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This was not by any means a storm chase! These are pics that I took from work while being held hostage by a Tornado Warning. Because of liabilities, etc. etc. etc. I got chewed out pretty good for standing out back taking video and pictures of this storm as it rolled through.

There was a ton of hail that came down, lots of rain, some strong winds. It was pretty exhilarating! The storm formed tornadoes in Cass County, NE injuring 8 people total when an outbuilding flew into a car injuring 5, and a tree fell onto a truck injuring 3 both occurring in Eagle, NE.

During this time that it was over Omaha, Joey (my co-worker) and I were out back shooting video and taking pictures when Linda (our supervisor) just about had a fit with us. Mom called from WalMart saying that they were being held hostage, as well, and that WalMart was not permitting anyone to leave the premise. Moments afterwords, when the wall cloud was visible, I called her back and she said that they were just leaving. I thought that was a bad move on WalMart’s part, but, eh.

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This was a reasonably quick chase, just some lightning shots for the first thunderstorm of the year. Sounds weird saying this, but I missed the ping of hail on my roof. It wasn’t a great storm, so the lightning shots weren’t that great. I sat on a bridge over I-29 looking to the South and Southwest (most of these were shot facing Southwest) while every great once in a while a car would drive past me. One jerk even decided to scare the living hell out of me and honk as he got right behind me. Not fun at 10:30 at night alone on a country road. But, I take my chances.

These photos have been played with a little as far as the coloring is concerned. I was bored and decided to mess around a bit. They’re not outstanding lightning pics so there’s really no harm done.