It's a Tornado!

Yesterday I dropped my kids off with my mom and off to work I went. It was cloudy and cold and my mom had mentioned that it was raining at her house. I knew it would probably make it to our hour sooner or later. It did and rained. A couple of hours later my mom called and said it was storming, LOUD thunder, lightening and lots of hail. (i'm hoping she took pics so I can post those too. Well a little later my cousin(from Palm Springs) called to see if we were ok out here. she said she heard there was a tornado warning. But I hadn't heard anything. Well later that night I heard that there was a tornado actually 2 of them really close to my moms house. the picture above is the actual one. Doesn't it look scary! Luckily no one was hurt and it didn't visit too long.

This is from a news article.

Twin tornadoes touch down Thursday near March Air Force Base in Riverside. The funnels caused power outages, derailed a train, and flipped a big rig truck forcing the 215 Freeway to close, but no injuries were reported.
A tornado flipped a big-rig truck, derailed a freight train and clogged a major interstate for several miles Thursday as a wild spring thunderstorm hopscotched across Southern California dumping hail, rain and snow.The most severe damage was reported in Riverside County, where dark, towering funnel clouds spun across the communities east and west of the 215 Freeway corridor. In Orange County, walls of water, mud and debris -- some 8 feet high -- battered eastern canyons that had burned in last year's wildfires, leaving behind a muddy mess but little major damage and no injuries.