Photos from the 2001 chase season

(All images copyright Cailyn Lloyd and Jennie Lloyd. 
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Wisconsin  April 23rd
Racing supercells

Inflow tail and flanking tower
West side of tower and anvil
Looking along flanking line to distant anvil

Minnesota  May 9th
While I'm here the tornado is there

Rainbow falls between anticrepuscular rays
Ghostly image lit by setting sun
Updraft base of storm
Sun bursts through updraft base

Texas  May 26th
Nice hail storm %-/

View from northwest of tower and backsheared anvil

Texas  May 29th
Long lived supercell

Tower goes up near Springlake, Texas. The chase is on!
All this dark cumulus was streaming south into the updraft
A view up the impressive tilted updraft north of Olton
A lowering develops beneath updraft base with a hint of an RFD just left of center
Updraft draws in clouds of dust
Delicate rainbow between buttes
Outflow raises large clouds of red dust
Scud twirls beneath the meso and impressive RFD
A view right up the RFD (rear-flank downdraft) to blue sky above
Anvil zits flickered across the night sky
Amazing arcing CG blast near Vernon

Texas  May 30th

Updraft and raincore of this slow moving supercell

Kansas  June 3rd
Cap makes for late show

Towers try to breach the cap near sunset
Supercell glaciates as the sun sets beneath base

Kansas  June 4th
Dryline storms fail to produce

Tower glaciates along dryline
Updraft base with rotating lowering
Moon in clearing beneath mammatus
Narrow updraft base with clear slot

Minnesota  June 11th
I miss the tornado and lose a windshield

One of the many vivid CGs with this system

Wisconsin  June 18th

Tower glaciates just to our west
Early view of updaft base and lowering
Later view of ragged wallcloud
Cumulus shadows on anvil