{"id":357,"date":"2016-09-11T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/?p=357"},"modified":"2026-01-11T06:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:32:20","slug":"august-september-2016-northern-arizona-storm-chases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2016\/09\/11\/august-september-2016-northern-arizona-storm-chases\/","title":{"rendered":"August-September 2016 | Northern Arizona | Storm Chases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

11 August<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nocturnal storms moving in from the southwest sent me up to Sunset Crater National Monument for a try at some shots. CGs were very reluctant as the storms weakened on approach. I still wound up with some rim lighting on the cloud base as a consolation.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nocturnal lightning display at Sunset Crater National Monument – 0908Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

21 August<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No storm chasing going on here, just spontaneous German Shepherds in the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Convection or dog with a stick from east Flagstaff – 0152Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

26 August<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another day of southwest flow had me out at the Winona\/I-40 exit shooting some time lapse photography. As a strong storm set up over Flagstaff. This one picked up a weak (~14 mph radial velocity), pulsey velocity couplet through 4 slices for about 20 minutes. Not enough to qualify as even a minimal mesocyclone. Structure, as far as Flagstaff storms go, was pretty nice and it covered the San Francisco Peaks in a white cap of hail. I drove further east to Buffalo Range Road and got a look at a pretty nice shelf moving in. It was interesting to watch the time lapse on that as a northbound gust front interacted with it and sent a cool whirl along the shelf.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sheared convection east of Flagstaff looking north from Winona\/I-40 exit – 2002, 2010, 2019Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shelf cloud looking west from Buffalo Range Road\/I-40 exit – 2103Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hail on the San Francisco Peaks from Hwy 180 west of Flagstaff & wildflowers – 0035Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

2 September<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One more southwest flow day back out at Twin Arrows to watch for the occasional shelf or lowering near Merrill Crater. As convection filled in southward, a building gust front loaded up with meshing gears of vorticity to wrap up the time lapse.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Convection and lowering north of Twin Arrows\/I-40 exit – 1833Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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No landspouts, just galaxy cores overhead – 1958Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Passing convection and gust front looking northeast from Twin Arrows\/I-40 exit \u2014 1904, 1911Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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11 August Nocturnal storms moving in from the southwest sent me up to Sunset Crater National Monument for a try at some shots. CGs were very reluctant as the storms weakened on approach. I still wound up with some rim lighting on the cloud base as a consolation. 21 August No storm chasing going on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,40],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storm-chase","tag-arizona","tag-storms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}