South of Pritchett, Colorado:
South of Campo, Colorado… west of highway 287:
Large, tall tornado approaching highway 287. Looking north:
Zoomed-in image showing vehicles adjacent to an RFD surge around the south side of the tornado as it is crossing highway 287 south of Campo:
Tornado now east of highway 287 with rainbow:
Awesome colors and storm structure between Boise City and Guymon, OK:
Awesome pictures!
Comment by Ferry Schmets — June 1, 2010 @ 6:01 am
Awesome, indeed – never have seen pictures like this in my entire life; been reporting the weather for the last 22 years to meteorologists in Tyler, Texas and Shreveport, Louisiana. Calvin Wade
Comment by Calvin Wade — June 1, 2010 @ 7:29 am
How many people get a rainbow and a tornado in one shot? Nice.
Comment by Marr Russell — June 1, 2010 @ 7:35 am
If you see this coming, FLEE. This is something to see. John Wade
Comment by John Wade — June 1, 2010 @ 8:33 am
WOW is about all I can say. Um, Chiefy, I see a possibility of prints on our “Wall of Fame”!!!!
Comment by Jeff Hutton — June 1, 2010 @ 11:26 am
Wow man. Just AMAZING shots. Incredible. I think my favorite of the whole season so far.
Comment by Melanie Metz — June 1, 2010 @ 11:36 am
Absolutely stunning pictures Mike. You better be bringing these to the convention next year!
Comment by Ben Toms — June 1, 2010 @ 11:49 am
A lot of amazing shots here! All are worthy of being on the wall! I’ll bet you have many, many more too!
Comment by Shane Kirk — June 1, 2010 @ 2:01 pm
Spectacular Mike… I knew when I saw you out there yesterday that some amazing imagery was on its way. You certainly didn’t disappoint. What an incredible storm.
Comment by Dann Cianca — June 1, 2010 @ 2:37 pm
When you named your website “underthemeso” several years back, I wonder if you foresaw the future or if it was just fortuitous. Either way, these awesome shots certainly were underthemeso!
Comment by Tom Umscheid — June 1, 2010 @ 3:12 pm
You sir are the MAN!!!
Comment by Paul — June 1, 2010 @ 7:05 pm
That 2nd picture tehre is breath taking. So are a couple others showing the chasers a little to close. I watched video from Andy on this storm and he must of been in front of you and they were so close it was unsafe. Glad to see you are staying back a safe distance Mike. I would hate to stop seeing your great photo’s and nobody can get the breath taking shots like you do.
Comment by Chris — June 1, 2010 @ 10:59 pm
The most photogenic tornado of 2010, and will probably end up in the top 10 of the decade, easy. I’ll never forgive myself for missing this as long as I live, but thankfully someone of your photographic talent and skill was there to capture it!
Comment by Brett — June 2, 2010 @ 10:59 pm
Zoomed-in image showing vehicles adjacent to an RFD surge around the south side of the tornado as it is crossing highway 287…
LOL – that was us…
Comment by Charles Grillo — June 7, 2010 @ 1:52 am
Charles Grillo: I just went through your images from 31 May. Wow, you guys really were just up the road. I have a good close-up shot of a white van passing me by on the highway with the tornado in the background crossing the road, that I guess was part of the Todd Thorn chasing group? I’ll have to upload it to my blog. It may very well have been your van, I don’t know.
Comment by Mike U — June 7, 2010 @ 11:20 pm
Mike: It would be agood to see that close up as we did have 2 white vans in the group (couldn’t find it in your blog..)
If we passed you, I probably have you on video too..
Comment by Charles Grillo — June 16, 2010 @ 7:38 am