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Drill bit twister

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February 03, 2021, 05:46 PM
Ripley
Drill bit twister


Location: Simla, Colorado, USA

Artist Statement: This ‘drill bit’ type of tornado is a rare anti-cyclonic tornado, which happens in around 2% of tornadoes. It touched down in open farmland, narrowly missing a home near Simla, Colorado as it tore up the ground, gathering the soil giving it its brown color.

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anticyclonic tornado: An anticyclonic tornado is a tornado which rotates in a clockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and a counterclockwise direction in the Southern.



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February 03, 2021, 06:19 PM
two-two-niner-romeo
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February 03, 2021, 06:26 PM
Scoutmaster
What would it have been like to be the one standing in the field filming that.



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February 03, 2021, 06:35 PM
architect
quote:
Originally posted by Scoutmaster:
What would it have been like to be the one standing in the field filming that.
Breezy!
February 03, 2021, 07:20 PM
Muddflap
You see one like that, and you know you're screwed.
February 03, 2021, 07:22 PM
Wheels
quote:
Originally posted by architect:
quote:
Originally posted by Scoutmaster:
What would it have been like to be the one standing in the field filming that.
Breezy!


And loud


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February 03, 2021, 11:51 PM
aileron
Quentin Tarentino's version>>


February 04, 2021, 07:54 AM
Eponym
It looks more like a REAMER! Eek Eek
February 04, 2021, 08:03 AM
Flash-LB
That's about the only thing on land that I'm afraid of.
February 04, 2021, 10:44 AM
92fstech
That is an awesome photo. Terrifyingly awesome. That's one nice thing about living in Indiana...we have tornadoes, but when compared to the more western portions of the midwest, they aren't really tornadoes at all...
February 04, 2021, 02:42 PM
cslinger
quote:
What would it have been like to be the one standing in the field filming that.



With all that poop flying around it would be miserable.

Tornados are whole buckets of nope nope nope for me.


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Chris
February 04, 2021, 03:49 PM
wreckdiver
The size of that thing, compared to the farm is downright scary!!


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February 04, 2021, 04:48 PM
Ripley
Some of those long-track, super cell tornadoes - Joplin, Tuscaloosa - are a half mile and more on the ground.



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February 04, 2021, 05:15 PM
Scoutmaster
quote:
Originally posted by Wheels:
quote:
Originally posted by architect:
quote:
Originally posted by Scoutmaster:
What would it have been like to be the one standing in the field filming that.
Breezy!


And loud


Adrenalin?



"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it"
- Judge Learned Hand, May 1944
February 04, 2021, 05:19 PM
Scoutmaster
quote:
Originally posted by Ripley:
Some of those long-track, super cell tornadoes - Joplin, Tuscaloosa - are a half mile and more on the ground.


Quick side note. A couple of years ago I spent 18 mos doing volunteer work in Tuscaloosa. We lived a mile from the tornado path. I also worked with a fellow who went through the Joplin tornado, his house was used as a base station for FEMA.



"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it"
- Judge Learned Hand, May 1944
February 04, 2021, 06:04 PM
armored
quote:
What would it have been like to be the one standing in the field filming that.


Probably scary.
How about the people living in the farm house, TERRIFYING!
February 04, 2021, 11:42 PM
bendable
It reminds me of Patrick Swayze in the movie Tall Tale.

He played Pecos Bill,
He roped a twisted and rode of in too the sunset on it




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