Colorado Chasing

Yet another season where I schedule my chase vacation in May, and all the tornadoes occur in June. 🙁
But I still got out a few times this month for local chases within a couple hours drive of home; one of the prettiest storms was this one that formed up by Limon and tracked southeast into Kiowa and Bent Counties in southeast Colorado on June 6th. I caught up with it around Arlington, and shot some shaky time lapse of the storm sucking up dust over the dry plains. Close to sunset, I set up near the Arkansas River and took some shots of the approaching storm to the north. It was still kicking up a lot of dust, and was quite impressive as dusk approached!

Right around sunset the storm produced a brief tornado near Hasty, Colorado, but I was already headed home at this point (and I didn’t miss much based on the photos!)
Finally, I took some lightning shots near Las Animas, as the storm continued to be highly electric well after dark. Definitely a worthwhile chase in the familiar plains of southeast Colorado!