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Multivortex in the Bear’s Cage

2015-01-20 By Roger Edwards

Multivortex in the Bear's Cage

While driving S to get ahead of a virulently rotating, rain-wrapped mesocyclone, the curtains parted just enough to reveal a stout cone tornado with multiple vortices buzzing around its base. Seldom do scenes of rain-wrapped tornadoes offer so much color: a pronounced turquoise hue permeating the deep load of precipitation aloft, the green grass in the distance, and the red earth and stubble of the fallow field in the foreground. We couldn’t stand there and admire this display for too long, however. The tornado was moving fairly quickly toward the ESE, to our left, and a forward-flank core with big hail was closing in from its right (our NW). We barely eluded both.

3 WSW Dover OK (19 May 10) Looking WSW
35.9630, -97.9613

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Filed Under: Tornadoes Tagged With: Dover, Great Plains, Oklahoma, supercells, thunderstorms, tornado

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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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