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Belmont Tornadic Supercell

2021-01-20 By Roger Edwards

Belmont Tornadic Supercell

This dense, heavy-precip (HP) supercell, embedded in a broken but solidifying line of storms, was tornadic.  That’s not a curved rain shaft at lower middle, to the left of the wall cloud. It’s a tornado from an old, deeply occluded and rain-wrapped mesocyclone.  Continuity of observing this storm affirmed this much better than a single-time sample would, such as either this photo, or what you might experience rolling over a big hill to view the whole scene for the first time.   Here’s a zoom view I shot within a minute or less.  The newer but also rain-wrapping wall cloud at right would host a separate funnel soon.

8 ENE Belmont KS (16 May 99) Looking W
37.5618, -97.8671

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Filed Under: The Majestic Supercell, Tornadoes Tagged With: clouds, convection, Great Plains, Kansas, storms, supercells, tail cloud, thunderstorms, tornado, weather

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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