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The Texas "dust bowl" with a looming storm cloud

We encountered this fallow field on the Texas prairie while storm chasing. The system threatened to develop into a tornado but did not; nonetheless you cn see the dust plumes being drawn up by the updraft into the rotating cloud, about 1000' above the ground.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 05.2021
Date Uploaded: 11.2023
Photo Location: Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T6i
Copyright: © Rich Isaacman