Still not having viewed all my video (taken from the dash cam Digital 8 ; I was mistaken in my previous post by stating we (Bill Reid, Martin Lisius, Kinney Adams, the Tempest group, and I) passed through the down of Hoag, NE - - rather that was Dewitt; and the photos should state/as should my post that we were 7 miles S/SE of Wilber, NE (this makes much more sense; now going over the damage survey video - - - sorry, the amount of significant tornadic events coorilating in a tight timeframe skewed my memory).
All photos should read: "7 miles S/SE of Wilber, NE; just north of the NW bend of HW103". Timecode and storm vector are still correct; but I was mistaken by the town. I'll edit the original text to reflect this.
During our damage survey; which was inconsistent due to closed/flooded roadways and not wanting to venture into Hallam; and from reviewing video; revealed the rope out of a tornado SE of Wilber; which contradicts the damage survey map at:
http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/hallam-m...ap-may2004.html
I'm just a bit confused about this event; nor had time to read any offical NWS survey reports in the days to follow (just catching up now). While the map shows one lone tornado; I seriously beleive there were two; as group 3B (Brian Morganti and Keith Brown) of Tempest Tours followed the original tornado (and obtained amazing video of it) from inception near Dayken until it's rope out (upon meeting up with group 3A (Bill Reid, Kinney Adams, and myself) north of Dewitt/and south of Wilber. Following the stop at the graveyard NORTH of Dewitt; and 7 miles S/SE of Wilber; both groups witnessed the rope out of this tornado. A new reported tornado (by law enforcement) came across the audio track of the dashcam at 8:25pm CT (this being the Hallam tornado).
What am I missing? Still confused. Was anyone else at/and or near the HW103 graveyard S of Wilber between 8:22-8:32pm CT? If so; what did you see? Since our group (3A) arrived slightly late to the reported "large tornado" passing just S of Wilber; what time did this occur/and or what did it look like? Was the tornado we viewed a secondary vortex? The original appearance made this feature (which is a tornado) hard to judge until stopping and watching it closely. The location of the tornado coagulates with the damage track just S of Wilber; which on 23-May we retraced our steps with GPS; damage tracks; and pinpointed exactly where our group was looking at the time of this tornado.
As I said, now with this lone damage track; and other somewhat contradicting reports; what am I missing?
Brian Morganti's photos and brief account can be viewed at:
http://www.stormeffects.com/recent_events.htm
..Blake..