Ignored but surely noticed by drivers on I-20, despite the thin moat of rain wrapping around the vortex, the Millsap tornado slowly swirled across the Western Crosstimbers countryside near the Parker/Palo Pinto County line, just off the western outskirts of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Fortunately, even though it had produced a couple tornadoes already and would go on to spawn two more very … [Read more...]
Hail Slush: Traffic Hazard
Following the dissipation of the pretty Torrington supercell and its remnants' merger into a larger cluster of storms, I headed up the road in hopes of a marvelous sunset (fulfilled!). Along the way, I found a copious deposit of hail from that supercell, and/or another severe storm trailing behind it, precip shafts from which can be seen at left. The largest hailstones I found were about 2-1/2 … [Read more...]
Tornadic Hide and Seek
[Part 2 of 2] A substantial tornado was playing hide and seek, and I wasn't about to go in there and tap it. One of the better views I had was my last sure look here, shown wide-angle. It still was hard to make out: a dark barrel shape on and above the horizon, just to the right of lower center. Continuity from earlier peeks, combined with centering an obvious rim of fast rotation, and … [Read more...]
Danger in the Darkness
[Part 1 of 2] Following our observation of an intensely rotating wall cloud in extreme eastern Wyoming, the mesocyclone wrapped deeply into this ominous HP (heavy-precipitation) form, spawning a stout tornado that traveled 20 miles east-southeastward from north of LaGrange, WY, to near Harrisburg, NE. You're looking straight at the tornado, roughly mid-path. Can you see it? Rolling along a … [Read more...]
Turning over Torrington
The title here could be a double meaning, but one of them literally was true. This sensational supercell rotated most intensely right over Torrington, dropping severe hail and heavy rain, before weakening east of town. The aviation identifier there is TOR, which coincidentally also is the abbreviation for "tornado warning" in meteorology. Fortunately for TOR, no TOR was needed, and no tornado … [Read more...]
Fiery Sunset Storm Tops
A brilliant, thoroughly enchanting scene greeted me, on this first full day of a two-week summertime photography excursion to the Great Plains and Southwest. The aim: wondrous scenes and opportunities for storms and landscapes. Goal fulfilled here, on both counts, on day 1! A complex of severe thunderstorms rumbled off the eastern Wyoming high country into the Nebraska twilight, its dense … [Read more...]
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