© Dodi BrauenA tornado touches down near Three Hills on June 2, 2017.
Incredible time-lapse footage of the twister was uploaded to YouTube by user Vance Neudorf.
Click here to watch on YouTube
Resident Dodi Brauen was watching the storm clouds from her front porch when the tornado started to take shape. "It started to rain, a little bit, and then I said 'oh, that looks like a funnel cloud.'" she said. "It looked like it was drawing the dust up." Watching from her home on the east outskirts of town, she said the tornado seemed to bypass her house before continuing on east.
Severe weather watches were issued by Environment Canada.
Witnesses said the tornado was on the ground for about ten minutes.
While intense weather isn't unheard of in the area, photographer and storm enthusiast Jason Ewert told Postmedia it was the first time he'd seen a tornado so close to town.
But...SEE the far better & scarier video - the next one up on You Tube after the article's linked video - as that next one (at [Link] is even better.) It lasts 1.58 but if you're in a hurry jump to about 45 seconds and watch as the mouth of the cell gathers from behind to directly above them (and I imagine from a distance, you would see a funnel cloud forming towards folks watching on the ground straight up!) Of course, all hop in cars and haul ass, relying on fact that generally, tornadoes move across the ground at about 30 mph and the record ground speed of a tornado, as of 3/16/2000 was 62 mph. http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s393.htm) (Don't try this on a city freeway with its obligatory gawkers' walk traffic jam.)
These crazy fools wait rather too long for my tastes -(adrenaline rush junkies) - though, in general, it's something I would have done, and could still see myself doing,. and have done so with hurricanes.
R.C.