Between about 6:58 and 7:11pm, I photographed the storm from a location about 6 S, 7 E Atwood (39.7124901,-100.8991013) as the storm was becoming a bit messier as cold outflow was really overwhelming with more of a shelf cloud structure evolving. This was the last decent sequence of images of this storm. After this, I made my way south and east on the unpaved county roads to Seldon, KS where I hit paved highway again.
Now south of Atwood, I decided to venture east on an unpaved county road grid across southeastern Rawlins County since the storm was moving southeast. This would afford some better storm structure shots, I thought, instead of just continuing south on Highway 25. This ended up being a good decision. This set of images was taken about a mile east of Highway 25 (39.7271690,-101.0402985) looking west as an impressive, blocky lowering developed at the edge of the advancing gust front.
Between about 6:07pm and 6:20pm, I photographed some developing high-precipitation storm structure to my west from a location about a mile west of Highway 25 about 4 miles south of the Kansas-Nebraska state line (39.9435806,-101.0740967). I found an old school house at the county road intersection and used it as a foreground subject. The storm was clearly in an uptrend in strength during this time as the structure of the storm was really improving nicely during this time frame here at this location.
This was a long drive of recovery to get back into position to at least
photograph a little bit of the Last Chance to Anton, CO storm. I caught the
northern end of the storm after being in southeast Wyoming earlier in the
afternoon/evening in hopes of catching an isolated storm off the Laramie
Range. I was racing north after this shot to stay ahead of the approching
bow-echo moving toward Otis, CO.
Time 5:20pm north of Stratton, NE (40.2526207,-101.2489014) as we watch our storm continue to move southeast approaching the Stratton, NE area. By this time, the MCS was beginning to take shape with numerous storms developing southwest of this storm...effectively killing off our original storm. Jay broke off the chase not too long after this stop at Trenton, NE... to continue his vacation in Wyoming. I continued to follow the storms south into Kansas, which was conveniently on my way back home to Dodge. I noted to Jay that the new storm, which appeared to be developing southwest of our original storm, was showing a scuddy lowering (not knowing at the time that this would end up being a much more interesting storm intercept not too long afterwards!)
