave small tracks of destruction but the things that do get destroyed are GONE. I only know this from looking at pictures. Since like I said, I have never actually seen one.

Answer 13

Yes. Once when I was a kid we watched twin tornado's dance in the cornfield behind my house. My grandmother let us watch from the sliding glass doors before it got kinda close and we all ran to the basement. Another time at a friends house in Kentucky, didn't see it but it passed close enough to top mature trees and take the chimney off the top of the house. We were in the basement hearing all the destruction, it was loud and quick.

Answer 14

I have been in three tornadoes.  When I was 8 years old; 22 years old and 32 years old.  Ironicly the Tornado when I was 8 is the most vivid

I remember the sky turning green and my mother called us in the house. She started opening all the windows and then we all got on the back porch.  We lived in rural Louisiana. When the tornado hit the sound was like a freight train going threw.  It did not do any damage to our house but it did suck the wall paper off the walls. My mother did the right thing opening all the windows. We had a barn over to the right and behind the house. It literally picked up the barn and carried it sailing away.   Our cow was in the barn when the tornado hit and I still remember the look of atonishment on that cows face as the  barn went flying away leaving her standing where the barn once was.  Her calf was picked up and thrown up against a wooden fence but was not hurt.   We were lucky that day.  My dad found our barn a week later more than 3/4 miles away.

Answer 15

no but, ill take your word for it

Answer 16

not up close and personal, and i don't want to, either. when the air goes green and the sirens start up i'm among the first to head for the cellar.

Answer 17

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Answer 18

yes my younger sister decided to be born during 2 tornados if FL 1986.  my mother gave birth in the hallway.  because there were no windows there.

also saw one about a mile away right  before a storm and what was cool was where I was the sun was still out and where I was looking it was like a weird green color