Shooting lightning illuminated structure near haviland ks a little after 10 pm
(Sent by Mike’s Alltel Blackberry smartphone)
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June 15, 2009
Photographing lightning
AMAZING mammatus at sunset in Pratt, KS!
Some of the best mammatus I’ve ever photographed with golden wheat in
the foreground. Awesome storm photography day despite missing a
tornado, which if we were daring to be on Hwy 50 east of Kinsley, we
would have had more damage to the windshield from 2″ diameter hail.
–
Mike Umscheid Photography
http://gallery.underthemeso.com
mesomike@gmail.com
new storms developing along Hwy 50 to our NW
well we went back north as new storms of interest developed NW of us
north of Greensburg. After drivinig to medicine lodge, we are back
north in Pratt continuing north for a sunset intercept across Stafford
County. Pretty mammatus above Pratt at this time.
–
Mike Umscheid Photography
http://gallery.underthemeso.com
mesomike@gmail.com
heading back to Dodge, storms messy and undercut
We will be driving to Medicine Lodge then west and north back to Dodge
City for the night. We photographed some fairly amazing storm
structure when the storm looked really good along Hwy 50 from west of
Spearville to Offerle to Kinsley, KS. Tomorrow (Day 6) doesn’t look
quite as good, however we will consider chasing storms off either the
Raton Mesa or the Palmer Divide.
–
Mike Umscheid Photography
http://gallery.underthemeso.com
mesomike@gmail.com
HP storm structure Pratt-Stafford county line at 630pm
(Sent by Mike’s Alltel Blackberry smartphone)
massive HP supercell, did not see the tornado near Macksville
early evening update… some amazing colors and structure with the HP
supercell we are chasing. Unfortunately, we were in blast-east most
when the tornado was occurring to our northwest, and we were not due
east of it and closer to see it. We did see a laminar cone=-shaped
lowering/wall cloud back in the wet occlusion, but we were unable to
confirm anything. It will be interesting to see other chasers’
images/video of this since we were not positioned well to see the
tornado. We are repositioning south toward Pratt area to catch new
development on the south flank.
–
Mike Umscheid Photography
http://gallery.underthemeso.com
mesomike@gmail.com
527pm wow structure HP beast looking NW toward Kinsley
(Sent by Mike’s Alltel Blackberry smartphone)
Undercut by outflow supercll near offerle at 508pm
(Sent by Mike’s Alltel Blackberry smartphone)
