Tornado Notes

Saturday night at 8:30 the tornado watch turned into a warning with a tornado at the Riverwind Casino that tracked along Highway 9 past the Weather Center and Oliver's Woods.
Saturday morning the storm was forecast for that evening; the Woods had had a good week or two to dry the flood water in the SW; so I decided to go walk the Woods in the morning. I took along blue paint to refresh the trail blazes for the year. I entered the SW Gate and could walk everywhere. The flood water was gone, although the ponds, East and North West were still fairly high.
There were a pair of box turtles mating, one small white-tailed deer that kept 50 meters away from me, and lots of small to medium sized branches down from the big windstorm a week earlier.
The big cottonwood east of the NW Pond is tilting more and more and it looked to me that the windstorm had pushed it a bit more. I think it will come down in the next year..and that will be a huge change in the surrounding woods. Through the Woods there were lots of small to medium branches down from the windstorm but no big trees across trails. Then Saturday night the approaching storm front produced a crackling lightning sky and eventually a brief EF-1 tornado.
Sunday I went early to look and see what had happened. Not much. Along S Chautauqua by the Woods small leafy branches had been ripped off the tops of tree and thrown on to the road.. but not so many. At the NE Tree Loop there were one or two old dead small trees that had blown over. Apart from that there was not much. The Woods suddenly lost about 20% of its leaves with the wind; but there are still 75-80% remaining.. many still green. Mosquitoes were moderately persistent and annoying even with DEET.  Sunday the cold front came in with the storm. The western wash was full of flowing turbid water. The old Elm Bridge crossing is no more.