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>I didn't get a picture of it as we were hunkered down with both
>vehicles tucked inside the garage from the hail, but we had a tornado
>about five miles away. It was a really pretty one, a perfect
>stove-pipe. It stayed on the ground for a long time, but didn't travel
>very far. This was one of the slowest moving supercells I've ever
>seen. It centered on us, but the tornado was off on one of the limbs.
>It wiped out a couple of farm fields and destroyed one farmstead, so
>we all did pretty well.
>
>I could have actually seen the tornado from our yard, but we had so
>much close lightning that I didn't go outside. Figured that doing a
>Ben Franklin with my Bogen tripod wasn't such a good idea.
>
Glad to hear that you are safe. We've had small tornadoes out here, one
in Tucson and another in Safford.
>AG
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