Thunderstorms During Rally Week

Rally week during the Sturgis Rally this year brought some of the most incredible and severe thunderstorms I have seen in this area in a few years. Sure there has been a hail storm here and there with baseball-sized hail, but to have hail and lightning almost daily for several days in a row is not that common! Although I was busy working most of the time, I did manage to get out a couple of times with some friends, photographers Pat and Cindy Bonish of Every Miles a Memory, and my local storm fanatic friend, Kym Reis, and do some storm chasing!




This is the storm that passed through and nailed the Buffalo Chip with softball-sized hail and 70 mph winds.


Rainbow on the back of the storm
Mammatous clouds forming over Bear Butte following the thunderstorm