I posted this in the Northeast forecasters section but I am not too sure if anybody saw it. I think I am the only one that looks at the Northeast weather forecasts. LOL. So I was just looking around here today and thought I'd drop it here in Stormchasers, too.
Anyway, this was back on July 29, but its interesting because its a video a guy caught on his cell phone camera of a funnel cloud forming. Also because its in NY State...not noted for tornados, but we do get some once in awhile.* The site is local new channel site and the video is still active, as well as the news report with the meteorologists looking at the guy's video. Its not the best quality of course, being on the cell phone. You need to have quicktime to view it, too. They have a link there for the quicktime if you don't have the version.
Here is a link to a video of funnel cloud formation in Utica, NY (Upstate Central) during severe storms that passed through Saturday, July 29, 2006.
The main video was captured by a cell phone camera of a guy driving on his way to work, and is kind of cool because the background sound effects are the car radio announcing a tornado warning, then cut to the classic rock music station which was playing "Burning Down the House" during the video, punctuated by the filmer saying "Oh, my God" a few times.* There is also a video of one of the local meteorologists reviewing the cell phone video and commenting on it at this link from the local tv station.
http://www.wktv.com/news/local/3452381.html
There werre no tornados spotted,* but this and some other reports/pictures of funnel clouds were seen.* It was a hellacious storm/storms, black as night at my house. All my solar lights outside came on in the early afternoon, it got so dark. There were lots of downed trees and some uprooted ones, too.