That funnel looks pretty intimidating to me! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for asking, Rick. Depends were not really needed in Nebraska > after all. We got severe weather, but none of the "strong, long-track > tornadoes" promised. Kansas and Oklahoma verified, but it was really a > blown forecast as far as Nebraska was concerned. The SPC said that the > surface low would track into Nebraska, but by sundown it was still in > SE Colorado. > > That being said, we chased with success although it took a lot more > patience. We positioned ourselves near what looked like the best > conditions and finally a little cell showed up on radar near Norton, > KS with a vector right toward us. It continued to grow and became a > decent supercell. We met up with it near Oxford, Nebraska where it was > putting down some promising looking wall clouds. So we pulled over, > got out our gear and watched. We didn't have to wait long. The tornado > that we observed was pretty brief. I also have the whole thing on > video, from birth to death. > > A couple shots of the "elephant trunk" tornado. The village of Oxford > is obscuring the ground/contact point, unfortunately. Although it > doesn't look like much it tore a metal grain bin off its foundation > and tossed it like a piece of paper (as seen from another chaser's > perspective). > http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/6938986418/in/photostream/lightbox/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/7085063203/in/photostream/lightbox/ > > I also have a panorama that I took of this cell before it "produced" > and the multiple lines of inflow bands streaming into it, along with > the rugged landscape in that part of Nebraska, are (i hope) > impressive. May be a while before I get to put that together. Per > usual, my son-in-laws shots are better, so keep an eye on his > photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/digicana/ > > While it wasn't the HUGE day that we had figured on, we took some > solace in the fact that tornadoes were rare in Nebraska that day, and > yet we bagged one. > : ) > We're also happy that this storm wasn't a powerhouse, as it was on a > vector to threaten possibly threaten Kearney if it became a > right-turner. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
