I drove right under the core of this thing going home. I could actually see a tornado being made and I checked all the weather and News outlets and there was nothing, except that NOAA decided to throw a Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10 minutes up AFTER IT PASSED...

It was so crazy to see a tornadic supercell in West Valley City (Salty Lake City, for most Sifters). It was following 2700 West for a bit and then I-215 (nearing the airport) was moving super fast to the NNE, straight to Washington Terrace and Riverdale. The winds were wild and the cloud formations were awesome, they were moving fast enough that I thought a partial nub might be visible where I was at, but I never did see it.

All that I saw was the main vortex with the amazing sight of all the cold air being sucked into the vortex at the SSW corner of the leading edge. Which was twisting more than fast enough to be a "horizontal twister". It was rotating so fast it was amazing; since you could see that sight you knew all it needed was a bit of air to push against it from underneath and stand up some of those vortices around the central core and then, walla, you'd get the tornado (I actually did believe that Ogden or Bountiful would get one since that was where it was heading).

All it needed was to get a little closer to the mountains and you'd have the right ingredients.

Thus, this is what you see happen right here in this video. North of my house, out in the middle of the Great Salt Lake, sits Antelope Island. It got hit by the raining part of this tornadic system but look at this wonderful storm video from it:

https://twitter.com/AntelopeSP/status/779078436568518656

It even had some golf ball hail in it.

This makes a lot of sense to me. If google knew that people were going around striking the fear of god into app developers, they might have a vested interest in fighting this shit.

Sure, giant companies like SuperCell wouldn't give two shits. They have the billions necessary to fight any lawsuit, but idk, maybe it would help.... maybe

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Love a good supercell video.

*promote supercells!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercell

Back in texas we had nermerous occasions when two thunderstorms would merge creating a supercell. and on a rare occasion two supper cells would merge and create an even bigger super cell.

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LOL

Ok, most storm chasers do it as a hobby. lol This video wasn't for carnage it was becasue of the impressive and agressive Supercell you see in the clip.

Most storm chasers do it to spot tornadoes (hence chasing Supercells, these types of storms are most likely to produce tornadoes) I think its just seeing the agressive side of nature.

I liked it but thanks for viewing the video anyway

On an off note, the real nutters chase hurricanes!! WTF! Why? wind and rain, now if you fly a scouting plane into the eye of the hurricance that would be cool

Have a good 'un

In reply to this comment by Trancecoach:
Can't get into this. Are these guys getting paid to report on the weather or do they simply have nothing better to do? If the latter, it seems like a pretty lame way to get your thrills. 10 minutes of this and not one fatality. Not even a taste of carnage. LAME.

dupe
sorry dude
http://www.videosift.com/video/Thunderstorm-timelapse-043-1

and its a shelf cloud for sure, i am not a meteorologist, but that has all the signs of a supercell

I put my vote on the other video too

Not really a tornado, per se. deathcow called it- it's a dust devil- a small, localized event caused by convection currents- not the storms and supercells that spawn tornadoes. It's not gonna' suck you up, Dorothy, but you probably should duck to avoid debris.