At the time I shot this slide, I remarked on video that this cloud might be reported wrongly as a tornado. Not 5 minutes later, it happened: A tornado warning came over my weather radio for its location eastward, based on “several spotter reports of a tornado.” It was actually a large, low-hanging, non-rotating chunk of cloud material along an inflow/outflow interface in the distance, condensing at such low levels because of strongly forced lift of rain-cooled air. The cloud’s base-to-ground gap was obscured by a thin layer of outflow dust in the foreground. Multiple spotters had ignored, or failed to notice, that this feature was not rotating, in turn causing a false-alarm tornado warning. Social media did not exist then to send in such a shot digitally and immediately discredit the bad reports. Fortunately, my refutation of the tornado report eventually succeeded, and it was removed from the database.
6 W Hale Center TX (15 May 95) Looking N
34.0651, -101.939