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Tornado 1

From left to to right in temporal sequence:  Picture 1 shows first wall cloud. Pictures 2 and 3 shows first tornado sighting with RFD cleft. Picture 4 close-up of first tornado sighting. Picture 5 shows two large trees ripped out of the ground and flung out from the vortex. Pictures 6 and 7 shows more flying trees. Pictures 8 and 9 shows nice photogenic stove pipe.  Picture 10 shows the first tornado dissipating.                                                                                                              

Tornado 2

This tornado formed just to my south 1/2 mi northeast of the mature tornado and moved north right over me! Luckily it was weak. I will include a video clip showing both tornadoes with separate low-level mesocyclones..

Tornado 3

This tornado formed from an occluding wall cloud ahead of our mature tornado. We raced to get in position expecting another large tornado to develop. However, it remained a weak small tornado while our first tornado was going strong for atleast another 10 minutes.  We probably should've sat and watched our first mature tornado go through it's dissipation phase. I did get video of the mature tornado dissipating while driving.

Tornado 4

This tornado was spawned by a supercell about 15 miles to the northwest of the one we intercepted. This was the last of a series of large tornadoes produced by this storm.                                                                                                      

Tornado 5

Finally our storm produces a nice tornado from one of it's many occlusions.  After this tornado the storm really struggled to contain it's outflow and several rapid occlusions lead to many rapidly rotating low-level mesocyclones but I never seen enough evidence of ration on the ground to continue the tornado count.  I bet if we were in west TX with dry sandy soil our tornado count would've continued for another hour or two!                                                                         

 Chase Summary: April 23, 2003  

Hooked up with David Gold and our tours, tour 4 to be precise on June 9, 2004.  This was my first day off.  Dave and I forecasted a perfect intercept on June 10, 2004 across the southeast Nebraska Panhandle.  We both thought Iowa would be an early show on June 11, 2004. A very classic setup with southwest flow of 40 to 50 kts over a very unstable moist atmosphere at the surface.  I was very confident we would see tornadoes today.  I was a bit surprised by how LP the storms were and how photogenic the tornadoes were.  I'm glad I took a few extra days off before the MC tour! Later in the day we got to see a tornado in the distant from a supercell near Fort Dodge, IA. Total tornado count = 6.

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