This was a day between intended supercell chases, while staying at a longtime-favorite resort of cabins above Hot Springs, SD. We decided to head out to a familiar over look in Wind Cave National Park to see what sort of wonderful sunset lay ahead. A shallow, small multicell storm was cruising fairly hastily eastward across the park, dropping copious loads of small hail; within less than 15 minutes the storm was several miles off to the NE, expanding, and painting a marvelous self-portrait across the northeastern sky. The north edge of the main rain and hail core sported a rainbow, and the outer segment of a double bow can be seen to its left in a fuzzier core. Mammatus, wavy altocumulus, fractocumulus, the cumulonimbus itself, and the gracefully rolling landscapes of the Great Plains/Black Hills transition zone all joined to offer a pleasing, placid, richly textured scene that the camera only could sample in part.
7 NNW Hot Springs, SD (14 Jun 11) Looking NE
43.5271, -103.495
Sunlit Storm over Wind Cave National Park
This was a day between intended supercell chases, while staying at a longtime-favorite resort of cabins above Hot Springs, SD. We decided to head out to a familiar over look in Wind Cave National Park to see what sort of wonderful sunset lay ahead. A shallow, small multicell storm was cruising fairly hastily eastward across the park, dropping copious loads of small hail; within less than 15 minutes the storm was several miles off to the NE, expanding, and painting a marvelous self-portrait across the northeastern sky. The north edge of the main rain and hail core sported a rainbow, and the outer segment of a double bow can be seen to its left in a fuzzier core. Mammatus, wavy altocumulus, fractocumulus, the cumulonimbus itself, and the gracefully rolling landscapes of the Great Plains/Black Hills transition zone all joined to offer a pleasing, placid, richly textured scene that the camera only could sample in part.
7 NNW Hot Springs, SD (14 Jun 11) Looking NE
43.5271, -103.495