severe but brief storm- tornado? maybe

[FeroxTheHedgehog]

Hey, today 4/27/11, I found a little red, yellow and green in the doppler radar in Fairfax. XD only a small rain cloud like that will have a tornado?

[wildbill1911A1]

@FeroxTheHedgehog Thanks for watching and commenting. Hope the tornado warnings don't make them come to be.

[be2dj]

no kidding but that shit happens alot here i live in missouri and we have those where they just pop up out of no where it is very funny sometimes XD

[dragonridley]

From the radar image it looks like it might be a bow echo. It's not a tornado but it can produce damaging winds.

[TheXion13]

Thats a Microburst

[Gebora]

that was a interesting afternoon, that same storm system spawned a tornado that took out a nice chunk of my town

[smoothvirus]

Boy I remember that day. I have video of the aftermath in Arlington on my channel. You can see the bow echo of the storms in the radar images from your video.

[Venus50]

Man, I thought this was a recent video. I need some sleep I guess! :-)

[Venus50]

I could tell on google earth that you guys were getting slammed. My sis lives around there, so I like to keep an eye on her weather too.

[icechris12]

I was at school some of my friends were screaming "it's the apocalypse" or "were gonna go cannibalistic" it was weird

[JenniferWhitlow]

I was in south Stafford, I seem to always miss out on the good storms! Great video! NOVA rocks!

[Greatwhite75]

Its a Micro Burst.

[Yanksandnats]

Wow i was held at school during this day it scarred me for life

[wildbill1911A1]

Thanks for watching.

[Azpro02]

Whr is that wendys?

[wildbill1911A1]

it is in Fairfax, VA

[reddibacon]

not a tornad o just high straight line winds

[LetTheFlamesBegin5]

it wuz scaryful loll

[rscheerithumb]

yah, I got off the bus and it happened, I had to run home in that :(.

[whitefloweret]

I never have an umbrella with me when those surprise storms arise.

[wildbill1911A1]

That's why they are called surprises.

[extremeweatherguy]

Looks like a severe bow echo with hurricane force wind gusts.

[wildbill1911A1]

Thanks for the comments. What is a Bow Echo? You and Mallomon mentioned it.

[extremeweatherguy]

In a basic sense: A "bow echo" is a term used to describe the bow-like appearance of severe storm segment on radar. Characteristics of these bow-shaped storm segments include very high winds and occasionally an isolated tornado.

[mallomon]

Looked like a bow echo on the radar.

[K80Blog]

Our power went out for almost 7 hours. : O

[wildbill1911A1]

in New Orleans they have "Hurrican Parties" where you just drink until the weather gets better.

How did the dog fair?

[K80Blog]

He's good.

[justiaonesecret02]

Just went through this - crazy.