6/17/09: NOW NE/KS/IA/MO/SD/TN/KY

[Andrew Francis]

Not sure what storm Jared Ritze is on, but he is sitting directly in front of a debris cloud! wow!

 

[Chris Carter]

looks like a nice fat rope. NWS issued another tornado watch to replace 440, goes until 3am.

 

[Jim Saueressig]

TVN - Twistex had that same tornado as Jared.....

Jared has it back I think.

 

[Andrew Pritchard]

Big tornado west of Aurora, NE right now per streams. Lots of spotter network icons right in the path of that very intense couplet. Hope people are smart here at nightfall...

 

[Chris Carter]

Brian has a nice close up on it.

http://www.severestudios.com/cgi-bin/player.pl?username=brian.thalken&uid=49

 

[Eric Treece]

Don't know where Jared Ritze is, but he has a large truncated cone tornado on his cam right now at Severe Studios.

 

[Chuck Hurley]

Roger has it on his cam. Been flipping back and forth between TVN and Roger's stream well when the cell signal hasn't choked.

 

[Stuart Robinson]

The Grand Island cell has just wedged 1/4 mile wide along highway 34 - postion due West of Aurara, Nebraska.

 

[Andrew Francis]

I think Jared is on the aurora storm like everyone else it seems! lol!

Still producing, very nice elephant trunk with well established debris cloud. Becoming night time now. There is a ton of people on this storm! Be safe!

 

[Matthew Crowther]

Actually the tornado itself was just a pretty narrow tapered cone on RH's cam, just kicking up a huge amount of dust

 

[Chris Carter]

velocities are nearly maxed out on this storm, and its headed right for aurora.

 

[Heidi Farrar]

Dick McGowan just texted saying wedge doing damage near Aurora NE.

 

[Andrew Francis]

I-80 must be a nightmare right now. With this storm following just north of the Interstate, the highway and the road just north of it is littered with chasers.

I cannot tell if it's still producing, too dark now. Watching for power flashes, but of course streaming cams aren't the greatest for that.

 

[Chris Carter]

looks like the cone might be getting rain-wrapped, making it more dangerous especially at night.

 

[Scott Lincoln]

ISU chasers are on the Aurora storm. Said it never was a wedge, only a cone with lots of rain bands and debris wrapping around it. Tornado apparently just roped out just west of Aurora.