Wednesday, August 04, 2010

August 4th Brief

Did a little storm chasing on foot this afternoon. Storms are moving slow... but it's rush hour, so I probably won't follow.

Hand-triggered this lightning strike. :)


Stubby funnel cloud... lasted for about two minutes with moderate rotation.


Anyway, given that these storms formed on a convergence boundary, I would have liked to have seen the ground under this funnel. I suspect it is more landspout-ish in nature. There wasn't much, if any rotation in the storm itself.


Hail, south over Castle Rock


Dann.

6 comments:

Michael O'Keeffe said...

Very nice!

Ben Toms said...

Are you sure that isn't scud?

Dann Cianca said...

Michael: Thanks!

Ben: Well, come to think of it... I better go back to Spotter Training... lol. I guess it was just a moderately rotating column of scud.

nEo said...

I shot some short video of the storm that produced hail over CR near the Target. We saw 3 very brief funnels, the last of which was like an inverted triangle. Nice pics man!

suaave said...

Nice dude...I was in desperate need of a storm. I dig the lightning shot! I was stoked when I got off of work when CG's were falling all over the place and went to grab the camera then the urban monsoon hit so I just sat back and enjoyed

Dann Cianca said...

Neo: You gonna put the video up? Thanks!

Eric: Sometimes it's just nice to rage at the heavens... I hear ya' man. :) Thanks.