June 15 and 17th videos finally uploaded!!
Here are the videos from the June 15 Macksville, KS tornado and the June 17 tornadoes north of Gibbon, NE and west of Aurora, NE, as shot from the TornadoVideos.net SRV. The June 15 tornado was definitely one of the strongest of the year, ripping trees out of the ground as it crossed the road in front of us, and then turned southwest and headed straight toward our location! I tried to back up away from this tornado as it was too strong for intercept, but encountered a minor obstacle... The Radiance Technologies/TornadoVideos.net RC Plane successfully deployed a parachute probe into this tornado from the southeast, and it was lifted from 400 feet where it was dropped to an altitude of above 3500 feet before being carred for ~6 miles!
Rare video of the June 15, 2009 Macksville, KS tornado!The first video below from June 17 is of the first two tornadoes produced by this supercell just north of Gibbon, NE. We attempted to intercept the first tornado but it roped out just as it reached our north-south road, and the second tornado was just as short-lived. Still though, the RC Plane was able to deploy 5 parachute probes into the inflow region of the second tornado (aerial video coming soon) as we in the SRV Dominator were attempting to collect vertical wind data near/in the tornadoes with the mobile radar.
Nebraska tornadoes! June 17, 2009 Part 1 - North of GibbonAnd now for the grand finale... Below is video from inside the Aurora, NE tornado as it intensified on top of us. Note the mini suction vortices rotating around the vehicle inside the parent tornado, with the strongest one slamming into the left side of the vehicle and blowing out the driver's side window. The bubble cam captured this vortex the best as it rotated around the front of the vehicle and approached from the left... A 138.8 mph wind gust was recorded just as this mini-tornado slammed the vehicle, and our ears popped as the pressure dropped inside the circulation. We were scanning the vertical winds with the Close-Range Vertical Radar (CLOVER) for nearly 30 seconds as this tornado passed directly overhead, and captured incredible measurements of the updrafts inside a strengthening tornado. This moment was captured by our dashboard cams perfectly, so be sure to watch Storm Chasers on Discovery this Fall for INSANE footage of the window imploding inside the tornado.
VIDEO INSIDE A TORNADO!!! Aurora, NE Tornado, June 17, 2009http://www.tornadovideos.net/component/content/article/1-latest-news/974-june-15-and-17th-videos-finally-uploaded
