990603 Almena, Kansas

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	Here is the first funnel cloud pic from the Almena event. This rapidly rotating wall cloud produced at least 9 funnels before the "motherload" came down.
	Here is #2 and one of my favorites. Look at the multiple vortices.
	Here is #3 of the Almena tornado within 10 minutes after touchdown. It grew to a nice stove pipe here and continued to wrap in rain and hail.
	Here is #4. I was about 1 mile from the tornado just before it passed on the northern side of Almena. It was almost to its largest here. This was shot with a wide angle lens. I could hear the sirens of Almena from my viewpoint.
	Here is #5 with the tornado at its largest, nearly 1/4 mile wide. #6, featurured at the top of this page,  is a pic as the tornado started to rope out. Notice the clear skies in the RFD area.
	This is a pic of the mesocyclone as I departed directly to the south. This was taken at about the same time Chuck Doswell took his about ten miles to the east of the meso. Look at the tiers! Awesome. Go to Chuck's 1999 Chase Logs page, scroll to June 3rd, and click on the "mothership" hyperlink.  Several more images are posted of this event.

	Two great radar animations and two velocity scan images from Weathertap, produced by Marty Venicinque.
	An awesome satellite image graciously provided by Marty Venticinque. Marty has images, animations, and data posted on several of this season's chase days.

For forecasting information see the Short-Fuse write-up for this event.

Photography by Roger Hill. 
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