On Sunday, we raced from Mitchell, SD down to northwest KS. After playing around with some mushy, shear-starved blobs, we drifted over to a couple of storms benefiting from an outflow boundary courtesy of the first few storms. This storm produced a tornado for about one minute.
My autofocus was struggling with the high contrast and low light, so the photo below is fuzzy.
By the time I set up the tripod, the tornado had lifted.
On the way back to our hotel in Kearney, NE, we took a detour to parallel a beastly supercell that was producing a cone tornado. It was too dark, and there were too few roads, so we did not make any significant attempts to get close. Instead, we just enjoyed the nearly-continuous lightning highlighting the tilted updraft.
It was too far for us to make it up to the show in SD today, so we played around with some of the 65 mph storms in NE. We were on a couple with great rotation, wall clouds, funnels, etc., but the roads in NE were not made for following storms at that speed, so we had to let them go before they produced anything. These two photos were taken as the last line rolled through just north of our hotel in Lexington, NE.
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