Posted on 07/08/2022 9:04:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The sky over Sioux Falls, South Dakota turned green just before severe weather slammed the area earlier this week.
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Very cool.
My brother and I were driving through Xenia that night with our babysitter. She grabbed us both by the hair and threw us down on the floorboard and told us not to move. We had no idea what was going on.
When we got back home later that evening, we actually saw the car we were in drive by a reporter filming at the time. Didn’t realize until many years later it was the Tornado outbreak that wrecked Xenia.
Not an uncommon site here in TX. I’ve seen these green skies many times.
I like Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s character describing a tornado’s damage path to her as “the suck zone.”
Some areas of South dakota are better than others.
The southern hills have thevbest weather of anywhere else.
The most extreme temp change ever recorded was at Spearfish..
Spearfish holds the world record for the fastest recorded temperature change. On January 22, 1943, at about 7:30 a.m. MST, the temperature in Spearfish was −4 °F (−20 °C). The Chinook wind picked up speed rapidly, and two minutes later (7:32 a.m.) the temperature was +45 °F (7 °C).
Wind chill can be 50 below out there!
Green is good
Nothing like driving your Dodge truck through a house 🏠 on the road
Sure hope no one was in that tumbling house 🏠
My folks said a green sky meant a hail storm was on it’s way.
Was that when the tornadoes hit?
Funny that that truck drove into the house on its SIDE and then drove UP the staircase.
Yep, frequently accompanied by the sound of tornado sirens.
“Yep, frequently accompanied by the sound of tornado sirens.”
Seen that too many times. In various states.
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I knew of somebody that lived outside of Chicago on a day in 1967 when three major tornadoes touched down, including a massive one that struck Oak Lawn.
He was at home, with a visiting friend who was an airline pilot, when one of his kids came in from outside and said that the sky “looked funny”. His pilot friend got up and went outside to look, then came running back inside yelling for everybody to get under the heaviest furniture they had. A few minutes later, his house was destroyed.
> YES sir. Have disliked green fronted storms most of my 68 years.
Yeah, a green storm is a mean storm. Hail, lightning, downbursts or tornados...
I recall also the deep “thrum-thrum-thrum” of a tornado close by...from a green storm.
I was stationed at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado in 1977. I was living at Peterson AFB at the time.
I noticed a green sky like this over Pikes Peak and the Rockies. I was a budding photographer with a new Nikon 35MM and drove out to the East, that is the rural high plains, to take pictures.
After a while, I noticed a WALL of hail coming at me, I tried to drive back thru it, and was clobbered by HUGE hailstones, softball size and up, none smaller than my fist. Totally destroyed my new truck—windshield busted, hood beaten like someone took a ball and pean to it, truck bed actually broken thru in a couple of spots.
I thought it would punch thru the roof and kill me. I stopped by a covered hayrack and tried to get over the barbed wire fence to it. The hail literally knocked me down and gave me a concussion. I actually came to under the truck. I guess I crawled under it but do not remember doing so. I had a huge lump on my head and was bleeding out of my left ear.
I drove back and went to the base clinic. They put me on quarters for three days.
It’s an amazing phenomenon, isn’t it? That chunks of ice that big can develop suspended in the air, on a hot summer day.
“Greenage”
That one line makes the entire scene memorable.
Hey! Somebody else noticed!!
Good job
Here is video of the damage that hailstorm caused to the vehicles in a car dealer’s lot in Belle Fourche. They look like they were parked for a week as targets at a driving range.
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