I took this photo while driving home from work in the central Shenandoah Valley last night, not far from the WVa border. There were tornado warnings in the area, and a huge storm hit right as I was getting home.

Main thing I'm wondering - was this a tornado, or just part of a thunderstorm? I was leaving Broadway, heading south on Rt 42 around 8 pm when I took the photo. I was facing roughly west at the time.

I was watching weather radar, and there were some large storm systems heading right for my area shortly before I got on the road. The whole experience has me pretty shaken.

Thanks in advance

(My radar report from RadarScope and the two tornado reports from Ground Truth! The two photos on slide 2 and 3 aren’t mine, I found them from Facebook.)

I didnt grab any from cape may, but I know that was another one too!

Hopefully everyone is safe out there!

I built this tool for fun and shared it on here. That post got 33k views (about 3x the weekly average for this sub) and over 350 upvotes. This community pushed me to build it out properly.

I named it Aello. It runs on raw NWS data, so no AI forecasts, no predictions of my own. The free stack (SPC, Pivotal, COD, NWS mesoanalysis) is linked inside the app. I didn’t want to make a replacement for those tools.

What it gives you that those tools don't: a 3D sounding you can actually read at a glance (Column view), every atmospheric parameter mapped into one shape so you can see the day's unique signature (Fingerprint), and a plain-English ‘Today’ tab that shifts with the threat level. ‘Studio’ lets you export watermark-free cards and 30-second loops.

It's a web app, so you open aello.live on your phone or desktop, no install needed. Native app (apple and android) is on the immediate roadmap.

To cover server and hosting costs, it’s $5 a month, $50 a year, or a one time payment of $69 to be given access as a ‘founder.’ This allows you to see the roadmap, send feedback right to me, and help me plan out features and wants that would make this thing even better. I’m only doing 150 of these slots so once they’re gone, they’re gone. There’s more info about this on the site. Oh, also a free 7 day trial. I really want to make this app into something we all find valuable.

Happy to answer anything — especially the technical questions.

Thanks for all your help, Reddit!!