{"id":1998,"date":"2023-05-29T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:12:47","slug":"29-may-2023-stratton-nebraska-to-st-francis-kansas-shelf-cloud-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2023\/05\/29\/29-may-2023-stratton-nebraska-to-st-francis-kansas-shelf-cloud-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"29 May 2023 | Stratton, Nebraska to St. Francis, Kansas | Shelf Cloud Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Another day with meager upper level support. We headed north through Kansas and into southwest Nebraska. It was a long drive and were barely in time to catch a bit of structure on a storm north of Stratton before it was ingested into a southeast-bound cluster of storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A bit of short-lived structure northwest of Stratton, Nebraska. 0043Z & 0056Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The better show waited until after dark. Drifting a bit west, south of Benkelman, Nebraska, gave us a nocturnal view of cg strikes in the mess of surrounding storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CG Show near Benkelman, Nebraska. 0311Z & 0313Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After that, a line of storms seemed to be getting organized in Colorado and we headed down to meet it near St. Francis, Kansas. The advancing line moved in with a beautiful, striated shelf lit by constant, colorful lightning. As it moved in over town, I looked for a spot that had given me some fun shots a few years ago. The grain elevator and surrounding buildings had more glaring lights surrounding them than I remembered. And after a few more shots east of town, we called it off for the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Terraced shelf moving in from 6 miles west of St. Francis, Kansas. 0405Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Advancing closer. 0411Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Stretching off to the north as it moves overhead. 0415Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grain silo and elevator on the east side of St. Francis, Kansas. 0435Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Last look at the gust front from east of McDonald, Kansas. 0520Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another day with meager upper level support. We headed north through Kansas and into southwest Nebraska. It was a long drive and were barely in time to catch a bit of structure on a storm north of Stratton before it was ingested into a southeast-bound cluster of storms. The better show waited until after dark. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,84,55,50,40],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storm-chase","tag-lightning","tag-nebraska","tag-shelf-cloud","tag-storm-chasing","tag-storms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","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=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}