The cone-shaped condensation funnel at right lasted a few minutes, but only briefly kicked up enough dust and debris to call it tornadic with certainty. Fortunately, scattered light from the cloud-to-ground flash at left produced just enough silhouetting to bring it out in this photo. This tornado was the first from a newer mesocyclone east of US-183, and separate from an older, formerly tornadic circulation that had passed south through northwest of Frederick, and was dissipating behind me, to the west of the highway. Ideally, when spotting tornadoes at night, the optimal view is from the south (looking north) or even southwest (looking northeast) of the main core, to get the mesocyclone between the observer and most of the lightning.
3 SSW Snyder OK (12 Oct 21) Looking ENE
34.6091, -98.9658