Debris from a demolished mobile home park, not already produced in the front eyewall, was scattered by Andrew's backside southeast winds through a denuded fruit orchard along Silver Palm Drive. Meanwhile, a rumbling thunderstorm in the background raised the unease of residents remaining in nearby areas. These trees suffered at least as much from battering by airborne missiles as from the wind … [Read more...]
Windy Fuel
Temporarily, a Texas High Plains supercell (foreground) was getting messier, thanks to a large multicell storm that formed immediately upshear to its southwest (left rear). Still, the supercell dropped severe hail and damaging winds, along with exhibiting occasional wild structure, in a swath near Plainview and eastward through this spot and off the Caprock. Some of those winds made these blades … [Read more...]
Multivortex at Night
Photographing a tornado at night is challenging for many reasons, the first of course being safety: don't get hit by the tornado, lightning or traffic! Fortunately, the best angles for spotting and shooting night tornadoes are well outside their paths—usually to the right and a bit behind the mesocyclone. That's because the parent supercell's lightning production often maximizes north (opposite … [Read more...]
Upper Lightning of Wichita Supercell
A tornadic supercell buzzed frantically with lightning, both in its middle to upper reaches, and downshear in the forward-flank core. The anvil region near a mature, deep supercell's main updraft, and just downshear (usually to the updraft regions east) quite often flickers with these intricately sinuous filaments, offering opportunities for frequent. short time exposures to capture the flashes … [Read more...]
Colorful Finish over High Plains
Following one of the most spectacular High Plains sunsets I've seen, the atmosphere only slowly wound down its astounding performance, drawing a denouement to the color extravaganza with this pacifying early-twilight coloration. The last direct rays, optimally reddened through maximal atmospheric path, still illuminated the highest parts of the storm complex's backsheared anvil and mammatus … [Read more...]
Season’s End
Soon after sunset, we reached the eastern topographic dropoff toward Minnesota from the Coteau des Prairies, and abandoned pursuit of a disorganizing, outflow-sucking supercell that formerly was quite spectacular. It would be the final storm intercept of the 2012 Great Plains vacation for us. Fittingly, the adventure ended with this lovely textured sky, composed of both silhouetting scud and … [Read more...]
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