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Dragging a Dust Plume

2015-07-19 By Roger Edwards

Dragging a Dust Plume

After the brief but scenic Phillips tornado had spun its way north of the highway and dissipated, a second tornado developed from the same mesocyclone. At first, this one similarly left a long gap between condensation funnel and small debris cloud.  That soon changed in a major way as it got closer.   In the meantime, however, a dense plume of non-rotating dust rose off nearby plowed fields south of the tornado and moved northward, eventually becoming entrained in an expanded bowl of dust and debris directly related to the tornado vortex.  Storm-chaser vehicles, including the passenger car beaming its headlights into the view, accumulated thickly on both sides of this tornado, since the storm closely followed a flat, open, easily navigable highway.

6 W Aurora NE (17 Jun 9) Looking W
40.8723, -98.1126

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Filed Under: Tornadoes Tagged With: clouds, convection, dust, Great Plains, highways, Nebraska, storms, supercells, 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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