Photos from the 1998 chase season

(All images copyright Cailyn Lloyd and Jennie Lloyd. 
All rights reserved.  Absolutely no reproduction without
express written consent of Cailyn Lloyd or Jennie Lloyd)

Iowa March 28th
We're in the wrong state

Anorexic tower blows up late afternoon on dryline
near Spencer
Sun setting behind small rain core of strongly
sheared storms near Spencer

Illinois April 15th
One monster supercell

Needle-shaped tornado touches down (negative
water damaged)
Evolves quickly to cone-shaped tornado in
Washington County

Nebraska May 11th
First day in new van meets golfball sized hail

Supercells fire late in day
Brief funnel forms at edge of inflow in RFD,
flanking line overhead, HP anvil in background

Kansas May 24th
Mutliple supercells but no tornadoes

Exploding updraft tower from the west
Hail falling through RFD incursion into meso/updraft
base

Kansas June 8th
Multiple tornadic supercells still no tornadoes

Looking into the RFD, rotating scud tag at the base
Another look at the RFD

Colorado/Nebraska June 9th
Large picturesque supercell on the High Plains

Looming shelfcloud with gustnado
Looking south at the inflow base
Shelfcloud/inflow with CG strike at dusk

Kansas June 13th
Long lived cyclic supercell but no tornadoes

Updraft base and exploding tower
Close look at beautiful cumuliform anvil
This monster consumed all this congestus flowing
in from south
The lowering beneath the updraft with possible
anticyclonic lowering behind
The only spinup we observed all day
Storm at dusk with illuminating lightning stroke

Illinois June 14th
HP Supercell

Bowl-shaped lowering on HP storm, note extent of
RFD wrapping
An HP "mothership", a bit contrasty but impressive
nonetheless

Wisconsin August 23rd
We're on the wrong supercell
 
Shelfcloud, core, and inflow base of second
supercell
Cumiliform anvil, flanking line, and prominent
precip shaft at rear of cell
Supercell moves out over Lake Michigan
Jennie catches long distance view of Door County
supercell at the time the tornado is on the ground. A
classic with massive over-shooting dome

More about the Door County supercell here

Kansas/Nebraska October 16th
Late season chase equals four tornadoes

Tower glaciates in northwest Kansas
Rain core and updraft base of young cell
Inflow/flanking line and tower with multi-domed over-shooting top
RFD/clear slot with updraft and wallcloud just prior to first tornado
(Video capture) Tornado near Elm Creek, Nebraska
(Video capture) Tornado about one minute later
Partially rain-wrapped tornado has just crossed I-80
Tornado begins to dissipate
Tornado in rope stage, truck lights streak by foreground