I didn't expect a lot today. I targeted Valentine NE. We stopped there to get gas and I noticed a few blips on radar in far NE Colorado. They were moving NNE. I decided to go for it. Before we could get going, we heard about a tornado watch issued for our area. That confirmed my decision to go. We went west on 20 At Merriman, I called Bill Hark to check on the target and possible towers going up to our NW. Those were not very close so I went south on 61. The storm didn't look very good as we approached. The updraft was soft at times. As we got near Hyannis, a tornado warning was issued for our storm. We continued south towards Arthur. A wall cloud was well defined on the north side of the precip. It had slow rotation, but a strong updraft. It kept producing a funnel cloud, but couldn't quite do it. We continued south to the south side of the storm. A wall cloud forms and looked promising. Then I saw a little close to us there was a tower rotating fast. It formed a funnel and it didn't take long for it to touch down. It was on the ground from 6:15 to 6:29 central time. It roped out in a nice segmented rope.
