Photos from the 2004 chase season

(All images copyright Cailyn Lloyd and Jennie Lloyd. 
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May 24th near Deschler Nebraska
Five tornadoes, three at once

Second tornado from this storm touches down
Now there are two!
Second tornado dissipates, third has a loudspout appearance
Third tornado intensfies
And begins to dissipate
Now there are three!  One does not have visible condensation funnel
Closer view of number five
Later view of numbers three and five
Number five takes on a barrelled appearance
And develops into a slender funnel
Quite delicate now
Long thin rope still stirring debris on ground
Nearly gone, just top and bottom visible as fine filaments
Next meso evolution, large rotating meso with small tail cloud
Evolves to well-defined funnel and clear slot
Low hanging wall cloud beneath large mesocyclone
Later, another funnel with well-defined clear slot
Which occludes leaving small cloud tag spinning in the middle
Beautiful striated updraft though storm is now weakening
Wide angle view
New storms erupt southwest of Topeka and the chase is on

May 21 Pierce Co
Nebraska
Surprise supercell and tornado

Just when we're ready to quit, this little tower shot up
and quickly exploded into this beauty
RFD beginning notch flanking line, bottom center
Wow.  Great clear slot(RFD), updraft, wallcloud
This thin little tube spun up moments later
destroyed a small outbuilding and dissipated

May 17 near Russell Kansas
Supercell and near tornado

Laminar updraft with developing wallcloud
Low hanging wallcloud which is rotating
but does not produce a tornado

May 16 near Rockville Nebraska
Two brief tornadoes

Rotating updraft base with clear slot
Wet RFD wraps up and produces brief weak tornado
Next meso produces another tornado at bottom center