Twister Sisters tornado intercept! ๐ช๏ธ
Sooo,
@SavannaBritoWX and I ended up being caught by a partially condensed, birdfart tornado while driving SE of Janesville, WI near the small town of Turtle, WI at approximately 6:02pm. I saw a video posted by
@SWeberpal who had captured video of this same tornado, which is initially how I found out that our suspicion of having driven through a small, weak tornado was confirmed. Iโll add in a video clip of a screen recording I took of Savannaโs Facebook live feed which shows at seconds 12-13 the rotational movement of rain and small ground debris in the field to our S, moving NE towards us. At about second 14, you can clearly see that we are in the rotation of the tornado, which lasted for a total of approximately 10-15 seconds. At this time, we were traveling due E on E Townline Rd, towards Turtle, WI, which we had just turned onto from CTH-J. What the camera doesnโt capture is that my side of the car (driverโs side), was being pelted with rain and ground debris (mud, small sticks, and worms). This makes sense because approximately 98% of tornadoes in the northern hemisphere rotate counterclockwise, so because the tornado initially hit us on the R side of the car, my side (L side) was the one getting hit with the rain and debris. Once getting out of my car a few hours later, I noticed the worms had essentially exploded all over the side of my car from the force of being thrown into it. ๐
Not exactly how we wanted to experience our first zero meter, but I guess weโll take it! ๐ช๏ธ๐ค๐ป
The first picture is a screenshot from
@SWeberpalโs video of the tornado and the video clip is the screen recording from Savโs Facebook live.
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