{"id":1851,"date":"2023-05-23T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2026-01-18T17:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:48:14","slug":"23-may-2023-kaycee-wyoming-gust-front-and-shelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2023\/05\/23\/23-may-2023-kaycee-wyoming-gust-front-and-shelf\/","title":{"rendered":"23 May 2023 | Kaycee, Wyoming | Gust Front and Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

May 23rd was a travel day, getting from central Montana down into New Mexico for the next batch of setups. On the way down, we encountered a few storms. One rotating cell had its structure shrouded by rain as we approached from the north on I-25. It managed to dissipate just as we were about to flank it along Rt. 192. But other storms were popping up in the area and southward along our route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We pulled off on TTT Ranch Road south of Kaycee to watch one of them gather itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking south along TTT Ranch Road. 2335Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some sweeping structure flowing in as it strengthens a bit. 2349Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Encroaching gust front begining to build a shelf on the north edge of the cell. 2356Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wide pano as the gust front approaches. 2357Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shelf mirroring the road. 0001Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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As the outflow flew by, I made some totally futile attempts to shoot some of the lightning happening inside all the flying rain. And just because of the way things work, most in-the-thick-of-it lightning will be firing in a direction that flings rain straight into the car and camera. Which means window mounting the camera is no good. So I sometimes try hand-holding the camera further back away from the window. There are pretty low odds of getting something good that way, although it’s worked out a few times so I’m always tempted to give it a shot. Anyway, this last image was of the one strike I did manage to catch, in all it’s motion-blurred glory. It landed ever so close and for whatever it’s worth, the extreme motion blur highlighted the orange plasma at the landing point really well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next stop was eastern New Mexico for our chase day on the 24th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May 23rd was a travel day, getting from central Montana down into New Mexico for the next batch of setups. On the way down, we encountered a few storms. One rotating cell had its structure shrouded by rain as we approached from the north on I-25. It managed to dissipate just as we were about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[50,40,70],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storm-chase","tag-storm-chasing","tag-storms","tag-wyoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}