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May 29th, 2008 Nebraska and Kansas Tornadofest

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Last Updated on Monday, 04 January 2010 18:30 Written by Roger Hill

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May 29th was advertised as a High Risk from the Storm Prediction Center. It seemed all ingredients were in place for a significant severe weather event, including strong to violent tornadoes. We decided to play the warm front along the KS/NE border area and as far west as we could. The first supercell of the day formed north of Mc Cook and became tornado warned almost instantly. It produced the Kearney, Nebraska tornado that caused significant damage. We followed the storm to east of Kearney when it became totally rain choked. We then dropped south into north central Kansas and caught the cyclic tornadic supercell from Tipton, Kansas, northeast towards Jewell, Kansas. The storm was a sight to behold!
Check out the two videos below. Caution both videos are nearly 10 MB!

 

 

Click on a small image for a larger one. The tornado shots are mostly video stills, with a few storm structure digital images included. The Kearney, Nebraska video stills are courtesy of Scott Feinstein, who was a customer with us.

 

 

Supercell as it develops west of Elmwood, Ne.

 

Tornado warning is issued.

 

Storm looks like it is ready to drop a tornado. Beautiful structure.

 

RFD has eroded the updraft into the classic backwards "C" shape.

 

Approaching Kearney, NE. Tornado is buried in the rain.

 

Power flash illuminates tornado in Kearney.

 

Large barrel tornado in Kearney!


Another power flash.

 

Tipton, Kansas supercell grows into its tornadic phase.

 

Another shot of the round updraft and mesocyclone.

 

All these images from here down are video stills as I didn't have time to shoot stills. Many, many tornadoes from this storm.

 

These all occurred with the Kansas supercell. What an amazing tornadic storm.

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