Boy oh boy was last night a crazy night!! Just sitting around at Bible study and all of our phones go off saying there's a Tornado Warning for our area. We look outside and see a few lonely clouds to the north and west but that's about it... Until my pager went off. Then the seriousness hit.
I was first to the fire station and went straight to the radar to look at what was coming. I saw a small line of storms headed our way with multiple tornado warnings along the entire line. It first looked as if the storm that was rotating wasn't even going to come new us. As the radar kept updating, it kept moving more and more towards New Sharon and Mahaska County. Another storm looked to be growing to the south and west of the primary storm and I told one of the fire department captains that if that storm matures, it's going to rotate just like all of the other storms along the entire line. The primary rotating storm kept coming closer and closer and we started spreading all of our fire trucks and ambulance apart so if one thing does get hit, we don't lose all of our equipment.
As the minutes ticked by, I sent out message after message of multiple warnings as they came out. Finally, the new storm sucked some of the energy from the primary storm and we got out of the danger area. Like I had originally thought though, the new storm started to rotate and the city of Oskaloosa became part of the new Tornado Warning.
Long night with two different great groups of people that I enjoy being with.
AJW out!
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