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Taken in June 2007 at the height of the Minnesota tornado season. This was across the corn fields just west of La Sueur, MN. This is a classic non-rotating Wall Cloud. If you see one of these rotating do not stick around! I was about half a mile away, had the car pointed down the road with engine running.
The back lighting was stunning as was the dark boiling clouds in front of the wall. You can even spot the little skuds running across the whole formation if you have the tornado spotters eye for it.
A Wall Cloud is what forms just before touchdown which this one never did do because of no rotation to it.
Was using my original digital camera a Canon Rebal XTi . . . I pulled this from archives hoping that Topaz filters could bring it some pop!
Using 24mm at ISO 100 1/8th sec at f4.0 single shot with beanbag on roof of car
Post work done in Topaz Adjust3 and Lightroom 2.
Comments
Wow, stunning image
Thanks Mel . . . kind of a once in a life thing and I had my camera gear . . .
WOW! Oh to get a shot like this BUT with that little funnel heading down… Awesome image Peter..
very cool. Great luck as well.
Stunning shot and processing Peter.
Luck … for sure! Even though I am a trained tornado spotter I have only seen this close up action one-time in 7 years. We are told when a storm approaches to “self deploy” to any place we want and just watch the sky.
Thanks all for the kind comments!
peterA great shot Peter and good work with Topaz. However, don’t get too comfortable with
the “non-rotation” as I’m sure you know, things can change quickly.
Thanks . . . for the sake of full story telling (if not the smartest) the car engine was running and pointed down the road for escape in the “right” direction which is not always predictable. I put the bean bag on the roof of the car snapped maybe 20 shots over a 3-4 minute period and got out of Dodge by moving about a mile away.
great image
Wow peter, you’re even a storm chaser? What aren’t you!! lol Excellent shot here; once again, it just fell into your LAP! :D