Various Shots from the Great Plains
On this page you'll find an assortment of shots I've taken while out chasing on the plains. Some of them are storm or weather related from days that I didn't feel warranted their own page. The rest are just a bunch of things I found kind of interesting.
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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. | Eerie sunset and lightning, also near Burke, SD |
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. |
Mesa on the Nebraska Panhandle |
TIV II, aka "The Evil TIV" |
Old abandoned church west of Alliance, NE |
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| Driving along the Rockies, near Trinidad, CO | The Sierra Grande volcano in northeastern New Mexico | The locals in New Mexico are always happy to see you.. | The old railroad station in Maraton, TX |
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| Large mesa down near Big Bend National Park in Texas. | Deep south Texas cactus. |
All pictures (C) Richard Hamel 2009.
