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These images simply blew us away (pun intended). These photos a incredible and simply breathtaking. The Photographer, Mike Hollingshead who runs the extremeinstability.com website is a storm chaser that got into photography because video captures weren’t doing things justice. He started chasing in 1999, but has always watched storms around town. He usually drives around 20,000 miles a year just chasing storms, from Texas to North Dakota, Colorado to Indiana. Though more and more he’s satisfied with South Dakota to Oklahoma, Colorado to Iowa.

<Nebraska Sand Hills Monster Supercell Storm

Very intense high precipitation supercell storm moves south in the Nebraska Sand Hills south of Valentine, July 13, 2009. Very low, long and fat inflow cloud stretches east of the storm. Winds gusted upwards of 60+ mph into this storm. Tornado warning with the storm mentioned baseball size hail and winds in excess of 100 mph, a rare warning text indeed. As intense of a storm as it was, it only produced one short-lived small tornado. Traffic heading north up highway 83 would be driving right into the storm’s forward flank downdraft, which contained large hail and intense rain.

June 19, 2011 McCook Nebraska Supercell

The vertical wave wall was just crazy, but then you my also had that really funky curling wall/base up there. It’s like a backwards inflow band(not literally). Often you’ll see a mid-level band going the other way, from away from the storm to the south (left) and then going into the storm around the northeast side. This was backwards. But really what that would be(I think) is more or less the “elevated base” to the real convection above. All the rfd and cool sinking action would be behind that, which was plowing forward and helping lift the stabilizing lower levels.. making that wild wall/wave. Maybe like if an elevated storm had a big wall cloud, lol.

Badlands Fog Storm

Fog storm overtakes the Badlands of South Dakota June 18, 2008. Colliding outflow from morning storms creates a vertical wall of clouds, which rapidly engulf the badlands terrain with high winds and near zero visibility. Within a couple minutes of being overtaken, the sky clears.

Moon and Light Pillars

Arctic air combines with river steam and a corn milling plant’s steam to produce light pillars over Blair Nebraska, thanks to ice crystals floating in the air from the steam sources. A setting moon adds to the scene, creating a light pillar of its own.

Truck Stop and Twilight Supercell Amazing supercell storm during twilight nears a York Nebraska truck stop on I80 as it spits out lightning, June 17, 2009.

Arctic air combines with river steam and a corn milling plant’s steam to produce light pillars over Blair Nebraska, thanks to ice crystals floating in the air from the steam sources. A setting moon adds to the scene, creating a light pillar of its own.

Headlight Fogbow

Defined fogbow shines ahead of a car in some crop fog over a field in western Iowa. The only way to see such fogbows is to walk out 50-100 feet into your headlights and look away from the vehicile. This could not be seen from inside the car itself. At the center it appears as though there is a car out there facing you with its headlights, but it’s simply your own headlights reflecting back at you. Often there is a glory in that center location. Stars shine brightly above as this kind of fog is quite shallow, though can be quite dense at the same time.

Twilight Lightning

Lightning strikes western Iowa north of Omaha Nebraska during twilight June 9, 2008. City lights and a power plant’s lights create a red-orange color to the rain during a longer exposure. Moon light helps light up the puffy clouds.