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Weak, Scuddy Spinup

2022-06-27 By Roger Edwards

Weak Scuddy Spinup

For less than a minute, under the broader, flatter wall cloud, this persistent, scuddy, rotating lowering yielded rising, modestly rotating tendrils of scud that coiled up from the surface.  Moistened considerably by at least two storms’ cores (this one and another to the north-northeast), as well as rain the previous day, the weakly tornadic circulation couldn’t raise dust.  Nonetheless, with a well-defined concentration of helically rising cloud material off ground level, it (barely) counted as a tornado.  The brief circulation posed no danger to the house nor the inhabitants thereof, as it was moving to the right (NNE).  This would be the first of two modest tornadoes I would see on this chase day, the other being a safe distance away while stuck in mud.

2 W Nazareth TX (13 Mar 21) Looking SW
34.5392, -102.131

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Filed Under: Tornadoes Tagged With: clouds, convection, Great Plains, Nazareth, storms, supercells, Texas, 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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