After a few really long driving days on tour, we started in South Dakota on July 2nd. We decided to play the MCV moving up out of Nebraska and pushed to Murdo. As we did, storms exploded on an outflow boundary that continued to drift south. Storms would spin, become severe and slowly get undercut. One storm back an hour to our east near Kimball, SD was different. It rode the boundary east and I knew we needed to get there and FAST. It became tornado warned, and eventually produced a decent elephant trunk shaped tornado just before we arrived. We pushed to Gann Valley and turned east. We got on the other side of the hook, and were greeted with a rather large wedge shaped lowering, which produced a tornado. Considerable tree damage was seen for about a quarter mile as we got on the other side of it and watched multiple funnel clouds form. A couple may have touched down briefly, but doing no damage. We stayed with the storm until a raging line formed, which also had QLCS type spin ups forming along it. Quite the surprise this day! Enjoy the photos! (Some cell and some DSLR)

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