Photo Credit: Published in the Nisqually Valley News, taken Wed., Oct 15, 2003
Copyright © 2012 Lafromboise Communications, Inc., used with permission.

Over the last decade, Ramtha has mentioned the torsion field/tornado that started in The Tank® at the RSE campus in Yelm during an event in October 2003. The students had been focusing on the torsion field during several previous events. During a Fall Follow-up registration, this tornado was witnessed by many students as it came out of The Tank® Field, crossed the parking lot and departed the campus.

This is the only known photograph of such a tornado, a rare environmental event in Western Washington.

Note: The photographer at the time, JW Foster, was elected to the Yelm City Council in 2011.