Building towers SW of Chester around 6:00 pm
Hard edge of tower and anvil overhead a few minutes later
Rounded supercell base forming up near Hebron, looking WNW from hwy 81 and hwy 136 intersection
Wall cloud and CG with Hebron in foreground shortly before 7:00 pm
(a weak tornado was confirmed NW of Hebron at this time)
Anticyclonic swirl and funnel at edge of supercell cloud base near Alexandria
Close up of funnel overhead
Columns of rising dirt NW of Alexandria... is this a tornado?
Dirt and dust clear to reveal large tornado (looking NW from hwy 53)
Large dusty tornado continues around 7:15 pm
Wedge tornado moves N and E, just west of hwy 53
Right edge of tornado over hwy 53 looking north (car headlights visible)
Tornado becomes obscured by RFD dust
Moving east on hwy 4 after losing the Alexandria tornado, a new mesocyclone and lowering is visible near Daykin, looking NNE
Sirens blaring as I pass through Daykin, a new tornado touches down just NE of town around 7:40 pm
Pretty but ominous cone tornado, looking NNE from just east of Daykin
Tornado and debris in low lighting to my north from hwy 4
Tornado and debris cloud are backlit by lightning
Tornado continues between Daykin and Western, looking N from hwy 4
Tornado becomes thicker...
...and begins to morph into a larger less well-defined shape
Large hard-to-see wedge now in progress (Corey Mead in foreground)
Scary-looking tornado not far to my north, backlit by lightning between Daykin and Western, looking NNE from hwy 4
Twisting black mass to my northeast is possibly 1/2 mile or more wide
Large ghostly tornado moves away to the northeast
Police at hwy 4 and hwy 15 close off road north... the chase is over
Mammatus lightning around 9:20 pm from new tornadic cell in Thayer county, looking W