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Warm-Frontal Tornadic Supercell: Wide View

2022-02-27 By Roger Edwards

Warm-Frontal Tornadic Supercell: Wide View

After several zoomed-in photos of the first Conlen tornado, I quickly grabbed the other camera for a wide view, during a bowl-shaped condensation phase that immediately preceded the tornado’s demise.  Supercells on the immediate cool side of a warm front still may access surface-based instability, as this one obviously did by spawning tornadoes, but tend to have thicker intervening low clouds, lower storm bases, and fuzzier visible structures.  Still, one clearly could see the broad, flat wall cloud around the tornado, as well as a tail cloud at right.  The second of three tornadoes seen from this spot (and four total) soon would develop.  A cloud slightly to the right of upper middle looks suspiciously like a bent funnel, but was neither rotating nor attached to a deep updraft.

4 W Conlen TX (30 May 21) Looking NW
36.2351, -102.3135

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Filed Under: The Majestic Supercell, Tornadoes Tagged With: clouds, Conlen, convection, Great Plains, landscapes, scud, storms, supercells, tail cloud, Texas, Texas Panhandle, thunderstorms, tornado, 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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