Milwaukie Tornado? (May 2, 2009) Part 2

[HyperFoxTails]

WHAT TORNADO?? No Tornado's were reported to have touched down that day in Miliwaukee WI. Just A severThunder Storm with small hail and hight winds.

[W7ENK]

@HyperFoxTails Milwaukie, Oregon.

[azuremystere]

I now have tears in my eyes over the avocado incident. Those damn things are expensive to buy! I'd be giving that thing CPR if I had to lol

[MrPlayboy4eva]

lol very funny

[W7ENK]

Hahaha... I love my little avocado! Mine only cost 69 cents ... I just stuck a pit in some dirt and now after 2 1/2 years, it's taller than I am! :) They're really not supposed to grow here, but mine is doing just fine. I'm not sure how I'll bring it inside next winter???

We have NEVER had hail that big here, and I was afraid the hail would destroy it. As it was, there were rips in may of the large leaves.

Looking back at this, my reaction was pretty silly!

[azuremystere]

lol I live in Salem, Trust me I know how rare that us to get hail like that, I'm glad that the Avocado and you are both fine :) Your reaction was fantastic

[MrPlayboy4eva]

lmao "oh my avacado" nice and i cant beleive you colected hail lol

[MrPlayboy4eva]

okay dude i live in salem and there was no tornado. and there will never be. it was just a bad thunderstorm. the news THOUGHT it might TURN into one but it never did.

[gauley2001]

This was no tornado. As someone who has been through tornados I can tell you that.

U also need to toughen up. If you can't get tough, then stop running out into the little hail and whining!

Seriously dude!

[CrazyQUINN84]

At first I thought you were a teenager...weird0_0

[ptlpride]

HAHHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! Great Quotes!! "Oh my poor avacado", "Oh look at the the size of that one! That one is going in the freezer." Hilarious

[LadyWeasel]

I've never seen hail with spikes!! :O

[BaseballNut51]

wow! that Hail was sick! The way that set up, it could have been a bow-echo of mini derecho.

[one5860]

Awesome vid.

[bgarkitekt]

"O, my poor avocado!"

[W7ENK]

Ha ha ha! I did say that, didn't I...

I swear, trying to grow an avocado in Oregon is proving to be a BIG challenge... Inside in the winter, outside in the summer... Squirrels eating the new growth in the spring, now hail stones WITH SPIKES ripping holes in the leaves ... it seems Mother Nature is doing her best to stop me from succeeding!

That poor thing is a tortured soul...

[supercell1995]

Erik, this was a tornado. The SPC should have recieved your reports...

[W7ENK]

I got a reply back from Tyree Wilde at the NWS on that info I sent over. No acknowledgement one way or the other.

The evidence coupled with the eye-witness reports pretty much confirms it for me!

[supercell1995]

Well, we will see if it comes in. It all just makes sense how there was a tornado. Damage reports show rotating winds, with 1/2 mile long path and no other damage. Its not just coincidence. Its fact!

[dpaulin]

Nice footage. I wish I had thought to get my video camera out and shoot what we got here, by the Oregon Zoo at the same time. Super heavy rains, hail, wind and thunder/lightning for about 10 minutes. I've never seen it rain that hard here in Portland, and I've lived here 30 years. It was fun!

[W7ENK]

It was, but a little scary, too! I'm still not exactly sure this wasn't a funnel in Milwaukie. My neighbor swears he saw one go over. It went by SO fast - 45 seconds or so?

[tornadomanatwork]

probary straight line winds

[W7ENK]

From my vantage point, the winds blew East-northeast, but 1 block to the west, the winds blew due South. That basketball hoop was blown more than 100 feet, over a fence toward the South out into the street.

The damage was confined to a narrow strip about 100yds wide, and roughly 1/2 mile long. For up to 2 miles in both directions along the railroad (exposed) there was no other damage.

A neighbor claims he saw the funnel pass directly over my tall tree.

See part 3 for the damage after.

[supercell1995]

I had no excitement from this bow echo, no structure seen from my place, since I had the heaviest of rain here.

[supercell1995]

Wow that is some good footage! At my place I had phenomenally heavy rain but unfortunately nothing else :(

The thunder at your place sounded a little closer. I think you did have a tornado, there wasn't all that much wind at your house, but damaging winds next to your house.

Now I knew that storm had some sort of shelf, if you look at the storm on radar, the line had a slight "bow" shape to it. And I also knew you would be the one to catch it.

(continue)

[reddibacon]

I did some reasearch on this storm and they said there were reports of funnel clouds, but nothing touched down. the damage way caused by straight line winds.

[W7ENK]

In part 3 of this video series, when I'm surveying the aftermath, one of my neighbors says he saw the funnel as it came up through the trees and into the neighborhood. After I pointed out my tall fir tree to him, he told me off camera that the funnel passed directly over my tree as it was lifting back up.

If it actually touched the ground, it was only on the ground for a few hundred yards. The damage path was only 100 yds wide at best, and pretty much in a straight line.

Kinda spooky!

[reddibacon]

are you sure it was a tornado?