A late-developing, messy, poorly structured supercell to the southwest was all we had to show for a daylong trip from Norman in positioning north for the following, anticipated bigger day…until this brief but dazzling sunset. Dodging a couple of uncommon but close lightning strikes, I managed to exit the vehicle just long enough to snap a few slides of thus beautiful sky before the window of crepuscular-punctuated color faded. A loosely similar Kansas sunset eight years later brought this one back to mind, and the next day in South Dakota truly was a chase never to forget.
4 W Chadron NE (29 May 98) Looking NW
42.8258, -103.0909