Colors in this New Mexico storm became breathtaking with the sunset.
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My Honda Element has a great viewing spot.
On May 18, Kathy Velasquez and I aimed for the point where extreme western Texas met New Mexico, in the only warm air on the front that wasn’t in Mexico.
We went to El Paso and then north into New Mexico to chase the storms there. As a bonus, we saw a variety of scenery along the way.
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As it got darker, the colors shifted.
I chased storms on my own May 29, 2015, targeting east-central New Mexico, hoping for an isolated storm.
Instead, there were many storms growing and dying in rapid succession, but it was still a great photography day, with wildflowers, storm structure, mammatus and a wonderful sunset.
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Here’s the shelf cloud as it appeared to the southwest.
On June 5, 2014, I started my day in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and decided to target southeast Colorado. This would be my last day of chasing in Tornado Alley for this season.
I made a stop in Limon, running into Charles Edwards of Cloud 9 Tours, and evaluated data before committing to the target. The first storm I chased was near the southernmost town in Colorado, Branson.
The severe storms led me into the dramatic topography of northeastern New Mexico and then the Texas Panhandle, when lightning lured me to pause during my all-night drive, as I was starting my trip home to the east coast.
I was especially delighted to get shots of a storm looming over the Route 66 landmark U Drop Inn in Shamrock, Texas. The beautiful wee-hours storms were a satisfying way to end a trip of meager setups and an insane amount of driving.
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