Photo Highlights from Stormchasing 2005

 

 

 

 

HP supercell (Checotah OK, 03/21)
Supercell updraft with large RFD cleft (Washington KS, 04/11)
Occluding low-level mesocyclone (Tobias NE, 04/21)
Supercell produces non-rotating lowerings (Nebraska City NE, 04/21)
Classic supercell with wall cloud (Fort Worth TX, 04/25)
Tail-end-charlie supercell with "scudnado" (Alvorado TX, 04/25)
Increased organization via circular rain-free base (Maypearl TX, 04/25)
High-based thunderstorm becomes supercellular (Orleans NE, 05/07)
Mesocyclone with "teeth" (Axtell NE, 05/07)
Storm quickly generates new mesocyclone (Newark NE, 05/07)
Early view of multiple-vortex tornado beneath forward lip of meso (Gibbon NE, 05/07)
RFD induces secondary tornadogenesis on hind end of updraft base (Shelton NE, 05/07)
Classic Nebraska tornado with eroding cloud material above (Shelton NE, 05/07)
Condensation funnel tightens as dust sheath wraps skyward (Shelton NE, 05/07)
A new supercell is a pretty treat at sunset (Fullerton NE, 05/07)
Rain-free base of young supercell (McCook NE, 05/11)

 

Linear MCS produces several gustnadoes along I-80 (Cozad NE, 05/17)
Wet downburst (Miller NE, 05/17)
Mammatus (Kearney NE, 05/17)
Rainfoot (Wichita KS, 05/18)
Initial view of high plains HP supercell (Limon CO, 06/02)
Mesocyclonic precipitation glows green with golfball hail (Limon CO, 06/02)
Wall cloud forms within notch (Bovina CO, 06/02)
Glimpse of outstanding storm structure (Arriba CO, 06/02)
Hail-littered road leads the way to new updraft (Vona CO, 06/02)
Tail cloud streams rapidly into intense mesocyclone (Vona CO, 06/02)
Struggling young storm (Herington KS, 06/04)
A pair of updrafts organize in the South Dakota Badlands (Interior SD, 06/07)
Southern storm becomes supercellular (Potato Creek SD, 06/07)
Beautiful bell-shaped structure evolves (Potato Creek SD, 06/07)
Textbook LP supercell (Potato Creek SD, 06/07)
Strengthening updraft culminates in truncated cone tornado (Potato Creek SD, 06/07)
Condensation tail is blown sideways by outflow (Potato Creek SD, 06/07)
Circular updraft base re-organizes (Wanblee SD, 06/07)
Clear slot develops as storm moves back into the Badlands (Wanblee SD, 06/07)
Supercell is swallowed by severe MCS (Kadoka SD, 06/07)
Wide view of MCS along I-90 (Kadoka SD, 06/07)

 

Shelf cloud leading severe storm complex, viewed en route to Texas South Plains (Matfield Green KS, 06/12)
Beefy, low-LCL updraft of briefly tornadic supercell (McAdoo TX, 06/12)
LP supercell flyby as photographer heads south for tail-end charlie (Crosbyton TX, 06/12)
First view of southern storm's ridiculously-structured mesocyclone (Girard TX, 06/12)
Large stovepipe tornado condenses in distant southwest as heavy FFD precip begins falling (Girard TX, 06/12)
Leading edge of meso, looking south (Girard TX, 06/12)
Wide view of incredible "wedding cake" updraft (Jayton TX, 06/12)
Pronounced inflow band feeds increasingly HP storm (Jayton TX, 06/12)
Cone tornado comes "out of the rain" behind scud (Jayton TX, 06/12)
Next supercell to the south is primarily outflow-dominant by mid-evening (Hamlin TX, 06/12)
Southern flank of updraft (Hamlin TX, 06/12)
Highly electrified storm (Hamlin TX, 06/12)
Sun sets beneath backsheared anvil (Hamlin TX, 06/12)
Wall cloud of compact supercell updraft (Englewood KS, 06/16)
Storm is undercut and cold pool aids transition to severe MCS (Laverne OK, 06/16)
Sunrise en route to chase target (Davis SD, 06/26)
High plains supercell and "ground-scraping" wall cloud (Ludlow SD, 06/26)
Strong updraft and FFD core (Bowman ND, 06/26)
Pre-tornadic supercell rapidly lowers its base (Redfield IA, 11/12)
First view of 65-mile-an-hour classic supercell (Galesburg KS, 11/27)
Storm spawns large, dusty tornado (Erie KS, 11/27)

 

 

 

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