Trentham Stormchasers
'Going to Extremes' 2011 USA Roadtrip
Report: Clyve Herbert
Photography: Jane ONeill / Clyve Herbert
17th May, 2011
17th May: Garden City, KS to Stratton, CO | |
![]() Yellow robin, Garden City |
![]() Drought, western Kansas |
![]() Road-rail switcher, SW Kansas |
![]() Yellow brick road, Liberal, Kansas - outside the Wizard of Oz museum |
![]() Massive feedlot, SW Kansas |
![]() Wall mural, Syracuse
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![]() Parked oldie, Cheyenne Wells |
![]() Kids having fun, Cheyenne Wells |
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![]() SD-9 hiding at Cheyenne Wells
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![]() Crazy bike rider at Crazy Horse, Colorado |
![]() High based storms developing on the dryline, Crazy Horse |
![]() Strange rotating hole, rainfree base, north of Kit Carson |
![]() Sky filled with virga, high based storms N of Kit Carson |
![]() Brief microburst near Kit Carson |
![]() Lowering bases and intensifying storms, eastern Colorado |
![]() Dryline ramping up, severe storms developing, north of Kit Carson, Hway 59 |
![]() Towards early evening higher dewpoints mix into the dryline from the east. This resulted in rapid intensification of storms |
![]() Backshearing anvil, severe storm near Hway 59 |
![]() Interesting to watch the updrafts throw a tail out to the west where they mixed in moisture and dry air.
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![]() Hail shaft |
![]() Rotating hole in base - we suspect that the circulation was drawing in dry air from west of the dryline |
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![]() Rotating updraft core - we suspect that the roation was induced by outflow |
![]() Impressive rainfree updraft core |
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![]() Hailshafts |
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![]() Hailshafts falling back through strong updrafts in a low shear environment |
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![]() Chase car in hail |
![]() Large hailstones falling adjacent Hway 59 |
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![]() Hailstones appeared as weird conglomerates - jagged - snowy rimes - conical and hard golfballs |
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![]() Impressive receding dryline storms, eastern Colorado |
![]() Low hills coated with impressive hail depths, 5 miles to our east. |
![]() Highway 59, Colorado's Hailstone Highway |
![]() A very happy Michael King!! |
![]() Hailstone swathe was barely a mile wide |
![]() Magnificent sunlit flanking line, Hway 59 |
![]() Heaven!!! |
![]() Tail end Charlie |
![]() More heaven!!! |
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Stay tuned for tomorrow's episode... |