This otherworldly, beautiful twilight scene assembled for just an instant from an electrical blast from the "Mason" supercell, swirling southeastward and deeper into the Hill Country. The reflected remnants of the last western reds, glowing along a western horizon visible from storm height more than mine, painted concentric layers ringing the backsheared, mammatus-bearing upper rim. The … [Read more...]
Golden Glory
A gorgeous, southeastward-moving supercell—the second of the day, following immediately behind and west of the first—took over in the "magic hour" before and during sunset, offering a memorable spectacle to storm observers gathered unusually far south for this time of year. Normally in mid-June, we would gather memories like this as experiential treasures along the grid roads of the central or … [Read more...]
3 Non-Tornadoes!
Why show a non-tornado when one can show three at once, from the same storm? This oddity came about as a distant, high-based supercell dove south-southeastward across a remote part of southeastern Colorado, between the Purgatoire River and the town of Kim. The skirt-edged wall cloud in the middle to upper part of this shot was real, attending a well-organized midlevel mesocyclone with broad (but … [Read more...]
Tornadic Dust and Rain
The Kimball tornado continued to raise and fling countless tons of dust, even as a descending core cascaded through the back (southwest and south, at left) sides of the mesocyclone. That would have formed an increasingly dense reflectivity hook, were there a radar nearby to scan the process. In between loud slams of thunder from nearby CG hits, and an occasional passing vehicle, I faintly could … [Read more...]
Creamsicle Cumulonimbus
Softly illuminated by a sun that just set from a ground perspective, a fast-growing cumulonimbus took on the delicious hues of an orange-vanilla Creamsicle confection, temporarily making me want to reach out and grab a cold, sweet, refreshing bite. The sky, to the eye, appeared as a great painting. This was a deeply rewarding way to end what long had seemed to be a "bustola" chase. Frustration … [Read more...]
Orphaned Anvil Cirrus
The feeble, fibrous, cirrus remains of a little orphan anvil (the glaciated part of a disappeared deep-convective updraft) wafted harmlessly downwind and over the northern Nebraska Panhandle. Several of these popped forth from failed storm attempts during the hour and a half I waited here and slightly to the north near the South Dakota line, watching a local convergence maximum not quite be … [Read more...]
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