The Observation Deck

As I drove back into Lakewood today as I came across the Detroit bridge over the Emerald
Canyon, I saw a strange shape in the sky, a skinny cloud dropping down. I would not be able
to pull over for another 3 blocks, but in front of India Garden I took this photo.


The cloud had dropped down from the cloud and looked like a hook.

As I drove down Detroit over the next couple minutes I could see it stretch down to the
ground then it hit me, a tornado!












With the telephoto you can see the walls and tube structure.









And then it was gone!



I would have thought water spout, but this came done from the sky over dry land.

Later I drive by this on Cove and Lake, who knows?





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What you captured here looks like a "cold air funnel" or "cold core funnel". They generally don't touch ground and don't create the kind of force and damage you'd associate with a tornado.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_cloud#Cold-air_funnel_clouds

Unlike the related phenomenon associated with severe thunderstorms, cold-air funnels are generally associated with partly cloudy skies in the wake of cold fronts, where atmospheric instability and moisture is sufficient to support towering cumulus clouds but not precipitation. The mixing of cooler air in the lower troposphere with air flowing in a different direction in the middle troposphere causes the rotation on a horizontal axis, which, when deflected vertically by atmospheric conditions, can become a funnel cloud.[1]

Brian Pedaci wrote:What you captured here looks like a "cold air funnel" or "cold core funnel". They generally don't touch ground and don't create the kind of force and damage you'd associate with a tornado.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_cloud#Cold-air_funnel_clouds

Unlike the related phenomenon associated with severe thunderstorms, cold-air funnels are generally associated with partly cloudy skies in the wake of cold fronts, where atmospheric instability and moisture is sufficient to support towering cumulus clouds but not precipitation. The mixing of cooler air in the lower troposphere with air flowing in a different direction in the middle troposphere causes the rotation on a horizontal axis, which, when deflected vertically by atmospheric conditions, can become a funnel cloud.[1]

thanks!


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Sent in by Kim Staunch

This is at St. Charles and Clifton looking East. Which puts it right over the tree that got
busted up in the photo above.

Thanks!

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A video by Shawn Mariani taken on his way through Ohio while headed home.



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