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Flanking-Line Landspout: Wide Angle

2023-05-29 By Roger Edwards

Flanking-Line Landspout: Wide Angle

Here is a “nonsupercell” tornado, a.k.a. “landspout”, from a supercell.  How is this possible?  The seeming self-contradiction involves a common name for a non-mesocyclonic tornado, which this was, under the flanking line of a young, intensifying supercell.  One of the flanking towers, despite being under heavy overcast from a large collective anvil shield, still was vigorous enough to stretch some pre-existing, horizontal, boundary-layer vorticity into the vertical for a few minutes of this action, until outflow from the left (northwest of the tornado) undercut it.  Outflow dust can be seen approaching the bottom of the tornado from the left.  Regardless of its non-mesocyclonic origins, it still counts as a tornado due to its full connection between ground and cloud base of the deep convective column.

6 S Woodrow CO ( 10 May 23) Looking NE
39.8983, -103.5923

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Filed Under: Tornadoes Tagged With: clouds, Colorado, convection, Great Plains, landscapes, landspout, storms, supercells, thunderstorms, tornado, weather, Woodrow

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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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