{"id":3011,"date":"2009-07-01T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2018-07-13T23:35:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T07:35:31","slug":"july-1-2009-capitol-mt-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2009\/07\/01\/july-1-2009-capitol-mt-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"July 1, 2009 Capitol, MT storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our group began this chase day in Lemmon, SD, and our target area was not too far away&#8212;southeast MT and into extreme western SD.\u00a0 We lunched at Big J&#8217;s in Hettinger, ND, and dropped south from Bowman to Buffalo.\u00a0 Storm initiation occurred to the west, above the (mostly) road-less expanse of western Carter County, MT.\u00a0 Instead of quickly tracking down the updrafts on the dirt roads, we waited along the MT\/SD border.\u00a0 Hopefully, this strategy would help us to stay out of trouble on the sparse unpaved road network; and allow us a better chance to be in the right place later on, towards sunset, when conditions are typically better for tornados.\u00a0 While waiting for a high-based cell to approach, we explored a couple of places that I had not visited yet &#8212; Camp Cr00k, SD, and Capitol, MT.\u00a0 There isn&#8217;t a whole lot here for the typical tourist, but there are plenty of unique opportunities for an &#8220;old-stuff&#8221; photographer!\u00a0 We drove from Camp Crook to Capitol and back, and I can&#8217;t recall seeing another vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>By late afternoon our cell to the west had split.\u00a0 The north member (left split) actually looked better, as it moved north towards Ekalaka.\u00a0 We stuck with the right split, and it gradually strengthened as it moved southeast towards Belle Fourche.\u00a0 It took a while to get to the storm from Camp Crook, and we were unable to get in position in front of it north of Belle Fourche.\u00a0 We drove through part of the core and saw some small hail and strong winds.\u00a0 The storm was outflow-dominant, without much of a tornado chance, so I don&#8217;t think we missed too much.<\/p>\n<p>As the cell weakened and moved away, we drifted west into northeast Wyoming and found a nice high spot to watch the sunset.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"090701_8656_capitol_mt1\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/090701_8656_capitol_mt1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics3011]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-3012 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/090701_8656_capitol_mt1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090701_8656_capitol_mt1\" width=\"149\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090701_8657_capitol_mt1\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/090701_8657_capitol_mt1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics3011]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-3013 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/090701_8657_capitol_mt1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090701_8657_capitol_mt1\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090701_8658_capitol_mt1\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/090701_8658_capitol_mt1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics3011]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-3014 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/090701_8658_capitol_mt1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090701_8658_capitol_mt1\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090701_8659_capitol_mt1\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/090701_8659_capitol_mt1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics3011]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-3015 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/090701_8659_capitol_mt1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090701_8659_capitol_mt1\" width=\"89\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090701_8665_capitol_mt1\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/090701_8665_capitol_mt1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics3011]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-3016 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/090701_8665_capitol_mt1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090701_8665_capitol_mt1\" width=\"160\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090701_8904_capitol_mt1\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/090701_8904_capitol_mt1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics3011]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-3017 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/090701_8904_capitol_mt1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090701_8904_capitol_mt1\" width=\"177\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a title=\"090701_8912_capitol_mt1\" href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/090701_8912_capitol_mt1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics3011]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-3018 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/090701_8912_capitol_mt1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"090701_8912_capitol_mt1\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our group began this chase day in Lemmon, SD, and our target area was not too far away&#8212;southeast MT and into extreme western SD.\u00a0 We&#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2009\/07\/01\/july-1-2009-capitol-mt-storm\/\">[Read&nbsp;More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,14,23,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-30","7":"category-old-stuff","8":"category-stormy-skies","9":"category-sunsets-and-storms","10":"entry","11":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20715,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/20715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}