Friday, August 25, 2006

Tornado!!

Yep, finally caught one of those elusive things! On the cell in southcentral MN that put down at least 3 tornadoes, although 1 of them was rainwrapped and we didn’t see. The first two were ones that we viewed from 2-3 miles away to the south of Nicollet, MN as it went to the south and then through the town. Witnessed extensive damage to a house on the northeast side of Nicollet as well. Continued east and viewed a lot more damage as we were right behind the rain wrapped tornado at this point. A lot more things went on as we stayed with the storm hoping for a glimpse of what she had hidden. Great storm overall, very low bases, amazing meso to go along with it from the beginning to end. Great tornado, NWS report should be out tomorrow on it for the damage survey and I’m sure you will see pictures of it from other chasers on the storm. I was never able to get a picture as I was driving, but my chase parter Josh Richardson does have some video of it that he will try to get online this weekend sometime. That is all for now as it is time for bed after this long day…

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