Growing by the minute, by means of multiple, intense updraft thrusts roaring upward from an increasingly moist source layer, this young low-precipitation (LP) supercell drifted eastward parallel to (and just north of) the Oklahoma-Kansas border. Meanwhile we observed from a pleasant distance, enjoying whole-storm structural views across the rolling, red-dirt prairie. Part of that marvelous … [Read more...]
Lightning-Lit Left-Mover
This fascinating, marvelous little anticyclonic supercell sped northeastward into the deepening twilight blue, sparking and hailing, twirling laminar skirts of cloud material in a clockwise dance across the remote Palo Duro Canyon country southwest of Goodnight, TX. A "good night" it was for those of us fortunate enough to behold the spectacle! This was the most visually stunning left-moving … [Read more...]
Catchin’ Rays
I had enjoyed a relaxing afternoon from the seat of a camp chair, cold Dr Pepper in hand. Soon the fish would start biting, but before that, it was time to reel in the last rays of a marvelous day on a quiet southwest Florida beach and enjoy the deepening colors of this sunset event. Sanibel FL (16 Nov 15) Looking WSW 26.4497, -82.1434 … [Read more...]
Nebraska Prairie Whirl
Conditionally dangerous yet ultimately harmless, the visible part of this vortex eased across the sinewy roll of the central Nebraska landscape for nearly 15 minutes, metamorphosing from tentative funnel to elephant-trunk form, this, then a vaporous mimic of dental floss. The tornado behaved itself, avoided substantial structures and caused no casualties, serving only to relocate some small … [Read more...]
Snow Fog and Pumpjack at Sunrise
What can be more "Okie Winter" in theme than oil-drilling machinery rising through the morning fog, above a field of snow? At ten inches of accumulation, this was the heaviest storm total around Norman since the multiple "footers" of the late 1980s, sampled in some of the other imagery here, and made a remarkable scene beneath a reddened dawn. Norman, OK (30 Jan 0) Looking SE 35.2353, … [Read more...]
“Breaking Wave” Supercell
Among the most spectacular supercells I've ever seen, this dazzling storm cruised eastward across the nocturnal Nebraska sky, bathing itself in almost continuous light from its own furious generation engine for intracloud lightning. The storm itself took on the shape of an enormous breaking wave, while shear-induced, parallel bands of laminar low clouds (containing real waves!) accentuated the … [Read more...]
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