Actual pictures of the Greensburg tornado?

[Randy Denzer]

MESO submitted pictures of the St. John's wedge to a newspaper in the Greensberg area and they posted them as the Greensberg tornado. We immediatly asked for the image to be pulled.

Be carefull to not only protect your images but also to make sure that they do not mislabel them if you put them out.

 

[Marc Austin]

The Austins from Florida have incredible video of the tornado as it crossed 183 to the south of Greensberg. They are still out chasing and I am sure they will put it up when they get home.

Thanks Randy, yeah, as soon as the other half of the Austin team comes back, we will get the video up as soon as possible. I've also seen a lot of great videos out there from other chasers. I'm still suprised how few chasers were on this storm, considering its isolation and location on 183. We weren't as close as some people, but we still got good video. Hope we can post it soon.

 

[John Peters]

Also, did anyone capture the development of the second tornado and the alleged "ingestion" of the greensburg circulation? This would be very interesting to analyze.

 

[Willie Dines]

That's a very good question John, as I have been wondering the same thing over the past few days

Willie

 

[Dan Robinson]

Also, did anyone capture the development of the second tornado and the alleged "ingestion" of the greensburg circulation? This would be very interesting to analyze.

I along with several other chasers saw and captured the tornadoes east of Greensburg, but at this point it's not clear whether those were the beginning of the new wedge, satellites of the new wedge, or a third separate circulation entirely.

 

[Martin Kucera]

>>> 09:50:40pm <<<
Nikon D70 - 3008x2000 pixels resolution RAW Image.

 

[Scott Olson]

Also, did anyone capture the development of the second tornado and the alleged "ingestion" of the greensburg circulation? This would be very interesting to analyze.

Second tornado, NNE of Greensburg. I don't know about it ingesting the Greensburg circulation though. The behavior of the cell during this cycling period involves a strong left turn and a slow down to nearly 14ks. Looking at the track map for the Greensburg tornado it almost looks like the tornado rotates cyclonically around the periphery of the low level meso as it nears it's demise. There were also two sattelites just before this time.

 

[Allan Detrich]

Photos from in Greensburg...

I have a bunch of photos from the Greensburg tornado aftermath from that night. Took the photos after doing house to house searches for the first responders until more showed up. My group MESO helped set up a command and triage. We were on the scene helping the injured until 3 a.m. in the morning.

Start here: storm chase 2007

 

[Bob Fritchie]

Warren, I have seen a number of Greensburg tornado images. In addition to Dan Dobinson, the Twistersisters, VanDewald, and Bob Fritchie have images. As far as I can tell, all are video stills. I haven't seen any digital or regular film images.

Bill hark

My photos are stills from a Canon 5D SLR. More available at http://www.lifeinthelens.com/stockGalleries and just go to the newsworthy section.

-Bob

 

[Eric Flescher]

I found this report and photo on
http://www.ksnt.com/news/local/7473017.html
Stormchaser from Topeka Rick Schmidt.
I could not figure out how to play the video.
The reporter said " it was the biggest tornado of the century so far." Not sure if is right eventhough it was an EF-5

 

[James Siler]

Below is a preliminary track of the three biggest tornadoes in Kiowa county. The second of the "big" tornadoes formed just east of Greensburg and quickly grew to 2 miles in width! Also, there were at least two smaller "satellite" tornadoes with the first tornado that formed south of Greensburg. Updates to this story will be forthcoming.

This was taken straight from the National Weather Service webpage for Dodge City Kansas.

Ok, that didn't turn out exactly as I wanted but here is the direct link to it.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/crnews/display_story.php?wfo=ddc&storyid=7828&source=0

 

[John Peters]

I found this report and photo on
http://www.ksnt.com/news/local/7473017.html
Stormchaser from Topeka Rick Schmidt.
I could not figure out how to play the video.
The reporter said " it was the biggest tornado of the century so far." Not sure if is right eventhough it was an EF-5

I still think Hallem holds the trophy for largest tornadic circulation ever observed (2.5 miles)
In terms of most violent, there is probably no way to accurately gauge the "violence" of one F-5/EF-5 tornado to another.

 

[Shane Adams]

We won't know until DDC releases the official track path maps, but we can confirm the damage track of the 4th tornado in the Greensburg family (E of Macksville through NW of St John) had a damage swath well over a mile wide, probably two.....how much of this was RFD we're unsure, but the tree damage (which was obviously tornado) went for well over a mile. Visually, tornado #3 in the Greensburg family (north of Haviland through south of Macksville) was as large if not larger than the Greensburg tornado. So based on what we saw ourselves plus the NWS info from the two we didn't see, it seems this storm produced a family of four tornadoes that were a minimum of a mile wide or larger....that's unprecidented.

 

[Eric Flescher]

I am interested to know the following .
The Hallem and the Greensburg were so wide. Is there a particular weather rationale what made these tormadoes grew so wide?

 

[Craig Maire II]

John Peters wrote: "I still think Hallem holds the trophy for largest tornadic circulation ever observed (2.5 miles)
In terms of most violent, there is probably no way to accurately gauge the "violence" of one F-5/EF-5 tornado to another."

I agree John about Hallam being bigger (although at least 1 of the tornados out of the four that were produced by that supercell almost got as big as Hallam, but that's a big almost", as for violence the Greensburg Kansas tornado is hands down the most violent tornado of this century so far since there have been no other tornados given an EF-5 rating since 1999 (last century).