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West Texas Supercell with Tornado

2024-06-23 By Roger Edwards

West Texas Supercell with Tornado

The dichotomy of the Great Plains tornadic supercell seldom manifest more than on this west Texas afternoon.  A storm exploded over an outflow boundary and slogged southeastward across the Midland/Odessa metro, spawning a few tornadoes, causing swaths of wind and hail destruction (including, ironically, at the NWS office there), and yet, putting on a spectacular show for observers.  This was just a few minutes into the early stage of the supercell’s most substantial tornado, a roughly 1/2-hour vortex that caused EF3 damage to oilfield equipment south of Midland. Fortunately no one was killed. Even this soon, the occlusion downdraft cut a deep and pronounced clear slot, but the tornado would last almost another half hour.  Meanwhile, the supercell put on a stunning display of cloud forms aloft.  Storm-structure and tornado combinations of this sort has been rare for me, and I absolutely appreciated every last second of this, until some large forward-flank hailstones started landing, bruised a chase partner’s arm, and chased us southward.

8 WSW Midkiff TX (30 May 24) Looking WNW
31.6089, -101.9775

Filed Under: The Majestic Supercell, Tornadoes Tagged With: clouds, convection, Great Plains, landscapes, Midkiff, Midland, storms, supercells, Texas, thunderstorms, tornado, 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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