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Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 July 2011 15:25 Written by Roger Hill

2011

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This day had tons of potential. But the question was where to chase. First target of north central Kansas early on panned out as one tornadic beast formed and produced numerous tornadoes. Check out Mike Umscheid's "Under the Meso" website for what he witnessed there. Spectacular! The second target, along I-80 from Kearney eastward also panned out. There were a couple of very tornadic supercells there that produced several large and photogenic tornadoes. The worst thing in the world would be to get caught between the targets, and low and behold, THE MOST FRUSTRATING DAY of 2011 award, goes to this day. Dave Gold came out to chase with us and too much hesitation on which target to play cost us dearly. We still witnessed 6 tornadoes, but the ole "what could have been" (and what SHOULD have been) haunts me to this day. Wow, aweful results. Every chaser has a day or two each year they regret, this is THE one for me for 2011. 

Click on an image below for a larger pic of what we saw.

First tornado northwest of Alma, NE from the now dying cell from northern Kansas.	Tornado on east side of road northeast of Amherst, Nebraska.
Tornado on west side of road north of Riverdale, NE.	Larger stovepipe near Pleasanton, NE.
Backside of supercell near Elm Creek, NE. You know where you WANT to be in this shot!	Tornado east of Elm Creek, NE from supercell in the pic to the right.