Tornadic Supercell near Emporia, KS, May 21, 2011

This Tornadic Supercell started at around 6 PM near Eldorado, KS, as an elevated base storm, and for much of my own, and College of DuPage's view time of it, believed we would bust again. See the earlier time lapse video for the start of this storm. However, after some initial struggling, the storm moved into a more conducive environment near Emporia, KS. At that time, approx 8:30 PM, the storm formed into a supercell, however, radar indications were poor about a tornado forming. How wrong that was. Structurally, as seen in the video, a wall cloud had formed and 25 minutes later a funnel cloud was formed which eventually touched down just outside of Emporia, KS. College of DuPage storm chasers reported and contacted EMS about the tornado development prompting NWS to issue a tornado warning further ahead of the storm, as at the time (8:55 PM) the storm was not tornado warned, only severe thunderstorm warned. My hopes are that us being there did in fact save lives, despite full knowledge that 1 person was killed from this storm by the second tornado that it would spawn (an EF3 near Reading, KS).

This is the raw video stitched together to form the video. I apologize for the poor/low audio. This will be fixed in the full chase video that I plan to post mid/late summer.

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[StormPix53]

@MissWWE20 Thanks for the reply. Yes, this storm was just amazing. This was the first storm that I was able to shoot video of, and oh man was I given a beauty of a storm. Many of the still images I gathered that day were close to unreal given the colors and the sunlit backdrop. I just wish that there were more spotters out that day to report that storm. While we (College of DuPage) did our best and reported what we saw, I still find it tragic that this storm killed.

[MissWWE20]

Man this is a storm spotters dream lol I should know as I am a storm spotter lol nice video .