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MANHATTAN, Kan. -- I only saw it for a few minutes, but that's as long as I needed to know I didn't want to mess with it. Early Friday evening, we saw a huge "wedge" tornado between Ness City and Ellis, Kan., at least our ninth tornado of the trip. A wedge doesn't look like a funnel or rope, but is essentially a big cylinder of cloud on the ground, sometimes a half-mile wide or more. This tornado moved along a very long path in central Kansas, and we have heard reports that it may have struck Ellis, Kan. It was on the second supercell thunderstorm we intercepted. The first spawned a tornado that caused some damage in Gove County, Kan., but we really couldn''t see it, though we saw some amazing circulation with that storm. We kept a wide berth from the wedge tornado, seeing it only at a distance. Perhaps, in time, I'll get a photo up, though I didn't even take one myself,. as low to the ground it was and as late in the day as it was.

The end of the day found us east of the same storm that spawned the wedge tornado, as tornado sirens sounded eerily while driving through Hays, Kan. As strong wind gusts rocketed past us toward the tornado somewhere in the murky storm milesto our west, a couple of fire and rescue workers from Hays pulled up beside us to get information on the storms. Fortunately for them, the storm was slipping just west of Hays.

It's another tired post-chase late night and the next day could be another stormy one, though farther east. That's why we're in Manhattan, Kan., tonight, likely to slip into eastern Nebraska on Sunday.

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The most recent video from Storm Chase 2008 was posted May 23. It shows a tornado near WaKeeney, Kansas.

For more on Storm Chase 2008, click here.