A one minute 30 second video clip filmed from a high rise building in Springfield,
Massachusetts graphically shows the formation of a tornado on the Connecticut River.
Using the road bridges as a reference, once can get some sense of the scale of the
power and speed of the winds as they sweep across the river.
Video courtesy of WGGB appears here on YouTube -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5plBdPBNj8
and also here on the Sydney Morning Herald web site -
(Note, video has no audio)
http://media.smh.com.au/news/environ...e-2402027.html