Amazing Storms!
Published on 27 May 2007 at 2:07 pm.
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Filed under Storm Chasing.
It’s been a pretty interesting season so far here in Tornado Alley. I thought I’d share a few of the more memorable images that I’ve taken over the past couple of days (May 22nd and 23rd).
The image below is of a tornadic storm just southwest of Hill City Kansas on the 22nd. The parent supercell was very impressive with the tornado being but a mere afterthought compared to the overall structure of the storm. Finally we were able to enjoy a relaxing slow moving storm:
On the May 23rd, we found ourselves back in the Texas Panhandle with numerous supercell storms erupting northwest of Canadian. The early stages of one such storm was seen with a nice “cowcatcher” type wall cloud looking west from hwy70 and the Canadian river bridge in western Roberts county:
Additional storms formed on the flank of the original and resulted in the previous storms being seeded. Most of the storms later in the day were nasty “HP”s with very sinister green hues found in the rear-flank precipitation cores:
One storm in particular was most likely quite tornadic with radar showing a series of cyclic occlusions northwest of the town of Stinnett in Hutchinson county. Unfortunately there were no passable roads east of Stinnett in which to chase this storm and by the time it was approaching hwy70 and the Canadian river overlook in western Roberts county, the storm had become a giant “HP”. Tornadoes were seen close to and just after dark with this storm along FM281 in northern Roberts county:
To cap off an interesting day, an incredible lightning display (second night in a row) splayed across the sky as tornado warnings blared for areas just northwest of Canadian Texas. This image was shot along a lonely stretch of hwy 60 not too far from the (now ghost) town of Glazier which was ravaged by a tornado nearly two miles wide in April of 1947.
No Apology on 1 Jun 2007 at 10:40 pm: 1
Hmmm. Awesome photos. I am planning to move to extreme SE Colorado in the fall. I love big storms, but that’s not the reason I’m moving there. I’m moving there because no one wants it, which makes it very valuable in my eyes.