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May 17, 2005 Arnold Nebraska Dry Microburst

 

This is a very cool spot just north of Arnold Nebraska. You come around the corner and you are up on this huge hill looking out at flatness. The storm producing that Anvil is near North Platte and is now tornado warned.

 

 

I'm now southwest of Arnold NE looking at the supercell near North Platte. It tried really hard here to produce but just couldn't get it done.

 

 

Convection forming north of it started to connect with it and we have ourself a lovely line.

 

 

I'm now east of Arnold looking west. If you ever see a hole or clearing forming quickly in the clouds, watch out. They are eroding from some air that is decending rapidly. You end up with a dry microbust.

 

 

Dirt just starting to be forced upward.

 

 

Vigorous dustdevil forming.

 

 

Plumes of dirt racing upwards to the cloud bases.

 

 

It takes the dust devil a while but it finally goes right behind my car. There had to be some pretty good vertical velocity in that dust. It was reaching the cloud bases rather quickly.

 

 

There it goes with lots of dirt soon to follow.

 

 

This new strong plume of dirt formed west of me as I raced se, just ahead of it. It offered a pretty cool view on the west side of Broken Bow. I should have just sat here and shot time lapse of this as it didn't continue and build like I had hoped it would.

 

 

East of Broken Bow somewhere. Yet again another storm in the line kicked up dirt to the cloud bases. I had to get this shot with the sign, road, and storm. I wish the storm was a bit more impressive.

 

 

East again and weak convection with nice mammatus.

 

 

Sunset east of Loup City. I used a slow shutter hoping for a cg or two but they had stopped.