00:00That tornado was out in the open Nebraska sand hills. A beautiful tornado formed near Wallace,
00:10Nebraska, Wallfleet, Nebraska, which is just to the south of North Platte, Nebraska. And I arrived
00:15right up on the west side of that storm, right as it went tornado-worn, and that little needle
00:20came down. And you know, I thought we were going to see a pretty nice tornado. What I didn't expect
00:24is that we were going to see a nearly stationary tornado. I was on the ground for over an hour.
00:29About 77 minutes is when I look back at my footage of how long that tornado was on the ground for.
00:35I went through various stages of just a little skinny tornado. You know, more of a stovepipe,
00:40a stronger tornado at the very end of its life cycle before it finally roped out. But very fortunately,
00:46you know, this is a very barren area. Not a lot of population here. So out in the sand hills there,
00:52not much for it to hit. It twisted up sand, it hit a few trees, knocked a couple of power poles down
00:57and went across the road, debarked some trees. But other than that, I do not believe there was
01:02any damage to property or homes. I do not believe there were any injuries as well. So very, a perfect
01:07tornado in my, you know, from my opinion, it was a beautiful tornado out in the open. What makes this
01:13storm even more rare, it was actually moving to the west, into the southwest. So it chased me down the
01:18road to the west for about a half a mile before it finally turned south. It looked like it was going to
01:23rope out and then it re-intensified again. So it was one tornado, but it had two different life
01:29cycles. It was his first life cycle was a little skinny, almost like a land spout tornado. All
01:34tried to rope out and then re-intensify it again before it became that strong stovepipe moving to
01:39the southwest, following a boundary that was there at the storms that fired on and it moved to the
01:43southwest. So very rare. Most storms are going to move to the east, either southeast, due east,
01:48northeast, sometimes due south, but very rarely do you get a southwest moving supercell and tornado.
01:54On top of it, a nearly stationary tornado. So incredible experience to be out there yesterday
01:59chasing mother nature.
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