Storm Chasers Seen Following Single Cumulus Cloud Puff Around Town

AROUND TOWN — Local storm chasing team, The Cloud Hoppers, trailed a single cumulus cloud puff across town in a low-speed chase that ended at Buckets Dive Bar.

“Out of the way! It’s moving, it’s moving!” shouted lead storm chaser Jack Cyrus, as he dropped his coffee in Main Street Cafe and ran outside jumping into his storm van to chase after the cloud.

“What a rush!” said Cyrus as his van raced up to 6-7 mph to chase the cloud. “I didn’t even have time to stop and have a coffee,” griped Cyrus as the cloud slowed down to an easterly drift of 5 mph. “That’s the nature of the biz though.” 

“He definitely had time. I mean this thing is barely moving,” said producer Amelia Getty as Cyrus stuck his head out the window to get a better look at the action.

The storm van was seen driving roughly 9 mph to stay ahead of the cloud to "get the best handle on the situation."

Fifteen minutes later the cloud dissipated in front of the The Cloud Hoppers very eyes at which point the producer threw down her hat and aired stock footage of a storm on their livestream before heading to Buckets Dive Bar. 

“I thought we had something, then poof the cloud just disappeared faster than fog on a window,” said Cyrus as he scooped foam out of his beer as the stock footage showed a dairy farm in the middle of the great plains with a monstrous tornado the size of 17 football fields circling around it. 

Residents were seen scrambling and running for their lives after thinking the tornado in the livestream was shredding through town.

“I didn’t even know we had a dairy farm in the area,” said resident Marsha Bobobins as she ran for cover in Buckets mop closet. “I would have shopped there!”

The Cloud Hoppers were the only ones left sitting at Buckets at which point they announced “oh ahh, the ahh…tornados over everyone. It looks like it jumped right over us! Whoop-ee!"