Tornado from Bristol CT dissipating on July 21st 2010

This is the video I took of the same cloud that touched down in bristol as a tornado on july 21st. It is taken from the southington/cheshire border looking north at 5:22 PM. The Bristol tornado touchdown was at 4:30ish and so this is the "death" of the thing as it disaptes back into the sky. The cloud comes from the east, and judging from the lightening strike and thunder at the end of the video it was about a mile north of me. The video is poor quality and does the thing no justice at all... it came out of nowhere and the whole sky was literally spinning - this thing was massive and dark and low as hell. The link below is to a picture with better resolution and gives a little bit better idea of what it looked like.

http://imgur.com/SneUv (picture)

Sorry for my lame commentary, I was basically thinking aloud and trying my hardest not to constantly swear. I was skeptical that it was the tornado until I heard the confirmations from the news/national weather service the next day and checked the times on the Doppler maps. I could still be wrong on the details, but either way it was a hell of a sight.

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Science & Technology

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• Tornado
• Bristol
• Connecticut
• July
• 21st
• storm
• lightening
• thunder
• 2010
• CT
• colin kelley
• weather
• clouds
• funnel
• 7/21/10
• 7/21/2010

[mariopoolpoop1]

correction fell on a house

[socolinsays]

@mariopoolpoop1 ahhh, hope no one was hurt

[sandlotmerlin]

My dad said this is a tornado haha 

[socolinsays]

@sandlotmerlin who are you?

[iz2cu1]

crazy,for Connecticut! nice vid Colin!

[socolinsays]

@iz2cu1 who are you?

[sandlotmerlin]

y u asking who i am who cares



[daniel288link]

I don't want lake compounce to be destroyed! Oh my sister is there right now!

[VladTodGirl123]

@francirque01 I LOVE LC :D

[francirque01]

I was in this tornado lol! Due to a summer work in Lake Compounce! Huge wind lots of fun haha!

[timw1959]

Please see part 2 and or one of the others.Their good!!

[mariopoolpoop1]

thankfully,nobody was hurt and they got out of the house thank god!

[mariopoolpoop1]

that was SCARY a tree almost fell on a house on my street

[sandlotmerlin]

@socolinsays someone u don't know y ???