I’ve done the same thing.
When I was in high school, I was out windrowing alfalfa, and felt the air go still after being breezy all day. Something told me to look north and I watched a funnel cloud drop a few times before evolving into a full tornado.
Where I am from in the High Plains, the summer storms typically move west to east. So yeah, I ‘kept an eye on it’ as both the tornado and I worked our ways west to east. The twister was about 2 miles north of me. Impressive piece of weather.
