Friday, July 22, 2016
Not alleged!
Big storm passing through the area. Mostly missed my nbrhd (THANKS, WEATHER GODS!)... just some brief heavy rain and lightning. Other places got GIANT rain, lots of wind and hail and an UNQUESTIONABLE TORNADO.
Picture captured by Spokane-News reader. No doubt about that one. You can see the soil being sucked up from the hilltop.
Needless to say, the Weather "Service" finally got around to issuing their usual incoherent warning after the action was over.
The debris from the tornado was first reported as a brush fire, even though it was raining heavily. We think of brush fires here, but we don't think of tornados.
Just noticed the date. This storm resembles the 7/23/14 storm that focused sharply on my neighborhood. Today's storm is focused farther north, around Mead. Neither resembles the broad daylong devastation of 11/17/15.
¶ 4:15 PM 
