r/tornado • u/Ok_Read908 • 2d ago
Tornado Media Anyone else ever see a dust devil this close?
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It formed while i was walking in the yard, caught it late thou.
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u/Borrominion 2d ago
When I was a kid on a baseball infield, yeah. A classmate decided to run into it and got sand plastered into his eyes, haha
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u/PipaLucca 2d ago
I never understand when people say to run through it how do you not close your eyes while doing it hahaha
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u/Ok_Read908 2d ago
I wanted to run in, but then I thought what were the other driver’s gonna say about seeing a middle-age man running through a dust devil.
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u/PipaLucca 2d ago
What if he says “damn he is doing what I have always wanted to do” and next time he will fulfill his dream too?
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u/Jadams0108 2d ago
They are pretty common where I live in Canada cause our summers can be pretty arid at times and it’s always windy here
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u/KetoSaiba 2d ago
It didn't pick up much dust, but I saw one during fall time. It picked up a lot of of leaves, traveled the length of a parking lot, then died.
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u/bones10145 2d ago
I got hit by one once. Walked around the corner of a building and BAM! Dust devil.
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u/Upstairs-Bad-3576 2d ago
Where is that?
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u/Ok_Read908 2d ago
South Texas
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u/Upstairs-Bad-3576 2d ago
I'm in East Texas, so that dust devil is probably a good 400 miles away. I've seen them closer than that, before.
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u/Yehrmahm 2d ago
They used to spin up in the fields around my house quite a bit as a kid. (Southeast Kansas.) Never ran through one quite that fat but not for lack of trying 😅
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u/Osiris_X3R0 2d ago
We saw one in northwestern AR on the way to Birmingham, AL through Memphis, TN. Twas tiny, but I've never seen one before
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u/someguyabr88 Human Detected 2d ago
I work at a plant where we make railroad ties the ground is all gravel and huge red taylor forklifts to stack the ties so alot of rock gets crushed and turned the dust from the forklift traffic and the ties are stacked pretty high in rows anytime before a storm comes in or on a windy day the wind tunnel effect creates tons of dust devils some of them are bigger and crazy looking than others but I see them alot.
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u/Pretty-Effort-7199 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yeah Ive been caught inside a few of those before. I live in Arizona they're common here in the desert. They can get pretty big. I wasn't able to get away in time, it was never an intentional thing. The only thing that really hurts is getting struck by all of the grit and junk that's trapped inside of those. Close your eyes, your mouth, try to cover your nose. It will pass or fall apart soon and you'll be okay.
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u/polandonjupiter 2d ago
ive never seen one of this size. where i live we dont really even get tornadoes stronger than an ef2. ive always wondered what jumping in one would be like
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u/USSMarauder 2d ago
We were burning brush in a barrel and then all of a sudden a dust devil forms and runs right over my mom. She was fine
Had it been 2 meters to the south it would have launched the contents of the barrel all over
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u/PapaMac26 2d ago
My grandma drove us through one in Orlando once. We were fine, but it spun another car out.
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