Today , Jacqueline & I went to run errands . We left here about 11:30 and our first stop was the post office . As I was getting back in the car , I looked over the river to the north - east and exclaimed , " OMG a tornado ! " ( We now know that it 's just a funnel cloud until it touches ground , then it becomes a tornado . )

Question: What may have happened after they saw the ' tornado ' ?
Answer: They told someone about it who informed them about funnel clouds .They showed someone a picture of it and they corrected them .There was something about it on the radio .They saw the same thing on the news .