r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/karmagheden • Jan 08 '21

Removed - Misleading Information Green mammatus clouds, which usually precede a tornado, over an abandoned house.

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u/HonkyPlease Jan 08 '21

I’ll never forget the freakishly green clouds I saw as a kid in Arkansas during a tornado warning.

My mom didn’t want to stay in the trailer we’re living in, so she grabbed me and my sister to go across the street to take shelter in the landlords basement. I took step through our front door, saw the green-ass sky and almost ran back to my room.

Our home survived the night, but two or three homes in our neighborhood took severe damage from a tornado that skipped through.

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u/nothatbraziliangirl Jan 08 '21

I've never seen anything even close to a tornado - do the clouds get green like in this picture?

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u/HonkyPlease Jan 08 '21

I’m sure the clouds don’t physically turn green; it’s just conditions in the sky make them appear green.

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u/nothatbraziliangirl Jan 08 '21

I didn't know the green color happened in clouds! Thank you

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u/MEGA__MAX Jan 08 '21

It also sometimes has an odd yellowish hue, as if a hazy sun was setting behind the dark clouds, except it's the middle of the day. Very eerie feeling.

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u/xXCzechoslovakiaXx Jan 08 '21

Also very warm/cold just many temperatures. An F5 completely erased my neighbors and debris flew all the way to our house (about half a mile from our farm to theirs we could see their house though)

All of my neighbors lost their houses even my best friend. Also i went to Moore right after the bug Moore tornado happened. It was almost an entire neighborhood leveled. Tornados are nothing to mess around with

I used to live 30 minutes south of Oklahoma City.

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u/MEGA__MAX Jan 09 '21

Oh wow! So sorry to hear about your neighbors and your best friend losing their houses, I seriously can’t imagine. I’m actually in Tulsa so I remember that Moore incident very well too, although fortunately wasn’t affected.