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This feature looked more like a shelf cloud than a wall cloud, although it did display some hints of rotation on the north end. It eventually bowed out into a full shelf cloud.
This thunderstorm was located in the Palestine, TX area when I took the pic. It contained 60mph winds and quarter size hail.
Observed a thunderstorm to the northeast of Mount Laguna this afternoon from Sunrise Highway. Saw plenty of lightning bolts, including one that struck the side of the mountain in the foreground shortly after this photo was taken.
Thunderstorm with prominent shelf cloud, photographed west of Valentine, Nebraska, on June 29, 2016.
Another one of the many, many thunderstorms we had, happened the day after I received my neutral density filters. I set my camera up in my doorway, and used a rubber band to hold the trigger down. This was the best strike I caught.
Thunderstorm, photographed at the eastbound Sidney, Nebraska Rest Area off Interstate Highway 80 on June 8, 2019.
April 11, 2017- Morgantown, West Virgina. The first real thunderstorm of the Spring season. I had to run to get these pictures and then get back inside before the rain started. It was amazing and totally worth it. I love how the wind felt, the smell, the temperature, the sound, everything.
Skies look quite stormy this afternoon. Thunderstorms were occurring in the area! A spring storm system had brought t-storms in the Bay Area and the rest of NorCal this day. It was unusual to have such weather at this time of the year... Pic taken from around San Jose, CA from up at The Point Church. (Thursday afternoon, May 14, 2015; 1:01 p.m.)
Weather scenario synopsis:
A slow-moving storm system brought rain, lightning and thunder for the Bay Area, with most of the rainfall hitting Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties. Our area was seeing a peculiar spring weather pattern for this time of year. Weak low pressure areas were splitting off the jet stream and moving across California. Thanks to the unstable airmass associated with these systems, scattered showers and t-storms were likely, including around the Bay Area! Certainly, one of these stronger systems had arrived in our area of Thursday, May 14, 2015. All of NorCal saw showers and t-storms. The area observed dozens of lightning strikes with even a few strikes reported near Mountain View, Los Altos and Mount Hamilton in the South Bay. This storm system had came down from Alaska and had moved slowly on a southeast path across the state. Our area of San Jose, CA got a whopping 0.45 inches of rain from this system, thanks to its drenching t-storms! That amount was near the monthly average rainfall for the month of May for our area! That being said, no one storm can eliminate our drought all together... this storm was just a drop in the bucket...
A strong line of thunderstorms had moved through Kentucky just a few hours before I flew home from San Diego. Not sure where we were when this was taken, probably in the vicinity of Nashville. When I got off the plane, the radar showed the storm line to be along the TN-AL border.
We were around 32,000 feet, so you can see how high these thunderheads get - well above our altitude - probably over 40,000 feet.
Although quite grainy (a lot of noise) it seems to be possible to make lightning pictures with an extremely cheap diggi-snapper.
Caveat: this is one of 20 "hits" out of 142 tries. Yepp, 20 pictures with at least something on it but 122 were just jet-black (save some noise).
OK, I could have made a completely black picture and use that to subtract some of the noise ...ow, c'mon! ;-)
On October 25 there was a spectacular thunderstorm over north eastern Georgia/ Savannah area that could be viewed from Hilton Head Island, some 8-10 miles away across the water. This storm went on for hours. These pictures were taken around 10.30 PM. When my wifr woke up at 1.00 AM it was still going on!
(The pictures are grainy due to long exposure times an 1600 ISO. So please forgive the poor quality.)