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Uploaded by on Aug 10, 2006

Looking up into a tornado at the Oasis truck stop in Colby, Kansas. Check www.handshakejoe.com for more video and closeup pictures. We were only 60 yards away as we watched it blow through a hotel and rip up other signs.

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  • I know that this truckstop is on the south side of I-70 but this tornado appears to be moving westerly. That seems wrong but maybe it's just me.

  • You are right it was going west bound.

  • Thats not a tornado, it's a funnel cloud. Tornados actually touch the ground.

  • Funnel clouds don't do damage, see the debris being kicked up. There are some additional pictures on the fickr set too.

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  • haha i work there

  • It doesn't have to have a cloud touch the ground. Tornadoes can be completely invisible from cloud base to ground. It's condensation and what it picks up that gives it it's color. A tornado technically is a cloud just like the cirrus/cumulus/nimbus/alto/str­ato family.

    (And this summer I'm working for the NWS ;) )

  • what was that guy doin with his kids lol he runs inside then runs back out

  • it did touch the ground, did you watch the video?

  • I live there! I was standing outside the hotel watching that!

  • Trust me...it touched down. I saw the destruction. And watched the hotel be rebuilt. Trust me

  • that's a funnel cloud, not a tornado, the NWS says that its a Tornado only when it touches the ground.

    But that is friggin scary

  • That's just... wow. Really amazing. I would have just exploded from fear.

    And yes, that IS a tornado. It touched down.

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