After an initial, apparently single-vortex phase, the third tornado from the Canadian supercell complex broke down into two, sometimes three visible subvortices swirling individually, whilst orbiting the parent tornado’s lower reaches. After a couple minutes of this sort of action, the slowly southward-moving tornado dissipated in the loess hills overlooking town. Delicately vaporous, yet potentially deadly and destructive, the dance of tornadic subvortices is one of the most fascinating and fluidly artful phenomena to witness in nature.
1 SSW Canadian TX (27 May 15) Looking WNW
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