has anyone witnessed two tornadoes at the same time?

[Chris Lott]

Other than June 12th, 2005 have any of you experienced two(or more) tornadoes on the ground at the same time out of a single storm? If so, do any of you have pictures, and what was it like to have two in front of you simultaneously. Thanks for any replies.

 

[nickgrillo]

Yeah, 3 days before 6-12-05... Near Stockton, KS -- from the ultra-productive "Hill City" supercell.

<img src=http://midwestchase.com/6-9-05-9.jpg>

Georgous trunk on the ground... To the right is a developing barrell tornado (already on the ground, despite it being hard to tell from this angle).

 

[David Drummond]

Althought that really was one huge multivortex thing trying to get going from June 12, 2005


Here is one from May 12, 2005 my partner took on the storm near Ralls after everyone got cored earlier and went home. A main and a satellite on the ground in the pic. This was rated F2. What you can't see is that there is a THIRD F3 tornado back to the west (LEFT) of that one as well. Yes, THREE on the ground at the same time.

How did I feel? Absolutely amazed and a tad bit scared being that it was after dark. We didn't get to see how they really looked until we had time to freeze frame video. Note that all that light in his pic is from lightning except the yellow on the side from a car light.

 

[Chris Lott]

I have never witnessed this, but while I was watching a show on t.v. one night about Josh Wurman and the D.O.W. he was right in the middle of something that gave me the chills. They were somewhere in Nebraska chasing and gathering data. They look like they are in the middle of nowhere when the cameraman takes a shot out the window and there is one in the field on the left and one in the field on the right at the same time. The whole time Wurman is talking to this newscrew or whatever they were and seemed unfazed driving right in between the two. I'm sure the driver of the D.O.W. didn't feel the same way.

 

[Dan Robinson]

I was standing 10 feet away from Nick so my camera's view was the same. This reminds me, the funny thing about 2004 and 2005 is that in 2 years I got to check this, and every other, item off of my tornado wish list - wedge (6/12/05), violent tornado with debris (6/12/04), frontlit (6/12/04, 5/12/04), backlit (6/12/05, 6/9/05), rope (6/12/04, 6/9/05, 6/7/05), stovepipe (6/9/05), multivortex (6/12/05), two at the same time (6/9/05), close enough to hear sound (5/12/04), etc. I thought it would take me 20 years of chasing to see all of this.

Not to hijack the topic, but the responses to this thread show how 2004 and 2005 (2004 in particular) might just be one of the most legendary two-year periods in chasing history.

 

[Karen Politte]

See:

http://www.weatherpix.com/tornado_photography.htm

KR

 

[Brian Stertz]

I have never witnessed this, but while I was watching a show on t.v. one night about Josh Wurman and the D.O.W. he was right in the middle of something that gave me the chills. They were somewhere in Nebraska chasing and gathering data. They look like they are in the middle of nowhere when the cameraman takes a shot out the window and there is one in the field on the left and one in the field on the right at the same time. The whole time Wurman is talking to this newscrew or whatever they were and seemed unfazed driving right in between the two. I'm sure the driver of the D.O.W. didn't feel the same way.

This was the famous "Thedford" hydrogen bomb supercell June 4th, 1999...one of the most violent convective eruptions I have ever seen. The tornadoes were about 3 miles apart and this was in E. Cherry Co. NE It was a pretty wild sight...there was quite the caravan of chasers on that particular chase. The tornado on the left did the best imitation of the Wizard of Oz "tornado" I have seen yet as it did a fantastic rope dance.

 

[Kurt Hulst]

April 20, 2004 North of Kokomo, IN

I would like to enlarge the picture but I dont have it on this computer. So i used the avatar to the left. This is June 9th. Nick was also 10 feet away from me.

 

[Shane Adams]

Yeah...

May 3, 1999
May 3, 2003 (three at once briefly)
May 29, 2004

The only time I've gotten two tornadoes in the same frame was May 3, 2003. I haven't captured those yet. As far as the other two, the tornadoes weren't close enough to be in the same frame, but I'll post them anyway...

While we were watching this one...

...we saw this from the new meso...

And on May 29, 2004, while this was happening...

we noticed this old tornado from the previous meso (that we'd not seen before due to rain and hail wrap) to the northwest...

 

[Tony Laubach]

Argonia, Kansas - May 29, 2004

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

http://www.extremeinstability.com/05-6-9.htm
Others mentioned this one already.

http://www.extremeinstability.com/04-5-24.htm
This one had 3 down at once at one point, and often had 2 at once.

http://www.extremeinstability.com/04-7-12.htm
I'm pretty certain the big wedge was still on the ground at the same time as the new tornado developed west of it.

It happens alot.

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

Not to hijack the topic, but the responses to this thread show how 2004 and 2005 (2004 in particular) might just be one of the most legendary two-year periods in chasing history.

Don't forget 2003. 2003 and 2004 produced more than 2004 and 2005. 2004 however will always stand alone.

 

[Shane Adams]

Agreed

 

[Brian Stertz]

The Northern KS supercell on May 29, 2004 also dropped twins south of Jamestown (Cloud Co.)...the left hand side tornado continued as the "wedge" tornado on the right organized and strengthened. I have seen this situation a few times. From what I can remember from Jeff P. video of the SD tornado outbreak, this was a common situation on that particular day.

 

[Dick McGowan]

Cold-core even. 11-27-05. Just briefly, but nonetheless two on the ground with the minisups. East of Marion KS. Also, saw two on the ground with two seperate storms, a day I'll never forget.