USA Storm Chasing Expedition - 6th June 2011
\The view from the
hotel room.. Wow!
Continuing from the day
before, I re-enter Yellowstone National Park.
Here you can (Just) see
a Grizzly bear and two cubs.
Lots of people looking
on.
Hello. (It was 450
metres away)
Lazy Elk.
I think there are more
bears on those hills.... (There was, but it was a LONG way away)
Old Faithful doing its
thing.
Hundreds looking on.
It's dying now.
I have a storm in
target.. Need to head north.
I would have liked to
have seen Montana. (Oh, here it is)
----- A line from the "The Hunt For Red October" had to be inserted
somewhere in here ----
A back road to get
north.
Storms.
Wow..
A baby hail core.. Pea
size..
I tested it.
Nothing too
spectacular.
I see a rainbow.
Got a storm in my
sights.
This looks a bit grey.
Heading east.
I see a hail core.
Quite a decent hail
core.
Time for some
measurements.
Biggest stone found was
1" after melting.
A tornado... NOT.
(Easy to be fooled eh?)
It looks like one, but
isn't. This scared the living daylights out of the drivers behind me.. NO ONE
WOULD PASS..
NO ONE!!!!
I proceed..
Nice.
There is rotation in
here..
Just no funnel quite
yet.
Colours were amazing.
Never quite seen
structure like it.
A wall cloud starting
to form.
Almost there.
WALL CLOUD DEAD AHEAD!
Real tornado threat
possible..
I am participating in
the local Skywarn Net with the NWS Emergency Manager.
A number of us are
tracking this storm through Billings, Montana.
Even the local
hospitals listen to our emergency transmissions, so they don't have to wait for
the tornado sirens.
Lightning makes the
tornado visible if there is one.
Scary stuff.
Time to head to the
hotel.. But a few shots first.
A bit of a lightning
show here.
So bright, it over
exposed the photo - What a day... Bears and Tornadoes.!!!