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Last Arnett Tornado

2025-10-12 By Roger Edwards

Last Arnett Tornado
No, this won’t be the last Arnett tornado for ever and ever, but it was the final one from this supercell, even though the storm itself would spin northeastward for another couple hours before dissipating near the Kansas border.  Why it stopped after this is rather mysterious, since it was moving into progressively greater moisture, stronger low-level shear and similar buoyancy.   The storm became narrower and produced less precipitation after this, in a gradual transition from skeletal classic supercell categorization to purely low-precip (LP).  I speculate, with some scientific basis, that the total precip decrease weakened both rear-flank downdraft baroclinicity and forward-flank vorticity generation (along an invisible streamwise vorticity current), each available to the mesocyclone, which itself was continually located in the north, forward-flank-adjacent rim of the updraft, as evident here by the tornado position.   North-biased tornado positions are closer to forward-flank processes and imply a more direct dependence on them. 

6 E Arnett OK (18 May 25) Looking W
36.1373, -99.6683

Filed Under: Tornadoes Tagged With: Arnett, clouds, convection, Great Plains, highways, landscapes, Oklahoma, storms, supercells, thunderstorms, tornado, weather, wind farm

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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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