Severe Storm Photography from Spring 2005
All photos copyrighted by Dave Chapman
June 7th: South Dakota LP Supercell and Tornadoes
| Farm scene as I drive west from Pierre, South Dakota. |
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| Another blissful setting. Too bad it gets so cold up here. |
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| Developing LP Supercell just west of Badlands National Park in southwest South Dakota. |
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| Another LP storm is further south. Although the northern storm is stronger, the southern storm has better inflow. |
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| After a half-hour, it becomes clear that the northern storm is weakening. Also, the southern storm has stopped moving towards me and is drifting very slowly east. I continue driving south. |
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| Amazing. |
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| A funnel cloud develops. |
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| It lowers towards the ground. |
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| The first funnel dissipates. |
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| A couple of minutes later, a new tornado touches down. |
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| A closer look. |
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| That's it for tornado production as storm rotation weakens. |
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| Watching the storm move northeast across dramatic South Dakota scenery. |
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