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Bennington Cone Stage

2025-08-16 By Roger Edwards

Bennington Cone Stage
The legendary Bennington vortex of 2013 started with a classical condensation cone under a wall cloud, with active, fast-moving and scuddy inflow tail pointing toward the forward flank, as I’ve seen with many significant tornadoes.  All of that was happening under a heavy-looking, wet, low, somewhat hazy ambient supercell base, unsurprising for a high-CAPE, high-dewpoint supercell latched into a stationary or warm front.  Of course, this tornado would fatten considerably, move very little, and last a long time!

1 NW Bennington KS (28 May 13) Looking WSW
39.0409, -97.6126

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Filed Under: Tornadoes Tagged With: Bennington, clouds, convection, Great Plains, Kansas, scud, storms, supercells, tail cloud, thunderstorms, tornado, wall clouds, 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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