Reno County Kansas Damaging Winds June 15th, 2009 1 of 3

(Second video has a lot more of the high winds). Left Newton west to maybe get a chance to chase a tornado since at the time there was a tornado warning, the storms didn't cooperate and lined up, and a warning was issued for damaging straight line winds from 80-90 MPH. This is the first ten minutes of it, watch the 2nd video to see how crazy it got, I'm glad I pulled over before the winds got there or probably would have been flipped. I esitmated the winds to be 75 for a period of over 5 minutes, heard reports that the winds were over 80 in several locations.

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Science & Technology

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• Storm
• Chasing
• Reno
• County
• Kansas
• Thunderstorm
• Warning
• Tornado
• Damaging
• Straight
• Line
• Winds
• June
• 15th
• 2009

[hammerogod]

There was a State Trooper ahead of the pack and he would not let anyone pass him ... a couple of people tried and he blocked them.

[hammerogod]

Oh how I hate getting caught on the Interstate in one of those ... I remember following a Tornado (Funnel sometimes, Tornado sometimes) for about 45 miles down I-40 ... It would move ahead and traffic would move to stay just behind the main part of the storm ... it finially move enough north to be clear of the hiway ... You could clearly see the Tornado but we never got any Hail.