Tornado at the Rose Bowl pre-game festivities...

[countryjake]

Okay, it looks like it's just a dust-devil to me, but Tornado is what the person who put up the video called it and it was pretty scary to the people who were there. The article I've read about it said that four people suffered minor injuries due to the flying booths and debris and were treated at the scene.

[Rhiannon12866]

1. Wow! Yikes! Whatever it was, that was some wind!

[countryjake]

2. I know, that one black thing just wouldn't drop...

and some of those people kept running right under it...they could've been speared by the poles.

I've seen dust devils tear up a corn field before and leave a lot of damage behind, but never something like this.

[cilla4progress]

3. I was in a little dust devil once

on my horse. Even though it was very localized - like 10 ft. diameter - it was really strong and intense inside it! Yes, I'd say like a little tornado!

[ColesCountyDem]

4. Definitely a dust devil.

Although dust devils are normally fairly small and weak, they can have winds up to 74 m.p.h., the equivalent of an EF-0 tornado.

[Jamastiene]

5. That looks like a dust devil to me too.

For it to be a tornado, it has to have a debris cloud going all the way up, doesn't it? If it was a tornado, it had to be about an EF - (as in negative) 1, lol.

[mnhtnbb]

6. Yikes. Here's a news report about it. Being called a cold dust devil by meteorologists.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-freak-wind-rose-bowl-new-years-eve-20141231-story.html


My aunt and uncle used to live on Linda Vista right above the Rose Bowl. I've been there
many, many times and never seen anything like that.

[KansDem]

9. I grew up in southern California...

And I, too, never saw anything like that in the populated areas.

A few times when my family was driving through the California desert (Route 66) I saw a dust devils move across the barren ground. But never in a city or L.A. suburb!

[mnhtnbb]

11. I lived in Southern California--from north San Diego County to L.A.--from 1965-1988

and I never saw, or heard, of anything like it anywhere other than in the desert.

[JHB]

7. You're not going to get a real tornado in a clear-blue sky

Definitely a dust-devil without the dust.

[Plucketeer]

8. Wowser!

I was at a model airplane meet at Lost Hills, CA a couple of months ago when one of these things came barging across what was an otherwise calm launch area. There were these tent-shades and other light weight structures that were whipped up along with fragile models and papers and other miscellania. There's nothing you can do but hunker down and watch it's fury. It's really like a reverse tornado in that it starts at ground level and snakes upward as it drifts along and gathers speed.

[Cooley Hurd]

10. That is a classic dust devil, w/o the dust

Common in the midwest...

[tclambert]

12. It's a willy-willy.

[ThoughtCriminal]

13. We got cows!