Driving to reposition away from some hail, and to get out of a valley for better viewing of an intensely convergent mesocyclone, I spotted a slender, conical funnel atop a small, rotating dust plume—tornado! Fortunately, a good pull-off appeared on the uphill side of the valley just in time to park, jump out and shoot this one shot of lovely, rolling Great Plains landscape with the tornado barely still in progress. Several other times, my luck has been rotten with brief tornadoes while driving, so this was a treat. Best of all, the spinup missed potentially inhabited structures such as those at distant left. The greenish hue above and behind (SW of) the tornado foretold the heavy-precip (HP) storm mode that soon would take over.
7 NE Emmeram KS (24 Apr 15) Looking SW
39.0458, -99.0583