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by Kevin_Martin from Ontario, California

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Dust Tornadoes of Southern California
Jun 18, 2007 | 2:35 PM
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Saturday, June 9 ,2007 was a trip to Lucerne Valley for the Bi-Annual Rocstock.  Launching high power rockets up up and away.  That wasn't the only thing going up.  Major Dust Devils came in and ruined some of the camper's stuff.  It took tents out, and ruined some RV Awnings.
They are called Dust Devils, and are very common in the Deserts here.  I was able to capture one of them on camera.  One hit me, and I turned around and snapped the photo.  It was large.  It moved away and gave me the perfect photo to take.

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samo714 read my blog view my photos
Jun 19, 2007 | 1:51 PM

great pic's. i have seen these when i used to live out in the high desert. we called them dirt devils. the last one i saw was on a trip to vegas. my cousin and i were out in the middle of nowhere, and this dirt devil was huge. even bigger then the ones in your pic's. it was headed right toward us. it was so huge i thought it was gonna flip over the car. but since my cousin was nervous about the whole flipping the car over, he was like screw this. he stepped on the gas and we got out of range at the last moment. then we were hit with heavy rain, hail, and floods. and a jet plane flew above us really low. then we got a ticket for driving on a road that was closed, but we didn't know cuz it seems like all the road were closed due to the floods. plus we got lost, and almost ran out of gas like 2 times. it took 8 hours to get their.
blcoffman read my blog
Jun 20, 2007 | 10:54 AM

Wow yeah I've seen these and yeah my experience was being right under a little dust devil when it came right down on top of us ,we still called it the finger of god it was so wild ,loud , I went running away, but it stopped real quick !! But so cool these dust devils are ,as long as they stay small HA ! And samo714 to bad about the ticket!
Take care Kevin bc
samo714 read my blog view my photos
Jun 20, 2007 | 12:49 PM

it's cool, i didnt get the ticket, my cousin did. so he had to pay for it.
sebar read my blog view my photos
Jun 22, 2007 | 9:13 AM

They aren't even hardly an F0 on the scale for tornadoes.

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Kevin_Martin

My name is Kevin Martin. I am 23 years old, and just into the weather. I've studied it basically on my own for quite sometime. To be quite honest from 14 years old, I have spent over 75% of my free time on the weather where I still do it today. To show you a bit of what I do, please visit my site at www.ontarioweatherservice
.com I run the site. What it is is a forecasting site for the Southern California area. I have been doing this for 8 years, but archiving the site for two of those. This is my 8th year doing the Ontario Weather Service. I use to be just an email service in the beginning. No website. You'll find my forecasting ways pretty cool, and I even have some formulas. These formulas would help out FOX weather forecasts as well. I developed them on my own for santa ana winds, frontal zone winds, and even thunderstorm strength. Thanks for reading!

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