Wow! Talk about unearthly eldritch beauty!

[dreamshark]

The sky that is, which migrated through a spectrum of unholy color as the tornado sirens bansheed away. Despite all the drama, only a few drops of rain fell and there were no banks of cloud anywhere in sight dark and roiling enough to conceal a tornado. No fist-sized hail either. But something must have been going on somewhere in the metro area for the sky to look that strange.

Several neighbors were outside pointing cameras skyward in a futile effort to eff the uneffable. You know without even looking that those pictures will be totally uninteresting. The neighbor taking the flash pictures seemed especially misguided.

Whatever it was has sailed on northward now. There were a lot of dire predictions on the weather sites, but no actual confirmations of anything at all as of 9 pm. Anybody see any actual weather, or just baleful cosmic threatingness?

ETA: Apparently there was big hail (1"-2.5") right up the west side of the metro, from Eden Prairie up through Golden Valley, even clipping the west edge of downtown. And one alleged funnel cloud sighting (dubious).

I just discovered that wunderground.com has a tab called "Local Storm Reports" that just logs all the spotter reports. Cool.

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The report from Saint Louis Park

[mle292.livejournal.com]

We had hail that ranged from golf ball sized to Volkswagen sized.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

I was out in one of the western 'burbs for the Presbytery meeting. No crosses were ripped off churches, so God likes us better than the Lutherans. ;-)

[hakatrip.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine was sitting outside the Roller Garden, waiting for the adult session to start, when very large hail damaged her truck. She also saw a funnel cloud form, reach down, then get sucked back up.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Ben and Rachel were at the Twins game, and there was substantial hail there.