The above photo was taken by
Jorn Olsen near Hastings, NE on May 23, 2006.
Scroll down to see more of his
photos and his spectacular photos from June 2004.
Radar estimated
precipitation totals for the period 7 AM May 23 through 7 AM May 24, 2006.
LBF is
Scottsbluff; GRI is Grand Island; LNK is Lincoln.
Radar loop
from
0400 GMT
May 23, 2006 through 0300 GMT May 24, 2006 or,
11 PM CDST
May 22, 2006 through 10 PM CDST May 24, 2006
The following
Images © Ken Dewey, HPRCC.
College
of Du Page, Illinois, storm chase vans near Loup City, Nebraska.
College
of Du Page, Illinois, storm chase vans lead the way through the Nebraska
Sand Hills.
Cumulus
clouds begin to rapidly grow in the afternoon heat.
The first
thunderstorm of the day towers over Burwell, Nebraska.
Thunderstorms
began to pop up all over north central Nebraska. Radar image below
is at the same time as this photo.
Baron Threat
Net radar on-board the NEVIT storm chase vehicle. Note the white
rectangle in the above image,
that is
our GPS system indicating on the radar image where we are located and the
front of the vehicle is to the right.
The purple
arrows indicate the direction of the storms.
With the
storms rapidly approaching, these horses sprint for cover near Ord, Nebraska
Near
Bartlett, Nebraska with several members of the Nebraska Vortex Intercept
Team.
A
tornado tries to form near Bartlett, Nebraska.
Another
tornado tries to form but the circulation in the cloud did not extend down
to the ground and the
appendage
quickly dissipated.
Thunderstorms
quickly increased in number but they did not have the "dynamics" to produce
a tornado,
although
many of them did try to do so.
A commercial
storm chase company (Tornado Express
Tours) joins us along the side of the road.
Another severe thunderstorm trying
to produce a tornado.
Note the
dust storm with the 80 mph+ winds picking up the dust from the open fields.
Heavy rain
begins to flood the streets of Shelby, Nebraska
Heavy rain
begins to flood the streets of Shelby, Nebraska
High winds
(80+ mph) in one of the numerous severe thunderstorms blew this truck off
of Nebraska state highway 69
and into
a ditch on the opposite side of the road. The driver, who was wearing
his seat belt crawled out of
the wreck
uninjured.
The follwoing Images © Jorn Olsen
