Chase - 4/18/2004

Kory and Eric left behind a SVR watch in home area of SD for the promise of tornadoes in MN...

Tried to play catch-up with the storms that formed near Willmar, but grain trucks and the old 'double-nickel' speed limit kept me from getting there...

Headed south out of Olivia, MN and ran straight into 3 TOR warnings south of Redwood Falls. Just as the storms got their act together, saw 2 brief spin-ups 'chasing' each other across a corn field. 3 nice meso's in the line... everything else was scud... even though somebody reported a "large tornado on the ground" just 4 miles south of my position which I never saw.

As the inflow kicked up, it knocked my tripod over busting my camcorder... all jammed up and won't eject or play.