Excellent shot, good story. The TV weatherman was so excited last night, he was almost incoherent as the storms continue.
Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:39 AM, CheekyGeek <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: >> Great shot. Just curious: what was the weather like after that? > > You generally don't want to find out. > : ) > > Seriously, for photographic purposes you want to stay ahead of it. The > chasers became the chased as we would reposition east ahead of it, try > to find somewhere to take photos that did not have wires in the way > (etc.) and skidaddle before it overtook us again. Not too photogenic > when it comes over you. It is called a "gust front" because it is > essentially a wall of strong wind (this one was measured at 75 mph) on > the leading edge of a storm that has gone linear. Behind it is a lot > of wind driven heavy precipitation, possibly containing hail. It was > one of several co-joined storms that were tornado warned and although > tornadoes are unlikely from such structure Superior, Nebraska appears > to have taken a hit from tornadic winds that evening. Superior was > about 30 miles north of our path. > > I waited long enough, at one stop, to feel the air go from a humid > mid-80s (F) to an ICE cold blast. As soon as I felt that I knew that > hail was probably not far behind and we jumped in the car to > reposition. We finally tired of running from it as it got dark and > found a open bay car wash to sit inside. It has played itself out > somewhat by then and we got no hail, just high wind, driving rain and > a lot of lightning for a half hour or so. > > Darren Addy > Kearney, NE > -- > Nothing is sure, except Death and Pentaxes. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
