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Tornado moves across open country north of Hoxie
Kansas. The tornado formed from a classic supercell, although rain wrapped
around outside of the visible mesocyclone/ wall cloud the tornado stayed highly
photogenic. Meanwhile a much larger wall cloud was formed to the north about 5
miles producing more tornadoes, some deeply imbedded in heavy ran. One of the
tornadoes moved from west to east around the outer edge of the rotating wall
cloud coming very close to hitting a column of chasers moving north.
Hoxie Tornado Slide Show Click link to
get in, then click arrow on the right to get it going. To
speed up the slide show double click the arrow and set it at a lower
number. The first image is slow but the rest are faster. To get out
click on the words HOME PAGE.
This is a complete set of the Hoxie, Kansas
tornado from inception to demise or rope out. I was able to sit in one position
on the west side of highway 23 and capture the whole life cycle, 18 minutes
from image one to rope stage. I did have to move for the last couple of shots,
but it's great to be in one spot that long. Note that these images were shot
and processed to show the rain curtains rotating around the vortex to include
horizontal and sub-vortices. Doing that added some noise or grain, but it's not
too bad. One horizontal vortex was on the ground about 200 meters out from the
parent circulation, although only one image shows this well. A bit of that
debris cloud can be seen in the above image, but most of the horizontal vortex
has dissipated.
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Cats-N-Dogs I've Seen on the
Plains
When you
chase -- 
