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Originally Posted by CanisLupusArctos
AWESOME PICS!!!
This is the second tornado at the lake in less than a week. I heard enough people report last week's suspected funnel cloud was definitely rotating after it passed Gilford. There was one poster on this forum who reported seeing falling debris (bits of tree) after it passed Mt. Major, which wouldn't surprise me. That would indicate it touched down, however briefly, making it a tornado instead of just a funnel cloud.
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It wasn't a tornado, it was nothing more than scud clouds. Their tendency to hang extremely low and move very rapidly leads to them being mistaken for funnel clouds pretty often.
I shot several pics and video of that storm and while its appearance was extremely menacing, it was harmless, other than the 40mph winds that quickly followed. There was no shortage of vertical motion, and at times plumes of water vapor did appear to stretch from ground to sky, but there was not a shred of rotation visible to the eye or in storm-relative radial velocity images from GYX.
The tornado warning that was issued for southeastern NH wasn't even related to the line of storms that passed through here. While the line of storms propagated to the southeast, individual cells, namely the one that hit us, actually pushed eastward into Maine.