Got off work yesterday to find central Nebraska to be in quite the supercell environment and had a fun little local chase until about an hour after sundown. Here are two images from the outing. Both were taken from essentially the same spot.
I parked my car at a rest area on eastbound Interstate 80 south of Grand Island, NE and ran across the 4 lanes of traffic to get some powerlines out of my shot. Then I found myself too low and the 9-foot tall cornfield was obscuring my view of the bottom of the storm. Fortunately, there was an old thick tangled wild grapevine that had grown around the barb wire fence and fence post that was sturdy enough for me to stand on that got me high enough to shoot over the tops of the corn. This is looking almost due north. I opted for a B&W rendering of that shot: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/20664233023/in/dateposted-public/ Returning to my car I saw another cell to the west that was nearly scraping the ground and was backlit by the setting sun. I ran down the median towards it to get some artificial lights, from the rest area to my left, out of the frame. I had to work fast because this whole storm system was moving rapidly to the southeast. https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/21098836120/in/dateposted-public/ These were just two of the supercells that were scattered all over central Nebraska that evening and some produced damaging hail. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm told that my daughter's car, a newish little Toyota in Kearney, was totaled by the hail there. Today is going to have severe storms nearby again, but this time powered by a cold front. I hate cold front setups, but depending upon the timing I may be out again this evening. This is the storm season that just keeps on giving... -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
