September 16th

From parent to parent, my condolences to the family of Jaymi Wendt on their devistating loss.

Brookings County SD Lincoln, Redwood, Renville, Anoka Counties MN

Tail cloud and beaver tail looking to the northwest from White, SD.

Wall cloud over Brookings, SD looking southwest.

Wall cloud looked very under cut at this point.

Inflow still streaming into the wall cloud.

Wall cloud rapidly splits and this funnel appears.

Very nice wall cloud in Brookings county SD.

Awesome storm for mid September

Brief touchdown looking southwest from near White, SD.

Tornado quickly ropes out.

Still amazed this produced as obviously undercut.

Roping out for good this time.

Funnel still persisting for a bit.

This was the first tornado my mom had seen since September 5th 1969!

Video grab of lightning strike in front of the wall cloud.

Cullen pointed out maybe we should start looking to the northwest...um, yeah.  Same location as the funnel/tornado pics were taken.

Rainbow with low base over ripened fields near Ivanhoe, MN.

Following the storm back into MN in Lincoln county.

Unorganized updraft base in Lincoln county with new development.

Tornado warned storm on the Redwood/Renville County line.

Crazy inflow at 38 kts on this thing!  More fun in the dark!

Possible tornado near Danube, MN

Back of the tornado warned storm in Anoka county taken from St. Michael, MN.  This is the cell which from which the fatal F2 tornado was spawned in Rogers, MN a few miles away.

Different lightning color variation of the back of the Rogers storm.

Foot print in a corn field west of Rogers, MN where the initial touchdown of the fatal F2 tornado occurred.

Corn field south of the tornado track leaning to the northwest from apparent inflow into the forward flank.

First structural damage approximately  .5 mile to the northeast of the cornfield.

Tornado continued northeast.  Home in the back is the same as in the photo above.

Major structural damage directly across the road from the photo above.  From here the tornado would rapidly intensifiy reaching F2 status and  will enter the heavily developed areas of Rogers, MN,  where unfortunately a 10 year old girl was killed.

Splintered utility pole in front of the Rogers High School.  All poles for approximately 1/8th of  a mile all looked like this.  Sheared off approximately 6 to 8 feet off the ground.

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