November 2024 Storm Chasing Recap

This was a long chase day going back and forth multiple times across the metro area from Dardenne Praire, to Fenton, to Chesterfield and downtown. I was mainly after lightning this night, but was also watching for rogue QLCS circulations that formed intermittently along the squall line. The closest I got to anything tornadic was when the Foristell tornado occurred while I was set up for lightning along 364 in Dardenne Prairie. I ended the night at the Brentwood parking garage shooting upward lightning in the stratiform region of the squall line. I captured four upward flashes, three at 6,002 fPS on the high speed camera. This is a 4-frame stack from the DSLR:

Video from the 4k and high speed cameras:

An on-foot chase across the road to shoot this convection along the cold front arriving at sunset:

I wasn't expecting to even see lightning in the St. Louis metro this night, much less a volley of quality cloud-to-ground bolts. I went outside of town with the 50mm lens to see if I could pick up a few distant bolts from storms down near Perryville, MO. That storm disspated, but a new much closer cell developed about 5 miles to my west over Mascoutah and quickly produced a flurry of nice clear-air bolts: