Darren,
These are very impressive images.
(I also enjoyed your other impressive clouds.)
You really mastered how to "capture" them "in the right light"
consistently.
The apparent spiral in the B&W one is especially eye-catching.
Your followup about Tim Samaras inspired me to read about him and his
team. -- I appreciate that.
Having lived in Illinois and Texas, I've had tornado going dangerously
close.
The "near-miss" one was back in 1996, in Urbana, IL, where the tornado
touched down just 3 blocks away from my apartment. Actually, I was
supposed to be in the building where the tornado was going through: my
friend had his birthday party. But the rain that preceded the tornado
delayed me from leaving my home. And when it stopped, I exited the
building and saw how purple the sky was. I also heard the sirens for the
tornado warning and went back inside.
That tornado leveled many houses as if those were card houses.
Somehow, the apartment building where my friend lived didn't suffer
(except for the cars parked in the parking lot, and the big advertisement
board across the street).
... So, with some delay, we ended up having the party with candles,
as the electricity was turned off in that area, - the authorities were
afraid of possible gas leaks. Fortunately my friend's wife has cooked all
food ahead of time.
I just recently found on the internet this set of photos from those
events:
http://www.news-gazette.com/multimedia/photogallery/2006-04-18/looking-back-
96-tornado
And this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTxptG0ghzM
At 4:21 - they are talking about and showing Philo Road, - that's
where we had the birthday party.
As I mentioned, - the colors were very different from those in your photo:
the sky was in various shades from dark blue to deep purple.
In July, I've seen similar colors in the sky, although at some distance.
It passed our town without any touchdowns or damages. I am not even sure
if there was a tornado there or not.
Cheers,
Igor
Darren Addy Thu, 10 Sep 2015 07:36:16 -0700 wrote:
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...
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