June 24th tornadic supercell.. SD

This cell developed and we high tailed to get to it. Though it was tornado warned the whole day there was no reall confermation of a tornado till a few hours later. towards the end of my clip you will see the funnel 3/4 of the way down. Later on that funnel was confirmed as a touch down. Technically a funnel that is 3/4 down is considered a tornado.

This was near mitchel SD just north and east of the city. the funny thing is, s that we sat in mitchel that day for a couple of hours waiting for things to happen and decided to finaly head north. it developed north and headed southeast

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[WeatherTalk]

After much watching over and over and over and even having the NWS look this video over. In this video I have captured a small and weak but visible tornado at 2:21 in this video. Look really closely, it looks like a rain shaft but it has an 's' shape to it which possibly is a tornado, small but its there.

[WeatherTalk]

this was an awesome day

[storm095]

id like to chase with you guys one day but i would prob be to inexpericend for u guys

[WeatherTalk]

not really.. its riding along that makes you more experienced.. you learn from others.. we have only just started

[WeatherTalk]

Well I nearly crashed into his car two times due to the amoung of dust in the air from the gravel road. darn close to rear ending until i swerved towards the ditch haha..

But thanks for the comments. Craig said when he was with me that I did some fantastic driving.

[sortashaman]

Good catch! This must've been the same system which generated a couple of cells over SW North Dakota earlier; I video-taped one passing about 2 miles N of our house; when I get better set up w/ computing power, I'll upload this, including about 30 second funnel on the ground. Did not know about the "3/4 rule"; interesting! Thanks for posting.

[WeatherTalk]

yes same system.. but whole different supercell.. this one formed north and west of Huron SD and headed southeast.

[SoloWingF16]

That was on my birthday.

[stormspotter67]

yes, yes and more yes!!

[airforcecowboyc17]

Jason is become a top notch chaser, I was very greatful to have him be with us on that chase. I was in the blue car in front of him. Once again, great job jason

[farOandOaway]

Excellent footage.

Bravo Jason.

5*

[thugie1]

Very beautiful video. Thanks for taking the time to hold the camera steady for those long shots of lightning in the red clouds.