 | About This Shoot | Date: 28 June 2011 | Location: Colorado/Oklahoma/Kansas border area from Springfield, CO to Rolla, KS to Hooker, OK | Shoot Type: Storm Chase | Rating: | Synopsis:
Jay Antle and I concluded this chase vacation with a very nice storm shoot as we followed severe outflow-dominant storms that were rather photogenic complete with dust foots and fairly aggressive gustnadoes in the Richfield, KS area. The best photos from this day came around sunset when cloud-to-ground lightning activity ramped up significantly west of Hooker, OK. We had one last late-night lightning photography opportunity near Plains, KS after midnight on the way back to Dodge City. |
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Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:21:10 -0500
Chase Trip Day 13 (June 28) Summary: Far SE Colorado/Far SW Kansas/Oklahoma Panhandle High-based photogenic storms and lightning
Summary & Images (part 1) | June 28th was the final day of my 2011 storm chase trip with Jay
Antle. We departed Raton, NM late morning and made a leisurely drive
through the mesas east of Raton, including Johnson Mesa as well as a
trip to Capulin Volcano (always a favorite). We then took the scenic
drive along Highway 456 just south of the Colorado border... east to
Kenton. We transitioned into chase mode as we set sights on the
Springfield, CO area where we were conveniently greeted to the first
storm of the day with decent cloud-to-ground lightning (first image in
the sequence below). We followed these storms east toward Walsh and
continued on into far southwest Kansas when storms really started to
get their act together northwest of Richfield. A series of formidable
gustnadoes developed in front of us along one of the dirt roads we
were traveling along. We continued east on pavement along Hwy 27 and
eventually reaching Hwy 51. At that point, the storm evolved into a
series of high-based storms in a psuedo-linear fashion, but had nice,
organized updraft structure and a lot of blowing dust action beneath
(continued in Part 2...)
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Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:40:29 -0500
Chase Trip Day 13 (June 28) Summary: Far SE Colorado/Far SW Kansas/Oklahoma Panhandle High-based photogenic storms and lightning (Part 2)
Summary & Images (part 2) | Jay and I continued to follow this storm south during the mid to late
evening hours southeast of Rolla, KS into the Oklahoma panhandle north
of Guymon. The sequence of images shown here span about 20 minutes or
so from about 8:15 to 8:40pm showing the striated structure of the
high-based updraft as we were near the Oklahoma-Kansas border. New
storms were forming farther to the west which would eventually put on
an amazing cloud-to-ground lightning show in the saturated twilight
(see Part 3 below).
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Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:01:18 -0500
Chase Trip Day 13 (June 28) Summary: Infrequent lightning near Plains, KS on the way back home (Part 4)
Summary & Images (part 4) | We were hoping for some lightning images after dark, and we finally
got some... although very infrequent... from a real small storm near
Plains, KS between 12:30 and 12:45am. There was maybe one flash every
4 or 5 minutes... but each one was fairly dramatic. There was one
brilliant cloud-to-ground flash that I just missed by seconds after
the shutter clicked off (I had the camera set up on 30 second
exposures instead of bulb.. d'oh!)
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