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Little Spinup under Large Wall Cloud

2026-10-12 By Roger Edwards

Little Spinup under Large Wall Cloud

The supercell took a good bit of time to get organized along a boundary it was riding, but this signaled it was ready to rock and roll.  The inflow-region (left) and forward-flank tail clouds were both strongly convective and converging rapidly inward toward the wall cloud at center — something I like to see for overall low-level storm strength.  Moreover, rotation in the wall cloud in the middle was ramping up quickly, as in every five to ten seconds, spin strengthened.  The appeareance of a tightly rotating nub of dust beneath the cloud-base rotation confirmed both a small, young tornado and that this storm meant serious business.   This spinup lasted a couple of minutes ner the center of the visible mesocyclone then dissipated, leaving residual dust as a completely separate, better-organized tornado formed on the south edge…and stayed there!

2 S Beck TX (25 Apr 25) Looking WNW
33.9242, -102.5371

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Filed Under: Tornadoes, Wall Cloud Wall Tagged With: Beck, clouds, convection, Great Plains, landscapes, South Plains, storms, supercells, Texas, thunderstorms, tornado, wall clouds, 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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