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Funnel-Free Subvortices

2024-02-23 By Roger Edwards

Funnel-Free Subvortices

A broadly tornadic, multiple-vortex circulation continued under an unusually low, wet, scuddy cloud base for Colorado—a base that was intensely rotating, but lacking condensation funnel(s).  Here, two subvortices can be seen:  the obvious one just left of lower middle, and a fainter one to its somewhat more-distant right (NNW).   Each rotated around the other, as well as on its own axis, with the common center of the broader circulation being pretty much in the middle of the shot.  However, this was the end of the show.   As subvortices were now forming within less than a mile, and the mesocyclone was starting to be kicked southeast by outflow from a rear-merging storm, it was time to go!

4 N Bethune CO (30 Jun 23) Looking WNW
39.3584, -102.4277

Filed Under: Tornadoes Tagged With: Bethune, clouds, Colorado, convection, Great Plains, landscapes, multivortex, storms, supercells, thunderstorms, 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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