Sunday 10th June 2018 - Tx Panhandle - Gen T-Storm Risk

Its funny how the very low end risks sometimes become the most fun of the season. After dropping the guests off in Dallas we headed North West up towards Childress and booked our hotel early on route to Denver for the start of Tour 4. We were expecting some Lightning fun south of town from around 6pm until 11pm but the day turned out so much better with an LP Supercell that spat out a crazy amount of Cg Lightning.We headed south from Childress through Paducah and stopped between there and Guthrie. The line of Storms were out to our west and with 100f heat the lightning even at this stage was well out in front of the storm and not hidden by the rain. We were joined by a large Tarantula who watched the storm with us for about 20 minutes then some sort of large Lizard and a pack of Coyotes, no other Storm chasers were on these storms just us and nature.The Storms progressed further east north east so we headed further south to just North of Aspermont and plotted up for some evening and Night time lightning. The Storm to our west was starting to take on LP Supercell characteristics and was spitting out about 30 Cg's per minute, it was hard to miss on 3 second exposures with sometimes getting 4 Cg's in 1 frame. These Cg's were also setting off grass fires and we noted at least 3 of these.As darkness fell the lightning got even more intense and we had to hold our nerve with Cgs landing around our heads for a good 2 hours, below are  of my shots which were 5 second exposuresBut the best Cg's were shot by Graham Moore below.An amazing chase day!