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Blue-Hour Wall Cloud and Funnel

2025-07-30 By Roger Edwards

Blue-Hour Wall Cloud and Funnel
Late-day supercells that form on “cooked” old outflow boundaries can do interesting things in twilight or after dark, including (sometimes) tornadoes.  I targeted the boundary between Aspermont and Dickens partly for that reason, and partly because it was the easiest to reach.  This was as close as it came to paying off while there was still daylight, about 15 minutes after sunset in the “blue hour.”  A slowly rotating wall cloud and slowly rotating funnel certainly caught my attention! However, despite that slow rotation (with the scud in front of and leftward of the funnel traveling around it), no dust, debris, nor full condensation ever took place beneath , prior to the funnel’s becoming ragged and dissipating.  This was about as low as I’ve seen a funnel condense without being more assuredly tornadic.  In reality the circulation probably did rise from the surface, but too weakly to count as a tornado. 

4 E Dickens TX (23 Apr 25) Looking NNW
33.6239, -100.7803

Filed Under: Mini Cloud Atlas, Wall Cloud Wall Tagged With: clouds, convection, Dickens, funnel cloud, Great Plains, landscapes, storms, supercells, Texas, thunderstorms, twilight, 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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