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High-Based Funnel

2021-06-17 By Roger Edwards

High-Based Funnel

Destructive interference from close-proximity development of numerous high-based storms kept substantial, large updrafts from taking root long enough to organize into sustained supercells on a day otherwise favorable in the parameter space.   This became readily apparent as we watched one small, high-based updraft after another race past in a train of convection, moving more with the midlevel flow than any deviance implied by boundary-layer influences.  Despite all that, this little updraft bore a short-lived, harmless, only weakly rotating funnel cloud that never came close to becoming tornadic, and wasn’t worth triggering a warning.

4 SW Sidney NE (21 May 21) Looking NW
41.0948, -103.0322

Filed Under: Mini Cloud Atlas Tagged With: clouds, convection, funnel cloud, Great Plains, Nebraska, Sidney, storms, thunderstorms, 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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