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Union City Cone Emerges

2024-06-27 By Roger Edwards

Union City Cone Emerges

Two tornadoes from a separate, elongated mesocyclone region became rain-wrapped to the NNE (distant middle right), with at least part of the bigger tornado’s condensation funnel still visible through rain at distant middle.  As I was losing easy views of those tornadoes, a separate and older mesocyclone near Union City, at left, was producing a tornado already; its cone came into clear view while my attention and camera still were aimed to the more-northeastern area.  Fortunately, all this action was swirling in a part of the storm moving across the view or away from me, and I could continue to observe with no fear for my own safety.  The streak of light at far lower left of this short time exposure is a vehicle headed northward on US-81.  I wonder if the driver  could see, or otherwise was aware of, the cone tornado ahead, which would move slowly, erratically and mostly westward for the rest of its lifespan.

2 NNE Minco OK (19 May 24) Looking NNE
35.3393, -97.9337

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Filed Under: Tornadoes Tagged With: clouds, convection, Great Plains, highways, landscapes, Minco, nighttime, Oklahoma, storms, supercells, thunderstorms, tornado, Union City, wall clouds, weather

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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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