Winona Tornado

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After a long day of storm chasing through eastern Colorado, I headed east into Kansas as the sun was beginning to set. At the southern flank of a line of thunderstorms, a section of the storms began to deviate southeast. I rushed down and caught a tornado touching down at or shortly after 9:22 p.m. The ability for me to see the tornado varied, but at 9:45 I could just make out the tornado.

Above is the 9:45 p.m. image and below is a radar snapshot was two minutes prior:
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Here is one more photo. It does not show the tornado, but some lightning was captured along with a portion of the inflow feeding into the supercell thunderstorm:
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Quincy

I am a meteorologist and storm chaser who travels around North America documenting, photographing and researching severe weather. I earned a B.S. in Meteorology at Western Connecticut State University in 2009 and my professional weather forecasting experience includes time with The Weather Channel, WTNH-TV and WREX-TV.

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