Several horseshoe vortices and fractocumulus-spawned funnels appeared during this late afternoon, following the passage (and above the outflow pool) of a growing complex of severe thunderstorms. Of those tubes, this hook-shaped one at center-right was the most fascinating, visibly developing along the edge of a small, ragged cumuliform cloud, then slowly extruding from it, as if the parent cloud either were giving birth, or taking a dump (you decide which analogy fits best). It soon would split off completely (Part 2)…
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40.0833, -102.70Horseshoe Vortex Splitting Away: Part 1
Several horseshoe vortices and fractocumulus-spawned funnels appeared during this late afternoon, following the passage (and above the outflow pool) of a growing complex of severe thunderstorms. Of those tubes, this hook-shaped one at center-right was the most fascinating, visibly developing along the edge of a small, ragged cumuliform cloud, then slowly extruding from it, as if the parent cloud either were giving birth, or taking a dump (you decide which analogy fits best). It soon would split off completely (Part 2)…
3 SSE Yuma CO (21 Jun 10) Looking up
40.0833, -102.70