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We spent the night in Amarillo on June 8, 1998. The
dry line passed Amarillo during the night. Review of morning data at the National
Weather Service Office indicated that the highest risk of severe weather should be in
central Kansas and northern Oklahoma. We headed northeast toward northwest
Oklahoma.. This photo was taken near Canadian, Texas looking southeast toward
towering cumulus that was developing along the dryline. |
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Looking east. This and the next three photographs of
a developing thunderstorm were taken in north central Oklahoma. The dryline and the
storms were moving much too quickly to catch. |
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We drove southeast to Oklahoma City to intercept storms
which had formed on the southern end of the dryline, but couldn't quite get ahead of and
south of the updrafts. We were stuck in traffic while an intense supercell raked
Norman with large hail and high winds. The storm moved east and produced a brief
tornado ESE of Norman at Wewoka, Oklahoma. We started back to Dallas, but stopped to
get this and the next three photographs of another supercell moving through the Oklahoma
City area at sunset. This and the next three photos were taken looking NNW from just
east of Paul's Valley, Oklahoma. |
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Three photos of late season thunderstorms in northeast
Texas. |
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Looking west at highly sheared towering cumulus.
Upper level flow was from the northwest.. |
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Looking east at the thunderstorm which developed from the
towering cumulus picture above. Note that the anvil is flowing southeast from the
storm updraft which was located on the northwest side of the system. |
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Rain curtains in eastern Colorado. |
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Looking southwest at a low precipitation (LP) supercell
from near the intersection of I-35W and state highway 67 south of Fort Worth Texas.
Martin Lisius shot a time lapse 35mm movie of the development of this storm. Even
though the storm was small, updraft rates were impressive. NWS reported that the
WSR-88D doppler radar indicated the storm was rotating. 3/4 to 1 inch diameter hail
was failing from the storm when these photos were taken. |
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The Pawnee Buttes. |
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Pawnee Buttes is located in a wild sparsely populated part
of northeastern Colorado where the native prairie has been preserved. |
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Al Moller and his friend Patty photographing the Pawnee
Buttes of northeastern Colorado at sunset. |
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Springtime wild flowers in the Texas Hill Country northwest
of Austin - my wife and I spent a couple of days touring the Hill Country.
Although there were pockets of color, 1998 was not a good year for wildflowers. |
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Cirrus, railroad tracks, wildflowers and a grain silo
near Dalhart, Texas |
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Storms were not forecast for the northeastern Colorado on
the day these images were shot, so we went to Rocky Mountain National Park.
These photos were shot from Trail Ridge Road, high atop the Rocky Mountains of northern
Colorado. |
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