Ah, the memories.....

This super cell was slowly rotating and passed right over us, it was deadly quiet.
Super cell showing beaver tail, where the tornado would emerge

Hail from same storm, as we were driving.
Mammantus clouds, showing the cold air was punching through the warm air.

Bill and I were watching the storm chasers on a Storm Chasers -athon this weekend. We started talking about our days of storm chasing back in the early 90's. One time we were in Nebraska, where these pictures were taken, and we had taken our Directv satellite dish with us, bolted to a stable piece of wood, we would hook it up to an electric converter we had plugged in to the cigarette lighter in the car and then to a small tv set we had in the back seat. That way
we could check the radar on the weather channel and chase our storms. It was very efficient, except people would stare at us at the rest stops when we would hook it up. ( I wonder why?) We found a lot of great storms that time, with only a map and our directv. This was before most people did not have laptops with wireless access to the internet. People probably thought, we were crazy, but we didn't care. While we were on this same vacation, the final episode of "Third Rock from the Sun" was showing, it was in 3-D. We drove into a rest stop while it was storming, and put on our 3-D glasses and watched the show....what fun!
So,that's why I scanned these photos, which is why they are not very clear, and usually we were using the video camera to get the actual tornadoes. I think through our years of storm chasing we only actually saw two real tornadoes, but after all, the fun was in the chase.