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Rotation at Horse Creek

2024-02-25 By Roger Edwards

Rotation at Horse Creek

Once upon a time in the West, a supercell formed over the southern Laramie Mountains and rolled through the foothills fully mature, rotating strongly with a well-defined rear-flank/occlusion-downdraft cut around the south side of the wall cloud.   That’s as far in the process as this storm got on this attempt, failing to produce a tornado on the “inside” of the higher terrain.  It was a bit of a gamble to go this way to get closer to the storm sooner, instead of waiting for it off I-25 on the other side of the foothills.  Once this circulation passed beyond the ridge and bluffs to the right (NNE), I had to backtrack into northern Cheyenne, then rip right past the Interstate and northeastward on US-385, to get back ahead of this fast-moving storm. 

Horse Creek WY (29 Jun 23) Looking N
41.4141, -105.1821

Filed Under: Wall Cloud Wall Tagged With: clouds, convection, landscapes, mountains, storms, supercells, thunderstorms, weather, Wyoming

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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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