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A
supercell thunderstorm over St. Louis taken from the air. |
The
Badlands in Southwest South Dakota. |
The Big
Texan, home of the 72 ounce steak and common chaser convergence point. |
Eat
everything you see in this picture in one hour and its on the house! |
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The SLT
caravan chases through a wind farm in Southwest Minnesota. |
Clayton,
NM, the place where "Black Jack" Ketchum was hanged! |
I guess
they had dinosaurs there too? |
We got
cows! |
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Getting
buzzed by a crop duster in Southern Nebraska. |
The new DOW truck featured
in season 2 of "Stormchasers" at a hotel in Colby, KS. |
And of course the tornado
intercept vehicle (TIV), or is it the CIV (camera intercept vehicle)? |
A very
nice LP storm with lightning in the precipitation core near Enterprise,
Kansas. |
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Iowa
farmland in May... Smelly! |
Major
tornado damage in Moore, Oklahoma after the May 9th, 2003 tornadoes. |
More
tornado damage in Moore. |
Nicely
sunlit rain shaft where the "deer and the antelope play" on the range in
New Mexico. |
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The road
to... nowhere? In Northern Kansas. |
National
Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, OK. |
A common
sight on the Plains, an oil rig doing it's work. |
Palo
Duro Canyon, southeast of Amarillo, TX. |
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The
Silver Lining Tours lead van in the farmland of Eastern Colorado with
high based storms off in the distance. |
The
Mount Capulin Volcano in New Mexico. |
A mobile
uplink truck from The Weather Channel. |
A weird
duck thing near Wheaton, Minnesota. |
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The
York, Nebraska water tower. |
SLT
guests waiting for initiation in Central Iowa. |
Wind
farm in Southwestern Minnesota. |
A great
plains classic: Windmill out in the farm land. |
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The
Silver Lining Tours van with awesome mammatus in the background. |
A closer
look at the mammatus |
Nice
shelf cloud on the rear flank or a storm near Dalhart, TX. |
"Stacked
plates" storm structure illuminated by lightning near Holly, KS. |
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Storm with sunset as a backdrop
near Dalhart, TX. |
Shelf
cloud rushed out of a multi-cellular storm between Wichita and Salina,
KS |
New
Mexico landscape. |
Mine
shaft museum in Madrid, NM |
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Panorama in the Sand Hills of Cherry County, NE |
Old
farm house in Devil's Lake, ND |
Accas
clouds over Goodland, KS. |
The
Doppler radar at NWS Goodland, KS. |
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Dr.
Tim Samaras explains the deployment of his tornado probes to our group. |
Mullinville, KS political satire in the form of metal windmills. |
Grain
elevator near Fargo, ND |
Plains
sunset |
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Entering Colorado from Kansas. |
This
is what "Big Sky" is all about! |
The
Wizard of Oz Museum in Liberal, KS |
Old
buildings out on the plains of Western Kansas. |
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The
Colorado Green Wind Energy Project south of Lamar, CO |
The
next 4 shots are from the top of Mt. Evans in the Rockies. |
Looking east towards the Denver foothills |
Looking West |
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Mt.
Evans is the highest elevation paved road in the United States. |
One of
the locals at the top. |
Shadow
Lake at the base of Mt. Evans |
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The
Crazy Horse Monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota |
Mt.
Rushmore |
Prairie dog |
Kansas
wheat field and water tower |
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Hail
on my deck in Southborough, MA |
Awesome coloration in the roiling above us as
the Sun starts to set near Burke, SD. |
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Waiting in
Teddy Roosevelt National Park in extreme Western North Dakota while we
decide whether or not to chase a monsterous supercell all the way up on
the Canadian border (it's anvil is visible in the background). |
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The
Witchita Mountains in Western Oklahoma. |
Odd looking
landspout tornado near Timken, KS. Note the debris cloud ito the bottom
right and funnel extending from the top left. |
The desolate
remnants of Greensburg, KS, over a year after a big tornado destroyed
most of the town. |
Heading
south out of Greensburg on Route 183, we see a couple of mid-level
pencil funnels. |
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Full speed ahead!! Plowing
through a hail core east of Greensburg, KS. Note the hail skipping
across the road in front of the van. One of the vans lost a windshield
in this storm. |
The updraft of a picturesque
HP storm near Altus, OK... |
..and the impressive shelf
cloud and vault region rapidly approaching our location. |
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