Some tornadoes never develop beneath a wall cloud, as with this event. After a three-way handoff involving the demise of this stout supercell’s Luray tornado, and a brief interloper, the “Tipton” tornado formed tilted, then visually righted itself as a bent cone here, before quickly enlarging. In the meantime, it formed a fitting centerpiece for a fascinating whole-storm show, with rotation quite visible at all scales from tornadic up. That’s no surprise, since the supercell was moving through a vorticity-rich, earlier outflow-reinforced warm-frontal zone at this time. The tornado soon experienced vortex breakdown and expanded into a wide, multivortex form.
1 S Glen Elder KS (28 May 19) Looking SW
39.4702, -98.3123
RADARTipton Twisting
Some tornadoes never develop beneath a wall cloud, as with this event. After a three-way handoff involving the demise of this stout supercell’s Luray tornado, and a brief interloper, the “Tipton” tornado formed tilted, then visually righted itself as a bent cone here, before quickly enlarging. In the meantime, it formed a fitting centerpiece for a fascinating whole-storm show, with rotation quite visible at all scales from tornadic up. That’s no surprise, since the supercell was moving through a vorticity-rich, earlier outflow-reinforced warm-frontal zone at this time. The tornado soon experienced vortex breakdown and expanded into a wide, multivortex form.
1 S Glen Elder KS (28 May 19) Looking SW
39.4702, -98.3123
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