Driving home in the pouring rain from Georgetown this afternoon. I was on FM 487 heading towards Caldwell. Your standard 2 lane country road with no real shoulder. From looking at Google maps. I'm thinking I was close to, "The Crossroads, TX." I could only run 40 mph safely. Then the rain pretty much instantly stopped. To the north and above me. I now saw Purple and Aqua colored fist shaped clouds. I'm guessing they were a few hundred feet above me. To my right it was bright-ish with the fist clouds moving in.
That view lasted maybe a mile before the clouds started dropping down. Then I could see the rain line about 1/2 mile ahead. When I drove up to it. It was blowing sideways, parallel to the road but 10' or so off the road. The best way to describe it was looking at a plane in a wind tunnel. When the smoke flows over the wing (Bernoulli's Principle-I had to look up the name). I drove through 3 of these things in about a mile. It would drop down and cover the road for a couple hundred yards. Then it would be above me.
I think my dumbass drove into a tornado. I just realized this, while typing this.
Just outside of Caldwell was the worst wind.
I know. no pics, or it didn't happen.
That view lasted maybe a mile before the clouds started dropping down. Then I could see the rain line about 1/2 mile ahead. When I drove up to it. It was blowing sideways, parallel to the road but 10' or so off the road. The best way to describe it was looking at a plane in a wind tunnel. When the smoke flows over the wing (Bernoulli's Principle-I had to look up the name). I drove through 3 of these things in about a mile. It would drop down and cover the road for a couple hundred yards. Then it would be above me.
I think my dumbass drove into a tornado. I just realized this, while typing this.
Just outside of Caldwell was the worst wind.
I know. no pics, or it didn't happen.
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