Best photos of 09 chase season

[Dean Baron]

Rotating updraft on the northeast part of a storm in north central Nebraska- May 20th:

Incredible structure on a tornado warned storm west of Waseca, MN- June 17th

July 13th- Tornado warned storm in central South Dakota, this is the storm that would go on to be the Valentine storm, had to bail on it due to zero road options south.

July 13th again, the severe warned supercell north of the storm in the previous pic, definately different looking but still a very cool storm.

 

[Michael O'Keeffe]

We didn't have a great year for tornadoes but we got a few decent pics along the way. Here are just a few.

Lightning from July 27.

A high based supercell near Corn, OK on April 25.

Incredible LP supercell just 30 miles from home on a surprise chase that bagged me a small tornado.

Just a random shot at a developing supercell near St. Joseph, MO on May 7.

 

[Chris C Sanner]

Here are a few for me....had a handful of incredibly unspectacular and unphotogenic Tornadoes this year (minus the two on April 26)...but quite a few decent days mixed in. I'll post five non tornado pics since my pics from the 26th aren't near as good as many since I didn't have a good vantage point for either. Facebook quality I'm using here sucks...but I'll post five from there since I'm retooling my website.

March 23 near Crescent, OK

April 25 near Willow, OK

May 1 near Seymour, TX

August 17 near Geary, OK

August 17 near Geary, OK

 

[Eric Treece]

This wasn't one of my best years, but it was still enjoyable.

#1

23 June 2009 near Stapleton, NE Supercell


#2

7 June 2009 Tornado South of Byers, CO.



#3

5 June 2009 LaGrange, WY Tornado rope out.


There are ALOT of really great photos posted here. My favorite 3 would be Mike Hollingheads Truckstop Meso/Lightning, Scott Weberpals June 7 CG Shot, and Jeff Snyders June 9 Meso shot near Dodge City. Another that is one of my favorites that isn't posted here is Mike Umscheids "Between The Ears" CG shot taken a couple of weeks ago. Amazing shot!

 

[Jerry Funfsinn]

April 26, 2009 near Crawford Oklahoma tornado was by far the best tornado image I've had to date. I have not seen a similar picturesque tornado since near Edson Kansas in 2007. You would not believe how hard it is to get a tube to pose in good contrast. LOL

Next image is near Roll Oklahoma on the same date. April 26, 2009

June 5,2009 Goshen County, Wyoming

 

[John Farley]

I posted a couple months ago in this thread, but have gotten a few more since then:

Above: Watrous, NM, July 28.

Above: Edwardsville, IL, August 16.

Above: From 1 mile north of Roodhouse, IL, August 19.

The tornado picture is nothing special from a technical standpoint, as it is just a video capture, taken through a closed window due to very close CG, but what a beautiful tornado it was!

 

[John J. Holt]

Near Orlando, Ok.

Alva, Ok.

Northwest of Alva, Ok.

 

[L Kimbrel]

Ok, my year was a bust, too, but I did get some pretty cool non-tornadic pics.

A nice little backyard cold-air funnel.


A rare terrestrial visit by the Starship Enterprise.


Rotating meso preceded by a massive hailshaft. (Ignore the date, I forgot to reset the camera.)


And this last one I didn't mean to add, but I can't figure out how to remove it, so oh well.

The cool part is they were all taken within 25 miles of home. Cheap fun.

 

[Chad Cowan]

June 20 - Rantoul, KS:

May 29 - Somewhere in Texas, about 100 yards north of Mexico:

June 20 - Rantoul, KS:

May 13 - Southwest of Kirksville, MO

May 15 - Leawood, KS:

May 27 - Western OK:

June 17 - Sabetha, KS:

 

[Andrew Pritchard]

One of my more disappointing years, but I'll throw in a couple shots.

May 29 2009 - Minisupercell near Champaign, IL.

April 23 2009 - Near the wind farm in southwest McLean County, IL

March 23 2009 - Herrington KS early supercell.

August 19 2009 - My girlfriend Tia navigating us towards a tornado warned supercell. Not a storm, but there is something beautiful about the girl I love eye balling the radar as we approach a storm and enjoying herself.

 

[Jason Boggs]

Not a storm, but there is something beautiful about the girl I love eye balling the radar as we approach a storm and enjoying herself.

You're lucky to have a girl like her to enjoy storms with. Don't let her get away!!!

 

[JeffGonzales]

3-23-09 Stillwater, OK

4-16-09 Ralls, TX

4-18-09 Leedy, OK

 

[Paul Hadfield]

Judging by what all of you have posted thus far, if I didn't know any better I would think that 2009 was the best season yet. I won't lie in saying that I have been hesitant on adding to this thread. My year though colorful has IMO been one giant meso fail since I am unable to travel far. So as for the following pics, the first three had not been seen until I posted them on Facebook a few weeks back. Since they were well received over there, I figured it would be safe to do so here.

June 18th, Decatur IL - from outside of my work a little after 6AM looking SW on a tornado warned cell wherefore the meso/WC (out of frame to the right) just missed us by about a mile. As mentioned on FB, disregarded for the awning but came back for the activity being expressed.

June 19th, Atwood IL - Just a shelf out ahead of a svr warned squall line but I like where the angles are all going.

June 19th, Forsyth IL - Another shelf but this time along the CF after dusk. Despite no warnings, liked how the various lighting works in this shot.

Rare shots..?

March 11 - Ice spike on patio furniture forming as result of overnight flash freeze behind passing weather system. Can't say I've seen too many of these. It was only about 1.5 inches long, used the 58mm macro attachment. Vinyl chair slat was only about an inch as well.

May 7 - Unusual swordfish looking wall cloud over Assumption IL. Got a really good time lapse of this feature at the end of this video.

September 8 - Double flyby of the ISS and Shuttle Discovery. Get those shuttle shots in while you still can!

 

[A.Theunissen]

Near Montreal, Qc. july 11

Odessa, Texas. april 11

Lubbock, Texas april 16

 

[Brandon Headley]