Yayooo, this pic is somewhere with-in 10 miles of my house. Cool

 

Living in Nebraska, I bet you see a lot of thunderstorms coming through, huh?

 

We get our share of thunderstorms, that's for sure. They are something to watch.

 

Have you ever thought about setting up a video camera and recording one form and move through your area? I'd like to do something like that, but we have too many damn trees to get a good view.

 

I've got a storm chaing bug, but, I'm usually swamped with other stuff. I usually only have time to get shots from my house.

I took this photo about a week ago, this was mid-afternoon...

 

Ain't that the truth?!

Yeah, we have some nice storms rumble through DFW every now & then, but for the most parts, you can't see them in nearly as awesome a view as this guy shot. When line of storms approach DFW in the summer time (West to east), they usually fall apart as they approach the city, only to reconstitute itself over Terrell, and proceed east. This leaves many people believing a tornado can't hit a city.They believe the concrete and steel, and the uplift of warm air causes the storms to fall apart. To which I reply in as nice of terms as I can, "Fool, a tornado is wind, and wind can go anywhere it wants to. If the air is unstable enough, a tornado can form in Downtown Dallas, right on top of the Thanksgiving Tower."

If a cool air mass comes in over warm air, the cool air will descend, and the warm air will rise, giving birth to a Thunderstorm, which may or may not end up being tornadic, all depends on the variables. They should know a Tornado can hit a city, one hit Nashville a few years ago, one hits Oklahoma City at least once every three years, one hit Fort Worth circa 2001, and one hit Dallas (Desoto) in 1992.

For the last few years, it seems a high pressure system sits right over north Texas; that's what destroys most of the storms in the summer time, which is also why we get hardly any rain from June - September. But when the high pressure moves away, we get storms just like everyone else, but nothing nearly as awesome looking (For us on the ground) as what this guy shoots. You have to be in wide-open nothing (Kansas / Nebraska) to see that. Like JW said, there are too many hills and trees in TX to witness such a magnificently scary sight.

What's crazy is when a storm approaches DFW from the north, from the east or from the south; those are usually the worse ones.

 

Yep, we get quite a few crazy storms. Not really many this year though. Its just been hot and rainless for the most part.

I enjoy watching storms, and if I woulda had my camera with me last weekend I could have gotten some pretty nice pics of stuff building up.

 

I grew up in central Texas (near Austin). When I was a little jamzwayne, we lived on a hill out in the country. No trees or no big buildings to block my view, also it was fairly flat. Since we were up on a hill you could see pretty good. I used to watch t-storms all the time. They are an amazimg site.

 

I like Central Texas. If I could make the amount of money I make here, and live there...

Anyhoo, if you take Hwy 190 West out of Belton towards Killeen, you'll eventually come up to a hill, and as you descend the hills sweep back, and you get to look out into the valley that Killeen, Harker Heights, Gatesvills and Nolanville sits in.

If I could build a house on that hill, overlooking that view- you'd find me in their when I'm 80. That is an awesome sight. Not like looking out at the lights of NYC or Vegas, but still pretty- in a less-complicated / less-cluttered way.

I've probably seen that view fifty-leven times, and I still love it, every time I go down there. I bet from that spot, you coudl see some nice thunderstorms approach the valley, especially if they appraoched from the Southwest remaining on a Northeast heading.