The better-half and I were in the middle of making Mexican chorizo (from scratch) when the sky got all weird and the sound of the wind and rain wigged us out. The temperature dropped and I located the cat. We were about to run into our downstairs bathroom (the only room downstairs without windows) when suddenly the big scary weather was gone. Just like that.
About 10 minutes later our weather radio (yes, we have one of those) blared out a Tornado Warning. I checked an online weather site and a tornado was spotted just northeast of us.
The interesting thing is there’s not one stick or branch in our front yard, but our back yard is littered with them. The storm evidently just looped around the back side of us and headed on.
UPDATE:
There’s now news coverage of the storm and the storm really did loop around the back side of us. The property that our land abuts was hit hard. Those folks have a long dirt road and when I drove past it this morning I saw the destruction. The local newspaper and radio station are both reporting that a four mile path was hit by the storm yesterday. Some people lost roofs and others had their barns and other property destroyed. The radio station reported that crews will be out to look at the damage and try to determine if it was a tornado or just a very severe thunderstorm.
UPDATE #2:
It was a tornado.
Wow! It sounds like it was a bit too close for comfort. We had some wicked rain and lightening but I think that storm that went by you went east of here.
I hope no one got hurt.
Amazingly enough no one was seriously hurt. One guy was throw around when his shed/out building was thrashed and he was treated at the scene by an EMT for minor scrapes.