A long chase day, that started in midafternoon over southern Montana, ended near the northeast rim of the South Dakota Badlands in twilight, after I bailed off a growing, rotating cluster of severe storms that evolved from merged supercells. While preparing to shoot lightning eastward into the back of that cluster, I noticed a small, discrete, elevated supercell to the northwest, also throwing sparks. Decision time! Shoot northwest or east? With increasing coverage and thickness of cold outflow scud (bottom middle to bottom right) racing across the northern view, and uncertain how long this storm would last, I decided on the supercell first. It didn’t produce many more decent lightning flashes, but this most certainly was one.
1 N Cactus Flat SD (12 Jun 22) Looking NW
43.8478, -101.8998