Great storm structures YOU have seen/photographed

[Eric Flescher]

Place here your best descriptions present and past regarding great storm structures and related tornadoes too if you want. Include your photo or link to blog or website too. INclude time and date observed photographed and any interesting information as well. Looking forward to seeing your stuff. I will add some of mine soon.

Dr. Eric Flescher
Olathe, KS
Storm Satori

[Susan Strom]

Some cloud structure examples...

Tower and scud in Emporia KS (http://www.lightninglady.com/photos/LLEmporia.jpg)

Shelf in Nebraska (http://www.lightninglady.com/photos/StromShelfcloud.jpg)

Monsoon getting started over ancient ruin in AZ (http://www.lightninglady.com/photos/LLBesh.jpg)

Green meso in Woodward OK (http://www.lightninglady.com/photos/LLWoodward.jpg)

Hoping in Ulysses KS (http://www.lightninglady.com/photos/StromTheRoad.jpg)

Tail cloud in Oklahoma (http://www.lightninglady.com/photos/LLTailcloud.jpg)

HP big meanie in Nebraska (http://www.lightninglady.com/photos/LLRoyalNE.jpg)

Monsoon tower in AZ (http://www.lightninglady.com/photos/StromTower.jpg)

[Eric Flescher]

Very nice. I like the green meso particularly because you don't see much of that. I I have a video clip from last year that I will post.
Dr. Eric Flescher





Some cloud structure examples...

Tower and scud in Emporia KS (http://www.lightninglady.com/photos/LLEmporia.jpg)

Shelf in Nebraska (http://www.lightninglady.com/photos/StromShelfcloud.jpg)

Monsoon getting started over ancient ruin in AZ (http://www.lightninglady.com/photos/LLBesh.jpg)

Green meso in Woodward OK (http://www.lightninglady.com/photos/LLWoodward.jpg)

Hoping in Ulysses KS (http://www.lightninglady.com/photos/StromTheRoad.jpg)

Tail cloud in Oklahoma (http://www.lightninglady.com/photos/LLTailcloud.jpg)

HP big meanie in Nebraska (http://www.lightninglady.com/photos/LLRoyalNE.jpg)

Monsoon tower in AZ (http://www.lightninglady.com/photos/StromTower.jpg)
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[Brandon Clement]

Some nice shots Susan. Love the HP beast.

One of my favorites was from last June East of Lubbock. I punched the core trying to get to this storm and when I came out of some quarter size hail I had an incredible view from inside the bears cage. The photo does not do it justice since I was driving and took the shot at about 45 mph while holding the camera over the top of my car. The sky was a dark greenish brown color back towards the core and had a thin pink sky between the meso and shaft. It was backlit with a light orange glow and even had some blue a tad farther south before hitting the anvil of the sup to the south. This is not a Mike Hollingshead shot but enough for me to jog up some good memories.

http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/9973/10046848de.jpg

This storm put down a brief tornado but the big show was with the storm to the south when it put down a huge wedge. I believe this was June 12th.

[Bill Hark]

http://www.harkphoto.com/vasup.jpeg


I picked this image of a tornadic supercell on April 1, 1998. It produced an F4 tornado. I observed the overshooting dome to "collapse" while the tornado was occuring. I knew something bad was happening and I later found out that a tornado had killed two people.

I like this image because it is a textbook photo of a supercell and was taken near Charlottesville, Virginia of a supercell in Coatesville. Such visible structure is rare in the East.

Bill Hark

[Bobby Eddins]

Jimmy Deguara catching the beast of June 2nd 2005 east of Limon, CO
http://chaseone.com/060205still15.png

Tower on west side of Lubbock, TX storm on May 31st 2005
http://chaseone.com/053105still17.png

Dirt lifting into back side of Lubbock strom on May 31st 2005
http://chaseone.com/053105still14.png

[Brian Press]

Great shots guys!! Awesome inflow tail on that one. Whewwww..

Here are a few shots from a waterspout I got off of Redondo Beach a few years back. This thing had a wall cloud and frequent lightning zapping the water. It was a mini-supercell. The spout came down as the storm moved closer.

Enjoy....

[Alex Fisher]

Here are a few more that I took of the "beast of 6/2/2005" near Limon, CO.
http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/641/stormchasing0607ny.jpg
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/1907/stormchasing0570mp.jpg
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/9279/stormchasing0598tx.jpg

[Eric Treece]

Here are a few of my favs over the years.........

This was taken about 15-20 Miles West of Last Chance. It has always been a favorite of mine because of how blue the sky was and how sharp and crisp the updrafts were.

http://www.coloradostormchaser.com/LastChance.jpg



This was my first tornado.........you could see the meso forming from forever and a day. The storm was initially over Briggsdale CO when it first went TOR and I was sitting East of Brush and could see the meso. It was on the ground for about 30 min and never felt a drop of rain until after the tornado dissipated!! The hail was a little smaller than golf balls and like slush when it finally came.

http://www.coloradostormchaser.com/RSR4a.jpg



I am sure a few of you have seen other chasers photos from this storm. This was the Skellytown storm from 02'.

http://www.coloradostormchaser.com/Pampa15.jpg


20 May 2004 taken south of Sterling CO.

http://www.coloradostormchaser.com/20May04Sterling2a.jpg



Taken last May from Brandon, CO. This was a great storm to watch mature.

http://www.coloradostormchaser.com/BrandonSC2.jpg

[Dan Robinson]

http://wvlightning.com/chasing/photos/lptx1000.jpg

May 29, 2001 - Texas Panhandle

[Chris Nuttall]

Outflow dominat storm west of Shawnee, OK on April 21, 2004.
http://ww2.convectionconnection.com:8080/w...es/P4210040.JPG (http://ww2.convectionconnection.com:8080/wxchaser/gallery/photos/chases/2004/april_21/slides/P4210040.JPG)



Monster supercell in Harper Co., KS, on May 29, 2004. In the second image, you can see the tornado behind the telephone pole.
http://ww2.convectionconnection.com:8080/w...es/P5290056.JPG (http://ww2.convectionconnection.com:8080/wxchaser/gallery/photos/chases/2004/may_29/slides/P5290056.JPG)
http://ww2.convectionconnection.com:8080/w...es/P5290062.JPG (http://ww2.convectionconnection.com:8080/wxchaser/gallery/photos/chases/2004/may_29/slides/P5290062.JPG)



Supercell NW of Hamlin, TX, on June 12, 2005.
http://ww2.convectionconnection.com:8080/wxchaser/gallery/photos/chases/2005/2005_06_12/slides/IMG_0186.JPG


This last set is a supercell between Tulsa and Bartlesville, OK (http://ww2.convectionconnection.com:8080/wxchaser/gallery/photos/chases/2005/2005_08_26/index.html), on August 26, 2005. I like all of these pictures. I couldn't decide which ones to post, so I thought I would just give you a link to the whole set.

[Brian Stertz]

<div align="center">http://www.geocities.com/vortextimes/Arriba2005.jpg</div>

This was the spectacular I-70 monster supercell near Arriba Colorado...on June 2nd 2005...time of the pictures was around 5:50pm MDT...one of the most dramatic supercell structures I have seen to date as a storm chaser :o ...the only one I can remember that comes close was the thermonuclear supercell near Thedford Nebraska on June 4th 1999.

<div align="center">http://www.geocities.com/vortextimes/ArribaColorado2005.jpg</div>

[Doug Raflik]

Here are my favs...

http://www.wxnut.net/5_12_04019.jpg

http://www.wxnut.net/6-5-05s.jpg

http://www.wxnut.net/redcloud16x20.jpg

Doug Raflik
wxnut@charter.net

[Andrea Griffa]

Paducha/Truscott/Cromwell Texas supercell may 13 2005:

http://digilander.libero.it/andreblu81/CRW_0400bis.jpg

http://digilander.libero.it/andreblu81/CRW_0397bis.jpg

[mark humpage]

Texas pan June 05

http://www.mhweather.co.uk/mhwphp/images/Thunderstorms/photos/375-379%20amarillo.jpg

http://www.mhweather.co.uk/mhwphp/images/Thunderstorms/photos/563-565%20Kent%20co.jpg

2 of my faves for structure.

Mark

[Laura Duchesne]

I know this won't compare in size to the plains storms, but for Ontario, the June 14, 2004 event was no exception. This is a barrel-shaped supercell and rotating wall cloud southwest of Elmira, Ontario along hwy 85.

Videos
http://laurawx.com/videos.html

Video caps
http://laurawx.com/20040614vidcaps.html

Chase log
http://laurawx.com/20040614chase.html

This was by far the best storm I ever saw in Ontario. It is not very often we get these kind of things, structurally, here... often our storms are HP and the summer haze can cause problems for visibility.

[Eric Flescher]

Brandon
All those colors (which I can't quite see from your photo ) must have been fantastic. To see all the colors that's when you need a RAW image to process.
Congrats.
Dr. Eric Flescher
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Some nice shots Susan. Love the HP beast.

One of my favorites was from last June East of Lubbock. I punched the core trying to get to this storm and when I came out of some quarter size hail I had an incredible view from inside the bears cage. The photo does not do it justice since I was driving and took the shot at about 45 mph while holding the camera over the top of my car. The sky was a dark greenish brown color back towards the core and had a thin pink sky between the meso and shaft. It was backlit with a light orange glow and even had some blue a tad farther south before hitting the anvil of the sup to the south. This is not a Mike Hollingshead shot but enough for me to jog up some good memories.

http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/9973/10046848de.jpg

This storm put down a brief tornado but the big show was with the storm to the south when it put down a huge wedge. I believe this was June 12th.
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Eric
Nice picture of the wallcloud with your tornado below. Excellent. All the pictures you all are submitting are real nice. I will put up my favorites soon from Texas in 2001 with Doug Raflik.
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Here are a few of my favs over the years.........

This was taken about 15-20 Miles West of Last Chance. It has always been a favorite of mine because of how blue the sky was and how sharp and crisp the updrafts were.

http://www.coloradostormchaser.com/LastChance.jpg
This was my first tornado.........you could see the meso forming from forever and a day. The storm was initially over Briggsdale CO when it first went TOR and I was sitting East of Brush and could see the meso. It was on the ground for about 30 min and never felt a drop of rain until after the tornado dissipated!! The hail was a little smaller than golf balls and like slush when it finally came.

http://www.coloradostormchaser.com/RSR4a.jpg
I am sure a few of you have seen other chasers photos from this storm. This was the Skellytown storm from 02'.

http://www.coloradostormchaser.com/Pampa15.jpg
20 May 2004 taken south of Sterling CO.

http://www.coloradostormchaser.com/20May04Sterling2a.jpg
Taken last May from Brandon, CO. This was a great storm to watch mature.

http://www.coloradostormchaser.com/BrandonSC2.jpg
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[Brandon Clement]

It was fantastic. I really wanted to stop and shoot some pics but the wall was rotating pretty good and looked like it would produce any minute and I would have been stuck between a tornado and hail core.. THe road was only about a mile south and I had to drive under the wall to get in position from the rear. I really wanted to try and make it to the storm south of there but couldn't resist stopping. It put down a short tornado about ten minutes after taking this shot but the cell to the south put down a massive wedge, a multi vortex and then had two on the ground at the same time all in about a half hours time.

[Eric Flescher]

Bobby
The Waterspout is really nice. The back and front lighting made it super!

Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstormguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS:913-780-5902: (mobile) 913-486-1274: Storm Satori- http://members.aol.com/kcstormguy/stormsat...tormsatori.htm: (http://members.aol.com/kcstormguy/stormsatori/stormsatori.htm:) E.O.A.S. (Earth, Oceans, Atmosphere and Space Blog) -http://www.xanga.com/dreric1kansas



Great shots guys!! Awesome inflow tail on that one. Whewwww..

Here are a few shots from a waterspout I got off of Redondo Beach a few years back. This thing had a wall cloud and frequent lightning zapping the water. It was a mini-supercell. The spout came down as the storm moved closer.

Enjoy....
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Mark
I really like that bottom one. WOWWW!!! The circular formation and the rain or hail in the middle amazing. What did you shoot this with?

Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstormguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS:913-780-5902: (mobile) 913-486-1274: Storm Satori- http://members.aol.com/kcstormguy/stormsat...tormsatori.htm: (http://members.aol.com/kcstormguy/stormsatori/stormsatori.htm:) E.O.A.S. (Earth, Oceans, Atmosphere and Space Blog) -http://www.xanga.com/dreric1kansas




Texas pan June 05

http://www.mhweather.co.uk/mhwphp/images/Thunderstorms/photos/375-379%20amarillo.jpg

http://www.mhweather.co.uk/mhwphp/images/Thunderstorms/photos/563-565%20Kent%20co.jpg

2 of my faves for structure.

Mark
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Laura
Nice videos. Need more descriptions though. In this forum area, what ever you think are your nicest stuff is great.
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstormguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS:913-780-5902: (mobile) 913-486-1274: Storm Satori- http://members.aol.com/kcstormguy/stormsat...tormsatori.htm: (http://members.aol.com/kcstormguy/stormsatori/stormsatori.htm:) E.O.A.S. (Earth, Oceans, Atmosphere and Space Blog) -http://www.xanga.com/dreric1kansas


I know this won't compare in size to the plains storms, but for Ontario, the June 14, 2004 event was no exception. This is a barrel-shaped supercell and rotating wall cloud southwest of Elmira, Ontario along hwy 85.

Videos
http://laurawx.com/videos.html

Video caps
http://laurawx.com/20040614vidcaps.html

Chase log
http://laurawx.com/20040614chase.html

This was by far the best storm I ever saw in Ontario. It is not very often we get these kind of things, structurally, here... often our storms are HP and the summer haze can cause problems for visibility.
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Laura
Nice videos. Need more descriptions though. In this forum area, what ever you think are your nicest stuff is great.
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstormguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS:913-780-5902: (mobile) 913-486-1274: Storm Satori- http://members.aol.com/kcstormguy/stormsat...tormsatori.htm: (http://members.aol.com/kcstormguy/stormsatori/stormsatori.htm:) E.O.A.S. (Earth, Oceans, Atmosphere and Space Blog) -http://www.xanga.com/dreric1kansas


I know this won't compare in size to the plains storms, but for Ontario, the June 14, 2004 event was no exception. This is a barrel-shaped supercell and rotating wall cloud southwest of Elmira, Ontario along hwy 85.

Videos
http://laurawx.com/videos.html

Video caps
http://laurawx.com/20040614vidcaps.html

Chase log
http://laurawx.com/20040614chase.html

This was by far the best storm I ever saw in Ontario. It is not very often we get these kind of things, structurally, here... often our storms are HP and the summer haze can cause problems for visibility.
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Doug
That Red Cloud torn pic is magnificent.
The one with the cumulus clouds and the barn is excellent too. YOu do great stuff.

Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstormguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS:913-780-5902: (mobile) 913-486-1274: Storm Satori- http://members.aol.com/kcstormguy/stormsat...tormsatori.htm: (http://members.aol.com/kcstormguy/stormsatori/stormsatori.htm:) E.O.A.S. (Earth, Oceans, Atmosphere and Space Blog) -http://www.xanga.com/dreric1kansas



Here are my favs...

http://www.wxnut.net/5_12_04019.jpg

http://www.wxnut.net/6-5-05s.jpg

http://www.wxnut.net/redcloud16x20.jpg

Doug Raflik
wxnut@charter.net
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[Laura Duchesne]

Eric what do you mean I need more descriptions? In my videos or my chase log?

Not sure what you were looking for here....

[Ryan McGinnis]

Heh, Doug -- your last one remains to this day my favorite structure shot. Were it not for that photo of the white tornado next to the rainbow and the farm that someone took, it'd be my favorite storm photo, period. :)

[Eric Flescher]

Wierdest structure

In the 1980's (not sure the exact date of this) I had come to Kansas.
I was in Overland Park near 103 street and I-435 at the Kansas education Center with the classrooms.
Over the course of an hour or so outside the window (while working in class for certification) I could see something strange outside I still for this day don't know what to think about.

To the North, I could see this tube like structure streaming towards the south. In This sky tube the moisture etc was racing "at a breakneck speed" towards the South somewhere possibly over I-435.

I was in class,so I could not go outside (no rain or lightning) .
But I should have gone outside to look at it and see whatis going on because it was most amazing.

Anyone to venture when this occurred and what you think it was based on your experiences?

[Mike Hollingshead]

1024x1280 resolution.

May 10, 2005 Grand Island NE
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpics/wp/3386wp.jpg

May 28, 2004 S. Sioux City NE
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpics/wp/1430wp.jpg

June 13, 2004 Alvo NE
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpics/wp/1576wp.jpg

June 9, 2005 Hill City KS
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpics/wp/3805wp.jpg

[Brian Emfinger]

Wish i had a good camera when i had some of these:
http://www.realclearwx.com/images/4ppp.jpg
http://www.realclearwx.com/images/2ppp.jpg
from March 21, 2005 near McAlester, OK

http://www.realclearwx.com/images/6ppp.jpg
October 18, 2004 near Batesville, AR

http://www.realclearwx.com/images/406200601.jpg
April 6, 2006 NE of McAlester, OK

http://realclearwx.com/images/61ppp.jpg
April 21, 2004 just west of Fort Smith, AR

[David Brookshier]

HP monster in central Oklahoma NW of Geary from 725-815 May 29, 2004. This storm produced hail to the size of grapefruits 5" and many tornados including one anticyclonic tornado. This storm is now among the legends of some long lived HP megabeasts.[attachmentid=390][attachmentid=392]




Lightning from Mckinney Texas April 2004 [attachmentid=391]


LP supercell eastern Colorado July 2000[attachmentid=395]


Wall cloud funnel and hail shaft Eastern Colorado July 2000[attachmentid=396]

[Kevin Myatt]

Central Illinois, May 17, 2006 (http://blogs.roanoke.com/weatherjournal/storms/amazing_chase_1.html):
http://blogs.roanoke.com/weatherjournal/images/illmeso2.jpg

Arkansas-Missouri border, just west of Missouri Bootheel, April 30, 2006: (http://blogs.roanoke.com/weatherjournal/storms/storm_photos.html)
http://blogs.roanoke.com/weatherjournal/images/ArkMo2.jpg

Yuma, Colorado, May 17, 2005 (this photo by Dave Carroll; I have some more from this chase under "Scenes from the Road," photos No. 22-29, on the Web site linked): (http://www.roanoke.com/weather/wb/23511)
http://blogs.roanoke.com/weatherjournal/images/2005pict13.JPG

[CHris Whitehead]

Well Im a BIG BIG fan of storm structure, specifically in the upper levels. I find the anvil of monsterous thunderstorms to be one of the great wonders of the world (i.e. 7 wonders of world). Im just a big fan of storms that have reached mammoth proportions in terms of height and sq miles covered. And it doesnt have to be single stand alone storm, it can be a cluster or an overly severe line of storms. I have a bunch of pictures of such phenomena but none are digital and since I do not have a scanner, Im unable to upload them but I plan to put all my photos on a website someday soon.
Here is one of my favorites, while not my own, that gives you an example of what im talking about. This picture is almost exactly the same look the sky had on my way home from Vernon, TX on Loop 820West in Ft. Worth on 6/17. The MCSs was virtually right on my butt. I was doing all I could to keep ahead of it. What was really cool was when the sun immediately hit the top of the anvils as its sorda doing in the pic. The immediate dark shadow it cast on the metroplex was just like the armageddon was coming. Needless to say I was on cloud 9 and having trouble focusing on the road for the storms.

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/5291/052202anvil5yr.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[cdcollura]

Good afternoon,

http://www.sky-chaser.com/data/misc/0528SCel.jpg

May 28, 2006 - Badlands, SW South Dakota near Pines Indian Reservation.

[mcrowther]

I have just posted my favorite storm pics from the past 3 years- lots of nice structure.

This is the link. (http://web.mac.com/mcrowther2/)

A couple of my faves:

http://web.mac.com/mcrowther2/iWeb/Site/2004-05%20photos_files/DSC_0054.jpg

http://web.mac.com/mcrowther2/iWeb/Site/2006%20photos_files/DSC_0055.jpg

Matt

[christian_schoeps]

I have just posted this one:
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=11747

Off course I have a lot more, but I'm tired now after work ;-)

Bye,
Chris

[Scott Currens]

June 13, 2000 was the first date that came to mind when I saw this thread. Man what a great structure day. Too bad I only had a camcorder back then.

June 13, 2000: Supercell #1 over Canadian, TX
http://www.violentplains.com/Pictures/00-06-13.jpg

June 13, 2000: Supercell #2 near Mendota, TX
http://www.violentplains.com/Pictures/00-06-13%2001.jpg

June 3, 2000: HP beast near Pierce, NE
http://www.violentplains.com/Pictures/00-06-03%2001.jpg
http://www.violentplains.com/Pictures/Grabbed%20Frame%20219.jpg

May 27, 2002: SE TX PHL
http://www.violentplains.com/Pictures/02-05-27%2060.jpg

May 30, 2006: Cimarron County, OK
http://www.violentplains.com/Pictures/2006_05_30_2_105.JPG
http://www.violentplains.com/Pictures/2006_05_30_2_108.JPG
http://www.violentplains.com/Pictures/2006_05_30_2_110.JPG

Scott Currens
www.violentplains.com (http://www.violentplains.com)

[Andrew Khan]

Here is an awsome one, from this years chase season. It was in SC OK, during a huge squall line event, the shelf cloud had the greatest structure, and was right overhead. I had never seen so many eddies, as there were embedded in this one.

http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/3165/ridgeinthesky7xe.jpg

[Laura Hedien]

[attachmentid=438]

I am beginning to realize this was not an ordinary chase... LOL.. unfortunately I realized it about 9 months later!
This is of Stoughton WI Aug 18 2005. I took off from work early to get up there. I live in NE IL. If I knew then what I know now... and I still know squat!
At this point- per time stamps on the GPS, camera, and GRLevel 3, I was 4.1 miles away from an F3. I was due east of the storm.

[attachmentid=439]

This was taken over Lake Michigan at Ft Sheridan on July 25, 2005.

[attachmentid=440]

This was this year... Mertzon TX May 04 about an hour or so before she dropped 3.9" hail on that town.

[attachmentid=441]

This was outside of Halls Summit KS May 18, 2005.

Those are a few.....
Laura

[Laura Duchesne]

I know I already posted to this thread earlier on, but what I posted just isn't my best anymore :) The storms in Ontario cannot compare to those of the plains. Don't get me wrong though, the June 14 2004 storm in Ontario was pretty good for my neck of the woods.

These are only just a select few of the many images I plan to put up on my website.

May 31 2006 Haboob in eastern CO into western KS, looking west

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/laurawx/Weather/20060531_haboobwallcloud1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/laurawx/Weather/20060531_haboobwallcloud2.jpg

June 1 2006 mammatus over the mountains north of Trinidad, CO, looking southwest

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/laurawx/Weather/20060601_mammatus1.jpg

June 5 2006 supercell and tornado in early stage near Huron, SD, looking north

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/laurawx/Weather/20060605_tornado2.jpg

The tornado grew wider as shown in this vid cap, a few seconds later. It was on the ground for a minute or so, before getting rain wrapped.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v30/laurawx/vid%20caps/Assist_cap0001_0005.jpg

[Eric Flescher]

Woops. I need to post some of my favorite.
Here you go.
Great to see everyone else images,

Pictures from Texas trip with Doug Raflik and I and the great Wallcloud and more 2002 June . A great beaverail came down (see (upper left). The storm on the right was an approaching hailstorm.

[attachmentid=457]