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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva>This link has some photos of the January 2008 tornado at Lawrence, IL.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Clearly it was documented as a tornado.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Here is a link that shows several photos:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P><FONT face=verdana,geneva> <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A href="http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lot/?n=20080107tor" mce_href="http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lot/?n=20080107tor"><FONT face=verdana,geneva color=#800080>http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lot/?n=20080107tor</FONT></A></P><FONT face=verdana,geneva> <o:p></o:p></FONT> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva>From the top, photo #8 shows the derailed train alongside of damaged farm buildings.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t see the funnel cloud in the video but they can be a bit elusive to spot sometimes in all the surrounding wind and chaos.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They can jump around and skip up and down.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=2></FONT></SPAN> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=2>But if the funnel directly hit the train, I think it would have hit the train about 4-6 cars back, and this would not have been seen by the camera.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think it tipped over about ten cars almost simultaneously, but the cars back a ways went over first, and the car next to the engine went over last.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When that last car went over, it opened the view revealing the first cars that had gone over, which by then, were sliding in the ditch.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So the car next to the engine tipping over was the end of the first phase of the derailment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The beginning of the first phase was not visible, but that is where I would have expected to see the involvement of the funnel if the view had not been blocked by the first car.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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