Amazing Shelf Cloud, Wichita, KS – 5/7/2020

An amazing sight across northern Wichita late Thursday afternoon as strong storms moved through sending this incredible shelf cloud across the skies. Heavy rain and some hail came down with these storms as an unseasonably strong cold front approached the region, and wills end temperatures between 10-20 degrees cooler than normal into early next week.
Shot Description

Clip 1: Panning shot along the shelf cloud.

Clip 2: Static shot of shelf cloud with stop sign in foreground.

Clip 3: Static shot of other side of shelf cloud.

Clip 4: Cars parked on side of the road under shelf cloud.

Clip 5: Shot of backside of shelf cloud after it passed overhead.

Clip 6: Vivid single-bolt lightning flash over the roadway.

Clip 7-8: POV driving shots through heavy rain on the north side of Wichita.

Clip 9-10: Two vehicles pulled off on the shoulder of the road waiting out the heavy rain and small hail.

Clip 11: POV driving shot in heavy rain.

Clip 12-13: Scuddy clouds on the underside of the storm.

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