Tornado over Soweto

[Compton_effect]

5 minutes ago.

 

[Compton_effect]

My photos are too big. Ill upload them later.

 

[Compton_effect]

Here's one a friend just sent me. He was also driving past.

 

[LazyLion]

Bladdy racist weather!

 

[Hemi300c]

Bladdy racist weather!

Must be coming from the west.....

 

[LaraC]

Was there lots of damage? On the photo it doesn’t look that destructive.

 

[Creag]

Must be coming from the west.....

Always wild in the west.

 

[HavocXphere]

Whats with all this freaky weather lately? Seems much worse lately...

 

[Africaner]

Are calling that harmless dustdevil a tornado ??? We have the end of the dry season and those are a normal occurrence. Did you see the dust storm they had in Bloem?

 

[BLIXEMPIE]

There was a dust storm yesterday in Gauteng again.

PS. That is no tornado.

 

[Ninja'd]

Whats with all this freaky weather lately? Seems much worse lately...

Armageddon

 

[RandomDesign]

this thread is more tornado than that thing

 

[Venomous]

There was a dust storm yesterday in Gauteng again.

PS. That is no tornado.

I was wondering why there was so much sand on the outside tiles and bricks....

 

[BLIXEMPIE]

I was wondering why there was so much sand on the outside tiles and bricks....

Yeah, drove right through it. Was insane. Like a wall of brown that goes on forever.

 

[Toxin]

There was a dust storm yesterday in Gauteng again.

PS. That is no tornado.

That was my thoughts when I saw the pic as well.......

 

[Compton_effect]

Yeah yeah. I know. Blame the weekend, its been crazy busy. The shots I took shows a clearly defined twister, I'm just glad it dissapated real fast.

 

[wizardofid]

This is what we get in the freestate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibTwLC8a9e8

And this was in my back yard in 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zZVtvlb9pw

 

[Moosedrool]

Land spouts are weak tornadoes. But not all of them are really as weak and can cause damage as we've seen in the past. It's just not as frequent as central USA. SA all the way from the Karroo up to Noord Transvaal does get twisters some times and had dust storms years ago.

 

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When I noticed it it was nicely defined and had a debris cloud along the bottom. But yeah - best described as a Land Spout.
But even that would cause havoc if it landed in a squatter camp.
By the time I could turn off and stop - it had started to dissipate.
One of those times I wish my phone had a decent zoom lens.

 

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