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| August 3/4, 2010: Northern Lights First time I have seen Auroras. It was a C class solar flare that set them off, so it wasn't anything crazy, but for about 1-2 minutes there was a nice south surge. There are 3 images and an animation. |
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| July 17, 2010: Watertown, Minnesota Supercell Had a dying supercell come just north of Waconia, and it had some incredible structure just before it vanished into nothing. Later I tried to get ahead of a bow segment north of town, witnessed a powerflash and a pole snap in 60mph winds. 11 images. |
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| July 13, 2010: SE North Dakota supercell A last second decision to chase at first appears to be a bad decision but then a storm organizes and nearly produces a tornado and had some impressive structure tracking into Minnesota. There are 10 images in the account. |
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| June 20, 2010: Norway, Kansas Bow segment A day with a lot of Potential, storms went up and quickly gusted out, really a waste of an amazing shear day. Stayed ahead of the bow and witnessed a brief tornado on the leading edge of the bow! very odd. Video later. |
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| June 10, 2010: Last Chance, Colorado supercell Spent most of the day in Ogallala hoping for something to go up in SW Nebraska, but when hope was nearly lost we dashed for Colorado storms. Glad we did, saw some of the coolest structure of the year at sunset with lightning! |
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| June 3, 2010: St Paul, Nebraska supercell Some of the more interesting structure I have seen all year. Nice sunset structure ops, and driving through monsoon cores, then at the end of the day got to witness and photograph some incredible twilight lightning! There are 8 images total. |
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| June 1, 2010: Omaha Local HP supercell First local chase day of the year, though it was very tough forecasting where storms would go up, we still got in on some action just a few miles from home! INCREDIBLE green core and CG lightning display, best I've seen all year. There are 7 images in the account |
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| May 19, 2010 Western Oklahoma Tornadoes Another big tornado day in Oklahoma, three straight chases with at least 2 tornadoes in Oklahoma! Chased an incredibly structured supercell from its birth and witnessed 3 tornadoes. At the end of the day had a nice mammatus display as well. There are 15 images in the report. |
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| May 18, 2010 Oklahoma Panhandle Tornadoes A last second decision chase ends up being worth it! Left Omaha at 11:20am and got to Guyman, OK in time to catch a tornado supercell that produced two tornadoes! Better yet we didn't see any other chasers on this storm. There are 6 images. |
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| May 10, 2010 NC Oklahoma Tornadoes A tornado outbreak occurred across Oklahoma and SC Kansas, we chased in N Oklahoma and saw baseball sized hail on the ground, tornado damage, several funnels, 4 tornadoes and some of the craziest motions I have ever seen. Great day! there are 8 images total. |
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| April 29, 2010 NC Kansas Supercells A day that I wasn't really excited to begin with, but it ended up being the best day of the year so far and the some of the better structure I've seen. Did see a tornado, but didn't know about it at the time, so can't really count it. There are 11 images total. |
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| April 5-6, 2010: NE KS/NE IA A couple of hopeful days that turned out no so great. Did get on a tornado warned storm both days though. Tuesday in IA we saw a nice low wall cloud, and got blown around in 50mph RFD winds. Not a real exciting start to the year, but it'll do. There are 4 images total. |
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| February 25: Light Pillars/River Steam Spent 10 hours shooting light pillars and river steam with star trails between 10p.m. and 8a.m. with Chris and Mike. Some very cool light pillar scenes with the moon pillars accompanying the light pillars! it was quite the night. There are 7 images total. |
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| January 20: NW Iowa Ice Storm A Major ice storm in northwestern Iowa left areas devastated with downed branches and power outages. I "chased" the area from Dunlap to Soldier looking for the biggest accumulations. There are 22 images total. |
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| January 16: Freezing fog/Hoar frost/Rime Ice Accumulating freezing fog, either hoar frost or rime ice, I'm not sure which one. These were taken just west of Omaha, made a pretty cool looking wintry scene. A frozen wasteland, if you will. There are 7 images total. |
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| January 7-14: Sun dogs and fog Sun dogs after a snowstorm with lots of blowing snow, a brief CZA. Fog from an observation tower and the brightest fogbow I've ever seen. Never thought I'd be chasing fog in January lol. There are 7 images total. |
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| November 16, 20, 27th: Squaw Creek Went to squaw creek in the fog, snow and sun. Not a ton of great stuff in here, due to the fog/snow trips totally sucking and the one good day there weren't that many birds. There are 7 images total. |
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| October 10: Record Snowfall A surprise fall snowstorm blankets the Omaha area with 3-7" of snow, most of the leaves still had not only leaves, but green leaves on them. I decided to document the rare event and took some images. There are 6 images. |
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| September 2-7: Backpacking trip I went on a backpacking trip with 7 guys from Omaha to the Wind River Range in Wyoming. Not a ton of top notch photos, it's more of a documentation of the trip, as most shots are taking during normal light. There are 12 images total. |
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| Autumn fog outings Various fog images from 4-5 outings in August and September. Fog developed frequently in 2009, since it was one of the coldest summers on record. This might have been the best year for fog for a long time. There are 6 images total. |
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| August 30: Western Iowa fog Woke up early and drove to the Loess Hills in Western Iowa to take photos of fog from Above, later when the sun rose I saw my first fog bows and man were they bright! There are 10 images total. |
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| August 11: Perseid Meteor shower/other Had a meteor Marathon and observed over 270 over two days, also the most intense anticrepuscular ray I have ever seen, caused by a thunderstorm that lit up the sky and star trails. There are 8 images total. |
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| July 28-29th: Snowy Range Trip Hiked in the Medicine Bow mountains of southeast Wyoming. Saw a moose! summited a 12,000 foot mountain and photographed some beautiful morning light and glacial lake scenes. There are 22 images total. |
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| July 27-28th: Black Hills Trip Hiked Harney Peak in Custer State Park. Drove the crazy windy highway 87 with one lane tunnels. Hailstorm, Mountaingoat and great views the whole time. There are 18 images total. |
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| July 25-27th: Badlands Trip Camped at Sage Creek campground in Badlands National Park for two nights. Had some encounters with Big horn sheep, Buffalo, Rattlesnakes and Prairie dogs. There are two pages with 30 images total. |
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| July 3, 2009: York, NE Fireworks My friend Justin Unrau invited me to photograph his fireworks show at his brother in-laws about 7 miles west of York, NE. He had wired a huge show of 2800 shells together on a trailer. There are 15 images total |
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| June 25-28th: Arkansas Trip Camped for four days in NW Arkansas with some really cool people, A really crazy trip with a lot of unexpected adventures. Not a ton of great images, but a great experience for sure. There are 12 images total. |
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| June 17, 2009: Aurora, Nebraska Tornado We barely caught this incredible supercell 10 minutes before it drops the tornado of the day. We are in great position to shoot structure with the tornado on the ground. It was on the ground for 18 minutes. There are 11 images total. |
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| June 17, 2009: Odell, Nebraska Supercell Intercepted a huge supercell with the most incredible structure I have ever seen, We followed this storm about 25 miles. The entire meso was rotating, it was the scariest storm I have seen this year. There are 7 images total. |
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| June 7, 2009: Dallas Center, IA wall cloud I wasn't even chasing today, but on the way home from Minnesota we intercepted a supercell Northwest of Des Moines. After getting home Storms fired southwest of town and produce some nice CG's over i-80. There are 6 images total. |
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| May 31, 2009: Hawthorne, IA Chase Frustrating road options lead into a nice twilight lightning op in southwest Iowa, on the way home storms develop south of Omaha producing a lot of lightning and more opportunity for imaging. Total miles: 192. There are 8 images total. |
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| May 1, 2009: Downtown Omaha These are the first images taken with my wide angle sigma 10-20mm lens. The sky wasn't very generous to me, but I needed something to shoot to test the lens before getting into the real chase season. There are 9 images total. |
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| April 4, 2009: Sutton, NE Chase Chased a high based mini Supercell east of Sutton, Nebraska. Had nice rotation and a brief wall cloud and funnel (not associated with wall cloud), 3 tornado reports from this storm, although we didn't see it. Total Miles: 276. There are 6 images total. |
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| March 23, 2009: Weston, NE Chase A short Local chase on two tornado warned cells, one near Weston and Malmo, NE, the other was the Omaha tornado warned cell that previously produced a tornado near Alvo. Total Miles: 105, Severe Observed: Quarter sized hail. There are 3 images total. |
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| March 5, 2009: Murray Hill Fog With a clear sky forecasted, I drove the hour north to Little Sioux, Iowa and to my suprise a wall of fog developed and overtook the hill while I was on the top. Turns out that snowmelt alone can cause low lying fog. There are 16 images total. |
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| January 30, 2009: Omaha Skyline I barrowed a 300mm lens, and decided to shoot the Omaha skyline. I drove to Lewis and Clark Park, which is on a bluff in Council Bluffs with an incredible view of the skyline. There are 8 images total, including two large Panoramas. |
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