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Sunday, March 08, 2009

Storm Chase Photos + Firenado Pictures

I don't have a lot of time to go into detail...as I'm heading to Las Vegas on Thursday and have very little time. Darin, Lexi and I intercepted the supercell near Hutchinson, Kansas early on and followed it for a few hours. There were brief spinups beneath high-based, rotating wall clouds on several occasions. The first we could see was several miles west of Hutchinson, then on the south side of Hutchinson, then about 5 miles NE of Hutchinson. The storm soon took on a shelfy appearance, but re-organized quickly and spun up yet another south of Hesston. Below are a few pictures of the chase (all shot with the 10-20 mm ultra wide angle lens). Met Michael Carlson and Dann Cianca briefly and it was good to finally meet them! Not a bad chase for early March!

Hutchinson Supercell

You can see the dust on the horizon left of center here (looking west from South Hutchinson) :

Hutchinson Supercell

Hutchinson Supercell

Hutchinson Supercell

Hutchinson Supercell

Then near Hesston:

Hutchinson Supercell

Hutchinson Supercell

On Friday, I was lucky enough to see several firenadoes up close, below are a couple of pictures. Hopefully I have more time later tonight or tomorrow to process more photos.

Firenado

Firenado

1 comment:

Dann Cianca said...

You kids and your damn cameras that have a better dynamic range than mine. *grumbles*

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