April 5th, 2010 - Northwest Missouri Lightning
by Benjamin Tillotson
Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 12:43pm
This day didn't turn quite as I had hoped. I was hoping storms would be able to break the cap earlier in the evening... So it ended up being a mostly night chase without much in the way of good supercell structure. Good lightning display though.
Some towering cumulus late in the evening. First sign that something was actually going to happen. We had been waiting in Mound City, MO for a while.
The hills in MO were cool but not my favorite chase terrain.
MO does have cool roads...
We soon dropped these clouds for better stuff west.
The lightning show begins!
Not sure why this shot is so soft. I can't tell if it is just motion blur from the wind or if auto focus was off a bit. I've been noticing that auto focus on our 10-22mm seems to focus slightly beyond infinity.
Lightning began to get very cool about this point.
Around this time we got some internet connection and saw a couple of storms in norhteast KS that looked good on radar. We headed that direction but the storms quickly disorganized.
Tue, Apr 6, 2010, 2:53pmSarahamazing photos! The 2nd and 4th to last are my favorite. Pretty cool!
Wed, Apr 7, 2010, 12:43amLindaCool!! What are the red/orange/white lines in a few of the pix?
Wed, Apr 7, 2010, 12:45amLindaNot too cool an idea to be standing this close to water in a lightning storm, is it?
Thu, Apr 8, 2010, 4:07am##;8The red lines are the trucks driving by. Those were long exposures.
Mon, Apr 12, 2010, 7:52amMilkwoodThats some pretty good pictures!
