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Prairie Storm Looming

2024-09-21 By Roger Edwards

Prairie Storm Looming

Looming darkly over a couple abandoned South Dakota schoolhouses, a big supercell base casts an ominous pall over the landscape, while a wall cloud gathers (behind the gap between the buildings).  Despite the size and obvious great depth of this growing storm, it would fail to produce a tornado before being overtaken by a raging complex.   That trailing activity evolved from an earlier supercell that I had tracked across southern Montana, northeastern Wyoming and western South Dakota.  Once that activity absorbed this, the merged and even more intense storm cluster, with a broad and strong area of rotation buried inside, would produce a photogenic arcus with tremendous outflow, then rage into the night flinging much electricity from its back parts.  For a nontornadic event, this was a long and adventuresome storm-intercept day!

4 N Wicksville SD (12 Jun 22) Looking NW
44.177, -102.5877

Filed Under: The Majestic Supercell, Wall Cloud Wall Tagged With: abandoned, clouds, Great Plains, landscapes, South Dakota, storms, supercells, thunderstorms, weather, Wicksville

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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