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LOCATION:
McKinney, TX USA
WHAT HAPPENED:
To date, only two people have ever seen the inside of a tornado. The
first event occurred on
June 22, 1928.
The other event happened in 1943 to Roy Hall who related his experiences as follows:
"The bottom of the rim was about twenty feet off the ground. The interior of the funnel was hollow; the rim itself appeared to be not over ten feet in thickness and owing possibly to the light within the funnel, appeared perfectly opaque. Its inside was so slick and even that it resembled the interior of a glazed pipe. I lay back on my left elbow to afford the baby better protection, and looked up. It is possible that in that upward glance my stricken eyes beheld something few have ever seen before and lived to tell about. I was looking far up the interior of a great tornado funnel."It extended upward for over a thousand feet, and was swaying gently, bending slowly toward the southeast. Down at the bottom the funnel was about one hundred and fifty yards across. Higher up it was larger, and seemed to be partly filled with a bright cloud, which shimmered like a flourescent light. This brilliant cloud was in the middle of the funnel, not touching the sides."
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LAST UPDATED: December 11, 2011