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First chance getting into the forest north of Flagstaff this summer now that it's reopened after the fire. Where the trees weren't outright burned, the singed needles have browned like bark beetle damage. Snagged a bit of lightning for good measure.
April 26th—I was willing to risk hail here because I wanted to see what would happen with a storm interaction. This right moving supercell got intercepted by a left mover between Mentone and Kermit, Texas. This was the choppy phase before the storm reorganized into a magnificent beauty. Left tail light got cracked from a probable golf ball hail piece as I tried to maneuver back out of the iciest areas.
Mud puddle for scale.
August 29, 2019 - Kearney Nebraska US
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Late August and I wasn't chasing this day... In fact I was preparing to head out to the east coast to catch up with Hurricane Dorian.
Just few blocks from my home here in Kearney Nebraska with no warnings issued this was creaping in from the west northwest. This thunderstorm didn't become severe until it passed over the city of Kearney. But as it approached... the sky was talking and I was listening...
I couldn't resist! With camera in hand I was out to capture a few hundred pics of what was in front of me. A wicked good photographic Nebraska stormscapes and some epic Nebraska Thunderheads!
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Great structure on this storm, and had myself in great position for quite a while. Unfortunately, it didn't do much as first wave of energy started to shear out over Colorado.
To all my flickr friends im out storm chasing for may and june im sorry but i wont be commenting much. Thanks for all your comments ill try to catch up in July.
This one just never really touched down that i saw but there wasnt anywhere to get a clear shot.
Another Wyoming Storm on June 3rd 2015. While this day didn'tproduce any tornadoes the structure was memorable. I regret not shooting a pano at this time
The Ninemile Creek drainage east of Lawton, Oklahoma, was a great place to watch a rocketing storm updraft dry up and shear out as a new anvil approached from the north — June 4, 2024.
La nuit du 18 septembre 2014, Haute-Vienne (87) , ces 7 impacts sont simultanés. L'orage m'offre alors une composition naturellement sublime.
A rain wrapped, backlit tornado on a beautiful storm southeast of Kim, Colorado yesterday afternoon. If you zoom in closer beneath the main funnel, you can see a possible sub-vortex down there. (This was at 7:22:30PM / 00:22:30Z)
It was a challenging area to chase, with the storm cutting across the Cimmaron River Valley not long after the tornado. Some took the unpaved routes through that area. I opted the long way around through Campo & Boise City...which couldn't be helped due to a gas tank plunging toward empty.
With the clear air and initially high bases, there were a lot of photo opportunities on such a slow moving storm that then tossed out ominous mystery silhouettes after dark. Things can definitely look like hair raising wedge tornadoes during brief lightning flashes at night, especially when deceptively subtle hills makes it look like it's in contact when the ground when it may not be. I grabbed time lapse of that to see if I can make out anything later, but probably won't be anything definitive—the storm wasn't cranking out frequent enough lightning to make those things clearer.
A little earlier than this shot (6:00:30PM / 23:00:30Z) a concentrated plume of dust kicked up beneath the storm. I think that got reported as a landspout. It was beneath the updraft at the time, but there was a lot of turbulence at cloud level and I couldn't distinguish any hint of a connection, so I figured it more likely to be a gustnado instead. I grabbed some shots that I'll put up when I get a chance to process things for the day.
July 15, 2018 - North of Phillipsburg Kansas US
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This set of images were few... It was extremely hot that day. 102 on the thermometer and 112 on heat index. I squeezed every drop of
photographic energy that afternoon.
Finally my new camera and lens were in hand after I had smashed the last one a few week prior. I knew we were bound to get some pulse storms before the severe storms popped on the Nebraska Kansas Border. I couldn't resist to get out. I had missed a few opportunists that past week.
I still wasn't feeling good, in fact my condition would get much worse before better. So simply no chasing that afternoon. Equipment charged and ready to go. A time lapse was on for that afternoon. A few hours of footage from a distance... Oh I took a few snaps also!
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Interesting colors collected during a 20-30 second exposure in central Oklahoma during a severe thunderstorm. Had the the sky not turned a number of colors from city lights, traffic and distant lightning, this would have been another throwaway shot.
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On the days we "could have done better" like this one, at least we still snag some cool scenes. The Texas panhandle is something! A bit north of where we saw the Canadian, TX tornado during 2015.
Blobs of rambunctious storms skidded down off the rim and hustled toward the Colorado near Bouse on September 1st. I loved what was happening with color in this one from the mix of deep intracloud flashes, reflected landscape strikes, and city lights. Limited road options and other storms wouldn’t let me stay ahead of it so I let it engulf me at this point. Caught some surprisingly excellent CG lightning after that.
April 22nd—a strengthening storm approaching the same spot east of Fort Stockton, Texas, where similar views led to photogenic tornadoes in 2019 & 2023. Not this year though. But still a fun storm to surf southeast as it strengthened and became a mighty, dust eating beast.
September 4th was a great time at Cinder Hills Overlook. Usually my favorite spot to set up a telescope for dark sky observing, but this night it was alive with approaching electricity. Inside the car at this point, seeking the mercies of Faraday & skin-effect.
The lightning stroke traveled out from the main body of the storm and connected with the ground about 1/2 mile in front of me. I was extremely lucky to capture such a shot, as I was holding the shutter open on my Olympus OM-2S for about 3-4 seconds at a time. I wasted a considerable amount of film but this shot makes it more than worth the trouble.
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