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Dusty Inflow near Radium

2023-11-28 By Roger Edwards

Dusty Inflow near Radium

This dryline-fired supercell was in a transition stage, moving into only slightly destabilized and modified outflow air from a large complex of thunderstorms that swept across Kansas earlier in the afternoon.   Instead of weakening, or becoming completely elevated, this storm hung on in a fine balance, with just enough airmass modification, via warm advection and weak diurnal heating, to keep it somewhat surface-based.  One could tell by the presence of intense, inward-directed, dirt-lofting winds right along the surface.  The deep-layer mesocyclone, manifest down low by a wall cloud at lower middle left, persisted only a bit longer before a tremendous core surge with rain and hail changed the structure to more purely outflow dominant, with a shelf cloud already forming in front of the wall cloud and extending off the left side of the image.  Soon, the resulting band of storms would force the old outflow air aloft and become and wind and hail machine.

5 SW Radium KS (9 May 23) Looking NW
38.1383, -98.9679

Filed Under: Wall Cloud Wall Tagged With: arcus, clouds, convection, dust, Great Plains, Kansas, landscapes, Radium, scud, shelf cloud, storms, supercells, thunderstorms, wall clouds

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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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