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Storms, 2007
Storm and landscape photography on the High Plains.
Date(s): June 18, 2007. Album by Bill Purcell. Photos by Bill Purcell. 1 - 41 of 41 Total. 8993 Visits.
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8/26 - Double rainbow, Grimes County, TX

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5/30 - Wildflowers, supercell. Callahan County, TX.

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5/31 - Lightning display, Midland, TX.

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5/31 - Lightning display, Midland, TX.

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5/31 - Lightning display, Midland, TX.  Note illumination of precipitation fallstreaks being blown from left to right (northward).

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5/31 - Lightning display, Midland, TX.

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6/1 - Developing supercell, Seminole, TX.

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6/1 - Developing supercell, Seminole, TX.

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6/1 Supercell, developing tornado. SE Gaines County, TX.

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6/1 - Wall cloud, brief dust-tube tornado - SE Gaines County, TX.

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6/1 - Re-organizing mesocyclone after outflow-dominant phase.

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6/1 - Desert wildflowers, massive A-bomb supercell at sunset. Andrews County, TX.

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6/1 - Supercell at sunset.  Andrews County, TX.

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6/3 - Supercell (wall cloud, tail cloud).  Midland, TX.

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6/3 - Mesocyclone with tilted, multi-tiered wall cloud and wild "blue streak" south of Midland.

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6/3 - Intense rotation within sloped updraft as the storm bears down on Midkiff.

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6/3 - Apparent anti-cyclonic eddy (tornado?) on the extremity of the RFD, just west of Midkiff.

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6/3 - Ominous wall cloud looming above wheat field, pumpjack.  Black-and-blue "whale's mouth" in the rear flank undercut by outflow. Midkiff, TX.

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6/3 - Hailfall, hail fog.  About 10 SE Midland.

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6/3 - Disc-shaped hailstones to about 1" diameter, with concentric banding of clear and white ice.  Stones were likely spinning vertically as they were tossed up and down through different temperature strata.

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6/3 - Drifting hail fog.

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6/4 - Gaillardias, Tahoka daisies, groundsel - Palo Duro S.P.

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6/4 - Prickly pear, the "Lighthouse" formation - Palo Duro S.P.

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6/5 - Developing high-based storm. Union County, NM.

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6/5 - Updraft wraps up tightly into donut-shaped supercell. NW of Clayton, NM.

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6/5 - Rain falling through mesocyclone.

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6/5 - Rotation weakens as storm to the west intensifies and precipitation interacts with initial storm.

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6/5 - Second storm intensifies further, begins to show rotation.

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6/5 - Second storm wraps up broad, elongated mesocyclone.

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6/5 - Second supercell before it begins to weaken.

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6/5 - Disorganized convection, Dallam County, TX.

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6/7 - Monument Rocks, KS.

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6/7 - Natural arch, Monument Rocks.

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6/7 - Cliff swallows, mud nests in the arch - Monument Rocks.

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6/7 - Gaillardias at Monument Rocks.

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6/7 - Swallow hovering upside-down, presumably feeding its young. Monument Rocks.

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6/7 - Gaillardias, Monument Rocks.

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6/8 - Wildflowers, red sandstone. Union County, NM, Hwy. 456.

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6/8 - View from the rim of Mt. Capulin, NM.

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6/8 - Mountain lupine, Capulin volcano.

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6/9 - Wildflowers, storm anvil - Melrose, NM.

 
   
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