http://www.underthemeso.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:57:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I left Dodge City shortly after 3:00pm for a target around Colby, KS where a warm front was lifting north into northwestern Kansas.  When I left, the first storms started developing west of Oakley, and I thought I would be in business with a nice storm to chase and photograph  ... http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=1564 This chase is not heading out how I had hoped. I had abandoned the Sand Hills area, and heading back south. There are too many storms developing now. At this point I just hope for some decent lightning or something around sunset which is coming up here in about an ... http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=1563 Looks like I am heading for the hills, Sand Hills that is. Dealing with left moving dominant storms, and I'm going to drive towards Lincoln county and try to get some storm photography near sunset as a storm's approached Sand Hills. More later. [ Transcribed by MyCaption ] http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=1562 Severe storms formed along a weak cold front across southwestern Kansas on July 14th.  I targeted the Scott City, KS area and was hoping to see a landspout tornado from the first storms that developed, however that did not occur as precipitation loading was too much in the first big ... http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=1553 currently photographing nice tall cloud-to-ground lightning flashes near Johnson, KS. It was a fairly successful day of storm photography despite storms being way outflow dominant (not a surprise given the environment). Will be in "lightning photography" mode until the end and hopefully some nice colors here in a bit at sunset... then ... http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=1552 http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=1551 I decided to make a run at this "no risk" outlooked area of northicentral kansas where there is mesoscale convergence from Hays to east of Hill City KS. I am in Plainville where it is a blast furnace 104 degrees and a dewpoint around 70! Its a nice ... http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=1550 Since it rained on Sunday night in Dodge City, the 4th of July celebration with the city fireworks was postponed to Monday night the 5th.  At the last minute, I decided to photograph city fireworks, but decided to give a distant panoramic perspective a try.  I drove south-southeast of town ... http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=1543 The long-lived, significant tornadic supercell of 31 May 2010 will go down as probably my most thoroughly and successfully documented significant tornadic supercell in my 13 years of storm chasing.  There were three distinct phases of this storm chase, and as such, I will document this account and share my ... http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=1540 Day Ten (June 26th) -- HP Supercell from Tripp to Freeman, South Dakota After dropping Evan off the day before, I decided to make one last go at a decent chase setup on Saturday, June 26th, which was my second to last day of my vacation.  I left KC around 7:30am ... http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=1531