What can be more evocative of the Great Plains ideal than rolling shortgrass prairie, a windmill, and of course, a funnel cloud? Fortunately for a few locusts and jackrabbits in the projected path, the circulation producing the persistent but only modestly spinning funnel never intensified into a tornado, as far as we could tell.
8 SE Bridgeport NE (15 May 15) Looking WSW
41.587, -102.984Quintessential Great Plains
What can be more evocative of the Great Plains ideal than rolling shortgrass prairie, a windmill, and of course, a funnel cloud? Fortunately for a few locusts and jackrabbits in the projected path, the circulation producing the persistent but only modestly spinning funnel never intensified into a tornado, as far as we could tell.
8 SE Bridgeport NE (15 May 15) Looking WSW
41.587, -102.984