A wide-angle view of the southern Nebraska night reveals a strangely sculpted supercell in dramatic shape, its ambient anvil region festooned with an encircling moat of radial high-cloud textures. This was the first of two magnificently constructed nighttime supercells to roll eastward just to our N on this uniquely special occasion for nocturnal storm observing. Its otherworldly, breaking-wave appearance thoroughly enchanted us!
1 NNW Alma NE (19 Jun 11) Looking NNW
40.1183, -99.3699First Alma Nocturnal
A wide-angle view of the southern Nebraska night reveals a strangely sculpted supercell in dramatic shape, its ambient anvil region festooned with an encircling moat of radial high-cloud textures. This was the first of two magnificently constructed nighttime supercells to roll eastward just to our N on this uniquely special occasion for nocturnal storm observing. Its otherworldly, breaking-wave appearance thoroughly enchanted us!
1 NNW Alma NE (19 Jun 11) Looking NNW
40.1183, -99.3699