After a long drive back to Brian's Place from Oklahoma last night, we were off to Nebraska for today for another chase.  The Storm Prediction Center placed an enhanced risk in Nebraska with a 10% Tornado risk.

Our original target was Omaha, Nebraska, but as we closed in on Omaha, we noticed storms had already erupted to the west, so we kept on driving westward. 

Once we reached Lincoln, Nebraska, we made the decision to head north.  We had cells bubbling up all around us and becoming severe warned.

Nothing appeared to ramp up around us, but as the cells moved northward past us, the storms would begin to spin prompting Tornado Warnings.  Unfortunately, they continued moving northward away from us making catching them difficult.  Just when we were about ready to give up as the last of the storms slid by, a storm just to our east near Prague, Nebraska began spinning hard and became Tornado Warned.  We set our goal of catching up with this storm.  We drove through blinding rain and battled quarter size hail as we worked our way east toward the city of Freemont, Nebraska. 

 

We eventually were able to come out of the rain and hail just to the west of Freemont.  Very unexpectedly, we noticed debris being thrown in a field right in front of us to the right of the road.  We quickly determined we had the beginning of a tornado forming.  It continued growing as we moved up to it and had it cross the road right in front of us.

It wasn't the most picturesque tornado.  It was only visible to us for a brief time as it crossed in front of us and entered another field after crossing the road.  We lost sight of it behind the tree line as we continued on.

 

Once we got to Freemont, we grabbed the highway north and continued to set our sights on catching the Tornado warned storm further north in front of us that now was reported to have a Tornado on the ground.  We gained ground on the storm and eventually caught up to it near Uehling, Nebraska, but to our disappointment, the Tornado was completely wrapped in rain two miles to the west of us.

We drove along with the storm hoping for a view into it, but as the storms lined out and the tornado threat diminished, we moved southward just in front of the line as we headed back toward home.

The Tornado we saw will be listed as an EFU.  More disappointing this day was the fact that further north, we were in perfect position and knew there was a tornado on the ground (EF2) doing damage just to our west near Uehling.  Also found out later there was also a satellite tornado (EF1) at the same time, but all hidden by the rain.