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Storm and landscape photography on the High Plains.
June 18, 2007Showing 1-40 of 4110633 visitsAlbum by Bill PurcellPhotos by Bill Purcell
Enlarge photo 1 8/26 - Double rainbow, Grimes County, TX
Enlarge photo 2 5/30 - Wildflowers, supercell. Callahan County, TX.
Enlarge photo 3 5/31 - Lightning display, Midland, TX.
Enlarge photo 4 5/31 - Lightning display, Midland, TX.
Enlarge photo 5 5/31 - Lightning display, Midland, TX.  Note illumination of precipitation fallstreaks being blown from left to right (northward).
Enlarge photo 6 5/31 - Lightning display, Midland, TX.
Enlarge photo 7 6/1 - Developing supercell, Seminole, TX.
Enlarge photo 8 6/1 - Developing supercell, Seminole, TX.
Enlarge photo 9 6/1 Supercell, developing tornado. SE Gaines County, TX.
Enlarge photo 10 6/1 - Wall cloud, brief dust-tube tornado - SE Gaines County, TX.
Enlarge photo 11 6/1 - Re-organizing mesocyclone after outflow-dominant phase.
Enlarge photo 12 6/1 - Desert wildflowers, massive A-bomb supercell at sunset. Andrews County, TX.
Enlarge photo 13 6/1 - Supercell at sunset.  Andrews County, TX.
Enlarge photo 14 6/3 - Supercell (wall cloud, tail cloud).  Midland, TX.
Enlarge photo 15 6/3 - Mesocyclone with tilted, multi-tiered wall cloud and wild "blue streak" south of Midland.
Enlarge photo 16 6/3 - Intense rotation within sloped updraft as the storm bears down on Midkiff.
Enlarge photo 17 6/3 - Apparent anti-cyclonic eddy (tornado?) on the extremity of the RFD, just west of Midkiff.
Enlarge photo 18 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.
Enlarge photo 19 6/3 - Hailfall, hail fog.  About 10 SE Midland.
Enlarge photo 20 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.
Enlarge photo 21 6/3 - Drifting hail fog.
Enlarge photo 22 6/4 - Gaillardias, Tahoka daisies, groundsel - Palo Duro S.P.
Enlarge photo 23 6/4 - Prickly pear, the "Lighthouse" formation - Palo Duro S.P.
Enlarge photo 24 6/5 - Developing high-based storm. Union County, NM.
Enlarge photo 25 6/5 - Updraft wraps up tightly into donut-shaped supercell. NW of Clayton, NM.
Enlarge photo 26 6/5 - Rain falling through mesocyclone.
Enlarge photo 27 6/5 - Rotation weakens as storm to the west intensifies and precipitation interacts with initial storm.
Enlarge photo 28 6/5 - Second storm intensifies further, begins to show rotation.
Enlarge photo 29 6/5 - Second storm wraps up broad, elongated mesocyclone.
Enlarge photo 30 6/5 - Second supercell before it begins to weaken.
Enlarge photo 31 6/5 - Disorganized convection, Dallam County, TX.
Enlarge photo 32 6/7 - Monument Rocks, KS.
Enlarge photo 33 6/7 - Natural arch, Monument Rocks.
Enlarge photo 34 6/7 - Cliff swallows, mud nests in the arch - Monument Rocks.
Enlarge photo 35 6/7 - Gaillardias at Monument Rocks.
Enlarge photo 36 6/7 - Swallow hovering upside-down, presumably feeding its young. Monument Rocks.
Enlarge photo 37 6/7 - Gaillardias, Monument Rocks.
Enlarge photo 38 6/8 - Wildflowers, red sandstone. Union County, NM, Hwy. 456.
Enlarge photo 39 6/8 - View from the rim of Mt. Capulin, NM.
Enlarge photo 40 6/8 - Mountain lupine, Capulin volcano.