Let The Storms Begin!

The first of many images I captured from a storm chase that took my son Ryan and me through Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas on Monday, May 16, 2016: The above image looks southwest as we were approaching Fowler, Kansas on US Highway 54 at 11:12 am CDT. Clouds are beginning to form in the distance after a foggy and overcast morning earlier in central Kansas. iPhone 6-plus camera.

By 2:36 pm, signs that severe weather was indeed initiating as the sky to the north and west began to darken. Here we were pulled off at the junction of a dirt road at the bend of Highway 324, about 15.5 miles west of Boise City, Oklahoma in the Oklahoma panhandle.

As we continued north on Highway 324 at 2:40 pm, the darkness of a distant building supercell was punctuated with mammatus (seen in the background above the white foreground cumulus). This image looks northwest. Nikon D7200 DSLR camera.