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Last Updated on Sunday, 10 January 2010 01:42 Written by Roger Hill

2001

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I had no idea was the results of Sept 22 chase would be, but I certainly did not expect what I got. My son and I left early morning for our target of York, Nebraska. We arrived by mid afternoon to a cirrus shield and stratus left over from morning convection. However, an outflow boundary was in place from near Grand Island southeast towards Concordia, Kansas. We sat and sat with nothing happening. Then finally around 6 PM (6pm majic!!!), things started to change. Towers were exploding not far from Clay Center and oon our first storm developed. It did not look that great, but was only a harbinger of things to come. Another cell went up and produced several small funnels. Then a larger funnel formed and eventually touched down near Saronville, Nebraska. It later dissipated only to be replaced by another, yet larger tornado at dark. The second tornado was eventually rated F3. We found a prominant damage path and a couple of farmsteads destroyed. This storm had the classic mothership appearance and was one of the prettiest supercells of the year.

Updraft explodes into mature supercell.	Inflow band forms.
Tornado!!	Closer shot.
Nice tornado structure.	Beautiful.
Tornado maintains structure after 5 minutes on the ground.	Tornado starts to stretch out.
Beautiful "Wizard of Oz" hose!!	Tornado ropes out.
Continues to weaken.	Almost dissipated.
Another funnel forms.	Same shot a minute later.
Wide angle shot of the updraft. If you look close you will see a large dark cone in the right side of the precip core. This was a 1/2 mile wide F3 tornado!!	Lightning illuminates structure of this beast.
Another lightning lit hot.	My favorite!!!!
F3 tornado damage