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Chicken Neckin’ Storm

2023-08-27 By Roger Edwards

Chicken Neckin' Storm

Believe it nor not, this somehow still was a cumulonimbus cloud, barely attached to higher-level anvil material off the screen at right.  It had been a small supercell, but got increasingly tilted and sheared over, until the narrowness of the updraft and its internal rotation no longer could stand whole in the face of strong shear, and especially, the dry entrainment from surrounding air, to which small storms are more prone.  Ever since my earliest chases, I’ve informally referred to dying supercells of this form as “chicken neck” in structure, and it’s not hard to see why.  The radar unit at distant lower right is the KPUX “Pueblo” WSR-88D, located well east of Pueblo on the ranch lands of the High Plains.  Even though this stage largely was in the radar’s “cone of silence”, it wasn’t missing anything important.

14 NNE Boone CO (7 Jul 23) Looking N
38.4496, -104.1849

 

Filed Under: Mini Cloud Atlas Tagged With: Boone, clouds, Colorado, convection, cumulonimbus, fractocumulus, Great Plains, landscapes, scud, storms, supercells, thunderstorms, 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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