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Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 January 2010 09:03 Written by Roger Hill Monday, 04 January 2010 12:37

June 17th was certainly a day I will never forget. All parameters pointed to a triple point boundary in central Nebraska,  just north of Kearney. By late afternoon, an intense tornadic supercell developed and tracked eastward through Grand Island and Aurora, producing a large and destructive tornado just west of Aurora. We would witness half dozen tornadoes this day, culminating with the Aurora, Nebraska monster. I only put photos up here and no video stills, thus only 2 tornadoes are in photos. Here is a wild 5 minute video from this event:   

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View of the tornadic supercell looking northwest. Amazing structure and overturning convection in the anvil.	Wide shot of the updraft, wall cloud and newly developing tornado.
Closer shot of the mesocyclone, wall cloud and tornado.	After an occlusion, the supercell cycles and ramps up in intensity dropping very large baseball sized hail here.
Just west of Aurora, Nebraska, the structure of this monster tells all. There IS a tapered cone funnel under the updraft here!	Increasingly large and destructive tornado forms one quarter mile to my north. Shot as wide as my 17MM lens will go!
Bit tighter shot of this impressive tornado just north of me.	After the tornado passes to my east, it is still a very strong tornado with large debris cloud.