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Mesocyclonic Mother Ship over I-80

2020-12-12 By Roger Edwards

Mesocyclonic Mother Ship over I-80

A high-based wall cloud hovers like a refugee from Independence Day over I-80 in the Nebraska Panhandle.  Like most wall clouds, this one was nontornadic—luckily for the trucker!  Winds strong enough to blow vehicles off the road can occur around and under wall clouds, even if they never spin up a tornado.  For that reason, it can be a matter of life and death to avoid going under wall clouds—or if you are a weather spotter, to monitor and report them.  Alas, outflow soon would undercut and dissipate this supercell, a fate of many High Plains storms with weak surface inflow.

2 WSW Dix NE (21 May 98) Looking W
41.2212, -103.529

Filed Under: The Majestic Supercell, Wall Cloud Wall Tagged With: clouds, convection, Dix, Great Plains, highways, landscapes, Nebraska, storms, supercells, thunderstorms, 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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