July 09, 2007

Hailstorm and heavy rain on way to Atchison.
You can just see the funnel cloud glifting up into the clouds.
A very stormy Fourth of July.
This is a great shot of a wall cloud.

On July 4th, Chuck and I were headed up to Atchison, Kansas to visit our friends, Bob & Jerri. On the way, we saw a funnel cloud. I was unable to get a good shot of it. We were not very close and there were trees in the way. Plus, Chuck wouldn't stop to allow me to take a good picture. It was pretty exciting. Chuck saw pictures on the news taken by others of the funnel cloud. It never touched the ground and didn't last very long. Had it developed into a tornado, it would have been a "rope", one of the long skinny tornados. It was white and the sky was very dark so it really stood out. A few miles further down the road we ran into torrential rain and some hail.

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