Never seen a tornado, but that would skeer the crap out of me.
I’ve seen 7. That’s a beast.
I lived in E Kansas as a kid. I remember an evening when there were three funnels in the sky. smaller than that one, to be sure. but still impressive.
Me too. What’s to keep that “rope” from lashing over to the chasers?
I’ve been IN one tornado (pretty much destroyed our then house, but fortunately we had a basement to take shelter in) and after we came out the towering cumulus cloud heading east was building at an unbelievable rate, but the twister itself was obscured.
Had another one pass over my current house about 50 ft. off the ground, judging by where the tree tops snapped off (some pointing west-south-west, in the direction the storm came from.) Didn’t see that one either.