Here you can see the small funnels worming out of the base of the wall cloud and the ground being stirred up.  Technically these are tornado touch downs even though the condensation funnel did not show a full connection. Doppler radar warnings of a tornado continued to sound so the rotation is both visible here and on radar.

 (WAV)Listen to the NWS NOAA weather radio warning

(MP3)Listen to the NWS NOAA weather radio warning
From the Nebraska Panhandle down to Sterling Colorado many tornadoes were reported with this severe storm. The National Weather Service tornado warnings continued to be sounded as the storm continued it's south/southeast movement.  Colorado as the storms were getting strong all around my location. Gravel roads were washed out  betweenYuma Colorado and Sterling and I soon ran out of roads to take. One road looked like it could be crossed, but the water got to the top of my front tires so I backed up. 

It turned out the water had washed out the road about 6 feet deep.  Water on the road may look passable at times, but in fact is not.  I was careful to not get the back end of my car in too deep so I could back out to safety.   That was a close one. When storm chasing you have to be very careful for washed out roads, they can be deadly.

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