Shelf Cloud Lightning | 29 May 2023 | Stratton, Nebraska to St. Francis, Kansas

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Another day with meager upper level support. We headed north through Kansas and into southwest Nebraska. It was a long drive and were barely in time to catch a bit of structure on a storm north of Stratton before it was ingested into a southeast-bound cluster of storms.

The better show waited until after dark. Drifting a bit west, south of Benkelman, Nebraska, gave us a nocturnal view of cg strikes in the mess of surrounding storms.

After that, a line of storms seemed to be getting organized in Colorado and we headed down to meet it near St. Francis, Kansas. The advancing line moved in with a beautiful, striated shelf lit by constant, colorful lightning. As it moved in over town, I looked for a spot that had given me some fun shots a few years ago. The grain elevator and surrounding buildings had more glaring lights surrounding them than I remembered. And after a few more shots east of town, we called it off for the night.

Terraced shelf moving in from 6 miles west of St. Francis, Kansas. 0405Z
Advancing closer. 0411Z
Stretching off to the north as it moves overhead. 0415Z
Grain silo and elevator on the east side of St. Francis, Kansas. 0435Z
Last look at the gust front from east of McDonald, Kansas. 0520Z


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