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Photogenic storm day in southern Illinois, June 21
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SEE ALSO: June 21 photos, part 2
A memory-card-filler type of day with various amazing skies for solid hours on end. I covered a line of severe storms down I-64 to Mount Vernon, then watched a train of outflow-dominant quasi-supercells pass by between Benton, Murphysboro and Pickneyville. Finally, I shot the front and back side of the last line of severe cells that went up between Belleville and St. Genevieve, MO into the night. I may update this post later with more images when time allows.
Panorama at Dahlgren, IL southeast of Mount Vernon:
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Lightning at Vergennes, IL:
Sunset severe storm shelf cloud with lightning at Coulterville, IL:
Lightning bugs, stars and lightning at New Memphis, IL:
Shelf cloud at Akin, IL east of Benton:
Sunset shelf cloud panorama at Coulterville:
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Lightning and flooded fields at Venedy, IL:
Lightning, stars and iridium flare at New Memphis:
Lightning west of Coulterville:
Flanking line at dusk near Pickneyville:
SEE ALSO: June 21 photos, part 2
Other nearby chaser reports from this day:
Good grief, and here I was in WV happy to have seen a little shear funnel. Amazing stuff!
- Posted by Andy | | |
Some cracking photography there Dan !!!
- Posted by Mick from UK | | |
Super Beautiful Dan!
- Posted by John from Ohio | | |
Excellent as usual! Saw two bright meteors from opposite you at Altamont so be that you were facing ENE, wonder if that may be one of the ones I saw too as I was looking WSW and up?
- Posted by Paul from Decatur, IL | | |
I thought at first that it was a meteor, and that's possible as I didn't notice it when it happened - but the symmetrical tapering at both ends looks more iridium flare-ish. Wish I'd had the shutter open longer to pick up some lightning bugs in that one!
- Posted by Dan R. from New Baden, IL | | |
Great shots, Dan! Wish I'd headed down I-64 a little quicker so I could ahve stayed ahead of the storms, although the flying tree debris along 64 near the Kaskaskia River was interesting to say the least.
- Posted by John from Edwardsville, IL | | |
great photos
- Posted by mom | | |
Thanks again for the comments!
- Posted by Dan R. from New Baden, IL | | |
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