This southeastern Oklahoma supercell—here seen in an uncommonly open view for that area—was more complicated than it may appear! Despite the promising look of this wall cloud, and the fact that it was indeed rotating in real time, the supercell was between tornadic cycles. The first we barely missed; the second would start to our east in a road hole, unseen. What cut short the mesocyclone in front, indirectly, was the deeper-embedded one in back. Notice the more-distant, whiter lowering with a clear slot, behind the nearer one? That was another wall cloud, also rotating. Its rear-flank downdraft would undercut this one, then the far mesocyclone would become rain-wrapped, occluding away in nontornadic fashion. This double-mesocyclonic self-immolation preceded the development of the ultimately tornadic, also quickly rain-wrapping circulation farther east.
1 NNW Nida OK (14 Apr 11) Looking NW
34.1479, -96.5050