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September 16 2006
Lone Tree, South Dakota

All of my account prior to 2008 were recently lost, so I'm in the process of updating and re-writing every chase account. This is proving to be very time-consuming so for now this day remains to be updated.





Mark Sefried, Scott Kampas, Darin Kaiser checking data in Norfolk, Nebraska.

First views of the supercell to our west. Unfortunately the tornado producer had already moved on into Minnesota and we had largely missed the show.

Pretty supercell, but not a tornado producer.

Wall cloud and precip core under the base to the west off of Interstate 29.
Funnel look alike under the supercell to our north.
RFD notch as the storm tries one more time. Nearing Pipestone, MN now.
Incredible sky now near Pipestone, Minnesota!
Beautiful sky!
Chase over however, as the base of the storm rapidly moves NE away from us and darkness sets in. Another all night drive back to Illinois. This was the only time I ever hallucinated while driving at night. I had left Champaign at 3 AM on the 16th, to drive to South Dakota with the other three, before returning to Champaign at 7 am on the 17th. Two sunrises with no sleep in between, never again.