Montana Tornado (Discussion)

I'll make you feel good about this.

I was there.

We had been following the storm across Montana on US 2.

At Glasgow, we decided to stop and get something to eat and kill a little time. We had caught up with the storm. The majority of it was running about 30 miles north. Winds out of SW so no real threat.

We left after 20 minutes. The air was still, the sun was out. The storm was in the distance. Winds out of SW.

After we left the town, there was no cell service, normal for the area. Did not have any weather alert service either.

When out in nowhere, Frazier to be the closest spot in the road, what little traffic began pulling off the road.

We ran into Hail. It was light, penny size for the most part. It diminished so we took off. We made it about a mile. Hail got worse and bigger. My nice looking Dodge Pickup now has hail damage. We pulled onto the shoulder to wait it out.

While sitting there I noticed the clouds were getting a peculiar, yet familiar color. The winds changed to the north and increased in speed. Then the hail started going in all directions along with the wind. Then I noticed that the rain was spinning as well. The pickup was hit with a strong gust of wind, I thought and it seemed to move.

We decided to immediately leave the area. We drove about a mile and noticed what looked like a tornado breaking up in the mirror.

Went about 10 miles and started to get weather radio service and found that there was a tornado spotted in the Frazier area just where we were.

I feel bad since I am a trained spotter, but really the weather was only talking about the severe thunderstorm and the hail. No mention of a tornado watch and I really did not expect one in the state.

 

when does this one take place?We are headed to montana for tomorrow.Last night we drove through colorado and it started off hot and then the temp dropped really quick,lots of lightning but that was about it,kind of creepy in away...

 

Need not worry.

It all happened Monday.

 

I thought you might appreciate it. I was embarrassed to say the least for getting caught in it.

I did not waste time with a video or anything when I realized what was going on.

 

Is the video on Mini-DVD or VHS? If it's on Mini-DVD you can put that in your computer and rip it to your computer and upload via youtube. (If it's on a phone, you could easily get a USB data cable for said phone and "move" it to your computer)

 

My wife does camera videos through Flicker I believe. I could ask her, I am home for a couple more days.