June 16, 2025 The Wellfleet/Dickens, Nebraska Tornado (Part Two, the images)

This Part Two web entry contains a large selection of images off of the Canon cameras for the Wellfleet/Dickens tornado event. The chase account, including images off of the iPhone, is Part One.

The six images above are wide-angle shots off of the Canon R6 camera with the 21mm lens attached. This camera and lens were used for tripodded video shortly after that final shot above, so the remaining images below are generally off of the two Canon 6D cameras.

The first two images in the group of six above are from the Wellfleet cemetery, as the new severe storm quickly develops just to our northwest. The next three images are from Highway 23 about 8 miles east of Dickens. We are just east of the updraft, which has become stationary.

The batch below includes 16 wide-angle images off of a Canon 6D camera with the Zeiss 15mm lens. The first one is from the Wellfleet cemetery, and the remainder are from U.S. 83, a few miles NNW of Wellfleet. The updraft and tornado were generally to our WNW.

Below are 21 images off of the second Canon 6D camera, with the 70-200mm zoom lens mounted. (These were taken during the same timeframe as the wide-angle images in the previous group of images.) The sequence begins with the dusty startup stirrings and the dusty tube, to about the midpoint of the entire tornadic event some 30 minutes later. In the final few images the increasing rain and hail at our location is more apparent.

We then managed to get a few miles closer by heading west on W Medicine Road. The group below includes four wide-angle shots and three zoom shots from this new location on Somerset Road, just WNW of W Medicine Road. The tornado appeared strongest and largest at this point in time. We were still in rain and hail, with some hailstones larger than quarter size.

The final three images in the group above include a couple of zoom shots as the tornado was quickly weakening and shriveling. This was farther east again on W Medicine Road, near U.S. 83. The last image above is a wide-angle shot taken very shortly after the tornado ended, to our west.

The first two images below are from the same spot on W Medicine Road, near U.S. 83. The remainder are lightning shots at dusk some 10-12 miles further south, with the Canon 5D and long lens (70-200mm).