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Select video captures from the 1998 Tours:
The following are still frames captured from video
which we shot during our 1998 chases. Enjoy!
From Grand Island, NE vicinity May 11, 1998. |
Picture 1 (upper left): Updraft tower SE of Grand Island.
Picture 2 (upper right): Wall cloud on small low-precipitation storm near
Giltner, Nebraska.
Picture 3 (lower left): Wall cloud to our NE near Stockham on the same storm
about 1/2 hour later.
Picture 4 (lower right): Large hail in the core of this storm.
From Eastern Iowa May 15, 1998. |
Wall cloud west of Maquoketa, IA. Poor visibility and fast
storm motion cost us view of tornadoes with this storm!
From near Anamoose, North Dakota. May 17, 1998. |
The Balfours, ND tornado as seen from near Anamoose, ND.
Note the sinuous rope funnel to the left of the main tornado.
From near Cambridge, Nebraska. May 21, 1998. |
Picture 1 (upper left): Driving towards supercell
thunderstorm. Note the sharp-edged anvil to our west. Such a feature is
usually a reliable indicator that the parent updraft is very intense and
probably severe.
Picture 2 (upper right): Raggedy mesocyclone to our west. Note the tail
cloud feeding into the wall cloud from the north (right side of picture)
Picture 3 (lower left): Rapidly rotating wall cloud to our northwest. About
6 miles NW of Cambridge.
Picture 4 (lower right): Dust being blown northeastward by a surging
rear-flank downdraft about 5 minutes prior to picture 3.
Picture 5 (upper left): Center of rotation within
mesocyclone shown in Pictures 2,3. Tangential wind velocity was about 50-70
mph at this time (estimated, of course).
Picture 6 (upper right): Sean and the Gang during the heat of the action on
this day.
Picture 7 (lower center): The Aftermath the next day!
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