Like the flip of a switch, Rhonda Morriss watched as the clear skies over Winston, Missouri, turned black.
"It was instant," she said. "It was pretty, white puffy clouds, then it went jet black."
Travelers along I-35 stopped in at the Shell station she works at to escape the heavy rain.
"At first I thought, 'Oh, it's not going to do anything,'" Morriss explained. "Then it kept coming down, coming down, coming down and I thought, 'Oh, it's going to do something.'"
She quickly helped usher customers inside before snapping photos of funnel clouds that dropped from the sky.
Just a few miles down the road, Jim Ruse captured a separate storm.
"Pulled over, turned on the flashers, started filming it," Ruse explained.
He was driving home from work when he saw rotation near Gallatin.
"You're kinda shocked. First, you see it, then you realize what you're seeing," he explained.
No injuries or damage was reported.
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Lexi Sutter can be reached at lexi.sutter@kshb.com.
