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Jim Michaels wrote:
How about a "dust devil" Chas?
These are very common in TX, OK, etc.
Hi Jim,
The way I remember "Dust Devils" when I lived in Texas, were things as
small as a child on the playground to maybe the diameter of car and 2
stories tall that you would see as you drove through the dust plains in
summer. I never saw one sustain for 5 minutes. This seemed larger in
magnitude and duration, perhaps like a small weak tornado, except no
apparent damage. Furthermore, I've never heard of a tornado in
essentially a mountainous region or even generally in California. My
thought was more like a very localized wind shear. My wife was downtown
and overheard a snippet of conversation about the "windstorm" at 4 that
morning. Unfortunately she didn't have the opportunity to find out where
they were at that time, so we weren't the only ones to experience the
phenomenon.
Charles Patton
LNC2 360JM
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