Nw of great bend at 732p cdt
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July 20, 2009
Beautiful LP supercell!!
Hanging tight in Larned at 445pm cdt
The best convergence appears to be along a line from roughly Kinsley
northward through LaCrosse up towards Hays. I’m sitting in Larned
watching cumulus develop along this convergence axis… I think this
corridor is the best area… some of the cu appears towering distant
north up toward I-70… more later.
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Mike Umscheid Photography
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Play the nose of the upper jet streak
Where will the nose of the upper jet streak be by late this
afternoon/early evening? Nosing into southwestern/south-central KS.
At first, I was thinking of heading north toward Hays, but am
reconsidering this sitting here in DDC. I think I may drift due east
of here… There is an outflow boundary retreating back north into
south-central KS… and it is at the intersection of this outflow
boundary with the synoptic front farther west… that could be very
interesting later on this afternoon. My gut tells me to just head to
Greensburg, perhaps, and re-evaluate from there. I may leave DDC here
within the hour
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Mike Umscheid Photography
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Chase Acct: July 19, 2009 (Northeast NM)
Sunday, July 19th was another very successful day of high plains storm photography. It wasn’t a day with a long-lived isolated supercell, but that wasn’t needed Sunday. I came away with at least a couple of images that will certainly make a nice addition to my 2009 storm portfolio — including one special lightning shot that will be titled “Right Between the Ears” (image number 2 below) — a unique image of a tall, single, branched lightning flash in the distance amidst a narrow hail core composed perfectly between the two small isolated mounds that make up “Rabbit Ear Mountain” to the north of Clayton, NM. I actually managed to get two brilliant cloud-to-ground daytime flashes with Rabbit Ear Mountain in the frame.
After this, storms became more organized with better structure, and I drove northwest about 10 miles or so on Hwy 64 and watched some real interesting storm structure develop. I then headed south of Clayton on Hwy 402 — a highway I had now become familiar with these past couple days — as a well-rounded circular structured storm updraft developed just to my west. I needed to get east ahead of this, and I did so taking Hwy 102 which turned into Ranch 808 as it crossed into Texas west of Dalhart. I photographed some really close cloud-to-ground flashes, both of which were a bit over-exposed unfortunately, before I ended the chase. Images from this chase are below.
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July 19, 2009
On my way to dodge
After another fun day of storm photography on the high plains! Should pull in to dodge around 1230am cdt
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doing some final lightning photography west of dalhart
I will be making the drive back to dodge city after I am through
here…. since tomorrow’s severe weather threat looks like western
kansas.
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Supercell dvlpng nw of clayton!
719pm cdt
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Little LP severe cell nw of clayton
Time 517pm cdt
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A candidate to the NNE
From near grenville, nm at 352p cdt
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