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Severe Weather Threat May 17-19, 2025

Got in late last night and before going to bed loaded the 4K camcorder video from Sunday at Arnett onto my computer.

These are just some raw frame snaps. The timelapse from the GoPro clipped to my side window is gonna be unreal. It caught nearly the entire life cycle from birth until it moved offscreen (just a minute or two before roping out), with the spectacular storm structure above.

When I posted them on Stormtrack I said "This is my Rozel." Then I realized it was 12 years later to the same date!


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Nice, Andy!

Forgot to mention, there was another tornado after this one appeared to end; after I (and a hundred or more other chasers) had packed up and started going north on US 283 back toward the junction with 60. Not 100% sure if it was a new tornado or a reintensification of the original one, but the condensation funnel dipped down a few more times for about 3-4 minutes before completely roping out, looking north across 60 from 283.

I managed to botch all my camcorder video of this phase (focus was off); but the entire sequence was captured on my front-facing dashboard GoPro.

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CheeselandSkies said:
Nice, Andy!

Forgot to mention, there was another tornado after this one appeared to end; after I (and a hundred or more other chasers) had packed up and started going north on US 283 back toward the junction with 60. Not 100% sure if it was a new tornado or a reintensification of the original one, but the condensation funnel dipped down a few more times for about 3-4 minutes before completely roping out, looking north across 60 from 283.

I managed to botch all my camcorder video of this phase (focus was off); but the entire sequence was captured on my front-facing dashboard GoPro.

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You must've been very close to me for these shots.
 
CheeselandSkies said:
Got in late last night and before going to bed loaded the 4K camcorder video from Sunday at Arnett onto my computer.

These are just some raw frame snaps. The timelapse from the GoPro clipped to my side window is gonna be unreal. It caught nearly the entire life cycle from birth until it moved offscreen (just a minute or two before roping out), with the spectacular storm structure above.

When I posted them on Stormtrack I said "This is my Rozel." Then I realized it was 12 years later to the same date!


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Amazing shots! The third and fourth shots are particularly beautiful. Love the close ups too.
 
Earlier this morning I went and photographed some incredible damage to vegetation along this road 3 miles south of Grinnell, Kansas. The tornado left virtually not a blade of grass standing in the ditch on either side of the road, and in some locations scoured the ground to where there was just dirt behind. The centerline of the tornado was made remarkably visible as well in the soil as it crossed the road. I also noticed an old corn field to the south had essentially all dead corn stalks removed and several sizeable gouges in the soil from intense vortices. Some of these cornstalks were speared into the side of the ditch like lawndarts. This was the most intense scouring I was able to find along the path.
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Western_KS_Wx said:
Earlier this morning I went and photographed some incredible damage to vegetation along this road 3 miles south of Grinnell, Kansas. The tornado left virtually not a blade of grass standing in the ditch on either side of the road, and in some locations scoured the ground to where there was just dirt behind. The centerline of the tornado was made remarkably visible as well in the soil as it crossed the road. I also noticed an old corn field to the south had essentially all dead corn stalks removed and several sizeable gouges in the soil from intense vortices. Some of these cornstalks were speared into the side of the ditch like lawndarts. This was the most intense scouring I was able to find along the path.
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Holy hell.
 
Western_KS_Wx said:
Earlier this morning I went and photographed some incredible damage to vegetation along this road 3 miles south of Grinnell, Kansas. The tornado left virtually not a blade of grass standing in the ditch on either side of the road, and in some locations scoured the ground to where there was just dirt behind. The centerline of the tornado was made remarkably visible as well in the soil as it crossed the road. I also noticed an old corn field to the south had essentially all dead corn stalks removed and several sizeable gouges in the soil from intense vortices. Some of these cornstalks were speared into the side of the ditch like lawndarts. This was the most intense scouring I was able to find along the path.
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I thought I was looking at an empty farm field full of corn husks with the way the grass is clumped in some of these pics. This is seriously nuts.
 
tornado examiner said:
No doubts at all that the plevna tornado reached EF5 intensity and would have leveled any town it hit directly.

But…will likely be finalized as an EF3…
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Tbf, I've only seen one image of damage from Plevna that was impressive (the tree damage at some unknown location, looked like they were partially debarked). I want to see aerials of the damage, which no one has done yet.

The Grinnell damage above though, is pretty insane. It's definitely at least of EF4 intensity for the ground to look like that.
 
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