Even nonsevere storms under weak shear can add to the grandeur of a High Plains sky, with the southern rim of the Black Hills lining the eastern horizon. Such did this fascinating multicell formation developing right alongside our travels toward Montana for future days’ supercellular potential. Occasional crackles of distant thunder reverberated sharply as gunfire across the grasslands, as the storms grew minute by minute. Indeed, the faint, fading channel of a staccato lightning burst winds in ghostly stealth through the main precip core at right. Within minutes, the entire elongated cloud-base area nearest this position was unloading both precip and electrical discharges, and expanding closer. This sent us on our way, with a wish not to risk life for just an “ordinary” Great Plains storm that was, in reality, anything but plain in an experiential sense.
19 S Newcastle WY (8 Jun 16) Looking SE
43.573, -104.1928High Bases over the High Plains
Even nonsevere storms under weak shear can add to the grandeur of a High Plains sky, with the southern rim of the Black Hills lining the eastern horizon. Such did this fascinating multicell formation developing right alongside our travels toward Montana for future days’ supercellular potential. Occasional crackles of distant thunder reverberated sharply as gunfire across the grasslands, as the storms grew minute by minute. Indeed, the faint, fading channel of a staccato lightning burst winds in ghostly stealth through the main precip core at right. Within minutes, the entire elongated cloud-base area nearest this position was unloading both precip and electrical discharges, and expanding closer. This sent us on our way, with a wish not to risk life for just an “ordinary” Great Plains storm that was, in reality, anything but plain in an experiential sense.
19 S Newcastle WY (8 Jun 16) Looking SE
43.573, -104.1928