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Zware onweerscel in de buurt van Ogallala, Nebraska. Zeker en vast een hoogtepunt van de stormchase reis in 2018.
A mature Bald Eagle at my favorite lake in Western Nebraska. One of those rare days when the light was perfect.
I hated shooting this so close, but the *#$^#* awnings on either side of it made it the only way to catch the sign. Looking back now, I kinda like this view.
Still open, still showing movies. Just like it should be.
The restaurant on the left is actually very good. The Saloon has an excellent old bar as well as a stage for shows. Just minutes off I-80.
Railfanning the Overland Route is challenging. Defect detectors do not talk unless a defect is found, signals are approach lit, and crews don't call signals unless it's a less-than-clear indication. So many of my photos are of the "drive until you find a train, then turn around and drive back to the first neat spot."
Case in point is this empty coal train. While on U.S. 30 west of Ogallala, we spotted this set of signals and active code line. No signals were lit, so we continue east. Not five miles later, this train soars around a curve on the west side of town. An immediate U-turn in the highway and we hightailed it back to the signals for this shot. All in a day's fanning...
May 3, 2020 - Ogallala Nebraska
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First moderate risk day of the year out in Western Nebraska. We decided to head out early to catch the action.
Was trying to Twitch Stream (streaming link down below) our chase this day, though my HD camera decided otherwise. Had many technical glitches that afternoon and I'm happy mishaps happen on the first chase of the year. Prepares the next adventure without failure.
First storm erupted north of Grant Nebraska but I was messing around with the live feed and didn't take any snaps... put the problems aside and moved north to Ogallala Nebraska to catch this dying cell.
Not many pics in this set but was caught was worth every second to get out of the house for a few hours!
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I found myself in Ogallala for work with a free evening. After dinner at Ole's in Paxton, the NPHK was hauling through town. The company transit van is not too bad to chase trains with.
May 3, 2020 - Ogallala Nebraska
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First moderate risk day of the year out in Western Nebraska. We decided to head out early to catch the action.
Was trying to Twitch Stream (streaming link down below) our chase this day, though my HD camera decided otherwise. Had many technical glitches that afternoon and I'm happy mishaps happen on the first chase of the year. Prepares the next adventure without failure.
First storm erupted north of Grant Nebraska but I was messing around with the live feed and didn't take any snaps... put the problems aside and moved north to Ogallala Nebraska to catch this dying cell.
Not many pics in this set but was caught was worth every second to get out of the house for a few hours!
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UP 6688 hauls an ethanol train westbound under the classic signal bridge at W332 on the east end of Ogallala, NE on UP's Sidney Subdivision.
May 3, 2020 - Ogallala Nebraska
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First moderate risk day of the year out in Western Nebraska. We decided to head out early to catch the action.
Was trying to Twitch Stream (streaming link down below) our chase this day, though my HD camera decided otherwise. Had many technical glitches that afternoon and I'm happy mishaps happen on the first chase of the year. Prepares the next adventure without failure.
First storm erupted north of Grant Nebraska but I was messing around with the live feed and didn't take any snaps... put the problems aside and moved north to Ogallala Nebraska to catch this dying cell.
Not many pics in this set but was caught was worth every second to get out of the house for a few hours!
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Finch Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
Last one from our trip to Finch Lake in RMNP... After an incredible day and an amazing sunset the night before (previous post), I woke up the following morning and stuck my head out of the tent to discover clear skies. I was already completely satisfied with the shot I had gotten the night before, but I put on some layers and walked down to the lake to see what mother nature was going to give me on this morning. As I made my way down to the lake, I couldn't believe the reflection on the water. I've found it very rare to get alpine lakes as still as Finch was this morning. I set up along the lake in a spot I had scouted the day before and waited for the light. As sunrise crept closer, a few clouds began to fill the sky. Just before sunrise, Copeland Mountain and Ogallala Peak began to glow a faint purple. It didn't last long before it faded back to nothing. After a few more minutes, the clouds began building over the Continental Divide and then it was bathed in this gorgeous light. It must have lasted about 10 minutes before the sun rose into the clouds behind me and snuffed out the light. I headed back to camp to help Lauren pack up and hike out. This was certainly one of the best backpacking trips we've taken so far.
You can watch a short video from our trip here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mbve4d_B9M
August 13, 2019 - East of Ogallala Nebraska US
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On the hunt again for severe weather. Little did I know that this would be my last chase in August 2019.
A strong developing system of storms were predicted that afternoon for western Nebraska and eastern Colorado. Though this was the first storm of the day to become severe and we were already in route.
I-80 Westbound towards Ogallala Nebraska the mammatus clouds means good instability and when they show before the storm I know that this means a good chance for what I'm looking for.
Hanging out the window for a few shots as we were on our way to intercept this first supercell of the day!
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August 13, 2019 - Ogallala Nebraska US
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Under the base of this storm, we already has meso detection. TVS markers were on radar and it was moving directly to Ogallala Nebraska.
We got there on time and stopped right off of the interstate at a gas station with the best view.
This highly photographic supercell was maturing. But at this moment... This storm decided to weaken just a bit as we waited for this cell to produced a nader. Lost the TVS marker so we didn't stay long and packed the gear and headed south towards Grant Nebraska.
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EXPLORE: February 4, 2009
The sun was starting to set over beautiful Lake Ogallala in Western Nebraska. The water was so perfectly still (just like glass) and the reflections were as stunning as any I have ever seen. The ice on the lake has been receding due to the warmer days. Glad to be alive on a day like this. Many thanks to the Bald Eagles for taking me back to this nature wonderland.
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UP 6995 ducks under the signal bridge at the east end of Ogallala, Nebraska. The triple track is always considered a must see for railfans, but UP west of North Platte has way more character.
May 3, 2020 - Ogallala Nebraska
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First moderate risk day of the year out in Western Nebraska. We decided to head out early to catch the action.
Was trying to Twitch Stream (streaming link down below) our chase this day, though my HD camera decided otherwise. Had many technical glitches that afternoon and I'm happy mishaps happen on the first chase of the year. Prepares the next adventure without failure.
First storm erupted north of Grant Nebraska but I was messing around with the live feed and didn't take any snaps... put the problems aside and moved north to Ogallala Nebraska to catch this dying cell.
Not many pics in this set but was caught was worth every second to get out of the house for a few hours!
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Another of the so called "Triclops" units, like the one seen in the previous post, is seen here leading eastbound freight through Ogallala. As far as I know, the 'vader's still stand but the cantilever signal bridge is long gone, so apparently I should have been more focused on getting that. One just never knows what will change, except that it's a safe bet "something" will qualify for the usual ETTS situation.
August 13, 2019 - East of Ogallala Nebraska US
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On the hunt again for severe weather. Little did I know that this would be my last chase in August 2019.
A strong developing system of storms were predicted that afternoon for western Nebraska and eastern Colorado. Though this was the first storm of the day to become severe and we were already in route.
I-80 Westbound towards Ogallala Nebraska the mammatus clouds means good instability and when they show before the storm I know that this means a good chance for what I'm looking for.
Hanging out the window for a few shots as we were on our way to intercept this first supercell of the day!
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Yesterday my daughter and I took off for a 700 mile storm chase/road trip... I wanted to show her what a real thunder and lightning storm was like....Yes, she had seen them before from the comfort of our home and I wanted her to experience one with me out in the middle of nowhere... She was all for it.... she packed her bag with snacks, water, camera and dog treats for the dog, ect.... and off we went... driving almost 350 miles under clear blue skies things were starting to get a bit disappointing for both of us...After getting some lunch in Ogallala, NE we decided to drive a little further and then head back west towards home...We took 25 south to 23 west and went through Wallace and Elise when I pulled off the road onto CR 340. Lexi looked out the window and said, "Dada, look at the clouds, they look like big cotton balls". I looked over and sure enough it was starting...The beginning of what was to become a 5 hour electrical storm. We stayed here for a while watching the clouds build and the sunlight on the horizon just under the massive cloud structure.. Slowly we made our way back home riding parallel with the storm and seeing some of the most amazing lighting I had ever seen. I only got a few good shots of it because most the time it was pouring down rain. I did find a few good dry pockets near Haxtun, NE where I was able to photograph some lighting for a little while....needless to say my daughter is fast asleep and I am just energized from the storm.... This is a 7 shot 180 degree pano showing the size of this storm over the small Nebraska town of Madrid..hence the uneven lighting ... in comparison to nature, we are nothing...Be safe out there
Thunderstorm lightning over Lake McConaughy near Ogallala on the high plains of Nebraska. USA.
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Amazing view of a supercell that started to line out and merge with another storm at sunset, it had a impressive shelf cloud. This was one of the best storms we chased earlier this year. Captured outside of Ogallala, Nebraska
A westbound UP grain train storms out of Ogallala Nebraska in June 2015.
I suppose it's a little quieter nowadays what with doubles being commonplace, but driving home to Wisconsin from Denver back in 2015 it seemed like every 10 or 15 minutes yet another headlight would appear on the horizon. I don't know that US 30 would qualify as one of William Least Heat-Moon's "Blue Highways", but it sure beats the frenzy of I-80.
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Union Pacific's Nebraska 150 Express is actually in Wyoming as it heads through Hawk Springs on the Yoder Sub on August 5, 2017. After a morning celebration in Ogallala, the train headed west into Wyoming, up the Yoder Sub, and back east to Gering for another event. We were dodging clouds for this run but lucked out every time. We were naturally disappointed it didn't have two Es as advertised (allegedly the 951 had issue) but running up the scenic Yoder line helped make up for it.
August 13, 2019 - East of Ogallala Nebraska US
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On the hunt again for severe weather. Little did I know that this would be my last chase in August 2019.
A strong developing system of storms were predicted that afternoon for western Nebraska and eastern Colorado. Though this was the first storm of the day to become severe and we were already in route.
I-80 Westbound towards Ogallala Nebraska the mammatus clouds means good instability and when they show before the storm I know that this means a good chance for what I'm looking for.
Hanging out the window for a few shots as we were on our way to intercept this first supercell of the day!
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This storm hit our camp at about sundown on Friday, August 3, 2012. Starting out as a weak looking set of ropy clouds, it quickly built up some impressive straight line winds (shots of the campers holding down their tents later) which lasted at their strongest for something like forever--probably 15-25 minutes in actuality. The wind continued at a sustained 20-30 mph for the rest of the night, and then Saturday was downright cool up until about 11 a.m.
We heard a lot of conflicting reports, but the official story is during this storm someone on a raft disappeared in the lake; a body was recovered Sunday. On our beach someone's swamped boat washed up.
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Over a quarter of the state of Nebraska is occupied by the Sandhills Region. A National Natural Landmark, the Sandhills are an area of mixed-grass prairie on grass-stabilized sand dunes, not so suitable for crops as the land in the past upload. It is a productive cattle ranching area. The Sandhills sit above a massive aquifer known as the Ogallala Aquifer. Thousands of sandy bottom lakes and ponds replenish the aquifer, and provide water and habitat for wildlife and cattle, while the aquifer feeds the area's creeks and rivers. It is a very scenic area.
Antelope Creek Phase (A.D. 1200 - A.D. 1500)
The Antelope Creek Phase villages were occupied in this area during the Plains Village Period Antelope Creek Phase and Odena Phase are the most southwestern occurring Plains Village group.
Antelope Creek societies lived along tributaries to rivers during an arid period in the area. Despite the aridity, the Ogallala Aquifer was high enough to keep springs flowing that fed the rivers. The villagers used a hunter-gatherer strategy along with agriculture. They hunted small game such as antelope and deer, but they preferred bison. Wild plants such as hackberry, plums, prickly pear varied the diet, and crops such as corn and squash were raised as well.
Three classes of architecture have been identified at Antelope Creek Phase sites.
1. Multiple family dwellings with twenty or more residential rooms were the oldest form of architectures.
2. Single family dwellings.
3. Field huts that lacked residential rooms.
Residential buildings were typically large with a low, extended entry way facing eastward, sloping to plastered floor that was usually a foot or more below ground level. A depressed channel in the central third of the floor extended from east to west. This channel was flanked by slightly elevated benches that might have pits or bins. The adobe or masonry walls of the building were usually set on stone slab foundations. Often, they used four interior roof support posts around a central hearth to bear the weight of a roof.
Antelope Creek cultures may have incorporated trade goods into their lives. This was a strategy that helped to ensure their survival until the drought worsened and Apachean groups entered the area in A. D. 1500, forcing the Antelope Creek Phase people to leave.
The panorama portrays one site that was an extensive village. The village was probably occupied over a number of years with indications of buildings built over the remains of previous buildings. The residents used a variety of bones and chert tools in their daily lives.
*Illustration: Artist Conception of the Site Houses
*Article: Pottery, Flint, & Bones Tools found in the Slab Dwelling Ruins near Optima
Lightning captured after a long chase seeing numerous supercells. The lightning creates the shape of a dog's head. Taken near Ogallala, Nebraska.
Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge during an electrical storm between electrically charged regions of a cloud (called intra-cloud lightning or IC), between that cloud and another cloud (CC lightning), or between a cloud and the ground (CG lightning). The charged regions in the atmosphere temporarily equalize themselves through this discharge referred to as a strike if it hits an object on the ground, and a flash if it occurs within a cloud. Lightning causes light in the form of plasma, and sound in the form of thunder. Lightning may be seen and not heard when it occurs at a distance too great for the sound to carry as far as the light from the strike or flash.
A supercell is a thunderstorm that is characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone: a deep, persistently rotating updraft. For this reason, these storms are sometimes referred to as rotating thunderstorms. Of the four classifications of thunderstorms (supercell, squall line, multi-cell, and single-cell), supercells are the overall least common and have the potential to be the most severe. Supercells are often isolated from other thunderstorms, and can dominate the local weather up to 32 kilometres (20 mi) away.
Supercells are often put into three classification types: Classic, Low-precipitation (LP), and High-precipitation (HP). LP supercells are usually found in climates that are more arid, such as the high plains of the United States, and HP supercells are most often found in moist climates. Supercells can occur anywhere in the world under the right pre-existing weather conditions, but they are most common in the Great Plains of the United States in an area known as Tornado Alley.
Typically, supercells are found in the warm sector of a low pressure system propagating generally in a north easterly direction in line with the cold front of the low pressure system. Because they can last for hours, they are known as quasi-steady-state storms. Supercells have the capability to deviate from the mean wind. If they track to the right or left of the mean wind (relative to the vertical wind shear), they are said to be "right-movers" or "left-movers," respectively. Supercells can sometimes develop two separate updrafts with opposing rotations, which splits the storm into two supercells: one left-mover and one right-mover.
Supercells can be any size รข large or small, low or high topped. They usually produce copious amounts of hail, torrential rainfall, strong winds, and substantial downbursts. Supercells are one of the few types of clouds that typically spawn tornadoes within the mesocyclone, although only 30% or fewer do so.
May 3, 2020 - Ogallala Nebraska
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First moderate risk day of the year out in Western Nebraska. We decided to head out early to catch the action.
Was trying to Twitch Stream (streaming link down below) our chase this day, though my HD camera decided otherwise. Had many technical glitches that afternoon and I'm happy mishaps happen on the first chase of the year. Prepares the next adventure without failure.
First storm erupted north of Grant Nebraska but I was messing around with the live feed and didn't take any snaps... put the problems aside and moved north to Ogallala Nebraska to catch this dying cell.
Not many pics in this set but was caught was worth every second to get out of the house for a few hours!
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May 3, 2020 - Ogallala Nebraska
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First moderate risk day of the year out in Western Nebraska. We decided to head out early to catch the action.
Was trying to Twitch Stream (streaming link down below) our chase this day, though my HD camera decided otherwise. Had many technical glitches that afternoon and I'm happy mishaps happen on the first chase of the year. Prepares the next adventure without failure.
First storm erupted north of Grant Nebraska but I was messing around with the live feed and didn't take any snaps... put the problems aside and moved north to Ogallala Nebraska to catch this dying cell.
Not many pics in this set but was caught was worth every second to get out of the house for a few hours!
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The Great Plains begins.
Ogallala, Nebraska.
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May 17, 2019
Severe Warned Storms between Sedgwick, Colorado - North Platte, Nebraska
What a view!!! What a moment!!!
And yes, my live stream was LIVE on the Weather Channel ๐
This moment, was near Sedgwick!
This day was intense! The models were suggesting various spots and many chasers chose many different spots and probably changed their target many times lol.
How I thought the day was going to go was that the cells would fire off around of a little West of Julesburg, Colorado and then explode between there and Ogallala, Nebraska. While that was happening there would also be action firing in Kansas/Nebraska border as well as South East of North Platte. I went South West into Colorado.
I had a fantastic day and was in some intense moments! Especially getting under a rotating meso, having insane winds and getting tennis ball sized Hail thrown at me! I also got to see some absolutely incredible storm structure and ended the chase with some insane lightning East of North Platte (near Maxwell).
The tornadoes fired up East of me, South of North Platte so I missed them, but that fine. That's all a part of the adventure, you can't get them all!
I have seen tornadoes before, this was the first time I've got to witness this!!!! ๐
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May 3, 2020 - Ogallala Nebraska
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First moderate risk day of the year out in Western Nebraska. We decided to head out early to catch the action.
Was trying to Twitch Stream (streaming link down below) our chase this day, though my HD camera decided otherwise. Had many technical glitches that afternoon and I'm happy mishaps happen on the first chase of the year. Prepares the next adventure without failure.
First storm erupted north of Grant Nebraska but I was messing around with the live feed and didn't take any snaps... put the problems aside and moved north to Ogallala Nebraska to catch this dying cell.
Not many pics in this set but was caught was worth every second to get out of the house for a few hours!
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August 13, 2019 - Ogallala Nebraska US
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Under the base of this storm, we already has meso detection. TVS markers were on radar and it was moving directly to Ogallala Nebraska.
We got there on time and stopped right off of the interstate at a gas station with the best view.
This highly photographic supercell was maturing. But at this moment... This storm decided to weaken just a bit as we waited for this cell to produced a nader. Lost the TVS marker so we didn't stay long and packed the gear and headed south towards Grant Nebraska.
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