lew Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 Like probably everywhere else in Ontario, it's very windy here and we just had a heavy snow flurry go thru. I happened to be looking out the patio doors to the back yard watching the world go by and saw a mini tornado about 15 feet high made outta snow travel across the area. It wasn't just blowing snow, but and actual mini tornado that lasted about 10 seconds as it crossed the yard......pretty kool stuff Never saw one before so I Googled it and it seems there not really that unusual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 Ya, just like the summer dust devils, I can't believe there's people actually going out..and then they're saying it's a total white out on the lake. Nuts. Hope no rescues are required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisK Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 Hey Lew, Is this what you saw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lew Posted February 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 Ya, just like the summer dust devils, Yup, exactly the same thing, or even the mini water spouts. Just never saw one with snow before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lew Posted February 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 Hey Lew, Is this what you saw Sorry Chris, we were posting at the same time. Ya, it looked similar to that but the snow was much thicker. Pretty interesting thing to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofish4me Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 Here's a warmer version of what you saw. Looks like fun!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishnsled Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 I've seen a couple of small ones about 10-12 feet high, they did last too long. Cool video Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlowPoke Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 I see them with regularity. By that, I don't mean all the time but it's almost predictable with a strong east wind (60K+) in the same location near our terminal in Buffalo. I'm betting it won't be the last one you see in that area, when the conditions are right. I tried to photograph it once but it just looked like a nice snowy field. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhioFisherman Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 Snow? it`s all gone here in the tropics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Bob Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 Back in 1983 my bride and I with her parents went through a tornado at the cottage I built at Chautauqua Lake......here is what happened as I described it to someone else in a PM earlier. LONG story but I built a cottage near Chautauqua Lake....it took me 4 years to build it as it was 75 miles away on 2.5 acres of farm land but only 2 miles or less to Long Point State Park boat launch on Chautauqua Lake (great hunting and fishing). I had a built in the hill basement/garage with a 24'X 28' cottage on top of that. My bride was 8.5 months pregnant with my oldest son and we were spending a long weekend with my in-laws when on May 2nd 1983 a tornado hit while we were in the cottage. It lifted it up and set it back down kitty corner on the foundation. If we had walked out the front door we would of fell 8 feet down but lucky after it was over we went out the back door that had step nailed to the house. Didn't know the house moved until we got outside...did THOUSANDS of dollars of damage to my cottage, my car and my father in-laws car but spared the boat that was in the basement...also completely destroyed my 15' travel trailer I stayed in while building my dream cottage. Went it was certain it was going to hit us we put my wife in a corner of the house directly across from the large front window and covered her up with our bodies...only injury was to my father in-law and myself but they were only minor cuts probably from glass. We were pinned against a metal cupboard that we had can and dry goods in. It suck that out of the house without us realizing it. It also suck out the Anderson sliding glass door and FRAME WORK with all the kitchen furniture. Across the street about 500 feet down the road from where the tornado came from was a HUGE OLD barn...that blew up and all that wood was hitting my cottage...a piece of wood about 4" square came right through the wall in the front bedroom and stuck in the wall like a harpoon and moved the bed about a 1'....another large beam about 2.5" x 10" x 20' long hit the poured concrete foundation near a window opening and broke the 8" of concrete and landed in the basement but did not hit the boat or my riding lawn mower that I stored down there. My family and many friends said we should call our first born Gale....LOL Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhioFisherman Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 Always liked Chautauqua Lake as close as you could get to Canada with out traveling as far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leecher Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 Never saw one either Lew but sure felt like I was part of one this morning out on the lake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBW Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 watched one at the ski hill today. I have seen them a few times, very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedimaster Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 That's pretty awesome stuff. Too bad you didn't videotape it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckrb2007 Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 ........I did see my canoe go rolling across my backyard today!!! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkbait22 Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 This past summer a firend and I were fishing on a river up near Wawa. We heard something coming through the bush. We stopped talking and a mini twister came off the bank, cut right between us, and went across the river. Kicked the water up about a foot. Freaky. We nailed several hos and bows in that pool: now called the Tornado Pool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAW Posted February 20, 2011 Report Share Posted February 20, 2011 I've seen enough wind for one day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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