End of the Day

I like this shot -- this was shot at the end of a day of chasing in Amazonia, Missouri, on June 7, 2009. At left is a Doppler on Wheels truck, owned and operated by the Center for Severe Weather Research during Project Vortex 2 -- you can see them in action on the Discovery Channel show "Storm Chasers". At left is a videographer, shooting for (I believe) the Weather Channel and MSNBC. This particular supercell was a bit of a nailbiter; it started out less than promising, then rapidly ramped up as the Vortex 2 crew waiting for it atop a hill in Missouri. Suddenly, over the radio, Josh Wurman, the usually unflappable leader of CSWR, began yelling at everyone to get te heck out of the way for the expensive radar trucks and probe trucks who were rapidly fleeing the area, as 5 inch wide hail was falling only 1000 meters away. It chased us all the way to the interstate, where the crew finally got ahead of the storm again. This is where we all parked to wait for the storm to pass over our head -- and this is the view of the storm after it did.