29 August 2014 Kansas City Arcus Cloud

Master lapser Stephen Locke captured this beautiful shelf cloud from non-severe convection traversing Kansas City in August 2014.

7 May 2014 Red River Supercell

VortexChasers.net provide this time-lapse of a nice supercell that traversed the Red River (of the south).

"May (2013) on the Great Plains"

Enjoy this well-produced summary of Skip Talbot's May 2013 chasing exploits. Don't forget to check out Skip's perspective of the 2013 El Reno tornado, as well.

13 April 2012 Blair, OK Supercell

Chaser Stephen Locke provides the beautiful, HDR lapse of an "outflow dominant" supercell near Blair, OK during the spring of '12.

August 2011 DeKalb Shelf Cloud

As is typical with early-to-mid morning, warm-season mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) across the Midwest, they tend to be highly photogenic and feature laminar heads. I suspect this is due to the residual nocturnal boundary layer inversion and cold pool forcing air through a stable layer. This particular lapse was shot sans tripod from the interior of my car due to the stratiform rain falling ahead of the squall.

Animated gif:
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27 May 2012 Kansas Shelf Cloud

This lapse features the tail-end of a mostly disorganized, messy line of storms in north-central Kansas. A pool of cold outflow induces a roll-shelf cloud hybrid. I.e., it starts out as a roll cloud detached from the parent storm, but then transitions to a shelf as the outflow generates new convection. Though difficult to see in the lapse, a shear funnel forms within the shelf near the telephone pole at 0.07s.

15 June 2012 Kanorado, KS Shelf/Whale's Mouth

Chaser Stephen Locke captures this truly beautiful stormscape along the KS/CO border that shows an MCS with attendant shelf.

17 June 2012 DeKalb Shelf Blob

A short lapse sequence of the poleward end of a shelf cloud as it scraped the far southern sections of DeKalb during twilight on 17 June 2012.

Shelf Engulfs City

Neat representation of a shelf cloud engulfing a city. Date and location information unknown.

Coastal Shelf Cloud

Nice time-lapse illustrating a shelf cloud moving toward a coastline. No date/location information was provided by the photographer. We do learn that the GoPro that was used to make the lapse was knocked off its perch by the wind and destroyed. Note, there is a bit of loud music at the end.

24 July 2012 Derecho

An animated gif and longer lapse of a shelf cloud associated with the early-morning passage of a derecho-producing convective system at NIU on 24 July 2012. I also created two other animated gifs of the shelf and whale's mouth associated with this event. Additional details on my storm chase blog.

Valentine, NE Supercell

Roger Hill captured this stunning lapse of a huge supercell that traversed the SD-NE border on 13 July 2009.